Thursday, December 10, 1998
No surprises, as usual
More than a month after the expert-level Indo-Pak dialogue, it is relevant to examine what will happen when the two Foreign Secretaries meet in Delhi in February. Indications are not positive, but details should be understood.
Economics for politicians
It is out of character for Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha to raise an alarm about fiscal deficit and warn about an East Asian type of disaster in India. So he must have had compelling reasons to do this during a discussion with party MPs on the insurance Bill.
Eyeless in a new era
Just as Amartya Sen gets the Nobel for Economics, for work that has consistently highlighted the pivotal role of education as an engine for human progress, comes news that the country of his birth has 1.10 million children who should rightly be in school but are not.
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