Tuesday, January 19, 1999
Blunders of babudom
One top official in the defence ministry strongly objected to the `misuse' of anti-aircraft guns in Kashmir for ground shelling. Little did he know that they are employed for dual purposes. But he alone is not to blame.
The rural road to prosperity
There are those who believe that agriculture can only prosper at the cost of the rest of the economy. The grain of truth, however, is that agriculture prospers only in the context of a non-agricultural economy which grows faster and symbolically integrates the rural sector with itself.
Sheltering South
Nine years after he crossed into Nepal from Tibet and moved on to Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, where the Dalai Lama heads the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Wangden Tashi (24) is on his way to acquiring a scholarship in Buddhism.
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