The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 03, 2008

OPINION

TERRORISM: How can a soft state defeat the forces of terror?
It was in 1964, while on a visit to India, that Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal called India a ‘soft state’. If Nehru’s India, with the then Congress having brute majorities in Parliament and State legislatures was a soft state, ...

TERRORISM: Young heads, bold feet
When this newspaper launched its Mumbai edition in 2004, the newspaper and this writer earnestly felt the launch was in celebration of Mumbai’s resurgence. Mumbai’s status as a globally prominent financial centre underscored ...

EDITORIAL: The West in recession
One year after America suspected its economy was sliding into recession, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), charged with mapping economic growth, announced on Monday that the country has been in recession since December 2007. ...

TERRORISM: Words, words, words
The new Union Home Minister has struck the right chord when he said immediately after taking charge of his new responsibility that what happened last week in Mumbai was a “threat to the very idea, the very soul of India that we know ...

TERRORISM: Live coverage
The coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attack by the electronic media, particularly the 24-hour news channels, has been notable. These channels brought terror in a spectacular fashion into the drawing rooms of homes thousands of miles away from ...

RADIO/TV: E-media excels itself
As a long-time student of effective communication and media-watcher in India and abroad, I have developed great admiration for the reporters, anchors and editors of the private TV news channels in the country. They are invariably on the ball, ...

TERRORISM: Lessons from Mumbai siege
As a Member of Parliament representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha it would be vain to claim that I am composed while writing this column (November 30). I was very upset at what happened in the last three days.That 10 terrorists, from ...

LETTERS: Eternal vigilance
The catastrophic terrorist attack in Mumbai should be a tragic reminder to various sections of the Indian public to maintain a constant alert against such strikes. The choice of the city of Mumbai and the targets indicate that the ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrasekhar • S Muralidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranbir Ray Choudhury • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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