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The speeding inferno
THE FRONTIER MAIL disaster epitomises the very worst of India, the tragedy brought about by a cruel combination of factors that include criminal negligence, disregard for safety, public contempt for the law and official apathy about enforcing it. ...
Second from Left
MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN the victory of the Left Front in the panchayat poll in West Bengal is the third-place finish of the Trinamool Congress-BJP alliance with the Congress re-emerging as the principal Opposition party of the State. While the ...


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Reality check on J&K
By V.R. Raghavan

The U.S. will not countenance a military conflict between the two South Asian nuclear adversaries. It is unwilling to do more than counsel restraint on the Jammu and Kashmir issue.
Islam and democracy
By Imtiaz Ahmad

So long as authoritarian regimes find it expedient to respond to the fundamentalists' challenge by repression rather than reform, the later will find a ready audience.


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  • Safety on trains
  • The veil of secrecy
  • Harassment at work
  • Israel is willing
  • Paedophilia
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