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Articles 24321 through 24420 of 25647:
- Children Without Identities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 19, 2001)
An increase in overseas adoptions has provoked demands to prevent a new generation of “children without identities”- young people deprived of contact with their cultures.
- The U.N.'S Future Political Role (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Apr 19, 2001)
THE RISE and decline of the United Nations as the world's premier institution, especially so in the early 1990s, have already defined a truly dramatic cameo during the ongoing phase of post- Cold War uncertainties in global politics.
- The Rupee's Lurch And Larger Concerns (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 19, 2001)
WITH THE RUPEE lurching below the Rs. 47 mark against the dollar after a long period of relative stability, there has been a revival of interest in the currency market.
- Saas For The Goose (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 19, 2001)
Gautam and Priya may live happily or not-so-happily together ever after as the Star TV serial Saans winds to its end, with Manisha packing her bags for good.
- Don’t Blame Sebi For Failure Of Corp Governance (The Economic Times, Bodhisatva Ganguli, Apr 19, 2001)
THE LATEST scam to hit the Indian capital markets has led to a demand for action against the financial regulators. In particular the position of Sebi chief D R Mehta seems to be particularly threatened.
- The Indian Epics Retold (Telegraph, R. K. Narayan, Apr 19, 2001)
R.K. Narayan’s The Indian Epics Retold is a valuable omnibus edition of three of this important writer’s works — his separate retellings of Kamban’s 11th-century Tamil Ramayana and Vyasa’s Mahabharata.
- Too Many Books, Too Much Hype (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Apr 19, 2001)
“Globalization had become unavoidable,” a critic said recently, “because the nation-state had become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems of life.”
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 19, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- Undermining The Office Of Speaker (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 19, 2001)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 18. It is unfortunate enough that the Congress should continue to persist with a strategy that is calculated to demean and eventually delegitimise the very institution of Parliament.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 19, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state. Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu thinks that the rise in the incidence of AIDS in Andhra Pradesh is the result of its high development profile.
- The Ownership Solution (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 18, 2001)
A MORE sustainable balance must be struck among the diverse needs that underlie human motivation.
- Ms Congeniality (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 18, 2001)
As the saying goes: better late than never.
- Bangaru’s Red Herring (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 18, 2001)
Bangaru Laxman is not the first person to express concern about the subterfuge that is involved in the manner in which political parties collect money.
- Balancing Power And Accountability (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Apr 18, 2001)
The Jayalalitha episode has thrown up a number of fundamental politico-electoral, legal and constitutional issues which require both short-term and long-term responses for the growth of democracy on healthy lines.
- The Bald & The Beautiful (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 18, 2001)
YUL Bryner may have made baldness heroically fashionable in Hollywood movies of the 1950s and 60s like `The Buccaneer’ or `Anastasia’.
- Whose Flag Is It Anyway? (Hindustan Times, Indrajit Hazra, Apr 18, 2001)
Think of the national flag, and you are bound to conjure up nothing less than grand images.
- Up, Up And Away (Hindustan Times, Prakash Chandra, Apr 18, 2001)
Barring any more hiccups, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-D1 should finally be launched on Wednesday.
- A Hollow Threat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2001)
IT is a family fight, one branch of the Sangh Parivar taking on the more powerful one in a public show of pique.
- Do We Know America Well Enough? (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Apr 18, 2001)
NOW that we are hailed as a “great power” do we know how to play the part?
- Testing Times (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2001)
The Indian bureaucracy is charmingly innocent, charming for those who take it for a willing ride.
- Condon, Cricket, Corruption (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2001)
At last the International Cricket Council has got a report which it should treat as the Bible for guiding players, administrators and umpires away from the path of "cricket sins".
- New Man In Pmo (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2001)
All eyes are now riveted on Prodipto Ghosh, who is being pulled out of the Asian Development Bank in Manila to work as additional secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office.
- Reformed Security Set-Up (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 18, 2001)
SECURITY and intelligence go hand in hand. In fact, intelligence is one of the main ingredients of security.
- There Is No Oasis For The Elderly (Telegraph, P. S. M. Rao, Apr 18, 2001)
The government, following the economic reforms, has a much reduced role in the problem areas of poverty, unemployment and social security.
- `Cruise Holidays Are Becoming Popular’ (The Economic Times, Arshdeep Sehgal, Apr 18, 2001)
NISHITH Saxena, country manager of Princess Cruises, is enthusiastic about the immense potential for cruises in India and reflects on how India is being taken seriously by cruise companies.
- Honour By Degrees (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 18, 2001)
It was amidst protests from a few professors that US President George Bush was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University on Monday.
- Balancing Act (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Apr 18, 2001)
The planning commission has been at the receiving end of much abuse and criticism.
- Aids To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2001)
The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh seems to have hit upon a unique method of measuring development in his state.
- Lake Woebegone (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 18, 2001)
Operation Ulsoor Lake is a welcome initiative in the effort to reverse the environmental degradation of Bangalore.
- Kanpur Riots, A Wake-Up Call (Hindu, Ashgar Ali Engineer , Apr 18, 2001)
COMMUNAL RIOTS in Kanpur should not be taken lightly. They should be treated as a wake-up call by all committed secularists.
- Shadows On Indo-Us Ties (The Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Apr 18, 2001)
EXTERNAL affairs minister Jaswant Singh has visited the United States of America, held an unscheduled meeting with President George W Bush, and returned home exuding confidence about the future of Indo-US relations.
- Stalling Parliament (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 18, 2001)
THE FLEETING HOPE that Parliament, which has been disrupted for days over the impasse relating to the Tehelka tapes expose, would recommence normal business has been abruptly dashed.
- When Ice Turns Hot (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 18, 2001)
THE GLOBAL meltdown in technology stocks, coupled with a host of domestic fiascos, has brought the market down with a thud.
- Indian Stock Exchanges: A Time To Survive (The Economic Times, Janmejaya Sinha, Apr 18, 2001)
STOCK exchanges in India are going through difficult times.
- A Gentle Way With Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Apr 18, 2001)
A week before he died at 95, news of his precarious health began appearing in all our national dailies.
- Coming Soon: The Dollar Crash (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
ONLY a thin line exists between being early and wrong on the financial marketplace. As Lord Keynes put it: "Markets can be irrational for a lot longer than you can remain solvent."
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Teething Trouble (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2001)
The first government of a new state has the daunting task of living up to the popular aspirations that gave birth to it.
- Factions And Posturings (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2001)
THE WEEK-OLD CRISIS in the Congress(I) on the poll front in Kerala, triggered by its veteran leader, Mr. K. Karunakaran, much to the consternation of its partners in the UDF, has been resolved.
- When British Cops Were Found To Be Racist (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
WITH the Durban conference on racism going full swing, the word racism is talk of the universe today.
- Lahore: City Of Fading Gardens (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
MUGHAL Emperor Shahjahan who built the Taj Mahal could never have imagined that 500 years after he constructed Lahore’s famous Shalimar Gardens, the latter would be on the World Heritage list as an endangered site.
- Uncle Maran’s Hidden Angst (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 17, 2001)
If K. Karunakaran’s daughter is at the root of the Congress’ woes in Kerala, it is M.K. Karunanidhi’s son who is believed to be responsible for Murasoli Maran’s departure from ‘active politics’ in Tamil Nadu.
- Crouching Asian Tigers (Times of India, Meenakshi Shedde, Apr 17, 2001)
WITH Taiwanese director Ang Lee's kinetic poem, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Asian cinema has exploded into our collective consciousness.
- Prime Cut (Telegraph, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
Good sense and international pressure seem to be finally prevailing in Pakistan.
- Indo-Pak Exchange (Times of India, K. S. Parthasarathy, Apr 17, 2001)
I had been to Vienna a few times. But still I did not know the city. Many in my department know more about Vienna than about Matunga in Mumbai. During my last visit, I took part in a hilarious India-Pakistan luggage exchange.
- A Non-Executive President (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
EMBRACING the greater evil is sometimes an occupational hazard of Presidents and Prime Ministers.
- The Budget In Jeopardy (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Apr 17, 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.
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2001)
MR L. K. Advani's statement that some portion of the funds meant for the development of the North-East may be finding its way to militant organisations raise serious security-related questions.
- Kingdoms Go And Come Again (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Apr 17, 2001)
Till 1990, most newspapers and even the electronic media had one favourite sobriquet to describe Nepal — the peaceful Himalayan kingdom.
- Disaster As Photo-Op (Times of India, Aditi Kapoor, Apr 17, 2001)
Will Bill Clinton please visit Orissa? Remember, nature's fury devastated Orissa in October 1999 when a super cyclone swept across 14 of its more prosperous districts.
- Hungry And Exiled (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 17, 2001)
To say that April is the cruellest month for the poor would be to get trapped in a metaphor, which can be easily manipulated as cold-blooded official statistics.
- The Power Of Storytelling (Hindu, Neera Chandhoke , Apr 17, 2001)
THE EDUCATIONAL apparatus of the Indian state has done it again: left-leaning historians have been dropped from the project of writing the history of the Indian nation-state, this time by the NCERT.
- Panchayats Powerless In A.P. (Hindu, George Mathew, Apr 17, 2001)
WHEN THE World Bank President, Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, visited Andhra Pradesh in November 2000 a briefing note on the State prepared by the Bank team stated that the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, was India's leading State reformer.
- The Menace Of Poaching (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2001)
ANIMAL POACHING CONTINUES relentlessly despite a tough law.
- In Cold Blood (Hindustan Times, Vinod Raina, Apr 17, 2001)
The land of Dewas which inspired E.M. Foster’s writings and Kumar Gandharva’s musical creations (both lived here), and where the messengers of peace, the Kabir panthis have performed for centuries, has finally been bloodied.
- Knocked Senseless (The Economic Times, Alok Sharma, Apr 17, 2001)
THE SENSEX crashed over 1,200 points to 3,183 after Yashwant Sinha’s `historic’ budget and the stockmarkets are in a shambles.
- Don’t Blame Globalisation For Growing Inequalities (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Apr 17, 2001)
ONCE upon a time, it used to be the foreign hand. If there was anything wrong with the economy, politicians blamed the ubiquitous foreign hand. If there were any major law and order problems, the invisible foreign hand became the scapegoat.
- End Of Compact Between Govt & People (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Apr 17, 2001)
THE compact between the rulers and those they govern in a democracy even as chaotic as in its Indian variation is that beyond the rules and regulations and the instruments of enforcing authority, there is an almost intangible moral force that prevails.
- Pssst, Dirty Pictures! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
FROM recording an estimated 192 million hits worldwide in March, the Santa Clara-based internet portal Yahoo! has finally lived up to the unrepressed connotation of its name.
- Domestication Of Plants (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 16, 2001)
THE first domestic vegetable was probably a pumpkin. New research from the US has pinned down exactly where many of our most important crops came from and when they were domesticated.
- The Indian Epics Retold (Telegraph, R. K. Narayan, Apr 16, 2001)
R.K. Narayan’s The Indian Epics Retold is a valuable omnibus edition of three of this important writer’s works — his separate retellings of Kamban’s 11th-century Tamil Ramayana and Vyasa’s Mahabharata.
- June Elections In The States (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Apr 16, 2001)
THE elections due in early June in the states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry are likely to produce results which may hold out big surprises and upset the NDA government at the Centre.
- Anandgarh: A Project Corbusier Would Not Have Liked (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Apr 16, 2001)
“I have welcomed very greatly one experiment in India: Chandigarh,” Jawaharlal Nehru said in 1959, speaking at a seminar and exhibition of architecture. “It is the biggest example in India of experimental architecture.
- Line Of Violence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 16, 2001)
The setback to diplomacy in Agra has given a fillip to violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Pilgrims to the shrine of Amarnath, and 15 villagers in Doda district have been killed by militants.
- A Gesture Of Reconciliation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 16, 2001)
IN A HISTORIC act of reconciliation, even of atonement, the German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, has paid homage to the victims of Hitler's war in the imperial Russian capital.
- The Indo-U.S. Engagement (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Apr 16, 2001)
WASHINGTON COULD not have been unaware of the problem created for the coalition Government in New Delhi by the Tehelka expose, but did not let it cast a shadow over the first formal contacts between it and the new administration.
- Too Many Books, Too Much Hype (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Apr 16, 2001)
“Globalization had become unavoidable,” a critic said recently, “because the nation-state had become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems of life.”
- Need For International Attention (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 16, 2001)
LONDON: Early this month, about two dozen ``Kashmiri'' groups, based in various parts of Britain, converged in London to pool their energies in engaging British law-makers and opinion- builders on the need for international attention to the Kashmir issue.
- A Joke Called Choice (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 16, 2001)
The elections in five states have once again demonstrated that democracy is alive and well in India, that the will of the people can be exercised freely to elect their representatives, some of whom will lead them to a better life.
- Corruption Matters (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Apr 16, 2001)
IT is often wrongly claimed that most Indians have become rather cynical about corruption.
- Trips And Aids (Hindu, Arvind Subramanian, Apr 16, 2001)
FOLLOWING THE flurry of frenetic activity over the last few months as western pharmaceutical companies have tumbled over each other to reduce prices of AIDS drugs to Africa, a calm has descended.
- Cruel Month (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
APRIL, wrote T S Eliot, is the cruellest month. India’s economy seems bent on proving him correct. Stockmarket indices have halved in value in a little more than a year.
- High Noon Over Hainan (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 16, 2001)
The collision between the US spy plane and the Chinese interceptor was waiting to happen, with the inevitable souring of relations between the two major powers.
- Rolling Out The Persian Carpet (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2001)
The cultures of India and Iran successfully mingled in the field of architecture.
- Doctored, Alas! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 16, 2001)
RECENT events show that in India Ph.D does not stand for Doctor of Philosophy.
- When The Going Gets Tough (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Apr 16, 2001)
IT'S the winter of our discontent again, as the pendulum of consumer demand journeys from the 'there's lots more where this came from' end to the 'wonder where it disappeared' end.
- Problems With Judicial Activism (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Apr 16, 2001)
UNTIL recently, criticism about judicial activism was confined to its role in hearing and judging petitions filed in the public interest.
- With Leaders Like This, Who Needs Enemies? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 16, 2001)
Hindu communalists often run down Indian Muslims by claiming that they are Muslims first and Indians second.
- Inside A Bomb Shell (Hindustan Times, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Apr 16, 2001)
SINCE INDIA explosively announced its intention to become a ‘nuclear power’ in May 1998, the BJP government and the strategic elites have been asking themselves the same question: what in the world does being a ‘nuclear power’ get you?
- Goodbye To All That (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 16, 2001)
THERE IS a pithy Bengali saying: Bhuter mookhey Ram nam. It refers to the unlikely event of a ghost taking the name of Ram when, normally, the spectral beings flee if the Hindu god is mentioned.
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