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Starting: Sun 01 Sep 1996 - 00:00:-60115 EDT
Ending: Mon 30 Sep 1996 - 00:00:-22274 EDT
Messages: 157

  • 'It's time to reassess Jinnah'
  • A fait accompli Manmohan?
    • K P Gopalan (Letter to Editor)    The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>It was shocking to learn from The Economic Times (20 August) that of all the money seized from Mr Sukh Ram's house, about Rs 1.44 crore will have to be returned to him as per the new assessment scheme of the income tax, introduced by former finance minister, Manmohan Singh on ...
  • A growing aggression
    • Power Play    The Economic Times - 22 September 1996
      • >>>A conference organised by OBC Muslims in the capital last month has once again turned the spotlight on reservations for non-Hindu backwards and Dalits. Since the initiative taken by Shabbir Ansari and Vilas Sonavane comes close on the heels of the Dalit Christian issue, it can only fuel ...
  • Activism prevails over restraint
    • Swapan Dasgupta    The Indian Express - 14 September 1996
      • >>>Political commentators who detected a wave of disappointment in BJP circles after Special Judge V. B. Gupta's September 6 order to frame charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against L. K. Advani in the hawala case, were not far off the mark. Since the day the BJP presisi- ...
  • Administrative callousness - the Amarnath tragedy
    • Jagmohan    The Times of India - 20 September 1996
      • >>>While speaking in Parliament on August 29, on the tragedy en route the holy cave of Amarnath (August 21-25), I asked Home Minister Indrajit Gupta whether Government had any department or cell dealing with disaster preparedness, mitigation and management. Responding to this ...
  • Age of Empowerment Muslim OBCs Discover Mandar
    • Praful Bidwai    The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>What is common between Sharad Pawar, Sharad Yadav, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, Mrinal Gore, Hassan Kamal (lyricist), Haroon Khalid (journalist), Shabbir Ansari and Vilas Sonavane (non-party political activists)? They are all supporters of the All- India Muslim OBC (Other ...
  • Aliens in the east
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 14 September 1996
      • >>>Union Home Minister Indrajit Gupta told the consultative committee attached to his ministry only half the story when he said that the Centre was "actively considering" the proposal from Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to repeal the Illegal Migrants (Deter" nation by ...
  • Amarnath Compensation - II
    • S S Joshi    The Times of India - 16 September 1996
      • >>>I fully agree with Swami Agnivesh's views. Ex-gratia payments announced by the government to all and sundry are nothing but a misuse of tax-payers' money. The government is an old hand at this, of course, having for decades wasted the common man's money on ...
  • Amarnath Compensation -I
    • Dilip Joshi    The Time of India - 16 September 1996
      • >>>Swami Agnivesh, in questioning the propriety of the government's announcing monetary compensation to the families of the Amarnath tragedy victims, has raised a very pertinent point. Every now and then we hear of the government ...
  • An amazing order, this
    • Editorial    The Free Press Journal - 9 September 1996
      • >>>It is indeed a sign of the times we live in that even a man of L K Advani's sterling character has to bear the cross. Friday's order by a Delhi magistrate rejecting the BJP President's plea against the CBI chargesheet against him in the Rs 65-crore Jain Hawala case may well be ...
  • An American in search of female God
    • S P Nanda    The Asian Age - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Her Indian conception of the Goddess being a living force developed into a deep conviction in less than three decades of research has now prompted her to launch a women's spirituality movement in America and Europe, though not yet an organised one. It aims at demolishing ...
    • S P Nanda    The Asian Age - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Her Indian conception of the Goddess being a living force developed into a deep conviction in less than three decades of research has now prompted her to launch a women's spirituality movement in America and Europe, though not yet an organised one. It aims at demolishing ...
  • An ethical menagerie
    • Swapan Dasgupta    Biblio - 1996 August
      • >>>There were two unintended consequence of the Ramjanmbhoomi movement which culminated in the demolition of the Babri shrine in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. First, our collective knowledge of German history registered a phenomenal improvement; and, second, the publishing ...
  • And now, reservations for all Muslims
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>And why am I, yet again, haranguing Muslims and reservations? Because, like all the other perpetually hurt and oppressed, I see demons everywhere and can't stop whining. At its first national convention, held in Delhi on August st ...
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>And why am I, yet again, haranguing Muslims and reservations? Because, like all the other perpetually hurt and oppressed, I see demons everywhere and can't stop whining. At its first national convention, held in Delhi on August st ...
  • Another Salman Rushdie in the making?
    • Virendra Kapoor    The Free Press Journal - 2 September 1996
      • >>>What is it with Islam that its followers cannot bear the mere thought of someone examining it critically? Even if the one dissecting its precepts and practices is selfavowedly a good Muslim. Anwar Sheikh, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, has earned enough notoriety among ...
  • Anwar Shaikh of Great Britain
  • Apotheosis and crucifixion
    • Mani Shankar Aiyar    The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The appointment of R. K. Dhawan as General Secretary of the Congress has put the seal of finality on the process that will lead to the election of the Congress President on January 21, 1997. In a year of repeated setbacks, nothing could be better news than this. And we have ...
  • Aruna & Asaf Ali
    • G S Hiranyappa    Organiser (Readers Forum) - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Aruna Asaf Ali, nee Ganguli, was a brave and resourceful revolutionary patriot. Her dauntless deeds in the Quit India movement of 1942 have given her an imperishable reputation. Her death recently at the ripe age of 87 marked the end of a dedicated life.
  • Aryan civilisation may become 'bone' of contention
    • Express News Service    The Indian Express - 10 December 1995
      • >>>An innocous animal bone, found at the Harappan site of Kuntasi, seven km from the Gulf of Kutch, may destroy the firmly held beliefs about the Harappan and Aryan civilisations, according to archeologists here. The bone in contention, which was earlier believed to be ...
  • Autonomy for Kashmir - 1
    • Jagmohan    The Hindustan Times - 14 August 1996
      • >>>While replying to the debate on extension of President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda said in the Lok Sabha on July 12. 1996: "What has happened in the past would not help. It will be a futile exercise" (The Hindustan Times; July 13, 1996). The ...
  • Basu calls for moratorium on corruption
    • L K Sharma    The Times of India - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Jyoti Basu, West Bengal chief minister and United Front leader, said the corruption cases against Narasimha Rao and Sukh Ram would have no impact on the stability of the United Front government. For ever, a pragmatic communist, Mr. Basu called for a ...
    • L K Sharma    The Times of India - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Jyoti Basu, West Bengal chief minister and United Front leader, said the corruption cases against Narasimha Rao and Sukh Ram would have no impact on the stability of the United Front government. For ever, a pragmatic communist, Mr. Basu called for a ...
  • Battered and pushed around
    • Sanjoy Hazarika    Hindustan Times - 1 January 1996
      • >>>In 1964, East Pakistan built the Kaptai hydroelectric dam in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, ostensibly to improve the energy and power availability in the province. It is among the earlier cases of "development" projects causing forced displacement in the subcontinent. The project ...
  • Beauty Bashing - an editorial
    • Editorial    The Times of India - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Beauty is potent, money is omnipotent, goes a proverb, suggesting that it is moolah in the makeover market which is at the bottom of film star Amitabh Bachchan's sudden conversion to the cause of the comely. But then what explains the madness of those who would rather die-quite ...
  • Behind the curtain, Vaghela is lost
    • Bishan Kumar    Indian Express - 5 September 1996
      • >>>EVEN before the verdict is pronounced on the fortnightlong imbroglio involving the State Govenment, the main architect of the rebellion, Shankersinh Vaghela, stands a loser. Worried by lack of support, Vaghela is now trying to sell the impression that he is not interested in ...
  • BJP hails Kashmiri for peaceful polls
    • Press Trust of India    The Observer - 19 September 1996
      • >>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday hailed the people of Jammu and Kashmir for "making the current assembly elections successful." The conduct of polls would not have been successful had the people not come out to vote in large numbers, senior ...
  • BJP likely to secure majority in UP polls
  • BJP may reap benefits from Sangma's rule
    • Political Bureau Agencies    The Economic Times - 11 September 1996
      • >>>The BJP today seized upon the Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma's observation, that the deputy speaker of the Gujarat assembly had committed a constitutional impropriety by recognising the party's splinter group, to emphasise its political point that its rivals have been ...
  • BJP's classless reform plank
    • Editorial    Financial Express - 9 April 1996
      • >>>Bharatiya Janata Party's ambitious economic agenda is to reform the IMF-inspired reform strategy marshalled by the Congress administration. BJP's election manifesto is all for liberalisation, for minimising the commercial activities of the government and for a severe cut-back in ...
  • Celebrating a cycle
    • Sujay Bhattacharya & Rupa Ray    The Observer - 24 August 1996
      • >>>About 365 km from Shimla hidden away within the folds of the mighty Himalayas lies a small ham. let with a population of about 650 souls. The village of Tabo at a height of 3280 metre lies at the lower edge of the Spiti valley, close to the borders of Tibet. Surrounded by ...
  • Centre tells the supreme court it is unable to enact uniform civil code
    • Rakesh Bhatnagar    The Times of India - 04 September 1996
      • >>>The Union government on Tuesday expressed its helplessness in enacting a uniform civil code (UCC) . It told the supreme court that such legislation would be against the government's policy not to interfere with the personal laws of minority communities. .
  • Charles' interest in Hinduism worries former archbishop
    • PTI    The Economic Times - 12 September 1996
      • >>>Former archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie has expressed concern over Prince Charles' interest in Hinduism, a new biography of Runcie published by the London Times says. An excerpt from the book published on Tuesday said ...
  • China's super power status is bogus
    • Harvey Stockwin    The Times of India - 6 September 1996
      • >>>Hong Kong: Despite the claims of massive sustained economic growth made by foreigners, China's statistics are highly suspect. Inside China those who report statistics see the figures as an inevitable part of the perennial political patterns of sycophancy - one of the ...
  • Communal vote-bank; and a response
    • Syed Shahabuddin    Organiser (Readers Forum) - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Please refer to Shri R.C Batura's article "Gowda's Operation Vote-Bank" in Organiser, 14-7-96. The article states that Muslim leaders and organisations are opposed to the transfer to the consolidated case relating to title to the Babri Masjid site, now being heard by the ...
  • Cong MLA's houses raided
    • Sitasharan Jha    The Observer - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Indicted by the judiciary for going slow against politicians and top bureaucrats in the multicrore animal husbandry (AH) scam, the CBI and IT department sleuths on Tuesday swung into action against senior Congressman and former minister Rajo Singh MLA, who is alleged to be one ne ...
  • Congress says sorry to Muslims
    • Posted By ashok    The Asian Age - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The Congress on Thursday apologised to the country's Muslims for its "failure to do justice to the community." "The Congress has not done full justice to the Muslims and, on behalf of the party, I apologise for the same," AICC general secretary B.P. Maurya said here on Thursday.
    • Posted By ashok    The Asian Age - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The Congress on Thursday apologised to the country's Muslims for its "failure to do justice to the community." "The Congress has not done full justice to the Muslims and, on behalf of the party, I apologise for the same," AICC general secretary B.P. Maurya said here on Thursday.
  • Constitutional morality violated in Gujarat
    • Soli J. Sorabjee    The Indian Express - 21 September 1996
      • >>>The incidents of violence and other acts indulged in by the members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly would shame even the rowdiest street fighters. But whilst we rightly bemoan the disgusting behaviour of these legislators we cannot justly condone yet another assault on the Consti- ...
    • Soli J. Sorabjee    The Indian Express - 21 September 1996
      • >>>The incidents of violence and other acts indulged in by the members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly would shame even the rowdiest street fighters. But whilst we rightly bemoan the disgusting behaviour of these legislators we ...
  • Court 'nails down' Advani's claim in Hawala case
    • Press Trust of India    The Observer - 9 September 1996
      • >>>The designated court dealing with Rs 65 crore Jain-hawala scandal in its order on framing the charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against Bharatiya Janata Party president L K Advani has 'nailed down' his earlier claim that the case against him was "fit for discharge".
  • Daughters of right
    • Debjani Banerjee    The Telegraph - 23 August 1996
      • >>>Woman and the Hindu Right, a compilation of essays and interviews, uses the events of December 6, 1992, as a pivotal point for the exploration of Hindutva ideology. Unfortunately, the editors note, the recent electoral success of the Bharatiya Janata Party - one of the units ...
  • Developments in Cong to benefit BJP in UP: Advani
    • Political Bureau    The Observer - 27 September 1996
      • >>>Bharatiya Janata Party President Lal Krishna Advani has said that the circumstances leading to the exit of Mr P V Narasimha Rao as the Congress president and the subsequent court directives against him would have their adverse fallout in respect of the prospects of the Conon- ...
    • Political Bureau    The Observer - 27 September 1996
      • >>>Bharatiya Janata Party President Lal Krishna Advani has said that the circumstances leading to the exit of Mr P V Narasimha Rao as the Congress president and the subsequent court directives against him would have their adverse fallout in respect of the prospects of the Conon- ...
  • Do you hear anyone talk about reconstructing the mosque?
    • Posted By ashok    The Indian Express - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is busy again, campaigning for his party in Uttar Pradesh. He crisscrosses the state and stops to address the waiting crowds. The importance of his mission is underscored when he tells people, "The outcome of the Assembly elecec- ...
    • Posted By ashok    The Indian Express - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is busy again, campaigning for his party in Uttar Pradesh. He crisscrosses the state and stops to address the waiting crowds. The importance of his mission is underscored when he tells people, "The outcome of the Assembly elecec- ...
  • Does secularism have a future?
    • Anirudh Despande    The Pioneer - 27 September 1996
      • >>>A recent seminar on 'Secular Values in Liberal Democracy', reminded one of the Russian poem about a peasant who boards and falls asleep in a stationary train which never leaves Kharkov. How else do you accept a motley group of middle class individuals who discuss historical and ...
  • Don't throw away the front door
    • M D Nalapat    The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>It would be wonderful if the world were what the Indian supporters of CTBT assume it to be. According to them, the whole world is peace-loving, except India. if only this country were to disarm itself, the scourge of nuclear weapons would be eradicated. The reality is ...
  • Electoral travesty in Bosnia
    • Henry Kissinger    The Financial Express - 11 September 1996
      • >>>America's political campaign has had the strange effect of tranquilising discuss ion of foreign policy. But the pace of international events has its own momentum. By the end of the year we shall be facing a moment of truth in Bosnia: it will no longer be possible to gloss over the ...
  • Enter. yet another anti-Hindu front
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Sunday Observer - 22-28 September 1996
      • >>>The BSP-Congress alliance is the only solution to Mulayam Singh Yadav's goonda raj and the BJP's communal agenda" - Jitendra Prasada, UP Congress chief. "The PM exposed the United Front's true face by hobnobbing with Thackeray" - Sharad Pawar.
  • Farcical Finale
    • Editorial    The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>With the mobilisation of as many as 121 nations to sponsor the draft, there was never any doubt about the U.N. General Assembly adopting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This despite the fact that the votaries were fully aware that the treaty was not intended by its ...
  • Farcical Lok Pal - an editorial
    • Editorial    The Economic Times - 19 September 1996
      • >>>The Lok Pal as envisaged in the Bill introduced in Parliament last week is a complete waste of time. It does not give the Lok Pal the power to prosecute any politician it finds guilty; it can only recommend to a competent authority its finding. As such, the proposed Lok Pal Pal ...
  • Fatwa on Rushdie stays as EU-Iran sidestep issue.
    • Agence France Presse    The Indian Express - 26 September 1996
      • >>>The European Union and Iran have dashed hopes of an early agreement which would end a seven-year Iranian death sentence against British writer Salman Rushdie. Contrary to earlier reports from European diplomats in Brussels that both sides were "95 per cent" in agreement, ...
  • Forcing a faith accompli
    • Imtiaz Ahmed    Telegraph - 10 September 1996
      • >>>Secularism is discussed in the abstract a great deal in India. But what it should mean concretely in terms of actions on the part of the state and its organs is rarely seriously debated. One consequence of this is that certain actions of the state or its organs which consti- ...
  • Forgetful ex-MPs owe MTNL crores
    • Chindu Sreedharan    Sunday Observer - 8-14 September 1996
      • >>>It happens with clockwork regularity. Every time members of Parliament vacate their offices, many of them 'forget' to clear their telephone bills - and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited has arrears of over Rs 8.5 crore as proof of such amnesia.
  • Foul!
    • Editorial    The Economic Times - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The ruling United Front has shown its spots and they look very much like those of the Congress. The imposition of President's rule in Gujarat is an act of extreme cynicism and reveals a poor grasp of realpolitik. Admittedly, the display of rowdyism in the Gujarat House on Wednesday is ...
  • Gains from iniquity but India is no better or worse off from CTBT
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 12 September 1996
      • >>>With the UN General Assembly voting by an overwhelming majority for the CTBT, the world has taken a significant step towards nuclear disarmament. Some of the treaty's key provisions are heavily flawed and there will be disappointment over missed opportunities. But even ...
  • Gandhi on Hinduism - a book review
    • La. Su. Rengarajan    The Hindu - 3 September 1996
      • >>>EDU HINDU DHARMAM ?: (Tamil) Selections from Mahatma Gandhi's writings complied by Ravindar Kumar; Translated by Dr. Palani Arangasami: National Book Trust, India, A-5 Green Park. New Delhi- 1100016. Rs. 31. Eclipses in Hindu Life and Thought : Dr Jayasree ...
  • Genocide accepted is genocide engouraged
    • News    The Asian Age - 28 August 1996
      • >>>During the first months of my new government, Pakistan decided to make a million-dollar contribution to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. We did this despite vehement arguments from those who believe the best way to deal with past horrors is to bury the truth alongside the ...
  • German street wins its name back after 50 yrs
    • DPA    The Times of India - 5 September 1996
      • >>>In a quiet, dignified ceremony near the Bayerische Platz, where before World War II many prominent Jews once lived in the city, Albert Einstein among them, a street has finally won back its old name. The Nazis ordered Haberland strasse changed to ...
  • Good for himself, yes, but for Dalits?
    • Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr    The Indian Express - 12 September 1996
      • >>>In the labyrinth of Indian power politics, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Kanshi Ram has emerged as a veritable Minotaur. He is the dominating figure, and all paths seem to lead to his no-nonsense and-threatening presence. This is the scene in that ostensible cockpit of Indian ...
  • Gowda's poll plans
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The Prime Minister is doing his reputation no good by allowing the impression to gain ground that he may choose the Rajya Sabha route instead of contesting a Lok Sabha seat to become an MP. There is no legal bar, of course, to a Prime Minister belonging to the Upper House, but it ...
  • Guess who came to dinner?
    • Rajdeep Sardesai    Mid-day - 9 September 1996
      • >>>Of all the media-manufactured controversies in recent months, the one that has left me slightly perplexed is the fallout of the Deve Gowda-Bal Thackeray meeting. Not since Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler (I'm sure Thackeray will be pleased with the ...
  • Hasina govt offers ray of hope to minorities; and a reponse
    • Tarun Basu    The Economic Times - 11 September 1996
      • >>>When Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Janmashtami festival in the port city of Chittagong last month, she sent a hopeful signal to the nearly 18 million minority population of the country. Three years ago the Janmashtami procession in Dhaka was ...
  • Hindu idol found at Mathura mosque
    • Posted By ashok    Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>The Mathura administration has found clinching evidence which proves the Hindus' claim that the Shahi Mosque at Mathura was built over Shri Krishnajanmabhoomi temple. According to the locals, on August 14 the local administration started digging in the courtyard of the ...
  • Hinduism includes Sikhs , Jains and Buddhists
    • Posted By ashok    Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Excerpts : Interview of Mr Buta Singh by Organiser representative Pramod Kumar What is your opinion about the proposed reservation bill for the so-called dalit Christian? My opinion is that when any section of the poor people is ...
  • In praise of RSS
    • T Mani Chowdary    Economic and Political Weekly - 10 August 1996
      • >>>It is indeed sad that very slanderous articles like 'In Praise of RSS' are published in your. scholarly journal (July 27). If Godse was in the RSS and later drifted away from it and then shot the Mahatma, could we say that it was RSS which inspired him to assassinate Gandhiji'? ...
  • In the name of Allah
    • Ajaz Ashraf    The Pioneer - 22 September 1996
      • >>>It is 10.45 in the morning, and Mushirul Hasan is immaculately dressed, ready to go to office. But he does not have to travel far - all he has to do is to enter the living room of his house where are seated two men from the administrative staff of Jamia Millia Islamia, holding ...
  • India at Fifty and two responses
    • Asghar Ali Engineer    The Times of India - 16 September 1996
      • >>>We have entered the 50th year of independence - an independence won at the cost of division of our country. Why was India divided? Who is to blame and where does the responsibility lie for partition? The popular view is that Muslims were responsible for the creation of Pakisis- ...
  • India's veto of the CTBT is futile
    • Praful Bidwai    The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>As the 50th session of the U.N. .general assembly (GA) reconvenes to vote on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the dice appear loaded against the treaty's opponents. If the sole purpose of New Delhi's controversial veto against the treaty at Geneva was to prevent the CTBT from ...
  • India, the other country that can say 'No'
    • Maurice H Bood    The Observer - 14 September 1996
      • >>>Remember the book written by two Japanese, one of whom was president of Sony, titled Japan A Country That Can Say No? A `No' addressed to the United States. this time India become the other country that can say `No'. In so ...
  • Insensitivity of Swami Agnivesh
  • Irrelevant subsidies
    • Editorial    The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The agricultural credit system is in a mess. Regional rural banks, credit co-ops and land development banks are in varying stages of decay and bankruptcy. The main reason is that successive loan write-offs have encouraged wilful default, and recoveries are pathetic (as low as 30 ...
  • ISI linked to Rs 20 Cr hashish haul
    • Posted By ashok    The Mumbai Age - 2 September 1996
      • >>>In the largest drug seizure haul by an enforcement agency in the country this year, the Mumbai police seized 171 kilos of hashish, believed to be sponsored by the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Service Intelligence, on Saturday.
  • Islamisation is concerned with little besides putting women in their place
    • Express News Service    The Indian Express - 20 September 1996
      • >>>In 1974, as the lone expert on Islamic studies at the University of Oklahoma at Stillwater, Pakistan-born Dr Riffat Hassan was appointed faculty advisor to the local chapter of the Muslim Students' Association - a fiercely male bastion where women were excluded even from the ...
  • Islamist dreams have no place in Bonsnia
    • A K Ray    The Financial Express - 6 June 1995
      • >>>The shell that landed in Sarajevo on August 28, assuming that the Serbs fired it, delivered five messages: first, Serb nationalism must be recognised and given full importance; second, there can be no compromise with Croatian imperialist ambitions Imitating those of the ...
  • Kabul's fall a threat to India's security
    • Political Bureau    The Economic Times - 30 September 1996
      • >>>The fall of Kabul to radical Taliban forces and the hanging of former president Najibullah has caused tremendous nervousness here over the country's security. While the foreign secretary preferred to keep mum on the development and did not go beyond saying that the counun- ...
    • Political Bureau    The Economic Times - 30 September 1996
      • >>>The fall of Kabul to radical Taliban forces and the hanging of former president Najibullah has caused tremendous nervousness here over the country's security. While the foreign secretary preferred to keep mum on the development and did not go beyond saying that the counun- ...
  • Keeping alive a 450 year-old tradition in TN
    • V R Mani    The Times of India - 08 September 1996
      • >>>The Ramanatha Swamy temple here is known throughout the country as one of the four important Hindu pilgrimage centres but what is not known widely is that the temple has a long tradition of having only Maharashtrian priests. .
  • Logic behind perversion of caste; and a supporting letter
    • Ram Swarup    The Indian Express - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old India had castes but no casteism. In its present form, casteism is a construct of colonial period, a product of imperial policies and colonial scholarship. It was strengthened by the breast-beating of our own ...
  • Look who's talking
    • M V Kamath    Mid-day - 7 September 1996
      • >>>In an interview to The Times of India the Prime Minister, Deve Gowda asserted that 77 per cent of the people in the last general election voted for secularism. They did nothing of that sort, and lies such as this must be exposed without delay. Secularism was not the issue ...
  • Manmohan's sin, Chidambaram's virtue
    • Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar    The Economic Times - 9 September 1996
      • >>>For years, we have been told it is a sin to increase our foreign debt. Suddenly the sin has been declared a virtue. Finance minister P Chidambaram had permitted foreign institutional investors to invest 100 per cent if their money in debt instruments, against the earlier ...
  • Mockery in Gujarat
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The riotous scenes witnessed in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday during the vote of confidence in the Suresh Mehta Government were a blot on Indian democracy. For the second time in 15 days, the country was witness to the unwholesome conduct of legislators who have been ...
  • Model of Hindu temple unearthed in Pakistan
    • P S Suryanarayan    The Hindu - 28 August 1996
      • >>>A 'unique model' of a Hindu temple is said to have been discovered during archaeological excavations in the Swabi district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. According to some Pakistani media reports published yesterday, the items recovered during recent excavations ...
  • Muslim Indian's future is the future of India
    • Syed Shahabuddin    The Pioneer - 27 September 1996
      • >>>I am constantly asked, "Do the Muslims of India have a future?" or, "What future lies in store for Muslim Indians?" These questions reflect not only a sense of frustration, insecurity and pessimism, but a fatal lack of 'faith' and self-confidence. I say faith because the he ...
  • Muslims need new leaders and agenda
    • SK Sadar Nayeem    The Times of India - 20 September 1996
      • >>>With assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh round the corner, strategies are being drawn once again to woo Muslim voters. Largely self-appointed leaders of the community are being courted. Warnings and placatory statements are being exchanged daily. Amid this messy bargaining stands ...
  • Not a smooth run for BJP; and a response
    • Amulya Ganguli    Indian Express - 5 September 1996
      • >>>BY its own admission, the BJP's central leadership opted for a compromise last year to defuse the factional squabble in the party's Gujarat unit because it did not want a split on the eve of the general election. As L. K. Advani has explained, the Congress was contesting the ...
  • Of Mother and her good deeds
    • Yoginder Sikand    The Observer - 28 September 1996
      • >>>With branches in over 100 countries, the Missionaries of Charity, over which Mother Teresa presides, is among the largest charitable organisations in the world. Scores of books have been written in praise of the Mother, and in recognition for her services she has been awarded with ...
    • Yoginder Sikand    The Observer - 28 September 1996
      • >>>With branches in over 100 countries, the Missionaries of Charity, over which Mother Teresa presides, is among the largest charitable organisations in the world. Scores of books have been written in praise of the Mother, and in recognition for her services she has been awarded with ...
  • Only BJP
    • K N Panikkar, Qamar Agha    The Times of India - 24 September 1996
      • >>>We were pained to read Mr V. R. Krishna Iyer's letter 'Not BJP Alone' (September 18) in which he attempts to dissociate himself from an earlier letter signed by himself and many others ('Secular Front', September 10). It is surprising that an eminent jurist like him who ...
  • Pan-Islamic forces funding militancy
    • Ritu Sarin    The Indian Express - 28 September 1996
      • >>>The Assembly elections may have revived the long-lost hopes of normalcy in the Kashmir Valley, but whatever the nature of the political process in the State, marginalising militancy will be no easy task. For, according to a secret Government report, militants ...
    • Ritu Sarin    The Indian Express - 28 September 1996
      • >>>The Assembly elections may have revived the long-lost hopes of normalcy in the Kashmir Valley, but whatever the nature of the political process in the State, marginalising militancy will be no easy task. For, according to a secret Government report, militants ...
  • Partial Justice
    • Editorial    The Times of India - 9 September 1996
      • >>>Slowly but surely, the wheels of justice have begun to turn. Had a suggestion been made even a year ago that one day the long arm of the law would catch up with practically the entire political spectrum, it would have been laughed out of court. It was precisely this ...
  • Partisanship tp the fore
    • Posted By ashok    The Observer - 20 September 1996
      • >>>Gujarat assembly has been suspended. And along with it democracy. No party, including the Centre, is free from the taint of having derailed democracy in the reckless pursuit of partisan interests. It was deputy speaker Chandubhai Dabhi who first inaugurated the train of ...
  • Politics in Gujarat plummets to all-time now
    • Sudheendra Kulkarni    The Pioneer - 10 September 1996
      • >>>Gujarat, the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi, has not been unfamiliar with criminalisation of politics. Not long ago, when the late Chimanbhai Patel was the Chief Minister, it was difficult to distinguish between ministers and the mafiosi. Government was a byword for ...
  • Politics is a bad word
    • Lajpat Rai    Mid-day - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Politics is full of bad people because good ones keep away from it. Ale common man does not have time for it since his daily struggle for survival keeps him busy. He is only galvanised into action by political managers when elections approach. These managers have a vested inter- ...
  • President VHP's poser to pseudo-secularists
  • PSU craze for 'alien' security worries govt
    • Rakesh Verma    Sunday Observer - 8-14 September 1996
      • >>>At least 10 public-sector units have violated the Union home ministry's specific directive and employed a Swedenbased multinational `security' agency suspected to be a front for commercial espionage. The latest instance is that of Metallurgical and ...
  • Rao deeply involved in St Kitts forgery.....................
    • Tyrone D'souza    The Times of India - 11 September 1996
      • >>>Reliable legal sources whose opinion was sought by the Central government in the St.Kitts forgery case have revealed that the available evidence collected in the matter strongly points to the "deep involvement" of former prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. But the death ...
  • Re-conversion to Hinduism; MPCA demands probe
    • Posted By ashok    The Free Press Journal - 30 August 1996
      • >>>The Madhya Pradesh Christian Association (MPCA) on Thursday urged Prime Minister, H D Deve Gowda to look into the re-conversion to hinduism of christian tribals in Raigarh and Surguja districts of Madhya Pradesh, reports PTI, MPCA president, Pushpa Iyengar in a two-page ...
  • Reason should replace sentimentalism
    • Sushant Sareen    The Financial Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The expectations of a detente between India and Pakistan which had arisen after the United Front Government assumed office have predictably been dashed on the rocks of reality. The reasons for this are not far to see. The basic problem in bringing back on the rails the ...
  • Religio-Nationalism
    • Dipankar Gupta    The Times of India - 6 September 1996
      • >>>Recent dissensions within the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have certainly undermined its claim of being a disciplined and united organisation. Indeed, Mr Shankersinh Waghela's expulsion from the party and his unrepentant reaction to it signal a deeper malaise. The ...
  • Rescue the family from the individualists
    • Bharat Dogra    The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>Family and local-community relationship constitute one of the most precious aspects of human life. Yet despite this recognition there has been a decline in family and community ties in recent decades in most parts of the world.
  • Rituals enchant, but to snare
    • Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr    Indian Express - 5 September 1996
      • >>>IT was a curious conversion which affected some of the most sensitive souls in Europe, ever since Luther and Calvin imposed their iron rule of puritanism in a large part of the continent. The German peasant and the Swiss townsman banished not only icons from the churches but ...
  • Rock Edict XII - Toleration
  • Rosenthal's article in NY Tines
  • Royal messenger
    • Purnima Goswami    The Sunday Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Alfred Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford - the man who started mass production of cars in 1908 was in India recently. His illustrious forefather had laid down the foundation of Ford fortunes and of the greatest success story of the century with his car model T-Ford. No, ...
    • Purnima Goswami    The Sunday Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Alfred Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford - the man who started mass production of cars in 1908 was in India recently. His illustrious forefather had laid down the foundation of Ford fortunes and of the greatest success story of the century with his car model T-Ford. No, ...
  • RSS dialogue with Muslims
    • Muzaffar Hussain    Organiser - 1 September 1996
      • >>>The RSS has always endeavoured to keep in touch with various sections of society. During the 1980s, the Sikhs had some problem with the Government of India. A militant section among the Sikhs began to demand a separate Sikh homeland, "Khalistan". ...
  • Sarva Panth Samadar Manch
    • Dr Shreerang A Godbole    Organiser - 15 September 1996
      • >>>Sarva Panth Samadar Manch under the aegis of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is a disturbing development 1) Does Sarva include only sects arising from Bharatiya philosophy and non-Bharatiya, non-Biblical spiritual paths? If so, I welcome such a Manch. Unfortunately, this does not ot ...
    • Dr Shreerang A Godbole    Organiser - 15 September 1996
      • >>>Sarva Panth Samadar Manch under the aegis of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is a disturbing development 1) Does Sarva include only sects arising from Bharatiya philosophy and non-Bharatiya, non-Biblical spiritual paths? If If ...
  • Scholar Heckled - Islamic feminist booed at public meeting
  • Secular Muslims - a letter
    • M H Moosa, Mumbai    Times of India - 5 September 1996
      • >>>Sir, - Although belated, former cabinet secretary Zafar Saifullah's exhortations to Muslims to think not only about their rights but also their duties towards their country (August 20) is very sound advice indeed. About 25 years ago, Prof Khusro, former member of the ...
  • Secular police
    • Syed Shahabuddin    The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>I am surprised to the West Bengal Home Minister's prescription for secularising the police force. He should make a clear distinction between the work place and living quarters. Please of worship should be permitted in police barracks and police lines, but not in police ...
  • Secularism allergy
    • S Fazle Haidar (Letters)    The Observer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>Reference write-up in Agenda page "With Friends Like These - who needs Enemies" by Mr Arun Shourie (Observer of Business and Politics, August 30) which contains verbatim texts from eminent foreign personalities, also adding annoyance at 'secularist' Indians.
  • Secularism in Practice - three letters and an editorial
  • Secularism slaughtered across seven seas
    • Posted By ashok    Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Satiricus is happy to see that one more larger-than-life liberal intellectual, namely', Shri Amulya Ganguli, has started using his freedom to Express secular sentiments with such commendable vigour in his jehad on Hinduism -communalism. Satiricus can quite appreciate Babu ...
  • Shame and scandal
    • Editorial    The Times of India - 20 September 1996
      • >>>What an irony that Gandhinagar, especially created and named after that apostle of non-violence, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, should have borne witness to the bloodiest chapter in Gujarat's legislative history! With the bizarre incidents of Tuesday, the Gujarat assembly has as ...
  • Shifting loyalties; and a response
    • Aasif Iqbal Khan    Pioneer - 13 Sept 1996.
      • >>>This is with reference to the report, "Bukhari offers support to BSP". = Imam Bukhari has once again shifted his loyalty. By doing this, the 'self-proclaimed Muslim leader' has once again proved his immaturity. = Although the BSP claims to be the champions of the oppressed sections, = it has given clear demonstration of tis opportunism. It first joined han= ...
  • Should Muslims sigh for a second Jinnah?; and a comment
    • Syed Shahabuddin    The Pioneer - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Fifty years after Independence, a small section of Muslim Indians continues to pine and sigh for a second Jinnah, not with-standing the tragedy that Partition has meant for the Muslims of the subcontinent. Indeed, short of deunification, impossible in Islam, or of sanctification, ...
  • Should we help Pakistan swim - or sink?
    • B G Verghese    The Times of India - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Recent reports from Pakistan speak of a major economic crisis caused by food and fiscal deficits as well as mounting debt and defence burdens. This situation has been further aggravated by growing political and social unrest, evidenced by the recent outbreak of violence. It ...
    • B G Verghese    The Times of India - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Recent reports from Pakistan speak of a major economic crisis caused by food and fiscal deficits as well as mounting debt and defence burdens. This situation has been further aggravated by growing political and social unrest, evidenced by the recent outbreak of violence. It ...
  • Sikhs and Buddhists are not Hindus
    • Posted By ashok    Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Excerpts : Interview of Mr B P Maurya by Organiser representative Pramod Kumar What is your opinion regarding the proposed Bill to be introduced in Parliament for extending reservation facilities to the so-called datit Christians? ...
  • Silicon Valley a taste of Hindu fervour
    • Avninder Singh    The Indian Express - 28 September 1996
      • >>>Come August 15, and the tricolour comes fluttering out, microphones are installed on the ramparts of Red Fort, and even the streets of New York witness an 'Indian Day Parade'. There are a thousand other celebrations ranging from the small to the grand. The Festival of India, held ...
  • Sinned against
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - 19 September 1996
      • >>>Prior to special judge V B Gupta's judgment to proceed against BJP president L K Advani by framing the charges, the mood in the BJP camp was quite optimistic. The judgment came as a shock to many. Not only was the BJP camp optimistic, but all those who were following the ...
  • Stealing a Government
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>Politics in India having been reduced to unseemly demonstrations of partisan conduct, many are likely to take a perverse delight in the embarrassment caused to the BJP Government in Gujarat by Deputy Speaker Chandubhai Dhabi on Tuesday morning. The jubilation is ...
  • Strange Bedfellows in Uttar Pradesh
    • Meenakshi Jain    The Times of India - 25 September 1996
      • >>>Alliances are the order of the day in the Hindi heartland. The virulently anti-suvarna Bahujan Samaj Party is now lined up with the Congress; the mutually antagonistic Mulayam Singh, Ajit Singh and Mahendra Singh Tikait are on a newly discovered fraternity trip. What conclusion ...
  • Suicidal policy
    • The Editorial    The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>The reported move by the Janata Dal to enlarge the Scheduled Caste reservation quota to include all nonHindu Dalits has disturbing implications for the already fragmented social fabric of the country. In fact, the party leadership's stated intention to do so in its ...
  • Tamil culture, product of dialogic activities
    • Posted By Ashok V Chowgule    The Hindu - 09 September 1996
      • >>>There were two theories about colonialism in India-one arguing that British colonialism destroyed the capacity of Indians to think independently and the other emphasising that long before coming of the British. Indian society was moving in the directing of prefiguring colonialnial- ...
  • Test-ban treaty will push India over the threshold
    • Brahma Chellaney    The Pioneer - 25 September 1996
      • >>>Although the deceptively labeled "comprehensive" test ban treaty has been opened for signature, the stark reality is that India holds the trump card on its entry into force. The treaty is unlikely to take effect because India has vowed never to accept it. India secured the ...
  • Thackeray-Gowda kiss
    • Shastri Ramachandaran    The Times of India - 11 September 1996
      • >>>Prime Minister Deve Gowda's meeting with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray is well behind us. What remains is the abounding speculation over what the two did when they met at the home of Mr Amitabh Bachchan who is brand currency in cinema, politics, business and lately the Miss World ...
  • The Aryan issue
    • Shrikant G Talageri    The Times of India - 9 September 1996
      • >>>This refers to the report entitled `Saamna hits back at Phadke for criticising violence culture' (August 27). In this, Vidhydhar Date refers to my book Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism, which is being translated by the State Board for Literature and Culture, as "a book ...
  • The Bourbons of imperial Delhi
    • T V R Shenoy    The Economic Times - 11 September 1996
      • >>>They learn nothing and forget nothing, was the barbed commentary of a contemporary on the idiot Bourbons who precipitated the French Revolution. It is hard to imagine, say, Indrajit Gupta or Murasoli Maran tottering around in buckled shoes and perukes, but ...
  • The corrupt sleep easily
    • The Editorial    The Indian Express - 2 September 1996
      • >>>The courts can hardly be faulted for releasing Sambasiva Rao and two senior officials of the National Fertilisers Ltd implicated in the Rs 133-crore urea import scandal on bail. Having waited in vain for 90 days for the CBI to file a chargesheet - hardly a difficult proposition in ...
  • The deplomatic fiasco over CTBT
    • Pushpesh Pant    The Pioneer - 16 September 1996
      • >>>Never was so much woed by so many for so little. The battle for the CTBT evokes for many of us today not the images of glorious pilots doggedly spitting fire in the sky in defence of the motherland but prompts more apt comparisons with a different war theatre associated with ...
  • The economics and science of riots
    • M V Kamath    Midday - 2 March 1996
      • >>>The other day I attended a seminar on education, religion and problems of tolerance. I wasted my time. Some of the certified intellectuals of Mumbai were the participants. Not being an intellectual and having no such pretence I was completely out of place among them. ...
  • The fault, dear Brutus.......
    • Editorial    The Statesman - 24 August 1996
      • >>>On wonders whether the Prime Minister, Mr Deve Gowda and his pal, Mr Narasimha Rao have ever wondered why the Bharatiya Janata Party are making such rapid advances. In trying to break up Uttar Pradesh in a desperate bid to contain the BJP in the coming elections, they are in ...
  • The new Indian immigrant - the UK story
    • Sagarika Ghose (London)    Outlook - 4 September 1996
      • >>>>From the heart of Punjab and small towns on the Gujarat coast, they fled deprivation, clutching the last of their material possessions. in the chilly drizzle of their adopted country, they tentatively settled, often five families under one roof, slogging at menial trades, ...
  • The presumptive order - An editorial
    • Editorial    The Indian Express - 7 September 1996
      • >>>Special Judge V. B. Gupta's exhaustive judgment that criminal conspiracy and corruption charges be filed against L. K. Advani is bound to have a demoralising effect on the BJP. Apart from ruling Advani out of the crucial Gandhinagar by-election next month, the order has ...
  • The Rock Edicts of Asoka
  • The same difference
    • M Hashim Kidwai    The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>The contention of some Congress leader at the meeting of the Congress Central Election Campaign Committee for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election at Lucknow that the party never joined hands with the BJP is quite contrary to facts. During the tenure of Mr P V Narasimha Rao's ...
  • The yogi & commissar - When materialism takes over, principles become a casualty
    • Kuldip Nayar    The Afternoon - 26 September 1996
      • >>>It may sound odd but I found West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu and the Sankaracharya of Kancheepuram echoing the same thoughts on India's unity. They are concerned over the future and want the nation to fight fissiparous elements. I met them both a few days ago, the Sankar- ...
  • Threat to today's beneficiaries
    • K V Kumaran    The Indian Express - 23 September 1996
      • >>>The controversial Dalit Christian Bill that the P. V. Narasimha Rao Government sought to move on March 12, 1996, the very last day of the 10th Lok Sabha was entitled: The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill 1996. This Bill made no provision to include de ...
  • Traversty of democracy
    • Editorial    The Pioneer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The crisis that has engulfed the BJP government in Gujarat has once again underlined how much politics has become a game of rough and tumble. Faced with a concerted move by expelled dissident leader Shankarsinh Vaghela to destablise his government, the state Chief ...
  • Turning our Backs on Indian Philosophy
    • Siddharth Varadarajan    The Times of India - 21 September 1996
      • >>>I was recently asked by a school in Delhi to act as a judge in a debating competition. The motion was: 'Within ourselves lie our triumphs and failures'. Those arguing in favour stressed the necessity of hard work. The example of Mr Deve Gowda was cited as proof that humble ...
    • Siddharth Varadarajan    The Times of India - 21 September 1996
      • >>>I was recently asked by a school in Delhi to act as a judge in a debating competition. The motion was: 'Within ourselves lie our triumphs and failures'. Those arguing in favour stressed the necessity of hard work. The example of Mr Deve Gowda was cited as proof that ...
  • Turning the tables
    • Posted By ashok    The Observer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>A more bitter anti-climax could not have been imagined for the BJP. The one-day session of the Gujarat assembly on Wednesday was summoned specifically to demonstrate that the BJP government led by Mr Suresh Mehta still commands majority support. But that agenda was sidelined ...
  • Understanding Jinnah
    • Atiqur Rehman    The Times of India - 23 September 1996
      • >>>This is apropos of the article `It's time to reassess Jinnah' (September 15). Film-maker Akbar Ahmed would be doing a great service to culture and history by portraying Mohammed Ali Jinnah in a proper perspective, eschewing both the "demonology" of ...
  • VHP declares deadline for Krishna Bhoomi
    • Shahld K Abbas    The Observer - 23 September 1996
      • >>>The Viswa Hindu Parishad has fixed November 12, the occasion of the festival of Bhaiya-Duj, as the fresh deadline to step up its stir for emancipating the Lord Krishna Janam Bhoomi at Mathura from the clutches of police. Talking to a group of visiting, Delhi-based ...
  • VHP will send team of 'archeologists' to site in Ayodhya; and a comment
    • Vasindra Mishra    The Times of India - 10 September 1996
      • >>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), an allied organisation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has once again decided to come to the forefront in view of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and cash in on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue. ...
  • When a Khan & Singh unite, wedding bells toll a different harmony
    • Neeraj Mishra    The Indian Express - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Special Armed Force were posted outside the residence of senior IAS officer A V Singh at Char Imli here late last night following tension over the marriage of his son, Mrityunjay Singh, and the daughter of IGP Shakil Raza. According to the Habibganj police, a complaint had been ...
  • Where is culture is knee-deep
    • Raghu Krishnan    Economic Times - 5 September 1996
      • >>>EK THI Miss India. Ek tha Big B. Ek thi Miss World. Aur ek tha BJP...Set that to the music of the latest hit song released by ABCL and you have the perfect score for the dramatic threat by the BJP's Karnataka equivalent of Sushma Swaraj - Pramila Nesargi - to "pound" the angry, ...
  • Who is bashing whom?
    • S Venkitaramanan    The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>In her famous book "Who is bashing whom?" Ms Laura Tyson, currently chairperson of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, pleaded forcefully for a conscious policy of government aid to encourage US high tech industries. She pointed out how free trade was just a ...
  • Why Barabari?
    • Posted By ashok    Observer - 5 September 1996
      • >>>In his article former Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyer sarcastically commented, "Atal Behari Vajpayee ...has posed to the Muslims of the India 'Babri ya barabari? ... Who is Vajpayee to make barabari for our largest minority conditional on their surrendering of Babri to the Sangh ...
  • With friends like these, having enemies is better
    • Arun Shourie    The Asian Age - 30 August 1996
      • >>>Some months ago an official of the United States state department met me through a common scholar friend. The official had been following Indian affairs for many years, in particular the Indian press. He knew more about the press, specially about trends in our Indian ...
  • Yu're not a son of the soil, Karnanidhi tells Ganesha
    • V R Mani    The Times of India - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has raised a piquant question: Is Lord Ganesha a native of T.N. or not? According to him, the elephant-headed god's origins are not Tamil. .

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