The fiasco over the Left alliance, among others, exposes the party's weaknesses.

Many Indians live under a comfortable, though wrong notion, that education is not a 'commercial' service and cannot be regulated.

If the government has the courage to defy its leftist allies, there is no better time to tackle these issues than now.

The reason for their silence is that the Ranbaxy deal has not hurt the interests of most sections of the voting community. Let alone farmers, even the urban voters are not bothered by the deal as it has no direct