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...India's biggest problem, says Thakur, is that it lacks the manpower and financial resources to manage its historic riches. The ASI employs no qualified architects or conservationists, and monument care is split between a confusing cluster of local and national authorities, NGOs, religious orders, businesses and individuals. The Taj and its immediate environs come under six government agencies: the ministries of culture, environment and tourism, two city authorities and one state body. Thakur is careful not to condemn the ASI or the ministries, describing their staff as sincere professionals faced with an almost impossible task. But she also complains...
...rose to prominence largely by encouraging Hindu extremism, most strikingly when its supporters destroyed a mosque at Ayodhya in 1992, claiming it had been built over a Hindu temple. But since last year's electoral defeat by the Congress Party, the Indian right has disintegrated into factionalism, split between those who continue to revile Pakistan and those, like BJP president Lal Krishna Advani, who think hatred as a political strategy has had its day. Last week a high court ordered Advani to stand trial for inciting violence in a speech before the Ayodhya mosque's destruction. Nowadays, however...
Though Raimondi may split her allegiance equally between her two friends, Banfield doesn’t foresee any problems splitting the Canadian vote...
...Worlds (script by Josh Friedman and David Koepp) or even if you haven't. Out of the rubble rise giant alien ships that walk on three spindly legs and whose deadly heat rays not only destroy civilization as we know it but also threaten to split up Tom Cruise's latest movie family. The new film is a toss-up with George Pal's very watchable 1953 version: the special effects are even better here, the drama even lamer...
Though Raimondi may split her allegiance equally between her two friends, Banfield doesn’t foresee any problems splitting the Canadian vote...