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• Fighting the Cancer of Corruption

  25 July 2010, by P R Dubhashi

  Spate of Corruption Cases
  In recent months a spate of corruption cases at very senior levels in administration have come to light. Two senior officers of the Ministry of Home Affairs, considered to be the sanctum sanctorum of the Union Government, were involved in the alleged scam in the purchase of bullet-proof jackets and excise evasion racket in the Union Territory of Daman. In the latter case, O. Ravi, the 1983 batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre working as the Joint Secretary in (…)

• Institution Matters

  25 July 2010, by Sunil Roy

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• Rehabilitation of Imre Nagy

  25 July 2010, by Subrata Sen

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• Miles to go for Pakistan

  25 July 2010, by Nikhil Chakravartty

  It is useful to look upon the Indo-Pak Summit against the wider background of social and political awakening in Asia. What do the two states stand for? What has been their respective record in the last twentyfive years since they attained independence? To a large measure, the answers to these questions provide the clue to the ultimate outcome of the Simla Summit which is yet to be known as these lines are being written.
  By the yardstick of accepted ideological categories, India and (…)

• Pashupatinath Temple Row: Indian Priest versus Nepali Priest

  25 July 2010, by Kriti Singh

  The year 2009 witnessed a series of high level political drama in the nascent republic of Nepal. However, one such event, which created a lot of commotion not only in Kathmandu but also in New Delhi, was the Pashupatinath Temple priest row. With its astonishing architectural beauty, the Pashupatinath Temple stands as a symbol of faith, religion, culture and tradition. Regarded as the most sacred temple of the Hindu Lord, Shiva, in the world, the Pashupatinath Temple’s existence dates back to (…)

• Afghanistan: Attempts at ‘Pragmatic’ Course-change by New Delhi

  25 July 2010

  by A Special Correspondent
  Analysing the current US policy in Afghanistan, the implementation of which will result in India turning out to be the “biggest loser”, Bashir Mohammad wrote in a brief article, “India and the US Policy in Afghanistan” (Mainstream, May 8, 2010) that in the circumstances “South Block should support the enhanced presence in the Central and local governments (in that country) of the national minorities, including those in the Northern Alliance as well as former (…)

• Upholding the Rule of Law

  25 July 2010, by Shree Shankar Sharan

  There is a whole lot of commotion in the country that our lives and liberty are being increasingly handed over to the police and the rule of law, whose main purpose is to punish the guilty and protect the innocent, is being given a go-bye.
  Several events lend credence to this sad conclusion.The killing of Azad, a widely travelled and respected Naxal leader, allegedly in an encounter by the government is not borne out by the statement of Swami Agnivesh who had been in touch with (…)

• Unsolved Question Paper of S.M. Krishna

  25 July 2010, by Ajay Mohan

  The Foreign Minister of India, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, went to China to reaffirm India’s strong bilateral relations with China. Both Asian giants very well understand they need each other. The External Affairs Minister went to China to re-energise Sino-Indian relations and remove all the dark shadows from the relationship. His going to China was to find the answers to some questions:
  1. Would China accept India’s demands on the border issue?
  2. Would China stop giving stapled (…)

• The Islamabad Fiasco

  25 July 2010, by SC

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  While the two major incidents of the last few days—the horrific train accident at Sainthia station in West Bengal’s Birbhum district (where the Sealdah-bound New Cooch Behar-Sealdah Uttarbanga Express rammed into the Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express from behind) in the early hours of July 19 claiming, as per initial reports, 67 lives and injuring as many as 121 passengers and the shocking misdemeanour of the people’s representatives (…)

• The Overriding Task

  22 July 2010, by SC

  Last Friday, that is, on July 9, the Supreme Court upheld an order of the Bombay High Court to lift a four-year-old ban imposed by the Maharashtra Government on the publication and circulation of American scholar David Laine’s book, Shivaji: The Hindu King in Muslim India.
  Shortly after the verdict, which was hailed by activists as a “boost for freedom of speech”, the advocate representing Laine and the Oxford University Press hoped that henceforth governments would be more circumspect (…)