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Monday, May 4, 1998
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Limits of freedom
The American diplomat Richard Holbrooke pondered a problem on the eve of the September 1996 elections in Bosnia, which were meant to restore civic life to that ravaged country. ``Suppose the election was declared free and fair,'' he said, and those elected are ``racists, fascists, separatists, who are publicly opposed to (peace and reintegration). That is the dilemma.'' Indeed it is, not just in the former Yugoslavia, but increasingly around the world.
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Will they ever pay the moral price?
Sedapatti Muthiah, Buta Singh and now Sukh Ram. In an 18-party coalition, any resignation has the potential to bring trouble to the government. But Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has adopted the public posture that he will stand for high standards in public life, whatever the cost. Certainly, a laudable approach but it's likely to create more problems.
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Art attack
Mumbai, like great cosmopolitan centres anywhere in the world, was a city where artists sang, danced, painted and wrote with abandonment, where art was shaped in the crucible of liberal values. Those who differed with them on what constituted art, were free to express their criticism through public debates, newspaper articles and books. Thus, art and art criticism grew apace, deepening and widening popular cultural consciousness.
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Giving Cairo a miss
The Prime Minister's decision not to attend the G-15 summit in Cairo may not send out a very happy signal about the state of his government. But it is not otherwise cause for consternation. Successive governments had to face the music for India's failure to reassess its stake in developing-country forums such as the G-15 after the end of the Cold War.
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