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| Intending to outrage |
| The Indian Penal Code needs to be changed on rape |
| In an earlier column, I began to talk about gender biases in Indian laws, given the background of reports submitted by the task force on women and children and the National Commission for Women. Let me now turn specifically to the violence issue and ... |
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| Where there?s smoke |
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Sir ? The report, ?Big blot on Bihar on Nasa pollution map?(Jan 30), talks about the alarming level ... |
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Sir ? Ramachandra Guha?s understanding of Indian politics is rather sketchy (?Old habits die hard?, ... |
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| ROCKY REGION |
| What is sauce for the goose is often not sauce for the gander. That was, in effect, the conclusion of the last meeting of the...|
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| GIFT OF CRUELTY |
| There is something absurd, rather than grand, about an elephant being sent as a gift by one modern prime minister to another....|
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| Lest we forget |
| Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984. In the three-day bloodbath that followed her assassination, nearly four thousand Sikhs lost their lives at ... |
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| Being better informed |
| Article 5: Research and systematic observation: In carrying out their commitments under Article 4, paragraph 1(g), the Parties shall:... |
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star,/ ?Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon?s verge./ How little do we know that which we are!/ How less what we may be! ? LORD BYRON
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