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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 3108:
- Their War, Not Ours (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 12, 2001)
SINCE the yardstick of the success or failure of India’s foreign policy is linked to Pakistan’s standing in the international community.
- History By Fiat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 12, 2001)
THE LATEST DIRECTIVE by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, to the National Council for Education Research.
- Walkers-In-Law (Tribune, V.K. Kapoor, Oct 12, 2001)
PEOPLE have an inherent need to feel connected and they will do it in whatever ways are easiest for them. Need to connect with others is a deep emotional need. People seek relationships that enrich life.
- Colin Powell's Visit (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Oct 10, 2001)
WHAT IS the purpose behind the visit of the American Secretary of State, Gen. Colin Powell, to India and Pakistan at this stage?
- This War Is Not Ours (Indian Express, Devaki Jain , Oct 09, 2001)
Since September 11, one of US President George W. Bush’s more astute remarks has been ‘‘this enemy likes to hide’’. Terrorism hides in many places and is stimulated by many reasons.
- Lifting Of Us Sanctions: Type, Scope And Legal Backing (The Financial Express, G. Balachandran, Oct 09, 2001)
On September 22, 2001, George W Bush, through Presidential Determination No. 2001-28, lifted sanctions imposed on India and Pakistan in May 1998.
- Sense And Senescence (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 06, 2001)
Indian politicians should come with a ‘best before’ date.
- Learning To Forget (Hindu, DIPANKAR GUPTA, Oct 06, 2001)
IT IS said about the Bourbon Kings that they forgot nothing and they learnt nothing.
- From Dummy To Mummy (Indian Express, I.M. Sahai, Oct 05, 2001)
WITH the induction of O. Paneerselvan as the new, ‘‘stopgap’’ chief minister of Tamil Nadu, the spotlight has again moved to political heads who were ‘remote-controlled’ like a ventriloquist’s dummy.
- Martyrdom, The Prize For Taking One’s Life (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Oct 05, 2001)
It’s not just religious ‘zealots’ who are blowing themselves and their targets up; even the aetheist LTTE has chosen the suicide militancy route.
- Vanguard At The Gateway To Freedom (Indian Express, Madhu Dandavate, Oct 03, 2001)
ON August 1, 1942, the Congress organised a meeting at Chowpatty in tribute to Tilak’s death anniversary.
- Keeping Away From Us Will Not Help India’s Interests (The Financial Express, B. P. Singh, Oct 03, 2001)
This refers to Kuldip Nayar’s article “A wishy-washy foreign policy will not work to India’s advantage” (The Financial Express, September 26).
- Pakistan-U.S. Strategic Idiom (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 02, 2001)
AMERICA'S ``WAR'' on international terrorism is now being plotted in a nebulous strategic environment.
- Many Dr Spocks For The Congress Baby (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2001)
It is not only her future role as the possible prime minister of India that the Congress president takes seriously.
- Wallowing In Poverty Still In Fashion (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Sep 08, 2001)
THIS piece started to write itself in my head in a wayside restaurant between Mumbai and Alibagh where I stopped for lunch last weekend. It was, even by dhaba standards, a poor sort of place.
- Shying Away From The Ideological Fight (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 08, 2001)
The two rising stars in the Congress - Mr. Digvijay Singh and Mr. A.K.Antony - have done it again.
- ‘We Indians Are A Suspicious Lot, Envious To The Core Of Anyone Who Makes It Big’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
As a nation, we never celebrate those who create wealth, instead our elite swears by the principle: poverty is our birthright and you shall have it.
- Truth Must Be Out (The Economic Times, R. S. Raghavan, Sep 06, 2001)
THE charge levelled against Mr Vajpayee by Mr D B Ray, a former BJP MP, is that the PM had been fully privy to the plot to demolish the Babri Masjid on December 5, 1992.
- Cabinet Reshuffles And Aftershocks (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Sep 05, 2001)
With the exception of the fall of a Government (six of them collapsed in the Nineties) and perhaps the Budget, no other political event excites New Delhi so much as a Cabinet reshuffle. The point was proved yet again last week.
- The Gentleman `Kingmaker' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 05, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, hit the nail on the head when she described G. K. Moopanar as a ``gentleman politician''.
- Quotas As Incentives (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 05, 2001)
THE TWO RECENT rulings by the Supreme Court (S.C.) in the matter of admissions to post-graduate medical courses serve as timely reminders on establishing norms and special procedures that must govern selection criteria.
- The Gentleman `Kingmaker' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 05, 2001)
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, hit the nail on the head when she described G. K. Moopanar as a ``gentleman politician''.
- Political Insensitivity Towards Military (Tribune, Rakesh Datta, Sep 04, 2001)
India presents a unique picture of its apolitical armed forces.
- Educating The People (Hindu, Fali S. Nariman, Sep 04, 2001)
The recent review of the Government's Education Policy has come under attack.
- All Pawns, No Bishops (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 04, 2001)
HEDGED in from all sides, his government torn with contradictions, his governance discredited in the eyes of the country as never before.
- Saffronised Education (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2001)
THE non-Sangh Parivar Chief Ministers' effort to stop the saffronisation of school textbooks deserves a loud round of applause.
- Man Of Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2001)
Lord Mountbatten had advised India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, that he should routinely shuffle around his ministerial colleagues.
- Secularism Re-Examined (Hindu, Andre Beteille , Sep 03, 2001)
THE PUBLIC debate on secularism is acquiring some curious features.
- One Embassy, Two Ambassadors (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is simply amazing that we should have two ambassadors to the US.
- Range Of Services (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
The department for international development mentions that nearly half of the world’s population presently live in urban centres.
- Digvijay’S Diplomatic Deeds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2001)
AFTER the July Indo-Pak Agra summit, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Railways Digvijay Singh has got another international assignment having a diplomatic fallout.
- ‘I Only Wanted The Afro-Asian Games Postponed’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2001)
Sports Minister Uma Bharati has been in the thick of things in recent times.
- Ah, The Sweet Smell Of Poverty! (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2001)
Forget what Dil Chahta Hai, we’re wired to rubbish the rich.
- G. K. Moopanar (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
THE PASSING OF G. Karuppiah Moopanar, president of the Tamil Maanila Congress, but who remained at heart ``a Congressman'', has taken away from the national arena a staunch nationalist and an uncompromisingly secular leader.
- Chronicling A ‘Strange’ Alliance (Indian Express, Amrita Abraham, Aug 31, 2001)
An honour guard of 6-foot-2 Pakistani cavalrymen greeted John Foster Dulles on his visit to Karachi in 1953 and made an indelible impression on the US secretary of state.
- In The Beginning Was The Footnote (Telegraph, RAVI VYAS, Aug 31, 2001)
Sisir Gupta, a professor of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, used to tell the story of an MPhil candidate who, when asked to write on any three leaders of the Russian revolution.
- King Maker’s Exit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 31, 2001)
A robust common sense was what characterised.
- We Are Not China, Mr Shourie (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
IT CANNOT be denied that China is making far more progress than India. But to make a fetish of the growth is neither here nor there.
- A Votary Of United Punjab (Tribune, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
TWO years ago on this day (Aug 30) Punjab lost a brilliant leader, Pandit Mohan Lal, former Home and Finance Minister in Pratap Singh Kairon’s and Mussafir’s Cabinets and the President of the Sanatan Dharam Pratinidhi Sabha.
- Censoring Scholarship (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 30, 2001)
THERE is a new threat to national security and it is the foreign scholar.
- Biotech Battles -- Blunting The Competitive Edge (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 29, 2001)
THIS is the tale of two biotech start-ups, both entrepreneurial ventures that came up in Hyderabad.
- Right To Control (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2001)
Bangladesh has set up a separate university for conducting examinations alone.
- Biotech Battles -- Blunting The Competitive Edge (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 29, 2001)
THIS is the tale of two biotech start-ups, both entrepreneurial ventures that came up in Hyderabad.
- Duping With Dope (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 29, 2001)
The public sees Kunjarani Devi, the bespectacled diminutive girl from Manipur, as the new face of doping in Indian sport.
- Wages Of War Paid By The Weak (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Aug 28, 2001)
Bharat Jhunjhunwala, in his article "Unjust peace" (August 14), raves against the United Nations' Decade of Peace and Non-violence and advances a convoluted thesis against peace.
- Muivah Is A Safe Bet (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 28, 2001)
IF it is transparency to which the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is sworn, it should have made public the joint statement signed between former home secretary K. Padmanabhaiah on its behalf and Isak Muivah.
- Culture Vs Infrastructure (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 25, 2001)
If we want to get out of the present sense of gloom in our economy, we should systematically focus on bringing about a cultural change, says N Vittal.
- Caste On The Map (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 25, 2001)
Martinbhai Chhotubhai Macwan was swamped by a wave of hostility.
- India Should Go Ahead With Stem Cell Research (The Financial Express, Parul Malhotra, Aug 24, 2001)
"Embryonic stem cell research is a white Christian man’s issue”, says Dr Uttam Pati.
- Is Intolerance Overtaking Us? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 24, 2001)
THE other day, at a farewell party for a western diplomat, I was holding forth on religious tolerance and composite culture when the diplomat placed his hand on my shoulder and walked with me to the far corner of the room.
- There’s A New Mouse In Roosevelt House (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Aug 24, 2001)
COVERING the United States embassy in India is never going to be the same again.
- Lok Pal: America Has Something To Teach Us (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Aug 24, 2001)
The founding fathers of America were highly suspicious of states and governments. It followed: they had no great faith in men, either. Everything they did was to check the evil in men.
- Fatal Attraction (Hindustan Times, Brahma Chellaney , Aug 22, 2001)
According to international-relations theory, history is shaped by impersonal forces, including the perceived interests of a nation.
- Another Kind Of Love (Indian Express, Mushirul Hasan, Aug 22, 2001)
WITH debates on colonialism and nationalism receding into the background and being replaced by an odd, unwieldy and often unintelligible combination of esoteric themes, it is no wonder that several important texts are consigned to the dustbin of history.
- Sonia Gandhi’s Ram Factor (Indian Express, S. C. N. Jatar, Aug 22, 2001)
In the next election, Rajiv might just emerge as the Congress mascot.
- An Economist For A Finance Minister? (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Aug 22, 2001)
THESE days, many economists prefer to express their views on current economic affairs and policies in articles in financial newspapers. Newspapers currently do not report fully the speeches and viewpoints of economists.
- Remembering Rajiv (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 21, 2001)
Had Rajiv Gandhi not been murdered by terrorists — who, in turn, benefited from the government’s failure to provide him with the security he needed — 10 years ago, he would have been 57.
- Jammu On The Brink (Hindu, Balraj Puri, Aug 21, 2001)
THE KILLINGS of Hindus in the Jammu region should not be dismissed as stray terrorist acts of desperate militants.
- Land Of Lotus-Eaters (Business Line, C. J. Punnathara, Aug 21, 2001)
THEY say behind every successful man there is a woman. But behind every great person there is a Keralite, asserts the resident Malayalee.
- Tax-Free Donations Will Cement Nexus Between Business And Politics (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Aug 20, 2001)
The way to hell is said to be paved with good intentions.
- Portrait Of An Artist (Pioneer, K. Rajbir Deswal, Aug 20, 2001)
I am quite chary of people who claim they know a lot about distant constellations and their bearing on living beings on earth.
- Totems Of Nationhood (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 19, 2001)
Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine is not the only monument that disturbs people.
- Last Stretch At Race Course Road (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 18, 2001)
FINALLY, the prime minister is talking. But does it really matter?
- Time To Discard The Soft State Image (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 17, 2001)
IN my last column I stated that the Vajpayee government lacked political will to tackle terrorism and other pressing socio-economic problems.
- Minorities: Victims Of Omission (Pioneer, Chanchal Sarkar, Aug 17, 2001)
A good many years ago, Pandit Gobind Ballabh Pant wanted to persuade a distinguished retired High Court judge to accept the Chairmanship of a State Minorities Commission.
- For Muslims, Faith Has Died (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 17, 2001)
Faith in Panditji as ‘one of us’ lulled Muslims into unshakeable faith in the Congress.
- Bleak House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 16, 2001)
India, it could be argued, has missed many trysts with destiny. One need not go back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru and his grandiose dreams for the nation.
- Towards A Happier Northeast (Hindu, Murkot Ramunny, Aug 16, 2001)
DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN'S words have to be remembered today, ``Look backwards and live forwards''.
- Unwanted And Illegitimate? (The Economic Times, Parth J Shah, Aug 16, 2001)
THE TENTH anniversary of India’s liberalisation programme came and went.
- When Indians Chanted Pakistan Zindabad (The Economic Times, Salil Mishra, Aug 16, 2001)
THE VAJPAYEE-MUSHARRAF talks ended possibly the only way they could.
- Bleak House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 15, 2001)
India, it could be argued, has missed many trysts with destiny. One need not go back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru and his grandiose dreams for the nation.
- Tale Of The Tricolour (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 15, 2001)
Celebrate Shantabai as she unfurls the flag.
- Tryst With Disorder (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 15, 2001)
AUGUST 15 is not the Independence Day as is commonly supposed.
- For A New Freedom Movement (The Economic Times, Sauvik Sauvik Chakraverti verti , Aug 14, 2001)
THE OTHER morning I strolled into the CR Park No. 1 market to buy some mutton.
- Tashkent, Simla, Lahore, Agra ...? (Pioneer, MN Buch, Aug 12, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf before, during and after the Agra Summit has been consistent in stating that the core and, by implication, the only issue for discussion between India and Pakistan is Kashmir.
- With Malice Towards One And All...: A Happy Birthday (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Aug 11, 2001)
OUR 55TH birthday as an independent nation is round the corner. Do we celebrate it with a larger cake, an additional candle and sing ‘Happy Birthday to us’? Or do we say: “It’s like any other birthday, forget it”?
- The Show Goes On, Even After 10 Years Of Reform (The Financial Express, S Narendra, Aug 11, 2001)
The headlines in the economic and business dailies in July seemed to be competing with each other to spread depressing news.
- Hardly 'High Flying' (The Economic Times, V. A. Gopala, Aug 11, 2001)
WHERE, I wonder, is our collective National pride apropos of the edit 'The Maharaja Stalled' (ET, August 6). We are only projecting the worst that there is.
- Tashkent, Simla, Lahore, Agra ...? (Pioneer, MN Buch, Aug 11, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf before, during and after the Agra Summit has been consistent in stating that the core and, by implication, the only issue for discussion between India and Pakistan is Kashmir.
- Government Lacks Political Will (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 10, 2001)
A number of disgusted and angry persons ask me: what is the Government of India's policy on Kashmir? How can we tackle Pakistan and pin it down for spreading terrorism in the valley and beyond while pursuing soft policies towards Islamabad?
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