Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Opinion
News Update

News
Front Page
National
Regional:
• Southern States
• Other States
International
Opinion
Business
Sport
Miscellaneous

Index

Events 2001

Features:
Life
Magazine
Literary Review
Metro Plus
Business
Open Page
Education
Book Review
SciTech
Entertainment
Young World
Quest
Folio

Stocks
Quotes
SE Diary

Advts
Classifieds
Employment
Obituary

Archives
Yesterday's Issue
Datewise

Group Sites
The Hindu
Business Line
The Sportstar
Frontline

Home

Editorials
A well thought out policy
THE MONETARY AND Credit Policy for the year 2002-03 is, as expected, devoid of any sensational announcements. There is only one modest concession — by way of a 50 basis point reduction in the CRR — to the ever-persistent lower ...
Do not marry her off
CHILD MARRIAGE IS a shocking reality in an India which purports to call itself a modern, progressive nation. Every year, perhaps every day, children are marched to a "mandap" and forced into a relationship they have only the faintest of ideas ...


Leader Page Articles
Is Islam really jehadi?
By Imtiaz Ahmad

The rise of militant trends in every Muslim society has its own context... This needs to be understood and evaluated.
America's nuclear hit-list
By P. S. Suryanarayana

The Bush administration is consciously extending the theory of war to cover every peacetime move of America's potential and actual enemies.


News Analysis
POLITICAL IMBROGLIO
A defining day for India, Pak.
By K.K. Katyal

It could not have been planned. It is just a coincidence. April 30 has turned out to be a defining day of sorts for the heads of India and Pakistan — the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf. Mr. ...
Behind every woman... lies history
By Devaki Jain

Using a well-worn axiom, namely that `behind every woman lies... ( unstated).. a man', Supriya RoyChowdhury has argued (The Hindu, 21 April, 2002) that the effort to `empower women' by reserving seats for them in local self-government, has ...
BJP on the defensive, not apologetic
By Kuldip Nayar

Tainted reputations and battered images cannot be repaired by mere slogans and rhetoric. ``India does not have to learn secularism from others'', says the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. Brave words! But secularism is not about completing ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Timely alert
  • Save the fabric
  • TDP's dilemma
  • Betrayal by BSP
  • Where are ethics?
  • Unholy alliance
  • Silver lining

    Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education | Book Review |

    Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com
    Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address

  • News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous | Index | Features: Life | Magazine | Literary Review | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education | Book Review | Business | SciTech | Entertainment | Young World | Quest | Folio |

    The Hindu Group: Home | About Us | Copyright | Archives | Contacts | Subscription
    Group Sites: The Hindu | Business Line | The Sportstar | Frontline | Home |

    Copyright © 2002, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu