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Journalism of Courage
8226; Ever since Dharam Singh took over the reins of the Congress-led coalition government in Karnataka 20 months ago, H.D. Deve Gowda, an aberration in political firmament and a former PM by default, was behaving like a wounded tiger because he could not succeed in making his over-ambitious son H.D. Kumaraswamy, the Karnataka CM remember the power struggle of former Congress patriarch K. Karunakaran and son Muralidharan in Kerala politics!. Deve Gowda, despite pretending that he is unhappy, is the happiest man today. It will be a 8216;dream come true8217; for him when his son grabs the CM8217;s chair. I wish the people of Karnataka understood this.
8212; K.P. Rajan Mumbai
Family loyalty
8226; One needs to remember in the context of the present controversy over the Quattrocchi account, that Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj was a Congress extrovert from the days of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. I remember he used to highlight in Parliament anything connected to his Congress bosses.
8212; H.R.H. Rau Bangalore
IIMs are Indian8230;
8226; The IIMs wanting to set up campuses abroad is actually a non-issue. They do not seem to realise that there is the word 8216;Indian8217; in their name which defines their status as belonging to this country and to work for its citizens. They have to cater to the heavy demand in the country by expanding the number of seats, set up new campuses in the country as proposed in Shillong, which should also be expanded to other places.
8212; S. Kamat Panaji
No, they8217;re global
8226; Being a premier set of management education institutions in the world, the IIMs can serve the aspiring management professionals in the world by being able to set up foreign campuses. In the era of globalisation there is no point in restricting quality education to within the national boundaries.
8212; Arjun Chaudhuri Kolkata
Unholy nexus?
8226; It is clear that there is an unholy nexus between the Congress and the BJP. It is a case of the BJP not pursuing Bofors and perhaps Volcker to save Sonia Gandhi and the Congress not pursuing the misdeeds of Vajpayee8217;s 8216;close relative8217;. Else why should the Gandhi family retainer, Romesh Bhandari, not have named Vajpayee8217;s 8216;close relative8217; and why did the BJP do nothing during NDA8217;s over six years rule regarding Bofors and Volcker? Now, to cap it all, the BJP president is absent from the rally organised to protest against releasing Bofor8217;s cash to Quattrocchi! All this at the cost of the poor 8216;aam aadmi8217;!
8212; S.C.N. Jatar Pune
Tailpiece
8226; According to an anonymous CBI source, the quiet move by the GOI to de-freeze Quattrocchi8217;s accounts with BSI AG in London is part of a masterly strategy to prevent the Italian from conducting any more shady transactions like the Bofors deal. 8220;As we predicted, he has already withdrawn one million dollars and three million Euros from the accounts,8221; says the spokesman. 8220;Now, because of insufficient balance, the bank will not issue him any more cheque books or ATM cards.8221;
8212; R.P. Subramanian Delhi
