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Editorials
Politics and terrorism issues
IF THE ALL-PARTY meeting called in the hope of converting the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) into an Act yielded no results, it is because neither side - the Government and the Opposition - was prepared to shift from already staked out ... More


Reach of reservation
THE BILL PASSED by the Lok Sabha in order to fortify reservation in promotions for employees belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is also an important legislative effort that explicates the more substantive implications of the ... More

Leader Page Articles
Self-defeating strategies
By Malini Parthasarathy

As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily. More


Caste and social structure - I
By Satish Deshpande

The National Sample Survey Organisation has collected data that allow rational debate on a question that has generally been prejudged by both sides: whether and to what extent, the OBCs are really `backward' More

News Analysis
Terrorist law again and again - I
By K.G. Kannabiran

Restrictive legislation is almost always a signal of repressive institutional change, but is, of course, not the cause of it... The major focus of the defence of the citizen as a person can only be on procedure, or, as we call it in our society, ... More

Letters to the Editor

  • Time to close ranks
  • Why deny the past?
  • `Credible' secularism
  • Problems galore
  • Varanasi's claim
  • Withdraw the hikes
  • Resurrecting corrupt?

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