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Editorials
Ranking India
AFTER A DECADE of an uneasy relationship with the concept of human development, the Government of India — through the Planning Commission — has prepared the first national human development report. While countries such as Myanmar and ...
Rights and obligations
THE TAMIL NADU Governor, P.S. Ramamohan Rao's suggestion at a seminar on `Exercising freedom: public interest & individual rights' that rights implied corresponding duties would have to be viewed extremely cautiously in the light of recent ...


Leader Page Articles
No means of protest
By Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Since the political defenders of secularism have neither organisation nor uncompromised authority, even our sincere protests are like so many free floating gestures; straws in the wind blown away by the next political current.
Politics and economics of sandalwood
By M. Govinda Rao

Two hundred years of public monopoly and persecution and harassment of those on whose land the plant grew were enough to make the yoyal wood vanish.


News Analysis
POLITICAL IMBROGLIO
Opposition unity to the fore
By K. K. Katyal

NEW DELHI, APRIL 25.The Opposition parties have reason to be happy with the conclusion of the first phase of ``Operation Gujarat'' in Parliament. First, it marks the success of their joint coordinated functioning in Parliament, the second such ...
When will the Centre intervene?
By Anjali Mody

As the nation counts Gujarat's dead, the BJP counts its votes. It will, next week, support a censure motion on West Bengal (under Rule 184) to buy the Trinamool Congress's support in the Parliament debate on Gujarat. The BJP is cutting deals to ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Selective concern?
  • A new low
  • Laudable stand
  • An aberration
  • After the strike
  • No magic solutions
  • Child marriages

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