Tuesday, October 27, 1998
Don't talk of love, show it
While the stock markets and the larger body of industrialists appear to have greeted the economic package announced by both Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha with unbounded joy, it is difficult to understand the euphoria.
Simplistic solutions
The study of the caste riots in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu by a high-powered committee headed by former Supreme Court judge S. Mohan was a long-overdue exercise. The conflicts between the backward-class Thevars and the Dalits have been recurring with monstrous regularity and intensity, particularly over the last one decade.
A growing distrust
The twice-born Press Council of India -- it was dissolved by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency -- is once again facing a challenge. Its existence is not in doubt. Its effectiveness is. This time, the attack is not by the government but by the Indian Newspapers Society (INS, a body of proprietors).
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