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- Abhijit Bhattacharyya
- Battered for centuries The Pioneer
- June 11, 1998
>>>Today some of the major powers are angry because India has
blasted five nuclear devices at Pokhran last week. The criticism
is mounting and India faces the wrath and fury in the form of
economic sanctions. A pity indeed, that 970 million people of one
of the few democratic countries on the earth face such an action.
- Abhijit Sinha
- Andre Beteille
- Casting out caste The Times of India
- June 11, 1998
>>>A move is afoot to include caste in the forthcoming Census of
India. The enumeration, classification and ranking of castes
became a major part of the census of population periodically
undertaken by the colonial government since the end of the last
century. The practice was discontinued, as a matter of principle,
...
- Anil Nauriya
- Disunited nations The Times of India
- June 15, 1998
>>>When the foreign ministers of the Security Council's permanent
members met separately in Geneva in June, the flags of the five
countries were flanked on two sides by the flags of the United
Nations, suggesting that the meeting was being held under the
auspices of, or was representative the UN. Nothing in the
...
- Arun Shourie
- Arundhati Ghosh
- Tricks and treaties The Telegraph
- May 29, 1998
>>>The conducting of the five nuclear tests is a logical outcome of
the stand India took during the test ban negotiations. To
simplify at least our main objection to what the then prime
minister called a "flawed" treaty, a "charade" - the
comprehensive test ban treaty does not ban all nuclear tests; it
...
- Ashok K. Mehta
- Author: N. C. Menon
- Return of the tilt The Hindustan Times
- June 8, 1998
>>>In the early 1970s, when former Secretary of State Henry (Super
K) Kissinger first devised the tilt in order to favour Pakistan
over India, he contributed a new term to the lexicon of political
liturgy. The tilt also provided grist for cartoon mills around
the world. lie tilt in favour of Pakistan gradually became the
...
- Aziz Haniffa
- Navel-missile story leak seen as 'perverted twist India Abroad
- May 8, 1998
>>>The well-placed leak of India's alleged attempts to build a sealaunch missile with Russian assistance was in no way timed to
coincide with President K.R. Narayanan's visit to the United
States, but was deliberately intended to shift the "single focus"
away from China, according to informed sources.
.
- B N Uniyal
- Moving from the fringe to the centre The Sunday Observer
- May 31-June 6, 1998
>>>The BJP has robbed the Congress of all its inheritance: Gandhi,
Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, swadeshi, swaraj, secularism,
self-reliance, scientific temper, globalization, liberalization,
national consensus, non-alignment, disarmament, anti-Americanism,
pro-Russianism, and what not! Vajpayee's statement in Parliament
...
- Barun Sengupta
- Left out of security debate The Pioneer
- June 4, 1998
>>>The reactions of the CPI(M) and the CPI on India's nuclear blasts
have astounded many. Few are even disappointed. In Calcutta,
during the last few weeks, I have beard from many people wanting
to know as to what has happened to the leaders of the Left, and
why are they taking a position that is known to be against
...
- Bharati Sadasivam
- C. Raja Mohan
- Nuclear balance in Asia The Hindu
- June 11, 1998
>>>India's decision to become a declared nuclear weapon power is
rooted in the geopolitical changes that have taken place in Asia
since the end of the Cold War and would have a significant effect
on their evolution. The grain powers would try and limit the
impact of a nuclear India on Asian politics. But India defines a
...
- Chandan Nandy
- China was the ace up Zia's Topac sleeve The Telegraph
- May 25, 1998
>>>Operation Topac - which Union home minister L.K. Advani referred
to last week while attacking Pakistan - was a three-phase plan
put together by Gen. Zia ul Haq to iberate Kashmir, and he
banked on China to bail him out if he fell into erious trouble
while executing it.
- Chidanand Rajghatta
- Dina Nath Mishra
- HRD minister does a Pokhran in ICHR The Observer
- June 18, 1998
>>>The octopus-like grip of the card-holding Communists and fellow
travellers over the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
for over a quarter century has distorted and gave ideological
colouring to the history of India, More seriously, the Council
has almost dumped historians of eminence like Yadunath Sarkar, R
...
- Dinesh Kumar
- Editorial
- Blinkered view The Times of India
- June 25, 1998
>>>Presidential summits are always advertised as resounding
successes irrespective of ground realities, and President Bill
Clinton's visit to China starting today will not be an exception.
The spin-doctors are bound to highlight China's likely assurances
on non-proliferation, human rights and opening up of markets not
...
- Cast(e) out of census The Hindustan Times
- June 16, 1998
>>>Union Home Minister L. K. Advani has done well to scotch any
further speculation by rejecting the suggestion that the next
decennial census should include caste for purposes of
enumeration. The proposal, which had been mooted by the Census
Commission's office, had been premised on the argument that it
...
- Cast(e) out of census The Hindustan Times
- June 16, 1998
>>>Union Home Minister L. K. Advani has done well to scotch any
further speculation by rejecting the suggestion that the next
decennial census should include caste for purposes of
enumeration. The proposal, which had been mooted by the Census
Commission's office, had been premised on the argument that it
...
- Scourge of Naxalism The Observer
- June 17, 1998
>>>Home minister L K Advani has, with his characteristic lucidity,
postulated how best to tight the menace of Naxalite violence. It
is a welcome development that some constructive steps have been
taken in this regard at Monday's high level meeting in Hyderabad,
attended by the four Naxalite-infested states - Andhra Pradesh,
...
- Nukes and gas The Indian Express
- June 15, 1998
>>>Madeliene Albright probably scents a triumph of US diplomacy in
the outcome of back-to-back sessions in London of the G-8 and the
Contact Group on the Balkans, and a luncheon meeting of nonweapons states in between. It shows the US in command of diverse
bodies, including an emerging broader coalition to deal with
h
...
- The voice of India (and response) The Indian Express
- June 12, 1998
>>>Ever since Pokharan-II, whatever gains India has made in
strategic terms seems to have been consistently undermined by the
polyphony -- indeed, the cacophony - of voices seeking to advance
India's point of view in the international sphere. But it would
be unfair to fault the government on its failure to speak in a
...
- The voice of India (and response) The Indian Express
- June 12, 1998
>>>Ever since Pokharan-II, whatever gains India has made in
strategic terms seems to have been consistently undermined
by the polyphony -- indeed, the cacophony - of voices seeking
to advance India's point of view in the international sphere.
But it would be unfair to fault the government on its failure to
...
- Brotherly hate The Telegraph
- June 3, 1998
>>>If bullying is allowed to go unchecked, it will inevitably take
extremely violent and self-destructive forms. The horror of what
happened in Basanti in West Bengal acquires a different dimension
when the violence is seen as fratricidal, in a manner of
speaking. There have been numerous allegations of violence and
...
- Unworthy tactics The Observer
- June 9, 1998
>>>Full five years have elapsed since the disputed structure in
Ayodhya was brought down. Apparently, the passage of time has
not reduced by one little whit . the divisive potential of the
issue. The barricades were raised again on Friday in, of all
places, Parliament. Media reports of prefabrication work of what
...
- Disarmament the key The Times of India
- June 8, 1998
>>>The debate on the UN Security Council resolution condemning the
Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests shows the extent to which the
world is frustrated by the failure of the five permanent members
to disarm. As a result of the insistence of many non-nuclear
states, what was intended as a fairly straightforward exercise in
...
- Global panchayat The Observer
- June 8, 1998
>>>For those who still remain unconvinced of the government's
compulsions to carry out nuclear tests, the UN Security Council's
arrogant and unfair treatment to India on the issue should be an
eye-opener. On Saturday, the five permanent members of the
Security Council - who happen to be in possession of thousands of
...
- Ignore this jihad The Indian Express
- May 30, 1998
>>>Nawaz Sharif's appeal to his country after its nuclear tests was
high-pitched enough to sound as if a war were on, with all the
trappings of austerity and an emergency. The international
concomitant of this highly theatrical effort will no doubt be an
appeal to Islam. Islamabad can be relied upon to try to win over
...
- Govt of India
- Gurmukh Singh
- BJP is the true benefactor of Muslims The Times of India
- June 2, 1998
>>>Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the BJP's only Muslim MP in the Lok Sabha.
Elected from the Muslim-majority constituency of Rampur in Uttar
Pradesh, Naqvi is also one ofthe two Muslim ministers - the other
being Sikandar Bakht - in the Vajpayee government Being a staunch
Muslim, isn't he an odd man in the party which is branded anti-
...
- Hugo Young
- Setting an example Mid-Day
- June 8, 1998
>>>New Labour was built on nuclear weapons. There were other
foundations as well. but the Bomb was proof of virtue even
earlier than One Member One Vote, and it had deep consequences.
Even to mention the abandonment of Britain's nuclear policy as a
matter worth debating was to defile oneself. Hardly has any
...
- Politics of nuke powerdom The Indian Express
- June 6, 1998
>>>Tony Blair's New Labour was built on nuclear weapons. There were
other foundations as well, but the bomb was proof of virtue, and
it had deep consequences. Excluding the Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament from the aura of the party required the abandonment
of all discussion of Britain's nuclear policy. Hardly any Labour
...
- IANS
- J. N. Dixit
- The enemy is self-doubt The Times of India
- June 25, 1998
>>>India's nuclear weapon-state status has not only generated
critical reactions abroad, a sharp division on its decision to go
morally nuclear marks Indian public opinion too. India has to
cope with the hypocrisy of the nuclear-weapon powers and their
moral posturing while; dealing with the contradiction between the
...
- Meeting of national minds The Telegraph
- May 25, 198
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto promises to
revamp the institutional management of India's national security
problems. The elaboration of this promise in the national agenda
for governance has generated debate on how these institutions
should be organized and what their functions should be. Both the
...
- Why India's bomb is justified Asiaweek
- May 29, 1998
>>>Francis Bacon wrote in 1625: "A just fear Of an imminent danger,
though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause." This is
sufficient answer in itself to those questioning India's five
nuclear tests on May 11 and 13 and declaring itself a nuclear
weapons state. It is an irony of geopolitics and strategic
...
- Jagmohan
- Josy Joseph
- Jyoti Malhotra
- History of forgetfulness The Indian Express
- June 8, 1998
>>>It's been India vs The Rest for much of the last month. In the
post-Pokharan II sound and fury, unusually disturbing noises from
Japan have been almost drowned out - while the bilateral
relationship has dived into a slow, reckless spin.
...
- Jyotirmaya Sharma
- Nobody should consider India a pushover The Times of India
- June 8, 1998
>>>India's recent exercise of its nuclear option has highlighted the
need for a coherent national security policy. While nuclear
weapons can be an effective deterrent, they have to be backed up
by systematic, dynamic, and visionary thinking about national
security concerns. Defence minister George Fernandes admits the
...
- K Subrahmanyam
- Hedging against hegemony The Times of India
- June 16, 1998
>>>Following the Indian nuclear tests, many people in this country
and abroad have questioned whether declaring itself a nuclear
weapon state befits a country which claims to have gained its
freedom through a non-violent struggle under the leadership of
Mahatma Gandhi. Professor Dietmar Rothermund of the Heidelberg
...
- Arms race myth The Times of India
- May 30, 1998
>>>The Pakistani nuclear test has brought into the open that
country's nuclear weapon which has been in existence for 11
years. Many in this country used to argue that we had lived with
the Chinese bomb for well over three decades and, therefore, why
should we not live with the Pakistani bomb too. In fact, India
...
- K. P. Nayar
- Two blind mice The Telegraph
- June 3, 1998
>>>This Is the untold story of what happened to India's nuclear bomb
after the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, left office in
1996 without testing a weapon, only because 13 days in power were
insufficient to undertake another Pokhran.
...
- K. Subrahmanyam
- Charade of disarmament The Economic Times
- June 11, 1998
>>>The resolution moved by Japan and the US in the UN Security
Council to condemn the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests
provided an opportunity for various non-nuclear weapon states to
focus attention on the hypocrisy of the nuclear weapon nations in
attempting to maintain their nuclear hegemonism while
...
- L.K. Sharma
- M D Nalapat
- Eagle's eyeview The Times of India
- June 25, 1998
>>>More than 30 years ago, the then defence minister of Communist
China, Lin Biao, articulated his thesis that the "villages" of
the world would encircle the "cities". The former were the
countries of Asia, Africa and South America, while the latter
were the United States and its Caucasian allies. Lin was
...
- Nuclear Neo-racism The Times of India
- June 1, 1998
>>>After 500 years of domination over the earth, the Caucasian races
are finding it difficult to adjust to a universe in which the
lesser breeds challenge their supremacy. The first blow was
struck in 1947 by India, which forced out the British through noncooperation and a no-tax campaign. Finally, the colonisers had
d
...
- M V Kamath
- Nuke rebuke Mid-day
- June 4, 1998
>>>The Brits are slow learners. Ever since they lost their empire,
their thinking has stowed down. Actually, one isn't sure that
they know how to think. One suspects that most Brits still live
in the 19th century when they could loot and kill Indians to
their hearts' content.
- Have we lost all sense of national pride? The Free Press Journal
- June 30, 1998
>>>If a foreign journal, say The New York Time or The Times, London
or The Economic blasts India for daring to conduct a nuclear
test, one can take it in one's stride. They have a long record of
being anti-India and one can take their fulminations with a
liberal pinch of salt. But when an Indian journal runs down its
...
- To hell with the bootlickers The Free Press Journal
- May 26, 1998
>>>A certain weekly magazine has devoted almost an entire issue (May
25) to badmouth Atal Behari Vajpayee for daring to conduct
nuclear tests at Pokhran. To press its point it has devoted two
pages to show that when the Pakistanis fire their Ghauri missile
at India, it can wipe out 90 lakh people in Delhi and another
...
- M.D. Nalpat
- M.S. Shanker
- Bloodbath over a pamphlet Outlook
- June 22, 1998
>>>In the end, it took a sheaf of pamphlets to shatter the peace.
But the communal violence which rocked Muslim-dominated pockets
of Hyderabad on June 5 after an eight-year lull should not have
come as a surprise. In fact, police commissioner R.P. Singh
admitted as much. Pointing out that the police should have given
...
- M.V. Kamath
- The tragedy of American arrogance The Free Press Journal
- June 11, 1998
>>>There are two things about Indo-American relations down the years
that are most notable: the United States is ignorant about India
but believes it is not and proceeds on that basis to formulate
policies that turn out to be disastrous to all concerned.
American ignorance is compounded with arrogance and this has been
...
- Mahendra Ved
- Minhaz Merchant
- Mona Mehta
- N. C. Menon
- Neera Kuckreja Sohoni
- Neerja Chowdhury
- Observer Political Bureau
- Posted By Ashok Chowgule
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Chanting the patent mantra The Sunday Pioneer
- June 7, 1998
>>>It doesn't come as a surprise when colleagues refer to Raghunath
Anant Mashelkar as the Patent Man. The sobriquet, earned
following his pitched battles with the Americans to protect the
intellectual property rights of India, has almost acquired the
role of a surname today: Prof Mashelkar Patent.
- Rise in anti-Left votes worries CPM The Telegraph
- May 30, 1998
>>>The increase in anti-Left Front rural votes in the just-concluded
panchayat poll has become a cause of worry for the CPM.
A perturbed Biman Bose, CPM Central Committee member and in
charge of the poll, refused to offer any analysis at a crowded
...
- Posted By Sanjay Achharya
- Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik
- A very political bomb (and a comment) Dawn, Karachi,
- June 27, 1998
>>>BY conducting nuclear tests and launching a weaponsdevelopment programme, India has taken the same
ignominious path as the Big Five, and has thereby
disgraced itself. India's decision was devoid of a strategic
rationale, and it violated the sensible principles New Delhi
...
- Prajnan Bhattacharya
- HC ruling on OBC quota vindicates Kalyan stance The Observer
- June 17, 1998
>>>The Allahabad High Court judgement rejecting the writ petition
filed by the Kshatriya Mahasabha - an organisation of Rajputs,
has not only resulted in vacating the stay on the quota scheduled
for the 37 sub-castes of the 21 OBCs, but has also bailed out the
Kalyan Singh Government from an unwanted and precarious
...
- Pranab Basu
- Prem Prakash
- Press Trust of India
- PTI
- U.S. lacks sensitivity to India: Jaswant The Times of India
- June 11, 1998
>>>Planning commission deputy chairman Jaswant Singh has criticised
U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright's comment that India
and Pakistan should "climb out of the hole they have dug
themselves into" after their nuclear tests, "I must point out
that civilisationally, we, in India, do not dig holes to bury
...
- Rajesh Joshi
- Dawood's man in Nepal Outlook
- June 15, 1998
>>>A serious effort or just another gimmick? Even as the government
for the first time initiates a move to get Mirza Dilshad Beg,
Nepal's former minister and a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim,
extradited from his adopted country, there are apprehensions that
the exercise might turn out to be yet another damp squib.
- Rakshat Puri
- Title: Caste: A melting pot too slow The Hindustan Times
- June 17, 1998
>>>Dear is etched on the -Indian mind - Indian, not merely
Hindu. The four traditionally enumerated castes among the
Hindus are Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. Each
caste has innumerable subdivisions. Hindu society has been
caste-ridden from time immemorial. But those who were
...
- Ramesh Chandran
- Ravi Kapoor
- The Left is always right The Times of India
- June 2, 1998
>>>The world of Leftist intellectuals and communist leaders has come
to an fend not with a whimper, but with a bang. They valiantly
fought to save the country from the perils of 'jingoism They
left no stone unturned to thwart India's nuclearisation: they
shed even the semblance of morality by supporting the nuclear
...
- Reuter
- Robert Green
- India holds the ace The Sunday Observer
- May 24-30, 1998
>>>Recently I spent two weeks in Geneva monitoring the second
preparatory committee meeting of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty Review Conference, to be held in 2000. It was a
frustrating experience. The meeting broke up in disarray after
the Nuclear Weapon States (NWSs), led by the United States of
...
- Rye Brook, New York
- Saeed Naqvi
- Let the explosions herald elimination The Indian Express
- June 12, 1998
>>>It is ironical that just when official Washington was in the mood
for delivering sermons, CNN and Time have exploded a bombshell of
their own: American arsenal consists of 13 million pounds of
nerve gas. Indeed, nerve gas was used by the United States
Special Forces in a covert operation in Laos in 1970, aimed at a
...
- Seema Sirohi
- Sehlare Makgetianeng
- Sheeb Nair
- Sumer Kaul
- A decision at last! Hindustan Times
- May 19,1998
>>>The Vajpayee government's decision to exercise the nuclear option
has made every Indian feel inches taller.
And more self-assured, more secure. This is not jingoism, not
even chauvinism. It is national interest, the need to survive as
...
- Surendra Mohan
- The state of the Left The Hindu
- June 3, 1998
>>>One of the major failure of the Left in India might be in
analysing the changing social and class structures rather than in
the political strategies adopted by it from time to time.
The delayed response of the Left forces to the nuclear blasts has
...
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Stamp of approval India Today
- June 22, 1998
>>>It is strange, if not outright bizarre, that the mere mention of
"right wing" in India's intellectual circles is invariably
accompanied by a sneer and a slight curling of the lips. For this
astonishing feat of political correctness the credit must go to
Jawaharlal Nehru. Blessed with charisma, vision and skills of
...
- After summer, the fall India Today
- June 8, 1998
>>>At the best of times, failure is difficult to digest; at the
worst of times, it is abhorrent. For the US, May's 10 N-tests are
not only a failure of the counter-proliferation regime so
carefully nurtured since 1993, they are a monumental foreign
policy disaster. It will take time for the ramifications of
...
- T V R Shenoy
- Talking on the lord Mid-day
- June 20, 1998
>>>I can fight you," Narasimha Rao proclaimed in his last major
speech in Parliament, "but I cannot fight Lord Rama." Rajesh
Pilot, Harkishen Singh Surjeet, and Mulayam Singh Yadav are
perfectly willing and capable of taking on both the Lord and the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- T.J.S. George
- China's hitech was machine The Indian Express
- June 8, 1998
>>>A barely noticed aspect of the bomb saga is that China is working
towards a clearly defined goal and that Pokharan too is being
dexterously fitted into the scheme. The goal is nothing less than
upstaging the United States militarily as well as politically.
...
- T.V.R. Shenoy
- Soaring in adversity The Indian Express
- June 3, 1998
>>>The Finance Minister hasn't taken any cognisance of sanctions,"
Sharad Pawar buffed from the steps of Parliament House after the
Budget was presented. "We regard it as an interim Budget. "With
minor changes, the same note was struck the rest of the
malcontents on the opposition benches.
- Tavleen Singh
- Luddite sisters India Today
- June 22, 1998
>>>One of the many negative consequences of our socialist years is
that anyone who appears to speak for the poor is an instant hero
in this land of ours-filled with, despite socialism, mostly poor
people. These self-appointed spokesmen of the poor often block
development, progress and prosperity. But nobody dares point a
...
- The Sonia myth The Afternoon Despatch & Courier
- June 1, 1998
>>>How much is Sonia Gandhi a real figure and how much a myth
created by the media? This is a question that comes to my mind
every time I see an interaction between her and Delhi's political
journalists. The most recent one was last week when a gathering
was arranged at he parliament house annexe. I was not there
...
- Times of India News Service
- Senator points out flaws in U.S. policy The Times of India
- June 18, 1998
>>>Defending India's nuclear tests, in what was perhaps one of the
most comprehensive speeches detailing the history and thrust of
the Indian nuclear programme and the reasons which propelled it,
Republican Senator Connie Mack pointed out that India's 50-year
history demonstrated "peaceful intent exercised within a
...
- Udayan Namboodiri
- Crony communism India Today
- June 8, 1998
>>>They are among west Bengal's "more equals", envied for their
clout with a chief minister who is otherwise inaccessible and for
the favours they manage to wrangle out of him. Unknown till about
a decade ago, these neo-businessmen whose proximity to Jyoti
Basu's family has perhaps been their only claim-and springboard-
...
- Virendra Kapoor
- Preachers must set an example The Free Press Journal
- May 21, 1998
>>>One is not surprised at the discordant voices now beginning to be
heard about Pokhran - II. Indeed, their absence would have been
a matter of some concern. The sheer size of India foreclosed the
possibility of her speaking with one voice even on such a
cathartic event as the serial nuclear blasts. But it must have
...
- Yogendra Duraiswamy (Formerly of the Sri Lanka Foreign
- Yubaraj Ghimire
- Sonia so far The Indian Express
- May 30, 1998
>>>Datta Meghe, a Sharad Pawar aide and Lok Sabha member from
Nagpur, might have been forced to express regret for his public
outburst against 'the coterie' around Sonia Gandhi, but that has
not been able to dispel the impression gaining ground in the
party. Sonia's two-pronged strategy -reward the loyal and isolate
...
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