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| Detox as dharma |  | | The BJP is now a party where nobody has a mandate but everybody has a veto. No one stakeholder can push through change, but a whole variety of them can scuttle rival plans 30.12.05 | | |
| | | | | | | • | Boom by the Brahmaputra | | | A litre pack of a particular brand of milk costs Rs 28 in Assam, Rs 19 in Kolkata. A Maruti Esteem costs Rs 40,000 more in Assam than in West Bengal. The official reason? ‘Strategic pricing’. No wonder locals sense free trade could be Assam’s route out of the vicious circle; and not just free trade with the rest of India. 10.12.05 | | | | • | Goodbye to ground zero | | | The ‘second generation’ has made an effort to be seen as working in coordination. Signs of a return to ‘normal’ have relieved stakeholders, not least the RSS, keen on a collegial leadership 07.12.05 | | | | • | Back in the picture | | | Two days before the Bihar assembly election results, Nitish Kumar was at a dinner in Delhi, still answering questions from doubting Thomases about why he felt so confident — quietly confident, as befits the man’s understated demeanour — of victory. 23.11.05 | | | | • | Natwar, Iraq and a hard place | | | This is the worm’s eye view. Who was Hamdaan making the payments for? Justice Pathak is hardly likely to find 16-page Iraqi oil contracts signed by K. Natwar Singh 10.11.05 | | | | |
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