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Goodbye to Akhand Bharat
Who is telling the truth? Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, who says the Prime Minister has okayed his proposal to register all the "bona fide residents" of Delhi or I.K. Gujral, who denies it? Verma's hare-brained scheme flies in the face of the Constitutional provision that allows citizens to move freely and settle anywhere in the country.
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Secular enough to be divisive
So the secular balloon has finally burst. When Naresh Aggarwal split the "secular" UP Congress legislative Party and took away more than half of its members to help the "communal" BJP form a government, it was dismissed by many a secularist as a flash in the pan. But the same pattern has been repeated in the length and breadth of the country.
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How the Sikh joke was born
Hindus use the 12 o'clock joke to rib the Sikhs without quite knowing what it's about. In turn, the Sikh victims get infuriated without quite knowing why. The origins of the joke, now lost in the mists of time, were in dead earnest. If the Sikhs knew the real story, they would be proud to be alluded to as the "12 o'clock people".
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Tyranny of propriety
The Delhi High Court has given the Government a well-deserved respite by allowing T.S.R. Subramanian to remain Cabinet Secretary until February 4. The drama of the Cabinet Secretary's continuation or otherwise in office would be a true farce if it were not such a sad comment on wrong-headed priorities and obsessions.
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