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Sunday, April 26, 1998
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Tiger, tiger, burning out
This is murder in the first degree. Bit by bit, the body is dismembered. The skin is peeled away. The bones severed. The intestines scooped out. The claws pulled out. Bit by bit, this is how the tiger -- the symbol of our national pride -- is being destroyed. Trade in tiger parts is thriving internationally and is believed to be next only to narcotics in terms of the money involved.
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What makes this man roar?
This isn't the first time that Buta Singh has been divested of a ministerial portfolio. The last time this happened was after the hawala case, when P.V. Narasimha Rao had asked him to quit. On that occasion, Buta Singh accepted the humiliation quietly. Not anymore. After he was sacked by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee last week, Buta Singh not only fretted and fumed publicly, he threatened to lodge a case against Pramod Mahajan for giving him only ten minutes to resign.
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Adding insult to invective
There are two ways to measure the success of a democracy. You can either do it in the traditional and tedious fashion of counting the number of people who get to exercise their franchise without getting shot, or you can go by the revolutionary new way of counting the number of political insults and invectives that the system generates over a given period of time.
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"If the govt falls, we will not allow a political vacuum"
The recently concluded general elections mark Sharad Pawar's comeback as a Congress leader of substance. However, Sonia Gandhi's takeover of the Congress Party has condemned him to playing second fiddle as long as she is around. But being the shrewd pragmatist that he is, Pawar has gamely plunged into Operation Congress Revival, realising perhaps that all said and done, half a loaf is better than none.
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