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An expression of no-confidence
OVER FIVE WEEKS after the Godhra carnage and some three weeks after the Union Home Minister, L. K. Advani, had `hailed' the Narendra Modi Government for bringing its violent backlash under control within 72 hours, communal embers are still ...
Skirting the basics
BY REMAINING SILENT on inter-State water sharing, the Fifth National Water Resources Council has only let the politically contentious issue fester till a decision is arrived at by the National Water Board. Whatever be the merits behind such a ...


Leader Page Articles
The new tribalism
By Neera Chandoke

How do we capture either in imagination or through language the terror of an entire community when it is targeted and brutally exterminated by mobs drunk on blood?
Caste and history
By Alice Thorner

The one thing about which we can be practically sure is that caste could not have taken the form of a universal unchanging phenomenon throughout the long haul of Indian history.


News Analysis
Kashmir and Palestine
By Sudhanshu Ranade

Though the External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh, seems to have taken the nod of Chinese leaders at Beijing to mean that they were in agreement with him on the need to ``mend fences" and "fight terror", it is unlikely that they even heard a ...
Contempt for the Centre: a new phase
By Harish Khare

NEW DELHI, APRIL 3. Two days ago, the country tele-watched the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, launching into a verbal offensive against the wisdom and correctness of the Union Government's approach towards Pakistan. In his ...


Letters to the Editor
  • A new beginning
  • Time for parleys
  • Start from Godhra
  • Towards anarchy?
  • Using ethanol
  • Musician of stature

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