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Rajnath is willing
With Rajnath Singh anointed party president for three more years, Hindutva and minority-bashing unsurprisingly took centre stage at the Lucknow session of the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Council session. Blessed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak ...

Optimism masks concerns
The mid-year review of the economy, quite predictably, reiterates the several positive indicators during the first six months of 2006-07, even while expressing concern over a possible overheating of the economy. On most parameters the economy has ...

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Detecting and dealing with tsunamis
By N. Gopal Raj

One of the biggest challenges any tsunami warning system faces is getting the word out to the people and making sure they respond appropriately.

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The largesse passed them by
By Ramya Kannan

Rehabilitation programmes for the tsunami-affected have created a new class of have-nots.

Political rivals, not personal enemies
By Harish Khare

For too long, our political disputes have been overshadowed by personalities. Indian politicians need to devise a new idiom based less on personality and more on ideas.

Galileo's life shows there's always room for doubt
By Simon Caulkin

Bertolt Brecht's playLife of Galileois sharply topical. Today the play, a parable of human responsibility in the battleground of ideas, works equally persuasively as a critique of the ideologies and power structures of 21st century capitalism.

Corrections and Clarifications
In a report, "`UP needs modern leadership'" (December 24, 2006), the name of the Acting Director of the Institute of Rural Management was misspelt in the text. (It was right in the photo caption.) It should have been Neelima Khaitan, and not ...

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