A manipulative mindset
Downcast, unusually quiet, Sikander Bakht sat the whole day long on the treasury be-nches in the Rajya Sabha but no one in the BJP bothered about him. He was the party's leader of the House until early last month.

Power equations from the power grid
We have this pathetic hangover of a colonial past, to the effect that the solution to all problems is fr-om the mai baap sarkar and its corollary that the only way you can influence the sa-rkar is to fight it rather than oppose it.

Christ in Asia
The successful culmination of the visit of Pope John Paul II to New Delhi is a tribute to India's secular traditions and its great sense of hospitality.