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   Op-Ed
Friday, October 19, 2001  
Breathing fire and brimstone in Punjab
 

With elections around the corner, the bir burning phenomenon is as much about the pushes and pulls of Akali factional politics as it’s about religious identity, says Vandita Mishra.

You can’t win a war with wordplay alone
  The challenge America faces in reaching out to Arabs and Muslims — to convince them, in George W. Bush’s words, that this is a war against terrorism, not Islam — is to forge a bond of trust with people who have long felt betrayed.
 
 
   
 
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