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The Indiapakistani Citizen

An Indian from Kerala becomes Pakistani by happenstance, gets a Pakistani passport in order to get back home to India, is found by the police two decades later, is taken

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2003

North and south

There have been apprehensions in Colombo and the rest of the south of Sri Lanka that the peace process, being stuck these past three months, may not last much longer.

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Aug 2003

Contemptible justice

The spate of scams involving some members of the Indian higher judiciary in corruption, bribery, sex, nepotism and abuse of power has again drawn attention to the long overdue need

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2003

Trapped in history, remembered in poetry

This town after all Why doesn't it say something This town after all Why does it lie In the map of our Hindostan – Rahul Rajesh in Hindi poem,

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2003

Making a subcontinental fiasco

The dream of linking the rivers of India is an old one. However, while the proposals of the past were discarded as being impractical, the Government of India's

By Ramaswamy R. lyer

/ 1 Aug 2003

My monsoons

May is the hottest month when the unrelenting heat is punctuated by the only pleasure to be had, bouts of mango eating. But one evening in the middle of the

By Venu Madhav Govindu

/ 1 Aug 2003

Flood of nonsense

The current debate in India on the government's river linking proposal is occurring when the coalition in power at the centre is preparing to face general elections next

By Himanshu Thakkar

/ 1 Aug 2003

Death and class

On the night of 8 July, more than seven hundred persons died in the swirling, turbid waters of the Meghna river southeast of Dhaka. The ferry, the Nasrin-1, sank

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 1 Aug 2003

Contemptible justice

The excessive power the Indian judiciary wields in respect of contempt is a way of shielding itself from legitimate criticism.

By Prashant Bhushan

/ 1 Aug 2003

Bahauddins’ war

Corporal Kazi Bahauddin, 24 Bengali soldier in Pakistan Army November, 1971 The Western Front "Is it true that you're in love with the old girl's

By Ishrat Firdousi

/ 1 Aug 2003

Penury in plenty

As a result of the failure of the public distribution system, four districts in Orissa have become notorious for starvation deaths.

By Indrajit Roy

/ 1 Jul 2003

Political maps and cultural territories

The earliest boundary between India and Bangladesh separated peoples of the hills and plains.

By David Ludden

/ 1 Jul 2003