The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Online edition of India's National Newspaper Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Opinion

News Update

News
Front Page
National
States:
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• New Delhi
• Other States
International
Opinion
Business
Sport
Miscellaneous
• Cartoons
Engagements

Sudoku
Today's Headlines

RSS Feeds

Specials
In Focus
Photo Gallery
Events 2005

Features:
Magazine
Literary Review
Open Page

Metro Plus
Business
Education Plus
Book Review
SciTech
Friday Review
Young World
Quest
Property Plus

Stocks
Quotes
SE Diary

Advts
Classifieds
Jobs

Archives
Yesterday's Issue
Datewise

Group Sites
The Hindu
Business Line
Sportstar
Frontline
Publications
eBooks
Images

Home

Editorials
Revisiting capital account convertibility
The Reserve Bank of India has acted swiftly on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's suggestion to revisit the issue of full convertibility for the rupee by appointing a committee under the chairmanship of former Deputy Governor S.S.Tarapore to suggest ...

Back to square one
After knocking at the doors of both the Left Democratic Front and the United Democratic Front, the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) is back to charting its own course in the Kerala Assembly elections. What should have been obvious from ...

Leader Page Articles
Privatisation: come hell or high water
By P. Sainath

Converting water to a commercial good to be sold for profit invites disaster. Most of all for poor people whose already pathetic access to water will shrink swiftly.

News Analysis
India's water and sanitation challenges
By David C. Mulford

Public-private partnerships can accelerate solutions, and enhance operations and service.

Corrections and clarifications
Award mix-up and factual errors! In "Padma Awards presented" (March 21, 2006), the Padma Vibhushan, and not the Padma Bhushan (as published), was conferred on Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Colathur Rama Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib and Nirmala Deshpande. C.R. ...

OUT OF LONDON
Two British-Indians in cash-for-peerage row
By Hasan Suroor

Allegations that nominations were in return for loans or donations to the Labour Party.

Who's stone age, U.K. politicians or bushmen?
By George Monbiot

Stone aged and primitive are what you call people when you want their land.

Letters to the Editor

Read Today's supplements: Metro Plus | Opportunities |

Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com
Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address

Yesterday's
Opinion Page