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Articles 26721 through 26820 of 27558:
- Peace and mercy gone for a toss (Pioneer, Farida Khanam , Jan 24, 2001)
On the publication of the Satanic verses by Salman Rushdie, the Muslim reaction was to have him killed forthwith; he had committed an unpardonable offense against Islam and the Prophet. All over the world, Muslims demanded his head. They were not prepared
- Car comedown (Pioneer, Roswitha Joshi, Jan 24, 2001)
Odd as it may sound, till yesterday I reluctantly co-owned a Mercedes. Today I am relieved that I don t. Instead, I own a new carpet. And that is how it came about.
- U.N. on test in Congo (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 24, 2001)
ANOTHER LEADER OF Africa who promised a lot only to slip into a familiar dictatorship mode has fallen, dragging the region into uncertainty and provoking concerns at a time when the continent appears headed for better days. A small-time guerilla leader fo
- A disturbing escalation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 24, 2001)
WITH THE VISHWA Hindu Parishad-sponsored `dharam sansad' (assembly of sadhus) at the Maha Kumbh setting a deadline - March 12, 2002 - for the removal of ``all obstacles'' to the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, the National De
- Women's education: The growth catalyst (Daily Excelsior, K.K. Khullar, Jan 24, 2001)
There is an old Indian proverb which lays down that if you are planning for a year, plant coconut trees. If you are planning for five years, plant rice but if you are planning for future, send your child to the school, particularly the girl-child.
- People’s power again (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 24, 2001)
FEW TEARS will be shed over the ouster of Philippines President Joseph Estrada. He had tried desperately to cling to power despite the corruption trial. But it was finally yet another demonstration of ‘People Power’ which toppled him in a replay of what h
- VVIP as a pilgrim (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 24, 2001)
EVERY action of a politician, particularly of a high profile leader, acquires political overtones because he or she remains a politician 24-hours a day. So has the visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi to Kumbh Mela on Monday. She took a half dip, soug
- KUMBH POLITICS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 24, 2001)
The millennium Kumbh Mela has turned out to be platform for achieving political ends. True, ours is a diverse country. True, our rivers are sacred. They become all the more pious and revered when three some converge at Sangam. Holy dip is associated with
- Portrayal of women (Daily Excelsior, P K Joseph Dhar, Jan 24, 2001)
In India women were accorded the highest place in religion and philosophical thought. Their equality with men was depicted by the diety "Ardhanariswara", who was half male and half female. Ther is evidence of widespread worship of mother Goddess in the an
- Low cost oil-extraction gadgets (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 24, 2001)
FOR the country's growing agro-based industry, two main requisites are a good storage and preservation infrastructure and low-cost gadgets that will ensure that the desired products are cost-effective and competitive in the marketplace.
- For the last time (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 24, 2001)
The Government's decision to extend the ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) by yet another month once again indicates its readiness to do the utmost it can to establish peace in the troubled State.
- Institutions of shame and horror (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jan 24, 2001)
In this city of power and beauty, there is a place called Lampur, somewhere in the north-western fringe, where a complex of ramshackle buildings house human beings caught begging on the streets.
- Making waves the wrong way (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jan 24, 2001)
IF YOU can't beat them, join them, seems to be the resolution made by the Congress(I) President, Ms Sonia Gandhi. Hence, perhaps, her visit to the Kumbh Mela for a semi-snan at the sangam of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati.
- Hawks brushed aside, Govt pushes ahead with J-K peace process (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 24, 2001)
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 23: Despite strong provocation from militant groups and hawks within, the Government today gave its peace initiative in Kashmir another chance with a one-month extension of the ceasefire.
- Off Track: Imagined communities (Hindustan Times, Dharamsing Teron, Jan 23, 2001)
ASSAM HAS often been derided by desperate dilettantes as an ethnographic ghetto. Numerous silent languages, civilisations, cultures have co-existed with the dominant Assamese mainstream culture. Like history and politics, this dominance is also reflected
- UN SANCTIONS (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 23, 2001)
Severe sanctions have been imposed by UN security Council on the Taliban held Afghanistan government to the exclusion of Northern areas still controlled by law-abiding government. Taliban Government was given enough of time to handover master terrorist Os
- Reforms and tradition (Business Line, Ashok Dasgupta , Jan 23, 2001)
OVER the years, it has now become more of a tradition. Whenever a top political leader of the regime in power at the Centre, say the Prime Minister or the Finance Minister, goes abroad -- especially on bilateral visits or to attend international conferenc
- Musharraf's strategy to get Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, Jan 23, 2001)
In spite of past failures Pakistan continues to be seized with a frenzy to get Kashmir - whatever the cost. Anyone who can wrest this prize will be ranked next to Jinnah who himself failed to annex the valley, concurrently, nothing short of this agenda wi
- Ceasefire in J&K : Questions & answers (Daily Excelsior, B. Raman , Jan 23, 2001)
Was the ceasefire decision wise ? Yes, it was and still is, but as a prelude to inducing the genuinely Kashmiri organisations to enter into a dialogue with the Government of India, but, unfortunately, its subsequent public projection has made it appear as
- India's economic reforms: The second phase (Daily Excelsior, Arnab Mukherjee, Jan 23, 2001)
The Indian economy has entered the second phase of reforms which began in 1991. The process was necessary to pre-empt fears of a financial collapse due to the borrowing drive in 1980s. A process of economic reform is essentially crisis-driven and adoption
- Seize the moment (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 23, 2001)
The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has done well to announce that it was prepared to consider any initiative by the Government for talks on the Ayodhya issue provided it was sincere
- Custodians of the after-life (Pioneer, R D Sharma, Jan 23, 2001)
The use of brutal force and third degree methods on suspects and undertrials continue to be a weapon of the police force.
- The wretched of the earth (Hindustan Times, Ajit Bhattacharjea , Jan 23, 2001)
YOU DON’T have to be an astrologer to predict that 2001 will be a year of mounting suffering for the poor.You have only to step out of the national Capital to see the signs of impending crisis which the nation faces. The swathes of golden-yellow mustard t
- Separate licences in Internet era -- Wired for chaos (Business Line, T. H. Chowdary , Jan 23, 2001)
CONFUSION, if not chaos, is looming on the horizon for telecom in India. One mistake after another is being committed and compounded by moves to correct, in the process turning the mistake into a blunder. One must be familiar with the fiasco of private te
- Some thoughts for the year 2001 (Tribune, Mulk Raj Anand, Jan 23, 2001)
ON reaching the age of 95, I feel constrained not to make prophesies of even the goings-on in our own country because the past has proved all hopes to become fears. World history has shown that the prophesies of H.G. Wells and Arnold Toynbee were wish ful
- Media as target (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 23, 2001)
THE MAHAKUMBH has drawn people from all over the world, and is internationally billed as the greatest show on earth. People have gone there in numbers running into millions on an essentially spiritual mission. The visitors are of varied nationality and re
- WTO & ITS CONSEQUENCES The agrarian crisis in Punjab (Tribune, Amarinder Singh, Jan 23, 2001)
THE General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) was established in 1947 by 23 countries, India being one of the founding members. This was a multilateral treaty which proscribed rules for international trade. At the time the WTO came into being, GATT ha
- Mr. Bush's `balance of power' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 23, 2001)
THE NEW U.S. President, Mr. George Walker Bush, is known to face a somewhat unusual challenge of having to contend with a bipartisan balance of power in the Senate. The chamber, which rapidly confirmed some of his non-controversial Cabinet appointments, i
- Shrouded destinations (Pioneer, Girish Bhandari, Jan 23, 2001)
H Becquerel saw it the day after he put a packet of some raw material in a drawer of his desk.
- Angst of welfare economics (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jan 23, 2001)
Kerala boasts the highest achievements in health and education but is yet plagued by problems of low economic growth, alcoholism, drug abuse and suicides. Instead of education having ushered in an era of economic prosperity and happiness, it has made thos
- Saudi Arabia as friend (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 23, 2001)
IN the popular mind Saudi Arabia is associated with the proliferation of madarsas in India. After the USA declared Osama Bin Laden as the country’s enemy number one, the international terrorist’s Saudi nationality too attracted unusual attention. Since th
- Platform: Pause for peace (Hindustan Times, D.C. Pathak, Jan 23, 2001)
INDO-PAK relations can improve with the mutual assurance that Islam and Hinduism are religions of peace. Whipping up hysteria is easy but a retreat is extremely difficult. We are in the midst of speculations on what may happen — or not happen — in the wak
- Netaji was a `dare-all leader' (Pioneer, Satya Prakash Malaviya, Jan 23, 2001)
Subhas Chandra Bose is one of the few heroes of history who left the deepest impress on the minds of the people of India within a short span of his charismatic life. He was born on January 23,1897 at Cuttack in Orissa. Subhash Bose passed the Indian Civil
- Talking on Ayodhya (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 23, 2001)
SINCE NO one other than the wild elements in the Sangh parivar hopes for a solution of the Ayodhya dispute except through a judicial verdict or negotiations, the Muslim Personal Law Board’s emphasis on a ‘meaningful dialogue’ with the Centre is a reasonab
- Bollywood greedy, but still a victim (Pioneer, Sidharth Bhatia, Jan 23, 2001)
A man is arrested for allegedly laundering money for criminals; an industry not known for its organised ways or clean financial record is under the spotlight for shady activities; film producers are running scared. Newsworthy, but is it particularly relev
- Politics at the Kumbh Mela (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 23, 2001)
BY DECIDING TO be there at the Kumbh Mela and have a `darshan' of a section of the sadhus (those outside the Sangh Parivar fold), the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, may have triggered off a debate with political overtones. It may be true that Ms. G
- Puzzling figures (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 23, 2001)
THE REVISED INDUSTRIAL growth rate figures based on the index of industrial production (IIP) from 1994-95 onwards recently released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) show a rather irratic trend, adding to the confusion.
- For the sake of Samjhauta (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 23, 2001)
IN an atmosphere of unending bitterness between India and Pakistan, there is a welcome development. The two countries have agreed not only to continue the operation of the biweekly train service, Samjhauta Express, for another three years but also to upgr
- Slide unchecked (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 22, 2001)
There is a certain predictability about Bihar's slide into anarchy even if it encompasses events that would normally be considered unpredictable. Mr Sadhu Yadav's latest shenanigans fall in the latter category. Mr Sadhu Yadav has a long history of delinqu
- Re-enacting 'people power' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 22, 2001)
A JUDICIOUS INTERVENTION by the Supreme Court in the Philippines has rescued this South East Asian state from the portents of a violent overthrow or even a non-constitutional and chaotic dismissal of a one-time, democratically-elected leader who in recent
- Elusive consensus (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 22, 2001)
THE PATH OF economic reforms in the country may resemble true love in that it has not run a smooth course, till now. But that is where the similarity ends.
- Travails of Congo (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 22, 2001)
President Laurent Kabila's assassination, at his palace in Kinshasa, underlines the instability of Central African states. Kabila was extremely unpopular with the people because of his failure to bring peace and end what is described as "the new scramble
- Suffering in silence (Daily Excelsior, Sandhya Srinivasan, Jan 22, 2001)
What do half the women who suffer from some illness, often long standing and related either to their reproductive health, various aches and pains or to their mental health do? They tolerate it without any treatment.
- Woes of Bengal (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 22, 2001)
THE RESENTMENT expressed by the human rights commission in West Bengal over its national counterpart’s move to investigate the latest spate of murder and mayhem in the state is only the latest twist in an increasingly depressing sequence of events.
- Additions to a burgeoning bureaucracy (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Jan 22, 2001)
A favourite ploy of any commission or committee, set up by the Government, to look into any problem, is to recommend the creation of more posts, especially at higher levels. Even when the work, for which a job is created, is over, the posts continue to ex
- Meditations: Drink the nectar (Hindustan Times, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Jan 22, 2001)
THE MAHAKUMBH is one of the most ancient, yet still living, festivals in Indian tradition. Even in the Vedas, it is described as a tradition that is well established. Its occurrence is marked by the gathering of millions of people at one of the four holy
- ISI's sinister designs (Pioneer, A P S Chauhan, Jan 22, 2001)
That an unconfirmed, unofficial and uncontextualised remark by a denizen of India's tinsel world on Nepal could spark off such jingoistic outbursts and anti-India hysteria there, speaks volumes of how tensile and overdrawn our religious, cultural and spir
- Appointment of judges Quota or merit as the criterion? (Tribune, S.S. Sodhi , Jan 22, 2001)
I WANT the best on the Bench,” said Chief Justice Gajendragadkar, speaking at a High Court Bar Association function in Chandigarh. He went on to add: “It is of no consequence to me if he is from the Bar or Service.” These remarks were made in the context
- Political stability and fixed terms (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 22, 2001)
ON THE FACE of it, the Prime Minister's strong pitch for a fixed tenure for Parliament and State legislatures may seem like a mere reiteration of his Government's view. After all, the NDA's election manifesto promised measures for introducing a fixed term
- Nehru and his Utopia (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 22, 2001)
IN RECENT days, a problem has arisen between the West Bengal Governor and the State Congress (I) over a letter written by his secretary and despatched to the party's chief whip. The entire episode reflects the fact that Jawaharlal Nehru's India (not what
- Cold foyer (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Jan 22, 2001)
To be frank, my experience with receptionists those encountered in offices of public officials and business executives, doctors and dentists has been far from pleasant. Mind you, many of these charming-looking women, are exceptionally well turned-out at t
- Border thaw (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Jan 22, 2001)
The new year has begun with a high-profile visit from China that heralds a new movement in the bilateral ties, putting behind the chill of the post-Pokhran period. Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress, which is the
- CHANGE OF GUARD (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 22, 2001)
President George Bush has assumed helmsmanship of the mightiest country in the world. It is the only super power after the demise of Soviet Union and its fragmentation into several small States now known as CIS Republic. American policies are slated for d
- Platform: Rewrite history at the LoC (Hindustan Times, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Jan 22, 2001)
ATAL BIHARI Vajpayee seems determined to find a solution to the Kashmir crisis. With tact and sincerity on his side, he might mark his name in history. The Prime Minister’s Musings from Kumarakom contain the following significant paragraph on Kashmir: “In
- Ethnic identities and political deadlock in J&K (Daily Excelsior, Hari Om, Jan 22, 2001)
A number of leading social scientists, political analysts and jurists like Bhikhu Parkh, Bhabani Sengupta, Prem Shanker Jha, Kuldip Nayar, A M Khusro, B G Verghese, Praful Bidwai, Ajit Bhattacharjea and A G Noorani, have put forth solutions which, accordi
- A close look at power grid collapse (Tribune, G.K. Pandey, Jan 22, 2001)
THE heat of the moment, any experienced person will tell you, is not the best time to come to any conclusions. So, don’t be taken in by Power Minister Suresh Prabhu when he tells you, as he did just a few days ago, that punitive action will be taken again
- Year of the VRS? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jan 22, 2001)
THE OVERWHELMING response from the employees of public sector banks to the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) may make the year 2001, the year of the VRS. About 30,000 bank employees are set to quit their organisations via the VRS this year. The exodus may
- Gulshan Kumar’s murder: the coloniser’s mind at play (Tribune, Anupam Gupta, Jan 22, 2001)
LESS than three weeks after a grave judicial setback in the Gulshan Kumar murder case — the case that rocked Bollywood and established Bombay as the Sicily of India — the Mumbai police received a shot in the arm with the arrest last fortnight of Abdul Rau
- People will turn to the Congress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 22, 2001)
CONGRESS spokesperson and youthful leader from Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan observes that the Congress will reposition itself on economic reforms as the party has learnt from its past mistakes. He acknowledges that the Congress is weak in both Tamil Nadu
- Ends and means (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 22, 2001)
THE INDIAN mind does not always seem to regard wrong-doing as a sin. Narasimha Rao’s conviction in the JMM bribery case has evoked some curious responses. Instead of hailing the verdict as an evidence of the judiciary breaking the long-held belief that th
- Shutting down pre-schools ACADEMIC PULSE (Daily Excelsior, S K Bhalla, Jan 21, 2001)
An interesting racket like other unacademic practices in fully operational these days thanks to nuclear families coupled with nine-to-five job culture. Everyday new schools are born in big metropolitian cities, satellite towns and their suburbs leading to
- Flight of Indian industry to China? (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Jan 21, 2001)
A BJP leader connected with the party’s journal, Organiser, is reported to have suggested that educated and qualified Indians might profitably migrate in vast numbers to other countries — profitably for themselves, for the destination countries concerned,
- The stardust settles (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Jan 21, 2001)
After the initial tremors caused by Mr. Bharat Shah's arrest, it is business as usual for most of the operators in the diamond trade and Bollywood, writes ARUNKUMAR BHATT.
- Draconian shades (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 21, 2001)
A new law in Madhya Pradesh gives the police wide-ranging powers to curb dissent in the name of combating terrorism. KALPANA SHARMA, with inputs from LALIT SHASTRI, examines the issue.
- Watch out for the Test (Daily Excelsior, M.J. Akbar, Jan 21, 2001)
Common sense question : is it possible to navigate through the difficult route between Delhi and Islamabad without a road map?
- A law unto himself (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jan 21, 2001)
Constantly living under the shadow of a U.S. attack, he keeps moving from one hideout to another in the mountains of Afghanistan. B. MURALIDHAR REDDY on Osama bin Laden.
- Sikh identity after great persuasion (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 21, 2001)
IT has been anything but easy for the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) to impress upon the representatives of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) to understand and agree that the Sikh community had a separate identity and religion. For a conside
- Budget 2001: More than making ends meet (Hindustan Times, Arjun Sengupta, Jan 21, 2001)
THE FINANCE Minister has reportedly been asked by the Prime Minister to present a "growth promoting" budget this year. That will be a very difficult task, and one false step instead of promoting growth may actually reduce or reverse the process of growth.
- PANGS OF THE PARTITION How Pakistan came into being (Tribune, V. N. Datta, Jan 21, 2001)
ON March 23, 1930, the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution (popularly known as the Pakistan resolution) for the partition of the country in Minto Park, Lahore, a furlong from the Great Fort, and facing the Mughal emperor Shahjahan’s Badshahi mosqu
- Fire in the valley (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jan 21, 2001)
The recent blasts in Jammu and Kashmir have exploded hopes of an early solution, says SHUJAAT BHUKARI.
- Beyond Bharat Shah: The real godfathers (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 21, 2001)
ACCORDING TO the film industry, the Bombay police are going too far. Most people in the movie business will tell you (in private) that they regard the arrest of Bharat Shah as being something of a media-stunt.
- A high stakes game - the prize, peace (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 21, 2001)
The strategic question is whether the Indian state can find the political resourcefulness and administrative resilience not to allow itself to be provoked into calling off the ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir, writes HARISH KHARE.
- Leaner TPDs (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 21, 2001)
The Central government has taken a welcome decision to limit the supply of sugar through the Targetted Public Distribution System (TPDS) only to those above the poverty line. The decision is part of the plan to restructure the TPDS and is also meant as a
- University education How it's insufficient? (Daily Excelsior, Gulam Vishal, Jan 21, 2001)
A University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and aim, at giving enlargement and sobri
- Make your power bill a status symbol (Daily Excelsior, Daya Sagar, Jan 21, 2001)
It is not in logic and fair to simply call for power supply cut on the VIP & VVIP. But it will be surely within social and administrative rule of law to terminate Electric Power Supply (Hydel/Thermal/oil based) to a defaulter VIP as a consumer and it shou
- Confusion over Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Dr.Jitendra Singh, Jan 21, 2001)
On the one hand, the Hurriyat Conference leaders are publicly expressing their keenness to travel to Pakistan with the ostensible objective of holding parleys with the separatists across the border. On the other hand, observers feel that each of the Hurri
- ErraticA: Pati, Patni, Aur Woh Goli (Hindustan Times, Bachi J Karkaria, Jan 21, 2001)
THOSE WHO have a Theory of Everything must now figure out how what’s gone down does come up. The Drug Controller recently allowed the local manufacture of Sildenafil Citrate, aka Viagra, and several Indian companies have begun marketing swadeshi versions
- 20th Century's greatest anachronism? (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jan 21, 2001)
Arthur Koestler, in his highly critical essay Gandhi, a revaluation, published in the Sunday Times (London) on October 5, 1969, had observed, "When all is said, the Mahatma, in his humble and heroic ways, was the greatest living anachronism of the twentie
- Encouraging start (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 21, 2001)
Some of the observations made by the United States' Secretary of State-elect, Gen Colin Powell, before the United States' Senate Committee on Foreign Relations during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, deserve close attention.
- A tactical shift? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 20, 2001)
IN ACCEPTING SIKHISM as a ``separate religion'' and its votaries as a community with an identity of their own - distinct from that of Hindus - the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is only recognising an established fact. However, it marks a significant departu
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