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A role for the reds - An editorial - Posted By ashok - The Financial Express - Editorial
- 1\7\96
>>>THE induction of two senior CPI leaders in the Union
Council of Ministers is no ordinary event. It may or may
not unleash a revolution in governance but it is indeed a
landmark in communist politics in India. A more epochmaking landmark was nearly achieved when CPI(M) patriarch
...
Even after two decades of Marxism.......... - Posted By ashok - Indian Express
- 29\6\96
>>>STARVED and threatened with death, Surajmoni Mandi was
forced to step out of her home the day the Jyoti Basu
government stepped into its 20th year last month.
Her village folks, in the one of most backward regions in
the state in Purulia district, had proclaimed her a
...
More to Khajurao than popular belief - Vidyadhar Date
- Times Of India
- 30\6\96
>>>Khajuraho has become a major international tourist
attraction, but partly for the wrong reasons. So argues
noted scholar of art history Devangana Desai, who says
Khajuraho is not synonymous with erotic sculpture.
"When I say I am working on Khajuraho, many people think
...
Nepal based ISI wing planning blasts in India - Sujit Chakraborty
- The Observer
- 1\7\96
>>>THE Pakistan embassy in Nepal is actively "aiding and
abetting" the Kathmandu-based ISI operators to intensify
terrorist campaign in India. Mentioning this in a recent
confidental note, the home ministry expressed grave
concern over the increasing ISI (Inter Services
...
Kohl Comfort - Germany and Tibet - Hugh Williamson in Bonn
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- 27 June 1996
>>>Back off on human rights, and prosper. That's the message
Beijing is giving its European trade partners, and
Germany is buying. On Tibet, for instance, Chancellor
Helmut Kohl seems ready to placate Beijing in order to
preserve his country's economic interests in China.
...
Editorials on RSS ban and its removal - Posted By ashok - Times of India -Editorial
- 12 December 1995
>>>Given the communal frenzy in which the country finds
itself, it was inevitable that the arrests of some of the
leaders of the sangh pariwar would be followed by the ban
on communal organisations. The time taken by the Centre
to impose it was evidently not the result of feet-
...
Bombay to Ayodhya, via Santa Barbara - A. K. R. Hemmady
- The Pioneer
- 9 June 1996
>>>Before me is a political comment on Indian elections by
Trudy Robin published in Philadelphia Inquirer (8 May
1996) which begins with the alarming rhetoric; ``Dousing
the flames that threaten India: Fear and uncertainty
cloud India's elections. Can the basic common sense of
...
True Hindutva - SHIVENDRA K. SINHA
- times of India
- 2 July 1996
>>>HINDUTVA is not the name of what is commonly, and rather
loosely, referred to as the Hindu religion. The word
'Hindu' itself was first used in the 16th century by nonIndians indicating people inhabiting the land beyond the
great river Indus. The term 'Hindu' gained currency land
...
Muslim Congressmen present 17 demands - Pratap Thorat
- Asian Age
- 2 July 1996
>>>Mumbai, June 29: There must be five Muslim ministers, and
not just one or two, in a 40-member Cabinet if the
Congress manages to return to power in Maharashtra in
future.
This will be one of the 17 demands by about 700 Muslim
...
UF govt doesn't have a mandate: Advani - Janak Singh
- The Times of India
- 1 July 1996
>>>NEW DELHI, June 30. The policies and programmes of the
United Front (UF) government are being tailored to meet
the needs of its supporters, " Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) president L.K Advani charged here last Friday.
"Corruption is not being accorded top priority because it
...
The conflict within - An Editorail - Editorial
- The Times of India
- 2 July 1996
>>>The conflict between the forward and backward castes
within the Bharatiya Janata Party, highlighted during
the Lok Sabha campaign by the BJP's angry young woman,
Ms
Uma Bharati, has come into the open both in Gujarat and
...
Understanding Hinduism - a letter - V.K. BHATTAR
- INDIAN EXPRESS
- 3 July 1996
>>>Sir: This refers to the article "Middle class lumpenisation of Hinduism" (June 13) in which Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr. has concluded that when people who
think do not care to talk about religion and review
its articles of faith, it is charlatans and pretenders
s
...
Taslimuddin must go - an editorial and a response - Posted By ashok - Times of India - Editorial
- 3 July 1996
>>>It is entirely conceivable that Prime Minister Deve
Gowda knew next to nothing of Mr. Mohammad Taslimuddin's wayward ways when he appointed him minister of
state for home affairs on the say-so of Mr. Laloo Prasad
Yadav. But for the Prime Minister to retain him even
...
Understanding Hinduism - a letter - C.R. Nath
- INDIAN EXPRESS
- 3 July 1996
>>>Sir: I strongly protest against the article "Middle class lumpenisation of Hinduism" which denigrates
the Hindus. The author has abused freedom of expression. Had he known the ABC of Hinduism (Vedantic religion) he would not have obliquely advised the readers to
s to
...
Style of a comrade - An editorial - Posted By ashok - The Indian Express - Editorial
- 3 July 1996
>>>To suggest that India's first Communist Home Minister
has also been affected by the familiar shortcoming of
his inexperience - would be to do injustice to Indrajit Gupta's standing as a parliamentarian . Yet,
there is a distinctly unwholesome note to Gupta's first
...
Heavy subsidy behind scam - Editorial
- Finanical Express
- 3 July 1996
>>>An aspect of the urea import scandal that has got
eclipsed by the financial magnitude is the over-subsidisation and over-use of urea in defiance of the damage
it is causing to the soil. Urea is the most heavily
subsidised fertiliser and this largely explains the
...
Illegal wakf property transfer - PTI
- Economic Times
- 3 July 1996
>>>Transfer of wakf property in West Bengal was done within
a "close circuit" without advertisement for offers or
open invitation of quotations, according to the
P.K.Sengupta Report on wakf properties which was tabled at the state assembly on Monday.
.
An article by Hindu Jagriti Kendra - Posted By ashok - Economic Times
- May 31 1996
>>>This Circular of the Hindu Jagriti Kendra -
Circular Eleven begins by reproducing an article on
Sudan, the largest country of Africa, printed In the
Reader's Digest of May 1996. To study this article Is to
remind oneself of the limitless atrocities committed by
...
Hindutva and dialectics - P. Parameshwaran
- Indian Express
- 3 July 1996
>>>THE entry of O. V. VIJAYAN into the'Hindutva' debate
(Dialectics of Hindutva, IE June 17) has not come a, day
too soon. Though he labels the debate 'phoney', the fact
that a creative intellectual like him could not resist
the temptation to intervene, shows that the central point
...
Some of the Social reformation programmes of the Sangh Parivar
The end of an epoch - an editorial on Balasaheb - Posted By ashok - Organiser
- 30 June 1996
>>>WITH the passing away of Shri Balasaheb Deoras, the
third Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtdya Swayamsevak Sangh
one more link that connected the present mammoth
organisation with the founder of this unique institution
Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar has snapped. He was
...
With 'secularists' we have, Hindutva need not worry - Javed Anand
- The pioneer
- 1 July 1996
>>>We, the secularists of India, rejoiced when the Atal
Bihari Vajpayee-led Government proved to be a 13-day
wonder. We derived particular satisfaction from the fact
that the generals of the saffron brigade failed,and how,
in their attempt to get even a single MP on their side.
...
Why Communists err again - Raza & Bani Deshpande
- Organiser
- 23 June 1996
>>>AT last the United Front has succeeded in forming the
Government at the Centre. The BJP which assumed power
for
two weeks in order to discharge its constitutional
responsibility, submitted its resignation gracefully when
...
The cassandras are wrong - Henry Kissinger
- Economic Times
- 3 July 1996
>>>AS the surprise over Binyainin Netanyahu's electoral
victory wears off, a look at its implications is in
order. For it may well turn out that the change of
governments in Israel, far from spelling the end of the
peace predicted by so many Cassandras, will provide the
...
Re: Deen, Dharma and Indianism - S. Bashiruddin
- Hindustan Times
- 26 May 1996.
>>>INDIANISM, Bharatiyata, and now Hindutwa connote the
same
meaning, It depends on the perception of the
audience.This is possible for anyone with an open mind
and a deep understanding of Indian culture and heritage.
...
How about an optional common code?; and a response - Arindam Sen Gupta
- Economic Times
- 3 July 1996
>>>A highly popular line of attack against secularism and
secularists is that in the guise of secularism, they and
the 'secular' parties practice 'favoritism' towards the
Muslim community. Evidence cited in support of the charge
are mainly three their reluctance to lend support to a
...
A place in history - an editorial - Editorial
- Indian Express
- 4 July 1996
>>>AN occupational hazard of becoming Foreign Minister is
that it breeds a romantic desire to make history. Inder
Kumar Gujral is no exception to this starry-eyed
temptation. His unilateral gesture, to , Pakistan -
replete with photo opportunities with a, beatific High
...
Just a little fortnight on the way to ministersip - The travails of Taslimuddin - Arun Shorie
- Observer
- 28 June 1996
>>> AT page 118 of the report of the Special Committee
constituted by the Bihar Vidhan Sabha we read: "This
time I came to meet Mohammad Taslimuddin about
12-20 days
ago. I then went back. I came today. There is a servant
...
Why the truth on the urea scam may not come out.
We would be secular only if we Indians first; and a response - Seema Mustafa
- Asian Age
- 5 July 1996
>>>Traveling through Europe one is struck by the complete
absence of border check posts. It is almost an open
continent with visitors - once, of course, the visas are
firmly endorsed in the passport - traveling freely
through the countries without even being subjected to a
...
The UF regime needs Marxist participation - Avijit Pathak
- Indian Express
- 5 July 1996
>>>THE communists have finally joined the Union Government.
And this unambiguous Merger with the 'system' is unlikely
to be appreciated by the puritans-the militant
adherents, of the philosophy of revolution. Or, as the
CPI(M)s refusal has already indicated, even the moderates
...
Balasaheb Deoras and Indian Muslims - Muzaffar Hussain
- Organiser
- 5 July 1996
>>>Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has always been a subject
of
controversy for its perception of the Indian Muslim. It
has been persistently dubbed communalist and describing
its style of functioning as Fascist, no efforts are
...
The three disinformations - Francois Cautier
- Hindustan Times
- 5 July 1996
>>>A few years ago, the West was able to celebrate the
discoverer of the ``New World'' with fanfare and pomp.
But the New world was already quite old when it was
discovered by the young Barbarians, much older in fact
than the fledgling Western civilisation. And Columbus,
...
An uneasy partnership - Kewal Varma
- Business standard
- 5 July 1996
>>>How long will it last? This question is being asked since
the day the Deve Gowda government assumed power. The
new
government is not a product of an opportunistic
preelection alliance. It is a product of political
...
The eerie scene of Assam - Kuldip Nayar
- The Afternoon
- 5 July 1996
>>>HUNDREDS of people have been robbed of their Maruti cars.
The amount of ransom varies from Rs. 2 @ to Rs. 75 lakh.
Many people have been mercilessly tortured. Hundreds of
traders have closed their shops and gone away to other
parts of -the country. Trade, commerce and industry has
...
On the forgiving trail - a letter - D. K. Saraf - a letter
- The Asian Age
- 5 July 1996
>>>Sir, This refers to Mr Z. Kittler's letter, Mother not so
Saintly. I fully support Mr Kitler's disapproval of
Mother Teresa who, instead of refuting the charges,
perpetually prays for those who criticise her.
This reminds me of an incident that occurred two years
...
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