The Congress debacle owes more to the disarray of the party and its unrealistic assessment of ground situations than to the status of other political forces.
As children were dying like flies of cholera in the capital's resettlement colonies, the municipal commissioner was asserting that it was not an epidemic; he would call it an epidemic, he said, only if a million people had been affected.
Enchantment to Imperilment M A Sundaram Imperilled Frontiers: India's North-Eastern Borderlands by Nari Rus- tomji; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983; Rs 80..
