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Editorials
Rolling back the tanks
That the idea of democracy and the notion that the place of the military is firmly in the barracks under civilian control cannot be taken for granted is shown by the sudden and condemnable coup staged by the military leadership in Thailand. The ...

Urgent tasks on the polio front
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' decision to call an emergency meeting of Health Ministers and officials of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana — the States that have seen a recent ...

Leader Page Articles
Should our cities be private or public spaces?
By A. Srivathsan

From Hong Kong to London, new towns have failed to contain the overcrowding of the parent city. And if private enclaves proliferate, we could end up with the dilution of the public nature of the city.

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Law and justice in an independent nation
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

If the rule of law must run close to the rule of life, a transformation of the system is needed.

Reform of the U.N. Security Council
By Paul Kennedy

Why is it that the Security Council remains so rigid and outdated?

The follies of interventionism
By Simon Jenkins

Anyone can call for action to end fighting. Few consider what this usually involves: people dying to no good purpose.

Tolkien tale completed by his son
By Paul Lewis

AN UNFINISHED tale abandoned by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1918 has been completed by his son and will be published next spring, it was announced on Monday. Christopher Tolkien has worked for 30 years on an edited version of The Children of ...

Corrections and clarifications
Referring to the report "A marquee match India cannot afford to lose" ("Sport", September 16, 2006), a reader wanted to know the context in which the word "marquee" had been used. The Sports Desk clarifies that when the phrase/term "a marquee ...

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