Neglect as national policy
Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have overwhelmed our national security consciousness through the Eighties and Nineties so that we have tended to neglect an equally vital region: the seven northeastern states.

Exercise and talk
What should have been routine winter exercises by India's armed forces have become a new point of controversy thanks to Islamabad's decision to conduct military exercises of its own around the same time.

Sen and sensitivity
He is the conscience-keeper of the economics profession. That was how Nobel laureate Robert Solow described Amartya Sen. The observation captures the unique genius of an economist who has made it a habit to look beyond his discipline.

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  The farmer in the marketplace
  Economist of the downtrodden