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M.J. Akbar

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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Close.

M.J. Akbar

India

Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. more »

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October 7, 2006 7:18 PM

Bush's Misguided 'War on Infidelity'

New Delhi, India - The generation that gave the world free love and the pill in the 1960s and fed its collapsing libido with Viagra thirty years later has a curious hangover: Intrusive morality.

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October 9, 2006 9:29 AM

North Korea Doesn't Threaten Me

New Delhi, India - "Most dangerous" is an interesting phrase, because it's first qualified by a question: "Most dangerous" to whom? North Korea is not a direct danger to any nuclear power: It is friendly with China and Russia; it is, or was, a partner of Pakistan; it is indifferent to India and Israel; and it has no proven capacity to reach France or Britain. It is certainly dangerous to America, however, if not as a nuclear power then because of its ability to play havoc with two peaceful, stable economic powerhouses in its neighborhood, South Korea and Japan. That certainly does constitute a threat to world peace.

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