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• Sri Lanka: Does peace have a chance?
• Why is the Nobel Peace Prize committee ignoring the Mahatma?
• What kind of equality puts the narrow economic
interests of the already wealthy ahead of the survival of a person?

• 'If you hurt him, Inder would not hold it against you'
• Ayya, the man who lost out
• People who occupy positions of power should be like sanyasis
• 'Moopanar is not a petty-minded person. He will not indulge
in blackmail and he is a good manager of men'

• 'Rahul Gandhi will come into the limelight soon and
rescue the Congress'

• In today's fractured polity, the BJP alone
satisfies the craving for a stable and strong government

• Then arose in the country a crisis the like of
which no previous President had ever faced

• 'Why would anyone abroad be interested in the book?
I am not very well educated. So it's not as though I am like
Salman Rushdie or Vikram Seth'

• 'Christopher Lee playing Jinnah is like Mukri playing Gandhi'
• NAM: Is it still relevant?
• 'We came together to save secularism not because
we wanted to be in power'

• Being once a physicist has somehow limited Rajendra Singh
from injecting new life into the RSS

• 'In politics there are moments when you have to rise
to the occasion and you've got to cater to the need
of the hour and the pleas of the people'

• For India and Pakistan, building a mature dialogue
will take the political will to look ahead instead of backwards

• 'The RSS could well end up as a vast bureaucracy
if it does not meet its end before that'

• India needs Iran's friendship in its efforts
to normalise relations with Pakistan

• If modern man is still grabbling with Dolly, our ancestors
did even the 'reverse DNA' centuries earlier

• 'For the first time India looks less like a tortoise and
more like a tiger'

• The Battle for Kashmir
• The New Outcastes
• Bananas, bread-fruit, lush countryside and revolution
• The Indian war hero who stood up to the Nazis
• Farooq, Ajatshatru are defying nation's integrity
• The need for tax reform
• 'India needs to act now to ensure it too reaps the full rewards
from the globalisation process'

• The Ransom Industry
• The Congress approach is to gain power by hook or crook.
They are ready to align with anybody to come to power.

• Indo-US ties: Benign neglect and continued pressure?
• Rajiv Gandhi favoured Bofors, says ex-JPC member
• 'What India today needs is secular education'
• 'Anything less than a stable and prosperous
Pakistan will jeopardise your security'

• A Wedding in the Family
• 'We have to fight fascist tendencies within us'
• We should respond to Nawaz Sharif positively, but without any
expectation of achieving tangible results

• Surviving Men
• Pandit Nehru: A streak of Gay?
• 'Yesterday's answers -- nationalism, protectionism and the
search for new enemy-images -- will not help
us solve tomorrow's problems'

• Has peace a chance in Punjab?
• He has never cared to hog the limelight. Quite to the contrary,
the limelight keeps hogging him.

• 'We will show the world that Indian women are not helpless
human beings, but are capable of doing what no liberated modern
Western woman has ever dared to do'

• A human tragedy
• 'Hindu cosmology's time-scale for the universe
is in consonance with modern science'

• Wolpert's below-the-belt attack on Nehru
• 'To meet the problems of customers, is it necessary to invite
private firms into the insurance sector?'

• January 18, 1977
• Samant had lousy timing. He uncannily chose times of
recession to take the workers on a strike.

• In the experience of blue-collared men,
he remained the only trade union leader who put
workers before politics

• 'Was it the Shiv Sena that divided this country?'
• Bombay's dazzling drag parties go on, but beneath that gaiety,
lurks a tragedy in the making

• Indians anxious about Chinese takeover of Hong Kong
• I told Rajiv I had no love for office or power, recalls Zail Singh
• 'India has no future. Sometimes I feel my life is a failure.'
• Who can change the party's image is the real challenge before the Congress
• 'If we ignore the long-term good of society,
we will only invite harm upon ourselves'

• The Seshan Legacy
• The many homes of Sasikala Natarajan
• The Battle for Bangladesh
• 'Tanks, planes and even nuclear weapons do not provide
a group of nations with true security'

• Will the United Front government last?
• China, India and Southeast Asia after the Cold War
• Fifty years later: What hope for India?
• The Great Leap Forward
• Mother Teresa, Angel of Hope

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