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A crane in the neck

For several months, construction work for the Saket metro station has been going on just outside the block of flats we live in, and the sight of a giant crane hovering over the tops of neighbouring houses makes for a grand view, especially after dark. In every other respect our enclosed colony park is quiet as a village green, but here’s an enormous, brightly lit mechanical pulley moving back and forth in a portion of the sky. It makes us feel like characters in John Wyndham novels set in quiet British towns where nothing much was ever expected to happen.

PSUs' peculiar problem

With profit-making not being the sole motive of public units, caution needs to be exercised while investing in their IPOs.

'Don't deny people of Andhra Pradesh their due share'

The first thing that our government did in 2004 was to implement a large number of programmes to immediately reach out to the farmers and other rural artisans who were in serious distress. These included waiver of the power dues of farmers, supply of seven hours free power to farmers, reschedulement of loans and interest, etc.