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A stinging rebuke
THE S.M. KRISHNA GOVERNMENT in Karnataka has only its unabashedly populist approach and brazen defiance of the highest court of the land to blame for the stinging rebuke the Supreme Court has tendered on the `Cauvery waters' issue. There is no ...
Marriage and residency
THANKS TO THE Jammu and Kashmir High Court, an archaic legal provision can no longer be used to discriminate against the State's women and rob them of their civil rights and privileges. The Court's recent judgment has undone an earlier ...


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Freezing identities
By M. S. S. Pandian

The identity that Ms. Jayalalithaa's ordinance wants to freeze is that of the Dalits as untouchables within the Hindu social order.
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State finances
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

WHEN MAHARASHTRA, one of India's richest States, begins to default on its interest payments any doubts about the financial condition of State Governments must vanish. Rich or poor, well administered or not, all State Governments are teetering on ...


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Ordinance speeding up polarisation
By V.Jayanth

CHENNAI, OCT. 25. Intended or not, the Tamil Nadu ordinance seeking to ban `forcible conversions' seems to be having a twin effect in the State - one, it has sparked a realignment of political forces and two, it can lead to a sharp polarisation ...


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