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- Bhavan's Journal
- In defence of Hinduism - a book review Prof. Uma Erry
- 15 October 1996
>>>A review of "Arise Arjuna" a book by David Frawley.
David Frawley in his book "Arise Arjuna" has fortunately
included in the last section of the book an autobiographical note, 'An American Discovers The Vedas'. Who is this
American writing on the Vedas? one may ask. We are accusus-
...
- Biblio
- Malraux meets Jawaharlal Nehru Raja Rao
- 1996 November
>>>Place de la Sorbonne ... Panditji and I get out of a
taxi, opposite a Chinese Restaurant-Shanghai, was it
called? (it is still there!). Green shrubs, in square
lacquer boxes at the windows, with red Chinese characters
on the glass walls, it had a modest but intimate ap-
...
- Biblio: A Review of Books
- Communalism Combat
- Sangeeta (or Ayesha) beware - advice to Smt Mohammed Azharuddin Sultan Shahin
- 96 December
>>>(The writer was sacked from the editorship of a Muslim-owned magazine in 1991
for his refusal to convert his Hindu wife to Islam).
I understand your plight, Sangeeta. Once you are caught up in the games of
conversion maniacs, there is no easy way out. But you do not understand your
own plight, the mess you are in along with your new found husband. Now listen
...
- Frontline
- On spiritual entreprenuers; and a comment Badrinath K Rao
- 29 November 1996
>>>Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement by Lise McKean;
University of Chicago press, Chicago and London; 1995; Pages xvii + 361; $60
(cloth-bound), $21.95 (paperback).
Though disturbed by the communal violence and the rhetoric of hatred and
intolerance accompanying the Hindutva movement, well-intentioned Hindus think
...
- Mid-day
- Secular in spirit M V Kamath
- 7 December 1996
>>>There was a strange news item in some newspapers recently. I wouldn't have believed it were it not attributed to
the Press Trust of India, our sarkari news agency.
It said that when two planes collided mid-air over Haryana, with wreckage strewn over a vast area, the first to
to
...
- Observer and Economic Times
- Organiser
- Hindus in Bangladesh Sisir K. Majumdar
- 22 December 1996
>>>The core issue in the relation between India and Bangladesh is the status of
religious minorities and the establishment of their fundamental human rights.
Bilateral problems like the Ganga water, etc, are secondary. The question of
Hindu rights is pricking the very moral fabric of the Indian nation.
The tale of religious minorities in Bangladesh has been a tale of tears,
...
- Resist temptation for power and egoism - Advani Posted By Ashok V Chowgule - 22 December 1996
>>>BJP President, Shri Lal Krishna Advani cautioned parts. leaders to resist
temptations for power and egoism and hobnobbing with the media. releasing
statements to settle personal scores with other leaders within the party. He
said that only strictly self-disciplined leaders would help in keeping the
party united and proceeding towards attaining power in the State. He was
...
- RSS role in Chakri Dadri Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
- 8 December 1996
>>>During the recent tragic disaster of two aircraft near
Charkhi Dadri, the RSS people played a remarkable role
despite the fact that the majority of the victims were
Muslims. I saw and experienced this myself and I have
said this clearly in my report published in the Saudi
...
- Orient Longmans Ltd.,
- Preface to ISLAM IN INDIA'S TRANSITION TO MODERNITY M A Karandikar
- 1968
>>>PREFACE
The Constitution of India seeks to speed up the process of modernization in
the country. Yet during the last twenty-one years there are hardly any signs
of the gathering of any momentum to the change in the social structure. In
fact one wonders whether the anti-secular and anti-modernist forces have got
...
- Foreword to ISLAM IN INDIA'S TRANSITION TO MODERNITY Achyut Patwardhan
- 1968
>>>The author of the book is M A Karandikar
India's advance towards political emancipation was part of a larger process
of modernization. British domination first brought an awakening among Indian
intellectuals that Western countries were forging a brilliant future of
material prosperity and cultural advancement by the development of science
...
- Pioneer
- Sena counsel to seek summons on Olga Tellis PTI
- 12 December 1996
>>>In a sequel to the summons served by Srikrishna Commission on CNN journalist, Ms Anita Pratap in connection
with her controversial interview of the Sena chief, Mr
Bal Thackeray in January 1993, the Sena counsel, Mr Balkrishna Joshi has indicated that he would seek issue of
of
...
- Rahul Ramagundam
- JNU culture demands indiscipline The Indian Express
- 3 December 1996
>>>The editorial "Futility of Education: Time to crack the
whip in JNU", (November 20) touched the raw nerves on the
campus, due to its disturbing and dangerous content.
"Because the truth involves us all", reiterates the
punchline of The Indian Express in its propaganda blitz.
...
- Statesman
- Turkish leader inspierd by the Gita Posted By Ashok V Chowgule - 16 December 1996
>>>The former Turkish Prime Minister and well known writer, Mr Bulent Ecevit,
revealed that the Indian scripture, Bhagwad Gita, was a source of solace and
guidance in hours of crisis, reports, PTI.
"The Gita has been source of inspiration for me particularly when I had to
take critical decisions in my political career," Mr Ecevit, who has
...
- Sunday
- Sunday Observer
- Telegraph
- The Asian Age
- Bending backwards to please Bangladesh Sankar Ghosh
- 17 December 1996
>>>With the details of the Ganga waters treaty still unknown, any balance sheet
at this moment is bound to be tentative. Assuming that the bulk of what has,
appeared about the treaty signed by the Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and
India are correct. it would seem that the visiting Prime Minister got all she
wanted out of this treaty. The most significant feature of the treaty appears
...
- East is East, West is West and both are declining K Natwar Singh
- 17 December 1996
>>>On 23rd November, 1996, Mr Nirad C. Chaudhuri entered his 100th year. He is
still writing and is intellectually alert. This is indeed unique. There is no
other instance in the history of literature of all author still creative at
100 - Shaw died in his 95th year, but had not written any thing exceptional
after reaching 85. Bertrand Russell died at 98. but after his autobiography,
...
- Left gives Gowda six more months in Delhi Seema Mustafa
- 17 December 1996
>>>Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, after leading his government through a
"dismal" performance in Parliament, is being accused by his own Cabinet
colleagues and allies of "just marking time" until the government falls. The
Left party leaders are now giving this government less than six months to
survive.
- Distance from Parliament, not from power Sankar Ghosh
- 10 December 1996
>>>For no fault of its own, Calcutta has been denied the
honour and privilege of welcoming the Prime Minister for
a half day. Calcutta had suddenly been informed by New
Delhi last week that the Prime Minister planned to visit
the city to wish the ailing Mother Teresa a speedy recov-
...
- The Economic Times
- Gowda's remark on quota for Muslims angers all Posted By Ashok V Chowgule - 24 December 1996
>>>Prime Minister Deve Gowda's penchant for making promises without clearance
from the United Front steering committee has been a sore point with rest of
the constituents, but his latest pronouncement that left to him he would have
extended reservation in government jobs to minorities (read Muslims) has
angered his colleagues. That the prime minister should have tried to secure
...
- Scattered Dalit votebank Sudhir Kumar Mishra
- 23 December 1996
>>>The jubilation over the triumph of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the recently
concluded assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh may have fetched snobbery for
Mr Kanshi Ram, but his party is yet to gain a ground in the neighbouring
state of Bihar the citadel of social justice. Although, the scheduled castes
comprise of nearly 22 per cent of the total population of this state, the BSP
...
- Left buries hatchet with Netaji Ritwik Mukherjee
- 11 December 1996
>>>As in love and war, every-thing is fair in politics too.
In politics, it does not really matter if someone is
rejected outright as an untouchable at one point of time
and then given, say a 21-gun salute a few years down the
line. That is exactly the case with the Indian Communists
...
- Confession as a farce Editorial
- 5 December 1996
>>>Disingenuity mars Dr Manmohan Singh's confession of overreliance on private investment for power generation in
the eighth plan. True, the public sector failed to invest
appreciably in the power sector during the last five
years. To dress this up as the result of a deliberate
...
- Price of extremism Editorial
- 2 December 1996
>>>The North-East will have to first resolve extremism
before its huge natural wealth can be exploited. Last
week's bomb-blasting of two crude oil pipelines by suspected ULFA extremists may disrupt supplies to Barauni
and Bongaigaon refineries for weeks. The act is doubly
...
- The Examiner
- A call to collaboration; and a comment Archbishop Joseph Powathil
- 14 December 1996
>>>The preparation for the Special Assembly of the Bishops' Synod for Asia has
now entered a crucial stage. The Lineamenta is already received. This
document is the basis for an Asia-wide discussion on the Synodal theme "Jesus
Christ, the Saviour and His Mission of Love and Service in Asia: 'that they
may have life, and have it abundantly' [Jn 10,10]". At this stage the Synodal
...
- The Hindu
- Back to the basics Neena Vyas
- 24 November 1996
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party has tried to beat the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) at their
own game in the caste-ridden politics of Uttar Pradesh,
but the results of the recent Assembly elections have set
the alarm bells ringing in the party - less because it
...
- The Indian Express
- More than a 'gram' of care - a NGO at work Meera Nair
- 24 December 1996
>>>With eyes widened in innocence, Taai stares at the feet passing by her,
occasionally looking up in vain for the familiar face of her mother.
Abandoned at the age of two at a bus-stop near Pune, because she was born a
female, her brother gained priority when it came to who would stay with the
mother in the face of poverty.
- The swadeshi serpent bites its tail; and a response Sauvik Chakraverti
- 21 December 1996
>>>History does not reveal the lurid picture of colonial exploitation that
Indian economic historiographers have painted in our minds. Well into this
century, when laissez-faire ruled British thinking, it was quite clear that
foreign capital was a good thing, and that foreign capitalists were
profit-seeking individuals with interests quite distinct from that of the
...
- Ongoing saga of ingratitude Kuldip Nayar
- 23 December 1996
>>>Nations, like individuals, do not like to recall gratitude. It is
embarrassing. It makes them feel indebted. Bangladesh is no different, It is
reluctant to remember the help of Indian armed forces to the Mukti Bhahini.
But the general impression is that Bangladesh would have become independent,
with or without India's help. It was only the question of time. General
...
- Hinduism, incomplete and abridged; and a response Ramesh Menon
- 19 December 1996
>>>I am a Hindu. I saw Husain's picture of Saraswati and was not outraged by
it. It is no labour of devotion but a modern, stylised work. Perhaps, as
many artists do, he drew a young lady he knew in the Devi's image. But the
splayed legs, and her state of near-nudity, could indeed give offence to a
conservative Hindu.
- Throwing away the crutches Vivek Deshpande
- 17 December 1996
>>>Nearly five decades ago, the noblest possible activity, small in magnitude
but containing seeds of an unprecedented revolution was undertaken by a man
who could have been dismissed by sceptics as an eccentric. At the end of a
long and tortuous journey, the results are apparent.
A lot has been said and volumes have been written about Baba Amte and
...
- Long Taming Coomi Kapoor
- 1 December 1996
>>>David Loyn, BBC's South Asia Bureau Chief, is in hot
water with the Indian Government. The Ministry of External Affairs had even asked him to leave the country some
time back. It was only after the intervention of British
High Commissioner David Gore-Booth that a face-saving
...
- The Observer
- Cong, Left blast UF on UP tangle Observer Political Bureau
- 20 December 1996
>>>The Congress AICC spokesman V N Gadgil has blamed the United Front for
"totally mishandling the situation In Uttar Pradesh" and held it responsible
for creating a "first class constitutional crisis" in the state.
Speaking to newsmen informally, at the AICC headquarters, in New Delhi on
Thursday, Gadgil said that had the "UF accepted Mayawati as the chief
...
- Verdict a boost to democratic principles Sujit Chakraborty
- 20 December 1996
>>>Perhaps for the first time, a landmark constitutional judgement delivered by
the full bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday is far more than a
mere academic exercise as it provides an effective remedy as well.
Similar judgements in the recent past have only been a matter of historical
record. But today's verdict seeks to undo a patent wrong done to the
...
- Promises unkept Dina Nath Mishra
- 12 December 1996
>>>When the United Front government had come into being more
than six months back, members of the steering committee
had trumpeted the common minimum programme as the blueprint of achievable time-bound programmes. But practically nothing happened in the right direction barring on
on
...
- End this madness Inder Malhotra
- 11 December 1996
>>>It is nice to know that the Prime Minister's son, H D
Kumaraswamy, has joined 40 other members of Parliament's
standing committee on defence in criticising the Deve
Gowda government for taking national defence casually.
The charge, which was laid at the door of the Narasimha
...
- Lessons unlearnt - a letter R Das
- 11 December 1996
>>>Paris, the city of light is under siege. The police and
other law enforcement agencies are out in force ever
since a bomb went off in a train killing few and injuring
many.
The toll would have been higher but for some fortunate
...
- BJP retreat from Ayodhya Koenraad Elst
- 6 December &
>>>Four years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the
Bharatiya Janata Party hardly dares to mention Ayodhya
anymore. "You cannot cash on a cheque twice," explains
the party's spokesperson.
At the outset, the BJP never had its heart in the Ayodhya
...
- Case for a quantum leap Dina Nath Mishra
- 5 December 1996
>>>We hear a lot in the media about the internal crisis of
the BJP. There is a systematic effort by the BJP baiters
to create an image that like all other parties, the BJP
too suffers from the same maladies like internal bickering, rebellion, and what not. The Vaghela episode, a lone
...
- The Observer of Business & Politics
- The Organiser
- BJP-Akali does it again - Chandigarh Municipal Election Pramod Kumar
- 22 December 1996
>>>One of the most literate towns in the country has fully rejected
pseudo-secularism in the municipal corporation elections held recently.
Upsetting all pre-poll equations and predictions of a hung House coming to
power in Chandigarh Municipal Corporation the BJP won 13 seats out of the 20
elected seats to claim a thumping majority. Its ally, the Siromant Akali Dal
...
- Ready Selfless Service Pramod Kumar
- 8 December 1996
>>>"I am indeed very grateful to these organisations for the
invaluable service they are rendering", said the Union
Civil Aviation Minister of the United Front Government
Shri Chand Mahal Ibrahim outside the relief camp set up
by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) when he saw the
...
- The Pioneer
- A Way of Life and More; and a response C N Venugopal
- 15 December 1996
>>>Introduction: Cognitive, institutional, ritualistic, spiritual, devotional
and secular - Hinduism's greatest strength lies in its ability to harmonise
diversity and its proficiency in internalising change without altering its
fundamental philosophy of life.
Hinduism has had a protean character. During the five millennia of its
...
- How to halt politicians' unprincipled race for power Sudheendra Kulkarni
- 19 December 1996
>>>Of the 11 prime ministers India has had so far, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee may
have served for the shortest stint in office, but few can deny that he has
the highest popularity ratings among all the likely candidates for the
nation's top job today. Uniquely, his popularity transcends the support base
of his party. The veteran BJP leader has once again given proof of his
...
- VHP moves to embarrass Vaghela Pioneer News Service
- 17 December 1996
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) are
bracing to launch an offensive against the Shankersinh Vaghela Government in
Gujarat.
Putting its ample workforce and lawyers' base to good use, the BJP has
chalked out a strategy to file a string of cases against the Government as
...
- Amend the order - a letter Syed Shahabuddin
- 7 December 1996
>>>This has reference to a Press report regarding the ban
imposed by the Calcutta High Court pm the use of the
public announcement system for Azaan. Unless this order
is amended, the ban would be applicable throughout the
country. It is, therefore, necessary to approach the High
...
- The Spokesman Monthly
- Prospects for Indo-Pak Unity; and a comment Editorial
- 1996 August
>>>Note : This article is republished by Muslim India 167, November 1996
The partition of the country in 1947 was wrong and it should not have taken
place... The Hindu leaders wanted to preserve the integrity of India without
granting any special rights to the minorities. This being against the
democratic spirit, the country came to be divided. Now, if we wish to rectify
...
- The Statesman
- RSS chief asks Hindus to reunite Statesman News Service
- 31 December 1996
>>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief, Professor Rajendra Singh today
called upon all Hindus to sink their differences and unite again so that
they can revive the glory of the country and to provide "leadership to
the world" for which it was waiting.
Because of the pile up of nuclear weapons, the 21st century would of
...
- The Sunday Observer
- The Sunday Review
- The Times of India
- Tolerate Dissent Editorial
- 30 December 1996
>>>Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray is known for his candour on many
contentious issues but when it extends to questioning Gandhiji's famed
celibacy, there is a predictable outpouring of horror and shock. While
it was certainly most irreverent of Mr Thackeray to describe Gandhiji's
celibacy as a "fraud" in the course of defending Mumbai's deputy chief
...
- No saris please, so what if we are Indian Radha Basu
- 24 December 1996
>>>Two trendy young women layers were denied entry into a city discotheque last
weekend for violating its unwritten dress code. They weren't wearing scruffy,
torn or dirty clothes. Nor were they skimpily dressed; quite the contrary.
"You cannot enter," Kavita Khanna and Meher Anlesaria were told, "simply
because you are wearing saris".
- Disinvestment panel makes little progress M Gautham Machaiah
- 23 December 1996
>>>The disinvestment commission set up by the Centre to restructure public
sector undertakings (PSU) either by privatising them or off-loading shares in
favour of workers, has made little progress. Though the commission was
constituted two months ago, At Is yet to even formulate an opinion on whether
shares In PSUs should be diluted in the first place.
- Rise above Ego Editorial
- 23 December 1996
>>>In staying the Allahabad high court ruling quashing the re-imposition of
Central Rule in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court has recognised the need to
settle with some urgency the larger constitutional questions tied to the
issue. If fractured verdicts and isolationist tendencies are today's
political reality, then, the UP impasse would inevitably be replicated in
...
- UF Govt, at best, is mutispeak: HDFC chief Business Times Bureau
- 19 December 1996
>>>"Neither here nor there, just about sums up the first six months of the
13-party coalition government. We had expected the politics of compromise but
we have been served the politics of confusion," said Housing Development
Finance Corporation (HDFC) chairman Deepak Parekh. Delivering his acceptance
speech after being declared businessman of the year, Mr Parekh contrasted the
...
- The BJP: Victim of its Own Strategy; and a comment Surendra Mohan
- 17 December 1996
>>>The zig-zags of the BJP's political line would baffle anyone, including its
staunchest supporters. The flexibility of manoeuvre it has displayed in
moving from the core agenda of Hindutva to moderation and back is an
indication of its confusions rather than its suppleness. In 1994, when it was
preparing for assembly elections in six states, it opted for the three-point
...
- RSS set to tighten grip over BJP Bhaskar Roy
- 13 December 1996
>>>In a clear move to tighten its grip over the BJP, the RSS
has called a meeting of its pracharaks who are holding
important positions in the party.
The parent organisation has of late made no bones about
its unhappiness over increasing instances of indiscipline
...
- Times of India
- Dhubri (Assam) troubled by influx of migrants Gurmukh Singh
- 29 December 1996
>>>The mere mention of Dhubri evokes bitter reactions from any Assamese.
This last Assamese district, bifurcated by the Brahmaputra, has
virtually become an extension of Bangladesh because of the continuing
influx from across the border.
Bangladeshi migrants are also reportedly sneaking in with the Indian
...
- Assam town 'lost' to Bangladesh Gurmukh Singh
- 31 December 1996
>>>DHUBRI (Assam): The mere mention of this town evokes bitter reactions
from any son-ofthe-soil Assamese. "Oh, Dhubri? It's been lost to
Bangladesh!"
This last Assamese district, bifurcated by the Brahmaputra, has
virtually become an extension of Bangladesh because of the continuing
...
- Muslims must aim higher than quota M YUSUF KHAN
- 27 December 1996
>>>A series of articles have recently Aappeared in Qaumi Awaz, a popular Urdu
daily published from Delhi and Lucknow, expressing divergent views on the
issue of job reservation for Muslims. But when eminent people like Syed
Hamid, an exbureaucrat and ex-Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University,
express their views in favour of job reservation for Muslims, it comes as a
...
- Two London Papers
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