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Hindustan Times
Soft rhetoric draws big meet contour
When Manmohan meets Musharraf at the Roosevelt Hotel in NY, much will hinge on how the two men get along, writes
VIR SANGHVI
The Hindu The women of the Sangh
The Sangh relentlessly argues for the liberation, enlightenment, education and employment of Muslim women, something that it rejects in its notion of the ideal Hindu
woman, JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA
Deccan Herald No right to clean water
Dirty water is the second largest cause of death in India. The public health implications of unclean water are enormous. On the one hand, water scarcity is growing; on the other, water is getting increasingly polluted, which hikes up its cost of treatment or leads to more deaths and illnesses.
From a paper prepared by the CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Pioneer His power and her glory?
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can't seem to get his way with his own party
luminaries even on junking feudal pomp and pageantry during his travel-related trysts with airports!
By RUPA SENGUPTA
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
ARAVIND SITARAMAN More edits
