Fighting fit
A brutally frank document circulating in Army headquarters says its troops are unfit for counter-insurgency warfare. That conclusion ought not to surprise the select band of senior army commanders to whom the report has been sent for study and action.



Culinary convergence
The way to fund raisers' hearts is through their stomachs, or at least through praising the fare on which they were weaned. And no one seems to know this old trick better than that ultimate charmer, US President Bill Jefferson Clinton.



Astride two horses
Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a right man in the wrong party is a cliche. Still people use it because they have seen him rising above the BJP's Hindutva line.



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Poverty is down, problems are up
The obituary of an unknown Indian
Praying for the enemy