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- Clinging To Identity (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 28, 2004)
In the Fifties when Britain had National Service, my friends joked about the soldier who tried to get out of Sunday church service by professing Islam.
- Detente As An Imperative (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 28, 2004)
The high-level Agreement India and Pakistan reached in New York to press ahead with the process of détente in the spirit of the Islamabad joint statement of January 6, 2004 must be ...
- The Next Stage Of Peace Process (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 27, 2004)
When tracking diplomacy, microscopic reading of joint statements often leads to a suspension of political judgment. Critics of the meeting between
- Improving Standards Of Governance (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Aug 27, 2004)
THE Central Government is considering a proposal to select aspiring IAS and allied services candidates after the 12th standard with a view to catching them young for a career in the civil service.
- Dialogue With Pakistan (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 26, 2004)
When Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee met Gen Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad during the SAARC Summit in January this year, India agreed to the resumption of the dialogue with Pakistan following a categorical commitment by the General that he would not allow any ...
- Rhetoric And Reality (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 25, 2004)
Lack of political will has adversely affected the promotion of people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan.
- Virtue Out Of Necessity (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 25, 2004)
BJP leader Uma Bharati has only herself to blame for her present travails. She paid scant regard to notices asking her to appear before a Karnataka court in some 10 year-old cases.
- Ensuring Speedy Justice — Reducing The Backlog Of Cases (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 25, 2004)
Access to statistics on cases and their disposal can increase judicial efficiency and enhance the image of the judiciary in the public eye.
- Ladakh: Gateway To Central Asia (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 23, 2004)
A road to Central Asia through China? That might seem rather far-fetched, given the recent history of India-China relations.
- Making People-To-People Contacts (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Aug 23, 2004)
The candlelight vigil ceremony organised by the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch at the Wagah border on the eve of Independence Day provided the writer an opportunity to interact with politicians, theatre personalities and housewives from Pakistan.
- Wajahat: In The Eye Of The Storm (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 22, 2004)
IF freedom of speech and dissent are important ingredients of democracy, one cannot take a harsh view of Wajahat Habibullah’s opinion on the Kashmir dispute which runs somewhat contrary to India’s established policy since 1972.
- Going Great Guns (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 21, 2004)
At four, a .22 was his pet possession. Then it became a pricey Perrazi. No prizes for guessing what Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore treasures most today
- China Trade Beckons Ladakh (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 21, 2004)
As the economic juggernaut in China reaches the nation's far western corners in Tibet and Xinjiang and the relations between New Delhi and Beijing improve, the long frozen Sino-Indian frontier here is coming alive.
- Pakistan’S Search For Ideology (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Aug 20, 2004)
Pakistan celebrated its Independence Day on August 14 as usual. Mid-August is the period throughout South Asia to take stock of things, ponder over the nation's present situation and prospects.
- Reservations In Private Sector (Deccan Herald, M Veerappa Moily, Aug 20, 2004)
India ought to have an affirmative policy of the kind that America has for the private sector
- The Manipur Crisis (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 20, 2004)
Amidst all their trials and tribulations, the people of the North-East do not want military rule. That is enough justification to repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.
- After The Red Fort Speech (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 19, 2004)
IN the eyes of most people, barring incorrigible cynics, Dr Manmohan Singh’s maiden speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day was both worthy of the great national event and typical of the man delivering it.
- There Are No Good Assassins (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Aug 19, 2004)
Only the poor and the illiterate are given capital punishment. The rich get away with milder sentences for similar crimes
- India-Japan Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 18, 2004)
The swiftness with which Japan has set about wooing the United Progressive Alliance Government is a measure of the importance it attaches to developing relations with India.
- Who Needs An Honest Broker? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Aug 17, 2004)
An able Indian civil servant, Wajahat Habibullah, has come under attack for arguing that the United States of America could play the role of a facilitator to help resolve the vexed Kashmir problem.
- Once Again, On The Edge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 17, 2004)
Poised on the edge of a dialogue on the future of Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi has suddenly discovered that Pakistan is holding the strings guiding the peace kites it flew five years ago.
- Candles Of Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 17, 2004)
Despite the cynicism of some people, the annual candlelight border vigil ceremony organised by the Jalandhar-based Hind-Pak Dosti Manch since 1996 on the
- Reinventing The Steel Frame (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Aug 16, 2004)
The report of the Committee on Civil Service Reforms, headed by Mr PC Hota, is now with the Cabinet Secretary; and still under wraps. Its recommendations mirror the state of the “steel frame’’ or how this frame has rusted if not disintegrated or how
- Challenge Ahead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 16, 2004)
That Manmohan Singh would not waste an occasion as important as the Independence Day address to the nation on empty promises and perfunctory announcements was obvious
- Trade With Pakistan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 16, 2004)
Once again, India has offered to improve its trade relations with Pakistan. Pakistan is yet again indifferent to the Indian proposals, including the opening of the Wagah-Attari border for trade.
- Manmohan's Expansive Menu For Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 16, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in his Independence Day address to the nation, reiterated his commitment to vigorously pursue the current peace process with Pakistan.
- Not Shining But Not In Darkness Either (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Aug 15, 2004)
There have been occasions in the past when the country has had to celebrate Independence Day in a sombre mood.
- More Than Just Manorama (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 15, 2004)
A lesser man would have become cynical by now but not C. Upendra. An indefatigable casualty of the Indian legal expedient known as the `Commission of Inquiry', he is now heading his 10th judicial commission
- Recapitulating History To Illuminate The Present (Tribune, David Devadas, Aug 15, 2004)
August 15, 1947, was a very different day in Jammu and Kashmir than it was in the rest of the country. Uncertainty and strife were the order of the day there on the day when both India and Pakistan were celebrating their new-found independence.
- Manipur On The Boil (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 15, 2004)
Put it down to inexperience, indifference or sheer indolence but the tardy political reflexes of the Centre as the crisis in Manipur began unfolding last month marks the first real blot in the copybook of the Manmohan Singh Government.
- We Won’T Force Centre To Follow Left Agenda, Says Karat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 15, 2004)
When the CPM decided to support the Congress-led coalition government from outside, there were apprehensions that the UPA government would not last its full term.
- India Needs A Comprehensive Defence Policy (Tribune, Rakesh Datta, Aug 15, 2004)
Amazingly, though India boasts of a Rs 77,000-crore defence budget for 2004-05, it does not have a defence policy.
- Terrorism Beyond The Spectacle (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Aug 14, 2004)
Recently, on a French television channel, I had the good surprise to watch a young and handsome Marlon Brando answering questions about his career and his hobbies in rather fluent French. Soon the discussion veered to his favourite topic...
- The Dna Of India's Poverty (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 14, 2004)
While it would be naïve to argue for any downward revision of the disproportionately high salaries and perks in the government sector, it does seem logical and plausible to expect an honest re-examination
- Conman And The Cleric (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Aug 14, 2004)
Innumerable are the stories of smooth-talking Charles Sobhraj conning the well-to-do. But few people know how he conned Maulana Masood Azhar out of all his money when they were lodged in the high-security ward in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
- Pakistan Plots Return Of Taliban (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Aug 13, 2004)
Pakistan wants to restore Taliban control over Southern and Eastern Afghanistan so as to establish "strategic depth" throughout that country in the conviction that the Americans are bound to leave in due course.
- Drug Watch (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 13, 2004)
The recent MoU between India and Pakistan is yet another CBM
- On The Trail Of Terrorism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 13, 2004)
THE two-day official-level talks between India and Pakistan on terrorism and drug-trafficking have ended on expected lines.
- Peace Must Be A Priority (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Aug 13, 2004)
IT is a strange coincidence: the day Pakistan’s delegation on cultural matters and visa relaxation was in New Delhi for talks with its Indian counterparts, the Pakistan Cabinet decided that its visa regime should be tightened up. Obviously, the scope ...
- The `Best Hope' In South Asia (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 13, 2004)
Despite a profoundly questionable American effort to prop up an unpopular and disingenuous regime in Pakistan, India should doggedly focus on the pursuit of its own interests.
- Freedom From Want (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 13, 2004)
Such is the ordinariness of the 58th year in the life of a nation that it will rarely be treated as more than a fleeting calendar event.
- No Handholding In Public (Deccan Herald, Sudha Ramachandran, Aug 12, 2004)
A subtle change in India’s relations with Israel is likely to take place in the new dispensation
- Pakistan’S ‘Strategic Depth’ Idea (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 12, 2004)
JUST a few days before he died in a mysterious air-crash on August 17, 1988, General Zia-ul-Haq shared some of his thoughts with a German correspondent. General Zia was ecstatic that following the Geneva Accords, Mikhail Gorbachev was all set to withdraw
- Peace Through Trade Ties (Deccan Herald, RAJEN HARSHE, Aug 12, 2004)
India-Pakistan ties could be normalised through the development cooperation between the two neighbours
- New Chapter In War On Terror (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Aug 12, 2004)
Just a few days before he died in a mysterious air crash on August 17, 1988, General Zia ul Haq shared some of his thoughts with a German correspondent.
- Goodbye Pota (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 12, 2004)
NO tears will be shed over the demise of the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), which witnessed extensive misuse during its infamous tenure. That is just a polite way of saying that its exit would be celebrated. It was an affront to the ...
- Time To Get Down To Business (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Aug 12, 2004)
Mutual trust and understanding are of paramount importance for the success of a coalition government in the state
- Trade-Off On Transit (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 12, 2004)
A decision by India and Pakistan to offer each other transit facilities for energy and goods will in one stroke reorder the geopolitics of the region.
- Pakistan As A Member Of Arf (Deccan Herald, G V C NAIDU, Aug 11, 2004)
India’s decision not to oppose Pakistan’s membership of the ASEAN Regional Forum is a welcome sign
- When Ladakhis Lost Innocence (Tribune, Baljit Singh, Aug 11, 2004)
Primitive logistics and forces of harsh geography were the twin factors which shielded Ladakh’s ancient identity against external influences, from the first dawn right up to the decade of 1940s.
- Turmoil In Manipur (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 11, 2004)
I have seen it happening in Kashmir: men baring their chests and challenging the security forces to shoot them. What youthful Kashmir leader Yasin Malik was demanding when he went on fast unto death for the first time was that Amnesty International ...
- Pakistan's Proxy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 11, 2004)
If there could ever be any scope for doubt that Syed Ali Shah Geelani was the voice of Pakistan in Jammu & Kashmir, it was removed by his establishment of a new party, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat-e-Kashmir (THK), on August 7. His statement that the party will ...
- Concerted Action Needed (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 11, 2004)
Human rights violations are going on all over the country and the NHRC should initiate suo moto action against offenders
- The Changing Face Of Tibet (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Aug 10, 2004)
RIGHT since the Chinese annexed Tibet in 1951 — they call it “liberation” — a systematic attempt has been made to assimilate it. This process is now almost complete.
- Manipur Going The Kashmir Way (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 09, 2004)
The draconian AFSPA, which gives a jawan right to kill without any warning, should be scrapped
- The Siachen Impasse (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Aug 09, 2004)
THE just concluded Defence Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan have once again brought the Siachen issue into the limelight.
- Uma Sharma’S Film On Kathak Impressive (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Aug 08, 2004)
For some reason, most classical dancers perform as never before during August. There’s been one invite after another — from Odissi dancer Ranjana Gauhar to Kuchipudi — dancer Swapnasundari.
- Vale Of Tears Called Kashmir (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 08, 2004)
Ever since we were reborn as an independent nation, Kashmir has been an unrelieved headache like migraine which never goes. We have tried all kinds of palliatives but to little effect. It abates for a while; then throbbing pain starts again.
- Violence In Valley (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 07, 2004)
THE attack on the CRPF camp in Srinagar in which eight jawans and an assistant commandant were killed exposes the chinks in the security system.
- Expanding The Tax Net — Track The Big Spenders-Low I-T Payers (Business Line, H. P. Ranina, Aug 07, 2004)
If the Income-Tax Department does its homework diligently and gathers credible information on unexplained expenditure, several thousand people who spend lavishly and far in excess of the income they declare in their returns can be brought within the ...
- Terrorist Training Camps In Pok (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Aug 07, 2004)
Despite India and Pakistan being firmly on course to hold peace talks to solve all contentious issues, the disturbing news is that the terrorist training camps are still operational in occupied Kashmir (PoK) from where regular attempts are made to push...
- Importance Of History (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Aug 06, 2004)
The importance of history has been confirmed by two recent articles that appeared in The Pioneer: One, "History as science" (Second Opinion, July 31) by Mr Priyadarsi Dutta and the other, "What's it about history?" (The Cutting Ed, August 1) ...
- The Rape Of Himalaya (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Aug 06, 2004)
For centuries, the mountains, the Himalaya and the Vindhya, and the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Sindhu, Krishna, Mahanadi and Cauvery, have been the cradles of India's civilisation.
- Snowballing Protest (Business Line, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 06, 2004)
Widespread protests in Manipur over a draconian law
- Jihadis And Secularism (Pioneer, Sridhar Pant, Aug 05, 2004)
Balbir Punj's article, "Secular objectives sans objectivity" (Opinion, July 2), reveals the perversion in the self-claimed "secular" intelligentsia and media. However, he seems to be at a loss to assess the real objective of "distorted secularism".
- A Congress Mystery (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 05, 2004)
The Congress announced late last night that P. M. Sayeed and Janardhan Dwivedi would be its Rajya Sabha nominees from Delhi.
- A Government Settles In (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 02, 2004)
The shape of the new Government's agenda is getting clear - and so is the nature of change and continuity.
- What’S Uncle Sam Up To? (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Aug 02, 2004)
The American effort is to absorb both India and Pakistan in its power system by managing their rivalry.
- New Srinagar Flyover Revives The Memory Of The Bakshi Rule (Tribune, David Devadas, Aug 01, 2004)
The pride and pleasure among Kashmiris over the flyover that was inaugurated in the heart of Srinagar has to be seen to be believed. That it has become something of a status symbol is an indicator of the nature of the Kashmir problem: it is as much
- India And China: A Shifting Paradigm (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 29, 2004)
Until recently politics had been in command of Sino-Indian ties. Now economics has begun to drive the relationship.
- Going Home To The Valley... (Tribune, Aditi Tandon, Jul 28, 2004)
This was the first time I was visiting Kashmir without my mother by the side. Though I had never thought I could muster the courage to return to her homeland without her, there were temptations that I found hard to resist.
- Us Policy In South Asia (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Jul 27, 2004)
India and Pakistan looked at the recent tour of US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage in bilateral terms. This is natural. But the overall impact of the US foreign policy on South Asia as a whole demands special attention.
- India And Pakistan At Saarc (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Jul 27, 2004)
Despite the posturing by the two neighbours during the recent SAARC meet, the bilateral dialogue goes on.
- Continuing The Indo-Pak Peace Process (Tribune, Swarnjit Singh Sidhu, Jul 25, 2004)
Close on the heels of the exercise of confidence building measures between experts and foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan, the talks between External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Khurshid
- Why Is Pranab Asking For More? (Deccan Herald, P. R. Chari , Jul 23, 2004)
India is the world’s third largest military spender, and most of the arms it buys may be useless in any scenario
- Yarlung Tsangpo To Brahmaputra (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 23, 2004)
It is a roundabout route that we have taken to Lhasa, roof of the world and capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Bush’S Electoral Compulsions (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Jul 22, 2004)
Since Bush attaches utmost importance to Pak assistance to nab Osama, the US is unlikely to do much about Kashmir
- The Last Shangri La (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jul 22, 2004)
Nestled between the snow-capped high-altitude mountains of the Great Himalayan Range and the Shamshabari Range in north Kashmir is the pristine Gurez Valley — probably the last remaining Shangri La since the Zanskar Valley in Ladakh was discovered a ...
- Peace On The Guillotine, Again (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 19, 2004)
Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir cannot succeed unless the central precondition for democracy exists: a commitment by all parties to resolve differences through discourse, not military means.
- The Wily Third Man (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jul 19, 2004)
In a machiavellian game, the US is playing India against Pakistan while having a separate relationship with both
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