Nellai Suresh puts in black and white

I was wonder-struck by the importance people in Paris attach to the week-ends. This week,it is the Bastille Day (July 14) and falls on a Monday. So it is a long week-end. Any one I saw in the office on Friday gleefully wishes me a happy week end. I need not know them. The melas of Indian villages are repeated here on week ends. I stay just opposite of Stade de France. And I see for the past 3 Saturdays how people gather here for the week end event. It was a Rugby final, one week, a rock concert, the next and a football match yesterday when the France 98 team which won the World Cup played with another team. Zidane et all were present. It was nostalgic for the French. Tickets were selling in Black.People came in real good headgears and faces painted with the French Nationak Flag. Most of them were wearing the Zidanne T-shirts. I enjoyed the ambience.

Those who keenly observe the political parties in India can easily make out whose line the Left are toeing.But it became quite clear by the recent vetoing of the sanctions against Zimbabwe by the Russians and Chinese. Probably the only reason was that it was proposed by UK and US. Forget the atrocities Mugabe has wrought on his people. Forget the single party election he stage-managed to elect himself again. Forget the opposition which was decimated. US and UK want Mugabe to go. So don't allow this. CAN ANYBODY SEE A pattern in the Left's refusal to accept the nuke deal? Anyone who is not a left agrees that it is good for India. US think-tank has advised their government that India would be running away with more than it deserved and US should not rush through in ratifying the deal. Above all, Manmohan Singh and the whole of atomic energy experts like Anil Kakodkar and M R Srinivasan find merit in the agreement. But it is an emphatic 'NO' for the left. Reason, 'US is the other party in the agreement'.