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    Editorials
    A tragedy and an opportunity
    Natural disasters recognise no boundaries, present nobody to blame, and can affect people across the socio-economic divide. The massive earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in the Hindu Kush mountains, exhibited all ...

    Strengthening multilateralism
    The International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director-General, Mohammed ElBaradei, were a trifle unfortunate that the decision to award them the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 should have come soon after the watchdog body passed a controversial ...

    Leader Page Articles
    Understanding the emerging media ecology
    By Sashi Kumar

    With both technology and the advertiser sorting the vast amorphous viewership into tiered and profiled purchasing power segments, a fragmentation takes place that may actually work against dumbing down.

    News Analysis
    Of turncoats and caste breakdowns
    By Vidya Subrahmaniam

    Defectors with a record of winning are seen as a prize catch by political parties in Bihar because of the votes they bring with them.

    A new world for the mother of an Asian boy
    By Gargi Bhattacharyya

    Five days after her boy was born the London bombs went off. Being the mother of an Asian boy had suddenly become a much more complex matter.

    Golden curtain divides Russia
    By Tom Parfitt

    Fears of social unrest grow as Moscow's rich keep their children under lock and key.

    Facing natural disasters
    By Peter Preston

    DISASTERS ARE always most poignant, most chilling, when you know the terrain and the people. So I had stood on the sea wall in Galle, watching kids fly kites, a few months before the tsunami engulfed the south of Sri Lanka. So I remember sitting ...

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