Easterly direction
Mamata Banerjee was expected to present a populist railway budget. The proposals for 2001-2002 exceed anything that could have been imagined even from a politician whose determination to win her home state is proverbial.



God’s pavilion
Every lover of cricket had somehow imagined that Donald Bradman, universally acknowledged as cricket’s greatest son, would be around to hit a century. Alas, it was not to be. Death intruded.



Black humour in Iraq
I had bought tulips for Mona on Tuesday. The day had suddenly become warm and the florist had put the tulips outside her shop.



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