Islamabad rendezvous
Now that weeks of will-he-won't-he speculation has been put at an end with US President Bill Clinton's affirmation that he will stop by in Islamabad after his Indian sojourn, hopefully a touch of realism will pervade proceedings.



Red herring
The values of the proletarian parivar are supposed to be culturally different from the other political families of India. At least that is the pretence. Power, the communist pretence goes, is secondary to principle.



Numbers versus nature
Ecology, which began as a humble branch of biology, grew by dint of circumstances into a movement of ideas and ethics, calling for a sensitivity to the earth akin to nature worship and evoking a sense of responsibility to hand down to future generations.



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