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Saturday, May 9,
1998
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Battle for Pravda
As part of an ongoing court battle to claim
the ownership of the legendary Communist mouthpiece, Pravda, one among its
three successors celebrated the 86th anniversary of the newspaper this week.
It did not seem to matter that the newspaper in its new avatar had not yet
even made it to its first anniversary.
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Streisand vs Heston
In the wake of a wave of senseless shootings
of school children, US anti-gun campaigners have a new spokeswoman: a
mild-mannered nurse-turned-crusading Congresswoman who is now showcased in
a television drama. The Long Island Incident, produced by Barbra Streisand
and broadcast nationally on Sunday, has given Democratic Representative Carolyn
McCarthy's story wide prominence -- and sparked high-stakes sparring between
gun control advocates and the politically potent National Rifle Association
(NRA).
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Climate
Of Intolerance
Dyaneshwar Nadkarni, a well-known Mumbai art
critic, publishes a book on Husain which includes a drawing of the goddess
Saraswati. It is not a "nude" in the sense of being realistic or sensuous
but a stylised line drawing done 20 years ago. In the mid-'70s when the whole
ethos of the nation was much less communal, Husain could hardly have imagined
he was hurting anybody.
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Failure
of good intentions
For a government, just good intentions are
not good enough. If you can't translate them into something tangible, you
have failed. Nobody told this to Manohar Joshi, it seems. Two of the state
government's most ambitious moves - one to regulate admissions to pre-primary
centres and the other to ensure free treatment to people suffering from heart,
kidney and brain disorders through Jeevandayi Scheme - have flopped.
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