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- The Problem In Goa Lies In Delhi (Indian Express, V A Pai Panandiker, Feb 23, 2005)
A spate of articles on Goa suggests that democracy in Goa has gone. Nothing is farther from the truth. What happened in the Goa assembly on February 2 is a ...
- Budget Making — An Unenviable Task (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Feb 23, 2005)
The finance minister meets with different segments of the economy to know their mind what they expect from the Budget.
- Clouds Gathering For February 28 (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Feb 23, 2005)
What will the Budget that the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, presents on February 28 look like? Will he produce another "Dream Budget"?
- Europeans Intrigued (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Feb 23, 2005)
Mrs Margaret Thatcher may not have been amused to read of the visiting US Secretary of State, Dr Condoleezza Rice, being described as the most powerful woman in the world. Headlines in the world media justified the description.
- Save Folk Centre (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 22, 2005)
Janapada Loka, the “world of folk culture”, on the Bangalore-Mysore highway near Ramanagaram, will close down if the government does not act fast. The Karnataka Janapada Parishat, which runs Janapada Loka
- The Credit Card Generation (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 22, 2005)
There is widespread concern over the easy availability of credit cards and loans, which have pushed up personal debt across age-groups to unprecedented levels in Britain.
- Two Winter Conclaves (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Feb 22, 2005)
Hundreds of NRIs descended on Bombay on 7 January. That was slightly irregular, for the BJP government had fixed 9 January as the Travelling Indians’ Day (TID);
- The Demise Of Languages (Deccan Herald, PANDURANG HEGDE, Feb 22, 2005)
On February 14, people all over the world celebrated Valentine’s Day, to express their love and affection for one another. But the media as well as the people in different countries
- Budget 2005-06: Will Upa Government Pass The Litmus Test? (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Feb 22, 2005)
A 7-8 per cent GDP growth can become possible in the coming fiscal year on the strength of the remarkable upturn in industry and buoyant growth in services
- Saluting The Great Indian Village (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2005)
Like the Great Indian Family, the Great Indian village too has been an ideal that we never stop dreaming about. SHREE PADRE explores Balasandra - a village which connects the idea with reality.
- Foreign, Or Feudal, Direct Investment? (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, Feb 22, 2005)
In the late 1970s, when I, along with a group of very interesting colleagues, graduated from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,
- Streamline Education (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 21, 2005)
The recent Supreme Court ruling cancelling registration of nearly 100 private universities in the country is a welcome move, as it will help streamline higher education.
- Nation In Turmoil, King In Trouble (Deccan Herald, ANIRUDHA DASGUPTA, Feb 21, 2005)
By clamping an emergency and banning all political parties, King Gyanendra Bikram Shah has triggered — most probably — a major avalanche in the Himalayas.
- Majlis Musings (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Feb 21, 2005)
India never fails to enchant with hidden harmonies. Last week I went with my Hindu friend from Aligarh to the ladies’ Mohurrum majlis at the home of Syeda Syedain Hameed.
- Unfulfilled Hasrat (Tribune, Iqbal Singh Ahuja, Feb 21, 2005)
It was the 50th year celebrations for the first batch of the MBBS class. I was given the responsibility of extending the Indian hospitality to those coming from far away for the “Homecoming — 2004” function in Ludhiana.
- A Green Scorecard For Nations (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Feb 21, 2005)
The Environmental Sustainability Index makes the point that sustainable economic growth actually requires the adoption of policies that aid the environment rather than destroy it.
- A Life In The Day Of Our Republic (Indian Express, VRINDA GROVER, Feb 21, 2005)
Democracy will not survive if the powers of the Special Cell of the Delhi Police begin to brutally encroach upon citizens’ freedoms
- Down The Abyss? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 21, 2005)
Not only in India, but in the rest of the world too, those who were once fondly called city fathers are finding themselves unable to cope with the demands of urban management.
- Economy: Build Like The Ant (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 21, 2005)
Ants build big hills that last and prosper for hundreds of generations but we build towns the way grasshoppers do; the type that become unliveable within one generation.
- How About The Idea Of A Fixed-Maturity Equity Fund? (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Feb 21, 2005)
A fixed-maturity equity fund has to actively control its market risk, especially at the horizon. This requires using derivatives.
- Union Budget: Looking Beyond (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Feb 20, 2005)
The United Progressive Alliance Government is expected to set in motion a major tax reforms initiative in the Union Budget (2005-2006).
- Women’S Panel Not A Jhoom Jhooma (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Feb 20, 2005)
Subhashini Ali of Kanpur was a formidable speaker when she was a CPI(M) member of the Lok Sabha. One afternoon in 1982 I heard her on the newly constituted National Commission for Women.
- High-Tech Delhi Suburb Stuck In 'Village Time Warp' (Washington Post, RAMA LAKSHMI, Feb 20, 2005)
Five years ago, Saurabh Chawla, a young corporate strategist, moved out of cramped and polluted New Delhi to the open spaces of suburban Gurgaon,
- Muddle In Nepal (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Feb 19, 2005)
India has seven neighbours, including Nepal. Our relationship with each one of them is based on a different set of historical, geographical and cultural factors. But a generally shared perspective of history and a substantially common culture especially b
- History In The Box (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Feb 19, 2005)
Unlike economists and sociologists, who usually write for their peers, historians have sought to reach a wider audience.
- Hear The Cries From Dalal Street (Indian Express, RENUKA SANE, Feb 19, 2005)
Following the recommendations made by the FRBM Task Force towards implementing a nationwide GST, several efforts have been made in the last few months by the States and the Centre to come to an agreement to implement Value Added Tax (VAT) across India.
- Go For It In Nagaland (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The State Human Development Report 2004 for Nagaland, the first for the State, is revealing in many respects. According to conventional wisdom
- Dogged Ways Of Strays (Indian Express, Mukul Dube, Feb 19, 2005)
I was born into a household which contained two greyhounds. The Pekinese, who bore the noble name Tillu, was either there already or else came soon after.
- Depth Of Depravity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 19, 2005)
Even at a time when crimes reflecting shocking depravity are no longer that rare, there are some that shake one to the core.
- Between The Lines (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, Feb 19, 2005)
In the article, "Wonder that was India" (Foray, February 6), Dina Nath Mishra criticises Amulya Ganguli for his uncharitable remarks on ancient Indian science.
- Now Dimm’D And Gone (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Feb 19, 2005)
My mother died quite sometime ago. None of her children can remember what year it was, but we get together on her death anniversaries as on those ....
- This Is What He Said (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 19, 2005)
Bowing to pressure from his faculty, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, on Thursday released a month-old transcript of his contentious closed-door remarks about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering....
- Stifling Natural Enterprise (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Feb 19, 2005)
At the very apex of technical and technological skills, India has established itself as a world player - if not, yet, as a world power. Freed, in some measure
- Research Without Barriers (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 19, 2005)
The global movement seeking open access to credible research reports took a significant step forward when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States recently unveiled its Public Access Policy that urges the scientific
- Warped View Of Education (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Feb 19, 2005)
Section 80E of the Income-tax Act confers a tax benefit on individuals pursuing higher studies with the aid of educational loans.
- 'Brothels': Red Light, Green Light (Washington Post, Teresa Wiltz, Feb 19, 2005)
For those who've seen the Oscar-nominated "Born Into Brothels," the documentary that tracks
- Raman Is One (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 18, 2005)
About five months back, he was under attack from his own partymen for being a lazy chief minister. Now, a news magazine has crowned Raman Singh the No. 1 CM. And nobody is more upset than his predecessor, Ajit Jogi, who claims
- Reservations And Competing Nations (Deccan Herald, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels competing nationalities of our delicately constructed nation — one of the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste- based identity and assertion has now turned into a bane.
- The Impossible Quadrangle (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 18, 2005)
In the fourth Dr Ambirajan memorial lecture organised at Chennai on February 16 by the Public Expenditure Round Table and the Institute of Economic Education, the Chairman
- The Politics Of Aid (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Feb 18, 2005)
The growing strain on the Earth’s environment caused by global warming or the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the developing world pose a great threat to humanity. HIV alone in South Africa affects more than four million people, and 8,200 succumb to it daily around
- Profit Goals Vs. Public Purpose (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 18, 2005)
In conferring 'University' status to more than 100 establishments, the Chhattisgarh Government was guilty of a cynical perversion of the loftier principle of private-public partnership in higher education.
- A More Public Role (Telegraph, SURYAKANT WAGHMORE, Feb 18, 2005)
The current debate over reservations in the private sector unravels the claims of competing nationalities. Especially now that the policy threatens, once again, the traditionally privileged castes for whom caste-based identity has become a bane.
- Love, Actually (Indian Express, JAYSHREE MISRA TRIPATHI, Feb 18, 2005)
The nearest our grandmothers got to saying, “I love you” in Oriya was “I like you!” And even that was said with a blush. Dad’s mother, Ma, left us too soon.
- After The Sock In The Eye (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 18, 2005)
India’s garrulous foreign minister has received a sock in the eye. This gentleman, on induction in office last May, had chosen Kathmandu as his first official port of call.
- An Unhealthy Plan For The Poor (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Feb 18, 2005)
It is a matter of national shame that the Centre has to be reminded by an American daily about how the UPA Government has surrendered to American MNCs’ interests in drawing up the patents ordinance.
- India's Military Hungry For More (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Feb 18, 2005)
Indian defense officials have laid out a request for a huge increase in spending on arms to New Delhi, most of which will be used to purchase state-of-the-art weaponry from suppliers around the world.
- Political Carnival (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
Unlike the rustic politician from Jatland, the Goan lawmaker affects sophistication. His immaculate wardrobe goes nicely with his painstakingly acquired English pronunciation.
- Passage To Kabul (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 17, 2005)
External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh's visit to Kabul has once again highlighted the revival of India's ancient and warm ties with Afghanistan that were rudely sundered during
- War Of Reds (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Feb 17, 2005)
In Naxal-affected Palamau division, two of the main contenders in the Assembly poll fray are former ultras. Of these, ex-ultra B N Singh, contesting on a CPI(ML) ticket, is being considered a strong candidate.
- Murder Of Abhi Verma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 17, 2005)
The crudeness of the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Hoshiarpur schoolboy Abhi Verma is hard to believe. The despicable act has raised a couple of questions
- Justice As Self-Purification (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Feb 17, 2005)
The report on the anti-Sikh riots offers the Congress a chance to reinvent itself.
- Carrs Can Deliver (Business Line, SANKAR RAY, Feb 17, 2005)
THE Committee on Subordinate Legislation (14th Lok Sabha), in its first report submitted on December 2, 2004, has indicted the Department of Company Affairs (DCA) for lack of seriousness in applying the Cost Accounting Records Rules (CARRs).
- Crumbling Bastion (Pioneer, Subodh Kumar, Feb 17, 2005)
An ideal state gives equal opportunity to every section of society. In this respect, Bihar is way behind its counterparts in the country. Its intra-regional differences are characterised by disparity at the levels of literacy, density of population...
- Dealing With Naxalism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 17, 2005)
After Andhra Pradesh it is now Karnataka's turn to face naxalite violence. With the gunning down of forest brigand Veerappan, Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh decided to re-deploy the Special Task Force (STF) for neutralising the threat from the Maoi
- A Public Thinker And His Legacy (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Feb 17, 2005)
Arthur Miller, in his autobiography, Timebends, quoted the great physicist Hans Bethe as saying, “Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to think...”
- Kyoto — Behind And Beyond (Business Line, N. R. Krishnan , Feb 17, 2005)
The much-debated THE MUCH-DEBATED Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to limit emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming, came into force on Wednesday. With this, one should expect the end of the debate on the need to have such a measure but....
- He ‘Special Children’ Trap (Indian Express, Neera Kuckreja Sohoni, Feb 17, 2005)
Despite several development decades and plans, barriers persist in preventing the variously challenged people from accessing education and other services. Denial of basic human rights continues to isolate the challenged from governmental programmes and pu
- Universities Told To Check Plagiarism (Tribune, Sarah Cassidy, Feb 16, 2005)
UNIVERSITIES have been warned to clamp down on students who cheat because of fears that they are devaluing the status of British degrees. Guidelines sent to all universities warn that plagiarism is likely to rise given the amount of easily accessed work o
- Taken Young (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 16, 2005)
A particular form of sexual brutality has been recurring over the last few months in mofussil Bengal. The female victims are all minors, usually schoolgirls, and they have been raped, sometimes gang-raped, and some of them have then been brutally killed.
- Police Itself To Blame For Bad Image (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Feb 16, 2005)
I am surprised at the Delhi police complaint that it was not immediately informed about the attack by the gun on Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, Delhi University lecturer. This is a sad commentary on the credibility of the force.
- Valentine Eve (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Feb 16, 2005)
LISTENING to the mesmerising sitar recital by Shujaat Hussain Khan, I would have missed the mobile ring had I not put the instrument on vibration mode and in my shirt pocket.
- A Wedding Is Announced (Telegraph, CHARLES MOORE, Feb 16, 2005)
“Quietly pleased” would sum up the general British reaction to the engagement of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. But does it mean they will accept her as queen?
- Fear Shall Have No Dominion (Indian Express, ASHIMA KAUL, Feb 16, 2005)
Some people in their lifetime become a symbol. Khaksar Mohammad Maqbool Shah was such a man. Unidentified gunmen shot him dead in Srinagar on February 9, after the evening prayers, near the mosque in which he had, for most of his life
- Politics On The Box (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Feb 15, 2005)
With India in the throes of another round of elections, the role of television in campaigning and seeking to influence the outcome is coming into sharper focus each day.
- Power Sector Reforms: Generating A Viable Model (Business Line, M. G. Devasahayam , Feb 15, 2005)
After a reality-check' on the power sector, the Planning Commission has admitted that though there have been a number of experiments in State electricity boards (SEBs) reform
- Panchayats & Employment Guarantee (Hindu, A. Vaidyanathan , Feb 15, 2005)
There is a far greater chance that left to themselves panchayats will implement employment guarantee schemes with a greater sense of responsibility.
- Budget: Will There Be An Amnesty Scheme? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Feb 15, 2005)
While there must be every attempt to check tax evasion, there must, equally, be every attempt to stop whimsical taxation. The proposal for a blanket amnesty scheme to tap black money will be both arbitrary and whimsical.
- Moving On From The Metro Mindset (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Feb 15, 2005)
If a new commission is set up to look into Centre-State relations, its mandate should be to demarcate the functions of each, empowering the States to create regions of excellence.
- Lesson For Life (Indian Express, Palak Nandi, Feb 15, 2005)
A walk through the corridors of time is what someone a tad more philosophical than I would call it. But matter-of-fact me just saw it as a trip to an old school.
- Morality Play Comes To Town (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Feb 15, 2005)
THE continuing harassment of Anara Gupta even after the findings by the Central Forensic Lab in Hyderabad nudges us to go beyond the limited issue of whether she is the woman in the CD.
- Bare Life (Telegraph, Ananya Vajpeyi, Feb 15, 2005)
Once again, Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani meets, before his time, in an only half-unexpected fashion, his old friend, Death.
- Romance In Changing Times (Deccan Herald, MARY BLY, Feb 14, 2005)
It was fifth-grade choir practice in the spring of 1972, and I was learning about love from a copy of Kathleen Woodiwiss’s “Flame and the Flower” that a classmate had purloined from his mom.
- Rally Round (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 14, 2005)
A party in power for 28 years develops a confidence unmatched by any but the most arrogant dictators. This was on display once again last Saturday, when Calcutta ground to a grating halt in order to accommodate the thousands of ardent followers that the C
- No Mullah Left Behind (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Feb 14, 2005)
The Wall Street Journal ran a very, very alarming article from Iran on its front page last Tuesday. The article explained how the mullahs in Tehran
- Pakistan Leaves Arms Calling Card (Asia Times, Kaushik Kapisthalam, Feb 14, 2005)
Non-proliferation experts and anti-nuclear activists have long highlighted South Asia as a "hot" theater insofar as a potential nuclear war is concerned.
- The Last Of The Titans (Tribune, Rupert Cornwell, Feb 14, 2005)
ARTHUR Miller was perhaps the greatest American playwright of the 20th century. Very few writers in any country at any time have so captured the universal themes of family, of the transience of success - how ordinary
- A Budget For Public Governance (The Economic Times, U. R. Bhat, Feb 14, 2005)
With the process of budget-making in full swing, the national pastime these days is to give myriad suggestions to the finance minister about some aspect or the other of taxation and government finances.
- A Time For Democracy (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Feb 14, 2005)
Democratic urges are manifesting themselves worldwide. In Iraq the voter turnout was way beyond expectations — of the Americans, the world community
- An Untenable Theory (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Feb 14, 2005)
PROFESSOR Emeritus of the London School of Economics, Lord Meghnad Desai, has returned to his old theme. He has again called upon the Congress and the BJP to form a coalition because he believes that this unusual combination is the only way in which the I
- Blue Ocean Strategy (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 14, 2005)
Management field brims with new ideas. It has to, otherwise it will not be accepted as a credible pursuit. Also, the constant intellectual churning that goes on questions old assumptions and concepts
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