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  Seasonal disturbance
Is it an oxymoron to describe an everyday occurrence as a singular event? Not always. On Tuesday, April 23, even as the opposition drew fresh breath to howl its lungs out for Narendra Modi’s head, the lights went out in Parliament.
   
Earlier Columns
 

Executive decisions, April 11, 2002
Scams that never were, March 28, 2002
The naysayers, March 14, 2002
Where does the money go?, February 28, 2002
The Daniel Pearl mystery, February 14, 2002
Puppets of Enron, January 31, 2002
Same old bluff and bluster, January 17, 2002
Empathy is dangerous, January 3, 2002
Make haste slowly, December 20, 2001
Points of interest, December 6, 2001
This is no MISA, November 22, 2001
Bush is no honest broker, November 8, 2001
Financial terrorism, October 25, 2001
Can Pakistan survive?, October 10, 2001
A tangled skein of lies, September 27, 2001
Tomorrow it could be us, September 13, 2001
Fumbling finance minister, August 30, 2001
There is no game plan , August 17, 2001
Don’t bear this cartel, July 19, 2001
Reset the CBI clock, June 05, 2001
Unsteady at the top, June 21, 2001
The vultures of Manipur, May 24, 2001
While the Congress may live to fight another day... The Third Front is dead, May 10, 2001
Is this justice , April 26, 2001
When the watchdogs slept , March 15, 2001
The delay Dividend , February 15, 2001
The general and the ghost, January 18, 2001
Sonia's somnambulism , January 04, 2001
No king of black Diamonds , December 07, 2000
The Slippery Hindujas , November 09, 2000
The liability factor , October 26, 2000
Mutual respect and self esteem , September 28, 2000
Off with the kid gloves, September 28, 2000
Before the midnight hour , September 14, 2000
Flying high, J class , August 31, 2000
The law as prize chump , August 17, 2000
Judge, judge thyself , August 03, 2000