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Editorials
Johannesburg fiasco
THE WORLD SUMMIT on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg could not have ended in a bigger failure. It did produce a plan of action on sustainable development, but it was a plan that either watered down existing national and global commitments ...
The hostage crisis
IN THE ABSENCE of a sudden development, the Nagappa hostage crisis appears unlikely to blow over in a hurry with Veerappan laying down impossible conditions for negotiating the release of his captive. His demand that the two pro-LTTE activists, ...


Leader Page Articles
Engaging Pak., a better option
By K. K. Katyal

It is in India's interest that the Kashmir problem, which has done incalculable damage over the past 55 years, is resolved.
Ominous signs in the northeast
By Wasbir Hussain

New Delhi and the States in the northeast must now put in place a workable counter-insurgency strategy with the focus on coordination, not competition.


News Analysis
The despair and hope
By Sankaram Ayala

The culmination of the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg was a plan that set broad timetables for improving sanitation, reducing chemical pollution and protecting the endangered plant and animal species. Ecologists and ...
India and the U.S. war on Iraq
By C. Raja Mohan

As the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, heads for New York to join the commemoration of the September 11 tragedy, the American war against terrorism is about to enter a more divisive phase. While the war in Afghanistan against the Al-Qaeda ...
Thailand, a brief pause?
By V. S. Sambandan

COLOMBO, SEPT. 8. "History is past politics, and politics is present history" — E.A. Freeman (Methods of Historical Study, 1886). When the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rejected the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Agreement, it also shut the ...


Letters to the Editor
  • A clear message
  • Goodwill needed
  • End Veerappan saga
  • Tibet as bridge
  • Money wasted
  • Awards for teachers

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