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Editorials
Hurriyat and elections
DESPITE ALL THEIR apprehensions, the best option before those constituting the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and other such outfits in the Kashmir Valley would be to participate in the coming polls to the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly. ...
Of cricket, contracts, cash and country
THE INDIAN CRICKET team's formal refusal to sign the International Cricket Council's (ICC) contract is the most recent development in the face-off between cricketers in different parts of the world and the game's governing body. Unless the ...


Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
Testing democratic institutions
By Harish Khare

Trapped in a righteous pageant of their own making, the BJP leaders are unwilling to respect institutions if these impede the pursuit of a narrow agenda.
Needed: a Kashmir policy — I
By Muchkund Dubey

The resumption of a dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir in the very near future appears to be an inevitability.


News Analysis
ARMITAGE VISIT
Boosting Indo-U.S. ties
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, AUG. 20. With their current focus riveted on managing the Indo-Pak. military crisis, New Delhi and Washington are in the danger of missing the larger imperatives of their own bilateral relations. The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, ...
CAPITAL TALK
The licence to loot?
By Inder Malhotra

Quick on the heels of the massive scam in the allotment of petroleum pumps, cooking gas agencies and kerosene outlets — that has earned the BJP, the core of the ruling coalition at the Centre, the sobriquet ``Bharatiya Petrol Pump Party'' ...
Waiting for summons
By Hasan Suroor

Nobody in London has any doubt that when Washington finally decides to go into Iraq — and resident U.S. "hawks'' have been emphasising that it is not a question of "if but when'' — the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, would not be ...


Letters to the Editor
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