BY ATRAY BANAN From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 29, Dated July 24, 2010.
India’s urban women — both rich and poor, by the way — face many problems around their toilet routines, but the dilemma of preserving their dignity is often in the forefront. Read more »
By Sugata Srinivasaraju, as published in the Outlook issue 1 February 2010.
What wish did we as a people make six decades ago when we presented ourselves a string of ideals through the Constitution and what have we become now? If putting together a constitution was about defining ourselves, how honest have we stayed to that formulation and how much have we strayed? Read more »
After India was almost unopposed elected Asian regional representative to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday, foreign minister SM Krishna said in New Delhi the overwhelming support was in recognition of its contribution to some of the major developments in the world. Read more »
BY SRINIVASAN K RANGACHARY
THE Commonwealth Games have taught us a lesson-that we as a people have lost all sense of honour and responsibility? Winston Churchill must be laughing in his grave. The sad thing is that we have no one to provide moral leadership. As a nation we are drifting. Read more »
After years of diplomatic maneuvering, India was elected with a hands-down majority on Tuesday as the Asian regional representative to the 15-member UN Security Council, joining Brazil and South Africa in a bloc of emerging economic powers. Read more »
Utt Goenkara and Nature, Environment, Society and Transformation (NEST) on Saturday staged a dharna at the Captain of Ports jetty in Panaji to protest the government’s policy of promoting casinos and also for its failure to protect the houses of traditional fishermen in the CRZ areas of Goa. Read more »
By BIMAL JALAN
Close to sixty years after Independence, India has indeed become one of the fastest growing economies of the world. Hardly a day passes without somebody saying that India is arriving or has arrived. Even the earlier optimistic forecasts, like the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) study by Goldman Sachs, have been updated by newer discoveries of India’s potential and fresh hopes. Our place in the world economy seems unshakeable and set to grow.
By Holly Tarn
About how European powers and the UN undermine the struggle of Africa’s last non-self governing territory for independence. Throughout the late nineteenth century, European powers divided up Africa and its resources in what is now known as the ‘Scramble For Africa’. Read more »
The high court in Allahabad in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh made an important judgment on 30 September 2010 on the long-running Ayodhya saga, where the ownership of a site sacred to both Hindus and Muslims has been bitterly contested in the courts since the early 1990s. Read more »
The government has advised ministers to sparingly name programmes after national leaders like Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as the implementation of many of these programmes is “not always as ought to be”. Noting that a number of programmes under execution in the country were named after leaders — particularly Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar said in a letter to ministers that “the practice has become widespread and indiscriminate”. Read more »