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July 19, 2008

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'If Gowda issues a whip on trust vote, I will defy it'
In an interview with rediff.com, Veerendra Kumar said there was no question of him going with the Congress.

What if the parties had not issued a whip?
It's about ego, survival, self-interest and an iota of ideology.

The real India shining story
Nai Disha is one of the many initiatives of Sulabh International, a movement whose goal is to restore the dignity of people who carry human excreta, and bring them into the mainstream.

Is an MP's loyalty worth only Rs 25 crore?
The fact that to save both, criminals have had to be hauled out of jails, the sick and ailing have to be brought in on stretchers, that truant film stars have to be dragged away from overseas locations kicking and screaming, and that lawmakers have to be purchased like this, tells its own story.

'Why do you Indians come here?'
Naeem Sarang, who was held captive in Afghanistan for 27 days, relives his nightmare.

'I am Sikkimese but my desh is India'
A teenager on India's eastern frontier, and his dreams.

'It has become like a game of the mafia now'
'Why is a party with a 123-year-old history stooping to such a level?' asks Trinamul Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister: The BJP is approaching our MPs
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi speaks out in an exclusive interview.

'Non-communal BJP? You must be kidding!'
West Bengal's stormy petrel Subhas Chakraborty in an exclusive interview.

'History will decide on Dr Manmohan Singh'
'We are at the fag end of the government's tenure. There is more curiosity when there are chances of a mid-term poll than now. Here, the only curiosity is whether Dr Singh will be able to garner those votes,' says former BJP MP Ram Naik.

Image: Members of Sulabh International at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Photograph: Paresh Gandhi
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Sudheendra Kulkarni: A sad saga of the prime minister's betrayals
The buzz is that Dr Singh has secured the nuclear deal and a defeat will not alter that reality.

Praful Bidwai: The true costs of the nuclear deal
'The Congress-SP alliance will shift the centre of gravity of Indian politics to the right, with harmful consequences.'

T V R Shenoy: The only important number is 5
'What do Congressmen want, five assured months in office before the general election is called or the possibility of being re-elected for another five-year term?'

B Raman: How global events can affect the Muslim vote
The criticism of the government was not specific relating to the nuclear deal. It was more in relation to what they saw as India's co-operation with the US and Israel in the war against jihadi terrorism.

B S Raghavan: Trust vote: Why UPA must think out of the box
It would have indeed been tactically a vastly superior move on the part of the government to have made the Left to move a motion of no-confidence. Apart from tactics, it would have been proper too.

Swapan Dasgupta: What if there is a free vote?
This is the ultimate paradox of the N-deal: A majority in the Congress would rather not have the deal and a majority in the BJP would love to have it, now that the military programme has been assured.

Apoorvanand: Lessons from a Kerala textbook
After reading the textbook and the controversial chapter we are left wondering as to what could have led the opponents of the book to conclude that the chapter promotes atheism.

Siddharth Varadarajan: India's IAEA draft: Invoking Para 29 won't be easy
Agreements may provide rights but this does not mean asserting them or implementing them will be easy. India may consider itself to be on firm legal ground in invoking Paragraph 29, for example, in order to deal with the consequences of a fuel supply disruption, but the political opposition it will encounter internationally could be formidable. Some of this political opposition could even be couched in legal terms.

Dr Shanthie Mariet D'Souza: Afghanistan: Another frontier of Indo-Pak rivalry?
TThe increasing bonhomie in the Indo-Afghan relationship had posed a challenge to the ISI, which is interested in regaining its lost 'strategic depth' in Afghanistan.

A N Prasad: Is the nuclear deal about big business?
At a time when the global nuclear industry is somewhat dormant, India's ambitious plans to increase power generation capacity substantially through the nuclear route has come as a shot in the arm for nuclear suppliers who are looking for big money and to revive their industry.

Image: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Photograph: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
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