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Archive for ‘June, 2009’

Disease and illness

Disease and illness

This refers to the article “Bridging the disease-illness divide in medicine” (June 12). The disease-illness dichotomy is a thought-provoking conceptualisation. It is true that modern medicine is turning out to be a unidirectional …

Quota for women

Quota for women

One wonders why there is so much resistance to the Women’s Reservation Bill when women account for half of the country’s population. Despite active participation by women in the freedom struggle, the number of women making it to …

Infighting in BJP

Infighting in BJP

With Yashwant Sinha resigning from all party positions in the Bharatiya Janata Party, the bickering within the party that is considered the most disciplined has come to the fore yet again. The period following the recent Lok Sabha election has …

A torrid week for Brown, stiletto & all

A torrid week for Brown, stiletto & all

It was the sort of week in British politics that cartoonists and headline writers would die for. And, sure enough, they went simply berserk at the sight of a charmless, unloved, grumpy leader sink deeper and deeper into the hole while insisting: …

A triumph for Russian diplomacy

A triumph for Russian diplomacy

By arranging the BRIC and the SCO summits to take place on the same day in the same place, Moscow has lent extra weight to both events.