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Starting: Mon 04 Aug 1997 - 13:31:14 EDT
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- A K Dhar
- Gujral asks Queen to drop plan to visit Amritsar The Observer
- 18 August 1997
>>>Prime Minister I K Gujral has warned Britain's Queen Elizabeth to drop her
plans to visit Amritsar, scene of the bloody massacre at the Jallianwala
Bagh by British forces in 1919 - for which many Indians hope she will
apologise, Sunday Observer reported.
"We have suggested as a Government to the British that it would be much
...
- A. Jayaraman
- The one who honestly opposed Gandhiji The Hindu
- 15 August 1997
>>>On the occasion of Independence Day, it is worth going into some of the
exchange of ideas between Mahatma Gandhi and Sir M. Visvesvaraya who
differed with him radically on some issues though not political.
Visvesvaraya was eight years older than Gandhiji. He was one of the few
national leaders to live up to the landmark tenure of 100 and beyond -
...
- Aditi Phadnis (New Delhi)
- 'Kashmir is a core issue'-Interview-Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Sunday
- 17-23 August 1997
>>>There could not have been a greater contrast. Former Pakistani high
commissioner to India, Riaz Khokhar, was flamboyant and abrasive in an era
when India-bashing was the political fashion m Pakistan. His successor,
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, is firm a but soft-spoken representative of Pakistan
in afar more relaxed environment in Indo-Pak relations.
- Ajay Bharadwaj
- Alan Cowell
- Cologne faces reality of Nazi past The Times of India
- 18 August 1997
>>>Cities, like spies, have their legends, and the one most favoured here is
the one offered by Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's prewar mayor and the first
postwar chancellor of West Germany.
Of all Germany's major cities, Mr Adenauer said In 1946, none had been so
battered by the Allies and, "none had deserved it less." indeed, he
...
- Anil Athale
- Anjali Mody
- Queen's visit on no apology: daily The Indian Express
- 25 August 1997
>>>Despite the recent controversy and the reservation expressed by Prime
Minister I K Gujral, according to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the Queen
will visit Amritsar. The paper said that the British and Indian officials
"have agreed a formula to enable the Queen to visit Amritsar without having
to make an apology for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre." The Queen will
...
- Arthur J. Pais (New York)
- Rallying religious revival India Today
- 15 November 1997
>>>Kanchan Banerjee was prevented from performing Ganesh puja on the campus of
Boston University nine years ago. He was stopped not by American rednecks
or the KKK but the India Club-on the plea that the celebration of Diwali
went against India's secular constitution.
It was probably similar complaints from fellow students at other American
...
- Arun Shourie
- Pakistan: Tolerance, brotherhood and equality! The Observer
- 8 August 1997
>>>To gauge the truth about an ideology one must follow five rules. Go by what
the primary texts say, not by the gloss which commentators put on them to
suit the needs of the time; go by what the primary texts as a whole say,
not by what a passage plucked from here and a passage plucked from there
says; go by the plain, manifest meaning of the primary texts, not by the
...
- Pakistan: Tolerance, brotherhood and equality! The Observer
- 8 August 1997
>>>To gauge the truth about an ideology one must follow five rules. Go by what
the primary texts say, not by the gloss which commentators put on them to
suit the needs of the time; go by what the primary texts as a whole say,
not by what a passage plucked from here and a passage plucked from there
says; go by the plain, manifest meaning of the primary texts, not by the
...
- Arvind N. Das
- Sauce for the goose The Telegraph
- 29 July 1997
>>>By anointing his wife as successor, Laloo Prasad Yadav has gone beyond both
politics and the theatre of the absurd.
The installation of the proxy government in Bihar has caused both
consternation and amusement. Those who are shocked profess faith in
political morality and are aghast that a thoroughly amoral but distinctly
...
- Ashok Chowgule
- Cowardly stance Mid-day
- 31 July 1997
>>>This refers to "Watershed for Dalits' (Mid-Day, July 24) Praful Bidwai. It
is amusing to read an interpretation that the riot in riot in Mumbai is a
watershed event for the Dalits. It seems that the so-called intellectuals
wish to fight the ideology of Hindutva using the shoulders of the Dalits.
They do not have the courage to fight their own battles boldly. They are
...
- Ashok Singhi
- Queen's visit: Cong flays Tohra demand The Observer
- 18 August 1997
>>>The proposed visit of Queen Elizabeth 11 to Amritsar in connection with the
Golden Jubilee celebrations of Indian Independence is kicking up so much
dust amongst political circles in Punjab. The controversy has snowballed as
it has given the State Youth Congress unit a chance to launch another
political propaganda against the Badal Government.
- Asit Jolly
- Wagah: Traffic jams, lathis mar festivities The Asian Age
- 17 August 1997
>>>As the clock ticked towards midnight on August 14, there were traffic
snarlups and lathicharges at the Wagah Border, midway between Amritsar and
Lahore.
Enthusiastic Indians had reached the border on tractors, buses, trucks,
cars and scooters. Some had even walked to the checkpost where dusk to
...
- Askari H. Zaidi
- New plan to blunt BJP's chances of coming of power The Times of India
- 19 August 1997
>>>Congress president Sitaram Kesri and former prime minister V.P. Singh an
said to be working out a electoral alliance to eliminate the chances of the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coming to power both In Uttar Pradesh and at
the Centre after the next general elections.
Besides Mr Kesri and Mr Singh, former Bihar chief minister Laloo Prasad
...
- Atal Behari Vajpayee
- The BJP's onward march Frontline
- 22 August 1997
>>>The leader of the Opposition says that his party's progress will continue
well beyond the next election.
As I look back at the five decades we as a nation have left behind, a rush
of memories floods my mind. That August day in 1947 when this
5,000-year-old civilisation of ours woke to a new dawn, free from centuries
...
- B N Uniyal
- Gujral fiasco over Queen's Amritsar visit The Sunday Observer
- 24-30 August 1997
>>>Gujral has now capped his career as prime minister with this fiasco over
Queen Elizabeth's visit to Amritsar. Everybody here in Delhi is laughing
at him. The reaction in London and other national capitals cam not be
different. Somebody said the other day that Gujral is doing all this to
tease R K Laxman. How will the celebrated cartoonist caricature him now
...
- Bijender Sharma in Shimla
- politics to blame for caste conflicts - Kanchipuram Blitz
- 26 July 1997
>>>The Jagadguru Sankaracharya Shri Jayendra Saraswathi of Kanchipuram has
urged the Central government to relinquish its control of Hindu shrines in
various parts of the country.
Speaking to Blitz last week during the course of an interview, the
Sankaracharya criticised the Centre for seeking to control the functioning
...
- Bishwanath Ghosh
- There is a need to Indianise Islam? The Asian Age
- 5 August 1997
>>>Under your presidentship, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has started
Muslim conferences across the country. What was the need for it?
A. After the Ayodhya movement, I began to be seen as an anti-Muslim,
because in our country, to talk about Hindutva is something anti-Muslim.
After I joined the Yuva Morcha in 1994, some Muslim youths came to see me.
- Chaman Nahal & Anita Nahal
- Communists in 1942 The Hindustan Times (New Delhi)
- 6 August 1997
>>>To the eternal embarrassment of the Communist Party of India, it not only
boycotted the Quit India movement in 1942 - some other parties such as the
Muslim League and the Hindu Mahasabha did that as well - it eagerly sided
with the British and aided them in their war effort. Since that effort
included repression of local dissidents and political activists, the CPI
...
- Claire Galez
- Kashmir: Terrorism too is a violation of human rights The Times of India
- 19 August 1997
>>>Visiting Kashmir after a long break, one notices obvious signs that the
society is in the process of recovering after these very trying eight
years. In sharp contrast with 1994, the first scenes one enjoys of the
Kashmir Valley, right out of the Srinagar airport, are children playing and
laughing, men and women attending to their daily occupations or sitting and
...
- D R Ahuja
- Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan The observer
- 6 August 1997
>>>The tragedy of Pakistan is that, despite constitutional safeguards, the
government failed to protect minorities, says D R Ahuja
Though Pakistan is a, theocratic state, its constitution guarantees every
citizen the right to profess, practise and propagate his religion. It also
guarantees that every religious denomination or sect shall have the right
...
- Dina Nath Mishra
- India is ageless and for ever The Observer
- 14 August 1997
>>>Do you think India will stay united in the next 50 years, or disintegrate
into independent nations? This question, along with others, was posed to
12,651 adult respondents for the countrywide survey by ORG-MARG-India
Today. The outcome of this survey has been published in India Today special
issue of August 18, 1997. Forty-one per cent of the respondents opined that
...
- A drowning Prime Minister The Observer (New Delhi)
- 7 August 1997
>>>Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral had to stage a walkout from the Janata
Dal national council conference. The reason: He was not allowed to complete
his speech by slogan shouting JD workers who were demanding imposition of
President's rule in Bihar and removal of three RJD ministers. No Prime
Minister had had to walk out from his own party's conference during the
...
- Dinesh Kumar
- Editorial
- Not assured The Telegraph
- 8 August 1997
>>>Socialism is dead but the mindset that belongs to that ideology refuses to
take its rightful place in the S graveyard of outmoded ideas. In India, it
continues to be alive and kicking. Its latest victim is the insurance
regulatory authority bill which the United Front withdrew on Wednesday. The
immediate reason for the withdrawal was simple. It became clear that the
...
- Stand firm, PC The Economic Times
- 22 August 1997
>>>Finance minister P Chidambaram must be congratulated on asserting that the
Tamil Maanila Congress will not be bullied into changing its agenda by the
two communist parties. The comrades say they do not seek to impose their
own agenda on the United Front but will ensure that the Common Minimum
Programme is implemented rather than the 'World-Bank dictated economic
...
- Assam's agony The Times of India
- 19 August 1997
>>>The massacre of 13 non-Bodos in the Bodo-dominated Nalbari district of
Assam on August 15 is a stem reminder not only of the unending cycle of
senseless violence in that state but also of the unfulfilled regional
aspirations of the people in the entire North-East aspirations which have
set the region rumbling with insurgency. That the Nalbari incident and the
...
- Something rotten The Times of India
- 14 August 1997
>>>The Patna high court's view that the situation in Bihar warranted the
imposition of President's Rule is without precedent in Indian
constitutional history. Coming at a crucial point in the ongoing judiciary
versus executive debate, the pronouncements are bound once again to raise
demands for a redefinition of judicial jurisdiction in matters considered
...
- Haste & waste The Times of India
- 12 August 1997
>>>An "old man in a hurry" was how former Prime Minister Deve Gowda had
dismissed Congress president Sitaram Kesri in his grandiloquent exit speech
delivered on the floor of the Lok Sabha. Mr Kesri now informs us that he
has only a small problem with that - he is an old man not just in a hurry
but in a tearing hurry. Many among us would empathise with Mr Kesri and
...
- Egg on his goatee The Free Press Journal
- 8 August 1997
>>>The Gujral Government seems determined to trip over the very mines it
strews in its way in the first place. Characteristically, the Prime
Minister goes to Kashmir and offers unconditional talks with the militants.
Confronted in Parliament with the enormity of his mistake, Gujral eats
crow and blames it all on the Press for having got him wrong. Again, a few
...
- Back to Avadi The Financial Express
- 11 August 1997
>>>The Congress is back to socialism and lo! who has proclaimed the return of
the prodigal son to the home which he had deserted six years ago - Manmohan
Singh who was widely seen as the architect of reform? Yet, this is really
not extraordinary for either the party or Singh himself After all, both
were totally for State-led development before the mid-1991 switch to a
...
- From Calcutta to nowhere The Indian Express
- 11 August 1997
>>>Nothing could have been more pleasing to Congressmen than Sitaram Kesri's
categorical assertion that the party would be back in power within a year.
The party president would have done better if he had also indicated to his
partymen, who are yet to recover from the shock of losing power, why he
believed that a Congressman would hoist the national flag on the Red Fort
...
- An omnibus apology-Else, Cong would have to apology a day The Indian Express
- 7 August 1997
>>>An apology for the omissions of the Congress that led to the demolition of
Babri Masjid is a meaningless exercise if the real intention is to assuage
the hurt feelings of Muslims. It is a simplistic solution inasmuch as it
presupposes that the alienation of Muslims from the Congress is primarily
on account of the demolition. It is true that Muslims felt cheated when the
...
- Arguing over gods The Pioneer
- 6 August 1997
>>>What shall, in retrospect, prove far more significant than Worshipping
False Gods-the controversial book that Arun Shourie has written-is the
nature of public debate that it has provoked. It is because democracy
itself must seek constant redefinition through debate, that it becomes
necessary today to both examine and evaluate the terms of this debate.
- Gujral eats crow The Free Press Journal
- 30 July 1997
>>>Never believe a statement fully until it is denied. That wisecrack has more
than a kernel of truth, especially in reference to Indian politicians. The
Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral - some in the ruling United Front. call
him Interview Kumar Gujral whereas the Leftists have nicknamed him Inder
Kesri Gujral - seems to be suffering from a very bad case of denialitis, a
...
- Backtrack record The Pioneer
- 29 July 1997
>>>If ever an award is instituted for inventing a political conundrum, it
should unmistakably go to the Prime Minister, Mr Inder Kumar Gujral. His
contradictory utterances on the critical issue of holding talks with
Kashmir militants are not just baffling but could also send altogether
wrong signals. First, he said he was prepared for an unconditional
...
- Gowda's games - The party becomes a tool for revenge The Indian Express
- 5 August 1997
>>>Few people are graceful when they quit positions of power. Former Prime
Minister H.D. Deve Gowda is no exception. Though several months have passed
since his government was voted out of power, he is yet to reconcile himself
to the loss of power. He seems to be hoping against hope that through a
quirk of fate he will once again be catapulted into power. Gowda
...
- Spare the army The Times of India
- 4 August 1997
>>>Members of Parliament have rightly demanded a probe into the circumstances
in which some officers of the CBI asked for the help of local army
authorities, to execute the warrant of arrest against Mr Laloo Prasad
Yadav. The government and the CBI have initiated action to fix
responsibility for this alleged breach of the well-established demarcation
...
- Apologise, your majesty - And also pass along the Kohinoor The Indian Express
- 4 August 1997
>>>Britain's enthusiastic observance of India's fiftieth year of independence
is threatening to boomerang, with the cry going up that the Queen's visit
to Jallianwala Bagh should be accompanied by an apology for the outrage of
1919. The Queen may squirm, but she can take comfort from the fact that
she is not alone in her embarrassment. The season of apologies has been
...
- Justice for all The Times of India
- 4 August 1997
>>>The Supreme Court ruling holding a divorced Muslim male liable to pay
maintenance to his children independent of providing for his wife should be
welcomed as one more step forward on the road to a gradual and voluntary
evolution of a uniform civil code. In fact, this particular judgment will
benefit not just the Muslim community since the court has based its ruling
...
- Editorial, in The Times, London
- Express News Service
- GOST is anti-communist: EMS The Indian Express
- 26 August 1997
>>>Arundhati Roy's description of Left leaders in Kerala termed a caricature
Lashing out against Arundhati Roy's novel God of Small Things, veteran
Marxist E M S Namboodiripad has described it as "anti-Communist propaganda."
"It presents a totally unrealistic picture of the Communist movement in
Kerala," he said while refusing a request by The Indian Express for an
...
- India wins battle against turmeric patenting The Indian Express
- 24 August 1997
>>>The United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (US PTO) has cancelled the
patent it granted for the use of turmeric as a wound healing agent at the
intervention of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Addressing a press conference off Saturday R A Mashelkar Director General
CSIR said that the cancellation of the patent on turmeric powder is a
...
- Sikhs resent Gujral's stance on Queen visit The Indian Express
- 19 August 1997
>>>Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral has been caught on the wrong foot again.
His reported suggestion to British Queen Elizabeth 11 to skip Amritsar
during her forthcoming visit to India is threatening to snowball into a
major controversy.
The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and Akali MPs today put
...
- Dalit leaders not to demand ban on Shourie's book The Indian Express
- 5 August 1997
>>>Instead of seeking a ban, the Dalit leaders in Maharashtra have decided to
bring out a book on Ambedkar as counter to Arun Shourie's Worshipping False
Gods. Ibis decision comes at a time when the Congress, Janata Dal and
other political parties with a tacit support of the ruling saffron brigade
are demanding a ban on Shourie's controversial book on B R Ambedkar.
- Fuzail Jafferey
- HT Correspondent
- Akalis turning Sikhs into pygmies: Gill The Hindustan Times
- 10 August 1997
>>>Former Punjab Director General of Police K. P. S. Gill in his much-awaited
book 'Punjab The Knights of Falsehood', has accused the Akali leadership of
"pygmyfying the once proud Sikh community."
Talking to newsmen here last evening, Mr Gill said that the recent spate of
terrorist activities in the State had provoked him to write the book. "I
...
- RSS men were saviours as cops did a Nero The Hindustan Times
- 29 July 1997
>>>Dressed in khakhi shorts Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers turned
saviors at the Faridabad railway station where a train accident claimed 12
lives and left over 68 others injured last night.
Even as the RSS workers rescued the victims and rushed them to the
hospitals, another group of khakhi-clad persons - the Railway Protection
...
- J N Chaturvedi
- Willing tools The Pioneer
- 20 August 1997
>>>Power within the bureaucracy today has gradually become centralised within
the Secretariat and even within that, amongst a few individuals. This has
generated the inevitable undercurrent of intrigue, caste loyalties and
establishment of hegemonies. The same practices, have infected the police
as well. In such a climate, playing it extremely safe has become the norm.
- Jagmohan
- A failure in leadership The Hindustan Times
- 3 August 1997
>>>Duane R. Clarridge, in his book, A Spy For-All Seasons: My Life In The CIA,
has, recorded as follows:
"In 1964, Nehru released Sheikh Abdullah from prison. Abdullah immediately
left for Paris. I flew to Paris to see him. He seemed a bit tentative, and
nothing much came of the meeting, except for an agreement to meet again,
...
- Javed M. Ansari
- Surjeet's Shikar India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>Frustrated by Gujral's growing proximity to the Congress the CPI(M)'s
general secretary turns into the ruling coalition's one-man built-in
demolition squad
>From Rajguru to dissident at large. The transition has been complete for
Harkishen Singh Surjeet. The general secretary of the CPI(M) was very much
...
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Dream of a new India - Tryst with destiny reaffirmed The Times of India
- 15 August 1997
>>>Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we
shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very
substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps,
India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but
rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age
...
- Jay Dubashi
- The East India Company lives The Sunday Observer
- 24-30 August 1997
>>>One by one, Indian companies are failing into the laps of eager foreigners.
The first to go was Ramesh Chauhan's Parle and I haven't touched a soft
drink since.
The second was Tata's TOMCO, which was grabbed by Hindustan Lever. Lakme
has also met the same fate, or is going to. So is Premier Automobiles
...
- Jyoti Malhotra
- When Indians went visiting The Indian Express
- 26 August 1997
>>>Jyoti Malhotra traces the history of insensitivity with which the British
have treated Indian concerns
Long before the Queen of England's Indian itinerary became a controversy at
home and abroad, there hung a tale of British insensitivity to Indian
concerns, of bargain and pressure - and perhaps, even, a measure of
...
- K Subrahmanyam
- Corruption and national security The Economic Times
- 21 August 1997
>>>Foreign intelligence agencies and organised crime are in a position to buy
up our politicians and political parties.
Addressing the nation from the Red Fort, Prime Minister I K Gujral said
that while the country could be defended by our brave soldiers against
aggression from outside there was no defence against anti-national elements
...
- Kenneth J. Cooper (Washington Post Foreign Service)
- Classes clash over quotas in India The Washington Post
- 18 July 1997
>>>Laws meant to favor lowest castes now aid well-off applicants
The first time A.T. Shibu filled out a job application form that asked
which caste he belonged to, he did not know where to place himself in the
traditional Hindu hierarchy defining religious purity, social status and
occupation. He had to ask his parents.
- Kumud Kishore Sinha
- L. K. Sharma
- Law Kumar Mishra
- Liladhar J. Bharadia, Kenya
- Reaching out Hinduism Today
- 1997 July
>>>RSS leader celebrates 50 years of service in Kenya
With Garlands in hand, Hindus and non-Hindus, VIPs and well-wishers
gathered on January 10, 1997 at Nairobi's airport to welcome Prof Rajendra
Singh, 75, head of India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The beloved leader
had come to inaugurate celebrations marking 50 years of service by the RSS
...
- M Ilyas Khan
- Jihad that boomeranged The Observer
- 22 August 1997
>>>In early April, a contingent of the Taliban border guards posted at Naawa
Kandao, a creek on the Kunar-Mohamand Agency border, crossed over to a
patch of disputed territory and ordered the Pakistani paramilitary
officials stationed there to evacuate the area.
The Pakistani officials resisted, saying they would have to wait for orders
...
- M V Kamath
- More than a yatra: it is tapasya The Free Press Journal
- 24 July 1997
>>>Fired by the success of yet another rath yatra, a born-again Lal Krishna
Advani stormed into the centre stage of national politics, decisively
shrugging off the hawala taint, steamrolling his way into the capital atop
the swaran jayanti rath. It was a triumphant return for the 69-year old
president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, said a report in the Hindustan
...
- An agenda for tomorrow The Free Press Journal
- 14 August 1997
>>>A few years ago the editor of a south Indian daily re quested me to write a
weekly article for him as he considered I had something useful to say on
contemporary affairs. I readily complied with the request. A few weeks
later, however, he stopped publishing them. When I enquired about the
matter I was somewhat sheepishly told that ten per cent of the paper's
...
- M. Vinayak
- Bihar under the Laloo raj The Hindu
- 24 July 1997
>>>A visiting Japanese entrepreneur told a Patna gathering, presided over by
the Chief Minister, Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, that if only he had a State as
rich as Bihar in mineral and material resources, he would have turned it
into another japan in three months. The irrepressible Chief Minister,
known for his sharp repartee, told the businessman: "You let me have japan
...
- Mayawati
- "I'll definitely hand over charge to the BJP" India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has always been known for her
outrageous style of functioning. But the 42-year-old politician's second
coming has been marked by a certain clarity of thought and fierce
determination to achieve a lot in the six months before she hands over the
baton to her coalition partner, the BJP. Through sheer force of
...
- Mehraboon J. Irani
- Double standard of the Left Parties The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- 19 August 1997
>>>The sudden withdrawal of the crucial IRA Bill in the Lok Sabha has exposed
the double standard of the Left parties which refused to support the Bill.
While the impression given is that the BJP is responsible for the
withdrawal of the Bill, the fact remains that the various constituents of
the United Front do not see eye to eye, when it comes to crucial economic
...
- Mohammed Ali Jinnah
- Quaid-e-Azam's Pakistan - Vision of a secular state The Times of India
- 12 August 1997
>>>Following are excerpts from the address of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah
to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi on August 11, 1947..
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to
your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan...
You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - - that has nothing to do
...
- N K Singh
- Helpless against corruption The Pioneer
- 4 August 1997
>>>To deal with corruption the Government must strengthen the investigating
agencies and allow them the freedom of action.
During the 50 years since independence, we have had great prime ministers
like Nehru and Shastri, and a tyrant like Indira Gandhi. In the golden
jubilee year of Independence, we have now a prime minister who seems
...
- N.V. Subramanian (New Delhi)
- "Unalloyed capitalism is not an answer for a nation" Sunday
- 17-23 August 1997
>>>Last week, the I.K. Gujral government faced a major embarrassment when it
was forced to withdraw the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) Bill in
Parliament after realising that the Bill was sure to fall through. This
was not only a set back for the UF government, as a whole, but for finance
minister P. Chidambaram, in particular, who had set great store by the
...
- Nanaji Deshmukh
- In Ram's Footsteps India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>Two decades after he quit politics, the Jan Sangh stalwart tells Principal
Correspondent Saba Naqvi Bhaumik about his vision of an ancient Indian
idyll and its relevance today.
If Lord Ram is the ideal Indian hero, then Nanaji Deshmukh is his model
devotee. It's close to two decades since the Jan Sangh stalwart renounced
...
- Narendra Luther
- The prophet of India The Hindu
- 10 August 1997
>>>When I was researching for my book: "Hyderabad - Memoirs of a City", I came
across a story that a certain noble, Nawab Akbar Yar Jung had, in a speech
delivered in the Thirties, referred to Lord Krishna as a "Propher" of India
and as a result was dismissed from service. I knew his son Prof.
Rasheeduddin Khan was in Delhi and wrote to him to ascertain the facts.
- Neeraj Mishra
- Facing a Jewish future The Indian Express
- 20 August 1997
>>>An Oxford University study reveals the Asians in Britain face a future
reminiscent of the Jews in the Middle Ages. And the only way out is through
political assimilation.
The 20-year old, Reuben Singh, typifies the grit with which Asians living
in Britain have shaken off the ghosts of their past and embraced an alien
...
- Nina Martyris
- Pai piper The Sunday Times of India
- 3 August 1997
>>>In the spring of 1967, Anant Pai was standing at the junction of Ajmalkhan
Road and Gurudwara Road in New Delhi, waiting for a lull in the traffic.
At that crossing, he had what he calls an "an emotional experience", the
lasting impact of which can he seen in every book stall countrywide: the
Amar Chitra Katha.
- Observer Political Bureau
- P. K. Roy
- A temple taking shape amid uncertainty The Hindu
- 12 August 1997
>>>Attention of a pilgrim visiting Ayodhya's Ramghat locality is caught by a
flurry of activities in the huge stone carving workshop of the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad. Large columns of pink Bharatpur sandstones are littered all
over, on which dozens of craftsmen are at work, chiselling beautiful floral
motifs, the images of gods and goddesses and celestial figures, some in
...
- P. K. Surendran
- Political Bureau
- Cong(I), BJP support election fund, CPI scoffs at the move The Economic Times
- 22 August 1997
>>>The TATA Sons initiative to set up an electoral trust for funding political
parties was today welcomed by both BJP as well as the Congress(I) and
described it as a move that can help reduce the influence of slush finance
in the electoral process. However, the CPI, Which does not have 5 per cent
seats in the Lok Sabha - a precondition for being a beneficiary of the
...
- Political Bureau/Agencies
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Double rebuff (newsnotes) India Today
- 1 September 1997
>>>Twice bitten, but still not shy. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav is not giving up yet on his campaign against the BSP-BJP combine in
Uttar Pradesh-despite two rebuffs in just one week. One of them came from
none other than his party workers. The indefinite statewide 'jail bharo'
agitation Mulayam launched on August 13-to draw the attention of the Centre
...
- India's next 50 years The Economist
- 16 August 1997
>>>Speaking to India's Constituent Assembly in Delhi on August 14th 1947, the
eve of independence from British rule, the new nation's prime minister said:
We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The
achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to
the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough
...
- India and Pakistan at 50 - Happy anniversary? The Economist
- 16 August 1997
>>>Partition in 1947 created two nations. Our first article deals with India,
which has paid heavily for a failed economic experiment, but is justly
proud of its political achievements. Our second article argues that
Pakistan has done better than India economically, but worse politically
On August 15th 1947, India became the first British colony to win
...
- 'US getting to appreciate BJP leader' The Daily
- 3 August 1997
>>>There is now a greater understanding of the BJP's policy among the US
leaders, the senior BJP leader, Murli Manohar Joshi has said, reports PTI.
Joshi told correspondents that he told the US officials that the BJP is a
national and not a communal organisation as is commonly, characterised in
the United State's.
- Shias look up to BJP Organiser
- 10 August 1997
>>>Disowned by Sunnis and disillusioned with the self-styled secularist parties.
The contumacious Shia community is telling its beads on Shri Atal Behari
Vajpayee, a trustworthy and lovable person and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
the only party which will get the Shias their due, according to Maulana
Kalbe Jawad, the community's top religious and political leader.
- Menace of Muslim fundamentalism Organiser
- 10 August 1997
>>>Al-Umma the dreaded fundamentalist outfit was founded by a communalist and
ISI agent Pasha to coordinate the different Muslim terrorist groups in
Tamil Nadu. It was launched in 1993 in the wake of Ayodhya episode.
Recently the police arrested Pasha in connection with the conspiracy to
blow up Chennai. Earlier in 1993 Pasha along with sixteen others was
...
- The call of divine duty India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>When it comes to foreign trips, poets and priests can rind themselves in
the same predicament as politicians: in the eye of a storm. Though it
lasted a little more than a fortnight-and ended rather tamely-the
controversy this time was acerbic enough. The debate, on whether the Vedas
permit priests to cross the seas or not, followed the London visit in June
...
- Golden temple to have a new look The Hindu
- 21 July 1997
>>>A part of the preparations to celebrate the grand event on the Baisakhi day
of 1999, which marks the 300th years of creation of the 'Khalsa', the
formidable job of replacing the Gold plates of the world famous Sikh
shrine, the Golden Temple, is underway with more than half the work is said
to have been completed.
- Left to launch campaign against Rabri Devi Govt. The Hindu
- 31 July 1997
>>>The Left parties said today that the political crisis in Bihar had not
ended with the arrest of Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav as the arrangement he had
left "behind" was not acceptable to them. They would campaign against the
new ministry headed by his wife, Mrs. Rabri Devi, which they regarded as a
"mockery" of democracy.
- Press Trust of India
- R N Vaswani
- R P Dutt
- Rajesh Kochhar
- The Elitist reformer - Ambivalent views on Rammohun Roy The Times of India
- 6 August 1997
>>>Rabindranath Tagore hailed Rammohun Roy as the inaugurator of modem India.
Mahatma Gandhi was not quite sure whether what Rammohun Roy inaugurated was
worthwhile. Gandhi's first reference to Rammohun Roy was laudatory. In
1905, in a lecture delivered at the invitation of the Theosophical Society
of Johannesburg, Gandhi referred to him as one of the great teachers who
...
- Rajiv Shukla
- Best and rest - Do our leaders know how to differentiate? Sunday
- 3-9 August 1997
>>>It is most unfortunate that in today's politics, the criteria for selecting
a person to an important public office have been reduced to a very low
level. If you belong to a particular caste or community, you will be
supported by various politicians cutting across party lines irrespective of
your educational qualifications and merit.
- Raman Kirpal
- Indian caravan gets a tastes of Gaddafi enigma The Indian Express
- 19 August 1997
>>>It appeared that we were set to break the mystery of the most enigmatic of
world leaders - Col Moammar Gaddafi. But after spending five days in his
fiefdom, the mystique of the Libyan President had only deepened.
I, as part of a 21-member delegation led by a little-known India-based NGO,
Organisation for Promotion of Love among Indians (OPLAIN), flew to Tripoli
...
- Rashid Talib
- Islam in India, 50 years later: Healing split personality The Asian Age
- 12 August 1997
>>>What will be the shape of Islam when India celebrates her centennial 50
years from now? To depict Islam's future in India, and indeed that of Islam
in the world with which it is inevitably bound up, one need not look into a
crystal bowl. An answer to the latter aspect of the question was essayed
some four years ago by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington when he
...
- Rashmee Z Ahmed
- Age of apology - Good politics & bad memories The Times of India
- 21 August 1997
>>>With the Hong Kong handback over and the 50th anniversary of Indian
Independence coming soon after, Britain is allowing itself the luxury of a
season of imperial reminiscence. The airwaves, newspapers and magazines
have wall-to-wall coverage of post-Raj India. There are Nehru
hagiographies, Jinnah biographies, migrants revisiting former homes in
...
- Raveen Thukral
- 'Queen's Amritsar visit won't suffice' The Hindustan Times
- 7 August 1997
>>>Prof. Jagmohan Singh, who has raised the controversial demand for Queen
Elizabeth II tendering an apology for the brutal massacre of thousands of
people in 1919 at the historic Jallianwala Bagh during her proposed visit
to Amritsar in October, has now said that the Queen's gesture would only be
complete if she visits the memorial of Bhagat Singh at Hussainiwala in
...
- Ritu Sarin & Hemant Babu
- Paswan too wants his share of sectarian politics The Indian Express
- 11 August 1997
>>>While it was secularism on show during the kick-off of the Golden Jubilee
celebrations of Independence in Mumbai Saturday, the occasion was used by
Railway Minister Ram Vilas Paswan to entrench himself firmly as a player in
Maharashtra's sectarian politics.
The day had begun with reservations being expressed about whether Paswan
...
- Sandeep Unnithan
- Hollywood hard hit in Bollywood land The Indian Express
- 7 August 1997
>>>Even as their country cousins rake in the moolah thanks to a string of
recent hits like Viraasat, Border and Yes Boss, English film theatres in
Mumbai are having to confront a problem of scarcity - an oversupply of
English films with just two screens to show.
Inevitable fallouts are delayed and rescheduled releases of English films
...
- Sanghamitra Chakraborty
- Why housewife Rabri is outclassed; and a comment The Times of India
- 3 August 1997
>>>The outrage against the new Bihar chief minister has more to do with gender
and class prejudice, finds out Sanghamitra Chakraborty
So the urban middle-class is outraged at the journey that Rabri Devi has
made from her kitchen to the CM's office. What exactly is going on, they
want to know. A mere housewife plonked on the chief minister's chair?
...
- Sanjay Suri (London)
- Queen may apologise Spotlight
- 13 August 1997
>>>He was a martyr to the cause of Indian freedom. And his nephew may have
succeeded where the Indian government has failed-in winning an apology from
the British for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. And not just from the
British, but from the Queen of England. The demand for an apology by
Jagmohan Singh-whose mother Bibi Amar Kaur was sister to the famous freedom
...
- Sauvik Chakraverti
- Indian Economics: Nonsense on stilts The Economic Times
- 25 August 1997
>>>Indian Economics, as taught in school and college, is but a bundle of
falsities. It encourages a world-view that accepts India's problems - like
poverty, unemployment and population - to be huge and intractable, and
incapable of solution without massive statal action. To a free-marketeer
it would appear that the strong socialist state has created a constituency
...
- Seema Sirohi
- 'A strong India is good for the US' The Telegraph
- 5 August 1997
>>>The former United States ambassador to India, Frank Wisner, made his final
pitch to the Bill Clinton administration and the US congress last week,
arguing for a more intense relationship with India based on dialogue. In
an interview with Seema Sirohi, he pointed to a future full of
possibilities for the world's two largest democracies.
- Shivani Singh
- Shruti Prakash
- Karachi Hindus had little to cheer about The Hindustan Times
- 8 August 1997
>>>Fifty years of Independence have not been able to wipe out the memories of
displacement and the ensuing trauma which Bharatiya Janata Party president
L. K. Advani had experienced during the gory Partition of 1947. Burning
bodies and vast stretches of devastation are some of the Memories which are
still fresh in his mind.
- Shubhadeep Choudhury
- History puts CPM on the defensive The Pioneer
- 12 August 1997
>>>History has become embarrassing for Kerala's Marxist Government in the
run-up to the golden jubilee celebrations of the country's independence.
First it faced an uproar when historian A Sreedhara Menon resigned from a
panel appointed by the State Government to write a book on the freedom
struggle in Kerala.
- Simon Hughes
- Charles and the church should get a divorce The Times of India
- 15 August 1997
>>>To remarry or not to remarry: is that the question? Actually, there are
three questions. Can the Prince of Wales remarry and still remain the head
of the Church of England? Are we willing for the monarch (or the monarch's
spouse) not to be an Anglican -and perhaps not even to belong to the
Christian faith? And are we willing to have the Church of England
...
- Smita Gupta
- VP moots tactical electoral pact with Cong. The Times of India
- 26 August 1997
>>>Former prime minister V.P. Singh feels the central contradiction of secular
Indian politics today is that while there is need for a "tactical electoral
understanding" between the United Front (UF) and the Congress in some parts
of the country, this should not result in handing over the entire
"opposition space" to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Somnath Sapru
- The anatomy of a communal riot The Free Press Journal
- 4 August 1997
>>>In the post-independent India, communal riots have taken not only a toll of
lives but also of our national honour and wounded the psyche of a very
important section of our population, namely the Muslim community in the
country. The question is repeatedly asked as to why this happens. Many
theories are advanced, the latest being the fundamental wind blowing from
...
- Subhash Mishra
- Printer's Devil India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>There crore students in Uttar Pradesh are literally turning over a new
leaf. When they returned to school after the summer holidays, their new
textbooks had clean white pages and clear printing. It was a welcome
change for students and parents who had struggled for five years with
poorly bound books, printed on inferior paper with blotchy ink. For them,
...
- Sudheendra Kulkarni
- How Advani's yatra 'unflopped' finally The Pioneer
- 25 July 1997
>>>In a moving tribute to SP Singh of Aaj Tak, the editor of this newspaper
made an observation about the increasing strength of Hindi journalism
saying, "It is not uncommon these, days for English newspapers to follow up
on stories that first appeared in a Jansatta or a Dainik Jagran." Coming
from an editor from the English media, the remark stood out for its honesty.
- Sunil K Poolani
- Source of ABC funds baffles authorities The Sunday Observer
- 3-9 August 1997
>>>Who funds Arun Gawli's Akhil Bharatiya Sena?
Though the answer may be obvious - that Gawli, who now nurses political
ambitions, may be using the wealth he had amassed as an underworld don the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra and the
police are desperately, but so far vainly, trying to obtain concrete
e
...
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Reclaiming Vande Mataram-Turning our back on the Nehruvian India Today
- 1 September 1997
>>>In the end it just took two words of a well-known but now largely
forgotten, mantra to instil feeling into the 50th anniversary celebrations.
The spectacular resuscitation of two words was sufficient to efface the
tackiness of the commemorative midnight session of Parliament and the
banality of the speeches. Vande Mataram did for India last week what it has
...
- Freedom dividend-Are or have you ever been, a Cong member? India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>No tears will be shed by the editorial classes at Surjit Singh Barnala's
inability to make it as India's next vice-president. The venerable Akali
Dal leader had everything going for him: long administrative experience as
cabinet minister, chief minister and governor, unimpeachable personal
integrity and unflinching patriotism in the face of tremendous adversity.
- T V Rajeshwar
- Whither Indo-Pak relations? The Observer
- 21 August 1997
>>>India's efforts to send artists to participate in the golden jubilee
celebrations of Pakistan were rebuffed. India and the Indian public have
been playing host to an unending stream of Pakistan qawwals, ghazal,
singers and cine actors while none of the Indian artists has been able to
visit Pakistan all these years.
- Tavleen Singh
- Rabri is a Bihari Sonia India Today
- 11 August 1997
>>>It making politics a family business Laloo only followed Congress culture
There is a funny, deeply, ironic side to the coronation of Mrs Laloo as
chief minister of Bihar which, alas, appears to have missed the attention
of most commentators on the subject. I read with great interest the many
irate editorials that attacked Laloo Prasad Yadav for anointing Rabri Devi,
...
- Times of India News Service
- U.K. wants PM to clarify statement The Times of India
- 19 August 1997
>>>Pressure mounts in Britain for apology
The British government on Monday sought "urgent clarifications" from New
Delhi on Prime Minister I.K. Gujral's reported advice to the Queen not to
visit Amritsar and said "no decision has yet been taken" on her final
itinerary when she visits India in October.
- V.S. Naipaul
- A million mutinies India Today
- 18 August 1997
>>>I think that it would be wrong to ask whether 50 years of India's
Independence are an achievement or a failure. It would be better to see
things as evolving. It's not an either-or question. My idea of the
history of India is slightly contrary to the Indian idea. India is a
country that, in the north, outside Rajasthan, was ravaged, and
...
- Vidyadhar Date
- Film on Communists role in freedom movement awaits I&B nod The Times of India
- 4 August 1997
>>>A young city researcher is desperately struggling to produce a documentary
film on the contribution of the Communists to India's freedom movement.
Mahesh Bharatiya has spent months doing research. He has obtained the
British government's secret documents on the Communists and made frequent
appeals to the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry to permit him to
...
- Vijay Dutt
- Janata Dal is no more, says V. P. Singh The Hindustan Times
- 4 August 1997
>>>The messiah of Mandal is now deeply worried about the dominance of caste in
Indian politics. In a wide-ranging interview with Vijay Dutt on the eve of
his departure from London, V.P. Singh said that power based on caste cannot
last long.
He had, in the almost two months that he was in London for treatment, tried
...
- Janata Dal is no more, says V. P. Singh The Hindustan Times
- 4 August 1997
>>>The messiah of Mandal is now deeply worried about the dominance of caste in
Indian politics. In a wide-ranging interview with Vijay Dutt on the eve of
his departure from London, V.P. Singh said that power based on caste cannot
last long.
He had, in the almost two months that he was in London for treatment, tried
...
- Vitusha Oberoi
- Destination anywhere Mid-day
- 8 August 1997
>>>Chacha Kesri planned on a historic train journey from New Delhi to Calcutta
to preside over the AICC session. But his Youth Congress was intent on
repeating history a la Nagpur.
'The young, budding Congressmen pillaged food from the pantry without
payment, carried away the bread meant for breakfast and feasted on cold
...
- Wagah Border Post (Punjab)
- No takers for I-Day greetings at Pak border The Economic Times
- 16 August 1997
>>>Thousands of Indian enthusiasts, who fathered at the country's main border
post with Pakistan during a special mid-night Independence bash, found no
takers for their greetings across the barbed wires.
Over 6,000 people defied security guards to join some 2,000 people with
security passes and marched up to the Wagah post, shortly before midnight
...
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