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This London dream has parts missing
For Kolkata to improve, the greater part of the city must be involved.
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The Iron Laws of the Earth Sciences
A lesser man's career might have ended long ago. But Vilasrao Deshmukh is not a lesser man. His success mounts in inverse proportion to his achievements.
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Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence
Even though Islamists have enjoyed only limited electoral support, they have shaped the state's destiny. The country's liberal democratic politicians must confront them or prepare to see them take power.
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The litmus test in Sri Lanka
If President Rajapaksa is serious about a political solution to the Tamil question, he should outline his vision and a timetable for constitutional change.
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Lessons from the Durban Conference
If India wants ‘equity' back in the climate change debate, it must develop a grand strategy and a strong negotiating team to see it through.
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RECENT OPINION LEADERS
February 13, 2012
T is for trade in India-Pakistan ties
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is leading an 80-strong business delegation to Pakistan this week to advance what has been a remarkable turnaround in bilateral economic ties over the last year. In...
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February 10, 2012
Putting down the burden of borders
Dhaka and New Delhi are set to host many important visits soon to review the deals and commitments they made during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's trip to New Delhi in January 2010 and h...
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February 8, 2012
When Annie Besant came to court
While celebrating an important milestone in the history of a court, we normally tend to remember only the lawyers who stood and argued, and the Judges who sat and decided cases. But, the contributi...
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February 5, 2012
Believe me, Muslims are not a herd
The myth of the Muslim vote bank, though denied by sociologists and debunked by psephologists, refuses to die. It reasserts itself with new vigour at every election. Even those well aware of the d...
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February 3, 2012
Let India unleash its soft power
Wars kill in more ways than one, and the longer they go on the more do the ways multiply. The first war that proved this dictum was the Thirty Years' War of 1618-48 in Europe. Through rape, murder...
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February 1, 2012
From food security to food justice
If the malnourished in India formed a country, it would be the world's fifth largest — almost the size of Indonesia. According to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 237.7 million Indians are...
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January 30, 2012
At the crossroads of mediaphobia
Recently, the Telecom Minister was attacked by a large number of netizens for his move to screen content on social networking sites. Some bloggers called this drive idiotic. The characterisation se...
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January 27, 2012
Censorship won't stop bird flu contagion
The United States National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) decision to “recommend” that Science and Nature journals publish only redacted versions of bird flu research...
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January 25, 2012
Lessons from the coup that failed
The year 2012 began with a new promise for Bangladesh's secular democracy: the Army on January 19 said it had foiled a coup attempt to topple the democratic government by a group of serving and r...
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January 23, 2012
The great leap backward
Last August, the Lokpal was within sight. Anna Hazare, with media help, had galvanised visible and vocal support. The UPA government had accepted several demands of his and put out a Bill which pro...
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Choking off free speech on the web
West's romancing of the Taliban
A year after Jasmine and Tahrir
Nothing to celebrate in New Year
Russia for a close knit economic alliance
The corrupt rule the roost
Towards a level playing field
Food as people's right
February 11, 2012
The Russians are leaving … Russia
Andrei and Nadezhda are, by any measure, successful professionals and a happy family. They are the kind of people who are supposed to be the mainstay of new Russia and the driving force of its resu...
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February 9, 2012
The Republic of Hurt Sentiments
As the controversy over the protest-readings from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses raged, I found myself pitched in the middle of more than one discussion of a legal nature at the Jaipur...
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February 7, 2012
Syria needs diplomacy, not intervention
President Bashar al-Assad's government has used brute force to crush a genuine popular upheaval against his regime. The death toll is nearly 6,000. Human rights have been systematically violated....
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February 4, 2012
Don't tie down the India of ideas
India must rank among the world's oldest centres of ideas. Going by the texts and the inventions that have emerged from India, there must have been a time when it had an effective system of learni...
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February 2, 2012
Growing irrelevance of the Indian ayatollah
Late in the ninth century CE, the great physician, chemist and philosopher, Muhammad ibn Zakaria al-Razi, launched a scathing attack on the pietist ideological foundations of the world he lived in...
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January 31, 2012
An action plan for Sri Lanka
The process of evolution of human beings has been greatly accelerated by the application of science and technology in several fields. With the expansion of ideas, the geopolitical situation change...
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January 28, 2012
Dealing with Pakistan's fears on water
This article is not about the complex political or strategic reasons that the water establishment in the government and/or the army in Pakistan may have for projecting water as a new core issue bet...
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January 26, 2012
A precarious Indo-Pak nuclear balance
The recently held ‘India-Pakistan Expert Level Talks on Nuclear CBMs' have once again failed to move the two countries away from their precarious nuclear balance. The Islamabad meeting ‘achieved'...
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January 24, 2012
Wanted: a communications policy
The wave of consolidation in the television industry over the last few days has been reported mainly as a commercial story. But the implications extend far beyond the media industry per se. We are...
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January 21, 2012
Salman Rushdie & India's new theocracy
In 300CE, the historian and cleric, Eusebius, fearfully recorded the rise of a new “demon-inspired heresy.” “From innumerable long-extinct blasphemous heresies,” he wrote, the new religion's found...
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Hate speech the Congress forgot about
BCCI: Billionaires Control Cricket in India
A major milestone in polio eradication
Four People's Principles
U.S. trump card in the Afghan endgame
A great medium of public education declines
Umpiring a gigantic exercise
This London dream has parts missing
Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence
Lessons from the Durban Conference
The litmus test in Sri Lanka
BCCI: Billionaires Control Cricket in India
FDI in retail — UPA ‘retired hurt’
From food security to food justice
Believe me, Muslims are not a herd
The Russians are leaving … Russia
T is for trade in India-Pakistan ties
