http://www.thehindu.com/ The Internet edition of The Hindu, India's national newspaper en-us Copyright 2009 The Hindu Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/hindux.gif http://www.thehindu.com/ 468 50 Editorials http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153760800.htm The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Editorials http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153750800.htm It has been a long and agonising wait for Bangladesh. The judicial confirmation of the 1998 conviction of the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s founding father, signifies a historic turn, though one would have wished the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Leader Page Articles http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153550800.htm Education is expected to remedy the perpetuation of the beliefs and practices through which patriarchy operates, but it can hardly do this when its own rituals are no less ossified and oppressive. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 News Analysis http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153800900.htm The Commonwealth may at times act as referee to its mix of young and old member states, but more often it has to provide the services of a coach. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 News Analysis http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153810900.htm She’s ba-ack! Sarah Palin has been making the rounds promoting her new memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, and reminding Americans why we didn’t vote for her in the first place. Whether on Oprah, telling the world that ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 News Analysis http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153830900.htm Hollywood actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lucy Liu on Thursday called on the international community to take action to protect children from threats, saying it is “the only thing to do” for the future. At the occasion ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 News Analysis http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153790900.htm * * Tahawwur Rana is a Pakistan-born Canadian, and not a Canadian born Lashkar-e-Taiba operative as mentioned in the fourth paragraph of a report “Nuclear installations safe: Manmohan” (November 18, 2009). * * The ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Letters to the Editor http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153560801.htm The sugar policy followed by successive governments is intrinsically contradictory and distortionary. Sugarcane, the raw material, continues to be regulated whereas the end product, sugar, has largely been deregulated. The farmer and the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Letters to the Editor http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153560802.htm The article “Another tryst: Imagining India & Russia” (Nov. 20) bears testimony to the platonic friendship between India and Russia. Since time immemorial Russia has been supporting India unconditionally on all important ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Letters to the Editor http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153560803.htm In his article, “Talent attracts talent” (Nov.20), Inder Verma makes several valid points to justify the emigration of Indian scientists to the West to be at the hub of things and fulfil their potential. Indeed, India currently ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009