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Saturday, April 18, 1998
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Bad-boy syndrome
There is more to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan's new claims about Pakistan's nuclear and missile capabilities than sheer bluster or cussedness. The father of the country's nuclear weapons programme, who announced his readiness to explode a nuclear device and plans for a missile with a longer range than the Ghauri's, cannot expect to get a rise out of New Delhi which has sensibly chosen not to overreact to Pakistani provocations.
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Off we go again
The defence minister has done it yet again. His shooting from the hip on China has stirred up even more potential trouble than the country has learned to expect from this maverick. George Fernandes has, in fact, opened up the prospect of undoing the painstaking fence-mending with China that was the single most important foreign-policy achievement of Rajiv Gandhi, furthered ably by Narasimha Rao.
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No place left to hide
Graham Bell has transformed our lives. When there were no phones, it would take days to get news of a friend's well-being. Bad news also took its time to arrive. Now, connectivity has reduced distances and made the world a small, busy place.
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Unmask Islam's liberal face
In the 1860s, Syed Ahmad Khan made a tryst with his co-religionists to change their image in the eyes of the colonial government, sensitise them to the value of western education, and persuade them to change their lazy habits. For a man born into a feudal family that had experienced the trauma of the declining Mughal empire, he was pragmatic and realistic in his attitudes.
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