Agriculture
Jhootistan strikes against cotton farmers
DURING the 1965 war with Pakistan, the official radio companies of the two adversary countries carried on their own propaganda war. Radio Pakistan broadcast continuously its reports about how the Pakistani Air Force was dominating the Indian skies and ho
w it had wreaked havoc on all major Defence installations in India.
Editorial
Simply vegetating
THE VEGETABLE oil industry and trade are going through turbulent times, increasingly buffeted by low level of domestic production trailing consumption demand by a large measure, and rising dependence on imports, the volumes of which are expanding in the
wake of the long-drawn international bear market.
Miscellaneous
Negativism
AMONG the commonly encountered traits which cause no end of irritation, if not conflict, is a negative attitude to ideas and proposals. In domestic life, a spouse who is constantly resisting even innocuous suggestions from the other spouse can be a pain
in the neck, besides giving rise to situations fraught with the more ominous prospect of separation on grounds of temperamental incompatibility. In workplaces too, "abominable no-men" can cause quite a bit of disruption, and if they occupy leadership pos
itions, can be stumbling blocks to any kind of innovation or experimentation.
Politics
Where have all the Pandits gone?
WHENEVER you travel to Kashmir and write about the alienation evident in the people of the Valley, the question that comes up is: `Where are all the Kashmiri Pandits?' Have they become refugees in their own land?
Technology
CCMB's strides in transgenics
IN THE quest for developing cost-effective and humane alternatives to using animals for scientific research, especially in drug discovery, researchers at the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have made a major breakthrough.
Terrorism
Techniques to counter terrorism
THE ultimate in horror that terrorism is now capable of unleashing was demonstrated on September 11. The air attacks not only transformed the landscape of Manhattan and partially devastated the Pentagon, but also set into motion the transformation of US
defence strategy and budgetary proposals, with a cascading effect that is influencing policies of other nations.
Reality check for US
IN MOSCOW today, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Russian President, Mr Vladimir Putin, will no doubt reflect that four weeks into the undeclared war on Afghanistan, little remains of the sophistication that the US President, Mr Georg
e W. Bush Jr., and his advisers displayed at the start in rallying worldwide support and cutting off funding for the terrorists.
