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Starting: Thu 02 Jan 1997 - 10:57:01 EDT
Ending: Wed 29 Jan 1997 - 08:09:42 EDT
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  • A Jayaram
    • An important advance in Indian history   The Hindu - 16 January 1997
      • >>>An American Vedic scholar, Dr. David Frawley, and his Indian associate, Dr. Navaratna S. Rajaram, have hailed the decipherment of the Indus seal by a West Bengal-based scholar, Dr. N. Jha, as the most important advance in the study of India of the ancient after the discovery of the Harappan Civilisation. ...
  • A. Sujata
    • No minor Matter   The Times of India - 20 January 1997
      • >>>The National Commission for Minorities (euphemism for Muslims) has recommended that the Jams should be classified as minorities. This is a deliberate and anti-national ,mischief. Christians in India used to be part of the mainstream. They never identified themselves with the Christian British rulers and at the time of making the ...
  • Aasha Khosa
    • Wanted: Security for wonder tree   The Indian Express - 7 January 1997
      • >>>The discovery of a rare tree, much sought after by researchers in the West for its use as anti-cancer drug, in the Alpine forests here, has given both joy and worry to the State forest officials. "It's heartening to see that this rare tree is growing naturally in our forests," said S D Swatantra, Chief Conservator of Forests, Kashmir. ...
  • Abhay Mokashi
    • Far from the media crowd   Mid-day - 21 January 1997
      • >>>Media projection has become big business in the country and the world over. here is always competition among people in showbiz to get themselves projected by the media in some form or the other. It is an established fact that there are plenty of persons who do not mind even adverse write-ups since that keeps them in the news ...
  • Achin Vanaik
    • Everybody's favourite Marxist   The Hindustan Times - 9 January 1997
      • >>>West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu is the anti-Marxist Establishment's favourite Marxist. This has something to do with his individual characteristics but much more to do with the general characteristics of those strata which make up both the actual Establishment as well as its most important mass base, the upper ranges ...
  • Arun Shourie
    • To reform it you have to be saturated with our tradition   The Observer - 3 January 1997
      • >>>It is seldom that one is moved to tears these days, so inured have we become to the state of affairs. But that is literally what happened to me the other day. I had long wanted to visit the Yeravda jail in Pune - Gandhiji had been kept in it, it was here that he had undertaken a fast unto death to get the British Cabinet to take back the 'Communal Award', the device by ...
  • Arvind Kala
    • The Mahatma and his 'girls'   Free Press Journal - 12 January 1997
      • >>>Bal Thackeray's sarcasm about Mahatma Gandhi being in the company of young girls in the twilight of his life has created a mini political storm, but his comment is based on history. In fact, Gandhi's life-long quest to eliminate all sexual desire from his being prompted him to try experiments which even troubled his ...
  • Arvind N Das
    • Distant thunder   Telegraph - 21 January 1997
      • >>>One more national hero is sought to be appropriated by the Sangh parivar. After the taking over of Vallabhbhai Patel, it is now the turn of Subhas Chandra Bose. As Bose's birth centenary celebrations begin, there will be concerted attempts to fly the bhagva dhwaj over the tri-colour. This will be done even as the most articulate elements of the sangh parivar take time off ...
  • Ashok Chowgule
    • Pu La Deshpande and Balasaheb Thackeray   (no publication) - 10 Janaury 1996.
      • >>>The recent efforts of some Marathi literary personalities to pass a resolution at the 72nd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (Marathi Literary Conference) at Ahmednagar, condemning the statement of the Shiv Sena Pramukh, Balasaheb Thackeray, on Pu La Deshpande is yet another classic case of the way the progressives are perverting discussion on social ...
  • Asia News International
    • Kashmiri Pandits seek abrogation of Art 370   The Observer - 22 January 1997
      • >>>The Kashmiri Pandits have called for the abrogation of Article 370, denouncing it as a separatist and disruptive limitation. In a resolution passed on the second and concluding day of Kashmiri Pandit Global Summit here, they said the Article goes half way to substantiate the claims of the secessionist forces.
  • Bal Krishna
    • SC defines ambit of State's role in religion   Hindustan Times - 20 January 1997
      • >>>The verdict of the Supreme Court in Vaishno Devi shrine case holding that the service of the priest is a secular activity and that it may he regulated by the State clearly defines the role of the State in the matter of religion. Making a distinction between religious service and the person who performs the service, the court says that performance of the religious service ...
  • Chidanand Rajghatta
    • Target : India   The Indian Express - 26 January 1997
      • >>>The United States' highest ranking woman government executive in 220 years straight away defined her priorities on Day One of her tenure at the State Department, in the process identifying the Indian subcontinent as one of the neglected regions of the world and promising it increased attention. In her first pow-wow with the media at the State Department on Friday. after ...
  • Dina Nath Mishra
    • Neither law, nor propriety   The Observer - 23 January 1997
      • >>>Is the end of Laloo Prasad's loot raj in sight? I don't think so. Deve Gowda's government is structurally too weak to handle a mafia leader like Laloo Prasad. It is not a question of only the fodder seam in which Rs 960 crore were neatly pocketed by the conspirators' network, headed by none else than Laloo Prasad Yadav ...
  • Editorial
    • Defying the Mahatma   The Indian Express - 23 January 1997
      • >>>The tendency to reduce history to a series of stark struggles between good and evil leads to unintended distortions. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, whose birth centenary is being observed today, was a prime casualty of this simple-mindedness. If comic-strip accounts of the past are anything to go by, Netaji's contribution ...
    • Dangerous Logic   The Times of India - 22 January 1997
      • >>>For Congressmen resigned to treating their suspected hawala links as a curse, hope looms large in the shape of Messrs Kamal Nath and Buta Singh. The duo, who had sat out the last general elections as hawala suspects, are back in the reckoning, courtesy of a rethink in the party on what constitutes guilt in corruption cases. "No one ...
    • Sena tries to brush Gandhi away; and a comment   The Asian Age - 5 January 1997
      • >>>Comment : Editorials of this types are considered to be the height of intellectualism in India. Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray is setting no limits for himself. No one is sacrosanct for this leader who has decided to re-interpret history according to his peculiar perceptions. The latest on Gandhi from him is ...
    • Put up or quit - On Jyoti Basu   The Times of India - 3 January 1997
      • >>>Comrade Jyoti Basu is apparently miffed with the central committee of the CPM for denying him by a majority the one "historic" opportunity he had to preside over the country's destiny. Had better sense prevailed on his colleagues, he would have been Prime Minister and implementing Marxist policies to boot, Mr Basu lamented in a recent interview. This is candour at ...
    • Another bastion falls - labour unions   The Indian Express - 3 January 1997
      • >>>The latest official figures of the "verified memberships" of the major organisations concerned testify to the remarkable transformation of the trade union scene over the recent years. It is the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), a front body of the Bharatiya Janata Party, that tops the list of the rankings to emanate from the Union Labour Ministry. That the statistics has ...
    • Interview of Jyoti Basu - 3 of 3 - A comment   The Indian Express - 2 January 1997
      • >>>It may be debatable whether the CPI(M)'s decision last year to stay out of the United Front Government at the Centre and to stop Jyoti Basu from becoming the Prime Minister was a "historic blunder", as described by the most durable successful specimen of bhadralok Communism. Less widely doubted will be the historic character of the West Bengal leader's observation ...
  • Express News Service
    • Court refuses to drop case against Naib Imam   The Indian Express - 15 January 1997
      • >>>Contending that the charge against Naib Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, was very serious and challenged the very existence of the State, a Delhi court today declined to drop a case of sedition pending against him. The court ruling came in the wake of prosecution's request for withdrawal of the case against the Imam. ...
    • Interview of Jyoti Basu - 2 of 3 - Comments   The Indian Express - 2 January 1997
      • >>>West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu's reported statement describing Communist party of India (Marxist) decision to keep out of the United Front government as "a historic blunder" seems to have stirred a hornet's nest in the party. While the CPI(M) point bureau issued a statement maintaining that the ...
  • Gurmukh Singh
  • Hasan Suroor
    • Sahmat sore with CPI(M)   The Hindu - 1 January 1997
      • >>>Either glasnost has finally arrived in the CPI(M) or the right hand of the party does not know what the left is doing, judging from its free-wheeling approach to the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat), an organisation of left-wing artists and writers which commemorates the death anniversary of Safdar Hashmi tomorrow amid a controversy over its aim and some of the means ...
  • Hissam Siddiqui
    • Muslims salute the RSS   Communication Combat - 1997 January
      • >>>(In a signed editorial in his weekly, Jadeed Markaz, published simultaneously in Urdu and Devnagri, its editor and owner Hisam Siddiqui pays handsome tribute to the RSS, the only organisation whose volunteers worked day and night to help the overwhelming Muslim relatives of those who died in the mid-air colision between ...
  • Jagmohan
    • An open letter to Robin Raphel   The Times of India - 11 January 1997
      • >>>Your recent statement (December 13,1996) on 'Maximum Autonomy to Kashmir' has impelled me to write this open letter to you. This statement has left the uncomfortable impression that you are not averse to the idea of a torn and tormented India an India that is continuously at war with itself - In the name of artificially whipped up, impractical ...
  • Jos Chiramel
    • Delhi stalling reforms in Christian personal law   Communalism Combat - 1997 January
      • >>>The judgement of the hon'ble Supreme Court of India dated October 8, 1996 in the appeal filed by Mrs. Molly Joseph alias Nish against Mr. George Sebastian to the effect that church cannot annual marriages brings into sharp focus the anomalies that exist in the present law relating to marriage and divorce among Christians.
  • Joseph Pulikkunnel
    • Bishop, mend thyself - On Dalit Christians   Organiser - 12 January 1997
      • >>>Shri Joseph Pulikkunnel, the eminent scholar and Director of Indian Institute of Christian Studies, is known for his maverick views on social issues especially those pertaining to Christianity. He has sent us a copy of his "Open Letter to the Protesting Bishops". In this letter he unveils the duplicity of Bishops and the chemistry behind their demand for reservations ...
  • K K Singh
  • K Shreedhar Rao
    • Quest for divinity   The Observer - 14 December 1996
      • >>>The radiant smile, the bright face, the saffron robes and 'tradandam' in hand are a familiar sight to the people of Andhra Pradesh Thousands attend to his discourses and equally thousands are devoted to his teachings across the globe. His holiness Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Jeeyar Swami, very well known ...
  • K Subrahmanyam
    • A reactive security policy   The Economic Times - 25 January 1997
      • >>>The Centre for Policy Research and the newly inaugurated International Centre, Goa held a joint seminar on January 13-16, 1997 on a long term integrated approach to national security. This is perhaps the highest level seminar on the subject held in the country. The participants included one former defence minister (Mr ...
  • K V Kumaran
    • Kesri's gamble on dalit Christians   The Indian Express - 21 January 1997
      • >>>Dalit Christians are said to be a neglected lot and no wonder Sitaram Kesri tries to woo them while finding fault with Deve Gowda for not implementing the item of dalit Christian Reservation in the United Front's Common Minimum Programme. Hence his reported assurance to the president of the All India United Christian ...
  • Kanchan Gupta
    • Rejoinder to Elst (2 of 2) - From swarajya to surajya   The Observer - 15 January 1997
      • >>>Was there grief in BJP ranks over the reduction of Mir Baqi's monument to Babur on that fateful winter afternoon of 1992? Regret, yes. But not over the collapse of the domes in the face of the attack mounted by a group of kar sevaks. It was and remains regrettable that the famed discipline of the Sangh Parivar failed ...
  • Kaushik Basu
    • Seoul's successes - Indolence keeps India behind   The Times of India - 23 January 1997
      • >>>Coming into India from the East, as I recently did, can be disconcerting. From Kyoto to Bangkok it is evident that Asia is on the move. That is why one gets an occular jolt as one steps out of the airport in Delhi or Mumbai and drives into the city. It is not the way the middle classes live, which is much the same in India as ...
  • Khalid Mohamed
  • Kuldip Nayar
    • The formation of Pakistan   Afternoon Despatch and Courier - 23 January 1997
      • >>>The Council for Defence and National Security, which President Farooq Khan Leghari, has constituted was never in the scheme of things in Pakistan. The council will, no doubt, give legal and explicit role to the military in the country's governance. But it was never envisaged by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the Pakistan founder.
    • The charge-sheeted must quit   The Indian Express - 20 January 1997
      • >>>Will the country wake up from its Bihari nightmare? It is difficult to say. It all depends on Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, if not the President of India. Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has declared a war against the rule of law. His cohorts practically took over Patna the other day to display their muscle against those ...
  • M D Nalapat
    • Kesri's new think-tank gets down to business   The Times of India - 14 January 1997
      • >>>Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad are two favourites of all-India Congress committee president Sitaram Kesri. Both are a part of his new secretariat. However, their prescriptions for the many ailments suffered by the 112-year-old party are totally different. In this, they mirror the schism that is developing within the ...
  • M J Akbar
    • The troubles of Imran Khan   The Asian Age - 5 January 1997
      • >>>The good news for Prime Minister-in-Waiting Imran Khan is that he must be doing well in the election campaign, or he would never have invited such venom as he is currently facing: professional politicians do not generally open up their cache of poisoned weapons unless they feel genuinely threatened. The bad news for Imran Khan is that he has begun ...
    • Interview of Jyoti Basu - 1 of 3   The Asian Age - 2 January 1997
      • >>>Q. In my view the high point of the year was not the appointment of the Prime Minister, but the disappointment on the day on which you refused to become Prime Minster. A. (Laughs) Some people say that....including Hasina (Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minster of Bangladesh). ...
  • M S Kilpady
    • A 'historian's' judgement - a letter   Organiser - 12 January 1997
      • >>>"A liar needs a good memory" but the memory gets punctured when a secular JNU historian practising Bolshevik philosophy starts maligning the Sangh Parivar at the drop of a hat and this has become a Congenital habit with self-styled breast-beating secularists. A JNU historian, while speaking On his Pet subject "communalism" at a meeting arranged by the Indian School of Social ...
  • M V Kamath
    • The Aliens are coming   Mid-day - 1 January 1997
      • >>>Two months after the launch of the Indian version of Cosmopolitan (the glitterati calls it 'Cosmo'), the Indian version of the French magazine Elle has hit the stands. Cosmo comes to Indian socialites courtesy Living Media India Ltd, the Publishers if India Today Elle comes to us courtesy the Bhartiyas. C M Ibrahim, where are you? ...
  • Milap Chand Dandia
    • Shekhawat's Jaipur Arthashastra   The Asian Age - 26 January 1997
      • >>>"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart," goes a famous line, "the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you." Rajasthan chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was battling for life in a US hospital when he heard the news of his adversaries' plans to dislodge him from the chief minister's chair. Doctors had suggested ...
  • Musaffar Hussain
    • Proselytisers masquerade as tourists   Organiser - 12 January 1997
      • >>>Tourists from world over are drawn to India for its Tai Mahal. Ajanta-Ellora, Konark temple, etc. The Government of India has issued a map depicting the Indian sites. of historic and mythological importance and where ancient artefacts were found. The Government has also brought out a guide book giving. particulars of various places of tourist interest in all corners ...
  • Muzaffar Hussain
    • Hindus debarred from entering Saudi Arabia   Organiser - 19 January 1997
      • >>>There is a startling news from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, which says that the Saudi Arabian government would not allow, entry of any Follower of Hinduism into Saudi Arabia. This black law will apply not only, to the Hindus of India but also to all Hindus who may be citizens of other countries.
  • Nandini Bhaskaran
  • Nikhil Chakravartty
    • The rusted frame   The Observer - 20 January 1997
      • >>>Sharp changes in political developments have their inexorable impact on institutions which constitute the political structure. That is how, for instance, has emerged the new phenomenon of judicial activism and with it, the resentment and criticism about it of some sections of the Parliament and legislature. In this ...
  • Observer Political Bureau
  • Oinam Sunil
    • ISI alarming N-E Muslim settlers   The Telegraph - 3 January 1997
      • >>>Insurgency in the Northeast is likely to take a new turn with Bangladeshi refugees acquiring sophisticated weapons from across the border. According to intelligence sources, Muslim fundamentalists, who crossed over the border as refugees, acquired a large number of arms recently ...
  • P K Surendran
  • Political Bureau
  • Posted By Ashok V Chowgule
    • Karan tells minorities to end protests in Kashmir   The Asian Age - 25 January 1997
      • >>>Dr Karan Singh on Friday asked minorities in Jammu and Kashmir give up sit-ins and demonstrations and instead voice their views in a proper way. In a statement here, Dr Karan Singh, who was recently elected to the Rahjya Sabha after the ruling National Conference supported his candidature, said the minorities should air their views on autonomy and other related issues ...
    • CPI(M) to clarify on links with Sahmat   The Hindu - 12 January 1997
      • >>>The controversy over the activities of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat) has galvanised the CPI(M) into action and it is likely to clarify soon on its. links with an organisation that is widely, though mistakenly, identified with the party. The CPI(M) has taken seriously the criticism that its ambiguous attitude ...
    • Kanshi ridicules Ramayana to rein in Hindutva brigade   Telegraph - 13 January 1997
      • >>>The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh has adopted a novel strategy to counter the BJP sponsored Hindutva - attack the Ramayana and pillory Rama and other characters in the great epic. The controversial Periyar Ramaswami version of the epic, entitled The Ramayana: A True Reading, has come in handy for the Dalit brigade, which ...
    • Husain controversy is a thing of the part, says Navalkar   Mid-day - 15 January 1997
      • >>>State Transport and Cultural Affairs Minister Pramod Navalkar believes the M F Husain controversy is a thing of the past, while the city police will go ahead and record Husain's statement today. Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, R S Sharma told MID-DAY that M F Husain was back from London, his statement will soon be recorded ...
    • ISI's Nepal connection   The Observer - 7 January 1997
      • >>>The nefarious activities of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) which are directed against the unity and integrity of India have become fairly routine. Unfortunately, instead of initiating steps to fight back this undeclared war on our country, the government and public at large have become complacent. Reports that the ISI is using Nepal as a ...
    • Ethnic cleansing: Bangladesh style   Hindu Jagriti Kendra - 15 Dec 1996.
      • >>>Bangladesh, like nearly all Islamic states, practises ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims on a large scale. There are, however, two unique features of ethnic cleansing resorted to by Bangladesh. One, the scale of eviction of non-Muslims is extraordinarily large - at least fifteen millions have been evicted since 1971 (wide Circular Seven of the Hind Jagriti Kendra). Two, ...
  • Prafull Goradia
    • BJP should fine-tune tactics with strategy   The Observer - 21 January 1997
      • >>>The recently concluded Virar conclave of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) must have helped towards the exchange of views and the formulation of responses to new challenges the party faces now. It is doubtful, however, that the party of Hindutva has ever sat down to think through its plan to achieve its purpose. ...
  • Pramod Pagedar
    • Gowda decides to go soft on Sena-BJP government   The Economic Times - 20 January 1997
      • >>>The Prime Minister, Mr H D Deve Gowda's visit to the city late last week must have come as a revelation of sorts for many in the political circles, particularly his United Front colleagues here. Mr Gowda chose to be his inscrutable best when a delegation of his party colleagues led by the veteran leader, Mrs Mrinal Gore, called ...
  • Prem Shankar Jha
    • An incomplete sense of nationhood   The Hindu - 12 January 1997
      • >>>As the year dawns that marks the 50th anniversary of India's independence, .Indians would do well to ponder over the anomaly of the country's insignificance in international affairs. How is it that a nation of about a billion people - a sixth of mankind - hardly ever figures in the endless debate that is now going on in ...
  • R L Pathak
    • Swami Vivekananda and the youth of India   Free Press Journal - 13 January 1997
      • >>>The nation observed the birth centenary of Swami Vivekananda recently to commemorate the great visionary. (Pandit Nehru called him "the greatest son of India") Swami Vivekananda undertook a long March traversing through hundred of cities, thousands of villages and meeting millions of people en ...
  • Rami G. Khouri
  • Rashme Sehgal
    • The rich, the poor, and the spiritual   The Times of India - 12 January 1997
      • >>>To every age, it's guru. And Deepak Chopra is the guru of the moment, spanning the Great Divide between the Establishment and the Alternative. For those who want a touch of the New Age, he is director of the Sharp Institute for Human Potential and Mind/Body Medicine under the aegis of the largest health-care consortium in ...
  • Rekha Dixit
    • I have respect for religion says, Husain   The Times of India - 17 January 1997
      • >>>In his first interview to the press after returning to the city, controversial artist M. F. Husain said the outrage regarding his 'offensive' sketch of goddess Saraswati was a natural reaction from some section of society. When asked whether he is sorry for what has happened, the noted painter emphatically said "No" ...
    • Controversies makes life interesting: Husain   The Times of India - 17 January 1997
      • >>>Controversies make life more interesting," announced Maqbool Fida Husain somewhat grandly in his first interview to the press after returning to the city unannounced, on Tuesday morning. The 81-year-old artist has come back to Mumbai after three months spent in virtual confinement abroad following the public uproar over his ...
  • S N Vyas
    • 1971 Genocide of Hindus in East Pakistan   Organiser - 12 January 1997
      • >>>The 1971 army repression in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) resulted in influx of 10 million refugees into India. Most world renowned relief and news agencies put the number of dead at 3 million. However the fact that is glossed over in these statistics is that the entire Hindu population of East Pakistan was the primary target of Pakistani Army during the nine months of ...
  • Saeed Naqvi
    • Why says the BJP is finished?   The Pioneer - 12 January 1997
      • >>>The United Front coalition consists of parties which came together in the face of a perceived threat that the BJP might come to power if they did not. Since the BJP was short of a majority after the elections it could have come to power only with the support of elements now in or on the periphery of the UF That the BJP minority ...
  • Sameera Khan
  • Sanjay Banerjee
    • Goa tank excavation kicks up controversy   The Times of India - 24 January 1997
      • >>>A tank near the ancient Saptakoteshwar temple has suddenly become the centre of controversy. Located on the island of Divar, the tank has been the scene of frenetic activity with some college teachers associated with rightwing political forces undertaking excavatory operations to establish the antiquity of the tank even ...
  • Seema Mustafa
    • Pak-India forum treats Kashmir as 3rd entity   The Asian Age - 26 January 1997
      • >>>Leading intellectuals who attended a convention of the Pakistan-Indian People's Forum for Peace and Democracy in Calcutta recently, have endorsed a resolution that clearly puts Kashmir in the category of a third country, after India and Pakistan. The convention, which was attended by 164 journalists, academics, trade ...
    • Sister moves : The Americans in Kashmir   The Asian Age - 18 January 1997
      • >>>It is a game of chess. But with a difference. The stakes are very high. The strategy is sinister. There are two players, but one does not even know the game has begun. The other, meanwhile, is slowly and very deliberately putting the pawns into position. The king is Kashmir. One gets to ...
  • Shankar Ramachandran
    • Secret meet over World Trade Centre bomb   The Mumbai Age - 16 January 1997
      • >>>The police department and the home ministry have been warned by the Intelligence Bureau that a series of bomb blasts will take place in Mumbai on January 26, Republic Day, - a threat that led to a top secret meeting of the police with heads of targeted institutions on Monday, and made real by the seizure of RDX from New Delhi on ...
  • Shashi Tharoor
    • Our obsession with names   The Express Magazine - 19 January 1997
      • >>>I am still finding it extremely difficult to get used to 'Mumbai' and 'Chennai'. Or even to take these new designations for two dearly-beloved old cities very seriously. Unless one positive thing comes out of this - if southerners in the rest of India no longer have to put up with being generically described as ...
  • Soli J. Sorabjee
    • Of dissent.......   The Times of India - 11 January 1997
      • >>>Does the universally acclaimed greatness of Gandhiji depend upon whether he is called the Father of the Nation or a great son of the soil? if crude aspersions are cast upon his celibacy by the likes of Bal Thackeray, whose authoritarian frame of mind cannot brook any criticism of himself, the reaction should not be a hunger strike or calls for his ...
  • Suresh Dugger
    • Vicious ultras ravage women in J&k   Blitz - 28-Jan Dec 3
      • >>>It is probably the most chilling of the statistics that reveal the casual viciousness militancy has brought on Kashmir: in the seven years since separatism became a credo in the Valley, nearly 500 women have been abducted, raped and killed by so-called freedom fighters or foreign mercenaries. Mainly Muslims, these women have been soft targets for sex-starved terrorists ...
  • Suryanarayana Rao
    • Helping the downtrodden is not charity but duty   Organiser - 12 January 1997
      • >>>The First Anniversary of the Non-Formal Education Centres run by Seva Bharati was held at Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) with great enthusiasm in Kasturidevi Girls High School on December 25. Nearly 200 students studying in these centres and in Schools for Child Labour and a number of people participated in the anniversary.
  • T V R Shenoy
    • Wheels within wheels   The Economic Times - 22 January 1997
      • >>>Ant Schoolboy can understand the mechanics of ,the Congress Party provided he has a grasp of the principles of physics. For instance, the truism 'like poles repel' explains the friction between Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri. Again, Newton's Third Law states 'for every action there is an ...
    • In for a summer of surprises   The Economics Times - 15 January 1997
      • >>>Makar Sankranti is just over, and the embers of the Lori bonfires are still flickering on charred lawns across Delhi. Hopeful Congressmen insist that they are actually the pyres of the United Front ministry. With the turn of the solstice the Congress's winter of discontent too, they feel, is over.
  • T V Rajeshwar
    • Pak's undeclared war on India   The Observer - 23 January 1997
      • >>>A holistic view of the various events that have been taking place in India at the instance of Pakistan, its ISI and its Indian and other sub-continental operatives since the days of Gen. Zia ul-Haq, brings up only one answer - that Pakistan wants to destroy India by a war of attrition, as in J&K, extensive subversion and ...
  • Times of India news service
  • V Krishna Ananth
    • 'Distortion of history'; and a response   The Hindu - 8 January 1997
      • >>>As the nation is preparing itself to observe 50 years of independence, the polity is facing serious challenges and history is sought to be distorted for sectarian purposes. Some of the established canons of historical research are defied and nationalism is sought to be defined in a different fashion. Prof. ...
  • Varsha Bhosle
    • Martyrs' Day revisited   The Observer - 26-February January 1
      • >>>Rashtrapita, Rashtrapurush, portraits, grandsons, ashes, Bharat Yatras, high courts... I'm up to my ears with the business. And with Martyrs' Day being just round the corner, there's no hope of it abating. For the next two weeks (or as long as Mr Bal Thackeray does not grasp the virtues in a political maun-vrat), we're in for a diet of editorials titled "Recalling Gandhiji's ...
  • Y P Rajesh
  • Yubaraj Ghimire and Saira Menezes
    • Gandhi divides the family   Outlook - 22 January 1997
      • >>>Guess who is attacking Bal Thackeray now? It's the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which is fuming over his public outburst against Mahatma Gandhi. And the only person who can make amends is Thackeray himself, by desisting from such off-the-cuff remarks. But in true Thackeray style, he is keeping quiet about the row ...

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