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Friends and foes
The BJP now views the Telugu Desam as a stumbling block to its growth in Andhra Pradesh, writes Dasu Kesava Rao.

The thin edge of the wedge
The BJP sees Karnataka as its gateway to the south. Supriya RoyChowdhury on the party's mobilisational strategies in a region where it has never been in power.

Riding piggyback
In Tamil Nadu, the BJP could feed on the `soft Hindutva' of the AIADMK in the long term, says Suresh Nambath.

On the margins
In Kerala, the BJP is wooing the tribals and the Dalits but their numbers are small. Roy Mathew reports.

Tragedies above and below the surface
By Stan Cox

Hours after the U.S. space shuttle, Columbia, went down, the investigation into the cause of the tragedy began. But in more than a year since the Christopher went down, nobody has investigated the accident seriously. The Christopher? No, ...

The `India factor' casts its shadow
By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, FEB. 8. The `India factor' cast a heavy shadow on the just concluded three-day official visit of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, to Russia. The first in three decades by any Pakistani President and the first by any Pakistan ...

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