‘It’s a tribute to Canadian society that I could make it to where I am today’
Ujjal Dosanjh, who has traversed the distance from grazing cattle in Doaba’s sun-kissed fields to being the premier of Canada’s British Columbia province, is fond of saying about his childhood years that ‘‘this was a time when everything was possible.’’



The rice bowl has been snatched away
The Indian Express editorial on starvation deaths in Orissa seems to have ignored the socio-economic dimension of starvation in western Orissa. It is true that the drought of 2000 has contributed to massive crop failure and subsequent food shortage.



Lessons from the new economy
New year crystal gazing has a horrible way of going wrong, but one safe prediction is the Congress won't try and topple the Vajpayee government in the next 12 months.



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