Opinion

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White monopoly in South Africa

Gwynne Dyer · Dec 2, 2001 · 1 min read

All politics is forgotten and public attention is very much on events in South Africa as Mike Denness, the match referee brings the game into disrepute by blata...

The Land of Dreams

Staff Reporter · Dec 2, 2001 · 1 min read

"I hope they will send us the money soon," said Argentinas economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, in mid-November. Its only $1.3 billion, hardly a drop in the bucke...

Ramadan evening with my Muslim friends

Staff Reporter · Nov 27, 2001 · 1 min read

This is my second visit to share the Ramadan meal (the iftar) with my Muslim friends in Bradford. Yesterday I was in one house of the extended family which has ...

Reject POTO in toto

Dr · Nov 19, 2001 · 1 min read

Nothing has recently caused as much disquiet in Indias political and journalistic communities as the promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance. At s...

Vajpayee on crucial foreign visits

Staff Reporter · Nov 19, 2001 · 1 min read

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee began on November 4, his ten-day crucial visit to three major world capitals--Moscow, Washington and London--and New York. A...

Russias Putin: Playing a bad hand well

Staff Reporter · Nov 18, 2001 · 1 min read

"The Cold War is over," Russian President Vladimir Putin (speaking in German he learned as a KGB officer in Dresden) told the parliament in Berlin in late Septe...

Use crisis to revive Indian Airlines & Air India

Staff Reporter · Nov 13, 2001 · 1 min read

Aviation industry may be in crisis world over, but situation in India is not as hopeless as was feared initially. For instance unlike a fall of 20 per cent in t...

Our population growth shows no signs of abating

Staff Reporter · Nov 13, 2001 · 1 min read

Certain facts just cants be ignored unless one is thick-skinned or a downright idiot. One such actuality that should be worrying us is that of our uncontrolled ...

Religion and Terrorism

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

Islam, Jehad and Terrorism have become ubiquitous these days evoking very strong and diverse reactions among people. The other day I was taken aback by Shahi Im...

Gloomer days ahead with world economy shrinking

Staff Reporter · Nov 9, 2001 · 1 min read

A World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness report for 2001, which covers 75 countries, and also takes into account the shocks of 11 September, shows th...

Who will protect rights of minorities in J&K

Staff Reporter · Nov 3, 2001 · 1 min read

There are many in India, Pakistan and some in the West who are never tired of pleading for protection of human rights of Kashmiris, but one section which is rar...

The RSS juggernaut is moving ahead with amazing speed. The UGC-dictated courses on Vedic astrology, Hindu rituals and spoken Sanskrit display a mind-set that is symptomatic of a tendency to locate the future in the hoary past.

Brij Bhardwaj Will · Oct 5, 2001 · 1 min read

BETWEEN discovering the law of gravity and writing "Principia Mathematica", British Scientist Sir Francis Newton (1642-1727) devoted two decades of his life in ...

Political diary

Poonam · Aug 3, 2001 · 2 min read

By Poonam I. Kaushish Guns Call The Shots Chilling violence mourns the dead Today violence has become the rhetoric of the period. The thought sends a chilling s...

Economic Highlights

Dr Vinod Mehta · Dec 8, 2000 · 1 min read

By Dr Vinod Mehta Disinvestment: Hungarian experience For the past more than five years the Government of India has been trying without success to disinvest in ...

View from the gallery

Brij Bhardwaj · Mar 2, 2000 · 1 min read

By Brij Bhardwaj NDA crosses another milestone The Assembly election results from three States, including important Bihar, Orissa and Haryana, are expected to b...

How to deal with Musharraf's Pakistan

Staff Reporter · Mar 2, 2000 · 1 min read

Several factors have combined to lend an edge of urgency to devising a policy on how to deal with Pakistan under the rule of the military junta headed by Genera...

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