Saturday, August 15, 1998
Unprovoked optimism
When all else fails, try to talk up the economy. That seems to have become Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha's motto after he and his government finished doing all in their power to send it into a tailspin.
Just a transfer?
The sudden transfer of enforcement director M.K. Bezbaruah is bound to raise eyebrows. What causes suspicion is the timing of the decision and the reason the government has trotted out for it.
Degrees of guilt
The Srikrishna report is about the causes of the progressive breakdown of law and order in Mumbai. Whatever their political or religious affiliation, one thing the people experienced in common during 1992 and 1993 was various manifestations of disorder, and the most serious were political and criminal terror and the collapse of the authority of the state.
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