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Articles 3921 through 4020 of 5550:
- Officers As Pawns (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
When will the politics of vendetta end in Tamil Nadu?
- Accountability Needed, Not Theatrics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 01, 2001)
THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee's dramatic offer to step down, made at a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary party.
- Don't Make Phoolan An Icon (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 01, 2001)
PHOOLAN Devi led a most unusual life. At the risk of sounding cruel, one can only conclude about her gruesome death that those who live by the sword must also perish by it. Granted she was an oppressed woman.
- When Atlas Shrugs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
As lynchpin of government, PM has to face up to realities.
- United Colours Of The Opposition (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 01, 2001)
ONE and a half weeks into the monsoon sitting of Parliament, the Government is realising that it may have misread the signals of Opposition disunity sent out by the failure of Sonia Gandhi’s session-eve tea party.
- Why Vajpayee Should Stop Sulking & Start Asking Questions (The Economic Times, Abheek Barman, Aug 01, 2001)
I’M writing this a few hours after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told a gathering of Bharatiya Janata Party MPs that he was going to resign.
- Tv Is A Hot Medium, Diplomacy Is Cool Business (Indian Express, S. S. Gill, Aug 01, 2001)
That’s why we must hold summits in distant hill stations for best results!
- The Outsider Stays Back (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 01, 2001)
THERE WILL be considerable relief that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was dissuaded by his senior colleagues from carrying out the threat to resign that he made earlier on Tuesday.
- Till We Meet Again: Lessons From Agra (Hindustan Times, Kanti Bajpai, Aug 01, 2001)
THE SUMMIT is over. Long live the summit. Agra was a failure in the sense that a piece of paper was not initialed by India and Pakistan. But it was not a complete failure.
- Spoils Of ‘Education’ (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 01, 2001)
SOME weeks ago Enron splashed full page ads in the mainline papers to highlight the virtues and spin-offs of the Dabhol project.
- Wrong Goal (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
If there was hardly any element of surprise in the statement of Mr Pranab Mukherjee, the president of the West Bengal state Congress, that the party’s alliance with the Trinamool Congress was over.
- Between Power And Politics (Hindustan Times, D.R. Goyal , Jul 31, 2001)
Despite the brave front put up at the BJP’s national executive meet in Delhi, frustration is writ large within the Sangh parivar.
- Party Slips, But Govt Is Safe (Tribune, P. Raman , Jul 31, 2001)
ADI Shankara’s biggest contribution has been his theory of two levels of reality — the common man’s virtual awareness of the universe and the ultimate reality of brahman as universe.
- Trial By Water (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 31, 2001)
Nature's fury can upset the man's best-laid plans.
- Structuring A National Agenda (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jul 31, 2001)
The Prime Minister's assurance on a party forum that future talks with Pakistan would be held on the basis of a structured agenda is his first indirect admission that the Agra summit failed due to inadequate preparations at various levels.
- Diplomats, Media Playing Flip Game (Pioneer, A. Balu, Jul 31, 2001)
Much has been written about the extreme secrecy that Indian officials had maintained during the Agra summit between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf.
- Reigning Supreme (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 31, 2001)
The prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has an extraordinary guardian angel looking over him.
- The Perils Of Secrecy (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 31, 2001)
THERE used to be a healthy relationship between editors and the government. Prime ministers would take them into confidence on matters of importance.
- Effects Of The Narmada Verdict (Hindu, Jai Sen, Jul 31, 2001)
``THE GOVERNMENT wants us to flee like the rats as the submergence water rises, as they have done all these years in the other dams.
- Central Pettiness (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 31, 2001)
In taking umbrage at the habit of the BJP’s allies to treat the ruling coalition in a somewhat casual manner, the party’s president, K. Jana Krishnamurthi, has chosen to ignore the basic reason for such behaviour.
- Committees And Commissions -- Take Them Seriously (Business Line, R. J. Venkateswaran , Jul 31, 2001)
THE Expert Group on Railways, under the chairmanship of Dr Rakesh Mohan, in its interim report submitted in March, said: ``Indian Railways is one of the most studied institutions on the planet.
- Wto Ruling Against Us On Steel Can Work In India’s Favour (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Jul 31, 2001)
Rejection of US appeal by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel and its upholding a ruling that the United States had acted illegally in increasing duties on Japanese steel.
- Cynical Manoeuvres (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 31, 2001)
IN REQUISITIONING THE services of three senior IPS officers of the Tamil Nadu cadre, including the Chennai Commissioner of Police, Mr. K. Muthukaruppan, the Atal Behari Vajpayee regime has demonstrated that it would not feel `constrained' by such factors.
- Alas, The Government Thinks It Is Not Accountable! (The Financial Express, R K Roy, Jul 30, 2001)
The government is at its wit’s end: people starve even as godowns overflow with foodgrains and rot.
- Give Peace A Chance In North-East (Hindu, Rajindar Sachar , Jul 30, 2001)
THE SITUATION in the North-East, especially in Manipur, is a cause of national concern.
- Little To Cheer For Nda (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jul 30, 2001)
A SERIES of curious twists has given the ruling combine at the Centre, the National Democratic Alliance, the benefit of numbers it needed badly.
- An Avoidable Step (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 30, 2001)
THE DECISION BY the Union Government, at long last, to restrict the ceasefire agreement with the NSCN(I-M) to the State of Nagaland alone.
- Peace In Our Time? (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jul 30, 2001)
Despite efforts made by the Central Government through its peace initiative, the situation in Jammu & Kashmir has shown few signs of settling down.
- Agra’s Real Breakthrough, The Triumph Of Tv (Indian Express, Khaled Ahmed, Jul 30, 2001)
THE Musharraf-Vajpayee summit may not have yielded sensational results but, during the visit, what the private TV channels of India achieved cannot be ignored.
- The Show Will Go On (Hindustan Times, G Parthasarathy, Jul 30, 2001)
‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ (I came, I saw, I conquered), proclaimed Julius Caesar as he triumphantly surveyed the scene after the conquest of Gaul.
- Kashmir Dispute: Digging Deep Into 50 Years Of History (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Jul 30, 2001)
“IT seems to be our function to go on agreeing and Pakistan’s to go on refusing and rejecting, although we happen to be the victims of Pakistan’s aggression."
- Vajpayee Under Pressure (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 30, 2001)
CLOSE observers of the Prime Minister have noticed of late a certain dejection written across his mien.
- Signs Of The Times In Up (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jul 30, 2001)
The brutal slaying of Phoolan Devi, member of parliament for Mirzapur, in the national capital only drives home the situation in the country’s most populous state.
- Pm’s Plain-Speaking (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 30, 2001)
ON Tuesday Prime Minister Vajpayee was brief and diplomatically restrained when he made his statement in Parliament on the abortive Agra summit.
- Phoolan Politics (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 29, 2001)
The sensational killing of reformed bandit queen, Phoolan Devi, left her Parliament colleagues stunned but not for long.
- Disinformation War (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 29, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did well to state on Thursday that General Pervez Musharaff's talk of a split in the Indian ranks during the Agra summit was baseless and could stand in the way of future talks with Pakistan.
- Kheer, Khichri And Kashmir (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 29, 2001)
Long after the Agra summit, details of the interaction between the two leaders continues to come in.
- Learning The Limits Of Diplomacy (Tribune, Bharat Wariavwalla, Jul 29, 2001)
THE Agra summit was the first summit in the history of summitry that was covered from minute and hour to hour on the television.
- Pitfalls In The Path To Peace (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Jul 29, 2001)
The central theme of the renewed Indo-Pak dialogue was, in General Pervez Musharraf's words:
- Of Promises Made (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 29, 2001)
Mr. Advani's rejection of the `autonomy resolution' also means a rejection of the promises made by New Delhi in recent years, says HARISH KHARE.
- The Unspooling Of General Musharraf (Indian Express, Ayaz Amir, Jul 28, 2001)
Pakistan’s military ruler and president has found his forte: the press conference.
- Pitfalls In The Path To Peace (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Jul 28, 2001)
The central theme of the renewed Indo-Pak dialogue was, in General Pervez Musharraf's words: "Let us forget history.
- After Agra (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jul 28, 2001)
THAT the Agra Summit would not deliver favourable results for New Delhi was a foregone conclusion -- even when the Prime Minister, Mr Vajpayee, sprang his `Summit surprise' on the nation on May 23.
- Staging Summits (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 28, 2001)
IT WOULD be pointless to dispute whether the glass of Indo- Pakistan relations is half-full or half-empty after the Agra Summit.
- In The Fire (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2001)
He is still stricken by the fever he caught at Agra. More anger than fever maybe, but the heat still casts its spell on his face even a week after Agra.
- More Than A Duel (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, Jul 28, 2001)
LARGE NUMBERS of the public in India and Pakistan and in different parts of Jammu & Kashmir have felt saddened, disappointed and possibly even cheated by the outcome of the Agra summit.
- A Retrograde Stance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 28, 2001)
THE UNION HOME Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani's statement in the Rajya Sabha unequivocally ruling out `autonomy' for Jammu and Kashmir reflects a rigid mindset that is recklessly insensitive to the concerns of an alienated people and, much more disquietingly.
- Disinformation War (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2001)
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did well to state on Thursday that General Pervez Musharaff's talk of a split in the Indian ranks during the Agra summit was baseless and could stand in the way of future talks with Pakistan.
- Democratic Shock Absorbers (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 28, 2001)
A liberal system wins out over dictatorial swagger.
- Tina Factor (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jul 27, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee seems to be a lucky man as his Government has nothing much to fear from the Opposition, at least for the time being.
- How Not To Handle A Summit (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Jul 27, 2001)
NOTWITHSTANDING the statement by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Parliament on Tuesday.
- Impasse At Agra (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Jul 27, 2001)
HE CAME, he saw, he left. He did not conquer. But, he claimed a victory. This was predictable; and, indeed, inevitable. Whether the Agra summit was a success or failure is irrelevant. It collapsed. We need to know why.
- Reconstructing The Agra Summit (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jul 27, 2001)
NEW DELHI, JULY 26. In seeking a deal on Kashmir at Agra, Pakistan counted on the ``moderate elements'' within the Indian leadership in the hope that the latter would eventually relent on the question of ``cross-border'' terrorism.
- The Agra Summit Factsheet (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2001)
o The Indian draft was primarily an amalgam of the points of agreement hammered out at Shimla in 1972 and Lahore in February, 2001.
- Is This A Freedom Struggle? (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Jul 27, 2001)
THE MURDER of 15 Hindu villagers, including five women and children in a remote village in Doda, forces one to ask if this is what General Pervez Musharraf meant when he said in his breakfast meeting with some Indian editors.
- Lessons From Agra: A White Paper On The Isi (Hindustan Times, Keki N. Daruwalla , Jul 27, 2001)
LEADERS CARRY their national pasts to summit meetings — historic stands, rhetoric, the debris of public debate, and of course, prejudices. And they face the adversary, a leader who is similarly burdened.
- The Summit And The Bandar-Log (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jul 27, 2001)
The jungle people, in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, did not think much of the Bandar-log or Monkey people. Baloo, the bear, told Mowgli, the man-cub whom he had taught the ways of the jungle.
- Labour Laws -- Amend With Caution (Business Line, K. Jacob Samuel, Jul 27, 2001)
MAJOR trade unions are agitated with what they call the Government's anti-labour policies.
- A Breakfast Story (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, Jul 27, 2001)
MASOOD MALIK, till recently chief reporter of the Nawa-i-Waqt of Islamabad, should remind us how fortunate we on this side of the subcontinental fence still are — we are not demoted by our managements for asking the wrong questions at press conferences.
- Virtual Diplomacy (Indian Express, Rajdeep Sardesai, Jul 26, 2001)
THE caste system is clear on board the prime minister’s aircraft. The people’s representative from 7 Race Course Road rests in his luxurious cabin with all the facilities of a modern emperor.
- Out Of The Action (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Jul 26, 2001)
This may well have gone down as just another meeting on a day when no one is particularly bothered about news, save for one omission.
- Counter-Voice To Agra Extravaganza (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Jul 26, 2001)
The higher the peak the deeper the trough. The more the media blow up a balloon, the more abject is its whimpering collapse.
- No Middle Ground (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2001)
The whole truth that the law wants to elicit from those who appear in court is, in real life, elusive.
- Driving Home A Point (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jul 26, 2001)
Agra was perhaps the only India-Pakistan summit where India did not lose what it had won on the battle field.
- Beyond The Botched Summit (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jul 26, 2001)
AS a people we are strangely disinterested in history which perhaps explains why we are condemned to repeat our mistakes all too often.
- Debating The Latest Flops (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Jul 26, 2001)
THIS is not a good week for the Vajpayee government.
- The Agra Saga Continues... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 25, 2001)
AGAINST Pakistan's belligerence in harping on the centrality of the Kashmir issue at Agra and beyond, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, only reiterated in Parliament on Tuesday his government's resolve to continue talking to Pakistan.
- The Agra Saga Continues... (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 25, 2001)
AGAINST Pakistan's belligerence in harping on the centrality of the Kashmir issue at Agra and beyond, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, only reiterated in Parliament on Tuesday his government's resolve to continue talking to Pakistan.
- Driving The Pm (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
NO matter how hard it tries, the SPG just can’t seem to get rid of the Ambassador car.
- Agra And After (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Jul 25, 2001)
IF THE India-Pakistan summit did not fail, as the Foreign Ministers maintain, it did not succeed either.
- Clueless In Agra (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Jul 25, 2001)
IT IS a classic case of a big, blind gamble passing off as diplomacy.
- Now, The Third Decade In Kashmir (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 25, 2001)
NOW THAT the principled prejudices have been so firmly and so unequivocally re-stated at Agra, it is time for India to start preparing itself for the third decade of the Kashmir problem.
- Stumble And Fall, Stumble And Fall (Hindustan Times, P. Chidambaram, Jul 25, 2001)
IF A thing can go wrong, it will go wrong. That’s Murphy’s law. In the last fortnight, this bitter truth was brought home forcefully to two cabinet ministers of the government of India: Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.
- The K-Fatigue In Pakistan (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Jul 25, 2001)
THE General on the other side of the Partition seems a bit like the indomitable Gaul of the famous comic strip.
- Agra Summit: Did The Media Play Spoiler At The Agra Party? (Indian Express, Samina Yasmeen, Jul 25, 2001)
EVEN a week after the Agra Summit, questions are being asked about why and how it turned out to be the way it did.
- A Simple And Honest Answer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 25, 2001)
PRIME Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee fielded himself to respond to General Musharraf's some misplaced observations at his press conference in Islamabad late last week.
- Us And India Can Be Natural Partners In The Global Economic Arena: Rocca (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 25, 2001)
I have a simple but, I think, powerful message for you today: the Bush Administration is committed to strengthening and intensifying our relations with India.
- The Gods That Failed At Agra (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 25, 2001)
The Agra summit, more than the preceding ones, had the merit of exposing problems between India and Pakistan and defining them.
- Goodwill Hunting (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2001)
The gains at Agra have eclipsed Shimla.
- Ajit Singh's Forays (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 25, 2001)
BY JOINING THE BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and managing a berth in the Union Cabinet, Mr. Ajit Singh has indeed come a full circle.
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