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US congress members attend cult blessing ceremony Guardian

Images: The world"s first private spaceship Rediff

Police chief"s home burgled as he gave crime talk Ananova

Indians carry horror tales from US camps  Rediff
"It is slavery there in the American camp. We are being treated worse than animals," Peter Thomas, a native of Mavelikkara in Kerala, who did odd jobs such as cleaning and laundry works in an American army camp. Thomas along with two of his friends A.....

India honours, then forgets, its bravest young citizens  BBC
the prestigious national award came with the promise of a free college education, a scholarship and a monthly allowance. Three years after he received the award, these promises have come to nothing and the young boy is no closer to his dream. In .....

Secular media launches intellectual Jihad on Gujarat...  Newindpress
What are the dispute-free aspects of the news reports so far? Ishrat was with three men in the car that was intercepted and two of them were Pakistanis. No dispute. Ishrat disappeared from the house on May 12 and the shooting incident took place at 4.....

Two Imperialisms: Iraq 2004 is an Echo of India 1857
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan can be seen as Avadh, Nizam and Punjab while Syria, Iraq and Iran as Mysore and Marathas. The British isolated Mysore and Marathas assuring Avadh all the while of protection and profit. Punjab under Ranjit Singh was too hot to handle so it was left alone.

U.S. Dominance of Skies May Wane  Yahoo
The success of the Indian air force against American fighter planes in a recent exercise suggests other countries may soon be able to threaten U.S. military dominance of the skies, a top Air Force general said Wednesday...........

Want to Prosper? Then Be Tolerant  Forbes
India is another example. It is the nature of the Hindu religion to be tolerant and, in its own curious way, permissive. Under the socialist regime of Jawaharlal Nehru and his family successors the state was intolerant, restrictive and grotesquely bu.....

Journeying to the Source of Ganga  NPR
NPR"s Vice President for Legal Affairs, Neal Jackson, recently traveled to India with a group of producers gathering material for a radio series on the river Ganges. In this essay, he describes the journey to the sacred river"s source. I never realiz.....

These ghosts just don`t go away...Arvind Lavakare  Rediff
Our English-language press is not content with that; pouncing on Vajpayee suddenly pointing a finger of guilt at Modi, the press is eager to rub the Gujarat salt into the BJP`s lesion of Election 2004. Has the Congress atoned for the Sikh carnage of .....

The Makings of an Unjust Society...Rajeev Srinivasan  Rediff
The Kashmiri Loot of the Nation about how India has effectively become an economic colony for Kashmiris. It is apparent that it is also a military colony for them: for Indian soldiers die to defend Kashmiris, who then turn around and dishonour them. .....

Exclusive: Thomas Friedman column  IExpress
Visiting India and now China in the past few months tells me how much we Americans need to finish our business in Iraq and lower our profile there—not so we can wash our hands of the idea, and necessity, of promoting reform in the Arab world, but so .....

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Opinion and Guest Columns

Resurgence of Bengal Economy: Myths, Reality & Future Aruni Mukherjee

India commits not to Israel but to Muslim World Gary Fitleberg

Bribes to Indian Congress Party N.Krishna

Power centers and Power brokers S Ramanujan