The winner as underdog
Military historians will have a hard time resolving this one. Which date should mark the anniversary of the war in Kargil?



History's lost chances
President Chandrika Kumaratunga's plans to divert all but essential funds to the war effort and the sweeping powers given to the police and armed forces by an ordinance convey the sense of crisis gripping the government.



Mani's misplaced Aiyar
The Congress party's most getting-established economic ideologue, Mani Shankar Aiyar (Manmohan Singh's a poor shadow of himself and Jairam Ramesh's odour is mixed at most times).



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