Friday, August 28, 1998
Prudent Advani
The Union Home Minister's statements on the occasion of a visit to an Indo-Tibetan Border Police post in Leh make clear that the government's policy against terrorism sponsored by Pakistan will be firm without being reckless or infringing norms approved by the international community. Significantly, he said he was not in favour of hot pursuit or US-style missile attacks against suspected terrorist bases in other countries.
Welcome to the party
The saga of the Tata airline proposal goes on. It will be of more than academic interest to see if on Saturday a government riven by disagreement on the subject finds yet another way of wriggling out of a final decision on this hapless venture. Meanwhile, the action has swung away from a government twiddling its thumbs and worse to that hoariest of vested interests, the unions.
A prophet in arms
In the present day, when socialism and Marxism are passe, it seems anachronistic to talk about liberation theology. The faith originated in the Latin American countries where after more than 400 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the vast majority found themselves drowning in a sea of poverty, illiteracy, discrimination and exploitation. In answer to the needs of these people, which the Catholic church had sometimes neglected, theologians emerged to give a new philosophy to the
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