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Saturday, November 22 1997

Letters to the Editor

Jain's hollow labour

Summaries of the actual report of the M. C. Jain Commission, tabled in Parliament, read no better than the unsubstantiated allegations which have been aired in public by various politicians over the last three years. It is a disgrace that the expenditure of crores and years of investigation have produced words to fill 17 volumes but so little clarity and precision.

Kingmaker and puppet-master

A producer wanting to cast a Hamlet from the actors on the political stage would find no shortage of potential princes of Denmark. There are enough jelly-spines amongst the Congress and the United Front wondering "whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles."

Ideas for an urban movement

This is the soft underbelly of the statist vision. India is hugely urbanised. Yet all its urban areas are disaster zones. Prosperity is generated in urban areas. A nation whose towns and cities are horribly mismanaged, and the transportation links between them virtually non-existent, is not one that will march on the road to prosperity.

Kingmaker and puppet-master

Jain's hollow labour

True to form

Ideas for an urban movement

An evening with Niradbabu