Mindreading Musharraf
For somebody reputed, at least in this country, for successfully holding other people to ransom, Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has done something unusual by seeming to pay out a little ransom of his own last week.



The debate, a day after
The prime minister's studied ambiguity on Ayodhya is the most significant outcome of the Opposition's Parliamentary tactics in support of the demand for the resignation of three BJP ministers chargesheeted for their role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.



Orissa's empty rice bowl
Why is it that politicians never starve? A good question to put to the lethargic midgets of the Naveen Patnaik ministry who are so busy denying Opposition charges that there are starvation deaths occurring in the state that they have no time or energy to do anything about it.



Other headlines
Millennium musings
The superpower does some sums