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End the killings now
Sunday night's carnage in the mountains of Doda and Udhampur has demonstrated how surreal the idea of peace remains for ordinary people in Jammu and Kashmir. Like the welter of bombings and assassinations that preceded last month's Assembly ...

New find strengthens Darwin's theory
In what is one more body blow to those who question Darwin's theory of evolution, scientists recently have discovered well-preserved fossils of a fish that provide the vital transitional link between fish and land dwelling four-legged vertebrates ...

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Of hi-tech, low efficiency, and malls
By P. Sainath

India's development debate has actually regressed this past decade. A single, homogenised view of development is being shoved down from above.

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OUT OF LONDON
"White supremacy" or racism?
By Hasan Suroor

Professor Cornel West says racism is what they have in America while in Britain the problem is essentially one of latent "white supremacy." This means that racial prejudices in Britain operate in more subtle forms than American-style in-your-face rac ism.

The return of the Hong Tou A-San
By Pallavi Aiyar

The Sikhs — known for their red turbans — are back in China.

A belated but welcome move
By K. Veeramani

UNION HUMAN Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh's circular to the Cabinet Secretariat regarding reservation in Central educational institutions has not brought anything new to the domain of public knowledge. It is a follow-up measure to ...

Corrections and clarifications
A few readers have pointed out that Kasula Suryanarayana, the engineer from Hyderabad who was killed on April 30 in Afghanistan, has been incorrectly referred to as Satyanarayana in the text of two reports ("From the South", "Suryanarayana's body ...

There are no British intellectuals
By Agnes Poirier

They are cut off from global debate by the obtuse imperialism of the English language.

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