One of the great things that is happening in India at the moment is the much talked about Golden Quadrilateral project. This project is bound to give a tremendous boost to the Indian economy by providing good quality road infrastructure. MORE
For more information and updates on the project, please visit the official website of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI): www.nhai.org. Also, there is a very active yahoo e-groups that has interesting discussions on various aspects of these road projects. The URL for the group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indiahighways.
11 Unanswered, Unasked Questions
By Subodh Atal
About 30 months after the September 11 attacks, there is very little closure for the survivors. The Bush administration has spent the last year attacking a nation that had nothing to do with the attacks, and was very low on a scale of threats that could mirror or exceed the 9/11 carnage: Iraq. That nation is in a shambles, and US credibility is at stake, with the concept of pre-emption, that was born out of the 9/11 attacks now questioned as a deadly case of cry-wolf.
So why is the Bush administration protecting its "tight ally", Musharraf? Does this have something to do with a Bin Laden October Surprise, as Maureen Dowd of the New York Times implies? Does it have to do with the administration's links to the Halliburtons and Bechtels, which may have been much more confident of the profit margins in reconstruction projects in Baghdad and Mosul than in Islamabad and Karachi? Or did operations in Pakistan not fit into the American presidential cycle? MORE
(Dr. Subodh Atal is a member of the US-based Kashmir News Network (mailto:www.ikashmir.org). The Views expressed are his own. email:atals@comcast.net)
New Frontiers in Leadership
Press Release
On February 7, distinguished members of the community Mr. Vikram Misri, Counselor (Political), Embassy of India, Mr. Sanjay Puri, Executive Director, USINPAC, and Ms. Sonal Shah, Co-founder, Indicorps, and India Abroad Person of the Year, 2003, met for 2 hours at the Tyser Auditorium, University of Maryland, and College Park to discuss "New Frontiers in Leadership, Participation, and Service". Mr. Devasish Ray, National Affairs Editor, India Post was the moderator for the panel. This workshop was dedicated to honor the young leader Ms. Sonal Shah for her accomplishments.
In future Ekal vidyalaya and DESI plan to host Dr. Kiran Bedi for a talk on "Empowerment through Education" on April 17th 2004. Further updates of this event will be available at www.desiumd.org. MORE