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What is India DAILY ROUND-UP

Monday, 21 February 2005, 1300 hrs

TOP STORIES
UN security council seat for India: Countdown begins
India will become a permanent member of the UN Security Council by January 1 next year if everything goes according to a timetable now being put together at the UN headquarters in New York

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Short of hands, airlines
may hire foreign pilots
With the Indian aviation industry progressively expanding, airline companies are encountering a new problem — shortage of experienced pilots to operate the proposed flights

FEATURE PICKS


Pioneer

A violent dalit stuggle
In a democracy, the people's verdict must have more sanctity than the court of law. Have people become law unto themselves? The dwijas' decline from power structure was smooth and non-violent. But the lower castes' triumph is violent. Who will explain this new phenomenon? By CHANDRABHAN PRASAD

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Outlook
Who Pulled The Trigger...Didn't We All?
Must we in our hypernationalism take a man who has already suffered enough and reduce him to fish bait? Can we—and our media—stop judging S.A.R. Geelani, asks ARUNDHATI ROY


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Asia Times

Asia's answer to the IMF
The new Japanese chief of the Asian Development Bank is back to his old ways, drumming up support for his dream Asian Monetary Fund that will curb the International Monetary Fund's domination in Asia. The timing is great in view of the dollar's free fall and the sick US trade and fiscal accounts, but is unlikely to go anywhere, any time soon. By ALAN BOYD


Th Hindu
Forget Shanghai, remember Mumbai
We need to put aside our obsession with becoming "world class". Let us make our cities liveable for all the people. By KALPANA SHARMA

 EDITORIAL PICKS

Cricket through compromise (Hindu)
A fractious lot (Hindu)
From the barrel of a gun
(Pioneer)
Scramble for Indian air show  (Pioneer)
Destination peace (Tribune)
Taj corridor case (Tribune)



OP-ED

What is India Exclusives

The US, China and India
A partnership with India, by whatever name, could provide America a way to offset the surge in China's geo-political and economic power, 
writes RAM NARAYANAN

(Washington Post) 

Why are they scoffing
 at Hinduism?

Why is Sri Jayendra Saraswati being persecuted? Is it because his disciples don't take out violent marches and destroy public property? USHA KRIS asks President Abdul Kalam why the innocent are being tormented 

PIL against seer: Court's ire
CIA task on Pak anti-terror drive 
Nepal coup shows US hypocrisy
Indian style democracy in Iraq
Death from stampede avoidable

Tsunami: Tad Murthy speaks
India's Look East Policy
NRI donates $10 m for college 
Resurgent violence in J&K
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 
Middle class devotee's appeal
Pillar of Hinduism
Nov 11 turned out like Sept 11
'Nobody is above the law'
'SP has no regard for law'
Temple: Perfect, stately and tall
US leaders oppose F-16 sale

ACADEMIC PAPERS

What is India Exclusives
Journalism education: 
A quality perspective

India brings out 45,000 newspapers, journals and periodicals in 105 languages and dialects. Yet journalism education is neglected. Experts must produce quality learning material and orient training to media needs, write Dr B P MAHESH CHANDRA GURU and MADHURA VEENA M L

Philosophy of 
Bhaja Govindam

Each verse in Shankara's Bhaja Govindam is a shining lamp that shows us the way out of material craving, writes Y S GOWRAMMA

 Hinduism: Universal religion
Hinduism's lofty ideals make it a way of life, not just a speculative philosophy, says Y S GOWRAMMA 


Health education in India
Governments, media, academic institutions and NGOs, have to work in close collaboration to give India an effective health education  system, write
 Dr B P MAHESH CHANDRA GURU, SAPNA M S and
 MADHURA VEENA M L

INSCRIPTIONS

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South Indian Inscriptions 

Original texts from four states, transcribed from a definitive work published by the Archaeological Survey of India

Volume 8
Chola Inscriptions

Volume 10
Telugu Inscriptions
from Andhra Pradesh

Volume 12

Pallava Inscriptions

Volume 14

Pandya Inscriptions

Volume 16
Telugu Inscriptions
of the Vijayanagara Dynasty

Volume 17

Inscriptions Collected
 During 1903-1904

 BUSINESS HEADLINES

India warned of fiscal deficit 
States ignore Centre’s query 
India ‘mostly unfree’

 CORPORATE HEADLINES

Booklet on tax released
Rate revision welcomed
IVRCL bags new orders
Phillips Carbon gets stamp

WORLD HEADLINES

Iran to go ahead with reactor
Hamas promise on ceasefire
Tribute to Allied bomb victims
US monitors Iran arms 

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Southern Asia Collection
 at the University of
Chicago Library
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