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A welcome realisation
The forthright observations of the Supreme Court bench comprising Justice A.K. Mathur and Justice Markandey Katju on the theme that “judges must know their limits and must not try to run the government” reflect a welcome realisation ...

Guns and campus rage
Bullying and violence are not new to Indian schools. But the horrific shooting to death of 14-year-old Abhishek Tyagi, a class VIII student, by two schoolmates in a Gurgaon private school is, in many ways, the first of its kind in India. The ease ...

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An ideological family in ferment
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh knows as do its wards that the halcyon days of the joint family — where the patriarch ordered and they obeyed — are over.

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Some inconvenient truths
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

The Indian justice system is in dire need of a transformation.

Palestinian statehood not the fair solution
By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

Statehood does not offer the equitable solution the Palestinian people deserve.

Has voice recognition finally come of age?
By Victor Keegan

Credit crisis spells end of free market consensus
By Seumas Milne

The credit squeeze is set to trigger the end of the boom that has shaped our times. Politics is going to change with it.

Corrections and clarifications
The second paragraph in a report “NELP-VII launch on Dec. 13” (“Business” page, December 11, 2007) was: “[Steel baron] Mr. Mittal had already joined hands with Bharat Petroleum Corporation ...

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