Tuesday, June 30, 1998
You scratch my back
Madeleine Albright is being very stern. India cannot behave, she says, as if all the world's efforts at halting nuclear testing do not apply to it. Only, how odd that such scoldings should emanate during President Clinton's visit to China when Beijing it was which nonchalantly tested days before the CTBT would have prohibited further tests.
Coordinating chaos
Nothing symbolised the state of the ruling coalition more than the unoccupied chairs at Saturday's coordination committee meeting. Mamata Banerjee's ``missed flight'', Ramakrishna Hegde's ``prior engagement'' and, most of all, Jayalalitha's rather mysterious ``ailment'' together signified the turbulence that the BJP-led government seems to keep running into.
NC, the last individualist
He looked sullen as he walked into the office on a hot day in June. We at the India Press Agency (IPA) were all waiting for him to get more news about the Emergency Indira Gandhi had imposed on the nation the previous night. We knew that the quintessential reporter that he was, he would have gathered all possible information about the cataclysmic event.
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