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| Looking
beyond terrorism |
| After
the Bali bombings, which killed more than a 100 tourists,
a large number of them Australians, the social and political
divisions in Indonesia assume critical importance, says
Sidney Jones |
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| A
Berlin Wall in West Bank |
| Isreali
hawks still caught in the siege mentality are trying to
make the Zionist state safe by building a high wall, which
would include Jewish settlements in West Bank, says by
Matthew Brubacher |
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| Post
9-11: ‘smileys’ are still there |
| Nalini’s
tryst with an American university town shows her the lesser-known
side of the entity called the US - gentler, peaceloving
and not necessarily a country with a stereotypical population
of the 'good' hunting to punish the 'evil' |
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| With
love, in Ithaca |
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| GODHRA
IS POLL PLANK |
Narendra
Modi raises
anti-Muslim
pitch |
Modi was unrelenting in his bid to play down the fact
that Congress President Sonia Gandhi was amongst the first
to condemn
the Godhra
massacre, by loudly
wondering why the Congress was silent when the karsevaks
were burnt in the train on February 27,
says Venkat Parsa |
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| FOCUS
ON GULF WAR II |
| Cambridge
comes out of the cocoon |
| During
Gulf War I in 1991, students and dons at the University
of Cambridge showed no more than a passing interest. As
Gulf War II looms on the horizon, there is a vibrant discussion
on the war and terrorism, says Seema Alavi |
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| NEW
DEAL FOR KASHMIR |
| Mehbooba
pitches for a larger |
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role
in Kashmir
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba
Sayeed is pitching for a larger role in Jammu &
Kashmir, of coordinating on the implementation of
the promises
made in the
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party’s
election manifesto,
says Venkat Parsa |
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| GUJARAT
POLLS |
| Modi
runs for safer seat |
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Modi’s
decision betrays the sense of nervousness that seems
to permeate the ruling BJP, despite several Opinion
Polls predicting
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| a
two-thirds win for
the BJP in the
Gujarat Assembly elections, says Venkat Parsa
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| Vajpayee
convenes CRA on Nov 29 |
Significantly,
Prime Minister Vajpayee was not keen on convening
the CRA meeting. The BJP was more inclined that
the Apex Court should adjudicate the issue of water
sharing between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, till the
Apex Court intervened,
says Venkat Parsa |
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Can
Musharraf speak
a secular language? |
Pakistan
army is not secular as its counterpart in Turkey, and
it is something that the Americans have
to recognise, says Parsa
Venkateshwar Rao Jr |
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| FRESH
LIGHT ON EMERGENCY |
Indira
Gandhi was a cynic, and JP
a failed idealist |
| A
new book on the infamous Emergency by a former bureaucrat
who was in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat (PMS) then
shows that historians have to work hard |
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