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A prolonged stalemate
THE CONTINUING STALEMATE between the Congress and the People's Democratic Party (of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed) over the formation of a coalition Government in Jammu and Kashmir, even after two weeks of confabulations at different levels, does little ...
A rash of strikes
IT HAS TURNED out to be a week of strikes in Tamil Nadu, adding to the Government's cup of woes. Some of these strikes, it would seem, are unwarranted and a few are of the Government's own making. Teachers and students of the Government colleges ...


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WORLD VIEW
Is the United Nations relevant?
By C. Raja Mohan

Any review of New Delhi's policy towards the U.N. must deal with the basic reality that India is a revisionist power, not in territorial terms but for improving its role in global decision-making.
Thatcherism in new clothes
By Hasan Suroor

Before Margaret Thatcher could dismantle the British welfare state altogether time ran out for her. It now appears that a Labour Prime Minister might succeed where she failed.


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Minorities and the T.N. Ordinance
By Valson Thampu

That the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion of Religion Ordinance upsets and worries Christians in Tamil Nadu is understandable. I too am concerned that measures such as this will hurt, rather than heal, the soul of India. But I need ...


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