Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Saturday, June 15, 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
The next President
HAVING GAINED THE support of key Opposition parties such as the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, A.P.J. Kalam is set to become the next President of India. The substantial political consensus that has emerged around the candidature of the ...
Software challenges
THE INDIAN SOFTWARE industry continues to be optimistic about its medium-term prospects in spite of being buffeted over the past year first by the IT-meltdown in the advanced economies and then by the downturn in global business after the ...


Leader Page Articles
Before the night falls
By K. N. Panikkar

The Gujarat events are attempts to enforce a divided and discriminative citizenship based on religious differences. Indian democracy hasn't had such a body blow in its history.
Gujarat and majority women
By Nonica Datta

The participation of women activists in the movement in favour of Ram's temple in Ayodhya, and in Hindu right-wing organisations is an enduring legacy of the communalisation of Hindu women in colonial India.


News Analysis
Democratic Front Govt. in a precarious position
By Mahesh Vijapurkar

MUMBAI, JUNE 14. Vilasrao Deshmukh has won the trust motion but the Democratic Front (DF) coalition that he leads is truncated: the Samajwadi Party, the CPI (M) and the Peasants and Workers Party left its fold and the Janata Dal (S) is split. The ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Hope for youth
  • Right choice
  • In abundance
  • Only two winners
  • Not a rubber stamp
  • Kalam's dream
  • A hidden agenda?
  • No double game
  • Temporary ceasefire

    Read Today's supplements: | Life | Young World | Quest |

    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