Global Warming- Blame the Cows Khushwant Toor
GOD created this beautiful earth for the animals to inhibit. Now the
deadliest of all the animals, man! finds that the Livestock is a major
threat to the environment. It seems humans want to share their
responsibility for global warming with other natural inhabitants of
mother earth. More
A Final Warning to Humanity Jyotika J Thukral “Scientists have finally
spoken, clearly and in one voice," was the comment of the U.N.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on the latest report of the Nobel
Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Nandigram becomes a weapon of the right wing forces Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
THE Nandigram tragic episode, mismanaged right from the beginning as it
was has been an acute embarrassment for the communists. It is now a long
stick in the hands of the right wing forces to beat the communists with.
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ANALYSIS
Desperate Debt Ridden Farmers Taking Their Lives Gobind Thukral
LAST week some careworn farmers from Punjab had an opportunity of
narrating their woes to Dr T Haque, chairman Commission for Agriculture Costs
and Prices. This Commission advises the Government on price policy of major
agricultural commodities. More
Asia Continues To Rise Dr Sawraj Singh
THE 13th ASEAN summit of the Asian countries was just held in
Singapore. The major achievement of the summit was that the major powers of Asia
came together and Asia moved towards more economic integration as well as
towards overall cooperation and unity. More
E D I T O R I A L
Emperor in New Clothes
Mocking at Democracy IT was indeed excruciating for
poor Pervez Musharraf to shed his ‘second skin’, the military uniform as
chief of world’s sixth largest standing army. Derobed and lonely, he is
now a self appointed President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. For
the past couple of months, Musharraf was under intense pressure from
within Pakistan and from his western guardians. Sacking of the Supreme
Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, lawyers’ strident protest,
media’s unstinted support and the reinstatement of the dismissed chief
justice had unhinged his plans. He was keen to retain both the
positions, the army chief and the president and allow a semblance of
elections and a handpicked prime minister, to rule for ever. This did
not happen. More
FOCUS
A visit to Pakistan Ishtiaq Ahmed BETWEEN October 27 and November 7, I happened to be in Pakistan mainly
to attend a conference and to collect material for my latest research.
The Institute of Public Policy Research Islamabad and the Institute for
Security and Development Policy, Stockholm had jointly organised a most timely
conference on, The Role of Religious Communities in Pakistan. It must be said to
the full credit of the organisers that they invited the best Pakistani experts
on the different religious communities in Pakistan. It was very enlightening to
learn from the experts about the diverse standpoints and concerns of the
various religious communities and sects in Pakistan. More
Where does India Stand? Gobind Thukral
THERE is no dearth of the Indian political elite telling the world that
it is just a matter of time when India is reckoned as world power along
with America, England, Canada, Russia and China. Our prime minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh is saying is the Congress party president Mrs. Sonia
Gandhi. Earlier the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance like
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishan Advani were presenting a shining
India before the people. These kinds of declarations are interesting and
go to show the leaders take people as gullible lot. The leaders believe
the public accepts as it has no experience of its own to question the
claims, however false these may be. More
LITERATURE
A Requiem for The Lost Glory of The Sikhs-II Dr Jaspal Singh
HERE are a couple of books by a dedicated Sikh scholar Ajmer Singh about
Sikh politics of a century and a half. Vihvin Sadi di Sikh
Rajniti, (Sikh Politics of 20th Century) Sikh Rajniti da Dukhant:
Kis Bidh Ruli Patshahi (Tragedy of Sikh Polity: Whither Went
Sovereignty). Ajmer Singh’s hypothesis ‘whatever the R.S.S. says is
Hindu Nationalism which in all respects is equivalent to Indian
Nationalism’ is debatable if not utterly wide of the mark. Similarly the
Jews analogy to Sikhs and of Khalistan to Israel is completely
irrelevant. Better the Sikhs don’t get a nation like the one the Jews
have got. Moreover the Jews in Christian era have never been in power in
any country before 1948 but the Sikhs did remain in power though for a
few decades and were never persecuted after the seventies of the 18th
century till the gruesome events of eighties of the last century.
More
Breaking the script barrier Software to bond millions of
Punjabis across the world THERE
is happy news for the two Punjabs. Indeed for Punjabis living in the
four corners of the world. A core group of computer scientists at the
Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi language,
literature and culture at Punjabi University, Patiala, have developed
software that can convert Gurmukhi script into roman, Devnagri and
Shahmukhi (Punjabi written in Urdu script in Pakistan) or any of these
scripts into the each other. A Punjabi software suite to knock down
Punjabi script barriers has been developed at the Advanced Centre for
Technical Development of Punjabi language, literature and culture at the
Punjabi University in Patiala. More
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A déjà vu of Sorts Ishtiaq Ahmed
MANY of us have experienced déjà vu -- the unsettling sensation that one
has been in a particular situation before, but knowing almost equally well that
such a situation did not exist until then. For someone believing in rebirth or
spiritualism this is the strongest argument of having been there before. More
No Migrant Labour, No Green Revolution Manjt Singh ‘PUNJAB is the grain bowl of India’. This is a popular belief among the
economists as also the policy planners. The traditional agriculture, located
within peasant culture and economy, slowly metamorphosed to commercial
capitalist agriculture ever since the high tide of green revolution swept over
the sprawling plains of Punjab.
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Poor Sanitation takes Millions of Lives L.K.Verma IN developing countries like India the poor sanitation conditions are
creating major havoc for the people. You can see piles of garbage and
dirty muddy water clogging everywhere. Basic amnesties like clean
drinking water, minimum housing and sanitation are denied to millions
even after sixty years of independence. More
LAW
& JUSTICE
Separated Wife’s Right to husband’s house standard Joginder Singh Toor THE
Supreme Court of India in a recent judgment has granted to a separated wife,
even if she is having her own income, maintenance to enable her to attain the
same standard of living that she enjoyed in her husband’s house before
separation. “Where the personal income of the wife is insufficient, she can
claim maintenance so as to maintain herself in the way she was used to in the
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Cement factories, lesser rain and snow hit saffron
cultivation Ajmer Alam Wani writes from Srinagar
IN Pampore as the time to reap the fruits of their hard labour draw
near, farmers here are worried. Reason: the yield of the saffron crop, the glory
of this part of the Kashmir Valley, has been falling year after year. Some 14
km away from the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, Pampore, the heartland of
saffron, where a stone memorial greets you with the message ‘World's Best
Saffron Grows Here”, has been losing its sheen slowly but surely.
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COMMENT
Govt. has plenty for
ministers’ comforts Ajmer Alam Wani
FOR the past 135 long years, the old tradition of Darbar Move from
Srinagar to Jammu and back has been kept with remarkable efficiency. The
governments at various levels are notorious for inefficiency. This unique way
of keeping two state capitals for six months each and the government moving its
headquarters for winter and summer was started in 1872, during the rule of
Maharaja Ranbir Singh. More
Death Hangs over the Dal Lake Ajmer Alam Wani
THE picturesque Dal Lake in Kashmir, which draws tourists from world
over, is quickly being stripped off its shimmering beauty. It is shrinking in
size with routine dumping of industrial wastes and encroachment along its banks.
It is a victim of apathy of both the government and the citizens. How cruel is
that!
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IT was indeed excruciating for
poor Pervez Musharraf to shed his ‘second skin’, the military uniform as
chief of world’s sixth largest standing army. Derobed and lonely, he is
now a self appointed President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. For
the past couple of months, Musharraf was under intense pressure from
within Pakistan and from his western guardians. Sacking of the Supreme
Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, lawyers’ strident protest,
media’s unstinted support and the reinstatement of the dismissed chief
justice had unhinged his plans. He was keen to retain both the
positions, the army chief and the president and allow a semblance of
elections and a handpicked prime minister, to rule for ever. This did
not happen. 
BETWEEN October 27 and November 7, I happened to be in Pakistan mainly
to attend a conference and to collect material for my latest research.
The Institute of Public Policy Research Islamabad and the Institute for
Security and Development Policy, Stockholm had jointly organised a most timely
conference on, The Role of Religious Communities in Pakistan. It must be said to
the full credit of the organisers that they invited the best Pakistani experts
on the different religious communities in Pakistan. It was very enlightening to
learn from the experts about the diverse standpoints and concerns of the
various religious communities and sects in Pakistan. 
THERE
is happy news for the two Punjabs. Indeed for Punjabis living in the
four corners of the world. A core group of computer scientists at the
Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi language,
literature and culture at Punjabi University, Patiala, have developed
software that can convert Gurmukhi script into roman, Devnagri and
Shahmukhi (Punjabi written in Urdu script in Pakistan) or any of these
scripts into the each other. A Punjabi software suite to knock down
Punjabi script barriers has been developed at the Advanced Centre for
Technical Development of Punjabi language, literature and culture at the
Punjabi University in Patiala. 
‘PUNJAB is the grain bowl of India’. This is a popular belief among the
economists as also the policy planners. The traditional agriculture, located
within peasant culture and economy, slowly metamorphosed to commercial
capitalist agriculture ever since the high tide of green revolution swept over
the sprawling plains of Punjab.
IN developing countries like India the poor sanitation conditions are
creating major havoc for the people. You can see piles of garbage and
dirty muddy water clogging everywhere. Basic amnesties like clean
drinking water, minimum housing and sanitation are denied to millions
even after sixty years of independence. 
THE
Supreme Court of India in a recent judgment has granted to a separated wife,
even if she is having her own income, maintenance to enable her to attain the
same standard of living that she enjoyed in her husband’s house before
separation. “Where the personal income of the wife is insufficient, she can
claim maintenance so as to maintain herself in the way she was used to in the
place of her husband”. 
