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Starting: Thu 22 Aug 1996 - 00:00:-72433 EDT
Ending: Thu 28 Nov 1996 - 00:00:-43508 EDT
Messages: 62
- A M Rosenthal (in The New York Times)
- A N Bajpal
- Largest TU status likely for BMS The Observer
- 12 November 1996
>>>The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is all set to be recognised
as the country's largest trade union, as the standing
committee for verification has given its verdict on
different trade unions' membership claims.
The provisionally verified rolls based on 1989 membership
...
- A R Khan
- Amitabh Mattoo
- Amulya Ganguli
- Mark of ultra-right politics The Indian Express
- 14 November 1996
>>>A defining characteristic of ultra-right organisations of
the sangh parivar, and of members of the extended parivar
like the Shiv Sena, is a typical petty-minded attitude
which fosters intolerance and combativeness. So it is
that an allied outfit, the Hindu Munnani, has held back
...
- Arun Chandra Guha
- Arvind N. Das
- Exiled to Sri Ram desh The Hindustan Times
- 24 October 1996
>>>This article is from an earlier data. It is being sent to
indicate the thinking of the author at that time.
Surinam hardly ever impinges on the consciousness of
Indians. It is only if there is an aircrash there or a
football hero of Surinamese origin like Ruud Gullit
...
- Ashok Chowgule
- Is the Ram Janmabhoomi movement anti_Muslim? (no publication) - 21 November 1996.
>>>The Ram Janmabhoomi movement is the most important event of the
post-independence era of India. It has completely altered the
complexion of the politics, as well has drastically altered the
reference point for evaluating many other aspects of our society.
Hindutva has become the focus, instead of Marx. Those who have
...
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Danace Brook
- Jemina's pregnant poses The Mail on Sunday London
- 3 November 1996
>>>They are the most fashionable ante-natal classes in Britain. Despite the fact that the philosophy is 5,000
years old and each hour-long lesson costs a mere =1C7, both
Jemima Khan and Koo Stark swear by their yoga sessions.
Jemima, the 22-year-old wife of former cricketer Imran
...
- Dina Nath Mishra
- A study in contrast The Observer
- 28 November 1996
>>>The events which followed the mid-air collision of Saudi
and Kazhak flights resulting in the horrifying death of
351 passengers, provided a test for both the government
and the public. The wreckage of the planes fell near
Charkhi Dadri village of Bhiwani, about 60 km away from
...
- Malicious propaganda The Observer
- 14 November 1996
>>>The basic concern of all the non-BJP parties is to stop
the BJP from coming to power wherever they can, adopting
whatever means possible. A type of veto is resorted to
in the name of secularism. If the BJP is to be hurt, it
is done in a most unethical, unconstitutional and crass
...
- Durga Das
- Editorial
- Ticket to ride The Indian Express
- 26 November 1996
>>>Ram Vilas Paswan's recent public relations shindig in
Delhi has had only one useful result: it has disabused
the public of yet another of its cherished
misapprehensions. There exists a sort of nebulous belief
that shameless appropriation of the state machinery had
...
- Costly smoke The Times of India
- 26 November 1996
>>>Dr Ali Baksh, former director-general of health services
in Jammu and Kashmir, has puffed his way to freedom, and
how! He admitted to paying up Rs 1.5 lakh for the 30
cigarettes he smoked in the two days he was held in
captivity by militants. At Rs 5,000 a cigarette, that
...
- High Flying The Times of India
- 26 November 1996
>>>Prime Minister H.D.Deve Gowda is rightly under fire for
travelling with his family when he went on official
business to Harare and Rome. Mr Gowda was accused of
misreading the G-15 meeting in Harare as licence to take
15 other Gowdas with him, and treating the Food Summit as
...
- The next Prime Minister The Indian Express
- 25 November 1996
>>>To view Congress president Sitaram Kesri's systematic
purge of party functionaries as merely a feature of the
battle against Narasimha Rao would be to miss the wood
for the trees. Of course Kesri is showing the former
Prime Minister his place and encouraging him to opt out
...
- Quota Raj The Times of India
- 23 November 1996
>>>Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda's promise at a Dalit
rally to consider extending job reservations to the
private sector is a pernicious pursuit that would pervert
the principles of social justice, vitiate industrial
productivity and maim the market. This is competitive
...
- Farzana Versey
- Discovery of Nehru - II Mid-day
- 13 November 1996
>>>On Nehru's birth anniversary tomorrow, the idea is not to
take away from the majesty of the individual, but to
bring into focus the dilemmas that face human beings who
are forced to be what they are not.
As he could not give them the loin cloth ethnicity that
...
- Gautham Machalah
- Prehistoric man thrived here The Times of India
- 2 October 1996
>>>This article is from an earlier data. It is being sent to
indicate the thinking of the author at that time.
Extensive exploration by Archaeological Survey of India
(ASI) in Karnataka has revealed that the pre-historic man
thrived on the banks of the river Bhima in Raichur dis-
...
- Inder Malhotra
- Looming shadow of Lucknow The Observer
- 27 November 1996
>>>Less than six months ago, the fractured verdict in the
Parliamentary election was overcome by the formation of
the 13-party United Front which came to power with the
backing of the Congress from `outside'. Hopes had then
arisen that a new beginning towards federal functioning
...
- J. D. Joglekar
- John Torode
- K G Suresh
- K M Tampi
- The violence of politics The Hindu
- 11 November 1996
>>>Though ideologically poles apart, the basic approach of
both the CPI(M) and the Sangh. Both blindly believe in
their ideology, both are intolerant of criticism and do
not mind using force to protect the interests they represent. It is this attitude which has placed them on a
...
- K N Pandita, Jammu - Letters to Editor
- Think Pandits - a letter The Pioneer
- 19 November 1996
>>>Sir,
Apropos of your editorial, 'Restoring Kashmir's ethos'
(The Pioneer, November 9), some perceptions with regard
to return and rehabilitation of the minority community
and their demand for homeland have to be corrected.
- K V Lakshmana
- Krishnan Dubey and Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
- Kuldip Nayar
- No room yet for democracy The Indian Express
- 11 November 1996
>>>It is an open secret that Pakistan is run by a troika:
Chief of the Army Staff, Prime Minister and President in
that order. But whenever the Army Chief or the President, particularly, the former, has felt that the country
was not being governed according to his light, he has
...
- M V Kamath
- Crime and (No) Punishment Mid-day
- 13 November 1996
>>>It is not always that the English language press is
agreed on any one issue and even when it is, it is not
always that it speaks with the same vehemence. And that,
unfortunately, has once again been proved true in the
case of Bahujan Samaj Party leader Kanshi Ram going
...
- M. V. Kamath
- Reminiscences of days past Kanara Saraswat
- 11 November 1996
>>>When I think of all the people I had met in the past
fifty years and my personal encounters with them in a
professional capacity, I can't help laughing at my own
self. When I was young, I am afraid I was often brash
and bold. Age, alas. does not seem to have worked any
...
- Manoranjan Mohanty
- Marxism and Materialism The Times of India
- 27 November 1996
>>>When China's President Jiang Zemin visits India shortly,
he comes as the leader of a team which is seriously
engaged in tackling social degeneration while leading a
strong and prosperous country into the 21st century. As
much became clear during the recently-concluded plenum of
...
- Muzaffar Hussain
- Talinam in Kabul - How long? The Organiser
- 17 November 1996
>>>What is happening in Kabul these days is sure to bring
solace to the soul of the autocrat, late General Zia-ulHaq of Pakistan. In the course of his foreign policy
General Zia had executed two army operations in 1980.
One was Operation Topac, the other Operation Gibraltor.
...
- Narendra Panjwani and Rashme Sehgal
- Sects and the new Indian The Sunday Times of India
- 10 November 1996
>>>The tonga drivers who taxi between Beas railway station
and the dera accept only a low, fixed price for their
service, and not a rupee more. In downtown Ahmedabad,
Navin Shah. owner of a grocery store, has stopped selling
cigarettes, He makes a loss of Rs 1,500 per month. but
...
- Observer Political Bureau
- Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule
- Advani's function at JNU cancelled The Hindu
- 19 November 1996
>>>Alarmed by the confrontationist stance adopted by a
united Left and the isolated Right, the Centre for Spanish Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of
Languages today decided to cancel the book release function which was to be attended by the Bharatiya Janata
ta
...
- Anita Pratap, etc. Daily
- 14 November 1996
>>>Great Stuff on CNN yesterday following the mid-air
collision between two aircraft near Delhi. Anita Pratap
formerly of Times magazine, now of CNN, stated in her
breathless imitation of a firangi accent that "India's
record in air safety has been very poor" and that "The
...
- Press Trust of India
- R Brahmachari
- Sadhana Karnad, Pune - Letter to Editor
- Saeed naqvi
- Defining a nation Mid-day
- 19 November 1996
>>>It was a relaxed social evening. Conversation meandered
past a series of subjects when Richard Holbrooke, former
assistant secretary of state, asked a group of Indian
journalists in one corner of the room: "Was India a
nation before the British arrived?"
...
- Downhill in UP Mid-day
- 13 November 1996
>>>Uttar Pradesh Congress President Jitendra Prasad gave the
game away the other day when, just before leaving for
Lucknow, he said: "No one will form the government;
governor's rule will continue." Since the governor is now
denying that he will call the Bharatiya Janata Party
...
- Sudheendra Kulkarni
- T V R Shenoy
- Hit and run Mid-day
- 1 November 1996
>>>Who, what, when, where, why, how - these six are supposed
to be the foundation stones of all journalism. All I can
say is that with such a foundation we have built a lopsided house.
Because, make no mistake about it, some questions are
...
- The Times Archives
- UNI
- V. V. Paranjpe
- Secularism: Fact and Fiction Mainstream
- 12 October 1996
>>>This article is from an earlier data. It is being sent to
indicate the thinking of the author at that time.
Hindutva and secularism are the two burning topics of the
day, ranged against each other like two anti-poles.
Secularism is the new fashion word. While Hindutva is
...
- Victoria L Farmer
- What a TV epic did to India The Hindu
- 17 November 1996
>>>The relationship between media and communalism with the
most far-reaching political implications is the connection between television programming and communal mobilisation. This is because, even though no explicit causeeffect linkage between television imagery and violence an
e an
...
- Vijay Simha
- Vir Sanghvi
- A change is coming Sunday
- 17-23 November 1996
>>>Are these the last days of the Deve Gowda government?
The question may seem surprising at first. After all, the
Prime Minister seems comfortably ensconced at Race Course
Road. His family troops on to an Air India jet to join
him on his trip to Zimbabwe. And it is hard to see how
...
Last message date: Thu 28 Nov 1996 - 00:00:-43508 EDT
Archived on: Sat Jun 14 1997 - 11:37:02 EDT
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