This Months Article

Starting: Mon May 1, 2000
Ending: Sun May 28, 2000

Messages: 73

• Womantra
• Kanchan Apte - India Today - May 1, 2000
>>> Manjusha Mungi has a busy week ahead. She has to attend two weddings, three pujas and a shraddh, none of which would be complete without her. That's because she is the priest who would perform the religious rites on these occasions. ......
 
• Indian community prays for recovery of shooting victim  - Lone survivor is a member of Hindu temple
• Gary Rotstein - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  - May 1, 2000
>>> Over and over yesterday,  leaders  and  members of  the Indian immigrant community at the Hindu Jain Temple talked of how violence is foreign to them and they won't let it stain their own thoughts of peace. ......
 
• Beware of Muslims, Rooplal tells students
• Sunetra Choudhury - The Indian Express - May 1, 2000
>>> St Prayag Senior Secondary School in Pitampura had an unusual speaker this morning in Rooplal, who returned to the country two weeks ago after having spent 26 years in a Pakistan prison on charge of spying. The children were curious about Rooplal's life in prison. ......
 
• For Their Eyes Only - Positive Impact of Information
• K Subrahmanyam - The Times of India - May 1, 2000
>>> One of the great non-events of the last few months has been the stony silence of our political parties, media and intelligentsia over the fact that India's nuclear weapons were not the BJP's creations, but those of successive Congress prime ministers. ......
 
• Christians oppose Govt move to present marriage bill
• United News Of India - The Indian Express - May 2, 2000
>>> The Christian community on Monday strongly opposed the Government's move to introduce the Christians Marriage Bill 2000 in Parliament in its present form. ......
 
• Communal angle denied in attack on Christian institution
• Suresh Kumar Unnithan - The Observer of Business and Politics - May 2, 2000
>>> The National Commission for Minorities believes the recent attacks on the Christian minority educational institutions in various parts of Uttar Pradesh had "no communal tinge." ......
 
• BJP claims ISI agents behind attack in JNU
• The Asian Age - May 2, 2000
>>> The BJP members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday demanded a "high-level" probe into Saturday's incident at the Jawaharlal Nehru University when two Army officers were badly beaten up by the students after they protested against "anti-India" poems of Pakistani poets at a mushaira. ......
 
• Shyam Sharma turns Peter Joseph, but still doesn't feel safe in Lahore
• Bhavna Vij - The Indian Express - May 3, 2000
>>> Name: Peter Joseph. Father's name: Shyam Sunder Sharma. Children: Monica and John. No, it is not some Anglo-Indian family living in Lahore's Kashmiri Gate. Peter Joseph's name till December 6, 1992, was Surya Prakash Sharma. He changed it when his brother Nand Kishore and cousin Ram Narain were killed in Lahore in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. ......
 
• Laloo turns religious; recites hanuman chalisa in jail
• India Abroad News Service - The Observer of Business and Politics - May 3, 2000
>>> HE sits in front of a Buddha idol inside the Beur jail here and gives religious sermons on non-violence. Blink again - it's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav - the former Bihar chief minister, who is currently in prison over charges of financial irregularities, has turned religious. ......
 
• Stop Pakistan's Fall Into Nuclear-Armed Failure
• Mansoor Ijaz - International Herald tribune - May 4, 2000
>>> Pakistan is on the way to becoming the world's first failed nuclear state.  On Saturday the ruling military junta postponed a crackdown on a multibillion-dollar illegal economy.  Halting planned raids against illicit consumer goods warehouses, arms depots, heroin laboratories and the smuggling that enables billions in black trade to flow was the strongest sign yet that Islamabad's generals cannot take on the region's gangsters without risking civil war. ......
 
• Conversion for bigamy illegal: SC
• Syed Liaquat Ali - The Hindustan Times - May 5, 2000
>>> A married Hindu man embracing Islam in order to marry again will be liable to prosecution under the Hindu Marriage Act and the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court pronounced today. ......
 
• Page Three of Manda - V.  P.  Singh's revolution lies in making rioters of the urban poor
• Swapan Dasgupta - India Today - May 8, 2000
>>> Sarojini Naidu's aside on how much it cost to keep the Mahatma in poverty is beginning to acquire contemporary relevance.   For the past two months, India has been witness to a noble soul playing the role of the ragged trousered revolutionary.   Except that his base isn't in some inaccessible black hole of Bihar but in one of the best addresses Lutyens' Delhi can provide.   Except that the revolutionary isn't playing cat and mouse games with police but is being protected by an elite SGP squad -- the very best this country can provide. ......
 
• Need something to help you unwind after a hectic day? Ditch the booze for a does of the hip herbal remedy
• Laurel Ives - The Times of India  - May 1, 2000
>>> My first encounter with kava, a herb used to treat stress, is in my local bar in New York. Appropriately named the Kava Lounge, the bar serves drinks mixed with root extract of the kava plant. "Kava is a ceremonial beverage enjoyed throughout Melanesia and Polynesia. Kava tastes like dirty dishwater with a hint of cloves," explains the menu. ......
 
• Indian spending on science & education
• MAH - Dawn, Karachi  - May 7, 2000
>>> THE phenomenal increase of 28.21 per cent in the Indian defence budget for 2000-2001 (excluding the gross grant of Rs 3,746 crore for the ministry of defence, Rs 12,000 crore for defence pensions, which were excluded from the defence budget in 1985-86 and after adjusting the receipts of Rs 5,936 crore for ordnance factories) as against the budget estimates for 1999-2000, has been commented upon and discussed at length in the media. ......
 
• White lies and not-so-white accusations
• Shyam Khosla - The Organiser  - May 7, 2000
>>> The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been the target of anti-Hindutva elements for long. The mischief began with the totally false and politically motivated allegation of RSS' involvement in the assassination of the Mahatma. Those occupying responsible positions in the Government and political life of the country never miss an opportunity to throw mud at the patriotic organisation engaged in character building and national unity even though numerous judicial commissions appointed by the Government to fix responsibility for the dastardly assassination have exonerated the Sangh. ......
 
• "I am an ISI Agent" - Abdullah Bukhari
• R.B.L. Nigam - The Organiser  - May 7, 2000
>>> At a recently held rally in New Delhi Muslim leaders described le Uttar Pradesh Religious Places Bill as anti-Muslim and demanded that the State UP Government be dismissed forthwith since it failed to maintain the secular tradition of the State. ......
 
• The Other Cheek
• Ram Puniyani - Mid-Day  - May 10, 2000
>>> After a lull of many months, anti-Christian violence is back. The past few weeks have witnessed several acts of burning of biblical literature, attacks on nuns and missionary institutions. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan says that the government is obliged by the Constitution to safeguard the minorities and Prime Minister Vajpayee condemned the anti-Christian violence also assuring that the guilty will be brought to book. ......
 
• JNU : Negating Indian nationalism
• Sandhya Jain - The Pioneer  - May 11, 2000
>>> Several unresolved issues of India's nationhood have coalesced in the recent incident of the beating up of two senior army officers in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, and the episode will no doubt have a decisive influence on all future discourse on nationalism. For one, it has exposed the naked face of Nehruvian secularism as a phony appeasement of minorities through unprovoked abuse of the Hindu community. ......
 
• Court: IRS Right on Church Action
• Richard Carelli - Associated Press  - May 12, 2000
>>> The Internal Revenue Service was justified in revoking the tax-exempt status of a small New York church that opposed President Clinton's 1992 candidacy, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. ......
 
• Sonia's leadership comes under a cloud as regional satraps quarrel
• The Economic Times  - May 12, 2000
>>> Poised to give a fresh fillip to her detractors, Sonia Gandhi's capabilities in steering the Congress appear to have come under a cloud once again with the leadership seeming unable to put a stop to constant bickerings and acts of indiscipline at the state level. ......
 
• Madam's a ticket to 'narak': Jairam
• The Economic Times  - May 12, 2000
>>> The ebullient economic think-tank of the Congress, Jairam Ramesh is always good for pithy epigrammatic utterances. But the last one bit too close to the bone. In a party which its rivals say is devoid of democracy and on a sure path to self-destruction, Mr Jairam's quotable quote' has landed him in the proverbial soup. And may eventually toss him out of the boat. ......
 
• Jairam Satya Hai
• Editorial - The Times of India - May 12, 2000
>>> Jairam Ramesh is. not a dyed-in the wool Congressman. By this we mean that he is not an instinctive supplicant; he will venerate the Gandhi family if he must, but that comes with some difficulty to him. Thanks to this ambivalence, there's been a degree of curiosity about his eventual ambitions: a Jairam who'd perhaps be happier being a Jaishree Ram, to echo the BJP greeting. Even so, Mr Ramesh is hardly the kind to shoot himself in the foot. On a TV show, he would typically walk the tightrope: Agree that there is a great deal wrong with the Congress and yet valiantly rise to the party's defence. ......
 
• The spectre of ISI
• N.K. Pant - The Weekend Observer - May 12, 2000
>>> Almost two years have elapsed when Union home minister L K Advani went to public on his government's determination to publish a 'white paper' on the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence's (ISI) activities in India and place it in the Parliament.  ......
 
• Does India Need Big Dams?
• B. G. Verghese - The Hindustan Times - May 14, 2000
>>> Towns and villages over large parts of the country are desperate for water. Many are dependent on periodic tanker supplies ferried across considerable distances. As summer advances, communities may be compelled to migrate unless help comes their way.  ......
 
• Student faces wrath of Principal for being a Buddhist
• The Organiser - May 14, 2000
>>> Attending church every day before the classes begin is mandatory for all the students in the English medium Ashapalli High School, at Fulertal in Cachar in Assam. Non-Christian students in this residential school have often to bear physical and mental torture silently for following their own traditional way of worship.  ......
 
• RSS raps Church leaders for anti-Parivar remarks
• Press Trust of India - The Indian Express - May 15, 2000
>>> The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh today hit back at Church leaders and Christian MPs accusing them of indulging in "anti-Sangh Parivar propaganda" and said they should "verify the facts" before going public. ......
 
• Stigmatising the Sangh
• Rakesh Sinha - The Indian Express - May 16, 2000
>>> The Indian secularist's ingenuity does not go beyond the RSS, which they believe is the sole reason for ``communalism'' in the country. This is why they took no time to blame the RSS for the recent unfortunate incidents involving Christian institutions in some parts of UP. ......
 
• Kashmiri Pandit team to visit Valley to negotiate for peace
• Press Trust Of India - The Indian Express - May 16, 2000
>>> Even as speculation about talks between the Centre and Kashmiri separatists is rife, Kashmiri Pandit migrants  have  decided  to send a delegation to the valley to assess "ground realities" for their return, asserting that the community's involvement in any talks on Kashmir was "immensely essential" for these to be fruitful. ......
 
• Christian Evangelism targets Asians in Nairobi
• (Report of a visit by three Hindu enthusiasts to a session ) -  Bharatiya Swayamsevak Sangh, Kenya
>>> We attended one such evangelilst session, on 6th May 2000 held at 'Solid Rock Boutique' on the second floor of Rank Xerox House.  We came to know of this gathering through leaflets distributed by this group in Ngara.  These gatherings are only aimed at Asians, mainly Hindus. ......
 
• BJP to Opposition: Don't communalise law & order issues
• Asian Age -  May 2000
>>> The BJP on Thursday said its government was committed to protecting the minorities but warned the Opposition parties against giving communal colour to routine law and order incidents. "The BJP wishes to reiterate that protection of the rights of the minorities is the fundamental duty of any government. It indeed is the test of any civilised society. ......
 
• US State Dept report on Pakistan
• Publication: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/asia.html#Pakistan
>>> Pakistan is one of only three countries that   maintains formal diplomatic relations with--and one  of several that supported--Afghanistan's Taliban,  which permitted many known terrorists to reside and  operate in its territory. ......
 
• OFBJP-Press Release: Talk by Arun Shourie at MIT
• Overseas Friends of the BJP (USA) - May 16, 200
>>> Boston (IAGB), Sangam of MIT and India Quality Group organized this lecture. The program started with a welcome address by Ashwani Garg of IAGB, to be followed by and introduction of Dr. Shourie by Nachiketa Tiwari of OFBJP. The focus of Dr. Shourie's talk was: "Terrorism and Indian Security". ......
 
• Nursing hatred
• The Indian Express - May 11, 2000
>>> It is ironical, but true. After Islamabad, the world's only Hindu state, Nepal, is the second hub of Inter-services International (ISI) activity. Something that the Uttar Pradesh government in India realised only after the hijacking of the IC-184 flight from Kathmandu to Kandahar. It realised that its unsupervised borders had become open gates for the ISI to operate through new religious centres that keep coming up overnight on public land. ......
 
• Christian groups carrying out conversions in state: Munde
• Dilip Chaware - The Times of India - May 15, 2000
>>> Former deputy chief Minister Gopinath Munde has alleged that conversions were systematically being carried out by Christian organisations in Maharashtra. He has demanded a high-level police investigation into the funding of these bodies. ......
 
• RSS criticises Church over its anti-Sangh 'campaign'
• The Asian Age - May 15, 2000
>>> The RSS on Sunday lashed out at the Christian organisations for holding Sangh Parivar responsible for the recent incidents of violence against the minority communities. ......
 
• Forced conversions probed in Assam
• Manoj Anand - The Asian Age -May 15, 2000
>>> Christian missionaries have landed in trouble in /Assam with the state police special branch launching a formal inquiry into alleged charges of forced conversions. ......
 
• Jairam's verbal rebellion ends with an unreserved apology
• Political Bureau - The Economic Times -May 16, 2000
>>> Not with a bang, but a whimper. The Jairam Ramesh saga of 'quotable quotes' ended today, as all such sagas do hi the dynastic hierarchy of the Congress with abject apologies and genuflection to the presiding deity. ......
 
• Affront on our own soil
• Arvind Lavakare - Rediff on Net - May 16, 2000
>>> One of the several mysteries about our national media is why they focus on people like Asma Jehangir who come here leading a peace delegation of Pakistani women and go on to lecture us and insult us on our own territory. ......
 
• Higher Call to arms
• Abul Taher - The Guardian - May 16, 2000
>>> A growing number of students are being recruited on British campuses by Islamic extremists - and end up on the world's frontlines. ......
 
• Manmohan endorses govt stand on subsidies
• Political Bureau - The Economic Times - May 17, 2000
>>> THE sharp division within the Congress over its approach towards economic matters today was on full public display when its chief economic spokesman broke off from the Sonia Gandhi establishment and endorsed the government's contention that the era of free lunches should end and a good pair of scissors should be wielded against the unmanageable subsidy bill. ......
 
• US threatened to China with nukes at least five times
• The Indian Express - May 17, 2000
>>> China went nuclear because the US threatened it at least in five specific instances, a non-proliferation official has said and warned that countries like Japan will go nuclear once they are convinced that nuclear powers are not interested in disarmament at an earlier date. ......
 
• Rethink on mahajot, Sonia told
• The Indian Express - May 17, 2000
>>> The ghost of the proposed mahajot with Trinamool Congress m West Bengal continues to haunt the Congress high command. After PCC chief A B A Ghani Khan Choudhary, its now the turn of senior state leader and West Bengal PCC general secretary Sultan Ahmed to petition party chief Sonia Gandhi to reconsider her stand on the grand alliance. ......
 
• Arms build-up in Midnapore worries West Bengal govt.
• The Times of India  - May 17, 2000
>>> Spiralling violence and attacks by bands of armed men freely moving around the villages of West Bengal have compelled the worried state administration to take stock of the build up of licensed guns in the districts. ......
 
• Another front opens against Sonia
• Sanjiv Sinha - The Indian Express - May 17, 2000
>>> Today was Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's day to show her strength, take her MPs to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to demand a rollback in subsidy cuts and prices. She did that but she didn't have much of a reason to celebrate. ......
 
• Let India help
• Richard Fisher - Washington Times - May 18, 2000
>>> If a benevolent nuclear-armed democracy were to offer to help deter a not-so-friendly nuclear-armed power, should the United States object?  No, instead, the U.S.  should cheer when later this year India sends its navy into the South China Sea to affirm its interests in defending freedom of the seas and to stand up to the irredentism of the People's Republic of China (PRC). ......
 
• Let India help
• BJP Today - May 16-31, 2000
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party commends the National Commission for Minorities for its prompt And factual report on some of the recent incidents relating to Christian minority educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh. Reports in a section of media on these incidents had sought to portray them as acts of communal violence targeted at the Christian community. ......
 
• The chorus of jihad
• D.C. Pathak - The Pioneer - May 18, 2000
>>> It seems it took the Indian leadership a long time to realise the strategic implications that Pakistan's proxy war pose to this country. It was only during US President Bill Clinton's visit to India that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee launched an attack against Pakistan's call for jihad, saying it could never be a part of any civilised country's foreign policy. ......
 
• China's Ruthless Crackdown and War on Christians Increasing
• The South China Morning Post - May 18, 2000
>>> Authorities in Guangdong province have closed down churches and arrested at least 10 leaders of underground Christian groups, an international advocacy group reported on Wednesday. The arrests come amid tightening controls on unauthorised religious activities throughout the country, coinciding with a campaign against the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. ......
 
• Fiji PM and 7 Cabinet ministers held hostage
• CNN News - May 19, 2000
>>> Fiji's Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and seven Cabinet ministers are reportedly being held hostage in the Fijian Parliament building. ......
 
• Ethnic cleansing with a difference
• Utpal Bordoloi - Deccan Herald - May 20, 2000
>>> Jiribam sub-division of Manipur`s Tamenglong district is emerging as yet another trouble-spot where attempts at ethnic cleansing have been made. ......
 
• Conversion of Hindu girl stirs trouble in Pakistan
• Deccan Chronicle, Web Issue - May 21, 2000
>>> A teenage Hindu girl's alleged conversion to Islam sparked serious tension in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan, residents said on Saturday. ......
 
• When attackers of Christians came out on bail, guess who welcomed them
• Rakshit Sonawane - The Indian Express - May 21, 2000
>>> Christian organisations in Nashik today called for the ouster of the minister of state for Dairy Development, Arjun Tulshiram Pawar, from the ministry for ''welcoming'' the 33 youth allegedly involved in the recent attack on Christians at Abhona when they were released on bail on Wednesday from the Nashik jail. ......
 
• Will Pak.  religious right allow talks with Delhi?
• Amit Baruah - The Hindu - May 22, 2000
>>> The sudden decision of the Pakistani Chief Executive, Gen.  Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from the religious right, to withdraw the procedural amendment to the blasphemy law has wide implications. ......
 
• RSS 'appropriates' Ambedkarite plank
• Arunkumar Bhatt - The Hindu - May 22, 2000
>>> When Buddhist monks initiated hundreds of Dalit boys and girls into the ``panchsheel, trisaral and arya-ashtan marg'', they did not care if they knew the Dhamma Parishad they were participating in was an RSS-inspired event. The occasion was the silver jubilee of a Buddhist vihar (temple) at Girye-Baudhwadi, a tiny hamlet about 20 km from here, and Buddha Jayanti. ......
 
• Congress seeks a Magna Carta
• Sandhya Jain - The Pioneer - May 23, 2000
>>> As Congress flounders for direction and leadership, there is little recognition that the real crisis is not so much Sonia Gandhi's political acts of omission and commission, as the yawning disjunction between her true face and the rhetoric of her spin-doctors. This is why the 'crisis of confidence' as Mr. Vasant Sathe so evocatively calls it, continues to dog the party even when there are no elections round the corner and no real challenge to the Signora in the shape of a formidable contender for the post of party president. ......
 
• Yasin Malik admits his involvement in Rubaiya's kidnapping
• India Today - May 9, 2000
>>> Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and senior executive member of Hurriyat Conference Yasin Malik has admitted that he was involved in the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of the then home minister Mufti Sayeed in 1989. ......
 
• There are enough reasons to hate them (missionaries): Dara
• India Today - May 10, 2000
>>> At first, he was on the run and elusive. Now that he is firmly tucked away in Orissa's Baripada jail, speaking to him hasn't become any easier either. The Orissa government wouldn't let journalists speak to Rabindra Kumar Pal, better known to the outside world as Dara Singh, for a variety of reasons, including a proposition that Dara might flee if scribes were allowed inside the jail. ......
 
• Affront on our own soil
• Arvind Lavakare - Rediff on Net - May 16, 2000
>>> One of the several mysteries about our national media is why they focus on people like Asma Jehangir who come here leading a peace delegation of Pakistani women and go on to lecture us and insult us on our own territory. ......
 
• Paki police ask women to cover heads, keep low profile in public
• CNN News - May 22, 2000
>>> The capital's police chief urged women to cover their heads, dress simply and refrain from laughing loudly in public to avoid attracting criminals and trouble makers, a newspaper reported Monday. ......
 
• Islamic militants get training in camps in US
• Deccan Chronicle - May 22, 2000
>>> Islamic fundamentalists in Britain are getting training in the use of firearms and explosives at a secret terror training camp in the US to join militants in places like Kashmir. ......
 
• Musharraf's Emissaries - There is a non-romantic agenda in equating India with Pakistan
• Swapan Dasgupta - India Today - May 22, 2000
>>> George Orwell  once  observed  that  militarism  didn't  come naturally to  the English. It was difficult to conceive,  he wrote,  British  soldiers  goose-stepping  down the  streets of  England.  They  would  invite  ridicule.  It may  not be entirely far-fetched  to extend  Orwell's attribute of  Englishness  to the Indian citizenry. Intensely patriotic in times of war, Indians seem slightly ill at ease with routine displays of military pomp. ......
 
• How a `simpleton' transformed Nanded into an ISI base
• K S Manojkumar - The Indian Express - May 23, 2000
>>> When a deafening sound shook this tiny placid village nestling on the border of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh on the night of November 7, 1998, none of its 50,000 odd residents realised it had signaled the arrival of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Even the Maharashtra police were caught napping with Nitin Kausadikar, inspector in charge, telling the village folks as well as his seniors that it was an innocent fire-cracker set off. ......
 
• Minister also arranged bail for attackers of Christians
• Prafulla Marpakwar - The Indian Express - May 23, 2000
>>> Dairy Development Minister Arjun Tulsiram Pawar did not just join the welcome party outside Nashik jail that received the 33 youth who were arrested for attacking Christians in Abhona village on May 9. He was also actively involved in organising legal help for the accused to secure them bail. ......
 
• A fundamental dilemma
• Arvind Lavakare - Rediff on Net - May 23, 2000
>>> What is one to do with the country's celebrated fabricators of falsehoods and designers of distortions? What is one to do with the likes of Khushwant Singh, the columnist, and John Dayal, national spokesman for the All India Christian Council? ......
 
• New Delhi journalist caught spying for Pak
• Deccan Chronicle - May 24, 2000
>>> The Delhi police has arrested a city-based freelance journalist on charges of passing on highly confidential documents to Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence through her Nepal-based husband, police sources said here on Tuesday. ......
 
• Cautious killers, people's heroes
• M.L.  Kak - Tribune News Service - May 25, 2000
>>> The Army's Romeo Force, operating in the Rajouri-Poonch belt, has sent shivers down the spine of militants which is evident from instructions given to the foreign mercenaries by agencies across the border that they (militants) should avoid engaging the troops in encounters. ......
 
• Demographic surgery in Kashmir
• M. L. Kotru - The Pioneer - May 27, 2000
>>> The contours of Pakistan's latest designs in Kashmir are beginning to take shape.  ......
 
• Putting up against Islamic terrorism
• Seshadri Chari - The Organiser - May 28, 2000
>>> A Marxist utopia, Russia, the iron curtain state presided over by a dictator who had to quit the scene unceremoniously to pave the way for his successor, is an open society now. Today power is voluntarily transferred to a democratically elected President who, after assuming office, visits the capitalist west, first thing. ......
 
• Should India hold talks with Pakistan - now?
• M.V. Kamath - The Organiser - May 28, 2000
>>> There is presently a growing school of thought here in this country that says Delhi must hold talks with Islamabad if not for anything else, to find out what Gen. Musharraf has in mind. Pakistani leaders keep saying that Delhi must resume bilateral talks without any conditions as "the only means for peace and a settlement of long-standing issues". Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar recently said in an interview that his Government "has no conditions and will pot accept any conditions for a dialogue with India." ......
 
• Church leader arrested with explosives
• The Organiser - May 28, 2000
>>> A prominent Church leader of Tripura, M. Gunnam Halam, has been arrested in Dharmnagar area of North Tripura with a large quantity of dangerous explosives recently. According to the State police the culprit is Secretary of the Baptist Christian Church Union of Tripura. The security forces have recovered 34 kg explosive, 22 kg Aluminium sticks, five kg potasium and seven kg other explosive devices from the Church leader. ......
 
• Crusade against Christianity by a former Church leader
• Pramod Kumar - The Organiser - May 28, 2000
>>> The truth of Bible is incomplete as it cannot help one to realise God. By following it the western countries have just become semi-civilised. It is totally unfit for the countries like India where there are far better ways a worship" says a former Church leader P. C. Thamphana who has now started a crusade against Christianity and Christian missionaries active in Mizoram. ......
 
• From Manusmriti to Madhusmriti Flagellating a Mythical Enemy
• Madhu Kishwar - Manushi - March - April 2000
>>> On March 25 of this year, copies of Manusmriti were burnt by reformers protesting against the ill-conceived installation of the statue of Manu in the precincts of the Rajasthan High Court. The protesters believed that the text is the defining document of Brahmanical Hinduism, and also the key source of gender and caste oppression in India. In the ensuing controversy defenders of Manusmriti projected it as a pivotal canonical source of religious law for Hindus. ......
 
• On the run in Pakistan
• Sue Lloyd Roberts - The Independent - March 31, 2000
>>> There is an air of expectancy among staff at the British High Commission in Islamabad. The "safe house" has been made ready, the flight booked, the operation to repatriate a British subject in fear of her life is ready to go. They know that Koheema, the girl they want to rescue, will arrive accompanied by family members who have no idea of the plan and will actively resist if they get a hint of it. Everyone is careful not to arouse suspicion. ......

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