Pageants, not parades
Military parade as demonstration of state power is very much a communist, even Stalinist, notion. No other ature, self-confident democracy stages one.



Cautioning the Republic
A President’s job is not merely to mouth platitudes and homilies but also to caution and advise the nation from ime to time. That is how K.R. Narayanan has perceived his customary duty of addressing the nation on the eve of the Republic Day, quite unlike some of his predecessors.



Price of inexperience
Enron power is priced three times higher than power from other sources and MSEB's finances are in a mess. hus, when the CEO of Enron's Indian arm, the Dhabol Power Company, warns that letters of credit will be nvoked, all that Maharashtra's power minister says is, `go ahead'.



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