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Equality of priestly opportunity
The decision of the Tamil Nadu Government to allow all qualified persons irrespective of their caste to work as temple priests is an important victory in the continuing fight against the social curse that is India's caste system. In keeping with ...

Protecting global biodiversity
Over the past few decades, human activity in the name of development has adversely affected global biodiversity in an unprecedented way. The absence of satisfactory measures to check or reverse this trend has been brought out by the recently ...

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A war of diminishing returns
By R. Hariharan

The LTTE's fight now stands reduced to a turf war to establish its rights over the northeast. Its continued escalation of violence means increased loss of international sympathy for Sri Lankan Tamils.

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OUT OF LONDON
A Dutch story for our times
By Hasan Suroor

THE NAME Ayaan Hirsi Ali may not ring a bell in India, but in Britain and indeed across Europe she became a bit of a celebrity for her relentless attacks on Islam and Muslim immigrants whom she blamed for social tensions in the Netherlands, her ...

Shanghai group sides with Iran
By Vladimir Radyuhin

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is likely to reiterate its support for Iran at its summit meeting, which will take place three weeks before a G8 summit.

Corrections and clarifications
A promo on May 18, 2006, page 1 read: "Viv Richard's Column". A few readers have pointed out that as his name is Vivian Richards, it should have been "Viv Richards's Column" or "Viv Richards' Column". Upendra Baxi was incorrectly referred to as ...

Communication: one point of call
By Kieren McCarthy

Enum will link up disparate communication systems with a single contact number per person.

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