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• Fatwa against Shabana Azmi
• Syed Amin - Rediff on Net - March 3, 2000
>>> Film actress Shabana Azmi has earned the wrath of the mullahs in Hyderabad because she tonsured her head for her role in the controversial film, Water. .....
 
• Cultural triumph in Kashi
• Rakesh Sinha - The Organiser - March 5, 2000
>>> Much has been written on Water. In recent times the English media, particularly the big dailies, devoted a plethora of editorials and news columns to the ill-conceived film than to ISI's activities. ......
 
• Leftist historians and intellectuals afraid of accountability
• Rajvir Sharma - The Organiser - March 5, 2000
>>> It has become customary with the political and academic forces opposed to the 'Sangh Parivar' to criticise each and every action of the new regime at any level as an effort to saffronise politics and academics. The two recent most examples are the opposition to the decision to review the Constitution taken by the government and the decision taken by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) ......
 
• Water: A short study of progressive behaviour
• Arvind Singh - The Organiser - March 5, 2000
>>> "We got full support from the people of the town," says Shabana Azmi. "At most times there were no more than a dozen people protesting against the film," she said to the Hindu (Dated Feb.9). "And when they managed to mobile support, their numbers never crossed 100," She asserted. But notice this, "65% of Varanasi hurt by Water", ......
 
• Editorialising History - I
• Anup Kumar Sinha - The Organiser - March 5, 2000
>>> The Marxists bubble of history has burst. The recalling of two volumes of the Towards Freedom project by the ICHR and the subsequent hue and cry over it, has completely exposed the Marxists' claimers in their 'history' of India. ......
 
• Editorialising History - II
• Anup Kumar Sinha - The Organiser - March 12, 2000
>>> The Leftists continue to crow about the ICHR non-issue, conveniently glossing over, if not to hide, their sins committed in the past. ......
 
• Beatle to PM: Save India's cows
• Abhik Sen - The Asian Age - March 9, 2000
>>> Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is writing a letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee urging him to take firm measures to stop the cruelty involved in the largescale slaughter of cows in India.......
 
• Roman Catholics Apologize for Sins
• Associate Press - March 9, 2000
>>> Roman Catholic leaders around the country are following Pope John Paul II's lead and offering apologies for Catholics' sins against various minority groups, other Christians and alienated members of their own church.......
 
• Paying for political innocence
• Virendra Parekh - The Observer - March 10, 2000
>>> GUJARATIS are often derided as 'aarambhe shooraa' (brave in the beginning). By withdrawing its circular on the RSS, Keshubhai Patel government in Gujarat has lived up to that reputation........
 
• A skewed media
• M.V. Kamath - Mid-Day - March 2, 2000
>>> Our national press has all its values skewed. It couldn't care less for its readers or, for that matter even the country's national interests. Ask me why........
 
• US- Pakistan-China Axis
• K Subrahmanyam - The Times of India  - March 6, 2000
>>> Speculations are inevitable about the issues that will dominate the talks between the Indian prime minister and the US president during the latter's forthcoming visit to India. It is to be expected that the agenda will focus on areas of mutual co-operation which will benefit both countries and also on those of shared and differing concerns. These two democracies have a common value system in terms of political liberalism and market economy.........
 
• They feel it is simply more Water down the drain
• Press Trust of India - The Indian Express - March 6, 2000
>>> While Deepa Mehta, director of the controversial film Water, is still searching for an apt locale for shooting her film, the subjects on whom the film is based, are totally against th6movie being made. Majority of the 5,000 Bengali widows living in and around 85 widows ashrams in this pilgrim city feel "the film is not going to change their situation for the better.".........
 
• All roads of terror lead to Osama's den
• Kathy Gannon - The Times of India - March 6, 2000
>>> The passenger, indistinguishable from his fellows in beard, turban and baggy pants, was whisked through security at Jalalabad airport on the strength of a flimsy rectangle of cardboard. .......
 
• Christian conversion in Buddhist Sri Lanka
• Kamalika Pieris - Island Newspaper - March 8, 2000
>>> The Rev. Sydney Knight has suggested that relations between the Buddhists and Christians is now very amicable and everything is fine between them. This could be contested. Let us look at one very important inter face between the two religions ? Christian conversion of Buddhists. .......
 
• Madonna's 'next best thing' is yoga
• Ramesh Chandran - The Sunday Times of India  - March 5, 2000
>>> Often described as 'pop's former boy toy', Madonna, having left behind her sexcapades, scandals and headline-grabbing wild times in her latest cinematic avatar, is now tackling the role of of an adoring mother and mature woman in love in her new movie, The Next Best thing, released here this week, in which she enacts the role of a yoga instructor. .......
 
• That's not faith, that's provocation
• Gordon Urquhart - www.guardianunlimited.co.uk  - November 12, 1999
>>> There was a time when dialogue between religions had a goal of international peace and understanding. In the past decade, however, a new and potentially dangerous form of interfaith collaboration has emerged. On Sunday, religious leaders from different traditions will gather in Geneva for the World Congress of Families II. .......
 
• Shameful silence of the Rwandan church
• Chris McGreal - www.guardianunlimited.co.uk  - August 28, 1999
>>> A few months ago I asked a priest in Rwanda, a Tutsi, why the churches had failed so miserably during the 1994 genocide. Certainly there were courageous priests, as there were cowards and killers among the clergy. .......
 
• If it is really so 'basic', why fear to define secularism
• Arvind Lavakare - Rediff on Net  - March 2000
>>> Having had to lump the government's firmness in going ahead with a Constitutional review, most sections of our press have been gloating in the belief that 'the basic structure' of our Constitution is beyond the pale of any amendment as would aid and abet the BJP's notorious 'hidden agenda.' .......
 
• Faith by Force
• Uday Mahurkar - News Today Specials  - March 13, 2000
>>> It was an unsuspecting, calm morning in Bandhghar village of Dahanu taluk in Thane. Devram Raut and his family were about to finish their siesta when a 200 men-strong horde armed with lathis marched on to their hut and ordered them to remove the tulsi-bead necklaces they were wearing. .......
 
• Mehta's source of Water upsets Jaitley
• Onkar Singh - Rediff on Net  - March 14, 2000
>>> The Union  ministry  for  information  and broadcasting that permitted Deepa Mehta to go  ahead  with  shooting her controversial film Water in India is now reconsidering its decision. .......
 
• 'My uncle told Mrs Gandhi the PVC is not for officers, but soldiers'
• The Rediff Special/ Rangarajan Kumaramangalam - Rediff on Net  - March 14, 2000
>>> General P P Kumaramanaglam, who had the distinction of becoming the chief of army staff, was the last of the officers from the old school of Sandhurst. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in recognition of his contribution to World War II. .......
 
• The hell where youth and laughter go...
• Varsha Bhosle - Rediff on Net  - March 7, 2000
>>> Before  we  continue with  our  musing  on the Counter Insurgency And Jungle Warfare  Training  School,  we  need  to  make  a  point  regarding  the  Kargil Committee  Report  and  its  observations on  Pakistan's  notorious  Operation Topac.  .......
 
• Whither RSS
• Tarun Vijay - The Pioneer  - March 12, 2000
>>> His mother dreamt of her only son setting up a clinic and working towards a prosperous future but Dr Batra set a condition for marriage: he would tie the knot with a girl who was willing to serve tribals in Orissa. .......
 
• WEST BENGAL CPI-M: Obsolete Ideas Cover For Corruption
• Manash Ghosh - The Statesman  - March 12, 2000
>>> ISSUING a showcause to a former central committee member and one-time depu-ty parliamentary party leader thrice in two months is an unprecedented event in the an-nals of the West Bengal CPI-M. It happened to Saifuddin Chowdhury who has incurred the wrath of the party leadership for becoming a rallying point by demanding inner-party democracy and transparency in organisational functioning. .......
 
• Towards unfreedom
• Saradindu Mukherjee  - The Hindustan Times  - March 14, 2000
>>> Attempts by some 'progressive' and 'eminent' historians to 'construct' a controversy over a routine administrative request by the ICHR to the Oxford University Press (OUP) to "temporarily withhold" the publication of two volumes of the Towards Freedom project has sparked off an unnecessary noise. .......
 
• Pope's Road to Israel Paved by Past Errors
• Lee Hockstader  - Washington Post  - March 12, 2000
>>> Shortly before his death in 1904, Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, was granted an audience with Pope Pius X in Rome. He came right to the point: The Jewish people, scattered across Europe, dreamed of a national home in the Holy Land of Palestine, Herzl said. Could they count on the Vatican's support? .......
 
• Courts on Government servant's participation in RSS
• Alok Kumar  - Organiser  - March 12, 2000
>>> On November 26, 1949 the people of India solemnly resolved to constitute India into a democratic state and to secure to all its citizens, liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.  This finds a poetic expression in the Preamble of the Constitution of India. .......
 
• The public life of Sonia Gandhi
• M J Akbar  - The Asian Age - March 19, 2000
>>> An old friend of the Nehru-Gandhi family, a calm gentleman free of ambition, untainted by prejudice and provoked largely by sympathy drew a one-line portrait of Sonia Gandhi. "She is not a natural friend-maker." .......
 
• The irrelevance of Clinton's visit
• Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar  - The Economic Times - March 22, 2000
>>> Rarely in history have so many written so much about so little. The visit of President Bill Clinton to South Asia is a minor event which will soon be forgotten. So why are the media carpet-bombing the public with reports on every aspect of the Clinton visit from the decor in his hotel room to his strategy for seeing tigers at Ranthambore sanctuary? .......
 
• The rights and duties of man
• Hasan Kamoonpuri  - The Weekend Observer - March 18, 2000
>>> Modern educational institutions are not producing good, wise men in our country. They lay emphasis on teaching skills. They improve knowledge but with little emphasis on building character and good behaviour. As such, they produce bookworms, instead of enlightened, healthy and happy human beings, says a world-renowned professor of dermatology. .......
 
• Hinduism is India's defining religion
• Meenakshi Jain - The Weekend Observer - March 18, 2000
>>> The recent Hindu assertiveness as witnessed in the resistance to conversions, the challenge to left attempts to re-write the history of the freedom movement, and the scuttling of shooting of the film, Water, has deeply alarmed secular intellectuals. .......
 
• Orissa govt asks churches to submit conversion data
• Imran Khan - The Observer - March 20, 2000
>>> ORISSA Christians are up in arms against the latest state government circular to churches in the state, which makes it mandatory on them to furnish five year's data on conversions. .......
 
• Text of 'Vision' statement
• The Hindu - March 22, 2000
>>> The following is the text of the statement titled "India-U.S. Relations :  A Vision  for  the  21st Century",  signed  by the  U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton and the  Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee : At the dawn of the new century, Prime Minister, Mr. Vajpayee and President, Mr. Clinton resolve to create a closer and qualitatively new relationship between India and the United States. .......
 
• "India is our Guru!"
• Pritish Nandy - The Times of India - March 21, 2000
>>> Q. Over forty years have been gone by since you came here as a refugee, heading a Government-in-exile. What do you see as the future of Tibet? .......
 
• The lie across the border
• Saeed Naqvi - The Indian Express - March 24, 2000
>>> It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the massacres in Kashmir weredesigned to bring the Kashmir issue centrestage during President Clinton'svisit. I dare say he will hear a great deal of it during his brief halt inIslamabad. This, therefore, is a good occasion to cut through the fluff andstate the two respective cases on Kashmir as plainly as possible. .......
 
• Clinton to discuss 'Jehad' with Pak
• Amit Baruah - The Hindu - March 22, 2000
>>> Pakistan's  demonstrated  inability to  rein  in terrorist  groups  operating  from  its  soil will  in  all  likelihood  lead to the U.S.  President, Mr. Bill  Clinton,  reading  the  riot  act to the Chief Executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, during his six-hour stop-over in Islamabad on March 25. .......
 
• India Needs the Bomb
• John J. Mearsheimer  - The New York Times - March 24, 2000
>>> Despite its huge population, booming economy and growing nuclear arsenal, President Clinton, like his predecessors, refuses to show India the respect it deserves. He thereby perpetuates a needless estrangement between two natural allies. .......
 
• Can Fundamentalist Islam and Democracy Coexist in a Country?
• Ausaf Ali  - Los Angeles Times - March 20, 2000
>>> No: Nothing could have been more irrelevant to Muhammad than consent of the governed.
        It has been well said that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. I offer Pakistan as a case in point. In its 52 years of history, Pakistan--created on Aug. 14, 1947, out of British India, which became independent a day later--has been placed under military rule after the overthrow of the civilian government by the Pakistani army in 1958, 1977 and 1999. .......
 
• U.S. Backs India, Sees No Role Now in Kashmir
• Edwin Chen, Dexter Filkins  - Los Angeles Times - March 22, 2000
>>> President Clinton opened his five-day tour of India on Tuesday by endorsing New Delhi's position on the volatile region of Kashmir, rejecting calls by longtime U.S. ally Pakistan to referee the dispute. .......
 
• Give them no marx
• M V Kamath  - Mid-Day - March 23, 2000
>>> For some time now, I have been reading T N Kaul's interesting memoirs A Diplomat's Diary (1947-1999). Though everyone referred to him affectionately or familiarly as Tikki, I am too much of a square to assume familiarity with someone much older than me and both in private and public conversation I always referred to him as Mr Kaul........
 
• Training for Jihad
• Bill Redeker  - ABC News Online - March 24, 2000
>>> On the  outskirts of the city of Peshawar in Pakistan's tribal northwest frontier sits an impressive multistory home, its exterior tiled with white and gray marble. .......
 
• Nagaon becoming stronghold of Muslim ultras
• Assam Tribune - March 23, 2000
>>> "Several Muslim militant groups of late have intensified their activities in different parts of Nagaon district posing a serious security threat. .......
 
• Clinton Warning Puts Pakistan Out in the Cold
• Pamela Constable - International Herald Tribune - March 28, 2000
>>> President Bill Clinton's stern warning to Pakistan during his visit here has left its military government facing a sober new reality: The Cold War strategic alliance with the United States is over, and Pakistan must move to restore democracy and control terrorism in Kashmir or fend for itself in its mounting confrontation with India. .......
 
• Remarks by the President to the Indian Joint Session of Parliament New Delhi, India
• Released by the Office of the Press Secretary - The White House - March 22, 2000
>>> Mr. Vice President, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, I am privileged to speak to you and, through you, to the people of India. I am honored to be joined today by members of my Cabinet and staff at the White House, and a very large representation of members of our United States Congress from both political parties. We're all honored to be here and we thank you for your warm welcome. .......
 
• Perils in Presidential Peacemaking (Excerpts)
• Editorial - The New York Times  - March 27, 2000
>>> By his debatable decision to include military-ruled Pakistan  in his South Asian itinerary, President Clinton set himself a tough challenge. He needed to make sure that his presence there could not be construed as American endorsement of the  coup that brought General Musharraf to power five months  ago, or of the dangerous policies Pakistan has followed  since, including border incursions on Indian-ruled Kashmir, cozy ties with terrorist groups and a continued commitment  to nuclear weapons development. .......
 
• Keralite Moulvi to convert to Hinduism
• P K Surendran - The Times of India  - March 24, 2000
>>> Kakkatummal Hassan ``Moulvi'' will become Kamala Hassan as he gets converted to Hinduism next week. .......
 
• On South Asia Trip, Clinton Makes Clear Cold War Is Over
• Pamela Constable - Washington Post  - March 27, 2000
>>> President Clinton's stern warning to Pakistan during his visit here Saturday has left its military government facing a sober new reality: The Cold War strategic alliance with the United States is over, and Pakistan must move to restore democracy and control terrorism in Kashmir or fend for itself in its mounting confrontation with India. .......
 
• The Clinton visit
• M. Ziauddin - Dawn, Karachi  - March 27, 2000
>>> THE  chill  was  unbearable. From  the  moment the US  President landed at the Chaklala airbase to the time his plane took off for the return journey, one felt as if the headmaster had got the class lined up for a real dressing down for breaking some highly revered school code. His face told it all. It was sombre. Even when he waved at the cameras just before entering the waiting limousine to be driven off to the Presidency, it appeared as if he was making an effort.  .......
 
• Army major killed, Kashmir mosque under siege
• Mukthar Ahmad - Rediff on Net  - March 26, 2000
>>> An  army  major and  a  solider  have  been  killed in an exchange of fire with militants hiding in a mosque in Handwara district, 80 kilometres from Srinagar. .......
 
• Publisher on 'red' bandwagon
• Sandhya Jain - The Pioneer  - March 28, 2000
>>> Serious-minded academics and writers have for some time now been concerned at the subterranean but nevertheless quite impregnable alliance between leading publishing houses and a certain genre of scholarship and penmanship in the country. .......
 
• Clinton warns Pakistan Stop cross-border terrorism; Musharraf ready for talks
• The Tribune  - March 26, 2000
>>> US President Bill Clinton today emphatically told Pakistan to stop cross border terrorism, create conditions for resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue and warned Islamabad of "more isolation" if it continued to support violence. .......
 
• The Cradle of Christianity Faces a Diminishing Flock
• Rebecca Trounson - Los Angeles Times  - March 22, 2000
>>> Sammy Kirreh wistfully recalls a time when several hundred Palestinian congregants filled the hard-backed wooden chairs of this city's Anglican cathedral each Sunday morning. .......
 
• Muslim writer to convert to Hinduism
• Rediff on Net  - March 24, 2000
>>> Muslim writer Palakkode K Hassan, who completed the course darz to be eligible to become a maulvi, is planning to embrace Hinduism on March 30 along with six others from the community. .......
 
• Advani lambastes Bukhari's charge, promises Sikhs security
• Onkar Singh - Rediff on Net - March 27, 2000
>>> Union Home Minister Lal  Kishenchand Advani,  who visited Chatti Singhpora  village  in  Anantnag  district  of  Jammu  and  Kashmir  on Sunday, has termed the allegation of Jama Masjid imam Abdullah Bukhari "absolute rubbish". .......
 
• Upgrading India
• Amos Perlmutter - The Washington Times - March 28, 2000
>>> The Clinton administration has finally publicly recognized a process that has been going on for some time in South Asia:  a revolutionary change in the balance of power -the emergence of India as a nuclear power and the strategic decline of Pakistan. .......
 
• Butcher of Anantnag arrested
• Asit Jolly and Shahid Faridi - The Asian Age - March 24, 2000
>>> The Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested Mohammed Yakoob Magray  alias Guru Chath, the Hizbul Mujahideen kingpin responsible for  planning and executing the brutal massacre of 35 Sikhs at  Chhittisinghpura village in Anantnag district on Monday night. A  group of four to five other suspects have also been rounded up for  questioning. .......
 
• Mujahedeen's holy cry: Take Kashmir from India
• Kathy Gannon  - The Times of India - March 26, 2000
>>> Tucked within a maze of narrow streets, guarded by a lone sentry huddled over a gas burner, is a whitewashed, two-room concrete building whose tenants the US sorely wants evicted. This is the headquarters of Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, a band of Muslim militants the US considers an international terrorist organization and repeatedly pressures Pakistan to expel from its territory. .......
 
• The Shia-Sunni Conflict In Pakistan
• Yoginder Sikand  - The Weekend Observer - March 25, 2000
>>> In recent years, Pakistan has been witness to a remarkable upsurge of sectarian violence between Sunnis, who account for some 75 per cent of its population, and its Shia minority. Wild blood-letting has caused the killings of many hundreds of people, with several senior religious figures having been killed, and bombs going off in mosques at prayer time, resulting in tragic loss of life. .......
 
• Clinton talks of the higher purpose of infotech
• Bill Clinton CII  - Deccan Chronicle - March 25, 2000
>>> Once historians said of your nation, India is the world's most ancient civilisation, yet one of its youngest nations. Today, in this ancient city, we see leadership to drive the world's newest economy. .......
 
• Yoga clams down prisoners
• Akila Dinakar  - The Indian Express - March 14, 2000
>>> "I came in after committing a murder. Had I gone out, I would have committed two more. Now I see them all as a part of me," says one of the inmates of Coimbatore Central Prison. .......
 
• US threatens to snap military ties with Pakistan
• The Free Press Journal - March 29, 2000
>>> Worried over the Inter Services intelligence's non-committal attitude in returning some 600 'Stinger' missiles to US from Afghan Mujahideen, the Americans have threatened to snap military ties and intelligence liaisoning with Pakistan if the  latter hesitate to resolve the issue immediately. .......
 
• Clinton's message to Pakistan: Inderfurth briefs Indian officials
• Dawn, Karachi - March 29, 2000
>>> The US has officially briefed India on the "tough message" delivered to Pakistan by President Clinton during his brief stopover in Islamabad. .......
 
• Sikhs demand scrapping of Article 370
• The Hindu - March 29, 2000
>>> A 14-member delegation of Shri Guru Singh Sabha -- the central body of Sikhs in Maharashtra -- today called on Governor Dr P C Alexander and submitted to him a representation condemning the gruesome killing of 35 innocent Sikhs at Chitsinghpura in Jammu and Kashmir recently. .......
 
• A Conversation with Subhash Kak  - Interview
• Venkatesh G. Rao - www.sulekha.com - March 28, 2000
>>> "While the controversy rages on over the withdrawal of two volumes of the Towards Freedom series by the Indian Council Historical Research (ICHR), this is not the first time that the perceptions of the government of the day has come into conflict with the perspective of historians.  While ICHR maintains that it is within its rights to review the  volumes, the editors, Sumit Sarkar and K N Pannikar, peeved that their volumes have been withdrawn from publishers Oxford University Press, allege that the saffron brigade at ICHR is trying to "invent" history." .......
 
• 'Who pushed me in the pool?'
• Shaheen Sehbai - Dawn, Karachi - March 30, 2000
>>> NOW that the Clinton visit is over, everyone in the GHQ, the foreign office and the chief executive's secretariat would be counting the net gains, or the losses. What did Pakistan get? What did we offer? Whether the US is more sympathetic to our position today than before? Have we been left high and dry? .......
 
• On South Asia Trip, Clinton Makes Clear Cold War Is Over
• Pamela Constable - Washington Post - March 27, 2000
>>> President Clinton's stern warning to Pakistan during his visit here Saturday has left its military government facing a sober new reality: The Cold War strategic alliance with the United States is over, and Pakistan must move to restore democracy and control terrorism in Kashmir or fend for itself in its mounting confrontation with India. .......
 
• Back home, Clinton sells India to Americans
• Chidanand Rajghatta - The Indian Express - March 31, 2000
>>> That might well be the American lament after hearing their President rhapsodise about India since his return home earlier this week. .......
 
• Police torture cripples SPOs, one killed
• Hindustan Times - March 29, 2000
>>> A JUNIOR police official and his associates are believed to have unleashed a reign of terror on seven men for seven days.  The men had apparently helped the Army fight militancy. .......
 
• Yoga clams down prisoners
• Akila Dinakar - The Indian Express - March 14, 2000
>>> "I came in after committing a murder. Had I gone out, I would have committed two more. Now I see them all as a part of me," says one of the inmates of Coimbatore Central Prison. .......
 
• "Cat's Eye" and Hindutva (letter's to the Editor)
• Arundhati Rajasingham Dehiwala - Island Newspaper - March 25, 2000
>>> I write this in response to the "Cat's Eye" feature article titled "South Asia's  Troubled Times" that appeared in The Island newspaper of March 15, 2000. Given the recent LTTE attack in Rajagiriya and the visible hardening of attitudes vis a vis the ethnic question,  it is perverse that "Cat's Eye" has chosen to selectively condemn Hindu activism while barely commenting on other forms of ethnic or religious bigotry. .......
 
• Vedacharya from the West (Interview)
• Gaurav Raina - The Times of India - March 30, 2000
>>> Q: What do you find unique about India and Hinduism?
        A: India is a greatly favoured land in terms of cosmic beneficence according to the Vaastu aspect of its geographical location. The Himalayas, or Meru Parvat, oversee the whole of India in the likeness of the prime sahasrara chakra in the human body. The tapas of so many yogis and mystics and the timely appearance of avataras and saints over thousands of years have greatly accentuated this spiritual potency. .......
 

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