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Articles 2521 through 2620 of 3108:
- Here Comes The New Prime Minister (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Oct 09, 2003)
A swadeshi Don Quixote is on the loose with his magic lathi, promising to make a Bihar out of everything he touches
- Look East Policy: Phase Two (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 09, 2003)
Phase two of the Look East policy will help break out of the political confines of the subcontinent that have severely limited India's strategic options.
- Toy Train Tantrums (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2003)
The BJP and Congress are being childish in their unseemly sparring over the Delhi metro
- Indian Urban Wars As Us Classrooms (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Oct 02, 2003)
The US Special Forces doctrine of ‘three block war’ clones Indian experience in insurgency-hit regions
- Tomorrow Never Dies (Indian Express, Manjeet Kripalani, Oct 02, 2003)
India as a political role model, Dubai as an economic one. Afghanistan has a future as a democratic, free trade zone. It needs luck. And patience
- Farewell To My French Memsahib (Indian Express, ANJOLIE ELA MENON, Sep 23, 2003)
Taya Zinkin passed away on September 16 in Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps few of today’s generation know of this remarkable woman journalist and writer who was the India correspondent for Manchester Guardian, Le Monde and The Economist for 20 years after ...
- Warning From Rae Bareli (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 23, 2003)
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi felt that the right thing for him to do was to quit if the special court at Rae Bareli decided in favour of framing
- ‘politicians Fail To Give The Impression That We Lead’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 22, 2003)
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at Connaught Place. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk.
- Sitting Ducks And Cold Turkey (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Sep 21, 2003)
Finally it had to happen.
I had become the NDA’s latest Mamata interlocutor. When the Cabinet secretary requested me to sort out the Mamata ‘thing’. I was wondering whether describing Mamata as a ‘thing’ was an apt way to describe her. The only ‘thing
- Reforms, ‘via Bathinda’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 20, 2003)
While some of the more unabashed supporters of economic reforms may now be blaming the Supreme Court for spoiling the party and even puncturing the bull balloon on the stock markets, the truth is that real opposition to all deregulation and privatisation
- Keep Off Neocons (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 19, 2003)
THE neocons now dominating the Bush Administration in the US have been doing their damnedest to cause revulsion and hostility against that country in every possible way. The hauteur with which they have been dealing with other nations, and the total lack
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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
- Scandal! Clinton, Monica In Madhya Pradesh (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Sep 12, 2003)
We came for Sonia Gandhi, we stumbled upon Bill Clinton. Brown but fired by the monsoon and standing in the middle of a muddy field in Madhya Pradesh, not very far from Saddam Hussein. Looking on were Vajpayee, Bal ‘Thakre’, even Winston Churchill.
- Selective Memories (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 09, 2003)
Moral hypocrisy or political correctness? For a nation that’s just about seen everything, few things can be as irritating as the sight of its leadership saying one thing and doing another. And so when a long list of eminent people, including former Prime
- National Consensus (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Sep 08, 2003)
Has it occurred to the politicians on the two sides of the political fence that they owe it to the country to work unitedly in matters related to the safety and security of the people?
- 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
- Bjp’s Favourite West Asian (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 05, 2003)
Ariel Sharon began his career in 1946-47 with one of the Zionist terrorist gangs who flung themselves against the British mandate. He was then involved in the war of 1948, when lakhs of innocent Palestinians, whose only fault was that they were not ...
- Coincidences That Came In From The Cold (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 31, 2003)
A JNU student’s accident, his startling discovery, a gap of 18 long years, the student becomes the professor, another student another accident, the professor returns, another startling discovery: this is a story about amazing coincidences.
- Nightmare In The City Of Dreams (Indian Express, RAMOLA TALWAR THOMAS, Aug 28, 2003)
People began picking up pieces, retrieving old memories strewn around apartments and buried under debris in the aftermath of the blasts. They are amongst the fortunate few.
- Moment Of Opportunity? (Hindu, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aug 26, 2003)
The moment that has to be seized is one where, spurred by India, the world may save itself and America from an unwise continuation of a unilateral bid by the U.S. to reorder the world.
- Lonely Paper Chase (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 26, 2003)
During my six-year stint in the Rajya Sabha, I requested the government many times to publish the Henderson-Brooks report on the 1962 India-China war. The refusal was firm and consistent. Once, in a reply to my question in Parliament, Defence Minister
- 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.
- Srinagar Ready For Mother Of All Meets (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Aug 25, 2003)
It is going to be a week of VVIPs in Srinagar. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, his deputy L K Advani, 18 Union ministers and most of the chief ministers will gather here on August 27 for the first chief ministers’ conference outside Delhi.
- The President's Dream (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 25, 2003)
It is Dr Abdul Kalam's dream to create a high-quality Rurban habitat on either side of a ring road linking a loop of villages. Called PURA, its design offers many advantages: All infrastructure lengths are halved. Workplace and residences can be co-locate
- 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’
- 'Do We Have A National Vision? Not When One Looks At Parliament, Sections Of Media' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2003)
I distinctly remember the Railway, BEST strikes and your passionate speeches justifying them during your trade union days in Mumbai. How do you react to the SC verdict banning government workers’ strike?
- Voice Of Hindustan (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 23, 2003)
There was a time when most people of northern India extending from Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Peshawar to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Calcutta down to Bapu Gandhi’s Sabaramati spoke a language all Indians down to Andhra Pradesh could understand and speak
- Delhi Still Far Away From Power Seat (Indian Express, T V RAJESWAR, Aug 22, 2003)
The Union Government has announced that it proposes to bring in legislation for conferring statehood on Delhi with the provision that law and order and the Delhi Police administration would be directly under the Central Government. Additionally, the New
- That Tightrope Called Tibet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 21, 2003)
The Dalai Lama is happy with Vajpayee’s word-play and so is Beijing. The story of confusion as triumph
- 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
- Krishna Bhakti (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Aug 18, 2003)
Janmashtami is rolling round again and perhaps some of us want to be reminded of why we love Krishna. Why does the sudden stray note of a flute pull our head around instinctively? Why, when we find a tiny peacock feather stuck on a greeting card, do we...
- Half A Freedom (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 17, 2003)
In keeping with the festive spirit of the 56th happy birthday of our Tryst with Destiny let me begin on happy note. The good news is that much has changed for the better since Nehru made his Freedom at Midnight speech with — as I see it — most of the good
- Messenger’s The Message (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2003)
The Prime Minister’s Red Fort speech was a familiar message of unity and progress
- Parliament And Military Secrecy (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Aug 15, 2003)
On the PAC issue, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the Opposition and the Government are engaged in seeking and denying political advantage
- Fly The Government Out Of Civil Aviation (Indian Express, VIJAY DANDAPANI, Aug 14, 2003)
July 2003 marked the centenary of the first flight of the Kitty Hawk, when the Wright brothers demonstrated that an object heavier than air could fly. While this centennial is being celebrated around the world, in India there appears to be scant ...
- Auditing Is No Mega Serial (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 14, 2003)
Continuity of auditors is not a must
- The Shimla Consensus (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Aug 13, 2003)
Issues related to national security were given prominence at the brainstorming session of the Congress Party in Shimla last month. Party President Sonia Gandhi emphasised many points in her inaugural address.
- Vajpayee Shoots Down Early Poll Balloon (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 13, 2003)
PM shows who’s boss, leaves it to Venkaiah to say: Elections only in Sept ’04
- Guess Who’s Getting Mea’s Giftwrapped Pack Of Dvds (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 12, 2003)
India has just couriered someone a special gift. Annotated copies of the Indian Constitution, DVDs of the Legend of Bhagat Singh and Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of World History have been gift-wrapped and couriered to Tehran and Damascus.
- Generation Next Meets (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 10, 2003)
The younger generation of two important political families met for the first time at a special film showing of the movie Chalte Chalte in Delhi last week. There was an instant rapport between Misa, the eldest daughter of Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi,
- The Road Goes Uphill From Shimla (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 08, 2003)
At Shimla the Congress ostensibly reversed the decision it had taken in Pachmarhi in September 1998. The question at Pachmarhi, as at Shimla, was: Should the Congress open up for coalitions?
- The Congress Slide From Shimla (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 06, 2003)
The Shimla excitement, unfortunately, lasted only a few days. And since then the Congress has relapsed into a strange paralysis.
- No Mere Dispute, It’s Aggression (Deccan Herald, N Haridas, Aug 06, 2003)
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, the world wanted Nehru to rush to the defence of the monks. But he did not
- India And The Korean Crisis (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 04, 2003)
Half a century ago, India played an active role in the Korean peninsula during the terrible war there that left nearly five million people dead, injured or missing.
- The James-Justice Test (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 02, 2003)
How would the Best Bakery picture now look from Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s exalted perch? With smoke still rising in rioting Gujarat he had openly, and emotionally, reminded Narendra Modi on his rajdharma. His deputy, L.K. Advani, has said often that what
- Codifying Personal Laws (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 01, 2003)
The real controversy is over the codification of `personal laws' based on religion or custom.
- Biotechnology In India - Creating A New Market Space (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Jul 30, 2003)
IN HIS book Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, wrote that "a true wealth of a nation is measured not by how much gold it possesses but by what it can produce". By this yardstick biotechnology is an unprecedented revolution through which the world's hunger
- The Chenab Formula Is Unthinkable (Indian Express, Hari Om, Jul 28, 2003)
In his article,‘The Chenab compromise for Kashmir’ (IE, June 28), Muzamil Jaleel has said that PoK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan’s Chenab formula is fraught with dangerous ramifications. He is absolutely right. Incidentally, it was not Sardar
- Central Bureau Of Inquisition? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 27, 2003)
The CBI is seen and used as a prime instrument of control, manipulation harassment or blandishment
- Stop Politics Of Vendetta Now (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jul 26, 2003)
Not many took note of the fact that the CBI has recently sought the court’s permission to close the Airbus 320 case. The agency has stated that after probing the purchase deal for 15 long years, it has found no evidence to suggest any irregularities.
- Bleeding Heart, Jerking Knee (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 26, 2003)
In the normal course, the Supreme Court would make news if it came up with a radically new interpretation of the Constitution. This is an unusual occasion when it — in this case, the chief justice himself — has made headlines for merely re-stating one of
- Terms Of Discrimination (Indian Express, KAMLA BHASIN, Jul 25, 2003)
In 1990, Nelson Mandela came out of prison after 27 years. His public and domestic life in the last 13 years has been eventful. Amongst other things, he divorced his wife of long years, Winnie Mandela. At the ripe and wise age of about 70, he married ...
- 96 Dry Hrs Later, Someone Turned The Tap On (Indian Express, Manish Kumar, Jul 25, 2003)
They won’t have to line up at dawn with buckets. The Indian women’s hockey team on Thursday.
- If This Were Sachin & Co, The Buckets Would Have Tears (Indian Express, Manish Kumar, Jul 24, 2003)
At 5.30 in the morning, when Delhi’s still fast asleep, the Indian women hockey team, which struck gold in the Commonwealth Games, hop on to a bus with buckets in hand and head for the National Stadium. They have been doing this for four days now
- Bjp Vs Sonia: The Great Indian Show (Indian Express, Swami Agnivesh, Jul 24, 2003)
The more the BJP vitiates the national discourse with non-issues, the less faith people will have in the party
- Beyond The Iraq Decision (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 23, 2003)
India's "no troops" decision suggests that the creeping "American veto" in our internal affairs is not irreversible.
- No To Us The Right Step (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Jul 20, 2003)
The Government’s decision not to send our troops to Iraq was most welcome. There is no compelling reason why the blood of our jawans should be spilled to bail out the coalition forces from the difficult situation they are facing in Iraq.
- Look What Best Bakery Judge Also Dished Out (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Jul 20, 2003)
In his not-guilty verdict, he blames British ‘divide and rule,’ links job reservations to communal riots, points to Parsis as model minority.
- Make It An Asian Century (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Jul 18, 2003)
By bureaucratic happenstance, I am the only Indian professional who witnessed all the four seasons that marked our ties with China. I accompanied S. Radhakrishnan, then vice president, on his official visit in September 1957. It was the High Summer of the
- Unresolved At Shimla (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Jul 17, 2003)
History tells us that the rulers of Delhi have always lost the battles of Panipat. (When Rajiv Gandhi, then prime minister and thus master of Delhi, described the Haryana Vidhan Sabha polls of 1987 as “the fourth battle of Panipat” he betrayed a gift for
- High Risks, Low Benefits (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Jul 16, 2003)
At the end of 1992, the US had asked India to quickly send a brigade group — over 4000 soldiers — to control the situation spiraling out of control in Somalia. Although there was already a UN Observer Group under a Pakistani commander in Somalia, there
- ‘south Indians Told Us,’ Bjp Gatecrashes Cong’s Kamaraj Party (Indian Express, Nirmala Ganapathy, Jul 16, 2003)
Paying tribute to K. Kamaraj on his 101st birth centenary turned into a political tug of war with the BJP trying to outflank the Congress. Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and BJP party president Venkaiah Naidu arrived at 8.30 am this morning to pay
- Wasteful Rituals (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jul 16, 2003)
WHEN the United States emerged after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the first thing that the founding fathers did was to do away with the elaborate rituals, dress codes and titles that the British had introduced. In fact, emissaries to the Royal
- Corrupt Vortex (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 15, 2003)
Personal rivalries can destroy families but when they assume political dimensions, they can damage the system itself. The tendency to settle personal scores is inexorably demolishing values like fairplay and democratic procedures. Politicians seeking
- Iraq Roadblock (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 15, 2003)
Truth is, the BJP-led government lost its nerve on sending combat troops to Iraq. For a leadership which went nuclear within two months of coming to power in 1998 without consulting anybody in the Opposition, the ‘‘lack of domestic consensus’’ argument
- Ending An Era Of Indignity (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Jul 15, 2003)
The bipartisan consensus (on conferring citizenship on Tamils of recent Indian origin) is a good augury. It will take the issue away from the arena of competitive politics, which has done incalculable harm to Sri Lanka.
- Indian Spikers Lose, But Don’t Miss Silver Lining (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Jul 14, 2003)
India's volleyball team may have lost the final of the World Youth Cup at Thailand to world champions Brazil but the quantum leap our young spikers have taken can’t be overlooked — from seventh in Asia two years back to second best in the world.
- Congress Plans Its Game (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 14, 2003)
The immediate euphoria of Shimla is over, but it had undoubtedly enthused party leaders in the Congress, as they knuckled down to strategise for the 2004 elections. Shimla was different from the other brainstorming sessions the party has held.
- Breaking Free With Reality, In Grand Style (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jul 13, 2003)
As I watched Sonia Gandhi’s lady-in-waiting, Ambika Soni, articulate her leader’s ‘‘new vision’’ last week I realised that it was time for me to revise my political views. My main objection to Sonia being prime minister of India used to be that as she was
- Bali High (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 05, 2003)
The Temple of Segara Amrta on the ocean’s edge is a reminder that the Bharatiya Janata Party might fumble at the hustings and Nepal teeter on the edge of chaos, but Hinduism is alive and well on the island that Jawaharlal Nehru called “the morning of the
- Many Heads Make Division Easier (Telegraph, Piyus Ganguly, Jul 04, 2003)
Mahatma Gandhi had once asserted that Pakistan could be formed only over his dead body. Subhas Chandra Bose had thundered from southeast Asia that “our divine motherland must not be cut.” Such warnings however fell on deaf ears. Our tired politicians
- The Principal Problem (Telegraph, Dev Lahiri, Jun 30, 2003)
The choice of an academic who is not a schoolteacher as the head of Doon School prompts Dev Lahiri to explore the shortage of heads in Indian schools Only recently, Doon School, a leading public school in
- Muslim Chinese (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Jun 26, 2003)
What an extraordinary coincidence that just as the 50th anniversary of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s death fell, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was rediscovering Jawaharlal Nehru in Beijing. The irony could not be greater for Vajpayee was among the Indians who had made
- ‘no Sportsperson On Rs List, This Is Not Fair’ (Indian Express, Ateet Sharma, Jun 23, 2003)
Repeated ignoring of sporting greats in Rajya Sabha nominations irks Milkha Singh
- Let’s Take A Bet (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jun 21, 2003)
When I first went to England in 1934, I ran into a young Sikh about my age who was staying in the gurdwara in Shepherds Bush (London) and getting two meals a day free of charge. Though he had only passed his matriculation examination, he was known as
- Revisiting Killing Fields (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 21, 2003)
While the high representatives of the great powers were deliberating global issues like security and terrorism in Phnom Penh, 13 million Cambodians were trying to come to grips with their own insecurities after their government succumbed to United Nations
- Jet Sets And Socialists (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jun 20, 2003)
In the early years of reform, I found myself, one day, standing next to a somewhat corpulent businessman at Netaji Subhas Airport, Calcutta, waiting for the bus to take us to our aeroplane. Ranged in a row in front of us was a fleet of shiny new private
- Different Beds, Same Dreams (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Jun 12, 2003)
In Beijing in December 1988, the octogenarian Deng Xiaoping told the 44-year-old Rajiv Gandhi that “if there should be an ‘Asian Age’ in the next century, then it could be realized only after India and China became developed economies”. When the ...
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