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Among India's worries, the point at which Iran has to deliver gas is the most important one. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed that the gas should be delivered at India's border with Pakistan, says S. Rahim Mashaee, vice president of Iran in an interview with Atul Aneja, the west Asian correspondent of The Hindu. Interview, courtesy, The Hindu newspaper.

Since ancient times, people have dreamed of a City of Youth, where the population never ages, and where any outsider who comes to live there will remain forever young. They probably did not have in mind, however, the “agelessness” of today’s Shenzhen, China. Lying just over the border from Hong Kong, this “instant city” has grown in just over twenty-five years from a small fishing village to a sprawling metropolitan region approaching ten million people.

If six years back the poor from the barrios of Caracas proved that 'Revolutions cannot be televised' does not mean it equally holds good for disinformation of 'counter-revolutions'. What else is the purpose of increasingly corporatised media the world over?

MK Bhadrakumar (in The Hindu) tries to drum some sense into foreign policy hawks in the Indian establishment/ think tanks and the US lackeys in the corporate media. He questions the use of the non-existent "Tibet card" to contain/antagonise a neighbour which is going through some serious internal vicissitudes owing to its own domestic policy.