editorial article

Kanwal Sibal If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New York were any yardstick, it can already be labelled a resounding success.…
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Raj Paul Sharma Vice and virtue go together in this world of duality: neither is capable of eliminating the other. Maintenance of their harmonious proportion is a test for an effective social order. Once vice is allowed to cross the…
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra If the Modi Government's stance at the World Trade Organisation was a classic case of the best kind of decision-making being badly explained and badly sold to the public, then, sadly, examples in national security abound…
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Rakesh Cross-border aggression in the shape of mortar shelling and machine- gun firing across whole of the International Border and Line of Control measuring about 192 km in length by the Pakistan Rangers had rendered the people along both…
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Shyam Saran Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US has created a surge of expectations about the likely trajectory of India-US relations. There is a danger that this may defer a more objective reckoning of the realistic…
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Narinder Pal Sing She took up the gauntlets and with her strength of conviction decided to go to school and wear her school uniform and this act of her bravery to preserve the dignity of school going girls  provoked the ire of the…
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi The first time an Indian Pime Minister visited the US was in 1949. President Harry S Truman invited a very fresh and gleaming Jawaharlal Nehru, two years into India's Prime Ministership, to the US on an official visit.…
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Narinder Pal Singh   Swat is located just 160 kms from Islaamabaad. It is also known as the Switzerland of Pakistan. Malalah, who belongs to Mingora village of this terror-prone North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, no doubt was just…
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Gautam Mukherjee The Indian-American relationship has always been strangely awkward. Indian students love studying in the Ivy League colleges of America, either on scholarships, or at an enormous expense, and Americans, on their part,…
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Mahesh Kaul   It brings to fore the lack of will on the part of the policy makers and the lack of sensitivity of the common people who have taken the bio diversity for granted and are contributing to the vandalisation and extinction of the…
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