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Fighting the cult of the bomb
“The dust will never settle down,” warns the latest terror manifesto issued by the Indian Mujahideen. For the past several weeks, intelligence and police officials have been warning that the Indian Mujahideen — a terrorist ...

A call for softer money
The Trade and Development Report of the UNCTAD for 2008 has examined the inter-linkages between commodity prices, capital flows, and investment levels in the developing countries. Its assessment of economic growth during the year is substantially ...

Leader Page Articles
Anna: Commoner Extraordinary
By R. Kannan

Reflections on C.N. Annadurai on the 99th anniversary of his birth. Office was but an instrument for him to better the lives of others. Burning the midnight oil one night, he beckoned a ministerial colleague to say: ‘People are expecting a lot from us. We should not disappoint them.’

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For direct action
By Chris McGreal

Zackie Achmat was 14 when he took his first direct action. It was 1976 and he felt fellow pupils at his “coloured,” or mixed-race, school were not sufficiently supportive of the anti-apartheid education boycott spreading from the ...

Dealing with a new Nepal
By S.D. Muni

India can no longer pursue its strategic and economic interests on the basis of its old colonial mindset and bureaucratised traditional tools of diplomacy.

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System, selection and scope for slips
For an outside observer, it should not matter when mistakes occur in the newspaper every day, even though it falls to his lot to publish corrections for them. When I was actively involved in the production of The Hindu and ...

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