• We don't need a Putin!  - November 13, 2002
'Given our social and political structures, what is stormed, who is put at risk, and who rescued, becomes an issue of power.'

• The opening in Kashmir  - November 5, 2002
'India's national leadership must seriously reconceptualise its entire understanding of Kashmir and radically rethink the strategy followed hitherto.'

• Reality of Dalit oppression  - October 22, 2002
'What is the meaning of development and progress, if the most wretchedly oppressed people remain in a state of permanent subjugation? What does that say about the quality of our democracy?'

• The issue is raw power   - October 15, 2002
'The BJP/NDA 'debate' on 'divestment' is a surrogate debate. The real fight within the NDA is over political power, and within the BJP over succession to Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee.'

• Anti-terrorism lessons from Akshardham   - October 9, 2002
'It is the duty of the Indian State to protect innocent citizens against terrorists. But it must protect them against communalists and psychopathic criminals too -- which it regularly fails to do.'

• Say no to war on Iraq   - October 1, 2002
'As America cranks up war preparations, India will find it hard to take an independent stand. Like with the 1991 refuelling, it will be asked to fall in line. That bodes ill for our future.'

• Setback to secularism   - September 25, 2002
'Concerned citizens-must launch a renewed agitation against NCERT and its vile textbooks, persistently chasing them in Parliament. Too much is at stake-not least, the future of whole generations, and of Secular India itself.'

• Privatisation hits a roadblock   - September 18, 2002
'Selling the PSUs off is absurd -- indeed, obscene, when the objective is to create a bonanza for private tycoons and finance the government's revenue deficit.'

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