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Is it America that they hate?

"IT is permissible to doubt whether the method of violence is ever the midwife of justice. That wrong can be wiped out with wrong is a gospel to which

Fences and windows

A political compact, based on give and take, is an essential pre-requisite to work out a boundary settlement with China.

Facts of history

A survey of the treaties and engagements that have dealt with the status of the western sector of the Sino-Indian boundary in Jammu and Kashmir.

Perseverance in peace process

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to China marks a milestone on the long road to a settlement of the boundary question. But the success of t

Aftermath of a crime

Iraq: A Report from the Inside by Dilip Hiro; Granta Books; pages 271, 8.99.

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, who is the president of the National Conference.-

Harsh truths about Kashmir

A solution to the Kashmir problem lies in making creative efforts to reconcile Kashmiris to the Indian Union and addressing the concerns of Pakistan.

China's foreign policy

Mao's China & the Cold War by Chen Jian; the University of North Carolina Press; pages 400; $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperback)

A portrait of Sir John Peter Grant.-

Closing down a court

On the judiciary's struggle for independence from executive control.

Justice Dixon - mediator and Judge

WHEN Owen Dixon came to the subcontinent as United Nations mediator on Kashmir on May 27, 1950, he had acquired, deservedly, high repute as Judge of A

Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

C.P. and independent Travancore

Who, rowing hard against the stream Saw distant gates of Eden gleam And did not dream it was a dream.

Travails of an MEA watcher

C. RAJA MOHAN, Strategic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, has written a stimulating book in pursuit of his "academic interest in world affairs" in which h

The Taj Mahal, the epitome of Mughal architecture.-CARINE MARTINEZ/GAMMA

A composite culture

The Magnificent Mughals; Editor, Zeenat Ziad; Oxford University Press, Pakistan; pages 317; Rs.1,295.