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Issue
2 Vol I,
October 30, 2005 |
About Us
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South Asia Post
IT is
pertinent to ask as to why a new website. In this information
age when we are bombarded from all sides with evocative or
obtuse information and opinions then why add another name.
Friends, after spending years in the field of journalism,
somewhere in the inner recesses of the mind, a thought
lingered and always troubled most of us who are involved in
launching this web opinion newspaper. |
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Newsbag
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Earthquake, Blasts and the Dance of
Death
THREE
weeks have gone by since the devastating earthquake measuring
of 7.6 magnitude struck northern Pakistan and India, mainly
Kashmir killing nearly 80,000 people. But the agony caused by
the quake that within minutes killed nearly half (if not
more) as many people as the insurgency in the state has killed
in 15 years, has not proved to be a catalyst for peace. |
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Comment
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Canada Looks to
Police to Nourish Multiculturalism
Surrey Police needs to expand its
investigation into Park attacks
Gupreet
Singh writes from Vancouver
SURREY,
a bustling town nestled with Vancouver, British Colombia prides
in its multi cultural liberal Canada, is in deep shock. In fact,
this little Punjab on the Pacific side showcases the broad
contours of a tolerant fast growing society. But somewhere
cracks are appearing.
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Law and
Justice
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Judicial Accountability
Justice
V.R. Krishna Iyer
Democracy,
as the opening page of our Constitution declares, proceeds on
the fundamental postulate that ultimately political sovereignty
vests in the people of the country. This sovereignty gains
reality and dynamic viability only if the constitutional
instrumentality submits tacitly to the broad oversight of the
sovereign people.
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Analysis
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Punjab, Understanding the Past
Through Lies
Gobind Thukral
FOR weeks the two sides spent days and
nights, digging holes, collecting documents, plotting and
building a hard case to finally nail down the real villain of
tragic drama in Punjab that took away nearly 50,000 innocent
lives and devastated thousands of homes. Henchmen, free loaders
and cheerleaders – all joined in to equip the top fighters. |
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Political Economy
of Punjab: A Perspective
Dr. Baljit Singh Mann
Punjab once the
leading state in the country in terms of GDP and per capita
income is now facing economic crisis and political decay.
Political and civil institutions established for the purpose of
governance are in the process of decline to which Samuel P.
Huntington describes political decay. |
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The Rise of
Manmohan Singh
Phony Redemption
Gobind Thukral
IN
political and economic choices, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh
seems to have declared autonomy. Catapulted to the seat of power
the Congress President, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi refused to lead the
country as the chief executive and opted out to head the
powerful coordination committee of the United Progressive
Alliance. |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
THE
Vancouver based Cultural Jammers have sparked a vigorous debate
on whether the West should hold a two minute-silence for the
victims of Iraq invasion. They have pointed out that Canada and
Britain should spare two more minutes for a silence to remember
the more than 30,000 civilians who have died since the beginning
of the second Gulf War. America has lost its 2,000 soldiers.
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Features
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Preaching of Economics
Vinod Anand
LIFE is a
divine gift to us, and so are other conditions that help us live
it. When we are born, the life span, whatever it is, is given
and is exogenous, though unknown. The family, the place, the
surroundings and the socio-economic conditions with which we get
linked at the time of our birth are also given, and, as such,
are exogenous, but known. |
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Life Style
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Medical Tourism: Curing the Sick
Jyotika J. Thukral
PEACE moves
between India and Pakistan that are helping trade and allowing people
to travel a bit freely across the borders, could offer a key area of
growth to Indian Punjab – medical tourism. It is perceived as one of
the fastest growing segments in marketing ‘Destination India’. |
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Art & Films
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I Have not Killed Gandhi:
Maine
Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
Jyotika J. Thukral
GANDHI May
not be a stimulating subject for the Indian politicians. He may not
be relevant for the policy makers and the government in the country
of his birth. There is indeed lot of lip sympathy for Gandhi and all
he stands for. Even Congress party which he nourished with his
very blood hardly understands him, what to say of implementing any
of his ideas. |
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The
Poet-Painter Dilemma
Dr. Jaspal Singh
Umberto Eco, the Italian
Semiotician turned novelist says that if you remove 'empty
spaces' from the universe and from the structure of all the
atoms constituting it, the cosmos will shrink to a tiny ball not
bigger than one's fist. The writer or anybody engaged in
creativity tries to fill these 'empty spaces' left by nature's
scheme of things.
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Poetry
Corner
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Navneet Toor
WE take the
pleasure of introducing young talented poets in the Poetry
Corner. If you have given expression to your welled up emotions
in rhyme, free verse or blank, we shall be glad to publish your
flights of fancy. Do join and let your poems be read or sung. |
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Letters
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Congratulations on your new website! I have read
through all your articles and I must say that that the
editorials that you have put up on the site are very informative
and are on all sorts of issues ranging from health to politics. |
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