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Gurmeet Kanwal India conducted five nuclear tests over two days on 11th and 13th May, 1998, and declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons. Since then, India's nuclear deterrence has been effectively operationalised. With a…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  To many, the explosion of thunder and snuffle over the Salman Khan case is now old hat, given the ephemeral lifespan of news items. Yet aspects of it, particularly the reactions of a significant section of India's…
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Swapan Dasgupta  There is a rarefied view, quite prevalent among both the non-voting classes and the tribe of over-zealous activists associated with what has come to be called 'civil society', that holds Indian democracy in very low…
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Dear Editor, In 1977-78, a pioneering scientist in 'Air Pollution Studies' from the U.S., Prof. Elmer Robinson, visited the Taj Mahal under the Fulbright Exchange Program, also a time when the impact of SO and SO gases (sulphate) from the…
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Pratibha Lalotra Had I not been through it, I would have never ever actually realised the intensity of that one sentence "I have been to hell and back....!" by our country's heartthrob Deepika Padukone. During one of her appearances on…
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Ashok K Mehta  When the National Democratic Alliance Government came to power last year, its main advocacy was that it was a 'different' and more muscular government than the previous one, and would not be pushed around. In foreign policy,…
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Dear Editor, Baba Ramdev is desperately, but unsuccessfully trying to defend his-so called fertility medicine 'puttar jeewak beej', putting up shrewdly that as per ancient Sanskrit and Ayurveda, the word "puttar" includes both son and…
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Dear Editor, Our present system of education dates back to Charles Wood's despatch of the mid-19th century. Since then several commissions of education - all headed by eminent educationists - have tried to tackle the problem of imparting to…
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Sunaina Malik  Roads are to connect the lives so does the Mughal Road. Today Mughal Road is connecting three culturally and geographically different areas like Rajouri, Poonch and Kashmir. As the word Mughal Road indicates that this path…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra   The arbitrary purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to France, is now being rapidly followed up with the French Defence Minister's second visit to India within the year. When…
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