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Disinvesting loss-making entities

Half a century ago, India was partitioned. With the Muslim League violently pressing its demand, the Congress saw the inevitability, and agreed. One proposed, the other accepted. Partition, then, became

By Subir Bhaumik

/ 1 Jun 2000

NO STOPPING THE TIGERS

The peace initiative in Sri Lanka was dealt a deathly blow on 10 March, when the Tamil Tigers launched an explosive attack on the ceremonial state drive leading to Parliament

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2000

The lone watchdog

Ever since coming to power, Pakistan´s Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf has gone out of his way to constantly reassure Pakistanis and the world that civil liberties will be

By Beena Sarwar

/ 1 Mar 2000

CRACKDOWN

The suspense mounted as 16 November drew near. A month earlier, the new military ruler of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, had warned all "willful" loan defaulters to repay

By Zaigham Khan

/ 1 Dec 1999

‘The Muslim Buddhist’

Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) The death of Akhtar Hameed Khan came as an ominous portent on the eve of Pakistan's military takeover. While the rest of the country

By Tarik Ali Khan

/ 1 Nov 1999

The Netaji Files

Fifty-four years after his mysterious disappearance in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, controversy continues over the 'death' of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Generation after generation of

By Sujoy Dhar

/ 1 Nov 1999

The emperor’s new fatigues

Even generals have to be accountable, and should depart if they cannot perform. It is an insufferable irony. A nation anticipates that decentralised participatory rule will be delivered by those

By Kazim Saeed

/ 1 Nov 1999

DEBASING DEATH

By ballot and bullet, the Indian and Pakistani states have committed themselves to the forces of the Right by late 1999. In India, an election returns a vast alliance dominated

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

Return of the khaki

Pakistan's military coup truncated a democratic process that would have thrown out Nawaz Sharif as decisively as Benazir Bhutto was rejected in the last election.

By Zia Mian and A H Nayyar

/ 1 Nov 1999

Intrusions, infiltrations and Surinder Singh

Much after the fighting in Kargil had ended, came press reports that the intrusions happened because the warnings of the Kargil sector Brigade Commander Surinder Singh had been ignored by

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Oct 1999

Lies out of control

A couple of months after the Kargil conflict, some intense soul-searching by the Indian print and electronic media is revealing that much of the national press meekly toed the government

By S.N.M. Abdi

/ 1 Sep 1999

No coups in India

Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus by Apurba Kundu Taurus Academic Studies, London, 1998 230 pp, GBP 45

By Maroof Raza

/ 1 Sep 1999