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Impasse on state finances
THE FAILURE OF the conference of Chief Ministers to reach an agreement with the Centre on measures to tackle the financial difficulties of the State Governments shows that there cannot be a quick-fix solution to the problem. The package that the ...
Spare the child
NO SOCIETY CAN fancy itself to be civil if it brutalises its weak. Children are perhaps the weakest, who are not even aware of their rights. Even if they are, they can do precious little about it. The United Nations Convention and various ...


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The politics in Pakistan
By Supriya RoyChowdhury

Widespread corruption and the complete absence of visionary leadership have reduced the credibility of democratic forces and made way for a context that justifies authoritarianism.
Drought as teacher
By P.S. Vijayshankar & Mihir Shah

What is required now is to take a three-dimensional view of groundwater and see each aquifer as a common property resource.


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