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Difficulties of a fourth innings
The tools and skills-set required for an electoral battle are very different from those needed for governance. Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati refashioned strategy and made consequential changes in tactics to make tremendous gains in the ...

Hurt sentiments and moral policing
Hurt sentiment in India has become a cynical euphemism for moral policing and vigilantism. The recent incidents in Gujarat relating to Chandramohan, a fine arts student of Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, highlight this. A gang of ...

Leader Page Articles

Food economy under the UPA government
By Brinda Karat

What the PDS needs is a drastic overhaul in order to strengthen it, not destruction through privatisation and a whittling down of the food subsidy.

News Analysis

Aspirations and an Earth forgotten
By T.N. Narasimhan

India's water crisis shows that aspiration-driven human actions are incompatible with the laws that govern water as a natural phenomenon.

Road death — the neglected issue
By George Monbiot

DEATH AND injury on the roads is the world's most neglected public health issue. Almost as many people die in road accidents — 1.2 million a year — as are killed by malaria or tuberculosis. Around 50 million are injured. Some 85 per ...

Corrections and Clarifications
* The first sentence in "No giving up on gas" (Editorial, May 11, 2007) was: "Ever since India signed an agreement with the United States on civil nuclear cooperation in July 2005, busybodies in Washington have taken it upon themselves to ...

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The 1857 Revolt

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