Friday, May 7, 1999
Sinking a titan
The last post has sounded for the Old Lady of the Indian Navy. In a month's time, INS Vikrant, India's first and best-known aircraft carrier, would have been stripped ignominiously of her polished mahogany, leather upholstery and brass fittings and rendered into little more than sheets of scrap to be sold in an open auction.
The authors of September
Despite all the advances in technology, the Orwellian Big Brother is not always watching you. But the author scored a bullseye with Animal Farm: ``All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others''.
Mulayam's hard choice
Mulayam Singh Yadav is facing a major crisis. The situation has developed in a such a way that his Samajwadi Party which had garnered the largest number of MPs among regional outfits in 1998, is fighting for survival.
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