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Renunciation and after
That Sonia Gandhi's second `renunciation' in two years has breathed new life into the moribund Congress is there for all to see — in the theatrics outside 10 Janpath and in Rae Bareli, in the spate of me-too resignation offers, in the ...

Making water a basic right
By failing to declare water a basic human right, the Fourth World Water Forum (WWF) held in Mexico City has missed a major opportunity to empower the one billion people who are without a source of clean water. With their current policies, ...

Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
A protocol of engagement needed
By Harish Khare

The divisiveness currently on display can only be a source of comfort to those who do not wish the Indian state well. Rather than remaining hostage to their respective unsavoury partisans, senior political leaders should explore the potential of coop eration and engagement.

News Analysis
Strategic interests and political lobbies
By Hamid Ansari

According to a study, the thrust of U.S. policy in West Asia is due especially to the activities of the "Israel lobby."

Will agreements follow the buses?
By Amit Baruah

Now is the time for a resolution of key disputes with Pakistan.

Corrections and Clarifications
How can Iran say it is not hiding any [nuclear] bomb in any part of Iraq, asks a reader ("We are not hiding any bomb: Iran", March 28, 2006). Iranian Vice-President Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee was talking in Delhi about there not being any bomb ...

Imperial overreach speeding U.S.' decline
By Martin Jacques

"OUR POWER, then, has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure. But by becoming deaf to easily discerned warning signs, we may ignore long-term costs that result from our actions and dismiss reverses that ...

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