SOUTH-Confidence in Kerala

Tickle, Totter or Topple...
Romesh Thapar WHAT a shambles the political scene of India is today. While Chief Ministers reduce the National Development Council meetings into occasions for crude agitation to obtain more funds and projects, one State Government after another begins to show signs of explosive crisis. The politicians are now engaged in the strangest of games. Functioning for years without organisation and cadres, they imagine that the old anarchy will continue in the new situation. Continue, it will. But, not for long. There is an anger developing which might vet compel these manipulators to lace fresh elections throughout the country