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Editorials
The challenge before Mr. Joshi
THE ELECTION OF the Shiv Sena's Manohar Joshi as Speaker of the Lok Sabha and his ceremonial induction into office on May 10 had all the conventional trappings of parliamentary democracy, most importantly the absence of a contest. Sticking out of ...
Mentally ill need love
OFTEN, INDIA TENDS to be medieval in attitude. Clothed in the trappings of the 21st century, this nation of one billion people can easily be accused of sporting a mind that goes back by a few hundred years. Mental health is an area of such a ...


Leader Page Articles
Rebuilding Afghanistan
By M. S. Swaminathan

Any help in the regeneration and revitalisation of Afghanistan's agriculture touches the lives of the majority of the population.
The second test of the republic
By George Mathew

The movement to regain and strengthen the secular ethos has to begin from Gujarat just as the New Nirman movement of 1974 did.


News Analysis
The Gujarat syndrome
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. This is the macabre flow unabated Gujarat currently witnesses. A day spent in Ahmedabad listening to the narrations from diverse sources proved prima facie that the bleeding, burning ...
EUROPE IN FLUX
India, Europe reverse perceptions on U.S.
By C. Raja Mohan

BERLIN, MAY 12.When it comes to the new American assertiveness around the world, India and Europe seemed to have traded places. Europeans now sound like the Indians a few years ago, ready to criticise American unilateralism at the drop of a hat. ...
POLITICAL IMBROGLIO
Ambiguity of Article 355
By K. K. Katyal

NEW DELHI, MAY 12.Parliament was immobilised for six days because the Government and the Opposition differed sharply on the format of discussion on Gujarat. Finally, the impasse ended and the two Houses took up the issue under separate motions. ...
TRIBUTE
He had a vision for his village
By Devaki Jain

Shabana invited me to her new home in New Delhi to meet her father, saying he was frail and vulnerable, but he still wanted to live in Mijwan, his birthplace. He wanted to make it a better place to live in. "You know all these schemes and ...


Letters to the Editor
  • IAF and crashes
  • Golwalkar and BJP
  • Why jail term?
  • Image of Gujarat
  • Give him a chance
  • Won't be easy
  • Use alternatives
  • European example
  • Lord or the laddu?

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