State Repression in the Narmada Valley
Guest Editorial
The bereaved river rages in despair. Cultural genocide is never justifiable regardless of how much economic prosperity results. The injustices in the Narmada Valley must be scrutinized by international human rights organizations. The government must comply with the rule of law.

Gendercide and genocide
By Adam Jones
A theme of the article is that gendercide, at least when it targets males, has attracted virtually no attention at the level of scholarship or public policy. The present article seeks to place acts of gendercide in comparative and global-historical perspective. It argues that gendercide -- inclusively defined as gender-selective mass killing -- is a frequent and often defining feature of human conflict.

Linguistic development in Punjabi
By Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon
I am actively involved on a project in the UK, not only promoting Punajbi language, but also developing new words and nouns for situations and items that to date have no words in Punjabi. I am concentrating mainly on animal names, as I feel that all other areas are currently being researched by universities in Punjab. However my research is no good, unless it reaches the concerned institutions.

Terrible toys to play with
By Mohammad Shehzad
While Pakistani and Indian hawks, who pose as strategic analysts and experts, loudly trumpet that deterrence has been proven to work, events since 1998 have completely falsified their predictions. Their published claims had been that overt nuclearization would create a stable balance of terror, making it impossible for either country even to think of attacking the other.

Nine atop Everest
By Manmohan Singh Kohli
Ahluwalia placed his wrist-watch and a photograph of Guru Nanak on the summit. Rawat placed an image of Goddess Durga, and Phu Dorje placed a silver locket containing the Dalai Lama’s photograph.

The shortage of quality teachers and personnel policies
By Dwane Allen
Are the stresses of meeting expectations from multiple stakeholders and burnout the primary contributors to this so-called teacher shortage and high teacher turnover rate? According to Ingersoll, the nation is far from experiencing a teacher shortage. He reports that the nation, per capita, actually has a surplus of teachers; the only shortage of teachers is found in our poor communities and in certain concentrations, such as special education, bilingual education, math, and science.

Nuked psyche
By jetty Singh
Nuclear war has no victors and no vanquished. There is no pride in developing nuclear “deterrence”, to protect man made borders, when hundreds of millions live hungry and impoverished lives. There is one Creator and all are children of the same ‘Womb.’

Lacson inquiry into Miguel Arroyo dismissed
By Danny Chan
Lawmakers have dismissed allegations from an opposition senator that the husband of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo illegally embezzled at least P270 million in campaign contributions. The House’s deputy speaker, Raul Gonzalez, cited insufficient evidence in rejecting Senator Panfilo Lacson’s allegations against the First Gentleman.

Campaign to recast Sikh image by Sikhs of Diaspora
By Bhupinder Singh Mahal
However, he did not let the taunts about his identity shame him. And at no time did he feel that the turban was a cross to bear. Instead, he found comfort, strength and pride in his faith. Time would show that the turban was no handicap in building of his career that began with a technical apprenticeship and moved along to senior executive positions in some of the leading Fortune 500 companies.

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By Indira Jaisingh
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Another war between India and Pakistan would be physical suicide for Pakistan, economic suicide for India, and a catastrophe for the Sub Continent. The ordinary people of India and Pakistan have realized the truth of that statement.

Beyond War: A new way of thinking
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In the last century, we have often used the process of discovery to pursue incorrect goals. We discovered the laws of nature that enabled us to make nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. We have discovered new technologies and implemented them without regard for their by-products - the hazardous wastes, the pollution of the atmosphere and the oceans, the acid rain. We have created the tools of our own extinction.

Would the real Gandhi please stand up?
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While researching the historical documents, however, I found that Gandhi’s participation had nothing to do with “humanitarian concerns” for Black people. He was more concerned with “allying relationships” with the colonial Whites living in Natal colony.

A vision on Nanda Kot
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About two hours after we left our camp, the wind started blowing hard. It soon developed into a strong blizzard. We were blue in the face and our progress was checked by the blinding snow storm. A mist gathered all around us and visibility became poor.

Prayer revolution
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Swiss ruling paves way for release of looted Marcos funds
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Their names liveth for evermore
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Return to your home in the distant, sun bathed East and proclaim how your countrymen drenched with their blood the cold northern land of France and Flanders, how they delivered it by their ardant spirit from the firm grip of a determined enemy; tell all India that we shall watch their graves with the devotion due to all our dead.

Train to India
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Universal Preschool
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A people's gratitude
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Humaneness and gestures of charity build bridges between peoples of divers and even hostile persuasions. Mankind needs such bridges more today than it ever before did. We, in India and Pakistan, need them much more. Our tempers are frayed, our moods dark.

Armistice Day
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Towards a contextually relevant fiqh for India
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With the rise of the Taliban, consisting largely of graduates and students from Deobandi madrasas in Pakistan, madrasas are now a hotly debated issue in the media. Although madrasas were originally intended as institutions for the preservation and transmission of the Islamic religious tradition as a whole, in contemporary India they focus largely, although not exclusively, on the teaching of the minutiae of fiqh or Islamic jurisprudence.

Indian media and minorities
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