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Planning ritual
THE FORMAL APPROVAL of the Tenth Plan (2002-07) by the National Development Council comes towards the end of the first year of the five-year period of the Plan. While this is a commentary on the seriousness with which the Government and the ...
An Iraqi counter-offer
IRAQ'S OFFER TO let personnel from the Central Intelligence Agency accompany U.N. inspection teams, which have been mandated to trace and erase all elements of Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme, raises a probing question that ...


Leader Page Articles
Overestimating the saffron wave
By Dipankar Gupta

Anyone who has been to Gujarat post-Godhra will testify that the BJP put in everything to make it a contest between Hindutva and the rest. In many ways this election was like a referendum and, if it was so, less than half the people of Gujarat vo ted saffron.
Tamil Nadu and Indian foreign policy
By V. Suryanarayan

If Tamil Nadu had a group of well-informed scholars on Sri Lankan affairs, some of the distortions in the country's Sri Lanka policy during recent years... could have been avoided.


News Analysis
It is an antithesis of Hinduism
By Kuldip Nayar

That the BJP has reaffirmed its faith in Hindutva does not come as a surprise. After having a runaway success with this plank in the recent Gujarat Assembly elections, the party is bound to believe that it can replicate the model in other States. ...
The rising wave of extremism
By V.Jayanth

CHENNAI, DEC. 24. Apart from dealing with extremism and terrorism, the State police are now trying to figure out why there has been a sudden upsurge in militant activities and an expanding network of extremist organisations. On one track, the ...


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