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Editorials
Towards credible elections
THE PREPARATIONS BEING made by the Chief Election Commissioner, J.M. Lyngdoh, for the coming elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly substantially address the logistical aspects of the overall objective of ensuring a free and fair poll ...
The challenge of child labour
AMONG THE SOCIAL failures for which the country has been unable to find a meaningful solution, child labour is one of the worst. Linked with this failure are several other social weaknesses that have pushed generations of hapless children into ...


Leader Page Articles
Lessons from West Asia
By Kesava Menon

Examples of institutional rot as displayed most vividly in Gujarat are not at all conducive to ending the state of perpetual animosity with our Muslim-majority neighbour to the West.
The choice of Kalam
By V. Krishna Ananth

It is sad that those waging at least a symbolic battle against the BJP's majoritarianism did not oppose militarism — another critical aspect of the Sangh Parivar's agenda — and its symbol, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, for President.


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  • Can she?
  • Allow facilitation
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  • The TB time bomb
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