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Moderate setbacks to Congress
Anti-incumbency verdicts seem to be the rule in Indian elections, with a few notable exceptions. Even without any `Quattrocchi effect' — which was kept away by an akratic conspiracy of silence for which a high political price is being paid ...

Cautiously upbeat on the economy
The two principal themes of the Economic Survey, maintaining the new growth momentum and containing inflation, have dominated all recent discourses on the macroeconomy. But while the RBI in its latest review of monetary policy has opted for price ...

Leader Page Articles
Five years after Godhra and the pogrom
By Dionne Bunsha

There is no violence but the atmosphere of fear and prejudice still prevails. Gujarat is a society divided — where minorities are segregated and face social and economic boycotts. Muslims have been pushed into ghettos.

News Analysis
Corrections and Clarifications
A new class? In the "Highlights" with the Railway Budget (February 27, 2007, page 1), a pointer was " AC III Tier Chair Car : lean season fares cut by 8%, peak season by 4%, leading to a query. It should have been "AC III Tier/Chair Car ... ...

STATECRAFT
A long countdown has begun
By Harish Khare

The setback in the Assembly elections provides an opportunity for the UPA and its partners to rediscover the political usefulness of a working convergence.

Giving roads back to the people
By G. Ananthakrishnan

A radical shift in the way cities think about moving people is essential.

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