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Articles 7421 through 7520 of 9936:
- The Dynasty Continues (Guardian (UK), editorial, Guardian UK, May 14, 2004)
The result came as a complete surprise to everyone but the people who matter in an Indian election. Not online India, the India of software developers, the India that produces 2 million graduates a year, the India with a runaway economy widely . . .
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- The Upset In India (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 14, 2004)
In 1998, WHEN Atal Bihari Vajpayee took the helm of the world's largest democracy, nobody predicted the extent of his success or his alignment with U.S. interests.
- Vajpayee Resigns After Poll Upset (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has resigned after a stunning election upset, ending his nearly six years in power and setting the stage for the return of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
- Gandhis Pin Their Hopes On New Boy (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2004)
Sweeping through dusty hamlets and accompanied by drum-beaters, the heir- apparent of India’s Gandhi-Nehru dynasty made his political debut yesterday.
- Nehru-Gandhi Legacy On The Line (Asia Times, Sudha Ramachandran, Feb 25, 2004)
With Varun Gandhi joining the Bharatiya Janata Party recently, the BJP has got itself a true-blue Nehru-Gandhi to counter the Congress' immensely popular Nehru-Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
- An Alliance Of Insecurity (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, Feb 12, 2004)
When Ariel Sharon traveled to India last September, it was the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister since the two nations achieved independence more than 55 years ago.
- Advances Against Shares - Dividing The Multiplier Effect (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 08, 2004)
The latest raising of minimum margin from 40 per cent to 50 per cent on advances against shares means that the potential value of the multiplier is reduced from 2.5 to 2. One good aspect of the measure is that, unlike in the past instances, the rise in
- Precious And For Sale (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Jan 07, 2004)
The UNESCO convention of 1970 was held in Paris and its significant focus was to urge its member countries, among which India is one, to adopt measures to safeguard and protect its cultural property and to find ways of preventing cultural treasures from
- Cape Town Drama With Sydney Script (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 07, 2004)
Dwayne Smith struck a century on debut to help West Indies draw the third Test against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Smith reached his hundred off just 93 balls as West Indies, requiring 441 to win, batted right through the day
- Opposition Can Still Do It (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 07, 2004)
Any Opposition party or a combination of Opposition parties that wants to displace the BJP-led Government will need to devise a strategy to exploit the thinness of the saffron spread.
- Hare And Tortoise (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 07, 2004)
THE old fable of the hare and the tortoise is being played out before our eyes, it seems. Ever since India liberalised, it had been fed with a heavy dose of inferiority complex with reference to China. It was assumed that China, the hare, was leaving
- Interlinking Of Rivers: Ripples Of Concern (Business Line, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jan 07, 2004)
NEVER before has any proposal won the unstinted support of the apex court, the first citizen and the chief executive of the country all at the same time. With this unprecedented backing, the Government has pressed in all available resources to steamroll
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- Day After Sabotage, Cops Protect Pune Scholars (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Rattled by yesterday’s dastardly attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) and stung by their own failure to prevent it, Pune police today decided to provide protection to 10 scholars and three city-based academic institutions.
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Kerala To Conduct Cb Probe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The Kerala government has decided to conduct a Crime Branch (CB) probe into the fake stamp paper transactions in the state and all other related cases on the basis of the report submitted by the Thiruvananthapuram sub-collector.
- The Joy Of Human Life (Hindu, A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM , Jan 05, 2004)
Religions are beautiful gardens. But they are islands. If we can connect all the islands with love and compassion, in a `garland project' for the new millennium, we will have a prosperous India.
- Will Diversified Funds Pay In 2004? (Business Line, Nilanjan Dey, Jan 05, 2004)
DIVERSIFIED equity funds will remain the cynosure of all eyes in the early days of 2004. Their net asset values have moved up in tandem with the advancing indices and the rising trend will be sustained if the market continues to stay in the positive ...
- Too Easy To Manage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 05, 2004)
The scandalous leaking of the Indian Institutes of Management admission test papers and the attempts of the ministry to gain greater control over the IIMs heighten the need for a thorough review of management education in India, its content and governance
- 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
- 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
- Up Close And Closer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Not just roles, Dilip Kumar was intense about his heroines too. Alpana Chowdhury leafs through a new biography
- Misplaced Honour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
By refusing an honorary doctorate, possibly bestowed for political reasons rather than academic, Mr Vajpayee has behaved as a prime minister should. Honorary doctorates are double-edged instruments. They can be used to bestow genuine honour and to show
- ‘i Did Not Want To Get Out, Come What May’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
On his lean patch I have not done much in the series, so I am not really tired. I felt this year was not great Test-wise. In one-dayers I was okay. I think it was just a coincidence and some bad luck. (In this series) I needed to hang in there instead
- His Film, My Film (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
When Lord Richard Attenborough and Satyajit Ray come together, cinema changes. Vijay Rana listened in on the actor-director’s tribute to the auteur
- Ava Garderner And The London Bobby (Tribune, V. N. Kakar, Jan 03, 2004)
AVA Garderner was one of the most ravishing Hollywood beauties of her time. The Lord had apparently created her in a moment of extreme ecstasy. Life magazine once commissioned her to draw the attention of the London bobby posted at the Buckingham Palace
- 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
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- 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
- Tea Industry To Urge Rbi To Make Madhukar Proposals Binding (Business Line, Nilanjan Dey, Jan 03, 2004)
The industry requires additional funds to the tune of Rs 350 crore for development work in the gardens and address its cash flow issues.
- 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
- 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
- Engines Of Growth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are regarded as the modern engines of growth. Their alumni are well placed both within the country and abroad. However, the movement to enlist their cooperation for raising funds to serve their alma mater better
- 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
- 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.
- A Weekly Is Born (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jan 01, 2004)
Were he around, Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the journal, Economic and Political Weekly, would have been bemused to see that his journal has become a phenomenon, the imprimatur of recognition for young social scientists, and èminences grises to
- Reading The Bible (Tribune, D. R. Sharma, Jan 01, 2004)
THE other day an old friend dropped by and casually asked what I had been lately reading. “Well, just some stories from the Bible”, I said. Being a pious Hindu he began to pray for my soul saying that if I liked stories our two epics would be a far better
- Let’s Not Forget (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
As we end another year we seem to be far from getting down to grips with the needs and realities of an optimum manpower policy for our defence forces. The Indian army is short of more than 13,000 officers almost entirely at junior “cutting edge” level...
- Hanging Up On Past, Sonia Dials Dmk To Say Hello (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 31, 2003)
On the defensive ever since its tri-state rout, the Congress today took a daring step forward towards an alternative coalition with party president Sonia Gandhi calling up DMK chief M Karunanidhi to congratulate him on quitting the NDA.
- The Year Of The Declining Dollar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
FOR THE CALENDAR year 2003, the big news in the foreign exchange markets, in many ways for the global economy, has been the steady decline in the value of the American dollar. It is true that the dollar, like any other currency, has moved up and ...
- Towards 2004: Nothing Much To Feel Good About (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Dec 31, 2003)
SUMITRA Behera is one of the millions languishing in the countryside. An unknown Indian, somehow surviving against all odds, she recently figured in the news when she decided to sell her one-month-old baby for a mere Rs 10 (approximately 11 US cents).
- Thank You, 2003! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 31, 2003)
NORMALLY, on December 31, the excitement is all about the New Year. The only thought for the year that has been with us for the previous 12 months is usually a la Lord Tennyson in his famous poem, Ring out, Wild Bells: "The year is dying in the night, and
- 'Satyendra Lived Up To His Name' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
The murder of Satyendra Dubey brings out the sheer horror of corruption in India. On the pages of Indian Express we have read of the anger and outrage among the people. For any sustainable advantage, such sentiments have to be institutionalised.
- The Sri Lankan Mess (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 31, 2003)
ONE is intrigued by the way all parties in the Sri Lanka triangle, President Chandrika Kumaratunga (People’s Alliance), Prime Minister Ranil Vickremesinghe (UNF), and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), expect India to facilitate ethnic conflict
- 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.
- An Agenda For Saarc (Hindu, Kant K. Bhargava, Dec 31, 2003)
India should adopt a cooperative and magnanimous approach to important matters on the agenda of the SAARC summit.
- Surviving The Male Gaze (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 31, 2003)
Violence against women can be curbed only if there is a change in the way men look at women and women look at themselves
- Little Attempt To Break The Mould (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Dec 31, 2003)
AN assessment of Bollywood's film industry during 2003 is possible only against the backdrop of the happenings of the previous year. And 2002 happened to be "annus horriblis" of Indian cinema. Films fell like nine pins, with only 10 per cent of them ...
- Spread Of Saffron (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Dec 31, 2003)
A civilized country is one where people don’t have to waste their time on politics. — Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis
- Chinese Mirage (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
It is typical of political rebels to lose a sense of reality. They create such a make-believe world of their own that they cannot make sense of the world around them. Something similar seems to have happened to the leaders of the United Liberation Front
- That Lift Which They Sing About (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Dec 31, 2003)
There is much talk these days about the common school system, free and compulsory education and that India has not fulfilled her vow to give at least primary education to all the children in this country.
- Rescuing Parties From Bosses (Indian Express, M. G. Devasahayam , Dec 31, 2003)
Let Lyngdoh’s EC supervise inner party elections. That will enhance democracy
- Tagore Didn’t Have Aishwarya In Mind (Tribune, Paloma Ganguly, Dec 31, 2003)
Dust was brushed off a literary gem penned a century ago by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore when a film starring Aishwarya Rai hit the screens this year. “But I don't think Tagore quite had Aishwarya in mind when he wrote ‘Chokher Bali’!” says Radha
- Bcci’s Pads, Gloves Can’t Keep Out Patiala Chill (Indian Express, Ateet Sharma, Dec 31, 2003)
When the BCCI decided to stage its tournament to select probables for next year’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup, they picked on Patiala. Nothing wrong there — except the freezing weather, and the effect it had on the cricket.
- What’s Common To Sachin Ferrari And Chapati-Machine? (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 31, 2003)
Sachin Tendulkar may be slipping down the run list this year but on one, he is still very much at the top: the list of those who got exemptions on Customs duty by the Ministry of Finance.
- A Cong-Dmk Alliance? Once The Unspeakable, Now The Probable (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 30, 2003)
Extremely keen to sew up a ‘‘secular alliance’’ to take on an increasingly assertive BJP-led NDA, the Congress is working towards ‘‘forgetting the past’’ to explore a tie-up with the DMK, well placed sources confirmed today.
- Indo-Pak: Breaking The Ice (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 30, 2003)
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing damage to the systems and structures of our respective societies...”
- Iaf Flies To Iran With Relief, Pak Says Use Our Airspace (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
An Indian Air Force IL-76, carrying relief material to quake-hit Iran, will become tomorrow the first Indian aircraft to fly over Pakistan in two years. The special flight to Iran has been cleared by Pakistan.
- A Moment For Kashmir (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The new year tolls with new hopes. Certainly for India and Pakistan, but for the people of Kashmir as well. Talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat are slated for January 9, mere days after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee returns from the January
- Swim Out Of Ghost Waters (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Dec 30, 2003)
Sardar Sarovar is a fascinating controversy; not in reality but in the world of ideas. There was a feeling that now that the water has started flowing, the focus would shift from speculation to the real world for the counterfactual is on the ground for...
- Making India An Economic Superpower — Stem The Rot In Governance (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 30, 2003)
Governance failure is the single biggest impediment to achieving a higher growth rate of the economy.
- The Bittersweet Saga Of Sugar (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 30, 2003)
Though the cycle of shortage and surplus in the sugar industry has been overcome in the last six years with the emergence of efficient and modern mills, the carryover stock of sugar in the last four years has resulted in hefty carry-over costs, insurance
- Emergence Of The Fractal Savant (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Dec 30, 2003)
INDIAN industry is at the crossroads. More and more Indian companies are coming into the global limelight. For instance, ONGC, Reliance, Hindustan Lever, IOC, Wipro, SBI, Infosys, ITC, Ranbaxy, and HDFC figure in a recent Business Week survey of the top
- Bjp Gains Ascendancy In Nda In 2003 (Tribune, Satish Misra, Dec 30, 2003)
THE last one year of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has been marked by an intense struggle between ideology and “realpolitik”, precipitating the beginning of the process of realignment of political forces.
- Waiting For Fields Of Gold (Telegraph, P.S.M. RAO, Dec 30, 2003)
The finance minister, Jaswant Singh, recently announced his government’s plans to raise the “gross national contentment”, stressing the need to usher in a second green revolution. But his government’s track record betrays a lack of seriousness in the ...
- Mumbai Rly Women Cops Told: Wear Trousers, Not Saris To Work (Indian Express, KALPANA VERMA, Dec 30, 2003)
A new order makes it compulsory for women personnel of the Railway Police Force in Mumbai to wear trousers and a cap, especially on bandobast duty.
- Why This Indian Doesn’t Want A Melbourne Miracle (Indian Express, Chandresh Narayanan, Dec 30, 2003)
While all of India is praying for a miracle at Melbourne on Tuesday, one man in a corner of Malad, Mumbai, will be watching with quiet satisfaction if the Australian juggernaut rolls on. As the man who does the number-crunching for Australian coach John
- To Strengthen Case For Talks, Pak ‘works’ On Militants To Cease Fire (Indian Express, HAMEEDULLAH ABID, Dec 30, 2003)
Leaders of major Kashmiri militant groups are considering a unilateral ceasefire in the Valley for two months to facilitate Pakistan and India in their talks during the SAARC summit next week, highly credible sources told Daily Times of Pakistan.
- Can The Congress Recover? (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 30, 2003)
Nationality is an artificial and irrational construct. The world is divided into nations, and nations have governments. They devise rules on nationality that they find politically convenient. But wherever there is a government, there must be the governed;
- Halfway House (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Politicians speak in code. Other politicians know how to decipher it. Thus the obvious has a significance which lies beneath the surface and literal meaning. When Ms Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress, says that the question about her being a ...
- Nurseries Of Alienation (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 30, 2003)
Geographical enclavement in a remote pocket has provided the physical basis for a kind of "internal colonialism" faced by Adivasis throughout India.
- ‘please Don’t Make This An India Vs Iit Issue’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The murder of Satyendra Dubey, whistleblower in Bihar’s Golden Quadrilateral scandal, has triggered a fire that refuses to die down. As these letters make apparent, from emotion and counter-emotion, to the evocation of old memories, the case has done it a
- ‘hindutva And Development Are Not Antagonistic’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 30, 2003)
As the BJP seeks to exploit its victory in the recent state assembly elections and return to power in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, Neerja Chowdhury interviews HRD minister and senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi to get an insight into the BJP’s mind.
- Devgan, Konkona Star In Dev (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Veteran actor Dev Anand today received the highest honour in Indian cinema — the Dadasaheb Phalke Award — from President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to standing ovation from the gathering at the Vigyan Bhavan auditorium.
- Forensics Report In: Judeo Tape Is Authentic, No Doctoring Detected (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 30, 2003)
The videotape showing former Union Minister of State for Environment Dilip Singh Judeo accepting cash, which was first published by The Sunday Express and led to his resignation and a CBI case, is authentic and not doctored in any way.
- Coming Of Age (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Letting go is a difficult, but crucial, stage in every nurturing process. This is as true of filial bonds as of more political forms of paternalism. The Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad is currently going through a rite of passage, which might
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- On Government Of India Service (Tribune, B K Karkra, Dec 30, 2003)
BABUR, the founder of the Mughal empire in our country half a millennium back, once wrote that the only things good about “Hindustan” were that it was a big country and it had plenty of gold.
- Iran's Calamity And Its Lessons (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
IT COULD TAKE days before the world knows exactly how many people died in the massive earthquake that hit the town of Bam in south-eastern Iran. From the initial reports of the devastation, it is evidently a tragedy of epic proportions — ...
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