<A HREF="http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story ... GET=_blank>[color="Dark Red"]Media as Big Brother</font></a> :: Media wants to play judge, jury and executioner :: Anush Kapadia :: ie
<A HREF="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thsc ... GET=_blank>[color="Red Orange"]Mixing of cultures a dynamic force</font></a> By Anjali Mody :: The Hindu
"...The British peer and president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Navnit Dholakia, speaking ahead of the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, said a society was defined by the value it placed on its minorities and that "social disorder'' was a by-product of "discrimination". He spoke of the need to "celebrate differences and multiple identities''. Lord Dholakia said societies and cultures do not remain static and those who ignored this fact would be the losers.
Bhikhu Parekh, political philosopher and member of the House of Lords, said India's was not "a narrow band of cultural nationalism''. Rather, it was cultural universalism that India was engendered on; and it would be untrue to its history if it failed to remain "an open society''.
Ujjal Dosanj, former Prime Minister of the Canadian province of British Columbia, said the success Indians like him had achieved was the celebration of the diversity of culture of the countries of their settlement and of India. He called on India's 21st century leaders to leave an imprint of the country's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural identity on the world.
The South African MP, Mewa Ramgobin, condemning religious bigotry, said there was no security in the insecurity of others. His compatriot, Fatima Meer, said India's greatest export was its values, and that people of Indian origin living elsewhere did not want India to be guilty of exclusivism.
Lynda Babulal, Senator from Trinidad and Tobago, said India could "learn from her Diasporic children'', for they had both wit and wisdom to remake lives in distant lands — holding on to some "traditions'' and letting go others, enriching and being enriched by the societies that they were a part of."
<A HREF="http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story ... GET=_blank>How the early migrants built new lives</font></a> :: Voice from Little India :: Pamela Philipose :: ie
<A HREF="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thsc ... GET=_blank>[color="Red Orange"]Don't be ashamed of Hindutva :: Modi</font></a> By Mahesh Vijapurkar :: The Hindu
<A HREF="http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story ... GET=_blank>[color="Dark Red"]We are being sold another lemon</font></a> :: Sauvik Chakraverti :: ie
<A HREF="http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA ... GET=_blank>Be proactive :: Vajpayee tells governors</font></a> :: Indo-Asian News Service :: ht
<A HREF="http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA ... GET=_blank>The wheel of truth</font></a> :: K Natwar Singh :: ht
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<A HREF="http://www.indianexpress.com/edits&colu ... GET=_blank>Some sense at last</font></a> :: The state must learn from its unconscionable handling of the Iftikhar Gilani case :: Were the authorities sure of what they were doing when they arrested Syed Iftikhar Gilani, the journalist son-in-law of Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani? :: ie edit
<A HREF="http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA ... GET=_blank>A crime against an Indian</font></a> :: ht edit [like The Hindu ht too pooblishes a paper twice... like the xpress n the rest... it should be published once only... these r print pages, just cancel print]
<A HREF="http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA ... GET=_blank>[color="Dark Red"]Wanted: A Saviour</font></a> :: Amulya Ganguli :: ht
