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About time, a ban on LTTE
In the 30 years of its existence, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam brazenly used Europe as an extended backyard for its war against the Sri Lankan state. It grew roots within the large Sri Lankan Tamil communities that had settled in those ...

Joining the wrong side
Meek capitulation before a small section demanding a ban? Or an overzealous attempt to pander to religious sentiment? Either way, the Tamil Nadu Government's decision to suspend the screening of The Da Vinci Code bodes ill for freedom of ...

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Countering social discrimination
By Zoya Hasan

The exclusion of the creamy layer is of the essence as it provides a way out of purely group-based categories of reservation. It is the most effective way of meeting the demands of social justice and inclusive education by giving benefits to the most deserving.

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The 2008 White House race is wide open
By Simon Tisdall

Corrections and clarifications
The caption of the photograph for Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss attending to a patient at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on Wednesday morning, said, "Later in the evening, the resident ...

Have we become a nation of moaners?
By Harish Khare

We seem to have perfected the art of whining, moaning, wringing hands, always looking for the downside.

Mumbai's season of conflicts
By Kalpana Sharma

The south-west monsoon has set in, but some of the long-term issues concerning the development of the country's commercial capital still await direction.

The U.S. and the strategy for freedom
By Hamid Ansari

A remarkable feature of U.S. perceptions of West Asia is an inability or unwillingness to acknowledge linkages.

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