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Thursday, April 23, 1998
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On the right track
New brooms are known to sweep clean. The new Union minister of railways, Nitish Kumar, has attempted to do just that by summarily sacking the chairpersons of 12 Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs), and transferring five others. The minister's action, swiftly and efficiently effected, didn't come a day too soon.
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Joshi's courage fails
No one will be surprised that another deadline has come and gone without Chief Minister Manohar Joshi finding the courage to table the Srikrishna Commission report on the riots in Mumbai in 1992-93 during which hundreds died. Ever since Justice Srikrishna submitted the document in mid-Feb, there has been plenty of evidence of the Maharashtra government's intention to put off the day when, inevitably, the part played in those horrendous events by key leaders of the Shiv Sena, among others, will be revealed.
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A yearning for faith
On schedule, Rashtrapati Bhavan's Mughal Garden season was on again, the only time when the the "real masters of India" can get a closer look at it. The crowd is always large -- particularly on off-days -- with school-buses lined up and long queues of children being led for two or three kilometres through nature's beauty.
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Between truth and history
What guided him, actually? Passions of history? Suppressed voices of cultural ancestry? The whirling forms of desire and memory? What, what was it that propelled Octavio Paz (1914-1998), the poet who defied frontiers and sang the freedom of the seeker? Everything. Everyone.
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