Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Google



Opinion
News Update

News
Front Page
National
States:
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• New Delhi
• Other States
International
Opinion
Business
Sport
Miscellaneous
• Cartoons
Engagements

Sudoku
Today's Headlines


RSS Feeds


Specials
In Focus
Photo Gallery
Events 2004

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

Stocks
Quotes
SE Diary

Advts
Classifieds
Employment
Obituary

Archives
Yesterday's Issue
Datewise


Advt Links
  • WIN Free Tickets to Munich! Play NOW!

  • Google

    Group Sites
    The Hindu
    Business Line
    The Sportstar
    Frontline
    The Hindu eBooks
    The Hindu Images

    Home

    Editorials
    Avoidable disruption of flights
    Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad's warning to the private airlines to shape up or wind up has come not a day too soon. Towards the end of December when fog descends on the Delhi airport late nights and early mornings, it has been a dreary ...

    Invisibility makes them vulnerable
    Millions of children in the world's poorest countries are invisible and remain excluded from the framework of care that they need for their survival, growth and protection. `The State of the World's Children Report 2006', released recently by the ...

    Leader Page Articles
    The Force of Destiny: Zubin Mehta in Chennai
    By Krishna Thiagarajan

    You notice an extraordinary moment by the way it takes control of you. In this case, the music took control. Gone was any question whether this German music had a place in Chennai. It was inspiring.

    News Analysis
    Danger to the dialogue?
    By B. Muralidhar Reddy

    "THE GOVERNMENT of India has been watching with concern the spiralling violence in Balochistan and the heavy military action, including the use of helicopter gunships and jet fighters by the Government of Pakistan to quell it. We hope that the ...

    Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on neocons
    By Richard Drayton— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

    THE TRAGIC irony of the 21st century is that just as faith in technology collapsed on the world's stock markets in 2000, it came to power in the White House and the Pentagon. For, the Project for a New American Century's ambition of ...

    The swelling `Register of Deaths'
    By P. Sainath

    In Dorli village in Wardha, farmers simply put up signs announcing their whole village was for sale. It worked, with the local MP giving them Rs.10 lakh. Eslewhere, despair only deepens. Farm suicides have begun in rich Western Maharashtra, too.

    Italians "dumping grandparents"
    By Barbara McMahon— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

    The number of Italian grandparents living alone because their families do not want them is increasing.

    Letters to the Editor





    Read Today's supplements: Metro Plus | Sci Tech |

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

    Yesterday's
    Opinion Page


    News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous | Today's Headlines | Features: Life | Magazine | Literary Review | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education Plus | Book Review | Business | SciTech | Entertainment | Young World | Property Plus | Quest | Folio |
    Advts:
    Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

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

    Copyright © 2005, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu