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Tuesday, August 26 1997
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It's the politician, Stupid!![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
No one, particularly those who know him from his days as a bubbly Congress loyalist from the Garo tribe, in a state (Meghalaya) dominated by the ethnically dominant and anti-Congress Khasis, would doubt Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Sangma's sense of humour.
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Wake up, the future is calling
Five years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, Agenda 21 remains, for the most part, a dead letter. "Rio plus five" looks embarrassingly like "Rio minus five". How long can we afford the luxury of inaction?
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Troubled border -- Take practical steps to keep the border calm
Exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops on the border are, unfortunately, all too common. The proximity of the troops, the length of the border running from Siachen to Jammu and tensions over Kashmir, all make periodic clashes inevitable.
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Time Out -- Waiting for Rustom-e-Hind Haldi's uplifting powers -- Good show, but no triumphalism
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The Group
