This Months Article
This Months Article
Starting: Fri June
1, 2001
Ending: Sat June 30,
2001
Messages: 142
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Carter Seeking Alliance
of Moderate Baptists
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Gustav Niebuhr, The New York Times,
June 30, 2001
>>> Former President Jimmy Carter,
who last year broke with his denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention,
over its increasingly conservative direction, has been host to two meetings
of leaders of moderate Baptist groups to seek "common ground" among them,
such as sending out missionaries, he said in an interview tonight. ......
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Muslim Cleric Calls
for Death of Author Who Wrote on Islam
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Dean E. Murphy, The New York Times,
June 30, 2001
>>> A radical Muslim cleric in
Jordan has issued a religious opinion that advocates the death of a Muslim
scholar in the United States in punishment for a book he wrote about Islam.
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Lahore Declaration
(Part IV of IV)
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BJP Today, June 16-30, 2001
>>> The following is the Lahore
Declaration signed by Prime, Minister Shri A.B. Vajpayee and the Pakistan
Prime Minister Shri Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on 21-2-99: ......
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Shimla Agreement
(Part III of IV)
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BJP Today, June 16-30, 2001
>>> Shimla Agreement on Bilateral
Relations between India and Pakistan signed by Prime Minister of India,
Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and President of Pakistan, Mr. Z.A. Bhutto, in Shimla
on duly 3, 1972. ......
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Walk the high road
to peace with us, PM asks Pakistan CEO (Part II of IV)
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BJP Today, June 16-30, 2001
>>> At the beginning of the new
century, our two countries must do their utmost to overcome the legacy
of distrust and hostility, in order to build a brighter future for our
peoples. ......
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Walk the high road
to peace with us, PM asks Pakistan CEO (Part I of IV)
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BJP Today, June 16-30, 2001
>>> "When I visited Lahore in February
1999,with the objective of beginning a new chapter in our bilateral relations,
I had recorded at Minar-e-Pakistan that a stable, secure and prosperous
Pakistan is in India's interest. That remains our conviction. ......
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The ISI connection
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Sangeeta Saxena, BJP Today, June
16-30, 2001
>>> Authored by R. Shekhar, the
ISI -Connection is a novel based on the sinister designs of the Inter Services
Intelligence, the intelligence agency of Pakistan, to destabilise and disintegrate
India. Despite of being an organisational profile of the ISI, the book
is woven into the threads of absorbing fiction, written in easy English
as is spoken in the Indian sub-continent. ......
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Pakistani realities
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Chanakya, BJP Today, June 16-30,
2001
>>> There was no logic to the creation
of Pakistan. The Muslim majority areas had Muslim prime ministers like
Hussain Suhrawardy in Bengal and Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan in the Punjab.
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Government reiterates
J&K integral part of India
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Our special correspondent, BJP Today,
June 16-30, 2001
>>> On May 25, after hours of top-level
meeting at the residence of the Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee,
the Government caused a flutter, as it were by announcing the withdrawal
of the six-month old "cease fire" against the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
......
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Fresh race attacks
in Britain worry leaders
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Shyam Bhatia, Indian Abroad, June
29, 2001
>>> There bomb attacks in Lancashire
country have prompted fears among Asian and white community leaders that
Britain's racial violence may be spiraling out of control. ......
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Priest arrested
as sanctuary becomes death trap for deer
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Express News Service, The Indian
Express, June 28, 2001
>>> Fresh venison with scotch and
whisky is the latest fad among bigwigs in places such as Masinadgudi, Thorapalli
and Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in the Gudalur block of the Nilgiris bordering
Kerala and Karnataka. ......
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Ariel Makes His
Point to George
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William Safire, The New York Times,
June 28, 2001
>>> "The world is celebrating the
cease-fire," Ariel Sharon told George W. Bush in the Oval Office this week,
"but we in Israel are going to funerals." That pained remark came privately
after the U.S. president had used the word "progress" 11 times in 13 minutes
of the photo op before their meeting. ......
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Gadar: are the Muslim
League's objections justified?
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Aditi Prasad, www.indya.com, June
28, 2001
>>> The controversy may have fuelled
box-office collections. But cascading protests across the country against
Nitin Keni's Sunny Deol-Amisha Patel starrer Gadar are threatening to fuel
more than that. Already, there have been protests in Bhopal, Lucknow, New
Delhi, Ahmedabad and even Mumbai against the film. ......
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Drive to de-weaponise
militant groups a 'Sham': Pak media
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The Daily Excelsior, June 28, 2001
>>> The drive to "de-weaponise"
religious and fundamentalist groups in Pakistan has been dismissed by a
section of local media as a "Sham" with the Pervez Musharraf regime publicising
minor efforts to recover weapons to pacify international community while
desisting from carrying out these drives against known militant outfits.
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Bush and Sharon
Differ on Ending Violence
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Jane Perlez, The New York Times,
June 27, 2001
>>> President Bush today urged
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel to be more receptive to political
steps that the administration believes are necessary to cool the Middle
East situation, a senior administration official said. ......
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Inside Afghanistan:
Behind the veil
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BBC News, June 27, 2001
>>> An undercover documentary film
about the Taleban movement in Afghanistan has shown shocking footage of
mass executions, and an insight into the oppression suffered by Afghan
women. ......
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Our Freudian fixation
for peace-at-any-cost with Pakistan
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Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net,
June 27, 2001
>>> Journalistic deadlines can
be deadly in effect. Thus it was a slip of the pen in this column last
week that put the price for allowing the thief to retain our stolen property
of Pak Occupied Kashmir at Rs 10 billion when, in fact, the mind's intent
was $ 10 billion for India forfeiting that territory and accepting the
LoC as the international border. .....
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Even courts cannot
disturb status quo in Ayodhya: seer
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Press Trust of India, Central Chronicle,
June 26, 2001
>>> Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti
Peetam Swami Jayendra Saraswati today said that it would be difficult even
for courts to disturb the status quo in Ayodhya where Ram already has a
'temporary shelter.' .....
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A Memo From Osama
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Thomas L. Friedman, The New York
Times, June 26, 2001
>>> My men: This is a great day!
Did you see what we accomplished last week? We drove the U.S. armed forces
out of three Arab countries by just threatening to hit them. I had some
of our boys discuss an attack against the U.S. over cell phones, the C.I.A.
picked it up, and look what happened: .....
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RSS is threat to
national integrity, says SIMI
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HT Correspondent, The Hindustan
Times, June 26, 2001
>>> The National general secretary
of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Safdar Nagori, has alleged
that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was "a major threat to the unity
and integrity of the country" Addressing a press conference here at a hotel
this afternoon, the national leader of this pan-Islamic youth organisation
said that there was an urgent need to put the RSS and its Parivar in check.
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Secularism poisons
nations: Singhal
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Principal Correspondent, Central
Chronicle, June 26, 2001
>>> The so-called 'secularism'
has poisoned the very veins of the nation and caused extensive damage to
it during the last five decades, said Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader,
Ashok Singhal. He gave a clarion call to the young blood to wake-up in
order to restore the glorious past of the nation. .....
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Asians battle whites
in yet another British city
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Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India,
June 26, 2001
>>> In a grim pattern of blood
and gore across northern England, Burnley has joined other cities such
as Oldham, Leeds and Bradford as a place where Asians and whites are apparently
in conflict. A weekend of interracial violence in Burnley, an industrial
town with a predominantly Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic minority, comes
within weeks of the neo-fascist British National Party (BNP) posting exceptionally
good results in local and parliamentary elections in the region. .....
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'Arrest me for I
have joined Bajrang Dal,' Uma dares CM
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HT Correspondent, The Hindustan
Times, June 26, 2001
>>> At A meeting here full of VHP
rhetoric and vitriol today, Union Minister Uma Bharti announced that she
had joined the Bajrang Dal. And in the thunderous applause that followed,
Bharti dared Chief Minister Digvijay Singh to arrest her. (The Chief Minister
had recently demanded a ban on the Bajrang Dal.) .....
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Race violence erupts
in one more English town
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The Hindustan Times, June 26, 2001
>>> Asian Youths set fire to shops
and a car in the northwest English town of Burnley on Sunday night after
an Indian taxi driver was attacked by a group of white men, police said.
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Kanchi seer warns
against disturbing Ayodhya status quo
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Press Trust of India, The Indian
Express, June 26, 2001
>>> Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti
Peetam Swami Jayendra Saraswati today said that it would he difficult even
for courts to disturb the status quo in Ayodhya where Ram already has a
"temporary shelter." ......
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Bring along PoWs,
Sena tells Musharraf
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PTI, The Times of India, June 26,
2001
>>> Shiv Sena, an alliance partner
in the NDA government, on Tuesday urged Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf
to bring alongwith him all Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) during his coming
visit to India as a "goodwill gesture" even as another party leader asked
New Delhi not to accord a red carpet welcome to him. ......
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Counsel from Kanchi
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Editorial, The Indian Express, June
26, 2001
>>> Q.: What are your views on
population management?
A.: Official propaganda to restrict
the size of the family has been largely aggressive. Hum Do, Hamare Do is
fine. However, the manner of implementation has been rather abrasive. The
methods advocated have been more interventionist than affirmative. Panic
reaction can create more harm than goo......
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Kashmir should remain
part of India: US Congressmen
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T V Parasuram, The Hindustan Times,
June 26, 2001
>>> Ahead of the summit meet between
Premier A B Vajpayee and Pakistani Presdient Pervez Musharraf, influential
Congressmen and prominent members of the US establishment have said that
solution to the Kashmir problem must be found within the framework of secular
India. ......
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Laden orders blasts
at US installations in India
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The Times of India, June 26, 2001
>>> Peeved over the arrest of his
associates by Delhi Police, international terrorist Osama bin Laden has
asked his groups to carry out blasts at all the US installations in India,
according to a message received from the US Central Intelligence Agency.
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'Kashmir should
remain integral part of secular India'
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The Daily Excelsior, June 26, 2001
>>> Ahead of the summit meet between
Premier A B Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, influential
Congressmen and prominent members of the US establishment have said that
solution to the Kashmir problem must be found within the framework of secular
India. ......
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3000 ultras waiting
to cross over
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Associated Press, Central Chronicle,
June 25, 2001
>>> Nearly 3,000 Pakistan-backed
terrorists are ready to sneak into Kashmir to fight security forces despite
Islamabad's peace moves, a top Army General said Sunday. ......
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CBI seeks Interpol
help to probe Vincent George's foreign funding
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Pratyush Kanth, The Times of India,
June 25, 2001
>>> The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) has completed the major part of its investigation within the country
in the Vincent George case and is now concerning to CBI sources, on verifying
the remittances amounting to over Rs. 3.5 crore sent to him from abroad,
mainly from the U.S. Mr George is a close aide of Congress chief Sonia
Gandhi. ......
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Bin Laden readying
to attack US targets
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Agence France Presse, Central Chronicle,
June 25, 2001
>>> Supporters of Saudi-born extremist
Osama Bin Laden are preparing to hit US and Israeli interests around the
world, an Arab television channel has reported. ......
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Muslim law board
to decide on Gadar
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HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times,
June 25, 2001
>>> The All-India Muslim Personal
Law Board (AIMPLB) will decide whether the agitation against the film Gadar
is justified. AIMPLB vice-president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said on Saturday
that the board would take a decision about the 'objectionable scenes and
dialogues' in the film after consultations with the AIMPLB president, Maulana
Mujahidul Islam Qasmi. ......
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Crescent Classroom
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Sumit Mitra, India Today, June 25,
2001
>>> Murshidabad district in West
Bengal has the distinction of being a part of Pakistan for two days, from
August 15 to 17, 1947, until the Radcliffe award which respected demography
but not geography was amended bilaterally. ......
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Made In China
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Shishir Gupta, India Today, June
25, 2001
>>> The relationship between India
and China have a tendency to toggle between good, bad and ugly. While economic
issues have overshadowed many problems, the nuclear threat and missile
proliferation have led to serious concerns in the past. And, lest one forgets,
it was the border dispute that sparked off hostilities between the two
Asian giants. ......
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A story for Mr Bhattacharjee
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Jugnu Ramaswamy, The Hindustan Times,
June 25, 2001
>>> In A small village 220 kilometres
north of Kolkata, a war is being fought to build a village road and to
save a school. ......
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Use of classics
in computational logic
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Anuradha C. Kumar, The Indian Express,
June 25, 2001
>>> Although I greatly enjoyed
Ajit Kumar Jha's ''Why is the West crazy about a 'dead' language?'' (Indian
Express, June 10), I feel it is unfortunate that having been around as
a vehicle of literary expression for over 2500 years, Sanskrit still has
to bear the tag of a dead language. ......
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Hindu Temple demolished,
hundreds of Tribal houses torched: 30 people wounded.
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www.hrcbm.org, June 25, 2001
>>> For the second time in recent
months, Bengali Muslims have again attacked tribal villages in Chittagong,
Bangladesh. The clashes erupted after the killing of a Bengali Muslim truck
driver reportedly by the tribal freedom fighters. ......
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The doublespeak
of Vedic science (Part XII of XII)
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Meera Nanda, The Week, June 24,
2001
>>> The leading Hindutva ideas-men
go around calling themselves "intellectual Kshatriyas". But Kshatriyas
were only supposed to defend dharma as a way of life. Why, then, are our
Kshatriyas so bent upon defending dharma as science? Why must they insist
upon declaring astrology, and the entire Vedic tradition, 'scientific'?
......
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Scientist's soapbox
(Part XI of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> After delivering thousands
of lectures on Indian heritage since the age of 18 and more than 1,800
of them in the last five years (a lecture a day!), N. Gopalakrishnan is
passionate for more. The 45-year-old scientist at the regional centre of
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Thiruvananthapuram considers
it his mission to separate the chaff from the grain in people's minds.
The winnow he uses is science. ......
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Flights of fancy?
(Part X of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> In the early 70s, G.R. Josyer
of the International Academy of Sanskrit in Mysore brought out the English
translation of a Sanskrit work, Vymanika Shastra. It describes different
types of aircraft with drawings, metals used for their production, mirrors
and their use in wars and varieties of machines and yantras. ......
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Mind over matter
(Part IX of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> The first Indian who formulated
ideas about the atom as the indivisible particle of matter in a systematic
manner was 6th century BC philosopher Kanada. Katyayana, a contemporary
of the Buddha, put forward ideas about the atomic constitution of the material
world. ......
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Buildings with a
genetic code (Part VIII of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> The science of building in
India is analogous to genetics. Just as the DNA, which contains hereditary
information on cell life, every element of a building contains a dimensional
code that will speak of the whole structure. ......
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Root and trunk (Part
VII of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> Jivaka, physician of King Bimbisara,
a contemporary of the Buddha, had to undergo a practical examination in
the final year of his studies at Taxila. The teacher asked him to take
a spade and seek round about a yojana on every side of the university and
bring the plant he saw which had no medicinal properties. ......
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A nose for news (Part
VI of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> In the war of 1792 Tipu Sultan's
soldiers captured Kawasji (Cowasjee), a Maratha cart driver in the British
army, and cut off his nose and an arm. A year later, a kumhara (potter)
vaidya of Pune reconstructed Kawasji's nose in the presence of two English
doctors, Thomas Cruso and James Trindlay, of the Bombay Presidency. ......
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Is astrology a science?
(Part V of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> Mainstream science does not
accept astrology as science, says astrophysicist Rajesh Kochhar. "The methodology
of science is more important than the results. Scientific theories are
not based on provability but on falsiability," he says, quoting Karl Popper's
theory of falsiability in verification of a scientific proposition. ......
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Sum and substance
(Part IV of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> There has been a renewed interest
in Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas
by Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja
of Govardhan Peeth Mutt, Puri, originally published by Banaras Hindu University
in 1965. ......
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Acts of faith (Part
III of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> A 3,000-year-old ritual was
resurrected at Panjal in Kerala in April 1975. A 12-day Agnicayana, or
Atiratra, was performed on a bird-shaped altar of a thousand bricks. The
altar was a geometricians' delight. ......
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Saladin's sword (Part
II of XII)
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The Week, June 24, 2001
>>> Saladin the Saracen had a steely
edge over Richard the Lion-hearted. Sir Walter Scott, in his romance The
Talisman, describes a meeting of the two mediaeval monarchs who crossed
swords in the Crusades. ......
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Lost knowledge (Part
I of XII)
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Samuel Abraham, The Week, June 24,
2001
>>> A few thousand years are a
short period in the timetable of India. Its myths and religious symbols
take us millions of years beyond archaeological findings. And so "the Indian
mind," as French thinker Guy Sorman puts it, "was better prepared for the
chronological mutations of Darwinian evolution and astrophysics" that shook
the west. ......
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Hip to be Hindi
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Anupreeta Das, The Indian Express,
June 24, 2001
>>> What do you do with a language
that's morphed over seven centuries, flirted and allied with scores of
dialects, sulked when you've tried to sully it with bureaucratese, but
is ever-willing to be teased into new life? If you're part of the set which
decides what we, the people (specifically, television viewers), should
watch, you follow a simple rule: if it won't go away, wrap it up in glossy
packaging, and suddenly, everyone's calling it Hip. ......
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Seeing ourselves
as other see us
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M. V. Kamath, Organiser, June 24,
2001
>>> There is nothing more educative
than seeing ourselves as others see us. Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha
may think India, all told, is doing well, but most concerned experts are
likely to take his assurances with a pinch of salt. But when an important
journal like the London based The Economist (June 2) assesses. India's
economic situation one has to sit up and take notice of it. ......
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Police team nabs
Bin Laden's contact from Bihar town
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Gyan Prakash, The Times of India,
June 23, 2001
>>> A joint police team of Intelligence
Bureau (IB) and special cell of the Delhi police picked up international
terrorist Osama bin Laden's Patna connection, Mohammad Arshad alias Ladoo
Milan, from his residence in Naya Tola under Phulwarisharif police station
on Thursday morning. ......
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Power is one thing,
growth quite another
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Abheek Barman, The Economic Times,
June 23, 2001
>>> Late last month, investment
bank Merrill Lynch observed that the Karachi Stock Exchange index, KSE
100, had slipped nearly 4 per cent in a month, but concluded that this
made a recovery of Pakistan's battered markets likely - things couldn't
get worse. The KSE 100 has slipped more than 11 per cent in five-and-a-half
months since December, a steeper fall than the sensex's near-10 per cent
tumble in the same time. ......
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'India and China
should be united culturally'
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Renuka Suryanarayan, The Indian
Express, June 22, 2001
>>> One visit to the city, to consecrate
the new Dwjasthambam at Mahalakshmi temple last Sunday, His Holiness Shankaracharya
of Kanchi Jayendra Saraswati, shares his views with Newsline. ......
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Skeptical Senators
Question Rumsfeld on Missile Defense
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James Dao, The New York Times, June
22, 2001
>>> Senate Democrats sharply questioned
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld today about the high cost and unproven
effectiveness of a national missile defense system, and they raised deep
concerns about the administration's threats to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic
Missile Treaty if the Russians refused to amend it. ......
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I was removed, says
Tarar
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Mid-Day, June 21, 2001
>>> Pakistan's ousted President
Rafiq Tarar last night said he was removed from the post under the Provisional
Constitutional Order (PCO) promulgated by military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf
who took over as the head of the state. ......
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Musharraf comes in
for flak from Commonwealth, UK
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Rashmee Z. Ahmed, The Times of India,
June 21, 2001
>>> The Commonwealth and Britain
have separately condemned General Musharrafs decision to name himself President
of Pakistan and dissolve the national assembly in a move that is widely
being seen as an attempt to consolidate the military's hold on power. ......
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Confess your sins
online
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Carla Kucinski, The Times of India,
June 21, 2001
>>> Now you can unburden yourself
of all those naughty things you've done without kneeling in a dark closet
or confessing face to face. ......
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Schools Harass Christians,
Coddle Other Faiths
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David A. Yeagley, Front Page Magazine,
June 21, 2001
>>> In New York City, Muslims can
pray in public schools. Christians can't. Muslims can assemble in school
auditoriums, during school hours, and pray. Christians cannot. ......
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39 Police Officers
Hurt in Belfast Riots
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Reuters, The New York Times, June
21, 2001
>>> Gun shots were fired at police
as they tried to quell fresh outbreaks of violence in part of Northern
Ireland's capital Belfast overnight, police said on Friday. ......
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Now We Shall Speak
- Muslim Women Must be in Control
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Syeda Saiyidain Hameed, The Times
of India, June 21, 2001
>>> The Supreme Court had recently
issued notice to the government on a petition submitted by Zuleikha Bi
of Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. She had married Mohammad Fazal in 1989 when
she was 20 years old. In 1991, when he remarried, she had refused to live
with him. Maintenance was granted to her in 1993 at Rs 400 per month. ......
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Press statement on
Vajpayee-Musharraf summit
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Shri K. Jana Krishnamurthi, bjp.org,
June 21, 2001
>>> The Prime Minister's decision
to invite General Pervez Musharraf for talks has led to speculations about
the reasons for this sudden development. Analysts and so-called experts
have attributed it to various kinds of imagined domestic and international
compulsions. ......
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China-US clashes
may get worse: Russian expert
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Dadan Upadhyay, The Indian Express,
June 21, 2001
>>> China is the biggest rival
of the United States, a top Russian military analyst said here on Wednesday.
......
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This freeze is no
surprise
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Jasjit Singh, The Indian Express,
June 21, 2001
>>> Given Pakistan's high levels
of defence spending the government's announcement of a freeze on the defence
budget for the current year has attracted a great deal of attention. Some
people have tried to interpret this in relation to the forthcoming summit
at Agra next month. ......
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Heavy infiltration
of foreign militants in Poonch
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Dwarika Prasad Sharma, The Times
of India, June 21, 2001
>>> There has been infiltration
of foreign militants into Poonch district on an ``unprecedented" scale
following the withdrawal of the unilateral cease fire by the Union government,
said intelligence reports. ......
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US flays Pak move;
sanctions to stay
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The Times of India, June 21, 2001
>>> The United States condemned
the decision by Pakistani military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf to declare
himself president on Wednesday and officials said it would complicate the
Bush administration's decision-making on the future of US sanctions on
Islamabad. ......
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Billionaire-turned-muni
nirvana on foot
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K R Rajeev, The Indian Express,
June 20, 2001
>>> In A world teeming with jet-setting
godmen, Jain muni Prashantratna Vijay stands apart. For this 36-year-old
billionaire-turned-muni, life has been a long journey in pursuit of God;
rather a long walk on bare feet. ......
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Twelve Christians
Sentenced In China
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Catholic World News, June 20, 2001
>>> A group of twelve Christians
arrested by Communist Chinese police last month have been sentenced to
"reeducation through labor" camps for up to three years, a Hong Kong-based
human rights group said on Wednesday. ......
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Cost of conflict
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Editorial, The Indian Express, June
20, 2001
>>> It is one of the subcontinent's
most heartbreaking tragedies. Commentators on this side of Radcliffe's
meandering line have long bemoaned the Lost Decade in Jammu and Kashmir,
the years the people of the state have been forced to sacrifice in dodging
the crossfire. ......
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Muslims attack cinema
hall showing Gadar
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The Hindustan Times, June 20, 2001
>>> A cinema hall screening Hindi
film Gadar in Bhopal was ransacked by an unruly mob on Tuesday afternoon.
The mob allegedly were enraged by certain scenes of the film offended religious
sentiments of Muslims. ......
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Musharraf to take
oath as President today
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Rediff on Net, June 20, 2001
>>> Pakistan's military ruler General
Pervez Musharraf is expected to take oath as President of Pakistan on Wednesday
at 4 pm. Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan will administer the oath of secrecy
to the chief executive. ......
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Two major intrusions
by Rangers in RS Pura
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The Daily Excelsior, June 19, 2001
>>> In a new development on the
International Border, two major intrusions have been reported by Pakistani
Rangers alongwith local people from forward villages of Devigarh and Jouran
in RS Pura sectors early today. ......
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Racism is rife in
NHS says study
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John Carvel, The Guardian, June
19, 2001
>>> Racial harassment, bullying
and discrimination are daily facts of life for black and Asian doctors,
according to a report published today by the King's Fund, an independent
health thinktank. ......
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Converging against
an Indian Kashmir
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Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, June
18, 2001
>>> There is now little doubt that
regardless of the formal agenda of the forthcoming talks with General Musharraf,
the BJP-led Government is all set to discuss Kashmir with the Pakistani
dictator. Indeed, this may well be the only issue that is discussed at
all, since Islamabad is hardly anxious that its business community trades
with India, while India has no desperate need for a Pakistani market. ......
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Buddhism Blooms Amid
the Forests of the Catskills
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Terence Neilan, The New York Times,
June 18, 2001
>>> Until six years ago, James
Frechter rose at 9 each morning, put on a dark suit and the mandatory tie
and took the subway to Wall Street to begin another long day as an associate
lawyer with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. ......
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Wag The Indo-Pak
Dog
-
Editorial, India Today, June 18,
2001
>>> The text is all optimism and
"O Brother" bonhomie. What with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's unanticipated
invitation and General Pervez Musharraf's unexpected enthusiasm for the
handshake. However, the hope of the leadership, both in Delhi and Islamabad,
is not shared by those who have made a prosperous fundamentalist career
out of Kashmir-the jehadis across the border, for instance. ......
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Pak dubbed an abettor
of extremism at China meet
-
Press Trust of India, The Indian
Express, June 18, 2001
>>> Pakistan's attempt to alter
its image as an abettor of Islamic extremism in Afghanistan seems to have
backfired with the newly-established Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) taking no decision on Islamabad's application for membership while
admitting Uzbekistan. ......
-
Pakistan stung by
Stinger sting
-
Shri Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times
of India, June 18, 2001
>>> In a huge embarrassment to
Pakistan on the eve of the visit to Washington by its foreign minister
Abdul Sattar, US federal agents have arrested two New Jersey-based Pakistanis
for trying to illegally obtain high-tech weapons, including Stinger missiles
and M-47 Dragon anti-tank guided missiles. ......
-
Plot to blow up police
chief's office revealed
-
Mr. Ranjit Khome, The Times of India,
June 18, 2001
>>> The interrogation of two Kashmiri
militants arrested by the Delhi police on May 21 has revealed a plot to
blow up the police commissioner's office here. The police had also seized
some explosives from them. ......
-
On another planet
-
Senay Boztas, The Sunday Times,
June 17, 2001
>>> In its long and lonely orbit,
Mars this weekend reaches one of its closest points to Earth for years.
At a mere 42m miles away the red planet is a striking sight and, for astrologers
at least, a portent of frenzied activity, accidents and mistakes. ......
-
Culture of violence
-
Prof Khalid Mahmud, Dawn, June 17,
2001
>>> At long last the government
came out with a three-phase plan of action to recover illegal arms. The
so-called 'awareness and persuasion' stage has come to a close with nothing
much to show for it, although the police officials have been juggling with
statistics to prove that the effort has not been in vain. ......
-
Kashmir an integral
part of India: Govt
-
PTI, The Times of India, June 17,
2001
>>> India on Saturday made it clear
that Jammu and Kashmir was its integral part, a day after Pakistani military
ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf sought to downplay the recent remarks of external
affairs minister Jaswant Singh on the issue. ......
-
Onus on Pakistan
to restore peace in J&K: Bodansky
-
Som Chivukula, Rediff on Net, June
17, 2001
>>> For over a decade, Yossef Bodansky
has been fiercely attacking Pakistan in his lectures and books, holding
Islamabad responsible for escalating terror attacks in the region and for
making itself a fountainhead of religious fundamentalism. ......
-
Cardinal Wears Roman
Collar in Saudi Arabia
-
Mark Zimmermann, The Examiner, June
16, 2001
>>> Washington Cardinal Theodore
E. McCarrick believes he may have made history in late March, during his
visit to Saudi Arabia as a member of the U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom. ......
-
Srikrishna report:
Sena to move HC, plans drive
-
The Indian Express, June 16, 2001
>>> To counter the Democratic Front
government's move to implement the Srikrishna Commission's report, the
Shiv Sena today chalked out a two-pronged strategy which consists of challenging
the action before the High Court and simultaneously launching a massive
campaign to gain political mileage. ......
-
Budget shows how
cost of Kashmir has finally caught up with Pakistan
-
Sonia Trikha, The Indian Express,
June 16, 2001
>>> Pakistan, it turns out, has
done more than mortagage its security with a historic Rs 2 billion-cut
in its defence outlay ahead of the July 14 summit. In a document signed
by the Pakistan Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz and Governor of State Bank
of Pakistan Ishrat Husain, it has virtually pledged the country's economic
sovereignty to the International Monetary Fund. ......
-
'Profane' Ad Crucified
-
Peter Fearon, The New York Post,
June 16, 2001
>>> Catholics are outraged at a
newspaper ad showing a churchgoing Catholic man carrying a bowl of Lipton
onion dip for his Communion wafer. ......
-
'Pak the cradle of
terrorism'
-
Pioneer News Service, The Pioneer,
June 16, 2001
>>> Pakistan's deep political and
military links with the Taliban are coming home to roost. Pakistan Foreign
Minister Abdul Sattar's visits to the United Kingdom, Canada and the United
States are turning out to be diplomatic minefields with the leader being
subjected to pointed scrutiny. ......
-
Osama bin Laden's
man held with RDX - Plan to blast US embassy unearthed
-
Gaurav Kala, The Times of India,
June 16, 2001
>>> Indraprasth - A Sudanese national,
said to be working for Osama bin Laden, and his Indian accomplice were
arrested by the Delhi Police in a joint operation with central intelligence
agencies from south Delhi on Thursday. ......
-
Kuwait seeks closure
of 'illegal' Sikh temple
-
www.sifynews.com, June 16, 2001
>>> Kuwaiti authorities will seek
to close a Sikh temple that has been operating in the emirate since 1985
in contravention of Islamic law, the municipality's chairman told Al-Rai
Al-Aam newspaper on Friday. ......
-
Srikrishna report:
Sena to move HC, launch public drive
-
Express News Service, The Indian
Express, June 16, 2001
>>> To counter the Democratic Front
government's move to implement the Srikrishna Commission report, the Shiv
Sena today chalked out a two-pronged strategy. ......
-
Integrally Indian
- Pakistan is not an option in Kashmir
-
A. M. Khusro, The Indian Express,
June 16, 2001
>>> If one were in Srinagar or
anywhere in the Kashmir Valley in the late 1980s or early 1990s, one would
find that nearly everybody had fallen foul of India, whatever the reasons,
and had turned a votary of Pakistan. ......
-
ASI unearths 8th
century settlement in Coochbehar
-
Dhiman Chattopadhyay and Amlan Chakraborty,
The Times of India, June 15, 2001
>>> Coochbehar / Kolkata: Thanks
to the excavation carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),
Gosanimari hitherto an obscure place in Coochbehar has become an attraction
for tourists and historians. The excavation, which started a few years
ago, has revealed remnants of a settlement which dates back to more than
1,000 years to the heydays of Bengal's best known dynasty, the Pala era.
......
-
Litigation will not
solve Ayodhya issue: Advani
-
The Times of India, June 15, 2001
>>> Union home minister L. K. Advani's
sixth deposition before the Liberhan commission was spent discussing the
relative merits of different proposals to solve the Ayodhya tangle and
analysing the political gains different parties made out of the issue.
......
-
Someone else's peace
- Two warring nations and an Indian contingent in Africa
-
Saeed Naqvi, The Indian Express,
June 15, 2001
>>> Last week the temperature at
Bada was 65 degree celsius. Spare a thought for Lance Naik Rajesh Kuile
of the 12 Maratha Light Infantry, keeping watch in that sizzling heat from
the terrace of a prefabricated structure, part of an observation post in
the heart of Danakil Depression, the world's hottest place. Kuile is with
the 1,200 strong Indian battalion, part of UNMEE, the United Nations Mission
in Ethiopia and Eritrea. ......
-
Maoist red star rises
over Nepal
-
Ajay Suri, The Indian Express, June
14, 2001
>>> Tucked away in mid-western
Nepal are names that are exotic even to the intrepid back packer: Rukum,
Rolpa, Ramechap, Sindupelchok, Khotang, Sinduli, Panchthar. There're also
seemingly so distant from governance and development that they have cradled
the movement that's now the bane of the Nepalese government: the dreaded,
shadowy Maoist uprising. ......
-
Ordinance was withdrawn
to appease minority, says Advani
-
PTI, The Times of India, June 14,
2001
>>> Home Minister L. K. Advani
on Wednesday said the V.P. Singh government's commitment to the policy
of appeasement resulted in the withdrawal of a 1990 ordinance to acquire
land around the disputed structure at Ayodhya, which was to be handed over
for kar seva. ......
-
Bradford uneasy as
Hindu-Muslim tensions emerge
-
Shyam Bhatia, India Abroad, June
14, 2001
>>> Communal tensions between Hindus
and Muslims have become evident in the English city of Bradford where a
350,000-strong white majority coexists uneasily with 85,000 Asians, predominantly
Pakistani Muslims. ......
-
Kashmiri groups in
PoK flay Pak's dual-policy
-
The Times of India, June 14, 2001
>>> Accusing Pakistan of dual standards
on the issue of Kashmir, a conglomerate of political groups in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK) has said Islamabad was "shedding crocodile tears on the issue
of self-determination for Kashmiris while denying the same in areas under
its occupation." ......
-
Mosques are for worship
- It's the presence of militants in them that's sacrilegious
-
Editorial, The Indian Express, June
14, 2001
>>> The point that worship centres
cannot be a safe haven for terrorists was brought home when the security
forces stormed the Ganai Mohalla mosque at Shangus in Anantnag district
and killed the six militants holed up there. It has forced the All Party
Hurriyat Conference leader, Abdul Ghani Lone, to make an appeal to militants
to desist from using mosques as a base for their operations. ......
-
Hurriyat hawks back
in business
-
Nazir Masoodi, The Indian Express,
June 14, 2001
>>> Pan-Islamist leader Syed Ali
Shah Geelani today rejected all possible solutions to the Kashmir issue
within the ambit of the Constitution. He warned that if Pakistan agrees
to India's overtures, it will be responsible for weakening the will of
the Kashmir people and their justified struggle for self-determination.
......
-
Weak in the knees
-
Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan
Times, June 14, 2001
>>> A Weak, soft, corrupt, pusillanimous
republic. That is the popular perception about India among Indians. Like
the leadership it has, the republic appears weak in the knees. It displays
a poverty of ambition, moves tentatively forward in the style of an old
man's gait, and has a predilection for weak-kneed policies. ......
-
India will help shape
21st century, says Clinton
-
Suman Guha Mozumder, India Abroad,
June 13, 2001
>>> Former US president Bill Clinton
told a large gathering of Indian Americans here that the course of the
21st century would be shaped by, among other things, what happens in India.
......
-
Ayodhya solution
was in sight during Shekhar's term: Joshi
-
The Times of India, June 13, 2001
>>> Union HRD minister M.M. Joshi's
deposition before the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Inquiry on Tuesday
focussed on the July 1992 kar seva. When the commission's counsel, Anupam
Gupta, asked him for the background of and reasons for the kar seva, Mr
Joshi replied that "a solution was in sight" during Chandra Shekhar's tenure
as the Prime Minister ......
-
Public turn against
ultras using mosques for refuge
-
Mufti Islah, The Indian Express,
June 13, 2001
>>> The increasing use of mosques
as hideouts by militants is being described by security agencies as a sign
that militants have lost public goodwill and are now trying to whip up
religious passions. The past 11 years of conflict in the Valley have seen
several instances - three in the past fortnight - when militants have used
mosques. ......
-
When the General
comes calling, will it bring peace? (Interview)
-
The Times of India, June 13, 2001
>>> Q. What are your expectations
from Gen. Musharraf's forthcoming visit to Delhi?
A. At this stage, it is not possible
to have any significant expectations. This is only the first meeting between
Prime Minister Vajpayee and the General who carried out the Kargil aggression.
A lot will depend upon the personal chemistry between the two. In that
respect Gen. Musharraf carries a lot of undesirable baggage. ......
-
Ayodhya solution
was in sight during Shekhar's term: Joshi
-
www.bdhindu.com, June 12, 2001
>>> Minority Persecution in Bangladesh
as a semi institutionalized process is virtually a continuation of the
policy of the Pakistani rulers who ruled Bangladesh until 1971. The Islamic
supremacist groups in that country maintain sustained assaults on minorities
as part of ethnic cleansing. ......
-
The Minority Situation
in Bangladesh
-
www.bdhindu.com, June 12, 2001
>>> Minority Persecution in Bangladesh
as a semi institutionalized process is virtually a continuation of the
policy of the Pakistani rulers who ruled Bangladesh until 1971. The Islamic
supremacist groups in that country maintain sustained assaults on minorities
as part of ethnic cleansing. ......
-
Women priests caste
off convention
-
Sarjoo Katkar, The Indian Express,
June 12, 2001
>>> When Belgaum's Jayashri Joshi
planned to celebrate the 80th birthday of her father D.S. Talawalkar, she
thought of engaging women purohits (priests) for the religious rites. She
didn't know she was initiating a caste and gender revolution. Her husband
Shrikant welcomed the idea, but traditionalists were shocked. ......
-
Pakistan: Colourful
Race Faces Threat Of Slow Extinction
-
Rory McCarthy, South China Morning
Post, June 11, 2001
>>> Photographs of Kalash women,
adorned with make-up and their necks laden with bright orange and yellow
necklaces, have pride of place in Pakistani embassies across the world
as symbols of the country's rich history. ......
-
Russian Church Blacklists
India-based Organisations
-
Arun Mohanty, People's Reporter,
May 25 - June 10, 2001
>>> The Russian Orthodox Church,
which is playing an increasingly important role in post-Soviet Russia,
has blacklisted eight India-based religious organisations, including ISKCON
and the Brahma Kumaris who have a strong presence in this country. ......
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Conversions Sri Lanka
(un)Ltd.
-
Atul Rawat, Organiser, June 3, 2001
>>> Economic liberalization comes
with various kinds of frauds. Some are economic in nature, some are not.
If one remembers, the Colonialism during the last centuries began from
Europe with motives that are sometimes summed up as three "Gs'-the Gold,
the God and the Glory. ......
-
Role of Media Crucial
-
Arabinda Ghose, Organiser, June
3, 2001
>>> The wild accusations by Mamata
Banerjee against the outgoing Chief Election Commissioner in the context
of rigging in the just-concluded State Assembly elections in West Bengal
are deplorable. ......
-
Islam's Battle For
Jerusalem... And The Entire World
-
Alan Caruba, The Ether Zone
>>> Events in Israel reveal a reality
the headlines do not address. Islam is at war with the West. Islam has
set its eyes upon the capture and control of Jerusalem, a city sacred to
Jews and Christians alike. Its spiritual value to Islam is minimal. Its
symbolic value is beyond price. ......
-
Controversial Hindu
Website comes back with Jewish help
-
www.indya.com, June 13, 2001
>>> When its service provider pulled
the plug on hinduunity.org, a Website run out of Queens and Long Island
in New York, the Hindu group turned to a radical Jewish group in Brooklyn.
......
-
"V P Singh too wanted
to perform Kar Seva": Advani
-
UNI, The Hindu, June 13, 2001
>>> Union Home Minister L K Advani
today said the then V P Singh Government had lost a chance to solve the
Ayodhya issue in 1990 by withdrawing, under Muslim groups' pressure an
ordinance to acquire the undisputed land around the Babri mosque to be
handed over to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) for temple construction.
......
-
Kashmiris up in arms
in PoK - Rejection of nomination papers
-
The Daily Excelsior, June 12, 2001
>>> Nationalist Kashmiris in Pakistan
occupied Kashmir are up in arms against the rejection of their nomination
papers for the Assembly elections next month on the grounds that they did
not sign a statement supporting Kashmir's accession to Pakistan. ......
-
Mission Lands Losing
Native Priests to the West
-
www.Zenit.org, June 12, 2001
>>> Priests born in mission territories
often end up working in the West, draining their homelands of sorely needed
pastoral care, the Vatican warns in a new document. ......
-
Court OKs School
Religious Meetings
-
Anne Gearan, www.excite.com, June
11, 2001
>>> The Supreme Court ruled for
a Christian youth group Monday in a church-state battle over whether religious
groups must be allowed to meet in public schools after class hours. ......
-
Nuns jailed for aiding
massacre of 7,000 Tutsis
-
David Haworth, The Telegraph, June
9, 2001
>>> Two Roman Catholic nuns and
two other ethnic Hutu militants were given long prison sentences yesterday
for their part in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. ......
-
Thoughts and Emotions
From Tel Aviv Attack
-
MDA News Flashes, June 6, 2001
>>> Over the weekend, Gary Kenzer,
the Executive Director of Magen David Adom, received an email from a personal
friend from Magen David Adom in Israel. Many of you who are subscribers
to our email list have read information written about this special person,
Yochai, in recent emails. ......
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Defiant Pak flays
Afghan sanctions as 'unjust'
-
www.expressindia.com, June 6, 2001
>>> Irked by the findings of a
UN committee that it is ignoring sanctions slapped on the Taliban in Afghanistan,
Pakistan has questioned the integrity of the panel and criticised the embargo
imposed by the Security Council as an "unjust instrument" which is doomed
to fail. ......
-
Center helps ensure
future of traditions
-
Laura Fasbach, www.bergen.com, June
5, 2001
>>> Growing up American with Indian-born
parents, 15-year-old Meera Jain has often felt the push and pull of trying
to fit in with her peers while remembering where her family came from.
......
-
Waiting For Musharraf
-
B.Raman, June 5, 2001
>>> Gen.Pervez Musharraf, the self-styled
Chief Executive of Pakistan, is as good a communicator as the late Gen.
Zia-ul-Haq, but with a difference. Whereas Zia effectively concealed his
ambitions and arrogance behind a veneer of humility, Gen.Musharraf makes
no effort to conceal his personal ambitions and his perception ......
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Tackle Mr Hyde, not
Mush Musharraf
-
Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net,
June 5, 2001
>>> More than a month before he
sets foot on our soil, our press has begun to put out those soft, human-interest
stories about him. News of General Musharraf's acceptance of Vajpayee's
invitation was, for instance, accompanied by a front-page box item about
how keen Musharraf is to see his old home in Delhi where he was born and
spent his first ten years or so. ......
-
UK: The race relations
industry is playing into the hands of the thugs.
-
Yorkshire Post, June 4, 2001
>>> Why be surprised when young
Asian thugs in Oldham throw petrol bombs at the police? The race relations
industry tells them that they are deprived, under-privileged victims of
discrimination, living in a racist society. They are told endlessly that
the police are racist. ......
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'I am a Muslim woman'
-
Dr. Sauad M. Al-Sabah, Dr. Darabi
Foundation
>>> I am a Moslem woman. I have
no face. I have no identity. At age 9, based on lunar year (a lunar year
is twelve months of 28 days each or 336 days) or, when I am actually 8
years and 8 months old, I am considered an adult. Being an adult means
that I have to adhere with Islamic laws as stated below. ......
-
Assam missionaries
face 'conversion' flak
-
Samudra Gupta Kashyap, The Indian
Express, June 6, 2001
>>> Vaishnavite satras (monasteries)
have accused Christian missionaries in Assam with converting Assamese tribals
and tea plantation labourers forcibly. ......
-
Caste in the race
-
Editorial, The Hindustan Times,
June 6, 2001
>>> A UN proposal to convene a
World Congress on 'Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance' in Durban appears to have provoked a section of the intelligentsia
in this country and overseas to urge that India's caste system should also
be brought into the ambit of the discussion. ......
-
Kashmir's forgotten
people - Ashish Sharma on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits
-
Business Standard, June 5, 2001
>>> From words of war to a war
of words, it is yet another concession to hope in the tragedy of terrors
being enacted in Kashmir. Even as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee readies
to host Pakistan Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf, the most neglected
and yet perhaps the most telling component of the troubled picture remains
out of focus. ......
-
Shiva and Ganesh Hit
the Runways
-
Rina Chandran, Masala Magazine,
June 4, 2001
>>> Last summer Macy's-at-Herald-Square
wore a Bollywood look; this year, Bloomingdale's is sporting a more divine
look. Its "Urban Odyssey" collection for spring includes a range of ready-to-wear
garments with images of Hindu deities. ......
-
Who killed the royal
family of Nepal?
-
Rajeev Srinivasan, Rediff on Net,
June 4, 2001
>>> There is something not quite
right in the agency reports regarding the mysterious deaths of the royal
family of Nepal. First, there is the curious story that the crown prince,
Dipendra, having massacred his entire family, then tried to kill himself.
He might have succeeded, except he contrived to shoot himself in the back
of the head. ......
-
Copy of Fax/dt.June-3-01/sent
to PM: J&K policy
-
Pranawa C. Deshmukh, June 4, 2001
>>> SanMananiya Pradhan Mantriji:
We commend your continued efforts to resolve the Jammu & Kashmir imbroglio.
In this endeavor, we trust that you will be guided by the following FACTS:
......
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Calls for Slavery
Restitution Getting Louder
-
Tamar Lewin, The New York Times,
June 4, 2001
>>> It has been more than a century
since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ordered that the coastlands confiscated
in the Civil War be divided into 40-acre plots and distributed to thousands
of former slaves. ......
-
The Organic Kaka
-
Vivek Deshpande, Sunday Indian Express,
June 3, 2001
>>> Many years before the organically
inclined arrived on the scene, there was one man in Yavatmal district in
Maharashtra who had already switched to the what's now hip and mainstream.
Narayan Deorao Pandharipande (82) is better known as Nadep Kaka and for
good reason - he is the inventor of one of the seven established methods
of compost manufacture. ......
-
10 killed in Bangladesh
in church blast
-
The Times of India, June 3, 2001
>>> Ten people were killed Sunday
and 12 others injured, some seriously, when a bomb exploded in a church
at Baniarchar village in Gopalganj district, some 100 km from here, where
people had assembled for Sunday mass prayer. ......
-
Anti-Muslim Groups
Unite Through Internet
-
Dean E. Murphy, The New York Times,
June 2, 2001
>>> A Web site run by militant
Hindus in Queens and Long Island was recently shut down by its service
provider because of complaints that it advocated hatred and violence toward
Muslims. But a few days later, the site was back on the Internet. ......
-
Prominent Hindu, Sikh
And Jewish Leaders Deplore Taliban Savagery
-
By Narain Kataria In New York
>>> Overseas Friends of BJP, along
with approximately 20 prominent associations (including three Jewish groups)
organized a boisterous demonstration in front of the United Nations in
New York on Friday 1, 2001 in which more than 200 people representing various
shades of public opinion enthusiastically participated. ......
-
French Christians
Fear Ramifications Of Anti-Sect Law
-
www.crosswalk.com, June 1, 2001
>>> French Christians are bracing
for problems resulting from the passage this week of a controversial new
law aimed at controlling the activities of dangerous religious sects, but
also likely to affect ordinary churches. ......
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Personal Evangelism
Among Educated Hindus
-
H.L. Richards, Mission Frontier
>>> Friendship evangelism is usually
easy to initiate with Hindus. Most Hindus esteem religion in general and
are free and open to speak about it. A sincere, nonjudgemental interest
in all aspects of Indian Life will provide a good basis for friendship.
Personal interaction with Hindus will lead to a more certain grasp of the
essence of Hinduism than reading many books. ......
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