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Friday, April 17, 1998
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More missiles from Jaya
Southern comfort still eludes the Vajpayee-led coalition government. As summer descends on the nation, so does the lady. This time, AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalitha wishes every Union minister against whom chargesheets or FIRs have been filed to pack their bags and go home.
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Exit Pol Pot
Saloth Sar had that mischievous habit of striking out the last line from his own obituaries. Two years ago, he `died' in malarial isolation, and returned mockingly alive before the last epitaph was written on one of this century's worst butchers. For Pol Pot, his nom de guerre, death, including his own, was an idea, a relative idea, that could be written, re-written, and modified at the whimsy of the executioner.
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Forever a gentleman
He wanted an epitaph for his mother. And he wanted me to find one from the Bible that summed up her personality -- one, above all, of gentleness. I found some verses I thought would fit the bill. "She was a gentle person who gently passed away," he explained. In the hurly-burly of daily life, I forgot to check what epitaph he finally chose. That was Pulimoottil Tharyan, the quintessential edit writer, trying to encapsulate his mother in one word.
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More to it than skirts
Dear Sushma Swaraj, You were in office for only 13 days last time as Minister for Information and Broadcasting, but you certainly left an indelible mark: you banished the advertisement showing a woman's skirt flying up to the powerful notes of a new sound system. There was also some fuss about whether Doordarshan newscasters were wearing see-through blouses.
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