The Indian Analyst, All the news and views you need on India, Friday, January 28, 2005

Friday, 28 January 2005, 2000 hrs

TOP STORIES
Kanchi mutt no place of worship, says prosecution
The Madras High Court granted bail to three of the six accused in the Radhakrishnan assault case, in which the Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi has already obtained bail. In a petition, the government said the Kanchi mutt was no place of worship but just a place where the accused stay

Centre announces new
investment initiative
Without ruffling feathers, the Congress-led UPA Government on Thursday unveiled its new disinvestment policy. It also announced a national investment fund with money drawn from the sale of profitable public sector units

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Learning from the Pacific Rim
tsunami alert model
Tad Murty, internationally-renowned oceanographer and tsunami expert, is keen on setting up a warning system in India. He explains its dimensions to PRAKASH M SWAMY

ANALYSIS
India's Look East Policy
Perspectives from the political,
economic and military lenses

Post-Cold War, India has an improved interest in South East Asia. It is competing against a formidable rival, China, on many fronts. ERIC KOO PENG KUAN analyses what factors make the Look East Policy important to India, the response of South East Asia towards India�s new economic engagement, and what advantages India can gain over China in competing for the attention of South East Asia in economic co-operation

REPORT
NRI donates $10 million
to build college in AP
Paila Malla Reddy had to contend with vested interests before his free college could take shape. For children of illiterate farm workers, college education is now a dream within reach, reports PRAKASH M SWAMY

EDITORIALS
Resurgent violence in Jammu and Kashmir
What does it mean to be a Hindu in India?
Indian Elections: Verdict 2004
Meritocracy in the private sector
War on the people
United protest in New York
Appeal from an urban middle class devotee
Pillar of Hinduism
Nov 11 turned out like Sept 11
'Nobody is above the law of our country'
'S P has no regard for law or truth'

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HERITAGE
Perfect, stately and tall
If a temple were ever built to make a statement, this is it. USHA KRIS describes the grandeur of the Rajarajeswaram temple
in Tamil Nadu

NEWS UPDATE
Congressional leaders oppose
F-16 sale to Pakistan
Two prominent US Congressional leaders are running a campaign to drive home that a sale can squander opportunities to strengthen strategic US-India ties

FEATURE PICKS

Asia Times
India's US-Pakistan suspicions deepen
India, which for years has agonized over the real nature of relations between Pakistan and the US, is again eyeing the pair with suspicion in the wake of two new revelations: that Washington has a "contingency plan" to keep Pakistan's nukes away from fundamentalists and that Pakistan is helping the US conduct reconnaissance missions in Iran. By SULTAN SHAHIN

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Pioneer

In Bihar's casteist Disneyland
The Justice (Retd) UC Banerjee Committee report, to Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav's grave disappointment, has failed to "fire" the imagination of Bihar's Muslim electorate. BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley has already punctured its every pretension of merit. It is ironical, though not uncommon, that a former judge should play into the hands of politicians to produce a "politically correct" travesty of truth, rues BALBIR PUNJ

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Times of India
A Singh for all seasons
For more than twenty years, Vijay Singh, a journalist, author and film-maker based in Paris, has moulded French perceptions about India through articles in leading left-wing newspapers, a clutch of novels, one documentary and two feature films. By DILEEP PADGAONKAR

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