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Articles 24021 through 24120 of 25647:
- Right To Develop (Times of India, Andre Beteille , Apr 30, 2001)
THE prospects - and the failures - of development have haunted public-spirited Indians since the time of independence.
- Hijacked State (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 30, 2001)
The age old Tamil saying, ``Who cares who rules - Ram or Ravana?'', would seem to contain some truth, after all.
- One Man Show (Hindustan Times, K. Vikram Rao, Apr 30, 2001)
VIR SANGHVI has been very charitable when he called Justice P.B. Sawant’s Press Council a kangaroo court. It is worse.
- Ramana Maharishi, Sage Of Arunachala (Times of India, N. N. Subramanian, Apr 30, 2001)
``This Atman is not to be attained by recitation of the Vedas, nor by keen intellect, nor by often hearing scripture. He whom It chooses attains it. To him the Atman reveals its form''.
- The King's Horses (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 30, 2001)
Reporting for British newspapers from South Africa, Churchill wrote:
- Parlez Vous Slowdown? (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 30, 2001)
Don't blame Europe for nursing a grudge against its counterpart across the Atlantic.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Apr 29, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune.
- The Divide Runs Deep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
Even 30 years after independence, the struggle between secularists and fundamentalists in Bangladesh continues, says Haroon Habib.
- How Free Will The Trade Be? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
The Third Summit of the Americas has set an agenda of ``free trade with democracy''. Sridhar Krishnaswami takes a look at the prospects and the problems.
- Political Mobilisation Paradigms In A Flux (Hindu, M.R. Venkatesh, Apr 29, 2001)
CHENNAI, MAY 24. While several readings of the DMK's defeat in the Assembly polls have attributed it mainly to the AIADMK front's ``alliance arithmetic''.
- How Free Will The Trade Be? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
The Third Summit of the Americas has set an agenda of ``free trade with democracy''. Sridhar Krishnaswami takes a look at the prospects and the problems.
- Why Can’t We Stand Up To Pakistan? (The Economic Times, Bikram Vohra, Apr 29, 2001)
SPEAKING officially for the CBFS these past two months has been an unusual experience.
- Sankara & Ramanuja: Meaning And Being (Times of India, Pranav Khullar, Apr 29, 2001)
THE quest of the Indian mind, as it were, has been a continual thrust towards meaning and Being, nowhere better embodied than in the tremendous speculative and spiritual thought of Adi Sankaracharya and Ramanajuacharya.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 29, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- The Divide Runs Deep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
Even 30 years after independence, the struggle between secularists and fundamentalists in Bangladesh continues, says Haroon Habib.
- Disputing The Borders (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Apr 29, 2001)
EVENTS along the Bangladesh border show yet again that for India the `Saarc process’ is as rewarding as some Goliath’s jig with a flight of gadflies. And it is no use citing intents and documents.
- Letting The Side Down (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 29, 2001)
THE MANAGEMENT consulting firm AT Kearney has just released an FDI confidence audit on India which says our babus scare away foreign investment.
- A New Age-Old Question (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 29, 2001)
A government servant retires at the age of 60. This is what the fifth Pay Commission stipulated while raising the superannuation from 58 years and what the government accepted when introducing a Bill in Parliament.
- Children As Chattel (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
Child adoption rackets keep coming to light every now and then.
- It’s Murder, They Said (Telegraph, MADHUSHREE C. BHOWMIK, Apr 29, 2001)
Titli flits around her foster home. She lurches from one room to another on unsteady legs and loves to look at the Sydney harbour from the windows of her “penthouse’’ in the Australian capital.
- Voices Of Reasonableness, Radicalism From Pakistan (Tribune, Darshan Singh Maini, Apr 29, 2001)
THOUGH I’ve had no direct access to the Pakistani papers and journals, I do find some of those reproduced in part in Indian dailies.
- Problems With A Pledge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2001)
The row over the anti-racism pledge has cast a dark shadow over the elections in Britain. Hasan Suroor reports.
- Changing Rules For Andhra’s Prasad (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 29, 2001)
PRIME MINISTER Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to have nullified the game plan of the hawks in the BJP to get one of their protagonists as the next Cabinet Secretary.
- Breast Exam ‘No Use’ In Cancer Fight (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 29, 2001)
MONTHLY breast self-examinations, for decades recommended as a good way of helping women detect the first signs of breast cancer, are in fact of little use in fighting the disease and could even be harmful, a group of Canadian experts said on Tuesday.
- Equip Nhrc With More Teeth (Tribune, H. L. Kapoor, Apr 29, 2001)
IT is futile to talk of Human Rights unless concrete steps are initiated to protect these.
- Child Abuse And The Law (Tribune, K. T. S. Tulsi, Apr 29, 2001)
CHILDREN are the poor man’s riches, says an English proverb. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children.
- India’s Lurching Democracy (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Apr 29, 2001)
THE compromise that Atal Behari Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi worked out for allowing Parliament to discuss the Budget does not absolve the Congress leadership of blame for disrupting Parliament’s functioning.
- Sankara's Atmabodha: Vision Of The Self (Times of India, Pranav Khullar, Apr 28, 2001)
SANKARA'S Atmabodha, `Knowledge of the Self', goes to the very core of Advaitic thought by encapsulating, as it were, the tremendous speculative thought contained in the Brahma-Sutra Bhashya.
- It’s But Dead Capital (The Economic Times, Vikram S Mehta, Apr 28, 2001)
A DRIVE through any of our metros but in particular Mumbai, Delhi or Calcutta will establish that the poor — mostly migrants from rural India — have built shelters for themselves on relatively valuable real estate.
- Lonely In A Crowd (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 28, 2001)
LIKE THE Hizbul Mujahideen, the Hurriyat Conference’s pro-Pakistani stance is known.
- Reconciling Equality And Pluralism (Hindu, T. K. Oommen, Apr 28, 2001)
EQUALITY AS a concept had a chequered career and finally almost universal acceptance. This cannot be said of pluralism.
- Uncertain Times (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Apr 28, 2001)
THE FINANCE Ministers of the world are meeting in Washington this week in vastly different circumstances from just six months ago when the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their 2000 annual meetings in Prague.
- Unseating Squatters From The Cyber Space (The Economic Times, Samrat Shina, Apr 28, 2001)
THE LAST century had seen many a bitter legal battle being fought in the name of trademark infringements, brand piracy and copyright violations.
- Ugly Indian’s Field Day (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 28, 2001)
ELECTIONS ARE the most appropriate occasions to study ugly aspects of our national character.
- The Demand For Telangana (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Apr 28, 2001)
THE Telangana movement is slowly spreading like a bushfire and the momentum is increasing day by day.
- Health Tips For Happy Summer Holidays (Tribune, Helen Foster, Apr 28, 2001)
IT's summer time and the living is easy — right? The temperature nudges upwards and gradually we feel more relaxed.
- We Are The Largest E-Recruiters In Europe (The Economic Times, THOMAS ABRAHAM, Apr 28, 2001)
GILES Clark, CEO, Stepstone ASA, is in India as part of the business delegation accompanying the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenburg.
- Two Men And Two Choices (Tribune, Punam Khaira Sidhu, Apr 28, 2001)
IT's the examination results season. Every day has results splashed across the newspapers: ICSE, CBSE, ....the list seems endless.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Apr 28, 2001)
It has taken less than three months for the “dream” part of Yashwant Sinha’s budget for the current year to dissolve into thin air.
- Is Copper Good For You? Just Eat Better (Tribune, Zach Howard, Apr 28, 2001)
THE Aztecs, Egyptians and Romans all used copper, one of the earth’s most common metals, for thousands of years as a folk remedy in bangles, bandages, cosmetics and even drinks to ward off a host of ailments.
- Parroting Master's Voice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 28, 2001)
THE All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has proved yet again that it is only the executing agency for the unholy agenda drawn up and dictated by Pakistani masters.
- Chic Coffee (Times of India, Mohinder Singh, Apr 28, 2001)
THERE was the American ice-cream craze. And then came the pizza craze. Now it's coffee. People go out for coffee, like they do for a meal or movie.
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 28, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Charting A New Path In Japan? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 28, 2001)
THE INEXORABLE ELECTION, as it finally turned out to be, of Mr. Junichiro Koizumi as the new Prime Minister of Japan, a troubled economic superpower, has stirred enormous expectations of reforms.
- Letting The Side Down (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 28, 2001)
THE MANAGEMENT consulting firm AT Kearney has just released an FDI confidence audit on India which says our babus scare away foreign investment.
- A Nation Of Shysters (Hindustan Times, Prem Shankar Jha, Apr 28, 2001)
A PUNE newspaper published the finding of the Madhav Godbole Committee that Enron’s Dabhol power plant overcharged the Maharashtra State Electricity Board by Rs 930 crore in a year.
- Breach Of Promise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 28, 2001)
The crisis of political accountability in West Bengal has been confirmed again with a rather disgraceful clarity.
- Talisman Of Love (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 28, 2001)
Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, was charged in an English court, some 24 years ago, with kidnapping Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary and former boyfriend.
- Pakistan's Interest (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 28, 2001)
To interpret Pakistan's first-ever defence budget cut as a meaningful gesture before the forthcoming summit in India would be to stretch the point.
- The Bandh Wagon (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 28, 2001)
The Maharashtra bandh called last Wednesday by an unusual coalition of political parties and trade unions.
- How To Clean Up A Very Dirty River (Telegraph, SAHELI MITRA, Apr 28, 2001)
It runs through the heart of India enriching its lands and providing livelihood to millions of countrymen.
- Fixing The Price Of Hope (Telegraph, Sandhya Srinivasan, Apr 28, 2001)
“A diagnosis of HIV positivity is no reason to lose hope,” says the man on television. Cipla’s current publicity on anti-retroviral drugs for AIDS seems to give the wrong impression, that AIDS is curable.
- Kingdoms Go And Come Again (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Apr 28, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
- The Infosys Way (Times of India, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Apr 28, 2001)
TODAY, my mind goes back to a sultry, fateful morning in July 1981, to my meeting with the other six founders of Infosys.
- Kids For Sale (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 27, 2001)
IT IS far from clear if the Andhra Pradesh government has got to the bottom of the racket in infant trafficking in the state.
- Why Leadership Needs Nurturing (Times of India, Marguerite Theophil, Apr 27, 2001)
THE effects of leadership touch all our lives whether or not we give them much thought or attention.
- Blind Confidence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 27, 2001)
It is good to see confidence. The chief minister of West Bengal has it in abundance.
- An Undebated Budget (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 27, 2001)
ANOTHER unhealthy precedent was set in the Lok Sabha when the general budget was passed without a discussion.
- Economic Reforms In China: Lessons For India? (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Apr 27, 2001)
THE IMPORTANCE of China in world trade today is remarkable for a country which in 1980 was only marginally involved in world trade and which, even today, has no developed system of macro-economic controls.
- Lonely Vigil (Hindustan Times, MANVENDRA SINGH, Apr 27, 2001)
'MISSING PATROL’ and ‘mutilated bodies’ has a sinister ring to it. Eerily similar to an event almost two years ago when a young army officer with his patrol of less than a section strength went missing in the heights and snows of Kargil.
- Competition Is Tough In The Hotel Industry (The Economic Times, G Ganapathy Subramaniam & Jayanthi Iyengar, Apr 27, 2001)
RUNNING India Tourism Development Corporation has never been a cakewalk.
- Seeds Of Distress (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Apr 27, 2001)
AS THE process of choosing India’s next ambassador to the WTO gets under way, there is evidence of a turf battle between the IAS and the IFS for the post.
- Not So Kind Hearts And Coronets (Telegraph, David Cannadine, Apr 27, 2001)
The British Empire, David Cannadine argues in his new book, “was first and foremost a class act.”
- Good, Bad Or Plain Ugly? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 27, 2001)
IS INDIA phasing out tax sops and exemptions, as finance minister Yashwant Sinha wants us to believe, or is it continuing with distortions as the Finance Bill that was passed in Parliament shows?
- Limelight Party (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 27, 2001)
With so much happening on Kashmir, Prof Bhim Singh’s Panthers Party is peeved that it has no role in the entire exercise.
- Pointless Gesture (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 27, 2001)
THE PROPOSED probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the 'stockmarket scandal' smacks of tokenism.
- You Can’t Be Given Goals By Anyone Else (Telegraph, Walter Bonatti, Apr 27, 2001)
Walter Bonatti’s The Mountains of My Life gathers, for the first time in English, the extraordinary writings of one of the world’s greatest mountaineers.
- India’s Food Revolution (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Apr 27, 2001)
M.S. Banga, chairman, Hindustan Lever Limited, delivered a talk titled “Food Revolution.
- Many Firsts In Career Of Fathima Beevi (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Apr 27, 2001)
THE unceremonious exit of the Tamil Nadu Governor, Ms Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi, is, for the first time, seen as a setback in her otherwise highly successful career in the portals of judiciary spanning over four decades.
- Poking Oneself In The Eye! (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Apr 27, 2001)
HOW DO you poke yourself in the eye? How do you please your enemies by fighting with your friends?
- The Tuition Issue: Perception And The Whole Truth (Tribune, Bhim S. Dahiya, Apr 27, 2001)
ALDOUS Huxley once complained that tragedy does not portray the whole truth. Sherwood Anderson made a similar complaint about man’s perception of life. Thus, in life, as well as in letter, the whole truth is hard to come by.
- He Was Patriotic, Scholarly And Fearless (Tribune, Bal Raj Madhok, Apr 27, 2001)
THE founder president of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, first leader of the Opposition in the Indian Parliament and first martyr for the unity of truncated India, Shyama Prasad Mookerji, was born on July 6, 1901 at Calcutta.
- Reality Of Nuclear Missile Defence: Indian Scenario (Tribune, Praful Bakshi, Apr 27, 2001)
IT does come as a surprise, that the United States of America, without achieving the desired result in the ballistic missile interception by an anti-ballistic missile, has extended the hand of cooperation to India in the field of national missile defence.
- Atal's Burden (Times of India, MANOJ JOSHI, Apr 27, 2001)
THE forthcoming Vajpayee-Musharraf summit in Agra is neither the most important nor the most eventful one held between India and Pakistan.
- Tamil Politics (Times of India, Shastri Ramachandran, Apr 26, 2001)
WHERE does Vaiko's MDMK stand in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections? asked a colleague.
- Island Of Acrimony In The Floods (Telegraph, TILAK D. GUPTA, Apr 26, 2001)
Orissa seems to be caught in a never-ending cycle of misfortune.
- Catch Up With The Lady (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 26, 2001)
It may be overstating the case to say that April 24 was a red-letter day in electoral history, but its seminal importance cannot be gainsaid.
- Funny Films (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 26, 2001)
Comedians and their fun-filled films have the ability to make our lives seem more agreeable and to help us tide over life's little hiccups.
- Pak Court Fells Musharraf (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 26, 2001)
Pakistan ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf could not have expected such a drubbing as he has got at the hands of the country's Supreme Court.
- Ignoring The Martyrs (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 26, 2001)
Those who join the security forces are mentally prepared to lay down their lives for the country.
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