( 1 ) WHAT is the best way to win political foes? Persuasion? Understanding? Love? Compassion? Dale Carnegie s sermons? The sordid facts giving rise to these revision petitions against framing of charges show that the secret of success lies, at least with regard to some, in mastering the art of transferring one s own bulging wallets into the eager pockets of others.

( 2 ) MORE a little later.

( 3 ) NARSIMHA Rao, one may recollect, was, not long time ago, the Prime Minister of India. In the General Elections in 1991 though his party, the Congress (I), had emerged as a single largest party, yet it needed the support of at least 14 more members of Lok Sabha for a simple majority. Lack of clear majority and need to win over at least 14 other members of Lok Sabha was felt more acutely when the Government came to know of an impending "motion of No Confidence", which, in fact, came to be moved on the 26th day of July in the fateful year of 1993. On July 28, 1993, the Motion was lost. How did it happen? Simple. The Prime Minister succeeded in mustering the support of fourteen more Members of Lok Sabha. And, how did he manage to win their support? Well, as we all know no bi