Tuesday, December 29, 1998
Blame it on the system
The recent standoff concerning the top defence postings and appointments is the cumulative effect of the manner in which sensitive matters relating to the three services have been handled over the years.
Love not thy neighbour
There, behind the barbed wire, on one side, lay India and behind more barbed wire, on the other side, lay Pakistan. In between, on a bit of earth which had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh.
Moopanar's dilemma
Soon after the passing away of K. Kamaraj in October 1975, GK Moopanar brought the breakaway Congress (O) back into the Congress fold. He also brought with him the vast properties owned by the Congress in Chennai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu, valued then at several hundreds of crore and now at well over a thousand.
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