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Articles 20021 through 20120 of 25064:
- Green Pawar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 20, 2005)
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s statement that India must import more oilseeds, including genetically modified seeds that have a high oil content, is welcome.
- Only A Story (Deccan Herald, SHASHI DESHPANDE, Jan 20, 2005)
“I don’t read novels”: when Jane Austen quoted these words of some readers in Northanger Abbey, she was pointing out the prevalent bias against the novel.
- Of Human Bonding (Deccan Herald, MADHAVA C KURUP, Jan 19, 2005)
There was magic in the air. The ten thousand-odd people thronging the vast amphitheatre, were all listening in rapt attention to the Master’s words. Then the bhajans started — melodious and mystical — they were touching the hearts of the young and the old
- Assembly Poll Shadow Over New Delhi (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 19, 2005)
Irrespective of who wins or loses the coming Assembly elections, there will be no change to the numbers in the Lok Sabha. But the chemistry of dependency at the Centre could change.
- Lure Of Luxury (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 19, 2005)
A real estate promotional write-up in a newspaper inviting people to “live in luxury” came as a revelation. Conspicuous consumption in his country saddened the American economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase a hundred years ago.
- Gandhi And Godse (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Jan 19, 2005)
In Indian history, two Hindu leaders had changed the course of Hindu destiny for the worst. One was Raja Jaichand of Kannauj, whose treachery led to the establishment of Muslim rule in India.
- Taking Advantage Of Public Generosity (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jan 19, 2005)
AS non-resident Indians dig deep into their pockets to help the tsunami victims, there is a heightened concern that sectarian groups are exploiting the tragedy for their own divisive goals.
- Economic Reforms At The Crossroads (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jan 19, 2005)
What will happen by end of February 2005 is difficult to say. But it looks more or less certain that the advance of economic reforms will slow down if not halted and reversed.
- Making Speed With Broadband (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 18, 2005)
For the telecom sector, price cuts, and substantial ones at that, have become a familiar routine that has seen domestic long distance and international telephone call charges dropping to just
- Is Anyone Listening To Mr Stiglitz? (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Jan 18, 2005)
Joseph Stiglitz is in India and has been in the news. He has many distinctions to his credit. Between 1993 and 1997 he served on the Council of Economic Advisers to President Bill Clinton.
- How Thought Police States Are Created (Times of India, ASHIS NANDY, Jan 18, 2005)
The future of censorship is very bright in India — in media, culture and intellectual life. Do not be taken in by political postures and academic correctness
- Killing The Truth (Deccan Herald, VARALOTTI RENGASAMY, Jan 18, 2005)
Killing the truth while holding on to the facts seems to be the way of life for people in a number of vocations — lawyers, ad agencies, bureaucrats, company executives, accountants, stock brokers, press reporters et al.
- Double Disaster (Telegraph, Richard Garner, Jan 18, 2005)
Oxford University is to cut the number of UK students it recruits and woo more young people from overseas to combat a financial crisis. The decision, announced in a Green Paper on its future published on Monday (Jan 24), will provoke an outcry
- `Cut The Fat, Not The Muscle' (Business Line, Vinay Kamath, Jan 18, 2005)
India's greatest economic challenge is to rein in fiscal deficit, according to Dr Raghuram G. Rajan, Chief Economist of the IMF"It is a problem because people do not see it as a problem,"
- Regulatory Authorities — Role In A Deregulated Economy (Business Line, P. K. Doraiswamy, Jan 18, 2005)
The transition of the economy from being a regulated one to a deregulated one is a momentous step. But if a deregulated economy is not to lead to cut-throat competition or predatory exploitation of the consumer, it does need some transparent, normative re
- Tribals Looking Down A Barrel In Balochistan (Asia Times, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Jan 18, 2005)
With its deep, warm sea waters, extremely rich mineral resources and most vital strategic position, southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province has been the
- Sonia And Her Cow Dust Hour (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 18, 2005)
Last week Sonia Gandhi set off on a kisan yatra. Rural India is so distant from our genteel, middle-class lives that Sonia appears to have felt the need to dress the part. Perfect grooming and elegant silk saris were
- India Struggles To Carve Out New U.N. Role (Toronto Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2005)
India's self-reliance in the tsunami disaster has shown the new face of an emerging regional power that wants to punch its weight in the United Nations — with help from Canada — says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Same-Sex Marriage Debate Follows Pm To India (CBC News, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2005)
The debate over same-sex marriage followed Prime Minister Paul Martin on his overseas trip Tuesday, prompted by an edict two days earlier by the spiritual leader of Sikhism in India denouncing the practice.
- To Take On Competition, Air India Must Expand (Business Line, Tunia Cherian George, Jan 17, 2005)
The Air-India Chairman and Managing Director, Mr V. Thulasidas, looks back on an `exciting' first year at the helm.
- History Has Been Made, Now Overcome It (Indian Express, SHASHI THAROOR, Jan 17, 2005)
Handshakes are not often termed ‘‘historic’’, but the one between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf last week readily earned the adjective.
- In A Reasoned Way (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 17, 2005)
A deluge of independent regulators is about to descend on us, apart from the financial regulators. There are now 24 or so in electricity
- Tackle Poverty With Growth (Tribune, Montek singh Ahluwalia, Jan 17, 2005)
IT is absolutely true that poverty has not declined as much as was targeted. But this point should be read along with the knowledge that growth has not been what it was meant to be.
- The Fine Art Of Budget-Making (Business Line, S. Venu , Jan 17, 2005)
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, had to do a hurried job of presenting this year's Budget on July 8, 2004, as he was called on to do so within a short period of his assuming office as Finance Minister.
- Regional Stock Exchange Prospects (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 17, 2005)
A new share trading platform called the BSEIndonext, inaugurated recently, might at best provide a lifeline to regional stock exchanges.
- Poetry And Business (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 17, 2005)
We have seen a lot of incongruous stuff associated with business: Equity, environment, social responsibility and even ethics! But poetry? We had, of course, long ago a banker
- Beyond Tsunami: An Agenda For Action (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 17, 2005)
Relief is in full swing in all the tsunami-hit areas of India. Medium- and long-term rehabilitation demands three things all along the coast. First, strengthening the ecological foundations of sustainable human security.
- Bridal Bravery (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 17, 2005)
THE acts of defiance are few and far between, still they show that women are no longer willing to bear the yoke of repression which has been their constant companion all these centuries.
- Up And Down It Goes (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 16, 2005)
Uttar Pradesh — with a population that could have made it the seventh largest nation in the world — has been unfortunate in its leaders. While other states, even neighbouring Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, are seriously attempting to
- Good Prince Hal (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Jan 16, 2005)
The sporting of a Nazi armband by Harry Windsor could be written off as a misadventure by a spoilt, ignorant and insensitive 444prince had it not been for bits of history which are conveniently forgotten.
- Bori Shame: Intolerance Tolerated (Indian Express, DILIP CHITRE, Jan 16, 2005)
This is the first time in my life that I am sitting down to write an article while an commando sits in my living room to protect me from possible assailants. This provision has been made by the home minister of my state
- Life Chasing Art (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 16, 2005)
The balladeer of Reading Gaol must be cheering quietly in his grave. Even with his artist’s vision, he could not have foreseen when he pointed out that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” the events that were to take place in the Academy o
- Inheriting A Value System Of Integrity (Indian Express, GEETANJALI KIRLOSKAR, Jan 16, 2005)
He lived through tumultuous times. Amidst a desperate struggle against the great economic depression — facing prejudices against Indian manufacturers and competing with the solidly-entrenched British firms.
- Portrait Of A Revolutionary As A Young Woman (Indian Express, MADHU TREHAN, Jan 15, 2005)
Pentimento — in art, the reappearance in an oil painting of original elements of drawing or painting that the artist tried to obliterate by over painting. If the covering pigment becomes transparent
- Show Them The Money (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 15, 2005)
India is among a handful of democracies that believe in total consensus and continuity in foreign policy which rarely dominates our electoral rhetoric.
- The Power Of Sycophancy (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 15, 2005)
A year or so after he had been elected president of the Republic, Gyani Zail Singh invited me over to the Rashtrapati Bhavan for a chat. As I was about to leave, Gyaniji gave me a set of six biographies written on him by his admirers. Back home
- An Officer And A Gentleman (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 15, 2005)
Among the least readable books I include autobiographies of retired civil servants and army officers.
- Disaster Strikes An Obscure Beauty (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Jan 15, 2005)
The island of Katchal is about 425 km south of Port Blair and 150 km south of the Car Nicobar Air Force base. It is a breathtakingly beautiful place. To the Indian mainlander, to whom the remote and dispersed Andaman and Nicobar islands occupy a unique pl
- Laudable Drive (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 15, 2005)
The Law Department’s decision to clear the backlog of files that have accumulated over the past few years is a step that other government departments would do well to emulate.
- The Tsunami Within (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 14, 2005)
The world forgets. Sad, but tragically true. Yesterday's calamity gets transformed into today's stale news. It ceases to matter. That is, perhaps, the flawed beauty of existence itself. It goes on.
- Open Invitation (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 14, 2005)
Despite politicians’ penchant for doublespeak, it actually helps to be candid in politics. The prime minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, is known to value transparency in both public policy and politics.
- Graceful In Grief (Tribune, B.K. Karkra, Jan 14, 2005)
ON December 26 last, we saw the spectacle of the dreadful tsunami that descended on many Asian shores like a hungry wolf. A crisis often brings the best out of some.
- Just 7 Km From Devastation (Indian Express, Janyala Sreenivas, Jan 14, 2005)
Whenever you find hundreds of thousands of sane people trying to get out of a place and a little bunch of madmen struggling to get in,’’ wrote the legendary American foreign correspondent H.R. Knickerbocker, ‘‘you know the latter are newspapermen.’’
- Games We Played (Indian Express, P. K. BOSE , Jan 14, 2005)
In our boyhood days in Shimla, father didn’t encourage us to befriend many boys for fear of our falling into bad company. The few friends that I and my elder brother had were all handpicked by him.
- Primitive Wisdom Saved Them (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 14, 2005)
When the tsunami wave struck coastal India and decimated it in a matter of minutes, apprehension was that the reclusive aborigines of the Andaman and Nicobar islands were perhaps the worst sufferers considering that their islands were far closer to the Su
- The Missing Story Of India’S Navy (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 14, 2005)
Jangal mein mor nacha, kisi ne na dekha (The peacock danced gloriously in the forest, seen by nobody). Galle harbour in Sri Lanka was an unlikely place for the Indian naval officer to chant this popular film song.
- Those Dazzling Shopfronts Of Cumin And Sesame (Indian Express, RASHID K KIDWAI, Jan 14, 2005)
The corporate sector has been active in developing the hinterland surrounding their factories. A number have established schools, hospitals, places of worship and instituted water management measures.
- Went Up The Hill To Fetch A Bail (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 14, 2005)
Cases pile up not only in courts but also in news bulletins; and advocates file appeals for bail without fail. Courts hear arguments, and grant temporary respite and conditional freedom
- The Great Wall Of Shopping (Asia Times, Pepe Escobar, Jan 14, 2005)
This boardwalk advertisement greets at least half a million passers-by every day on Nanjing Dong Lu, Shanghai's premier commercial thoroughfare, where almost 40 years ago hordes of vigilant Red Guards waved Mao Zedong's Little Red Book.
- A Great Rush To Give (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Jan 14, 2005)
The “little emperors” of China are not all that self-centred after all. Six- and seven-year-olds — single children all — are queuing up outside embassies and Red Cross centres to donate their savings to tsunami victims.
- ‘Our Govt Is Committed To Creating ... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2005)
In a judicious choice of venue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose Left Front-ruled West Bengal for a seminal statement on the economic goals of his government. Addressing the CII partnership summit 2005, in Kolkata on
- Doctor’S Savvy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 14, 2005)
Meetings with representatives of industry catch Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his most persuasive. In the presence of men and women impatient with the thickets of political rhetoric around economic policy, he visibly relaxes.
- Agony Over Seat-Sharing (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jan 14, 2005)
AFTER breathing fire and brimstone a week ago against the Congress over the sharing of seats in the assembly elections in Bihar and Jharkhand, Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav had cooled down rather quickly.
- An Act Of God? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 14, 2005)
The little schoolboy who innocently quizzed the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, about God may have, unknowingly, joined a worldwide debate around one of the most profound philosophical questions raised by the tsunami disaster
- Crossing Cultures Through Language (Deccan Herald, C J MOORE, Jan 14, 2005)
A Czech proverb that I cannot possibly pronounce declares something like: “To speak another language is to live another life.”
- Brilliance Is Not Enough (Indian Express, Raja Menon, Jan 14, 2005)
The untimely passing of J.N. Dixit has raised some old questions of why the country went in for the National Security Council/Advisor system that the US follows in a presidential system of governance.
- `Vat Is Equitable With Least Distortion On Resources' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 14, 2005)
As the preparatory process for Union Budget 2005-06 has already begun with the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, holding the customary confabulations with various players of the economy
- Memories Etched On Sand (Telegraph, Debabrata Mohanty, Jan 13, 2005)
Tsunami-struck Tamil Nadu has much to learn from Orissa, which has repeatedly faced the wrath of nature
- Last Resort (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 13, 2005)
Violence is usually a loser’s last resort. But Mr Subash Ghisingh routinely threatens to use it to win elections in Darjeeling. Come elections and he threatens to go back to the violent days of the Gorkhaland agitation unless he has his way.
- India-China Military Equations (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jan 13, 2005)
The visit of General N C Vij, Chief of Army Staff, to China in December 2004, is one more step towards military diplomacy between New Delhi and Beijing. He is the second serving army chief to visit China
- Karachi Opens Door To Us Forces (Asia Times, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Jan 13, 2005)
Having teamed up with the US to help eliminate Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Pakistan is once again proving its worth in the "war on terror", this time in Washington's quest against Iran.
- The Artisan As Ceo (Indian Express, RASHID K KIDWAI, Jan 13, 2005)
The need for providing employment in rural India has been expressed for a number of decades now. To provide employment, enterprise would need to be set up.
- There Is No Core Issue (Indian Express, Premvir Das, Jan 13, 2005)
During a recent visit to India, many retired military officers of Pakistan, known “hawks” when in uniform, said retirement had transformed them and they now realised human values and aspirations were more important.
- For Art’S Sake (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 13, 2005)
The Supreme Court must be the most overworked institution in the country. From emissions to examinations, it has to keep a stern eye on almost every aspect of Indian life.
- Washington’S Odd Ways (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 13, 2005)
WHILE there has been concern voiced recently in India about the prospects of the sale of F-16 aircraft to Pakistan by the United States, the new Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Tyagi, has indicated that the IAF can handle the situation even if new F
- Hail Mogambo! (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 13, 2005)
Just so many of us must have begun Wednesday with our one Amrish Puri moment. The actor, who passed away on January 12 at age 72, was after all something of an institution, particularly for Hindi film buffs of a certain age...
- An Interim Relief For The Kanchi Acharya (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 13, 2005)
The undertaking given by the prosecution in the Sessions Court here today that the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, would not be arrested till January 20 should provide a reprieve for the Acharya and his devotees.
- Child’S Play (Indian Express, R. P. Subramanian, Jan 13, 2005)
Watch a toddler at play with building blocks. She picks up a red block and places it on a yellow one. After deep thought, she selects a green block and sets it down next to the yellow one. Frowning in concentration, with an occasional gurgle of contentmen
- Censoring The Spirit Of Gandhi (Indian Express, Mahesh Bhatt, Jan 13, 2005)
I had a feeling of deja vu when I stood up to address a room full of journalists the other day at the Press Club in Mumbai. I was there to speak on behalf of filmmaker Vijay Ghatge regarding his film Shobha Yatra, which had run into some trouble with the
- Post Tsunami, India Inclusive (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jan 12, 2005)
As tribes in the Andamans come in contact with organised economy, the forest area needed to ‘sustain’ them may decline
- India's Bridge To East (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 12, 2005)
The shock of the tsunami that flattened Thailand's beach resorts was resounding. We escaped the tragedy but could not get away from its echoes.
- Return Of The Mummy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 12, 2005)
When Mark Antony declaimed that “The evil that men do lives on after them/ The good is oft interred with their bones/ So let it be with Caesar”,
- Us-Pakistan: A Pampering Relationship (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 12, 2005)
The symbolism of the proposed sale of F-16 aircraft by the US to Pakistan cannot be underestimated when terror is still the instrument of state policy for Islamabad.
- Vindictive? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 12, 2005)
When Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi was arrested two months ago, many were quick to spot political motives. In fact, the late night swoop in Andhra Pradesh by a planeload of armed commandos despatched from Tamil Nadu did seem excessive.
- Globalisation 3.0 (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 12, 2005)
Two weeks ago, amid the swirl of tsunami devastation, The Indian Express carried a piece pointing out apparent inconsistencies in BBC’s and CNN’s editorial positions (‘‘Can CNN, BBC get away with this corpse show in ‘sensitive’ Manhattan?’’ December 30...
- Good Spies, Bad Spies (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jan 12, 2005)
When Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, after one of his prime ministerial meetings with President George W. Bush, that India and the United States of America were "natural allies"
- Access To Education: Yet To Make The Grade (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Jan 12, 2005)
Education is the best investment. A country's economic and social progress is determined by the quality of its human resource. It is not higher education alone that is important but raising literacy levels among the
- Competition Breaks Cartels (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jan 12, 2005)
Cartels operate across the economy, particularly in the intermediate goods and services sector. They hike production costs, thus making finished goods less competitive.
- Dalits Fight Tsunami Daily (Indian Express, Udit Raj, Jan 12, 2005)
This is in response to the expose in The Indian Express, ‘‘Tsunami can’t wash this away: hatred for Dalits’’ (IE January 7). Many justify their Hindu way of living while repeating various cliches like ‘‘Our living is simple and plain’’
- Delayed Honour (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 12, 2005)
The exclusive list of Phalke Award winners comprises the crème de la crème of Indian cinema and the name of Mrinal Sen is a welcome addition to this pantheon. While one feels elated at the bestowing of this signal honour on the octogenarian film-maker
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