An eye for an eye

Chinese Whispers has been bringing you snippets from the Narendra Modi-led government's plans to celebrate its first year in office. As it turns out, the Congress has decided to steal the government's thunder by holding press conferences of its own - as many as 135 of them. Senior Congress leaders and former Union ministers have started visiting state capitals and key towns, attacking the government on its performance. Spread across the week ending May 26, these theme-based press conferences - on the social sector, finance, agrarian crisis and the threat to communal harmony - will culminate in the release of a booklet on, you guessed it, the "failures" of the government.