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Articles 21521 through 21620 of 22438:
- Thank You, 2003! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 31, 2003)
NORMALLY, on December 31, the excitement is all about the New Year. The only thought for the year that has been with us for the previous 12 months is usually a la Lord Tennyson in his famous poem, Ring out, Wild Bells: "The year is dying in the night, and
- Asean Ties: India Must Look To The East With Greater Vision (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 31, 2003)
INDIA has moved purposefully in developing a broad economic and strategic partnership with the dynamic countries of South-East Asia.
- Surviving The Male Gaze (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 31, 2003)
Violence against women can be curbed only if there is a change in the way men look at women and women look at themselves
- That Lift Which They Sing About (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 31, 2003)
There is much talk these days about the common school system, free and compulsory education and that India has not fulfilled her vow to give at least primary education to all the children in this country.
- Sooner Or Later (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
Arbitrary and clueless experiments with school English have a long history in West Bengal. For more than two decades, the Left Front has played a sort of disastrous bagatelle with the exact stage in which English is introduced in the government schools...
- Business Fiction (Business Line, G. S. Balakrishnan , Dec 30, 2003)
A POST-graduate student of business management sought my help for his dissertation on business fiction. Incidentally, he was curious to know, why like the abbreviation SF for Science Fiction, B F for Business Fiction was not popular.
- Making India An Economic Superpower — Stem The Rot In Governance (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 30, 2003)
Governance failure is the single biggest impediment to achieving a higher growth rate of the economy.
- Don’t Go By The Book (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Nurseries Of Alienation (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 30, 2003)
Geographical enclavement in a remote pocket has provided the physical basis for a kind of "internal colonialism" faced by Adivasis throughout India.
- ‘hindutva And Development Are Not Antagonistic’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 30, 2003)
As the BJP seeks to exploit its victory in the recent state assembly elections and return to power in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, Neerja Chowdhury interviews HRD minister and senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi to get an insight into the BJP’s mind.
- Coming Of Age (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Letting go is a difficult, but crucial, stage in every nurturing process. This is as true of filial bonds as of more political forms of paternalism. The Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad is currently going through a rite of passage, which might
- Lunging Lyngdoh (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 29, 2003)
APPARENTLY, the privileges and immunities of his post have gone to the head of the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr J. M. Lyngdoh, to an extent that he considers moderation an over-rated virtue. From the safe sanctuary of his position as a Constitutional
- Reforming Politics (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
The latest amendment to the Constitution (on defections) should be the beginning of serious reform and not the end.
- Beacons Of Excellence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
THE proposal of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to set up four National Institutes of Science across the country is welcome. The interest of students in science has slackened with the most brilliant minds going towards business and commerce fields
- Keep The Net Free (Telegraph, Subimal Bhattacharjee, Dec 29, 2003)
Keeping the cyberspace free of controls was the subject of much debate at the recent World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, the first such gathering. Along with ensuring freedom, we also need to find ways to address the issues arising out of
- Teaching Shops (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
While discussing how successfully Indian higher education is “globalizing”, a colleague pointed out a remarkable anomaly. At any stage of school education, an Indian child is taught far more than the product of an American or British school, and is likely
- Job Creation: Not Just An Economic Problem (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Dec 29, 2003)
Even as jobs have to be created to accommodate India's ever-increasing population, technology developments are destroying existing ones. The issue, therefore, is not merely adding enough jobs but also creating replacements for those lost. As the obstacles
- Where Us Translates As Freedom (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Dec 29, 2003)
Poland is to France what Advil is to a pain in the neck. It’s the most pro-American country in the world — including the United States
- Job-Oriented Study Plus Loans Needed: Kalam To Ugc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
Expressing concern over the growing unemployment and the rising cost of higher education, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today asked the UGC to adopt a multi-pronged strategy to make education job-oriented and accessible to all through easy bank loans.
- Consumer Safety Comes To The Fore (Tribune, Pushpa Girimaji, Dec 29, 2003)
TWO thousand and three was quite a significant year for the Indian consumer, with several developments providing an impetus to the growth of the consumer movement in the country. Throughout the year, issues concerning consumer safety came to the fore and
- The Hard Business Of Life (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 28, 2003)
She looked like any ordinary Tamil woman in her neat and simple sari, her smooth, dark plait. But when she smiled, I knew there was something more to Faustina, better known as Bama, the writer. The smile was full-fledged, hopeful, and how precious this...
- If Your New Year Resolution Is 'Show Me The Money...' (Indian Express, Monika Halan, Dec 28, 2003)
2003 meant zooming market, falling interest rates, steady inflation and falling home-loan rates. In 2004, market will mature giving a 10-15% average return—Sensex around 6,000-6,500. Home-loan rate cuts will largely stop. Artificially supported small ...
- India Unplugged (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Dec 28, 2003)
This is the time of the year when one makes wishes. A few weeks ago, I made two wishes and hoped that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would act on them. Last week I made one more wish for the Prime Minister’s birthday and I shall now add two more for
- Doctored Register (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Dec 28, 2003)
At remote Dagadwadi, teachers administer medicines to boost attendance in primary classes
- Avoiding Future Shock (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
ENABLING CITIZENS THROUGH education and skill enhancement is more critical today than at any other time. There is fairly well founded concern that in the next decade the country could find itself performing a difficult balancing act: catering to ...
- He Blew The Whistle, We Hear The Sound (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 27, 2003)
After the Dubey murder, the thousands of IITians working selflessly in India need to renew their pledge to their country
- What Price Education? (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 27, 2003)
The Blair Government is facing stiff opposition to its plans to allow Britain's universities to triple their annual tuition fees.
- Jobless In Shining India (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Dec 27, 2003)
The 57th round of the National Sample Survey, pertaining to June 2001 to June 2002, has come up with startling facts. One in every 200 rural households and one in every 1,000 urban households goes ‘‘chronically hungry’’. In simple words, they don’t get
- In High Disdain (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 27, 2003)
Back in the Sixties, it used to be said that India’s most successful export were economists. Our economy was resolutely insulated from the rest of the world, but our economists occupied high posts in famous universities in Europe and America. Later, the
- Missing Pieces In The Jigsaw (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 26, 2003)
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated life, whether it was the terror perpetrated by militants or by the police/army, that blood on the streets became as
- Chronicle Of A Life Foretold (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
Like the curate’s egg, Gabriel García Márquez’s memoirs are good only in parts. But this is not to say that the less-good parts are very bad. This is, of course, the first volume of a three volume study. It fails to captivate in the way that his novels in
- A Woman Comes Of Age (Telegraph, Jhelum Biswas, Dec 26, 2003)
The subtitle of the book — “Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Woman” is reminiscent of Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. The similarity does not end here. Like the latter, Sethu Ramaswamy’s autobiography is not simply a personal...
- One Land, Two Sovereigns (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 26, 2003)
Small problems here often lead to big tensions between India and Nepal," says Bharatendu Mallik, the young and popular Mayor of this town on the banks of the Mechi River that has long defined Nepal's eastern boundary with India.
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- Transparency In Transfer: At Least One Govt Dept Puts It All On The Web (Indian Express, ANILKUMAR NARAYAN , Dec 25, 2003)
One Government department has shown the way.
In an attempt to make the process of transfer of its officers transparent and corruption-free, the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance has made it mandatory for its Group A officers to seek ...
- Use The Rod And Spoil The Child (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
Case 5: National Human Rights Commission’s intervention against the corporal punishment of Aarti Saroj
- The Psychology Of Regulation (Business Line, Priya Mohan, Dec 25, 2003)
On the pros and cons of SEBI's proactiveness in ensuring investor protection
- Partners In Progress (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
THE Bill passed by Parliament on dual citizenship fulfils a long-pending demand of the non-resident Indians. Under the Bill, adults who were born to Indian citizens or former Indian citizens will be able to get Indian citizenship without having to forgo
- Banning The Headscarf (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 25, 2003)
Backers of the ban on headscarves in schools say they are defending the principles on which French society has been founded.
- Could Musharraf Be Right? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 25, 2003)
There are three things that Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf must not do if the process of normalization of ties with India is to proceed apace.
- Let The Debate Begin (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 25, 2003)
The prime minister has proposed reservation in the private sector
- Same Caste, Different Benefits (Indian Express, Dominic Emmanuel, Dec 24, 2003)
Satya Narayan Jatiya, Union minister of social justice and empowerment, decided to make a unique Christmas gift, this time not only to the Indian Christian community but also to international Christian and Muslim communities on behalf of the NDA ...
- Why The Cat Gets All The Cream (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Dec 24, 2003)
Despite the recent leak, the CAT remains the best way to screen students for the IIMs. It is comprehensive, deman- ding, foolproof, and fairly inexpensive
- Outsourcing To Offshoring, It Is Advantage India (Business Line, V. Sriram , Dec 24, 2003)
OUTSOURCING by the US is assuming massive proportions. The reason is "it saves money, time and frees in-house staff to do work central to the company's core mission." What is saved? Thirty-forty per cent, estimates the solutions group, Loud Cloud. Its CEO
- Shivering On The Streets (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Dec 23, 2003)
As the cold wave gets more merciless, it is important to remember that there are about three million homeless people in India’s urban areas. Although the 1991 census estimates their number at about 7 lakh, most homeless get left out of census estimates.
- Being Pushed To The Limits (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Opportunity Or Threat? (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 23, 2003)
The shifting of some technology jobs abroad fits into a well-worn historical pattern of economic change and adjustment in the United States.
- Reviving Civil Society (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 23, 2003)
After the recent state-level elections, political parties have apparently realized that governance is important. More accurately, they have realized that governance is important for winning elections. Whe- ther this hypothesis is true is debatable. But...
- Booted Out, Ulfa Says It Will Target Bhutanese In N-E (Indian Express, CP Bhambri, Dec 22, 2003)
Seven days after the Bhutanese flush-out operations caught it by surprise, the ULFA today declared Bhutan ‘‘an enemy of the people of Assam’’ and said it would soon target Bhutanese nationals in the North-East.
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Open Borders And Closed Minds (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 22, 2003)
The recent call by the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, for open borders in the subcontinent has generated an enthusiastic response. But on both sides of the Indo-Nepal border, one of the most open in the world, there are voices demanding its tight
- New Minister Puts His Foot Down So Women Can Walk Into Temple (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Dec 21, 2003)
This story involves a BJP minister and a temple, but this is an unusual one. On his birthday, newly elected Education Minister of Rajasthan, Ghanshyam Tiwari, created history. Ignoring protests and lecturing priests, he broke an ancient tradition and took
- Can We Have Some Arrogance Now? (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 21, 2003)
We hear the word vikas a lot since the assembly elections. Development. It’s all about vikas political pundits have taken to saying ever since their predictions for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were proven embarrassingly wrong. If you are...
- They Have Gone To War After 138 Years, For Us (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 21, 2003)
This week, the govt TV channel in this Bhutanese border town has been broadcasting appeals to citizens to donate blood. Across the border, at an Indian Air Force hospital, doctors are giving blood transfusions and performing emergency surgery on Royal ...
- From India To Bharat (Tribune, Dimple Dhaliwal Srivastava , Dec 20, 2003)
HERE I sit in my airy little office in a rural dispensary in a sleepy little village of a small district of Punjab, where things and people seem to be at a standstill. The huge banyan trees swinging gently with the wind, the street dogs chasing and ...
- This Woman Of Beauty Loves Her Roots (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Dec 20, 2003)
Saira Mohan, one of the hottest models in the US, is today thankful that her Indian father never objected to her missing school to follow a career in fashion.
- No Coercion But Let’s Work Towards Reserving Jobs In Private Ector: Pm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
In a remark of far-reaching significance, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said an atmosphere had to be created for job reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the private sector, even while emphasising that education rather than
- Struggles In A Man’s World (Telegraph, Piyus Ganguly, Dec 19, 2003)
There was hardly a branch of literary writing in which Swarnakumari Debi, the elder sister of Rabindranath Tagore, did not excel. No less outstanding were her contributions to music and journalism. Besides, she was actively associated with the social and
- Despair Of The Jobless (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 19, 2003)
IT is a pity that because of the excitement of the recent Assembly elections and the making and unmaking of ministries, the violence in Mumbai, Bihar and Assam has not received serious attention in the country.
- If China Can, Why Can't India? (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 19, 2003)
CHINA's economic success is stunning the world as it understands how to move with the times. It is the world's most competitive nation anddesires to modernise rapidly by attracting more foreign investment.
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- Operation Desert Storm (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 19, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win by a margin of 120 seats in Rajasthan surprised even its most ardent supporters. The portents were evident as early as last year’s by-elections in three assembly constituencies. The present election campaign ...
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- `India Rising' - Will It Ride The Demographic Wave? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 18, 2003)
In about 50 years, India's surging population may be more a boon than a bane, if a recent Goldman Sachs projection comes true. With a surplus of working age people vis-à-vis current G-6 biggies such as the US and Japan, India could benefit fro m low ...
- For A Smile On India’s Face (Indian Express, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , Dec 18, 2003)
India dreams big, creates well, competes better. All it needs now is a conducive system, based on fairplay
- Punishment With A Human Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Loosen Their Iron Grip (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 18, 2003)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee realizes the need to rein in teachers’ unions, but convincing his party colleagues will not be an easy task
- High Time Govt. Put Down Corporal Punishment (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 18, 2003)
What happened at a school near Villupuram recently was nothing short of barbaric. This was not the first time it happened in a school and, going by reports and the trend, may not be the last.
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- Gain Some, Lose Some (Telegraph, Alok Ray, Dec 17, 2003)
Falling interest rates may have been particularly hard on retired people in India, but it is not that there have been no gainers
- A Problem Not Named (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 17, 2003)
The deadly riots occasioned by the Railway Recruitment Board exams in Ass- am and Maharashtra, were a grim reminder of a potentially serious social crisis India might face in the near future. Amidst all the upbeat predictions being made about the India...
- With Eyes Open (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 16, 2003)
Yashwant is doing his job better than Jaswant is doing his
- These Kids Told: You Are Dalit, Go Eat Elsewhere (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Dec 16, 2003)
At least seven Dalit teachers have been transferred in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district for objecting to segregation of upper- and lower-caste students during mid-day meals in some schools.
- Aiims: A Look Back (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
AMONG the temples of modern India which Jawaharlal Nehru designed was a centre of excellence in the medical sciences. Nehru's dream was that such a centre would set the pace for medical education and research in South-East Asia , and in this he had the...
- Export Of Talent From Punjab (Tribune, Amrik Singh , Dec 16, 2003)
RECKONED in terms of its population, perhaps no other state in India has been exporting as much talent as Punjab has been doing. According to most well-informed estimates, more than a million Punjabis have already settled down in other countries, and the
- Needed Autonomy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
THE controversy over the removal of Prof M.G.S. Narayanan from the post of Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is unfortunate. It not only erodes the autonomy of the premier institution but also affects its administrative ...
- Bombastic Jamboree (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE UN, never at its wits' end in organising jamborees or dipping into its scant budget for chasing wild geese, went to great lengths on December 10-12 to provide a retreat at Geneva for the governments of 175 countries to ponder over measures to bridge
- Information Society: Go Beyond Declarations (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Dec 15, 2003)
As a result of detailed and intensive exchanges, valuable declarations have been agreed upon. They set out important principles. They set out a sound work programme.
- Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 15, 2003)
The more things change, the more they are the same. It was in 1968 that the proposal to limit the size of the Cabinets, at the Centre and in the States, was first mooted by Y.B. Chavan, the Home Minister in the Indira Gandhi Government. The ceiling was
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