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AN EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY
THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL election in Afghanistan's history is back on course with the candidates contesting against the incumbent Hamid Karzai giving up their demand for the polls to be annulled. Mr. Karzai's 15 rivals alleged that the election had ...

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IT IS BY now accepted wisdom that the diversity of India is best represented by a government that is itself an alliance of divergent political, cultural, and linguistic currents. The advent of coalition governance has done much to bring together ...

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Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004
By Vaiju Naravane

One of the most widely published and discussed philosophers of our time, Derrida, best known for his theory of deconstruction, was adulated and denigrated in equal measure.

Women and elections in Afghanistan
By Natasha Walter

The United States and Britain used the oppression of Afghan women to justify their intervention. That is not how it is seen on the ground.

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