The Maharaja is on the dole. He has a loss of Rs.27,000 crore and a debt of Rs.40,000 crore that cannot be repaid. To this royal pauper, the government wants to loan another Rs.30,000 crore. That is nearly 1,00,000 crore Rupees of commoners’ hard earned money down a hole in the sky! What lofty purpose is being served by this crumbly pie-in-the-sky called Air India? In the first place, why do we have a national airline? For the benefit of 20,000 employees and a few score polit

We are free; only to be dumb. All other freedoms are being slowly whittled away by governments who want to save the people or people who want to save the globe. The tragedy is that we are willingly donning clanking chains without the whisper of a struggle. One pressure group barters away a bit of everyone’s freedom for some advantage to their ‘minority’. little realising that someone else is doing the same thing with their freedom for some other benefit. Before we know it eve