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October 2007

RAMAR SETUravana 
A bridge for Ravana

This fear of taking on religionists head on costs us much more than we allow. If Rama was real it is high time the Ramayana underwent some rewriting. Both logic and political correctness demand it

Mohan Guruswamy Delhi
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UP & BEYONDmaya 
Ms Social Engineer

She’s not the same. Her open-ended, catalytic rainbow coalition across castes and communities might push the threshold of Indian politics beyond archaic equations and twilight zones. And for all you know, she might succeed. This insightful essay enters the depths of her social engineering process and rediscovers a changed Mayawati and the dalit factor – Editor

A K Verma Kanpur


CONGRESScongress 
Reluctant Inheritor

The coalition has cannibalised the Congress. And Rahul Gandhi knows that ‘family charisma’ might not work on the ground without pro-people social and economic policies

Hardnews Bureau Delhi
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NITHARI nithari 
Master’s slave

The Nithari murder case shows the CBI in a poor light. After the murders of children, is the case being deliberately botched up?

Akash Bisht Delhi


NUCLEAR DEALnuclear 
Open the Iron Curtain

For Indian diplomats growing Indo-US relations are not a zero-sum game. Despite fears and scepticism, there is nothing that establishes that India has lost its sovereign foreign policy

Pranay Sharma Delhi
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DEMOCRACYdemocracy 
New vote, new hope

Will proportional representation work better than our present winner-take-all electoral formula? Chances are it will

Salman Khursheed Delhi


DEFENCEwar 
War games

Joint naval exercises are a good opportunity for evaluation, not a warmongering alliance

Srinath Raghavan London
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NEPALTwinkle 
Twinkle Twinkle Red Star

Integrating the Maoists into the mainstream and sensitively tackling issues of the marginalised, especially the Madhesis, will be the two most important challenges in the days ahead

Prashant Jha Kathmandu


NEPALindo nepal 
Back to backyard

The Maoists’ decision to stay out of polls and the UN mission extending its stay in Nepal are two worries that trouble India

Pranay Sharma Delhi
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BURMAburma 
When the Saints go marching in…

With tens of thousands of monks and citizens on the streets in peaceful protests against the ruthless military junta in Burma, will the Indian government turn its eyes away from the pro-democracy movement yet again?

Satya Sagar Bangkok


SUFISM
rumi 
The commodification of mysticism

The 800-year-old poetry of Sufi saint, Rumi, who was born in Afghanistan, lived in Turkey and wrote in Persian is being used today for geopolitical propaganda

Mehru Jaffer Vienna
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