Siddharth VaradarajanIN INTERNATIONAL affairs, minor details often tell us more about the big picture than ponderous declarations and weighty documents. Next week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to B
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Shivam Vij If one seeks to remove violence from everyday life, the place to begin should be the classroomSeptember 5 was Teachers Day, a day when students go to school and present their teachers with gifts
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Cynthia Boaz and Jack DuVallThe future of Iraq is in jeopardy, not primarily because of foreign occupation, aborted reconstruction, Iranian interference, unregenerate Baathists, venal Iraqi politicians, Islamis
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Nirupama Subramanian On Saturday, Pakistan gave Balochistan the martyr the regions nationalist cause lacked these last 58 years, when security forces killed Akbar Khan Bugti. The irony: the 79-year-old Bug
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Uri AvneryIn his latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one.Of
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Cahal Milmo While his peers from St Augustines Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of duty
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Satya Sagar Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That was me, a bearded Indian working for a Sri Lankan video production
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Noam ChomskyThough there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-
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Dolly KikonOn 9 August, 2006, the Manipur education minister, Mr. Nandakumar warned the hill districts of Manipur, government of Nagaland, and civil society to refrain from interfering in Manipurs issues. He fu
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Nanda WickramasingheOngoing fighting initiated by the Sri Lankan military against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is creating a social catastrophe. More than 160,000 people have been displaced since
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Yoginder SikandIn both radical Islamist as well as Hindutva discourse, Islam and Indian nationalism are seen as w0 holly compatible. Radical Islamists consider nationalism as an idol, demanding the loyalty whic
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Walden BelloBeirut - The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a taxi driver, who tells me, We won, but at what cost? So many people displace
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M K Bhadrakumar One of the significant contributions to the war on terror by Britains home secretary David Blunkett before his abrupt departure from the Tony Blair cabinet last year was his statement on te
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Siddharth VaradarajanWHEN ISRAEL attacked Lebanon a month ago, it had two stated and two unstated military objectives. The stated objectives were the unconditional release of two of its soldiers captured by Hiz
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David Shoshani'Following the prerequisite described in the last article come the three phases that lead to TrueLove. The first one is the processing phase, the second one is the releasing phase and the third an
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Satya Sagar 15th August 2006 marks yet another Independence Day for the modern Indian nation. Fifty nine years ago this day Pandit Nehru, the countrys first Prime Minister, famously declared the new born
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Uri AvneryToday, the war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a gang and terrorist organization, as the military commanders like to describe them, a
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Praful BidwaiA crass and hysterical nationalism is taking hold among a section of the Indian middle class in response to the Mumbai blasts. This nationalism is paranoid. It considers India uniquely vulnerable t
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Jonathan CookIf there were any remaining illusions about the purpose of Israels war against Lebanon, the draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cessation of major hostilities published a
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Robert Freeman Few issues in American history - perhaps only slavery itself - are as charged as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. Was it necessary? Merely posing the question provokes indignation
