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Dangerously partisan
THE PRIME MINISTER, Atal Behari Vajpayee's emphatic "we are for a (Ram) temple at Ayodhya", which in one sense is a manifestation of the inner `swayamsevak' core of his persona, assumes enormous significance when viewed in the context of the ...
Dubai and deportation
OF THE TWO developments on the deportation front, the first is truly extraordinary, the second confusing and uncertain. The return of Dawood Ibrahim's brother, Iqbal Kaskar, and gangster Ejaz Pathan from the United Arab Emirates is a major ...


Leader Page Articles
The U.N. stays relevant
By Chinmaya R.Gharekhan

On the issue of Iraq, concessions on both sides of the Atlantic would have to be worked out and that again means buying some time, which the U.N. can credibly provide.
Cultural globalisation
By Kancha Ilaiah

In the cultural realm, globalisation seems to have opened up a new channel of hope for the historically suppressed masses.


News Analysis
Privacy in the time of celebrity
By Hasan Suroor

LONDON: India is still safe from the seamier spin-offs of celebrity culture, but with Bollywood going intensively global and the "baba log" in the fashion industry desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses in the West, it is only a matter of ...
France scores a diplomatic coup
By Vaiju Naravane

PARIS, FEB. 21. The diplomatic battle over Iraq has entered the straight and the fight over the votes of non-permanent U.N. Security Council (UNSC) members has well and truly begun. What transpires in the Council if and when a second ...
KABUL NOTEBOOK
India's forward policy
By C. Raja Mohan

KABUL, FEB. 21. The extraordinary warmth for India visible here from the street to the palace is only matched by New Delhi's unprecedented diplomatic activism in Afghanistan. For the first time since the Partition of the Subcontinent, India is ...


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