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Articles 22121 through 22220 of 22438:
- ‘ia, A-I Should Combine Efforts Than Compete’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 21, 2003)
Why don’t you privatise all the airports in India? Why can’t you make air fares proportionate to distance travelled? Mathew
- Class Struggle In The Slums Of Pune (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 20, 2003)
A school for poor Muslim girls produces toppers by focusing only on its best pupils
- Back To The Temple (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 20, 2003)
It's amazing how elections bring all Sangh outfits together on the Ayodhya issue. First the RSS and then the BJP promptly endorsed the VHP move to mobilise crowds for the temple. The BJP has steered clear of the issue in its five years in power. A senior
- Making Democracy More Vibrant (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 19, 2003)
As education standards rise, it would be desirable to vest in electorate the power to move the legislature for new laws
- Advantage Terrorist (Indian Express, NANA DESHMUKH, Sep 19, 2003)
Mumbai was recently rocked by two bomb blasts at around midday in densely crowded areas. At least 45 innocent lives were lost, and many more severely injured. This was not the first such act of ghastly terrorism in Mumbai. The city has suffered a series
- The Taliban In Our Midst (Indian Express, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sep 18, 2003)
The biggest indoor stadium in Ohio City, USA, was recently alive and vibrant with thousands of people. The event: India Day celebrations. Thousands of Indians from all religious groups were present and participated exuberantly in the festivities. One ...
- Ensuring The Future Of Democracy (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 18, 2003)
Citizens’ council can meet the need for intelligent and adequate organisation of voters in our democracy
- China And India — A Study In Contrast: Perspectives In Economic Growth (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 18, 2003)
While the contrasts between the two countries are stark, it may be too early to write off India as a "lumbering giant" which has lost the race to the "Crouching Tiger". India's stable financial system and the better-organised legal machinery may still ...
- Digitising The World Of Hunger (Deccan Herald, Shib Shankar Dasgupta, Sep 17, 2003)
Digitising the world has to be viewed on moral and ethical basis also, apart from the business angle
- The Shrinking Vision (Indian Express, T. F. Thekkekara, Sep 17, 2003)
Long ago, Dronacharya demanded Eklavya’s thumb as gurudakshina because he was not a prince, only a poor Bhil boy who excelled in archery. We continue to tacitly endorse an educational system where you can make it only if you have the right connections and
- Don’t Delink Muslims From The Rest Of India (Indian Express, M. N. BUCH, Sep 17, 2003)
Proposals that seek to institutionalise a Muslim vote bank are certainly not tools for empowerment
- Law Versus Practice (Indian Express, Suchita Vemuri, Sep 16, 2003)
The wise men in government who believe that ‘‘Indian society is intolerant to the practice of homosexuality’’ have a rude shock coming. A recent study of sexual practices in rural India by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) found that ‘‘male-to-
- Making The Literacy Dream Come True (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Sep 16, 2003)
Instead of resorting to populist programmes, the government should evolve a long-term literacy strategy
- Rote Notes (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Sep 15, 2003)
Try this sloka for size: Paryank granthibanda dvigunita bhujagaslesha samveeta jaano/rantapranavarodh vyuparata sakalajnana ruddhendriyasya/ atmanyatmana me va vyapagatakaranam pashya tas tatva drushtya/shamborvah paatu shoonye kshanaghatitalaya ...
- World Investment Report 2003 — Internal Governance Matters A Great Deal (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 15, 2003)
THE World Investment Report 2003 carries forward the rich traditions of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in surveying the progress of investment by transnational corporations in various countries. It notes the increasing role...
- Instant History (Indian Express, S. MITRA KALITA, Sep 14, 2003)
According to some textbooks distributed recently, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are history — and that does not sit well with some historians, who say it’s too soon. For the first time since hijackers flew planes into the WTC and the Pentagon,
- Driven To Desperation (Hindu, PARVATHI MENON, Sep 14, 2003)
There has been a spate of suicides by farmers in even fairly prosperous farming regions of Karnataka.
- Education Mess: Fazal Seeks Panel To Decide Fees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2003)
Following students’ protest against the fee structure in private medical colleges, Maharashtra Governor Mohammed Fazal on Saturday directed the state government to immediately constitute a committee to determine a reasonable fee structure. Fazal asked the
- Divestment As A Sweetheart Deal (Indian Express, Sitaram Yechury, Sep 13, 2003)
Perils of an economic model that posits rapid growth as fundamentally incompatible with democracy
- Musharraf On Osama, Sectarian Violence In Pakistan And His Worries Over The India-Israel-Us Military Axis (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2003)
Excerpts from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s question-answer session with BBC’s Robin Lustig in special series Talking Point on Islam and the West.
- Sharon’s Roaring Goodbye (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 12, 2003)
It is, of course, only a coincidence that the Israeli premier and an important US state department official were both in New Delhi on the second anniversary of 9/11. If observing 9/11 was a purpose, there could not have been a more appropriate guest than
- Strategic Delusions (Hindu, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
THOSE WHO CRITICISED the Government for its decision to host Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at this particular juncture stand vindicated by developments. There was always a strong possibility that terror outrages, akin to the two incidents ...
- Sree Narayana Guru (Indian Express, V. MANIYAN , Sep 11, 2003)
Like Adi Sankaracharya, Sree Narayana Guru (whose birth anniversary was yesterday) propagated Advaita (non-duality) in the early 20th century.
- Chasing Windmills (Indian Express, VASANT GOWARIKER, Sep 11, 2003)
A political leader wanted to know recently whether the windmills in the districts of Satara and Sangli in Maharashtra have reduced the rainfall in that region.
- Corporate Perp Walks And Conference Pep Talks (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 11, 2003)
Like the proverbial bad coin, here comes that date again, to poke at forgotten memories and restore faded visuals, and stir the embers of gloom. September 11 or 9/11 has got etched into history as much as B.C. and A.D.
- Food Standards And Market Access — Time For A New Engagement (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 11, 2003)
The cola controversy in terms of the trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation appears well timed.
- Why We Are All Not Terrorists (Indian Express, Nilofar Suhrawardy, Sep 10, 2003)
Of late sharper emphasis and focus are being accorded to haunting questions related to Muslims’ standing in Indian society. Secularists need to spare a thought to a mundane, even crude, question: What prevented them from turning to terrorism and/or ...
- Push For Labour Standards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 10, 2003)
The World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting at Cancun from September 10 is set to face protests from influential trade unions from developed countries, which demand linking trade issues with labour standards. The question that needs to be ...
- Hail The Conquering Bunglers (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sep 10, 2003)
The world's private sector giants are not brave mariners on the free-market ocean but frightened children hiding behind mummy state's skirts.
- Friendship Occupies All The Territory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Stepping out of its decades-old lakshman rekha with Israel, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today set the tone for a red carpet welcome for its Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, emphasising bonds in defence, agriculture and in the fight against terrorism that both
- The Right To Strike (Hindu, Alladi Kuppuswami, Sep 10, 2003)
It is true that in some cases the right to strike is being misused but that is no reason why all strikes should be condemned as immoral.
- Democracy And Adult Suffrage (Deccan Herald, R G Subramanyam, Sep 10, 2003)
There is need to formulate new norms and rules to make democracy more effective and meaningful
- Civil Society And Child Marriage (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Sep 09, 2003)
Girls should be taught to think beyond marriage and motherhood. Society should instill in them a sense of self-esteem
- Officials, Love Thy People Not Power (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 08, 2003)
The Indian Government is fairly well-respected, but rated low for the quality of life it offers its citizens. Government servants in India should introspect on their performance with a degree of humility, ask of themselves where they have gone wrong, and
- B-Schools On The Mat (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 08, 2003)
CLEARLY, dissatisfaction over the relevance and usefulness of business schools continues to haunt academics and practising managers alike. At regular intervals, articles and surveys appear questioning the ability and competence of B-Schools to serve the
- To Kill A Starving Life (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 07, 2003)
Ali is a pavement vendor. He and his family wake at dawn every morning to cook massive amounts of idli-sambhar, dosas and poori-bhaji which he then transports in spotlessly clean steel containers to Marine Drive to sell. It is his only way of feeding his
- Our Son, The Fanatic (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 06, 2003)
Is it already time for us to revisit our favourite post-9/11 boast? If you are an optimist, you might say it is still early days, or that these are mere straws in the wind. Truth to tell, straws in the wind these are and while there is still time to do...
- Godman To The Rescue (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 06, 2003)
I do not have much time for godmen or godwomen. I know they bring solace to large numbers of their disciples and open schools, colleges and hospitals from the offerings they receive. But most of the time they raise new places of worship and go round ...
- In The Red (Indian Express, Amrith Lal, Sep 05, 2003)
When CPI(M) members in Kerala accuse each other of being CIA agents, the party’s in trouble
- World Investment Report 2003 — A Note Of Caution To Developing Countries (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 05, 2003)
AHEAD of the Fifth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial, scheduled to start in Cancun (Mexico) on September 10, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has cautioned the developing world against investment issues being pushed into the
- Professional Education And The S.C. (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 05, 2003)
The Constitution Bench judgment in the Islamic Academy case creates a potentially enormous quota without working out the economics of its implementation.
- Tel Aviv Will Move In Heavy Artillery On Delhi Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 04, 2003)
When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrives here on Sunday, it’s the defence and security component of his delegation that all eyes will be set on.
- Innocence Lost (Indian Express, EMILY WAX , Sep 04, 2003)
Disarming thousands of child soldiers remains a challenge for Liberia
- This Is How Congress Plays Opp: Says Stop All Trains For An Hour (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Sep 02, 2003)
Warning its cadres of the likelihood of early general elections, the Congress high command has instructed its state units to bring to a halt rail traffic across the country for an hour on September 22. This is intended to be the first Congress salvo again
- Maya’s Gone But In These Dalit Homes, The Change’s For Real (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 01, 2003)
Sometimes you find hope in the oddest of places, far from city lights and deep in the heart of squalor where only despair keeps you company.
- Feats Unlimited: Woman Sarpanchs On Feet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
She is in her mid-’30s, a mother of four and a Dalit woman sarpanch who has studied till Std V. Urmila Dhonde is proud of her background, proud of the administrative experience and insight she has gained as sarpanch over the last three years. And now she
- Power To The People, And How! (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 31, 2003)
Last week, as the squalid political soap opera that was the collapse of the Mayawati government played itself out wearily on our television screens did you notice how much Indian politics has changed?
- The Spreading Tentacles Of Terror (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 31, 2003)
Kashmir is just a bridgehead for a larger war on the whole of India. On the jehadis' gameplan.
- Wretched Of The Earth (Indian Express, Syed Shahabuddin, Aug 30, 2003)
Muslim Indians are natural allies of others marginalised by an upper caste Hindu elite. Second in a two-part series
- Problem-Solving: The Up Test (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 29, 2003)
The turn of events in Uttar Pradesh, bomb blasts in Mumbai, Archaeological Survey of India’s findings on Ayodhya, prime minister in Srinagar — more than one political process is in operation. The preoccupation in New Delhi is with the drama in UP. In ...
- In Iraq, It’s All The Way Up From Ground Zero (Indian Express, Thomas L. Friedman, Aug 28, 2003)
Don’t underplay the challenge. Iraq is not about rebuilding an old society, it’s about building a brand new one
- Left & The Struggle Against Bjp (Deccan Herald, Ranen Sen, Aug 28, 2003)
The Left parties should not hesitate to join hands with the Congress to fight the Sangh Parivar
- Families Reach Out To These Orphans (Indian Express, N GANESH, Aug 28, 2003)
On Tuesday, The Indian Express captured their grieving faces on film. On Wednesday, their tragic story made headlines. Savita Yadav (15) and her siblings don’t know it yet but, just two days later, there has been a flood of responses.
- Cancun: Heavy Mantle On Jaitley (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 28, 2003)
At Cancun where WTO Trade Ministers meet to take stock of the headway made in the Doha Development Agenda, the Commerce Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, faces a heavy responsibility in taking forward the achievements of his predecessor, Mr Murasoli Maran, who
- Beyond The Blasts (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
MUMBAI CAN BE down but never out. A day after the bomb blasts shook the megapolis, the city is fast coming back to normal, with old and young crowding suburban trains and BEST buses for the long trudge to work places. The Sensex, which is more the measure
- The Hindu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
THE HINDU, FOUNDED on September 20, 1878, is the oldest surviving major newspaper of Indian nationalism, by which we mean the great socio-political movement that won freedom for India from colonial bondage and helped consolidate the gains ...
- Services Exports: Opportunities And Barriers (Business Line, H. A. C. Prasad, Aug 27, 2003)
THE services sector is a very important one for India. Commercial services account for some 25 per cent of India's total exports. If labour services are included, the percentage will be higher. In 2002-03, for the first time India had a positive balance
- India, With A Can-Do Spirit (Indian Express, R A MASHELKAR, Aug 26, 2003)
From launching satellites to cracking illiteracy: a nation held back by self-doubt
- On The Economics Of Media Diversity (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Aug 26, 2003)
Recent controversies point not just to the weaknesses inherent in India's media policy but to the complex marketplace created by the nature of expansion of the media over the last decade. In this edition of Macroscan ...
- Now, Class Of ’42 For Teachers Of ’03 (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Aug 25, 2003)
Sixty years and a generation separate them but the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has turned to the Class of 1942 to spruce up the report card of the teachers of 2003.
- No Free Lunch In Education (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Aug 25, 2003)
Capitation fees are not always collected out of 'greed'; it is in most cases the only means for colleges to survive
- Confused Future (Hindu, Timeri N. Murari , Aug 25, 2003)
The children performed skits about drunken fathers, corrupt policemen, wife beating and anti-education parents. I only hoped they would remember these childhood observations when they become adults
- The Marriage Ratio (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Aug 25, 2003)
Can two such negative social trends as dowry and the poor sex ratio ever yield anything positive? While the large print (national media) dwells on divisive issues like caste and religion, the small print (regional media) is documenting events that may ...
- Blow To College Barons: High Court Holds Up Merit, Cracks Down On Fees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
In a significant order, the Bombay High Court today lifted its earlier stay on admissions to professional courses in Maharashtra and ruled that admissions to medical courses would be only through the state-conducted MH-CET while those for engineering ...
- Our Lady Of Diminishing Returns (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 24, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi achieved an astonishing political feat last week. She became the target of her own motion of no confidence. I base this assertion on comments that drifted my way afterwards from Delhi’s drawing rooms and corridors of power. My, how confident
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
P Chidambaram has rightly said that BJP do not want to discuss the real issues and that’s why they keep the Opposition busy on non-issues like Mandir and Uniform Civil Code (Back to the future, The Sunday Express, Aug 17). The Opposition must realise BJP’
- ‘let This Change Be Permanent’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The Indian Express readers respond to Arun Shourie’s three-part Independence Day special on the innovative new India.
- Kalam’s 2nd Call In A Week: Get Real (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Aug 23, 2003)
It couldn’t have been better timed. Two days after the Parliament debate on the no-confidence motion that was high on rhetoric, low on content, President A P J Abdul Kalam has sent a reminder to all Members of Parliament on what they need to do the ...
- Panchayats In Practice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
OVER A DECADE after the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution was enacted, devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) remains in many respects a distant dream. To be sure, grass roots bodies have now acquired a permanent place within ...
- Changing Face Of Pune Schools (Hindu, Jyoti Punwani, Aug 22, 2003)
The Muslim community has broken the traditional monopoly over academic merit.
- Minorities Get Back Special Rights (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Aug 22, 2003)
After a long time, minorities in India have something to cheer about. Whatever their setbacks on other fronts (Gujarat, Ayodhya, cow slaughter, etc), minorities have received a boost in the field of education. And this is thanks to the Supreme Court, or
- Professional Higher Education - The Unresolved Policy Dilemmas (Business Line, M. R. Narayana, Aug 21, 2003)
CONTRIBUTION of private unaided sector is a hallmark in the growth of professional higher education in Karnataka. For instance, about 85 per cent of all engineering colleges, 78 per cent of medical colleges, 96 per cent of dental colleges, and 81 per cent
- Nomadic Tribes Get Travelling Teachers (Indian Express, Diptosh Majumdar, Aug 20, 2003)
If you can’t go to school, the school will go to you. Make that the teacher—the teacher will go to you and will keep going wherever you go.
- ‘he Took On The Mahatma’ So Modi Goes To Get Ashes (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
Chief Minister Narendra Modi may have gone to Geneva to fetch the ashes of freedom-fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma but his government has already pitted the man against the greatest of them all — Mahatma Gandhi — by digging into the archives and issuing an
- Kashmir Calling (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2003)
The rush for cellphones symbolises the desire of people here to live normal, productive lives
- South Asia’s Four Play (Indian Express, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 20, 2003)
The road to Indo-Pakistani cooperation flows through four key areas of the economy. For a start, New Delhi can trade its IT expertise for Islamabad’s energy
- Engineering A Reverse Brain Drain (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 19, 2003)
AMIDST the din and cackle of political debates on cow slaughter and reservation it is heartening to learn that the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has endowed his entire entitlement under the MP Local Area Development scheme to set up a biotech
- The Success Of Microeconomics (Business Line, S. Venu , Aug 19, 2003)
REFLECTING on their failure to be able to explain or forecast the economy as a whole, macroeconomists lack a certain intellectual buoyancy at present. Their subject matter is as exciting as ever — more so, with globalisation, financial cases, and the New
- Doing Away With Capitation Fees (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2003)
WHILE INTERPRETING ITS own judgment in T.M.A. Pai Foundation & Others vs. State of Karnataka & Others, the Supreme Court has banned the collection of capitation fee (by whatever name called) for admission to professional colleges. This ...
- Mnc Boss Finds His Vocation: He’s His Village Schoolmaster (Indian Express, Vijay Rana, Aug 18, 2003)
DuPont’s South Asia chief returned home to Bichaula and, in 3 yrs, transformed lives of girls from poor homes
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