The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Thursday, May 15 1997

Letters to the Editor

Principles and pretence

The CPI(M), with its high-mindedness, was setting the terms of power. A strange kind of anti-Congressism was the subtext of its rhetoric. Strange because the communists never doubted the indispensability of the Congress in the upkeep of the secular (anti-BJP) coalition, but at the same time they could not afford to deprive the Congress of its enemy-status.

Not-so-friendly neighbourhood

Fifty years after Independence, India still has unresolved land and maritime boundary disputes with its neighbours, beset with numerous disagreements over jurisdiction, cross-border smuggling of weapons, explosives and narcotics, making South Asia one of the world's major flash points.

CBI is well in check

The legal and constitutional status of the police in a democratic society governed by the rule of law is a somewhat perplexing question. Criminals with political clout and governments depending on them for support and survival would want investigating agencies to be subordinate to them and subject to their interference and direction.

Road from Male

The economics of taxed smoker

Time Out -- The taxman's secondary victims