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Interview with President Kumaratunga
By N. Ram
Interview: Ranil Wickremasinghe
By N. Ram
Heroes' Week speech and an agenda
By Jayadeva Uyangoda
A false dawn
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
For better economic relations
By V.S. Sambandan
Communalism

Targeting Christians
Interview: Archbishop Alan de Lastic
Interview: P.A. Sangma
A pattern of persecution
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Politics
Parliament: Bills and conflicts
Cracks in the BJP coalition
Sonia Gandhi's strategy
The States
Proxy battles in Uttar Pradesh
Punjab: Tercentennial stakes
TDP and second thoughts
A Parivar project in Karnataka
Maharashtra: A strained coalition
Furore over Fire
Security overkill in Tamil Nadu
World Affairs
Jiang Zemin in Japan
Getting closer to Russia
Pinochet: Towards extradition
Nawaz Sharif in Washington
Coping with Sindh
Taslima's battles
Quebec: A victory of sorts
Cambodian equations
The U.S., Vietnam and nerve gas
Public Health
Arsenic poisoning through water
A public health hazard
Literature
Interview: Derek Walcott
Medicine
The quest for an AIDS cure
Vaccine research in India
Initiatives
IGRMS: Focus on the Himalayas
Patents
Concerns at a colloquium
Disquiet over a new regime
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Reports
UNICEF on the world's children
Tourism
Nepal beckons
Interview: Dipendra Purush Dhakal
The trekking destination
Social Tension
The roots of caste conflicts
Strictures on Tamil Nadu police
Economic Offences
On the urea deal trail
Focus: Software Technology Parks of India
Software strategies
New horizons
Special Feature: Ordnance Factory Board
Facing up to new challenges
HVF: Towards self-reliance
OFAI: A premier facility
AFK: Changing with the times
A state-of-the-art unit at Badmal
Sport
The Bangkok Games
Column
Praful Bidwai: Remembering P.N. Haksar
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Washington divergence
Jayati Ghosh: Trouble on the trade front
A.G. Noorani: RSS and Christians
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