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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Is corruption truly an issue in India?]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/news/column/is-corruption-truly-an-issue-in-india/20120208.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Kanimozhi and Kalmadi were welcomed as if they were freedom fighters emerging from jail. Getting bail does not mean that the cases against them have come to an end, or that they have been found innocent by the trial courts, says T V R Shenoy.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[UP's Muslim parties don't talk of social justice]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The urge of democratisation among the Muslim communities remains unaddressed by these emerging Muslim outfits. Do they wish to pursue the emotive identity politics of religious exclusivism which may degenerate into the politics of religious reaction, asks Mohammad Sajjad.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The foreign service has lost its Bhishma pitamaha]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-foreign-service-has-lost-ts-bhishma-pitah/20120207.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Ambassador A K Damodaran was the last link between the freedom struggle and Indian diplomacy, the last of those, who walked from a British prison to take on national responsibilities.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Syria vote: India falls for charms of 'green money']]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/news/column/syria-vote-india-falls-for-charms-of-green-money/20120205.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[India should have abstained from voting for the draft resolution backing an Arab League peace plan for Syria at the United Nations Security Council, opines former diplomat M K Bhadrakumar]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[India's MMRCA decision continues to create ripples]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Major defence purchases should be a means of helping a nation achieve its strategic objectives. It's not readily evident what strategic objectives of India are being served by choosing Rafale over Typhoon, says Harsh V Pant.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why Mumbai needs citizens contesting civic polls]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/news/column/why-mumbai-needs-citizens-contesting-civic-polls/20120201.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Mumbai city, overcrowded, run down, filthy, gasping, is far too precious a city to continue to remain in  the clutches of the professional politicians who owe nothing to themselves and have made local self-government a caricature of what was the ideal -- people governing themselves and their spaces, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lieutenant, did you die in vain?]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA['You will not get the adulation from the government that a martyred soldier gets in the US. Your name will not be read out in any obituary reference in Parliament, as is done in the UK for all soldiers who fall in combat in the line of duty. Your name will not be etched on any national memorial because we do not have one!' Sarvar Bali salutes a fallen hero.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[This is not an Agneepath review]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/movies/column/column-this-is-not-an-agneepath-review/20120126.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Suparn Verma salutes the memory of Mukul Anand, who first made Agneepath]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pirates of the modern world]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/money/column/column-pirates-of-the-modern-world/20120126.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Does General V K Singh know what he's up against?]]></title>
  <link>http://www.rediff.com/news/column/does-general-v-k-singh-know-what-hes-up-against/20120125.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['General Singh does not have the reputation of a greedy, grasping, man. Far from it, and his word along with the records should have carried weight with the government. Unfortunately, the pettiness of the ruling class has pushed the senior officer to a corner where not wanting to, he has had to approach the civilian courts as a last resort.']]></description>
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