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Articles 6021 through 6120 of 9936:
- Pranks With Parrot (Deccan Herald, N SHEREEN, Jul 02, 2005)
When I was a little girl of 10 years, my grandmother took us to a village and bought us a parrot amongst all the other ‘goodies’ like kites, gilli-danda, tops, and oodles of raw tamarind. We used to sprinkle some salt and raw chilli powder and eat the...
- From Bollywood To Banglawood (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 01, 2005)
How do movie actors whose careers are sagging pay their bills? Pick up a little Bangla and hit the jatra trail. Jatras, melodramatic plays that travel from place to place in the hinterland of Bengal, are hugely popular and pay very well for yesteryear's..
- Eventful Journey Of A Vibrant, Active Kannada Press (Deccan Herald, M Ramesh, Jul 01, 2005)
Exactly 162 years ago, on July 1, 1843, the first ever Kannada newspaper, Mangalooru Samachara, was founded by the German missionary Herman Moegling. He called it a “window on the world” and said it was for people who lived in a “house without windows...
- Barsaat Bliss (Times of India, SWAPNA VENUGOPAL, Jul 01, 2005)
It's been 10 years since I've felt it. The intoxicating smell of the earth, the pleasant breeze from swaying trees and water up to my knees. The first showers came very early this June and I missed it.
- Division And Unity (Tribune, Tribune, Jul 01, 2005)
Since historical times in India the spectacle of a united India is unknown. There must have been a time when India was a free country, governed by her own princes and regulated by her own laws.
- Kalam’S Healing Touch To Tsunami-Hit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2005)
The President said the tsunami victims willpower to live is the most beautiful thing that he ever came across.
- An Emerging Alliance With India (US News & World Report, Michael Barone, Jul 01, 2005)
You didn't see it in the headlines this week, but it's likely to be more important in the long run than many things that received much more notice. The "it" in question is the New Framework for the U.S.-India Defense Relationship signed Monday . . .
- Advani"s Unsecular Folly (Deccan Herald, M Veerappa Moily, Jun 28, 2005)
While Advani may have praised Jinnah for being secular, it is obvious that the converse was indeed true
- Tackling Child Labour (Tribune, Kamaljit Singh, Jun 28, 2005)
INDIA tops the world in child labour. According to the 2001 census, the number of working children in the age group of 5-14 years was 12.5 million out of the total child population of 252 million.
- There Was No Hidden Agenda, Mr. Nariman (Hindu, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Jun 28, 2005)
Why the Bench constituted to reconsider the basic structure doctrine in tune with the values of the secular, socialist, democratic republic was dissolved abruptly is still unclear.
- Sc Not To Interfere With Cbi Judge’S Transfer (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 28, 2005)
The bench said the judge trying the fodder scam, has been transferred on promotion, and that it cannot interfere in the administrative decision of HC.
- At Loggerheads With Left (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 28, 2005)
That the congress and the Left parties are not the best of political bedfellows was never in doubt.
- Comparative Literature (Hindu, K. S. Parthasarathy, Jun 28, 2005)
SAAHITYA SAMBANDHA: Srikrishnabhat Arthikaje; Pub. by CVG Publications, No.70, 2nd Main Road, Jabbar Block, Vyalaikaval, Bangalore-560003. Rs. 90.
- Cultural Stumbling Blocks To Excellence (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 27, 2005)
India's culture — social and political — is the stumbling block to setting up a world-class research university.
- Home Of Nepal’S Ranas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2005)
The Aurobindo Bhavan on Gangadhar Chetty Road is an unusual edifice built with no specific style of architecture.
- Today's Editorial: How Many Bjps? (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 27, 2005)
How many BJPs are there? Too many, for any accurate count.
- Accepting Children As They Are (Tribune, S. Dutt , Jun 27, 2005)
A parent once asked me, “Do you think we expect too much from our children?” How many ask themselves this question? How many teachers?
- Cong Still On Nazi Path: Advani (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2005)
While reliving the dark days of Emergency, Leader of Opposition L K Advani said the verdict of the 1977 general elections put paid to Congress’ designs.
- Wullar Barrage: Indo-Pak Dialogue Tomorrow (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2005)
The UNSC expansion is an issue that the existing club members are unable to dodge any longer. Thus diplomatic games are on to frustrate the major aspirants.
- Representations Of India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Various voices reveal encounters that mostly hang on the common thread of western cliche that surrounds India.
- A Programme For Parliamentary Interns (Hindu, Vijayashri Sripati , Jun 26, 2005)
The Canadian system can be run by a respectable non-government agency free from partisan politics
- ``Ministry Bulldozed Into According Clearance'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Startling, unseemly haste to organise launch function of Sethu Canal Project: Jayalalithaa
- Gandhi’S Bad Faith (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Jun 26, 2005)
Gandhi returned to Indian politics in 1915. While trying to understand his politics, we should bear in mind that he was forty-six years old and had been an NRI for nearly a quarter of a century.
- A Celebration Of Ragas (Hindu, S. RANGARAJAN, Jun 26, 2005)
The Ragamala paintings are sublime and celestial, enhancing the colour and quality of Indian classical music.
- Master Of Miniature (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Artist Vijay Hagaragundgi steadfastly pursues traditional miniature painting in the near-extinct Surapura style, discovers Giridhar Khasnis.
- Burns Finalises Agenda For Pm’S Us Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns continued his discussions with Indian leadership for the second day on Indo-US bilateral ties.
- Religious Scholar’S Murder (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2005)
Yet another religious scholar has been shot dead in Karachi.
- Emergency’S Reality Czech (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jun 25, 2005)
A second trip to Prague provokes a second thought on Emergency: why do we forget the strangling of our economic freedom?
- That Long Night Of Knives (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 24, 2005)
When India’s democratic structure was shaken to its roots
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- Jinnah : A Victim Of Hatred? (Tribune, Harjinder Singh Tangri, Jun 24, 2005)
How long shall we continue dubbing Mohammad Ali Jinnah a villain of the story of struggle for freedom with the contempt he doesn’t deserve? We Indians and Pakistanis are very poor students of history.
- A Lot Of Huffing And Puffing (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Jun 23, 2005)
The ban on smoking in films is India’s misguided way of telling the world how serious it is about combating cancer, writes Sumanta Sen
- The Politics Of Arson And Violence (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Jun 23, 2005)
The Sindh government has constituted a committee to inquire into the Karachi police’s failure to control the acts of arson (and riots) after last month’s bomb blast in Madinatul Ilm in Karachi.
- Indira Gandhi As Parivar Heroine (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 23, 2005)
K.S. Sudarshan's praise of Indira Gandhi at a recent function in Lucknow is yet another command centre barb aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party's supposedly week-kneed leadership.
- Father’S Day (Business Line, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 23, 2005)
IT was during my tenure in mercantile marine that we decided to settle down in Chandigarh.
- Behold The Real Jinnah (Indian Express, Anupam Gupta, Jun 23, 2005)
Described by one of his leading biographers, Stanley Wolpert,
- The Political Blame-Game (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 23, 2005)
With the Ambani brothers burying the hatchet after their mother announced a patch-up formula, stock market indices zoomed,
- Hope For Siachen (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 23, 2005)
There is some hope now for Siachen. Nine days after Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke of turning the glacier into a “peace mountain”, the follow-up from New Delhi is positive.
- Tsunami May Have Revealed Lost City (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
The mighty Boxing Day tsunami has revealed what archaeologists believe to be the lost ruins of an ancient city off the coast of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
- Indian Rape Victims Fight Back Against Epidemic (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
For years, rape victims in India were too afraid to speak out, traumatised by the assault and fearful they would be blamed themselves. Many don't trust the police.
- Rise Of A ‘moderate’ Advani? (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 22, 2005)
Ever since Lal Krishna Advani began attracting flak for his comments in Karachi on Mohammad Ali Jinnah,
- The Lost Chances Of History (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2005)
Author of Constitutional law of India and former attorney general, the late H.M. Seervai, has provided an interesting account of Jinnah’s role in Partition.
- Sacred Space: Anger Management (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2005)
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are nurtured in the mind.
- Middle: Pakistan A British Creation (Times of India, K. Subrahmanyam, Jun 22, 2005)
According to popular folklore both in India and Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah created Pakistan after he went back on acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan and when Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel,
- An Exile's Canvas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Das is one of the 15 artists selected for the National Academy Award
- No Rain, But `Snow' And Water Parks (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 22, 2005)
Water-starved Vidharbha has a growing number of water parks and amusement centres.
- The Quest For A People's Computer (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 22, 2005)
The widespread use of computers in various walks of life has remained an elusive goal in countries where a deep digital divide exists and this is primarily due to economic poverty and illiteracy.
- Science In The Need Of Idiom (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Jun 22, 2005)
Commercial pressures and funding drive much of research in the US today. Nothing proves this than a survey that showed that scientists indulge in fact-bending. More than five per cent of scientists admitted to having rejected data that contradicted their
- Close Ranks (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 22, 2005)
US support to some members of the G-4 for a UNSC seat should not split the group
- This History Can Be Tricky (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 22, 2005)
Advani can claim some credit for his courage in pointing out to Pakistanis what Jinnah really stood for
- The View From Pakistan (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 21, 2005)
The controversy over opposition leader L.K. Advani’s praise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has had an adverse fallout in Pakistan.
- Don’T Dismiss Bjp, Or Advani (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jun 21, 2005)
Whatever happens to him personally, L.K. Advani has shifted the debate in the BJP, the Sangh parivar, and indeed in the subcontinent, on the definition of secularism and the role of Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi.
- Mathematician Passes Away (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Mathematician P.K. Srinivasan died of cardiac arrest on Monday morning. He was 80 and is survived by his wife, five daughters and five sons.
- Omnibus Of Kannada Lit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Apart from being a cultural city, Dharwad is also known as the treasure house of knowledge with numerous publication centres bringing out good literature on every walk of life.
- Chronicle Of A Truly Historic Visit (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jun 20, 2005)
What Nehru and the Soviet leaders said to each other retains some resonance even though the Soviet Union is no more and the international ambience has changed hugely.
- Nehru At Root Of India’S Problems: Rss Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
K S Sudarshan averred that Muslims were not foreigners and they should not ask for minority status; he avoided mentioning Advani in his speech.
- Counterview: Level Playing Field Doesn't Exist (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jun 20, 2005)
Should we celebrate because 70,000 dollar- millionaires were discovered in India at last count? Or because the number of millionaires worldwide bloated by 600,000 in 2004?
- Suu Kyi’S Poignant Milestone (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Aung Suu Kyi’s plight has attracted worldwide attention. Her cause has been championed by the EU.
- Excavators Dig Up Ancient Settlement (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The Jammu and Kashmir archaeology department has discovered a major archeological site in the Kutabal village in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. Experts say it could turn out to be the ‘Harappa or Mohenjodaro of Kashmir’.
- Sibling Squabble (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2005)
Nobody is his brother’s keeper. This was true in the Garden of Eden and is true even now.
- The Mukhtaran Mai Fiasco (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Jun 20, 2005)
Whoever came up with the bright idea that stopping Mukhtaran Mai from proceeding to the US to attend a conference organized by an association of Pakistani-American professionals would help protect Pakistan’s international image should be taken to . . .
- Politics Of Partition (Tribune, K. Subramanyam, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a belated debate on the responsibility for the partition of India and the role played by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
- All-India Services (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 20, 2005)
FOR some years now, the number of successful candidates in the all-India Services from the South,
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- What Went Wrong With The Naga Talks? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jun 20, 2005)
The first phase of intensive negotiations with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah)
- Burmese Years (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2005)
ON Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates her 60th birthday — a milestone for most people, but an especially poignant one for her. In fact the more pressing measure of the passing of time for Ms Suu Kyi is the period of nine years and 238 days,
- Closed Window To The East (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Jun 19, 2005)
Lately, India has taken the lead; it has been vociferous in supporting a principle shared by most men of goodwill on this planet: The ideal of democracy.
- Dawood Associate's Property In Ahmedabad Attached (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
Sharif Khan Pathan had acquired ``green bungalow'' at throw-away price in 1991
- Some Scars Of The Emergency (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2005)
SOME scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through. One ugly mark on the face of India is the emergency.
- Government To Stop Sale Of Revised Edition Of Mahatma Gandhi's Works (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
Original version declared "official edition," purchasers of erroneous version to get concordance table
- Incredible India’S Junk Yards (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 18, 2005)
Please look for the signs of disaster that is looming the next time you happen to visit a heritage site yourself.
- Secularism In The Subcontinent (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 18, 2005)
The multiplicity of identities alone can check the exclusivity and negative features of any single identity
- Just A Smoke-Screen? (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 18, 2005)
WITH THE Information and Broadcasting Ministry coming to an agreement with the Health Ministry, the decks appear to have been cleared for the ban on scenes of cigarette smoking in films and television programmes.
- Sonia And Manmohan, Party And Government (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 18, 2005)
When Manmohan Singh sees off Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the airport, he is merely acknowledging that though he heads the United Progressive Alliance Government, he remains a Congressman.
- Perverse Allusions To Glory (Japan Times, HUGH CORTAZZI, Jun 18, 2005)
LONDON -- I regard myself as a friend of Japan, not least because I have many Japanese friends and appreciate Japanese arts and culture, but this does not mean that I can look at Japanese history through rose-tinted spectacles.
- On What Drives The Dragon And How The Giant Organises Electricity (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 18, 2005)
AN ISLAMABAD datelined story on www.greaterkashmir.com speaks of India offering to share with Pakistan the electricity "from the controversial Baglihar and Kishanganga hydropower projects located on the Chenab and Jehlum rivers".
- India Will Stick To The G-4 Track (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jun 18, 2005)
Further discussions will be held with U.S when its official visits New Delhi on June 23
- Understanding Jinnah (Tribune, Chaman Lal, Jun 17, 2005)
THE controversy created by BJP President L.K. Advani’s comments on Jinnah has brought into focus the role of different political personalities during freedom
- Fat Versus Fiction (Hindu, Vivienne Parry, Jun 17, 2005)
The moral panic about the obesity epidemicwas always hard to swallow. Now, a newstudy says we may have been wrong all along.
- Indifference To History (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 17, 2005)
LET a diminished Mr L. K. Advani run the shaken BJP as best he can after taking back his resignation as the party president even though the so-called compromise
- Spv Route For Infrastructure Projects — Enticing, But Flawed, Financial Engineering (Business Line, Amarendu Nandy , Jun 17, 2005)
A variant of the proposal to use forex reserves for infrastructure, the special purpose vehicle route, is expected to raise long-term funds for select projects
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