Morality's nuclear winter
On the wall facing the entrance to the UN Headquarters in New York the words of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah are prominently written: "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war."

Furtive or candid, Mr Navalkar?
Life in a Mumbai chawl revolved around the common loo where residents would queue up with a `tumbril' in hand. "Those were the days when we used to have tumbril marriages. Youngsters had very little scope to meet one another. So they would secretly make dates to meet in the bathroom queue."

Kosovo is quite a test
The anxieties generated in Washington and other western capitals by the escalating crisis in Kosovo are on account of factors that extend way beyond the Balkans. After the recent happenings on the Indian subcontinent, are the Americans willing to cope with yet another reminder that there are limits to their power?

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