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Articles of Interest - Archive
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- India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle - BBC News
In a quiet government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information.
- India's superhighway to the 21st century -
International Herald Tribune
In the middle of the old Grand Trunk Road a temple sits under a peepul tree. The surrounding highway is being widened to four lanes, and vehicles barrel along either side. But the temple and tree thwart even greater speed, and a passing contractor says they soon will be removed.
- In Today's India, Status Comes With Four Wheels - New York Times
On the dark highway, the car showroom glowed in the night like an American drive-in. Inside, it looked more like a game-show set: bright lights, white floors, huge windows, high ceilings and ad posters of beaming consumers far paler than most Indians. For 36-year-old Ram Reddy, the price was right enough to make a down payment on his fifth family car.
- Is Pakistan doing its part in the war on terrorism?- USA Today
Police commandos burst into an all-girls madrassa here in what was meant to be a dramatic example of Pakistan's commitment to cracking down on Islamic extremism and religious schools that promote it. But the July 19 raid turned into a debacle.
- Trade links can build trust between India and Pakistan - International Herald Tribune
For 58 years India and Pakistan have traded accusations; now they're trading cattle. Last week, the nuclear-armed neighbors reopened the Wagah border in Punjab - the only road crossing between the countries - to trade after more than half a century.
- Healing meets pampering - The Telegraph
Most people go to India to stay in palaces and visit temples, or to mooch around its beaches. If they lose weight, it is unintentional and unpleasant. I, on the other hand, go to India for a different reason: I am addicted to its Ayurvedic spas.
- Bush's Bold Bet On India - Washington Post
The United States and India have put aside their troubled past to reach far into the future with a visionary bilateral agreement that challenges both nations and the rest of the world to treat nuclear weapons and nuclear energy with greater realism than they do under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- Embracing India - Washington Times
President George W. Bush should embrace India as the key strategic partner of the United States in Asia. President Richard M. Nixon's opening to China to obtain an ally against the Soviet Union has exhausted its advantages.
- Swift and offshore - The Guardian
Big businesses are not the only ones who can benefit from sending work overseas. Individuals can make cost and time savings, too. Ben Hammersley investigates.
- India Here We Come! - Saturday Dispatch
With Sparkling wards and medical costs a fraction of ours, India is ruthlessly targeting the growing number of British patients fed up with waiting lists and terrified of MRSA..
- The army history forgot
When Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, Philip Malins, an officer in the Indian army, was still fighting the Japanese. "We were still getting killed and prisoners of war were still dying," he told me in a voice choking with anger. "So when people, including the Government, want more or less to suggest the war was finished before 15 August, we will not have that. We will not have that."
- A New India
If a commitment to remain an open society is one of the pillars of India's nationhood, the other is our commitment to remain an open economy -- one that guarantees freedom of enterprise, respects individual creativity, and mobilizes public investment for social infrastructure. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to suggest that these are the principles to which all countries will increasingly want to adhere.
- Editorial: Courting India
India has no shortage of international suitors these days, as visits by Chinese and Pakistani leaders highlighted over the past few weeks. Amid all this high-level attention, perhaps the most consequential visitor will turn out to be Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who came courting at the end of last week.
In strategic terms, a stronger Indian-Japanese alliance appeals to both countries as a way to help balance Beijing's regional ambitions. And in the wake of the recent anti-Japanese protests in China, Japan -- and Japanese business -- have even greater reason to woo new friends in Asia. Tokyo's chilly relations with Seoul play a part as well.
- Bangalore's Big Dreams
BANGALORE, INDIA--Kaushik Mukherjee's workshop looks like a place where electronics go to die. The guts of tech gear lie exposed, their circuit boards tethered to computer monitors like patients on life support. But the reality is quite different.
Mukherjee and his colleagues are hard at work on the next wave of consumer electronics. In one area, they are doctoring a low-cost computer chip to mimic a pricey one for a sub-$50 satellite TV digital video recorder. Nearby, they are designing circuitry for a 65-inch high-definition television. There are other projects, too, ones they can't talk about for competitive reasons.
- Battle for the black hole - The Guardian
In the 1930s the rarefied world of science was ripped apart by a controversy that was to have devastating consequences for the development of astrophysics. It began when an Indian student called Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Chandra) decided to work out what would happen if Einstein's special theory of relativity was applied to the processes that went on inside stars. This step was important because particles inside stars travel at speeds close to that of light, a situation where Einstein's theory must be used.
- A New Deal for New Delhi - The Wall Street Journal
Condoleezza Rice's visit to New Delhi last week boosted the U.S.-India relationship and demonstrated that she and her new colleagues at the top of the State Department view India as a rising great power. John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can be safely concluded that nothing was accomplished." Ms. Rice's talks in India were more than useful.
- Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain can learn from India
PRIME Minister Tony Blair praised the contribution of the one million people of Indian origin settled in the UK and said India was a country he looked to with respect and admiration.
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