Monday, November 8, 1999
Mercy and justice
What is particularly deplorable about the debate on the death sentence for the four chief convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case is the emergence of a peculiar political line-up on the issue.
Leave it to individuals
In an open letter to Pope John Paul II, Swami Dayananda Saraswati wrote (IE, Oct 29) that ``there is no basis for conversion in matters of faith; religious conversion is violence; that in converting, you are also converting the non-violent to violence.''
Land of millions
To their enduring shame, corruption and poverty remain the key characteristics of the countries of South Asia. A great many other things have changed in the last decade -- markets have been embraced, nuclear bombs have been exploded -- but those two are constants.
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