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E D I T O R I A L
Hollow Leaders, Hollow Promises
 IT
required the salubrious calm atmosphere of Nainital for the Congress
leadership to understand that our agriculture sector is facing a
real crisis and something needs to be done immediately. And, again
if a spate of suicides had not been taking place in Maharashtra,
Andhra, Karnataka, Punjab and other states, the leadership could
still be in deep slumber. More
L A W
& J U S T I C E
Capitalists sharks as land grabbers
Joginder Singh Toor
IN March, 2000 the then
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Late Murosoli Maran visits
China to get first hand information about the functioning of the
Special Economic Zones. This leads to the announcement of Special
Economic Zones in India through the Annual Export Import (EXIM)
Policy in March 2000.
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Farmers and Trade
Unions Challenge SEZ near Mumbai
OVER
50,000 farmers from the Pen-Panvel tehsils of Raigad district in
Maharashtra, near Mumbai, called for the do away with the Special
Economic Zones (SEZ) by the Government of India, in a massive rally
on September 21 (Thursday) and condemned the nexus between the
corporate company reliance and the Maharashtra government.
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F O C U S
Arms and the Man
Gobind Thukral
 SMALL
arms and light weapons are the principal instruments through which
persistent and deeply-rooted political conflicts are altered with
frightening frequency into war. Through war, crime, domestic
violence and suicides, more than 10,000 lives are lost each week in
which only small arms are used.
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‘War on Terror’
leads to Islamic Radicalism
THE
relationship between the Iraq war and terrorism, and the question of
whether the United States and the world are safer, have been
subjects of persistent debate since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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C O M M E N T
British UN Official: Iraq Policy
Muddle gets Blair out
British
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is our and so the verdict. It his
colluding with the American president George W Bush parroting his
war on terror and the policy in Iraq that proved ultimately
fatale. More
Afghanistan: Looking back on a disaster
 EVERY
week savegry scales new heights as death and destruction increases.
Afghanistan is a jinxed country and its hapless poor who passionately love
their freedom have been the target of invaders for the past many centuries.
But what is happening to them for the past five years has no parallel.
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A N A L Y S I S
 Shining India, Where is the Light?
Vinod Anand
IN
a recent press release it has been said that in India ‘industry is
on a roll with growth touching a 10-year high of 12.4% in July’.
This is indeed heartening for the country as a whole, thinking that
it was not that high during earlier years.
More
 Equity
versus Growth
Gobind Thukral
THE
debate among the economists on what should take precedence, growth
or equity is an unending one. No two economists can agree. But the
central point of all economic theory whether of Karl Marx variety or
Adam Smith type is welfare.
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F E A T U R E S
Federal Industrial Package should aim Dispersal of industries
Harjap Singh Aujla
BEFORE
we touch the subject of the Government of India’s yet to be
announced economic package for the industrial development of the
economically most deprived districts of Punjab, it will be
worthwhile look at the thrust of the industrial revolution of the
19th century Great Britain and the United States of America.
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Gandhi
and his 9/11[1906] Satyagraha -1
 Satya
Narayana Sahu
PEOPLE
across the world are familiar with the term 9/11. It became
notoriously famous for the savage terrorist attack on the United
States of America and was interpreted as one of the worst and
deadliest attacks on freedom, democracy and civilised existence.
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H I S T O R Y
THE SIKHS
AND PARTITION OF THE PUNJAB- 2
Professor J.S.Grewal
 THE
Azad Punjab scheme evoked a strong reaction from various quarters,
particularly the Congress and the Communist Sikhs, the protagonists
of Akhand Hindustan and the Hindu leaders of the Punjab, all
of whom dubbed it as communal, anti-Hindu, anti-national,
reactionary and opportunistic.
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L I T E R A T U R E
Problems of Punjabi Cultural Semantics
Intelligentsia on the Horns of a Dilemma
Dr. Jaspal Singh
CULTURE
is whole of human achievement with regional variations that has come
into being as a result of man’s intervention into the process of
nature. The purpose behind this acquisition is to adopt and regulate
natural environment in terms of human needs and urges.
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C U L T U R E
Malaysia: Its Charm and Beauty
 Jyotika
J. Thukral
I
had always wanted to visit Malaysia as it is a popular tourist
destination. Then when my husband got a posting to Kuala Lumpur, I
was quite excited as I could finally get to see the country. At the
same time I was a little apprehensive as we were not going as
tourists this time.
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P O E M
The
Unusual Clown
Raghav
Arya
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