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Editorials
Highlighting India's case
INDIA'S COMPELLING CASE about a systematic terrorist threat to its national interest is being unnecessarily undermined by the unseemly and wholly avoidable controversy involving Pakistan over the question of supportive evidence. Pakistan has ... More


The spectre of examinations
BY DECIDING TO conduct common examinations for over 42 lakh students who go to Tamil Nadu's Government and aided schools between classes V and IX, the policy-makers have sought to correct malaises such as low pass percentages and falling ... More

Leader Page Articles
The cost of war
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

A war causes colossal human suffering... In all this, the `economic' costs seem trifling. But there is a huge cost, both short and long term. More


Globalisation and decentralisation
By Supriya RoyChowdhury

Where existing structures of inequality are left intact and become compounded with the disadvantages of marketisation, political empowerment is a useful slogan, not a realistic or genuine goal. More

News Analysis
Forensic justice and AIDS
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

India, like South Africa, has, high on its health agenda, the pathology of HIV and AIDS. So human rights are in jeopardy and, vis-a-vis jural relief, judicial obscurantism is forensic folly, the vanishing point of curial vigilance. It is ... More


The business of SAARC
By C. Raja Mohan

KATHMANDU, JAN. 4. Will the business of SAARC ever become business? There are indications that political leaders in the subcontinent, with the probable exception of Pakistan, are finally getting to it. The 11th summit of the SAARC might mark the ... More

Letters to the Editor

  • Politics of jingoism
  • PM was justified
  • India's role in SAARC
  • Welcome reduction
  • Amend the rules
  • Appeal to judiciary
  • Patriarchy indeed

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