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THE LATEST POSITIONS taken by cricket's administrators mark a welcome climb-down from the entrenched positions that threatened to tear the game along its seam. With both the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the International ... More


PWG's discredited means
THE MINDLESS AND brutal attacks by naxalites of the People's War Group (PWG) last Thursday on the milk processing unit owned by members of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu's family and the subsequent destruction of ... More

Leader Page Articles
For an intolerant secularism
By Dipankar Gupta

SECULARISM HAS been identified for too long with warm hearts, and soft shoulders. It is about time to break this image as it does not seem to have done much good for the cause of secularism anyway. It is necessary for secularism to stiffen its ... More


Sensitising officials - I
By P. Radhakrishnan

AS INDIAN society entered into a covenant with itself to be secular, democratic, and egalitarian, encumbered by a heavy socio-cultural baggage of a rigidly caste-based hierarchical structure, with ascending and descending orders of privileges and ... More

News Analysis
Gaddafi's son comes calling
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, DEC. 2. Guess who is in the capital this week? Besides a host of American officials who will be here to discuss cooperation in defence, there is one `Engineer' Saiful Islam Muammar Al-Gaddafi. Yes, he is the son of the colourful Col. ... More

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