Patience pays

When mountaineer Edmund Hillary was asked why he climbed the Everest, his reply was a candid ‘Because it is there’. It you ask a Tamilnadu voter why he voted tor tne DKM his reply would very much be the same.

In safe hands

If there was one virtue of the Narasimha Rao government that won universal acclaim, it was its relentless pursuit of economic reforms. Even the worst critics of Mr. Narasimha Rao would not deny his government the credit for pulling India out of virtual disaster and putting it on the road to economic prosperity.