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Editorials
Life and death
EVERY NOW AND then India is brutally reminded that its citizens can still die of starvation. A year after starvation deaths were reported from Kashipur in Orissa, come reports of similar deaths from Palamau district of Jharkhand. Now as then, the ...
Kabul and the 'war' on terror
INURED AS AFGHANISTAN is to the politics of murder, the latest assassination of Abdul Qadir (a Vice-President in the present transitional government in Kabul) has turned the international spotlight on the U.S.-led `war' on globalised terrorism. ...


Leader Page Articles
LAW AND SOCIETY
The Supreme Court and elections
By Rajeev Dhavan

All that the apex court has done is fill a lacuna, not rewrite a law. It has left it to the people to make an informed choice.
Afghan peace under threat
By M.K.Bhadrakumar

With the killing of Haji Abdul Qadir, plans for creating an Eastern Pashtun figurehead in Kabul have gone awry.


News Analysis
PERSONALITY
A many-sided genius
By Dr. K. Venkatasubramanian

The next President of India will be Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, others things being equal. He perhaps will start a new race of non-political Presidents at the Rashtrapati Bhavan or if Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan started this family, he will ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Rigveda & cosmology
  • Boycott of courts
  • Speedy justice
  • Venture in Sudan
  • UnIslamic
  • A good decision
  • Amend the rules
  • Quite whimsical
  • A social service

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