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Kilinochchi and after
On November 27, 2008, Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, proclaimed in his annual Heroes’ Day message that the Sinhala state was “living in a dreamland of military victory.” He promised ...

Traumatic times
During 2008 Indian stock markets saw huge fluctuations. An investment made in the stocks covered by the benchmark index, Sensex, in January 2007 would be worth 54 per cent less now. The extreme volatility on many days suggested that even the ...

Leader Page Articles
26/11 and India’s Pakistan dilemma
By Happymon Jacob

From a grand strategic point of view it is in India’s national interest to help Pakistan resolve its terrorism puzzle.

News Analysis

The troubled life of an anthrax suspect
By Scott Shane

Anthrax was the core of Bruce Edwards Ivins’ working life. But even if he could have made the anthrax, did he?

Making a home in a cemetery
By Ros Anderson

Some might find the location creepy — but at least the neighbours are quiet.

ONLINE AND OFF LINE

When flexibility is needed in laudable restraint
Some time ago, a question was posed to me: how does this newspaper ensure that people involved in editorial decision making are impartial and not influenced by vested interests? Is there any “office of profit”-like clause? Or any ...

Rural idyll or terrorist hub?
By Angelique Chrisafis

High on a bleak mountain plateau in central France, the tiny village of Tarnac is fiercely proud of its grocer’s shop. A smiling lady with a perm stands behind the old-fashioned till amid shelves stocked with everything from fly-swats ...

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