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Wednesday, June 18 1997
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Candidate Narayanan -- Consensus on Presidency![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
There is a kind of sacred consensus on Vice-President K. R. Narayanan's candidacy for the country's highest ceremonial office. For Narayanan it is a rare privilege: he, the joint candidate of the Congress and the UF, is certain to be endorsed by the BJP.
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Too little, too late -- Parades, stamps and statues
Finally, the government speaks its mind on the golden jubilee celebrations, and it is a mouthful. To explain away months of catatonia, in the course of which Britain got a fantastic show off the ground, it insists that it is only proper to start celebrating after the nation actually completes 50 years.
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A bureaucratic betrayal -- in the name of poverty
Special anti-poverty programmes were initiated in the '70s in the hope that "if growth does not penetrate poverty, the programmes will" states the Reserve Bank committee. Since then much of hope has been pinned on a wide range of centrally funded programmes to mitigate the misery of the poor and the unemployed.
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Don't disown the policeman
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The Group
