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Wednesday, December 24 1997
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Subcontinent's fascist nightmare![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
The intolerance of the liberal is a shame on democracy, which muist provide for the checks and balances and also the institutions to bring in the necessary correctives. Unlike the post-Independence Indian liberal, the Pakistani had to actually fight the most ruthless despots to earn his democracy.
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The EC gets busy
There is only one charitable thing that can be said about the discussion among the Election Commission and political parties on restraining opinion polls. It is that the instigators of this idea fail to distinguish between an exit poll and an opinion poll.
| Waiting for the next Chief Justice
Chief Justice of India J. S. Verma retires on January 18, 1998. The appointment of the next seniormost judge of the Supreme Court, Justice M. M. Punchhi, as the next Chief Justice of India should have been made by the Union Government on December 1, 1997.
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| Discipline over disparity | ||
The Group
