Corruption is custom
It is unnerving enough that for the first time in the nation's history, its top customs official has been raided, and then arrested by the CBI in a corruption case.



End game at Sharjah
The broad hints that Sports Minister Uma Bharati has been dropping for some time now have fructified in Sunday's statement from her ministry that India will not be participating in cricket tournaments held in ``non-regular venues'' for the next three years at least.



George's 1001 nights
One thousand and one nights ago -- or thereabouts -- the prime minister took the extraordinary step of naming as the nation's defence minister a man who had spent time in jail on a charge of naked terrorism.



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