Investment driving the economy

The current political scenario in the backdrop of economic stability had created a sense of satisfaction among majority of the public. Yet in the political dichotomy there were certain persons still trying to strike a pessimistic note regarding the record of the Government even after terrorism was defeated.

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The Morning Inspection

Pigging out on grubby finger-printing

Someone sent me a wonderful line from Nadine Gordimer recently: ‘The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby fingerprint of reality upon the beautiful.’

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Nukes:

The balance of terror

You got to give credit to Benyamin Netanyahu. He is a fantastic actor and might put to shame some of the best that Hollywood can offer. He proved his mettle at the UN when he berated the hostage audience, comprising mainly the US and the UK cartel - often referred to as the ‘International Community’.

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