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COVER STORY
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Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Age, on Byline, a collection of his columns over the decade
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The slew of tariff plans for different networks has the subscribers all at sea
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OTHER STORIES
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Who will pay the blood money?; Native lightness of touch; Citizen Jane; Faux ambush; That's the limit; Signals from jail
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An emigre from the cocktail circuit, Sheila Dikshit is the toast of Delhi's political banquet. Now polls beckon.
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With elections around the corner, a climbdown on VAT, labour reforms et al was perhaps only to be expected. The Hindu rate of reform seems on track.
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CPI(M) cadre run riot in a bid for all-out victory in the state panchayat polls
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Our politically correct, slow nuclearisation picked up in '98 -- and for the better
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A day had been fixed to carry out tests in 1995-96. But the then PM, Narasimha Rao, backed out 72 hours before the D-day.
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Not only have India's superpower dreams remained unfulfilled, most experts find South Asia unstable now
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Meet Nirakar, who dreams of sculpting a fellowship of one lakh trees before he exits
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Rhinos have a space crunch, thanks to successful conservation
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The Saving Private Lynch story moved many. Turns out it wasn't for real <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=25>Updates</a>
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The peace pantomime continues. The question is: can we chart a new course?
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Peacemaking is a laborious grind. Two leaders talking for four hours isn't enough.
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Islamabad's haste is part about scoring brownie points, part about no-blame if the talks fail
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A duplicitous Islamabad apart, Vajpayee has to negotiate the hardline here. But the mascot may have half won the peace <a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=9>Updates</a>
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Blatant US propaganda which is not even marginally veiled by any good story-telling, sensitive acting or a remote sense of celluloid aesthetics
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Mainstream America's getting a dose of Indian dazzle. There's a buzz in Manhattan. Now it could spread.
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Was India's largest peacetime deployment initiative -- at immense human and monetary cost -- really worth it?
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India's action in Iraq should factor in its image in the eyes of the Arab world
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A few brave souls who have not let their misfortunes get the better of them
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Political analysts should address two questions regarding SARS. Why did it happen, and what will it do? The advent of SARS, immediately after the Iraq ...
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William Dalrymple's Hollywood dreams may remain just that, but is he angling for a <i>Bollywood </i> role?
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A pioneering account of the current mainsprings of India's foreign policy.
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A disarmingly frank memoir in a wonderful translation by Saleem Kidwai.
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A worthy premise, but a tad unrealistic in the grim realities of the present
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The Centre's move to scrap Migrant Act stokes old fires