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- Asian Age
- Malaysia seals Hindu temple The Editor
- March 24, 1998
>>>The Malaysian police in the northern state of Penang on Monday
sealed off a 50-year old Hindu temple in an attempt to defuse
tension between people of different religions.
n the past few days , tension been rising in the area around
...
- Business Standard
- Vajpayee government may last full term David Devadas
- March 12, 1998
>>>I wouldn't be surprised if Mr Vajpayee's government lasts its
full term. Almost 400 of the new members were not in the last
House, and there's no guarantee that as many would not be
replaced next time. The wife of one member says her husband
borrowed Rs 40 lakh to win, and he is surely not the only one.
- DECCAN HERALD, Bangalore
- Economic Times
- Financial Express
- Learn to patent products the US way Anju Ghangurde
- March 23, 1998
>>>Tough the signing of the WTO agreement makes it obligatory for
India to usher in the product patent regime by 2005 for
pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, the new government should
ensure that domestic industry is well-supported to get its act
together on the R&D ,front in the interim. Besides, India could
...
- Free Press Journal
- Longer innings for Vajpayee this time Virendra Kapoor
- March 25, 1998
>>>Mulayam Singh Yadav and other professional secularists
notwithstanding, Atal Behari Vajpayee's second innings as Prime
Minister will be much longer than his first in June 1996. That is
one prediction which is least likely to go wrong in these
politically uncertain times. For to repeat the thirteen- day
...
- Hindu Times
- Hindustan Times
- A power vacuum cleaner VNN
- March 8, 1998
>>>Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Democracy, on the other
hand, tries to keep areas of vacuum in the power structure so
that authority has restraints and the vacant space is occupied by
persons and institutions which would hold' rulers accountable to
them and answerable to the nation.
- India Today
- Desperate Acts of Faith Ruben Banerjee
- March 30, 1998
>>>He is poor landless many others in the underdeveloped interiors
of Orissa. Jeeban Majhi, a villager in Gumma, Gajapati district,
has no avenues to change the course of his life. All he has done
in the past five years is change his religion twice. Born a
Hindu, he embraced Christianity and became Joseph. Last year,
...
- Saffron Burden Harinder Baweja
- March 30, 1998
>>>The saraswati vandana rings out twice a day. At 9.30 a.m. and at
sunset when children-aged between four and 14 gather on the lawns
of the Sanjay Manu Vadera Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir in
Moradabad. The school is 160 km from the Delhi border or a little
over that from 10 janpath where Sonia Gandhi, the samdhan of the
...
- A Vjpayee Doctrine Swapan Dasgupta
- March 30, 1998
>>>Flanked by Jayalalitha on one side and L.K. Advani on the other,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee didn't quite look the man India was
anxiously awaiting. At the release of the National Agenda for
Governance, grandly billed as the programme that would succeed in
"closing the gap between people's aspirations and the
...
- Shunted Out Bhaskar Paul
- March 30, 1998
>>>Jyotirmoy Mondal's transfer order last week would have been seen
as a routine exercise, were it not for the fact that he is the
principal accountant general who last year initiated the probe
into unauthorised holding of personal ledger accounts (PLAS) in
the state. It had upset the West Bengal Government's tall claims
...
- Constitutional delinquency Prabhu Chawla
- March 9, 1998
>>>It has all the trappings of a high-powered political
confrontation. With the Head of State poised for a head-on
collision with a lame-duck prime minister, the stage was set last
week for some more rewriting of constitutional conventions. After
a brief spell, during which he seemed to follow the dictum "live
...
- Socialite standing Swapan Dasgupta
- March 9, 1998
>>>Forget that they have operated as extension counters of some of
the most barbaric regimes-Stalin, Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceausescu
come to mind readily. Forget that socialism has been responsible
for keeping India trapped in a maze of stifling bureaucratic
controls. When it comes to that nebulous commodity called
...
- Jansatta
- Mid - Day
- Persona non-grata Narendra kaushik
- March 16, 1998
>>>If there is one person who the Bharatiya Janata Party would wish
to keep at an arm's length, it is Janata Party chieftain
Subramanian Swamy. Swamy is known to change colours faster than a
chameleon. True to form, the former finance minister on Sunday
morning lashed out at Ramakrishna Hegde telling him ot to
...
- Mid Day
- Pondering the poll M.V. Kamath
- March 7, 1998
>>>Now that the elections are over and the results are in, I am
taking the liberty to make some observations. All my own work, as
my friend Behram contractor would say.
The exit polls-all of them a have proved to be grievously wrong
...
- Observer
- What's wrong with ational_culture Rajendra Prabhu
- March 17, 1998
>>>An academic observer of Indian drama, Arend Lijphart of the
University of California, wrote a paper in The American Political
Science Review in June 1996 where he characterised the puzzle of
Indian democracy as a 'consociational' rather than a 'consensus'
one.
- Organiser
- The Silence of the sphinxes M V Kamath
- March 8, 1998
>>>Isn the public entitled to know the names of six suspected
militants who were killed while trying to throw bombs at a police
party? Who is hiding the truth and to what purpose?
When Muslim revanchists sought to reduce Mumbai to ashes and dust
...
- Out look
- Outlook
- Renovacao
- Statesman
- Mr speaker, Sir! The Editorial
- March 25, 1998
>>>Yet again, the BJP have exposed the bankruptcy of thought and
action in the Congress, now under new management, and in the
United Front, under no management at all. P A Sangma, the Speaker
of the dissolved Lok Sabha, agreed to serve again if, but only
if, he were the consensus choice of the Congress, the United
...
- Telegraph
- Change of protective gear Aabha Dixit
- March 19, 1998
>>>Unique situations demand unique solutions. The 12th Lok Sabha
elections threw up results which did not give a working majority
to any single political combine. In peculiar circumstances, the
right wing Bharatiya Janata Party is to form a tenuously placed
government. In the art of building and working coalitions,
...
- The Observer
- The Organiser
- The Times Of India
- The Afternoon
- The Afternoon Despatch and Couriers
- The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- Time ripe for introspection Tavleen singh
- March 16, 1998
>>>Let me begin by recommending to you an interesting little
exercise. Before you sell last month's newspapers to the
'kabadiwallah', just scan through the front page headlines. You
will notice that the only political leader whose speeches were
reported nearly every day on page one was Mrs. sonia Gandhi.
- The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- Modern education in a urukul environment Hubert Vaz
- March 11, 1998
>>>One of the ambitious service projects of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the country is the Keshav Shrushti
Complex, near Bhayander, which incorporates three main activities
- education, agriculture and herbal medicine. Of these
activities, the Ram Ratna Vidya Mandir residential school Is
...
- The Asian Age
- No intrigues, please Editorial
- March 4, 1998
>>>The electorate has just now told the world that it does not
consider the Bharatiya Janata Party an untouchable anymore. In
this essential respect, let its adversaries - and their number
may actually decrease, as the distinctive whiff of power travels
towards the saffron brigade - will do well to learn the difficult
...
- Ifs and Buts, Pros and Cons Editorial
- March 5, 1998
>>>The fun and games have begun. The politicians have begun
converging on Delhi to strike post-poll alliances and just about
everyone is meeting everybody. The CPM general secretary, Mr
Harkishen Singh Surjeet, was the first to propose a Congress-led
government with United Front support. He even suggested the
...
- The Daily
- Triumph of democracy M V Kamath
- March 17, 1998
>>>The election which nobody wanted are over. Nobody but
nobody wants another election for a long time. Tiredness as
set in and it is a sage bet that the government now in
power can hope to have a longer tenure than the United
Front government that has now passed into history.
- The Economic Times
- Electoral report card Report
- March 19, 1998
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------Total Votes Polled: 37.2 crores
Total Invalid -Votes: 68.69 lakh
---------------------------------------------------------------------
...
- Now, let the house decide Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
- March 4, 1998
>>>What procedure should the President follow, now that Parliament
is hung? If we regard pre-election combines as the ones that
matter, the BJP and its allies form the biggest group. But, if we
consider post-electoral combines, the Congress and most of the
United Front may form the biggest group. Which of the two should
...
- Learning by undoing Editorial
- March 4, 1998
>>>The principle of learning, rather than catch-phrases like antiincumbency, swings and indices of unity, might explain the 1998
election results. Political lessons have two components. One,
learning from the electorate: voters punish under-performing
representatives. Performance, measured by nuts-and-bolts local
l
...
- Fir for prime minister? S L Rao
- March 2, 1998
>>>Indians more than many others appear to believe that as a person
ages, he develops wisdom and integrity. There is no empirical
evidence for this. One can think of at least as many examples
among our leadership about whom this is not true.
...
- The Economics Times
- Once again to the fray S Venkitaramanan
- March 30, 1998
>>>It is on predictable lines. Mr Yashwant Sinha has presented his
interim budget to Parliament. At the time of writing, it appears
almost certain that he will present the full budget also and last
a full term. I had the privilege of working with him in 1991 when
he was finance minister and I was governor, RBI. I am confident
...
- The Financial Express
- Season for rethink Editorial
- March 19, 1998
>>>Business expectations that the BJP-led coalition government will
revise import duty rates have also created fears in certain
circles that this will mean a reversal of reform. The
apprehension is incorrect, and is based on the dogma that import
duty reduction per se is what the Indian economy needs. It is
...
- The Free press Journal
- Of parties, politics and people M.V. Kamath
- March 12, 1998
>>>In many ways the 1998 election has become a watershed. The BJP
has emerged as a force to be reckoned with. It many soften its
stand on some issues as the situation demands but in a clear way
it indicates a break with the Nehruvian past where secularism,
howsoever it was understood, was the watchword.
- The Hindu
- Indian Muslims and reforms Asghar Ali Engineer
- March 25, 1998
>>>It is usually maintained that Indian Muslims resist all attempts
at social reform due to their conservative nature and also
because Islam is considered a 'rigid religion. Such ideas, to
say the least, are superficial and do not go to the heart of the
matter. Nor do they look at the deeper causes of lesser
...
- Modernise Muslim education P.V. Indiresan
- February 26,1998
>>>Aseries of bomb explosions in Coimbatore have killed many people.
The same day, a bomb went off in Wuhan in China killing a similar
number of people. Both the explosions were ascribed to Islamic
extremists. Every right thinking Muslim should be concerned that
in many parts of the world, acts of terrorism are routinely
...
- The Hindu Times
- The BJP and stability Asghar Ali Engineer
- March 18, 1998
>>>The Lok Sabha elections are over and the BJP is forming the
government in Delhi. The self-styled "party with a difference"
could not make it to the magic number of 272 even with the
support of its, pre-poll allies. It is having problems with its
allies, some are dictating terms. The BJP Campaigned on the
...
- The Indian Express
- Big Brother's next move Yubaraj Ghimire
- March 27, 1998
>>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has admitted that it had
been consulted in the process of the formation of the Atal Behari
Vajpayee led ministry. A silence or denial on the part of the
Sangh would not have meant otherwise. After all, like the BJP,
there are nearly a hundred other orgnisations affiliated to and
...
- Let hawks remain hawks Ranjan Gupta
- March 27, 1998
>>>The coming of the BJP marks a political watershed in India,
between the old and the new. It is not just change of parties but
a clear ideological switch with the old guard, former
Congressmen, present Congressmen, communists, socialists and
others of various familiar hues making way for a new right-of-
...
- Balayogi's bio-data is not the issue Neerja Chowdhury
- March 30, 1998
>>>A telephone call jangled a thousand raw nerves in Parliament last
week over the Lok Sabha Speaker's election. But for Madanlal
Khurana's Monday-morning call to, P.A.Sangma informing him that
he had the BJP's approval as a consensus candidate, so much
acrimony need not have been generated.
- Retreat to advance Mohit Sen
- March 25, 1998
>>>The election results have been good for the BJP, but not good
enough. It is ironic that when for the first time it comes to
having its leader as a Prime Minister who need not be a
caricature of a person in power, it is hamstrung by alliances.
...
- Pornography of death Manvendra Singh
- March 26, 1998
>>>The widow gave the crowds her brief on grief, and in return
wanted their votes. The message, at every such heliborne meeting,
was grief, grief, and more grief
would today have been a Major in the Army. He can never become
...
- North Block's havenot The Editorial
- March 19, 1998
>>>A fine opportunity is at hand for the new government to correct a
dangerous and foolish subversion perpetrated by successive
governments. This refers to the systematic emaciation of the once
all-powerful Ministry of Home Affairs which, in better days,
boasted a Sardar Patel at its helm. That was a long time ago.
- A promising start The Editorial
- March 19, 1998
>>>The national agenda released by the BJP and its allies provides a
rationale for the coalition government to be sworn in today. It
is proof that given the necessary political will, a coalition of
disparate parties is able to sink their differences on major
national issues and evolve a common programme. The credit must
...
- The Front is exposed Editorial
- March 17, 1998
>>>After losing power, UF may lose even political leverage
Outside support is something that vitally affects the United
Front, both as a giver and a taker. It remained in power only as
long as it received such support from a reluctant Congress. Its
...
- When valets catch ambition T. V. R. Shenoy
- March 14, 1998
>>>Wanted: A president for the Indian National Congress. Excellent
pay. Free housing for life. Corruption and Communism no bar.
Experience as a doormat absolutely essential." No, I haven't
(yet) seen such an advertisement in the employment pages. But
everybody knows that there is a vacancy in Akbar Road.
- What's in a name Editorial
- March 7, 1998
>>>The concept of working majority may be alien to the Constitution
but it does suggest a solution to the present political deadlock
at the Centre. To obtain a simple majority, the BJP needs the
support of about 20 more MPs. Half the party's problem is over
if the 12-member Telugu Desam Party decides to support its claim
...
- The rightful claimant Editorial
- March 4, 1998
>>>If any party can claim to have the mandate to form a government
at the Centre, it is the Bharatiya Janata Party. It has not only
emerged as the single largest party but, together with its
allies, it needs the support of a little less than 30 more MPs
whereas the next party, the Congress, requires thrice that
...
- Bow to the voter Editorial
- March 4, 1998
>>>Whatever the other ambiguities. of the 1998 elections - and there
are many -- the Congress cannot complain of a lack of clarity
about its own verdict. The party has improved its tally from
1996, but the message clearly is for it to sit in opposition for
the term of this Lok Sabha. Any attempt to deny that and make
...
- Star suspect Editorial
- March 2, 1998
>>>Doing business also involves some values, Mr Murdoch
The more competition there is in any field, the better for the
consumer and, eventually, for the industry itself, right? So this
newspaper has argued, maintaining that competition empowers
...
- The Observer
- Observer, and their unalloyed drivel Arun Shourie's
- March 27,1998
>>>"And what about the pogroms that go on from time to time ?," the
caller asked. Late at night, an editorial writer with one of the
world's best-known papers was calling from the USA. It was
becoming evident that the BJP would form the Government, he was
gathering background information.
- The Divine Lovers Gaurav Raina
- March 21, 1998
>>>Who is Radha? Why does she hold such an exalted place among
the Vaishnavas? What is Her relationship with Krishna who many
consider to be God? The conjugal passtimes of God - the rasa lila
and the significance of Radha and the gopis is an easily
misunderstood subject.
- Is the CPM a waning party? Dina Nath Mishra
- March 19, 1998
>>>For long, the adjective reserved for the CPM has been 'stagnant'.
It has been stagnant politically. Its performance in the
elections underlined it. It has been a stagnant force
geographically also. It could not cross the borders of Kerala,
West Bengal and tiny Tripura. Intellectual stagnation was too
...
- Indian army and human rights N K Pant
- March 14, 1998
>>>The gory massacre of 26 innocent persons in Kashmir valley by
mercenaries and subsequent firing on a violent mob by the troops
in Kishtwar resulting in loss of 11 civilian lives in January
this year revealed two aspects of gross violation of human rights
by insurgents and security forces alike.
- President situation and the role of the Left Chaturanan Mishra
- March 7, 1998
>>>The election manifesto of the Communist Party of India in 1996
rightly assessed that a situation had developed in India when the
Left could be a partner in power at the Centre. Despite a big
setback in the elections this year, this assessment still remains
valid, but this does not mean that the Left should immediately
...
- So near, yet so far? Inder Malhotra
- March 4, 1998
>>>The outcome of the poll portends instability not only the Centre
but also in a number of states
The 12th Lok Sabha is well and truly hung. Indeed, even more so
than the previous one was. More important, whichever government
...
- George not keen on joining BJP Govt Suresh Nautiyal
- March 5, 1998
>>>Samata Party president George Fernandes on Wednesday said he was
not keen to join the BJP-led 'coalition' Government at the
Centre. He, however, foretold a role for his party colleagues In
the new Government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee and guided by a
mutually agreed common minimum programme - essential in the
...
- The Pioneer
- A fossilised conservatism shatters Sandhya Jain
- March 20, 1998
>>>Even as political pundits prophesy further instability as a
result of the electorates' fractured verdict, a discerning eye
can observe. some positive trends beneath the surface. To me, it
is significant that while the Congress has declined as an allIndia party and the Bharatiya Janata Party has not yet fully
y
...
- Right to be secularist Sushant Sareen
- February 27, 1998
>>>With the BJP emerging as the odds on favourite for forming the
next government, the shrillness in rhetoric of so-called
secularists has gone up. It is almost as though they do not want
the BJP to moderate its hardline ideology. Indeed, the greatest
irony of contemporary politics is that while the BJP is trying to
...
- The crown she thrice refused not Sandhya Jain
- January 26, 1998
>>>Ms Sonia Gandhi has clearly decided not to repeat the
mistakes of her ancient compatriot, Julius Caesar. Indeed,
the alacrity with which she has accepted the Congress
crown brings to mind the wisdom of another Italian notable
and his rather acute observation: en more readily
...
- The Statesman
- Yes, Prime Minister The Editorial
- March 22, 1998
>>>In her customary, if somewhat better deserved, front-row seat at
the swearing-in ceremony, Congress president and CPP leader Sonia
Gandhi was spotted presenting a freezing shoulder to Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who promised that the Bofors probe
will be expedited. Perhaps the Congress president was more
...
- A caveat is in order Editorial
- March 10, 1998
>>>The country is slowly coming round to the view that a minority
government that no one is interested in upsetting may well be the
answer. The BJP will not have the numbers for an absolute
majority of the House but with outside support which will be
issue based and firm, to the satisfaction of the President, it
...
- The Sunday Observer
- Singhal firm of Ram temple Habib Beary
- March 22-28, 1998
>>>The ational agenda of
Atal Behari Vajpayee's government has dropped the contentious
issues of the Ram temple , Article 370 and the uniform civil
code. But the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a frontal organization of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, says it will continue with its
...
- The Times Of India
- My victory is a turning point for Congress Sant Kumar Sharma
- March 21, 1998
>>>Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has remained implacably opposed to
Kashmir's number one political family, the Abdullahs. He was one
of the few Congress leaders willing to take on Sheikh Mohammed
Abdullah during the Sher-e-Kashmir's heyday. And he has had a
running feud with Farooq Abdullah who blames him for the
...
- The Times Of India
- Convent schools VS state govt Suhas Phadke
- March 20, 1998
>>>A long battle between the state government and the churchcontrolled convent schools in the city looks all too likely with
the Sana BJP alliance pressing for the implementation of its
ambitious reforms in primary education in these schools. And the
state Congress criticism that the move is ant-minority has given
n
...
- BJP's rise is a barometer of Hindu awakening Gurumukh Singh
- March 26, 1998
>>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the activist component of the
Sangh Parivar which spearheaded the Ayodhya movement in the
eighties and was banned for its role in the demolition of the
Babri Masjid, does not expect the new BJP-led government to
pursue its agenda of building temples at Ayodhya, Kashi and
...
- I was excommunicated without an inquiry Tissa Balasuriya
- March 16, 1998
>>>Sri Lankan Roman Catholic theologian Fr Tissa Balasuriya drew
worldwide attention last year when he was excommunicated by the
Vatican for his controversial book, Mary and Human Liberation. In
the book, Fr Balasuriya says that a baby is born without
"original sin". This is contrary to the Catholic belief that all
...
- All about displacement Smita Deshmukh
- March 15, 1998
>>>When the Maharashtra government asked Rajiv Shah to make a
documentary film on the rehabilitation of adivasis displaced by
the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada valley
two years ago, he didn't realise that the film would turn out to
be much more than government propaganda. The 20 minute
...
- Basking in the Lantern's Light N R Mohanty
- March 16, 1998
>>>The Lok Sabha election results in Bihar have proved many poll
predictions and analyses wrong. Several pre-poll surveys had
indicated that the BJP-Samata combine would notch up somewhere
between 35 to 42 seats whereas the Rastriya Janata Dal would not
touch the double digit figure. Poll analyses, barring a few
...
- Brinkmanship Politics The Editorial
- March 16, 1998
>>>In seemingly unrelated developments, two phenomenally powerful
women have emerged as arbiters of the country's destiny at a time
of extreme political uncertainty. One of them, Ms J Jayalalitha,
caused the BJP agonising moments of tension before finally
allowing herself to be coaxed and cajoled into participating in a
...
- Gujral begins hunt for a house Inder Sawhney
- March 7,1998
>>>Prime Minister I.K. Gujral has started hunting for a house,
despite his earlier statement that he is keeping his Maharani
Bagh bungalow vacant so that he can occupy it when he vacates 7,
Race Course, which is now the official residence of the Prime
Minister.
- The President can invite only Vajpayee H. K. Dua
- March 5, 1998
>>>A worried nation's search for stability has proved to be elusive.
As feared, it has turned out to be a hung Parliament with no
single party in a position to form a government on its own.
The voters, undecided and uncertain, have virtually placed their
...
- A handy whipping boy Kuldip Nayar
- March 4, 1998
>>>The governments at New Delhi had been following the policy
projected by the BJP. If the latter assumed power, the mask will
be off." This was the burden of the discussion on Indian
elections at a seminar sponsored by the Institute of Regional
Studies in Islamabad recently. Participants included Pakistan
...
- Slap to status quo Editorial
- March 4, 1998
>>>Complaints of biases notwithstanding, the national level
predictions of the TIMES poll - both opinion and exit - have
proved fairly accurate. The BJP and its allies are clearly in the
lead bagging about 250 seats, though still short of a simple
majority; the runner-up is the Congress group with close to 170
...
- Left, SP will decide future of UF Smita Gupta
- March 4, 1998
>>>The Left parties which have emerged as the largest block in the
United Front (UF) and Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP)
will play a prominent role in the future of the front, apart from
the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which has done reasonably well in
Andhra Pradesh.
- Muslims prefer secular over identity politics Taran N Khan
- March 2, 1998
>>>The BJP's claim that the minorities have begun ethinking' is
correct, but that they have also started gravitating towards the
party on the eve of the polls is inaccurate. On February 7, a
meeting of Muslim intellectuals in Delhi was held under the
auspices of Minorities Forum, to discuss the current political
...
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