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Contours of organised crime

A new book effectively highlights the grave dimensions of the problem.

Passages remembered

THIS time I am not writing about a particular book. I have over the decades kept notebooks in which I put down excerpts, memorable, stirring phrases a

Foreign investment illusions

Governments with over-optimistic expectations from foreign direct investment should be aware that it does not necessarily increase employment and can

Incompetence or connivance?

The Gujarat Police have not distinguished themselves in recent weeks, but the question is whether they alone are blameworthy.

End the butchery, sack Modi

The pogrom in Gujarat spells this nation's descent into unalloyed barbarism. It can only end if Modi is sent packing and Vajpayee shaken out of his sm

The foreign threat in banking

The clearance granted for a major expansion of foreign bank presence in India will hit priority sector lending overall, reduce the Reserve Bank of Ind

People's carnival at Porto Alegre

The Second World Social Forum at Porto Alegre, Brazil, was not just a rejection of undemocratic globalisation but even more, a celebration of the more

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