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A summit of defining sentiments
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, George W. Bush, seems to have reached out to the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, with much candour and some definitive sentiments about friendship and partnership. Inevitably, the Bush-Musharraf summit in Washington on ...
Addressing a malady
THE NATIONAL HUMAN Rights Commission's directive to States and Union Territories to ensure that patients in asylums for the mentally ill were not kept in chains is a welcome initiative to root out the brutalising impact such practices have on ...


Leader Page Articles
Political state and civil society
By V. R. Krishna Iyer

The modus vivendi of state and civil society must be an active sense of togetherness without which the best decision may be rejected.
New agenda for Dalits — II
By Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The market economy will also prosper only if we overcome the most debilitating of our social contradictions: the oppression of Dalits.


News Analysis
Ending child soldiering
By Olara A. Otunnu

February 12, 2002 could be remembered as a good day for children around the world. That day, an international treaty came into force banning the use of children as soldiers. The treaty is the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of ...


Letters to the Editor
  • VHP and Taliban
  • Ayodhya or Kashmir
  • Pleasant surprise
  • Outlandish move
  • Playing ostrich
  • Not language divide
  • Airport security
  • Currency notes

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