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    Editorials
    Three words still mean divorce
    Yet again, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has failed to muster the courage to call for the abolition of triple talaq — the reactionary custom that gives Muslim men the licence to divorce their wives instantaneously and ...

    Safe roads and sane cities
    If an illustration were needed to demonstrate that John Galbraith's famous characterisation of India as a "functioning anarchy" still applies, it would be the roads and traffic. Six million new automobiles were added to the vehicle population in ...

    Leader Page Articles
    Junctions and roadblocks in Arab politics
    By Hamid Ansari

    The reform process, it would seem, will remain state-driven in the immediate future. The external moorings of the Arab state may need to be reinforced to stabilise domestic dislocations that may occur in the interim.

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    THOMAS FRIEDMAN'S COLUMN
    Reaping what it sowed
    The suicide bombings in Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are signs of the struggle that the U.S. attempt to erect democracy in Iraq has touched off.

    The dough is in the land, not the bread
    By Siddharth Varadarajan

    Five years after privatisation, Modern Food assets are being stripped.

    Elaborate weddings
    By Lucy Mangan

    Why do weddings have to be so elaborate?

    Islamabad looks to calm domestic tension
    By B. Muralidhar Reddy

    CONFIDENCE BUILDING measures (CBMs) are the new buzzword for the Pakistani establishment. Having "determined" that the peace process with India is irreversible, it is now focussed on calming tensions at home. Balochistan, the centre of ...

    Nuclear double standards
    By Simon Tisdall

    Non-weapons states accuse nuclear powers of double standards.

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