Last
week members of the BJP’s youth wing vandalised India’s most
protected monument, the Taj Mahal. On Wednesday, it was the
turn of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal to storm the prohibited
garb garha of the makeshift temple at Ayodhya.
Dr
Raghava Menon, one of India’s best-known music critics, died
last Tuesday in New Delhi. We younger ones in the field of art
have good reason to remember him with affection, writes Renuka
Narayanan.
Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee recently admitted that there
is some disappointment in India that the US is not as sensitive
to Indian concerns on terrorism as we had expected, writes
J N Dixit.
Americans
feel humiliated that despite their might and organisation, some
obscure terrorist groups hailing from ‘faraway backward lands’
could so successfully attack the World Trade Centre and the
Pentagon and kill thousands of its citizens, writes D R Pendse.
Colleges
all over the country have recently opened and crowds of new
students are thronging their corridors. What is unusual this
time is the fact that there are many differently-abled people
who have taken admission in regular colleges, writes Archana
Jain.
