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Telling it as it happened
Sometimes context is everything. By honestly placing in context the violent incidents involving the police and the lawyers in the Madras High Court on February 19, Justice B.N. Srikrishna provided the Supreme Court with the necessary perspective ...

Climate migrations
The plausible spectre of large numbers of people migrating from coastal regions, and of entire populations abandoning small island countries due to rising sea levels makes it vitally important for the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

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India and the Additional Protocol
By Siddharth Varadarajan

The IAEA and its Board of Governors have reinforced the key principle that nuclear activities within India are not a proliferation concern.

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Economic meltdown — this crisis has a woman’s face
By Amelita King Dejardin

What is so far lacking from many of the debates on how countries should respond is a realisation that the global economic crisis has a gender bias.

Don’t write off imperfect South Africa
By Simon Jenkins

As long as the opposition is strong enough, this great democracy can defy the moral contamination of a President Zuma.

Corrections and clarifications
A report “No question of Indian involvement, Colombo tells Islamabad” (March 6, 2009, page 1) spelt the Pakistani Prime Minister’s name as Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, while another report “Taliban blows up ...

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