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Starting: Tue 06 Aug 1996 - 00:00:-56471 EDT
Ending: Fri 23 Aug 1996 - 00:00:-65223 EDT
Messages: 31
Barbaric Laws - Behzad Amiri, Wanowarie, Pune
- Asian Age
- 4 August 1996
>>>SIR, The Muslim regime of Iran put into effect the new
Islamic punishment bill on July, 9. The bill wihich was
given to the Iranian press by Mullah Mohammad Yazde, the
head of the judicial power, defined death penalty for
insulting Mullah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic
...
Three facts and Two assumptions - M J Akbar
- Asian Age
- 4 August 1996
>>>Fact Number One: Saffron sunrise on horizon. If another
general election is held anytime in this century, the
Bharatiya Janata Party will come to power at the Centre,
possibly on its own and certainly in the company of a few
satellites happy with the regional clout they would get
...
Smear test for Delhi BJP - Editorial
- The Pioneer
- 6 August 1996
>>>The murky controversy over the alleged rape of an inmate
of the Capital's Nari Niketan, while working as a
domestic help in the Health Minister, Mr Harshvardhan's
residence, shows no signs of abating. In fact, the issue
may gather momentum now that the woman has delivered a
...
Why was CM Ibrahim supping with the 'enemy'? - Javed Anand
- The Pioneer
- 6 August 1996
>>>On the face of it, Mr CM Ibrahim's supping with the
"enemy' makes no sense. He is, after all, Union Minister
in a United Front Government which owes its very
existence to the declared allegiance to secularism of
virtually every party in the country barring the BJP and
...
Appeasement or Settlement? - A.K.R. Hemmady
- Organiser
- 4 August 1996
>>>I hope all political parties not only in West Bengal but
also in the rest of India will rise above immediate
political gains and seriously assess what our secularism
is in practice rather than in theory. Reference is to
the unprovoked vandalism by Muslims on the day of
...
Zoroastrian situation in Iran - Dara Kadva
- Organiser
- 4 August 1996
>>>I am a little mystified as to how a purely PR piece
concerning the "Zoroastrian Conference in Iran" appeared
in a journal like the Organiser (147-1996).
A Zoroastrian myself and a columnist in the Parsi weekly
Jame Jamshed of Mumbai, let me enlighten your readers
...
Hindutva Vs Secularism - Suhail Siddiqui
- Organiser
- 4 August 1996
>>>It can be said that "BJP's Fascism" is better for Indian
Muslims than the 'secularism' practised by the Congress
and others for the last 50 years. When the entire
country is discussing the definition of secularism the
point of view of Muslims also needs to be understood as
...
The BJP move on IM(DT) Act - Editorial
- Organiser
- 4 August 1996
>>>Ever since the AGP Government returned to power the
people of Assam have been eagerly waiting to hear what
its leaders have to say now about the issue that concerns
them most after the insurgency problem-issue of foreign
infiltration into Assam. And since the problem still
...
Hospital at Ayodhya - Radheswar
- The Asian Age
- 5 August 1996
>>>Sir, Ms Seema Mustafa suggested in her column (Come
elections and it is always back to Ayodhya, July 13) that
a well-equipped hospital be set up at the controversial
site in Ayodhya. It is an excellent suggestion. I suggest
that all Masjids and Mandirs in the country be converted
...
No joining the BJP - Khursheed Ahmed
- The Pioneer
- 7 August 1996
>>>Sir-This is apropos of Mr Ramesh Diwan's letter, 'A
charter of duties' (The Pioneer, July 30), in response to
Syed Shahabuddin's letter, 'Is BJP a picnic spot?' (July
24), which in turn was a rejoinder to Mr Diwan's earlier
letter, 'Muslims should join the BJP' (July 17).
BJP MLA seeks to make conversion an offence - Vidhyadhar Date
- The Times of India
- 5 August 1996
>>>BJP MLA Mangalprabhat Lodha has drafted a bill which
seeks to jail those resorting to religious conversions.
Having already given notice of the bill to assembly
speaker Dattail Nalawade, he hopes it would be introduced
next week.
To sign or not to sign - AP Venkateswaran & Praful Bidwai
- The Pioneer
- 4 August 1996
>>>NO -- AP Venkateswaran
In looking at the heated debate on the early conclusion
of a CTBT in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and
in particular, the 'holier than thou' attitude adopted by
the US and its allies, it is important not to overlook
...
Ambiguity as an incredible nuclear theology - Raja Menon
- The Pioneer
- 4 August 1996
>>>After a decade by India watchers to identify the
institutions responsible for making nuclear weapon
policy, there was a recent admission in the newspapers
for the first time that the country was not going to sign
the CTBT in its present form because the Chiefs of Staff
...
The ethics of conversion - Ram Swarup
- Hindustan Times
- 5 August 1996
>>>Regarded from a deeper angle, Christian proselytizing is
an arrogant idea, a denial both of God and of one's
neighbour; it denies God, denies his working in others,
denies the many ways in which he fulfills himself. It
helps neither the missionaries for the converts.
...
From Ram to Trinidadeshwar - Amulya Ganguli
- The Indian Express
- 8 August 1996
>>>A recent report in the Organiser, the sangh parivar's
mouthpiece, referred to the efforts being made by the
Vishwa Hindu Parishad towards the "awakening of Hindus"
in the Caribbean. It referred to the setting up of a
holy teerth named Gangadhara on a river in Trinidad.
...
Indian Muslims need in-house reforms - Zafar Jung
- The Indian Express
- 8 August 1996
>>>Article 44 of the Constitution directs the State to
secure to all citizens a Uniform Civil Code. The debate
of the Constituent Assembly in this regard does not seem
to signify values to be incorporated in such a code. On
the contrary, on providing safety to various minority
...
Don't Prevaricate - Editorial
- The Times of India
- 8 August 1996
>>>Is the United Front government dragging its feet on the
jurisdiction of the proposed Lok Pal? It will be a
negation of the Common Minimum Programme and the values
espoused by the constituents of the UF if there is any
dilution of the Lok Pal Bill, leaving the Prime Minister
...
Virtual Spirituality - Swagato Ganguly
- The Times of India
- 8 August 1996
>>>As Indians we profess to be a uniquely spiritual people,
although within the classical three-fold schema of human
aims set forth as dharma, artha and kama and later
expanded to include moksha, only the last refers
unambiguously to spiritual goals.
Dalit Christians Vested Interests are at Work - Chandra Bhal Tripathi
- Statesman
- 2 August 1996
>>>The demand for declaring the so-called Dalit Christians
Scheduled Castes is a manifestation of the vested
interests of two groups, the current votaries of the socalled social justice (a euphemism for caste-based
politics) and some Christian missionaries and leaders
...
Congress gives cutting reply to Mulayam's - Amita Verma
- The Asian Age
- 7 August 1996
>>>The Congress launched a vociferous campaign against
defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav when the AICC
general secretary Mr Devendra Dwiwedi termed him "as a
politician who indulges in the most vulgarised form of
casteist politics" and the UP Congress president, Mr
...
Waghelas served with show-cause notice
People's Capitalism - Editorial
- The Times of India
- 9 August 1996
>>>After five years of unplanned and ill-planned divestment
of government-owned stock in central public-sector
undertakings, with attendant accusations of corruption
and swindling of public assets, the Union government has
finally put in place an institutional mechanism that can
...
A party without difference - K Govindan Kutty
- Financial Express
- 19 August 1996
>>>It will be sonic time before what Shankarsinh Waghela can
mean to Gujarat or his former party is known. His new
party will take shape in a few days with a resolve to
work for Gujarat's interests which his former party has
allegedly ignored all along. The new party will
...
Question Time - M J Akbar
- After Noon
- 20 August 1996
>>>It is not easy to celebrate one's fiftieth birthday, as
Bill Clinton is discovering. We all know what he would
like to do: emulate his hero Jack Kennedy and get a 1996
version of Marilyn Monroe to make his day, or night. We
all know what he is going to do: listen to Hillary
...
Blurred Priorities - Editorial
- The Times of India
- 22 August 1996
>>>Amongst the biggest of the foreign direct investment
proposals approved by the present government are those of
Perfetti (for the manufacture of toffees and chewing
gum), Warner Brothers (for the setting up of cinema
complexes), Bloomberg (for a wire service network),
...
Bid to rock UF government may not succeed - M D Nalapat
- The Times of India
- 22 August 1996
>>>While the BJP and the Congress may be political rivals,
their members and officials are united in one mission: to
brief elements in the media about the "instability" of
the Deve Gowda government. For t BJP, it is one more
step in its quest to occupy the space hitherto filled b
...
Governor asks Suresh Mehta to defer expansion of ministry - The Times of India News Service
- The Times of India
- 22 August 1996
>>>Pending physical verification of the BJP legislators,
governor Krushna Pal Singh is believed to have conveyed
to chief minister Suresh Mehta not to go ahead with the
expansion of his truncated ministry. and the appointment
of new chair- persons of various statutory corporations
...
No Paper Tiger - Editorial
- The Times of India
- 22 August 1996
>>>The impressive turnout at expelled Gujarat Bharatiya
Janata Party leader Shankarsinh Waghela's rally - where
he announced the launching of the Rashtriya Janata Party
- is proof, if any were needed, that the BJP is
hopelessly caught in a caste divide. Himself a blue-
...
Vaghela pitches in - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- 22 August 1996
>>>Shankarsinh Vaghela has begun what promises to be a long
battle of attrition against the Bharatiya Janata Party.
It is the only form of warfare he is in a position to
wage at this stage. The BJP Government in Gujarat has
been seriously weakened as the unprecedented dismissal of
...
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