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Articles 6821 through 6920 of 7145:
- Colours That Run In The Us (Business Line, Sharad Varde, Oct 19, 2004)
"HEY, you guys wait for a while. On this side are all Asians. You go to the other section. That is quieter."
- People’S War (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2004)
Last week’s violence by the People’s War in West Midnapore district throws up a new challenge to Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The outfit had struck in Midnapore and Bankura districts several times in the past two years.
- Back In The Saddle (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 19, 2004)
The Cong-NCP combine won despite a dismal record of governance in Maharashtra
- Peace-Meal Approach (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2004)
The start of negotiations between the Andhra Pradesh Government and the Naxalites is a positive beginning. If the first round of talks holds out hope – of sustaining the
- No Alternative To Reforms (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18, 2004)
The Left has always been a marginal force in India. Given the belief that its ideology has a special appeal for the poor, it can seem odd that the Left has never made much headway in this country, except at a regional level such as other non-Left
- Significance Of China's Economy To Global Growth (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 18, 2004)
It should come as no surprise that China is a dominant player in the world economy today. A huge economy that has maintained a consistent
- Sweet Sadness (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 18, 2004)
Within the space of a fortnight, two front-ranking French citizens have shuffled off their mortal coils.
- The Role Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 18, 2004)
India needs to take imaginative initiatives in its relations with its neighbours to contain extremism in its north-east
- Trivialities To The Fore (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Oct 18, 2004)
Weird are the ways of New Delhi. At a time when the country faces many grave problems, the nation's capital — especially the antiseptic area where politics, bureaucracy, the media
- Some Expectations (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
"WE KNOW our strength as we are working with the masses" was how Varavara Rao, a long-time associate of the CPI (Maoists), reacted to the huge response to the rallies organised by the party.
- Spreading Tentacles (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
Many of the other States are unhappy with the Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to negotiate with the naxalites.
- War, Peace And The People (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
When the representatives of the Andhra Pradesh Government and Maoist leaders sat across the table in Hyderabad on October 15 to discuss peace, it was in recognition of the truth that they had to respect the people's wishes.
- The Questions Remain (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 17, 2004)
Will the Government be able to convince the Maoists to give up armed struggle? Or is it just a charade being enacted by both the parties?
- "A First Step" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 17, 2004)
What does the Andhra Pradesh Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy, think of the tremendous response to the rallies and meetings of the Communists Party of India (Maoists) and the CPI-ML (Janashakti) in various parts of the State?
- Just Friends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2004)
The police are human, they are allowed to make mistakes. They might, by mistake — or mistaken good intentions — confine the minor victim of a reported rape in the police station for two days instead of the alleged rapist.
- Historic Process (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 15, 2004)
The willingness of the govt and the PW to work out their problems is a step forward
- Iraq Survey Group's Chance Discovery (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 15, 2004)
The Iraq Survey Group has stumbled on a shocking collusion among the Iraqi regime, UN officials, and contractors in more than 40 countries, including the permanent members of the Security Council
- Party To Crime (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 14, 2004)
Political stability does not necessarily guarantee the rule of law. The long reign of the Marxists has given West Bengal the kind of political stability that many other states lack; but the Marxists have devised their own ways of ruling the state.
- Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004 (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 14, 2004)
One of the most widely published and discussed philosophers of our time, Derrida, best known for his theory of deconstruction, was adulated and denigrated in equal measure.
- Is India Facing Argentina-Like Debt Crisis?: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, William Pesek Jr., Oct 13, 2004)
Communist. Socialist. Pro-poor. That India's five-month old government has been called these names and worse should spook bond investors. These are, after all, people who tend to panic over politicians who spend ever-increasing amounts of . . .
- A New Internal Security Agenda (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 13, 2004)
The Indian state's obligation to protect itself and its citizens has to be anchored in the democratic sentiment. There can be no basic conflict between the interests of the state and those of the citizens.
- Donkey Work (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 13, 2004)
Three hundred donkeys and 5,000 mobile phones. These were the essentials, together with Russian jeeps, helicopters and a cargo plane, that the UN had to organize for the Afghan elections.
- Learning To Speak Like The Masters (Telegraph, Deep K. Datta-Ray, Oct 13, 2004)
Public schools, out of fashion in Britain, are striking fresh root in Asia, where they continue to be viewed with much appreciation and awe
- Looking For A Breakthrough (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 13, 2004)
The emergence of People's War leader Ramakrishna from the jungles to a hero's welcome marks yet another step in the Andhra Pradesh Government's progressive move towards restoring peace in the troubled parts of the State.
- From Strength To Strength (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Oct 12, 2004)
The eclipse of the older formations that held in them the seeds of an alternative political grouping is responsible for the rise of the BSP in Maharashtra
- Kerry Must Learn From Reagan (Hindu, Tristram Hunt, Oct 11, 2004)
Mr. Kerry's challenge is to link the $200 billion expenditure on Iraq to faltering economic confidence at home.
- The Miracle And Mystery Of China (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 11, 2004)
China's scorching rate of economic growth has become the stuff of legend. It has been in excess of 8 per cent for nearly two decades. China today stands near the top of the heap among the world's economies.
- Getting Out Of The Poverty Trap (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Oct 11, 2004)
This article is based on two separate and very contrasting stories and the thoughts derived therefrom.
- Inflation And Growth — The Policy Challenge (Business Line, Devika Mehndiratta, Oct 11, 2004)
For an economy with large unemployed resources, running a persistent current account surplus and, at the same time, raising interest rates to dampen aggregate demand and slow down economic activity, may call for simple and cautious policy solutions
- Remembering Mulk, The Pioneer (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Way back in the 1940s a few friends with literary ambitions formed a circle which met once a week to read poems and stories we had written. It was a mutual admiration society where glasses of whisky were refilled at the end of each recitation.
- King Without The Crown (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 09, 2004)
Late on the night of January 16, 1941 Subhas Bose dressed as a maulvi with a beard, fez on head and long coat.
- Political Mess In Pakistan (Tribune, M B NAQVI, Oct 08, 2004)
Sensitive people draw cynical conclusions about Pakistan politics. They follow the unending pointless debate over the wardrobe of President Pervez Musharraf. It occupies the maximum newspaper space and consumes considerable time on TV channels.
- No Military Solution For Assam (Hindu, Udayon Misra, Oct 08, 2004)
The answer lies not in shooting ULFA out of existence but in seriously trying to address some of the root causes for its rise.
- States’ Rights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2004)
Suddenly defenders of India’s national security and sovereignty have become dime a dozen. The offer of the ambassador of the United States of America in New Delhi to Mr Tarun Gogoi, the chief minister of Assam, that help from the...
- New Issues In Non-Proliferation: Self-Reliance, The Only Answer (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 08, 2004)
American non-proliferation policies are arbitrary. Pakistan and China have been found to have transferred enrichment technology and equipment and weapons designs to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
- Mess On The Ground (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 08, 2004)
Despite pious proclamations to the contrary, political discourse in a media-driven society invariably centres on personalities. Consequently, governments and their ...
- Fill In The Blank (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2004)
A political vacuum tends to become the anarchist’s workshop. The Maoist menace in Nepal has long been a case in point.
- Us Knowhow Policy Discriminatory (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Oct 07, 2004)
Unlike in the Clinton Administration, the nuclear nonproliferation mandarins in the Bush Administration have never embarked on a crusade to “cap, roll back and eliminate” India’s nuclear weapons programme.
- Remote Control (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 07, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance government will soon have to make some hard choices on Nepal.
- Advantage Rebellion (Telegraph, Madhusree C. Bhowmik, Oct 05, 2004)
While the other Naxal-infested states are trying to broker peace, Jharkhand remains strangely inert
- Technocrats Ignore Political Realities (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Oct 05, 2004)
Running a country is different from running a corporation. The crucial difference is politics. Politics is about power relationships; it is about economic ideology as well. Technocrat Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia could have avoided the foreign experts ...
- Thank You, Comrade (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 05, 2004)
I wish to acknowledge my deep debt to Comrade A.P. Bardhan. Four months ago, when the news began to trickle that the NDA was going to lose, the stock market went weak in its knees.
- Stalemate In Nepal (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 05, 2004)
As it ponders over the possibility of another ceasefire in the country's eight-year-long war against Maoist insurgents, the Government of Nepal can be forgiven for being especially cautious.
- Beyond The Khyber Pass (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Oct 05, 2004)
Pakistan has long involved itself in Afghanistan's affairs. How will it now deal with the move towards democratic pluralism?
- The Other Side Of Assets (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 04, 2004)
The annual report of the Reserve Bank of India for 2003-04 covers the financial performance of the central bank during the period, besides giving an exhaustive review of macroeconomic developments in the country during the year.
- Uneasiness About The `Hindu' Tag (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 03, 2004)
When an angry mob attacked and burnt a historic mosque in the heart of the city on September 1 last, many here wondered how such an incident could have occurred in a high security zone so close to the Royal Palace and Army headquarters.
- Left Manoeuvre (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2004)
Mr Manmohan Singh has held on to the baby but has thrown out the bathwater as well as the bathtub that held the water.
- Freeing Our Heroes (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Oct 02, 2004)
In his autobiography, Ravi Shankar writes that “being Bengali, of course, makes it natural for me to feel so moved by Tagore; but I do feel that if he had been born in the West he would now be as revered as Shakespeare or Goethe
- Political Compromise (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 02, 2004)
The Left is taking a confrontationist stand far too often for comfort
- By A Faint Snick (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2004)
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has narrowly escaped a political ambush. Mr Sharad Pawar, who declared himself a candidate for the presidentship of the BCCI, has no known associations with cricket.
- Thinking Aloud On Rule Without A King (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 01, 2004)
It is a paradox of political life in Nepal that of all the demands raised by the Maoist insurgents in the past few years, their call for a democratically elected Constituent Assembly has proved to be the most subversive one.
- Korean Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2004)
North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon stunned the world when he disclosed in the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that his country had acquired nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible US military strike.
- Guns And Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 28, 2004)
IN inviting the underground Naxalites for talks on October 2, the Andhra Pradesh Government has broken new ground. The first such initiative between state authorities and Naxalite leaders, with the explicit sanction of the Union Government would be ...
- How To Go On And On (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 28, 2004)
And the left goes on and on with the same predictable refrain. It is behaving as if it is the leading member of the ruling coalition, as if this is its god-given last chance to shout out its rhetoric, which has hardly been heard over the last few decades.
- India In Us Eyes (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 28, 2004)
THE leitmotif of India’s troubled relations with the United States since the dawn of Independence has been Washington’s unwillingness to grant New Delhi strategic and policy-making autonomy in the region, if not further afield.
- Ideological Betrayal On Cards? (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 28, 2004)
The politicians seem to have no scruples in making thoroughly immoral political U-turns
- Foreign Experts — Yes Or No? (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 27, 2004)
It is common knowledge that the very survival of the United Progressive Alliance government led by Dr Manmohan Singh depends on the support from the Left.
- Transition Complete (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 27, 2004)
With President Hu Jintao taking over as Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the process of leadership change in China that began two years ago is now complete.
- China's Growth Model Slows Asia's Rise (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Sep 27, 2004)
The biggest drawback of China's growth model on the rest of Asia is the perpetuation of the export dependent approach. It has postponed Asia's nascent search for an indigenous or domestic demand-led growth model.
- A Matter Of Perception (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Sep 27, 2004)
Expectations and perceptions, as much as the reality of figures, are important for confidence in the economy.
- Ncp-Cong Alliance Will Win Maharashtra Polls: Tripathi (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Sep 26, 2004)
An aide of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, D.P. Tripathi, 54, brings rare academic depth to politics. A former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, Mr Tripathi later taught at Allahabad University.
- Left In The Lurch (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 25, 2004)
What’s a political innocent doing in the Planning Commission? Many even in the Congress are wishing Montek Singh Ahluwalia had been left undisturbed in his IMF job
- Do It Together (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 24, 2004)
If the meeting of Chief Ministers and Home Ministers of the naxalite-affected States in Hyderabad is a welcome step, it was only to be expected that there would be divergent views on how to handle this major problem confronting the States in the ...
- Full Of Doubt (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 24, 2004)
The most important things in life are never in black or white. The grey areas in between are invariably the crucial ones.
- Andhra’S Free Power Fiasco (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Sep 23, 2004)
Andhra Pradesh seems to be going the Punjab way on the much-touted free power policy, if the former’s latest volte-face is any indication.
- New Helmsman (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 22, 2004)
THE first orderly generational change has taken place in China with former President Jiang Zemin handing over the chairmanship of the party’s Central Military Commission to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao.
- Fall From Us Favour (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Sep 22, 2004)
The Americans’ attitude towards Saudi Arabia and its radical Islam is undergoing a change
- Change Of Guard (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 21, 2004)
Hu’s position in China has been strengthened with the exit of Jiang
- Us Missile Defence Plan (Tribune, R. S. Bedi, Sep 21, 2004)
Indo-US strategic cooperation has brought the two countries closer to each other in recent years. The Bush Administration has been quite liberal in granting concessions over a range of strategic issues.
- Are Inflation Expectations Overdone? (Business Line, T. B. Kapali , Sep 20, 2004)
Arresting the rise in headline inflation is now the dominant objective of economic policy. There can, of course, be no second thoughts about the merits of maintaining stable price levels
- Maharashtra: Closer Than It Looks (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Sep 20, 2004)
The elections to the Maharashtra Assembly will be a close run race between the ruling Congress-NCP combine and the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance.
- Paswan Breaks Off With Laloo (Tribune, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 20, 2004)
THE political alignment in Bihar seems to be poised for a change once again. After having hedged on it for a while, Ram Vilas Paswan has now made his intentions clear: he will not be with Laloo Prasad Yadav for the February, 2005, elections for the Bihar
- The Savarkarist Syntax (Hindu, Anil Nauriya , Sep 18, 2004)
A great danger lurks in presenting Savarkarism merely as a matter of being "different" from Gandhism.
- Crisis In Nepal (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Sep 18, 2004)
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s visit to Delhi last week was confirmed only a day before, due to the compound crisis created by the Maoist blockade of Kathmandu, street protests by political formations opposed to the government and the rioting ...
- Basu & Bourse On Pm’S Plate (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 17, 2004)
Manmohan Singh will address the New York Stock Exchange next week, the first Indian Prime Minister to do so.
- Quota Will Harm The Economy (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Sep 17, 2004)
The road to hell, it is said, is paved with good intentions. So is the highway to economic ruin, especially in a country like India where politics of the most opportunistic kind rules the roost.
- Premature Panic Buttons (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Sep 16, 2004)
The government is clearly worried about inflation and inflation figures prominently in the prime minister’s press conference.
- Naxal Menace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 16, 2004)
THE Union Government seems to be in a piquant position on the issue of handling the problem of Naxalites in states like Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
- 100-Day Exercise And The Congress (Deccan Herald, G S Bhargava, Sep 16, 2004)
If Manmohan Singh is able to democratise the Congress, quality would matter more than longevity of tenure
- Weapons, Gods And Naxalites (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Sep 16, 2004)
Organisations of the suppressed classes cannot lay down arms as long as Brahminic forces use violence
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