India's moment of shame
I can live with the release of three hardcore militants for so-me 160 innocent men, women and children. But I cannot st-omach the visit of Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh to Kandahar, carrying the militants in his own plane.



Time out
One would think that lessons could only take place in a classroom. Not really, I discovered when my maid persuaded me to teach her English. She had not had much of schooling in her village in Himachal Pradesh.



Sweet-and-sour India
The last year of the millennium was eventful. The world was getting out of economic despondency, but India was positively bouncing. One of the fas-test growing economies of the world in the last biennium of the millennium.



Other headlines
It's the stupidity, stupid!
Bug without bite
Kandahar into a Kargil