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DMK stays on course
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has put up such an impressive performance in the recent local body elections in Tamil Nadu that it might actually be regretting the violence and rigging that marred the Chennai Corporation Council polls. With some ...

The hated Act must go
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 "should be repealed," as the Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Committee set up to review its provisions has recommended unambiguously. "The Act is too sketchy, too bald, and quite inadequate in several ...

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The search for the puppet-masters
By Praveen Swami

Indian investigators know the marionettes who enact the Lashkar-e-Taiba's jihad — but the men who hold the strings are out of reach.

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Remaking cities, changing people
By Kalpana Sharma

Geographer David Harvey critiques the impact of neo-liberalism on the urbanisation process.

ONLINE AND OFFLINE

Domains, policies and uniformity
October 10 was World Mental Health Day. Two reports the next day caught my eye. One, just a sentence in a Chennai report on the need to sensitise the media to the challenge of covering suicide. The second, a PTI report from Jaipur on Dr. U.C. ...

The Apple iPod turns five today
By John Naughton

The little white box has come to define our social age

`Baby losers' fight back
By Jason Burke

THEY CALL them the `baby losers', the lost generation, `sacrificed' for the pleasure and leisure of their parents. And now, led by an unlikely alliance of economists, sociologists, angry thirty-something commentators and a few turncoats from the ...

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