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Editorials
First steps on relief
THE GOVERNMENT HAS finally taken the first of what will surely have to be many decisions to both minimise the impact of rainfall deficiency on agriculture and deal with the fallout on farm incomes and rural employment. In a situation that is ...
Gubernatorial office as reward
GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS IN the normal course should be regarded as little more than an administrative matter and political implications, if any, could only be marginal. This should be more the case with the choice of a person as the ...


Leader Page Articles
LAW AND SOCIETY
The proposed electoral law
By Rajeev Dhavan

The proposed bill is a political fraud designed to tease lawyers, frustrate activists, short-change Indian democracy.
Cuba, America and democracy
By Mythily Sivaraman

The economic policies of Cuba... are the exact opposite of what Mr. Bush recognises as the core of democracy... But then, not all may have the same definition of democracy.


News Analysis
A challenge to the diplomatic apparatus
By Kesava Menon

Reports of increasing friction between the Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai, and his Defence Minister, Mohammed Fahim, could throw up a tough challenge to India's diplomatic and intelligence gathering apparatus. These reports initially ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Deteriorating culture
  • EC should be firm
  • Dangerous game
  • Shekhawat and yagna
  • Empowering women
  • Railway concession
  • Too fine a print
  • It was racial profiling

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