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Articles 19221 through 19320 of 21784:
- The Sri Lankan Mess (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 31, 2003)
ONE is intrigued by the way all parties in the Sri Lanka triangle, President Chandrika Kumaratunga (People’s Alliance), Prime Minister Ranil Vickremesinghe (UNF), and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), expect India to facilitate ethnic conflict
- Surviving The Male Gaze (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 31, 2003)
Violence against women can be curbed only if there is a change in the way men look at women and women look at themselves
- Spread Of Saffron (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 31, 2003)
A civilized country is one where people don’t have to waste their time on politics. — Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
- Tagore Didn’t Have Aishwarya In Mind (Tribune, Paloma Ganguly, Dec 31, 2003)
Dust was brushed off a literary gem penned a century ago by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore when a film starring Aishwarya Rai hit the screens this year. “But I don't think Tagore quite had Aishwarya in mind when he wrote ‘Chokher Bali’!” says Radha
- Sangathan Was His World (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Dec 31, 2003)
Kushabhau Thakre lived and died a dedicated pracharak
- In 2004, Just Ban Bans (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 31, 2003)
Those who browse around on the internet are familiar with the www.dhmo.org website and several chain e-mail messages resulting from it. After all, this stuff has been floating aro–und for at least two years. I won’t give you all the details. You can look
- Securing The Summit (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Pakistan, and its security regime, will be on test as never before during the SAARC meet
- 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...”
- A Moment For Kashmir (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The new year tolls with new hopes. Certainly for India and Pakistan, but for the people of Kashmir as well. Talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat are slated for January 9, mere days after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee returns from the January
- Rehabilitation Incomplete (Hindu, Mike Levien, Dec 30, 2003)
Thousands of families in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra who are affected at the current Sardar Sarovar dam height have not yet been rehabilitated, much less those who will be affected at 110 metres.
- To Strengthen Case For Talks, Pak ‘works’ On Militants To Cease Fire (Indian Express, HAMEEDULLAH ABID, Dec 30, 2003)
Leaders of major Kashmiri militant groups are considering a unilateral ceasefire in the Valley for two months to facilitate Pakistan and India in their talks during the SAARC summit next week, highly credible sources told Daily Times of Pakistan.
- Can The Congress Recover? (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 30, 2003)
Nationality is an artificial and irrational construct. The world is divided into nations, and nations have governments. They devise rules on nationality that they find politically convenient. But wherever there is a government, there must be the governed;
- Politics Of Alliances (Tribune, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 30, 2003)
THE Congress party is now facing up to an incontrovertible political fact. If it is to be a serious contender for power it will have to forge complicated political alliances across India, as it feels now. But crafting alliances is a delicate game, not ...
- Forensics Report In: Judeo Tape Is Authentic, No Doctoring Detected (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 30, 2003)
The videotape showing former Union Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo accepting cash, which was first published by The Sunday Express and led to his resignation and a CBI case, is authentic and not doctored in any way.
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- A Spokesman Of The Rural Downtrodden (Tribune, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
A sincere human being, a true intellectual and a great playwright having written 33 plays in Punjabi with an abundant use of the Doabi dialect of the Hoshiarpur region, Charan Dass Sidhu, who has been given the Sahitya Akademi Award, symbolises a saga of
- Footprints Beyond 2003 (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 29, 2003)
2003 might seem to have been a fairly humdrum year as far as India is concerned. But has it really been all that uneventful? Has nothing really happened during the year which will leave an imprint on 2004 and beyond
- Will Bjp’s Hype Turn Into Votes? (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 29, 2003)
If hype is an indicator of victory, and the BJP has certainly managed to create it around its victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, then the party is on its way to notching up the 300 Lok Sabha seats that Venkaiah Naidu has been talking
- Couplet Express (Tribune, Nirupama Dutt, Dec 29, 2003)
THE romance of a train journey is hard to get over and it is an experience that I just cannot resist and the longer the distance the better it is. So I was not intimidated by the 48 hours the train would take from Nizamuddin to Madurai. I had to make this
- Teaching Shops (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 29, 2003)
While discussing how successfully Indian higher education is “globalizing”, a colleague pointed out a remarkable anomaly. At any stage of school education, an Indian child is taught far more than the product of an American or British school, and is likely
- Once Samjhauta’s Back, Walk Across Wagah May End (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 29, 2003)
With Samjhauta Express shown the green light to run between Lahore and Amritsar again from January 15, New Delhi plans to shut down the Wagah land border crossing between the two countries. Only the Delhi-Lahore bus will be allowed through the crossing.
- Kalyan Tea With Pm Upsets Cong, Calls For Ouster From Govt (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Dec 29, 2003)
As ally Congress demanded the ouster of Kalyan Singh’s Rashtriya Kranti Party (RKP) from the Uttar Pradesh ruling coalition for ‘‘hobnobbing with the BJP’’, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today evaded a direct reply, saying: ‘‘Mujhe na kuch dikhai ...
- Cbi Says It’s Got 2nd Witness Who Saw Dubey Being Killed (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 28, 2003)
Exactly a month after the murder of IIT graduate and National Highway Authority of India officer Satyendra Dubey, the CBI has in its custody a second eyewitness to the killing—an eyewitness, agency sources say, who had a ‘‘close view of the man who pulled
- Who All Can Resign, Who All Can Reject (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Dec 28, 2003)
“Rejected,’’ I screamed at Mukul, my man Friday who sent me his resignation letter.
I know resignation letters the world over are handled differently. Did Sonia Gandhi scream when she rejected the resignations of party faithfuls in the CWC? I would
- Fighting `Jehadis' At Home (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 28, 2003)
According to an old saying, no place is more remote and therefore more unfamiliar than that on the other side of the hill. To an extent this remains true even in this age of instant communication and round-the-clock television coverage. The intense ...
- Daimary Slams Amnesty Offer But Ulfa To Talk (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2003)
Even as NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary struck a defiant note today by rejecting Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s offer of general amnesty and Dy Prime Minister L.K. Advani’s call to join the mainstream, the ULFA sounded mellowed by the Royal Bhutan Army ...
- Our Terror, Now Theirs Too (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 28, 2003)
The end of the year seems always to bring either war or peace between India and Pakistan. This time it is a hesitant, nervous sort of peace that appears to be breaking out. We talk of cross-border trains and flights, instead of terrorism, and hear words
- Gujarat Knows The Pain, Lends A Hand (Indian Express, PRARTHNA GAHILOTE, Dec 28, 2003)
Govt disaster team on alert, blood on stand-by, 23-member rescue unit is ready to go
- Power Of Nationalism (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 27, 2003)
IF Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the...
- ‘brother’s Ideals Yes, But Govt Work, No’ (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Dec 27, 2003)
Today marks one month of the murder. We don’t expect much: grieving family
- The Day After, Pm Sends A Goodwill Message To The Gen (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 27, 2003)
As the aftershock of yesterday’s terrorist attack on General Musharraf reverberated across New Delhi, Prime Minister Vajpayee sent a message to the Pakistani President today, expressing empathy and concern and relief that he was safe.
- Surfing In The Age Of Cas (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Dec 27, 2003)
Question: Is my cable bill going to rise when CAS comes along?
Cable operator: No, you can always watch 70 channels at a dirt cheap rate of Rs 98 per month.
Q: Wow! What do I get?
CO: DD, Sahara, Sab, news channels, Enadu, Sun, Surya and ...
- No Ceasefire On This (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Dec 27, 2003)
Ahmedabad multiplex featuring movie site for Army’s show and tell, top brass line up too
- On Birthday, Pm Looks Forward, Hints At Polls Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 26, 2003)
We’ve won but can’t rest. Time is of essence: PM in statesman-stamped speech
- A Woman Comes Of Age (Telegraph, Jhelum Biswas, Dec 26, 2003)
The subtitle of the book — “Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Woman” is reminiscent of Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. The similarity does not end here. Like the latter, Sethu Ramaswamy’s autobiography is not simply a personal...
- Sweet Meetings (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
The kalyan between the PM and the former CM is rife with political possibilities
- Enemy Number One (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Dec 26, 2003)
There is a general consensus among security analysts that the post-Cold War era is witnessing a deterioration in India’s strategic environment. But scholars differ regarding the nature of security challenges that India faces. Is China or Pakistan the ...
- Five `I's For Budget 2004-05 (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Dec 26, 2003)
In the coming Budget, the Government ought to focus on `I's: Interest rates, Investment, Infrastructure, Information and Image. The Finance Minister who, in his previous portfolio, did a lot to enhance the country's prestige should use the Budget to ...
- We Strongly Condemn, Says Delhi, Wary Of Saarc Security (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 26, 2003)
Within hours, New Delhi strongly condemned the second assassination bid on Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today amid mounting security concern among the planners for Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s forthcoming Saarc visit to Islamabad.
- Dissidence In Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
WITH THE DISSIDENT faction in the Punjab unit of the Congress agreeing to let the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, handle the inner-party rivalry, the Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, appears to have earned a respite. The Agriculture Minister, ...
- One Land, Two Sovereigns (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 26, 2003)
Small problems here often lead to big tensions between India and Nepal," says Bharatendu Mallik, the young and popular Mayor of this town on the banks of the Mechi River that has long defined Nepal's eastern boundary with India.
- Supreme Court Has Stood Up For The Meek (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Dec 26, 2003)
2003 will certainly go down in the histroy of Indian judiciary as an eventful and significant year with the Supreme Court writing some new chapters in the jurisprudence book by giving candid opinions on controversial issues like the common civil code ...
- On The Road To Islamabad (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 26, 2003)
Can a major terrorist act derail this Indo-Pak peace process? Former US ambassadors Frank Wisher, Nicholas Platt and Dennis Kux, authors of the report of the Task Force on South Asia sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society, were
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- Anger Becomes Tune For Maestro Jugalbandi (Indian Express, Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay, Dec 25, 2003)
A rare shehnai-sarod jugalbandi concert before a sell-out crowd here last evening ended on an even rarer note, when two music titans of the country, Ustad Bismillah Khan and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, clashed on stage.
- Use The Rod And Spoil The Child (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
Case 5: National Human Rights Commission’s intervention against the corporal punishment of Aarti Saroj
- Industry In 2003 — Increased Efficiency, Hesitant Recovery (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 25, 2003)
Three years ago, most experts had virtually given up on India's manufacturing sector because of the all-pervading pall of gloom. Today, not only is India Inc confident of taking on competition from China, the number of Indian companies wishing to set up
- Till Health Do Us Part (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 25, 2003)
AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa may be ‘‘Amma’’ for the rest of us, but not for the DMK’s A. Raja, former minister of state for health. His Amma is Sushma Swaraj. The secret came out when his boss, M. Karunanidhi, ordered he resign from the Union council of
- Partners In Progress (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
THE Bill passed by Parliament on dual citizenship fulfils a long-pending demand of the non-resident Indians. Under the Bill, adults who were born to Indian citizens or former Indian citizens will be able to get Indian citizenship without having to forgo
- Not Quite The Picture Of Grace (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Dec 25, 2003)
Losing is never easy. I wouldn’t have been speaking so comfortably about the findings of the latest National Readership Survey if it hadn’t shown The Telegraph to be leading its closest rival by more than double. It is understandable therefore that the...
- The Chinese Are Changing (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Dec 25, 2003)
Bonhomie between India and Pakistan is in the air yet again. Somewhat unexpectedly, the rhetoric emanating from Islamabad is subdued, moderate and even statesmanlike. Many believe that American pressure is finally paying off and that Pakistan is, at last,
- 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
- For Its Own Good (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
Only a failed state allows its territory to be used by mercenaries from other lands. Bangladesh may not be a failed state in the sense that many banana republics have been. But its refusal to even look into the complaint about the presence of rebels from
- Could Musharraf Be Right? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 25, 2003)
There are three things that Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf must not do if the process of normalization of ties with India is to proceed apace.
- A Violent Road To Lumbini (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 25, 2003)
On the border with Nepal at this small town in Uttar Pradesh, you are only a few kilometres away from Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama, the Buddha, in the ancient kingdom of Kapilavatsu. Buddha's teachings on dharma and non-violence have little ...
- Dmk Gives Up On Nda (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 25, 2003)
THERE is nothing surprising or unexpected about the decision of the Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ruling in New Delhi. Long before this denouement its shadows had been visible. Some may argue that...
- Deeds Of Darkness (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 24, 2003)
The campaigns conducted by different political parties in the recent elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi have brought to public notice the use of advanced electronic technology by politicians for various purposes. I am not refer
- Same Caste, Different Benefits (Indian Express, Dominic Emmanuel, Dec 24, 2003)
Satya Narayan Jatiya, Union minister of social justice and empowerment, decided to make a unique Christmas gift, this time not only to the Indian Christian community but also to international Christian and Muslim communities on behalf of the NDA ...
- Verdict? Not Guilty (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
FORMER Prime Minister Narasimha Rao has been cleared of the charge of having cheated NRI pickle-maker Lakhubhai Pathak. Controversial godman Chandraswami and his right-hand man K. N. Agarwal too were acquitted by a Delhi court. The judiciary decides cases
- Party Pooper (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
Class, it is said in cricket, is permanent, while form is temporary. Following this, it can be said that for the fate of a political party the organization is permanent, and defeats in election are temporary setbacks. Unfortunately for the Congress ...
- Turning Point (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
By deciding to launch the offensive against rebels from India’s North-east, Bhutan has set a Himalayan example in mature diplomacy. The kingdom’s decision has greater diplomatic and security import than the military campaign would immediately suggest...
- New Delhi De-Hypes January Summit (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
Announcing that the ceasefire was holding and infiltration across the border was down—as first reported by The Sunday Express—Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today led the charge to tone down expectations of a breakthrough at the January SAARC summit.
- Brand India Inc Readies For Plunge At Next Kumbh (Indian Express, LALITHA SUHASINI , Dec 24, 2003)
What better way to appeal to people’s pockets than when they are feeling their most calm spiritually? At least Brand India thinks so. Along with millions of pilgrims who are waiting to wash away their sins at the month-long Simhastha Ujjain Kumbh Mela ...
- A Water War Brews In Satara (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Dec 24, 2003)
Control of water resources by the government means their control by a few leaders who can continue in power. There is a temptation for these leaders to leverage water management projects electorally. Citing instances of diversion of water from one region
- Peace By Piece (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
As India and Pakistan enter the final week in the run-up to the SAARC summit in Islamabad, little gestures that help to significantly improve at least the bilateral atmosphere if not the substance, seem to be the order of the day. Such as the courtesy ...
- No Entry On An Open Border (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 24, 2003)
Entering Raxaul in Bihar from Birganj in Nepal, one moves from the third world to the fourth. New Delhi might fancy itself as one of the world's most dynamic economies and an emerging great power. At Raxaul, you would not know. There is nothing "shining
- Myanmar To Join India War On Insurgents (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
With Bhutan claiming to have demolished all 30 camps run by Indian militants on its soil in Operation All Clear, Myanmar today promised to flush out Indian insurgents and assured that it would not allow terrorists to enter its territory.
- Moment Of Triumph (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
THE FORMER PRIME Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, must feel that the legal clouds that hung gloomily over him have finally lifted. With his acquittal in the Lakhubhai Pathak case, Mr. Rao has been cleared in the third and last corruption case in ...
- Securing The Northeast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
The brilliant military action by the Royal Bhutanese Army has destroyed all the 30-odd terrorist camps maintained illegally by ULFA and the other two militant groups inside Bhutan. The militants are now on the run and those not killed or captured so far
- Shivering On The Streets (Indian Express, Bharat Dogra, Dec 23, 2003)
As the cold wave gets more merciless, it is important to remember that there are about three million homeless people in India’s urban areas. Although the 1991 census estimates their number at about 7 lakh, most homeless get left out of census estimates.
- The Dollar Party (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
MONEY, OR DOLLARS to be more precise, is the final arbiter of a country's pecking order in the mercantilist world. With slightly more than $100 billion in the books for the first time ever in the country's economic history, it will be hard for any nation,
- Nuclear Neighbours (Hindu, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Dec 23, 2003)
One effective institutional arrangement is the creation of a nuclear risk reduction centre each in India and Pakistan.
- 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.
- Contributory Pension System: Approach With Caution (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Dec 23, 2003)
BY 2016, the number of Indians above age 60 is expected to exceed 113 million and comprise 8.9 per cent of the population. And projections suggest that by 2026 the aged will form 13.3 per cent of the population. This has serious implications for social...
- Confusion After Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
THE en-mass resignation of Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and All-India Congress Committee (AICC) office-bearers is too hackneyed to enthuse party workers. Whoever had thought of this idea had not been original for beginning with the Kamaraj ...
- Growth, But It’s Jobless (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dec 23, 2003)
It was reported in this paper at the time of the last Davos conference that Jaswant Singh is “bored” with his present less glamorous assignment as finance minister. That boredom was much in evidence as the union finance minister closed his eyes and affect
- Reviving Civil Society (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Dec 23, 2003)
After the recent state-level elections, political parties have apparently realized that governance is important. More accurately, they have realized that governance is important for winning elections. Whe- ther this hypothesis is true is debatable. But...
- Cong Leaders Quit For Madam, She Says Who Asked You For It (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 22, 2003)
Thrashing for answers in a sea of crises, AICC leaders today clutched at every Congressman’s last straw, resignation, with most of them ‘‘voluntarily’’ quitting their posts in the Congress Working Committee.
- Aide Rateria Sang Before Cbi, Diary Too Was Clincher (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 22, 2003)
: If there was one reason why the CBI didn’t wait for the forensic report on the VCD and moved to lodge an FIR in the Judeo bribery case, it was because of the former minister’s trusted aide Natwar Rateria: he sang.
- ‘that Was Illegal Gratification’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
Judeo video:CBI registers case against Judeo, 3 others; Jogi, son’s homes among 17 places raided
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