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Editorials
V.P. Singh, 1931-2008
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was Prime Minister for less than a year, to be precise from December 2, 1989 to November 10, 1990. However, the two politically volatile actions he took within this short period — the decision to implement the ...

Pakistan and the IMF
Despite the bad news that usually comes with an International Monetary Fund loan in the form of attached strings, Pakistan had no choice but to go to the lender of last resort. Its economic crisis is of a different order from the meltdown ...

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India’s strategic deafness & the massacre in Mumbai
By Praveen Swami

Had our political establishment acted on intelligence warnings, at least 127 people who made the mistake of being in Mumbai on November 26 would still have been alive.

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A monument to love – Mumbai’s Taj Mahal
By Russi M. Lala

A horrific terrorist attack has ravaged one of Mumbai’s most-loved symbols and taken the lives of many of its dedicated staff. This heritage hotel was not started as a commercial venture. It was Jamsetji Tata’s gift to the city he loved & #8212; as the Taj Mahal of Agra was Shah Jahan’s memorial to the woman he loved.

Eye-for-eye justice
By Robert Tait

A man who blinded a woman in an acid attack after she spurned his marriage proposals has been sentenced to the same punishment, in a literal application of Iran’s sharia eye-for-an-eye laws. In a highly unusual judgment, Tehran ...

Corrections and clarifications
* * A standalone graphic (Graphic News, “Terror in Mumbai” page, November 28, 2008), titled “Bomb attacks in India in 2008”, incorrectly depicted the major water bodies around India. What was shown to be the Arabian ...

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