The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Sunday, November 30 1997

Letters to the Editor

India goes the Pak way

While India's economic situation is far sounder than that of neighbouring Pakistan, any feelings of superiority appear, by and large, misplaced. For one, with the Congress pulling the rug under the government for the second time in less than a year, it's clear that governance this side of the border is becoming equally shaky.

The Tiger and his paper

Soon after Saamna began publication in the late eighties, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray used its editorial columns to launch an attack on a reporter of a vernacular daily. During the course of the 1990 election campaign for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the Sena had organised a media tour of reporters from several newspapers round the state.

Was that a bird, or a rocket?

He is no ordinary missile scientist. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the second Indian scientist to be awarded the Bharat Ratna has come to symbolise the triumph of Indian scientists over restrictive technology transfer curbs. Currently wearing several hats as the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and as Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development, Kalam has in recent decades been spearheading an ambitious programme to modernise the Indian defence juggernaut. He is also the director-general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

India goes the Pak way

The Tiger and his paper

"How can anyone compensate me for the torture I underwent?"

Was that a bird, or a rocket?

Inside Track -- Sonia's style