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- Civilising The State (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2004)
Only the other day the National Human Rights Commission awarded compensation to the families of 109 persons killed and clandestinely cremated by the Punjab police between 1984 and 1994.
- Trials Of A Pioneer (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 19, 2004)
Monastic intrigues have been a source of macabre fascination for the laity. From Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose to Dan Brown’s best-selling
- Hindi Business (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Nov 19, 2004)
When it comes to different languages, some people can make much ado about what’s in a name
- Farewell, Shobini! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 18, 2004)
In a way, the plight of sportsmen is worse than that of extras in a film. For a few seconds they play the king, only to lead a life of penury and deprivation after that.
- Caste In Class (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 18, 2004)
The relationship between literacy and social change is far from unproblematic in India. Deep in rural Bengal, the problem of caste has cropped up in a rather unexpected form among the children attending a primary school.
- Basic Instinct (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Nov 18, 2004)
British newspapers have been carrying reports of the sacking of the Conservative MP Boris Johnson as a frontbencher and spokesperson for the arts.
- Beg Your Pardon, My Lord (Telegraph, DEBAKI NANDAN MANDAL, Nov 17, 2004)
Forming a national judicial commission may be the first step in the much-needed scrutiny of the judiciary
- Tourism: A Valuable Economic Package (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Nov 17, 2004)
Tourism is the new kid on the block. Much of the hype is shifting from the technology sector to the glamour world of travel and hospitality. Suddenly, all-round support is coming to an industry, that has remained in a stupor for decades. About time too.
- Lurid News, Libidinous Ads (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 16, 2004)
It is steaming hot in Kerala these days and it is not because of the weather. Competing with `hartals' for headline space are sex scandals of various hues.
- Inertia Is Hallmark Of Approach (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Nov 16, 2004)
The State fails to utilise the full AIBP fund allocation, even as the pace of implementation of the project remains sluggish
- It's Literally Fishing In Troubled Waters (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Nov 16, 2004)
IN recent weeks, there have been reports of Indian fishermen getting arrested for crossing the maritime borders of neighbouring countries such as Pakistan and Sri Lanka and even from as far away as Oman in the Gulf region.
- Memorial In The Mind (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Nov 15, 2004)
WHERE even the birds speak chaste Sanskrit lives Mandan Mishra,” a villager is believed to have told Adi Sankara when he enquired about the residence of the great Sanskrit scholar in the 8th century.
- Visions And Verdicts (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Nov 13, 2004)
Tomorrow, November 14, is the birthday of India’s first prime minister. This is an appropriate moment to reassess his legacy, but only before issuing a disclaimer: your columnist is not a member or supporter of the Congress party.
- Economic Lessons From The Hotspots Of Innovation (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 13, 2004)
Silicon Valley, Ireland, Cambridge, Munich, Sophia Antipolis, Sweden, Israel, Taiwan and Bangalore — these are the places you would find mentioned in a new book
- A Dismal Tale Unfolds (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 13, 2004)
I met Mr Nair on November 2, the day Mr George W. Bush got re-elected for a second term in office.
- What Alternative To Water Privatisation? (Deccan Herald, Sudhirendar Sharma, Nov 11, 2004)
The activists who oppose privatisation of water should be able to propose a second alternative
- Inter-Linking Of Rivers — Untested Hype, Unresolved Issues (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 10, 2004)
The project to interlink six major rivers promises to remain bedevilled for a considerable time by unresolved engineering, operational and financial issues.
- More Chaotic Than Exotic (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Nov 09, 2004)
Sonia Gandhi has done it again. She has proved drawing-room critics wrong, all those who spent the last few years authoritatively claiming that the Congress, led by her, would not get more than double digits in the general election.
- Cauvery: Disappointments, Appeals (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Nov 09, 2004)
The lower riparian has rights and unless the upper riparian is prepared to accept this, there can be no resolution of the dispute.
- The Castle Riddle (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Nov 08, 2004)
These are politically difficult days for the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) Government led by Mr Oommen Chandy. Buffeted by scandals of all kinds, the UDF finds itself with little time or inclination to tackle the real
- Stop The Rot In The Police System (Deccan Herald, Vishal Arora, Nov 08, 2004)
NHRC estimates that more than 50 per cent of the complaints it receives are against police personnel
- Beating Up The Messenger (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 08, 2004)
The repeated attacks on journalists in Kerala by activists of the Indian Union Muslim League in full view of the police raise serious concerns about political goondaism and the
- Need To Contain India’S Expanding Population (Tribune, Seema Sengupta, Nov 07, 2004)
THE need to focus serious attention on population control for a developing country like India is of paramount importance.
- Safe Motherhood Becomes A Reality (Tribune, Usha Rai, Nov 04, 2004)
It was an amazing sight! Gendibai, a 45-year-old tribal volunteer of ARTH (Action, Research and Training for Health), was standing in the middle of Kanuja village in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan, her ...
- Import To Consume (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Nov 04, 2004)
Every day, thousands of commodities are transported from other states of India to West Bengal for local consumption.
- Whither National Farmers Commission? (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Nov 03, 2004)
At the fag end of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime, on the initiative of the former Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a National Farmers Commission was set up to look into all aspects of
- Investment By Commission (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 29, 2004)
Arunachal Pradesh will be the biggest beneficiary of the proposed new Investment Commission. The Investment Commission (IC) is expected, obviously enough, to do better than the India Investment Centres (IICs) now being wound up.
- Another Most-Disturbing Setback (The Economic Times, R PRATAP RUDY, Oct 24, 2004)
The Maharashtra election is the second-most disturbing setback for the BJP after the Lok Sabha polls.
- Another Most-Disturbing Setback (The Economic Times, R PRATAP RUDY, Oct 23, 2004)
The Maharashtra election is the second-most disturbing setback for the BJP after the Lok Sabha polls.
- Another Most-Disturbing Setback (The Economic Times, R PRATAP RUDY, Oct 22, 2004)
The Maharashtra election is the second-most disturbing setback for the BJP after the Lok Sabha polls.
- Top Three States - A Socio-Economic Comparison (Business Line, Jeevan Prakash Mohanty, Oct 20, 2004)
The Assembly election in Maharashtra is crucial for its possible ramifications on national politics. The election is being fought on several issues.
- Serving To Fly (Business Line, K.G. Kumar, Oct 19, 2004)
Last week, newspapers reported that four international airlines had decided that, from next month, they will raise the frequency of flights that they operate to the Trivandrum International Airport.
- No Alternative To Reforms (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 18, 2004)
The Left has always been a marginal force in India. Given the belief that its ideology has a special appeal for the poor, it can seem odd that the Left has never made much headway in this country, except at a regional level such as other non-Left
- Hungry To Bed (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2004)
Does it at all make sense to talk of the “rights” of a hungry child in India? For most of their legal childhood, children have no voice in the Indian political system, and children from disadvantaged families are twice removed from the democratic process.
- A Festive Season Every Year (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Oct 13, 2004)
It is festival time and everyone loves a good festival, I believe. While festivals and festivities are part of our living heritage, they embody many of our beliefs and customs and also our worldview.
- Rabi Prospects (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 07, 2004)
Even as the kharif harvest gathers momentum, it is clear that actual output of several crops — rice, coarse grain, pulses, and oilseeds — will not only fall considerably below the target but also short of the kharif 2003 output.
- M&a Success In Banking — Enhancing Value With Brandduediligence (Business Line, David Haigh, Oct 06, 2004)
As shareholders bank on increased merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the financial markets, analysts' views are mixed on what could be the potential benefits.
- Mellowed Mallus (Deccan Herald, T C NARAYAN, Oct 06, 2004)
On returning to my homeland, things seemed to have become more organised in my absence
- Still A Long Shot (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2004)
Had the India Meteorological Department been a bookmaker, it would have lost a packet. In April it predicted that rainfall in this year's southwest monsoon from June 1 to September 30 would be normal, in fact, 100 per cent of the long-term average.
- Brand Touch In Tax Law (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Oct 02, 2004)
Over 75,000 brands are said to be fighting it out in the Indian consumer market. Differentiation is the order of the day, with micro-niche, niche and mass products jostling for a share of the market pie.
- Electronic Voting Is Questionable (Tribune, K N Bhat, Oct 01, 2004)
The famous American inventor of 19th — 20th century, Thomas Alva Edison, owned over 1100 patents. The first of them was a tamper-proof vote- recording machine. Edison sent it to the Chairman of the US Senate believing that it would be readily accepted.
- Never Too Old To Learn (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Oct 01, 2004)
Whoever thought the post office will slowly fade into oblivion may need to take a second look.
- Pricing Lng (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 01, 2004)
Busy days these are for those in the LNG (liquefied natural gas) business. Globally, the demand for LNG is rising with new countries joining the list of importers.
- Communal Thuggery In Kerala (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Sep 29, 2004)
The attack on nuns attached to the Missionaries of Charity near Kozhikode is unusual, even if not unprecedented, for a State that has been relatively immune to communal violence.
- The Web Of E-Governance (Hindu, G. Ananthakrishnan, Sep 29, 2004)
Can e-governance add any value if it is implemented merely as a virtual version of labyrinthine government processes?
- Religious Intolerance (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 28, 2004)
Seven Christian missionaries were attacked allegedly by RSS workers at a Scheduled Caste colony on Saturday in Kerala, for providing material assistance to a Dalit family.
- Parliament And The Judiciary (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 26, 2004)
All the three wings of the state are creatures of the Constitution and are bound by it. There has to be complementarity among the constitutional institutions and no one institution can claim superiority over the other.
- Research At The University Level (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Sep 24, 2004)
If breakthroughs are to be made in science, there is a need to involve young people in research at universities
- India's Health-Care Paradox (Business Line, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 21, 2004)
For a country that has not been able to eradicate many preventable diseases, India has an unusually healthy pharma industry. Most globalised of all Indian industries, the pharma sector however produces and sells huge quantities of the kinds of drugs ...
- Battling Hiv (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 20, 2004)
Richard Feachem, Executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, could not have been more blunt. HIV/AIDS is "a ticking time-bomb" for India, he said at a recent press conference in New Delhi.
- Burqa Is Out (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 17, 2004)
France recently passed a controversial law against the public display of religious symbols. For this reason alone the French would certainly not be amused to learn that the purdah, for long seen as a symbol of repression of women in Muslim societies ...
- Kasuri And Ghulam Ali In India (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 15, 2004)
Within a week of the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan, Mr Natwar Singh and Mr Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, meeting in New Delhi for another round of Indo-Pak dialogue
- Train From Bangladesh (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 15, 2004)
The high point of Census 2001 is the confirm- ation of the mass exodus from Bangladesh, and not the computation error
- Those Three (Deccan Herald, APARNA MOHILE, Sep 15, 2004)
Their friendship symbolised everything that is called ‘national integration’
- Costly Lapse (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 13, 2004)
Political capital is sought to be made out of the mistaken conclusions the census made
- Platform Revels (Deccan Herald, N Narasimhan, Sep 13, 2004)
Politicians are some of the best teachers of how exactly you should not speak in public
- Striving To Restore Sanskrit Glory (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 12, 2004)
Rare are persons like Prof Govind Chandra Pande. He is historian, philosopher, Sanskrit scholar, poet and linguist combined in one. He is, perhaps, the only scholar who has vowed to restore the pristine glory of Sanskrit, fast vanishing as the classical
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- Farm Output On A Low (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 09, 2004)
The South-west monsoon appears set to withdraw after the half-hearted revival that brought belated but welcome rains all over the country in August.
- Real Diseases, Weird Cures (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Sep 07, 2004)
Is exercise not better than cutting off your tummy if you are fat? Apparently not, in the consumerist world
- He Has No Craze For The Kursi (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 05, 2004)
A.K. Antony is a rare leader in the weird world of politics. He personifies idealism and probity in public life. But he has to pay a heavy price for his virtues and step down as the Chief Minister of Kerala...
- Entering The Environment (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 04, 2004)
This article is about an interesting, important, but as yet little-analysed phenomenon in contemporary Indian politics — the entry into the environmental movement of the organized left.
- Captive Audience (Deccan Herald, N Narasimhan, Sep 02, 2004)
Politicians are some of the best teachers of how exactly you should not speak in public
- Seafood Industry Looks For Lifeline (Business Line, Mony K. Mathew , Aug 30, 2004)
For nearly a decade now, the country's seafood industry, that of Kerala in particular, has been finding the going tough after an extended period of smooth sail on the export front both in terms of volume and forex earnings.
- Planning For The Future (Hindu, Ashok Parthasarathi, Aug 30, 2004)
Public investment needs to be raised sharply on improving infrastructure in the rural areas in a labour-intensive manner.
- Onam Offering (Deccan Herald, K. S. Parthasarathy, Aug 28, 2004)
The alleged serpent in the bushes was more like a symbol for their deception
- Unsafe In Himachal Pradesh (Tribune, Pratibha Chauhan, Aug 26, 2004)
THE recent acid attack on a 19-year-old Shimla girl has served another reminder of the rising incidence of crime against women in Himachal Pradesh.
- Parliament And The Judiciary (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2004)
All the three wings of the state are creatures of the Constitution and are bound by it. There has to be complementarity among the constitutional institutions and no one institution can claim superiority over the other.
- The Left's Dilemma (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2004)
Although the commitment of the Left parties to the continuance of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government is not in doubt, differences over issues such as
- India’S Electoral System, The Finest In The World (Tribune, R. Rathnaswamy, Aug 22, 2004)
Election is one of the important elements of a democracy. The citizens must be able to pursue their interests and realise their goals.
- How Gay Is Their World? (Telegraph, Avijit Ghosh, Aug 22, 2004)
By day he worked for an NGO. But his nights were taken up by raucous gay orgies. And the murder of Pushkin Chandra in New Delhi last week will only reinforce the vicious stereotype about homosexuals.
- `Need For Farmer-Oriented Marketing' (Hindu, G. Venkataramani, Aug 18, 2004)
The National Commission on Farmers (NFC), an advisory body, has identified key areas to be addressed and chalked out short and long-term measures for
- Vertical Mirage (Deccan Herald, U. S. Iyer, Aug 12, 2004)
Not all who chase dreams abroad find that the streets there are paved with gold
- Nothing Presidential (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Aug 11, 2004)
LAST time I visited Kerala, my niece Priya was at her garrulous best narrating her encounter with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. She showed me the hotel in Kochi where she and some other selected children had a meeting with the first citizen of India.
- The Ten-Year Cycle (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 11, 2004)
Going by fluctuations in the fortunes of political parties in India, the BJP could be in for a long period of decline
- Muslims And Reservations (Pioneer, Sharfuddin Ansari, Aug 11, 2004)
The Muslim forward castes, including the Sayyads, have become vocal in demanding reservation for Muslims in Government jobs and educational institutions.
- Lalu Prasad Eyes South (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 10, 2004)
RAILWAY Minister Lalu Prasad, who is desparately trying to shed “Yadav” from his name, has now his eye on the South to garner votes for strengthening his RJD.
- Murder In Manipur (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Aug 05, 2004)
Thousands of people in Imphal witnessed a horrifying scene on July 15. A dozen women, both young and old, assembled at the gate of Kangla, the historic seat of the Manipur kings. One by one, they shed their clothes to the last thread, all the while ...
- Jihadis And Secularism (Pioneer, Sridhar Pant, Aug 05, 2004)
Balbir Punj's article, "Secular objectives sans objectivity" (Opinion, July 2), reveals the perversion in the self-claimed "secular" intelligentsia and media. However, he seems to be at a loss to assess the real objective of "distorted secularism".
- Money Against Merit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 31, 2004)
The seemingly disproportionate levels of protest across Kerala triggered by the suicide of an engineering college student who was unable to pay her hostel and tuition fees point to
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