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20 Mar 2011
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| Anant Pai: The One Without Parallel |
Anant Pai: The One Without Parallel
Media Watch
There is one person whose passing away has touched me deeply and that is Anant Pai, the Uncle Pai to thousands of children who grew up reading Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. And I am most grateful to Deccan Herald, DNA and The Hindu for acknowledging his undying contribution to the education of children by acquainting them of our great cultural heritage, of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and even the Pancha Tantra through publication of his comic texts. For almost three gener...
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| Media Bats For Somali Pirates |
Media Bats For Somali Pirates
G Parthsarthy
On December 8, 1989, Ms Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who had become India's Minister for Home Affairs less than a week earlier, was kidnapped by members of the separatist Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front. Amidst a frenzy of media attention, Prime Minister VP Singh buckled and sent two of his Ministers, Mr Inder Kumar Gujral and Mr Arif Mohammed Khan, to Srinagar. Despite strong warnings from Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and indications that Ms Rubaiya S...
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| Editorial: Wikileaks Again! |
Editorial: Wikileaks Again!
The Editorial Team
Once again Wikileaks revelations have raised a storm in India. The revelations are also an open secret as people have little doubt in the prevailing corruption in today's politics. In a cable, dated July 17, 2008, sent to the State Department (162458: secret), accessed by The Hindu newspapaer through WikiLeaks, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Steven White wrote about a visit the Embassy's Political Counselor paid to Satish Sharma, who is described as "a Congress Party MP in the R...
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| Trapped in Hatred | Trapped in Hatred
Balbir Punj
The recent spate of violent incidents in Pakistan has left the uninitiated, particularly the peaceniks, shocked, startled and dazed. The internecine war between various jihadi groups in the name of Islam continues unabated. Fundamentalists are also targetting what remains of religious minority communities, particularly Hindus, in Pakistan. In the process, the country is falling apart and is being increasingly seen as a failed state by the rest of the world. The seeds of the spiralli...
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| Saint Dnyaneshwar: Miracle Man or A Visionary Philosopher | Saint Dnyaneshwar: Miracle Man or A Visionary Philosopher
Kedar
Since I was a kid, I read about Saint Dnyaneshwara. I saw movies based on him. I knew that he was born in 1200 something. As a kid I marveled at the miracles he did in those movies. I sang Aarati (a type of prayer) written on him.I didn't really understand most of it, but I sang it with crowd anyway. For the readers who don't know who Dnyaneshwara is, a brief introduction. Dnyaneshwara was born 1275 AD in a village called Alandi, near Pune in Western India. Here is a wikipedia link to pag...
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