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Tuesday, December 16 1997

Letters to the Editor

WTO's miracle year

The financial services agreement is the third feather in the World Trade Organisation's cap this year, after the information technology and telecoms agreements. Given the Asian crisis, any financial services pact is an achievement. This one also is a significant improvement over the interim agreement of 1995, but a better one could have been got in different circumstances.

India-bashing as a global pastime

Welcome to India, the world's favourite punching-bag. When Clinton gets bored with playing with his new labrador, he ramblingly concludes that from Bosnia to India -- via Africa and Russia -- most of the world is on the same ethnic tension-social strife scale. Half a globe away, the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Iran last week got together to debate the ills that fall upon the ummah worldwide.

A pitch for specialisation

It wasn't the first time in cricket history that rain and bad light saved a team struggling to fend off defeat. But the barely concealed discomfort with which the reigning World champions from Sri Lanka approached the task of batting out the final day of the Mumbai Test Sunday last week must provoke comment on an issue that hasn't been sufficiently debated: Test and One-Day cricket are admittedly different, so why not have two separate teams represent a country in the two formats of the game?

Enough is enough

WTO's miracle year

A pitch for specialisation

Nuclear option is an illusion

India-bashing as a global pastime