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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 3108:
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Pakistan: The Two-Nation Theory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 04, 2004)
ON THE plane to Pakistan, peer as hard as you like through the scratched window of PIA’s ramshackle Boeing, you still can’t see the border line that divides the democracy from the dictatorship. It’s shrouded in the fog of history, some say, others point
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- His Film, My Film (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
When Lord Richard Attenborough and Satyajit Ray come together, cinema changes. Vijay Rana listened in on the actor-director’s tribute to the auteur
- Ava Garderner And The London Bobby (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Jan 03, 2004)
AVA Garderner was one of the most ravishing Hollywood beauties of her time. The Lord had apparently created her in a moment of extreme ecstasy. Life magazine once commissioned her to draw the attention of the London bobby posted at the Buckingham Palace
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- Vajpayee's Challenge (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 01, 2004)
While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
- A Weekly Is Born (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 01, 2004)
Were he around, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the journal, Economic and Political Weekly, would have been bemused to see that his journal has become a phenomenon, the imprimatur of recognition for young social scientists, and čminences grises to
- What’s Common To Sachin Ferrari And Chapati-Machine? (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 31, 2003)
Sachin Tendulkar may be slipping down the run list this year but on one, he is still very much at the top: the list of those who got exemptions on Customs duty by the Ministry of Finance.
- Indo-Pak: Breaking The Ice (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 30, 2003)
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing damage to the systems and structures of our respective societies...”
- Waiting For Fields Of Gold (Telegraph, P.S.M. RAO, Dec 30, 2003)
The finance minister, Jaswant Singh, recently announced his government’s plans to raise the “gross national contentment”, stressing the need to usher in a second green revolution. But his government’s track record betrays a lack of seriousness in the ...
- ‘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.
- ‘i Urge You All Not To Let My Bhaiya’s Sacrifice Go In Vain’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2003)
This is Dhananjay, brother of late S K Dubey. I read the article 'Letter to a Murdered Mate', The Indian Express, Dec 5. I don’t have any word to express my feelings. The media in general and the Express team in particular have been of great support when
- 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
- Taming Of The Nizam (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 27, 2003)
IT was the last week of December in 1948 and there was a flurry of activity in Hyderabad as the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, had planned a visit to the newly incorporated princely state in the Indian Union, on Christmas Day. Also, the
- 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
- A Story Of Factional Oneupmanship (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Dec 25, 2003)
In the end, it was to be a mega non-event — the talk of "resignation" by the central office-bearers of the Congress and the members of the Congress Working Committee. It turned out to be a story of factional oneupmanship, and of lessons unlearnt. After
- Rewrite Her Social Contract (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 25, 2003)
For a 16-day session in which Parliament enacted 21 laws, including two constitutional amendments, there is little surprise in a small change made to marriage laws going virtually unnoticed. The ban on defections, for instance, being extended to party ...
- 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
- On V-Day, The Insider Turns Less Political, More Philosophical (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao was beaming today as he made an honourable exit from the last of his legal tangles.
- Good Flagoff (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
VIGYAN Rail, which was flagged off by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is a good initiative to showcase the nation’s achievements in science and technology. Both the President and the Prime Minister can take justifiable pride in the scientific and ...
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Last Salute To The Lion Of 1965 (Indian Express, Patwant Singh, Dec 19, 2003)
The death of Lieutenant General Joginder (Jogi) Singh Dhillon on November 20 at the age of 89 received no coverage in the Indian papers, although it was his inspiring generalship that helped smash the superior Pakistani armour, poised to head for the ...
- When Vajpayee Spoke Like Nehru (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 18, 2003)
Because of the media's preoccupation with the Indian cricket victory in Australia and with the excitement over the POTA amendment, not much attention has been paid to the import of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's performance in the Rajya ...
- 2004 Will Be Fought On 3 Issues: Vajpayee Vs Sonia, Nda Vs Disunited Opposition & Five Years Vs Fifty (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Fresh from overseeing his party’s successful state election campaign, Pramod Mahajan, BJP general secretary and former Union minister, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk
- 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...
- Open Borders (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s impassioned plea to the South Asian nations to follow the European model would have been dismissed as a Nehruvian dream had it been made two decades ago. The European Union has been in existence since November 1993...
- 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
- For Sonia, Unity Doesn’t Begin At Home (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 14, 2003)
Even AS Congress chief Sonia Gandhi repeated her call to secular parties to join in her ‘‘fight against communalism’’, storm clouds gathered over the AICC headquarters here today.
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Whistles, Stings And Slapps (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 12, 2003)
Corruption in India is a mega industry to which public exposés are no match. Pro-whistle blower laws need to be enacted.
- That Head Beneath The Cap (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Dec 12, 2003)
THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Edited by S. Gopal and Uma Iyengar, Oxford, Rs 2,450
- The Great Indian Tragedy (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 12, 2003)
Jawaharlal Nehru was without question one of the principal architects of India’s freedom movement. While Gandhi Maharaj was the inspiring deity, Nehru was, to the millions, the prince charming. Nehru was also the independent nation’s first prime ministery
- The End Of The Line? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 11, 2003)
A traveller who got lost in the countryside came across a farmer standing by a fence. He stopped to ask him for directions. The farmer, chewing on a blade of grass, told him, “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
- A Progressive Conservative (Hindu, K. Natwar Singh, Dec 10, 2003)
Rajaji's character never showed to better advantage than during those periods when he was almost completely isolated politically.
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- Why Evms Are So Dicey (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Dec 10, 2003)
When a frustrated Congress was blaming its poll debacle on, among other things, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in New Delhi, a man in his late seventies was preparing to set out on a walkathon from Kanyakumari for a cause that India’s oldest ...
- Bjp Turns The Tables On Congress (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 09, 2003)
THE Bharatiya Janata Party’s sweep in three of the five states in the assembly elections — it was never a serious contender in Mizoram which nevertheless kept the Congress at bay - portends the future in more ways than one. By circumstance or design, the
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- Beware The Core Ideology (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 07, 2003)
Standing in the courtyard of the Indian International Centre in New Delhi one morning in late October, a prominent member of the Congress think tank and an ardent advocate of the free market told me, “The Congress will have shot itself in the foot if ...
- A Knock At The Door (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Dec 06, 2003)
Congress leaders from Punjab found to their discomfort the new levels of efficiency of the Chhattisgarh police. The leaders, who had gone to campaign for Motilal Vora’s son because of the personal rapport they enjoyed with the senior AICC leader, found...
- Poll Notes Of A Limo Liberal (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
View from Rajasthan’s ground zero: How Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
- Saffron Smiles (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
The saffron flag flies high in three of the four states that went to the polls on Monday. The victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party are convincing and pregnant with messages for the BJP, the Congress and the overall political scenario in northern India.
- The Disconnected Hand (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
This may not be a semi-final for general elections but the Congress is quiet and stranded
- The Rainmaker Cometh (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 05, 2003)
Pramod Mahajan and Arun Jaitley have brought to the BJP campaign a new alchemy and have delivered.
- It’s About Sea Power (Indian Express, Mukund B. Kunte, Dec 04, 2003)
The navy has its task cut out as an instrument of state policy
- The Prime Ministerial Palace (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 04, 2003)
The seat of power is shifting from South Block to Race Course Road. After years of debate, RCR is finally being customised as an exclusive high-security residence-cum-office complex for the prime minister. All six bungalows on the street have been ...
- Two Parties, Two Pyramids (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 01, 2003)
This round of assembly elections has brought into sharp focus the leadership dilemmas of both the Congress and the BJP. The Congress has a galaxy of new contenders at the state level, but there are hardly any leaders besides Sonia Gandhi who have come ...
- A Bolt From The Blue (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Nov 30, 2003)
That the CAT question paper could be leaked was unthinkable... the incident can be used to clip the IIMs' wings
- Quality Of Justice Is Not Strained (Indian Express, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Nov 27, 2003)
Don’t blindly increase the strength of the judiciary. Make the process of judge selection more rigorous
- Realism On The China Border (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Nov 25, 2003)
If there was any need for more evidence to confirm that the Government is exploring an early and final settlement to the boundary dispute with China and has the political will to make the necessary political adjustments, we have it from the External Affai
- The New Great Game (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Nov 24, 2003)
APEC, ASEAN+3 and now JACIK, an alphabet soup in a changing Asia
- Delhi Sends An Invite To Key Kurds In Iraq Council (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 22, 2003)
India has taken an unusual step in the fast-changing Iraq theatre by inviting key Kurdish leaders Jalal Talebani and Masoud Barzani, besides Adnan Pachachi, the Sunni leader who once served as the country’s foreign minister.
- An Education For The Future (Indian Express, Azim Premji, Nov 22, 2003)
When we speak of the “quality of education”, it becomes imperative to address the important issue of “what kind of education”? Education, to my mind, is an organised system that facilitates learning so that each individual imbibes the process of understan
- Double Helix Of Education (Indian Express, Azim Premji, Nov 22, 2003)
The full text of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture delivered by Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, this week.
- Ajit Jogi And The Talking Mynah (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 21, 2003)
A soft, thin wire mesh has been thrown around an 80 feet tall wild tree in the compound of the forest department in Jagdalpur, headquarters for the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. This unique caged tree is the habitat for four Bastar Hill mynahs, the wor
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Scary Scene (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 21, 2003)
NO ONE who reads the published reports of the Supreme Court's judgment transferring the disproportionate wealth cases against Ms Jayalalithaa to Karnataka and the unusually strong words used by it to condemn the roles of the State Government and Public Pr
- Karunakaran Sets A Deadline: Sack Antony (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 20, 2003)
More than two decades after Marine Drive in Kochi saw the unification of Congress factions in Kerala, senior leader K. Karunakaran today lined up 21 MLAs, including two Ministers, (the Congress has 62 in a House of 140) before an estimated 2 lakh people a
- Jayalalithaa Underlines The Urgent Need To Codify Privileges (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Nov 18, 2003)
It would be a pity if after the unanimous demand by the press to codify privileges of legislatures, the Central government failed to act. The matter has been hanging fire since the introduction of the Constitution in January 1950.
- Commonwealth 2010 In Delhi: The Uncommon Dividends (Indian Express, R. Ramachandran, Nov 15, 2003)
The sporting merits may still be up for debate, but there are few doubts that the Commonwealth Games 2010, to be held in Delhi, could mean a radical makeover for the national capital. And anyone who has seen Delhi before the 1982 Asiad will say amen to th
- A-Plus For Big B (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2003)
Quite correct, Mr Bachchan, show biz does reflect the nation
- India’s Bridge To Mongolia (Indian Express, Aasha Khosa, Nov 11, 2003)
In the late eighties, Mongolia was at the crossroads of history. It was the presence of Indian monk Lama Kushok Bakula Rimpoche that really helped at that crucial stage.
- India's Bleeding Head Wound (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Nov 05, 2003)
A workable solution to the Kashmir dispute must begin with an ambience for peace and the two countries cutting down rhetoric, and increasing normal diplomatic and political relations.
- After 16 Months In Prison, Vaiko Rues The Day He Supported Pota (Indian Express, Jayaraj Sivan, Nov 05, 2003)
Sixteen months is a long time, longer if it is in the loneliness of a prison cell. ‘‘It has given me enough time for introspection. Two major mistakes I committed in my political career were supporting POTA in Parliament and aligning with the AIADMK in th
- Vice President Off To Myanmar With Goodwill For The Generals (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Nov 01, 2003)
Refusing dialogue with a military dictatorship on its western front, India seems to be busy courting one in the east. Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat flies out on Sunday to cement ties with the Myanmar junta, the highest-level visit since former Pr
- Personality Politics (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Oct 27, 2003)
Both the BJP and the Congress plan to focus on their prime ministerial candidates, and the exchanges between them could get nastier in the days to come.
- ‘bjp Doesn’T Have Double Standards, They Say Whatever’S In Their Mind’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 27, 2003)
You are very proud of your humble origins, and the fact that you still live life more or less in the same style...
- Pm Trips Up Kalam (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 26, 2003)
President Abdul Kalam had to be content touring Bulgaria, Sudan and the UAE on his first state visit abroad. Many of the exciting destinations he would have liked to have traveled to had already been visited by Vajpayee, or else are on the PM’s itinerary
- Asian Economic Integration: Pathway To Security And Prosperity (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Oct 23, 2003)
The obsession with Pakistan has distorted the conduct of India's foreign policy. This has not allowed the country to emerge as a constructive partner with Asean and SAARC, and other regional powers such as China, Japan and South Korea. The Prime Minister'
- Third Round At Aksai Chin Table (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Oct 23, 2003)
India and China will sit across the table today, for the third time, to discuss a lingering border dispute
- Gandhi On Secular Law And State (Hindu, Anil Nauriya , Oct 22, 2003)
Gandhi and Nehru had differences. But they had strong mutual synergies on vital issues.
- Npas: Not A Complete Write-Off (Business Line, T. S. Viswanathan, Oct 21, 2003)
MUCH has been written about the banking sector's non-performing assets. A fair estimate from the banking sector reveals that around Rs 75,000 crore — or the equivalent of around $16 billion — of debt could be bad and doubtful.
- Neighbour Retaliates (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 19, 2003)
The Indian government has not taken kindly to the news that some Pakistanis have illegally occupied 63 Clifton in Karachi, the Indian consul general’s residence until it was closed down in 1992 after a Pakistani mob stormed the building in the wake of the
- ‘media Said I’D Left, I Was Right There’ (Indian Express, Mehbooba Mufti, Oct 19, 2003)
We ensured the building wasn’t blown up, that the trapped people were freed. They came over and had tea with us, that’s our healing touch policy
- Wealth: Agriculture Plus Services (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Oct 16, 2003)
Rachel Carson, in her landmark book Silent Spring, has stated that the power of an idea can be greater than political power. In the economic development of a country, there are two factors at work:
- Sonia's Friends And Foes (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 16, 2003)
Her friends and foes alike refuse to let Sonia Gandhi's natural handicaps define the limits of her leadership
- Message From The East (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2003)
The India-Thailand free trade agreement is part of a wider good neighbour policy
- Avoidable Confrontation (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 10, 2003)
THE people of the Bengal Presidency, during the British regime, as also of the successor State of West Bengal, in independent India, have always been politically aware and in the forefront of mass movements for causes which they regarded as important.
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