![]() Online edition of India's National Newspaper Saturday, October 26, 2002 |
|
Opinion |
|
News Update
News
Stocks
Group Sites |
Editorials A stinging rebuke THE S.M. KRISHNA GOVERNMENT in Karnataka has only its unabashedly populist approach and brazen defiance of the highest court of the land to blame for the stinging rebuke the Supreme Court has tendered on the `Cauvery waters' issue. There is no ... Marriage and residency THANKS TO THE Jammu and Kashmir High Court, an archaic legal provision can no longer be used to discriminate against the State's women and rob them of their civil rights and privileges. The Court's recent judgment has undone an earlier ... Leader Page Articles Freezing identities By M. S. S. Pandian The identity that Ms. Jayalalithaa's ordinance wants to freeze is that of the Dalits as untouchables within the Hindu social order. MACROSCOPE State finances By C. Rammanohar Reddy WHEN MAHARASHTRA, one of India's richest States, begins to default on its interest payments any doubts about the financial condition of State Governments must vanish. Rich or poor, well administered or not, all State Governments are teetering on ... News Analysis Ordinance speeding up polarisation By V.Jayanth CHENNAI, OCT. 25. Intended or not, the Tamil Nadu ordinance seeking to ban `forcible conversions' seems to be having a twin effect in the State - one, it has sparked a realignment of political forces and two, it can lead to a sharp polarisation ... Letters to the Editor 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
Copyright © 2002, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu |