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Articles 26521 through 26620 of 26693:
- Partitioned Spaces (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2001)
The most charitable view of the segregation of ‘‘minority handicrafts’’ at the ongoing India International Trade Fair (IITF) in New Delhi is that there is nothing more than meets the eye in the decision.
- From Plenty To Penury (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 25, 2001)
WHEN PROSPERITY takes the road of profligacy, populism and corruption, the destination clearly is bankruptcy.
- A Game Of Oneupmanship (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Nov 25, 2001)
MR. JOHN Howard is back as Australia's Prime Minister for the third time.
- Iftaar: A Dash Of Politics, Diplomacy & Glamour (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Nov 25, 2001)
Iftaar party diplomacy has begun as the month of Ramadaan entered the second week. No, I’m not hinting at the Iftaar hosted by the Pakistani envoy Ashraf Jehangir Qazi (which, I am told, was a damb squib with only a quarter of the invitees turning up).
- War Against Terror: The Public Opinion Conundrum (Tribune, Sreeram Chaulia, Nov 25, 2001)
There is a fundamental contradiction in the renewed love fest that the present war against terrorism has contrived between the United States and its old Cold War ally, Pakistan.
- Ambedkar And Partition (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Nov 25, 2001)
According to Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu and an Indian, the greatest in many generations, and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian.
- Chomsky And The American Political Fraud (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Nov 25, 2001)
“War on Afghanistan constitutes a greater terrorist act than the September 11 attacks”.
- Why Bush Wouldn't Condemn Pakistan (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Nov 25, 2001)
If you were one of those who watched President Mush (Musharraf) trying to steal the show from President Bush when the two went centre-stage at their New York Press conference.
- The Unkindest Cut (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 25, 2001)
International cricket has escaped the severe blow it would have suffered had India refused to play against South Africa at Centurion Park, Johannesburg, from Friday.
- Composite Culture: Then & Now (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Nov 24, 2001)
Indian politicians are masters at taking a fine idea and making it sound like nothing more than empty words.
- Rising Pitch, Silly Point (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 24, 2001)
IF we were to listen to Navjot Singh Sidhu, I wouldn’t be writing the column this week and you, in any case, wouldn’t have been reading it.
- Ambedkar And Partition (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Nov 24, 2001)
According to Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu and an Indian, the greatest in many generations, and he was proud of being a Hindu and an Indian.
- The Unkindest Cut (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 24, 2001)
International cricket has escaped the severe blow it would have suffered had India refused to play against South Africa at Centurion Park, Johannesburg, from Friday.
- Why Bush Wouldn't Condemn Pakistan (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Nov 24, 2001)
If you were one of those who watched President Mush (Musharraf) trying to steal the show from President Bush when the two went centre-stage at their New York Press conference.
- Wanted In Pakistan, Someone To Bell The Cat (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Nov 24, 2001)
THE turn of events in Afghanistan over the past two weeks is being described as a strategic debacle for Pakistan.
- What Has Dalmiya Done? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 24, 2001)
President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Jagmohan Dalmiya has only himself to blame for the mess he has created.
- Defence Forces Deserve Izzat In Society (Pioneer, Bobby Sharma, Nov 23, 2001)
The Services of yore were known for eschewing profligacy and ostentation. Their institutions exuded awe-inspiring elegance, dignity and simplicity.
- Potshot At Poto (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Nov 23, 2001)
Why are the political parties playing the POTO game?
- Not The Way To Put The House In Order (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Nov 23, 2001)
The Union Cabinet has decided to do away with the requirement that a person should be residing in the State from where he wants to fight an election to the Rajya Sabha.
- Bjp’s New Stance (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 23, 2001)
HOME Minister L. K. Advani surprised his secular critics by unambiguously denouncing the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) for its forced entry into the makeshift structure in Ayodhya on October 17.
- Genetically Modified Plants -- Biological Intervention, The Answer (Business Line, Ashok Chaudhury, Nov 23, 2001)
GENETICALLY modified (GM) or transgenic plants will play an important role in Indian agriculture.
- Cynical Politics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 23, 2001)
THE UNION HOME Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani's response to the Ayodhya-centric concerns voiced by the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha in the context of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
- It Is A Question Of Decorum In Parliament (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Nov 23, 2001)
EVEN as a high-level conference on "Discipline and decorum in Parliament and State Legislatures" is slated for the weekend in the Capital.
- Search For A Suitable Head For Sebi Gets Tough (The Financial Express, Sharad Mistry, Nov 23, 2001)
Here's a golden chance for all those who love challenges and controversies, are adept at walking the tight-rope doing a fine balancing act between the strong corporate lobby and a status quo-loving finance ministry.
- Informal Sector: A Dilemma Between Removal And Revival (The Financial Express, Siddartha Mitra, Nov 23, 2001)
There have been several attempts to control the size of the informal sector through licensing or physical controls. The cycle rickshaw sector in Delhi has been the object of one such attempt. The policy has clearly failed.
- Fiction As Fact? (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Nov 23, 2001)
QUITE some time ago, I wrote a novel, The Oblivion Tapes. A few friends, mostly Americans, advised me against writing it.
- The Evil Empire And The Crusader-Turned-Gladiator (The Financial Express, Ravi Kapoor, Nov 23, 2001)
With the government announcing the sale of CMC Ltd and HTL Ltd in October and hotels of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) and Hotel Corporation of India this month, the privatisation process is at the threshold of the take-off stage.
- Malegaon And Manipulation (Hindu, Jyoti Punwani, Nov 23, 2001)
MARATHI-SPEAKING HINDU and Urdu- speaking Muslim school children in Malegaon, Maharashtra, may soon become `pen friends'.
- Gowda’s Plans Go Awry (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 22, 2001)
In the last few weeks, former Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda has been desparately trying to come to political limelight but without much success.
- Maran’s ‘Marginal Loss’ At Doha May Prove Substantial (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Nov 22, 2001)
India agreeing to the inclusion of the environment clause in multilateral trading may water down the gains it achieved in trade in agriculture if effective steps are not taken in time.
- Many Can’t Stomach Bush Ramzan Feasts (Indian Express, Hanna Rosin, Nov 22, 2001)
AS PRESIDENT Bush hosts Ramzan feasts at the White House this week to bolster Muslim support for the war on terrorism, he is shadowed by criticism of the administration’s outreach efforts to American Muslims during the past two months.
- Retrograde Act (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 22, 2001)
ALTHOUGH THE DECISION of the Supreme Court Bench to return without any comment the Resettlement (of J&K State Subjects Who Left State Before 1954 And Now Living in Pakistan).
- This Is No Misa (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 22, 2001)
IN 1969, Henry Kissinger, newly appointed national security adviser, was talking off the record to the media. ‘‘Will you repeat your predecessors’ mistakes in Vietnam?’’
- Business At Hand (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 22, 2001)
It is hoped that the whip cracked by Lok Sabha Speaker GMC Balayogi towards the end of the Monsoon Session of Parliament will rein in the more mercurial members in the current session that was brought to order on Monday.
- Denness' Mens Rea (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Nov 22, 2001)
Dear Uma Bharatiji - Today a proud and free citizen of a free India is compelled to write this open letter for your urgent intervention to save India from the clutches of the ICC.
- Should Octroi Go? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 22, 2001)
The Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a ruling on Monday, cleared the way for the Punjab Government to abolish octroi.
- The Secularism Of Celebration (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 22, 2001)
SOCIOLOGISTS claim that the farther the contemporary Indian travels from his roots the more he seeks to return to them.
- Chaos Continues In North East (The Kashmir Times, Arun Nehru, Nov 21, 2001)
The North East contin-ues in the chaos, which has entered political life as Meghalaya goes the Manipur way, and the fact remains that ideology (long gone), political parties (extinct) are long forgotten.
- Europe's 'General' Views On Nine-Eleven (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Nov 21, 2001)
Strange are the ways of the world, even stranger the ways of warfare, especially George Bush's first war of the 21st century.
- Do You Feel Winter In Bones? (Tribune, Jane Clarke, Nov 21, 2001)
WHAT a spirit-dampener the rain is! Not only that, but wet weather makes many people’s bones and joints ache.
- Amid Hills & Greenery, Barnala Turns Painter (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 21, 2001)
WITH a lot of politics expected after Uttaranchal state’s first-ever elections to be held next year, the Governor of the state, Surjit Singh Barnala, cools his heels taking time out to indulge in some paintings.
- Pm’s Day Out With Kathak (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Nov 21, 2001)
In between relaxing with a Hindi film and wooing the RSS at Panchvati, Vajpayee seems to have decided to pack in a bit of culture as well at his recently constructed auditorium complex.
- Nation Doesn’t Need Draconian Laws (Tribune, V. Eshwar Anand, Nov 21, 2001)
TERRORISM may have acquired a new dimension after the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon in Washington on September 11.
- Call Back The Cricketers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 21, 2001)
MR Mike Denness, the international match referee for the Indian cricket team's tour of South Africa, may have bitten more than he can chew by virtually accusing the entire visiting team of indulging in acts of cheating and violating the spirit of the game
- Radical Changes In Suffrage (Pioneer, Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Nov 21, 2001)
Bangalore is witnessing some hectic campaigning by 'hooch queen' Marimuttu. A veteran of 27 cases, she is harbouring political ambitions inspired by the late Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi.
- Ban Mike Deness (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 21, 2001)
No one can object to cricketers being punished for misconduct on the field.
- A Soldier: Why Should I Fight Terrorism? (Tribune, PN Khera, Nov 21, 2001)
INDIAN soldiers posted on the international border and the Line of Control have to fight an unseen enemy who has been infiltrated into the country to strike at strategic targets and innocent civilians or set up booby traps to blow up military convoys.
- Unfair! (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 21, 2001)
Here is Dalmiya’s chance to stand up for Indian players.
- Temple Plots And Holy Men (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Nov 21, 2001)
Why are Punjab’s Sikhs trapped in this medieval morass?
- The Fight For Human Rights Has To Include The Excluded (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 21, 2001)
Kabul fell one day after some 500 men and women from South Asia, at a meeting in New Delhi, adopted a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan.
- Haryana Action Plan To Check Fast-Depleting Water Table (The Financial Express, C. R. Rathee, Nov 21, 2001)
Alarmed by reports of continued and steep decline in the reservoir-level of underground water in Haryana, particularly in the southern part of the state which includes Gurgaon, the state government has constituted a Water Conservation Mission (WCM).
- The Mess In Afghanistan (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Nov 21, 2001)
IF TRUTH be told, despite the success of the US-led coalitions attack on Afghanistan, the fall of Kabul.
- Divali Minus Crackers (Tribune, Iqbal Singh Ahuja, Nov 20, 2001)
“Hi Doc! How are you?, enquired my friend Satish. “What a paradox? “I thought. A non-medico enquiring about a doctor’s health. Before I could come out of his kind gesture — he blurted: “Doctor, tum bimaar nahi hote.”
- Poto: Pity It Is Confrontation, Not Consensus (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 20, 2001)
NEW DELHI, NOV. 19. It will be a pity that just when the country needs consensus on core issues of national interest, the ruling side and the opposition head towards a sharp confrontation.
- Young India Takes The Reins (Tribune, P. Raman , Nov 20, 2001)
A decade ago it was fashionable to deride the CPM for its gerentocratic leadership. In those days, the party politburo’s average age was as high as 75 plus.
- Jayalalitha’s Terms Of Engagement (Indian Express, B. S. Nagaraj, Nov 20, 2001)
After enduring separation pangs, the AIADMK seems to getting close to the BJP all over again. Is an alliance afoot?
- South Africa-India Bilateral Trade Picks Up Well Despite A Late Start (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Bilateral trade between India and South Africa started in 1993 since earlier there were trade restrictions on account of apartheid pursued by the then South African regime.
- Democracy In Dire Straits (Tribune, Bhim S. Dahiya, Nov 20, 2001)
Whenever the thought of our democracy occurs to me, and it occurs quite often, a scene from an old Hindi movie named “Railway Platform” appears on my mind’s screen.
- Pm’s Sangat Darshan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 20, 2001)
Prime Minister Vajpayee turned the concluding function of the bicentenary celebration of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s coronation into a launching pad of the coming election campaign.
- A Vvip Village Called Bathindi (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 20, 2001)
Mahatma Gandhi saw the vision of new India in the villages of the country.
- The Shadow And The Throne (Indian Express, T. N. Gopalan, Nov 20, 2001)
The ageing M. Karunanidhi must still rue the day he chose to send his police to ferret out Jayalalithaa’s resignation letter from the residence of her confidante Sasikala’s husband, Natarajan, way back in early 1989.
- The Politics Of Poto (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 20, 2001)
IF THE UNION GOVERNMENT banked on achieving a measure of consensus on the proposed legislation to check terrorism, its plan seems to have come totally unstuck.
- Poto: Pity It Is Confrontation, Not Consensus (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Nov 20, 2001)
NEW DELHI, NOV. 19. It will be a pity that just when the country needs consensus on core issues of national interest, the ruling side and the opposition head towards a sharp confrontation.
- Primitive Accumulation Versus The Rule Of Law (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 20, 2001)
Some of the politicians and civil servants who made money used it to live well, fulfilling their feudal dreams. Some who knew the ropes sent the money abroad.
- Mine Of Problems (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 20, 2001)
PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN mining has been disappointingly slow to happen.
- The Afghan Kaleidoscope (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 20, 2001)
NOT FOR the first time nor, one suspects, the last, Afghanistan is playing a role in world history unmerited by its economic weight, unwarranted by its military power.
- Made In Pakistan (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 20, 2001)
Atal Behari Vajpayee, 77, just couldn’t decide on the right kind of jacket for himself.
- Making Money In The Great Game Of Social Advancement (The Financial Express, Chanakya , Nov 19, 2001)
You cannot walk an inch in India, it seems, without coming near the putrid smell of corruption and nepotism. Bribery seems to be all pervading. Every one complains about it.
- Is Small Industry R&d-Oriented? -- Positive Evidence From Karnataka (Business Line, M. H. Bala Subrahmanya, Nov 19, 2001)
SMALL-SCALE industry (SSI) in India is now exposed to local and global competition as never before.
- No More Middle Ground On The Tamil Question (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Nov 19, 2001)
COLOMBO, NOV. 18. At a recent workshop organised by the Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance, one of the speakers was critical of the role of Tamil journalists in the country's ethnic conflict.
- Including The Excluded (The Kashmir Times, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 19, 2001)
Kabul, fell one day after some 500 men and women from South Asia adopted at a meeting in New Delhi a statement on the sovereignty of Afghanistan. It was a premonition or wishful thinking on their part.
- Ritual Of Convenience (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 19, 2001)
THERE is no likelihood of any business being conducted in Parliament today.
- A Vvip Village Called Bathindi (The Kashmir Times, Editorial, Kashmir Times, Nov 19, 2001)
Mahatma Gandhi saw the vision of new India in the villages of the country.
- Caught In The Quicksand (Hindu, Muralidhar Reddy, Nov 18, 2001)
``NEVER IN the field of human conflict have so many experts of the highest renown been so thoroughly wrong.
- Darling Of The West (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Nov 18, 2001)
FROM being a nation shunned to a ``frontline'' ally and a coveted guest at the high table in Downing Street, and at Waldorf Astoria across the Atlantic...
- Fishing In Troubled Waters (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Nov 18, 2001)
THE political games being played in the aftermath of the communal riots in Malegaon are more abhorrent than the violence itself. Political parties of all hues are engaged in scoring over each other and if the macabre manipulations lead to a fresh bout.
- This ‘Smart’ Surgeon Is More Dangerous Than Osama (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Nov 18, 2001)
NOW that the Taliban rule is coming to an end , Osama bin Laden’s days appear to be numbered.
- Timely Concern (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 18, 2001)
THE concern voiced by Abu Abraham in his article “A legacy denied: All that Nehru stood for is now under attack” (Nov 11) is timely.
- Re-Inventing A Political Buddha (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Nov 18, 2001)
Through some of his dulcet poems Rabindra Nath Tagore brought Buddha and Shivaji closer to every Bengali's heart.
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Punjab’s Benevolent Ruler (Tribune, Mohinder Singh, Nov 18, 2001)
POPULARLY known as the Lion of Punjab, Ranjit Singh was not only the greatest man of his time in Punjab but was also among the few leading figures of the history of that period.
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