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Organised intolerance
Two years after the post-Godhra pogrom, Gujarat continues to be a communally polarised State, thanks to the systematic work done by Hindutva ...
Saffronising the tribal heartland
The Sangh Parivar's strategy to establish Hindutva in the tribal belt across central India is apparently succeeding, and the political ...
Polarised State
The seeds of hatred have been sowed deeply in Maharashtra and even the non-Hindutva governments have done little to check the fundamentalist ...
The spread in the South
Hindutva has percolated to the nooks and corners of South India, and the routes taken have often been socio-cultural and educational rather ...
In the valley of fear
JULIA RIOS is a petite brunette. Born in Brazil, she qualified as a microbiologist and it was in Rio de Janeiro, near her parents' home, that ...
The Spanish silence
IN 1997, a singularly brutal murder shocked Spanish society. Ana Orantes, a 60-year-old woman who had been beaten by her husband throughout ...
WITHIN FOUR WALLS
Domestic violence is widespread in Europe and cuts across barriers of wealth, educational levels and social status; it is not just a bane of ...
Delay, flawed strategy
In Maharashtra, at the core of the problem of recurring drought is the decreasing expenditure on water management, mismanagement of funds, and ...
Beneath the gloss
IT could be a sprawling suburban home on the outskirts of Paris with children's swings and a slide in the back garden. There is no sign outside ...
Terror on Muharram day
The Muharram day bomb attacks in Iraq, which seem to have been carried out with the intention of sparking a Shia-Sunni war, have only deepened ...
To the market this March
The government's decision to divest public sector equity before the end of the financial year has put it at the mercy of large investors, ...
Karnataka's woes
in Bangalore THE three-year drought that Karnataka has been facing, brought on primarily by the ...
A man of distinction
H.Y. SHARADA PRASAD will be 80 on April 15, 2004. He is a national treasure - serene, self-aware, sensitive, scholarly, supremely wise, ...
Cartels at work
The inability of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to prevent mobile phone operators from raising prices in unison has reinforced fears ...
The flip side of privatisation
Recent experiences prove that privatisation is not always the panacea for the ills of the public service system and that public institutions do ...
DROUGHT AND DESPAIR
Tamil Nadu reels under a third successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares ...
Chennai's thirst
MENTION Chennai and the first thing people want to know about is the availability of water, besides the heat of course. This summer the ...
Fees and fears
IN an order seen widely as vindicating Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Murli Manohar Joshi's decision to slash the fees charged ...
Model code and actual conduct
DEPUTY Prime Minister L.K. Advani appears to have made a virtue of the compulsion to observe the Model Code of Conduct during elections, by ...
Advani's yatra and others' fears
There is a case for the Election Commission to verify independently the genuineness of the Opposition's fears that Advani's rath yatra may ...
Hijacking a festival
in Kumbakonam THE Mahamaham in the temple town of Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu took on a saffron hue this ...
Hindutva, not Hinduism
Although Advani tries to increase the level of his acceptability as a national leader by defining Hindutva as a way of life, the difference ...
Non-resident nationalism
Members of Hindu nationalist organisations in the United States often subdue their political rhetoric, and concentrate on issues of cultural ...
Moral police at work
The Bajrang Dal targets an organisation dedicated to the conservation and promotion of folk art and culture in Rajasthan for using posters that ...
IN THE NAME OF NATIONALISM
The rise of Hindutva was neither sudden nor spontaneous. It owes much to the slow transformation in social consciousness as a result of ...
Cartels at work
The inability of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to prevent mobile phone operators from raising prices in unison has reinforced fears ...
DROUGHT AND DESPAIR
Tamil Nadu reels under a third successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares ...
Chennai's thirst
MENTION Chennai and the first thing people want to know about is the availability of water, besides the heat of course. This summer the ...
Fees and fears
IN an order seen widely as vindicating Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Murli Manohar Joshi's decision to slash the fees charged ...
Model code and actual conduct
DEPUTY Prime Minister L.K. Advani appears to have made a virtue of the compulsion to observe the Model Code of Conduct during elections, by ...
Advani's yatra and others' fears
There is a case for the Election Commission to verify independently the genuineness of the Opposition's fears that Advani's rath yatra may ...
Warning bells
The U.R. Rao Committee, which has reviewed the performance of the All India Council for Technical Education, draws attention to the ...
The AICTE accreditation
ACCREDITATION by the AICTE is a process carried out through the autonomous statutory body called the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) ...
Now, the countdown
Polling will be held in four phases in this round of general elections, which will for the first time see electronic voting machines being used ...
'Research on to ensure graft survival'
Interview with Dr Hiroshi Toma and Dr. Kazunari Tanabe. Dr. Hiroshi Toma, Director of the Tokyo Women's Medical University, and Dr.
Haitian tragedy and imperial farce
The latest intervention by the United States in Haiti brings to the fore a centuries-old confrontation: between the imperial savagery of the ...
Romantics and the real world
The word `Romantic' has some very contemporary resonances, not just in music but in attitudes to life. In its true sense, it is idealistic, ...
The BJP's second mascot
L.K. Advani's Bharat Uday Yatra is an attempt to legitimise him as Vajpayee's `natural' successor and mobilise RSS support for the BJP's ...
Church versus Church
A RECENT high-profile visit by a cardinal from Rome, as a papal emissary, brought to Moscow a taste of centuries-old Church battles and ...
Remembering Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam celebrates the 50th anniversary of its victory over France in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, a victory that provided tremendous impetus ...
In God We Trust
Evangelism and American politics. IN October 2003, the United States news media reported that the new Deputy Undersecretary of Defence ...
A surprise from Putin
President Vladimir Putin effects a complete change of government on the eve of the presidential election in a move that has rekindled voter ...
A massacre in Quetta
The violence in the Baluchistan capital on Muharram day highlights the deep-rooted nature of the sectarian strife in Pakistan and points to the ...
A setback for reformists
More than the triumph of the conservatives, which was not unexpected, the voter turnout disappoints the Iranian reformists, who had given a ...
Consensus on dialogue
The second round of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear programme ends in Beijing on a positive note, with the parties involved ...
Is India shining?
The Cover Story ("Is India shining?" March 12) was virtually a review of the performance of the Indian economy during the post-liberalisation ...
Hindutva and history
Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History by Romila Thapar; Viking; pages 260, Rs.375. IN 1989 when Lal Krishna Advani, as the Bharatiya ...
Raj constructs of women
Woman and Empire: Representations in the Writings of British India (1858-1900) (New Perspectives in South Asian History) by Indrani Sen; Orient ...
Unipolar, bipolar and multipolar
JACQUES "CHIRAC had stopped using the expression `multipolar world'," Elaine Sciolino of The New York Times wrote from Paris, reporting that ...