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Editorials
Skirting the main issue
THE ONLY TANGIBLE outcome of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's much-hyped three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir is perhaps the announcement of a Rs. 6,100-crore-plus development package aimed at employment generation, more assistance for ...
Death by fahrenheit
INDIA'S PUBLIC HEALTH system has failed its mid-summer test yet again. The 700-plus-and-still-counting helpless victims of heat stroke lost to the fury of the sun are yet another sad testimony to the lack of an appropriate human intervention ...


Leader Page Articles
MACROSCOPE
The road to ruin
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

The twin notions of an `affordable war' and a `limited war' are oxymorons which threaten to take India and Pakistan down a descending spiral of destruction.
A truly unipolar moment
By Seema Gahlaut

India has been ahead of the curve in recognising that we do not live in a multi-polar world.


News Analysis
DMK remarks fail to cheer CPI
By Suresh Nambath

CHENNAI, MAY 24. After having first allied and then snapped ties with the DMK and the AIADMK at different points in time, the CPI is now wary of the ideological commitment of the two major Dravidian parties to the secular, socialist cause. For ...
Will they pull back from the brink?
By K.K. Katyal

There is perceptible pressure on the Indian Government — both from within and outside — to give diplomacy a chance on issues arising from the stand-off with Pakistan. Simultaneously, there is increased recognition by the international ...
PLASTICS & PROSCRIPTION - I
Tamil Nadu's bold legislative move
By Mukund Padmanabhan

The fate of the boldest piece of legislation yet against disposable plastics hangs in a delicate balance. Having been referred to a select committee, there are serious apprehensions that the Tamil Nadu Plastic Articles (Prohibition of Sale, ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Not just Pak.'s making
  • Crush militancy
  • Colonial legacy
  • Disturbing messages
  • Shed hatred
  • Secularism distorted
  • Emulate Bangladesh
  • Toxicity not a myth
  • Help ecosystem

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