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Articles 22621 through 22720 of 23072:
- Need To Worry, Think And Speak About Other Issues (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 12, 2001)
What an ironic coincidence it is that Osama bin Laden's last, desperate hideout, being bombed incessantly by the United States-led coalition, should be called Tora Bora.
- Afghanistan: A Cauldron - Ii (Hindu, J. Daulat Singh, Dec 12, 2001)
India must now be in the vanguard of international efforts for relief and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
- From Ayodhya To Dandi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 12, 2001)
When Mr. Advani invokes the Dandi March symbolism for his rath yatra he is seeking moral acceptability and historic endorsement for a blatantly divisive political ploy.
- Vietnam Formally Recognises Private Sector Equality (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 12, 2001)
HANOI: Communist-ruled Vietnam’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal treatment to the private sector.
- Deepening Crisis In Nepal (Tribune, T. V. Rajeswar, Dec 12, 2001)
Nepal is in serious crisis, and it had been in the making for a long time. There seems to be no immediate remedy for the problems facing the Himalayan kingdom.
- From Ayodhya To Dandi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 12, 2001)
When Mr. Advani invokes the Dandi March symbolism for his rath yatra he is seeking moral acceptability and historic endorsement for a blatantly divisive political ploy.
- The Nobel Centennial -- Fusing Psychology And Economics (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Dec 12, 2001)
THE NOBEL Foundation has been celebrating its centennial by symposia on different subjects for which the prize is being awarded.
- Thanks To Bin Laden (Indian Express, Devaki Jain , Dec 11, 2001)
OSAMA BIN LADEN has unleashed many havocs, some unintentionally. One such unintentional effect, which is not a havoc, is the re-appearance of the United Nations, that glorious offspring of a hoary past which had almost effaced itself.
- Streamlining Traffic (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 11, 2001)
The increasing number of road accidents, which daily claim more human lives than perhaps militancy, shows that Indians by and large are careless drivers and need to be given basic lessons in road safety.
- Musharraf’s Equations With Usa (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Dec 11, 2001)
IF consistency is the virtue of fools, politicians are wise men and women.
- Some Thugs And Their Fantasies (Telegraph, Ravi Rajan, Dec 11, 2001)
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government’s decision to delete sections from history textbooks has drawn many a comparison with the much-maligned taliban.
- Fort With A Chequered History (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Dec 11, 2001)
BALA HISAR FORT (KABUL), DEC. 10. The Bala Hisar Fort overlooks the southern gates of Kabul. Perched on the edge of the Sher Darwaz mountain, the battle-scarred citadel has a chequered history.
- The Great Indian Toppling Game (Telegraph, SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE, Dec 11, 2001)
Six chief ministers in three years. With over a year to go for the next elections to the Meghalaya assembly, the possibilities for a further round of musical chairs are endless.
- Will The Japanese Bite? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 11, 2001)
THOUGH there is no meeting scheduled with Suzuki Motor Company chief Osamu Suzuki during Prime Minister Vajpayee’s Japan visit, the sad saga of the best-known Indo-Japanese joint venture.
- Fort With A Chequered History (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Dec 11, 2001)
BALA HISAR FORT (KABUL), DEC. 10. The Bala Hisar Fort overlooks the southern gates of Kabul. Perched on the edge of the Sher Darwaz mountain, the battle-scarred citadel has a chequered history.
- Past Imperfect (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Dec 10, 2001)
We’re taught to brush the nasties under our Nehruvian carpet and rightly so, since the gameplan is co-existence. But, once again, please may we look at ourselves with — what shall we call it — ‘respectful rationality’?
- Too Many Cooks (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2001)
The possibility of peace returning to Sri Lanka is only marginally linked to electoral politics.
- Taliban, R.I.P. (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2001)
For the Taliban, history has come full circle. If Kandahar was their launching pad, it has now proved their graveyard. In the winter of 1994, a mysterious group that was to put the mark of Cain on the world, conquered Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
- What Is History? (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Dec 10, 2001)
What the NCERT did was to replace one history with another. This goes far beyond changing `one-sided' history to one that is many sided.
- Geopolitics And Security Of Energy Routes (The Financial Express, Jasjit Singh, Dec 10, 2001)
One of the most profound impacts of the tragic terrorist attacks on the United States on 11th September and the consequential war against terrorism has been to alter once again the geopolitics of energy and its supplies from Central Asia-Iran.
- (Un)fair Game (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Dec 10, 2001)
It is a truth, universally acknowledged that Indians are more colour conscious than a chameleon and certainly, the experience of television reinforces the view.
- Keep Going On The Road To Peace (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 10, 2001)
It has been a long season of sorrow — and fear — in Kathmandu.
- What Is History? (Hindu, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Dec 10, 2001)
What the NCERT did was to replace one history with another. This goes far beyond changing `one-sided' history to one that is many sided.
- Challenge Of Cracking Underground Banking Networks (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Dec 10, 2001)
MUSLIM communities in various parts of the world are feeling quite put upon because of what they perceive as an attempt by some to Islamise terrorism.
- Thinking Really Long Term (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Dec 10, 2001)
FOUNDED in 1379, the New College in Oxford, United Kingdom, was due for some repairs in the 19th century.
- How (Not) To Deliver Growth (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Dec 10, 2001)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, has said that Indias growth in the current fiscal will not be up to the mark and that the economy can at best aim (at) a 5 per cent growth (rate).
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Bharatiyar: Bard Of Freedom, Minstrel Of Human Rights (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Dec 10, 2001)
Today is Human Rights Day. Let us remember Subramania Bharathi. Never in the contemporary history of free nations did live a celestial composer of revolutionary rage so sublime as Subramania Bharathi.
- Krueger Initiative On Sovereign Debt (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Dec 10, 2001)
THE NEWS that the US energy trader, Enron, had filed for protection under US bankruptcy laws hit stock markets with unprecedented force.
- Kashmiriyat Is Not Dead (Indian Express, Amitabh Mattoo, Dec 10, 2001)
Ever since Lashkar-i-Jabbar, a little known militant outfit, attempted to enforce a dress code on Kashmiri women, a few months ago, deeply disturbing images, flickering out of the Valley.
- Law Against Nature (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 10, 2001)
It is sad when the idea of personal liberty in a modern democracy brutally excludes a man’s right to have sex with another man, or a woman’s with another woman.
- Emperor's Clothes (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2001)
ALL OF us know Hans Christian Anderson's famous story of an emperor, stark naked, coming out in a procession, with multitudes milling on both sides of the road.
- Ancient Monuments (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2001)
Delhi: The report of the working of the Archaeological Department in the Delhi Province during 1925-1926 shows that out of a sum of Rs 89,233 spent on the conservation and maintenance of Mohammedan and British Monuments in the Delhi Province.
- Will The Afghans Agree To Agree This Time? (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 09, 2001)
THE United Nations-sponsored agreement worked out by diplomats from various Afghan factions in Bonn has yet to face the test of implementation.
- A Minefield Ahead (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 09, 2001)
Hamid Karzai will need all the luck in the world to balance the contradictions and bring a semblance of governance to Afghanistan.
- Calibrating A Conflagration (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Dec 09, 2001)
The VHP's various programmes ensure that the communal fire is stoked for electoral gains while the BJP can keep the Ram temple issue out of its election manifesto.
- Coup For Peace (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 09, 2001)
Observers in Koenigswinter were unanimous. What Lakhdar Brahimi had helped achieve was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
- Calibrating A Conflagration (Hindu, J. P. SHUKLA, Dec 09, 2001)
The VHP's various programmes ensure that the communal fire is stoked for electoral gains while the BJP can keep the Ram temple issue out of its election manifesto.
- Coup For Peace (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Dec 09, 2001)
Observers in Koenigswinter were unanimous. What Lakhdar Brahimi had helped achieve was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
- A Minefield Ahead (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 09, 2001)
Hamid Karzai will need all the luck in the world to balance the contradictions and bring a semblance of governance to Afghanistan.
- Tight Ropewalk (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2001)
As tension escalates in West Asia, India's foreign policy vis-a-vis that region seems to be going through a phase of walking a tight-rope. In his speech at the Libyan function, read in absentia, Prime Minister Vajpayee did condemn the ongoing actrocities.
- Making Big Issue Out Of Merchant Banking (Business Line, Shaji Vikraman , Dec 08, 2001)
IN 1993-94, at the height of the capital market boom, when several primary issues would open on one day, even flunkies to the bosses of Indias leading merchant banks would fly business class, jetting from one town to another, hawking these issues.
- What The Cbse Wanted Deleted From History Textbooks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
Medieval India: A History Textbook for Class XI, by Satish Chandra Pages: 236-237 Chapter: Climax and Disintegration of the Mughal Empire-1 Section: The Sikhs
- Of Monarchs And Maoists (Telegraph, Sundara K. Datta-Ray, Dec 08, 2001)
The Nepalese cannot be blamed for jumping to the conclusion that only the Maoist insurrection has saved them from being browbeaten by India into accepting rigorous trade terms.
- Sounding The Retreat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
The politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is the enemy of promise in West Bengal. It has gone out of its way to hinder one crucial plan the chief minister of the state, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, had for giving a new image to the state.
- Private Universities: Why Not? (Tribune, Tavleen Singh, Dec 08, 2001)
Before commenting on the latest utterances of the man in charge of India’s education system, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, let me set for you the backdrop. We have the largest number of illiterate people in the world.
- Big Men With A Little Madness (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
YOU can go to Mohali to see cricket. Or to get an insight into this peculiar Indian inability to digest success, to tolerate somebody who leaves visible, lasting evidence of his success staring in your envious face.
- Spread Ratios In Public Sector Banks (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Dec 08, 2001)
IF WE assume that the ratio of non-interest to income to interest income is either not significant or is the same in each public sector bank.
- No Choice, Chandrika (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 08, 2001)
THE voters in Sri Lanka have shown greater maturity than their leaders in the just-concluded parliamentary election.
- A Small Gift In Return (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2001)
Quite evidently, the gods are not as forgiving as the people of Tamil Nadu (or should we say, even the blind goddess?). So Amma had to rush back to the Guruvayoor temple the moment she got her re-entry pass to chief ministership.
- A Goliath Runs Amuck (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 07, 2001)
It is symbolic of the dangers ahead in the Afghan peace process that Hamid Karzai, chairman of the interim administration in Kabul, was hurt in an explosion near Kandahar in which three US marines lost their lives in what is described as “friendly fire”.
- History Is Not “A Pack Of Tricks” (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Dec 07, 2001)
History is a mirror of society—the mirror which reflects realities and, as such, is expected not to distort right images or project wrong ones.
- The Wima Windfall (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Dec 07, 2001)
If you are a Delhi journalist and write a sort of political column, the question most frequently put to you, even by perfect strangers, is, ‘‘So will the Vajpayee government last?’’
- ‘Itc Hotels’ Schemes For Ex-Servicemen Have Been Mutually Beneficial’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 07, 2001)
The Indian Armed Forces are historically acknowledged to comprise the finest professional and chivalrous soldiers in the world.
- A Continuing Exclusion (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Dec 07, 2001)
This Ramzan I have observed more fasts than I normally do. I have thought much more about the community.
- Too Much Emphasis On Capital Adequacy? (Business Line, M. Ramesh , Dec 07, 2001)
AMONG the more significant measures that came under banking sector reforms is the linkage of a bank's capital to its risk-weighted assets, better known as the capital adequacy ratio norm.
- Politician's Freedoms (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Dec 07, 2001)
AS I am quite seriously thinking of becoming a politician, I thought I should consult my old pal, Gulabjamun-ji.
- Economic Crisis May Create New Hurdles For Jayalalithaa (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Dec 07, 2001)
It was Navaratri and Deepavali together on December 4 for AIADMK supremo and former Tamil Nadu chief minister, J Jayalalithaa, and her close aides.
- Caste And Social Structure - Ii (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, Dec 07, 2001)
Contrary to the inflated rhetoric of the anti-Mandal backlash, the OBCs are not overtaking the upper castes - not even in the rural areas where they are undoubtedly a force to reckon with.
- Afghanistan As A Land Bridge (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
A cooperative endeavour to build pipelines and transport corridors in the region with Afghanistan as a key transit nation will help reinforce the efforts to have a moderate regime in Kabul.
- Afghanistan As A Land Bridge (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 07, 2001)
A cooperative endeavour to build pipelines and transport corridors in the region with Afghanistan as a key transit nation will help reinforce the efforts to have a moderate regime in Kabul.
- Why Blood Red Becomes A Colour Of Choice (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 07, 2001)
The means of the Maoists are unjustified, but their ends find resonance in the Nepalese countryside where poverty’s the rule and governance, the exception.
- Caste And Social Structure - Ii (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, Dec 07, 2001)
Contrary to the inflated rhetoric of the anti-Mandal backlash, the OBCs are not overtaking the upper castes - not even in the rural areas where they are undoubtedly a force to reckon with.
- What The Cbse Wanted Deleted From History Textbooks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
Although there have been clashes between the Sikh guru and the Mughals under Shah Jahan, there was no clash between the Sikhs and Aurangzeb till 1675.
- ‘Pak Should Realise Its Days Of Control In Kabul Are Over’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
Yuly Mikhailovich Vorontsov was in India as President of the Russian American Business Council.
- Self-Defeating Strategies (Hindu, Malini Parthasarathy, Dec 06, 2001)
As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily.
- Self-Defeating Strategies (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 06, 2001)
As a consequence of the American military campaign in Afghanistan, a host of giddy and self-deluding notions have surfaced... India, Sri Lanka or Israel now have the temptation to solve problems militarily.
- Financial Markets -- Buoyed By Hope Of Integration (Business Line, Rukmani Vishwanath, Dec 06, 2001)
MARKETS do not mature overnight. Ask any banker and he will say turmoil and crisis play a `development role' in their evolution.
- Let Us Make India Resourceful (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Dec 06, 2001)
ATAL Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister, is regarded with esteem for his leadership, perseverance, the courage to stand up to adversity, and the determination to express protest boldly when confronted with the outrageous actions of others.
- History As Nonsense (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 06, 2001)
If history visits us, first as tragedy and then as farce, the writing of history under the present political dispensation seems to be following a similar trajectory.
- A More Humane Vision Of Life (Tribune, Harkesh Kaur, Dec 06, 2001)
“God’s in His heaven — All’s right with the world”, wrote Robert Browning. This was an eloquent expression of the poet’s faith in the divine scheme of things. It filled the poet with hope and optimism.
- A Step On A Thorny Road (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Dec 06, 2001)
Whatever the new balance of power between different ethnic groups in Afghanistan, it is the United States of America which calls all the shots.
- Punishing Arafat Not Fair (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
After the escalation of violence in Israel and the Palestinian Authority areas for some time Mr Yasser Arafat finds himself in a most difficult situation today.
- Liberties Beyond Debate (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 05, 2001)
The Bharatiya Janata Party has gained a subtle victory in its current attempts to tamper with textbooks through directives issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education.
- Sorrow And Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 05, 2001)
The Bharatiya Janata Party, ever since it came to power at the head of the National Democratic Alliance, has had a very uneasy relationship with the extremist wings of the sangh parivar.
- That’s Not The Punjab I Know (Indian Express, Gurtej Singh, Dec 05, 2001)
Hartosh Singh Bal’s article, ‘Temple plots and holy men’ (IE, November 21) pegged on to V.S. Naipaul’s comments made interesting reading. Naipaul’s earlier comments on India and those of Nirad Chaudhri would have made even more gripping reading.
- Preparing Toddlers To Face The World (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 05, 2001)
Little boys and girls not yet two summers old can be seen being hurried to play schools to arm themselves with the right tools to face the battle ahead, the all important admission in an upmarket institution.
- End Of A Mystery Tour (Telegraph, SREYASHI DASTIDAR, Dec 05, 2001)
George Harrison is not the first or the only Westerner to have expressed the wish to be cremated and have his ashes immersed in the Ganges.
- A War Psychosis In West Asia (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 05, 2001)
RAISING THE STAKES in the incessant confrontation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Prime Minister of the Jewish state, Mr. Ariel Sharon, has now sought to redefine the war itself.
- The Textbook Controversy (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Dec 05, 2001)
THAT THE BJP-RSS can do what it is doing to school textbooks and garner support for this from some professionals.
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