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Seize the favourable moment
The recent Brussels statement of the co-chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference — Norway, the European Union, the United States, and Japan — announcing the "willingness" of the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government and the LTTE "to come to talks ...

Be with us or be bombed
Is it any surprise that the Bush administration issued crude threats to Pakistan immediately after 9/11? In his 368-page memoir, In The Line of Fire , which is being launched today, President Pervez Musharraf narrates how, on September 12, ...

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India is online but most Indians are not
By C.P. Chandrasekhar

The diffusion of Internet technology in India can take one of two routes, one elite-oriented, the other democratic. The Government seems to want to promote the second but the minimum requirement for this is credible information.

News Analysis
Musharraf and the truth about Kargil
By Praveen Swami

General Musharraf's account of the Kargil war is a feisty defence of Pakistan's military — but sits ill with well-established facts.

ONLINE AND OFF LINE
Use, abuse and semantics
"Argument and self-introspection are the methods to learn. Of course, argument cannot be bereft of logic," wrote G.M. Rama Rao of Vizag, a keen observer of the paper and its contents, and an occasional communicator. The context was my reply to ...

General's grand theory of `Enlightened Moderation'
By Special Correspondent

IN HIS book, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir , Pakistan's military ruler locates his "out of the box" Kashmir solution within the larger context of having to respond to 9/11 and a vastly more violent and volatile post-9/11 world. One day, he ...

An incomplete account of a "most embarrassing moment"
By Special Correspondent

General Musharraf's memoirs assert Dr. A.Q. Khan was "self-centred," "abrasive," and greedy; that his proliferation was a "one-man act."

Happy birthday, hard disk drive
By John Naughton

THE HARD disk is 50 years old this month. On September 13, 1956, IBM unveiled its IBM 305 Ramac computer, whose major selling point was that it had something called a "disk drive": the 350 Disk File unit. Up to then, data had been stored either ...

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