Grain down the drain
At long last, the Bharatiya Janata Party has woken to the absurdities of the Centre's food procurement and distribution policies.
Marxist monopoly
Buddhadev Bhattacharya might be making serious efforts to change from being a stodgy Marxist to a bhadralok, at least since he took over the baton from comrade Jyoti Basu as the chief minister of West Bengal.
The UMIs have landed
It is that time of the year when Punjabi NRIs fly home to celebrate the new year with parents they left behind. And it is a curious phenomenon. Now enjoying success abroad, they gaze at their motherland through x-ray glasses, not rose-tinted spectacles.