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Starting: Sat 01 Feb 1997 - 06:30:53 EDT
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- "Our Govt stability will depend on the Centre's intentions"
- Kulvinder Kular
The Indian Express
- 9 February 1997
>>>For Punjab's chief minister-in-waiting Prakash Singh Badal, the
countdown to power is almost over. Badal is all set to ascend to
power for the third time and after a gap of 17 years. Politics,
during this period, has come full circle, after passing through a
turbulent, gory phase. Badal looks back and ahead in a
...
- "The Constitution of India and National Unity" - L K Advani
- "This country has hit rock bottom" : H.D. Deve Gowda
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule India Today
- 15 February 1997
>>>Angry with the Media, yet cocky about his Government's performance,
Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda spoke to Executive Editor PRABHU
CHAWLA for 90 minutes. Excerpts:
Q. Are you satisfied with the performance of your Government?
A. If anyone wants to make a fair assessment, (they) must compare
...
- "We will not be vindictive" - Interview Parkash Singh Badal
- Ramesh Vinayak
India Today
- 28 February 1997
>>>For 17 Years since the dismissal of the Akali-Janata government in
1980, Badal has been out of power but never out of reckoning. The
triumphant Akali Dal chief shared his optimism of "ushering in a
Maharaja Ranjit Singh rule in Punjab" with Principal Correspondent
RAMESH VINAYAK in Chandigarh. Excerpts:
...
- 'BJP should decide on purge in party'
- Press Trust of India
The Observer
- 5 February 1997
>>>Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Prof Rojendra Singh on Tuesday
said that it was for the BJP to decide whether the party needed to
purge the organisation of elements lacking discipline and nurturing
perverse ambitions. "However, I think such a situation has not
arisen, even though there has been some indiscipline among those
...
- 'I am against a secular state; it is an alien structure'
- Seema Gupta
The Times of India
- 5 February 1997
>>>Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan believes he will one day be the
prime minister of Pakistan. He knows the time has not come, but is
supremely confident he is destined to change the politics of
Pakistan. In the five months since he announced his decision to
join politics, he has lost count of the hundreds of meetings he has
...
- 'It does not enhance the prestige of the Congress to talk about bringing down the govt. Let them do
- Jay Mazoomdaar
The Sunday Observer
- 2-8 February 1997
>>>Reticence and pragmatism are keywords for Harkishen Singh Surjeet,
the most sought-after Marxist leader in the corridors of power
today. And why not? It is these qualities which have brought the
septuagenarian politician to a position where he practically holds
the prime minister's ear.
- 'It is a vicious circle
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Observer
- 9-15 February 1995
>>>Many of the guests at the Second Global Conference 1997, organized
in January by the All-India Association of Industries in Mumbai,
were surprised to see Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla there.
Rare indeed is the sight in these parts of a VIP from the
North-East. And Thanhawla (pronounced than 'haula) was no less
...
- 'Jobless' Taliban may train guns on Kashmir
- Nirmala George
The Indian Express
- 16 February 1997
>>>Security analysts fear Kashmir could be the next target of the
dreaded Taliban militia, which is spreading its tentacles into
China and Bangladesh.
Their fear stems from the fact that the Taliban has a large number
of fighters now rendered unemployed in Afghanistan, where it has
...
- 'RSS chief had told Rao that something will happen in Ayodhya on Dec 6'
- Neerja Chowdhury
The Indian Express
- 16 February 1997
>>>The tentativeness which surrounded L.K Advani's actions in 1996,
which according to him was the most challenging year in his
political career, has disappeared. When the BJP chief talked to
NEERJA CHOWDHURY after his party's impressive performance in the
byelections and the Punjab assembly polls, he was as confident and
...
- 'Sanskrit is a magical language; its study should be a joy'
- Reeta Dutta Gupta
The Times of India
- 21 February 1997
>>>Professor- of historical linguistics, George Cardona, teaches
Indian grammatical theory at the University, of Pennsylvania and is
a modern tikakaar (commentator) on Panini's Ashtadhyayi. He
switched to Sanskrit grammatical studies from the study of
Indo-European, the family of languages (Greek, Latin, Sanskrit,
...
- 'Unofficial' policy bars Hindus from jobs in Saudi
- Jitendra Satpute
The Free Press Journal
- 16 February 1997
>>>The Saudi Arabian government has for some time now been
implementing a policy to deny employment opportunities to Indian
Hindus.
While no written directions have been given to the concerned
ministries, it is reliably learnt that the Saudi Embassy officials
...
- 'We cannot allow the BJP to capture power in Delhi'
- Jay Mazoomdaar
The Sunday Observer
- 23-March February 1
>>>For Buddhadev Bhattacharya, member of the central committee of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) and West Bengal's minister for
home (police) and information, politics cannot but be
"value-based".
A student of Bengali literature at Presidency College and Calcutta
...
- 'We wanted Moopanar to become P M, but he refused'
- Harish Gupta
The Indian Express
- 2 February 1997
>>>He is an acknowledged king maker. Harkishan Singh Surjeet has been
playing this part in his own discreet fashion. He even claims that
he played a key role in the appointment of Morarji Desai as Prime
Minister in 1977.
Singh has been associated with the Left movement since 1933. The
...
- 1,100 Jamait activists teaching in schools
- Arun Joshi
The Hindustan Times
- 12 February 1997
>>>The Jammu and Kashmir Government had absorbed 1, 100 hard-core
Jamait-e-Islami activists as teachers in the Government schools
during the past seven years of militancy in the State.
These activists who were teaching in the Jamait-e-Islami run
schools or 'Madrassas' till 1990 were absorbed into the Government
...
- 2 killed as rioters burn down churches in Multan
- AFP
The Asian Age
- 7 February 1997
>>>A mob of 30,000 Muslim rioter on Thursday went on the
rampage in a central Pakistani town, setting fire to two
Christian churches in violence which left two people
dead, the police said.
Troops were deployed in Khanewal, 60 km east of Multan on
...
- 236 dead, an economy in decline, a failed truce
- Udayan Namboodiri
The Indian Express
- 11 February 1997
>>>This is Tripura's silver jubilee year, but no one wants to be
reminded of it. Not surprising because since 1980, ethnic strife
here has claimed the lives of three million people. Even by the
standards of other North-East 'insurgency-hit' States, land-locked
Tripura has had a particularly bad run.
- `Rape, torture rampant in Pakistan'
- UNI
The Asian Age
- 7 February 1997
>>> Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest and detention,
torture or abuse of prisoners and detainees and rape of
women by security forces were widely reported in Pakistan
during 1996 with the overall human rights situation
remaining poor.
- A Goebbels in DD?
- Editorial
The Hindustan Times
- 25 January 1997
>>>The crude manner in which Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee's views
expressed on the Netaji's centenary function on Thursday
were blacked out by Doordarshan ominously points to the
presence of a Goebbels at eh head of the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry. Of course, Mr C.M. Ibrahim nowhere
...
- A move against the missionaries' menace
- G. Shreedathan
Organiser
- 16 February 1997
>>>"The Communist Party in Kerala is now-a-days grappling with a new
problem," says Shri Kummanam Rajasekharan the Kerala State Vishva
Hindu Parishad Organising Secretary who was in Delhi recently,
Talking to G. Shreedathan of Organiser about the recent political
and social developments in the State Shri Rajasekharan said : "Of
...
- A New exodus?
- Editorial
The Hindustan Times
- 21 February 1997
>>>Reports that many Muslim families had been forced to leave their
homes in the Valley in recent weeks is particularly disturbing when
a popular government had been in place. The story of the exodus
from the Valley has been one uninterrupted saga of suffering since
the militants first struck in the Valley over eight years ago. Even
...
- A question of national paternity
- Sultan Shahin
The Indian Express
- 30 January 1997
>>>It takes the a audacity of, a Thackeray or a Mayavati to question
the integrity of the father of a nation. But once the lions have
roared even lesser mortals can chip in. I cannot think of the
Mahatma as a fraud or a sexual pervert. I do, however. hesitate to
label him as the father of the nation. The 50th year of our
...
- Sultan Shahin
The Indian Express
- 30 January 1997
>>>It takes the a audacity of, a Thackeray or a Mayavati to question
the integrity of the father of a nation. But once the lions have
roared even lesser mortals can chip in. I cannot think of the
Mahatma as a fraud or a sexual pervert. I do, however. hesitate to
label him as the father of the nation. The 50th year of our
...
- A tigerish man, atop a sectarian tiger
- Carl Posey
Times
- 23 December 1996
>>>Delhi in the spring heat of 1946 was not relaxed," TIME reported
that April. "It was taut with waiting, gravid with conflict and
suspense. Two socialist lawyers and a former Baptist lay preacher
from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the
viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of
...
- A Vote for Status Quo
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 14 February 1997
>>>Looks like Mr Deve Gowda can forget all about returning home to
Hardanahalli. Going by the drubbing the Congress has received in
Punjab and in the current round of by-elections, it should be a
long, long while before it can even dream of dislodging Mr Gowda
from South Block, let alone occupy it itself. As for the doomsday
...
- A wise decision
- Editorial
The Observer
- 12 February 1997
>>>President Shankar Dayal Sharma should be congratulated for
upholding the standards of parliamentary democracy by his
well-considered decision not to approve the latest government list
of nominees to the Rajya Sabha. Going by the reports he has
declined to approve the file as he has not satisfied with some of
...
- Akali hero, Surjeet zero
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 12 February 1997
>>>The most charitable explanation for the pitiful performance of the
two Communist parties in the Punjab Assembly elections is that the
electorate was able to successfully distinguish between true Akalis
and counterfeit ones. This belated recognition will, of course, not
make the slightest impression on CPI(M) general secretary,
...
- America's own 'Kashmir problem': The Republic of Texas!
- Mark Potok
The Times of India
- 28 February 1997
>>>Fort Davis, Texas: High in the canyons of the remote Davis
Mountains in west Texas, an armed man claiming Texas is an
independent nation is terrorising neighbours and threatening
federal marshals who want to serve him with a contempt of court
citation.
- Americans bring Vedic medicine to India
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Times of India
- 2 February 1997
>>>In an irony of sorts, doctors from the United States are seeking to
popularise Vedic ideas about medicine and healing in India. Doctors
Barry Charles and Satinder Swaroop say Ayurveda, as it is practised
in India, is not complete.
The two doctors are currently on a seven-city lecture tour of India
...
- An island of Malayalam lights a candle for the masses
- Vidhyadhar Date
The Times of India
- 9 February 1997
>>>A group of 15 to 20 Malayalam-speaking scientists from the Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and other research organisations meet
in Mumbai every month and translate the latest scientific
information in the world into Malayalam so that the knowledge can
be speedily and easily made available to the masses.
- An open letter to the finance minister
- Surjit S Bhalla
The Economic Times
- 31 January 1997
>>>Dear Sir, you are about to proceed to the World Economic Forum in
Davos and meet like-minded reformers there. The greeting is
inevitably going to be: What have you done for reforms lately? To
which your reply will be: "Not much,' but then I had to make the
budget within days of assuming office". So far so good the
...
- Surjit S Bhalla
The Economic Times
- 31 January 1997
>>>Dear Sir, you are about to proceed to the World Economic Forum in
Davos and meet like-minded reformers there. The greeting is
inevitably going to be: What have you done for reforms lately? To
which your reply will be: "Not much,' but then I had to make the
budget within days of assuming office". So far so good the
...
- Artistic freedom never crosses our borders
- Kumaran Suresh
The Economic Times
- 17 February 1997
>>>Sir: Mr. Narcor Balachandran's letter (ET 5 February) raises
certain pertinent points which need to be addressed squarely.
To start with, Goddess Saraswathi has never been portrayed nude m
any of the Hindu sculptures or paintings, even ancient ones. She is
always referred to as wearing a white sari with a swan in
...
- Arunachal Pradesh - an ornament of Bharat
- Editorial
Yuva Bharat
- 1997 January
>>>Arunachal Pradesh is a beautiful ornament of Bharat. This gifted
State is a land of lofty mountains, green valleys, murmuring rivers
and of gentle and peace-loving people, who traditionally worship
Surya (DONYI) and Chandra (POLO), the Devatas that the rest of
Bharat irrespective of what faith the people profess, also accepts
...
- Aurobindo Ashram in knots
- T Manivannan
The Indian Express
- 16 February 1997
>>>Long simmering internal problems in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a
spiritual institution teaching integral yoga, have now spilled over
to the public arena with matters being brought to court by a
section of its inmates.
The Ashram - a revered institution with a large following of
...
- Balle, Balle Badal
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 11 February 1997
>>>Punjab is today celebrating its moment of pride. Nearly two decades
after its first brush with terrorism, democracy has made a robust
return in the state. Indeed, there cannot have been a more
overwhelming demonstration of the people's mandate than the triumph
of the Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal after a gap of 12 years in an
...
- Basu nettled by row over remarks, threatens to quit
- Ritwik Mukherjee
The Economic Times
- 15 February 1997
>>>West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, upset at the
brewing controversy over his recent remark, is believed
to have threatened to relinquish his post.
The remarks of some of his party colleagues E M S
Namboodiripad and Biman have nettled him.
- Beijing perceives threat, launches crackdown on Catholics
- Patrick E Tyler
The Times of India
- 30 January 1997
>>>It was the day before Easter 1995, and they came on bicycle, horse
cart and on foot, thousands of Roman Catholics from the underground
church, and they climbed up into the pine forest on what is called
Yujia Mountain, though it is scarcely a hill.
There, they chased away several troops who had never intruded into
...
- Patrick E Tyler
The Times of India
- 30 January 1997
>>>It was the day before Easter 1995, and they came on bicycle, horse
cart and on foot, thousands of Roman Catholics from the underground
church, and they climbed up into the pine forest on what is called
Yujia Mountain, though it is scarcely a hill.
There, they chased away several troops who had never intruded into
...
- BJP alone can root out corruption: Vajpayee
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Hindu
- 22 January 1997
>>>Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, BJP leader, said today that at this
juncture when corruption, was rampant, "the country needs a party
like the BJP to root out this malady."
He was addressing the delegates at the party's third State
conference on Tuesday.
- BJP marries SAD in Punjab with an eye on Delhi
- Parwez Hafeez
The Asian Age
- 5 February 1997
>>>The stridency with which everyone from the incumbent Prime Minister
Mr H.D. Deve Gowda to the aspiring Prime Minister Mr Sitaram Kesri
have been lashing out against what they dub as "an unholy alliance"
between the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal group) and the Bharatiya
Janata Party, it is becoming increasingly clear that the alliance
...
- BJP should look beyond the heartland
- Prafull Goradia
The Observer
- 27 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata P" (BJP) has four electoral adversaries: One,
parties which exploit casteism; two, similar parties that also
pamper minorities; three, the communists; and four, the
sub-nationalists or regional parties.
With tile help of its Hindutva platform, the BJP has been able to
...
- BJP to ask sympathisers to reach for their wallets
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 26 January 1997
>>>In an effort to minimise its dependence on corporate houses and interest
groups for funds, the Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to mop up around RS
30 crore through the 'life-long p arty associates fund' for financing its
non-election activities.
The party leadership is expected to place the proposal for the creation of
...
- BJP to project concern for welfare of SC/STs
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Hindu
- 21 January 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party which has been generally perceived as
the party dominated by high caste people or Brahmins, Is striving
to dispel the notion and project the image that it is more
concerned about the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes people. This point has been emphasised by the national
...
- BJP worried about ISI presence in Coimbatore dist.
- Time of India News Service
The Times of India
- 24 February 1997
>>>A three-member team of BJP MPs on a mission to assess the situation
in the wake of recent communal violence in Tamil Nadu, has
expressed concern at, what it called, the presence of Pakistan
intelligence outfit ISI in some areas of Coimbatore, Nagapattinam
and Keezhakarai.
- BJP yet to counter the 'secular forces' logic, says Advani
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 12 February 1997
>>>The BJP president, Mr L K Advani, today expressed happiness over
the outcome of the by-elections but conceded that the "secular
logic" has not been completely rejected by the electorate.
The outcome of the elections, which has ended the drought of good
news for the BJP, is being highlighted by the party as a rejection
...
- BJP's gamble pays off, boosts morale
- Arati R Jerath
The Indian Express
- 14 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party's mood pendulum has swung the other way.
From being down m the dumps after the recent setbacks in Gujarat
and Uttar Pradesh, the party is now up, ironically as stunned by
its unexpected victories in Nagaur and Chhindwada as the Congress
is by the defeat in the two constituencies, traditionally regarded
...
- Bleary-eyed communists
- Dina Nath Mishra
The Observer
- 6 February 1997
>>>'I don't know how the BJP and the Akalis can adjust together. What
combination can arise out of their association? One is advocating
Hindutva and the other the Sikh cause! They have issued a white
paper which the BJP leadership should read. The BJP has been
accused by the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee. They have
...
- Blot on the landscape
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 26 February 1997
>>>Home Minister Indrajit Gupta has shown characteristic candour in
revealing to Parliament what is hardly the best kept national
secret: that "the largest State in the country is heading towards
anarchy, chaos and destruction". Simultaneously, Gupta has admitted
the Centre's helplessness in coping with the prevailing state of
...
- Bombay is Bombay ....not Mumbai
- By-elections do not show any major change in voters' mood
- Smita Gupta
The Times of India
- 14 February 1997
>>>The results of the recent by-elections to 18 assembly,
constituencies and four Lok Sabha seats do not represent any major
change in the balance of forces or in the mood of the people since
the general elections last year.
But they come as a major embarrassment for both Prime Minister H.D.
...
- Byelection readings
- Dina Nath Mishra
The Observer
- 20 February 1997
>>>United Front government led by Deve Gowda had come into being after
President Dr S D Sharma received a letter from the then Congress
President Narasimha Rao conveying unconditional support of his
party. The Congress had explained its support to the nation that
it had done it to keep the communal forces out of power and
...
- Case of minorities
- Editorial
The Hindustan Times
- 8 February 1997
>>>Given the traumatic circumstances in which the Indian State was
formed, it is not surprising that the founding fathers of the
Constitution dealt with the question of minorities in considerable
detail. After all, the country was partitioned something which was
inconceivable even two or three years before the fateful event -
...
- Caste-away
- Rajinder Puri
Mid-day
- 31 January 1997
>>>If From India Gate we take a taxi to Parliament House and pass
Qutub Minar, won't we check if we're going the right way?
Then why not check the path we've taken on reservation? On our
journey towards social justice we've passed some odd sights related
to caste and class.
- Castro : torturer, murderer - and hero of the liberals
- Barbara Amiel
Daily Telegraph (London)
- 30 January 1997
>>>I have never been to Cuba. The Canadian family of my first husband
built a casino in Havana in pre-Castro days. It was big and
expensive and the sort of place one might go on a flashy honeymoon.
I saw newspaper photos showing my extremely beautiful blonde
mother-in-law, wearing fur coats and jewels, waving like Eva Peron.
...
- CBI sleuths puzzled at Arun Nehru's concern for Bofors
- Harish Gupta
The Indian Express
- 23 February 1997
>>>Sleuths in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are baffled
by the sudden interest shown in the Bofors case by former Union
Minister Arun Nehru who has been in the United States of America
for several weeks.
Nehru, who left India within days of the CBI team getting hold of
...
- Changes in capitalism render one-earner families extinct
- Lester C. Thurow
The Times of India
- 4 February 1997
>>>The traditional family is disappearing almost everywhere.
Worldwide from 1960 to 1992, births among unmarried mothers doubled
for those 20 to 24 years of age and quadrupled for those 15 to 19
years of age. The United States is far from being the world's
leader in this category, ranking sixth. Divorce rates are rising in
...
- Lester C. Thurow
The Times of India
- 4 February 1997
>>>The traditional family is disappearing almost everywhere.
Worldwide from 1960 to 1992, births among unmarried mothers doubled for those
20 to 24 years of age and quadrupled for those 15 to 19 years of age. The
United States is far from being the world's leader in this category, ranking
sixth. Divorce rates are rising in the developed and underdeveloped world,
...
- China Muslims riot, 10 die
- John Leicester
The Telegraph
- 11 February 1997
>>>Chinese police fired warning shots over crowds of young Muslims who
beat people to death and torched cars during pro-independence riots
in far west China, a police official said today.
The riots last Wednesday and Thursday were the worst to hit Yining,
in the restive province of Xinjiang, since the 1949 Communist
...
- China vs India: Who's Yechuri batting for?
- Express News Service
The Indian Express
- 28 February 1997
>>>Sitaram Yechuri, the radical from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
and a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)
politburo, may not have been among those who chanted "China's
chairman is our chairman" in the turbulent sixties.
But he is loath to describe China as the aggressor in the 1962 war.
- China's rebellious west
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economist
- 15 February 1997
>>>China and Indonesia, the two most populous countries in East Asia,
are both struggling to contain outbreaks of ethnic conflict. We
report first on the problems in China's Xinjiang province
Those who speculate that China might one day split up like the old
Soviet Union are often reminded that China is much more ethnically
...
- Christians driven from homes in Pak
- Reuter
The Observer
- 13 February 1997
>>>Nearly 1,000 Pakistani Christian families are living in tents after
being driven from their Punjab homes by Muslim rioters, a bishop
said on Wednesday.
Alexander John Malik, the bishop of Lahore, said after visiting the
Christian-populated village of Shantinagar that the whole village,
...
- City doctors join Vedic association
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule Mid-day
- 1 February 1997
>>>About 50 city doctors became members of the newly formed Vedic
Medical Association of India the Indian chapter of Maharshi Vedic
University yesterday.
At a function held at Kohinoor Hall, Prabhadevi city doctors were
addressed by Dr Satinder Swaroop, an Indian heart specialist, and
...
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule Mid-day
- 1 February 1997
>>>About 50 city doctors became members of the newly formed Vedic
Medical Association of India the Indian chapter of Maharshi Vedic
University yesterday.
At a function held at Kohinoor Hall, Prabhadevi city doctors were
addressed by Dr Satinder Swaroop, an Indian heart specialist, and
...
- CM's warning on communal killings
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Hindu
- 1 February 1997
>>>The Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, today said that he would
put down communal killings by adopting even extreme measures to
prevent the State from plunging into a bloodbath. He appealed for
the co-operation of one and all in this task and also in
eliminating caste and communal prejudices.
- Combat in Coimbatore
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 4 February 1997
>>>The communal violence that has rocked Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is
familiar insofar as the pattern is concerned - a murder sparking
off retributive stab-and-run killings. Seven people have already
fallen prey to the mindless violence let loose in what was once
known as the Manchester of the South. But to dismiss the whole
...
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 4 February 1997
>>>The communal violence that has rocked Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is familiar
insofar as the pattern is concerned - a murder sparking off retributive
stab-and-run killings. Seven people have already fallen prey to the mindless
violence let loose in what was once known as the Manchester of the South.
But to dismiss the whole incident as sporadic and unplanned is to gloss over
...
- Communal time bomb - a letter
- Avantika Rao, California, USA
Manushi
- 1996 November-December
>>>I hold in my hand a book open to the title page. Underneath the
typeset print, Lajja, there is a crudely scrawled, delicate
signature: "To Avanti, with best wishes, Taslima Nasrin". The
title, Lajja, roughly translates to "shame" in English. Nasrin
seems to use it to denote the feelings that have arisen in reaction
...
- Cong citadels crumble as BJP recoups
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 13 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) annexed the Congress(I)
strongholds of Chhindwara and Nagaur, topping a spate of victories
which began from Punjab.
The party's success in adding the two crucial seats in the saffron
map is surely a major morale booster as it marks a watershed in the
...
- Cong poll defeat gives BJP the limelight and Gowda respite
- Neerja Chowdhury
The Indian Express
- 13 February 1997
>>>The recently concluded by polls and Punjab elections could be a
watershed in the country's political life. They mark the end of
the Kesri story (in so far as his prime ministerial journey is
concerned). They signal 'Advantage BJP' all the way and could
herald the beginning of the end of the party's untouchability. And
...
- Cong. exploiting temple issue in TMC elections
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Times of India
- 9 February 1997
>>>The demolition of a small Ganesh temple in front of the Thane
municipal corporation (TMC) building at Panchpakhadi here on
Saturday sparked off a controversy, with the Congress exploiting
the situation to woo voters for the TMC elections a fortnight away.
TMC deputy commissioner P.P. Raje, along with heavy police
...
- Cong. stand on Bofors issue shocks BJP
- Inder Sawhney
The Times of India
- 24 February 1997
>>>If one is looking for any significant outcome of the first two
sittings of the budget session of Parliament held last week, it
might be that the Congress, by taking an aggressive posture on the
sensitive issue of Bofors pay-offs, has succeeded in taking the
wind out of the sails of the BJP, the main opposition party.
- CPI(M) to wrest initiative from BJP in attacking govt
- Kamil Zaheer
The Economic Times
- 13 February 1997
>>>Concerned that the opposition role to the United Front government
may be monopolised by the right-wing BJP, the CPI(M) has decided to
sharpen its attack against the ruling coalition's 'anti-peoples'
policies in the coming budget session.
The decision to assail certain unpalatable measures of the UF
...
- CPM's icon Basu takes a battering from hardliners
- Vijay Simha
The Indian Express
- 17 February 1997
>>>Hardliners in the Communist Party of India (Marxist) took control
of proceedings in the party's central committee meeting which ended
today, accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu of violating
party principles and wanting the CPI(M) to distance itself from the
United Front.
- Crying wolf
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 19 February 1997
>>>The Congress is once again in muscle-flexing mode, though this time
around its battle-scarred veterans are volleying and thundering a
little too loudly for comfort. The behave-or-else routine the party
had adopted with the United Front has now formally been put on
paper with the Congress Working Committee resolving it will offer
...
- Culture vultures
- Vijay Prashad
Communalism Combat
- 1997 February
>>>On 11 June 1995, at a Satyanarayan temple in New York City, the New
York shakha of the Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh held a Hindu Sangathan
Diwas (Hindu Unity day). Dr.Yash Pal Lakra, president of the
Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), was the keynote speaker.
The Sangh advertised the event with a quotation from Swami
...
- CWC chickened out from a move a topple govt: Gadgil
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 1 February 1997
>>>Did the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest policy-making
forum of the Congress, chicken out from a move initiated to topple
the Deve Gowda government ?
According to the senior Congress spokesman, Mr V N Gadgil, some
members of the CWC had indeed strongly advocated an operation
...
- Define minorities correctly
- Krishan Mahajan
The Indian Express
- 24 February 1997
>>>The meaning to be given to the fundamental right of religious and
linguistic minorities to have educational institutions of their
choice is now before an 11-judge bench of the apex court. It is a
political issue with a troublesome and emotive history on which the
court is asked to deliberate. Under the Constitution the
...
- Defining religion
- Sita Ram Goel
The Observer
- 22 February 1997
>>>Who are you? How do you define yourself?
I am a Hindu, which to me means the inheritor of the oldest and the
highest spiritual culture known to human history. Although I have
been in service and business to earn my living, I define myself as
a writer. I started as a poet, became a novelist, and have ended as
...
- Delights of counter-revolution
- Swapan Dasgupta
The Indian Express
- 22 February 1997
>>>A part from a slightly battered copy of Chairman Mao's infamous Red
Book, my most treasured possession of communist memorabilia is a
transcript of the Moscow trials of the 1930s which resulted in
Stalin eliminating the cream of the Bolshevik leadership. The
three-volume collection was purchased sometime in 1975 from a
...
- Detecting illegal migrants not EC's job
- Darshan Balwally
The Hindustan Times
- 16 February 1997
>>>Election Commissioner G. V. G. Krishnamurthy today distanced -the
Commission from the job of detecting illegal migrants whose names
are reportedly appearing in the electoral rolls.
Admitting that names of illegal migrants had been included in the
Assam electoral rolls, Mr Krishnamurthy said that detection as also
...
- Did CM's family blow the conchshell?
- Abhijit Dasgupta
The Pioneer
- 24 January 1997
>>>Chief Minister Jyoti Basu might have exhorted all "right thinking
citizens" of Calcutta to blow conchshells for a minute from 12.15
pm on Thursday to commemorate Netaji's birth centenary, but his son
Chandan's household seemed wary of answering a simple question: Was
the request followed in his own backward.
- DIMENSIONS OF CONVERSION
- Disrupting the faith? - Interview - Alexander Berzin
- George Wehrfritz
Newsweek
- 13 January 1997
>>>Mongolian Buddhism barely survived under decades of Stalinist
repression. Now, more than five years after the collapse of the
Soviet Union, Mongolia's religions traditions could be facing
another threat: an invasion of Christian missionaries. Or so says
Alexander Berzin, 52, a prominent American Buddhist and a research
...
- EMS lashes out at Basu's 'historic mistake'
- Sunil K Poolani in Thiruvananthapuram
Sunday Observer
- 2-8 February 1997
>>>E M S Namboodiripad, former general secretary of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) and Kerala's first Communist chief
minister, says there are serious policy differences between the
United Front government and the Left Front, which is supporting it
partly from within and partly from without.
- Sunil K Poolani in Thiruvananthapuram
Sunday Observer
- 2-8 February 1997
>>>E M S Namboodiripad, former general secretary of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) and Kerala's first Communist chief
minister, says there are serious policy differences between the
United Front government and the Left Front, which is supporting it
partly from within and partly from without.
- Epic lessons
- T V R Shenoy
Mid-Day
- 21 February 1997
>>>That which is not contained within it does not exist elsewhere."
That is how the ancients described the greatest of all epics, the
Mahabharata.
"Oh yes?!" sneer the sceptics of our 'secular' age. "If it really
has everything, how come it doesn't name those whom Bofors bribed?"
...
- Epoch making Hindu, Buddhist and Shinto meet
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule Hindu Heritage
- Sat, 08 Feb 97 10:59:39 EST
>>>KYOTO, the cultural capital of Japan. was witness to a unique
gathering of sant, sages and seers recently. For the first time
religious leaders; prominent scholars and thinkers from Hinduism,
Buddhism and Shintoism met each other with the firm belief that the
coming together of these three great religions of Asia will usher
...
- Even PM isn't above their dress code
- Sunil K Poolani
The Sunday Observer
- 23 February 1997
>>>First, M F Husain was not allowed to enter the Willingdon Catholic
Gymkhana in Bombay because he was barefoot. Then West Bengal Chief
Minister Jyoti Basu was denied entry to the Calcutta Swimming Club
because he was wearing a dhoti-kurta. Celebrated choreographer
Ananda Shankar was similarly humiliated at the same club.
- Fate of UF government uncertain, says Paswan
- Gaya
The Economic Times
- 17 February 1997
>>>The Union railway minister, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, today said he as
not sure how long the United Front government would last while
conceding that the alliance was facing "difficulties" in taking
policy decisions.
"I am unable to say how long the 13-party coalition will remain In
...
- Fatwas out on political iftars
- Rasheed Kidwai
The Telegraph
- 5 February 1997
>>>Three prominent imams in the city have issued fatwas to the Muslim
community against ,attending iftar parties hosted by politicians.
Mufti Mohammad Mukkaram, Mufti Razzak and Mufti Ata-ur Rahman have
termed these iftar parties anti-Islamic. They urged the minority
community to avoid breaking fast at such political gatherings.
- Fizz going out of Congress
- Inder Malhotra
The Observer
- 5 February 1997
>>>Until only the other day Congressmen were in a buoyant mood
bordering on the cocky. P V Narasimha Rao had, at last, been
ousted from both the presidentship of the Congress and leadership
of the Congress Parliamentary Party. This was supposed to have
washed away the stigma of corruption from the party's face. And
...
- Flowering Janus
- Rupa Sengupta
The Telegraph
- 10 February 1997
>>>The Congress's inability to sell "stability" - be it in Punjab,
Kashmir or Uttar Pradesh - is perhaps linked with what Jurgen
Habermas called "the crisis of legitimation". In Punjab's case,
that the party can console itself by referring to the inherent
instability of the Akali-saffron alliance does not erase the
...
- From the BJP party president
- L K Advani
BJP Today
- 16-28 February 1997
>>>Dear friend,
This incident occurred ten years back, that is, in 1987. State
Assembly Elections were being held in Kerala. In the course of my
campaigning I ran into three Sikh youths who told me that they were
dealers in automobile spare parts, that they had come that very
...
- From victims to equals
- Diwakar
The Economic Times
- 9 February 1997
>>>The Unrelenting competition for power and societal resources and,
above all, the unhappiness of individuals and classes with their
present lot, is proving to he a major catalyst for re-evaluating
the role of heroes, and for re-appraising the relevance of ideas
and ideologies. The knocking down of statues of Marx and Lenin from
...
- Gandhi's must be quizzed in Bofors case
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Observer
- 15 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday charged former Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi with involvement in the Bofors
kickback scandal and demanded a thorough investigation of
his links with recipient of bribes.
"The BJP will not tolerate if the Government attempts to
...
- Goodies, Badal, the ugly
- Kulwinder Sandhu
The Telegraph
- 29 January 1997
>>>A close contest is expected in the February 6 Punjab assembly
polls. The two main contenders are the Congress and Prakash Singh
Badal's Shiromani Akali Dal. Badal was tricked into dropping out
of the running in the February 1992 assembly elections. He is now
back with a bang, the challenge he poses is enhanced by the Akali's
...
- Gowda's options : Catch the crooks or lose your job
- M D Nalapat
The Times of India
- 20 February 1997
>>>Sunday's resolution of Congress Working Committee changing the
nature of support to the United Front from "unconditional" to
"issue-based" is a reflection of the Congress Party's frustration
at its current plight. While the United Front is enjoying the
benefits of being in government, the BJP is garnering the harvest
...
- Gowda-Sharma rift over list of nominations of RS widens
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 12 February 1997
>>>The Strong objections raised by President Shankar Dayal Sharma to
the list of names forwarded by the United Front government for
accommodation in the distinguished citizens category of Rajya Sabha
is expected to heighten the discord between him and Prime Minister
H D Deve Gowda.
- Gupta admits UP heading towards chaos and destruction
- Observer Political Bureau
The Observer
- 25 February 1997
>>>Failure of Uttar Pradesh Governor Romesh Bhandari to install a
popular Government in the state came into sharp focus in the Lok
Sabha on Monday with the Bharatiya Janata Party tabling a motion on
deteriorating law and order in the state and forcing an adjournment
on the issue in Rajya Sabha.
- Halo goodbye
- Sunandra K. Datta-Ray
The Telegraph
- 1 February 1997
>>>For the Missionaries of Charity this should be a time of renewal.
For Calcutta, a time of sober stocktaking. Indissoluble though the
bond between the two might seem, it must be forged again so that
the city can derive more visibly tangible benefits from the driving
zeal and firm global reach of the stooped Albanian born woman in
...
- Harappan-Vedic links of Dholavira possible
- Kumkum Chadha
The Hindustan Times
- 1 February 1997
>>>Dholavira is a village with a population of 1200 odd people, which
has experienced intermittent drought for over 30 years and a
successive one for the last seven years now.
Situated in the isolated region in Khadir in Gujarat's Great Rann
of Kutch, it has, since January 1990, been "invaded: by the
...
- Hazare, Pilot fail to keep date with Priya Tendulkar for episode on corruption
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- 1 February 1997
>>>Veteran social activist Anna Hazare developed cold feet and failed
to turn up for the shooting of the Priya Tendulkar show at Nanavati
Auditorium yesterday. He was one of the panelists on the show's
episode on corruption along with the deputy chief minister of
Maharashtra, Mr. Gopinath Munde, and the former union minister of
...
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- 1 February 1997
>>>Veteran social activist Anna Hazare developed cold feet and failed to turn up
for the shooting of the Priya Tendulkar show at Nanavati Auditorium
yesterday. He was one of the panelists on the show's episode on corruption
along with the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Gopinath Munde, and
the former union minister of state, Mr. Rajesh Pilot.
- Hindutva will remain the BJP's central focus - L. K. Advani
- Sukumar Muralidharan and Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Frontline
- 7 February 1997
>>>L. K. Advani's articulation of the Hindutva position has gained a
greater degree of acceptability among sections of middle-class
India than that of many other proponents of the programme. He has
also acquired a reputation for a degree of candour in his political
observations, even when it concerns the problems his party faces.
...
- Homely Discomforts
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 13 February 1997
>>>A setback to his image in his home state was about the last thing
Prime Minister Deve Gowda needed at this stage. Indeed, the defeat
of the Janata Dal in the byelections to two assembly and one
council constituencies from Karnataka is more than a mere statement
on the health of the state unit of the party as the Prime
...
- Hotchpotch coalition's CMP still a dream: Manmohan
- Saswati Chakravarty
The Economic Times
- 10 February 1997
>>>Between 1992, when he took over the reins of an economy in
shambles, and today, when he plays an active role in the CWC, Mr
Manmohan Singh has come to learn the art of mixing sound economics
with clever politics. The architect of liberalisation, who shaped
the contours of globalising the Indian economy as finance minister,
...
- Hotline to heaven
- Samita Bhatia
The Telegraph
- 9 February 1997
>>>Salvation seems to be just a mouse-click away. For now if you
browse the Internet for "God", you hit as many as 25,15,438
occurrences. Or if you seek "Christ", you come up with 7,09,268.
And if you are among those who think the cyber church phenomenon is
peculiar to the West, surf the Net to find Krishna and Buddha and
...
- How to cut the cost of politics
- Editorial
The Economist, London
- 8 Feb 1997
>>>"LET us commit ourselves tonight, before the eyes of America, to finally
enacting campaign-finance reform." Thus Bill Clinton, in what he clearly
saw as the bravest bit of his state-of-the-union message after balancing
the budget. Virtuous stuff, indeed; but hardly credible. For a start, Mr
Clinton was elected on a tidal wave of money. Second, most politicians
...
- I-T dept may issue summons to Vaghela
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Indian Express
- 30 January 1997
>>>Not satisfied with Chief Minister Shankersinh Vaghela's reply to a
notice regarding his source of income, the Income-Tax department is
contemplating issuance of summons or a questionnaire to him in a
day or two.
On a petition filed by chartered accountant, Jaymal Thakore, and
...
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Indian Express
- 30 January 1997
>>>Not satisfied with Chief Minister Shankersinh Vaghela's reply to a
notice regarding his source of income, the Income-Tax department is
contemplating issuance of summons or a questionnaire to him in a
day or two.
On a petition filed by chartered accountant, Jaymal Thakore, and
...
- ICCR will safeguard legacy of Jinnah House
- Dilip Chaware
The Times of India
- 18 February 19997
>>>Jinnah House, perhaps the best-known private address in Mumbai, has
been quietly transferred to the Indian Council of Cultural
Relations (ICCR), thus ending a controversy that began with the
partition of India.
ICCR director-general Meera Shankar signed the relevant documents
...
- In December '92 Rao had his own agenda
- Seema Mustafa
The Asian Age
- 14 February 1997
>>>By the first week of December, all sources of information,
intelligence reports, police surveillance and political assessment,
had a common message for the then Prime Minister, Mr P.V. Narsimha
Rao: only urgent pre-emptive action could prevent the demolition of
the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1996.
- In search of God
- G C Shekhar
India Today
- 28 February 1997
>>>To Believe or not to believe in God is the question in Tamil Nadu,
the state where politics has been shaped by the anti-religion
ideology of the Dravida movement. Elsewhere in India, nobody would
bat an eyelid if a chief minister's son visited a temple: but in
Tamil Nadu, the simple act of paying obeisance to God gets noticed.
...
- Inching forward, despite boredom
- Swapan Dasgupta
The Indian Express
- 8 February 1997
>>>Traditionally, or at any rate since 1988, the BJP beat has been
regarded as a prize assignment in Delhi's journalistic circles.
Apart from the obvious fact that the BJP was a party constantly on
the move, the utterances and statements of the party leadership
offered ample scope for what may loosely be called ideological
...
- India has no reason to accuse Iran of terrorism: Gujral
- PTI
The Times of India
- 24 February 1997
>>>India has no reason to accuse Iran of fundamentalism or terrorism,
external affairs minister I.K. Gujral said on Sunday ruling out any
pressure on New Delhi by the United States vis-a-vis its closer
friendly relations with Tehran.
Mr Gujral told newspersons in reply to queries about the Clinton
...
- India Today - ORG - MARG POLL
- India Today - ORG - MARG POLL : BJP gain, Congress' loss
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule India Today
- 15 February 1997
>>>With the 13-party UF Government appearing increasingly fragile
less then eight months into office, India Today commissioned
ORG-MARG, the country's leading market-research organisation, to
conduct a nationwide opinion poll. It was conducted between
January 18 and 21 in 51 parliamentary constituencies across 16
...
- Indian secularism - Place of religion in human life
- S K Chaube
The Statesman
- 21 January 1997
>>>If knowledge is power, ignorance is a sure way to slavery - of the
body and the mind. One sure way to ignorance is belief in myths.
In the great debate on secularism in India a number of cultivated
myths abound even among well intentioned people bearing no malice
against other communities. "Indian society is secular", "Hindu
...
- Indonesia Muslims scholar praised; and a comment
- UCAN
The Examiner
- 22 February 1997
>>>NOTE: The Examiner is a Catholic Church weekly from Mumbai, India,
and claims to be the oldest Christian publication in India.
A Catholic politician has commended a Muslim psychologist for his
article that places the onus on Islamic fanaticism as the main
cause of recent anti-Christian riots in two predominantly Muslim
...
- Indonesia's latest uprising
- Kalimantan
The Economist
- 15 February 1997
>>>Driving inland from the west coast of Kalimantan, the
Indonesian-controlled part of the island of Borneo, is like
entering a war zone. The road stretches ahead to the forested hills
in the distance without a car in sight. The only visible movement
is from the heavily-armed troops patrolling the road, or speeding
...
- Indrajit is all praise for Mumbai police
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 17 February 1997
>>>The Mumbai Police, often accused of 'communal' bias, has come in
for praise from unexpected quarters: The nation's first Communist
home minister, Mr Indrajit Gupta.
Mr Gupta's pat on the back for the Mumbai Police came today while
addressing Delhi Police personnel and their family members on
...
- Islamic militancy may eclipse all movements
- Darshan Balwally
The Hindustan Times
- 2 February 1997
>>>Islamic militancy is all set to eclipse every insurgent
movement in the north eastern region by the end of this
century.
A large number of Muslim youths from Nalbari district of
Assam, especially from Hojai where the World Muslim
...
- Isn't India ready to question 'icons', asks Wolpert
- Stanley Wolpert
The Pioneer
- 14 February 1997
>>>Historian Stanley Wolpert, professor of South Asian History,
University of California, Los Angeles, has stirred a hornet's nest
with his allegation that the young Nehru had several homosexual
encounters both in India and abroad. Following publication of
excerpts from his book in The Pioneer on January 26, there has been
...
- It's not good we're feeling
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 27 February 1997
>>>The purpose of the pre-Budget Economic Survey is to give an
overview of past and present economic performance as well as a
sense of what is to come. Together with the Budget, it constitutes
a basis for economic expectations, which have a way of fulfilling
themselves by influencing the mood of business and capital markets.
...
- Jain dairies actually disprove case against Advani, says Jethmalani
- Times of India News Service
The Times of India
- 18 February 1997
>>>Defending BJP president L. K. Advani in the Jain Hawala case,
senior counsel and former Union minister Ram Jethmalani told the
Delhi high court on Monday that his client had been wrongly
chargesheeted on the basis of a mere mention of "LKA" on loose
sheets of paper'
...
- Jinnah film stokes fire again
- Vijay Dutta
The Hindustan Times
- 12 February 1997
>>>An overt and pernicious attempt is obviously being made to
denigrate India and drag down its stature internationally by
attacking and defaming Jawaharlal Nehru in a film on Mohammed Ali
Jinnah. The shooting of the film is slated to start in a few weeks
under the supervision of Prof Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistan Civil
...
- Kamadeva who?
- Editorial
The Economic Times
- 17 February 1997
>>>Seventeen centuries ago, Vatsyayana described 64 different ways of
making love in his Kamasutra. Thus, long before Gutenberg's
discovery of the printing press, India led the world in publishing
sex manuals. Today, the title of the book has been turned into a
condom brand name, and Indians get more thrills from drippy,
...
- Kanshi ridicules Ramayana to rein in Hindutva brigade
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule Telegraph
- 13 January 1997
>>>The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh has adopted a novel strategy
to counter the BJP sponsored Hindutva - attack the Ramayana and pillory Rama
and other characters in the great epic.
The controversial Periyar Ramaswami version of the epic, entitled The
Ramayana: A True Reading, has come in handy for the Dalit brigade, which
...
- Karan tells minorities to end protests in Kashmir
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Asian Age
- 25 January 1997
>>>Dr Karan Singh on Friday asked minorities in Jammu and Kashmir give up
sit-ins and demonstrations and instead voice their views in a proper way.
In a statement here, Dr Karan Singh, who was recently elected to the Rahjya
Sabha after the ruling National Conference supported his candidature, said
the minorities should air their views on autonomy and other related issues
...
- Kesri for president, Moopanar for PM being aired to keep BJP at bay
- Janak Singh
The Times of India
- 18 February 1997
>>>Although relations between Prime Minister Deve Gowda and Congress
president Sitaram Kesri remain frosty, many within the Congress and
the ruling United Front have opined that for a couple of years
nothing should be done that may force a parliamentary election.
"Until anti-communal forces combine all over the country, a process
...
- L. K. Advani Addresses Industry's Concerns
- Lesson from the byelections
- Editorial
The Observer
- 14 February 1997
>>>The unwashed voter of the world's largest democracy has once again
lived up to his reputation as its most dependable sentinel. He has
done it this time, through the recent byelections, by punishing
those who dared take liberties with him and, at the same time,
rewarding those who have shown a genuine earnestness to serve him.
...
- Lessons from Punjab
- Editorial
The Economic Times
- 11 February 1997
>>>The election results from Punjab puncture a few myths and reinforce
democracy. The turnout of 65-70 per cent shows that these elections
were a genuine exercise in democracy. Ironically, it also
vindicates the Congress claim that they had, indeed, restored
normalcy to the state. Things had become so normal that who
...
- Lifers' homage to great escape - on Netaji Subash
- Pioneer News Service
The Pioneer
- 24 January 1997
>>>In perhaps the most unique tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,
all prisoners of the Presidency Jail where the freedom fighter
spent his last internment before the great escape in 1941, spent
Thursday organising a function on the premises in which the
"heritage cell" was decorated, ministers garlanded by lifers and
...
- Look back with pride, not anger
- Arun Nehru
Sunday Observer
- 23-March February 1
>>>A midst the confusion prevailing in the country, political trends
are becoming clear. The Bharatiya Janata Party seems to have
recovered from its 13 day government, the debacle in Gujarat, and
the electoral setback in Uttar Pradesh.
Is this going to last? Can the BJP govern over a period of time?
...
- Making sense of Bofors
- Vir Sanghvi
Sunday
- 2-8 February 1997
>>>Who took the Bofors money?
We still don't know. That is to say, we now have the names of one
set of beneficiaries but we don't know who the payments were
finally intended for, or even what the beneficiaries did in return
for the money.
- Martyrs' Day revisited
- Varsha Bhosle
The Observer
- 26-February January 1
>>>Rashtrapita, Rashtrapurush, portraits, grandsons, ashes, Bharat Yatras, high
courts... I'm up to my ears with the business. And with Martyrs' Day being
just round the corner, there's no hope of it abating. For the next two weeks
(or as long as Mr Bal Thackeray does not grasp the virtues in a political
maun-vrat), we're in for a diet of editorials titled "Recalling Gandhiji's
...
- Varsha Bhosle
The Observer
- 26-February January 1
>>>Rashtrapita, Rashtrapurush, portraits, grandsons, ashes, Bharat Yatras, high
courts... I'm up to my ears with the business. And with Martyrs' Day being
just round the corner, there's no hope of it abating. For the next two weeks
(or as long as Mr Bal Thackeray does not grasp the virtues in a political
maun-vrat), we're in for a diet of editorials titled "Recalling Gandhiji's
...
- Marxist blunderbuss
- Amulya Ganguli
The Hindustan Times
- 24 January 1997
>>>Since communism itself is a historical blunder, whose dreadful
mistakes are only now being slowly corrected in the unhappy
countries where the doctrine was first tried out, it is not
surprising that its practitioners occasionally find the iron
discipline too much to bear and blurt out the truth about its many
...
- Mewat Jogis return to Hindu fold
- Pramod Kumar
Organiser
- 19 January 1997
>>>Amidst slogans like Garva se kaho ham Hindu hain, Guru Goraksha
Nath maharaj ki jai, over 2500 Muslim jogis of Mewat region
(Rajasthan) returned to their original roots, i.e., the Hindu fold,
on January 5. An impressive public function was held at Nagar town
of Bharatpur district to welcome them back to the community from
...
- Minor Deficiency
- Editorial
The Telegraph
- 10 February 1997
>>>History tends to show up inadequacies in social and political
blueprints. That the Indian Constitution has neglected to define
the term "minorities" while defending their right to establish and
administer educational institutions in Article 30 can only become a
problem in the present time. Issues concerning minority groups -
...
- Minorities in Bangladesh
- Raman Bando
The Organiser
- 16 February 1997
>>>I am mentioning just one case out of an unending list of continuing
atrocities. persecution and victimisation of religious minorities
in Islamic Bangladesh under successive governments and the
fundamentalist non-government organisations.
Lalit Kumar Ghose fiat the owner of property comprising a land area
...
- Minorities panel was a stunt by Pawar : Joshi
- Mahmood Raza
The Times of India
- 24 February 1997
>>>Chief minister Manohar Joshi has stated that setting up of the
minorities commission was a political stunt by former chief
minister Sharad Pawar, aimed at appeasing the minorities.
"But we are not deceptive politicians," he asserted.
In an exclusive interview to The Tim- Of India, Mr Joshi expressed
...
- Minority issue referred to 11-judge bench
- Express News Service
The Indian Express
- 7 February 1997
>>>The seven-judge Constitution bench, looking into the question of
definition of 'minority' - religious and linguistic - and the
contentious issue of minority education, including access to
technical education, has referred the matter to a larger bench.
While referring the matter to a 1l-judge bench, the court which has
...
- Misleading stance - a letter
- L T Sippy
The Observer
- 23-March February 1
>>>In our country, we have often witnessed a slanging match between
the "secularists" and "saffronites", leaving the common man to
analyse the nationalistic credentials of these outfits. Compare,
for example, the last general election held in India with the
recently concluded one in Pakistan.
- Move to choke PILs condemned
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Observer
- 15 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday announced it will to block
reported government move to curb incidence of Public Interest
Litigations and asserted that the executive or parliament should
not be allowed to snatch the citizen's constitutional instrument to
seek justice.
- Multinational is a misnomer
- Dr C Abraham Varghese
Organiser
- 23 February 1997
>>>The current discussion about multinationals in India is
reminiscent
of the debate in the 1940s about the virtues and vices of the
British Raj. At that time the virtues were preached by the
ICS-the
...
- Mumbai's red herring; and a comment
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 21 February 1997
>>>Perhaps it is no accident that the controversy over the Centre's
alleged decision to restore the old name of Maharashtra's capital,
Bombay, should have been re-kindled on the eve of the Brihanmumbai
municipal corporation (BMC) elections. It has been speculated in
the state's political circles that the rumour was put into
...
- Muslim leaders promote paranoia
- Sultan Shahin
The Pioneer
- 31 January 1997
>>>Well-versed in the law of the land and trained by the Indian
Foreign Service, Syed Shahabuddin has perhaps never said or done
anything anti-national or unconstitutional. Even his threat to
boycott the official Republic Day functions that became such a big
issue was in no way an unconstitutional method of protest.
- Muslims riot in Jakarta
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Telegraph
- 31 January 1997
>>>Thousands of Muslims took to the streets today, ransacking
churches, banks, shops and cars after a Chinese Christian trader
reportedly insulted Islam, the police and witnesses said.
The police reported no casualties and said the violence was brought
under control after three truckloads of troops armed with automatic
...
- My men shot baker dead, says Shakeel
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Indian Express
- 17 February 1997
>>>Chhota Shakeel, the Dubai-based aide of Dawood Ibrahim, has claimed
responsibility for killing the president of the Mumbai Bakers'
Association, Mohammed Khalid, on Friday in Dongri.
"Maine usko qaum ke sath gaddari karne ki wajah se marwa dala (I
got him killed because of his treachery with the community),"
...
- Najma knocks BJP doors for help to lobby for V-P's post
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economic Times
- 14 February 1997
>>>With indications pointing the elevation of K R Narayanan to the
post of the President, aspirants for the job of the vice-president
have started soliciting support for their respective claims.
Quickest off the block is Ms Najma Heptuallah. The Rajya Sabha
chairperson, who has spared no occasion, to project herself as the
...
- Nehru may have had gay tendencies, reveals biographer
- Chidanand Rajghatta
The Indian Express
- 5 February 1997
>>>The suggestion that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru may have had homosexual
experiences was made after extensive research and conversations
with those who knew him, according to Prof Stanley Wolpert, author
of Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, a new biography which has outraged
sections of the Indian intelligentsia.
- No brief for nationalism
- Prafull Goradia
The Observer
- 13 February 1997
>>>The Fourth International was called by the exiled Russian leader,
and the erstwhile right hand man of Lenin, Leon Trotsky. He stood
for what he called a permanent or a world revolution as the top
priority. National boundaries were irrelevant and a proletarian
revolution was not secure until all countries underwent Such a
...
- No check on funds to religious trusts
- Jayeeta Chowdhury
The Bombay Times
- 7 February 1997
>>>Smita Gupta's recent bid to convert to Christianity, has
opened a Pandora's box, revealing the irregular
transactions in the religious conversions market. Caught
in the middle is the Charity Commissioner's office which
claims that "besides keeping an account of the financial
...
- Nobel's Nemesis
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Times of India
- 13 February 1997
>>>The political literacy of the British Labour Party has attained
staggering heights if the case made out by one of its MPs, Ms
Mildred Gordon, for Ms Phoolan Devi to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize indicates the prevalent wisdom in the island. Ms Gordon, who
has sent the nomination for the former bandit to the Norwegian
...
- OF GANGA WATERS AND SECULARIST SURRENDER
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule HINDU JAGRITI KENDRA
- 31 December 1996
>>>India's secularist rulers have once again surrendered to the
pressures of the international Islamic lobby - whatever the
incentives for some political leaders and parties - and signed the
1996 Ganga Waters Treaty with the Government of Bangladesh, which
militates against India's interests. especially the interests of
...
- Of ignoramus eager beavers
- Jagmohan
The Indian Express
- 21 February 1997
>>>It speaks volumes about Indian 'intellectuals' of the genre who
gathered in Calcutta recently for a meeting with their Pakistani
counterparts that they spoke of the 'people of Kashmir' as if they
were a different entity to the people of India. As reported by a
national daily, "Not a single Indian, senior politician or
...
- One lakh people gather to protest farakka accord
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule BJP Today
- 16-28 February 1997
>>>The West Bengal unit of the BJP organised a huge rally at Farakka
on January 28 to protest against the Ganga water sharing accord
signed between Shri H.D. Deve Gowda and Bangladesh Prime Minister.
Sheikh Hasina.
Although the United Front and the CPI(M) have hailed the accord as
...
- Pak Christians protest against persecution
- India Abroad News Service
The Observer
- 18 February 1997
>>>Over 100 Pakistani Christians gathered in front of the country's
Consulate to denounce the attack on three Christian enclaves in the
Pakistani district of Multan, earlier this month.
In a letter addressed to Pakistani President Farooq Legari, Mr
Shadab E Khokhar, President of the Canadian chapter of
...
- Pak-India forum treats Kashmir as 3rd entity
- Seema Mustafa
The Asian Age
- 26 January 1997
>>>Leading intellectuals who attended a convention of the Pakistan-Indian
People's Forum for Peace and Democracy in Calcutta recently, have endorsed a
resolution that clearly puts Kashmir in the category of a third country,
after India and Pakistan.
The convention, which was attended by 164 journalists, academics, trade
...
- Pandits rap J&K panel on autonomy
- Anil Anand
The Hindustan Times
- 5 February 1997
>>>The Kashmiri Pandits settled abroad have questioned the logic
behind the claim for more autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir. 'Me
State Government has already constituted a committee headed by Dr
Karan Singh to look into this issue. Autonomy was an important
promise made by the ruling National Conference during the recent
...
- Piqued Marxists target defecting tribals in Talasari
- S Ramakrishnan
The Indian Express
- 28 January 1997
>>>The tribal fields of Talasari taluka in Thane district are afire
with Marxist wrath. On Republic Day, at about 3 pm in the
afternoon, an armed 8,000 strong mob of activists of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist), most of them also tribals, attacked
Kavada village. The target was tribal sympathisers of the Bharatiya
...
- Politicians for rent
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Economist, London.
- 8 Feb 1996.
>>>Campaigns and money are inextricably linked, nowhere more notoriously
than in the United States. Is this pernicious? And has any country found
a formula to keep campaign spending under control?
EVER since partisan appeals were chiselled into the walls of ancient
Greece, election campaigns have cost money. And ever since the first
...
- Polity's downward plunge
- Inder Malhotra
The Observer
- 19 February 1997
>>>Eight months after the country was supposed to have entered the
brave new era of coalition politics with all the "secular" forces
having united to keep the "communal" BJP at bay - Indian polity not
only continues to slide downwards but also its plunge is becoming
speedier and more dismal. The Congress party's change of stance
...
- Prehistoric Harvest - 65-million-year-old dinosaur eggs are unearthed in Maharashtra
- Charubala Annuncio in Pisdura
Outlook
- 19 February 1997
>>>The prehistoric has taken precedence near Anandwan, the leprosy
centre in Warora, Maharashtra, where Baba Amte and his workers are
busy creating history. Thousands of fossilised dinosaur eggs have
been found by paleontologist, Dr G.L. Badam of Deccan College,
Pune, and his team in Pisdura, a village about 10 km north of
...
- Ram, deliver us from Sitarams
- T V R Shenoy
The Economic Times
- 26 February 1997
>>>I can fight you," Narasimha Rao wailed, "but I can't fight Lord
Rama." It was nice of the Congress to admit that the Lord is on the
side of the BJP, but that is not what I wish to talk about now.
No, today we should discuss the forces backing the United Front.
On the principle that 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' the United
...
- Remains of Ashokan monolithic pillar discovered
- Pranava K Chaudhary
The Times of India
- 15 February 1997
>>>The remains of an Ashokan monolithic pillar has been
discovered by a team of experts under the banner of the
committee Fir Conservation of Indian Cultural Heritage
here at Kacchighat within the precincts of old Patna
Fort, barely 12 km from Patna.
- REPORT OF VANVASI KALYAN ASHRAM'S TWO DAY CAMP AT CHEMBUR, MUMBAI.
- Return to popular rule
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 11 February 1997
>>>The victory of the Akali Dal (Badal)-BJP combine in Punjab is
nothing short of spectacular. It re-establishes the fact that the
Congress victory in the previous election was an aberration and a
miscarriage of democracy. From the electorate's point of view the
Akali-BJP Government will be the first real popular Government
...
- Review report on 1996 General Elections by CPI(M)
- Right to Pray
- T K Devasia
The Observer
- 15 February 1997
>>>The raging debate over the entry of women in mosques has sharpened
the divisions in the Muslim community in Kerala. Palayam Imam P K
Ahmedkutty Moulavi who stired the debate by allowing women for the
first time inside a south Kerala mosque for Ramazan prayers, is not
only sticking to his ground, but has also given a call for opening
...
- Rightwing wrests one more French town
- Vaiju Naravane
The Hindu
- 11 February 1997
>>>France's extreme right wing party, the National Front, won a
crucial election in the southern town of Vitrolles, wresting it
from the Socialist Party. The National Front, which has made
anti-immigrant rhetoric its principal electoral platform, now
controls four cities in France, including Toulon, base of the
...
- RSS chief warns against communal tension in TN
- ENS & UNI
The Indian Express
- 5 February 1997
>>>Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) leader Prof Rajinder Singh today
Warned that the situation in Tamil Nadu which is witnessing a spate
of communal killings, would go out of control unless strong action
was taken without pressure or favour.
Addressing a press conference here after touring the state, Singh
...
- Sacrilege !
- Editorial
The Pioneer
- 28 January 1997
>>>>From Robert Clive and Thomas Babington Macaulay to Louis Malle,
Steven Spielberg and Stanley Wolpert, India has been fair game as
far as perceptionally disadvantaged sections of the Western mind
are concerned. Whether in pursuit of the fabled wealth of the
Nabobs or the "civilising mission" that was seen as the white man's
...
- Saffron surge in Congress citadels
- Suresh Kumar Unnithan
The Observer
- 20 February 1997
>>>If the outcome of the just concluded Punjab polls and by-elections
is any indication, the present political equations in the country
are going to be rewritten.
In Punjab, the spectacular performance of the SAD-BJP proves beyond
doubt that the Hindus have deserted the Congress.
- Sahmat sore with CPI(M)
- Hasan Suroor
The Hindu
- 1 January 1997
>>>Either glasnost has finally arrived in the CPI(M) or the right hand of the
party does not know what the left is doing, judging from its free-wheeling
approach to the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (Sahmat), an organisation of
left-wing artists and writers which commemorates the death anniversary of
Safdar Hashmi tomorrow amid a controversy over its aim and some of the means
...
- Sarkhej win is a big boost for Gujarat BJP
- Ashraf Sayed
The Times of India
- 13 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) may be out of power in Gujarat but
it certainly is not down as has been convincingly proved in the
Sarkhej assembly by-election where its nominee Amit Shah won by a
huge margin.
Politically, the BJP will naturally receive a shot in the arm on
...
- SC defines ambit of State's role in religion
- Bal Krishna
Hindustan Times
- 20 January 1997
>>>The verdict of the Supreme Court in Vaishno Devi shrine case holding that the
service of the priest is a secular activity and that it may he regulated by
the State clearly defines the role of the State in the matter of religion.
Making a distinction between religious service and the person who performs
the service, the court says that performance of the religious service
...
- Scared Left trumps up lies, charges BJP
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Telegraph
- 31 January 1997
>>>The BJP today charged the Left Front government with fabricating
the reports of "attacks" on three state minister at the New Farakka
station on Tuesday by the party's supporters.
The "claims" of the ministers are an attempt to discredit the
success of the BJP rally to protest the Ganga water agreement, it
...
- Seeking closer ties with Hinduism
- Sena-BJP prevails
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- 26 February 1997
>>>The results of polls in nine municipalities, which account for most
of Maharashtra's industry and commerce, confirm major trends in the
Assembly and Lok Sabha elections of 1995 and 1996. This Shiv Sena
and BJP held on to their constituencies and continued their
demolition job on the Congress in others. Once again the Congress
...
- Set a Benchmark
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 12 February 1997
>>>Bal Thackeray's often ill-considered pronouncements have in the
past raised many hackles and bruised public sensibilities. Not
long ago his remarks regarding Mahatma Gandhi led to a widespread
debate on the historical role and legacy of what many in this
country continue to revere as the moral Father of the Nation, and
...
- Shahabuddin asks Centre to curb Khilafat campaign
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Asian Age
- 25 January 1997
>>>Syed Shahabuddin president of the Insaf party, on Friend said he saw that the
campaign for Khilafat (pan-Islamism), being run by Islamic extremists, had
its roots abroad and urged the Centre to initiate steps to curb such
activity.
In a statement here, he said the campaign was aimed at alienating Muslim
...
- Shekhawat's Jaipur Arthashastra
- Milap Chand Dandia
The Asian Age
- 26 January 1997
>>>"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the
heart," goes a famous line, "the one to slander you and the other to get the
news to you." Rajasthan chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was battling
for life in a US hospital when he heard the news of his adversaries' plans to
dislodge him from the chief minister's chair. Doctors had suggested
...
- Milap Chand Dandia
The Asian Age
- 26 January 1997
>>>"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the
heart," goes a famous line, "the one to slander you and the other to get the
news to you." Rajasthan chief minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was battling
for life in a US hospital when he heard the news of his adversaries' plans to
dislodge him from the chief minister's chair. Doctors had suggested
...
- Spectre of Islamic fundamentalism across Asia?
- Observer Foreign Desk
The Observer
- 18 February 1997
>>>The spectre of Islamic fundamentalism, so far manifest only as a
violent reaction to liberalism in Islamic societies themselves -
Algeria and Egypt being eminent examples - is no longer confined to
these isolated pockets.
It has, lately, found fertile clime in Asia, particularly in
...
- Stop the HuT?
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Hindustan Times
- Mon, 10 Feb 97 15:21:11 EST
>>>Extremists launch Hindu-Sikh hate campaign
Hizb-ut-Tahrir(HuT) is an ultra fundamentalist terrorist group.
HuT, and other similar outfits, call for a JIHAD (Holy War) against
Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and all those who do not submit to their
intolerant ideology. These groups are now active in over 50 UK
...
- Sunni militant group says it attacked centre
- Associated Press
The Indian Express
- 23 February 1997
>>>Police arrested three suspects on Friday after a little-known
militant Sunni Muslim group claimed responsibility for an attack on
an Iranian cultural centre that left seven dead.
Describing itself as Lashkar-I-Jharlgvi, which means warriors of
Jhangvi, the group released a statement saying that it had
...
- Target : India
- Chidanand Rajghatta
The Indian Express
- 26 January 1997
>>>The United States' highest ranking woman government executive in 220 years
straight away defined her priorities on Day One of her tenure at the State
Department, in the process identifying the Indian subcontinent as one of the
neglected regions of the world and promising it increased attention.
In her first pow-wow with the media at the State Department on Friday. after
...
- The Communist Party of India: A national joke
- M V Kamath
The Free Press Journal
- 16 January 1997
>>>Poor Jyoti Basu. He thinks that it was a "historic blunder" on the
part of the CPI (M) not to join the kichidi government a.k.a. the
United Front in Delhi. He had been offered the Prime Ministership
but the hotheads in the party would not let him accept the honour.
It had to be turned down. That, according to Jyoti Basu, was the
...
- The explosive mix in Tamil Nadu
- T N Gopalan
The Pioneer
- 7 February 1997
>>>Communal violence is a relatively new phenomenon in Tamil Nadu. It
is not as if the State is some kind of an Arcadia. Caste-related
violence, attacks on the Dalits especially, has been a. regular
feature since Independence, and even before that. There has also
been occasional religious brawls, turning murderous sometimes,
...
- The ghettoised Muslim stereotype
- Seema Alavi
The Indian Express
- 7 February 1997
>>>During a recent visit to Germany I was struck by the squalor of
what constituted the "Turkish Quarters" in that country. These
were enclaves of the predominantly Muslim Turkish people located in
most of the sanitised "high tech" towns like Bonn, Dusseldorf and
Kolon. In these Turkish ghettos the local population lives seeking
...
- The great pleader for a Muslim state
- Carl Posey
Time
- 23 December 1997
>>>When the stood up in court, slowly looking toward the judge,
placing his monocle in his eye-with the sense of timing you would
expect from an actor-he became omnipotent. Yes, that is the word
omnipotent." Thus an Indian barrister upon his remarkable and
enigmatic subject, Mohammed All Jinnah. Courtroom omnipotence may
...
- The Hindutva rate of duplicity
- Sunil Jain
The Indian Express
- 25 February 1997
>>>Fortunately, for the economy, the BJP is not close to coming to
power in the near future. Whatever one's view of the party's stand
on Hindutva (I personally endorse part of it), its vision of the
economy is confused or duplicitous, depending on whether one wants
to be charitable or not. A view best expressed by the German
...
- The Kesri bubble
- T V R Shenoy
The Economic Times
- 5 February 1997
>>>What is common to Sitaram Kesri and a soap bubble? Both are
transparent, contain nothing substantial, and burst when they reach
the top.
Two months ago, Kesri was the rising hope of all true Congressmen.
He had wormed his way into the Congress presidency, and then
...
- The mystery of wailing Muslim, ailing Hindu
- Ram Gopal
Organiser
- 16 February 1997
>>>Sometime in the first week of August 1996, Shri Atal Behari
Vajpayee, former prime .minister and a prominent leader of the BJP,
said at a meeting of the BJP's Minorities Morcha in New Delhi, that
the real issue before the Indian Muslim was "not Baburi, meaning,
the Baburi. mosque, but barabari (equality)". A few days later,
...
- The QRS triangle
- T V R Shenoy
The Economic Times
- 19 February 1997
>>>Ottavio Quattrocchi has asked everyone to stop linking him with the
'B' word. So have Snamprogetti, his former employer.
Let us accept these disclaimers at face value. After all, the
letter 'B' is a long way off from the letters 'Q' and 'S' in the
alphabetic run. But both are very close to the letter 'R' as in
...
- Traitors to the nation
- Prafull Goradia
The Observer
- 11 February 1997
>>>Apropos Dina Nath Mishra's article entitled 'Bleary-eyed
communists' (The Observer of Business and Politics, February 6). It
is indeed true that the communists are communalists. To illustrate.
early in 1942, the Communist Party of India showed an 'increasing
warmth towards the Muslim League'. The party declared its approval
...
- Trinidad PM may set off rush to discover roots
- Sujay Gupta
The Telegraph
- 30 January 1997
>>>Vasudeo Pandey's journey from Port of Spain to Azamgarh in search
of his roots will not remain an isolated incident.
If Shamsuddin, a research scholar based in Trinidad, is to be
believed, "countless Indians occupying significant positions in the
government and the bureaucracy there are looking forward to
...
- Triumph of the outsider
- Gautam Sen
The Indian Express
- 10 February 1997
>>>The chequered history of the Bengali babu is evidently coming to a
close. The slender political hold over Calcutta and the aesthetic
pretensions of the babu are succumbing to the inexorabic forces of
the marketplace.
Much of the modern history of the Bengali babu and Calcutta has
...
- Two editorials at the time of the beginning of the Republic in 1950
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 26 January 1950
>>>With the proclamation of the Indian Republic this country achieves
a status unique both for herself and in relation to the
Commonwealth. Never in her long and ancient history has India been
a Republic and never before has the Commonwealth, whose like is the
Crown, admitted into her comity a Republican unit. Thus India in a
...
- Editorial
The Times of India
- 26 January 1950
>>>With the proclamation of the Indian Republic this country achieves
a status unique both for herself and in relation to the
Commonwealth. Never in her long and ancient history has India been
a Republic and never before has the Commonwealth, whose like is the
Crown, admitted into her comity a Republican unit. Thus India in a
...
- Two mutually exclusive questions
- K Govindam Kutty
The Financial Express
- 3 February 1997
>>>Two old questions animate the current political gossip. Will the
Congress pull down the Gowda government? Is it going to ask for a
share in power? The questions are contradictory. If Gowda's
government falls, Congressmen can't join it. They will not by
themselves pull it down if they choose to join it. Yet both these
...
- Two rivers that spring from a common source
- Rajesh Kochhar
The Times of India
- 8 February 1997
>>>The Parsis arrived in India in the 8th century AD as refugees from
Iran. Folk memory has it that they were offered asylum in Gujarat
on condition that they adopted the local language, certain local
modes of dress and observances. These stipulations apart, the
refugees had the freedom to practise their religion,
...
- Two Yadavs and misplaced sense of importance
- Seema Mustafa
The Asian Age
- 1 February 1997
>>>There is, a four leaf clover in each Yadav's hand. He keeps
plucking out the leaves chanting "he loves me, he loves me not" and
according to the answer the two get together, or stay apart. The
"two" are also the Yadav's who have this peculiar relationship
where they do not hesitate to embrace no sooner than they have
...
- U.S. report on rights: How objective?
- Sridhar Krishnaswami
The Hindu
- 1 February 1997
>>>The "much awaited" report of the United ' States on Human Rights is
now out; and if the recent past is any indication it will be time
to "look forward" to the next report around the same time next
year. Some will make the point that the positive aspect of the
State Department notings on the rights' record of nations, both
...
- US hails India's rights record
- Seema Sirohi
The Telegraph
- 1 February 1997
>>>In a significant nod to India, the US government's annual human
rights report praised the restoration of a popular government in
Kashmir for the first time in six years despite the militants'
efforts to disrupt and wreck the election process.
The report, while detailing and condemning the widespread abuses by
...
- Vaghela to contest from Radhanpur
- Deepal Trivedi
The Indian Express
- 5 February 1997
>>>Ending speculations about where he would contest from, Gujarat
Chief Minister Shankersinh Vaghela has finally decided to contest
from Radhanpur in Banaskantha district.
According to reliable sources, Independent candidate Lavingji
Solanki has decided to vacate his seat for the Chief Minister.
...
- Vajpayee's speech censored?
- HTC
The Hindustan Times
- 24 January 1997
>>>Thousands of TV viewers watching the live telecast of the
Subhas Chandra Bose birth centenary function at Red Fort
were jolted into rude silence on Thursday when the
transmission suddenly went off. At that point, leader of
the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and former Prime Minister
...
- Vedas rich in science knowledge : Sharma
- Posted By Ashok V Chowgule The Hindu
- 22 January 1997
>>>The President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, today called upon Vedic
scholars and Sanskrit experts to take up a study of works of seers
on science and technology for the benefit of the society.
Noting that this aspect had not been fully explored. Dr Sharma said
many of the ancient texts contained a vast store-house of knowledge
...
- Violence again in Talasari
- Express News Service
The Indian Express
- 7 February 1997
>>>Talasari, the predominantly tribal taluka in the Thane district of
Maharashtra, which was once a bastion of the Communist Party
Marxist (CPM), is once again tense following renewed violence.
After the violence inflicted by CPM activists on rival Bharatiya
Janata Party members on January 26, that caused the death of two
...
- Voters' message: Don't take us for granted
- Shubhabrata Bhattacharya
The Times of India
- 15 February 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have emerged as the
single largest block in the electoral college for the Presidential
election, due in July. Members of the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha
and the state vidhan sabhas constitute this electoral college, with
the relative values of MPs' votes and the votes of vidhan sabha
...
- We could have won more seats: Tohra
- Surinder Awasthi
The Times of India
- 11 February 1997
>>>Akali leader Gur charan Singh Tohra, one of the main architects Of
the landslide win of the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) combine in the Punjab assembly election, feels that the
Akalis could have won more seats, but for the infighting in the
party, especially in Sangrur.
- We have friends, you know
- Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
The Indian Express
- 14 February 1997
>>>The first aspect of Ottavio Quattrocchi's personality that strikes
anyone who has met him is his constant endeavour to be affable. He
would often bend over backwards when asked to nod his head. Some of
the sweetness was obviously put on, one later realised. For, when
the occasion arose, he could be rude and brusque. And patronising
...
- We were wrong on Netaji admits Basu
- Pioneer News Service
The Pioneer
- 24 January 1997
>>>Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Thursday publicly admitted that the
Communists had made a "wrong assessment" of Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose and called him a "traitor."
Addressing a huge rally at the Netaji statue near the Brigade
Parade grounds on the occasion of the freedom fighter's birth
...
- Why is the UF celebrating Congress' defeat?
- Vijay Simha
The Indian Express
- 12 February 1997
>>>Ironically, the 1997 Punjab Assembly elections, in which the United
Front (UF) and its biggest ally, the Congress, received a drubbing,
couldn't have come at a better time for the 13-party ruling
coalition. Though the performance at the hustings should be cause
for concern, it should surprise no one if the UF leaders are
...
- Why is this man smiling?
- Kaveree Bamzai
The Indian Express
- 4 February 1997
>>>It's ironic that the two prime movers of the Broadcast Bill are now
connected with Star TV, the network whose plans it may hurt most.
While former Doordarshan Director-General Rathikant Basu heads
Start TV, India, the other, former Information and Broadcasting
Secretary Bhaskar Ghose, has just premiered an eponymous show on
...
- Kaveree Bamzai
The Indian Express
- 4 February 1997
>>>It's ironic that the two prime movers of the Broadcast Bill are now connected
with Star TV, the network whose plans it may hurt most. While former
Doordarshan Director-General Rathikant Basu heads Start TV, India, the other,
former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bhaskar Ghose, has just
premiered an eponymous show on Star Movies.
- Wisner's farewell faux pas betrays continuing 'tilt'
- Mahendra Ved
The Times of India
- 25 February 1997
>>>It is rather unusual that the foreign minister of a country,
especially an experienced hand at diplomacy like Inder Kumar
Gujral, should react "angrily" more than once, as reports indicate,
to the observations of an ambassador who is bidding farewell
towards the end of his successful tenure in India.
- Witness for the persecution
- Dileep Padgaonkar
The Telegraph
- 16 February 1997
>>>``It is unadulterated Hinduism that must rule India with its
gentleness and wisdom free of the muck accreted over the
centuries in holding out against foreign domination.. The content
of `Secularism' vaunted in opposition to Hindutva- is general,
weak and has no apparent foundation in the spirit of the Indian
...
- Women priests overtaken male counterparts in Maharashtra
- PTI
The Hindu
- 5 February 1997
>>>With an increasing number of men of religion taking up other more
lucrative vocations, women are now stepping into the gap to
actually outnumber male priests in Maharashtra.
Dr. V L. Manjul, a research scholar and chief librarian at Pune's
Bhandarkar Oriental Re. search Institute, says "between 1986 and
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