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HindustanTimes Sat,26 May 2012
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The law speaks against bigots

The Supreme Court's defence of the 2009 ruling on homosexuality is inspiring.

Give survivors their due now

Despite the SIT's clean chit, there's no closure for Modi or the Gujarat riot victims.

Our worst nightmare

Pranab da's losing sleep over the economy. This could signal bad dreams for India's growth story.

Don’t make light of it

Inefficient electricity distribution is making India a power-starved State.

A clean weep of it

The ability to turn on the waterworks could come in handy in several walks of life, particularly politics.

No road to Damascus yet

It will soon be one year since the Syrian regime, in what will go down as one of the worst-timed acts of police repression, arrested a group of graffiti painters and triggered what now has overtones of a civil war.

Working in real time

The National Counter Terrorism Centre is a vast improvement on the decade-old Multi-Agency Centre, writes Ajit Doval.

Houston, they have a problem

Whitney was a talent who was snuffed out by America, writes Jayatsen Bhattacharya.

No real lessons learnt

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), in effect since April 2010, was a much debated piece of legislation, which, not surprisingly, came under attack from various quarters.

Making light of it

New traffic technologies will keep an eye on those errant drivers. But will Delhi drivers ever change?

No diplomacy on terrorism

India may not have enough influence to stop these sort of conflicts, but it can and should make clear to such governments that it does not countenance the use of its own soil for covert wars.

A pro-active non-alignment

India's approach to Iran and Israel should be sculpted out of self-interest.

Keeping tab on the political grapevine

For the record, the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi have been absent from the election campaign in Punjab and Uttarakhand due to illness and the sadhbhavana mission respectively.

He is, even if isn't

People in the know insist Rahul Gandhi's not angling to be PM. But try convincing conspiracy theorists.

To give by other means

Aid, in the global context, should be about poor people, not poor countries.
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