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Moving SAARC forward
SOUTH ASIAN COOPERATION can make headway in a meaningful manner for the region's huge population only if India and Pakistan show genuine progress towards normality in their bilateral relations. Their continuing differences have stunted the growth ...
The politics of pull-out
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE'S decision to pull out of the ruling National Democratic Alliance has been a long time coming. The eventual rupture may have been the result of a slew of causes, but the principal reason for the withdrawal is the looming ...


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Sanity on private funding
By Pratap Bhanu Mehta

We need to make education broadly available, but restricting the freedoms of those who are willing to invest and willing to pay for education is self-defeating.
Muslims and the democratic process
By Imtiaz Ahmad

Any resolution of the (Ayodhya) tangle could not have been thrashed out outside the democratic political framework of the state.


Letters to the Editor
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  • 'The right decision'
  • A silver lining
  • BJP and Badal
  • A precedent set



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