Of Guru hanging and Home Minister's responsibilities

That there is a difference between what you hold and what you are

Dr.Javid Iqbal

HOME Minister was expected to weigh the pros with cons, the effect on the overall situation, and the possible outfall. But what he has done is quite the reverse of what his position demands. Afzal Guru’s family was disallowed a meeting before carrying out the hanging. The speed post that Home Ministry More

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Taint hangs over the UPA Govt

Our ‘collective conscience’ needs to ask some tough questions on Afzal Guru’s hanging

Rasheeda Bhagat

The decision to hang Afzal Guru leaves many questions on the investigation unanswered. The feeling of alienation in the Valley is likely to deepen.It is inappropriate to talk in the same breath about the hanging of Kasab, the lone Pakistani terrorist caught red-handed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks More

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Two ideas of India

Of two opposite and irreconcilable concepts

Tavleen Singh

A fortuitous coincidence caused me to hear Amartya Sen talk about what he believed was wrong with the Indian development model in the same week that Narendra Modi expounded his economic ideas before students of Delhi University. And, it was for me as if I had accidentally come upon a two-sided mirror More

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