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Crossed wires
THE GOVERNMENT HAS inevitably announced a partial rollback of telecom tariffs. The new tariff structure that took effect barely 10 days earlier had proved immensely controversial, a principal ground being the hiking of charges on basic services. ...
A backlash in the desert
THE CAR-BOMB ATTACKS on expatriate housing complexes in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, carry all the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda's planning and coordination, and will send shock waves around the world. These reflect the first response to the month-long ...


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STATECRAFT
No halfway house
By Harish Khare

If Mr. Vajpayee chooses not to be an assertive leader in one arena of his Government, he would find it difficult to have his way in areas of his choice.
Allah Baksh versus Savarkar
By Anil Nauriya

Since many of the contrary voices, like those of Allah Baksh, represented the unifying tendency within India, their muffling has fed Hindutva.


News Analysis
CAPITAL TALK
Speaking out of turn
By Inder Malhotra

Of one of Britain's more successful Prime Ministers it is said that at least once a year he used to assemble all his Ministers in the Cabinet room, shut the door and tell them, "it does not matter what we say, as long as we all say the same ...


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