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A Slice
of Life
Gobind Thukral in Halifax
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March this year, during my sojourn with a dear old friend in
Halifax, I had a chance look at book lying in the family room. It
had an intriguing title, “Live Beyond 139 years- Joyous and
Wrinkle Free”.
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E D I T O R I A L
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Tinkering will not help
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STYLE often marks the man. If that be so how would we mark the
new Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal? Let us ignore
that the octogenarian Akali politician in his 80th year for his
filial love. With five major portfolios in his own pocket and an
equal number of close relatives as important cabinet ministers,
this government is virtually owned by the Badals. Now the
younger Badal, Sukhbir Singh is the acting president of the
ruling Akali Dal. He calls the shots and has begun controlling
the reigns of the government. It is only matter of time when
takes the real charge. More
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| ANALYSIS |
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Russia
and China Marching Toward a Multipolar World
Dr. Sawraj Singh
THE just concluded President Hu
Jin Tao’s trip to Russia is an event of great historical
importance. This trip gives a clear signal that the days of a
unipolar world led by the world’s only superpower are very
limited and the new world order, a multipolar world, has already
become a reality. More
North
America more vulnerable to climate change
“BY the end of this century, fires
will consume twice as much forest annually in Canada, a fifth of
the currently snowy Arctic will be greened by tundra and Great
Lakes water levels will have plunged still lower.
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Statistical Skulduggery
Vinod Anand
IT quite often happens that those
who produce data seldom use them, and those who use data seldom
produce them. This anomalous situation creates problems,
especially for the users of data, who have to rely on unreliable
secondary data and this, by and large, extremely distorts their
studies. More
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New Land Wars: Special Economic Zones |
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Gobind Thukral
FACED with growing opposition, the United
Progressive Alliance government has drastically limited the size
and use of special economic zones (SEZs) that are meant to attract
foreign direct investments and promote exports.
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Baisakhi: the birth of the pure
Democratisation of Sikh Society |
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Jagpal S. Tiwana
THE Punjabi society is comparatively free
from the caste biases that are otherwise so widely prevalent in
rest of India. A story 'Where people vote for charisma not
caste' in the Indian Express of January 27, 2007 on the eve of
Punjab elections reported Punjabi voters paying little attention
to the castes of the candidates (1). More
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 Feudalism, fascism and militarism
Ishtiaq Ahmed
A dear friend and a faithful reader of my
weekly columns, Brigadier (retd) Yasub Ali Dogar, who has served
as the Mayor of Lahore-- in which capacity he probably showed the
keenest interest in making Lahore green and clean with very
cost-effective home-grown technology to help.
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China and Japan Forging Asia’s Century
Dr Sawraj Singh
 THE Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s
current visit to Japan is one of the most important steps
towards making the 21st century “Asia’s Century.” Prime Minister
Wen Jiabao first went to South Korea. China, South Korea, and
Japan, the three countries of North East Asia. More
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LITERATURE |
Turmoil in the Hills
Changing Vignette of Himachal Life
Dr. Jaspal Singh
Himachal Pradesh is one of the
most beautiful states of India. Rocks, bushes, flower or fruit
laden trees, water
springs, fast moving rivers and snow capped mountains are the prominent
physical features of the state. More |
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FEATURES |
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Balraj Sahni at Jawaharlal Nehru University
 AN enlightened convocation
address delivered by the famous actor Balraj Sahni in
Jawaharlal Nehru University way back in 1972 is still
remembered as it reflects the true spirit of democratic
culture and rational inquiry. More
Partition Memories and Reconciliation-1
Satya P. Gautam
 I am one of the
post-midnight, post-partition generations born during the
early fifties of the last century. My infancy and childhood
were spent in our village Masaania, almost a kilometre’s
walk from the railway station Shaam Chauraasi.
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Street theatre
in Delhi
Ishtiaq Ahmed
 THE International Women's
Day on March 8 is celebrated throughout the world to
highlight the continuing vulnerable situation of women and
to emphasise that as long as females are treated as inferior
a genuinely egalitarian, democratic and humane society is
still a very distant goal. More
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| COMMENT |
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Filing time for
non-immigration visas extended in US
ON April 12, 2007, the Citizenship and
Immigration Services of United States provided some relief for Indians
seeking to work in America. It announced the extension of filing time for
"O" and the "P" non-immigrant visas from six months to a year ahead of an
event. More
Some hope for
cancer patients
CANCER treatment could be on the brink of a
revolution. It follows a study showing that it may be possible appreciably
improve the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs without causing serious side
effects. Scientists after a series of pioneering experiments have
demonstrated a new way of making tumour cells far more susceptible to attack
with extremely low doses of anti-cancer drugs. More
The
Internationalisation of Genocide
CUBAN president Fidel Castro Ruz who is
recovering from a serious illness recently expressed his concerns on the
biofuels as these would jeopardize the world food situation, making more
poor go hungry worldwide. More
Remittances by Non
Resident Indians
HOW to repatriate the proceeds from the sale
of the existing property in India to accounts in Canada or America is the
question that bothers many NRIs? What are the formalities and what taxes are
there from the sale of the property? More
The Pilgrims March
 THERE
are roughly three million Hindus in Pakistan. They account about 1.6% of the
total population. There are some pilgrim centers like Katashraj. With
improved bilateral ties between India and Pakistan, more pilgrims are being
allowed to visit these places of worship. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Judiciary and the Political Class
Joginder Singh Toor
ON 8th of April, 2007, the Indians saw, the top
elite of the two wings of the State face to face. The
executive and the Judiciary at a conference of chief
ministers and chief justices of the state high courts, also
the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Chief Justice
of India Justice K.G.Balakrishnan were at daggers drawn. The
issue was the jurisdiction of each wing, the executive and
the judiciary. Dr Manmohan Singh mildly conveyed executive’s
strong feelings that the judiciary was tending to over
reach. More
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CULTURE |
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Ghulam
Haider: Punjab Pioneering Musician-3
Harjap Singh Aujla
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L Saigal, during those days,
was the leading most male film singer in India. He hailed from Jullundur in
Punjab, but it is a pity that Ghulam Haider could not have the opportunity
to compose tunes for him. A second generation music director from
Punjab Khurshid Anwar, was however luckier, he composed the music for a
Saigal –Suraiya starrer “Parvana”, which became a very popular hit.
Rather than insistence on heavy classical compositions attempted by most of
the other music directors, Ghulam Haider’s
lighter style of applied classical music was better received by the cinema
going public. This got him fame and a spate of invitations from Bombay,
which by mid forties had replaced Calcutta as the leading film city of
India. More
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| THIS
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Vancouver third best
livable city
 THERE were
never many doubts. But now we are told by experts that Vancouver ranked third in
a global survey for its overall quality of life, narrowly losing out to Swiss
cities Zurich and Geneva. Vancouver had high scores across the board, but its
weak spot was crime. Crime rate in North America are higher than Europe. All
the cities in Canada covered by the survey were the top 25 ranking for health
and sanitation, with Calgary ranking as the top city in the world. More
No political obituary
for the rock star' MP yet
FOR the fifth straight year, Belinda Stronach, 40,
the Liberal MP from Newmarket-Aurora, has announced that she was leaving federal
politics. But it may not be the end of a short and entertaining career in
politics, as journalists are saying, “it’s far too soon to write her political
obituary, and that she's merely regrouping for a run at the Liberal leadership
down the road.” More
Toronto Star series
among national nominees
Investigative journalists at Toronto Star have won six nominations for
national awards. It is the single largest contingent to win laurels. The Star's
nominations as Canadian Association of Journalists' finalists include: Kevin
McGran and Andrew Bailey were nominated for "Tragedy on the Tracks," a chilling
retelling of deadly factors behind a derailment that killed two women.
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U.S. papers close shops
in Canada
BAD news for Canada as more full-time American
newspaper correspondents left after closing their offices for good. The closing
of the Washington Post's Toronto bureau followed the lead of the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago
Tribune, all of which have shut their Canadian offices in recent years.
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