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A trade pact with ASEAN
THE PRIME MINISTER, Atal Behari Vajpayee's offer of a free trade pact between India and the ten-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the Phnom Penh ASEAN-India summit marks the beginning of a new approach in the country's ...
Dark childhood
CHILDREN ARE OFTEN the most abused in society. Their rights are violated. Their aspirations are ignored, and their dreams fast dissolve. Despite progressive laws and court orders, millions of India's boys and girls lead nightmarish existences. At ...


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A carnival gone wrong
By Dipankar Gupta

In true carnival-inspired disturbances the existing norms of society are supposed to undergo thoroughgoing reversals... Instead, in Jhajjar, the deepest and most established biases of dominant castes came to the fore.
Kashmir and the Congress
By L.C. Jain

The challenge in Kashmir, however, is not for the Congress alone. It is for the whole country.


News Analysis
India and the prism of Pakistan
By Hasan Suroor

After an effective diplomatic offensive which resulted in legitimate Indian concerns being more widely recognised by the international community, is India in danger of overplaying the Pakistan ``card''? In recent weeks, there have been obvious ...
The global warming debate
By M.R. Srinivasan

The recently concluded Conference of Parties at New Delhi on global warming ended with the Delhi Declaration after deliberations which showed little common ground between various State parties on many contentious issues. At the Earth Summit at ...


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