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Starting: Sat 01 Jun 1996 - 00:00:-66881 EDT
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- Aryan invasion and social issues in India today
- Ashok Chowgule
- (no publication) - Sat, 01 Jun 96 10:52:12 PDT
>>> 1In explaining the history of ancient India, it has
been postulated that a group of people called Aryans came
from somewhere in Central Asia through North-West. Some
people from the same place also went to Europe. As far
as India is concerned, these Aryans came as invaders, and
...
- Last train to Auschwitz
- Abheek Barman
- Economic Times
- May 31st 1996
>>> ONE winter evening, a friend and I take a bus from a Delhi
University Hostels to Jama Masjid. It's around eight in the,
evening, the time when you work up a tremendous lust for burra
kababs, and roads lead inexorably towards Karim's, tucked away in
that alley next to the Masjid. From the bus stop to Karim's is a
...
- Response to "Last train to auschwitz"
- There's danger in the Dunkirk analogy
- Dilip Raote
- Economic Times
- 31 May 1996
>>> DUNKIRK is synonymous with incompetence. The British forces in
Europe and their French allies failed to anticipate German moves.
When the German armies broke through French defences of the
Maginot Line at the start of World War II, the British were
caught in a pincer and retreated towards Dunkirk.
...
- Response to "There's danger to Dunkirk analogy
- Indian culture & fascism?
- Prafull Goradia
- Pioneer
- May 30th 1996
>>> Please refer to the Soundbite (The Pioneer, May 30), wherein Mr
Mulayam Singh Yadav has been quoted as having said in the Lok
Sabha, "We won't allow a Hitler to be born in India."
Several other speakers were heard accusing the BJP of being
fascist. Evidently these gentlemen have used expressions whose
...
- Congress gearing up to topply (Maharashtra) government
- Prakash Joshi
- Times of India News Service
- May 30th 1996
>>> With the United Front government now on the verge of being
installed at the Centre, the Maharashtra unit of the Congress is
making subtle moves to dislodge the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya janata
Party ministry which is dependent on the support of independent
MLAs for its survival.
...
- Nani Palkhivala's statement on United Front
- Nani A Palkhivala
- Statesman
- May 30th 1996
>>> SIR, - The paramount need of India is to preserve the unity and
integrity of the country. But it is doubtful whether this mosaic
of humanity will survive unfractured for any length of time. The
very attempt to form a government under the United Front may
entail the disunity of India.
...
- Editorial - The stability card
- Editorial
- The Statesman
- May 31st 1996
>>> A New season of insincerity is dawning on politics.
Practitiollers of the art rarely say what they mean, they have
now taken to meaning the opposite of what they say. The Congress
party, through its spokesman, Mr V. N. Gadgil, says that it will
not interfere in the formation of the United Front Ministry, it
...
- A poser to 'secularists' - Editorial
- Editorial
- The Daily
- 1 June 1996
>>> The violent clashes in Calcutta during the Moharram pro cession is a fitting reply to all those who are claiming
to be truly secular. The clashes were so fierce that the
West Bengal government was forced to seek the assistance
of army to quell the riot. The Communist Party of India
...
- Two letters in the Statesman
- Posted By ashok - The Telegraph
- 31 May 1996.
>>> LETTER ONE
From: A B Mina, Puri
Apropos "Parts make a hole" (May 17), Kamal Mitra Che noy's heartburn at the formation of a government by the
BJP is evident. He even disputes India's oneness and
...
- Election analysis in India Today
- Defying common sense
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Indian Express
- May 30th 1996
>>> CALL it oratory at its best or demagoguery at its worst, but
there is little doubt that Atal Behari Vajpayee emerged as the
real victor of the debate on the motion of confidence in the Lok
Sabha last Tuesday. His combative summing-up speech not only
confirmed his status as India's foremost parliamentarian, it
...
- Unjust remarks
- Badal Ghana Chakravorty
- Pioneer
- May 30th 1996
>>> Sir-In his letter, 'The RSS factor' (May 21), Arshi Khan Spews
venom on the BJP part of sinister propaganda unleashed against
nationalist forces. Dr Khan should be reminded that Muslims of
the subcontinent have forfeited the high moral ground to preach
distorted version of secularism after having forced
...
- Why the BJP has not become the national alternative
- Antony Thomas
- Economic Times
- May 30th 1996
>>> The failure of the BJP government to secure the confidence of the
House and its resignation from office has highlighted as never
before the the difficulties facing the party in its efforts to
become the national alternative to the Congress, something the
party has been trying to become for quite some time.
...
- Ramkrishna Mission is Hindu Again
- Ram Swarup
- Weekend Observer
- May 30th 1996
>>> FOR quite some time, the Ramakrishna Mission faced a crisis of
identity. Everyone thought it was a Hindu organisation, but for
some reason, the Mission authorities themselves were not
satisfied with this identity. So they approached the Calcutta
High Court to grant them the status of a non-Hindu religious
...
- Results of early counting in J&K
- Types of Journalists in India
- Response to "The nowhere people"
- The nowhere people - The plight of Kashmiri Pandits
- Namita Bhandare, New Delhi
- Sunday
- May 12-18 1996
>>> It was the milkman's question that settled the issue for
Asha Kaul. "Where's your daughter today?" he asked, and
Asha was sure she detected an insidious leer behind the
seemingly innocuous question. "He had never asked about
my daughter before," she says. "So his question defi-
...
- UF Govt will fall in 6 months : CPM
- Agencies
- Indian Express
- 2 June 1996
>>> Deputy leader of the CPI(M) in the Lok Sabha, Basudev Acharya,
MP, today predicted that the United Front government in the
Centre will not be stable.
He said it would only last for six months.
Talking to reporters here, Acharya said the country would face
...
- Gadgil calls for introspection
- Kiran Thakur
- Observer of Business & Politics
- 3 June 1996
>>> AICC spokesman V N Gadgil on Sunday said that it was time the
Congress re-examined the contents of its concept of secularism in
the wake of the setback it had received in the recent Lok Sabha
elections.
He said that the party had failed miserably to convince both the
...
- Gowda faces difficult task
- G M Telang
- Financial Express
- 3 June 1996
>>> THE transformation of a mass movement into a political party
aspiring to achieve power through democratic means is always a
complex process. The Indian National Congress has had over 40
years experience of this and none of its stalwarts today can
claim that they have mastered the art of meeting all the demands
...
- Beyond the saffron pale
- Shastri Ramchandran
- Times of India
- 2 June 1996
>>> IF the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the way to
paradise is by hook or crook. This unwritten law of politics has
been called into question by the fall of the BJP government of
Atal Behari Vajpayee. Nothing else can explain why a party of
devout Ram bhakts could not survive to rule in a polity infested
...
- Unholy nexus that feeds insurgency
- P P S
- Financial Times
- 2 June 1996
>>> THE TROUBLE with the North-East is that its underground to too
all-pervasive to remain underground. The ever-increasing nexus
between politicians and insurgent outfits is, in fact, one of the
major reasons responsible for the region's current plight.
On October 5, 1993, a confidential report by Lt. Gen. V K
...
- Hajuria-Khajuria syndrome haunts the BJP
- Dinkar Pandya
- The Observer
- June 4th 1996
>>> BJP in Gujarat is once again in turmoil. After the September October crisis last year, the party is in the midst of a new
unfolding drama.
Despite all the tall claims by the BJP high command last October
in wake of Atal Behari Vajpayee's success in saving the party and
...
- Vajpayee picks social planks for BJP's next ride
- Political Bureau
- Economic Times
- June 4th 1996
>>> The BJP under Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee's stewardship seems to
have
altered its priorities on the national agenda: social issues are
on the top while the economic ones will play a second fiddle.
This is the impression, Mr Vajpayee gave in his interaction with
...
- No pains, no gains
- Editorial
- The observer
- 5 June 1996
>>> PRAGMATISTS have prevailed over the ideological hardliners. That
is the message behind the CPI national council's decision to join
the United Front government. Not that the opportunity has been
there for the asking. But when it did knock in 1977 and 1989,
the party as also the Left in general had chosen to treat it as
...
- When the BJP stood out in 'splendid isolation'
- R C Acharya
- The Observer
- 5 June 1996
>>> THE recently concluded session of the Lok Sabha, in which the
Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered an ignominious exit from the
treasury benches, appeared more like a three-ring circus which I
normally used to extol for its entertainment value. During the
13 days it lasted in power, this disciplined and determined party
...
- From a socialist dogma to a glimmer of hope
- Gautam Mukerji
- The Pioneer
- 5 June 1996
>>> Significant beginnings tre harbingers of the future. What=
"Rosebud" was to Citizen Kane, The Meiji Restoration to Japan,=
The "Long March" to China, "The whiff of grapeshot" to Napoleon,=
"Anand", to the future of Amitabh Bachchan, the first five years=
of liberalisation will be, to the future of India. In these five=
...
- Indian fault lines
- Ajit Bhattacharjea
- Indian Express
- 5 June 1996
>>> Fortunately, Doordarshan covered the epoch-making debate in the
Lok Sabha live and its cameras did a good job. This exposed the
scrappy coverage provided by the news papers the following days.
Not a single newspaper I read provided a comprehensive summary
of
...
- What's special about the BJP?
- Arindam Sen Gupta
- The Economic Times
- 5 June 1996
>>> The day after Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee resigned as prime minister,
R K Laxman drew a cartoon on the 'historic' event in The Times of
India. Mr Vajpayee sitting outside the PM's house, a bedding and
trunk by his side, a jhola and a flask near him, looking rather
grumpy. Although out, Mr Vajpayee is scarcely showing any sign
...
- Voting out Vajpayee BJP,Pluralism and Muslims
- Middle path Revisited
- Editorial
- The Times of India
- 6 June 1996
>>> The document, "A Common Approach to Major Policy Matters
and a Minimum Programme," jointly authored by the
constituents of the United Front, is remarkable not so
much for its contents as for its authorship. Indeed, the
text of the UF's joint manifesto reads a lot like the
...
- A sterling role
- Editorial
- The Observer
- 6 June 1996
>>> THE organised manner in which the United Front and its
supporters have gone about the business of setting up
government belies the expectation in several quarters
that differences among the Front constituents would make
the new power edifice at the Centre shaky from day one.
...
- Basis for talks
- Editorial
- Indian Express
- 6 June 1996
>>> BENAZIR BHUTTO's rather effuisive message of
congratulations to Prime Minister Deve Gowda, proposing
unconditional talks between the two countries, may have
been the result of the relief she felt over the departure
of the supposedly hardline BJP Government. But Islamabad
...
- A pragmatic approach
- Editorial
- The Observer
- 6 June 1996
>>> To a large measure, the 'minimum programme' released by
the United Front is wrapped in generalities and
populist promises. Yet, it is significant for the
renewed thrust towards federalism and a more
pragmatic approach towards economic liberalisation.
...
- United Farce
- P M Kamath
- Mid day
- 5 June 1996
>>> The hastily-cobbled-together United Front isneither
united nor a body capable of governance, says P M Kamath.
AFTER nearly 30 years of experimentation with United
Front (UF) governments in states like Uttar Pradesh
Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal
...
- Coalition Redefined
- Iqbal Masud
- Mid Day
- 6 June 1996
>>> The Deve Gowda government aims for a collective effort to
carry diverse elements together. This philosophy cannot
be summed up in a word like 'coalition', says Iqbal
Masud.
A friend belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party told me
...
- Seizing the Initiative
- Editorial
- Times of India
- 6 June 1996
>>> The Pakistani Prime Minister's felicitatory message to
Prime Minister Deve Gowda - in which she offered to sit
across the table and discuss the settlement of Jammu and
Kashmir and all other issues - provides just the
opportunity to test Ms Benazir Bhutto's sincerity:
...
- Highlights on Common Minimum Programme
- Posted By ashok - Economic Times
- 6 June 1996
>>> 1 Greater devolution of power to states.
2 High-level committee to review and update Sarkaria
Commission's recommendations.
3 Reservation in elected bodies and jobs for women.
4 Special courts to ensure justice to SC/ST victims.
- Marx & Ram: Hindutva redefined
- Anil Nair
- Indian Express
- 6 June 1996
>>> WHILE the nation's chattering classes would very much
like to quarantine the BJP, there is within the BJP a
chattering class which wants to do the same to the VHP.
This section has developed a convenient amnesia about the
fact that it was the strategic Ram Janmabhoomi movement
...
- Prime ministerial material
- Vir Sanghvi
- Sunday
- June 2-8 1996
>>> Vajpayee and the BJP gained from their time in office.
Atal Behari Vajpayee gave India the impression that he
was a straightforward man who would do his best. There
would be no intrigues, no manipululations, no suitcases,
no Chandra Swamis and no N K Sharmas. I don't want to
...
- One step forward
- Editorial
- Indian Express
- 6 June 1996
>>> THE most heartening feature of the United Front
Government's Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is that it
does not smack of reckless adventurism. This may be a
source of great disappointment to both the UF's
detractors and its more doctrinaire supporters, but the
...
- Good script, act on it.
- Editorial
- The Economic Times
- 6 June 1996
>>> The United Front has just supplied Dr Man.mohan Singh's
answer to those who had raised sceptical eyebrows at his
assertion of broad national consensus on economic reform.
Continuity is the hallmark of the United Front
government's economic policy, as enumerated in the
...
- Editorial - Left unsaid
- Editorial
- Indian Express
- 7 June 1996
>>> The United Front's programme asks the country to believe
it is being offered an "alternative model of governance".
Looking at the big picture, it is more or less
indistinguishable from the ones presented by previous
govemments. But there is a discernible shift of emphasis.
...
- Idiot box no more - comments by a CPM Leader on the debate
- Suneet Chopra
- Times of India
- 7 June 1996
>>> IF anything came home to viewers the parliamentary debate
that ended with Mr Vajpayee's hurried resignation as
Prime Minister, it was the role of television as the
great leveller. A number of myths assiduously nurtured
by our colonised elite about the BSP crumbled hopelessly
...
- Cong resents govt stand on Ayodhya
- FE News Service
- Financial Express
- 7 June 1996
>>> THE Congress has certain reservations about the Common
Minimum Programme of the United Front, especially on
issues like Ayodhya and Centre- State relations, even
though the Deve Gowda Government has, in toto, accepted
the economic agenda of Manmohan Singh.
...
- Vajpayee brings back Hindutva on BJP's agenda
- News service
- Times of India
- 7 June 1996
>>> Former prime minister Atal Behari Vaipayee on Monday
advocated the cause of Hindutva in a clear indication
that the BJP plans to reinforce its saffron agenda in
anticipation of a mid-term poll.
Asserting that Hindutva was synonymous with nationalism
...
- Left can't figure it out - comments on nation's economy
- Posted By ashok - Economic Times
- 7 June 1996
>>> THE LEFT parties have contested the finance minister, Mr
P Chidambaram's claim that the nation's economy was in
'good shape'.
The CPI(M) and CPI, have contested with Mr Chidambaram's
'finding' that the economy was doing quite well, and
...
- BJP lauds Gadgil's 'secularism'
- News Service
- Indian Express
- 7 June 1996
>>> Secularism is now the national agenda, declared former
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee while praising
Congress spokesman V N Gadgil for tellin Congressmen to
re-explore the party Is concept of secularism.
"Jadoo voh hain, jo sarpar chadhe, "Vajpayee said
...
- Vajpayee's act was the one and only redeeming factor
- Soli J Sorabjee
- Times of India
- 7 June 1996
>>> Our founding fathers must be turning in their graves.
Before the ministers in the BJP government could reply to
the warm congratulatory letters they are out of office,
allegedly armed with lethal 'secret' information about
their political opponents, notwithstanding the penal
...
- BJP to strengthen party in south and east
- News Service
- Times of India
- 4 June 1996
>>> Having identified its weak areas, mainly in southern and
eastern states, the Bharatiya janata Party has started
exploring the possibilities of realignment of forces.
The party feels that mid-term polls are inevitable and
the formation of the new government at the Centre is a
...
- Congress may join cabinet soon: Gowda
- Habib Beary
- The Observer
- 7 June 1996
>>> Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has indicated that the
Congress may join the coalition government within three
months.
Mr Gowda had a long meeting with Congress president and
former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao on Sunday on his
...
- BJP striving to win people's support in UP
- Arvind Singh Bisht
- Times of India News Service
- 7 June 1996
>>> The BJP which has managed to repeat its 1991 election
performance again this time by securing 52 Lok Sabha
seats in U.P., hopes to increase its support base further
by choosing new issues with wider appeal and focusing
the people's attention on the fall off the Vajpayee
...
- Bureaucrats hope to call the shots in Gowda Govt
- Kingshuk Nag
- Times of India
- 7 June 1996
>>> When a secretary of the Karnataka government was
imprisoned for a month by the orders of the supreme court
last year, Mr Deve Gowda was very upset. He virtually
wept at the fate of the officer and lamented that he
could not do anything to save the unfortunate man.
...
- A fortnight in government (Excerpts)
- Ram Jethmalani (Excerpts)
- Indian Express
- 8/6/96
>>> It was a neat contest. True, the BJP got about 24 per
cent of the vote and the Congress a little larger. But,
in the Westminster model, we count seats, not votes.
Vajpayee was the clear winner. Moreover, in spite of the
Congress's 28 per cent even Congressmen were obviously
...
- Agonising over BJP's stylised exit - A letter
- V. V. Manoj Kumar
- Economic Times
- 8/6/96
>>> Sir: Abheek Barman's article `Last Train to Auschwitz'
(The Evonomic Times, 31 May) is a classic example of the
imagery one can conjure up when one is burning within
oneself with impotent rage. Since resorting to labelling
and demonising their ideological opponents is what the
...
- Saving the mission - a letter
- Shiv Charan Singh
- The Weekend Observer
- 8/6/96
>>> `Ramkrishna Mission is Hindu again' written by Ram Swarup
(The Weekend Observer, June 1) made thought-provoking
reading and has compelled me to write a few things in
addition to what the author has already said.
The Ramkrishna Mission was instituted by Vivekanand for
...
- Chechen killed in Kashmir
- Cracks appear as Rao tells party to get into poll
- It is max confusion programme
- Muslims leadersless
- Nasir Ateeq
- Times Of India
- 8/6/96
>>> This was the first time in the past 25 years that Mr.
Sulaiman Sait did not contest the election. His
supporters feel his exit will turn out to be a great loss
for the 140 million Muslims for whose cause he had fought
inside and outside Parliament.
- UF Proposal on Ayodhya put Cong leadership in a fix
- Srinad Jha
- The Weekend Observer
- 8/6/96
>>> The Unite Front government's proposal to refer the
Ayodhya issue to the Supreme Court under Section 138 (2)
appears to be leading to a major political controversy,
with the Left parties determined to expose the Congress
party's `double-speak' on the subject and the Congress
...
- Speculation on govt's term - a letter
- Praful Goradia
- Observer
- 10 June 1996
>>> `A bagful of contradictions' by Mr Dina Nath Mishra (The
Observer of Business and Politics, June 7), if anything,
is an understatement about the United Front government. A
kind of rehearsal of what is likely to happen to it was
enacted in Bengal during 1969/71. Mr Jyoti Basu in
...
- The PM's party - Editorial
- Posted By ashok - Times of India
- June 10th 1996
>>> Even as H.D. Deve Gowda was consulting astrologers
before
taking up residence in the national Capital, the
developments in his home town were far from propitious.
The antics of those who were deprived of what is deemed
...
- Slip out of the Old - an editorial
- Posted By ashok - Times of India
- 10 June 1996
>>> The developments in the ruling Janata Dal in Karnataka
are disturbing, and not only for it being the home ground
of the Prime Minister, Mr H. D. Deve Gowda, or his
successor, Mr J. H. Patel, Swearing in a 45-member
council of ministers which has provoked the excluded
...
- Indo-Pak Union - a letter
- Syed Shahbuddin
- Times of India
- 10 June 1996
>>> Sir, - This refers to Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav's statement
regarding the establishment of a confederation of India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, made in Parliament on May 28
during the motion of confidence. I feel that he has
confused that long-term with the short-term objective:
...
- Left aligned?
- Kumar Ketkar
- The Sunday Times
- 10 June 1996
>>> Publication : The Sunday Times of India
In Indian politics the very term `Left' has become a
euphemism of sorts. It was, however, not so until the
1970s. Indeed, the term used to evoke an extremely
redical, iconoclastic and revolutionary image earlier.
...
- Leftists as backseat drivers
- Tavleen Singh
- Indian Express
- 10 June 1996
>>> Extraordinary, isn't it, how the Lefties have suddenly
reappeared in Delhi's political firmament. After the
Soviet Union fell apart in ignominious disarry and after
it stopped being possible to deny that China was a
capitalist country, our own comrades crawled behind the
...
- United Front hijacks BJP Manifesto
- Stand up for India
- Jaswant Singh
- The Economic Times, Mumbai
- June 11 1996
>>> The finance minister of the short-lived BJP government,
Jaswant Singh, has strong views on the United Front's
policy formulation in the Common Programme. He talks to
Abheek Barman about economics, Ayodhya and Enron. And
product patents, which India, as a signatory to the WTO,
...
- BJP MP invites JD's wrath
- Trust of a nation - editorial
- Editorial
- The Indian Express
- 13 June 1996
>>> The Deve Gowda Government's victory in the vote of confidence
in
the Lok Sabha will be greeted in the country with a measure of
relief. After more than a month of nervous political uncertainty
India now has a legitimate Government at the Centre
...
- BJP glee over Mamta's attack on CPM
- Editorial
- Economic Times
- June 12th 1996
>>> CONGRESS and CPM members from West Bengal today
clashed in the
Lok Sabha when Congress member, Ms Mamata Banerjee,
raised
certain issues like the Left Front government's attitude towards
...
- Middle class lupenisation of Hinduism
- Confidence vindicated - editorial
- Editorial
- The Times of India
- 13 June 1996
>>> There was never any doubt about the United Front
government
winning the confidence of the Lok Sabha, just as there was
none
about the Bharatiya Janata Party ministry losing it. Indeed, the
...
- Re: Middle class lumpenisation of Hinduism
- No infiltration from India - Bangla Govt
- Ershadul Huq
- Mid-Day
- June 12th 1996
>>> The Bangladesh government has brushed aside the allegations
of
influx of people from India to vote in favour of a particulars
political party in the country's June parliamentary elections.
A section of the press had published reports alleging that
...
- Saffron and nationalism
- Imported trouble
- Ashis K.Biswas
- Outlook
- June 19th 1996
>>> It all happened in Central Calcutta in broad
daylight. Four or five hawkers on Dharamtala Street
pounced on a customer, punching and kicking him. Their
ashen-faced victim, a middle-aged person, shouted for
help and attracted a crowd, which freed him. Between
...
- Victims of History - (How Japan is made to apologise)
- Irene M Kunii, and two others.
- Time
- 17 June 1996
>>> At 15, Kim Sang Hee was plucked by the Japanese
Imperial Army from her home in Taegu and transported to
a "comfort station", the euphemism for one of the military brothels at which more than 100,000 women - from
Korea, China and other Asian nations - were forced to
...
- Atalji on the RSS
- Bangalore in Delhi - editorial
- Anatomy of a communal riot
- Maloy Krishna Dhar
- Hindustan Times
- 9/6/96
>>> CALCUTTA was waiting for a Nor'wester, fondly and
Baishashi, the violent and wel-come pre-monsoon
hurricane. This year, the Bengalis had to sweat it our,
for the Kal-Baishakhi was as elusive as the Hilsa.
Mercifully, a mild Kal-Baishakhi finally hit the
...
- The colour saffron
- Victory after defeat
- Other side of Pakistan
- Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- 14/6/96
>>> As Indians, we tend to ignore the unpleasant and
bitter experience of Islamic invaders of the bygone era.
We even ignore and forget the bitter happenings of partition and the three wars that India and Pakistan
fought with each other. Many Indians wilfully triviaia-
...
- I had closed my mind to the BJP
- Shailesh Gandhi
- Communalism Combat
- 96. June
>>> NOTE: Shri Gandhi is identified as a friend of the edi tors (a veritable Hindu baiters). Shri Gandhi is a 49 year-old businessman, who had a 'pathological dislike'
for Hindutva for nearly 40 years, and did not even enter tain the thought of supporting the BJP. The objective of
e of
...
- Hegde's fall - Editorial
- Editorial
- Times of India
- June 15th 1996
>>> The expulsion of Mr Ramakrishna Hegde from the Janata Dal
- and the peremptory manner in which it was done - is
bound to be seized upon by skeptics to make the point
that Mr H.D. Deve Gowda's United Front government cannot
pull together as a team. This is not to deny that Mr
...
- India is not a coalition
- Sudheendra Kulkarni
- Hindustan Times
- 8 June 1996.
>>> Every parliamentary poll is a pedagogical exercise for
the people. Election for the Lok Sabha invariably turns
India into a ``countrywide classroom'' in which, despite
all the surrounding sound and fury, both the voters and
vote-seekers go through a learning process. Policies are
...
- DD blacks out news
- Jagpreet Luthra
- Afternoon
- 15 June 1996
>>> BJP spokesman K. L. Sharma has condemned Doordarshan's
blacking out of Prannoy Roy's The News Tonight telecast
on Friday night, apparently because it had an interview
with the expelled J. D. leader R. K. Hegde in which he
made unsavoury remarks about Prime Minister H. D. Deve
...
- On tolerance
- The parochial agenda
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Indian Express
- 15/6/96
>>> In 1960, the people of America were for the first time
exposed to a frontal debate between the Democratic and
Republican candidates for President. The encounter
between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon had a peculiar
outcome. Those who watched the proceedings on television
...
- Truth on Article 370 - a letter by Jaywantiben Mehta, MP.
- The die is caste
- M V Kamath
- Mid-day
- 17 June 1996.
>>> So we have a United Front government. Virtuous,
secular
and anti-communal. I presume that occupying the
high
moral ground that its members do, they turn their faces
...
- ARTICLE 370
- Ashok Chowgule
- Mid-day
- Mon, 17 Jun 96 21:21:50 PDT
>>> 1 The genesis of Article 370 in our Constitution is in
the Deed of Accession on the basis of which the then
Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir decided to join India
rather
than Pakistan in 1947. At the time of the writing of the
...
- After the fall
- Jug suriaya
- Times of India
- 17 June 1996
>>> Like Milton's Lucifer, Mr Atal Beehari Vajpayee has been
magnificent in his fall. In Paradise Lost, Lucifer se duced Milton's puritiancial muse and radically changed
the theme and content of the poet's magnum opus; the
man
...
- Interview of V N Gadgil
- Discovering Bharat Dialects of Hindutva
- O.V. Vijayan
- The Indian Express
- 17 June 1996
>>> Aphoney debate is on. The debate on Hindutva. It is like
the Eskimo debating alternative therapies for sun-stroke.
To start with, let us remember that Hinduism is not a
cradle religion, but a name invented by the various
hordes of invaders who had little time for theological
...
- Islam is indivisible (1995 article)
- Congress adrift - Editorial
- Posted By ashok - Times of India - Editorial
- 19 June 1996
>>>The Congress working committee session confirms that the
party leadership, like the Bourbons of France, will
forget nothing and learn nothing. Party president
Narasimha Rao's exasperated outburst at being "fed up"
with Mr Rajesh Pilot would have been understandable if Mr
...
- Defining the secularism debate
- Arindam Sen Gupta
- Economic Times
- 19 June 1996
>>>It's been a couple of weeks now since Mr V N Gadgil
called for a debate on secularism. Apart from Mr
Vajpayee's near instant welcome to the call - which is
not surprising - not much has happened. Only a couple of
commentators have reacted to it. In private, `secular'
...
- Balasaheb Deoras - Current Topics in TOI
- Audacious leadership - an editorial
- BJP's bold gamble paying off
- Posted By ashok - India Today
- 30 June 1996.
>>>Considering the unclear and fragmented verdict from the
electorate, there was a lot of debate over whether President S D Sharma should have invited the BJP first to form
the government. While the Opposition had cried foul, the
electorate seems to be completely in support of the
...
- Bahais not muslims - a letter
- The BJP addressed a mandate to rule
- Sundheernra Kulkarni
- (no publication) - 20 June 1996
>>>IT is said that history repeats itself, first as a
tragedy and then as a farce. We have seen the truth of
this statement in the case of two accidental prime
ministers India has had in a span of five years. When P V
Narasimha Rao became India's Prime Minister in June 1996,
...
- The arrogant left - An editorial
- Posted By ashok - The Financial Express - Editorial
- 20 June 1996
>>>BY threatening to rock the United Front Government, the
Left parties have bust the myth that they put strategic
thinking to the fore in support of' their ideological
priorities. It was the CPI(M)-Ied Left parties which had
helped to consolidate the coalition Government with the
...
- Three letters
- Posted By ashok - Telegraph
- 20 June 1996
>>>Sir - The gathering to felicitate Gopal Godse on June 1
would have gone unnoticed had not a mob of 400
Congressmen tried to disturb it. Perhaps they were not
aware Calcutta had witnessed a far greater blow to
secularism during Muharram. They also forgot that making
...
- PM chants Ayodhya peace mantra
- Binov Shorms
- Economic Times
- 21 June 1996
>>>EFFORTS have been initiated by the United Front
government, led by Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, to
bring about an amicable end to the Ayodhya tangle.
Sources close to the Prime Minister say he is keen that
the long-festering crisis should end during his term in
...
- Gangil demands a discussion on secularism in party
- One step to revelution - letter
- V. Sagar
- (no publication) - 21 June 1996
>>> Apropos the article, "One step to revolution" by K
Govindan Kutty (June 10), it is obvious that communists
all over in India in general, and those in India in
particular are most inconsistent. When communism was
brought to India via London (courtesy Harold Laski and
...
- Convoluted logic of BJP baiters - a letter
- Ramajujam
- Economics Times
- 21 June 1996
>>>Sir: Arindam Sengupta, The Economic Times's resident BJPbasher, seems a disheartened guy these days. He asks what
is so special about the BJP, and answers himself:
nothing, really. Yawn. No, wait a minute; for long the
pseuds have been writing for each other, giving
...
- Secularism - a letter
- Bharat J. Gajjar
- Hindutan Times
- 21 June 1996
>>>Sir, Webster's Dictionery defines secularism as
"indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion
and religious considerations." In Western or American
terms, it means separation of the state and the church.
That means the Government will keep itself out of the
...
- The importance of Ram Chabootra and Sita Ki Rasoi
- Lust for power
- M. N. Buch
- Hindustan Times
- 22 June 1996
>>>THERE is the story of the man who was shot in the gut and
was asked whether it hurt. His reply was: "Only when I
laugh". The present shenanigans of our politicians also
hurt only when one laughs. Here we have a group, the
United Front, which has been cobbled together with the
...
- The tragedy of the secular debate
- Jaya Jaitly
- Hindustan Times
- 22 June 1996
>>>HAS the landscape changed so much from 1989 when the
BJP
and the Left parties combined with the National Front
(the real National Front comprising the JD, the TDP, the
DMK, the AGP and the Akalis) that we should come to a
...
- Caste no bar to be Hindu priest
- A working paper for the BJP
- Jawid Laiq
- The Times of India
- 22 June 1996
>>>IN last month's confidence vote in the Lok Sabha the
Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee,
had said that Hindus were a majority with a minority
complex. If he were to look forward rather than
backward, Mr Vajpayee should now eloquently address the
...
- Padgaokar on secular Islam
- Posted By ashok - The Times of India
- Sat, 22 Jun 96 22:30:30 PDT
>>>In his article "A landslide victory for democracy in
Bangladesh" (The Pioneer, June 22, 1996) Shri Dileep
Padgaokar says, " The Islamisation of the three parties
may have served to stall the growth of the Jamaat and the
extremist 'fundamentalist' forces. Furthermore, the
...
- History of India
- V S Naipaul in Los Angeles Times
- Appealing to Hindus - Minimum compromises
- Ram Swarup
- Indian Express
- 24 June 1996
>>>THE recent elections marked the end of an era and the
beginning of another. The post Independence governments
and the ruling ideology of different political parties,
left or right, were anti-Hindu. The victory of the BJP
has dealt a blow to those forces, though they were still
...
- BJP unequivocally committed to secularism
- L K Advani
- Indian Express
- 12 Dec 1992.
>>>LAST year, a Calcutta daily asked me to identify a day or
moment in my life which I regarded as my happiest. I
named October 30, 1990, and more specifically, the
moment I heard the BBC broadcast that kar sevaks had
overcome all obstacles and broken all barriers put up by
...
- BJP's 'big push' strategy for South
- FE NEWS SERVICE
- Financial Express
- 24 June 1996
>>>AFTER three days of marathon deliberations, the Bharatiya
janata Party formulated a 'big push' expansionist
strategy for the eastern and the southern parts of the
country.
Between 15 to 20 leaders, with good oratory skills,
...
- BJP unequivocally committed to secularism (Part two of two)
- Posted By ashok - Indian Express
- 24 June 1996
>>>IT is sad that over 1,000 prisons have lost their lives
in the aftermath of Ayodhya. It is certainly a matter of
anguish. But when one compares this time's fallout with
what has been happening in earlier years over incidents
which can be considered trifling, this time's has been a
...
- Hedgewar's role in freedom struggle
- Rakesh Sinha
- Indian Express
- 24 June 1996
>>>The propaganda against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh
(RSS) crossed all limits of not only political moralism
but also academic discipline, as the Marxist
academicians and intellectuals, failing to counter
...
- Faith & Healing
- BJP accuses UF of hijacking mandate
- Posted By ashok - Economic Times
- 25 June 1996
>>>HE NATIONAL executive Of the Bharatiya Janata Party today
accused the ruling United Front government of
'betraying' the people by 'hijacking' the mandate, which
was given by the electorate in BJP's favour, to come to
power.
...
- Half a beginning
- Posted By ashok - Indian Express
- 25 June 1996
>>>THERE were three important lessons staring the Bharatiya
Janata Party in the face after Atal Behari Vajpayee
failed to secure parliamentary endorsement for continuing
as Prime Minister; it has learnt two of them. First, the
national executive meeting in Bhopal has acknowledged
...
- The secular contract - an editorial
- Posted By ashok - The Statesman - Editorial
- 25 June 1996
>>>MR V. N. Gadgil is right in trying to work up a debate
over secularism. Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee called for it
in his speech in the Lok Sabha a few days ago. Such a
debate is necessary to clear some pseudo-liberal cobwebs
in which the thinking of our political intelligentsia is
...
- India is not a coalition
- Sudheendra Kulkarni
- Hindustan Times
- 24 June 1996
>>>EVERY parliamentary poll is a pedagogical exercise for
the people. Election for the Lok Sabha invariably turns
India into a "countrywide classroom" in which, despite
all the surrounding sound and fury, both the voters and
vote-seekers go through a learning process. Policies are
...
- RSS turns to nationalist heritage
- Bhaskar Roy
- Times of India
- 25 June 1996
>>>NEW DELHI, June 23. As part of an effort to dent a newer
social base and acquire wider acceptability before the
next elections, the Sangh Parivar is making a move to
adopt symbols and heritage of the independence movement.
Making a significant departure from its tradition of
...
- Kanshi Ram in front - an editorial
- Posted By ashok - Indian Express - an editorial
- 25 June 1996
>>>IRRESPECTIVE of the durability of the alliances that the
BSP is forging or their electoral prospects, what is
clear is that Kanshi Ram has emerged as much more of a
major figure than it would have been thought possible at
the beginning of the year. After the collapse of
...
- It is yogic, not demonic spirituality
- Ram Swarup
- Hindustan Times
- 9 October 1995.
>>>ON March 23 this year, Pat Robertson led a television
programme in which he attacked Hinduism. He called it
"demonic" and said that Hindus should be kept out of the
United States. He said that they worship "idols" and
"hundreds of millions of deities," which "has put a
...
- What is special about the BJP?
- Arindam Sen Gupta
- Economic Times
- 5 June 1996
>>>The day after Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee resigned as prime
minister, R K Laxman drew a cartoon on the 'historic'
event in The Times of India. Mr Vajpayee sitting
outside the PM's house, a bedding and trunk by his side,
a jhola and a flask near him, looking rather grumpy.
...
- Vajpayee's assignment - BJP's token liberal
- By Amulya Ganguli
- Indian Express
- 26 June 1996
>>>REALISING that the "right man in the wrong party" epithet
was beginning to reflect poorly on the BJP, its prime
ministerial candidate has now chosen a new description,
presenting himself as the fruit of a tree and saying that
if the fruit is good, the tree also has to be good. =
...
- A Hindu's advice to BJP
- Rajinder Puri
- The Statesman
- 15 June 1996
>>>BJP leaders might be surprised to learn that though I
read no scripture, observe no ritual and visit no temple,
I am a Hindu. I believe in a Higher Power which operates
by the Law of Karma, I guess that makes a Hindu. I
suspect there are millions of Hindus like me who don't
...
- The heritage of all humanity
- Bimal Mohanty
- Observer
- 26 June 1996
>>>THE, recent past has seen quite a crop of articles, books
and writings attacking and criticising the `Hindu'
concept of religion and spirituality Attacks on and
criticism of Hindu philosophy - practically the most
ancient of living philosophies - is nothing new. Being
...
- Pollyannas all - Appeasing Pakistan to no avail
- By M.D. NALAPAT
- Times of India
- 25 June 1996
>>>THIRTY years ago, the then Pakistani President agreed in
writing to "exert all efforts to create good-neighbourly
relations" with India and "not to have recourse to force,
and to settle disputes through peaceful means,"
especially over Kashmir. Along with the then Prime
...
- Our brand of secularism - a letter
- Posted By ashok - Statesman
- 25 June 1996
>>>SIR, - Apropos of your editorial, 'The Secular Contract"
June 7-8), it is not surprising that the All-India
Congress Committee spokesman, Mr V. N. Gadgil's call
stressing.the need for the Congress to "redefine the
concept of secularism" has come too late. So far, he
...
- Rid Hinduism of manu's caste system
- All Indians are Hindoos
- Maxwell Pereira
- Hindustan Times
- 3 June 1996
>>>It was Grandpa Joseph who first told me I was a Handy.
May sound incongruous, but then one would need to know
more about gran'pa to appreciate his reasoning. As
grandfathers go, mine fitted into the typical mould-a
simple man with lean but towering personality, wearing a
...
- Red Herring - An editorial
- Posted By ashok - Times of India - Editorial
- 27 June 1996
>>>Some esteemed members of the United Front and the
Congress are said to be plotting furiously to scuttle the
allotment of the home portfolio to the Communist Party of
India. If media reports are to be believed, these sections see no reason for handing over the sensitive
...
- Heading for a split - An editorial
- Posted By ashok - Indian Express - Editorial
- 27 June 1996
>>>THE central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party
appears to have concluded that a split in its fractious
Gujarat unit is not only inevitable, but highly
desirable. The organisational changes in the state unit
effected on Tuesday prompt the conclusion that there is
...
- Why BJP fell
- A.C. BOSE
- Times of India
- 27 June 1996
>>>THE article, "Voting out Vajpayee" (June 5) by Mr K.R.
Malkani, an influential member of the BJP, makes
interesting reading. Unfortunately, however, it is marked
more by the sincerity of his feeling than by the
sagacity of his analysis. He starts with an effort to
...
- A poll - Majority believes UF will be shortlived
- Belakrishnan and Ravi Vyas
- Times of India
- 27 June 1996
>>>The United Front government led by Prime Minister H. D.
Deve Gowda is likely to be shortlived, and in case midterm elections are held in about a year, it is the BJP
which is likely to be returned to power, according to a
majority of respondents in a Times-MODE poll conducted in
...
- Caste blocks a Hindu renaissance
- Jaya Jaitly
- Indian Express
- 27 June 1996
>>>WE speak of Hinduism being a religion of great tolerance
and all imbibing. Yet there is one immutable factor
about Hindu society that has no answer. If it were all
embracing then why can one not be converted to Hinduism
from any other religion? Fundamentalist Hindus worry
...
- Muslims and the BJP
- M.V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- 27 June 1996
>>>Misled and badly advised by the likes of Vishwanath
Pratap Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Muslims of
India are once again being let into a trap from which
they may find it very difficult to escape in the coming
decades. At issue is the future of the Ram Janmabhoonii.
...
- Hindu leaders meet in Bombay - From the archives
- Posted By ashok - Times of India
- 17 Sept 1932
>>>The attempts to placate the feelings of the untouchables
by throwing open to them the temples and public tanks in
Bombay are taking definite shape. A conference of
influential Hindu leaders was held on Friday evening
when it was decided to send a telegram to the Viceroy,
...
- Money politics
- Praful Bidwai
- Mid-day
- 27 June 1996
>>>Note on the author:
Shri Bidwai is a hard core Communist and is one of the
self-styled leader of the anti-Hindutuva brigade. He
thinks that his forte is intellectualism but his method
is the substitution of adjectives for logic. He works
...
- In different voices - an editorial
- Posted By ashok - The Indian Express - Editorial
- 28 June 1996
>>>IT has become somewhat of a dreary ritual for ministers
and functionaries of the United Front to talk in
different voices. If Mulayam Singh Yadav takes it upon
himself to announce a new bill on more autonomy for Jammu
and Kashmir in the forth-coming session of Parliament,
...
- Hindutva and participation of castes in power
- Evolving national idiom
- M. G. S. Narayanan
- Indian Express
- 28 June 1996
>>>CERTAIN interesting but complicated facts are emerging in
the wake of the Election '96. In spite of confusing
party politics and conflicting affiliations, these
developments are full of significance when they are
viewed against the background of Indian history in the
...
- A derailed state - An editorial
- Posted By ashok - Times of India - Editorial
- 29 June 1996
>>>With one skeleton after another tumbling out of the
closet with monotonous regularity, the appalling systems
failure in Bihar has once again been exposed. In the
course of four months this year the state has been rocked
by a series of scandals. First, it was revealed that a
...
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee - a life sketch
- Performers for Gowda - An editorial
- Posted By ashok - Indian Express - Editorial
- 29 June 1996
>>>IT is perhaps no coincidence that Prime Minister H. D.
Deve.Gowda effected a main moth political purge of the
Janata Dal in his home state of Karnattaka as a prelude
to the expansion of his ministry. Having successfully
overcome the wariness of the CPI and the Asam Gana
...
- Elections in India and Israel
- HAROLD A. GOULD
- Times of India
- 29 June 1996
>>>NOW that the national elections held less than a month
apart in India and Israel have been completed, one cannot
help being struck by how differently their respective
electorates dealt with similar problems - namely
inter ethnic tensions. Located on opposite flanks of the
...
- A strong Hindu response to historical humilation
- Recalling Naxalite terror
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Indian Express
- 29 June 1996
>>>IN the second volume of her autobiography - The Road To
Power - published last year, Margaret Thatcher
underlined the formidable difficulties she had to
encounter in the process of restoring to the
Conservative Party its true soul. "By 1964," she wrote,
...
- The 'United' Front of a cruel joke
- M. V. Kamath
- Organiser
- 30 June 1996
>>>A cruel joke has been perpetrated against this country
by a bunch of con men. And it has largely gone
unnoticed because our so-called
'intellectuals' in command of the media have
been determinedly ignoring the fact. The fact is that we
...
- Interview of Digvijay Singh - Excerpts
- Neeraj Mishra
- Indian Express
- 30 June 1996.
>>>Q: How long do you think the Congress would support the
United Front government?
A: Two years, at least. It will take that much time for the
Congress to regroup. And I think in the future there will be a
polarisation of political foces of the kind that exists in MP.
...
- The agony and ecstasy of saving secularism
- Saticarus
- Organiser
- 29 June 1996
>>>IT is an excruciatingly painful experience when you have
to say a good word about someone you love to hate. So
Tavleen Singh has Satiricus's sympathies.
After berating, ridiculing, reviling, abusing and
condemning the BJP fools and the RSS Fascists to her
...
- In God they trust
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