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Editorials
MOMENT OF TRIUMPH
THE FORMER PRIME Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, must feel that the legal clouds that hung gloomily over him have finally lifted. With his acquittal in the Lakhubhai Pathak case, Mr. Rao has been cleared in the third and last corruption case in ...
CONTAINING THE FALLOUT
CORNERED BY BHUTAN, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is threatening to hit back in the manner it knows best — vent its anger on ordinary, defenceless people. Its threat to issue "quit notices" to Bhutanese living in the Northeast ...


Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
Political bosses as reformers
By Harish Khare

The new anti-defection law does not address the core of the problem: entrenched traditions and practices of bossism in every political party.
Another approach to Afghanistan
By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan & Hamid Ansari

Afghanistan could be better off adopting a policy of neutrality.


News Analysis
FRONTIER TALES
No entry on an open border
By C. Raja Mohan

RAXAUL, DEC. 23.Entering Raxaul in Bihar from Birganj in Nepal, one moves from the third world to the fourth. New Delhi might fancy itself as one of the world's most dynamic economies and an emerging great power. At Raxaul, you would not know. ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Travesty of justice
  • The DMK pullout
  • Reservation
  • A drama
  • ULFA threat
  • The nadir
  • Follow Gandhi
  • MPs' pension
  • Adulteration
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  • Language issue
  • Unwise move
  • In bad taste
  • On Rajaji
  • Fitting tribute



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