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In one of the last reports to reach the outside world from inside Afghanistan, Dominic Nutt listens to the people who hunger and thirst beneath threatening skies.
The New Internationalist responds to the horror of the attacks on New York and Washington – and to the looming threat of war.
The people have been left out of the political equation by the military dictatorship – a bad mistake, according to Aasim Sajjad Akhtar and Ali Qadir.
Farooq Tariq revisits a familiar world that has changed beyond recognition.
Sometimes, says Urvashi Butalia, the terrorist trail can lead to your own front door.
In the Tragedy of Errors you can’t always tell the protagonists apart, says Eduardo Galeano.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara visits an organization fighting for children's rights in Delhi and hears some distressing stories.

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