‘Containing Inflation’ - A myth (rediff.com)
We need problem-solving, not confused rhetoric or misguided action
We need problem-solving, not confused rhetoric or misguided action
Congress’s own MPs from J&K have called for immediate sacking of governor N N Vohra and restoration of 100 acres of land earlier given to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board.
HT was flooded with responses to our question on possible solutions to the J&K crisis. Read on for some of the reactions.
Violence flared over reversal of decision to hand over 100 acres of land to Hindus for pilgrimage to high-altitude shrine
The present situation is probably the worst crisis the state has faced in 50 years. During the 1990s, when the Valley was engulfed in violence, Jammu was an oasis, a model of tolerance and accommodation.
1 August, 2008 - Over 800 years ago, when Tsangpa Gyare Yeshi Dorjee (1161-1211) reached Nam-gyi Phu near Lhasa in search of a site to build the monastery as prophesied by his Guru, Lingchen Repa (1128-1188), nine dragons, said to be manifestations of the 80 great Indian Mahasiddhas, reared up from the earth and soared into the sky with loud thunderous roars.
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City tour operators confirm the dip in travellers planning vacations and tweaking packages to work around the inflated costs.
New Delhi, August 4 - Some 250 members from the Himalayan Committee for Action on Tibet (HIMCAT) across the belt of Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh expressed their solidarity and support for Tibet by participating in a peace march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar today.
When Oscar Wilde declared that “the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it”, he was probably attempting to provoke — épater les bourgeois , as the French might say. Wilde lived in an age, the latter half of the nineteenth century, of assurance and certitude.