Thursday, November 26, 1998
Downsize it for performance
Despite the growing public dissatisfaction over the country's governance there is as yet no indication of how exactly the Centre proposes to coerce the states to eradicate maladministration and to also refurbish its own image.
Premature judgments
The decision on constituting the National Security Council was at last taken on November 19. The task force set up to make recommendations submitted its report in June, but the government took four and a half months to decide.
Fighting another A-bomb
India is siting atop not one but two lethal A-bombs. One is the all too familiar atom bomb, signals from which shook the globe this May. The other A-bomb is a silent killer stealthily lurking in the corners of our bedrooms. And this latent AIDS bomb might be potentially much more devastating than the Pokharan bomb.
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