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...their contribution in the field of cold fusion will always enlighten researchers. It is encouraging to read that some dedicated researchers are busy in the field despite the so-called evidence, to date, that their efforts are just a beautiful idea. Mankind must pray for their success. Balram Mishra, Ghaziabad, India...
...fence has made a difference: there were about 4,900 arrests for illegal crossings last year, compared to more than 10,000 in 2005. But P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the BSF's Assam and Meghalaya Frontier, seems to know that he has an almost impossible task. He has visited the U.S.-Mexico border fence and seen how difficult controlling illegal migration is. "Even [though] they have all the technical equipment, they can't stop it," he says...
...India's wealthy and middle classes, those who have so far been insulated from the worst of the violence that has pockmarked so much of India over the past 20 years. "We, meaning the middle classes, live in this little bubble that we've created around us," says Pankaj Mishra, the author of several books about contemporary India. "But the problems around us will explode and continue to explode." How the country and its leaders respond to that call will determine whether Mumbai's tragedy turns into a national...
...bellicose talk is obscuring a more difficult but far more significant conversation. "There are obviously people in Pakistan who are intent on undermining India and attacking India, and the Mumbai attack reminds the world of that fact," says Mishra. "But we in India have been using this Pakistani involvement to ignore the growing problems within India." First among those is the increasing disaffection of India's Muslims because of what historian Ramachandra Guha calls "the failures of the Indian state." The country's 138 million Muslims, who comprise 13.4% of the population, are poorer and less educated than the rest...
...least 50 people and turned thousands more into refugees. Officials and analysts are correct to call the Mumbai attack a threat to the idea of India as an open, secular, multifaith democracy. But it is hardly the only one. For separatists and other militant groups throughout India, Mishra says, "this idea of India is fatally compromised...