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- The Silvery River Without Tsunami (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Jan 09, 2005)
The swish of the diesel engine was feather-soft. From my chair high on the river bank I watched the two ‘ships’ pass. One had two cars on it. People were out on deck in their best clothes.
- From Islamabad, With Care (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 09, 2005)
In the coming months, officials in New Delhi and Islamabad will repeatedly refer the media to the 153 words of the joint press statement issued in Islamabad on January 6 after nail-biting suspense.
- Alvi: Befitting Honour For Noted Urdu Writer (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 09, 2005)
Urdu is considered one of the sweetest languages of the world. It is spoken by about 104 million people around the globe. Its birth was the direct result of the synthesis between the invading armies of Mahmud of Ghazni with the civilian population ...
- Seating Tight On Alliances (Indian Express, MUKESH BHARDWAJ, Jan 08, 2005)
Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala’s INLD may be the ruling party, but it doesn’t seem to have many friends. When the BJP supported him in making Tarlochan Singh the minorities commission chairman
- Media Doesn’T Hinder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2005)
PAKISTAN has begun responding to India's initiative to liberalise its visa regime for journalists from across the border. President Gen Pervez Musharraf is reported to have asked its High Commission in New Delhi to give multiple entry visas for Indian jou
- Two Cheers For Ganguly (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jan 08, 2005)
Bengalis have long felt a sense of victimhood, of somehow being denied or deprived by the rest of India.
- Wages Of Critical Neglect (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Jan 08, 2005)
Muddling through has become the essence of India's crisis management strategies, and each new challenge or disaster produces new evidence of gross incompetence, failure and institutional collapse
- Wave Of Compassion Or New Tide? (Hindu, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Jan 08, 2005)
A US-backed peace initiative in South Asia began more than a year ago. Apart from several confidence-building measures, several new ideas were floated in an attempt to resolve the half-century Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.
- Will Nda Stay Or Fade Away? (Tribune, Satish Misra, Jan 08, 2005)
THE BJP-led NDA’s rule came to an end in May 2004 but will the NDA as a political entity survive or fade away ? Since the NDA was formed in 1998 for capturing power by the BJP and some of its ideological allies, the loss of an instrument of governance ...
- The Aids Monster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2005)
IT is ironical that while news about anyone suffering from some disease evokes sympathy, a similar piece of information about AIDS earns ridicule and shame. That is why the pandemic is growing exponentially.
- Asian Oil Bloc (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 08, 2005)
Given the volatility characterising the global oil market, India’s proposal to form an Asian oil bloc that would help to ensure stability, security and sustainability of the oil market in the region is a good idea.
- Justice Served (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 08, 2005)
The time: 2.30 in the afternoon on November 15, 2002. The venue: An old monument almost rubbing shoulders with Delhi Police Headquarters, in a neighbourhood housing several media establishments
- Love Your Body, Love Yourself (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 08, 2005)
The long-distance call was from Osho’s commune in Pune. On the line was the editor of Osho Times, Amrit Sadhana.
- Agent Orange From The Ocean (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Jan 08, 2005)
: In Vietnam the enemy was often unseen; unseen that is to those who were reporting a war that at that stage wasn’t really a war but a battle of attrition.
- Aids Spreading Fast In Asia (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2005)
IT is ironical that while news about anyone suffering from some disease evokes sympathy, a similar piece of information about AIDS earns ridicule and shame. That is why the pandemic is growing exponentially.
- A New Year Wish List (The Economic Times, Lubna Kably, Jan 08, 2005)
Happy New Year,” Zenobia Aunty wishes everyone on April 1. This is not an April Fool’s joke. This date heralds our new financial year.
- Change The Mindset (Pioneer, Prem P Kapoor, Jan 08, 2005)
N Jamal Ansari puts forward a baffling and convoluted logic in his article, "Ayodhya and after" (The Pioneer, December 25). He laments that even after 12 years
- An Asian Oil Market (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 08, 2005)
ASIAN oil consumers led by India met some top producers, including Saudi Arabia, in Delhi on Thursday to demand price stability and assured supply to prevent the recurrence of the “shock” witnessed in 2004.
- Plane Truths (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Jan 07, 2005)
The state government’s two aircraft—a five-seater plane and a four-seater twin-engine helicopter—have become the bone of contention between Chief Minister Raman Singh and Governor Lt Gen (retd) K M Seth.
- Words Were What She Had (Indian Express, SUGUNA RAMANATHAN, Jan 07, 2005)
It is now over a month since Shama Futehally passed away. The memories continue to linger, especially of the time in the eighties spent in Gujarat, where her husband Javid Chowdhury was a civil servant.
- An Angry Earth Wobbles (Asia Times, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Had it not been for the devastating Boxing Day tsunami that hit southern Asia, engulfing parts of India in its wake, 2004 might have passed off as a relatively uneventful year.
- Hail The New Textile Maharaja (Asia Times, Siddharth Srivastava, Jan 07, 2005)
Beginning this year, the world has moved from a four-decade paradigm that limited the developing countries' textile exports to advanced nations, unleashing trade worth ...
- Help Not Wanted (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 07, 2005)
Asia's tsunami has had an unlikely fallout: The bruised ego of the world's rich nations. The West's comfort level with less developed parts of the globe hits high water mark whenever the latter can be kept on dole.
- Remembering A “noorjahan” (Tribune, R.K. Kaushik, Jan 06, 2005)
JULIA Glancy, the wife of Sir Bertrand James Glancy, Governor of pre-partition Punjab from April 8, 1945 to April 7, 1946, used to be called “Noorjahan” of Punjab at that time by the Urdu press of Lahore because of her beauty, assertiveness, prudence and
- More Phones At Cheaper Rates (Tribune, Rajendra Prabhu, Jan 06, 2005)
The Communications and IT Ministry and the private industry are now convinced that the total telephone subscriptions can rise from the October 2004 level of 90 million to 250 million by 2007 with 60 million of it in the rural areas against 13 million now.
- Local Monitor (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 06, 2005)
It is prudent of the government of India not to have reacted strongly to the United States of America’s naval presence in Sri Lanka.
- Tsunamis Won't Stop Jihadis (Asia Times, B. Raman , Jan 06, 2005)
Some security aspects of the widespread tragedy caused by the December 26 tsunamis have not received the attention they deserve.
- How To Get Back The Missing Teeth (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jan 06, 2005)
Only by joining or allying with the Congress can Mamata Banerjee save herself from political irrelevance
- Can Someone Answer My Questions? (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Jan 06, 2005)
Govt excuse is the disaster caught everyone by surprise. But that is what a disaster is all about
- Drills For Natural Disaster Management (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 06, 2005)
In the winter of 1977, a huge tidal wave, an aftermath of a cyclonic depression in the Bay of Bengal, struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh.
- J.N. Dixit - A Tribute (Hindu, Gopal Gandhi, Jan 05, 2005)
"I will come and call on you at Banga Bhavan, Gopal," he said when I spoke to J.N. Dixit a fortnight ago, "protocol is protocol."
- Patent Ordinance And Reality Check (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 05, 2005)
To meet its WTO commitment, India has brought in an ordinance to usher in the product patent regime. But of the effect on the ground things are not too clear, though the ordinance appears to create a milieu for the IT and pharma industries to grow and ...
- Sri Lanka And The Tsunami (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
Sri Lanka is stranger to large-scale death and destruction. But the death and destruction caused by a 20-year-old internal conflict could not have prepared the country
- This Waiting Can Be Long (Indian Express, Harmala Gupta, Jan 05, 2005)
The advances made by medical science have not only increased life spans, it is now possible to ensure good symptom relief right till the end. Why then are we debating the right to end our lives prematurely?
- Agent Of Change (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 05, 2005)
P.V. Narasimha Rao’s manner of leaving had all the hallmarks of his long, tempestuous political life. He left on the eve of the 80th birthday of the man he called his life-long friend and adversary
- Among The Shoppers (Indian Express, AMRITA DUTTA, Jan 05, 2005)
On December 31 2004, four of us had set out to collect contributions for the people who had survived the rage of the tsunami. We represented a collective of 20 voluntary organisations in Delhi.
- Fuel For Thought (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2005)
The road map for cleaner fuel — and, by implication, for cleaner air — will have to be redrawn with oil refiners declaring they are unable to meet the deadline for the supply of petrol and diesel that matches the required standards.
- Uncertain Certainties (Gulf News, M.J. Akbar, Jan 04, 2005)
It is natural: in the first week of January every right-thinking Indian wants to know what will happen in the coming year.
- A Copybook Diplomat (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jan 04, 2005)
A Quintessential diplomat, Jyotindra Nath Dixit, headed the national brains-trust in its formulation of security, foreign policy and strategic relations with the rest of the world.
- A Knowledge Hub (Telegraph, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jan 04, 2005)
At the golden jubilee celebrations of Jadavpur University, the chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, stressed the importance of academic research
- Allied Assault (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 04, 2005)
The Congress made its bed with Bihar's ruling RJD. But it has difficulty lying on it each time seat-sharing becomes a prestige issue.
- Bonding With Malaysia (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2005)
In May 2001, the then Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, visited Malaysia, as part of the NDA Government's "look East" policy.
- In Relief (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2005)
Even the most reasonable of stances may have a striking effect. India’s refusal of aid for the tsunami disaster from other countries, such as the United States of America, China, or Australia, has been both polite and reasonable.
- Information: An Inviolable Right (Hindu, Nirmala Lakshman, Jan 04, 2005)
Despite the fact that there are serious attempts to muzzle the right to information by the ruling elite and powerful vested interests through the tabling of an ineffective Bill, the tide of civil resistance cannot be stemmed for long
- Feminism In The Time Of Mms (Indian Express, Amrita Shah, Jan 04, 2005)
Anybody who keeps asking — and there are many who do — why feminists oppose beauty contests should watch two film clips currently in circulation.
- For A Memorial To Partition (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Jan 03, 2005)
WHAT do the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Foundation, both located in New York, possibly have in common with a proposed memorial that I have in mind for our own country, commemorating
- India’S Policy Failure In Nepal (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jan 03, 2005)
King Gyanendra subverted multi-party democracy within months of becoming the king and appears to be in pursuit of an executive monarchy.
- Another Dose Of Freedom (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 03, 2005)
Reform in the aviation sector seems to roll out but slowly. Freeing the airline business from the monopoly of the state-owned carriers and allowing the private airlines full play has not come easily to Government
- Tsunami Relief Should Be Led By U.N. (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 03, 2005)
Stung by criticism that its initial response to the tsunami disaster had been "stingy," the United States has moved swiftly to try and impose its "leadership" over the international relief effort underway.
- The Only Privilege (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 03, 2005)
Strange how terrible things always catch us in our festive or pious best. Some of us call it Murphy’s Law but we mustn’t let the Irish monopolise angst.
- Stay Away From The Remote Control (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Jan 03, 2005)
Industry leaders appear set to be more involved in urban politics this year than they have been before.
- Of Commissions And Inquiries (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jan 03, 2005)
There are certain holy cows in the country. If you take action against them or even say anything about them, it would be considered blasphemy or contempt of their institution.
- A Wave Of Indifference (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 02, 2005)
What a devastating, heartrending way for the year 2004 to end. A week since the tsunami hit and the death toll still rises and we still reel from the shock of nature’s brutal reminder that with all our technology and our scientific discoveries we are noth
- Vat Will Bring Out Black Money: Onkar Singh (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Jan 02, 2005)
The implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT) system from April 1 will bring out a large portion of the black money in the economy besides enhancing the tax compliance.
- He Made His Mark In English Writing (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 02, 2005)
"English is the most widely spoken language in the world and it has gone beyond just being a link language in India," says Upmanyu Chatterjee. Even French, so proud of their language, speak English now.
- Indo-Pak Ties Need To Be Warmer (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jan 01, 2005)
Ali Nawaz Memon is worried about visiting India. Frantically leafing through the pages of his well-travelled passport the former World Bank official pauses to scrutinise his recently acquired Indian visa.
- A Happening Year (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 01, 2005)
I wish my readers Merry Xmas and a happy 2005 with many Xmasses and new years to come. In my little family, we need no excuses to celebrate.
- Promise To Delivery (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 01, 2005)
For West Bengal, the last year was one caught in a cusp. On one side, there was the promise of radical changes and on the other, there was the delivery of those promises.
- More Than A Million Hiroshimas (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 01, 2005)
Will Governments ever spend the modest sums required along the coast to protect the millions of poorer Indians dependent on the seas?
- Maritime Counter-Terrorism (Tribune, General (Retd) V. P. Malik, Jan 01, 2005)
COINCIDING with Navy Day, the Terrorism Watch Project of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, organised an international workshop on Maritime Counter-Terrorism on November 29-30.
- The Generation Ex (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Jan 01, 2005)
The migration of Indian minds to the west, particularly to the United States, came in three broad streams.
- The Tsunami Brings Us Together (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 31, 2004)
The Armed Forces have already embarked on one of the biggest rescue missions in their history
- This New Year, Give! (Tribune, Yashovardhan Saboo, Dec 31, 2004)
Last Sunday, while we savored the Christmas week-end and were planning our New Year parties, a massive earthquake sent waves of calamity around the Bay of Bengal. In a few moments, thousands perished, without warning or reprieve.
- While We Were Sleeping (Indian Express, BARUN MITRA, Dec 31, 2004)
Even as we struggle to come to terms with the trail of death and destruction left by the sea surges that hit our unwary shores just a day after Christmas, we need to realise that all crises opens up new opportunities.
- 2004: In Transit (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 31, 2004)
The more things change, the more they don't remain the same. That is the anti-climactic moral of 2004, whose end makes its beginning unrecognisable.
- Crossed Wires (Deccan Herald, SHAILAJA NIKAM, Dec 31, 2004)
Whenever I had to give my telephone number to any one, I’d say, “Four, double four.” The recipient would say, “You mean, triple four?” If I started with ‘triple four’, they would write three and then make a correction.
- In The Name Of Allah (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 31, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
- Manmohan Touring Affected Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, today left here for Thiruvananthapuram to survey the tsunami-hit coastal areas, even as the Centre said the death and destruction were being treated as a national calamity.
- Moscow And Multipolarity (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Dec 30, 2004)
Russia is building new alliances and using oil to counter the United States' attempts at regime change in its neighbourhood.
- Next Stop, Dhaka (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 30, 2004)
In every peace process, there is a moment when forward movement stops and there is an inching backwards. India and Pakistan, finding themselves at such a juncture this week, have thankfully avoided a slide back.
- One-Sided Moves (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 30, 2004)
The outcome of the two-day Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan in Islamabad on Tuesday, warrants some serious thinking on the dialogue process under way between the two countries.
- The Killer Brew (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 30, 2004)
The 51 Mumbai slum-dwellers who died on Monday after consuming spurious liquor did not know that the “cheap kick” they were enjoying during extended Christmas celebrations would make them sleep forever.
- Tsunami Damage Put At Rs. 5,500 Cr. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
Preliminary estimates made by industry have put the economic cost of the destruction caused by the tsunami in India at Rs. 5,500 crores.
- A Step Forward (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2004)
The latest round of official level India-Pakistan talks held in Islamabad which concluded on Tuesday focussed on confidence-building measures (CBMs) to improve ties between the subcontinental neighbours.
- And The Houses All Fell Down (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- How Rao Broke The Ice In J&k (Indian Express, WAJAHAT HABIBULLAH, Dec 30, 2004)
In October ’04, I called on Narasimha Rao of an evening. We met at his home on Delhi’s Motilal Nehru Marg and I was struck by the fragility of his appearance but equally by the clarity of mind.
- India’S Pro-Active Foreign Policy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Dec 30, 2004)
Continuity was the main theme of Indian foreign policy in the year 2004 as New Delhi stayed engaged with the world in a pro-active manner with particular focus on neighbours like Pakistan and China.
- It’S Not Laloo, Stupid (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 30, 2004)
The year 2004 has been a horrible year, hasn’t it? Twelve months ago the hottest topic in Delhi was the mandate to use set-top boxes if we wanted to watch India challenging Australia.
- Kalam Calls For Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2004)
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, called for a tsunami warning system along the entire Indian coastline on the lines of the one in the 27 Pacific nations, safeguarding them from distant source tsunamis.
- Kashmir Conference In Kathmandu (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 30, 2004)
Sir, my secular answer to the honourable member is that where it is in the hands of Allah, we turn to Allah, where it is in the hands of man, we turn to man."
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