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Tuesday, May 21, 2002
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Editorials Rekindle political processes THE "APPROPRIATE" RESPONSE that the Union Home Minister, L. K. Advani, promised Parliament in the wake of the outrageous May 14 terrorist attack in Jammu, has so far related to the diplomatic and military options, reacting in a sense to the ... East timor THE POLITICAL BAPTISM of East Timor as the world's newly independent state has taken place with much fanfare. East Timor, a half-island with a 0.8 million population in the Indonesian archipelago, has emerged as a sovereign nation under the ... Leader Page Articles India, U.S. and Pakistan By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan Is the U.S. willing to use the clout it has acquired in Pakistan post-September 11 to ensure the holding of trouble-free elections in Jammu and Kashmir? That is the litmus test for the Americans. Political mobilisation of secular forces By Supriya RoyChowdhury Secularism can be one but not the single dimension of a progressive politics. When the other critical dimensions remain unworked out, the secular impulse is also weakly institutionalised. News Analysis School-meal politics By Jean Dreze In an enlightening note of dissent on education policy written in 1955, B.V. Krishnamurthi, a distinguished economist, castigated the Government for applying "the calculus of the private grocery merchant to a matter like education". This mindset ... Joining India in the fight against AIDS By Robert D. Blackwill The recent Parliamentarian conference in New Delhi set a landmark for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in India. The Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, called for ``liberation'' from AIDS and the conference produced the ground-breaking ``Delhi ... Letters to the Editor Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education | Book Review | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
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