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September 2009
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Renewed Threat from China
12 September 2009, by Barun Das GuptaThe violation of the India-China border by the Chinese Army near the 22,000 feet high Mount Gya in Jammu and Kashmir at the trijunction of Ladakh, Spiti and Tibet in late July, painting the rocks there in red and writing “China” on them in (...) -
Writer in the Time of Terror: The ‘Other’ as a Metaphor
12 September 2009, by Mohan K. Tikku“What happens from here on is no longer a question of ideological oppositions, but a struggle for global reality. There are two global realities, resembling in a nonrepresentational way the old programmatic realities of East and West: the (...) -
A National Loss
9 September 2009, by SCTragedy has struck the Congress and the nation once again. Perhaps the best Chief Minister of the country in terms of dynamism, political acumen and administrative efficiency, the Andhra Pradesh CM, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, met with an (...) -
For Aung San Suu Kyi
9 September 2009, by Badri RainaIn Burma resides a dame,
Terra Firma is her name;
They lock her indoors,
But her pitying smile soars,
And the Generals are rendered lame.
Thomas Carlyle, that prophetic voice of the 19th Century, delineated in Heroes And (...) -
Brain Gain?
9 September 2009, by Amiya DevThe Union Ministry of Education is toying with the idea of setting up a few ‘world-class’ national universities, and to that effect a concept note has been circulated. It is titled ‘Brain Gain’, meaning retrieval of the brain that has gone overseas. (...) -
Education Then and Education Now: War against Private Universities in Orissa
9 September 2009, by Sudhakar PandaThe news that hit the headlines when the Orissa Assembly was in session in July last was the resistance of the Opposition to the Education Bill that sought the approval of the House for the opening of the three new private universities, namely, (...) -
Universalisation of Education: India in a Trap
9 September 2009, by A K BiswasThe ordinary meaning of education is knowledge of letters. To teach boys reading, writing and arithmetic is called primary education. A peasant earns his bread honestly. He has ordinary knowledge of the world. He knows fairly well how he should (...) -
Commodities, Comforts and Chaos
9 September 2009, by Arup MaharatnaDespite a high risk of being ridiculed or even frowned upon by others, I just cannot help putting across a distinct scepticism against the incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary (...) -
Kandhamal: What Next?
9 September 2009, by K.P. FabianI visited Kandhamal for three days starting from June 20, 2009. Apart from NGOs, the Superintendent of Police, the leaders of the Church (Catholic and non-Catholic), I also met with inmates of eight camps.
To start with, it is important to (...) -
South Block: Time for Reorientation
9 September 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyWhatever explanation may be trotted out by the External Affairs Ministry, there is no escape from the fact that the country has suffered a humiliating defeat in the race for a non-permanent member seat in the UN Security Council.
There (...)