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Starting: Thu 02 Jan 1997 - 10:57:01 EDT
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- "Resistance is growing" - Karnad on Thackeray
- Y P Rajesh
Outlook
- 22 January 1997
>>>Girish Karnad, the well-known playwright, who triggered another
round of debate on Bal Thackeray through his inaugural lecture at
the Marathi Sahithya Sammelan in Ahmednagar, spoke to Y.P. Rajesh.
Excerpts:
What led you to attack the Shiv Sena and Bal Thackeray? My
...
- 'Distortion of history'; and a response
- V Krishna Ananth
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.
...
- 1971 Genocide of Hindus in East Pakistan
- S N Vyas
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
...
- A 'historian's' judgement - a letter
- M S Kilpady
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
...
- A reactive security policy
- K Subrahmanyam
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
...
- An important advance in Indian history
- A Jayaram
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.
...
- An incomplete sense of nationhood
- Prem Shankar Jha
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
...
- An open letter to Robin Raphel
- Jagmohan
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
...
- Another bastion falls - labour unions
- Editorial
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
...
- Assam intellectuals out to scrap the migrants act
- Gurmukh Singh
The Times of India
- 7 January 1997
>>>Even as political leaders raise the temperature on the Illegal Migrants
(Determination by Tribunal) Act with a view to making political capital
out of it, Assamese Intellectuals have lent support to student leaders'
demand for its outright repeal
The IMDT Act, 1983, has come in for criticism for failing to curb the
...
- Bishop, mend thyself - On Dalit Christians
- Joseph Pulikkunnel
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
...
- BJP gearing up for mid-term polls, says Advani
- Political Bureau
The Economic Times
- 20 January 1997
>>>Terming the United Front regime as the "most disoriented", the BJP
chief Mr L K Advani today predicted mid-term elections by the
year-end.
Addressing a news conference, he said the party was gearing itself
to face fresh elections as the UF government was unlikely to last
...
- BJP should fine-tune tactics with strategy
- Prafull Goradia
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.
...
- BJP to ask sympathisers to reach for their wallets
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 26 January 1997
>>>In an effort to minimise its dependence on corporate houses and interest
groups for funds, the Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to mop up around RS
30 crore through the 'life-long p arty associates fund' for financing its
non-election activities.
The party leadership is expected to place the proposal for the creation of
...
- Centre asks state govt to take action against Thackeray
- Times of India News Service
The Times of India
- 6 January 1997
>>>The Union home ministry has asked the Maharashtra home department to
take "appropriate action" against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray for
publishing a controversial article In the party's Hindi mouthpiece
Ravivar Saamna.
Mr Ibrahim Tai, secretary of the Raza Academy, an Islamic organisation,
...
- Controversies makes life interesting: Husain
- Rekha Dixit
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
...
- Court refuses to drop case against Naib Imam
- Express News Service
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.
...
- CPI(M) to clarify on links with Sahmat
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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
...
- Dangerous Logic
- Editorial
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
...
- Defying the Mahatma
- Editorial
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
...
- Delhi stalling reforms in Christian personal law
- Jos Chiramel
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.
- Distant thunder
- Arvind N Das
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
...
- Do not ignore our role during independence, demands CPI
- Times of India News Service
The Times of India
- 7 January 1997
>>>The Communist Party of India (CPI) has said that while celebrating the
50th anniversary of India's independence the contribution made by
communists and revolutionaries should be highlighted.
Briefing reporters after the CPI's national council meeting, the party's
national executive member Shamim Faizee said, "The official history does
...
- Ethnic cleansing: Bangladesh style
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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,
...
- Everybody's favourite Marxist
- Achin Vanaik
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
...
- Far from the media crowd
- Abhay Mokashi
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
...
- Gandhi divides the family
- Yubaraj Ghimire and Saira Menezes
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
...
- Goa tank excavation kicks up controversy
- Sanjay Banerjee
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
...
- Gowda decides to go soft on Sena-BJP government
- Pramod Pagedar
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
...
- Helping the downtrodden is not charity but duty
- Suryanarayana Rao
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.
- Hindus debarred from entering Saudi Arabia
- Muzaffar Hussain
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.
- History of India will be one of class struggle, not caste.
- Express News Service
The Indian Express
- 9 January 1997
>>>Though the Communist Party of India (CPI) is ready to accept caste as
a reality in the Indian context, it is not yet prepared to equate caste
movements with class struggles, more so in accommodating both the
aspects in the revolutionary agenda.
Speaking after releasing Pettubadi, a Telugu translation of Karl Marx's
...
- Husain controversy is a thing of the part, says Navalkar
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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
...
- I have respect for religion says, Husain
- Rekha Dixit
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"
...
- If you have the guts to stand up, there is a good response'
- Sameera Khan
The Times of India
- 19 January 1997
>>>Like father, like son. Irfan Habib has spent a 'lifetime following
in his father's footsteps. Both his profession and favoured
ideology replicate those of his father, Mohammad Habib. If his
father was a noted historian at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in
the 1920s who was well-known for his affinity to Marxism, Irfan
...
- In for a summer of surprises
- T V R Shenoy
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.
- India's vascillation over ISI Nepal link irks intelligence
- Observer Political Bureau
The Observer
- 6 January 1997
>>>With the Indian security forces tightening vigil along the
India-Pakistan border and thus making it no longer porous for the
terrorist elements from across the border, Pakistan's Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) agency has found its new launching pad in Nepal to
mount its anti-India operations.
- Interview of Jyoti Basu - 1 of 3
- M J Akbar
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).
...
- Interview of Jyoti Basu - 2 of 3 - Comments
- Express news service
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
...
- Interview of Jyoti Basu - 3 of 3 - A comment
- Editorial
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
...
- ISI alarming N-E Muslim settlers
- Oinam Sunil
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
...
- ISI's Nepal connection
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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
...
- Islamism an expression of Arab problems, not the solution
- Rami G. Khouri
The Times of India
- 18 January 1997
>>>The popular support for Hamas in Palestine has been perceived by
many in the West and the Middle East as a threat to the successful
implementation of the PLO-Israel peace process. In fact, the
opposite is true; support for Hamas occasionally surges because by
many to be floundering.
- Janakidevi Bajaj puraskar - a recognition of Saraswathi Gora's services to humanity
- Nandini Bhaskaran
The Times of India
- 10 January 1997
>>>Handfuls of cowdung were flung at Saraswati Gora, rationalist and humanist,
when she attempted to address a public meeting in Cuddapah district, Andhra
Pradesh, in the 1940s to make people aware of the ills of the devadasi
system. On Tuesday, at the age of 84, the intrepid woman who co-founded with
her husband the Atheist Centre in 1940 to show people how to live along
...
- Kanshi ridicules Ramayana to rein in Hindutva brigade
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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
...
- Karan tells minorities to end protests in Kashmir
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule 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
...
- Kashmiri Pandits seek abrogation of Art 370
- Asia News International
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.
- Kerala imam is firm over move to allow women into mosques
- P K Surendran
The Times of India
- 21 January 1997
>>>In a path-breaking move, the Palayam imain defied protests and
announced special arrangements for prayers in the mosque by Muslim
women in this city during the Ramzan period.
The Sunny Yuvajana Sangham (SYS) launched a fiery protest against
the imam, P K.K Ahmedkutty Maulavi. The district sangham leaders
...
- Kesri's gamble on dalit Christians
- K V Kumaran
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
...
- Kesri's new think-tank gets down to business
- M D Nalapat
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
...
- Laloo says he has no faith in CBI sleuth - will not quit
- K K Singh
The Times of India
- 9 January 1997
>>>Following indications that he is certain to face a chargesheet for
involvement in the Rs 950 crore fodder scam, Bihar chief minister Laloo
Prasad Yadav on Wednesday lashed out at the CBI's ace investigator
working on the case.
A jittery but defiant Mr Yadav told newsmen he no longer had faith in
...
- Martyrs' Day revisited
- Varsha Bhosle
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
...
- Muslims salute the RSS
- Hissam Siddiqui
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
...
- Neither law, nor propriety
- Dina Nath Mishra
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
...
- No minor Matter
- A. Sujata
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
...
- Of dissent.......
- Soli J. Sorabjee
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
...
- Our obsession with names
- Shashi Tharoor
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
...
- Pak's undeclared war on India
- T V Rajeshwar
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
...
- Pak-India forum treats Kashmir as 3rd entity
- Seema Mustafa
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
...
- Police question Husain over nude painting
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Times of India
- 16 January 1997
>>>Prominent artist M. F. Husain was interrogated by the police on
Wednesday in connection with the controversy over his nude painting
of Goddess Saraswati, police sources said. The police spoke to the
artist for over two hours at a private room in a south Mumbai
hotel, they added.
- Proselytisers masquerade as tourists
- Musaffar Hussain
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
...
- Pu La Deshpande and Balasaheb Thackeray
- Ashok Chowgule
(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
...
- Put up or quit - On Jyoti Basu
- Editorial
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
...
- Quest for divinity
- K Shreedhar Rao
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
...
- Regressive restrictions- Make honesty the best polity
- M D Nalapat
The Times of India
- 21 January 1997
>>>By 1988, Rajiv Gandhi decided that he had had enough. He had
removed corruption from the system and given India growth rates
that rivalled China's, yet the newspapers refused to acknowledge
this.
They preferred instead to concentrate on Bofors or the volte-face
...
- Rejoinder to Elst (1 of 2) Defending BJP on Ayodhya
- Kanchan Gupta
The Observer
- 14 January 1997
>>>(Mr Koenraad Elst's comment on Hindutva, published in The Observer
on December 6 & 7, 1996, has triggered off a debate among the media
and intellectuals. We publish here the views of Mr Kanchan Gupta
in reaction to Mr Elst's comments.)
Belgian Indologist and author of several books, including one on
...
- Rejoinder to Elst (2 of 2) - From swarajya to surajya
- Kanchan Gupta
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
...
- Sahmat sore with CPI(M)
- Hasan Suroor
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
...
- SC defines ambit of State's role in religion
- Bal Krishna
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
...
- Secret meet over World Trade Centre bomb
- Shankar Ramachandran
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
...
- Sena tries to brush Gandhi away; and a comment
- Editorial
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
...
- Seoul's successes - Indolence keeps India behind
- Kaushik Basu
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
...
- Shahabuddin asks Centre to curb Khilafat campaign
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Asian Age
- 25 January 1997
>>>Syed Shahabuddin president of the Insaf party, on Friend said he saw that the
campaign for Khilafat (pan-Islamism), being run by Islamic extremists, had
its roots abroad and urged the Centre to initiate steps to curb such
activity.
In a statement here, he said the campaign was aimed at alienating Muslim
...
- Shekhawat's Jaipur Arthashastra
- Milap Chand Dandia
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
...
- Shukla dashes Advani's hope to escape hawala noose
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 18 January 1997
>>>Congress leader and former Union minister, Mr V C Shukla, has put a
damper on the hopes of the BJP leadership over getting an early
relief for the party president, Mr L K Advani, in the hawala case.
With Mr Shukla, who is caught in the hawala web, determined to
challenge the inclusion of members of Parliament in the ambit of
...
- Sister moves : The Americans in Kashmir
- Seema Mustafa
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
...
- Swami Vivekananda and the youth of India
- R L Pathak
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
...
- Swiss Company regrets 'Nazi' Ad
- Swiss Leader Apologizes to Jews
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule International Herald Tribune
- 16 January 1997
>>>Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, the former president of Switzerland,
apologized Wednesday for his rejection of Jewish calls for a
Holocaust compensation fund, and the head of the World Jewish
Congress agreed to resume co-operation.
"I am very sorry that I offended your feelings as well as those of
...
- Target : India
- Chidanand Rajghatta
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
...
- The Aliens are coming
- M V Kamath
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?
...
- The charge-sheeted must quit
- Kuldip Nayar
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
...
- The formation of Pakistan
- Kuldip Nayar
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 Mahatma and his 'girls'
- Arvind Kala
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
...
- The rich, the poor, and the spiritual
- Rashme Sehgal
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
...
- The rusted frame
- Nikhil Chakravartty
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
...
- The troubles of Imran Khan
- M J Akbar
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
...
- Tibet is India's younger brother, says Gere, actor with a cause
- Khalid Mohamed
The Times of India
- 9 January 1997
>>>He bas worked with some of the most accomplished directors of
International cinema: Akira Kurosawa (Rhapsody in August), Francis Ford
Coppola (Cotton Club), Mike Figgis (Internal Affairs), Paul Schrader
(American Gigolo) and Bruce Beresford (King David).
The world over, audiences adored Richard Gere as the genial millionaire
...
- To reform it you have to be saturated with our tradition
- Arun Shourie
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
...
- US Congressmen condemn militants' attack on Barnala
- Times of India news service
The Times of India
- 12 January 1997
>>>India has welcomed the gesture shown by the United States Congressmen in
condemning the violent attack on the senior Akali Dal functionary and
Lok Sabha M.P. Surjit Singh Barnala by Sikh militants while he was
addressing a group of academics and professionals of Indian-origin
during his visit to California last month.
- Vicious ultras ravage women in J&k
- Suresh Dugger
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
...
- Wanted: Security for wonder tree
- Aasha Khosa
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.
...
- Wheels within wheels
- T V R Shenoy
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
...
- Why says the BJP is finished?
- Saeed Naqvi
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
...
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