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Editorials
Need now is for restraint
TWO STEPS FORWARD and one step back can make for very painful progress. The India-Pakistan relations, boosted by the Prime Minister's offer of the hand of friendship on April 18, saw some bold initiatives by both sides leading to the important ...
Ban corporal punishment
VIOLENCE AGAINST A child is an unpardonable act. It needs to be condemned outright. Nothing can be more cruel than beating a child, which is often helpless in the face of adult might. And to spank it or cane it in a way that it feels ashamed to ...


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Religions in dialogue
By Mushirul Hasan

At a time when most of us live in multicultural and multireligious societies, it is important to reiterate faith in shared values and the commonality of religious tradition.
Atrocities on Adivasis — II
By V. R. Krishna Iyer

A compassionate legislation is constitutionally permissible for Kerala, with the concurrence of the Centre, restoring the traditional forest resources to the tribals.


News Analysis
NEPAL NOTEBOOK
Maoists' bid to allay India's fears
By C. Raja Mohan

KATHMANDU: Basking in the new-found political acceptance amidst a tentative peace process in this war-torn mountain kingdom, the Nepalese Maoists have begun to signal that they are not hostile towards India. Krishna Bahadur Mahara, one of the ...
German unity in peace and freedom
By Hans-Joachim Kiderlen

The call to strike of the previous day was followed already in the early morning of June 17 by many people, largely young workers, who assembled on the Stalin-Allee, the biggest construction site in East Berlin, capital of the still quite new ...


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