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Articles 17621 through 17720 of 25647:
- Abu Salem: From Driver To Don (Indian Express, S. Ahmed Ali, Oct 28, 2001)
‘‘Mein Abu Salem Bol raha hoon, Mera naam suna hai kya nahi?’’. Salem’s opening line over the cell phone has sent shivers through the spines of many Bollywood biggies.
- The Party And The Puja (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 28, 2001)
The festive chaos of the last few days might have prompted an outsider to wonder whether the same mobs that fill puja pandals also vote for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its allies.
- All Isn’t Right About The Bombing: Us Experts (Indian Express, Robin Wright, Oct 27, 2001)
Less than three weeks after the onset of military operations, some prominent experts on Afghanistan are starting to question, even challenge, the deepening US intervention in Central Asia.
- 5,00,000 Illegal Workers In Thailand (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2001)
Thailand registered more than 500,000 of its estimated two million illegal workers over the past month as part of a bid to control the flow from impoverished Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
- Another Hive Of Babus (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2001)
Not food production but bureaucratic reproduction!
- It Is A Free-For-All Country (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Oct 27, 2001)
WERE broke. The Centres broke and most of the States are broke. For the last 54 years, weve led the life of profligates.
- Trust Us, Trust Yourself, Americans Telling India (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 27, 2001)
Is this a ‘global’ war against terrorism going on in Afghanistan?
- Future Of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons... (The Financial Express, Jasjit Singh, Oct 27, 2001)
The world changed in many fundamental ways on September 11, 2001, the ramifications of which are not entirely clear as yet.
- The Cheating Saree (The Financial Express, Iqbal Sachdeva, Oct 27, 2001)
Linda Nelson, much before her arrival in India, had evinced deep interest in Indian culture, women, their saree and bindi, chicken curry and masala dosa.
- Billed Impossible (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2001)
The much-vaunted fiscal responsibility and budget management bill is about to die an untimely death. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the fiscal situation is in a mess.
- Legitimising Coercion (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 27, 2001)
THE SETTING UP of an `Ayodhya cell' in the Prime Minister's Office, ostensibly to monitor the `negotiations' that are supposed to be on at the instance of Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, is clearly in the context of the Sangh Parivar's impatience.
- What Will Galvanise Mr Sinha? (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 27, 2001)
I HAVE never found the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, facing facts.
- How A Single Coup Changed 50 Years Of Mideast History (Indian Express, Ahmed Bouzid, Oct 27, 2001)
Imagine if August 19, 1953, had come and gone, uneventfully. Imagine if Operation Ajax, coordinated by the British MI6 and the American CIA, which toppled the flourishing democracy in Iran of Mohammed Mossadeq, had never left the drawing board.
- India, Pak And Two Americas (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2001)
We both viw the US very differently, this could hold the key to our future.
- A Post-Taliban World Order (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 27, 2001)
A WORLD free from the politics of terrorism is said to be the creative objective of a long international `campaign' that ostensibly began with America's ongoing military offensive against Afghanistan.
- Correcting A Social Failure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 27, 2001)
THE SUPREME COURT'S directive ordering an all-India survey of mental asylums is welcome.
- A Question Of Autonomy (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Oct 27, 2001)
ISSUES RELATING to the World Trade Organisation are not the only ones that matter for Indian economic policy-making; for that would imply that the blame for all that is wrong at home has to be placed at the door of the WTO.
- Not Such An Enigma (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 27, 2001)
The Nobel awards are these days a much depreciated currency.
- Restlessness In The Theatre (Telegraph, Vijay Tendulkar, Oct 27, 2001)
Vijay Tendulkar is a selection of essays and lectures by this eminent and multi-faceted Marathi playwright.
- Building Women’s Capacities: Interventions In Gender Transformation (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2001)
Building women’s capacities: Interventions in gender transformation edited by Ranjani K. Murthy looks at the actualities of Indian women’s “capacity-building”.
- Were The Tehelka Tapes Doctored? (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Oct 27, 2001)
WOULD I like to see how the Tehelka tapes had been doctored, said the voice on the telephone, because if I did I could come along and take a look?
- We’ll Lose, But Will Die Trying (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2001)
Not accepting ANZ’s settlement makes NHB more vulnerable, but no official has the guts to say so
- Technology To The Rescue (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2001)
THE recent launch of the Technology Experiments Satellite (TES) is a laudable achievement. The need for proper surveillance was seriously felt during the Kargil war when there was infiltration from across the border.
- India’s Stakes In Afghan War (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Oct 27, 2001)
IT is unnecessary and shortsighted for India to be peevish about what Pakistan is getting out of the war in Afghanistan. What it is getting is not much, and some of it is what India is better off without.
- Poto Is Very Much Here (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 27, 2001)
THERE are some simple truths about terrorist outfits. And everybody knows them and the exception is the government.
- Language Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2001)
So the unfinished tower came to be known as the Tower of Babel.
- Anthrax Scare Makes Us Rush To Labs (Indian Express, Rosie Mestel, Oct 26, 2001)
Long before anthrax set off scares and brisk Cipro sales across the US, a handful of scientists worked in relative obscurity to grasp how the tiny bacterium wreaks its havoc on the human body. They have made big strides.
- A Study In White (Tribune, M. K. Agarwal, Oct 26, 2001)
THE heading of this piece, but not the body, has been fashioned after the mystery thriller “The Woman in White”, written by Wilkie Collins, My several readings of the book have so “coloured” my vision that wherever my eyes are cast, I tend to see “white”,
- Terror Has Triumphed In The Usa (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Oct 26, 2001)
LET there be no mistake about it (to echo President George Bush), terror has triumphed in the USA. It has so frightened the country, for long a safe fortress, that there is no gumption left in it to fight terror.
- Schroder, Schily To Flag Germany’s Green Card For (Indian) Talent (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 26, 2001)
Two Airbuses marked “Luftwaffee” (German Airforce) will land in Delhi airport’s high security VIP technical area from Islamabad this Sunday afternoon.
- When The Taliban Go (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 26, 2001)
Afghanistan needs a stable, representative government.
- Restlessness In The Theatre (Telegraph, Vijay Tendulkar, Oct 26, 2001)
Vijay Tendulkar is a selection of essays and lectures by this eminent and multi-faceted Marathi playwright. It also collects a number of critical essays on Tendulkar by Shanta Gokhale, Samik Bandopadhyay and so on.
- Fallout Of Afghan Confrontation (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Oct 26, 2001)
THE USA's battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan has reached a critical stage.
- Whose Tune Are You Playing? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 26, 2001)
Why are Muslims ambivalent on Afghanistan” my friend, an editor asked me.
- Not Such An Enigma (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 26, 2001)
The Nobel awards are these days a much depreciated currency. Flummery is as flummery does; the conferment of this year’s peace prize on the United Nations and its secretary general should therefore cause little surprise.
- Like A Magnet (Indian Express, Devaki Jain , Oct 26, 2001)
Remembering Dharma Kumar, who was so lively and so much fun.
- Pak Terrorist Face (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2001)
THE more Pakistan tries to hide its terrorist past and the present, the more it exposes the reality.
- Billed Impossible (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2001)
The much-vaunted fiscal responsibility and budget management bill is about to die an untimely death. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the fiscal situation is in a mess.
- Building Women’s Capacities: Interventions In Gender Transformation (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2001)
Building women’s capacities: Interventions in gender transformation edited by Ranjani K. Murthy looks at the actualities of Indian women’s “capacity-building”
- Neither Here, Nor There (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 26, 2001)
The conduct of India’s foreign policy over the last six weeks is a tempting target of criticism. But it is also not difficult to sympathise with the predicament of our policy makers.
- A Bitter Fight (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 25, 2001)
THE OUTCOME AND voting pattern of the panchayat and municipal elections in Tamil Nadu this time, unlike in 1996, are not in full concordance with what the Assembly polls threw up less than six months ago.
- Us Carrier: Searing Sun Or Airless Sauna (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2001)
Josh saw the sun for the first time in 45 days this week. The 22-year-old enlisted sailor from Illinois is an office worker —on board a U.S. aircraft carrier attacking targets in Afghanistan.
- Chhattisgarh Cm In Trouble (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2001)
CHHATTISGARH Chief Minister Ajit Jogi is under cloud.
- First Test (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2001)
A new government’s first steps often show its true colours.
- The Killer Instinct Can Kill Too (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2001)
Twenty years ago, it was very fashionable to talk of us Indians as having no ‘killer instinct’.
- Shacks For All (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2001)
IN the nineties, the UN set the year 2000 as homes for all. India enthusiastically joined the chorus and, as usual except for pious proclamations, nothing really happened.
- Between Reality And Rhetoric (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2001)
PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf has been under tremendous pressure since he extended his cooperation for the US-led coalition's military campaign against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden.
- Look Back In Euphoria (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 25, 2001)
Communist or socialist parties anywhere in the world claim to be parties of the future.
- Of Impulses, Positive And Negative (Tribune, Nanu Gadhok, Oct 25, 2001)
THE cosmos is full of cosmic energy. All galaxies, universes and planets that exist in it, have drawn from this energy through the ages and are continuously driven and controlled by it.
- On The Debit Side (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 25, 2001)
There are limits to the effectiveness of monetary policy and Mr Bimal Jalan can look to Mr Alan Greenspan for support on this score. At least, Mr Greenspan has a fiscal surplus.
- From India First To Pakistan First (Business Line, B. Raman , Oct 25, 2001)
THE administration of the US President, Mr George Bush Jr, has a large number of ex-Pentagon/CIA/DIA hands, who had in the past closely interacted with the military-intelligence establishment of Pakistan and, hence, think well of it.
- Fictions In The Darkness (Telegraph, RUKUN ADVANI, Oct 25, 2001)
The novelist and eccentric democrat, E.M. Forster, died at the age of ninety-one in 1970 and has been artificially kept alive ever since then by the heart and lung industry of Merchant & Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabwala.
- How To Play The Game Right (Telegraph, Mohit Sen, Oct 25, 2001)
The United States of America’s war on terrorism is too narrow in focus.
- Financial Terrorism (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2001)
Why is our finance minister so innocent?
- Winner Turns Loser (Indian Express, Chitra Subramaniam, Oct 25, 2001)
It was all there. The three cars — a Mercedes for ‘‘sahib’’, Maruti for the Mrss’’ and a Toyota for the son and heir apparent.
- Increasing Trade Can Provide A Lasting Solution To Indo-Pak Conflict (The Financial Express, N. Madhavan, Oct 25, 2001)
The European Union (EU) offers many a lesson on the path India and Pakistan should take to achieve sustained peace and prosperity.
- The Security Of Pakistan’s Nukes Is A Cause For Global Concern (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Oct 25, 2001)
Where are Pakistan’s nuclear weapons? It doesn’t seem to be bothering people enough. What sort of assurances can President Pervez Musharraf can give to the world that his nukes are safe?
- The Elusive Spirit Of Restraint (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 25, 2001)
THE SPIRALLING RHETORIC on the India-Pakistan front shows how intense are the hard feelings that the Governments on both sides seem inclined to let fly at each other like some uncontrollable sparks.
- Think Positive, Mr. Vajpayee! (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 25, 2001)
AS THE Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, prepares to travel to Russia and the United States, he needs to get the country out of the crabby mood it has slipped into so soon after September 11.
- Lessons From The Gulf War (Hindu, Harald A Gould, Oct 25, 2001)
DESCRIPTIONS OF the Afghan operation suggest that the United States may be on the brink of making the same mistakes that doomed the war against Iraq to eventual failure.
- Euphoria Vs Economics (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Oct 25, 2001)
Never before has a concept had such a spectacular rise and an equally precipitous fall in a short space of time as the dotcoms did.
- How Noble Is The Nobel Prize? (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Oct 25, 2001)
ALFRED Nobel must be turning in his grave — rather, shaking in anger at the violence they have done to his Will and the kind of people they have bestowed his millions on.
- Come Back To Traditional Basmati Sowing To Capture Market (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Oct 25, 2001)
Though India takes pride in being home to genuine Basmati, it has done precious little to retain this much-valued product.
- Opening Up New Channels (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Oct 25, 2001)
When this column began, a little over seven years ago, the economy was looking up, the air was thick with talk of economic reform, and every time one blinked, another business programme or channel was born.
- Eu Unveils Plan For Kyoto Pollution Market (The Financial Express, Alister Doyle, Oct 25, 2001)
The European Commission proposed a first international market in the right to pollute on Tuesday as part of a UN plan to combat global warming that has been shunned by the United States.
- Afghan Operations: A Marshall Plan? (Business Line, S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Oct 25, 2001)
"We are also looking forward to strengthening our cooperation on a full range of bilateral and regional issues.
- Whose Win? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 25, 2001)
Bofors case threatens to end up as a trial of the dead.
- Madhuri Delayed (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Oct 25, 2001)
Looks like Shubh Vivah will have to wait — the million-watt smile of Madhuri Dixit notwithstanding.
- Portents Of A World Civil War (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 24, 2001)
THE Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, hopes the anti-terrorist strike on Afghanistan will be a quick operation and that it will come to an end before the Afghanistani refugees in Pakistan.
- Easiest Job (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 24, 2001)
YOU want to know what the easiest job in the world is?
- Freedom Of Media -- All's Not Fair In This War? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 24, 2001)
AN INTERESTING fallout of what the US and its media call ``war against terror'' is the dilemma of a country that is stifling, though through veiled suggestions, the voice of independent media.
- Success In Space (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2001)
IT is heartening to note that while India wallows in mediocrity and misery on terra firma, it manages to post spectacular triumphs in space.
- Delhi's Debt Of Honour (Business Line, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 24, 2001)
THOUGH Singapore's 12th general election on November 3 might pass virtually unnoticed amidst the high drama that engulfs the world, it is reason enough for New Delhi to bestir itself to repay a debt of honour.
- Simulation Techniques -- The Reality Of The Virtual (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Oct 24, 2001)
ONE of the recent films featured in I-Max theatres is titled `Alaska'. It is a fabulous journey into the snow-capped mountainous terrain and among the frozen lakes, rare animal species and the simple people that inhabit that country.
- Syl As Poll Gimmick (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2001)
PUNJAB Congress President Amarinder Singh has threatened to refill the Satluj-Yamuna Link canal for saving Punjab from the "unholy secret deals" Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has allegedly struck with Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.
- Over To Doha. Singapore’s Relief Is The World’s Challenge (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Oct 24, 2001)
The world has given a brave thumbs up to Doha and Singapore isn’t the least envious.
- A Half-Hearted Sop (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2001)
INDIA is getting more integrated with the global monetary system than many realise.
- No Justice For Racial Abuse Victims In Uk (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Oct 24, 2001)
BY now it is well-known that racial assaults and violence, at times culminating in deaths, are increasingly becoming common in the West.
- Telling It Like It Isn't (Hindu, Ameena A. Saeed, Oct 24, 2001)
IN A country where time is of the essence, the American people get their information from the electronic media. Television has taken on the role of covert instrument of indoctrination, American style.
- Waging War On Bureaucratic Terrorism (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Oct 24, 2001)
Truth, tolerance, justice, a sense of lifes beauty and a near-violent rejection of their opposites - the system itself must be forced to reflect these virtues, or it had no business. -- John le Carre in The Constant Gardener.
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