Thursday, July 15, 1999
Another battlefield
Behind a small desk, and below two bedside lamps, sits the young deputy commissioner of Kargil, Shaleen Kabra. His chair is exactly at the place where two beds were placed for hotel guests.
Kargil is an excuse
So there we have it: the costs of the Kargil conflict, it seems, will be borne directly by the people in the shape of a new tax, if government moves to this effect bear fruit.
The look-good revolution
Has a new aesthetic sensibility taken hold of metropolitan India? Look around these days and you find an overwhelming preoccupation with the appearance of things.
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