The Hindu :Sunday, March 24, 2002

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Sunday, March 24, 2002

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Politics of children's games
The evolution of toys and games is interesting as it goes back to an age when childhood, as a concept, did not exist and where history records children to be little adults. Now, when children have become consumers in their own right, ANURADHA KUMAR e xamines the debate over the `influence' of modern games on impressionable minds, and the importance of playtime.

Game for play?
Perhaps we need to look at our traditions to discover new ways to play, says VINITA SIDDHARTHA.

Serious business
Play, an essential part of growing up, is often underestimated.

REFLECTIONS

Reckoning with Gujarat: Contemplating tradition
Spiritual wisdom is not impervious to human distortion and bigotry. Truth may be eternal but human perception of it is, by definition, conditioned, with all its messy implications. LATA MANI on the recent events in Gujarat.

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Flames of hatred
`All around us, injured people were lying on the floor ... Those without physical scars had obviously been wounded in their minds, which might never properly heal.' DOM MORAES records his impressions of Ahmedabad after the riots.

Columns

FIRST STRIKE By Anil Dharker History of Guja-riot		CAMBRIDGE LETTER By Bill Kirkman Landed with Zimbabwe

THE OTHER HALF By Kalpana Sharma Placating the battered		AGAINST THE GRAIN By C. Rammanohar Reddy Survivors do not matter

MEDIA PULSE By Sevanti Ninan Promoting the Oscars		SLICE OF LIFE By V. Gangadhar Hate rules

RURAL DIARY By Pushpa Surendra Freedom in the cage		ETIQUETTE By Hilka Klinkenberg Balancing trick

SCRIBBLING PAD By Sudhanshu Ranade Making money

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CINEMA

The movie lover's companion
Pauline Kael wasn't just any critic. She had, what PRADEEP SEBASTIAN calls an uncanny, marvellous knack to spot the little film that the others had allowed to get away.

HERITAGE
Crafting a future
Paramparik Karigar is an organisation of craftspersons formed to preserve and promote traditional arts and crafts. Its main aim is to empower craftsmen and enable them to live with dignity. ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM on the driving force behind the orga nisation, Roshan Kalapesi.

Health

HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

World Tuberculosis Day: Shouldering the burden
While the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme has attempted to cover a large section of the population, with an element of success, the importance of the private sector in TB control cannot be underestimated. A look at the ground realities on the occasion of World TB Day today.

Proposing a partnership
FIFTY per cent of all TB patients in India first contact the private practitioners. It is imperative, therefore, to involve the private sector of health into the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP). Advocacy for Control of ...

Reaching out
Prolonged medication and the expenses involved are the reasons why TB patients discontinue treatment. This is where REACH makes a difference.

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By Laurie Baum
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