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Saturday, May 17 1997

Letters to the Editor

The politics of paradox

Bihar is a land of paradoxes. And Laloo Prasad Yadav, the State's scam-tainted messiah of the weak and the meek, epitomises its immense tolerance for the incompatibles. Now that he has been put in the dock by the CBI and even his friends have deserted his sinking ship.

Bill and will

The failure of all-party conference to evolve a consensus on reservation for women in Parliament and State Legislatures is because of the doublespeak most political parties indulge in on this issue. It is for this very reason that the Deve Gowda government chickened out when it came to moving a Bill earmarking 33% Parliamentary and legislative seats for women.

Good economics, bad politics

The passage of the Finance Bill has led to optimistic projections by industry of a GDP growth rate matching China's. It is surely a sign of the times that similar exuberance cannot be found for the impact of the dream budget on the country's social indices which by any yardstick, Chinese or sub-Saharan, are shameful.

Ticketless travellers

Time Out -- Us and them, fifty years on

We get the cops we deserve