India Together Manufacturing
beauties
The Miss India pageant has emerged as a site for the creation
of a new kind of woman in post-liberalization India. Under the guidance of
leaders of
Indian fashion,
Miss India contestants learn how to construct gendered identities.
SUSAN RUNKLE
notes India's integration into the global beauty industry|
Deccan Herald Politics
of the moving horse
The various yatras that the BJP leaders have taken out across the country in
the past — from L K Advani’s rath yatra to Uma Bharti’s tiranga yatra
— have been seen as attempts at mobilisation of popular sentiment for
immediate political returns. While this is true, the BJP’s compulsive return
to the use of the yatra as a political symbol has not been adequately studied,
says AVS NAMBOODIRI
Asia Times Why
Amjad Farooqi had to die
Some people in the Pakistani military-intelligence-police establishment did
not want terror suspect Amjad Farooqi to be captured alive. B RAMAN traces
events surrounding the emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the murder of
Daniel Pearl and the assassination attempts on President General Pervez
Musharraf to find out why
Hindustan Times To
get a slice, give a slice
Judging by the outcome, it appears that the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh to New York had much more than ritual significance, writes MANOJ JOSHI
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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