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Editorials
The arrest of Omar Sheikh
AT AN ABSTRACTED or general level, the arrest of Omar Sheikh in Pakistan is a striking illustration of the continued pressure exercised by the United States on Pervez Musharraf to crack down on terrorism and uphold both the substance and the ...
A dangerous signal
BEHIND THE OFFER made by the Railway Minister, Nitish Kumar, to privatise un-remunerative railway lines lies the story of the deteriorating financial health of India's largest business organisation. If the Railway Minister is today pushed to ...


Leader Page Articles
Electioneering in Uttar Pradesh
By Zoya Hasan

Voters increasingly understand that elected politicians are supposed to respond to local needs, and when this does not happen they are inclined to punish them.
The Porto Alegre innovation
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

Now into its second decade, the results of the experiment in participatory budgeting in southern Brazil are astonishing by any yardstick.


News Analysis
Not enough in it for India
By Kuldip Nayar

The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, can pat himself on the back for the position he has won for his country in the West. Shunned and stymied, Pakistan was functioning in a distasteful environment. Many nations had written it off and even ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Cong-NCP's undoing
  • America unwelcome
  • Indirect result
  • U.K. no comparison
  • Not Dravidian-like
  • Telecom tariff
  • Thefts on trains
  • Right to work

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