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What four states say
The term “semi-final election” was first heard in Bharatiya Janata Party circles prior to the 1991 general elections. Many party strategists then argued that the expansion of the party’s base after Ayodhya would set the stage for a final push in 1996...  | Read.. 
 
Letters to the Editor
Perform or perish
Sir — In leading the Congress to its third successive victory in this year’s assembly elections in ...  | Read.. 
 
EDITORIAL
UNUSUAL MODEL
Real change in the practice of democracy may come quietly, and quietness was one of the keywords of the assembly elections he...| Read.. 
 
THE PLOT THICKENS
It would have looked absurd had democracy made an eerily quiet return to Bangladesh. With the army-backed caretaker governmen...| Read.. 
 
BONA FIDE
 
Fiddling on the Roof
A farcical political play, a theatre of the absurd, is being forced upon us —the wide-eyed and curious spectators — as the c...  | Read.. 
SCRIPSI
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife or a complete writer: I must combine a little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. — SYLVIA PLATH
 
BOOKS
Ghost valley
Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night is an extraordinary book of a Kashmir in extraordinary times....  | Read.. 
 
In a land where all things seemed the same
Imagine a country that has conquered death. In the world of Manjula Padmanabhan’s new novel, Escape,...  | Read.. 
 
Not by bookshops alone
To begin with, some cold facts about the Indian book trade. First, there ar...  | Read.. 
 

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