Calling Jaswant Singh names on Israel
This week Mani Shanker Aiyar gave a fairly lucid history of India's position on Israel as well as the Palestinian struggle. He then quite pointlessly lunged at Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh and the intended one-two has clearly not landed.



Does the media enjoy special rights in a democracy?
Today, India is the most terrorist-affected country in the world. In Jammu & Kashmir alone, there have been 85,192 incidents of violence claiming 20,506 deaths from 1988 to March 1999. To tackle the menace, the Law Commission has recommended the passing of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill



Bury TADA-II
The National Human Rights Commission has pronounced the death sentence on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill 2000. Its impeccable examination and decisive rejection of the Bill leaves the government with no leg to stand on.



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