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Starting: Tue 01 Oct 1996 - 00:00:-34350 EDT
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- Amulya Ganguli
- Taliban provoke a debate The Indian Express
- 31 October 1996
>>>The manner in which the Taliban's medievalism has inspired a debate on the rights of Muslim women would
suggest that sometimes good does come out of evil.
Before Taliban's extraordinary decrees drew the world's
attention, Iran was regarded as among the most repressive
...
- Ebb tide for saffron lobby The Indian Express
- 17 October 1996
>>>The first sign that the BJP was no longer as happily
placed as before was discernible in the Lok Sabha poll in
which the party's share of the vote did not move up from
what it was five years ago - 20 per cent. But, delighted
by its emergence as the largest group in Parliament and
...
- IE: "A last chance for revival" by Amulya Ganguli The Indian Express
- 3 October 1996
>>>There is a medical concept about a condition becoming worse before it can
get better. Perhaps the Congress is nearing the end of the first stage
and, if it can keep its nerve, may be able to begin the process of
recovery. To do so, however, it will have to jettison much of its recent
past and start on a clean slate, as it were.
...
- Anees Jung
- Does faith need the crutch of wisdom? The Pioneer
- 14 October 1996
>>>These are days of Shradh, my servant said. He will take
a few hours off on Saturday, and go to the Jamuna river.
He will take a bath in its sacred waters, visit the
temple on its shores, feed the children who gather for
the occasion, distribute coins and return home. Only
...
- Antara Dev Sen
- IE: "Hussain's brush with Hindutva ....." The Indian Express
- 8 October 1996
>>>The maverick painter is in the spotlight again. And maybe for once,
regretting it. M F Husain's paintings of Hindu goddesses, including that
of Saraswati, the goddess of learning, has created quite a stir due to
their lack of clothes.
Of course, the paintings are not new. Nor is the tradi- tion of portraying
...
- AP
- Arati R. Jerath
- Arjun Bhagat
- The case against Husain The Pioneer
- 15 October 1996
>>>M F Husain has been painting (literally) the country red
by depicting Goddess Saraswati without any garbs. So let
us talk about artistic expression and its "limitless"
horizons also referred too as poetic or artistic licence.
The debate on Husain's depiction of the goddess Saraswati
...
- Arpita Singh
- Ashok Mitra
- The seven about-to-vanish sisters The Pioneer
- 17 October 1996
>>>Elections, some sort of, have taken place in Jammu &
Kashmir. Few even amongst the devoutly patriotic minded
will have the taste or inclination to offer an affirmative response to the query whether these elections have
been either "free" or "fair". Nothing is fair in love
...
- Ashwani Talwar & B S Nagaraj
- Article 356: UF doublespeak - II The Indian Express
- 18 October 1996
>>>Twenty-four hours is a long time in politics. United
Front chief ministers spent Tuesday trashing Article 356
at the Inter-State Council meeting. At the United Front
Steering Committee meeting on Wednesday evening they were
pleading for the invocation of the discredited Article in
...
- Bhaskar Roy
- Bhupendra Yadav
- Bisheshwar Mishra
- Chidanand Rajghatta
- David Frawley
- Is Islamic goodwill for Hindus possible? The Organiser
- 14 October 1996
>>>Hindus today are often asked to express goodwill for
Islam and help minority Muslims in India, who often fell
oppressed under the Hindu majority rule. However Hindus
are also minorities in various Islamic countries. Therefore the complementary question must arise, is there any
...
- Deepali Nandwani
- Observer: "They also serve ..." The Observer
- 22 September 1996
>>>This article is from an earlier data. It is being sent to
indicate the thinking of the author at that time.
Over a hundred years ago, Bal Gangadhar Tilak took Lord
Ganesh out of the confines of the home, exhorting believers to join him in public veneration and worship of the
...
- Dilip Raote
- Dina Nath Mishra
- Rolling back the reds The Observer
- 31 October 1996
>>>This year's results of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) elections provide an excellent picture of the continuing battle between courage of conviction and anomaly of confusion, between the forces of
status quo and those of change, and between followers of
of
...
- Appeasement on the agenda The Observer
- 10 October 1996
>>>Jammu and Kashmir has passed through a decade-long turmoil due to Pak-sponsored terrorism in the state. Today,
when successful state assembly elections have been conducted, we are faced with two contradictory feelings -
euphoria and the lurking suspicion that things may not
ot
...
- Dinesh Kumar
- Dinkar Pandya
- Dionne Bunsha
- Editorial
- A Sleight of Hand The Times of India
- 19 October 1996
>>>Uttar Pradesh has thrown up a conundrum calculated to fox
the keenest student of the Indian Constitution. There
are no known answers to how the mess should be cleaned
up. Perhaps that is why the United Front government
decided to invent one. But unfortunately for it, its
...
- Leave Husain alone The Free Press Journal
- 7 October 1996
>>>Maqbool Fida Hussain was once described by a journalist
as the nearest thing to God on earth. For this wild
imagery in cold print - and a couple of cover stories in
the weekly that he was then editing - this hawala-tainted
journalist was richer by at least a couple of Hussain
...
- Prodigal's return The Times of India
- 12 October 1996
>>>Dr Farooq Abdullah's landslide victory in the recent
Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections is reminiscent of
his illustrious father Sheikh Abdullah's equally impressive showing in 1977. Both elections were largely free
and fair and based on the agenda of the state's autonomy
...
- Holy terrorists; and a comment The Indian Express
- 12 October 1996
>>>Beauty shall save the world. Every art seeks to renew
the hope of Dostoevsky. But it has never been an easy
passage for imagination, which defies the wisdom of
reality managers. The banished poet, the burned pages -
history is littered with the dark residues of art's
...
- Back to the future The Indian Express
- 11 October 1996
>>>Since the electorate, like the consumer, is always right,
the political parties will have to see the UP results not
in terms of individual gains and losses but in much
broader terms than they are accustomed to. What is more,
they will have to consider this particular verdict in the
...
- Hung again The Times of India
- 11 October 1996
>>>Instability would appear to be the fate of Uttar Pradesh
politics. Since 1989 it has had close to half a dozen
governments run by as many political parties and combinations. The uncertain verdict of the just-concluded
assembly polls has only added to the confusion. The
...
- Like Delhi, Like Lucknow? The Economic Times
- 11 October 1996
>>>Uttar Pradesh has demolished several myths about Indian
politics today. One, in a triangular contest, the BJP
would come up resounding victors. Actual performance
shows that the committed saffron voter is spread thinner
on the ground than expected. Two, the Congress-BSP
...
- Keep it up Mr Kesri The Times of India
- 8 October 1996
>>>The ji huzoor man, as Mr Sitaram Kesri was known until
recently, is displaying happy signs of coming into his
own. For some one in the business of collecting funds
for the party - apart, of course, from revelling in his
role as a loyalist -Mr Kesri has shown rare pluck in
...
- Ceasar's sardar The Economic Times
- 8 October 1996
>>>It was long suspected and has now been proved - Dr Manmohan Singh is a politician after all, not a mere technocrat. He has been made a member of the Congress Working
Committee, a sign that he has arrived. Even more, it is
a sign that the new Congress president, Mr Sitaram Kesri,
i,
...
- ET: "Transparency, UF-style" The Economic Times
- 2 October 1996
>>>Union law minister Ramakant Khalap should resign imme- diately. There is
no other honourable course open to him or to the ruling coalition if it is
true that he directed the CBI to not oppose former prime minister
Narasimha Rao's bail application in the Lakhubhai Pathak case. Further,
if the law minister acted at the behest of the prime minister, the latter
...
- Editorial TOI: "Red in the Face" The Times of India
- 4 October 1996
>>>Mr Indrajit Gupta is apparently not the tiniest bit upset about the
midnight missive the government sneaked across to the CBI counsel on the
eve of Mr Narasimha Rao's scheduled court appearance in the Lakhubhai
Pathak cheat- ing case. No matter that he, as home minister, wasn't privy
to the move. No matter also that counsel Gopal Subramaniam has since
...
- Red in the face The Times of India
- 4 October 1996
>>>Mr Indrajit Gupta is apparently not the tiniest bit upset
about the midnight missive the government sneaked across
to the CBI counsel on the eve of Mr Narasimha Rao's
scheduled court appearance in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case. No matter that he, as home minister, wasn't
...
- Express News Service
- Farrukh Dhondy
- Death by honour Mid-day
- 10 October 1996
>>>Once upon a time, or to be more precise, in the late 50s
in Trinidad, a Mr Kilgour was tried for the murder of a
lady, Joyce, whom he was alleged to have stabbed to
death. The trial, like that of O J Simpson in recent
times, became a cause celebre.
- G M Telang
- The task in Kashmir The Financial Express
- 14 October 1996
>>>For once, the US Assistant Secretary of State, Robin
Raphel, has openly deplored Pakistan's intransigence on
Kashmir. Her sharp reaction to Benazir Bhutto's denunciation of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as
a sham is a far cry from her vigorous espousal of the
...
- Gautham Machaiah
- TOI: "Prehistoric man thrived here" The Times of India
- 2 October 1996
>>>Extensive exploration by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Karnataka
has revealed that the pre-historic man thrived on the banks of the river
Bhima in Raichur dis- trict.
The findings assume importance because the evidence unearthed by the ASI
ranges from the second to the 18th century, which goes to prove that this
...
- Gita Madhusudhan
- HT Correspondent
- Near-sweep by ABVP in JNU polls The Hindustan Times
- 19 October 1996
>>>The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU),
,which is considered to be the best preserved seat of the
leftists has turned saffron with the Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) recording an impressive win in
the students' union elections, results of which were
...
- Near-sweep by ABVP in JNU polls The Hindustan Times
- 19 October 1996
>>>The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU),
,which is considered to be the best preserved seat of the
leftists has turned saffron with the Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) recording an impressive win in
the students' union elections, results of which were
...
- HT Correspondent (New Delhi)
- Iqbal Masud
- Jagmohan
- IE: "Kashmir's Autonomy Bogey" The Indian Express
- 8 October 1996
>>>Before and during the recent elections to the State Assembly of Jammu and
Kashmir, the issue of autonomy was resurrected. After the elections, too,
it will remain at the centre stage of politics of the State and its relations with the Union.
Few in the country, however, understand the implications of the autonomy
y
...
- Jasbir Singh Ahluwalla
- Jay Dubashi
- K N Goyal
- Implementation of verdicts The Statesman
- 14 October 1996
>>>Many politicians have been saying that they will abide by
the Court verdict on Ayodhya. This is easier said than
done. In this context one recalls a dispute between
Sunnis and Shias over certain plots in Mohalla Doshipura,
Varanasi. Litigations started in 1931. Shias won the
...
- Kuldip Nayar
- Vital decision for Kashmir The Indian Express
- 14 October 1996
>>>Ideally, elections in Jammu and Kashmir should have been
held after a political settlement. But the Government's
predicament was how to find representatives who had the
backing to negotiate. It could have held talks with the
Hurriyat leaders. They represent a movement which,
...
- Madhu Kishwar
- Re: Why feminise corruption? The Indian Express
- 4 October 1996
>>>Most countries have failed to give due space and representation to women in their political institutions. But
in the case of India, the problem is more serious because
while in other countries women are inching forward bit by
bit, in our country the participation of women in politit-
...
- Manuwant K. Choudhary
- Nadav Shragai
- The seeds of calamity The Pioneer
- 8 October 1996
>>>For many long years, the work Israel carried out in the
Western Wall Tunnel and the Hasmonean Tunnel was one of
the openest secrets in the world; almost every foreign
visitor from the rank of ambassador and up was taken to
the spot.
- Nasima H Khan
- Neerja Chowdhury
- Nikhil Chakravartty
- Taliban's pedigree The Observer
- 9 October 1996
>>>The lightening occupation of greater part of Afghanistan
by the new Muslim fanatic army of the Talibans has not
only come as a surprise for political observers but has
thrown a serious challenge to the stability of the entire
region. The Taliban is known to have been reared, armed
...
- Nirmal Mitra
- Nitish S Rele
- Observer Political Bureau
- UP outcome a lesson to all parties The Observer
- 12 October 1996
>>>The political parties may claim what they what to prove
and what suits them, but the outcome of the 1996 Uttar
Pradesh assembly elections has given the message that if
the non-Bharatiya Janata Party forces want to keep the
BJP away from the government, they have to remain united
...
- P Parameshwaran
- Hindutva and dialectics Organiser
- 22 September 1996
>>>Shri O.V. Vijayan's entry into the Hindutva debate (see
"Dialectics of Hindutva" The Indian Express, June 17,
1996) has not come a day too soon. Though he labels the
debate phoney, the fact that a distinguished and creative
intellectual like him could not resist the temptation to
...
- Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
- Political Bureau
- ET: "VP advises Gowda on dos and don'ts ...." The Economic Times
- 3 October 1996
>>>Former Prime Minister Mr V P Singh today subtly but distinctly laid down a
rulebook of dos and don'ts for the United Front government and its head Mr
H D Deve Gowda in the wake of rampant speculation that the Centre was
protecting Mr P V Narasimha Rao from the legal noose in several cases,
including the $100,000 Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.
...
- Posted By ashok
- The winner loses The Observer
- 11 October 1996
>>>The aphorism, the winner loses, aptly sums up the outcome
of the UP assembly elections. The BJP is poised to
emerge as the single largest party in a hung assembly.
With counting for just five seats left to be taken up (at
the time of writing), the party has bagged 155 seats
...
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule
- Pak's wicked designs The Observer
- 26 October 1996
>>>There might have been quite a number of powerful detonators used only by the defence establishments in pulling
down the Babri Masjid of Ayodhya on December 6,1992,
according to data and information collected for the
Pakistani Intelligence outfit, Inter-Service Intelel-
...
- Posted By HVk Editor
- Posted By OFBJP
- Prabal Pratap Singh
- Lax Ledt let ABVP grow in JNU The Pioneer
- 21 October 1996
>>>The overwhelming success of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP) in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) elections held last week can be attributed to the complacency of the Left, disillusionment
of students with it and the splitting of the Leftist
st
...
- Prabhakar Begde
- Art vs Freedom The Times of India
- 17 October 1996
>>>The vandalism of paintings by Husain at the Husain-Doshi
gufa in Ahmedabad, which is itself a classic example of
imaginatively blended art and architecture, is saddening.
I am a great admirer of Husain's work and his various
endeavours in the field of art and even had an opportuni-
...
- Pradyot Lal
- Praful Bidwai
- TOI: "Marching to UF's Tune Left in the Lurch" The Times of India
- 8 October 1996
>>>If Mr Deve Gowda had deliberately planned to discredit the United Front
government and make it forfeit half its moral prestige and political
goodwill in a single day, he couldn't have done it more efficiently than
he did on September 30. The wholly indefensible manner. in which he
rushed to rescue Mr Narasimha Rao by subverting every norm of political
...
- The Taliban: Myth and reality The Economic Times
- 4 October 1996
>>>As has been their wont in recent years, a number of
commentators on security affairs have rushed into print
on the Taliban militia's takeover of Kabul, describing it
as part of a grand design involving the spread of predatory Islamic fundamentalism, which has serious implicaca-
...
- PTI
- Islamists for Khilafat The Asian Age
- 7 October 1996
>>>A symposium organised by the Students Islamic Movement of
India on Sunday called for establishment of Khilafat, a
world government on the basis of moral principles laid
down in the Quran and Sunnah.
The symposium held at the Haj House here, was organised
...
- IE: "Ahmadi and trial spark lawyers' protests" The Indian Express
- 2 October 1996
>>>Over 200 members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) have
questioned the propriety of the Chief Justice of India, A M Ahmadi
allegedly having a "mysterious" midnight meeting with Prime Minister H D
Deve Gowda at a time when the apex judiciary was seized of several sensational cases involving high political functionaries.
...
- Rahul Karmakar
- Rajni Kothari
- Congress - the last straw The Pioneer
- 29 September 1996
>>>This article is from an earlier data. It is being sent to
indicate the thinking of the author at that time.
For some years now we have been witness to an amazing
spectacles the virtual collapse of a major and in many
ways unique and distinctive institution in the annals of
...
- Rakesh Bhatnagar
- S K Singh
- S Merchant
- Husain should have known better - a letter Afternnon
- 11 Oct 1996.
>>>This refers to the nude paintings of Hindu deities by Mr M F Husain which
have hurt the feelings of many Hindus. Many intellectuals, artists and
other leading citizens and self-professed secularists have taken up the
cudgels for Mr Husain on the pretext that any action against the artist
would tantamount to curbing creativity.
- Sandeep Unnithan
- Sanjay Suri
- Sankar Ghosh
- Seema Guha
- Seema Mustafa
- Shakir Husain
- Shankar Ray
- Soumitro Das
- Art of Freedom - The What And The How The Statesman
- 16 October 1996
>>>A society that codifies norms of artistic representation
to make them conform to any other is not a free society.
A free society is one in which artistic freedom is potentially absolute - it is up to the artist to use as much
of it as he wishes. The demands of an artist's discipline
...
- Subhash Kirpekar
- Sudheendra Kulkarni
- Swagato Ganguly
- Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
- TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan
- New dawn at JNU? Business Standard
- 21 October 1996
>>>Few things in recent times have given me more perverse
satisfaction than the outcome of the latest students'
union election at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
in Delhi. Having been a stronghold of the Left for almost
a quarter of a century, the union has now been captured,
...
- Times of India News Services
- TV Rajeswar
- The North East in ferment The Observer
- 31 October 1996
>>>Prime Minister Deve Gowda has just concluded an extensive
visit to the north eastern states to acquaint himself of
the problems of the region. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh,
Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura constitute the 'arc of crisis' in India's sensitive north
...
- TV Rajeswar's
- Subversion through foreign funds The Observer
- 17 October 1996
>>>While reviewing the CBI Investigations in the St Kitts
case, the Supreme Court bench of Justice J S Verma and
Justice P N Kirpal directed that a thorough probe be
carried out into the antecedents of donors and the donations amounting to crores of rupees to Chandraswamy's
...
- Varsha Bhosle
- Zeenat Shaukat Ali
- TOI: "While Islam as a religion empowers women ....." The Times of India
- 3 October 1996
>>>The vital factor in the debate over the empowerment of Muslim women is
whether or not contemporary Islam can be visualised as an "emancipatory
force." As the world of Islam is not monolithic, Muslims differ in their
reflec- tions on this issue. It is generally held that though autonomy is
available to women, it is contained and demarcated, and therefore the
...
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