Burying old mindsets
If Gujarat is India's most globalised state and the earthquake our firstpost-globalisation disaster, is it any surprise that the impact has even beenfelt at The Leela, the five-star hotel at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. No, the hotel has not been deserted.



Central Bureau of Incompetence?
Though it's early days yet, chances are former telecommunications minister Sukh Ram will find a way to even wriggle out of the fact that close to Rs 4 crore of cold cash was found by the CBI at his New Delhi residence in August 1996.



An easy option
The advantages from the government's point of view of an earthquake surcharge on income and corporate taxes are that it is the quickest way of raising funds just now and the easiest.



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