Committee or calamity?
On Sunday, some six national parties, together with 16 regional ones, confabulated for three hours on the Gujarat earthquake as part of the National Committee on Disaster Management's deliberations, and not once did the most obvious aspect of this calamity surface.



Naval gazing
70 warships from 30 countries which basked in Mumbai's hospitality for several days last week have gone leaving a puzzle behind.



It's an Enwrong
William Hawkins arrived at Surat in the good ship Hector on August 24, 1608, determined to secure through a firman from the Moghul emperor Jahangir the right to trade in derogation of the monopoly trading rights earlier granted to the Portuguese.



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