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ARF chief praises Jaswants efforts - M. D. Malapat
- The Times of India
- July 28, 1998
>>>Despite the efforts by big 5, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) refused
to condemn Indian nuclear tests on Monday. India, represented by
Planning Commission deputy chairman also made it clear to the
world that it will not obey diktats about its missile development
programme.
Will BJP Government be out of the woods? - M. V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- July 23, 1998
>>>Poor Congress! Poor United Front! In fact, poor everybody in
opposition! They just do not seem to know what to do. The two
Yadavs have 'united' and Mulayam Yadav and Laloo Prasad Yadav
have decided to bury their bloodied hatchets to form a new party.
Ms Mayavati is spending her time trying to explain that she has
...
Potential threat no. 1 - P. M. Kamath
- Blitz
- May 30, 1998
>>>Defence Minister George Fernandes's May 3 characterisation of
China as India's "potential threat number one" is nothing new,
unknown or unstated in government records.
In its '95 report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on
...
So tell me, is this journalism? Part 2 of 2 - M V Kamath
- The Hindustan Times
- July 19, 1998
>>>For fifty years the United States and its 'running dogs' -- the
phrase originally used by China in describing Britain and others
-- hounded India on the Kashmir question. The United States,
Britain, France and 'Nationalist' China -- used every opportunity
to hurt, harass and humiliate India on this issue. The United
...
So tell me, is this journalism? Part 1 of 2 - M V Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- July 18, 1998
>>>First it was an exclusive interview with Mr Strobe Talbott, the
US Deputy Secretary of State (4 July 1998). Three days later The
Hindu carries an interview with Mr Zhon Gang, China's ambassador
to Delhi. Both are exclusives. It is interesting, even
significant that Mr Talbott gave his interview to Malini
...
The rebel in the Gandhi family
Indian nuclear test not an impediment - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - The Hindu
- July 21, 1998
>>>South Africa today said that nuclear tests by India were not an
impediment to bilateral ties and that it "understood" New Delhi's
compulsions for the atomic explosions .
"We have differences over the nuclear question but that has never
...
That's not fair! - M V Kamath
- Mid-Day
- July 23, 1998
>>>I would have thought the age of strikes was long over and that
workers had learnt to respect the consumer. Apparently, I am
wrong.
First, it used to be textile workers and then bankmen who used to
...
Middle class syndrome! - M V Kamath
- The Daily
- July 12, 1998
>>>The Great Indian Middle Class by Pavan K. Varma: Price Rs 295;
Pages 232
There is none more pathetic than the man who hates himself, his
family, his class, his religion and his country. Such people are
...
For ignoramus Satiricus ignorance of history is bliss - Satiricus
- Organiser
- July 12, 1998
>>>The trouble with history is that it happened. If that is not
clear enough Satiricus will say the trouble with history is that
it happened the way it happened. If this is still not clear to
fellow-dunces Satiricus will say the trouble with history is that
it happened without caring how it happened. Now that at least,
...
BJP survives, because it's ready to face elections - Ambikanand Sahay
- The Times of India
- July 23, 1998
>>>Despite the Cauvery bomb having been set ticking by the ever
mercurial Jayalalitha, the Vajpayee government has survived.
Chances are that the government will continue to survive, and
even remain alive and kicking.
...
On conversion (a letter) - Allwyn Fernandes
- The Times of India
- July 21, 1998
>>>This refers to the interview with Bishop Thomas Dabre
(onversion is a spiritual phenomenon and thus voluntary July
3) where the new bishop says that ruth has to be asserted. In
truth there is no tension=94. The interview raises several issues.
...
Arrest of suspect ISI agents points to Hyderabad's vulnerability - G. S. Radhakrishna, Hyderabad
- Sunday
- July 19-25, 1998
>>>The arrest of four ISI agents, Mohammed Ishtiyaq, Abu Kafa, Abu
Farookh and Mohammed Qayuum a week before the popular Telengana
festival of Bonalu has exposed the laxity of both the Hyderabad
Police and the regional passport officials.
...
India can do without N-club membership - M V Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- July 16, 1998
>>>In his exclusive interview to Malini Parthasarathy of The Hindu,
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State, appeared to be
earnestly addressing himself to the task of narrowing the gap
between the U.S. policy perception and that of south Asia,
particularly India. On the other hand, the Secretary of State, Ms
...
Need for a united fight on crime - Olga Tellis
- The Observer
- July 21, 1998
>>>The law and order situation in the capital of the country and its
commercial capital, namely Delhi and Mumbai, has become so scary
that a more drastic and logical solution Is needed than is
hitherto presented. This is not to claim that the one presented
here is the most logical solution but it will go a long way In
...
Murder of 3 maulvis chills reformist clergy - Sujata Anandan
- The Indian Express
- July 22, 1998
>>>Unpublicised, and almost unnoticed, the killings of three maulvis
in the Jama Masjid area since January this year, has sent a chill
down the spines of 'reformist Muslim clergy in the city.
The killings have little in common save the fact that all three
...
Sonia accused of creating 'Christian coterie', sparks Congressmen's ire - George Iype, New Delhi
- Rediff on Net
- July 16, 1998
>>>Resentment is brewing in the Congress as a section of leaders
charge Sonia Gandhi with cultivating a coterie of Christian
leaders in the party.
Some Congress leaders allege that ever since the Italy-born Sonia
...
Sonia stopped Pawar from being PM - Palash Kumar
- The Asian Age
- July 20, 1998
>>>Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh said on Sunday that
Congress president Sonia Gandhi prevented Mr Sharad Pawar from
ousting the BJP-led coalition and forming an alternative
government.
...
MPs prefer weekend to Sonia's training camp - Ravi Shankar
- The Asian Age
- July 20, 1998
>>>School's not out for summer. It had to be closed temporarily
because the students skipped town. A Congress training camp
intended to prepare first-term party MPs to face Parliament with
confidence and lead the party to the 21st century had to be
rescheduled midway because most of the MPs took the weekend off
...
No scuttling N-programme, says India - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- July 21, 1998
>>>India and the United States on Monday concluded two rounds of
talks on the issues of disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation,
with New Delhi asserting that its demand for building a minimum
nuclear deterrent was not negotiable.
...
Make your stand on CTBT public US tells India - Jyoti Malhotra
- The Indian Express
- July 21, 1998
>>>India and the US today got down to sorting the devil in the
detail in their bilateral relationship, with US Deputy Secretary
of State Strobe Talbott and the Prime Minister's key aide Jaswant
Singh having exhaustive talks over how to "narrow the gap",
especially on security-related matters.
Theatre persons' bandh to protest play ban - Smita Deshmukh
- The Times of India
- July 21, 1998
>>>Leading Marathi theatre producers have decided to observe July 17
as black day every year - the date when the Centre decided to ban
the play Me Nathuram Boltoy. The entire industry will also
observe a bandh on July 29, when not a single play will be staged
anywhere in the state.
Pak being helped to develop missiles with N-warheads:report - Times of India News Service
- The Times of India
- July 21, 1998
>>>Pointing out that India was now a nuclear weapons state, the
latest report of the defence ministry has stated that China's
nuclear weapons status, Pakistan's self-acknowledged nuclear
capability and the presence of nuclear weapons in the Indian
Ocean were factors impinging on India's security calculations.
Promoting US-China ties - M V Kamath
- The Daily
- July 7, 1998
>>>What is the matter with President Bill Clinton that he should so
abjectly consent to eat out of Chinese hands and accept any
humiliation imposed upon him? First, the Chinese insisted that on
his visit to Beijing, Clinton should not make at stop-over in any
other country. This obviously referred to Japan. It is like India
...
The art of the nuclear deal - C. Raja Mohan
- The Hindu
- July 9, 1998
>>>As India an d the U.S. begin to explore at Frankfurt today the
prospects of a bilateral nuclear accommodation, they bring
different negotiating cultures to the table. The clash of these
cultures will make the toils of the Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission, Mr. Jaswant Singh, and the U.S. Deputy
...
Army showed utmost restraint in Kashmir - UNI
- The Hindu
- July 13, 1998
>>>A top Army officer has accused the foreign media of spreading
canards regarding security excesses in the Kashmir Valley and
said the Army has exercised utmost restraint in dealing with
militancy. The Army has used minimum force as it has been trained
to respect human rights, Lt. Gen (retd) S. S. Grewal, who has
...
Hostage to misrule - Ved Marwah
- The Hindustan Times
- July 15, 1998
>>>Why is Pakistan so desperate to internationalise the Kashmir
issue? Third party mediation will not deliver to it what it could
not achieve through three wars and a proxy war. The Nawaz Sharif
government cannot be under any illusion that any Indian
government, not even the more than generous Gujral government,
...
History as what the state states - Harsh Sethi
- The Times of India
- July 20, 1998
>>>The wrangle over the reconstitution of the Indian Council of
Historical Research (ICHR) is getting increasingly ugly. The
recent exchange between columnist Arun Shourie and historian K N
Panikkar in the pages of The Asian Age is unlikely to lift the
quality of public debate. Frequent references to virginity and
...
Contempt notice against 8 Imams - Santanu Benerjee
- The Indian Express
- July 18, 1998
>>>The Environment Bench of the Calcutta High Court has issued suo
motu contempt rule against eight Imams, who refused to appear
before the bench for the fourth consecutive day today. The
contempt rule is returnable by August 5.
...
Fusion arms may make CTBT obsolete - Nirmala George
- The Indian Express
- July 20, 1998
>>>The Indian angst over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty may be
increasingly irrelevant as a whole new generation of nuclear
weapon technologies are on the horizon which could render
international non-proliferation treaties like the NPT and CTBT
irrelevant.
The question is not hy_now?=92 but hy not earlier?=92 - Arun Shourie
- The Observer
- July 17, 1998
>>>e have been told that we have (had) the capability for a long
time, we could have set off this blast much earlier, if we wanted
to," the speaker declaimed. "Well, if we could have set it off
much earlier, we could have set it off much later also. My
question is about the timing of it. There must be some reason
...
Good performance despite obstacles - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- July 9, 1998
>>>There seems to be a strong undercurrent among the non-political
citizenry throughout the country that the Vajpayee government is
not being allowed to function by allies like AIADMK and opponents
like Laloo Prasad Yadav, Jyoti Basu and Mulayam Singh. The AIADMK
leader, Jayalalitha, has been delivering shocks to the Vajpayee
...
Pak pays for Chagai everyday as panic creeps in - Kamal Siddiqi
- The Indian Express
- July 12, 1998
>>>Pakistanis get a daily reminder of the Chagai nuclear blasts on
May 28. Every day, the Rupee slides further down against the
dollar in the open market and the State (Central Bank puts more
restrictions on the outflow of precious foreign exchange
reserves, which have dipped to just over $800 million from the
...
CIA decides to infiltrate more spies into India - Aziz Haniffa
- The Observer
- July 13, 1998
>>>The infiltration of more spies into India and the recruitment of
more agents in that country have become top priority for the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the wake of its
embarrassing failure to detect India's nuclear tests in May.
...
China crackdown on dissidents resumes
Spending on security - Modernisation, not money is the key - Amiya Kumar Ghosh
- The Times of India
- July 13, 1998
>>>ndia spends a pitiful 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, whereas
Pakistan spends eight per cent and China six." This has long been
the refrain of defence analysts in India in their criticism of
the country's budget makers for parsimony in a matter so vital as
the nation's security. The complaint has become louder in the
...
N-power have strategy to save arsenals from CTBT - Times of India News Service
- The Times of India
- July 13, 1998
>>>The five nuclear weapon states have worked out a strategy to
protect their nuclear arsenals from the effects of the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), according to Ms Savita
Pande, a fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis
(IDSA). Ms Pande is a specialist on nuclear issues and South
...
Setting out kingdom in order - Radha Kumar
- The Times of India
- July 13, 1998
>>>A survey of our current political scenario - even as India
concludes the celebration of its fiftieth year of Independence provides an eloquent commentary on the degeneration of
institutions. This is particularly disturbing for, while the
cliche that ours is an ancient civilisation with a rich heritage
e
...
UN-China entente: Neighbours' distress? - Nandini Dasgupta
- The Observer
- July 9, 1998
>>>The US-China summit in Beijing last week has delivered more of
the same: Both have found it prudent to pretend that everything
is fine between them, despite the latent tension over the motives
of each other.
...
MHA seeks Interpol help to combat ISI-related activities - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- July 9, 1998
>>>The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought assistance of
the Interpol for preventing the resurgence of the Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI)-related activities along the Indo-Nepal border
- with such activities having substantially slowed down in the
region after the killing on June 29 of the kingpin of such
...
Understanding deterrence - K Subrahmanyam
- The Economic Times
- July 9, 1998
>>>Deterrence is a much misunderstood term. In popular opinion,
deterrence and particularly nuclear deterrence is associated with
the way the US strategic establishment conducted its military
policy in the last fifty years. India has been critical of that
deterrent strategy and justifiably so.
Gujral defends nuclear tests - Dharam Shourie
- The Indian Express (Pune)
- July 10, 1998
>>>Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral has defended the Indian
nuclear tests conducted recently saying it should be seen in the
context of the country's security environment and the fact that
it is surrounded by atomic weapons.
...
Vajpayee government: It's a crisis of confidence, not performance - Prakash Nanda
- The Times of India
- July 10, 1998
>>>A hundred days is not a long enough period to evaluate the
performance of any government. It is not surprising that, at a
time when it is poetically correct to belittle every thing that
the BJP does, criticisms have come in plenty that the BJP's claim
to provide "a stable government under an able Prime Minister" has
...
Chinese missile technology for Pak with US consent
Albright blames BJP Govt for nuclear tests
Nehru & the Bomb (a letter) - A.P. Saxena, New Delhi
- The Times of India
- July 10, 1998
>>>Apropos K. Subrahmanyam's illuminating piece, "Hedging against
Hegemony: Gandhi's Logic in the Nuclear Age" (June 16), it is
interesting to recall Jawaharlal Nehru's first reactions to the
bomb. Soon after the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Nehru too, like Gandhi, anticipated the emergence of new "first
...
Khurshid's elevation seen as an attempts to get back Muslims votes - Arvind Singh Bisht
- The Times of India
- July 10, 1998
>>>The choice of Mr Salman Khurshid, for the coveted post of Uttar
Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) presidentship, is seen as a
part of the party leadership's strategy to gear up and meet the
challenge posed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
...
BJP's nonchalance and Cong. reluctance forced Jaya climb-down - N Sathiya Moorthy
- The Observer
- July 8, 1998
>>>The 'resigned casualness' of the BJP, possible splits in the
AIADMK party as also the alliance, and the Congress'
unwillingness to form an alternative Government particularly with
her party in it. were all behind the AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha's
climb-down and her decision to support the Vajpayee Government,
...
Blessed are the tyrants - Kuldip Nayar
- Indian Express
- July 7, 1998
>>>Practically every day brings an evidence of
America's bias against India. The latest is that President
Clinton wants Beijing to be South Asia's policeman. New
Delhi is right in describing it as a reflection of
"hegemonistic mentality of a bygone era."
...
Clinton must keep his hands off Kashmir - A.N. Dar
- The Free Press Journal
- June 30, 1998
>>>A dangerous situation, not taken in fully by the government and
public opinion here so far, has arisen. This has been brought
about by President Clinton's open invitation to China to
intervene in the Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir. That he had
no business to do so is beside the point. But he has sown the
...
Benazir ran secret drive against J&K , says BBC - PTI
- The Times of India
- June 28, 1998
>>>Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto allegedly ran a
secret campaign on Kashmir from the Pak high commission in
London, draining huge funds to "woo" British lawmakers for toeing
Islamabad's line on the issue, a BBC report said.
...
Ms. Albright's memory and facts - Riyaz Punjabi
- The Hindu
- July 1, 1998
>>>The United States appears to be concerned about the rising
tension between India and Pakistan. In this behalf, while
focussing on Indo-Pakistani differences, the U.S. concern has
centralised on the basic contentious issue of Kashmir and it has
once again reiterated its proposal of third-party mediation to
...
Highly personal envoys - K. P. Nayar
- The Telegraph
- July 1, 1998
>>>The statements, communiques and diplomatic manoeuvres which have
dominated world headlines since the Pokhran tests have reinforced
a school of thought among practitioners of foreign policy that
diplomacy, like charity, begins at home.
...
Red green clubs - Rakesh Sinha
- The Telegraph
- June 30, 1998
>>>Changes in the composition of the Indian Council for Historical
Research, an autonomous body under the Union human resources
development ministry, have provoked the country's Marxist
historians. They have opposed the nomination of the new
appointees, questioning their ideological integrity by dubbing
...
US willing to sell its soul to China for filthy lucre - M.V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- July 2, 1998
>>>Ask any man in the street anywhere in the world which of the two
countries - China and the United States - is more powerful and
the instant reply would be: the United States, of course! And
the reply could not be more wrong. In recent weeks China has
shown without the shadow of doubt that it is the stronger of the
...
In search of the truly secular - M. A. Hussain
- The Telegraph
- June 30, 1998
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party's coming to power has spelt political
defeat for the ideology of pseudo-secularism. Though nothing
positive has emerged in its stead, it nevertheless has the
potential to usher in genuine secularism and give rise to new
political polarizations in the country.
Facts of history cannot be altered - Prof. B. B. Lal
- The Hindu
- July 1, 1998
>>>Prof. B. B. Lal, Director General (Retd.), Archaeological Survey
of India writes:
Under the caption 'Tampering with history', the Editor of The
Hindu, (dated June 12, 1998) dealt with the reconstitution of the
...
Battling the Babus - Prabhu Chawla
- India Today
- July 13, 1998
>>>Atal Bihari Vajpayee has a problem. The well-knit, wellentrenched bureaucracy seems to be waging an undeclared war
against his already wobbly government. The prime minister, as
everyone knows, hates confrontation. But now he has to decide:
to don a pair of boxing gloves or wave the white flag. In the
e
...
Get subtle - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- July 7, 1998
>>>The Vajpayee government has let it be known it is exploring the
possibility of signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This is
sensible. Official spokespersons have indicated more than once in
the last two months that the treaty will be acceptable under
certain conditions. Immediately after the Pokharan tests,
...
No simple solution - Jaya Jaitly
- The Times of India
- July 6, 1998
>>>Among the Bills scheduled before Parliament, the Women's
Reservation Bill is probably the most controversy-ridden. It is
fairly clear that though the Bill has been deferred at present,
it will be presented sooner rather than later. Yet for the
women's organisations which have valiantly fought for the Bill
...
Can India and China be friends? - M. V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- June 25, 1998
>>>For some time after India became free, the People's Republic of
China habitually used to describe India as "running dog of AngloAmerican Imperialism", this despite the fact that India was
practically the first country to recognise the communist
government in Beijing (then known as Peking) and establish
h
...
Does the CPM own West Bengal? - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- June 25, 1998
>>>The CPM, which has been running a political fiefdom in West
Bengal for about two decades is by far the most worried, among
political parties, by the BJP's arrival at the centre. The
ideological leader in both UF governments, it is now trying to
provide leadership to the entire opposition, including Congress.
Musings of the mandarins - K. N. Ramachandran
- The Indian Express
- June 26, 1998
>>>There has been a series of reports, commentaries and statements
>from China on India's nuclear tests. Most of the statements
underline how the nuclear tests have caused instability in South
Asia, unleashing the prospect of an arm race. Moreover, the
Indian tests have proved that Delhi seeks hegemony in South Asia
...
Not worth it at the price - T. V. R. Shenoy
- The Indian Express
- July 2, 1998
>>>On a cool autumn evening in October 1996, the then president of
the Congress went to a specially convened meeting of the United
Front Steering Committee. Sitaram Kesri wanted the United Front meaning Mulayam Singh Yadav - to support Mayawati's bid to become
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. (The Congress and the Bahujan
n
...
Clinton, China and India - Rakshat Puri
- The Hindustan Times
- June 24, 1998
>>>United States President Bill Clinton begins his China visit this
week. The visit has become an important event for Delhi because
of what appears to be increasingly brazen discrimination by the
Clinton administration in favour of China in the India-China
equation. The pro-China stance is more than ordinarily
...
To Skirt China is to skirt the issue - K Subrahmanyam
- The Times of India
- July 6, 1998
>>>Mr Jaswant Singh, the Indian Prime Minister's pointsman on
nuclear issue, is shortly to meet US deputy secretary of state
Strobe Talbott in Frankfurt. This is a follow-up to their earlier
meeting which was widely seen as a constructive beginning to
repair the damage done by the actions of the US government
...
USA and Pak-China collusion - Editorial
- Organiser
- June 21, 1998
>>>World's leading industrial nations in the G-8 group, have
ultimately succumbed to US pressure and on June 12 adopted its
proposal to deny loans to India (and Pakistan) as a retaliatory
action against nuclear tests. Meeting at Lancaster House in
London, foreign ministers of US, Britain, France, Germany, Japan,
...
Before the sun sets on US hegemony - Saeed Naqvi
- The Indian Express
- June 26, 1998
>>>Zbigniew Brzezinski hit the nail on the head. "American primacy
is not going to last forever," he reflected at the Centre for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington, nd it is
therefore important that a secure world order be put in place
while this primacy lasts."
...
The emerging threat of superterrorism - Ved Marwah
- The Times of India
- June 26, 1998
>>>The risk of nuclear, chemical and biological weapon blackmail is
no longer a theoretical one. It poses a real threat to
democratic countries like India. The possibility of a terrorist
group using such weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is not as
remote as we would like to believe. Prof Paul Wilkinson, an
...
Clinton's China visit - K N Daruwalla
- The Economic Times
- July 6, 1998
>>>On the face of it, President Clinton had more problems before he
set off for Beijing than during the actual visit. Earlier,
stories proliferated, each with its own angle. The state
reception at Tiananmen square brought in the human rights angle.
Then followed the Jhonny Chung angle, the Bernard Schwartz
...
Politics of blackmail - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- July 2, 1998
>>>>From one crisis to another. That is how the Vajpayee government
has been surviving all these days. It is a conjecture how long
this will continue. As long as AIADMK chief Jayalalitha's demand
to sack the Karunanidhi government is not conceded. her threat to
withdraw support to the BJP government is too real to be scoffed
...
Hoisted by its own petard - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - Organiser
- June 21, 1998
>>>
The problem with today's opposition parties in Parliament is that
apart from their failure to topple the Vajpayee Government there
have been five additions to the BJP-led coalition Government in
the Lok Sabha since the vote of confidence was won by it-they
...
Triumph of principle - Editorial
- The Observer
- July 6, 1998
>>>It appears that Ms Jayalalitha has decided to continue her
party's support to the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre
only after realising that she pushed herself into a corner. The
immediate impact of her belated. wisdom will be naturally on the
Union budget, which may now sail through in Parliament. Given
...
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