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Editorials
Mr. Thackeray's power play
IF A CHECK-LIST of the performance of all those in the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's expansive Council of Ministers was prepared, Suresh Prabhu's name would have figured somewhere at the very top. It is ironic that the Power Minister who ...
Restoring trust
A GROUP OF Ministers currently looking at a restructuring package for the UTI will have to address a few key related urgent issues. Restructuring in the financial sector has generally come to mean a tinkering with the organisational structure. ...


Leader Page Articles
HUMAN RIGHTS DIARY
Revive the contacts
By Kuldip Nayar

There have to be facilities for at least Indian and Pakistani intellectuals to meet because they influence opinion.
Needed: a Kashmir policy — II
By Muchkund Dubey

The core of a Kashmir policy has to be the offer of the fullest possible autonomy to the people... It is the only modern, democratic and secular option available.


News Analysis
ARMITAGE VISIT
Grasping the S. Asian opportunity
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, AUG. 20. When he came here in early June, the tough-talking U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, produced an important breakthrough in easing the Indo-Pak standoff. But the process of de-escalation initiated in early June ...
Tackle drought on a war-footing
By Balram Jakhar

Anecdotes are often interesting as also instructive. When I was in my teens, my father told me an anecdote, which is still fresh in my mind: ``A person asked his son how many eyes a horse had, and the boy promptly replied: two eyes. But the ...
Needed: consensus on educational reforms
By V. Jayanth

CHENNAI, AUG. 21.If the conversion of 67 government colleges into constituent colleges of universities is necessary and part of the `reforms' process in the education sector, the Government will have to stick to its stand and explain the ...


Letters to the Editor
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  • Appointing judges
  • A silver lining
  • Govt. role ignored

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