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- ‘we’ve Never Been Under This Pressure’ (Indian Express, Ashish Shukla, Jan 05, 2004)
Australia may be rated as the top batting side in the world but Justin Langer thinks his side could learn a lot from the “awesome” Indian batsmen who look so patient and apply themselves so well. Langer, who struck his second century of the series ...
- Saarc Initiative On Free Trade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 05, 2004)
In its essence, a free trade area means trading in a tariff-free environment, which should normally lead to a sharp increase in trade volume and value with the most efficient manufacturers of select products in the "area" raking in the maximum profits.
- India, Pakistan Leaders Meet (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
The leaders of India and Pakistan have met formally for the first time since the two nuclear powers came close to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Vajpayee’s Trip To Islamabad Generates Goodwill All Around (Tribune, David Devadas, Jan 04, 2004)
There is new hope around as the curtain goes up on the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at Islamabad. I am reminded of the Colombo summit in July ’98. No other summit attracted foreign mediapersons by the hundred. They were waiting
- Pakistan: The Two-Nation Theory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 04, 2004)
ON THE plane to Pakistan, peer as hard as you like through the scratched window of PIA’s ramshackle Boeing, you still can’t see the border line that divides the democracy from the dictatorship. It’s shrouded in the fog of history, some say, others point
- 2004 Cast (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
There is some solution in sight for the growing city’s constant problem. Expect a flood of cheap housing this year. There will also be more 35-40 storey buildings. Affordable housing will be this year’s chant.
Education is the other area of growth. 40
- The Northeast Notebook (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 04, 2004)
Saving the migration cycle
THIS winter, school and college students in Jorhat in Upper Assam are using their holidays to spread an important message. Working for an NGO, they are going from door to door telling people about the importance of saving the
- Among Cricket's Ace Batsmen, Lara Is The Trump Card (Indian Express, Trevor Chesterfield, Jan 04, 2004)
For the ability to excite as much as disappoint, and score runs along the way, the West Indian has few peers
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- A Prodigal Son All Set To Return (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Jan 04, 2004)
POLITICS is a weird game. A few years back former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had turned into a bete noire of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and called him “a tired and retired leader”. Now he stands in the front row at a BJP workers
- In No Man's Land (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jan 04, 2004)
The Second Gulf War is put in perspective in Simpson’s world
- Cereb Circuit (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Jan 04, 2004)
THE butterflies in my stomach had butterflies in their stomachs as I waited at the poolside of a city hotel for Koneru Humpy. Mumbai’s skyline peeked far ahead from behind a smattering of mist and across a still ocean. A perfect setting for one of the
- Eco-Blunder (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
The vast network of canals bringing water to arid regions, thousands of tubewells sucking out groundwater, and millions of hectares of rice in northern India might have helped feed the nation. But the long-term consequences of transforming the ecology of
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sultans Of Swing (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jan 04, 2004)
Until the 1980s, who knew peanuts about Sufi music? Except in Kashmir and Punjab, or in the inner world of baateen (esoteric) Islam, in Delhi, in Nagaur, in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Bhopal, in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, at secret samas (Sufi musical
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- In That Brave Old World (Indian Express, UMA MAHADEVAN, Jan 04, 2004)
Calliope Helen Stephanides is born in January 1960, in Detroit, to a prosperous Greek-American family. Milton and Tessie are so eager to have a daughter that they perform the necessary act 24 hours prior to ovulation — just as advised in an article in the
- Tendulkar And The Principle Of Moments (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Jan 04, 2004)
Life can now return to normal. A nation that had held its breath, after endless debate and agonising, can get back to enjoying the cricket. Sachin Tendulkar has finally done what had long been expected — demanded — of him, and how! It’s not often that
- Loc Kargil: Caricaturing The Indian Soldier (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 03, 2004)
HISTORY is often the account of the victor. The numerous books and articles on the Kargil conflict bear this out. Among them, Captain Amarinder Singh's A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights 1999 is the most authentic as he does not gloss over the lap
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- It’s Raining Runs On Waugh’s Parade (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 03, 2004)
So there finally, amidst the stretching shadows at day’s end, washed by the soft evening sunlight, he stood, the golden boy. That stern language of authority his bats speaks, well it hadn’t quite arrived, the hesitancy was passing but the command had not
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- Bill In Ca Shop (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
THE NEW BILL to amend the Chartered Accountants Act appears to have set the cat among the pigeons. Accounting professionals are peeved that self-regulation is giving way to a bureaucratic regime, and that new fetters are going to be in place if the Bill
- To Know The Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 03, 2004)
WOULD you add legs to a snake after you have finished drawing it? Probably not, but that is a Chinese proverb about doing something that is totally unnecessary and thus spoiling what you have already done, and perhaps also revealing one's ignorance about
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- Peace Common Desire In India, Says Vajpayee (Indian Express, M. ZIAUDDIN, Jan 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the entire spectrum of mainstream political opinion in India is for peace, cooperation and friendship with Pakistan. In an exclusive interview with Dawn at his residence here on Thursday, the PM made it
- Economics And Emotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
JUST AHEAD OF the second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the Centre has got the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2003, passed in Parliament. This enables People of Indian Origin (PIOs) in selected countries to have a dual nationality status. In doing so, ...
- Not By Nationalism (Telegraph, Andre Beteille , Jan 03, 2004)
Sociology, as the empirical and systematic study of society and its institutions, is now widely practised in our universities and independent centres of research. It entered the university system in India in the Twenties, barely two or three decades after
- Investors’ Wealth Up Rs 7,91,771 Cr (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Stock investors have reaped a historical bonanza in the last eight months. Even as Sensex crossed the 6,000 level to 6,026 from 2,932.34 on April 24, 2003, market capitalisation (the total market value of all listed shares) soared by 146 per cent, or Rs 7
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Arsenal Take First Step Towards Historic Four-Title Quest (Indian Express, JUSTIN PALMER, Jan 03, 2004)
Arsenal begin their quest to become the first club since Blackburn Rovers in 1886 to win the English FA Cup three years in succession with a tough tie against Leeds United at Elland Road on Sunday. Manchester United, record 10-times winners of the
- Nephew Jagat Given Capt’s Security Cover (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Constable Gurjit Singh of the Punjab Police’s 4th Commando battalion, who has been booked for attempt to murder, had been deputed to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s security from where he was further allocated to the CM’s nephew and Rajasthan MLA
- Cement Down The Spine (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Jan 02, 2004)
In early 1991, when the ramshackle Chandra Shekhar government was at the helm, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader hosted a small dinner for the then party president, L.K. Advani. For the BJP, those were heady days. The Somnath to Ayodhya rath yatra of
- J-K Begins New Year With Peace Hope (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 02, 2004)
Ahead of the SAARC summit, the multi-party J-K coalition government today called for friendship between India and Pakistan which would spell development for the state. At a massive rally for peace on the new year, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
- Us Prepares For Massive Troop Rotation (Indian Express, WILL DUNHAM, Jan 02, 2004)
The Pentagon is gearing up for a massive rotation of about a quarter million troops in and out of Iraq, a giant logistics chore complicated by concerns about opportunistic attacks targeting Americans as they arrive or depart. Between late January and
- Ready To Face Polls: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
With the air ringing with the talk of early Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has said that he is ‘‘fit and ready’’ to face elections and confident that the people ‘‘are in a mood to give us another five years’’. The PM’s remarks, made in
- And The Empire Lives On (Telegraph, DIPANKAR DAS, Jan 02, 2004)
Early December, a high-profile East African Indian immigrant, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, stunned the world by belatedly returning the title of Member of the British Empire to the Queen. This came within days of the refusal of Benjamin Zephaniah, the dread ...
- Five Days That Could Change The World (Indian Express, Rohit Brijnath, Jan 02, 2004)
Ganguly’s men eye greatness, as Aussies keen to give Steve Waugh a grand farewell
- Disgruntled Diaspora (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 02, 2004)
THE Ministry of External Affairs and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry are jointly organising the second Pravasi Bharathiya Divas on January 9-11 at New Delhi with the usual pomp and circumstance. The significance of January 9
- `Stock Market Is A Buffet Waiting To Be Relished' (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Jan 02, 2004)
Mr Rakesh Jhunjhunwala loves stocks. It has been that way since his childhood. Today he is arguably the largest individual proprietary investor and one of the biggest single taxpayers of Mumbai. Mr Jhunjhunwala describes the current market as a buffet ...
- Missiles Are Cost-Effective (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Jan 02, 2004)
RECENTLY the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, UK, hosted the first ever workshop on missile issues in South Asia that was attended by strategic experts from India, Pakistan and China, the three countries in the region with ballistic missiles.
- How Do They Get Rich? (Hindu, Virginia Postrel, Jan 02, 2004)
The process of economic development is hard to repeat. The great mystery is why.
- Mutiny In Punjab Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
SOLDIERS UNDER ENEMY fire know how to survive: they bunker down and conserve their ammunition until an opportunity to hit back presents itself. For reasons known only to the Congress rebels in Punjab, they have chosen to charge out of the ...
- Death Be Not Proud (Telegraph, Gargi Gupta, Jan 02, 2004)
This book was written with an agenda. As the prologue says — “I write this book for you, Danny, because you had the courage...to die with your hands in chains but your heart undefeated... to do justice to you...to show that you were right...I write this
- Home And The World (Telegraph, ARNAB BHATTACHARYA , Jan 02, 2004)
Western secular modernity viewed history as a panoptical narrative produced by rigorous scholastic enterprise and based on solid, unalterable archival evidence. It scornfully dismissed other possible sources like autobiographies, memoirs and local lore
- A Question Of Identity (Telegraph, SHAMS AFIF SIDDIQI , Jan 02, 2004)
The rise of Hindutva in our country has brought to the fore issues of religious, social and cultural identity. It has led to a fresh evaluation of India’s heritage, its culture and religious thoughts. In the circumstances, Indians must learn to think ...
- Ashes For India, Dust For England (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 02, 2004)
India are poised to replace England as Australia’s major cricketing rival, Australia’s retiring captain Steve Waugh said on Thursday. Waugh said the growing rivalry between Australia and India was starting to match the intensity of the traditional Ash
- Vajpayee's Challenge (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 01, 2004)
While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
- You Can’t Scoop The Future (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Jan 01, 2004)
It’s that time of year again when every newspaper, every magazine, every television channel you turn to is awash with year-end remembrances and new-year predictions. Not because the year gone by is truly memorable (though some are arguing 2003 will make
- Seeing Through The False Front (Telegraph, Soumitra Das, Jan 01, 2004)
The British may have bagged the Hooghly riverfront project, but for the rejuvenation plan to have relevance local sanction is a must
- India Offers Fresh Peace Pack To Pak (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 01, 2004)
As part of its new year gift to the sub-continent, India today proposed to hold talks with Pakistan on starting bus routes across the Line of Control in Kashmir and the international boundary in Rajasthan, hiking the strength of their respective missions
- Ernie Ready To Take On Tiger In Desert Classic (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
South African Ernie Els confirmed today he will go head-to-head with world No 1 Tiger Woods at the 2004 Dubai desert Classic over the Majlis course at the Emirates Golf Club from March 4 to 7. Els, the only man to win the Classic twice, in 1994 and 20
- Are You Neck-Deep In Numbers? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
GADGETS come with user's manual, software ships with help facility, research papers have ample footnotes, and there are commentaries for difficult poetry. However, much of company-speak is not accompanied by some help to understand. Understanding
- ‘inshallah Kashmir Will See Peace This Year’ (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 01, 2004)
Standing against the backdrop of the idyllic Dal Lake, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Maulvi Abbas Ansari points above—to the migratory birds who sail against the water currents. That’s who Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf have to
- Swami Army Gear Up For Sydney (Indian Express, NEENA BHANDARI, Jan 01, 2004)
The thrill of a series-decider coupled with the emotions surrounding the farewell match of Australia Test captain Steve Waugh have provided supporters of both teams the perfect excuse to break into grand celebration during the Sydney Test, irrespective of
- Leading The Alliance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
IF SONIA GANDHI came tantalisingly close, last Sunday, to suggesting that the Congress party would not make her prime ministerial candidature a necessary condition for a pre-electoral alliance, a day later the party's spokesman came close to ...
- When Cheap And Free Spelt Mega Value (Business Line, Aarati Krishnan, Jan 01, 2004)
MISSED the stock market rally? Take heart. If you are a consumer of branded products or services, there are still plenty of reasons to pop the champagne at the end of 2003. It was a year in which marketers, eager to lure new consumers into their fold,
- Setting Bloodhounds On The Watchdogs' Trail (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 01, 2004)
TODAY is January 1, and you want to wish everybody, "Happy New Year!" Yet, if you run into any accountant, the greeting may not be appropriate. The CA Act is undergoing change, and the forebodings are already on the DCA's site for all to see — "a Bill
- Asean Ties: India Must Look To The East With Greater Vision (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Dec 31, 2003)
INDIA has moved purposefully in developing a broad economic and strategic partnership with the dynamic countries of South-East Asia.
- Avoiding Future Shock (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
ENABLING CITIZENS THROUGH education and skill enhancement is more critical today than at any other time. There is fairly well founded concern that in the next decade the country could find itself performing a difficult balancing act: catering to ...
- Missing Pieces In The Jigsaw (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 26, 2003)
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated life, whether it was the terror perpetrated by militants or by the police/army, that blood on the streets became as
- Bhujbal Turns In Papers, Telgi Is Stamped All Over (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
Maharashtra Deputy CM resigns, fig leaf: freedom of the press; NCP may replace him with two from party
- 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...
- Still Not The Perfect Shine (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 22, 2003)
At a recent conference on globalization the discussion was focussed on the “how” rather than the “what” or “why” issues that had dominated the subject until recently. The success stories of Indian companies that had begun to look at the world as the ...
- Fishing And Troubled Waters (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Dec 20, 2003)
Tamil Nadu has several security concerns about the evolving situation in Sri Lanka.
- Family Calling (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 18, 2003)
Visitors to 10 Janpath on Sonia Gandhi’s birthday were surprised to see Priyanka in active attendance. Usually she keeps herself well hidden from hoi polloi flocking to Sonia’s residence, bearing flowers, dholaks and good wishes. This year, however, she
- `India Rising' - Will It Ride The Demographic Wave? (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Dec 18, 2003)
In about 50 years, India's surging population may be more a boon than a bane, if a recent Goldman Sachs projection comes true. With a surplus of working age people vis-à-vis current G-6 biggies such as the US and Japan, India could benefit fro m low ...
- Post-Reform Anomaly — Parts Not Keeping `Full' Pace (Business Line, K. Parthasarathi, Dec 17, 2003)
THE overall growth rate of the country should not blur our vision to the growing disparities in the prosperity level, per capita income and job opportunities from State to State. The strategy for a higher growth in these sub-par States should be multi
- Uma Ministers Will Get Osds: Officers On Sangh Duty (Indian Express, Hartosh Singh Bal, Dec 16, 2003)
Soon after they took oath in the Assembly today, Chief Minister Uma Bharti and her newly-elected MLAs made it a point to call on BJP organising general secretary Kaptan Singh Solanki. So who’s this man? Loaned to the BJP, this RSS functionary will soon...
- `Hartal Tourism' (Business Line, Anupama. R , Dec 16, 2003)
COME to Kerala. Experience the magic of the lush green landscapes and backwaters. Have a wonderful time in one of the world's favourite holiday destinations. And occasionally watch your life come to a standstill on a hartal.
- Destination Jobsville (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Dec 14, 2003)
A little over 40 million persons are registered with the employment exchanges in India. Employment exchanges are established by the State governments as a funnel through which a job-seeker will pass in order to ensure fairness and non-discrimination in...
- Ancient Village Dholavira Gets Mr Fix-It Mahajan (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 13, 2003)
The village of Dholavira, near the legendary Indus Valley site, has been a makeshift home to archaeologists. It was further pushed off the map by the killer quake three years ago. Now, it’s emerging from the ruins: telephones, drinking water, electricity,
- Mountain Development: Rappelling Up, The Chinese Way (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Dec 12, 2003)
Mountains occupy two thirds of China and support nearly one half of the population. Mountain regions contribute significantly to the Chinese economy accounting for 31 per cent of GDP and producing 35 per cent of grains and 54 per cent of primary ...
- Clearing The Clouds (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
THE NARESH CHANDRA committee's report has made a clear pitch for far-reaching reforms in the aviation sector and suggested disinvestment in the national carriers — Air India and Indian Airlines. Though the report, submitted to the Civil ...
- Touching The Horizon (Indian Express, Gopal Krishna Agarwal, Dec 09, 2003)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the broadest measure of the health of the economy. Real GDP is defined as the total money value of final goods and services produced by labour and property located within a country during an accounting year. Gross value ...
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Power Of ‘parkati’ Women (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 08, 2003)
The educated woman is not as politically irrelevant as the pundits think
- Index Funds And The Performance Paradox (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Dec 08, 2003)
DIVERSIFIED equity funds have on an average outperformed the index funds by 40 percentage points in the current market rally. Empirical evidence, however, suggests that in the long run index funds outperform active funds. But that is a large trade-off...
- Poll Notes Of A Limo Liberal (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 06, 2003)
View from Rajasthan’s ground zero: How Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
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