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The violence of the virtuous
When the good is almost always defined in terms of one community's ascendance over another, it is not the evil in us that makes us violent. How can we
reduce this, ponders Rajesh Kasturirangan.
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The gift from the sky
Frustrated with the hardness of borewell water, H Ramesh and his family are harvesting rain in their Mysore house
for almost all their domestic uses. Shree Padre has more.
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Give us a break, Mr Sreedharan
The Delhi Metro chief's recent letter to the Planning Commission, warning that Hyderabad's model for its Metro could lead to a political scandal
overlooks the subsidies his own organisation has received, writes Sunil Jain.
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PPPs: Tall claims, but little evidence
The many arguments offered in support of Public Private Partnerships don't stand up to close examination. The private sector is not more efficient
than its public counterpart, nor is cheap money accessible to it as readily, write Shripad Dharmadhikary and Gaurav Dwivedi.
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Heed the silent protest
The defence services are unhappy with the sixth Central Pay Commission.
Maj Gen S G Vombatkere (retd)
cautions that testing the patience of the Indian soldier cannot be in the best interests of the nation.
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Scamming the law, pretext of inability
In late August, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a judicial inquiry on allegations of large scale corruption in distribution of compensation to families affected by Sardar Sarovar/Narmada Project. Himanshu Upadhyaya tells
the continuing story of a scam.
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Doors open for familiar nuclear worries
As the nuclear world appears poised to pry open a vast market for power plants and arms in India, Darryl D'Monte reports voices from a corner of the
world that was witness to an earlier, Soviet-era nuclear rush.
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Another anti-environment ruling at the NEAA
An appeal in the environment appellate authority that ought to have been a clear case of evidence and cross evidence has instead thrown up something
new - a case of a project being upheld despite the objections to it being true. Kanchi Kohli reports.
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A forgotten Bengali hero
He designed the general elections, India?s greatest gift to itself. It is time the Bengali mathematician-turned-civil
servant got his due, writes Ramachandra Guha.
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Can there be justice without the state?
There has been a massive erosion in public confidence in our criminal justice system. There have been numerous commissions set up to suggest
improvements, but nothing much has come of these, writes C V Madhukar.
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