The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Saturday, July 26 1997

Letters to the Editor

Try another vantage point

As the countdown to August 15, 1997 begins, there seems to be unprecedented interest in plotting the history of India's Partition. Why this nostalgia, the revival of individual and collective memories, the celebration of the dead? Why print Manto's Toba Tek Singh repeatedly in scores of newspapers and magazines?

The dutiful wife

So when it came to choosing a successor, the so-called messiah of the poor could not find anyone from among the teeming millions of the State but his better half. It is a measure of Laloo Prasad Yadav's confidence in the legislators who have been propping him up all these years that he could not find anyone from among them to succeed him.

Let the Army catch this bandit

The Karnataka Government's inability to deal with Veerappan speaks volumes about its lack of political will or ignorance of the resources available to capture him. Clearly the state police constabulary, both civil and armed, have proved incapable of bringing Veerappan to book.

Letter to the IB

A train journey

End this farce