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Dangerous and destructive
THE DEMAND FOR the bifurcation of Tamil Nadu mooted by the PMK, with the Vanniyar-dominated districts making up a new State, is patently provocative and incendiary. For all its seeming innocuousness, the proposition as canvassed by the casteist ...
Familiar story at WTO
WHEN A NEW round of negotiations under the World Trade Organisation was launched in Doha last November it was given the grand title of the Doha `Development' Agenda, the promise being that the interests of the developing countries would be the ...


Leader Page Articles
Change your leader
By Nirupama Subramanian

It is time Sri Lanka's Tamil community asks itself if it can continue to back a leader who appears disinterested in ending the conflict as quickly as possible.
The qasbah culture — II
By Mushirul Hasan

The political turbulence on the eve of the transfer of power accelerated the qasbahs' disruption. Religious intolerance and other forms of bigotry were no longer contained by pluralism.


Letters to the Editor
  • Unethical step
  • Scared politicians
  • The BJP's choice
  • Sinister plan
  • Bring back Maneka
  • Killing animals
  • Welcome ban
  • Unruly passengers
  • Proof of age

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