S.S. KARNADSHA writes from Bangalore: With 45 days to go before Bangalore’s new international airport (BIAL) takes off (imagine that!), a debate distilled in the drawing rooms has spilled on …
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, you would assume, has plenty of problems on his plate. And we aren’t even talking of the “people-friendly gravy train” he has to roll out this …
L.C. Jain on Baba Amte in Deccan Herald: “He once organised a scavengers’ (night soil collectors’) union, but when they struck for higher wages while he was still vice chairman …
China apparently made 146 incursions into Indian territory last year. The Chinese are preventing locals from going up to regions where they had been taking their animals for grazing. Even …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I went to the General Post Office at Fort, Bombay. “Kai Pahiye?” (what do you want) asked the clerk. “Bhaiyya, I want to send a taxi by …
Two-wheeler riders do not want to wear crash helmets. Lorry owners do not want to install speed governors. And autorickshaw drivers do not want to carry as many schoolchildren as …