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Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee greeting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf prior to the summit at Agra in July 2001.-V. SUDERSHAN

Vajpayee's Pakistan policy

WHATEVER prompted Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to announce on April 18, an abrupt U-turn on his confrontationist policy towards Pakistan? That

Members and supporters of Peace Now, an anti-settlement group in Israel, scuffle with the police during a demonstration at the Gush Etzion junction, between Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Hebron, on April 21.-GALI TIBBON/AFP

Dissent in Israel

ISRAEL's outrages against Palestinians rose just as the Bharatiya Janata Party government began wooing it. A firm relationship has been established, e

Documenting follies

India-Bangladesh Relations: Documents - 1971-2002, Volumes I-V edited and introduced by Avtar Singh Bhasin; Geetika Publishers, New Delhi; pages 2,869

The state as a criminal

What know the laws that thieves do pass on thieves?

A feast of an anthology

The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru edited by S. Gopal and Uma Iyengar; Oxford University Press; Vol. 1, pages 739; Vol II, pages 741, Rs.2,450

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.-ATTA KENARE/AFP

Ferment in Muslim thinking

THE proceedings of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Kuala Lumpur provided a glimpse of the hurt and dismay in the Muslim psyche at Western per

Irish lessons for Kashmir

NO Irishman should read Irish history, an old saw went, but every Englishman should. So, one might add, should Indians and Pakistanis. Steeped in Iris

The BJP and the VHP

EVER since his appointment as supremo of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), on March 10, 2000, K.S. Sudarshan has led Prime Minister Atal Behari V

At the unveiling of a portrait of Savarkar in Parliament House on February 26. (From left) Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi.-AJIT KUMAR/AP

Savarkar and Gandhi

The unveiling of Savarkar's portrait in Parliament shows that the BJP is prepared to stoop low to accomplish its sordid ends. It will replace the nati

Has Shiv Sena a future?

The Charisma of Direct Action: Power, Politics and the Shiv Sena by Julia M. Eckert; Oxford University Press; pages 307, Rs.595.

Our secrets in British archives

ROEDAD KHAN retired from the Civil Service of Pakistan after holding high positions under five Presidents. His keen interest in public affairs remains

Is Bush a Truman?

Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War 1945-1953 by Arnold A. Offner, Stanford University Press; pages 626, $37.95