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THE WSF PHENOMENON
ON MOST COUNTS the 2004 meeting of the World Social Forum in Mumbai has been a resounding success. The fourth annual meeting drew 80,000 participants and it had representatives from around the world, even if the overwhelming majority came from ...

THE GORSHKOV PACKAGE
IT MAY SEEM something of an irony that a 29-year-old vessel — which was decommissioned as an aircraft carrier in 1994 — has become the subject of a gargantuan Rs.7,000-crore defence deal. But the 40,000-tonne Admiral Gorshkov, that ...

Leader Page Articles
Dialogue and its perils
By Praveen Swami

The real problem is that there are not just two sides to the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.

Land-grab woes
By Juan Forero

Leaders of the paramilitaries in Colombia, with whom the Government is negotiating demobilisation, are quietly laundering drug money by grabbing huge tracts of land.

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