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| | November 10, 2004 |  |  |  | The End of the Arafat Era 'Contrary to Likud Party propaganda, Arafat has never been an obstacle to peace, but rather, a precondition for it.'
 
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 | October 18, 2004 |  |  |  | India-US tech treaty: A fool's bargain 'If Indian policymakers really think that friendship/partnership with America will help India enter the Nuclear Club, 
they are deluding themselves.'
 
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 | August 19, 2004 |  |  |  | New Delhi, wake up! 'The Centre can clamp President's rule on Manipur. But that would begin a potentially catastrophic confrontation with a state of the Union.'
 
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 | July 12, 2004 |  |  |  | India is marked by cascading inequalities 'If you are born underprivileged, you face growing discrimination in education, freedom, employment, income, etc. In most people's case, the injustice is never compensated.'
 
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 | July 05, 2004 |  |  |  | BJP's 'Tallest Leader' is a Dwarf 'Vajpayee has lost his touch and his mystique. His stature has shrunk to a fraction of its size before the elections. Once a master of tactical manoeuvre and shrewd rhetoric, he has fallen to the level of the run-of-the-mill politician.'
 
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 | June 22, 2004 |  |  |  | Hardline Hindutva or just drift? 'The BJP leadership lacks the intellectual ability to grasp the quality and causes of the electoral defeat. But does it have the resources to devise a grand game plan to stage a comeback?' asks Praful Bidwai.
 
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 | June 02, 2004 |  |  |  | Only two cheers for the UPA 'Will India become a subordinate, passive component of an unequal, unjust global order? Will it further enlarge its domestic cesspools of grievances while keeping the poor insecure and wretchedly unhappy?'
 
 
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 | May 5, 2004 |  |  |  | BJP scrambles for Muslim votes 'Even Murli Manohar Joshi, one of the more inflexible of BJP hardliners, promises to modernise madrassas by installing computers!'
 
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 | April 12, 2004 |  |  |  | Towards a hung Lok Sabha? The latest opinion poll results will 'discomfit the NDA's strategists. They can no longer feel safe or secure about its prospects'.
 
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 | January 13, 2004 |  |  |  | Fighting for global justice 'The main message that will ring out from Mumbai is: Another World is Possible! Indeed, it is. We must fight for it.'
 
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