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E D I T O R I A L
Iraq on the Brink
 THEY
would not like call it a civil war when they count and admit 6.5 lakh
deaths in three and a half years in Iraq. And these are mounting every
passing day. For them it is the dawn of democracy and return of peace
and progress even when Iraq wilts and its streets get soaked with the
blood of the innocent or not so innocent as you chose describe. More
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With Compliments
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Gogi Sidhu
President
Satish K. Jain
Executive Vice President
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| ANALYSIS |
Bush
Caught in a no Win Situation in Iraq
Harjap Singh Aujla
THE Iraq War
was initially quite popular all across conservative America.
Many people really thought that Saddam Hussein was the
mastermind and financer of Al-Quaeda Movement and he was the
villain that was producing weapons of mass destruction. The
Americans knew it quite well that Saddam was a tyrant, who got
thousands of Shiites and Kurd rebels killed.
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A Vicious Circle of Sexism
and Deprivation
Gobind Thukral
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Indians
are shocked at the heinous and tragic killing of children in
Nithari village, close to a flourishing city of NOIDA. The
dreadful scene of mutilated parts of 24 children being fished
out of drain near the house of rich man has sent shock waves.
These children, all belonging to the poor families, mostly
migrants went missing over the last two years. More |
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Rooting for
the Roots
Sonia G Handa
TWO Punjab born Indio Canadian
politicians, a matured trade unionist, Harry Bains member of British
Columbia Assembly and Harinder Takhar, a minister in Ontario province
came to look for their roots. Some nostalgia and some nourishment.
They were concerned in their own way about the state of affairs in Punjab.
It is election time here and they are surprised at the kind of money
being spent and also the frog jumping of Congress and Akalis. More |
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FEATURES |
India’s new
consumption levels
Gobind
Thukral
Man’s first
needs are food and shelter, besides the desire to procreate.
As civlisation advances and more goods and services are
created, the emphasis often shifts. Essentials hardly change.
Yet man is not just a consuming animal. He is a creating
being. He is different from other fellow creatures courtesy
his brain. More
Poor
in the Rich Land of Canada
 Canada
is a land of prosperity. It dominates with its vast
resources and size. It is the world's second-largest country
occupying most of northern North America. Extending from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the
Arctic Ocean. Canada occupies a total surface
area of 9,984,670 km. More
Read
Charan Singh, Dr. Manmohan
Sharat Chandra Nair
THE economics, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh knows, is
far too elementary for him to get the feel of India's agrarian
crisis. Better he does a reorientation course. For a start he
can read the works of Charan Singh, the only intellectual and
economist the country ever had in the Prime Minister's post. More
Indo-America
Immigrants New Wealth Creators
Saru Thukral
THERE are reasons for America to look towards India with
benign eyes. Indian immigrants have out classed other
immigrants in crating innovative companies and providing
employment to huge number of people, besides creating big
wealth. Good economics should not be bad politics indeed. More
Indian-backed
Approach could Aid Poor Nations and Cut Health Costs
TWO UK-based medical researchers have developed a method to
invent new medicines and get them to market at a fraction of
the cost charged by big multinational cash rich drug
companies. This would enable millions of poor in many
countries to be cured of infectious diseases and cut the drug
bill at many levels. More
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LITERATURE
Punjab Tragedy Revisited by
Punjabi Diaspora
Dr. Jaspal Singh
Prof.
Harbhajan Singh from Kala Sangian in Kapurthala
district in Punjab is a well-known NRI Punjabi writer
who left for the States some six years ago in search of
greener pastures. In India he remained associated with
the Naxalite movement of the seventies and for some time
he was a whole time revolutionary totally committed to
Marxism Leninism and the thought of Mao Tze Dong. Before
moving to America he had published two collections of
short stories. More
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| COMMENT |
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Canadian politics goes the Indian way
 Canada’s
Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper worried about the
defeat of his government at the hands of Liberal and New
Democratic Party has been enticing opposition members of
House of Commons to buy time. More
American
newspapers offer Little Commentary on Troop Escalation in Iraq
WHY are major American newspapers silent on troops escalation in Iraq?
The question haunts media watchers across the country and elsewhere
too. Do the commentators not know that sending 20,000 more troops as
President Bush has indicated would meet the same fate as it did three
decades back on Vietnam. More
 Washing
the Sins
Millions
Hindus bathed in the freezing cold water at the confluence
of three major rivers in north India. A weeklong festival,
an Ardh Kumbh Mela or Half Pitcher Festival, was a
pilgrimage intended to wash away earthly sins. More
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| LETTERS |
IN response to our message: http://www.southasiapost.org
and its associates wish the readers and friends an year of peace,
kindness and cheer all along and abundant involvement towards a just
society.” Many dear friends and well wishers wrote. One response
was: “Great message. Truly, without abundant involvement of all for
creating a just society life will be meaningless. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Balancing
Power in Indian Polity
Indian
Supreme Court is in an assertion mode these days. While
agreeing to parliament’s right to expel its members for
gross misconduct, it affirmed that issue is within its
jurisdiction. The constitution bench declared
that 9th schedule created to create a more just social and
economic order was not beyond its jurisdiction. This
schedule created way back in 1951 to protect land reforms,
nationalisation of economic institutions and other
affirmative action was accepted as sacrosanct. Senior
lawyer and commentator Joginder Singh Toor takes a hard
look at all this. More
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| HISTORY |
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Punjabi Muslims and
Creation of Pakistan- 3
Professor J.S. Grewal
THE
Congress and the League had begun to drift apart after the
Khilafat movement which was made redundant by the political
developments in Turkey, closing the question of Khilafat
once for all. The Hindu-Muslim rapprochement in the Punjab
suffered a severe jolt in the early 1920s. When the Congress
boycotted the Simon Commission and took up the challenge of
framing a ‘national’ constitution for India through the
Moti Lal Nehru committee, Jinnah was cooperative. A
consensus was sought to be hammered out in All-Parties
meetings. More
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| CULTURE |
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The Dynamics of Sikh Diaspora since Independence-1
“Before examining the complex
contours of the Sikh Diaspora, it may be noted that the
overall Indian Diaspora has been estimated at over 25
million – an unconfirmed source has put the number of
Sikhs abroad to be around 3.7 million – is spread across
more than 110 countries. The Indian Diaspora has certainly
emerged, in the recent years, as a significant economic,
social and cultural force in the world. More
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