Indo-US touchdown
The US President George Bush’s description of America’s friendship with India as "one of the most exciting and promising relationships" in a reply to President K.R. Narayanan’s congratulatory letter, could be interpreted as a mere formality.



Ringing in the low
Consumers did not stop long to ask whether they should thank the prince of populism or the gods of competition for tumbling cellular phone call charges. They just lined up to get application forms for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd’s Dolphin.



A shower of gold
Maybe it’s the gift of Uttarayan warmth in the Northern Hemisphere, when the earth begins to tilt away from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. Or maybe it was just a lucky break in ‘‘God’s own country’’, Kerala.



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