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Articles 24521 through 24620 of 26855:
- In Their Own Hands (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 05, 2004)
It is customary for election results to be followed by an onrush of belated wisdom. This is particularly so when the outcome defies the profundities of the editorial classes.
- Democracy In The Indian Context (Deccan Herald, J Rajagopalachari, Nov 05, 2004)
Unless drastic electoral reforms are pursued, our country will continue to have criminal elements at the helm
- Protect Christians Of Dalit Origin (Deccan Herald, EDUARDO FALEIRO, Nov 04, 2004)
There is need to legislate a bill to give Christians of SC/ST origin their due rights and privileges
- Is It A Clash Of Civilisations? (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Nov 04, 2004)
Just after the Cold War ended following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Harvard Professor and former National Security Council member Samuel Huntington alluded to new “fault-lines” in the global order in his writings and in his book “The Clash of ...
- Enhance Productivity (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Nov 04, 2004)
Good economics in the country is all about balancing various national efforts in different sectors
- Fine Line (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 04, 2004)
Court cases have a propensity to pop up at the wrong time. Mr L.K. Advani, made chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party for a fifth time, could have done without the Allahabad high court’s reopening of the Babri Masjid case right at this moment.
- Palestinians Gripped By Fear (Tribune, Donald Macintyre, Nov 03, 2004)
MUSTAFA Abu Shawari did not pause from slapping dough for the traditional qatayef of Ramadan on to the hob outside the Nazareth restaurant in Ramallah as he considered the fate of the sick old man in his bed some 400 yards away.
- Belligerent Posturing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2004)
The freshly developed cracks in the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its principal ally, the Janata Dal (United), have more to do with the Assembly elections due in
- One School, Two Badges! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 02, 2004)
Long before a man called Narendra Modi and his politics gripped Gujarat, the mindset on which communalists thrive was becoming increasingly pervasive in the state of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Pay Less And Get Rich (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Nov 02, 2004)
Experience shapes expectations. When India became free, it had behind it almost a century of economic stagnation under British rule.
- A Megalopolis On Oxygen (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 02, 2004)
There are many who believe that the self-styled megalopolis carrying the tag of Mumbai, if it continues to load its infrastructure along the present lines, is on its death throes.
- A Tightrope Walk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 02, 2004)
Nothing quite rouses the Bharatiya Janata Party's rank and file as a mention of that elusive party goal — a "magnificent Ram temple" in Ayodhya.
- Remembering Indira Gandhi (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Nov 01, 2004)
Any talk of politics and its practitioners invariably turns to Indira Gandhi. You could like her or hate her but surely not ignore her. Such was her personality.
- Spreading Its Tentacles (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Nov 01, 2004)
The US is seen as an occupying power by a hostile populace in Iraq and has no popular backing
- Stubborn Things (Telegraph, BHASWATI CHAKRAVORTY, Nov 01, 2004)
The mythology is all in place. The killing of the great asura, Kuse Munusamy Veerappan, took place during Navaratri, with J. Jayalalithaa, an indomitable Durga to her followers, providing the inspirational surge.
- Dr Advani Cannot Cure (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Nov 01, 2004)
The Bharatiya Janata Party is sick. But can Dr Lal Kishen Advani cure it? The BJP is already being described as the party of “two babas (old men)”.
- Altruism And Economic Behaviour (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Nov 01, 2004)
A sign I see in a local grocery store encourages me to buy bananas at a higher price because it is a `fair trade' product. Similar signs are also found near the shelves selling some brands of coffee.
- Lost In The Mayhem (Telegraph, UDDALAK MUKHERJEE, Nov 01, 2004)
The crossing at Bansdroni is heard to have driven a homeguard to nervous breakdown
- Nasty Trends (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 01, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at New Delhi seems to be carrying out some sort of a cleansing operation with reference to the appointees of the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government.
- Measured Progress Is What Can Be Achieved (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 31, 2004)
Speaking to Pakistani journalists at an iftar party hosted by Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed on October 25, General Pervez Musharraf did some “loud thinking” about what he believed was a road map for a settlement of the Kashmir issue.
- The Unfolding Uniform (Telegraph, Ashok Ganguly, Oct 31, 2004)
That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with the fifth anniversary of President Musharraf in army uniform and a pledge to remain in uniform, as the head of state, for another five years, to safeguard the future
- Arabs Hope Bush Goes (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 31, 2004)
Though most Arabs prefer Mr. Kerry to Mr. Bush, many of them expect little change in the U.S. policy towards the region
- Europe For Kerry (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 31, 2004)
Among Eurpeans, it is a resounding 'Yes' for America and 'No' for George W. Bush.
- Moustache, The Main Issue! (Tribune, Vepa Rao, Oct 30, 2004)
Valiant friend,” asked the Chairman of the four-member inquiry commission, “tell us why the late Shri Veerappan, our eminent brigand, trimmed his moustache.” The STF officer looked puzzled — he thought it was rather trivial.
- New Agenda For The Bjp (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 30, 2004)
As a one-time admirer and supporter of L K Advani, I welcome his return to the helm of affairs of the BJP, which he took from near-nothing to ruling the country.
- Sealed With A Kiss (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 30, 2004)
Some three years ago, I took the liberty of greeting the daughter of the then Pakistan high commissioner, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, with a kiss.
- Why India Survives (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Oct 30, 2004)
Ever since India became independent, there have been sceptics who have predicted its imminent demise. Some have claimed that it would soon become a basket-case, marked by mass famines
- An Irreplaceable Leader (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2004)
The sudden deterioration in the health of the Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat, has occurred at a most inopportune moment.
- It’S In Our Hands (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 30, 2004)
The police and the community should work together to prevent communal violence
- Stopping Honour Killing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 29, 2004)
Pakistan's National Assembly has passed a law introducing death as the maximum punishment in extreme cases of so-called honour killings.
- The Road Ahead For Bjp (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 29, 2004)
It is back to basics for the BJP. If losing the Lok Sabha elections was the first major shock, its inability to oust the Congress-NCP regime in Maharashtra has been the last straw on the camel's back for the party ...
- Explaining The ‘Anglosphere’ (Deccan Herald, GLENN REYNOLDS, Oct 29, 2004)
George Bush’s coalition is bound by more than a common bond like the English language
- Gaza First (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 29, 2004)
It takes a great deal of disorientation to think of Mr Ariel Sharon as the harbinger of peace. But his evident determination to start the withdrawal of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip forces the world to do precisely this.
- Disinvestment: Will New Approach Pay Off? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 29, 2004)
The Government's new approach that gradual dilution of government ownership through public offer is preferable to large-scale privatisation means that it will gradually shed small portions
- An Act Of Faith (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 29, 2004)
The decision of the Union cabinet to continue with the Illegal Migrants (Detection by Tribunals) Act, 1983, in Assam, is a half step in the right direction.
- Iran At The Crossroads (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Oct 28, 2004)
The future of Iran may well depend on the success or failure of the efforts of a responsive society to seek a place in the sun while retaining its dignity and identity.
- Assassination Of The Mahatma (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Oct 28, 2004)
The real assassin was not Nathuram Godse, but Hindu communalism of which Savarkar was the most ardent ideologue and practitioner.
- Of Hedgehogs And Foxes (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Oct 27, 2004)
The Sangh Parivar, the BJP and Mr. Advani will soon have to square the proverbial circle.
- Npt Is Of No Use (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Oct 27, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laying the foundation for Proto-type Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam on October 23 is both an act of faith in the Indian scientific community and a challenge to international conventional wisdom.
- The Return Of Birbal (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Oct 27, 2004)
I was in Chandigarh recently. My nephew Abeer who has just stepped into Punjab Engineering College (PEC) asked me a question, “Mamaji, if somebody asks you how many birds are there in Shimla, what will your reply be?” I told him a witty one from ‘Akbar-Bi
- Mountain Rage (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2004)
Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism have been overemphasized as the main factors in all contemporary civil strife. Iraq is the most rec
- Trek To Nagpur (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Oct 26, 2004)
If the Congress ran to the Nehru-Gandhi family in its hour of crisis to seek Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has opted for the tried and tested leadership of Mr L.K. Advani as it seeks a way out of its acute difficulties after the double wham
- China's Transition: From Marx To Deng (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Oct 26, 2004)
October marked the 55th Anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. It coincided with birth centenary of Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's integration with the global economy.
- Get The Party Going (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 26, 2004)
L.K. Advani has taken over the BJP and is threatening to revive its dwindling fortunes. The beaming faces of the leadership — Naidu, Advani and Vajpayee — have been removed from the billboards outside the party headquarters.
- Promise Of Peace (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2004)
Rituals can sometimes capture the real thing. If the self-exiled Naga rebels pray in Nagaland’s churches during the next Christmas, it may well be a turning point in the Naga peace talks.
- Original Manager (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Oct 25, 2004)
The man who gave professional management (and management education) the standing it has enjoyed for so many years died last month at the age of 93.
- Sikh Turban And French Law (Tribune, Subhash C. Jain, Oct 25, 2004)
THE objective of any law has to be the welfare of people. It is not an empty exercise and is meant to fill a gap in law. No law can aim at bringing about only
- Advani In A Dilemma (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Oct 25, 2004)
Perhaps the most difficult question facing the Bharatiya Janata Party is how to take forward the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Hindutva agenda — after all, the BJP is the political arm of the RSS — and yet not annoy its allies in the National Democratic
- Collapse Of The British Constitution (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Oct 25, 2004)
The electorate, not Parliament, not the judiciary, and certainly not the Labour Party, appears to be the only institution that can stop Tony Blair doing anything he wants.
- Social Chemistry And Gender Did The Trick (Hindu, Rajeshwari Deshpande, Oct 24, 2004)
If the victory of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party is somewhat surprising, more surprising is the social chemistry of that victory.
- Let The Saffron Kumbhakarnas Sleep (The Economic Times, RAJIV DESAI, Oct 24, 2004)
What ideology? The BJP is intellectually and morally bankrupt with just one item on its agenda: power.
- `Mild Approval' Wins The Day (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 24, 2004)
Voters were almost equally divided on whether the economic condition of the State under the Sushilkumar Shinde Government had improved or deteriorated
- Man With A Golden Gun (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 23, 2004)
In the latest battle between good and evil, Veerappan was clearly Ravana. And STF chief K. Vijayakumar is — at least for the moment — Rama
- Punjab’S Progress (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Oct 23, 2004)
The spectrum of regional inequalities in India is a very wide one with Punjab and Bihar having per capita incomes of Rs 25, 048 and Rs 5,466 respectively at the opposite ends.
- Smells From The Kitchen (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Oct 23, 2004)
There is so much emphasis on what one should eat or drink in our religious traditions which have neither logic nor any bearing on health.
- Let The Saffron Kumbhakarnas Sleep (The Economic Times, RAJIV DESAI, Oct 23, 2004)
What ideology? The BJP is intellectually and morally bankrupt with just one item on its agenda: power. The Maharashtra result is part of an ongoing process of rejecting the BJP's cynical and amoral quest for power.
- Knave Or Fool? (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 23, 2004)
Sunday’s Stop the War protesters in London, carrying skeletal images of the Grim Reaper, were a reminder that come
- Goddess In The City (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 23, 2004)
In ritual terms, Calcutta’s four days of annual celebration come to an end today. But tomorrow being Sunday, the celebrations might linger on till Sunday evening when most of the images will be immersed.
- Bhakra Dam: An Engineering Monument (Tribune, Narinder Sharma, Oct 22, 2004)
The world-famous concrete monument, Bhakra Dam, is a prized possession of India. It is a reservoir of prizes and surprises. The Bhakra Dam, standing 740 ft from its foundation, is the highest dam in Asia and the second largest in the world.
- The Nine-Day Wonder (Deccan Herald, Padma Ramachandran, Oct 22, 2004)
While the Dussehra festivities are immense, at the end of it all, we wait to start up over next year
- Onions Without Tears (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 22, 2004)
The government’s decision to finally delete onion from the Essential Commodities Act will enable its free trading without any restrictions on the quantity to be stored by a farmer or a trader.
- Learning From History (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 22, 2004)
In 1979, against a backdrop of unceasing strikes, soaring inflation, a million people out of work and economic decline, the British electorate voted out the Labour government of James Callaghan and installed Margaret Thatcher as prime minister.
- Let The Saffron Kumbhakarnas Sleep (The Economic Times, RAJIV DESAI, Oct 22, 2004)
What ideology? The BJP is intellectually and morally bankrupt with just one item on its agenda: power. The Maharashtra result is part of an ongoing process of rejecting the BJP's cynical and amoral quest for power.
- The Iron Man Cometh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 21, 2004)
It speaks for the panic in the Bharatiya Janata Party that it has turned for help to Lal Krishna Advani — the man who, 14 years ago, set the BJP on the belligerent path of Hindutva, thereby rewriting the course both of his party and the country.
- Trench Warfare (Tribune, Girish Bhandari, Oct 21, 2004)
All of us have heard of canals on the Mars. I suspect these were once roads maintained by their municipality. So, when our colony road resembled a Martian landscape, we approached the authorities.
- Tricky Destiny (Deccan Herald, A N SUDARSAN RAO, Oct 21, 2004)
Until now, Fate seems to have decided events in my life, on which I have had little control
- New Leader With New Ideas? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 21, 2004)
Lal Krishna Advani was the man who first said that the BJP must move away from hindutva, to become a party of governance in order to widen its appeal beyond a core base.
- It Is A Close Race (Hindu, Bhargavi Shiva, Oct 21, 2004)
With less than two weeks to election day in America, the Bush-Cheney strategy of creating a fear psychosis seems to have had an impact.
- Fast-Forwarding Indo-Vietnamese Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 21, 2004)
The historic occasion of the golden jubilee of the Nehru-Ho Chi Minh meeting in Hanoi has provided a valuable opportunity for India and Vietnam to review the whole gamut of bilateral relations so that they can be put on a fast track.
- Extraordinary (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 21, 2004)
Death or the Lok Sabha. Such is perhaps the choice of destiny for mythically lawless Indians like Veerappan and Phoolan Devi, although it did not end up being a choice for the latter.
- Damage Control (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 20, 2004)
Whether Mr Advani can work his old magic again remains to be seen
- Maharashtra Elections — War Is Over, Skirmishes Are On (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 20, 2004)
That Indian voters will never cease to spring surprises has been proved yet again, in Maharashtra. In fact, they have shown their ability to spring double surprises.
- Back To Advani (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 20, 2004)
The change in the leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party is nothing but dramatic. The explanation Mr Venkaiah Naidu proffered for quitting the post was just for public consumption.
- The New Hindu Growth Rate! (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 20, 2004)
Ironically, economic prosperity and higher literacy levels seem to lead to mass slaughter of the girl child in India
- Politics Of Gas (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 20, 2004)
Commerce often succeeds where politics fails, especially in these market-driven times. The Tata Group’s decision to invest nearly $2 billion in new projects in Bangladesh could do more to ease relations between Dhaka and New Delhi than politicians and ...
- A Skewed Debate (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 20, 2004)
The Western media cannot pick and choose situations for special "softly, softly" treatment and expect all to toe the line while they themselves show disregard for other people's sensitivities.
- Unshackling Rural Markets - For Authentic Engagement, First (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Oct 20, 2004)
Corporates should think about rural markets more holistically rather than from a pure consumer marketing viewpoint. There is a crucial role also for the government, which must move to authentic ...
- Old Party (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 20, 2004)
Failure seldom makes a virtue of tolerance. Mr M. Venkaiah Naidu has only himself to blame if he did not expect to be sacked by the Bharatiya Janata Party after it lost the Maharashtra polls.
- The Kremlin Consolidates (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Oct 19, 2004)
Vladimir Putin's planned political reforms will strengthen his hold on Russia's restive regions and Parliament.
- Self-Reliance In National Defence (Hindu, C. Manmohan Reddy, Oct 19, 2004)
Building self-sufficiency in critical areas of technology is a matter of long-term national policy.
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