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A Profile in Courage: Mani Shankar Aiyar on Pak-India Relations and What Could Have Been

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri I received a copy of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book, Memoirs of a Maverick, with the following inscription: “To Khurshid, in remembrance...

Need to Revise India’s Disqualification Law

The law of disqualification is being widely misused with selective approach by the government in power Prof Ishrat Husain THE Representation of People Act under Section...

Humiliation vs Self-Respect: The Untold Story of the Abuse of Palestinian Women in Hebron

Ramzy Baroud THE humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first such...

How 9/11 Sparked ‘War on Terror’ from Hell

Norman Solomon THE day after the US government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification. Nearly four weeks...

G20 with a Hope and a Prayer

JAWED NAQVI THE inveterate Hindu in him spurred the British prime minister to take time off from the G20 summit to offer prayers at Delhi’s...

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