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E D I T O R I A L
Women still haunted by medieval laws
Pakistan
President Pervez Musharraf has once again struck a compromise with
the religious extremists and dropped the bill that would have given
women some protection. The much promised Hudood Bill after having
been recommended by parliament’s select group has been dropped. More
F O C U S
 American bungles on its war against
terror
Gobind Thukral
ANY
objective assessment of America’s war against terrorism since 9/11
clearly establishes that it has created more hostility and
insecurity worldwide. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are sizzling.
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 Five years
after 9/11: World is more insecure
Jyotika J. Thukral
IT'S been almost five years
since a group of 19 Islamist fanatics hijacked and then slammed
their commandeered passenger jets into three buildings and a field
in New York and Washington, killing about 3,000 Americans.
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C O M M E N T
Ranjit Singh denied entry into Canada
Gurpreet Singh
THE
turning away of the former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, Bhai Ranjit
Singh from the Vancouver Airport last month has divided the Canadian
Sikhs. While the moderates have welcomed the episode, the extremists
are angry. More
Deshbandhu
Library
Journalist
writer and social activist Lalit Surjan who edits The Deshbandhu
daily has invited those interested in serious research to make use
of the Deshbandhu Library- a division of MSF (Mayaram Surjan
Foundation).
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As
Balochistan simmers with rage, the senators assail Bugti killing
Jyotika J. Thukral
HOW
hard the Musharraf regime may try, it can not get out of the mess it
has created in Balochistan, Wazirstan and Sindh. The shameful
killing of 82 year Bloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti [and other
tribesmen] who had been both governor and chief minister besides
national law maker is like an albatross round the neck of the army
chief and self styled president of Pakistan.
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Integrating
Muslims, Canada style
Canada
wants Muslims to join its police and armed forces. It is meant to
integrate the believers in Islam and work for the security. Non
white constitute a small number in both, the police and the
military. More
 Chaitanya
Kalbag is editor-in-chief Hindustan Times
Kalbag,
who took over as editor-in-chief Hindustan Times on September 1,
brings with him a vast and varied experience in journalism. His last
assignment was with Reuters where he was managing editor and head
of editorial operations for Asia since 2000.
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A N A L Y S I S
‘Displacing and looting the farmers’
Gobind Thukral
India
is witness to a horrible crime committed by the government that vows
to be the ‘mai baap’ of the people. It is depriving thousands and
thousands of farmers and tribals of their sources of livelihood and
culture all in the name of industrialisation and urbanisation.
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Controlling
the Market Middlemen
Professor Joginder Singh
Market
middlemen are essentially required to bring together buyers and
sellers and set the produce at the desired place, in appropriate
form and at time when needed.
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F E A T U R E S
Real Estate
Laxmi Kant Verma
REAL
Estate is still booming in and around Chandigarh. In fact, many surrounding areas of Chandigarh falling in Punjab and Haryana that
include Mohali, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi and Kharar, are emerging as
major hub for the property developers and buyers of houses;
bungalows and flats. More
History
writing and cultural fascism
Professor Chaman Lal
Historians
and writers came in for lot bashing in Indian parliament. In Rajya
Sabha during the Monsoon session some allegedly objectionable
material in National Council of Education Research Hindi and History
books meant for school students, some MP’s cutting across party
lines wanted harsh punishment for the scholars responsible for
recommending this writing material. More
New
Air India book gives room to conspiracy theories
Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
A
new book about the Air India bombing gives room to the conspiracy
theories revolving around the worst incident in the history of
aviation terrorism before 9/11. The Air India bombing that was
believed to be engineered by some Sikh separatists had left 329
passengers dead in 1985. More
L A W
& J U S T I C E
Subjugated Migrant Workers in the
Land of the Mahatma
Joginder Singh Toor
ON September 11, 1906
hundred years ago, Indians, men and women; indentured labour,
traders, businessmen and professionals met in a hall in the city of
Johannesburg in South Africa to discuss the implications of an
intended ordinance.
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H I S T O R Y
THE SIKHS AND PARTITION OF THE
PUNJAB-1
We present before the
readers of www.southasiapost.org a series of articles by eminent historian
and former Vice Chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University and
former Chairman and Director of the prestigious Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla, Professor J.S.GREWAL on the partition
of India and the role played by the Sikhs and Muslims from Punjab.
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E N V I R O N M E N T
Punjab’s Contaminated Environment Threatens
Life
Umendra Dutt
Punjab
is deep into a man made crisis. Its ecosystem is contaminated. Its
cities and now even small towns and villages are the most dirty
unlivable places. Its saline and chemical laden water in many places
is unfit for human consumption. More
Carbon dioxide
Carbon
dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at any time in the
last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of
Antarctica confirms. The East Antarctic core is the longest, deepest
ice column yet extracted and its in-depth analysis of air bubbles
trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse
gas concentrations are unparalleled. More
L I T E R A T U R E
A Requiem for a Lost Genre
Dr. Jaspal Singh
ONCE
upon a time letter writing was a great art. Most of the literate had
not written anything in their lifetime except a few letters. So much
so the first novel of the world naming Pamela by
Richardson
was written in the letter form in 1740. More
A
R T & F I L M S
The Question of Language
Professor Chaman Lal
THERE
is a debate going on about the invincibility of English as an
official language of India. Hindi was declared as the national and
official language of the country on 14th September, 1949 which was
declared as Hindi Day.
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C U L T U R E
Indian Hockey in Doldrums
Harjap Singh Aujla
India
from 1928 to 1956 was the undisputed champion nation of Olympic
Hockey. We lost narrowly to our tiny neighbour Pakistan in 1960
during Rome Olympics. We dethroned Pakistan again narrowly in 1964
during Tokyo Olympics and in 1966; we won the Asian Games Gold medal
with a razor thin margin.
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 Kabbaddi
stadium opens in Surrey
Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
THE
opening up of a Kabbaddi stadium in Surrey last weekend
marked another milestone in the Indo Canadian history. The BC
Premier, Gordon Campbell inaugurated the stadium for a 2500 years
old rural game of Punjab last Saturday.
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L E T T E R S
The lost world of good teachers
MR.
Bal Anand’s In First Person write-up titled “Coup D’etat in School”
made a very interesting reading. I could well relate to the
dedication and commitment of teachers of yore partly because of my
own experience both as a student and a teacher.
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