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Editorials
An unjustifiable war
WITH THE U.S. President, George W. Bush, having given Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, and his two sons 48 hours to surrender power and go into exile — a demand that is almost certainly going to be rejected — the outbreak of war in ...
Power reform
TAMIL NADU HAS taken a welcome step in power sector reform with the State Electricity Regulatory Commission announcing a new tariff order, that includes the politically unpalatable decision to scrap free power supply for agricultural pump-sets ...


Leader Page Articles
Panchayats and population
By George Mathew

Family welfare cannot be implemented through orders from above in a democratic system. As the family is an integral part of the local community, can anyone help better than local self-government institutions?
STATECRAFT
Vajpayee's one grand failure
By Harish Khare

Mr. Vajpayee has refused to use the prime ministerial pulpit to preach and practise a new leadership metier... he has opted for ambivalence and moral diffidence at every defining moment.


News Analysis
AMERICA AT WAR
After Saddam, who?
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. What happens after the shooting stops is always an important consideration in planning for any war. In proclaiming a "liberation war'' in Iraq, the United States President, George Bush, has defined the nature of the military ...
CAPITAL TALK
Democracy drained of its content?
By Inder Malhotra

In the end, the trail of strength in the State Assembly of Jharkhand was averted almost literally at the 11th hour, 59th minute and 59th second. The BJP "high command" decided to turf out the bumbling Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, whose ...


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  • Colonialists re-emerge
  • The balancing act
  • Dictator's resurrection
  • Scrap the scheme
  • What more to do?



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