This Months Article
Starting: Sun April
1, 2001
Ending: Mon April 30,
2001
Messages: 146
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Will the real Tarun
Tejpal stand up please?
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Anil Narendra, Organiser, April
1, 2001
>>> Shri Tarun Tejpal and his team
of "tehelka.com." must he congratulated for their explosive and sensational
expose. Indeed they have done a commendable work to expose corruption especially
in defence area. However, there are some serious questions that also need
answers. ......
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Bad fish must be identified
and thrown out
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Shyam Khosla, Organiser, April 1,
2001
>>> Disrupting parliamentary proceedings
for a day or two to force the Government of the day to respond to Opposition's
concerns may be explained away as a clever tactics though it is not a legitimate
parliamentary practice and does undermine the parliamentary system. ......
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The excesses of secularism
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M. V. Kamath, Organiser, April 1,
2001
>>> It is nobody's case that there
are no fanatics among Hindus and it behaves all right-minded Hindus to
condemn such extremists among them. But to compare the demolition of the
Babri masjid with the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statue by the Taliban
is going overboard in self-flagellation. ......
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Horseplay at Harward
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Vasant Sharma, Organiser, April
1, 2001
>>> Most readers may be aware that
the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) and its Siamese twin the Aryan Migration
Theory (AMT) have been deep-sixed for good. Yet many academics in the West
continue to recycle material from hundred-year-old books under the exalted
title of "Western Indological Researches". Witzel of Harward University
is the chief purveyor of old rubbish. ......
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Minorities panel waits
for Christian parties' overtures
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Rajeev Khanna, The Asian Age, April
1, 2001
>>> The National Commission for
minorities, which is brokering proposed talks between the RSS, Vishwa Hindu
Parishad Bajrang Dal and Christian groups, has said it is waiting for the
Christian organisations to consult each other and make up their mind on
the issue. ......
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George Cross
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Sayantan Chakravarty, India Today,
April 2, 2001
>>> The FIR against Sonia Gandhi's
private secretary is a plain corruption issues says the CBI. But an embarrassed
Congress complains of vendetta. ......
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The Glasshouse Gag
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Ms Tavleen Singh, India Today, April
2, 2001
>>> It took me a few minutes to
work out whether the Signora was speaking English, Hindi or Italian as
she tossed her carefully coiffured head and spat out her accusations against
the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government. ......
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Lynch Mob Journalism
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Swapan Dasgupta, India Today, April
2, 2001
>>> Among the more astonishing
features of the press conference in Delhi last week addressed by Union
ministers Nitish Kumar, M. Venkaiah Naidu and the hapless Srinivasa Prasad
was their collective reluctance to attack shoddy journalism. ......
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China, US heading
towards new Cold War?
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Harvey B Stockwin, The Times of
India, April 2, 2001
>>> China and the United States
seem to be slowly heading towards an intensified Cold War. China has denied
access to American citizens and residents, some of whom are accused of
spying, and has declined to give the US access to its spy plane, which
was forced to land in the southern island of Hainan on Sunday morning.
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Thomas had ties with
Bhagwat
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Rajeev Deshpande, The Pioneer, April
2, 2001
>>> Was dabbling in the affairs
of some "cultural organisations" all that suspended Ministry of Home Affairs
official Thomas Mathew did while sitting in his North Block office? ......
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His mission was to
destabilise S India
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Krishnaprasad, Deccan Herald, April
2, 2001
>>> Pakistan-based Deendar Anjuman
Chief Syed Zia-Ul-Hassan, who masterminded the serial church blasts in
South India last year, also heads a militant outfit called Jamat-E-Hijbul
Mujahideen, according to the chargesheet filed by the state police. ......
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Ramakrishna Mission
opens first Australasian center
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Paritosh Parasher, India Abroad,
April 3, 2001
>>> The Ramakrishna Mission opened
its only Vedanta Center in the Australasian region with a well-attended
grihapravesham, or housewarming, ceremony in this harbor city. ......
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Accupuncture origin
in Ayurveda
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K. Kannan, The Hindu, April 3, 2001
>>> In what could bring about a
change in the current perception of Ayurveda, a practising Ayurvedic doctor
from Haldwani has claimed that the roots of Chinese acupuncture are to
be found in this ancient Indian science. ......
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Straight Answers
(Interview with Laxman Shreshta)
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Nupur Mahajan, The Times of India,
April 3, 2001
>>> Q. What is wrong with contemporary
Indian artists, considering the deplorable reviews they got after the Tate
show in London?
A. Everything is all right. Indians
down the ages have been the best artists, and this continues to date. Western
art world wrote the art history and never included Indian art. Its' been
a conspicuous thin......
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Partners in spirit,
partners in fact
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William Jefferson Clinton, The Times
of India, April 3, 2001
>>> Over the past eight years,
I had the privilege of travelling to nearly 100 nations around the world
on behalf of the United States of America. There are few trips that meant
as much to me than the journey I took last year to India. This week, I
will return to India. ......
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Let the nation beware
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Arvind Lavakare, The Rediff on Net,
April 4, 2001
>>> Almost every journalist worth
the name has finished doffing his hat or blowing her kiss to the Tehelka
team's work that's now baptised as "cowboy journalism". Almost every Opposition
party has finished salivating with the servings of Tehelka's turkey, laced
though it was with venom from two parts of the Indian Penal Code, vintage
1860. ......
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Sino-American crisis
deepens
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Harvey Stockwin, The Times of India,
April 4, 2001
>>> The delay in resolving the
crisis over the crashed Chinese F-8 fighter and the US Navy's EP-3E reconnaissance
aircraft, which made an emergency landing on China's Hainan island, may
lead to further deterioration of Sino-American relations. ......
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US Congressmen move
bill to lift sanctions against India
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T V Parasuram, Rediff on Net, April
4, 2001
>>> Two US Congressmen, who recently
visited India, have introduced a legislation to get the post-Pokhran sanctions
lifted saying continuation of the embargo is detrimental to the development
of a "significant emerging relationship" between the two countries. ......
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Nepal may cease to
be a Hindu kingdom
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Keshav Pradhan, The Hindustan Times,
April 4, 2001
>>> Nepal's identity as the world's
only Hindu kingdom may come under a cloud when the millennium's first census
begins this summer. Various ethnic groups have lately launched a vigorous
campaign to prevent their classification as "Hindu" as in previous census
records. ......
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George Is No Saint
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Tavleen Singh, India Today, April
9, 2001
>>> Till last week it looked as
if the Congress party's star, so long in the doldrums, was finally on the
ascendant. The prime minister looked tired, the Government weak, the excuses
for corruption in high places shabby and the Congress, taking full advantage,
went on the rampage. ......
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Two Wrongs isn't
Right
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Swapan Dasgupta, India Today, April
9, 2001
>>> It is entirely possible to
look at the almighty fuss over the National Film Awards as a real-life
variant of the Pinky and The Brain show on Cartoon Network. A group of
left-leaning aesthetes were offended by the jury's genuflection before
Bollywood commercial cinema and promptly detected a conspiracy by the Hindutva
brigade to take over the arts world ......
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Tripura rebels ban
Kirtan Instruments
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The Telegraph, April 1, 2001
>>> After lying low for sometime,
NLFT militants have started interfering in the traditional religious rites
of the people. ......
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Accupuncture origin
in Ayurveda
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K. Kannan, The Hindu, April 3, 2001
>>> In what could bring about a
change in the current perception of Ayurveda, a practising Ayurvedic doctor
from Haldwani has claimed that the roots of Chinese acupuncture are to
be found in this ancient Indian science. ......
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Govt offered help
in repairing damaged monuments
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Jahnavi Contractor, The Times of
India, April 3, 2001
>>> The Indian Archaeological Society
(IAS), a Delhi-based organisation, has approached the state ministry for
youth culture and sports with proposals to restore around eight state protected
monuments that were damaged in the recent earthquake. ......
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Expose or skulduggery?
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A. T. Thiruvengadam, The Hindu,
April 3, 2001
>>> An anchor of a TV network while
discussing the Tehelka episode said ``we have become the laughing-stock
of the world''. The demand of the opposition parties, especially the Congress,
for the resignation of the government and not for a thorough probe to find
out the truth is making us a ``greater laughing-stock'' of the world. ......
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Was America Hunting
for a New Killer Submarine?
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www.stratfor.com, April 4, 2001
>>> The loss of the EP-3E aircraft
means the demise of some of the United States' capabilities to eavesdrop
along China's coastline. It also could eventually spell more trouble for
relations between the two countries. ......
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Clinton so sad he
refuses to eat
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Deepal Trevedie, The Asian Age,
April 5, 2001
>>> "I am shaken up. I can't find
the right words. It's so depressing." Former US President Bill Clinton,
who spent over five hours in Kutch on Wednesday, told the American Indians
accompanying him that "the tragedy is unimaginable." ......
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Religious equations
dictate political strategies in Kerala's forthcoming elections
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George Iype, Rediff on Net, April
5, 2001
>>> There's something about election
fever -- in Kerala, at least, it affects even the Church, leaving the Marxists-led
ruling Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led opposition, the United
Democratic Front, with no alternative but to sing to the tunes of the Christian
establishment. ......
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Advani and Fernandes
hit out at Oppn. Over Tehelka tapes
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The Times of India, April 5, 2001
>>> Leaving no one in doubt how
the battle between the NDA and the Opposition parties will progress in
the days to come on the Tehelka tapes issue, Union Home Minister Advani
and former defence minister George Fernandes continued their offensive
at a public meeting here declaring that nothing could shake the government
at the Centre. ......
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Bush sends strong
signal on Indo-US ties
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Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of
India, April 7, 2001
>>> US President George W. Bush
emphatically signalled his intent to enhance Indo-US relations by inviting
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh to the Oval Office for talks following
the latter's discussions with National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.
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Shades of Sanskrit
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The Telegraph, April 7, 2001
>>> A proposal to turn Sanskrit
into a "spoken" language is bound to sound a little startling, even if
it comes from as high an authority as the prime minister himself. But in
a world which is rapidly turning into a wasteland for traditional humanities
studies, the promise of reviving interest in a classical language is definitely
invigorating. ......
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VHP brings back the
'gypsies' rooting for original home
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Priya Solomon, April 8, 2001
>>> The Sangh Parivar has decided
to take Hinduism to the distant shores. Lord Ram's children are to be reclaimed.
A two-day conference being held in the capital from Sunday at the National
Museum, has white-skinned people claiming to originally belong to India,
speaking a language somewhat similar to Hindi, and claiming to be good
fortune tellers interacting with the people of their ancestral homeland.
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How scholars abroad
view Pakistan
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Mohammad Waseem, Dawn, April 8,
2001
>>> Conferences on South Asia held
in England, the US, Japan, India or elsewhere bring out interesting observations
about politics in Pakistan. Most analyses of foreign scholars revolve round
Islam and military as the two leading factors shaping politics in this
country. ......
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Minority's right
to run its institutions not absolute : SC
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Press Trust of India, The Indian
Express, April 9, 2001
>>> In a major ruling, the Supreme
Court has held that though the Constitution does not provide for any limitation
on the right of a minority community to administer its educational institutions,
the Government can make regulations to maintain the institution's character.
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Destruction of Buddha
Statues -- Islamic or Unislamic
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Vinod Kumar, The Hindu Renaissance,
Chaitra Shukla 1, 5103
>>> On Monday February 26, 2001,
Afghanistan's Taliban militia supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, an Islamic
scholar himself, issued a decree: "Based on the verdict of the clergymen
and the decision of the supreme court of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban)
all the statues around Afghanistan must be destroyed." ......
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Jogi finally pipes
down on Balco
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Ambrish Kumar, The Indian Express,
April 5, 2001
>>> Facing tremendous pressure
from workers of the Bharat Aluminium Limited Company (BALCO) who have been
denied wages for the second month and with the imminent possibility of
the agitation over its sale to Sterling collapsing, Chhattisgarh Chief
Minister Ajit Jogi today asked the Centre for talks. ......
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Return Of The Militants
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Joshua Hammer, www.stacks.msnbc.com,
April 6, 2001
>>> For an avowed militant who
has dedicated his life to the destruction of the state of Israel, Sheik
Abdullah al-Shami could hardly appear more affable. Ushering a pair of
visitors into his headquarters on the fifth floor of a nondescript office
building in Gaza City, the fortyish leader of Islamic Jihad's political
wing smiles warmly, eyes twinkling behind his gold- framed glasses. ......
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Russia's fascination
with 'Valmiki Ramayana' continues
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Arun Mohanty, India Abroad, April
8, 2001
>>> Russia is perhaps the only
European country where the Valmiki Ramayana, written by the Hindu sage
Valmiki, has been translated into the local language several times in tens
of thousands of copies. ......
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VHP will train 3
lakh youths to fight Pak-sponsored terrorism
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The Times of India, April 9, 2001
>>> The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
said on Sunday that it would recruit 30 lakh 'Bajrang youths' and train
three lakh of them to fight Pakistan-sponsored militancy in the country.
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Spirits in a material
world
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Karishma Upadhyay, The Times of
India, April 10, 2001
>>> Madonna is still 'The Material
Girl'. But she's turned a trifle too spiritual of late. She derives her
inspiration from the east, she says. Back home, quite a few who's who of
the city are turning to the art of living in a big way, along with maintaining
their high-profile way of living. It would be difficult to categories them
in any one field for they are spiritual and they love material Aide too.
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Spirits in a material
world
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Karishma Upadhyay, The Times of
India, April 10, 2001
>>> Madonna is still 'The Material
Girl'. But she's turned a trifle too spiritual of late. She derives her
inspiration from the east, she says. Back home, quite a few who's who of
the city are turning to the art of living in a big way, along with maintaining
their high-profile way of living. It would be difficult to categories them
in any one field for they are spiritual and they love material Aide too.
......
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Ultras burn Buddhist
temple in Tripura
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www.expressindia.com, April 10,
2001
>>> A Buddhist temple and several
huts of the Chakma community were ransacked and torched by all Tripura
Tiger Force insurgents in Dhalai district of Tripura, police said on Tuesday.
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Taliban ideal born
in small Indian school
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Janaki Bahadur Kremmer, The Washington
Times, April 10, 2001
>>> In this crowded, fly-infested
town where the Taliban was born, Islamic seminarians see the Afghan rulers
as heroes and see nothing wrong with the destruction of two historic stone
Buddhas in Afghanistan. ......
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Fifth death anniversary
of Dr. Chittaranjan
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V A Gopala, April 10, 2001
>>> Dr. U Chittaranjan was a very
popular doctor in Bhatkal. He had no enemies. He was an active RSS worker.
Later he had joined the BJP and became MLA of that constituency. All his
political opponents too were having very good rapport with him. ......
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Our media's avowed
loves
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Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net,
April 11, 2001
>>> Vajpayee and Advani's meek
surrender to the Tehelka tapes has lifted our media to a new high of cockiness,
arrogance almost. The comments that the press and television are making
day-in-day- out and encouraging the public to make -- are all helping to
create the impression that every Indian institution save the media is vile
and vicious, corrupt and contaminated. ......
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MQM charges ISI with
fomenting sectarian trouble in Pakistan
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The Daily Excelsior, April 11, 2001
>>> Altaf Hussain, chief of Muttahida
Quami Movement (MQM), has blamed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
for fomenting sectarian violence in Pakistan through "their hired assassins
and so-called religious leaders". ......
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The new global threat
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Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post,
April 11, 2001
>>> Last Friday, a 33-year-old
Algerian Islamist (or fundamentalist Moslem) named Ahmed Ressam achieved
the possibly unique distinction of being sentenced on the same day in two
courtrooms in two countries for roughly the same crime. Early in the day,
a court in Paris convicted Ressam in absentia for belonging to a network
of Islamist terrorists and sentenced him to five years in prison. ......
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Sudanese Bishops
Appeal to U.S. Catholic Conference to Help Stop War
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Zenit.org, April 11, 2001
>>> The Sudan Catholic Bishops'
Regional Conference (SCBRC) issued a memorandum, to the delegation from
the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), during their late March visit to Sudan,
Peters Voice News agency reported. ......
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Pak wants UN to oversee
its border with Afghanistan
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K J M Varma, Rediff on Net, April
10, 2001
>>> Pakistan may ask for United
Nations observers to be placed across its 2,500 km boundary with Afghanistan
to oversee its compliance to UN sanctions against the Taleban for countering
the joint moves by Russia and France to press for similar sanctions against
Islamabad for its continued support to Afghanistan's ruling militia. ......
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Indus script remains
a mystery
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Ariel: Literary Notes, Dawn, April
11, 2001
>>> Great hopes were being pinned
on the decipherment of the Moenjodaro script on the seals found in excavations.
The seals were entrusted to Prof Aska Parpola of Helsinki University, an
expert in Aryan and pre-Aryan languages. ......
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Court can't solve
Ayodhya tangle, says Advani
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Anil Anand, The Hindustan Times,
April 11, 2001
>>> Home Minister L K Advani told
the Liberhan Inquiry Commission on Ayodhya today that the temple dispute
could only be resolved through negotiations or legislation as a court verdict
would not provide a solution to the problem. ......
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Uma: Babri was symbol
of slavery
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The Asian Age, April 12, 2001
>>> The Union sports minister Uma
Bharati has said, that she believes that the disputed structure in Ayodhya
which was demolished on December 6, 1992 was a symbol of slavery. ......
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India and the Islamic
world
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C. Raja Mohan, The Hindu, April
12, 2001
>>> The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal
Behari Vajpayee's on-going visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran brings
into bold relief one of the more exciting aspects of India's current foreign
policy - a conscious effort to engage the key nations of the Islamic world.
Mr. Vajpayee's visit to Iran follows the fruitful trip to Saudi Arabia
by the External Affairs Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, in January - the first
ever by an Indian Foreign Minister since Independence. ......
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Madrassas in the
Valley: Jehad factories or schools for the poor
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Muzamil Jaleel, The Indian Express,
April 12, 2001
>>> THE three-day international
Deobandi meet which ended near Peshawar in Pakistan today may not have
had any participants from here but its echoes are being heard loud and
clear in about 60 madrassas across the Valley. ......
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AGP failed to disfranchise
Bangladeshis: Singhal
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Rediff on Net, April 12, 2001
>>> Vishwa Hindu Parishad president
Ashok Singhal Thursday said the people of Assam had lost faith in the ruling
AGP as it had "failed to fulfil its promise of disfranchising illegal Bangladeshi
immigrants in the state." ......
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The last cry of the
secularists?
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Francois Gautier, Rediff on Net,
April 12, 2001
>>> Since some time, India's intellectual
elite, the historians, some journalists, film-makers, writers and social
activists, have been making a lot of noise, complaining that they are being
hounded by the Saffron Brigade, that the RSS/BJP combine is edging them
out of their position and that generally, the country's secular fabric
is being "torn apart." ......
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Pakistani Diplomat
Detained in Nepal
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The Associate Press, April 12, 2001
>>> A top Pakistani diplomat was
detained for questioning in Nepal after police found 35 pounds of explosives
in a home where he was staying, an official said. ......
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Ayodhya movement
strengthened nationalism: Advani
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The Economic Times, April 12, 2001
>>> Union home minister L K Advani,
who developed Hindutva into a potent political tool, today forcefully defended
the Ayodhya movement as one that strengthened the cause of nationalism
and said the courts, too, recognised the de jure status of the temple.
......
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'Babri', a symbol
of slavery: Bharati
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The Economic Times, April 12, 2001
>>> Union sports minister Uma Bharati,
who reiterated her belief in construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya,
told the Liberhan Commission on Wednesday that the Babri masjid there was
a "symbol of slavery' as it was known by the name of an "aggressor.' ......
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Tripura tribals fight
for religious freedom
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Sanjib Deb, The Asian Age, April
12, 2001
>>> The rivalry between the two
outlawed militant out fits has taken a turn for the worse with the All-Tripura
Tiger Force deciding to oppose the proselytisation of the tribal society
to Christianity by the National Liberation Front of Tripura. They also
urged all sections of people to prevent any such attempt. ......
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Pak diplomat was
involved in the hijacking of IA plane
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Times of India, April 13, 2001
>>> Pakistani diplomat Mohammed
Arshad Cheema who was caught with 16 kg of RDX in Nepal was also involved
in the hijacking of Indian Airlines airbus IC 814 in December 1999, home
ministry sources said here on Thursday. ......
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Sino-Pak ties: India
factor
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Prof Khalid Mahmud, Dawn, April
14, 2001
>>> The opening of the Chashma
nuclear power plant on March 28 was just a reminder of the wonderful years
of a trustworthy relationship - that the Chinese have never failed us.
We could always count on them for help and assistance when other doors
were closed on us. ......
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More arrests for
blasphemy in Pakistan
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The Tablet - World Church News,
April 14, 2001
>>> Another Christian has been
arrested in Pakistan on a charge of blasphemy. A schoolteacher, Parvaiz
Masih, from Daska, 100 miles south of Islamabad, was reported to have uttered
derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. Students told their parents,
and demonstrations broke out demanding Parvaiz's arrest. The penalty for
defiling the Prophet's name is death. ......
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National Security
and Media
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Subhash Kapila, Organiser, April
15, 2001
>>> India recently witnessed the
spectacle of Tehelka tapes that attempted to show political corruption
in defence deals. The media bigwigs in both electronic and print have gone
berserk in projecting the tapes as some extraordinary and unprecedented
little realising the immense harm it could cause to national defence preparedness
and possible loss of confidence to international investors. ......
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The menace of media
hype
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M. V. Kamath, Organiser, April 15,
2001
>>> Now that the anti-BJP media
hype has slowed if not died down and talk of overthrowing the Government
has receded, the time has come to inquire what the Tehelka.com is all about
and what it sought to achieve. ......
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Taliban, Hindu Kush
and Hindu Genocide
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Francois Gautier, groups.yahoo.com,
April 16, 2001
>>> The West seems to have suddenly
woken-up to Muslim fundamentalism in South Asia when the Taliban broke
down the Bamyan statues, in spite of frantic appeals from all over the
world. But there is a bit of hypocrisy in the outrage triggered by this
destruction. ......
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The Indian army is
not a tired army (Interview - Lt Gen John Ranjan Mukherjee)
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Rediff on Net, April 16, 2001
>>> Lieutenant General John Ranjan
Mukherjee, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps in J&K,
is reputed to be among the finest officers in the Indian Army, to deal
with the situation in the Valley. Besides manning a large portion of the
Line of Control, the corps is involved in anti-insurgency operations in
the state. ......
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India is not the
same as Bharat: VHP
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Rediff on Net, April 16, 2001
>>> The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's
'international' general secretary, Pravin Togadia, said on Sunday that
India and Bharat have different connotations for the people of the country.
......
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Tibet's Ancient Medical
Tradition Thrives in India
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Lisa Tsering, www.indiawest.com,
April 16, 2001
>>> India - A 30-minute hike up
from the onion sellers and smoke-spewing busses of Kotwali Bazaar, and
midway to the yupscale cybercafes and video parlors of McLeod Ganj a pricey
Rs. 100 taxi ride away, the Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute
maintains its quiet, industrial facade while giving little idea of the
riches within. ......
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'Personal law is
major hurdle to Muslim women's progress'
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S. Balakrishnan, The Times of India,
April 17, 2001
>>> The Shah Bano case caused a
major stir in the Muslim community. The supreme court had ruled in favour
of Bhopal-resident Shah Bano in a case relating to grant of maintenance
to a divorced Muslim woman. The verdict was nullified by an act of parliament
by the Rajiv Gandhi government. But the Shah Bano episode made many Muslim
women to think in terms of their rights. ......
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RSS - inspired group
to promote Indian science with books, CDs
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Smeeta Mishra Pandey, The Times
of India, April 18, 2001
>>> Why should scientists learn
Sanskrit? Because science is best explained in ancient Indian texts, say
members of the RSS-inspired Samskrita Bharati, an organisation that promotes
the language in the country. ......
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Suva to host World
Hindi convention in June
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Shailendra Singh, India Abroad,
April 6, 2001
>>> The capital of the Pacific
island nation of Fiji is to play host to the World Millennium Hindi Convention
from June 21 to 23. ......
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New Hindu temple
'Ekta Mandir' and community center for Durban
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Fakir Hassen, India Abroad, April
11, 2001
>>> Thousands of guests from a
number of countries are expected to attend the official opening of a new
Hindu temple and community center here, which took the local Gujarati community
nine years to complete. ......
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Temple destruction
(Letter)
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Kallol Bhattacherjee, Frontline,
April 13, 2001
>>> The two-part article by Richard
M. Eaton (December 22, 2000 and January 5, 2001) gave the impression that
temple desecrations in medieval India were not directed to convert the
Indian population to Islam but were chosen acts whereby the triumphant
Muslim rulers tried to engrave their saga of victory by building a house
to their god after demolishing the one belonging to the vanquished Hindu
ruler. ......
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Catholics 'are running
out of priests'
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Nicholas Pyke, The Independent,
April 14, 2001
>>> Britain's four million Roman
Catholics have been warned that they are running out of priests, and that
weekly Mass will soon become a rarity in hundreds of churches. ......
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Citizen Shantilal
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Shobha De, The Times of India, April
15, 2001
>>> Shantilal Mutha isn't on anybody's
A-list - at least, not in our metros. Page Three ignores the man completely,
mainly because Page Three is not aware of his existence. Which may be why
Shantilal Mutha was not present at Bill Clinton's banquets in either Mumbai
or Delhi. Bill Clinton therefore didn't pump his hand aid drawl: "Let's
do a picture together." ......
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'The burden of text
books should be reduced, but there is no question of diluting any subject'
-
Santwana Bhattacharya, The Indian
Express, April 15, 2001
>>> The Human Resources Development
Minister Murli Manohar Joshi is known for courting controversy. Under the
umbrella of value-based education, his ministry is planning to introduce
Sanskrit as a compulsory subject in schools. ......
-
BJP suffers because
of setting high standards of probity for itself
-
BJP Today, April 16-30, 2001
>>> Well known satirist and editor
of the immensely popular Tamil weekly "Tughlaq", Cho Ramaswamy said in
New Delhi on March 23 that the reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party felt
deeply hurt by the allegations against it because the Party had set for
itself very high standards of conduct for itself and its leaders. ......
-
The Congress demolished
the Babri Masjid
-
A Sohail Siddiqui, BJP Today, April
16-30, 2001
>>> The Muslim leadership at the
time of Shah Bano controversy was basking in the glorious victory it scored
in getting the Supreme Court verdict nullified by the Parliament. Politically,
it was a major victory for Muslim clerics. ......
-
Syed's Bamiyan claim
rebutted (Letters to the Editor)
-
Rahul Gautam, BJP Today, April 16-30,
2001
>>> After observing that the Persian
word "but" meaning "idol" is derived from Buddha, he writes "Thus the origin
of the word indicates that in the Muslim mind idol worship had come to
be identified with the religion of Buddha. To the Muslims they were one
and the same thing. ......
-
Is Taliban's act
justified in Quran? (Letters to the Editor)
-
Dr K. P. Agarwal, BJP Today, April
16-30, 2001
>>> Apropos of Syed Shahabuddin's
letter the world is feeling outraged at the Taliban's destruction of two
statues of Buddha in Afghanistan. But even a cursory reading of Quran shall
tell us in clearest terms that Taliban is simply complying with the commands
of Allah as contained in it. ......
-
S. African Indian
Ishwar Mangaroo's plan for Hindu temple scuppered
-
Fakir Hassen, India Abroad, April
16, 2001
>>> A wealthy South African Indian
businessman's plans to build a private Hindu temple on his residential
property have been scuppered by his mainly white neighbors. ......
-
Report calls for
police checks on Catholic clergy, staff and volunteers
-
Robert Barr, The Associated Press,
April 17, 2001
>>> All clergy, staff and volunteers
in the Roman Catholic Church should be subject to police checks to stamp
out sexual abuse of children, a report commissioned by the church said
Tuesday. ......
-
Don't spare the rod,
Sushmaji
-
Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net,
April 17, 2001
>>> It was simply waiting to happen.
And now, buoyed by the Tehelka tempest, Dileep Padgaonkar has actually
done it -- spat and scorned at the Press Council of India. ......
-
Priest reconverts
to Hinduism amid vedic chants
-
Subodh Ghildiyal, The Deccan Herald,
April 18, 2001
>>> Amid vedic chants and sprinkling
of Ganga jal, Father Anthony Fernandes was today rechristened Shankar Dev.
He returned to the Hindu fold after 12 years as Christian, becoming the
first priest to reconvert. ......
-
Exclusive! How Sonia's
PA V George amassed his millions
-
Prabha Chandran, www.indya.com,
April 18, 2001
>>> At the height of his powers
senior Congress leaders used to kowtow to him and V George allegedly amassed
a fortune through alliances with politicians, fixers and bureaucrats, many
of whom are now squealing to the CBI. He is the most surprising casualty
of the Tehelka tapes. ......
-
Slain terrorists
planned to 'capture' Ayodhya
-
Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, April
18, 2001
>>> The three Pakistani terrorists
killed in an encounter in Lucknow on Wednesday planned to 'capture' Ayodhya
and kidnap some VVIPs, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police M C Dwivedi
said. ......
-
In Defence of George
-
John Elliot, The Newspaper Today,
April 19, 2001
>>> Why is everyone always so nasty
about George Fernandes? It seems that a vast majority of people - especially
Delhi's privileged elite - revel in running him down. They accuse him of:
having sold out on his old beliefs (do they still want him to go round
blowing up railway lines, calling strikes, and throwing foreign companies
out of the country?); of harbouring rebels in his house and garden ......
-
When Travancore stood
for Tolerance
-
Prafull Goradia, The Pioneer, April
19, 2001
>>> Hardly a month passes when
someone or the other does not cry out aloud that the evil design of the
Sangh parivar is the establishment of a Hindu rashtra. A Hindu theocracy
is a contradiction in terms, but the argument will be more convincing if
it is presented after first facing the loud cry frontally. ......
-
Ramayana reinvented
for alien times and stage
-
Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India,
April 19, 2001
>>> The Ramayana has come to the
London stage in symbolic obeisance to a hydra-headed phenomenon the West's
fascination with exotic Eastern faiths and a growing hunger within young
British Hindus to develop a strong cultural identity. ......
-
Public execution
and an 'American Taliban'
-
Tahir Mirza, Dawn, April 19, 2001
>>> Something very strange is going
to happen in America on May 16 - something close to the public execution
of a criminal, reminiscent of the kind of state-sponsored killings that
are routinely denounced here as mediaeval when practised in other climes
and other societies. ......
-
'We go against Islam
by refusing to stop injustices like triple talaq and polygamy'
-
The Indian Express, April 19, 2001
>>> Hasina Khan, 28, grew up in
a slum in Mumbai struggling against poverty. Her mother worked as a maid
to educate her while she pitched in with tuitions. Her life changed in
1985 when she walked into the little office of Awaaz e Niswaan (AEN) which
was across the street in Mohammad Ali Road in Mumbai. ......
-
Double threat to
Hindus
-
Paul Wilkinson, The Times, April
20, 2001
>>> A Powerful undertow of ethnic
hatred between Bradford's whites, Muslims and Hindus fuelled the riots
which left two pubs fire-bombed, shops looted and eight people injured
last weekend. ......
-
Outrage as preacher
refuses to condemn Chinese abortions
-
Toby Harnden, The Telegraph, April
20, 2001
>>> Pat Robertson, a former presidential
candidate and a pillar of the religious Right, has plunged his Christian
Coalition into turmoil by declining to speak out against forced abortions
in China. The Bible-thumping television evangelist, who said three years
ago that Disney World would be hit by a hurricane because it had hosted
a Gay Day rally, is now caught up in a storm largely of his own making.
......
-
Communal tension
at Tezpur
-
The Assam Tribune, April 21, 2001
>>> With hardly twenty days left
for the Assam Assembly election a tense situation prevails here following
the second incidents hurting religious sentiment and provoking protests
within a week in Sonitpur district. ......
-
Time sorry for Mohammed
image
-
BBC News, April 22, 2001
>>> The international news magazine
Time has apologised to Muslims after an image of the Prophet Mohammed in
its 16 April issue sparked riots in Kashmir. ......
-
RSS and Minorities
-
M. G. Vaidya, Hindu Vision
>>> R.S.S. believes in the plural
structure of society. Therefore, it recognizes that there is bound to be
a majority-minority syndrome, and hence each group, whether in the majority
or minority, will have a distinct identity and distinct character. ......
-
Reviving river Saraswati
-
Hindu Vision
>>> Research on and revival of
River Saraswati will benefit over 20 crore people in the entire north-west
India directly and will be an achievement unprecedented anywhere else in
the world. It will also be a lesson in history on the scientific, technological
and philosophical contributions made to the world by the civilization nurtured
on the banks of the Saraswati. ......
-
The 'Sacred' Ecology
of Hinduism
-
Yogesh Vajpeyi, Hindu Vision
>>> An Oran is to conservation
what an oasis is to water. Orans are islands of vegetation set aside by
the Bishnois of Rajasthan for worship under community protection and management
near each of their villages. Nobody can axe a tree or kill an animal here.
......
-
The Boy Who Wrote
A Scripture
-
Swami Chaitanya Keerti, Hindu Vision
>>> King Janak once hosted a huge
Conference of pundits from all over the country to discuss the ultimate
truth. Janak offered the winner a reward of 1,000 cows with their horns
plated with gold and decorated with jewels. A great debate ensued, in which
12-year-old Ashtavakra's father also participated. ......
-
Anti-India Indian
Muslim
-
Hindu Vision
>>> In an interview to a Delhi-based
Hindi daily 'Shahi' Imam of Jama Masjid, Sayed Ahmed Bukhari, has gone
to the extent of saying that now he did not want Kashmir to remain a part
of India. "Ab hum nahim chahate kashmir Hindustan ke saath rahe. Mera zamir
isko bardast nahin karta (Now I do not want that Kashmir should remain
in India. My conscience does not allow it)". ......
-
Chinese Destroying
Tibetan Culture
-
Eva Herzer, Hindu Vision
>>> We found that in Tibet reproductive
rights of women are being openly violated. They are being forced to keep
the number of children down to one. There have been many cases of forced
abortions, and this is happening when Tibet doesn't have a population problem.
Tibet never had any population problem. ......
-
'There is no evidence
to show that the distinction between Aryans, Dasas and Dasyus was a racial
distinction'
-
Dr. BR Ambedkar, Communalism Combat,
April 2001
>>> That the theory of the Aryan
race set up by Western writers falls to the ground at every point goes
without saying. This is somewhat surprising since Western scholarship is
usually associated with thorough research and careful analysis. Why has
the theory failed? ... Anyone who cares to scrutinise the theory will find
that it suffers from a double infection. ......
-
Rathyatra retraced
-
Teesta Setalvad, Communalism Combat,
April 2001
>>> After eight years of pro crastination,
the proceedings of the Justice MS Liberhan Commission investigating the
demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 have reached the conclusive
stage. Evidence of the key accused in the entire episode, however, still
requires to be led, before arguments from either side can begin. ......
-
The Bengali Motherland
-
Pabitra Kumar Ghosh, Mayer Dak
>>> The National Puja Association
of Bangladesh ('Puja Udjapan Parishad') protested against the extreme level
of torture and persecution faced by the Hindu minority in that country.
The persecution reached another climax in 1993. ......
-
Survey Finds Catholics
Becoming Less Religious
-
The Examiner, April 14, 2001
>>> A survey conducted by a Church
publication, Satya Deepam revealed that 80 per cent of the Catholics in
Kerala do not attend the Sunday Mass and only 50 percent of them practise
abstinence on Fridays. The survey was conducted among 1,000 Catholic individuals,
ninety-five percent of whom were youngsters. ......
-
RSS Sar Sanghchalak
visit in Gujarat - Press Note
-
VISHVA SAMVAD KENDRA, GUJARAT, April
17, 2001
>>> Karnavati - Tuesday - Shri
Sudarshanji, Sar Sanghchalak of RSS expressed that while in the process
of rehabilitating quake affected villages, let us exploit the rural technology
for reconstructing the new houses to make the villages self-reliant. ''We
must also emphasis,'' he added, ''to provide employment to every villager
and ensure to strengthen the sense of family life with the ultimate goal
of making an ideal village.'' ......
-
India festival in
France beckons Indophiles
-
Ranvir Nayar, India Abroad, April
21, 2001
>>> You are a nonresident Indian
(NRI) in Europe and are suddenly homesick. You would like to go and see
the Bollywood blockbuster Sholay for the 17th time? ......
-
S. African Hindu
youth lauded for hosting big religious gathering
-
Fakir Hassen, India Abroad, April
21, 2001
>>> Fifteen South African Hindu
youth organizations that pooled their resources to present possibly the
biggest religious gathering in the mainly Indian area of Lenasia, south
of here, have been lauded by visitors from many countries across the world.
......
-
Advani puts Ayodhya
tangle in perspective
-
Shyam Khosla, Organiser, April 22,
2001
>>> L. K. Advani's deposition before
the Liberhan Commission has attracted well-deserved attention in the media
and political circles. The response is on expected lines-a mixed one. Concerned
citizens looking for a peaceful resolution of the Ayodhya dispute has acclaimed
it as a frank and truthful narration of events and hints of a roadmap for
an amicable solution of the tangle. ......
-
The role of the
media in public life
-
M. V. Kamath, Organiser, April 22,
2001
>>> We are living in dangerous
times. Journalism is taking a new turn. Technology has entered into the
picture. The dividing line between 'on record' and 'on record' conversations
is beginning to thin out. Everything is now 'on record'. Even innocent
telephone conversations can be taped without one party to the conversation
being aware that he is being tapped. ......
-
Christian Missionaries
funding militants in N-E-VHP
-
Organiser, April 22, 2001
>>> Working president of Vishwa
Hindu Parishad (VHP), Ashok Singhal has held the Baptist Mission responsible
for aiding and abetting militancy in North-Eastern region. Talking to mediapersons
in Agartala recently he charged that lakhs of rupees were poured into India
from foreign countries for the Christian organisations, and a large amount
of these funds was being diverted for arms procurement for the militants.
......
-
Secularist Imposters'
bete noire
-
Ramesh Patange, Organiser, April
22, 2001
>>> The Marxist ideologue and former
West Bengal Chief Minister had been called as a witness before the Liberhan
Commission inquiring into the case of the Ayodhya demolition. He seems
to have waxed eloquent and strayed from the issue under discussion when
he said that the Taliban vandalism of demolition of the Bamian Buddha colossi
and the disputed structure demolition at Ayodhya belonged to the same category.
......
-
China steps up efforts
to curb Islamic fundamentalism
-
Anil K Joseph, The Newspaper Today,
April 24, 2001
>>> China has established a formal
organisation to curb the rise of religious fundamentalism and ensure orderly
growth of Islam in the Communist state. Under this, the China Islamic Affairs
Steering Committee (CIASC) was established here on Monday, Xinhua news
agency reported. ......
-
And what exactly
is wrong with idol-worship?
-
Rajeev Srinivasan, Rediff on Net,
April 24, 2001
>>> The destruction of the Buddha
images at Bamiyan set me to wondering. What is the origin of all this iconoclasm?
Why is idol worship bad? On thinking things through, I can only find two
reasons: one, that worshipping an idol implies an unreasoning blind faith.
Two, that it is a marketing tactic to differentiate one's religion from
another faith that has gone before. ......
-
Religion is like
soap-powder
-
Rajeev Srinivasan, Rediff on Net,
April 25, 2001
>>> The second possibility is interesting:
the possibility that the ban on idol-worship is marketing differentiation.
I have long argued that religion is like soap-powder. In essence all soap-powders
are the same, but through clever marketing pitches, we consumers begin
to feel that our particular soap-powder is somehow superior to that used
by others. ......
-
U.S. survey finds
persistent bias against Asian-Americans
-
Sonya Hepinstall, Yahoo News, April
25, 2001
>>> A national survey released
on Wednesday found a quarter of Americans have a negative bias toward Chinese-Americans
and Asian-Americans in what the study's sponsor called a "wake-up call"
to everyone who thinks Asian-Americans do not suffer discrimination. ......
-
Putin Aims to Keep
Tight Reins on Religions
-
Zenit.org, April 25, 2001
>>> Vladimir Putin's changes in
the Presidential Commission for Religion indicates that Russia is moving
toward greater secularization, a move that could spell trouble for the
Catholic Church, observers say. ......
-
American Jesuit's
Book Spurs Vatican Inquiry
-
Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles
Times, April 25, 2001
>>> In an escalating conflict between
religious pluralism and Roman Catholic orthodoxy, the Vatican is investigating
an American Jesuit theologian who proposed, in an award-winning book, that
people can find salvation by means other than Jesus Christ. ......
-
Vatican's embryo
research taboo
-
The Guardian, April 25, 2001
>>> The Vatican's most dangerous
foe in Italy right now is paralysed, locked in a wheelchair, unable to
speak and likely to die prematurely. His name is Luca Coscioni and he is
hurling his own mortality into an anguished debate about using human embryos
to research incurable diseases. ......
-
Liberals 'doctored
pope's speech'
-
Rory Carroll in Rome, The Sydeny
Morning Herald, April 25, 2001
>>> A power struggle in the Vatican
has burst into the open with a claim that liberals edited one of the most
influential speeches in papal history. ......
-
Defensive structures
along Jammu border - Pak objections are 'untenable'
-
B L Kak, The Daily Excelsior, April
26, 2001
>>> India has rejected Pakistan's
definition of the existing International Border in Jammu as "working boundary".
The Government is determined not to permit Pakistan to prevent Indians
from constructing defensive structures along the International Border.
......
-
Geelani launches
anti-India tirade
-
Basharat Peer, Rediff on Net, April
26, 2001
>>> Firebrand Kashmiri separatist
leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday night called the present ceasefire
in Jammu & Kashmir meaningless and limited to the media. ......
-
Babies sold like
loaves of bread in India's cyber city
-
Peter Popham, The Independent, April
26, 2001
>>> A trade of breathtaking cynicism
has been exposed in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, in which the babies
of Indian tribal women have been bought and sold like loaves of bread.
......
-
A ready reserve
army for the ISI
-
Pramod Kumar Singh, The Pioneer,
April 26, 2001
>>> It is a reserve army, tailor-made
for the operations of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) of Pakistan
- an indigent migrant population harbouring little or no loyalty to the
host country. ......
-
Hindu women spread
the word
-
Lovejit Dhaliwal, BBC News, April
26, 2001
>>> Bright and busy, Sunitee Kadgil
is struggling to fit in a number of people who want her to perform Hindu
death rites, house-warmings and naming ceremonies. ......
-
Monks protest at
Pope as Greece goes on strike
-
Michael Howard, The Guardian, April
27, 2001
>>> Monks at the all-male community
of Mount Athos, one of the most revered places in Orthodoxy, will stage
an all-night vigil tonight to pray against the Pope's historic visit to
Greece next Friday. ......
-
Patterns of Global
Terrorism 2000
-
US Office of the Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, April 2001
>>> The year 2000 showed that terrorism
continues to pose a clear and present danger to the international community.
......
-
Sri Lanka: Window
to India's Past, Present & Future
-
People's Reporter, April 25 - May
10, 2001
>>> Nature has used India as an
oyster clasp for its genetics. A pearl of the rarest refraction has emerged
from that bi-valve of mind and matter, as Sri Lanka. India's spirit no
less than its seed, ethos no less than ethnicity have quickened life on
this isle. Sri Lanka is, to wit, India miniaturized. ......
-
Republicans Reach
Out To Catholics
-
Catholic World News, April 25, 2001
>>> The Republican Party on Tuesday
launched a new campaign to reach out to Catholic voters, a group that was
evenly split in last year's presidential elections. ......
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From Russia with
love, in dollars
-
M.K. Tikku, The Hindustan Times,
April 26, 2001
>>> In December 1951, the Communist
Party of India (CPI) received a cash handout of $1,00,000 from Moscow.
That was just the beginning. The cash packets, which tended to vary in
size from year to year, appear to have continued well into the seventies.
......
-
Soviet records were
in Kolkata all along
-
M.K. Tikku, The Hindustan Times,
April 27, 2001
>>> The Soviet-Era documents available
at the Hoover Institution here, which reveal details of the cash handouts
to the Communist Party of India, were available in India much earlier.
But not surprisingly, they were kept under wraps. ......
-
Islamic Life, Activism
Booming in U.S., Study Finds
-
Teresa Watanabe, The Los Angeles
Times, April 27, 2001
>>> Islamic religious life in America
is booming, registering a 300% increase in the number of followers flocking
to mosques in the last six years and an outpouring of community activism,
according to a comprehensive national study of American Muslims released
Thursday. ......
-
Rome sends mixed
signals on Jesuit contributions
-
John L. Allen Jr., National Catholic
Reporter, April 27, 2001
>>> Although media shorthand often
makes "the Vatican" sound like a monolith, in fact, the headquarters of
the Catholic church, like bureaucracies everywhere, is run by people with
sometimes clashing views. ......
-
No way to count
illegal immigrants
-
www.mns.co.in, April 27, 2001
>>> No definite mechanism has so
far been put in place to identify illegal immigrants from Bangladesh though
Assam and Tripura have registered a decline in the population growth since
the last decennial Census, Registrar General and Census Commissioner J
K Banthia has said. ......
-
Bowling Alone, and
Other Tales of Life in U.S.
-
Zenit.org, April 28, 2001
>>> Is modern society destined
to an ever-increasing individualism? Last month Robert D. Putnam, professor
of public policy at Harvard University, visited England to promote the
publishing there of his book "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community." ......
-
Scientist echoes
Vedic scholar's 'quake clouds' theory
-
Abhay Vaidya, The Times of India,
April 28, 2001
>>> Three factors - the devastating
earthquake in Gujarat, research on 'earthquake clouds' by a California-based
Chinese scholar and the mention of similar 'earthquake clouds' in ancient
Indian manuscript called Brihat Samhita-are generating fresh interest in
this manuscript. ......
-
Pope's Appeal for
Oklahoma City Bomber Rejected
-
Zenit.org, April 29, 2001
>>> The U.S. vice president rejected
John Paul II's request that President George W. Bush spare the life of
the Oklahoma City bomber who killed 168 people. ......
-
Passage into Past
-
Organiser, April 29, 2001
>>> There are about one and a half
crore Roma people in different parts of the world. It is an established
fact now that they were Hindu and before migrating to different parts of
the world they were living in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi,
Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. They are now known by different names
in different countries. ......
-
Forgotten Children
of Mother India
-
Pramod Kumar, Organiser, April 29,
2001
>>> It was a unique and emotional
moment in the life of Roma people when they got an opportunity to visit
the land their forefathers had left one thousand years ago. They were in
India on a week-long visit to attend a conference in New Delhi and also
to visit the religious and historical places about which they had so far
been reading in books and listening from their forefathers. ......
-
We are hostages
of Taliban, says Pakistan leader
-
Esther Oxford, The Independent,
April 29, 2001
>>> Pakistan's military leader
General Pervez Musharraf has declared that 99 per cent of the country is
being "held hostage" by religious extremists who constitute just one per
cent of the population. That has caused concern among diplomats and politicians
in the West, fearful of a "Talibanised" Pakistan. ......
-
Romas need moral
support
-
Hristo Kyuchukov, Organiser, April
29, 2001
>>> There are about one and a half
crore Romas in 39 countries of the world. They are originally Hindu and
immigrated to different parts of the world about one thousand years ago.
During this period they have managed to preserve their Indian culture.
Recently a 33-member delegation of Romas was in India to attend an international
conference held in New Delhi. ......
-
Set up federation
of Swadeshi churches in India
-
K. S. Sudarshan, Organiser, April
29, 2001
>>> Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) Sarsanghchalak Shri K.S. Sudarshan called for forming a federation
of Indian Christians who subscribed to the idea of a Swadeshi Church. This
according to him, would be the first step towards the creation of the National
Church in India which would be free from the foreign controls of all kinds.
......
-
Last Of The Water-Nymphs?
-
Sanjay Suri, Manu Joseph, Outlook,
April 30, 2001
>>> So the Miss World contest,
as we know it, is over. Former model Julia Morley, who inherited her husband's
business after his death last November, did not wait terribly long to announce
some fundamental readjustments. The 50th year of this dazzling and often
dubious story is as good a time as any to ring in changes. ......
-
Why the Greek Orthodox
Oppose Papal Visit (Interview with Theologian Yannis Spiteris)
-
ZENIT.org, April 30, 2001
>>> At least one theologian is
optimistic about the outcome of the Pope's visit to Athens, Greece, this
Wednesday and Thursday. ......
-
Faithful cynics
of a new nation
-
George Kerevan, www.thescotsman.co.uk,
April 30, 2001
>>> For 20 years, almost all of
the discussion about what made the Scots tick - reams and reams of it -
revolved solely around devolution. ......
-
India woos key Muslim
states
-
Afzaal Mahmood, Dawn, April 30,
2001
>>> As part of a new thrust in
its foreign policy, India is making determined efforts to turn a new leaf
in its relations with the key countries of the Islamic world. The importance
that the Muslim world, stretching from the Maghreb in North Africa to Indonesia
and Malaysia in Southeast Asia, has come to acquire for India can be gauged
from the diplomatic blitzkrieg undertaken by New Delhi in the past six
months. ......
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