Wah justice!
The Delhi High Court has stretched the law to the extreme when it summarily ordered confiscation of all the unsold copies of the latest issue of the fortnightly newsmagazine Wah India, put a ban on its circulation and directed the media not to publish anything that would ‘‘lower the authority, dignity and prestige of the members of the judiciary’’.

Shadow lines
AS expected, the noise in India over the flare-up on the Bangladesh border is getting louder by the day. Broadly, three kinds of concerns can be discerned in the many different kinds of voices that are being heard, and each concern feeds on the others and on rumour in the absence of hard information.

Time Out/Niti Paul Mehta
At risk of dignity and limb
Nowadays it takes a lot of daring to travel by bus.

A convenient memory
Vajpayee says he has never heard the kind of blunt charges brought against him and his ministers. Oh, yeah? Let us go back to the beginning of his parliamentary career says Mani Shankar Aiyar.

Grain Of Truth/Yoginder K. Alagh
Markets work only if laws work
CRISIS periods usually bring out the best in governance. It could be an earthquake, a cyclone, or a scam. In Ahmedabad, the earthquake still hurts. So does the scam in which the cooperative bank was mulched.

By Words/Shama Futehally
Shared suggestions
Busybee’s stray thoughts opened up a new world for writers to inhabit.