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Editorials
The cricket contracts row
ALTHOUGH THE EIGHTH Cricket World Cup is only about three weeks away, the contracts dispute between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council (ICC) remains worryingly unresolved. Failure to do so will mean ...
Cross connection
THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE for the intense acrimony over telecom regulation might be over relatively technical matters such as interconnect and access charges. However, neither a proper identification of the problem nor a reasonably just solution will ...


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Gujarat: which way forward?
By Balakrishnan Rajagopal

What is needed is an ideological remobilisation that can lead to a total societal response. If that cannot be done without religion, it must be appropriated from the Sangh.
Pseudo-secularism — I
By Gail Omvedt

The subtraction of Hindutva from Hinduism has proved impossible for the defenders of secularism to make, since their arguments remain at an abstract level without an analysis of the historical construction of Hinduism itself.


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India, Iran moving towards defence cooperation
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. Those who believe geography is destiny have no difficulty understanding the blossoming relations between India and Iran in recent years. The Iranian President, Syed Mohammad Khatami, is arriving here this week to consolidate ...
LoC and its conversion as border
By K.K. Katyal

The very vehemence of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front president, Amanullah Khan's protest against the perceived implied approval by the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, of the idea to convert the Line of Control into the international ...


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