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Editorials
Seize the moment
INDIA AND PAKISTAN must build on the momentum that has been generated in the past one week following the Prime Minister's offer of the hand of friendship. The sudden upsurge of violence in the Valley underlines both the urgency of such measures ...
Chauvinist politics
BY CALLING FOR an end to the influx of non-Maharashtrian migrants in Mumbai, the Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray, is attempting to revive the politics of regional identity and sub-nationalism that have been lying dormant in the larger Hindutva ...


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The working class
By Andre Beteille

Attitudes towards manual work, or at least some forms of it, are changing even in India in part as a result of changes in the technology and organisation of work.
PDS: universal or targeted?
By Kamal Nayan Kabra

It is better to have a targeted PDS... this kind of an approach can limit the operations of both the market forces and the bureaucracy.


News Analysis
CAPITAL TALK
'Hand of friendship' remains extended
By Inder Malhotra

Seasoned observers of the national scene have noted that even eleven days after the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's offer of a "hand of friendship" to Pakistan there has been no diminution in New Delhi's desire to resolve all issues with ...
Indo-Bangla ties: arresting the slide
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, APRIL 28. If India is looking east beyond the subcontinent in search of economic and political opportunities, Bangladesh is doing the same. Looking past each other has become the dominant metaphor for the recent slide in Indo-Bangla ...


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  • Not democratic
  • Containing the LTTE
  • 'After the deluge'
  • Aliens at home
  • Holidays
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