Blunt instrument
In the last month the Reserve Bank of India and the Finance Minister have both chosen wisely to speak more frankly about the state of the economy. Until now Yashwant Sinha has been stubbornly upbeat and the RBI cautiously optimistic.

Bus to Pakistan
It took nothing less than a tete-a-tete between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif last September and months of hectic bureaucratic parleys thereafter to open the road link between the two countries.

Mulayam's dilemma
This is a crucial phase in the career of Mulayam Singh Yadav. The man who once came tantalisingly close to becoming the prime minister of India now sees cracks in the platform that he painfully built.

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