The Indian Analyst, All the news and views you need on India, Saturday, March 12, 2005

Saturday, 12 March 2005, 1300 hrs

TOP STORIES
Tsunami memories return:
sea threatening again
Water rushed into coastal Tamil Nadu villages on Friday and breached a wall, bring back fears of death and destruction

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
International call rates
to fall by 70 per cent
International telephone call rates and Internet and broadband tariffs may come down further as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today slashed international bandwidth prices by 70 per cent

FEATURE PICKS

Indian Express
The stillness at PM House
A fundamental question: why didn�t Prime Minister Manmohan Singh publicly condemn the attempted coup in Ranchi after the news broke? Manmohan Singh seems curiously absent when key decisions are made, says T.V.R. SHENOY

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Tribune
Left�s unkind cut
The Communist parties in India cannot be accused of inconsistency. They have a track record of advocating foreign and national security policies designed to make India a surrogate or protectorate of one or another external power. Throughout the years of the Cold War, the CPI took its directions from Moscow and wanted India to follow a policy of strident criticism of the US and the western world. By G PARTHASARATHY

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India Together
But don't be a zero
The world moves to the tunes of two kinds of men: the great kind and the evil kind. The rest of us are somewhere in between. But what heros and Neros both get us zeros to do is ask questions, says DILIP D'SOUZA

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Economist
The tiger in front
India can learn much from China's breakneck economic expansion. But it has valuable lessons for China, too, argues SIMON LONG

EDITORIAL PICKS

Boss is not for beating (Tribune)
Afghanistan: Governor Habiba (Tribune)
Use president's rule (Tribune)
Two worlds (Tribune)

OP-ED

What is India Exclusives

Special for Shivaratri
Perceptions of Shiva
in ancient India
Ancient Indian literature and iconography represent Shiva both as a malevolent and a benevolent god. Shiva is both giver and destroyer, explains ROHITHA EASWER

Time to stare
USHA KRIS introduces young readers to the joys of star gazing

The logic in having an N-missile
Pakistan has just test-fired another nuclear missile.
An analysis by
ERIC KOO PENG KUAN

Coorg for coffee?
USHA KRIS visits an estate-turned-resort, and is charmed by the sights and sounds of Karnataka's coffee district

Bihar a major pollution zone
The US, China and India
Why the scoffing at Hinduism?
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

Training for careers
in journalism
India needs a national council of professionals to study the problems and prospects of media training, say Dr B P MAHESH CHANDRA GURU
and M S SAPNA

Media intervention in dairy development in Karnataka
Rural broadcasting is critical for dairy development. District radio stations and low power TV centres can play a significant role in encouraging proper dairying practices, write Dr B P MAHESH CHANDRA GURU
and E NARAYANAPPA

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
Hinduism: Universal religion
Health education in India

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

Interesting links

Southern Asia Collection
at the University of
Chicago Library
Photographs, digital resources, exhibitions, bibliographies, links

US-India Friendship
Online resource for friends
of India