India-Pakistan Peace : Now
or Never?
by Rajinder Puri
Home Minister Chidambaram has
delayed visiting Pakistan to discuss 26/11. The SAARC
summit is postponed. Meanwhile India’s Foreign Secretary
Nirupama Rao had contacted her Pakistani counterpart for
a foreign secretary-level meeting. That meeting later
this month will precede the SAARC summit. It is a good
sign. Substantive issues need to be cleared before
tackling terror. Quite possibly US urging to both
governments behind the curtain has been at work.
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London, Obama and Taliban
by Uddipan Mukherjee
An exit-strategy from
Afghanistan is an imperative for Obama. Karzai has come
up with such a solution at the recently concluded
conference in London. Analysts have argued regarding its
viability. Whatever happens, it appears that the Taliban
would emerge as the ‘real gainer’.
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President Abdullah Gul:
A
Distinguished Visitor from Turkey
by K. Gajendra Singh
 There was this young man, with 1960s Turkish matinee
idol looks, smiling to attract my attention, in that throng of media and
TV cameramen around us. Suddenly the penny dropped. Yes, a few weeks
earlier while I had a few drinks at my First secretary's flat in Ankara,
he sipped lemon water. He was very keen to meet with me. So, I now went
over and shook his hands. That was in 1992.
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Dr. Indira Parthasarathy:
A Titan
In The World Of Modern Tamil Letters
by V. Sundaram
 Dr.
Parthasarathy has been decorated with the title of Padma
Shri by the President of India on the eve of this year’s
Republic Day on 26 January, 2010. As an outstanding
novelist, he has written several novels in TAMIL that
have been translated into several Indian and world
languages. He has carved a special niche for himself in
Tamil literature - his characters, mostly urban
intellectuals, speak very openly and analyze deeply what
others say. Read On
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Chai and
Cha-Cha-Cha
in Changing China
by Rajesh Talwar
After my stay in Hong Kong I
had only a few days of vacation remaining, which I
wished to use to visit mainland China. I had an option
to catch a train to Shenzhen, and then go on ahead
towards Shanghai. Alternatively I could fly to Beijing
and spend my time there. I decided to fly to
Beijing. Shanghai, I was certain would be similar to
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Hunting Adivasis in Mineral
Corridor
by Gladson Dungdung
“Naxalites are our stray
brothers and sisters therefore we will address the
issues of Naxalism through dialogues”. These are
the holy words of Jharkhand Chief Minister Sibu Soren,
who repeatedly told us even after swearing in as the
guard of the state for 3rd time. However, the unbearable
pressure from the central government and the corporate
houses made him completely helpless.
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PM’s Cosmetic Anti-Corruption Code
by Rajinder Puri
The Union Government has
updated its Code of Conduct for all central and state
ministers in its effort to check corruption. All
ministers must annually disclose to the Prime Minister
or to the Chief Minister their “assets and liabilities”
and “business interests” of their own and of their
families by a prescribed date. In the prevailing context
of widespread institutionalized corruption to place hope
on voluntary disclosure as a check against corruption is
laughable. Read On
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The Latest Global
Phenomenon
by Kusum Choppra
 After the Cold War, Cancer, Aids, Osama, one of the
latest global Phenomena floating around, blowing vast
amounts of hot and cold air is Environmentalism. Like
all other earlier Global Phenomena, there is of course
enormous amounts of money to be made from this Cause by
various lobbies.
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Perspectives, Prospectives & Problems
of Teaching
Communication Skills
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Mental Health: Lost In
Translation
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Cervical Cancer Vaccine:
Boon or Bane?
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Indonesia Tries Rehabilitation
to Wipe Out
Extremism
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Is Life Worth Living?
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Touch
● Victoria, Abdul And Shrabani
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Chetan
Bhagat's 2 States |
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Mumbai is for all Indians
then Why Not Kashmir?
by Dr. Subhash Kapila
Kashmir is an integral part of
India like all other princely States ruled by Indian
royalty which acceded to India on the departure of the
British from India. Not only that, there exists a
Special Resolution of Parliament unanimously passed that
the status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir is
non-negotiable. This implies that no Indian Govt can
enter into any negotiations with any entity to discuss
the future of J&K State as a disputed territory. Yet we
find the last two Indian Governments acquiescing to
discuss the future of J&K State with Pakistan under
external pressure.
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Nepal: Light at the End of
the Tunnel
by Col. Rahul K. Bhonsle
2010 has begun on an auspicious
note for Nepal and after a long time there are some
signs of hope in a country wracked by political
instability for many months now. On 07 January the first
batch of more than 200 former child soldiers with the
Maoists' People's Liberation Army were released from the
second division camp in Sindhuli, the discharge process
continued through the month.
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South Pole And Back:
Reena Relives The Thrill
by Yasmin Bajoria
 In
Antarctica, she grimaces, the wind is your worst enemy.
Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu, who has become the first
Indian woman to ski to the South Pole, loses her winsome
cheeriness momentarily as she attempts to describe, back
home in Delhi, the excruciating cold on the frozen
continent. An accomplished mountaineer, with numerous
expeditions to Himalayan peaks, the 38-year-old recalls
her quick realization of the difference between
Antarctic and Himalayan conditions.
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“Historiphobic”
Indians
by J. Ajithkumar
True history has become an
oxymoronic concept desired publicly by all but censored
privately by the rulers. Though everyone wants to know
the real truth about our own history very few show the
extreme courage of wanting to record truthful history as
such in black and white. Nobody and no nation can have
cent percent glowing history and invariably the
undesirable periods get distorted or unrecorded in the
official versions.
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The Three Disciples
by
Pradip Bhattacharya
The Paushya sub-parva in the
Mahabharata is possibly
the most ‘teasing’ portion of the Adi Parva. After the dull
Parvasamgraha, it suddenly sparks our interest and delights with its
poetry, at places teasing us out of thought into eternity. And yet, it
is the only parva that is largely in prose.
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Yudhishthira and Krishna:
Indra & Vishnu on One
Chariot
by Indrajit Bandyopadhyay
According to one myth in
Mahabharata, Yudhishthira is a former Indra incarnate in
the seed of Dharma, according to another he is Dharma’s
son, and yet, according to another, he is Dharma
incarnate! If Yudhishthira is Indra or Dharma-incarnate
or Dharma’s son, why would he need to listen to and
participate in discourses on dharma again and again; and
why is it that Vyasa, Krishna, Pandavas, Draupadi,
Bhisma and others have to lecture Yudhishthira again and
again on dharma?
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Dancing on
Water
by Syeda Hameed
 I
was walking along the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh. Strains of music wafted in the air,
drumbeats resonated like a human heart. I saw the lit up
stage from a distance as I went down the steep stone
steps, picking my way around the women and men who sat
with empty bowls along the edges. When I drew close, I
saw that it was a floating stage - a platform mounted on
two large boats.
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Men
Like Strong Women
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Help! My Child Has Become a Teenager
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The Spiritual Dimension of Parenting
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Wanderings and Musings
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Hysteric about Headache?
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Moksha
in the Hindu Tradition
● The
Lost Hindu Empire of Cambodia
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Rati Leela |
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