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- Aasha Khosa
- Militant moneybags The Indian Express
- April 24, 1998
>>>Shabir shah failed his admirers across Kashmir by declaring his
assets worth Rs one crore created out of the funds sent from
abroad for the "liberation movement". ou too?" exclaimed
Kashmiris, who have grudgingly ,watched the rags-to-riches rise
of many leaders of the armed agency. Shah's sudden concern for
...
- Abdus Samad Azad
- Ahmed Rashid
- Lethal Weapons Far Eastern Economic Review
- April 23, 1998
>>>Enemies since birth, Pakistan and India have been squabbling for
more than 50 years. But though the hostility may manifest itself
in politics or territorial dispute, religion is its underlying
motif. Hardly surprising, then, that Pakistan should plump for
religious symbolism in choosing a name for its first medium-
...
- Aisha Khan
- Anand sundas
- Anoop Kamath
- United colours of swadeshi Out look
- April 13, 1998
>>>Computer chips, potato chips, swadeshi-videshi, where does the
average educated Indian stand on those issues? That's what
Outlook commissioned market research agency mode to find out.
mode polled 1,220 graduate men and women aged between 18 and 40
years in the four metros, Bangalore and Hyderabad to get a fix on
...
- Shrines of Trouble Outlook
- April 13, I998
>>>Its a scenario that's become painfully familiar to most Indians
over the last few years-riots between Hindus and Muslims over a
temple/mosque site. The difference in the latest instance is that
it took place in the normally serene Malaysian resort island of
Penang, about 400 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur.
- Arvind N. Das
- Why Sonia treads softly Indian Express
- April 22, 1998
>>>The Congress party is truly like the Bourbons: it forgets not and
learns nought. Despite having been reduced to pathetic stagnation
in parliamentary representation and being deprived of the oxygen
of power which sustains it, the Congress goes on as ever, with
Congressmen engaged more in getting one up on each other than in
...
- Ashok K Mehta
- Securing national interests, BJP style Indian Express
- April 4, 1998
>>>During a television debate in the run up to the elections, while
other parties were ambivalent about exercising their nuclear
option, Brajesh Mishra, the BJP's spokesman for foreign affairs,
was unequivocal: 'My party will make the bomb'. He derived the
authority to go nuclear from the BJP's election manifesto -
...
- Securing national interests, BJP style Indian Express
- April 4, 1998
>>>During a television debate in the run up to the elections, while
other parties were ambivalent about exercising their nuclear
option, Brajesh Mishra, the BJP's spokesman for foreign affairs,
was unequivocal: 'My party will make the bomb'. He derived the
authority to go nuclear from the BJP's election manifesto -
...
- Bhaskar Roy
- Bishwanth Ghosh
- Chandan Mitra
- Interpreting Hindutva as Swadeshi The Pioneer
- April 17, 1998
>>>Neither the BJP's most euphoric supporters, nor its strident
critics are in a position to assert that the formation of a
Government led by the party marks a paradigm shift in Indian
politics. What should have been a momentous occasion, possibly a
decisive break in the polity, has stopped well short of that.
- Chen May Yee
- Christopher Thomas
- Debashish Mukerji
- Mission Accomplished The Week
- April 26, 1998
>>>By downplaying Ayodhya and forging valuble alliances, L.K. Advani
brought intellectual muscle and power to the BJP
When the deadline for filing nominations to the post of BJP
national president was reached at 3 p.m. on April 14, there was
...
- Patriarchal prod The Week
- April 12, 1998
>>>Ours is a parivar (family) in the truest sense. There is the
father, the patriach, which is the RSS. And there are the sons,
who are all working in different fields. As in any typical
family, one brother may be a doctor, another a farmer, a third
something else. They may not necessarily agree on every subject.
- Dina Nath Mishra
- Birthpangs of a stable government The Observer
- April 23, 1998
>>>A question is being asked as to how long the Vajpayee government
would last. Arguments are being put forward that the BJP-led
government suffers from internal contradictions similar to those
of United Front governments. Predictions are being made that it
would fall sooner than the latter. The way Vajpayee government
...
- Facts and fallacies of remote control The Observer
- April 9, 1998
>>>The question whether the RSS controls the BJP or not has amused
greater importance as there Is a BJP-led government at the
Centre. In nine states, either there is a BJP-government or the
BJP has a participatory role in the government. If there exists a
remote control in Nagpur, it would be certainly considered an
...
- Editorial
- BJP in transition The Pioneer
- April 14, 1998
>>>The call by outgoing president LK Advani for a "new BJP" at the
party's national executive meet sends out significant signals on
three fronts-the relationship between the party and Government;
the party and it's "core" agenda; and the party and its allies.
On the first count, Mr Advani has done well to drive home that
...
- Harinder Baweja
- The Changing Formula The India Today
- April 20, 1998
>>>It is the nerve centre of power. The country's engine room where
confidential files are sifted and policies formulated. Where
aides roll up their sleeves and burn the midnight oil in the
ornate, high-ceilinged, teak-panelled rooms of South Block. Where
officials and the contents of the briefs they write reflect the
...
- Hasan Suroor
- On the horns of a dilemma The Hind
- April 19, 1998
>>>Concerned over the drift in the Left parties, a sympathiser said
recently In mock-seriousness that they needed a dose of
"Stalinism" to bring them back on track. That was clearly an
extreme suggestion, but there is no denying that the ideological
and organisational laissez faire which has gripped the Left
...
- Ila Prasad
- Untruthful Manipulator India Today
- April 20, 1998
>>>In his interview Subramaniam Swamy has stated that if he was not
included in the new Cabinet, "it will be to their loss" ("The Odd
One Out", March 23). He has claimed that he is eminently
qualified to hold an important position in the new Government
since he was a professor of economics at Harvard at a very young
...
- Jagpreet Luthra
- Yet another Congress od faileth The Observer
- April 2, 1998
>>>Ambition is a merciless thing. Like the chemical which exposes
and develops a picture from its negative to positive, cruel
ambition has exposed Sonia Gandhi. It has transformed her from
being a question mark for the nation to a non answer for
Congress, the reluctance of her loyalists to accept this truth,
...
- Janaki Bahadur Kremmer
- God, Godse and the PR War Out Look
- April 6, 1998
>>>Aportent of hard times for the foreign media to report freely on
India, or a long overdue reaction to distorted portrayals of
India? Whichever it is, the warning signals for the Delhi-based
foreign media have begun to flash.
...
- Javed M. Ansari
- Reds in Blues India Today
- April 27, 1998
>>>Marxists are caught in a nutcracker on the question of an
alliance with the Congress, as the Kerala group opposes the West
Bengal prescription
In one of his last articles in Deshabhimani, the CPI(M) party
...
- K Srinivasan
- The PM and his men The Hindustan Times
- April 12, 1998
>>>The breakfast table at the Vajpayee household doubles often as
the Prime Minister's executive table. And as he digs into his
well done toast and plate of Papaya he takes decisions that
Inevitably will make the front page of every newspaper the next
morning. Inevitably the two key aides who are around at this
...
- Kalpana chauhan
- India has failed its people Asian Age
- March 22, 1998
>>>To the onlooker, the Royal appointment as Master of Trinity
College seems like the chance of a life time but for the
scholarly Amartya Kumar Sen, it is only yet another distinction
in a life that has been marked with laurels.
...
- Kamil Zaheer
- Lalit K Jha
- M V Kamat
- The relevance of Indian Ocean The Daily
- April 5, 1998
>>>The author of this important work Kenneth McPherson, is Director
of the Indian Ocean Centre at Curtin University in Western
Australia. He claims that this volume evolved out of fifteen,
years of teaching undergraduate courses in South Asian and Indian
Ocean history and that and that in writing this book he has
...
- N Narasimhan / V P Naidu
- Lost glory The Economic Times
- April 2, 1998
>>>When Dag Hammarskjoeld, the UN secretary general, died in an
aircrash, the then super powers, the soviet Union and the US,
decided to back Mr. C V Narasimhan, an outstanding Indian
diplomat and a top level UN of ficial, for the post. The die was
thus cast for his appointment as secretary general.
- N Sathiya Moorthy
- Neerja Chowdhury
- Advani and Vajpayee repeat history Indian Express
- April 13, 1998
>>>Though comparison is odious, there are many similarities between
the Nehru-Patel team and the Vajpayee-Advani duo. The most
obvious one is that poet and Prime Minister Vajpayee, like writer
and Prime Minister Nehru, has decided to retain the External
Affairs portfolio. This is not just a coincidence, but also a
...
- P. K. Surendran
- Kerala may ban some terrorist groups The Times Of India
- April 3, 1998
>>>The leftist government in Kerala began discussions with officials
and legal experts on whether or not to ban some extremist
organisations. The move comes in the wake of the frequent forays
of the Tamil Nadu police into Kerala's border districts in search
of Islamic fundamentalists behind the Coimbatore blasts,
...
- P.S Sharma
- Posted By Ashok Chowgule
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Apple appeases Beijing The Observer
- April 21, 1998
>>>Advertisements created by Apple computer featuring Tibet's exiled
religious leader, the Dalai Lama, will not be run in Asia because
the company claims he is not asily recongnised The company's
explanation for the move has been criticised by the Tibetan
spiritual leader's spokesman in London. according to the south
...
- Text of BJP's political resolution The Hindu
- April 13, 1998
>>>The following is the text of the political resolution adopted by
the BJP national executive here today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party National Executive halls the formation
of Government at the Centre by the BJP and its allies. The BJP
...
- Thinking the holy unthinkable The Economist
- March 28, 1998
>>>Lebanese of different religions stopped massacring one another
seven years ago, after a 17-year civil war. Now President Elias
Hrawi thinks they are ready to marry one another. Last week he
presented the cabinet with a bill to permit marriages regulated
by civil rather than religious authorities, making it much easier
...
- Prakash Nanda
- Rakesh Sinha
- Culture shock troops Telegraph
- April 7, 1998
>>>After the 1998 general elections, India's polity is in
equilibrium between anti Bharatiya Janata Party and non-Congress
formations. A corollary to this is the national agenda of the BJP
and its allies. Ideologically neutral, this charter of social
and economic programmes contains no disputed issues. The demands
...
- Raman Kirpal
- Ruling on Ayodhya charge-sheet soon The Indian Express
- April 27, 1998
>>>The Allahabad High Court is expected to rule shortly on ether
charges can be framed against the accused in the Babri Masjid
demolition case. Those who have been named as accused include
Union Home Minister L K Advani, Human Resources Minister Murli
Manohar Joshi and Minister of State for Youth and Sports Uma
...
- Ranjit Bhushan
- Vanishing Clues Out Look
- April 6, 1998
>>>It was a familiar case of too little, too late. Last fortnight,
when a two-member CBI team, comprising a superintendent of police
and a legal advisor, reached the Channel Islands to probe the
transfer of 50 million Swedish kroner (approximately Rs 26 crore)
>from Ottavio Quattrocchi's AE Services account in Switzerland to
...
- The Bofors papers all points to the Gandhi family Out look
- April 6, 1998
>>>Sten Lindstrom is chief of the investigation division of the
Swedish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). In 1987-88, as
special prosecutor appointed by the Swedish government to probe
alleged wrongdoing on the part of main collaborators in Sweden,
Lindstrom personally headed the most wide ranging probe into the
...
- Ruth Gledhill
- S S Bhandari
- If Vajpayee decides not to contest Sunday Observer
- April 5-11, 1998
>>>>From the debate on the vote of confidence in the Atal Behari.
Vajpayee government to the one on the president's address to the
joint session of Parliament, the Bhartiya Janata-Party did its
best to affirm its secular credentials. But at the same time,
party vice-president Sunder Singh Bhandari was busy drawing
...
- S.C. Sharma
- Ghazni's best-kept secret The Indian Express
- April 25, 1998
>>>Provocative Ghauri was the title of an editorial that appeared
on this page earlier this month. Pakistan has named its missiles
Ghauri and Ghaznavi with the specific intention of taunting
India. These worthies' claims to fame and glorification, in the
perception of the Pakistanis, lies in the fact that they were
...
- Saba Naqvi Bhaumik
- Man With The Towel India Today
- April 27, 1998
>>>As the results of the general election poured in, the BJP central
office on Delhi's Ashoka Road wore a carnival atmosphere. Buoyant
cadres jostled with victorious candidates to distribute mithai
and garland the leaders. It was the moment of saffron fulfilment,
the moment the 18 -year-old BJP had been waiting for. But sitting
...
- Big Man Small Pleasure The India Today
- April 20, 1998
>>>Dogs, Cats and Disneyland are not naturally associated with Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But few politicians have
separated the public from the private as successfully as
Vajpayee. There is the public stage where Vajpayee the mass
politician has endured for four decades. The stage that has
...
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Double act The Week
- April 12, 1998
>>>Atal Bihari Vajpayee's favourite hobby is cooking. Hence it was
no surprise that he began assembling a kitchen cabinet soon after
he won the trust of the Lok Sabha, with the liberal help of the
Telugu Desam.
...
- Seema Sirohi
- Clinton warms to Vajpayee The Telegraph
- March 28, 1998
>>>Contrary to conventional wisdom, 'the Clinton administration is
warm and upbeat about the new BJP-led coalition in New Delhi and
-is making a special effort to send a series of positive signals.
Formal messages of congratulations apart, officials appear
...
- Clinton warms to Vajpayee The Telegraph
- March 28, 1998
>>>Contrary to conventional wisdom, 'the Clinton administration is
warm and upbeat about the new BJP-led coalition in New Delhi and
-is making a special effort to send a series of positive signals.
Formal messages of congratulations apart, officials appear
...
- Shekhar Gupta
- The fernandes factor The Indian Express
- April 4, 1998
>>>If you wished to be cynical, as is easy to be in this city, or
uncharitable, which is tempting when talking of an MNC bashing
socialist, you could say that George Fernandes' only
qualification for the defence minister's job could be that he has
been a life-long loose cannon, albeit of a high calibre. But
...
- Shenoy
- Amma's Limited options Mid-Day
- April 25, 1998
>>>Many years ago I saw a Bengali film one of Satyajit Ray's
as I recall - that beautifully brought out the point
that there everywhere. A god-man solemnly intoned: ehold!
By my power the sun shall now rise.
...
- Sridhar Krishnaswami
- Statesman News Service
- Indian secularism linked to Kashmir Statesman
- April 19, 1998
>>>Secularism in India is connected to Kashmir and if it goes to
Pakistan, the end of secularism in this country would be
imminent, said Dr Rafiq Zakaria, while delivering a lecture on
"Challenge before the Indian Muslims in the next millennium".
...
- Sudesh K Verma
- Sudheer
- The blueprint for a new BJP The Observer
- April 16, 1998
>>>BJP president L K Advani's inaugural speech in the recently-held
working committee meeting of the party was a good strategic move
on his part to apply and operational correctives suitable to the
new political era. He addressed and challenges thrown by
opponents with a clear vision and reason. His attracted a wide
...
- Sudhir K. Singh
- Suresh Unnithan
- Surya Prakash
- The 1998 election marks a watershed The Pioneer
- April 13, 1998
>>>While calling for a "very candid" in-house assessment of the
state of the party, the political resolution adopted by the
Congress at its AICC session in Delhi this month said "this is a
time for self-introspection and admission of the stark realities
that stare us in the face". Whatever the party may or may not do
...
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Haunted By Murdoch The India Today
- April 20, 1998
>>>Misinformation being so recurrent in India, it is heartening that
some democracies are unwilling to view the phenomenon with the
same indulgence. Last month, the public administration committee
of the British Parliament decided to summon Prime Minister Tony
Blair's official spokesman to answer charges of misleading the
...
- Tavleen Singh
- She came, saw and sank! News Time
- March 15, 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 Sonia Gandhi.
- How to be an Alien India Today
- April 13, 1998
>>>Our Prime Minister, you will be happy to know, has finally been
given a clean, "secular" chit by Time magazine. This should come
as a great relief to us since no foreign publication is more
widely circulated in this country than Time. But what is most
interesting about the certificate of good behaviour are the
...
- How to be an Alien India Today
- April 13, 1998
>>>Our Prime Minister, you will be happy to know, has finally been
given a clean, "secular" chit by Time magazine. This should come
as a great relief to us since no foreign publication is more
widely circulated in this country than Time. But what is most
interesting about the certificate of good behaviour are the
...
- The Editorial
- Beyond Coimbatore The Indian Express
- April 27, 1998
>>>The White paper presented by the Tamil Nadu government on the
blasts that shook Coimbatore on the eve of the Lok Sabha
elections has elicited predictable reactions from the contending
political camps. None of these, however, reveals the necessary
recognition of the main political point that needs to be made.
- Vindictive politics The Observer
- April 23, 1998
>>>F you are not with us, you are against us' used to be the
attitude of American secretary of state John Foster Dulles, the
architect of the Cold War politics, when dealing with neutral,
Third World countries. This holier-than-thou attitude symbolised
the irrationality and sheer arrogance of the United States. But,
...
- Tilting at windmills The Observer
- April 15, 1998
>>>The opposition parties have shown no signs of letting up on their
'hidden agenda' campaign against the ruling BJP.
But do they have a credible case for it? The answer sadly is in
the negative. Especially since top BJP leaders, including Prime
...
- Will of the people The Pioneer
- March 3, 1998
>>>Any other Outcome of the vote of confidence sought by Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Lok Sabha would have been
unmitigated disaster as it would have thrown India off the
precipice once again. To that extent even the political critics
of the BJP, at least those who still look beyond their provincial
...
- Will of the people The Pioneer
- March 3, 1998
>>>Any other Outcome of the vote of confidence sought by Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Lok Sabha would have been
unmitigated disaster as it would have thrown India off the
precipice once again. To that extent even the political critics
of the BJP, at least those who still look beyond their provincial
...
- Nuclear Hype The Times Of India
- April 1, 1998
>>>That Pakistan would want to draw mileage from the mention in the
BJP's ational Agenda of Governance about "exercising the
option to induct nuclear weapons" was expected. What is difficult
to understand is the politicisation of the issue by the Indian
Opposition, especially after both the Prime Minister and the
...
- V.K. Shashikumar
- Naturally fresh The Week
- April 12, 1998
>>>For Omak Apang, one may run short of introductions. Here's the
tea plantation owner and rice farmer in Saing, Arunachal Pradesh,
who tried to introduce community farming among tribals; the
maiden MP; the son of Chief Minister Gegong Apang. But more than
any of these, Omak is the youngest minister in the Atal Bihari
...
- Varsha Bhosle
- Men behaving badly The Sunday Observer
- March 15-21, 1998
>>>I hate my job when politicians begin to act up every day. Over
the last week, I've written, and then shredded, some four
articles. When political conditions become fluid, the written
word becomes stale almost overnight.
...
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