Issue Unclinched

Issue Unclinched Nireekshak THESE are indeed days and "week(s) of wonder", as a Blitz columnist exclaimed recently while surveying the national scene. First there were the constitutional amendments which suddenly enlivened Parliament, rescuing it and the Press gallery from the boredom of an otherwise uniformly dull session. Then came another shocker in the guise of the Indo- Soviet treaty of friendship and co-operation which, while it has rattled a few, has unmistakably left the many gaping in astonishment and relief! Newspapers, of course, are not unaccustomed to sur- prises but the treaty came as so great a surprise to every known and unknown pundit in the Press that it threw most commentators off balance.