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Editorials
From Pachmarhi to Srinagar
BY REWORKING ITS approach to alliances at the national level, the Congress appears to have begun to come to terms with the need to agree on sharing power at the Centre with smaller parties before building a broad secular coalition against the ...
Time for cautious running
THE INDIAN RAILWAYS is again in the news and once more for its derailments or accidents. Fourteen coaches of the Delhi-bound Magadh Express derailed on Sunday in the Danapur division of Bihar, a day after the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, passed ...


Leader Page Articles
Justifying affirmative action
By Neera Chandhoke

Reservation is a poor substitute for social justice. But expanding reservation is not about social justice; it is about the games that politicians play when they want to outmanoeuvre their opponents and thereby garner votes.
Panchayat elections and violence
By George Mathew

In the absence of a strong tradition of checks and balances and organised people's power, the tremendous possibilities for development of our villages are being sabotaged by the elected leaders for personal aggrandisement.


News Analysis
Congress thinking on coalitions
By K. K. Katyal

NEW DELHI, JUNE 3.At long last there is a perceptible advance in the Congress thinking on coalitions. It is now willing to enter into alliances with like-minded parties at the Centre and in the States and, in the immediate context, to join hands ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Strengthen U.N.
  • Militant camps
  • Marad massacre
  • The 17th Karmapa
  • Bandh & proletariat
  • Updating madrassas



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