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Jehad Against World
The danger that Islamic terrorism poses to
the US and the world was underscored in a stunning manner by the audacious
strikes in New York and Washington.
Alliance In The
Air
Russia, NATO and
India may be friends in adversity.
Death
Bringer
The Saudi renegade embarrasses his hosts.
Joining
Hands
India will cooperate with the US in fighting terrorism.
Wake-up
Call
Despite precautions, India can't remain complacent.
$30 Billion And Counting
The
impact on India is just beginning to show.
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CRIME
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Liaison Man Man
Over half a century, Salik Ram has persuaded
almost 500 dacoits to lay down arms.
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Leisure Storeys
Cinemas, hotels, game arcades all rolled
into one.
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CINEMA
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Greenback Revival
Kolkata is getting a new polish with expatriates
providing the finance for productions.
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EDITORIALS
The Millennial Evil
It's not America alone that is at war. For India it
was a lonely battle.
It is one of those
moments in history when mortality is independent of power-or superpower.
The moment will be immortalised in that image of rolling flames over the
skylines of New York and Washington last Tuesday morning. New York and
Washington DC, the freedom and might of America as a nation as well as
a concept. The towers of the World Trade Center in New York were, till
that morning when two hijacked jetliners rammed into them, a celebration
in glass and steel of the architecture of triumphant capitalism. Equally
rich in symbolism was the other target: the Pentagon-the military icon
of the singular superpower. Today America's badly burned face is a cause
for perverted jubilation in some parts of the world. It's crucial not
to be swayed by these spurious claims of victimhood. September 11 witnessed
brutal assaults on the very idea of modern civilisation-assaults that
India has silently endured for more than two decades. And by the same
criminals.
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is the mark of the New Terror, whose authors want to impose a new architecture
for humanity. They call it jehad-the most obnoxious supremacist doctrine
since Hitler's "final solution". The new enemy is a faceless
presence and his methods of annihilation are becoming innovative-after
all, hasn't he reached the jet age? But he is the most destabilising presence,
an evil against which no nation seems adequately armed. His values violate
every tenet that defines this age of the marketplace and digital democracy.
He is an angry visitor from prehistory. His scriptural utopia breeds fanatical
madness. Like the earlier utopia of communism, this make-believe of religion
too is built on a visceral hatred of the enemy and a grotesque faith in
ultimate victory. From the wasteland of Afghanistan to the ghettos of
Gaza to the Kashmir Valley, the empire builders of a misplaced faith are
forever seeking out the enemy. They epitomise, as President Bush told
Americans, "the very worst of human nature".
So this moment of charred truth is not America's
alone. We have been there before. The towering inferno in New York has
illuminated the darkest reality of the times: someone is out there to
strike against the foundation of freedom and democracy. Like before, only
a collective endeavour of the civilised can take on the millennial evil.
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