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Dr. Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
ATTITUDE, competency and knowledge are
three components of problem-solving and positive
environment. Experts believe that mere knowledge
gaining skills can’t help in building positive
environment if social attitudes that hamper it are
not challenged. Indian universities and colleges
may have promoted knowledge and competency, but
appears to have done very little to challenge
social attitudes.
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| In the land of Gadarites |
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Gurpreet Singh writes
from Vancouver
A trip to California, USA will remain one of my
most memorable experiences of life. I have been
longing to visit this land which used to be once
the nerve center of the activities of Gadarites, a
group of revolutionaries that believed in armed
struggle against the British occupation of India.
The trip coincided with the martyrdom day of three
revolutionaries who were hanged by the British
rulers for waging war against the colonial Empire
which had occupied India until 1947.
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| All women team for Sikh
gurudwara in Canada |
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Jagpal S Tiwana
AT its annual General Body meeting held on December
20, 2009 Maritime Sikh Society, Halifax, Canada
elected all women office bearers to run the Gurdwara
for the year 2010. This is not the first time
that a woman has been elected President of this
Gurdwara. In 1993, when Mrs. Gurdip Kaur Toor
was elected President for the first time, all
other office bearers were women. More
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Tiger Woods, another victim of racism
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 TIGER WOODS, probably the World’s best golf player
joins the long list of super stars who have become
victims of capitalism or racism or both. In the
last category, he joins OJ Simpson and Michael
Jackson. What is common between these three? All
are blacks married to white women. More |
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| Pakistan 2009: In retrospect |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 ON March 3, 2009, the unthinkable happened in
Lahore. Terrorists opened fire on the visiting Sri
Lankan cricket team. Although some players
sustained injuries, none was killed or maimed.
Some on-duty police officials were killed. Such an
attack had no typical justification. More
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| Sri Lanka: Five years after Tsunami,
many still shelterless |
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Amantha Perera
"WE have been here for almost five years.
So many promises have been made, but very few have
been kept," complains Mohideen Nafia, 22, one of
the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami still
living in a temporary facility in the coastal town
of Kalmunai, located 300 kilometres east of the
capital, Colombo. Newly married Nafia would have
preferred a house of her own with her husband. But
at the moment she has to make do with what amounts
to a shelter, a one-room unit in a
government-provided disaster camp. More
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| Mahatma Gandhi on music |
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Satya Narayana Sahu
EVEN as Mahatma Gandhi had elementary knowledge of
music he had extraordinary love for it and
brilliantly expounded its far reaching
significance for individual, social and national
life. While explaining its abiding place in the
realm of spirituality and religion he passionately
wrote about its therapeutic value in overcoming
anger and ensuring peace and tranquility of mind. More
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Land scam: Army Chief evasive on action against
his men | Ensure aid to Pakistan not misused:
India tells US | SAD (A) to contest the coming
SGPC elections on Khalistan issue: Mann | Big
gain in RIL takes Sensex higher | Liverpool to
focus on top 4 after FA Cup loss
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| Land scam: Army Chief evasive
on action against his men |
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extreme pressure from the government and media to take
action against officials embroiled in the Sukhna land
scam, Army chief Deepak Kapoor on Thursday vaguely hinted
that action would soon be taken against the offenders.
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Updated on January 15, 2010 at 12:30 a.m.
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- Ensure aid to Pakistan not
misused: India tells US More
- SAD (A) to contest the coming
SGPC elections on Khalistan issue More
- Big gain in RIL takes Sensex
higher More
- Liverpool to focus on top
4 after FA Cup loss More
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Asia Post [www.southasiapost.org]
wishes that there is less of hatred and insanity around
and more of peace and compassion.
A joyful year for all. Let the dreams take wings.
Woh jo hum rakhte the ik hasrat-e-taamir so hai
[the passion for advancement that we had, continues] |
| E D I T O R I
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| Aam admi getting choked
under rising prices |
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FOR a common Indian citizen or an aam admi in
our common political parlance the year 2009 has
been a frightening nightmare. Prices particularly
of the food items have shot up in an unpredicted
manner and even daal roti is fast becoming out of
reach.
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Politics and business of climate
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 Gobind Thukral
REPRESENTATIVES of 193 countries and heads of
states or senior ministers of 120 countries along
with the experts spent 15 days in Copenhagen
capital of Denmark finally to skip the
catastrophic climate change crisis that threatens
the very existence of the earth. Those volunteers
who could manage to reach the city to urge the
leaders to take monumental decisions to save the
world were either kicked around or greeted with
water canons. Many were beaten and arrested. More |
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Climate change: History was not made
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Stephen Leahy
THERE is no Copenhagen climate treaty.
History was not made here and no deal was sealed.
After two years of intense negotiations by 193
countries, what is abundantly clear is the enormous
divide between the rich and poor countries. More
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Sleeping with the enemy
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 H. K. Dua
TEXT of the maiden speech H.K. Dua, Member of
Parliament (Rajya Sabha) & Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune
in the Rajya Sabha on November 25,2009
Shri H.K. Dua (Nominated): Mr Deputy Chairman,
Sir, over 45 years ago, I was in the Press Gallery above
where I started my Parliamentary reporting. More
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| Memories of New Year
and Reflections on 2010 |
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 Bal
Anand
I have to summon the deepest recesses of my
thoughtfulness to recollect how and when the concept of
calendar related Time had got registered in my mind for
the first time. I think it was it was in the winter of
2007 Vikrami Samvat ie around January 1950.
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Former Indian spies reject CIA claim
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
 AT least two former Indian spies have rejected the
CIA claim on David Headley, a suspected terrorist
who was charged by the US authorities for the last
year’s Mumbai attack. Headley who was charged for
conspiring the 26/11 attack that left over 170
people dead in the financial capital of India was
dubbed as ``double agent’’ of the Pakistani spy
agency, ISI and the USA’s CIA. More
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A few basic principles of Economics
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Vinod Anand
LIFE is a divine gift to us, and so are other
conditions that help us live it. When we are born,
the life span, whatever it is, is given and is
exogenous, though unknown. The family, the place,
the surroundings and the socio-economic conditions
with which we get linked at the time of our birth
are also given. More
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As Ludhiana burnt
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 LUDHIANA
is an important industrial centre and contributes in a
big way to the economic prosperity of state. The workers
from other states are the back bone of this
productivity. It is important that a sense of justice
must prevail among them, which is getting eroded in many
ways. More
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Year 2009: The end of the American era and the
beginning of Asia’s Century
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Sawraj Singh
THE end of the year 2009 and the first decade of
the 21st century show that America’s status as the
only superpower of the world has ended and the era
of the western domination of the world has also
ended.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Intellectual property rights
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Joginder Singh Toor
 PROPERTY
generally known, is tangible or intangible
property i.e. any possessions, resources, assets,
lands, houses, belongings, moveable or immovable.
It includes the most valuable one, the
intellectual property, comprised of the quality of
mind, the attribute, the virtue, the ability, the
power arising out of idiosyncrasy, quirk or
intellect. More
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| COMMENT |
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SAFMA condemns attack on Peshawar Press Club
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Asian Free Media Association and South Asia Media
Commission have condemned a suicide attack at the
Peshawar Press Club as “outrageous”. “The blast, which
occurred following a string of threats, is an attempt at
undermining independent reporting through coercion. More
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