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A wideranging exercise
THE ELECTION COMMISSION'S announcement of the timetable for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur and Uttaranchal has come amidst a worrying escalation of tension on the Indo-Pakistan border and heightened concerns on the ... More


Rethinking spending norms
RECENT REPORTS CONCERNING the non-utilisation of budgetary allocations in the newly created Ministry of Tribal Welfare and subsequently the announcement by the Minister for Rural Development, Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu, of a move to slash a percentage ... More
Misusing power
By Kuldip Nayar

The politician who uses a public servant for political purposes and the public servant who allows himself to be used are both debasing themselves and doing a signal disservice to the country. More
Whither environmental protest
By Harsh Sethi

The issues raised by environmental struggles remain much too important to be frittered away. This is why protest movements bear a responsibility greater than what their leaderships may realise. More

News Analysis
India's coercive diplomacy
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, DEC. 30. Coercive diplomacy has never been a characteristic feature of India's foreign policy. But by threatening an all-out war with Pakistan that could escalate to the nuclear level, India has entered the uncharted waters of nuclear ... More


Say `no' to terrorism and war
By K.K. Katyal

``No to terrorism, no to war'' - this needs to be the slogan of all right-thinking people in India and Pakistan so as to ensure that the subcontinent is spared the scourge of an armed conflict. Terrorist violence, which had already taken a ... More
The Jayalalithaa saga
By Rajeev Dhavan

INDIAN POLITICS is as vindictive in its revenge as it is uneasy in its virtue. Tamil Nadu politics sports a post-Emergency paradigm of `regime revenge', which has been taken to its maximal limits. Before the Emergency, `regime revenge' took many ... More

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