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Sunday, July 6 1997

Letters to the Editor

The Naga solution?

The meeting of former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Satish Chandran, and several senior Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials with leaders of the banned National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-M) in Geneva last month may result in an agreement based on limited autonomy to Nagaland.

The silent successor

Perhaps the first thing Ramesh Chandra Sharma did after occupying the chair of Director, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), was remove the Xerox machine from the room. It was the machine that his predecessor allegedly used for "systematically leaking" information.

Interview of the week -- Jaya Bachchan

She couldn't care less if most people think that her flourishing career in films was aborted abruptly after her marriage with Amitabh Bachchan. And now, as she plays the lead role in Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa, an adaptation of a Bengali novel of the same name by Mahashweta Devi, she is irked at the media branding it as her grand comeback.

The silent successor

The Naga solution?