Reading Soroor Ahmed's  "Later Muslims Ignored Social Sciences, Not Science" (Radiance,  17 - 23 June), I  agree when the writer says, "In the subcontinent, many of us keep parroting the theory propagated by Sir Syed that we lost because among other things, we ignored science."
Although Aligarh is my alma mater (1957-1962) I have held the view for the last several years that we North Indians suffer from a 'Sir Syed Syndrome'. Under its influence, we c...

Where we could see the United Progressive Alliance putting Pratibha Patil as its nominee for President, the National Democratic Alliance is keen on backing Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for the topmost post. Not to be left out, the Third Front has sprung a surprise by nominating incumbent APJ Abdul Kalam, though it is sure he will not agree to a contest.
With little more than a month to go for the result of the presidential election to become known, the race seems open. Thoug...

Results for the 10+2 is out. Today, students who have passed out of Class XII have far more educational and career options to explore than what we all had a couple of years ago. What's interesting, however, is that the majority of sought-after options from back then continue to be hot favourites even now – dream colleges are still IITs for engineering and AIIMS for medicine, although teenagers today have a whole lot of other interesting options to choose from.
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The arrogant dislike of Jr. Bush towards Vladimir (valad = son / mir = chief) reminds one of the years between 1950 and 1960 when America was spying each and every field of Soviet activity and disseminating it to the "free" world through lots of literature from quarterly journals to weekly bulletins prepared by the Institute for the Study of the Soviet Union mainly from Munich and also from Manila. Is the cold war to start again?
S.A.U. Patel
Khanpur Deh, Gujarat