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Essays: |
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Poverty,
war and peace - Amartya Sen argues that the roots of human
insecurity and violence must be sought in an integrated view of social,
cultural, historical and economic factors, and not in simplistic theories
of civilizational clash or plain inequity. |
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The
Evergreen Revolution - M.S. Swaminathan looks forward to
a policy shift from the food security of South Asia’s aggregate population
to the nutrition security of the individual. |
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The
clash within - The ‘clash of civilizations’ is a clash
within the self, says Martha Nussbaum, between the urge to
dominate and defile the other and a willingness to live respectfully. |
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Life
gets cheaper - Human rights in Pakistan have been so severely
undermined by the courts and legislatures that, in its 60th year,
the country’s citizens cannot count on even the right to life, says
I.A. Rehman. |
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Poverty,
war and peace - Using the army for internal security can be harmful,
apart from being a poor substitute for good governance, the decommunalisation
of the polity and a revamp of our intelligence system, writes former
Army Chief, General V.P. Malik. |
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Sparring
with shadows - Terrorism is a grave and enduring condition in
India requiring well-planned solutions, says K.P.S. Gill, emergency
responses are miserably inadequate. |
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Bird’s
eye view - Intelligence Bureau veteran Maloy Krishna Dhar
provides a ready reckoner of India’s million mutinies and the faultlines
in which they took root. |
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In
praise of bluntness
- While sophisticated techniques of affirmative action are laudable,
they are unlikely to work as well as quotas in education |
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No
peace without war - Exasperated with the never-ending Indo-Pak
peace process, Ajai Sahni proposes that the only way to solve
the Kashmir problem is to contain Pakistan. |
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Sri
Lanka’s crisis - With both warring parties disregarding the right
to life, only international intervention can save the citizens of
Sri Lanka, says Jayadeva Uyangoda. |
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Necklace
of insecurity - Pointing to the success of the India-Nepal border
arrangement, Kanak Mani Dixit argues for the opening up of
South Asia’s borders. |
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Letter
from jail (First Person) - Imprisoned Bangladeshi professor
A. Al Mamun muses about personal and national insecurities. |
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With
impunity - The widely hated Armed Forces Special Powers Act has
to go before there can be lasting peace in the Northeast, says
Sanjoy Hazarika. |
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The
crime of association - The arrest and continued detention of Dr
Binayak Sen suggests that it is now a crime against the state to even
know a Maoist, writes Anand Grover. |
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Ruling
by fear - The leading source of our insecurity is not the Maoists,
but the gap between people’s needs and the rulers’ priorities, and
extra-judicial repression, says Naxalite leader Dipankar Bhattacharya. |
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Living
dangerously - A.K. Shivakumar looks at issues of health,
gender and environment and takes a grim view of human security in
India. |
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Development
no object - Amit Dasgupta on globalisation, changing social
realities and economic security. |
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State,
sovereignty and self - Vinay Lal on the conundrums of security
in a world ravaged by terror. |
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Poetry: |
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Jayanta
Mahapatra - A wound opens somewhere (English) |
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Kamala
Das - Timepiece (English) |
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Keki
N. Daruwalla - A taxidermist’s ditty — (English) |
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K.
Satchidanandan - Nandi (English) |
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Kumar
Vikal - Children of troubled times (Translated
from the Hindi by Nirupama Dutt) |
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Gulzar
- Hiroshima (Translated from the Urdu by Pratik
Kanjilal) |
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Hayat
Mahmood - Jeep (Translated from the Bengali by
Antara Dev Sen) |
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Varavara
Rao - Afraid of the earth (Translated from the
Telugu by N. Venugopal) |
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Shanta
Acharya - Dispossessed (English) |
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Girdhar
Rathi - Defending God (Translated from the Hindi
by the poet) |
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Balbir
Madhopuri - Ma tells me (Translated from the Punjabi
by Gyan Singh) |
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Shafi
Shauq - Kashmir (Translated from the Kashmiri by
the poet) |
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Marshal
Hembram - Then I must pick up the bow (Translated
from the Santhali
by the poet and Antara Dev Sen) |
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A.J.
Thomas - Why is this man sitting out? (English) |
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Sukrita
Paul Kumar - Night shelters for the homeless (English) |
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Moin
Qazi - Reprieve (English) |
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Durga
Vijaykumar - OCD (English) |
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Fiction: |
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Shibram
Chakravarty - Till debt do us part (Translated
from the Bengali by Kaushik Basu) |
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Shrilal
Shukla - She forgives no one (Translated from the
Hindi by Pratik Kanjilal) |
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Keki
N. Daruwalla - Village idiot (English) |
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Gulzar
- Terror (Translated from the Urdu by Pratik Kanjilal) |
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V.P.
Shivakumar - The twelfth hour (Translated from
the A.J. Thomas and Pratik Kanjilal) |
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Temsula
Ao - The letter (English) |
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Gulzar
Mohammad Goria - Junction (Translated from the
Punjabi by Nirupama Dutt and Pratik Kanjilal) |
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Ratanlal
Shant - The crane (Ttranslated from the Kashmiri
by Shafi Shauq) |
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