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| Greening of music |
| A new, web-based system of music promotion is now needed |
| Berlin is a great city for Western classical music. It has Philharmonie, the ultramodern home of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. It has Schauspielhaus, an 18th-century gem of a theatre which is now devoted to classical music. It has Deutsche Oper,... | Read.. |
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| No child’s play |
| Sir — It may seem an amusing idea to have dolls which look like Saddam Hussein and that dance to ... | Read.. |
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| Hanging on |
| Sir — I was bewildered by the statements of the Bengali literati that the death sentence would not ... | Read.. |
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| ON THE EDGE |
| Redrawing state borders is tricky business, more so in an ethnic cauldron like the North-east. The fresh border spat between ...| Read.. |
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| RIGHT GESTURE |
| Bridges may spring up in the unlikeliest of places. The signs of one such can be discerned in the All-India Muslim Personal L...| Read.. |
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| It’s a jungle out there |
| Given a choice between voters and tourists, power-hungry governments inevitably tilt towards the former. This has been the sc... | Read.. |
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| Ear to the ground |
| P. Chidambaram has announced a “bailout” package for Indian farmers by asking the banks in the commercial, cooperative and public sector to increase their rural lending by 30 ... | Read.. |
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| Growth has many factors |
| The performance of industrial growth has been less impressive than for agriculture overall, although there has been an acceleration of industrial output in the Nineties. The ... | Read.. |
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| We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; uglinwaa, vice and unhappiness have none. — JACQUES-HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE |
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