Law must be above suspicion
The arrest of Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah for the deaths, of Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausarbi and their associate Tulsi Prajapati, in what was allegedly a fake encounter with the state police, is ma |
Passage to India: UK seeks new relationship
Prime Minister has embarked on a journey to India, accompanied by five Cabinet ministers including Foreign Secretary, William Hague, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Treasury and Busines |
Wizard of spin required no spin
Muttiah Muralitheran, 38, retired from Test cricket last week after helping Sri Lanka drub India by 10 wickets at Galle. He was the principal architect of that victory by capturing 8 Indian wickets in |
Political Sketchbook:
East India Companies
A BBC journalist asked me - 'is there money to be made for British companies in India?' I replied he should consider that the Indian defence budget is larger than the UK's defence budget and yet Brita |
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Dean Nelson, the Daily Telegraph's man in India, turned in another insightful report on the new. unfolding relationship between the UK and India (July 21). It is possible that the Cameron-led governme |
Governance transcends frontiers
Governance is today a moral currency gone global.
It is one of the essential elements of the politics of globalisation but its holistic application impacts social and economic ethics. The global fi |
Delhi Commonwealth Games: showpiece or false extravagance?
The forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi has raised many hackles. The Times Correspondent Jeremy Page fired a broadside at the venture, claiming that the monies spent on this extravaganza could hav |
Imran Khan calls international cricket to order
This year's the MCC Cowdrey lecture at Lord's was delivered by the former Pakistani allrounder and Test captain Imran Khan, a man whose presence lit up many a cricket field in every corner of the worl |
Barry Gardiner MP
Weeks at Westminster
Barry Gardiner writes: Priyesh Patel made such a fine job of Stephen Pound's article last week that I thought it would be sensible to let his talent flow once again...
Hello, this is Priyesh Pa |
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Truth will out. Eventually. There was much compelling evidence of the Pakistani state's guiding hand in the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 26. 2008 which claimed some 166 lives, but the clincher |
Mandelson memoirs could cleanse Labour
Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, is not quite the picture of a new darkness, some Labour activists had feared, but it does shed light on the darker corners of |
Congratulations, South Africa
South Africa, the acclaimed rainbow nation which came into its own two decades ago with the disappearance of apartheid government, hosted football's World Cup 2010. Last Sunday, the final was played o |
Islands of bigotry in a thriving democracy
Life consists of a multitude of paradoxes and nowhere is this truer than in America. The country's universities and research laboratories, all centres of scientific and technological excellence, are t |
Former High Commissioner of India visits Asian Voice office
Mr Kuldeep Nayar, former High Indian Commissioner and member of Rajya Sabha, as well as a leading Indian journalist and activist, visited the office of Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar for lunch and d |
Publication acknowledges Indian soldiers
Deputy High Commissioner Asoke Mukerji has brought out a book highlighting the contribution Indian soldiers made fighting during the First World War.
The publication titled ' |
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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a rare combination of goodness and greatness, paid this warm tribute to another of the world's good and great the Dalai Lama � in the The Daily
Telegraph (July |
Cameron visit to India generates buoyant hopes
Nothing so concentrates the mind as a crisis. The global financial meltdown has had a devastating impact on the British economy, forcing the Coalition to rethink the parameters of the country's foreig |
Facing up to violent Islamism in the UK
Robin Simcox, the co-author of the study for the Centre for Social Cohesion think tank, has remarked: "There are clear trends emerging with those involving themselves in terrorist activity in the UK. |
Steve Pound, MP
Opportunites in politics for today's youth
One of the many and varied delights of an MP's job is the opportunity that it affords for young people in the constituency to "work shadow" me or to gain some work experience in the office. This |
Direct London-Ahmedabad air service looms
Amid the brouhaha of the new Terminal 3 at Delhi's Indira Gandhi Airport, spare a thought for the resumption of direct flights between London and Ahmedabad after its suspension in 2007 by Air India. T |
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Jo Johnson is the Conservative MP for Orpington, but between 2005-08 he was the Financial Times South Asia Bureau chief, so he is a hive of information on India. Now as contributing editor, he penned |
Immigration: throwing out the baby with the bath water
Immigration is once more a hot potato, a subject of animated if not always reasoned debate.
Responding to public concern and an understandable desire to win public acclaim, votes and power the Cons |
Reseting the button of the Indo-British relationship
The Queen's speech at the State opening of Parliament included a significant reference to a new Indo-British relationship in step with evolving 21st century realities. During the cold war and the diff |
Soccer debacle in South Africa
The intense disappointment of millions of British soccer fans and even those with a less passionate interest in football, is understandable. Soccer has long been the people's game, whose stars are ico |
Gareth Thomas MP
Budget will break
manifesto promise
George Osborne's first Budget was a shocking mix of measures that will increase unemployment, hold back economic growth and damage vital public services. It was also striking for the wholesale breakin |
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"India-Israel: A Robust Strategic Partnership" is the title of a fascinating article by Brijesh Khemlani in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institution (RUSI), a notable right-ofcentre London |
Vote bank politics alive and well in India
The news that the much admired Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar, had returned a cheque for Rs 5 crore (50 million) collected for the Bihar disaster fund by the Gujarat public is dismaying. More intr |
Case to answer: China's supply of nuclear reactors to Pakistan
The Obama administration in Washington has made nuclear non-proliferation an article faith. China's rulers are as determined to breach the non-proliferation regime. They will announce at the forthc |
Historic budget unveiled
It was, as the Conservative Lib-Dem coalition government promised: an emergency budget that would meet head-on the need for a drastic reduction in public spending in order to tackle Britain's spiralli |
Change through evolution
Your letter published in Asian Voice is very inter- esting and you are right in saying that in a Democracy like India's, change comes through evolution and not revolu- tion. You are also correct that |
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YaleGlobal online (June 2) published a substantial (and arresting) analysis by Neeta Lal of "India's Medical Tourism Industry," which anticipates new opportunities of growth in the aftermath of the fi |
Delhi, Kolkata breathe easier
Most of us, or the wisest among us, are green.
The environment truly matters, and climate change is more than a buzzword. Urban pollution has long been a Third World curse, with India blighted most |
Commonwealth Games baton set to arrive in India
The eagerly awaited Commonwealth Games will open in Delhi on October 3rd and close on the 14th. After travelling through 71 countries, the Queen's baton will reach India on June 25; the relay to be th |
The best of Bangladesh
The Harrow Bengalee Association celebrated with style the rich heritage of Bangladesh at the Harrow High School last week. I've always found attending community events very fulfilling and th |
Thought for the Week
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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