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The manufacture of dissent
And so, all's well that ends well. A B-grade Bollywood actor, who shed finely wrought tears over racial slurs, has metamorphosed into an international celebrity. A splenetic dental nurse, who became renowned for her benightedness, has morphed ...

India and East Asia
Foreign Minister GeorgeYeo was reflecting Singapore's far-sighted and consistently helpful attitude when he characterised India's interest and presence in the East as being "beneficial and beneficent to all of us in South East Asia." He regards ...

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When even Pax Romana seems gentler
By P. Sainath

Remember how keen so many of our national security experts were on sending our own troops into Iraq alongside those of the U.S.? Remember it was to have been such a good thing for India?

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Corrections and Clarifications
In "Striking a note of dissent" (Op-Ed, January 27, 2007), a sentence in the last paragraph was: "The Government's website concedes — on the basis of the largest ever survey done in Vidharbha — that around 10 million farmers are ...

Will this presidential race throw up an American idol?
By Peter Preston

The Webb phenomenon reveals just how wide open the U.S. presidential election contest is.

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"The Asean-India relationship has reached a high point"
A "strategic approach" is the best way to clinch the difficult trade pact between India and the Association of South East Asian Nations by the July timeline. Asean Secretary GeneralOng Keng Yong, in an exclusive interview in Singapore on Sunday, said the two sides cannot do without such an accord. Excerpts:

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