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Making Wonderland real
"Why," said the Queen, in Alice in Wonderland , "sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." To residents of the house-of-horrors that Jammu and Kashmir has been reduced to, by 18 years of Islamist terrorism ...

Choices before the LTTE
It is entirely in keeping with the character of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam that, faced with the real prospect of a ban by the European Union, it has threatened to take "a hard-line individualist path." For much of the period since the ...

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Teheran poses a difficult choice for Washington
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

The prospects of putting together a"like-minded coalition" for bringing about a regime change in Iran appear uncertain.

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The BSP's amazing journey
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

That today sections of upper castes seem to prefer the BSP to the BJP speaks to the long distance travelled by Mayawati's party.

CHINESE CHARACTERS
Broad-mindedness on Huai Hai road
By Harish Khare

Market economy is thriving with Chinese characteristics.

The reservation debate: missing components
By V.K. Natraj

The benefits from reservation that might and do accrue to society as a whole are rarely mentioned.

Corrections and clarifications
In the analysis "How Tamil Nadu voted" (May 19, 2006), a reader points out that in the table "By District: Performance of the alliances and parties", only 29 districts have been listed, though the total number of seats is correctly mentioned as ...

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