Right to Education ( RTE) may end up doing more harm than good with excessive and harmful regulations
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Pressured by the US and bloodied by terrorists, Pakistan must choose its destiny. Facing a stark choice, will it throw its weight decisively against terrorism?
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Though the Hazare protest in New Delhi and supportive ones in other cities may not have sparked a revolution, they certainly mark a political watershed.
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India desperately and urgently needs an independent anti-corruption commission backed with investigative powers, prosecutorial heft and fast-track courts
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The Great Ground Zero Mosque Divide: Both conservatives and liberals draw wrong conclusions. The failure to find common ground weakens both the West’s culture of individual rights and the struggle against radical Islam
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No single factor explains the sudden strain between two liberal democracies that share a common past as British colonies, reopening the question whether India will emerge as a natural ally of fellow English-speaking democracies
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Though the French brand of in-your-face secularism may come under criticism by both Muslims and Western liberals, the country’s experience holds valuable lessons for the rest of the world
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In many ways, the immediate significance of the election lies less in what it promises, than in what it averted--a crazy quilt government comprised of regional and caste-based parties incapable of fashioning a coherent national agenda.
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Indian criticism of the film reveals the chasm between the country's self-perception and projection and any reasonable measure of its achievements. The squalor of the slums depicted in Slumdog is closer to reality than an elaborately choreographed Bo
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If the city of Mumbai symbolizes the hopeful face of globalisation in South Asia – standing for pluralism, enterprise and openness to ideas and investment – then the Pakistan-trained jihadists responsible for the carnage represent its darker twin.
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