2015年1月17日 星期六

2015-01-18 India Spotlight


A logical response   
Business Standard
When the inflation numbers for December were published on January 12 and 14, they did show slightly higher inflation rates than in November. But they also delivered a positive surprise. The magnitude of the increase was clearly much smaller than many ...


   


Punjabi by birth, special by nature   
The Hindu
I was taken aback when my father, putting down his glass of Scotch, asked me to prepare a cup of tea for him. When I expressed my astonishment over the whisky-tea mishmash, he angrily warned me never to question a Punjabi's chaah. “We Punjabis are ...


   


IBNLive
   
Salman Rushdie, threatened over book, defends free speech   
IBNLive
Burlington: Author Salman Rushdie, who lived for years under a death threat after his 1988 book 'The Satanic Verses' drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders, said on Wednesday the right to free speech is absolute or else it isn't free. Following a speech at ...


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Business Standard
   
SpiceJet's distress situation might help case for open offer exemption   
Business Standard
Fund infusion into budget airline SpiceJet reportedly also includes an application to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for exemption from an open offer. This is made when an acquirer buys more than a certain percentage stake in a company.

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The Other Half: Wisdom beyond schooling   
The Hindu
Veena Devi is unlettered. I use that word rather than 'uneducated'. When I met her more than five years ago, she was the mukhiya, or sarpanch, of Loharpura panchayat in Nawada district in south Bihar. She is now in her early forties. At a time when the ...


   


Deccan Chronicle
   
DC Debate: The controversy surrounding the Censor Board   
Deccan Chronicle
The rules of the Censor Board are not the same when it comes to regional languages. We have appealed many times that the rules be made the same for everyone in the industry, but there still is disparity. One can observe the difference in films that are ...


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Not a fine approach   
Business Standard
Economists understand that there are essentially two ways to monitor proscribed behaviour. Either supervision can be efficient, and most law-breakers are caught; or enforcement can have giant holes, but those who are caught are given excessively stiff ...


   


As I See It: In the name of ghar wapsi   
The Hindu
In its seemingly simple construction lies the intended subversiveness of the term ghar wapsi. While the English term 'homecoming' seems to be the literal translation of the expression, ghar wapsi is — and means — much more for the authors of this agenda.

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Deccan Chronicle
   
Mystic Mantra: Sacred soil   
Deccan Chronicle
My January 1 article Light up 2015 — heralding UN's International Year of Light — dovetails with this one since 2015 is UN's International Year of Soils, too. Launching this landmark, José Graziano da Silva, director-general of UN's Food and Agriculture ...


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IBNLive
   
Administration let down Tamil writer Perumal Murugan, says his lawyer   
IBNLive
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan who was forced to drop his pen forever following protests by fringe Hindu outfits in Namakkal over his book 'Madhorubagan' was "totally let down" by the district administration, says his lawyer and the Special Public Prosecutor ...


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