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Need for statesmanship
KARNATAKA'S SNAP DECISION to "suspend" the release of Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu — whatever quantum it has been letting out from the Kabini reservoir since the Supreme Court's September 3 interim order — has given a new and ...
Stamp out the cigarette
EVERY GOOD DEED has its detractors. So too, the move to discourage smoking. The Government's laws banning the habit in public places and advertisements of tobacco products should be welcomed in a country where human life enjoys little respect, ...


Leader Page Articles
Human rights and security
By Neera Chandhoke

Individuals have rights and states deliver security when they respect these rights.
Lessons of the Kashmir elections
By Rajindar Sachar

The mildly satisfactory polling should not deceive the Government of India into assuming that people's resentment has vanished... It should initiate talks not only with the elected representatives but also other groups.


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Need for collective action
By Bernard de Montferrand

Why is it that, to deal with Iraq, the international community quasi-unanimously wants the competent United Nations bodies to be involved and its rules to be respected? Why is it that France considers it so important to express itself strongly on ...
Tibet back on India's agenda
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 20.contact with the exiled Tibetan leadership, the difficult questions on Tibet's future political relationship with China are creeping back to the top of New Delhi's foreign policy agenda. It is not that Tibet ever went off ...


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