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Amma holds many aces — will she use them wisely? In spite of the badly bruised face of the Tamil Nadu bureaucracy, there are still quite a few outstanding officers, especially among the younger ones, whose morale constitutes the most precious resource of good governance. All that is required to mak e her dream (which she expressed as soon as Andipatti election results were announced) of making Tamil Nadu the number one State in India come true is for Jayalalithaa to identify these officers and tell them, "Go and get results; you don't have to c over your backs any more!" More Harappan horse There is an urgent need to jettison from our textbooks the unproved statements on Indian civilisation and consign them to academic polemics, and keep the power mongering self-seeking Taliban politicians out of educational field. More Mahatma Gandhi, K.R. Narayanan and plague The city of Surat which was gripped by unprecedented upsurge of plague due to dirty and filthy living conditions is now a clean city. We had to have a plague to make the people and administration painfully aware that cleanliness is the prerequisite f or prevention of disease. More |
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