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Kashmir uncertainties
The divorce may have been put off for a while but almost nobody expects the marriage of convenience of the Congress and the People's Democratic Party in Jammu & Kashmir to survive until the next Assembly election, which is due in October 2008. ..

Triumph nonpareil
Viswanathan Anand's ascent to the pinnacle in the world of chess is a widely anticipated crowning moment in an extraordinary sporting journey. The true significance of his achievement — he will be the No.1 player when the new rankings are ...

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In Pakistan, waiting for a political tsunami
By Nirupama Subramanian

Will the ouster of Pakistan's Chief Justice set off a tidal wave of popular protest that will engulf the Musharraf regime in the months before parliamentary and presidential elections?

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A system against Dalits
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

Bibipur is a metaphor. Locally it is a symbol of unrelieved Dalit suffering in Haryana. Nationally it is about the staggering insensitivity of the state machinery to a community grievously wronged by history.

The private property debate in China
By Pallavi Aiyar

While the opponents of the property bill see it as a final sell-out by the state to capitalist interests, its supporters say it is a long overdue step.

OUT OF LONDON
The case of a £2 million history chair at Oxford
By Hasan Suroor

A project that should have been in full steam by now is, seven years after its inauguration, back on the drawing board under new management.

Corrections and Clarifications
In "Robbery bid foiled in Punjab" (Delhi edition, "Briefly", March 12, 2007, page 5), it was stated that four armed dacoits made a bid to rob a jewellery shop. A reader points out that dacoit, a term used for a robber belonging to an armed ...

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