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India for Unity among Developing Countries

India recently hosted the first ever meeting of developing countries to evolve a common stand on issues debated in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). India strongly urged the developing countries to stand together so as to ensure that international economic relations were not reshaped to their detriment at the end of the Uruguay Round.

Belgium Sees India as Country of the Future

India and Belgium have agreed to establish a Joint Commission to strengthen their mutual cooperation in the economic, industrial, scientific and technological fields. As agreement to this effect was signed in New Delhi recently by the Commerce Minister, Mr. Arun Nehru, and the visiting Belgian Foreign Trade Minister, Mr. Urbain, who said there was scope for diversification of trade in terms of both increasing the share of Indian exports to Belgium and diversification of the structure of trade through cooperation in new areas such as joint ventures. He said the excellent maritime and air links between the two countries should facilitate this process, adding that there would soon be additional weekly flights from Belgium to Bombay.
Later, addressing a news conference, Mr. Urbain gave the assurance that unified Europe for trade and investment by the end of 1992 would not ignore its commitments to developing countries, particularly India.
He said that a broad consensus was emerging among the EEC countries for the gradual removal of multifibre arrangement. This would promote India’s textile exports because Indian textiles were both competitive and of high quality. He said Belgium companies were looking for joint ventures as they regarded India as the “country of the future”.

Chinese Theatre Experts Visit India

A four- member delegation from the Chinese Opera Institute of the Academy of Arts visited India recently. The delegation, led by Mr. Yu Cong, Deputy Director of the Opera Institute, visited Delhi, Ujjain, Trivandrum and many other India cities to observe classical Sanskrit drama in India. The visit was sponsored by the Sangeet Natak Akademi under the cultural exchange programmed between India and China.

Nehru award for Arafat

Nehru award for Arafat

Nehru award for Arafat

At a glittering ceremony in New Delhi on March 27, President R. Venkataraman conferred on President Yasser Arafat of Palestine the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for 1988. The Award carries a citation and cash money of Rs. 1.5 million.

Accepting the Award, Mr. Arafat announced that the award money would be converted into a fund for constituting an annual Indo-Arab award for achievements in science and technology and promotion of democracy, human dignity and freedom, for consolidation of unity in India and for development of Arab and Indian relations.

Mr. Arafat also called for a new orientation to the non-aligned movement “so that through it we are able to face the era of new rapprochement dawning among other major world powers.”

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Buddha the Light of Asia

The history of Buddhism is the history of upward growth of religious thought in India from the sixth century B. C. onwards. In the words of the famous historian Romila Thapar, “Buddhism was a product of socio-intellectual movement of sixth century B. C.” Hence this century will remain distinguished for the intellectual development produced by the application of human reason to solve the riddle of life and death. Thus, Buddhism emerged as a distinct religion from Hinduism, more as a protest against the latter.

Prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu, as Lord Buddha was known in his early life, discovered that to live means to suffer, and suffering is unavoidable in this world. He said man’s desire for wealth and power leads to the suffering of others. As such it is necessary to discard our selfish goals and eliminate words as “me” and “mine” from our vocabulary, so as to avoid suffering.

This realization led him to renounce all comforts of life in search of the eternal truth. He finally attained enlightenment at Gaya which later became famous as “Bodh Gaya” because of the Lord’s association with the place.

He thought very little of rituals and religious ceremonies.Buddha’s line of reasoning was direct: Man alone has the power to mould his destiny by his own deeds and thoughts, which in turn can make him attain the bliss of Nirvana (salvation).

In essence, this was Lord Buddha’s message which travelled far and wide. Even today the Chinese and Japanese cultures, as also of the whole of Indo-China, are deeply permeated by the teachings of Lord Buddha, the Light of Asia.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

In the early 1970s, Project Tiger, launched by the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, had helped the tiger come back almost from the brink. In the process, Mrs. Gandhi had set a shining example of government initiative for other Asian countries to emulate, as the Project Tiger symbolized India’s dedication not only to protect the tiger but all wildlife as such. Now in the wake of the enormous success of that project comes another government initiative Project Elephant.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

Launched on april 1, 1991, this Project too aims at preserving and protecting this fascinating animal which has almost become a part of the Indian lore and psyche. It even forms a divine part of the Hindu my theology as it is considered a synonym of the elephant- headed Lord Ganesha.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

Project Elephant envisages improvement of degraded forest areas to ensure better availability of fodder and drinking water to the elephant ranges; linking of the fragmented parts of the elephant ranges by establishing migratory corridors; mitigating the socioeconomic problems of the people associated with the conservation of elephants; managing the problematic elephant population on scientific lines; strengthening anti-poaching infrastructure and effectively safeguarding against the illegal trade in ivory.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

For the first time, the Project proposes to limit the population of the elephants in a particular habitat vis-à-vis the maximum carrying capacity of land and forests. As the excessive population of elephants beyond the sustainable limit in any habitat leads to lesser availability of fodder and water, the Project suggests limited captures of elephants to maintain the population within limits. The captured animals will be used in forest operations and other domesticated uses.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

The Indian Elephant is a familiar sight as a domesticated animal throughout south-east Asia. It is slightly smaller than its African counterpart and easily distinguished by its smaller ears and rounded, rather than hollow, back. Its hind feet have four nails instead of the African’s three and its trunk only a single ‘lip’. The cows usually lack tusks and those of the bulls are seldom very large.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

Being forest animals, elephants have suffered, like so many others, from the relentless erosion of their habitat. In the Indian subcontinent, their largest surviving wild population is in the north-eastern forests where there are about 6500; in central Indian there are 2200 and in the north-west another 500, including those in Corbett National Park. An isolated population of about 6000 exists in southern India at the junction of the three states of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Everywhere their numbers are declining.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

Domesticated elephants are of great economic value, but their numbers are longer sustained by recruitment from the wild. Elephant round-ups have now been suspended altogether and stocks are being supplemented from calves born from already domesticated cows. They are, however, difficult to breed in captivity, partly because it is almost impossible to control bulls when they are in musth and partly because cows with small calves cannot work for a long time.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

Calves do not begin work until 15 years old. The cows are therefore condemned to a life of celibacy and toil. Nevertheless, they occasionally contrive to mate with wild bulls.

SAVING THE ELEPHANT

A strange thing about elephants is that apart from their tusk, they have six, sometimes seven, molar on each jaw, but only one set of molar is used for eating. When this set wears off, the next set is used. When the last set is in use, the elephants understand their end is near.