The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Friday, May 30 1997

Letters to the Editor

File and forget

A year and a half ago, the hawala case marked a watershed in politics. It put paid to the notion that corruption was part and parcel of the Indian political system, something that had to be fatalistically accepted.

Incompatible parties

It is a measure of realism that Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has given up his anti-Congressism. But it would be erroneous to view it entirely in the context of the by-election to the Farukhabad Assembly seat.

In search of oil in the heartland

Once a caravan stop on the Great Silk Road between Europe and the Far-East, the Central Asian region today with its enormous oil and gas reserves is a destination in itself. From the hot sands of the Karakum desert to the marshy Tenghiz basin, the entire region has the potential to generate many ``Kuwaits'' of the future.

Time out -- Tale of two cities

My mother, my MP --Politically correct, fundamentally wrong

The Right to Misinformation