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Editorials
The caste war in Punjab
Seven hundred years after a Dalit mystic began preaching the oneness of God’s creation, Punjab has been set on fire by mobs fighting in his name. Earlier this week in Vienna, Khalistan Zindabad Force terrorists attempted to assassinate Dera ...

Dilemma on the fiscal front
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has stated that his government is unambiguously committed to restoring growth and employment but it would also strive for fiscal consolidation over the next two to three years. These two macroeconomic goals are ...

Leader Page Articles
UPA’s challenge: rural governance reform
By Mihir Shah

Respect for Verdict 2009 obligates comprehensive rural governance reform. Complex outcomes demand participatory processes and imaginative solutions.

News Analysis
An open letter to Rahul Gandhi
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

Dear Rahul Gandhi: Although I have not met you, I have heard of you as one who is compassionate to the poor and by implication a socialist by conviction. I hold the view that the Prime Minister of India should be a member of the Lok Sabha. You ...

House price slump: Dubai leads
By Patrick Collinson

Dubai, once home to the world’s biggest construction boom, is now the scene of the world’s biggest property slump, according to figures published by real estate agent Knight Frank. House prices in the desert sheikhdom dropped ...

A test of corporate accountability
By Ed Pilkington

Fourteen years after the death of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his family points finger at Shell in court. Plaintiffs link oil giant to Nigerian atrocities.

A long and winding journey for Shell CEO
By Terry Macalister

Jeroen van der Veer might have expected to step down as Shell chief executive in June showered in praise for resurrecting one of the world’s biggest, although heavily tarnished, corporate brands. But while the durable Dutchman ...

OUT OF LONDON
What’s so “Hon’ble” about MPs, ask voters
By Hasan Suroor

No reports of mob-lynching yet, but there have been cases of MPs being heckled and have doors slammed on them by their constituents.

Corrections and clarifications
“The Telugu Desam and its ‘Maha kootani ’ had made corruption a major plank of its poll campaign,” was a sentence in the second paragraph of “Balanced team of loyalists” (Editorial, ...

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