The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Wednesday, August 13 1997

Letters to the Editor

Nudist in the cafe -- A letter from Paris

Paris in summer is a city of lassitude. Of stretched-out evenings and aimless tourists. The real Parisian with whom you had an appointment is reportedly holidaying somewhere in Greece. So it is your moment to seize a vantage table in the Cafe de Flore in boulevard Saint-Germain.

Perils of reservation -- Listen to Mulayam Singh

The holding back of the Bill aimed at reserving a third of parliamentary seats for women is no bad thing. The logic of legally enforced affirmative action is to forever keep extending it, and there is no dearth of historically suppressed groups in India.

Basu's battle -- CPI(M) search for power-sharing programme

There is little mystery about what Jyoti Basu means when he speaks with evident expectancy about the CPI(M) planning a special Congress to review and possibly revise the party programme. He hopes to carry forward the inner-party struggle, which he initiated some time ago, for the belated correction of a ``historic blunder''.

Mills and doom

Who killed Medovi Kire?