Monthly Archives: December 1999

Wisely have sages perceived that while success has many fathers, defeat has none. It is so with Congress. Sonia Gandhi’s coterie and self-appointed bards in the media are having a tough time whitewashing her inglorious tally in the recent parliamentary elections and passing the buck elsewhere. Nevertheless, both have gone … Read More →

The decision of the Mahoba district administration and the National Commission for Women (NCW) to call Charan Shah’s death a suicide rather than a sati is reminiscent of the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s assertion that commissions paid in the Bofors gun deal were ‘winding up charges,’ not kickbacks. The indisputable fact … Read More →