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Treading with caution
INDIA'S EXCELLENT TRACK record as one of the leading partners in the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations over the past half a century should ensure that one more engagement of a similar nature does not raise any controversy or ...
Stop smoking on screen
CINEMA'S LOVE AFFAIR with the cigarette is age-old. If Humphrey Bogart's rings of smoke finally choked him to death, his fans could not care less. They continued to be fascinated by his smoky aura, and puffed away perhaps their lives as well. ...


Leader Page Articles
A tale of two Ministers
By Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Economic freedoms and closed minds go ill together and this remains the unresolved contradiction at the heart of the BJP.
Congress, Dalits and elections
By Gail Omvedt

Without any real programmes identified as anti-caste, a secular policy is empty.


News Analysis
Should India do the U.S. bidding?
By Amit Baruah

NEW DELHI, JUNE 11. India has gone out on a limb entertaining repeated American requests to deploy troops in Iraq. Or so it seems at a time when India's own assessment is that the Americans have got "bogged down" in Iraq, the attempts to ...
CAPITAL TALK
Where the public is kept in the dark
By Inder Malhotra

Even while sweltering in the sizzling heat, the denizens of Delhi have not lost their sense of humour. Many of them are still shaking with laughter over the shoddy spectacle that the BJP, core of the ruling coalition at the Centre, made of itself ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Politics of Ayodhya
  • Wasteful expenditure
  • Praying for rain
  • `Dodgy dossier'
  • Statistics and lies
  • Cure for epilepsy



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