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Resorting to jingoism
THE DEPUTY PRIME Minister, L. K. Advani's jingoistic challenge to Pakistan — to face India in a fourth war if it dared — was unbecoming of his office and a disservice to the country inasmuch as its gravely provocative tenor would ...
Attitudinal change required
THE ANNUAL REPORT of the RBI on the Trend and Progress of Banking and Finance is the most authoritative study of the financial sector over the preceding year. This year's report, released recently, has the added virtue of being particularly ...


Leader Page Articles
Social equality: Lessons from the U.S.
By Kancha Ilaiah

Dignity of labour and socio-spiritual equality are seen to be at the heart of American life. At the same time, they keep the institutions of the state secular.
GM mustard
By N. Gopal Raj

Thorny issues surround the use of the marker gene providing herbicide tolerance. Is that gene there only as a marker or is herbicide tolerance the driving motivation for developing this GM crop?


News Analysis
Give realism a chance
By Sajad Gani Lone

The process of conducting elections in Jammu and Kashmir is over. These elections were truly hyped. It made the headlines in the national and international media over a prolonged period of time. The elections were linked to peace in the State. ...
War rhetoric bodes ill for peace
By Amit Baruah

Is "policy" towards Pakistan made in the trenches of electoral politics or in the Ministry of External Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office? At a time when India and Pakistan are pulling their troops back from the International Border, why is ...


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  • Dubious charge
  • Nobility of thought
  • Romancing Russia
  • Rewriting history
  • Late Prof. Swaminathan

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