Monday, November 9, 1998
Goodbye to all that
America's lifting of most of its economic sanctions against India and Pakistan, a month after President Bill Clinton got the authority to do so, is marvellous news. Foremost among the reasons is economic.
Haunting spectres
A spectre haunts the Marxist-led government of Kerala -- the spectre of Varghese. The Naxal youth who was supposed to have met his gory end in an `encounter' with the state police. Twenty-five years after the incident, the story is now being retold and it is still a scandal with a capacity to shock.
Soaring in adversity
In about two years, Bill Clinton will relinquish the most powerful office in the world. He will be only 53, an astonishingly young age for a politician to retire, an age at which most politicos in India are considered greenhorns.
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