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A deceitful, invalid claim

The Ramjanmabhoomi Nyas and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad claim, on the basis of a March 1992 lease deed, that they own the land adjacent to the site of t

A treaty to keep

India should not, and cannot, go back on the Indus Waters Treaty that it concluded with Pakistan in 1960. Any talk of abrogating or withdrawing from i

The Supreme Court's intervention

The stand of the Vajpayee government on the Ayodhya issue immediately prior to and after the Supreme Court ruling of March 13, and Attorney-General So

From the judgment

Excerpts from the judgment and comments thereon:

A disturbing judgment

This is yet another case of arbitrary use of the contempt power by the Supreme Court.

A Turkish Alberuni

Inside India by Halide Edib, introduction and notes by Mushirul Hasan; Oxford University Press; pages 272, Rs.395.

The nuclear menace

ON February 16, 1994, Indian, Pakistani and American soldiers and diplomats who had been involved in the Indo-Pakistan crisis in 1990 met in Washingto

Of the Delhi tea and the Agra breakfast

India and Pakistan ought to publish a compilation of the July 2001 Agra drafts in order that the whole truth regarding the respective positions may be

Land and legality

The award of any part of the land adjoining the site of the Babri Masjid to a Vishwa Hindu Parishad-controlled body will amount to flouting the Suprem

The truth about the Lahore Summit

When Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif went as far as discussing the need to go beyond stated positions and devise a solution that would take the

Of war-mongering and accountability

By moving to take on the government of Pakistan, the BJP-led regime is pursuing a policy based on the BJP's agenda rather than one in the national int

The Nehruvian approach

"He (Jawaharlal Nehru) rejected the Soviet offer to propose India as the sixth permanent member of the Security Council and insisted that priority be