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Articles 24921 through 25020 of 26855:
- Endangered Daughters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 10, 2004)
Punjab is arguably the most prosperous state of India and yet it continues to bear the cross of having the most skewed male-female sex ratio. The state has only 897 women for every 1000 men.
- Farmers' Distress: Causes & Cures (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Sep 10, 2004)
Education, social mobilisation and regulation are necessary to arrest the expansion of the agrarian crisis.
- Fifty Years Of Ray’S Cinema (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Sep 10, 2004)
I am exactly the same age as Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali”. In these 50 years, I have got to see most of his movies. “Pather Panchali” must have been viewed half a dozen times.
- Indescribable Barbarity (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 10, 2004)
The world has lived with terrorism for many years now, and has seen the many forms of brutality it takes.
- More Important That A Proposition Be Interesting Than True (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 10, 2004)
Now that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation is thinking about investing in equities, people may be too worried about the safety of their PF monies to think of any hike in interest rates. In the end, we may come
- With Love From A Pathan (Tribune, Shubhadeep Choudhury, Sep 10, 2004)
THOUGH I am Hindu by religion, ethnically I am a Pathan,” the gentleman told me with a touch of pride in his voice. He was tall but rather on the thinner side. We were both waiting for someone in an office room.
- Beslan: Lessons For India (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan located in Russia's Caucasian Region, bordering Georgia.
- Historic Blunder (Pioneer, Ram Gopal, Sep 09, 2004)
Ms Sandhya Jain in her article, "UPA's jazia through backdoor" (Opinion, August 24), laments: "A rag-tag anti-Hindu coalition is playing with the dharma and cultural sensitivity of the people, even as a pusillanimous BJP
- Engaging Pakistan (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 09, 2004)
It would be unwise for New Delhi to assume, in the wake of the successful first round of talks with Pakistan, that it can delay or avoid engaging Islamabad on Kashmir.
- Anguish Of A Faithful Muslim (Deccan Herald, NASSRINE AZIMI, Sep 09, 2004)
Where do Muslims turn when so many atrocities are committed under the banner of their faith?
- Surrender Is Not An Option (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2004)
No terrorist attack in recent times has evoked greater horror, condemnation and revulsion than the attack in the small town of Beslan, located in Russia’s Caucasian region, bordering Georgia. Over one thousand schoolchildren and their parents were held
- Punjab’S First Freedom Fighter (Tribune, Madan Gopal, Sep 09, 2004)
After half a century of Independence, it is worth remembering those who set out on the road to freedom. Mrs Annie Besant in her book “How India Wrought for Freedom” has given us some facts which are not often mentioned in history books.
- Nonsense And Census (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2004)
IT is unfortunate that a responsible government organisation should goof on vital information. On Monday, the Registrar- General and Census Commissioner released a Press note which said the Muslims had registered a higher growth rate than the Hindus.
- Australia Says Not Intimidated By Jakarta Blast (Suedostasienportal, Reuters, Sep 09, 2004)
Australia would not be intimidated by a powerful car bomb that killed at least eight people outside its Jakarta embassy on Thursday, Prime Minister John Howard said.
- Avoidable Growth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2004)
The utility of religion-based census aside, the figures of “growth” and “decline” of religions as contained in the latest census report confirm certain postulates.
- Akali Dal Not Communal (Tribune, Manpreet Singh Badal, Sep 08, 2004)
Kuldip Nayar's recent indictment of the Akali Dal in these columns has hurt me. The Akali Dal is not a communal party. It has always had Hindus, Muslims and Christians as its members.
- Belated Visit (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2004)
Notwithstanding Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s description of his visit to strife-torn Manipur as “helpful, enlightening and encouraging”, it is doubtful whether it has achieved any significant purpose.
- Useful Pointers (Business Line, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2004)
Census on religious communities should not be used by parties to stoke divisiveness
- Bjp’S Nationalism (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Sep 08, 2004)
A brief quiz may help understand better the Bharatiya Janata Party’s idea of “nationalism”, its newest mascot. Your timer starts now. “It is ideology alone, which sparks enthusiasm in party workers and reinforces their commitments to idealism.
- Useful Pointers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2004)
Census on religious communities should not be used by parties to stoke divisiveness
- Tread With Caution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2004)
THE India-Pakistan composite dialogue process is moving slowly but surely and on positive lines. This is clear from the ministerial-level talks held in New Delhi. On the whole, the discussions were constructive.
- Terror In Beslan — Not Justified By Any Cause (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 08, 2004)
Fanaticism and fundamentalism have their limits, when these are crossed, as they were with horrific and tragic consequences in Beslan, people who rebel for a cause not only make themselves and their cause a grotesque comedy, they paint an entire community
- Glitzy Ghaggar (Tribune, Anurag, Sep 07, 2004)
The havoc wrought by the swollen waters of the Ghaggar river was disproportionate to its inconsequential size and shape most months of the year. Riding on the crest of torrential rains and relying on clogged troughs, any water body would run revengeful br
- Art Of Alliance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2004)
Few would dispute Atal Bihari Vajpayee's adroit navigation of the multi-party coalition spearheaded by the Bharatiya Janata Party over six years in office
- Rss And Realpolitik (Hindu, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Sep 07, 2004)
It is too early to predict whether the recent controversies over Arjun Singh's statement, the Savarkar row, and Uma Bharti's arrest will prove beneficial to the RSS.
- Beyond Drama (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2004)
The decision of India and Pakistan to continue with the ceasefire between them will invite widespread relief. The external affairs minister, Mr K. Natwar Singh, and his counterpart, Mr Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri, have also agreed to a
- Look West, Pm! (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Sep 07, 2004)
The day Manmohan Singh was chosen to be the PM, he met journalists. On September 4 he did it again — as soon as he had got over the Parliament session.
- Quota For Dalits In Private Sector (Tribune, Udit Raj, Sep 07, 2004)
The reservation in the private sector is the talk of the town. There are people who are in favour and against it. The Maharashtra government has got a Bill passed paving the way for the reservation in the private sector for the Dalits and the backward cla
- The Republicans' True Colour (Hindu, Gary Younge, Sep 07, 2004)
In 2000, the Republicans paraded their diversity. But now the party is showing its true colour -- white.
- Working With The Kid Gloves On (Telegraph, Jyoti Punwani, Sep 07, 2004)
Thanks to the Congress’s half-hearted secularism, the Hindu right is back with a bang
- The Truth, And Nothing Else (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2004)
The appointment of a high-level committee headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court to probe the Godhra carnage will be welcomed by all those who want to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about how coach S-6 of the Sabarmati
- Terror Strikes In Russia (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 06, 2004)
The immediate goal of the Beslan raid was to spread violence beyond Chechnya and set Russia's entire North Caucasus on fire.
- In Search Of A Real Cop! (Tribune, S. Zahur H. Zaidi, Sep 06, 2004)
WHEN I was a little boy growing up in a small North Indian town, I did not know any cops. There were none in my family. My father, my uncles, and all other men in our family were farmers or academicians.
- Beslan Lessons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2004)
The three-day school hostage drama in Russia came to a heart-rending end on Friday. More than 330 people died — half of them children. At least 700 others were maimed or injured when violence erupted at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia,
- Focus On The Peace Pipeline (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 06, 2004)
Energy pipelines constitute win-win geo-economics for both India and Pakistan.
- Hardening Postures (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 06, 2004)
A road, the prime minister Manmohan Singh is fond of quoting, is made by walking step by step. However, it is unlikely that India and Pakistan will take any major step forward
- Headed For An Impasse? (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Sep 06, 2004)
New Delhi should leave Mr Kasuri with no doubt that the whole of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India
- Fighting Shadows (Telegraph, RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE, Sep 05, 2004)
In an unforgettable poem, the almost-forgotten genius, Sukumar Ray, spoke of the exploits of Jagai who single-handedly fought the assault of seven Germans.
- Show On Changing Concept Of Marriage (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Sep 05, 2004)
INDIA Habitat Centre's Visual Arts Gallery has a week-long exhibition titled 'Marriage, marriage, marriage' It will remain open till September 8. The exhibition covers response entries received for the Sixth All-India Unnati competition on the theme
- Back To The Message (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 05, 2004)
It is entirely appropriate that a Muslim, a Hindu and a Sikh — namely Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Mr Manmohan Singh — visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the 400th anniversary of the
- He Has No Craze For The Kursi (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 05, 2004)
A.K. Antony is a rare leader in the weird world of politics. He personifies idealism and probity in public life. But he has to pay a heavy price for his virtues and step down as the Chief Minister of Kerala...
- International Crackdown Deals Blow To Indian Rebels (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2004)
Indian commanders say they're close to wiping out long-smoldering insurgencies with Bhutan's help.
- Invalidity In Focus (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Sep 04, 2004)
Income-tax law has a provision dealing with invalid returns (Section 139(9)), and this was tested before the Mumbai High Court in the Flotech Welding and Cutting Systems Ltd vs Chandersingh case.
- Hate Breeds Hate And Troublemakers (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 04, 2004)
On an average I read two to three books every week. Some I write about in these columns. Some I persuade my friends to read. Others I give away to the kabariwala.
- Game, Set, Match (Tribune, Anjali Majumdar, Sep 04, 2004)
MY stepfather, Kunwar Mahindar Singh, would have liked that: being taken through an archway of tennis racquets held aloft by friends and family bidding him farewell on his last journey.
- The Benefits Of Doubt (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Sep 04, 2004)
Most scriptural writings warn us against the pitfalls of dual thinking (dubhida) or doubt. All religions claim to hold the monopoly over knowledge and denounce doubters as renegades. It is ironic that every religion began by doubting the veracity of ...
- Putin Had To Choose Between Two Evils (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 04, 2004)
The two-day hostage drama in a children-packed school in North Ossetia came to a bloody end on Friday when Russian commandos stormed the building two days after it was seized by Chechen gunmen.
- Crucial Afghan Presidential Poll (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 03, 2004)
The Afghan Presidential elections are fixed for October 9, 2004. It was earlier postponed twice and it is hoped that this time the security situation in the country would not be so badly disruptive as to call for yet another postponement.
- Criminal Rage (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2004)
Killers have no religion, no matter what faith they claim to profess. The Iraqi hostage-takers, who killed 12 innocent Nepalis, were dastardly criminals who would be a blot on any religious faith or civilized society.
- Children As Hostages (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2004)
The Chechen separatists who took 400 people, including 200 schoolchildren, as hostages on Wednesday in Beslan town in the volatile republic of North Ossetia might have succeeded in re-focusing the world attention on the crisis in Russia's rebel state ...
- Befitting Package (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2004)
The occasion was grand and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a package to match. The 400th Parkash Utsav of Sri Guru Granth Sahib saw the first Sikh Prime Minister of the country in an expansive mood, who went out of his way to fulfil the wishes and
- Russia Gains Global Support (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 03, 2004)
Moscow has welcomed the strong show of support that the United Nations Security Council demonstrated over the recent spate of terrorist attacks in Russia that have killed over 100 people.
- Would President Chirac Refuse To Meet Dr Manmohan Singh? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement, on Wednesday, that he was "hopeful of a positive outcome" for turban-wearing Sikhs in France is welcome.
- Vibrant Religion (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 03, 2004)
Sikhism has always preached the values of love, equality and fight against injustice
- Should Death Penalty Die? (Tribune, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 03, 2004)
Dhananjoy Chatterjee died on the gallows leaving behind one worthwhile bequest — an intense debate whether it was not time India too joined the majority of the countries of the world in abolishing capital punishment. Dhananjoy’s case opened the widest ...
- When Neighbours Meet (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 03, 2004)
The coming meeting of the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan is unlikely to produce the big steps needed to take the dialogue process forward.
- Freedom At Last (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2004)
THE families of Antaryami, Tilak Raj and Sukdev Singh will heave a sigh of relief as the news of their loved ones' release from their Iraqi captors sinks in.
- Spiritual Quotient (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 02, 2004)
At a conclave organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on human resource development, the Vice-Chairman of Volvo India and former CMD of ABB, Mr K. N. Shenoy, is reported
- Russia's Women Suicide Bombers (Hindu, Nick Patron Walsh, Sep 02, 2004)
According to Russian officials, the use of Chechen suicide bombers is proof that foreign Islamic extremists have infested the separatist movement.
- President’S Gesture (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2004)
THE President of the country bringing the hands of Capt Amarinder Singh and Mr Parkash Singh Badal together was more than an unusual photo-opportunity.
- Lessons From A Close Call (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2004)
The release of the seven persons, including three Indians, taken hostage by an extremist organisation claiming to be part of the Iraqi resistance will be greeted with great relief.
- Unwriting History (Telegraph, Sumit Mitra, Sep 01, 2004)
Arjun Singh may be looking for a vaccine to detoxify education, but the infection is already too widespread
- Portents Of Civil War (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 01, 2004)
As Khaleda Zia cosies up to fundamentalists, secular nationalism is the target in the turbulent politics of Bangladesh
- Present Continuous (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Sep 01, 2004)
A bold and challenging voice has emerged in the past few years: that of a section of the Dalit intelligentsia, most well-known among whom is Chandra Bhan Prasad.
- Rooting Out Jehadi Terrorism — A New Look For Us Intelligence? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 01, 2004)
The bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission, recently submitted its report to the US President, Mr George W. Bush.
- The Need For A Clear, Strong Voice (Tribune, Harish Dhillon, Sep 01, 2004)
LAST month I went to a golden wedding anniversary celebration. It was a wonderful function. The kirtan was so beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes and the Gianiji preached a wonderful sermon.
- The New Colombo Spirit (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Sep 01, 2004)
Seventeen years ago around this time of the year Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi landed at Colombo airport by an Indian Air Force plane in the thick of the Sri Lankan crisis. He was not taken to the city in a cavalcade by road. Instead, he landed at Colombo's
- How To Sell Culture (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Sep 01, 2004)
The Olympic Games are over, and many in India feel that this large and wonderful country has much to do and miles to go. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is going to be a grand affair — the Chinese are very good at showcasing their culture and giving it a
- 400 Years Of A Holy Book (Deccan Herald, NARANDAR SINGH, Sep 01, 2004)
Exactly 400 years ago the Guru Granth Saheb was installed in the Golden Temple. Here is its history
- Threat To Historic Sites (Hindu, Zainab Bahrani, Sep 01, 2004)
Coalition forces are doing little to prevent the widespread looting and destruction of Iraq's world-famous historical sites.
- Canada’S Punjabi Press Lacks Talent (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Sep 01, 2004)
BY its sheer size, it overwhelms. There are 14 broadsheet-Punjabi weeklies, one daily and several monthlies besides some web editions in Greater Toronto alone.
- Guru Granth Sahib’S Message Is For All (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 01, 2004)
LIKE Muslims and Christians, Sikhs are “ahle kitab”. Theirs is Guru Granth Sahib which celebrates its 400th anniversary on September 1. Unfortunately, the Shiromani Akali Dal, the organiser, does not have good credentials.
- Unproductive Confrontations (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Aug 30, 2004)
Politics in India is on the simmer again but not over substantive issues of governance. The polity is getting unnecessarily confrontational, with no one sure of how the system would get out of this unproductive face-off
- The Empire Talks Back (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma, Aug 30, 2004)
Using the white man’s language and idiom, Arundhati Roy takes the United States of America by storm
- Stop Work (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2004)
Irony is the chosen mode of history, even when it decides to move in cycles. It is possible, again, to reiterate the old saying, what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow — but not without irony. Bandhs and rallies now appear to be ...
- Neglect Of Alternative Medicine (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Aug 30, 2004)
The only Government Ayurvedic College in Punjab is situated a stone’s throw from the residence of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh in Patiala. The Chief Minister visits it to cast his vote.
- Peace At A Crossroads (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 29, 2004)
The mileage counters of the Jammu and Kashmir peace process seem to have been reset to zero. Dialogue between the secessionists and the Government seems stalled, a consequence of both sides being unwilling or unable to make major unilateral concessions.
- Jihadi Groups: Alive And Killing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2004)
Indian authorities have pointed to a renewed offensive of cross-border infiltration and argued that this would not be possible without official Pakistani patronage.
- When Kashmiris’ Faith Extends Explicitly To The Supernatural (Tribune, David Devadas, Aug 29, 2004)
A few weeks ago, a Kashmiri friend took me to a shop off the high profile Residency Road in Srinagar. It was a curio shop that sold artifacts as well as jewellery. A grey-haired gentleman in an old fashioned suit sat at the far end of the shop and my ...
- They Wanted To Create Another August 15 (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Aug 29, 2004)
Twenty-nine years after Sheikh Mujib’s assassination, his daughter survived the seventh attempt on her life.
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