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Starting: Fri 01 May 1998 - 07:40:42 EDT
Ending: Fri 29 May 1998 - 01:35:02 EDT
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  • A Feared Scenario Around the Corner
    • R. Jeffrey Smith    Washington Post - May 14, 1998
      • >>>Preventing Nuclear Strike Capability Has Been a U.S. Goal for Subcontinent For much of the past decade, U.S. policy toward the Asian subcontinent has been quietly consumed by one major ambition: to ...
  • A nuclear strategy for India
    • K subrahmanyam    The Economic Times - May 28, 1998
      • >>>India has declared itself a nuclear weapon state after conducting a series of five nuclear weapon tests. The country has to decide now the strategy it proposes to adopt. The US generated vast quantities of strategic literature along with a vast arsenal of weapons exceeding 30,000 warheads. The Soviet Union had only ...
  • A rude awakening
    • Venu Menon    Outlook - May 4, 1998
      • >>>With the Central government's concern over the spread of terrorism in Kerala, a clutch of local Islamic organisations have come under close scrutiny. Chief minister E.K. Nayanar, while contesting Union home minister L.K. Advani's claims on the scale of their activity, admitted that terrorist groups have been ...
  • A stop forward
    • Editorial    The Observer - May 11, 1998
      • >>>The first meeting of the coordination committee of the BJP-led ruling coalition on Saturday came as a pleasant surprise. Given the unreconciled agenda of some member-parties and the acerbic equation prevailing between quite a few of its leading lights, many had apprehended the proceedings to be marked more by heat ...
  • A surfeit of double standards
    • Rajesh Mahapatra    The Observer - May 15, 1998
      • >>>A day the Pokhran nuclear tests, Pramod Mahajan. the political advisor to the Prime Minister, told newsmen that if sanctions were imposed, any country would have to survive on its inner strength and that India had "enough inner strength" to withstand sanctions from any country. On this score, one cannot agree more ...
  • Admit India to nuke club: UK peers
    • Press Trust of India    The Indian Express - May 20, 1998
      • >>>Some members of the British House of Lords have urged their government to recognise India as the sixth global nuclear power, saying that the present outcry over country carrying out nuclear tests, though justified, were negative as the West had constantly turned a blind eye to security concerns of world's largest ...
  • Advani asks Pakistan to roll back anti-India policy
    • Observer Political Bureau    The Observer - May 19, 1998
      • >>>Union Home Minister L K Advani on Monday warned Pakistan to either adhere to a common pursuit of peace and prosperity in the Indian subcontinent or be prepared for "costly" consequences. "Islamabad should realise the change in the geo-strategic ...
  • Advani for Shia-Sunni rapprochement
    • Shahid Abbas    The Observer (New Delhi) - April 28, 1998
      • >>>The Union Home Minister L K Advani is showing keen interest in bringing about a rapprochement between the Shia and Sunni sects of the Muslim community in the wake of the decades-old differences on the question of bringing out zadari processions in Lucknow.
  • Advani intransigent
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Indian Express - May 24, 1998
      • >>>China today criticised the decision to put Advani in charge of Jammu and Kashmir. "it is expected to cast a new shadow over the Kashmir issue, the major dispute between India and Pakistan in the past more than five decades, after Advani took charge of the Kashmir affairs," the official Xinhua news agency commented. The ...
  • Advani tells Pakistan to roll back its ant-India policy
    • Sabina Inderjit    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>In its first warning to Pakistan after declaring itself as a nuclear weapons state, India on Monday said: "Islamabad should realise the change in the geo-strategic situation in the region and the world. It must roll back its anti-India policy especially with regard to Kashmir. Any other course will be ...
  • Al Umma planned to kill Advani
    • Press Trust of India    The Indian Express - May 12, 1998
      • >>>The Tamil Nadu government today admitted for the first time that Al Umma extremists had planned to assassinate BJP leader L K Advani at a public meeting in Coimbatore on February 14 last and that three' suicide bombers were present at the site on that day. ...
  • American policy is the height of hypocrisy
    • Zbigniew Brzezinski    The Times of India - May 16, 1998
      • >>>India's nuclear weapons tests are a double embarrassment for the United States: they highlight the fact that US anti-proliferation efforts are a failure, and they signal a truly consequential intelligence scandal. ...
  • An open letter to President Clinton
    • M V Kamath    The Free Press Journal - May 20, 1998
      • >>>Dear Mr President, I saw you on television, looking the very picture of suppressed fury giving vent to your anger at India for daring to explode three nuclear devices. India, you said, should immediately sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) without any preconditions. There was menace in your voice. You presented ...
  • Anderson foresees brothers of saffron drifting apart
  • Arafat, Mandela, Gorbachev, others chant ande_Mataram
    • Alokparna Das    The Observer - May 23, 1998
      • >>>To see an emotionally charge Palestinian supremo Yasser Arafat hailing Mother India with Vande Mataram is touching indeed. And he is not alone in doing so, there am nine other Nobel laureates - from across the globe, belonging to various religions - who join him in chanting this hymn.
  • Awaiting the Shakeout
    • Ranjit Bhushan    Outlook - May 4, 1998
      • >>>Given the sheer size of restructuring involved, the Congress has rarely attempted anything like it. First the task force headed by P.A. Sangma to literally redesign the AICC. Then four party committees set up to analyse why the party fared so badly in UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, Orissa and Tamil Nadu in the Lok ...
  • Ayodhya tops world archaeology agenda
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Asian Age - May 3, 1998
      • >>>Hindutva sympathisers are set to dominate proceedings of the World Archaeology Congress in Croatia, beginning on Sunday, which is to discuss among its topics the demolition of Babri Masjid, its historical perspective and archaeological evidence. ...
  • Back to earth
    • Suzanne Goldenberg    Mid-Day - May 20, 1998
      • >>>Wide, straight roads, covered sewers, tidy houses with separate toilet and bath, and a guaranteed private water supply: such is the stuff suburban dreams are made of amid the choking chaos of a modem Indian or Pakistani city. ...
  • Between hy_now and hy not now
    • R Jagannathan    The Financial Express - May 26, 1998
      • >>>Having failed to break the nation's will, the anti-nuke lobby is now changing its tune Post-Pokharan, the critics of India's nuclear policy have been pushed into a corner. A few fellow pink dailies, after completely ...
  • Bishop buried amidst clashes and burning of shops
    • PTI    Maharashtra Herald, Pune - May 11, 1998
      • >>>Several houses and shops belonging to Christians were burnt down by extremist Muslims as more than 20,000 Christians took part in the funeral of Bishop John Joseph and vowed to fight for the abolition of controversial blasphemy law in Pakistani city of Faisalabad.
  • BJP uses Barnala to tap DMK for support
    • Political Bureau    The Business Standard - April 28, 1998
      • >>>Surjit Singh Barnala, Union minister for food and civil supplies, has emerged as the key player in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government's contingency plan to make up for potential loss of support of the unpredictable AIADMK leader, J Jayalalitha. ...
  • BJP wants Govt to get tough against ak misadventures
    • Observer Political Bureau    The Observer - May 20, 1998
      • >>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday trained its guns on Pakistan and urged the Government to take a tough stand against it by sending a message across that India will not take "anymore misadventures by Pakistan lying low." ...
  • BJP's nukes hit Congress hard
    • Vijay Simha    The Indian Express - May 13, 1998
      • >>>The Pokhran nuclear tests seem to have claimed an unexpected victim in the Capital's political circles: the Congress. The county main Opposition party is racking its brains without a clue on how to tackle the fallout. ...
  • Blast as slamic bid to kill Advani: Singhal
    • Express News Service    The Indian Express - May 18, 1998
      • >>>President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Ashok Singhal today demanded dismissal of State Governments having poor track records in maintaining law and order. Singhal, who was here on a membership drive, told newsmen that ...
  • Break the containment
    • Editorial    The Observer - May 5, 1998
      • >>>Defence minister George Fernandes has rightly acknowledged that China is India's main threat. In doing so he has parted with the unfortunate tradition of soft-pedalling Beijing's role in heightening India's insecurity. A nuclear China, which is in occupation of large chunks of Indian territory, is all the more ...
  • Can we stop conversions? (Part I of II)
    • Valson Thampu    The Sunday Times - May 10, 1998
      • >>>Referring to the mandir issue recently, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi admonished politicians for "raking up a dead issue" ever so often. But then he went on to do precisely what he did not want the politicians to do. He 'raked up' the non-issue of religious conversion, and called for legislation against it.
  • Can we stop conversions? (Part II of II)
    • Ashok Chowgule    The Sunday Times - May 10, 1998
      • >>>In the context of religion, this question must be rephrased as 'Should we stop conversions?' The plain answer would be that we should not, provided the conversions are genuine and the person concerned has changed his or her religion out of the conviction that it offers a better personal spiritual path. Any conversion ...
  • Canadian academicians are all praise for Vajpayee
    • Ajit Jain    India Abroad - April 3, 1998
      • >>>Canadian academics last week expressed concern about the longterm stability of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India while at the same time praising the leadership qualities of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. ...
  • Caste-based census will compound past blunders
    • Ghanshyam Shah    The Times of India - May 22, 1998
      • >>>Caste in India cannot be wished away. At the same time, the dream of a casteless social order cannot be given up. Efforts should be made to weaken the caste structure based on pollution and purity, and the oppression experienced by those who have - been at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. There is no grand path to attain ...
  • Chequered past
    • LAC    India Today - May 18, 1998
      • >>>The Indian Army's defeat by the Chinese in the border war of 1962 was a national humiliation, never mind the culpability of Nehru and his advisers in mishandling the situation. The nation reacted with an unprecedented surge of patriotism. The restructuring and expansion of the armed forces fortuitously helped in blocking ...
  • Chidambaram had advised UF against going nuclear
    • Political Bureau    The Economic Times - May 15, 1998
      • >>>The United Front government under both Mr Deve Gowda and Mr I K Gujral was under pressure to conduct nuclear tests only to be prevented by the grim economic picture painted by the then finance minister, Mr P Chidambaram, about the possible impact. ...
  • China-Advani face-off splits Left parties
    • Kamil Zaheer    The Economic Times - May 26, 1998
      • >>>Left parties have taken different stands on China's criticism of Union home minister L K Advani taking control of the department of Jammu and Kashmir affairs from the PMO. The CPI(M) said that the Chinese description of Mr Advani taking ...
  • Christian revivalism in Russia
    • Shyam Khosla    Organiser - May 3, 1998
      • >>>A magnificent church, Christ the Saviour, has come up close to the famous Red Square in the heart of Moscow at the site of a demolished church. Locals are fond of taking their guests, particularly foreign ones, to show round the artistically built building. Mayor of Moscow, one is informed, took the initiative ...
  • CII takes up cudgels for nuclear India abroad
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Economic Times - May 19, 1998
      • >>>Even while the government is still offering to open a dialogue with the world to explain its stand on the five nuclear tests conducted last week, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has already reached out to the world community on the issue. ...
  • Clarity begins at home
    • Sudip Chaudhuri    The Telegraph - April 24, 1998
      • >>>The swadeshi thrust to the economic policy as proposed in the national agenda for governance presented by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its alliance partners has evoked strong reaction from certain quarters in India and abroad. It is being stated that swadeshi does not make any economic sense. That it is basically ...
  • Comment on Nuclear Test
    • Milind Gadgil    The Sunday Times - Tuesday May 12, 1998
      • >>>Pune, May 11- Senior defence experts today unequivocally welcomed the news of the pokhran implosions and opined that the step was in the best interests of the country and actually should have been taken much earlier. ...
  • Comrades with a Chinese accent
    • G.M. Telang    The Indian Express - May 28, 1998
      • >>>After keeping the nuclear option open for over two decades, India has at long last had the courage to free itself from the shackles of this self-defeating stance. Within two days of the conduct of five crucial nuclear tests at Pokharan, India has been in a position to declare itself a nuclear weapons power. This is a ...
  • Counter-curbs if U.S. blocks funds
    • M.D. Nalpat    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>High-level policy circles in New Delhi say that commerce minister R.K. Hegde's remarks on Sunday that "India should not impose counter-measures on the United States" were his personal views. They compared this 'Hegde doctrine' to the security doctrine of P.V. Narasimha Rao who had declined to permit the Indian security ...
  • Delving into Dharma
    • Sandhya Jain    The Times of India - May 6, 1998
      • >>>We are currently witnessing a spate of writings voicing misgivings about the Bharatiya Janata Party's hidden agenda, and rejoicing that the compulsions of coalition politics have forced it to shelve contentious issues, notably the construction of a new temple at Ayodhya, abolition of Article 370 conferring ...
  • Dissembling on duplicity
  • Divide and Rue
    • M N Srinivas    The Times of India - May 7, 1998
      • >>>The enumeration of castes and tribes in the decennial census is not a mere numerical exercise for it affects the nature and functioning of the enumerated groups. British administrators learnt this truth the hard way after ...
  • Dream! Convert the dreams into thought, action
    • John F Burns    The Times of India - May 26, 1998
      • >>>Among the Indian scientists who successfully detonated five nuclear tests in the northwestern desert none seemed more visibly delighted by the acclaim waiting in New Delhi than A P J Abdul Kalam. An impish, shaggy-haired bachelor, Mr Kalam is widely regarded as the central figure in India's drive to join the small ...
  • Editors in fear of the Big Brother?
    • M V Kamath    The Free Press Journal - May 23, 1998
      • >>>The word to describe some of the editorials in our national press is just this: supercilious. Many of our newspapers just cannot stand up and fight without looking over the shoulder to see whether Big Brother is watching. Fear of what the United States might do seems to dictate editorial writers. And they have to ...
  • Emergence of a world leader
    • Editorial    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>International equations have changed since Monday, May 11, 1998. Earlier, they would be dictated by the Big Nuclear Five. The nuclear powers, save China, are civilizations of recent origin, as delineated by Arnold Toynbee, and are yet to achieve the ideology of universal humanism. China, though an ancient ...
    • Editorial    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>"The nuclear haves must understand that India is also a nuclear power now. The recent series of N-tests at Pokaran has proved the country's nuclear capability and its weapon potentiality. These tests are very much-within our right not only as a nation but also in relation to international conventions. There is no ...
    • Editorial    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>By conducting five nuclear tests, including d thermonuclear device and two sub-kiloton tests, India has demonstrated her capability for a weaponised nuclear programme. The tests have also ensured that India has the computer simulation technology developed indigenously and seemingly at a much lower cost by ...
  • From a Hindu past to a different future (and a response)
    • V. M. Tarkunde    The Asian Age - May 1, 1998
      • >>>There are two facts about the present political situation which should determine the attitude of those who are committed to the principles of secular democracy towards the present BJP-led government. The two facts, taken together, support the view that an attitude of responsive cooperation, instead of one of ...
  • Geneva rights caucus exposes Pak terrorist activities in J & K
    • Man Mohan    The Times of India - April 25, 1998
      • >>>Pakistan is getting exposed at international human rights platforms for its terrorist and mercenary activities in Jammu and Kashmir, according to an Indian delegation on its return from Geneva. ...
  • Grit with conciliation
    • J.N. Dixit    The Indian Express - May 28, 1998
      • >>>Cogitations on whether India should have conducted the recent nuclear tests are irrelevant to the changed realities of regional politics and international strategic equations. The points to be considered are: the implications of India acquiring nuclearweapon status, the nuances of international reactions, how to o ...
  • Gulam Ali Par Gussa Aata Hai
    • Ashok Row Kavi    Metro Beat - May 5, 1998
      • >>>If anyone of you wishes to read the height of hypocrisy, you must read the great Yusuf Khan, alias Dilip Kumar, in the Indian Express May 2 issue. In a piece titled incere Apologies, Khan Saheb our very own Khan Saheb protests against the Sena disruption of Gulam Ali's concert at the Juhu Centaur last ...
  • Gunpoint bargaining?
    • Debashis Basu    The Economic Times - May 13, 1998
      • >>>The BJP government has just gone ballistic. What will be the economic fallout? Scaremongers talk of economic sanctions, blacklisting, slowdown in foreign investment, etc. All this is nonsense. One, India's attractiveness as an investment destination has not reduced a bit. Two, morality and instant ...
  • H-bomb yield was between 43 and 45 kilotons: BARC chief
    • Times of India News Service    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) director Anil Kakodkar said here on Monday that the yield of the thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb) which was detonated at Pokhran last week was determined keeping in view the safety of the nearby villages. ...
  • Hired guns
    • Harinder Baweja    India Today - May 4, 1998
      • >>>They came armed with terror. Not with automatic Chinese assault rifles but clubs and axes. The nearest police post from Prankote village in Udhampur-a tiny hamlet perched at a height of 6,700 ftwas at least 30 km away. An arduous two-day trek through rugged terrain, just the kind mountain guerillas thrive in. And they y ...
  • Hollywood contamination
    • Rizwan Salim    The Hindustan Times - May 24, 1998
      • >>>Hollywood's screenplay writers and directors, producers and financiers have a genius for spreading evil, dehumanising men and women. Their superior expertise is most apparent in their attempts to ...
  • How and sour George
    • Swapan Dasgupta    India Today - May 18, 1998
      • >>>By the Night of May 4, the day China accused George Fernandes of having "seriously sabotaged the favourable atmosphere for improving bilateral relations", Delhi's grapevine was thick with "reliable information" that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was looking for a new defence minister. The next day, the patent ...
  • Husain's goddesses and social contract
    • P P Bala Chandran    The Observer - May 6, 1998
      • >>>Husain thrives as much in other people's intolerance as in his genius to generate such intolerance. Long before Jean Jacques Rousseau gave it a name, humanity had entered into a social contract within itself for the general well- ...
  • I applaud your PM on N-tests: Gere
    • Sabina Sehgal Saikia    The Times of India - May 23, 1998
      • >>>While applauding the Indian government for conducting the recent nuclear tests at Pokhran, Hollywood actor and Tibet activist Richard Gere says that he is confident that the U.S. economic sanctions being imposed against the country would not succeed. ...
  • I do not believe that the BJP is communal
    • Bharati Bhargava    The Times of India - May 8, 1998
      • >>>Steel tycoon Swaraj Paul, the Lord Paul of Marylebone, 67, who symbolises the success of Asian entrepreneurial skills overseas, has been in the news lately in India and Britain. With the Bofors payoffs case still hogging public attention here, ...
  • I don understand why there is such a big turmoil
    • Sunil Narula    Outlook - May 18, 1998
      • >>>Defence minister George Fernandes is unfazed by the brouhaha over his statements. Excerpts from an interview to Sunil Narula after his return from the Andamans: You say what you expressed about China were your personal views.
  • In pursuit of MR
    • Harish Gupta    India Today - May 4, 1998
      • >>>Like any good Sicilian, Ottavio Quattrocchi is a cautious manunhurried, deliberate and not prone to impulsive action. So when the former Delhi representative of Snamprogetti, the Italian fertiliser and petro-sector company, recently moved a petition before the Delhi High Court seeking the revocation of a nonon- ...
  • India adopts a take-it-or-leave-it policy towards foreign
    • Anita Katyal    The Times of India - May 15, 1998
      • >>>An unfazed Indian government appears to have adopted a carrot and stick policy to counter the adverse international reactions to its decision to conduct nuclear tests. On the one hand, it plans to approve pending foreign investments ...
  • India as a superpower is absurd assumption: Helms
    • Ramesh Chandran    The Times of India - May 15, 1998
      • >>>"As long as there is breath in me, I will never support the lifting of the Glenn Amendment sanctions on India unless they abandon all nuclear ambitions," thundered Senator Jesse Helms on Thursday. ...
  • India can no more be treated as a second rate nation
    • H. V. Seshadri, Sarkaryavah, RSS    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>Shri H. V. Seshadri,. Sarkaryavah of RSS, in a congratulatory letter to the Prime Minister, Shri Atal ,Behari Vajpayee, after the successful nuclear - implosions has said that "all the world has got a loud and clear message that India can no more be treated as a second or third rate nation now".
  • India enters Big League with 2 more N-tests
  • India has supporters in Jimmy Carter, Kissinger
    • Aziz Haniffa    The Observer - May 28, 1998
      • >>>What do former US President Jimmy Carter, his then National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and noted conservative columnist Patrick Buchanan have in common? ...
  • India joins issue with U.S. officials
    • Prakash Nanda    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>After a week of restraining itself over the Clinton administration's allegations against India for its nuclear explosions, New Delhi on Monday joined issue with Washington by saying that some of the key officials in Washington were spreading heer lies'.
  • India will convince nations
    • Prakash Nanda    The Times of India - May 13, 1998
      • >>>India on Tuesday was hopeful that the "adverse reactions", including the decision by Australia and New Zealand to recall their respective high commissioners "for consultations", following Monday's three nuclear explosions could be contained. "We are watching the situation closely. Let us see what happens.
  • India's N-tests put Big 5 in the dock, expose their hypocrisy
    • L.K. Sharma    The Times of India - May 13, 1998
      • >>>The bomb has been tested. In the coming days, it will be the turn of India's nerves. As an early campaigner for universal nuclear disarmament, India way note that where its words over the years failed, its Pokhran ...
  • India's Nuclear Irresponsibility
    • Editorial    Washington Post - May 13, 1998
      • >>>India's Nuclear weapons tests assault the controlled nuclear universe the United States has been trying to build for 50 years. In this scheme, a handful of nuclear powers would ensure that others did not join the club, nor lose for not joining. It worked pretty well. Three other states -- India, Pakistan, Israel -- had ...
  • Indian-Americans are learning to be heard in Washington
    • Robert S. Greenberger    The Indian Express - May 20, 1998
      • >>>The audience for President Clinton's fund-raiser in September 1996 at the Mayflower Hotel here was somewhat unusual for such an event: a group of prominent Indian-Americans. Mr. Clinton lauded the ethnic group's achievements, and the promise of U. S. -India relations. And he vowed to focus more on South Asia if re- ...
  • J&K affairs return Home to Advani
    • Ajay Suri    The Indian Express - May 24, 1998
      • >>>A one-line declaration by Rashtrapati Bhavan giving charge of the Jammu & Kashmir cell to the Union Home Ministry this morning finally put an end to the speculation on who actually controlled Kashmir affairs from New Delhi: L K Advani or Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
  • Jyoti Basu's remarks expose myth of unity in left camp
    • Utpal Chatterjee    The Times of India - May 14, 1998
      • >>>That efforts to bring about unity within the Left Front before the forthcoming panchayat elections have finally failed has become evident not only from the strong remarks made by state chief minister Jyoti Basu about the RSP at the start of his election campaign but also from the equally strong reaction from ...
  • Kanchi Shankaracharya hails India's N-tests
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>The successful nuclear tests conducted at Pokaran merits a place among our achievements, said Shri Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. He congratulated the scientists and the Prime Minister for the feat. ...
  • Limits of pragmatism
    • Editorial    The Observer - May 2, 1998
      • >>>Prim Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has turned the tables on his antagonists. He has denied his opponents the chance to make political capital out of what might have been an embarrassing situation by effectively persuading Sukh Ram to resign from the Prem Singh Dhumal ministry in Himachal Pradesh. This is no mean ...
  • Majestic entry into nuclear club
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - May 14, 1998
      • >>>Nuclear tests in Pokhran of western Rajasthan on May 11, 1998, have clearly demonstrated to the world that India has the proven deterrent weapon capability. The noted defence expert, K Subrahmanyam, wrote "by conducting three underground nuclear tests simultaneously, India has formally joined the club of five ...
  • Minorities continue to lead dismal life in Pak
    • Karachi    The Observer (New Delhi) - April 28, 1998
      • >>>Most member of the minority communities, especially Hindus, in the Islamic state of Pakistan continue to lead a dismal life as they are denied basic rights and face constant persecution by the administration. ...
  • N-tests baffle CIA officials
    • Ramesh Chandran    The Times of India - May 13, 1998
      • >>>U.S. administration officials are still pondering over why the World's greatest intelligence network failed to detect activity in Pokhran prior to the nuclear tests. When questions were posed to the Central Intelligence Agency, its official spokesman refused to comment. However, John Pike, a technical intelligence ...
  • Natwar to open Cong innings on nuke
    • Political Bureau    The Economic Times - May 23, 1998
      • >>>In what appears to be a fresh snub at the leader of the Opposition, Sharad Pawar, the Congress leadership has decided to field party MP from Rajasthan and former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh as opening speaker in the debate on the nuclear issue in Parliament next week.
  • New Government policy on Prasar Bharati
    • Venugopalan    Organiser - May 3, 1998
      • >>>Venugopalan recently interviewed the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. During the past about one month of your working in the Ministry, what drawbacks came to your notice? And what are your priorities? ...
  • New it's_Japan's turn to decry invasion of foreign capital
    • Jathon Sapsford    The Indian Express - May 20, 1998
      • >>>There's a foreign invasion underway here, and it's getting really scary to some. Just look at the headlines. "Foreign Companies Hit the Beaches, Occupy the Country," declares Kinyu Business, a Japanese financial journal. "American Capital Runs Roughshod Over Japan," blares Gendai magazine. Proclaims the usually sober ...
  • No consensus on exercising nuclear option, says Left
  • Now she eclipses the PM
    • T.V.R. Shenoy    The Indian Express - May 9, 1998
      • >>>Atithi devo bhava' - most Indians are familiar with the concept. Would someone now care to provide an Italian translation? Between them, Sonia Gandhi's media managers and the External Affairs Ministry have succeeded in amusing/irritating several ...
  • Now, VHP plans mandir in Pokhran
    • Ashutosh Mishra    The Pioneer - May 18, 1998
      • >>>Hindu Sadhus and religious leaders, in a bid to 'immortalise' the recent nuclear tests at Pokhran, are planning to set up a hakti peeth (seat of divine power) near the blasts' site. Vishwa Hindu Parishad working president Ashok Singhal said on ...
  • NRIs donate to counter sanctions
    • Mahendra Ved    The Times of India - May 14, 1998
      • >>>Anticipating an appeal from the Indian government, several overseas organisations of non-resident Indians have already begun to collect funds to tide over the sanctions from the world community in the wake of the series of nuclear tests conducted this week.
  • Nuclear tests were not for political mileage
    • Kushabhao Thakre    The Times of India - May 15, 1998
      • >>>He is a quintessential pracharak. The man who joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1938, has neither occupied an official position nor contested elections. For this bachelor the party has long been the home. Despite his soft, simple exterior, Kushabhao Thakre has always been considered the real power behind ...
  • Nuke tests a logical culmination, says Congress
    • Political Bureau    The Economic Times - May 12, 1998
      • >>>Putting aside political compulsions, the Congress today welcomed the successful testing of three nuclear devices by scientists at the underground testing facility at Pokharan today. Taken by surprise at the announcement made by Prime Minister Atal ...
  • Nuke tests don call for downgrade, says S&P chief
    • Tamal Bandyopadhyay & Anirban Nag    The Financial Express - May 14, 1998
      • >>>"THE fundamentals of the Indian economy are strong enough to be able to withstand any pressure arising out of economic sanctions... The sanctions will not have any long-term impact," said Standard & Poor's president and chief rating officer Leo C O'Neill, who was in Mumbai to attend Crisil's board. S&P has a ...
  • Nukes or firecrackers?
    • Neeraj Kaushal    The Economic Times - May 19, 1998
      • >>>There is a flippant side to the American reaction to the five smiles of the Buddha. Some Americans are asking: Did the Indian government test five nukes or just exploded firecrackers? Seismometers set up around the world to track earthquakes and atomic blasts did not get any signal from four of the five tests.
  • Of lingering prejudices and communalism
    • M.V. Kamath    The Free Press Journal - May 7, 1998
      • >>>There is, according to the well-known columnist and author, Khushwant Singh, a "deep-rooted and widespread prejudice that many non-Muslims harbour in their breasts against Islam and Muslims" which he considers is a matter "of deep anguish". In a recent column he wrote: "Every effort to disabuse the minds of ...
  • Overwhelming majority supports N-tests
  • PM attends defence meeting to review strategy
    • Dinesh Kumar    The Times of India - May 13, 1998
      • >>>A day after the testing, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee carried out a comprehensive defence review when he took the unprecedented step of attending defence minister Fernandes' weekly meeting at the latter's South Block office here on Tuesday.
  • Pokhran II and After
    • K Subrahmanyam    The Times of India - May 14, 1998
      • >>>India has conducted its nuclear tests and has become a nuclear weapon state. It is at this stage futile to discuss why these tests were carried out at this time and what were the underlying motivations of the ruling party. It is also clear that while the tests were carried out under the orders of the BJP government, ...
  • Politics of ecular_reductionism
    • Diwakar    The Economic Times - May 10, 1998
      • >>>Of the various qualities that have become the hallmark of our politicians, candour is certainly not one. They have perfected the art of doublespeak. Yet, when in distress or anger they cannot keep from blurting out the truth, even if unwittingly. Last week, senior leaders of UF displayed their vulnerability to ...
  • Politics of Shakti
    • K Subrahmanyam    The Times of India - May 26, 1998
      • >>>It was Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as foreign minister in the Janata government in April 1979, who announced in the Lok Sabha that the Pakistani nuclear programme was not a peaceful one. That announcement was made a few days before the US invoked the Symington Amendment against Pakistan on finding that it was ...
  • Probe demand
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    India Today - May 18, 1998
      • >>>When the Kerala Police busted the VIP-linked sex racket in Kozhikode eight months ago, it was widely believed that those involved in the case would be put behind bars. But with the investigation proceeding slowly, the state Women's Commission has decided to request the CPI(M)-led LDF Government to hand over the ...
  • Religion is often a smokescreen for political oppression
    • L K Sharma    The Times of India - May 1, 1998
      • >>>It is a book of stories," writer VS Naipaul announces in the preface of his new travelogue, Beyond Belief, during an interview with L K Sharma in London. The writer keeps emphasising this point. Soon one knows why. A journalist from India rings up to know his opinion on Pakistan. am not an analyst. It is for the ...
  • Sanctioning Hypocrisy
    • Editorial    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>The divisions among the G-8 on the sanctions to be imposed on India following the nuclear tests at Pokhran were roughly on predictable lines. The more mature European nations, Britain, France and Russia, have learnt from their past experiences on sanctions and concluded that they do not work. The US and ...
  • Sanctions will not have impact on industry or economy. Alternative finance available
    • Olga Tellis    The Sunday Observer - May 24-30, 1998
      • >>>The way business and industry have rushed forward in support of the government after the five nuclear tests is charming. They have been running up facsimile, telephone, and Speed Post bills trying to convince the world of business of India's peaceful intentions.
  • Scholar's appeal to Muslims
    • Statesman News Service    The Statesman - April 29, 1998
      • >>>Muslim scholar and president of the Muslim Personal Law Board, Maulana Ali Hasan Naqvi (Ali Mian), has appealed to his community to boycott singing of Vande Mataram. He made this appeal at the state conference of the Din-e-Talimi ...
  • Seize the opening
    • Editorial    The Observer - May 7, 1998
      • >>>Is the South Block listening? The king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, has bemoaned that 'the infiltration of extremists from Assam is a matter of serious concern'. The forcible use of a country's territory as a 'safe haven' by extremists from another country is an intolerable situation. This is all the more so, ...
  • Self-interest is the name of the game
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Sunday Observer - May 24-30, 1998
      • >>>The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him: not on the chance of his not attacking but rather on the fact that u)e have made our position unassailable. ...
    • Varsha Bhosle    The Sunday Observer - May 24-30, 1998
      • >>>The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him: not on the chance of his not attacking but rather on the fact that u)e have made our position unassailable. ...
  • Shell-shocked but hopeful: Europe's mixed Nuclear reaction
    • Chitra Subramaniam    The Indian Express - May 13, 1998
      • >>>Cynicism, anger, frustration and even hope has peppered reactions across Europe and in disarmament corridors as people begin to digest the news of India's three successful nuclear tests conducted on Monday. ...
  • Should India sign the CTBT?
    • By Pranab Mukherjee    The Hindu - May 26, 1998
      • >>>AFTER the successful completion of a series of five nuclear tests at Pokhran, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, claimed that "India is a nuclear weapon state." In a formal statement issued at the press conference on May 17, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Dr. R.
  • Show solidarity to beat sanctions
    • Jay Bhattacharjee    The Times of India - May 21, 1998
      • >>>A few years back, a tiny Asian country forced President Clinton to cut a sorrier-than-usual picture. This was when Singapore stuck to its guns and turned down Clinton's plea that an American teenager should not be punished after being convicted for offences committed there.
  • Signs of a strong govt. at the centre
    • Tavleen Singh    The Afternoon Despatch & Courier - May 18, 1998
      • >>>The day after the nuclear tests, the stock market in Mumbai crashed and there should have been the usual nervousness in business circles. There was not. Some of India's most respected captains of industry were at a gathering that I was invited at and there was general euphoria.
  • Singular historic feat
    • Usha Tai Chati    Organiser - May 24, 1998
      • >>>Rashtra Sevika Samiti has congratulated the Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee and the scientists for the successful Ntests at Pokaran. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Samiti's Pramukh Sanchalika Smt Usha Tai Chati said that this singular historic feat has aroused the dormant self-respect of the nation. .
  • Sita is the centre of consciousness
    • Sandhya Jain    The Pioneer - May 14, 1998
      • >>>It is an irony that as the secular condemnation of the ransacking of Maqbool Fida Husain's Mumbai residence reaches a crescendo, saner voices in the Muslim community are being edged out of the debate. As self-styled liberals and defenders of artistic freedom jostle for centrespace in what could have been an ...
  • Slandering religion
    • M V Kamath    Mid-Day - May 21, 1998
      • >>>A persistent memory of a day, some 70-odd years ago, when I went to the weekly market in my small town only to get upset over a minor incident. Even as I was walking past a line of vegetable hawkers I saw a Christian padre addressing a bunch of people who were standing idly by.
  • Testing time for the world
    • Ramesh Thakur    The Asian Age - May 21, 1998
      • >>>The nuclear tests carried out by India are regrettable, disappointing and wrong - but they are also understandable. They demonstrated an underestimated level of nuclear sophistication, an unexpected strength of political will and an unsuspected ability to evade advance detection.
  • The day after
    • Editorial    The Times of India - May 13, 1998
      • >>>Once the haze of euphoria induced by India's recent nuclear tests lifts, one might begin to see the outlines of the reasons behind the BJP-led government's dramatic decision as also its precise timing. After all, Monday's tests only brought into the open a recessed capability the world knew India already possessed. While ...
  • The essence of Hinduism is spiritual freedom
    • N. S. Rajaram    The Hindu - April 28, 1998
      • >>>If there is one feature that stands above all others in Hinduism it is pluralism: there is no one chosen path and no one chosen people. As a result, there is no division of the world into mutually exclusive camps of believers and non-believers. All paths of spiritual exploration are valid, and there are no such ...
  • The essence of intolerance
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer (New Delhi) - March 30, 1998
      • >>>Islamic fundamentalist mindset is manifested in various forms. Ethnic cleansing of Hindus in J&K Is the latest chapter of the brutalities perpetrated by the paragons of Islamic expansionists. Hatred for kafirs, resulting in treating the microscopic minority of Hindus like slaves even today in Pakistan, is yet another ...
  • The euphoria and after
    • Inder Malhotra    The Hindu - May 13, 1998
      • >>>Returning home on Sunday, May 10. after a fortnight's absence overseas. was an experience rather like getting back to the showing of a bad Bollywood film after the interval. The scenario had not moved at all. The scene was as dismal - full of uncertainty and apprehension - as one had left it. The stock ...
  • The H(indutva)-bomb
    • Varsha Bhosle    Rediff on the Net - May 15, 1998
      • >>>Frankly, Rediff has covered the H(indutva)-bomb so allencompassingly that I'm convinced the darn editor wants to make us columnists redundant. It may seem an useless exercise for this notorious jingoist to add her militant mite to the coverage at this late stage (besides, my w-i-i-de Lucifer-grin n ...
  • The new saffron hope
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - May 7, 1998
      • >>>BJP national council (NC) session at Gandhi Nagar this week was an exercise in conserving its distinct organisational character as well as enlarging its constituency in terms of geographical regions and communities hitherto untouched or uninfluenced. The timing of the was important for three reasons. First, the ...
  • The steeling of India
    • Swapan Dasgupta    India Today - June 1, 1998
      • >>>Ten days after the sand has settled in the Pokhran test range, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the fear of international sanctions exists only in the mind. The mind of those Indians who tenaciously believe it is the destiny of the effete to inherit the world's leftover crumbs. The 90 per cent or ...
  • Touch me not
    • M V Kamath    Mid-day - May 7, 1998
      • >>>The other day Shiv Sainiks broke up a concert organised in Mumbai at which Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali was to be the star performer. They barged into the hall, shouted slogans, disrupted the performance and made themselves thoroughly obnoxious. The liberal press in the country was in a tizzy. How could such a ...
  • Towards making India invincible
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - May 21, 1998
      • >>>I distinctly remember articles and booklets making fun of RSS shakhas, saying that m this age of nuclear bombs what can RSS volunteers do, dressed as they are m half pants and wielding lathis. It goes without saying that RSS cannot produce nuclear weapons in shakhas or anywhere else, but RSS branches can ...
  • Unarmed & dangerous, scrap dealer sees Remo & Co in the dock
    • Prasannakumar Keskar    The Indian Express - May 3, 1998
      • >>>When Shakil Rajabhai Shaikh, a 28-year-old from Dehu Road who sold scrap, sued Bollywood bigwigs, including Super Cassettes Industries Ltd, pop star Remo Fernandes and lyricist Anand Bakshi for using obscene words in the title song of the Hindi film Aflatoon, many mocked him because they thought the would miss his ...
  • US analysts caught sleeping
    • Press Trust of India    The Indian Express - May 14, 1998
      • >>>One of America's 25-billion Dollar constellation of satellites did spot preparation for India's nuclear tests on Monday, six hours before the event, but the CIA did not issue an alert, The Washington Post reported today quoting "several sources." The reason for the failure was that the analysts responsible for ...
    • Press Trust of India    The Indian Express - May 14, 1998
      • >>>One of America's 25-billion Dollar constellation of satellites did spot preparation for India's nuclear tests on Monday, six hours before the event, but the CIA did not issue an alert, The Washington Post reported today quoting "several sources." The reason for the failure was that the analysts responsible for ...
  • US targeting Vajpayee regime
    • Dina Nath Mishra    The Observer - May 28, 1998
      • >>>It is not correct to think that those, who are feeling proud and elated for five nuclear tests, do not understand what nuclear arsenals means for the fate of humanity at large. It is for that reason India was the first country to call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons 40 years ago.
  • Vajpayee's pilgrimage turns out to be an event
    • K V Lakshmana    The Observer (New Delhi) - April 28, 1998
      • >>>The BJP and the Akali Dal flags swayed in unison symbolising the alliance and the Hindu-Sikh amity which it promoted to emerge successful in general elections and welcome Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his first pilgrimage to the Golden Temple on Monday, after assuming office last month.
  • We are now equivalent to any nuclear weapons state
    • Gayatri Ramanathan    The Sunday Observer - May 17-23, 1998
      • >>>Dr P K Iyengar, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, uses one of the architects of the first Pokhran explosion in 1974. Since then Dr Iyengar has been an ardent advocate of further testing. He spoke to Gayatri Ramanathan on a wide range of issues following last Monday's and Wednesday's tests.
  • We detonated 3 bombs by pulling one trigger
    • Srinivas Laxman    The Times of India - May 19, 1998
      • >>>The office of Rajgopal Chidambaram, chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission, at the Old Yacht Club here, is inundated with congratulatory messages for his crucial role in the recent implosions of five nuclear bombs. The unassuming Mr Chidambaram returned to Mumbai on Monday after participating in a series of ...
  • We watched as they put test gear underground...
    • Robert Windrem    The Indian Express - May 14, 1998
      • >>>Despite a $27 billion budget and a galaxy of spy satellites, US intelligence agencies failed to detect India's preparation for the nuclear blasts. Why? US officials are blaming it on a leak to New York Times. ...
  • What India did was right for Indians
    • Andrew Mack    The Asian Age - May 21, 1998
      • >>>India's five nuclear tests have generated predictable global outrage, but are they really the huge threat to global security that critics claim? Pessimists are correct to note the high probability that Pakistan ...
  • When a giant wakes up
    • P P Bala Chandran    The Observer - May 20, 1998
      • >>>Why should India's five nuclear explosions cause more global tremors and diplomatic radioactivity than America's 1500 or Russia's 700 or even China's 45 explosions? The answer lies not so much in colour blindness or discriminatory mind-set of the socalled super powers as in the collective DNA of our civilisation, , ...
  • When Mahatma Gandhi flayed haznavi-Ghauri fixation
    • V. P. Bhatia    Organiser - May 3, 1998
      • >>>In his speech at his daily prayer-meeting on December 25, 1947, four months after independence, Mahatma Gandhi referred to a verse published in the official Urdu Magazine of Aligarh Muslim University in which great resentment was expressed over the talk of the rebuilding of Somnath Temple after the annexation of ...
  • Why are we defensive about Tibet?
    • Prakash Nanda    The Times of India - May 1, 1998
      • >>>Despite taking effective control of Tibet nearly 40 years ago, China is so paranoid about the Dalai Lama and his supporters that it seeks reassurance from India whenever the dignitaries of the two countries meet. And on every occasion, India says that it recognises Tibet as an integral part of China and that the Dalai ...
  • Why the Buddha smiled
    • T.V.R. Shenoy    The Indian Express - May 20, 1998
      • >>>Five centuries before the Christian era the powerful and ambitious Ajatasatru attacked the Licchavi confederacy led by Vaisali. Hearing of this conflict between his Magadhan disciples and his Sakya kinsmen, the Buddha sighed that perfect peace would never come until all the nations of the earth were equally ...
  • Why we need a change
    • Posted By Krishnakant Udavant    The Sunday Observer - May 17-23, 1998
      • >>>Does India require a presidential form of government and subsequent constitutional review? The old debate came alive when the BJP-led coalition proposed both in its National Agenda for Governance. And now Union Home Minister L K Advani has added a new dimension to the issue by forcefully favouring the idea in a ...

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