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'UDF influenced voters by using money, liquor'

Sreelatha Menon: Martyrs in classrooms

Private schools set new standards in exploiting teachers across the nation, with Rs 1,000-4,000 salaries

Swami, Anna and Baba

Gurus must keep an eye on politicians, not politics

Shahid Javed Burki: Disorderly realignment in the global economy

Large emerging countries have not yet learned to play a leadership role unless they do that the process of change will remain disorderly

Lester R Brown: Land ahoy - The new scramble for Africa

Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have acquired huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home

LLP at crossroads: the halfway-house dilemma

Classification of multi-functional machine depends on predominant use

Plan-B for saving Doha Development Round doesn't mean ditching WTO's other issues

Confused and rudderless

The original sin was letting Baba Ramdev into Delhi

Paul Krugman: Vouchercare is not Medicare

The Republicans are seeking to dismantle Medicare, replacing it with a much worse programme

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Wanted - An independent media regulator

Media is one of those industries that governments are too afraid to touch or love to meddle with

Nilanjana S Roy: Some notes on Naipaul's spleen

A K Bhattacharya: Waving the white flag

Financial and corporate sector regulators seem to be at peace with the government

Consolidating the gains

Fewer, coordinated agricultural schemes are the way to go

Parthasarathi Shome: Venice to Verona via Vittorio Veneto

Indo-Italian trade remains way below potential

Subir Roy: Bordering on the absurd

Depending on your appetite, Indian politics is getting rather entertaining

M J Antony: Land for the boys

Favouritism in the allotment of plots is as bad as grabbing them

Should Singur land be returned to unwilling land-losers?

Not a retail market

Have 'small' investors lost interest in stocks?

Sub-continental verities

Pakistan's budget issues closely track India's