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Editorials
An unending Indian journey
A NATION IS marked by the institutions it nurtures. Among the several that have contributed to the making of India as a nation, its railway system, which has been chugging for the past 150 years, stands apart; not just as one that predates the ...
War and diplomacy in West Asia
THE SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY of the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in war-torn West Asia at this time has run into a tempest of political fury over human tragedies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. If Israel thinks that it holds ...


Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
The liturgy of a hateful anger
By Harish Khare

Those who preside over the Indian state cannot buck the responsibility for creating and deepening a sense of fellow-nationhood among all citizens.
India's unfinished reform agenda — I
By Nirupam Bajpai

It seems that India's political system is more than ever in consensus about the basic direction of reforms.


News Analysis
The challenge of education
By Jozef Ritzen

As successive Indian governments have realised over the decades since 1947, in keeping with thoughtful policymakers elsewhere, the acquisition of learning and innovation can empower societies to leapfrog into periods of economic wealth and social ...
CAPITAL TALK
Power equations in BJP shifting?
By Inder Malhotra

Parliament is paralysed, as so often before. The ostensible reason for this is Gujarat. During the brief bout of shouting before the adjournment of the two Houses for the day, the demand is for the removal of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra ...


Letters to the Editor
  • A united fight
  • Fundamentalism then
  • Vote them out
  • Time to act
  • An award for him
  • A common enemy?
  • Visa regulations
  • Child-trafficking

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