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Comments on Srikrishna Commission Report (Chapter 1/4)
Comments on Srikrishna Commission Report - Introduction
Comments on Srikrishna Commission Report (Chapter 4/4)
Christ - Bad news for the Sangh Parivar! - A. C. Ram
- Indian Currents
- September 21-27, 1998
>>>The recent atrocities committed against the Christians at the
instance of different outfits of Sangh Parivar require total
condemnation. There have been instances ranging from desecration
of holy places and holy books to gruesome murders of missionaries
including consecrated priests.
Frustration surfaces at inter religious affairs institute - UCAN
- Indian Currents
- September 21-27, 1998
>>>Several participants at an FABC-sponsored seminar here on
interreligious dialogue say they are confused by the Church's
claim to uniquely possess the full truth alongside its openness
to dialogue.
...
Fragile falsehoods - Karmic maturation of history - Sandhya Jain
- The Times of India
- September 30, 1998
>>>Having spewed venom and cast aspersions on the intellectual
credentials of historians recently nominated to the Indian
Council of Historical Research, the once dominant Left-liberal
school of historiography finds itself repenting at leisure as
its own performance comes under public scrutiny. Though the
...
Talking Turkey - Editorial
- The Times of India
- September 30, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech to the Asia Society
in New York on Monday is perhaps the most important speech on
foreign policy he has delivered since assuming office. It
contained the message he would have personally delivered to US
President Bill Clinton had he met him. In the Indian tradition
...
How to create nations ... without invasions? - Prithvi Raj Singh
- Indian Post
- September 25, 1998
>>>Introduction: The power-hungry politicians, due to their block
votes, play the game knowingly the dangers ahead. But, when the
demands are criticized, rejected or met in part, then the Friday
prayers become a routine place where the Mullah wakens them to
a reality and calls it slam is in danger here. The next step
...
The slow decline of terror - Gwynne Dyer
- News Times
- September 1998
>>>On Sunday, 24 Ukrainian coal-miners were killed by an
underground explosion in the village of Beloye.
Their deaths were as horrible, the grief of their relatives as
real as in Omagh the previous day. when 28 people were killed by
...
ISI plan to revive militancy in Punjab
Comments on Srikrishna Commission Report (Chapter 3/4)
Bhandari drives across Patna with head held high - Ashis Chakrabarti
- The Indian Express
- September 24, 1998
>>>Only a boundary wall separates the two warring camps in Bihar
-- the office premises of the BJP and the ruling Rashtriya
Janata Dal on Birchand Patel Marg here. The scene at the two
offices symbolise the portents of change on Bihar's political
state.
Saffron spreads South - TVR Shenoy
- Rediff on the Net
- September 23, 1998
>>>South Indians consider Vijayadashmi the most auspicious day to
start children on the road to education. But the custom of
vidyarambham isn't confined to the young. Adults too rededicate
themselves to their work on Vijayadashami after the festival
gives a welcome reason to lay aside the tools of their trade. I
...
Threat to civilisation - P P Bala Chandran
- The Observer
- September 25, 1998
>>>Defence minister George Fernandes may have had his reasons for
identifying China as India's enemy number one. In any case, the
statement need not appear as too specious or unrealistic to
anybody who has been a keen observer of the subcontinent's
geopolitics. However, it has lost its relevance in the changed
...
Need for cultural pride - Revival - Rizwan Salim
- The Hindustan Times
- September 20, 1998
>>>India's social problem--rampant corruption to exploding
population--can disappear and the nation can become great almost
overnight if most Indians, especially the people on top in every
domain of activity, are made to undergo just one mental
transformation: Acquiring intense cultural pride. Yes, vigorous
...
Mother begs forgiveness for Tasleema - Radicals step up pressure - Farid Hossain
- The Telegraph
- September 18, 1998
>>>Fragile, ailing and given only a few months to live by her
doctors, Tasleema Nasreen's mother sought forgiveness for her
daughter "if she has hurt anyone's religious sentiments".
Eid-ul-Ara Begum, 60, who is suffering from colon cancer,
...
Congress groping in the dark - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- September 24, 1998
>>>The way the Congress has categorically opposed the central
government's recommendation of President's rule in Bihar suggests
that it has learnt nothing and forgotten even more after its muchhyped Panchmarhi conclave. The situation in Bihar is for
everybody to see. Not only has the law and order situation become
e
...
India hits out at critics of its nuclear tests
India rejects rtificial deadlines for signing CTBT
Adherence to CTBT only as N power: PM - Sujit Chakraborty
- The Observer
- September 24, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday said that India
would sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) only after
some of India's "conditions" were fulfilled and after another
round of talks between the interlocutors of India and the US
Jaswant Singh and Strobe Talbott.
Majority gives no immunity - The misunderstood article - T.V.R. Shenoy
- The Indian Express
- September 24, 1998
>>>One of the nicest jobs in the Vatican must he that of the
devil's advocate. Let me explain what it entails for the benefit
of all those without Italians to teach them. When the Church
considers conferring sainthood upon someone, an officer in the
Vatican is appointed to oppose the case, trying to deny that
...
Boers ask Queen to apologise for 1899 concentration camps
All that is left of the Congress is rituals - K Govindan Kutty
- The Financial Express
- September 23, 1998
>>>Introduction: The party's ills cannot be cured by a code of
ethics alone. What it also needs is a strong does of character.
In evolving a code conduct for Congressmen, AK Antony has given
primacy to wearing khadi, probably not as an ethical assertion
but as an act of binding a disparate political group by an old
...
Anwar Shaikh of Great Britain (Interview)
Continuing threat of Bangladeshi migrants - Rakesh Sinha
- The Hindustan Times
- September 10, 1998
>>>The head generated on the question of the Bangladeshi nationals
between the West Bengal and the Maharashtra governments was not
surprising for those who are well acquainted with the tactics
and political character of the CPI-M and its left allies. By
disrupting the deportation, they tried to evoke Bengali
...
Lessons for India - Raja Menon
- The Hindustan Times
- September 15, 1998
>>>The dramatic US strike on the chemicals factory in Khartoum and
the terrorist training camp in Khost, has raised a clamour in
India of why not we? Thomas Pickering's statement that similar
action by India will not be appreciated is the centre piece of
the controversy, with most commentators taking the familiar
...
CPM report hints at crumbling bastion - Tamal Sengupta
- The Telegraph
- September 15, 1998
>>>The CPM's grip on peasants, its traditional vote bank, is
weakening over the past four years, according to an internal
party document.
Called the Draft Political Organisational Report, it portrays how
...
Sonia can mess around with foreign policy - Virendra Kapoor
- The Free Press Journal
- September 16, 1998
>>>Instead of living in the past and harping on the time when India
was in the forefront of the verbal onslaught against the white
apartheid regime in world forums, the Congress eggheads of
Panchmarhi fame would have benefited immensely had they allowed
reality to intrude upon their deliberations. For neither South
...
Undue interference (letter) - Gopal Bhargava, New Delhi
- The Observer
- September 22, 1998
>>>In an interesting paper "Do not allow meddling with Vaishno Devi
Shrine", Mr Jagmohan, member of Parliament, has rightly pointed
out that a few vested interests of Jammu and Katra are out to
ruin the great edifice of reform which was creatively conceived
and built ht the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Complex. It had won the
...
PM prefers to stay in less luxuriant hotel - India Abroad News Service
- The Observer
- September 22, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has opted to stay at the less
opulent New York Palace Hotel during his visit there instead of
the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Towers.
Sources said that Vajpayee, who is going to attend the 53rd
...
When Nehru opposed division of Bihar - K. K. Singh
- The Times of India
- September 20, 1998
>>>Opposition to the division of Bihar and creation of a separate
Jharkhand state, comprising mineral-rich Chotanagpur and Santhal
Parganas of south Bihar, is not new for maintaining the
historical, economical, cultural and linguistic heritage of the
state since the days of Mauryan empire when Bihar was the capital
...
The triumph of pragmatic liberalism - Virendra Parekh
- The Observer
- September 19, 1998
>>>It is unusual for us Indians to be regarded as role models in, of
all things, economic policies. And yet, that is precisely what
the crisis in southeast Asian countries might do.
Things have turned a full circle. As countries like Japan, South
...
ISI agents have infiltrated all states: Advani - Political Bureau
- The Economic Times
- September 21, 1998
>>>Union home minister LK Advani today said the Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan had infiltrated agents into an the
states of India and the western world was slowly realising that
the dispute between the two neighbouring nations was not over
territory but stemmed from the fact that the Pakistan government
...
Uneasy lies the head - Shyamal Sarkar and Sumit Sen
- The Statesman
- September 12, 1998
>>>In the changed scenario in West Bengal where polarised electoral
politics has taken a beating with the emergence of the Trinamul
Congress and the BJP, the Leftists have reason to be uneasy.
More than Mamata Banerjee's fledgling part the Marxist-led
conglomerate is wary of the BJP, leaning as it does on the
...
BJP's progress report - M.V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 15, 1998
>>>For a party which has been under siege for a hundred and fifty
days, the Bharatiya Janata Party has done extraordinary well and
is entitled to deep respect and the thanks of a grateful public.
Its very first act -- to sanction nuclear tests - was a
courageous one for which the nation cannot be sufficiently
...
BJP's progress report - M.V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 15, 1998
>>>For a party which has been under siege for a hundred and fifty
days, the Bharatiya Janata Party has done extraordinary well and
is entitled to deep respect and the thanks of a grateful public.
Its very first act -- to sanction nuclear tests - was a
courageous one for which the nation cannot be sufficiently
...
Disarmament logic - Learning from Nehru's nuclear vision - N M Ghatate
- The Times of India
- September 18, 1998
>>>Disarmament is not synonymous with arms control. All measures
aimed to tame or stop the arms race or restrict the use of arms
fall under the scope of arms control, while measures aimed at
reducing military capability fall under the scope of disarmament.
For example, proposals to ban nuclear tests or stop the
...
UK media warns of mercenary siege in Kashmir - A.K. Dar
- The Times of India
- September 17, 1998
>>>Foreign mercenaries trained, armed and financed by the Pakistani
army have virtually hijacked the secessionist movement in Jammu
and Kashmir and signs of the rising tide of fundamentalism are
starting to be felt across the region, British media reports have
warned.
Govt determined to bust ISI: Advani
Leadership to blame for nation's ills - M.V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- September 10, 1998
>>>Some time ago the Leslie Sawhney Programme organised a seminar
dedicated to the fragrant memory of J. R. D. Tata and the theme
chosen discussion was: The Indian Dream of 1947 - What went
wrong? Why? The chairman of the Programme, the distinguished
lawyer and businessman, Nani Palkhivala inaugurated the seminar
...
ISI-supported terrorism - M.V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 8, 1998
>>>For over ten years ISI-supported terrorists from across the
border have been indulging in murder and mayhem in Jammu &
Kashmir and lately in Himachal Pradesh as well. Earlier the same
gangsters were supporting the misguided Khalistanis in East
Punjab to cause unbearable damage in the countryside. It is no
...
The United States strikes back - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- September 17, 1998
>>>Gradually, a degree of realisation about Islamic terrorism is
growing in the western mind, particularly the US administration,
specially after the blasts in US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
which killed more than 200 people. Not that the US was unaware
of the large scale killings in various parts of the world by
...
Al-Muhajiroun declares jihad against India - Krishan Dutt
- Organiser
- September 13, 1998
>>>Militant Islamic fundamentalism manifested itself in its crude
form in London when Al-Muhajiroun, a UK-based organisation held a
demonstration in Trafalgar Square. Prior to the rally, thousands
of leaflets with Shri A.B. Vajpayee's photographs and slogans :
"Wanted for crimes against the Muslim people" were seen on lamp
...
Silent pogrom of Hindu in Bangladesh - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - Organiser
- September 13, 1998
>>>Do we have to recollect that a leader of Bangladesh parliamentary
delegation in UK openly alleged at a press conference in London
that a good number of 'VIPs' in India were purchased by
subsequent Bangladeshi regimes, ranging from dictator Zia-UrRehman to Sheikh Hasina Wajid, in exchange of Hilisha fish,
,
...
'MDMK won ditch BJP or back Cong (Interview) - R Rangaraj
- The Indian Express
- September 15, 1998
>>>Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), an offshoot of the
DMK and an ally of the BJP, is very much in the news these days.
Its much-touted rally to be held in Chennai on Tuesday has
emerged as a rallying point for the pro-BJP parties in Tamil
Nadu, minus the sulking AIADMK leader Jayalalitha. The latter has
...
Justice Srikrishna is ore to be pitied - M. V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- September 3, 1998
>>>The Srikrishna Commission was appointed to inquire into the riots
in Mumbai during December 1992 and January 1993. Its work was by
no means smooth. At one stage its terms of reference were
expanded. At another stage the Commission itself was disbanded
and was only revived at the instance of the Prime Minister. For
...
Terrorism's New (and Very Old) Face - Stephen Engelberg
- The New York Times
- September 12, 1998,
>>>In some ways, Osama bin Laden is a thoroughly modern
terrorist. He announces his intentions on CNN, directs his
worldwide financial network by satellite telephone and sends
messages to his supporters in Saudi Arabia via cassette tapes.
...
CPM cadre hold shariat court - Subhamoy Chatterjee
- The Hindustan Times
- September 6, 1998
>>>At a time when the CPI(M) has trained all its guns on the BJP for
encouraging religious fundamentalism, a shocking incident of
extortion in the name of the Islamic shariat by a section of the
Marxists in Murshidabad district has come to light.
...
Sinking in political quagmires - Virendra Parekh
- The Observer
- September 12, 1998
>>>So, the Congress is willing to shoulder its constitutional
obligation to form an alternative government, if and when the
present one falls on its own. It has kept the door open for
coalition with like minded parties in the intervening period, but
cherishes the hope of coming to power on its own in the not-too-
...
PWG: widening cracks - K. Srinivas Reddy, Hyderabad
- The Hindu
- September 6, 1998
>>>As the CPI-MI, People's War Group (PWG) incorrectly assessed the
revolutionary potential of the masses in Andhra Pradesh and begun
adopting incompatible guerilla warfare tactics and strategies in
its protracted armed struggle to achieve the New Democratic
Revolution? The overemphasis on militarisation without a proper
...
Hardliners triumph over moderates in APCLC - Pushpa Iyegnar
- The Times of India
- September 15, 1998
>>>As expected hardliners in the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties
Committee (APCLC) triumphed over the moderates at the end of a
year-long struggle during which the former group took the line
that violence perpetrated by naxalites was only a response to
"state repression" and therefore necessary while the latter
...
Less Afghanis in ultras' ranks: IG
Assam, a haven for Islamic militants
Captured ultra reveals brutality in ISI camps
Tainted Congmen on Sonia list - Rasheed Kidwai
- The Telegraph
- September 3, 1998
>>>Graft-crusader Sonia Gandhi has invited a number of seam-tainted
party leaders to the Panchmarhi conclave. As they join several
Congress MPs, low-level functionaries and ticket-seekers for
Assembly polls heading towards the hill resort, the "brainstorming session" starting Friday looks all set to become a
a
...
Reverse view - M V Kamath
- Mid-Day
- September 10, 1998
>>>Ever since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, I have often
wondered how the Islamic world would have reacted had. some
imaginary Hindu monarch invaded Saudi Arabia, conquered it and,
in an excess of religious zeal, built a mandir for Shiva in
Mecca. How long would that temple have been allowed to remain
...
Half of Taliban soldiers are Pakistanis, says report - A. K. Dhar
- The Times of India
- August 29, 1998
>>>Half of the Taliban soldiers currently engaged in major
offensives against the forces of northern alliance in Afghanistan
are Pakistanis who are providing logistic support, command and
control, Janes defence weekly has reported.
...
How much do the public need to know? - M V Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- August 29, 1998
>>>On July 12, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee inaugurated a
conference of the National Union of Journalists which, strangely
enough, was very inadequately reported in the national newspapers
which, one might add, is par for the course. But Vajpayee's
address caught the attention of a distinguished political and
...
U. S. ignored India's concern over security - T V Parasuram
- The Times of India
- September 9, 1998
>>>In an acknowledgement of India's security concerns, a U S defence
institute has said Washington failed to stop technology and
weapons of mass destruction-related transfer between China and
Pakistan, an issue repeatedly conveyed to the Clinton
administration by India.
Say o to US - P M Kamath
- Mid-Day
- September 4, 1998
>>>United States President Bill Clinton carried a lot of ideas on
his visit to Moscow. One such idea, which he publicly offered
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, was to ask him to stop all
military cooperation with India. Reason: India is in the vicinity
of Russian borders. With their newly acquired nuclear weapons, a
...
Tripura wants Centre to get ultra camps in Bangladesh closed - Man Mohan
- The Times of India
- September 9, 1998
>>>The Tripura government wants the Centre to exert pressure on
Bangladesh, and get the camps set up by extremists groups across
the border closed.
The state authorities are worried, as the militants are said to
...
PM vows to help Rabbani fight Taliban
Rs 1.71 cr spent on incomplete ICHR project - Ashish Kumar Sen
- The Asian Age
- August 10, 1998
>>>One of the historians assigned a research volume in the prominent
Towards Freedom project, undertaken by the Indian Council of
Historical Research, has left his study mid-way. Professor Gyan
Pande's disassociation with the project has provided one in a
flurry of blows to the research which has dragged its feet for
...
Sponsored delegation spills the Beans - Pandit Return - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - Kashmir Sentinel
- August 1-15, 1998
>>>Euphopria generated by initial greetings evaporated soon into
thin air. He could not stand the sight of his two houses. One
house had totally collapsed and other one was just an erect
structure. Its doors and windows had been taken out. When
Girsdhari Lal entered his home village eeth Kanihama in Budgam
...
Tolerance is not cultural ecumenism! - Did Islam preside over India's cultural symbiosis? - Meenakshi Jain
- The Observer
- September 5, 1998
>>>Lately, a section of the Muslim intelligentsia has been busy
propagating the thesis that a spiritual symbiosis between
Hinduism and Islam took place in the Indian subcontinent in
medieval times. India, they say, was the melting pot of two
great religions that lived in near-perfect harmony for thirteen
...
People want educated Mps, MLAs - Special Correspondent
- The Hindu
- August 21, 1998
>>>The Election Commission's proposal to fix matriculation as the
minimum qualification for candidates contesting elections has
found an echo among the people who, as per the findings of an
opinion poll, have endorsed the need for such an electoral
reform. Of the 9,562 persons interviewed from all sections of
...
ICHR deputy chief accused of copying research - Ashish Kumar Sen
- Asian Age
- August 12, 1998
>>>The Indian Council of Historical Research will reopen an
investigation against one of the council's deputy-directors
charged with plagiarising research work by a prominent historian.
The work was allegedly submitted to the Rajasthan University by
the official for which he was awarded a Ph.D.
Govt patronage doesn help: Historians - Kaveree Bamzai
- Indian Express
- August 11, 1998
>>>ITS budget this year is a paltry Rs 2.24 crore, aptly described
by Jawaharlal Nehru University historian Harbans Mukhia as
"peanuts". It has Rs 30 lakh worth of bills pending. The Fifth
Pay Commission award has yet to be implemented. Its budding
doesn't seem to have had a lick of paint since its inception in
...
Influx of Bangladeshis swells Naga population - M.K.Shukla
- Hindustan Times
- August 22, 1998
>>>Bangladeshis can be seen everywhere in Nagaland - here, in Mon on
India's border with Myanmar and in Kohima, according to political
and Army sources.
The State Government has apparently welcomed them. So have the
...
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