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No double standards on terrorism
Time and again, when governments promise "strong" action against terrorism, they come up with knee-jerk responses that inevitably undermine civil liberties. The British Government seems to be no exception, despite the plausible assurances by ...

Tax sops an illusory attraction
The letter written by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling for the withdrawal of Central excise and income-tax concessions to new industries in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal highlights genuine ...

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STATECRAFT
Grooming a reluctant heir apparent
By Harish Khare

Rahul Gandhi remains a reluctant politician and this has serious repercussions for the Congress as an organisation and for its much-delayed process of renewal.

News Analysis
A politics of transfusion in Maharashtra
By Ranjit Hoskote

The Congress, the NCP, and the Shiv Sena all represent various facets of a public sphere that has become increasingly intolerant of dissent or difference.

The problem with creating Islamist phantoms
By Adam Curtis

We dreamed up "Al-Qaeda." Let us not do it again with "evil ideology."

How to avoid civil war in Iraq
By George Monbiot

BETWEEN THE idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. ...

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