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A dangerous gameplan
THE ANDHRA PRADESH Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu's decision not to rock the boat of the Atal Behari Vajpayee Government, at least for the moment, has come as a breather for the NDA. So vehement was Mr. Naidu's disapproval of the BJP's ...
Responding to the LTTE
IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT shape they assume, it is patently clear that the LTTE hopes to use the negotiations with the Sri Lankan Government as an instrument to further its rehabilitation and parlay its legitimacy in the eyes of the international ...


Leader Page Articles
The Afghan contradictions
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

The single most important contradiction in the Afghan situation is the inability to evolve a credible vehicle for Pashtun aspirations.
Democratic governance — II
By P. Radhakrishnan

Despite what our political leaders say, India is still a nascent democracy; it has not yet grown into a full-blooded one.


News Analysis
NEWS ANALYSIS
No more than LTTE-controlled interim administration
By Nirupama Subramanian

COLOMBO, APRIL 15. The LTTE has made clear that it is in no hurry for a permanent solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict as long as it has an arrangement that gives it de facto control of the north-east, and in this, the group has for the first ...
OPINION
Mr. Vajpayee, the swayamsevak
By Kuldip Nayar

The outcry by the intelligentsia is not because the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's mask has come off but because his liberalism has turned out to be phoney. Many feel cheated when they find him as much a torchbearer of Hindutva as anyone ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Shameful
  • Shocking turnabout
  • The Swayamsevak
  • Undiplomatic
  • Keep it as six months

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