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Muivah on the Naga Issue – An Unpublished Interview: I
Subir Ghosh: The birth of Naga nationalism is seen by many as the submision of a memorandum to the Simon Commission in 1929. Do you agree that the formation of the Naga Club was the first concrete step towards Naga nationalism?
Case and tale
The Best Bakery and Jessica Lall court rulings are now being seen in conjunction. It is natural that they would be. Not only did one judgment follow close on the heels of the other, they also provided an interesting study of contrasts. That of the consectaneous deduction that witnesses will gush forth with the truth in a conducive environment.
[Henceforth, BB – Best bakery, and JL – Jessica Lall, for the sake of convenience]
The court ruling in the JL case left everyone despondent. Disenchanted with the system. The ruling in the BB case seemed to underpin the argument about the necessity of witness protection programmes, about botched-up police investigations, about perjury penalisation for hostile winesses, and others. The problem, we are being told over and over again, is with the system. About the law being an ass.
Zee News and TOI correspondents file identical copies
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If you have ever worked as a reporter, you would know that no two reporters can use the same language to describe the same set of events. Something like fingerprints, you know.
But the Zee News and Times of India correspondents who filed the story on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking the Tamil Nadu Speaker's sanction to prosecute J Jayalalithaa have somehow managed to do the impossible.
Here's the Zee News story proudly slugged "Bureau report":
New Delhi, June 26: The CBI has sought sanction from the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker to prosecute AIADMK supremo and former state Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a 10-year-old case pertaining to Rs 2-crore gifts allegedly received by her from those she later favoured.
Correction Times
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So here it is, after all -- a correction from the New York Times on its description of the Press Trust of India.
Corrections: For the Record
Two articles on October 11 about the earthquake that struck India and Pakistan on October 8 misstated the ownership of the Press Trust of India, a main source of initial information on casualties and damage. (The error also occurred in unrelated articles on April 18, and May 26.) The news agency is a nonprofit cooperative owned by India's newspapers, not state-owned or state-run.
Good.
Jesus! NYT thinks PTI is state-run!!!!
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The New York Times has been diligently carrying stories on the earthquake that are being churned out by its zealous correspondents stationed in India and Pakistan. In its October 11, 2005 edition, NYT had a poignant story: An Earthquake's Pain Unites Two Rivals, for the Moment. All fine, but somewhere in Somini Sengupta's copy was a mention about the Indian news agency Press Trust of India being "state-run."
Trade and tourism has inched up in recent years. Transportation links have been extended, including a bus service begun with great fanfare last April, allowing people to travel between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad for the first time in a half-century. (The service was indefinitely postponed Monday because of quake damage, the state-run Press Trust of India reported.)