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SIGNIFICANCE OF CHAPRA
AT THE CONCLUSION of a four-phase general election spread over two months and involving 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, it is a matter of some comfort that the Election Commission of India felt compelled to order a total repoll in only one ...

PROGRESS ON SIKKIM
DURING THE VISIT by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Beijing last June, China cautiously held out the assurance that the "Sikkim question," one of the problematical issues in bilateral relations, would be "resolved gradually." The Chinese ...

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LAW AND SOCIETY
Choosing a Prime Minister
By Rajeev Dhavan

The President cannot prevent trade-offs. But he can make a thorough assessment to prevent Indian democracy from laughing at itself.

The imperative of wisdom
By Hamid Ansari

Iraq proves the failure of an approach, and the philosophy underlying it.

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