A paradox of plenty
The Green revolution has ensured that we have a surplus stock of food grains. Yet a huge segment of the population goes to bed hungry. The brains behind the grain revolution blame the politicians for the food that is rotting in the godowns. Pallava Bagla reports.



Chinese checkers
Li Peng should consider himself lucky he had only the customary Tibetan protestors to greet him on arrival. This time, he could as well have had FICCI, CII, ASSOCHAM and the other ``Chinese toys are coming'' scare-mongers messing up the red carpet.



The story of Olga Kozireva
Chances are, till this newspaper reported it yesterday, you'd never even heard of Olga Kozireva of Uzbekistan. And why should you, considering she's just one of the thousands of inmates of Tihar jail, arrested for smuggling around 80,000 yards of Chinese silk.



Other headlines
Hazy shade of grey