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E D I T O R I A L
Democracy as a Sham
DO we
want a healthy party-based democracy any longer in Punjab? Two
big parties now wrestling to win the minds and hearts of the people
are actually behaving like thieves. The ruling Congress is
turning every stone to strike a mullah side by side appeasing each
section. It has suddenly discovered cash and time to offer each
section smoothies. Power is free for large sections and employees,
majority of them sluggish and corrupt are having great fun with each
of their demand being met. It is another matter that the agrarian
crisis is forcing the farmers either to suicides or to hold noisy
demonstrations and face the brutal police. More
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| ANALYSIS |
Trafficking as Matrimony
Trafficking in
India is largely understood as commercial sexual exploitation of
women and children.
Professor
Manjit Singh
who teaches Sociology at the Panjab University, Chandigarh tells
this harrowing tale.
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| Whose
Cause the Shocking Execution of Saddam Hussein serve?
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| THREE years back when
American lead coalition unmindful of the international conventions
and world public opinion attacked Iraq, the fate of Saddam
Hussein’s was sealed. On the morning of December 30 Saddam was
executed during the time of Eid Al Adah — the feast of
sacrifice, which symbolises forgiveness and reconciliation. More |
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Neo
imperialists and United Nations
Gobind Thukral
THERE was irony when Inter Press
Service honoured Kofi Annan, the outgoing Secretary General of United
Nations with its 2006 International Achievement Award. It was in
recognition of “his lasting contributions to peace, security,
development. More |
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FEATURES |
Poverty Haunts as
Corporate India goes Global
 Gobind
Thukral
Economists for years prescribed a good repeated doze of
foreign direct investments [FDI], both in industry and capital
market. This was considered a panacea for the economic ills.
It would take care of poverty, they stated in unison. Those
who warned against uncontrolled FDI flows were termed as
routine gloomy theorists and even anti national. More |
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Forthcoming Budget
and the Fiscal Deficit
Vinod Anand
IT is customary to wish everyone a
very happy and prosperous New Year, but what about wishing
India a very happy and prosperous Financial New Year
2007-08? Let us do so not only through wishes, but also with
a few practical suggestions, which, if implemented
effectively and with vigour, will surely bring in a new era
of an economic and social development. More |
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LITERATURE
Heer Kabal Virk
A New Rendering of The
Legend
Dr. Jaspal Singh
The legend of Heer Ranjha is the most
popular cultural narrative of Punjabi ethnos. The events
associated with this romance are supposed to have occurred
in the beginning of 16th century which Damodar Gulati, a
sensitive poet of medieval Punjab had witnessed with his own
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| COMMENT |
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Mark Wrede writes
THE discipline of economics is merely
an ideology and not a science. I believe it has become
incumbent upon the media and academia at large to challenge
the scientific credentials of the discipline of economics.
In the first chapter of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
sets out a principle which contradicts the notion of earlier
French economists who took land to be the source of all
valuation.
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India,
Pakistan set to liberalise visa regime
THIS could make millions happy. On December 19 Pakistan and India
announced to liberalise their visa policy from January 2007. This
would mean opening an extra counter in each country and issuing 1,000
visas to businessmen and tourists daily. More
Bhagat
Singh Chair at the Jawaharlal Nehru University
ON 28th September 2006, the birth centenary of Shahid Azam
Bhagat Singh, the Government of India, in its Gazette notification
[issued on 2nd May 2006] has included it in its programme of
celebrating five national anniversaries of important events of our
national history. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Another
Supreme Court Directive
Awaits Implementation
Joginder Singh Toor
A direction by the Supreme Court of
India issued an year ago, pursuant to United Nations
Convention on Elimination of all forms of discrimination
against women adopted in 1979, to which India is a
signatory, goes unheeded, raising many questions. A simple
application by wife against her husband, for transfer of the
case, startled the Supreme Court. The very fact of marriage
is denied, not in one, but in numerous cases in the country.
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| HISTORY |
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Punjabi Muslims and
Creation of Pakistan- 2
Professor J.S. Grewal
THE Punjabi Muslim leaders,
whether in towns or in the countryside, were keen to see
their communitarian interests served through petitions and
representations or whatever little of constitutional
politics were there in the Punjab in the form of
municipalities and the legislative council. In the former,
they had to contest elections on the basis of joint or
separate electorates. More
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