The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Monday, November 24 1997

Letters to the Editor

A bluff wisely called

The United Front has displayed in a life-threatening situation a trait no one ever suspected it of possessing before: an ability to hang together, unperturbed by the storm buffeting its frail boat. Of course this is less a matter of noble resolve than of political exigency. The UF's internal compulsions are only too well known. It is these and not any philanthropic instinct that has kept the grouping from unceremoniously throwing the DMK overboard.

The power to communicate

This autumn, almost unnoticed, a British phone company has been field-testing in a new technology that could electrify communications. They can send digital signals without interference over the power grid. Effectively, they can turn a substation's lines into a local area network. The technology has the capacity to wire every home in the world for the Internet -- provided it already has a power connection.

Lead me, Sonia -- The aesthetics of a dying Congress

In Delhi, as everyone knows, ancient Congress bodies are coming alive under the spell of a spectre. So Rajiv Gandhi has come back, though not in millions. It's a singular, lonely return of a ghost through the winding absurdities of the Jain Commission. From the periphery of political irrelevance, it reads the reality: extinction is imminent. Hence the cry: Lead me, spectre. Did you hear "Lead me, Sonia"? It's all the same. The last, desperate cry of a party which has nothing to fall back on except the dead Leader and the living widow.

A bluff wisely called

The foreign hand -- It rules all but the Hindi heartland

The power to communicate

Lead me, Sonia -- The aesthetics of a dying Congress

Lankan Tamils are victims of history