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Move ahead on infrastructure
Decision-making on infrastructure in Karnataka needs to extricate itself from the diversion the highly personalised Deve Gowda-N.R. Narayana Murthy-S.M. Krishna controversy represents. The Infosys chairman and chief mentor resigned his ...

Tackling India's chronic corruption
Famines, natural calamities, and political corruption scandals are acute events that evoke strong responses in democracies such as India. However, as Nobel laureate Amartya Sen pointed out many years ago, such societies seem to be far less ...

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How Mumbai residents were short-changed
By Kalpana Sharma

The Bombay High Court ruling on the development of textile mill lands exposes the absence of any vision for Mumbai in the people who plan for the city and those who implement the plans.

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A race to woo the undecided voter
By V.S. Sambandan

Winning over the uncommitted Sinhalese is critical given Sri Lanka's ethnic mix.

Wider choices, smarter development
By Maxine Olson

Solution Exchange, a unique experiment by the United Nations, provides an impartial platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas among development practitioners.

"I stand by my words": Orhan Pamuk
By Maureen Freely

FIVE YEARS ago, Orhan Pamuk wrote a novel about a poet who is snared in a political intrigue from which there is no escape. Nine months ago, Turkey's most famous novelist was pulled into just such an intrigue. It began with an off-the-cuff ...

When it's right to roam in hotspots
By Simon Reeve

Is travelling to `troubled countries' such as Uzbekistan worthy or just plain voyeurism?

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