To pay or not to pay
Before another month runs out, the Centre will have to cough up Rs 231 crore to meet Maharashtra's unpaid bills from Enron, the US energy company.
Snapshot of us
Smile, we are all on candid camera. The enormity of an exercise aimed at capturing the contours of a country as large and variegated as India is reflected in the numbers involved.
The goonda patriot
India needs Israel as a political partner but without being pushed into any new confrontation with the Islamic world. Sharon will complicate this equation.