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Odds and Ends SOME years back Lajpat Rai, an 89 year old non resident Indian, who had worked hard in California and made good money thought of a noble gesture to give something back to his country, most precisely to his village Bajwar, close to Hoshiarpur. The result was Sarvanand Giri Institute of Information and Technology at a cost of Rs 11 crore. No small effort and no small money.

Analysis

Media in the Upfront: The Bell Tolls for Hatred Gobind Thukral Punjab –Punjab Consultation:  The upshot of the conference was that the Punjab government would press hard the Indian government to allow visa free movement of journalists, setup a two square kilometer park on no man’s land at Atari - Wagha junction for a common trade center, restaurants, hotels, sports facilities theatres and exhibition grounds. SAFMA pledged to press Pakistan government to agree to this as the proposal had basically come from it.

Slowly but surely India is opening its arms to Pravasis Jyotika J. Thukral SOPS for Pravasis or the non resident Indians announced by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week are not just an emotional gesture. Pravasis have become a major economic power and their contribution towards building India has become stronger and stronger. So it’s time to bring them into the economic and political mainstream of the country.

Health Care Issue Rocks Canadian Politics Gurpreet Singh Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh who is facing music for the fall of minority Liberal government claims that he never supported the idea of privatizing the public health care. Dosanjh had failed to assure the NDP that supported the minority government on the issue of fixing the public health care system without giving it into private hands.

Making a Grade How many Indo Canadians would be in  Commons? IN June 2004 elections, seven public men of Indian origin were elected to the Canadian House of Commons. These seven MPs among the 308 members of Commons made a history of sorts many others did in the provincial assemblies.  It was the largest number of MPs from any coloured ethnic group in this multicultural society made possible of the concentration of population of immigrants from Asia.

Royalty and Democracy: Bhutan on Path to Democracy amid Power Hungry South Asian Rulers KING Jigme Singye Wangchuk of Bhutan has decided to abdicate his throne and move towards parliamentary democracy. It certainly is commendable, especially in the context of the nation’s South Asian neighbours Nepal and Pakistan. One in the grip of King who has dismissed democratically elected government and replaced it with a puppet council of ministers.

Comment

Newton North Delta : NDP Campaign Attracts Indo Canadian Support Gurpreet Singh THE NDP is attracting significant support from the Indo Canadian community in the Newton North Delta riding where over 30 percent population is South Asian. The NDP candidate Nancy Clegg is getting the support of prominent Indo Canadians in this riding despite a tough challenge she is facing from the Punjabi Liberal candidate Sukh Dhaliwal.

Law and Justice

India: Parliament and Judiciary Fight over Jurisdiction Joginder Singh Toor THE Constitution that the people of India gave unto themselves on January 26, 1950, guaranteed certain Primary rights (not all) as fundamental, so as to have social, economic and political equality. It also ensured separation of powers based on theory of checks and balances that each wing of the State was independent, virtual and effective.

Features

Long Live the Newspaper Newspapers in the developed world have to evolve a new economic model to sustain and halt the gradual erosion of their financial underpinnings. They have to change the methods of delivery, deadlines and the medium itself.  The balance between words, moving pictures and audio has to change.  This assessment was presented by Editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger at a public lecture organised by The Hindu in New Delhi.   Assistant Editor, Jyotika J. Thukral was there to catch with the latest on the impact of technology that has created not only television, but a powerful internet as rivals of the print media.

Health of the Nation Gobind Thukral WE were promised long time back; in the very first five year plan in 1952 that health care would be one of the top priorities. It is not the case there has been no effort. Each state and the central governments have been earmarking substantial sum of money. A chain of district hospitals, primary health centers and dispensaries have come up all over the country.

Newsbag

Martyr Bhagat Singh Anniversaries Prof. Chaman Lal from the Jawaharlal Nehru University who has edited complete documents of Shahid Bhagat Singh urges countries in the sub continent to rise above narrow nationalistic boundaries and celebrate the contribution of this great revolutionary in a befitting manner during his martyrdom day and birth his birth centenary.

Art & Films

Animation Film lends New Colour to the Monkey King Jyotika J. Thukral MOVE over Spiderman, Superman, Batman and Pokemon. This time it is our desi mythological hero Hanuman which has become a craze with the kids who seem to never get enough of him in the film by the same name. While kids love it and do not mind watching it all the time, the adults too have enjoyed the animated version of our very epic Ramayana where Hanuman has always been a favourite character.

Culture

Jarnail Singh's Towers of Triumph and Doom Dr. Jaspal Singh Diaspora literature is rich in many ways. It is not only the subject matter, treatment, language or diction or even portrayal of characters, but it often touches the alienation from which the immigrants suffer. It reflects the struggle, contradictions, hopes and aspiration as well as disappointments. It accepts western influences, moulds these to suit the subject matter and in turn is also influencing the genre of the literature in those countries. Interestingly all Indian languages are enriched b the contributions of these parvasi writers. Queerly, while English writers dominate the market place, writers from other languages struggle to reach audiences. Here our Associate Editor, Dr Jaspal Singh, a keen student of literature and commentator discuses one such writer Jarnail Singh in great depth.

Origin of Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture Professor J.S. Grewal Language is not always a vehicle of communication and thought in the sub continent. It has been at the center of parochial and communal politics for long time. Region and religion have often clouded our vision about language and culture and our approach has neither been rational nor open. Eminent historian Professor J.S. Grewal who has been Vice Chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla, discusses origin of Punjabi language, literature and culture in this four-part series.  This is the third part.

Interview

Depressed Soldiers from Iraq Worry American Public HAS trauma of Iraq made Americans more isolationists? The PEW Research Center finds the answers to its questions gloomier. This is true about the elite. Most Americans thought America would not be able to establish democracy in that war ravaged country.

Poetry

Charu Jagat RECKLESS TONIGHT

Letters

THE nation lost two great souls recently: former President Dr. K.R Narayanan and Major Gopi with whom  S.N.Sahu had worked so closely in past years. Both of the articles are well written that may be because of Mr Sahu’s personal experience with them.

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