The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Saturday, July 19 1997

Letters to the Editor

A heart that bleeds

Gloomy silence and frustration, anger and anarchy led Vilas Ghogre, a revolutionary poet, to commit suicide in the aftermath of the desecration tragedy in Mumbai. He was Dalit by birth and Marxist by orientation.

Enduring Article

The Prime Minister has displayed political realism by ruling out dismissal of any State Government under Article 356 of the Constitution. The assurance is a timely answer to the question raised by the ugly violence in Maharashtra under Shiv Sena-BJP rule.

The bigger, better tamasha

"History," Atal Behari Vajpayee said (mischievously quoting the guardian deity of communism), "repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce!" He was reacting to the spectacle of I. K. Gujral taking over from H. D. Deve Gowda.

Food for thought from Australia

Unaccountable lapse

Words that work magic