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A Sinister gameplan
FROM THE DAY the BJP national executive decided over three months ago (in Goa) to back its Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, to the hilt and gave him the go-ahead for a snap poll, the State Assembly was under the perpetual threat of ...
A Futile Exercise
EVEN AS THE U.S. administration, on Israel's instigation, appears close to achieving a "regime change" in the Palestinian Authority, the futility of the efforts to sideline Yasser Arafat has become all the more glaring. The U.S. Secretary of ...


Leader Page Articles
HUMAN RIGHTS DIARY
Authoritarian impulses
By Kuldip Nayar

POTA is wrong in concept. Its execution is bound to be faulty.
The qasbah culture — I
By Mushirul Hasan

Even if `Islam' cemented the qasbah structure... pluralism and syncretism were the bricks of which it was built.


News Analysis
The Anglo-U.S. agenda for Kashmir
By K.K. Katyal

What are the pointers, thrown up by the latest round of the Western diplomatic effort — the just-concluded visit to the sub-continent of the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and the trip later this week of the U.S. Secretary of ...
DIPLOMATIC NOTEBOOK
Pipeline politics in Bangladesh
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, JULY 21. Under pressure from the American energy companies to export its vast natural gas resources to India, Bangladesh is nearing yet another frustrating non-decision. A committee set up by Dhaka to examine the options on the ...


Letters to the Editor
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  • Out in the open
  • What J&K needs
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  • Threat to unity
  • Gutka ban
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