TOP STORIES PM in London essaying
'mutual comprehension' Dr Manmohan Singh said he would push for peace and a UN Security Council seat during his nine-day visit to the UK and the USA
Indian Express Hurricane Hawk Love him, hate him, Kashmir peace efforts cannot now ignore Syed Ali Shah Geelani. MUZAMIL JALEEL is witness to the rebirth of the Valley’s angry, very angry old man
Deccan Herald Bridging the digital divide
Technology has become the key to sustainable development, social transformation and economic power, says U R RAO
India Together The life and times of Bharat Mata
The image of the dispossessed motherland found form in Kiran Chandra Bandyopadhyay's 1873 play, Bharat Mata, that influentially entered into early nationalist memory. But very soon the terms of engagement and iconographic vocabulary shifted to the form of the goddess. SADAN JHA traces the emergence of nationalism as invented history
Tribune Acid violence in Bangladesh
Aminul Islam's benignly entitled documentary Facing the Future (Bangladesh) is a brave little film that shows - sometimes a shade too insistently, even voyeuristically - horrifying shots of a phenomenon on the rise in Bangladesh: acid attacks on young women. In India, brides are burnt for dowry. In Bangladesh, they are mutilated beyond repair for a variety of reasons, writes LATIKA PADGAONKAR
Asia Times Textile upheaval: Buyers still
call the shots Low-cost-labor countries such as China and India are generally expected to take the global textile and garments business by storm once a quota system of preferential market access is lifted at the end of the year. But big buyers such as the US and the EU will still call the shots as they have been granted several concessions. China and India can win, but only if they want them to,writes ALAN BOYD
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
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