Thursday, July 9, 1998
From Colombo with cup
It was as though the country rediscovered a lost passion on Tuesday. Feasting on a French cuisine of football at its most delicious, it had almost forgotten the flavour of its unmistakable favourite among all games. Cricket came back to India that night, with televiewers turning their attention to Colombo from the current World Cup, and not just because we won a nearly washed-out tournament.
Wages of profligacy
Prices are biting again painfully. After holding steady for a year, the rate of inflation has been rising relentlessly over the last seven weeks. Consumer prices are now 10.5 per cent higher than in May last year. Almost every item in the food basket, from wheat and dal to vegetables and cooking oil, has gone up and up. What is worrying is that no single factor but several disparate ones are at work. Nor is that the end of the trouble.
Institutionalise strategic thinking
Now that the present government is in the process of erecting a sound national security edifice, it should also devote some thought to a related area that is almost equally relevant to national security: the nurturing of a think-tank culture. India has been quite remiss in this area with the result that what we have even today is a perfunctory think-tank apparatus.
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