2014年8月18日 星期一

2014-08-19 India Spotlight

  The Hindu   
The backdoor engagement  The Hindu
I am currently reading a manuscript by an Indian academic which reads like a fairy tale of Hindu-Muslim relations, except that it is not a fairy tale but an important — albeit forgotten — slice of Indian history. It is the story of how Hindu and Muslim nationalists ...


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Be a Hero  IBNLive (blog)
So much is always written about women and for women. Comments, advices, reactions, solutions. Today, I feel like addressing all the men I know, I've met or may meet... I wish to share with you a list of do's and don'ts. It's my personal universal list.

   


Why maths matters  Business Standard
Artur Avila, a Brazilian based in France; Martin Hairer, an Austrian based in Great Britain; Manjul Bhargava, a Canadian and Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian, both based in the US. The four mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal last week could be cited by ...


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  The Hindu   
At least a Vajpayee, if not a Nehru  The Hindu
The Prime Minister's maiden Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Red Fort has drawn wide encomiums. While invoking our founding fathers, he was decidedly partisan in not mentioning Jawaharlal Nehru, a key architect of the modern Indian ...


   


Dear Mr Modi: Doing good doesn't always require doing  IBNLive (blog)
Those carefully chosen words yesterday, repetitive at times but emotional and patriotic to a fault, did not come from a faker. Narendra Modi really wants to do good to India. If there's one Prime Minister who takes his job seriously and has the ability to convince ...


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Why some states fare better  Deccan Chronicle
Exactly 30 years ago, soon after I returned from Harvard, I undertook a long journey through Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh to understand what the situation there was and why? This was “The Children of the Ganga: An Enquiry into the Poverty of the ...


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  The Hindu   
A fatally flawed commission  The Hindu
Both Houses of Parliament almost unanimously passed, and with inexplicable haste, two laws that seek to abolish the collegium system and replace it with a National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). There was very little debate and it was clear that ...


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  IBNLive   
Will write another book after Sonia Gandhi publishes hers: Natwar Singh  IBNLive
In an interview with Vivek Tuteja, former Union minister Natwar Singh talks about his life as author. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Vivek Tuteja: You are already a prolific writer and have written many books including 'Walking with Lions', 'My China ...


   


Collegium R.I.P.  Deccan Chronicle
The “collegium”, born in the Supreme Court of India on October 6, 1993, after suffering barrage of brickbats from MPs is on life support; the assent of the President to the Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, would signal the pulling of the plug from the ...


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The Rajasthan model  Business Standard
It is increasingly clear that Rajasthan, under the leadership of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, will lead the country in terms of policy reform. Ms Raje was elected last year with a comfortable majority in the state Assembly; she did even better in the Lok Sabha ...


   

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