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Made in Jhandewalan
When Lal Krishna Advani doffed his hat to Mohammad Ali Jinnah's August 1947 vision, he was acknowledging the `thus-far-and-no-further' nature of Hindutva. For all its emotive value and vote-gathering potential, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 's ...

Climbing Mount Improbable
In the world of sport, pigs can fly. When they take wing, so do our spirits. There is something heart-warming about the spectacular rise of the underdog, the metamorphosis of a nobody (Marcos Who?) into a somebody (Marcos Baghdatis, the new star ...

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STATECRAFT
Institutional excesses, elite deadlock
By Harish Khare

A democratic constitutional arrangement is predicated on mutual respect among various institutions. We appear to be entering a phase where the assumption is the elected representatives cannot be trusted with the public interest.

News Analysis
A messy compromise on Iran
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Reporting Teheran to the Security Council but deferring action till March will neither still Washington's appetite for confrontation nor make a diplomatic solution more likely.

Persian puzzle: what happens next
The Foreign Ministers of Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S., as well as Germany, have agreed that this week's IAEA Board of Governors meeting "should report to the UN Security Council its decision on the steps required from Iran and ...

The varied faces of political Islam
By Atul Aneja

In the absence of egalitarian secular alternatives, the masses in West Asia are turning to Islamist forces.

"Hamas ready for a just peace"
By Khalid Mish'al

IT IS widely recognised that the Palestinians are among the most politicised and educated peoples in the world. When they went to the polls last Wednesday they were well aware of what was on offer and those who voted for Hamas knew what it stood ...

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