Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 1800 hrs

TOP STORIES
Point of law delays HC
decision on seer's bail 
The Chennai High Court reserved its orders on the Sankaracharya's bail petition. The question that delayed the decision was whether the court could exercise its "special powers" independent of recent Supreme Court guidelines

SEER'S CALL
“Nobody is above the law of our country. Let truth prevail, 
and the guilty be punished”
The Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam has also clarified the mutt's position on charges levelled against the seer, and urged devotees not to despair
 
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Aviation fuel monopoly
on the way out 
The government is planning to end the public sector monopoly over the supply of fuel to aircraft and to bring down the costs of running airline services

KANCHI CASE
More What is India Updates
United protest in New York 
Hindu groups demonstrated on a biting winter day and said the Kanchi seer's detention was part of a larger plan to destroy Hinduism. PRAKASH M SWAMY reports

Appeal from an urban
middle class devotee
Over the last several weeks black clouds have darkened the skies of our country and yet most people have gone about their daily lives without missing a beat. But there's much the middle class can do

Asia Times


Tigers on the brink
The three-year truce between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam seems under threat as never before, with the Tigers' leader making distinctly warlike noises. But a return to arms at this point could prove a grave blunder, says SUDHA RAMACHANDRAN

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India Together
Time to get serious on Kashmir
New Delhi and Islamabad need to agree on concrete steps that could change the situation on the ground in Kashmir. By TERESITA AND HOWARD SCHAFFERS



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Indian Express
Boys do cry 
If soldierly and manly qualities are to be judged by an absence of sensitivity to human conditions in combat zone, it would be a travesty of the values dear to Indian Army. Today’s military leaders must be as humane as they are brave, says V R RAGHAVAN 


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Hindustan Times
Mountain out of a molehill, courtesy Lalu 
As far as Lalu is concerned, there are no limits, no standards, and no right or wrong in politics. All is fair in love and Bihar, writes VIR SANGHVI

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Economic and Political Weekly
A new transnational capitalist class?
The transnational, middle class founders of India's new software firms are more globally integrated and thereby relatively free from the domination of the 'old' Indian economy. This makes them among the most outspoken votaries of globalisation

TOP PICKS

OPINION

Aids: Women at risk (Hindu)
TN politics: Formalising a merger (Hindu)
Right to information (Deccan Herald)
 Sorry end (Deccan Herald)
Kanchi seer case: legal bind (Times of India)