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Justice gone awry - II

THE first legal breakthrough in the Samba spy case came on July 8, 1994, when a full bench of the Delhi High Court held, on the petition of one of the

Of a massacre untold

A revealing account surfaces of happenings in Hyderabad state in the wake of the Indian Army's 'Police Action' there in 1948.

Justice gone awry

The truth about the monumental fraud and grave failure of the military justice system involved in the Samba spy scandal needs to be unravelled without

Ayodhya in reverse

The story of the Shahidganj Mosque in Lahore.

Indian thinking on foreign policy

India needs a major intellectual exercise that will give its policymakers a realistic understanding of history, an essential prerequisite for the evol

A defender of militancy

By all established definitions of "terrorism'', the demolition of the Babri Masjid was a "terrorist act", and not a "political offence" as claimed by

From ceasefire to dialogue

The ceasefire in Kashmir will make sense as an act of statesmanship only if Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buttresses it by inviting the Hurriyat

The 1971 watershed

From A Head, Through A Head, To a Head: The Secret Channel between the U.S. and China through Pakistan by F.S. Aijazuddin, Oxford University Press; pa

The law and its potency

The recent conviction of two major political personalities in corruption cases offers lessons that could help institute long-overdue reforms in the pr

Lies and war histories

A post-script on the Hamoodur Rahman Report.

Questions of accountability

No government can possibly allow so reckless a strategy as Pakistan has resorted to now to succeed. And no nation can forgive a government which permi

In pursuit of truth

By being scrupulously fair and judiciously temperate in his comments in his report on the Mumbai riots, Justice B.N. Srikrishna has restored credibili