This Months Article

Starting: Fri September 1, 2000
Ending: Sat September 30, 2000

Messages: 126

• Christians, Muslims feel marginalized at conclusion of World Peace Summit
• Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, September 1, 2000
>>> What seemed to begin on Monday as a pell-mell sprint for world peace and understanding ended Thursday afternoon in bruised feelings and charges of favoritism.  The World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders failed in its mission to establish a permanent UN religious advisory council.  Part of the problem was what some see as a lack of representation from the world's two largest religions. ......
 
• Delegates reject Christian interpretation on conversions: PTI
• Dharam Shourie, Rediff on Net, September 2, 2000
>>> Angry Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh delegates of the World Peace Summit have rejected the interpretation of some Christian organisations that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave them the right to unhindered conversions. .....
 
• Hindu leaders reject Christian view on conversion
• The Times of India, September 3, 2000
>>> Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh delegates of the World Peace Summit have rejected the interpretation of some Christian organisations that United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights gave them the right to unhindered conversion. ......
 
• Pope defends much-disputed Pius IX
• The Pioneer, September 3, 2000
>>> Pope John Paul II defended and praised two of his predecessors on Sunday in one of the most disputed beatifications of his papacy. ......
 
• Temple of excellence
• Avenues team, The Pioneer, September 3, 2000
>>> Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was founded in 1916 by the great nationalist leader Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya with the co-operation of great stalwarts of Indian history such as Dr Annie Besant who dreamt of BHU as the great University of India. ......
 
• Decline and revivalism
• Mubarak Ali,Dawn, Karachi, September 3, 2000
>>> THE Dictionary of Concepts of History defines the notion of decline as a loss of cohesion in a society, leading to potential public disorder, (diminishment) of political power, loss of economic wealth, and social disintegration.  Keeping  in view  this  definition,  we find  that Pakistan  is a  perfect example of a society that has  declined,  a  society that has lost all its energy to improve its economy, political system and moral values. ......
 
• Muslims Urged to Flex Political Muscle
• Richard N. Ostling, The Associated Press, September 4, 2000
>>> Muslims were urged by two supporters on Capitol Hill to begin flexing their political muscle, while plans were outlined to do just that on Nov.  7. ......
 
• Riding a dead horse
• Varsha Bhosle, Rediff on Net, September 4, 2000
>>> Unusually, most of my recent mail has stemmed from that nebulous area between Go-babe-I'm-with-you and Shut-up-I- detest-you.  For instance, "Your arguments against the BJP seem correct, but give us an alternative" or "If you have a damn solution to Kashmir let us hear it now." ......
 
• Another pointless BJP initiati
• T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, The Business Standard, September 4, 2000
>>> By an extraordinary coincidence, just when Bangaru Laxman, the new president of the BJP, was inviting his partymen to take a less jaundiced view of Muslims, I was reading about the way Akbar ran his government and empire.  It seems that that great worthy ran into the same problem in the 16th century as the BJP has done now. ......
 
• Churches stunned by Pope's attack on 'defects'
• Ruth Gledhill, The Times, London, September 4, 2000
>>> The Church of England and all other Protestant churches are not "proper" churches because they suffer from "defects", according to the Roman Catholic Church. ......
 
• Church is Essential to Salvation: New Vatican Document Says
• Vatican Update From Catholic World News, September 5, 2000
>>> The Vatican today published a new text from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the unique role of the Church in the economy of salvation. ......
 
• Ratzinger Explains Church Answer to Religious Relativism
• Vatican Update From Catholic World News, September 5, 2000
>>> At a Vatican press conference on September 5, introducing the new statement Dominus Jesus, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said the document was a necessary response to "the theology of religious pluralism," which is growing "not only in theological circles, but also more generally in Catholic public opinion." ......
 
• Anglican Leader Unhappy with Vatican Statement
• Vatican Update From Catholic World News, September 5, 2000
>>> The worldwide head of the Church of England sharply criticized the Roman Catholic Church for suggesting that the Anglican communion is not the one true Church. ......
 
• Vatican Statement Fills a Pastoral Need
• Vatican Update From Catholic World News, September 5, 2000
>>> The Vatican did indeed respond to an urgent pastoral need with a new statement affirming the unique role of the Catholic Church, according to the secretary of the Congregation for Evangelization. ......
 
• Second US Report On Religious Freedom Similar To First
• Daily News Brief From Catholic World News, September 5, 2000
>>> The US State Department issued its second annual report on religious freedom around the world on Tuesday with the list of offenders not changing substantially. ......
 
• Vatican Says No Religion Equals Roman Catholicism
• Philip Pullella, Reuters, September 5, 2000
>>> The Vatican Tuesday rejected the concept that other religions could be equal to Roman Catholicism and ordered its theologians not to manipulate what it called the truth of the faith. ......
 
• China constant supplier of N-products to Pak: Study
• PTI, The Hindustan Times, September 6, 2000
>>> Despite China's persistent denial that it did not encourage nuclear proliferation, a recent study by a US think-tank has indicated that Beijing has been a constant supplier of a variety of nuclear products and services to Pakistan, ranging from uranium enrichment technology to research and power reactors. ......
 
• New outfit aims to Talibanise Kashmir
• Arun Joshi, The Hindustan Times, September 6, 2000
>>> Talibanisation Of Kashmir is underway. A new organisation Din-e-Mohammad Taliban has started establishing itself in Kashmir with an aim to indoctrinate young Kashmiri minds for “Jehad” (holy war) in the name of pure religious education. The organisation is sponsored and financed by Pakistan to target young Kashmiris. ......
 
• ‘VHP to go ahead with Ram temple construction’
• Observer Political Bureau, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 7, 2000
>>> Vishwa Hindu Parishad international secretary Dr Praveen Togadia has said that his organisation would go ahead with the construction of Ram temple on the disputed site in Ayodhya. Addressing a press meet organised by the Kesari Memorial Journalists Trust here on Wednesday, he said despite the turnaround by the BJP on the issue, the VHP would go ahead with the construction of the temple. “The BJP’s volte-face would not have even one per cent impact on our resolve to build the temple,” he said. ......
 
• Nepal hands over ISI agent to India after RDX haul
• The Economic Times, September 7, 2000
>>> For the first time, Nepal on Tuesday extradited a Pakistani national to India after police recovered 35 kg of RDX from him and others in a hotel in Kathmandu. The Pakistani was identified as Mustaq ahas Safi. It was the biggest haul by the police in Nepal. ......
 
• Weigh Your Words
• Tavleen Singh, India Today, September 11, 2000
>>> The BJP's first Dalit president says in his first major speech that he would like to see his party examine why Muslims dislike the BJP.  He urges his party to stop ignoring the Muslims simply because they do not vote for it. ......
 
• Flashpoint FIJI
• Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> The people of Fiji, particularly the 360,000 ethnic Indians, are in for a long struggle for restoration of democracy.  The interim government of President Iloilo and Prime Minister Qarase, both virtually hand-picked by the army and the powerful tribal chiefs, has dittoed all that George Speight and his bunch of armed goons wanted.  But even as Fiji is slowly fading out of world focus, loot, arson, torching of homes of ethnic Indians and a general economic collapse continue.  The interim government obviously has no answer. ......
 
• India must play an assertive role
• Shyam Khosla, Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> FIJI's deposed Prime Minister, Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, received a hero's welcome wherever he went during his week long visit to India.  Prominent citizens of Delhi belonging to all walks of life turned up it good strength at the civic reception organised by the BJP-run Delhi Municipal Corporation where the Mayor, Shanti Desai, pledged the people's total support to the visiting Prime Minister's struggle against racial discrimination and for the restoration of democracy in Fiji. ......
 
• Watch out, Mr Vajpayee!
• M.V.  Kamnath, Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> Starting September 6, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will undertake a 11-day visit to the United States.  He is scheduled to spend a week in New York to attend a special United Nations session and no doubt he will address it, in all probability in Hindi, as he once did, when he attended a U.N.  General Assembly session as India's Foreign Minister. ......
 
• Unholy face of ‘holy war’
• Neerav, Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> It is unfortunate that none of the parties involved in the Kashmir imbroglio—the State Government, Pakistan and the Jehadis— have any real concern for the people.  Even after so much of bloodshed of both Hindus and of the Muslims, they do not want to compromise to give people some respite.  Their own vested interests take precedence over every thing. ......
 
• RSS challenges Prakash Ambedkar on flag hoisting issue
• Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> It is unfortunate that none of the parties involved in the Kashmir imbroglio—the State Government, Pakistan and the Jehadis— have any real concern for the people.  Even after so much of bloodshed of both Hindus and of the Muslims, they do not want to compromise to give people some respite.  Their own vested ......
 
• Church's political stratagem
• M.G.  Vaidya, Organiser, September 3, 2000
>>> The 18th August newspapers carried a report of the discussion in the Lok Sabha about attacks on minorities.  I was glad to notice that the discussion was serious.  But I was disappointed to read Shri P.A.  Sangma's charge that the attacks on Christians increased after the BJP-led NDA Government came to power at the Centre. ......
 
• Sangh Parivar takes 93 Christian tribals back into the Hindu fold
• Rakshit Sonawane, The Indian Express, September 5, 2000
>>> NASHIK, SEPT 4: Ninety-three Christian tribals from the Kosvan region of Kalwan tehsil of Nashik district were reconverted to the Hindu-fold by the Sangh Parivar. A functionary of the Sangh Parivar, Swami Aseemanandji, who visited Kosvan on Wednesday to welcome the reconverted tribals said that conversions of tribals by Christian missionaries in Daangs had stopped completely. ......
 
• BJP demands scalp of Rajasthan minister
• Sudhanshu Mishra, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 5, 2000
>>> THE Rajasthan BJP has called for resignation of state agriculture minister Chawdhary Tayyab Hussain and demanded a probe into his alleged links with the ISI. They also pleaded that the case to be referred to the CBI in stead of the state police as had been ordered by chief minister Ashok Gehlot last week. ......
 
• ‘Muslims have begun to feel that the campaign unleashed by the Congress against the BJP was totally baseless’
• The Rediff Interview/Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rediff on Net, September 6, 2000
>>> Former information and broadcasting minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who is likely to be named one of the general secretaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party by president Bangaru Laxman, has already begun functioning as one.  Being one of the few Muslim leaders in the Hindutva party, Naqvi's nomination as a key official is being taken as a foregone conclusion. ......
 
• Lashker warns govt employees, women
• The Times of India, September 7, 2000
>>> Shrinagar - Less than a week after the Hizbul Mujahideen opposed census in the state, Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashker-e-Toiba on Thursday handed out a death threat to 22,000 government employees if they joined the exercise.  The outfit also warned women in the state that if they did not use the "purdah" (veil) while on the streets, they would be shot in the leg. ......
 
• Women welcome Suryanelli sex scandal verdict
• D Jose, Rediff on Net, September 7, 2000
>>> The heavy punishment handed out to 35 accused in the sensational Suryanelli sex scandal by a special court on Wednesday has boosted the morale of women activists in Kerala. ......
 
• Rampaging Aligarh students thrash IB officers
• Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, September 7, 2000
>>> Students of the Aligarh Muslim University went on the rampage and manhandled two officers of the Intelligence Bureau in protest against what they termed the 'framing' of two students as activists of the Kashmiri terrorist Hizbul Mujahideen and the Students Islamic Movement of India. ......
 
• Trinamul may part ways with NDA
• Tara Shankar Sahay, Rediff on Net, September 7, 2000
>>> Trinamul Congress president Mamata Banerjee's ambition to become chief minister of West Bengal could well spur her to part company with the National Democratic Alliance headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, top intelligence sources have said. ......
 
• The B-Team Of The Communists’
• T V R Shenoy, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 8, 2000
>>> The Left Front enjoys an absolute majority in the West Bengal assembly.  The Bharatiya Janata Party- led National Democratic Alliance does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha.  Put those facts together and it is next to impossible to impose President’s Rule in West Bengal. ......
 
• Special court to try Vithura sex scandal case
• T K Devasia, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 8, 2000
>>> The Kerala government has decided to transfer the Vithura sex scandal case to the special court set up by it, in Kottayam, to try the sensational Suryanelli case. ......
 
• RDX haul: Nepal ‘extradites’ Pak accused to India
• Agencies, The Indian Express, September 8, 2000
>>> Nepal quietly extradited a Pakistani to India after police recovered 35 kg of RDX from him and others in a hotel here, a local daily said on Wednesday. The daily Himalayan Times on Wednesday, quoting an anti-terrorist squad, identified the Pakistani national as Mustaq alias Safi, who is an alleged member of a terrorist outfit. He was extradited to India on Tuesday. ......
 
• VHP plans 'yatra' of Ram temple model
• The Hindu, September 9, 2000
>>> A Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is very much on the agenda of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the timing to start its construction will be decided by the `dharma sansad' when it meets during the Kumbh Mela at Allahabad early next year. ......
 
• Up the Ante on Pakistan
• Arthur H.  Davis, The Washington Post, September 11, 2000
>>> While bitter enemies from Ireland to Israel are bowing to the dictates of peace and economic development, the threat of war in South Asia continues to loom large.  The economy of Pakistan is sinking, yet the focus of the military leadership remains stronger than ever on Kashmir. ......
 
• The direct lines to God
• Varsha Bhosle, Rediff on Net, September 11, 2000
>>> To begin with the most discountable happening of last week, your favourite psycho received many messages from miyas, ranging from a harmless "You're dead meat!!!!" and a soothing "do not repeat such type of articles again...WARNING FOR YOU," to a cultured "I think that the smegma from uncircumcised lingams (which you after all worship in more ways than one) is affecting your mind. ......
 
• Blinkered Commercialism
• Swapan Dasgupta, India Today, September 11, 2000
>>> British writer Malcolm Muggeridge once described the cover of Time magazine as "post-Christendom's most notable stained glass window".  Had he been alive this millennium, I wonder what he would have said about the New York Review of Books (NYRB)? The definitive icon of a putrid liberal establishment? ......
 
• A typical Hindu dilemma
• Anuradha Dutt, The Pioneer, September 12, 2000
>>> While a large part of the developed world celebrates the merits of esoteric Indian wisdom, the proposal of the University Grants Commission to introduce Vedic astrology, Ayurveda and Karmkand into the academic curriculum has triggered outraged reactions in some sections of the urban intelligentsia as an attempt by Hindu fundamentalists to resurrect both Brahminism as Brahmins traditionally have perpetuated these vidyas and obscurantism. ......
 
• It could finally be Jammu Vs Kashmir!
• Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net, September 12, 2000
>>> There is an old belief that from evil comes good.  Well, the diabolical J&K autonomy report certainly seems to have reawakened the yearning of Jammu and Ladakh regions to free themselves from what they have long perceived as the tyranny of the Valley-based Kashmiris who occupy just six per cent of the state's territory but live off the resources of the whole. ......
 
• If at all, our dead bodies will return to Pak -- Migrant Hindus
• Anupreeta Das, The Indian Express, September 12, 2000
>>> Siddhuram, 35, is willing enough to talk about why he, along with his wife and eight children, has fled Pakistan, but on one condition.  ``In what way can you help me?'' he asks.  After extracting promises that you will not ``send me back'', he narrates his story. ......
 
• Sangh parivar’s supply-side politics
• Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, September 12, 2000
>>> The non-dualism of the Hindu tradition has received a mortal blow from the BJP–Sangh parivar’s crude and ill-conceived overture to the Muslim community.  Neither the BJP nor the Sangh parivar, basking in the self-perceived glow of their new-found secular credentials, will appreciate the damage they have done to the nation’s civilizational ethos ......
 
• Dalit literary meet fails to address vital issues
• Rakshit Sonawane, The Indian Express, September 12, 2000
>>> The two-day conference of Dalit litterateurs "Phule-Ambedkari Sahitya Melava-2000" organised on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the Indian Constitution concluded after Hindutva bashing, without discussing vital issues like the new economy and its effects on the backward classes. ......
 
• The vision villages need
• Yoginder K. Alagh, The Indian Express, September 12, 2000
>>> In August 1991, when Gorbachev took his famous holiday on return from which he saw the demise of the Soviet Union, a successful rural trader called Vinodbhai came with some Gandhian friends, placed a lakh of rupees on the table in my flat in Ahmedabad and said that he wanted the all-round development of a village.  Ambubhai Shah, secretary of the Bhal Nalkantha Prayojak Sanghs ......
 
• A contrived sense of alienation sustains the Muslim ghettos
• Swapan Dasgupta, India Today, September 18, 2000
>>> Strange, it would seem, are the ways of the certifying engineers of secularism.  At its National Council meet in Nagpur, new BJP President Bangaru Laxman advises the party to shed a "pre-conceived approach" and "actively work to bring more and more dynamic and socially respected Muslim activists into our party". ......
 
• Swadeshi And Indo - Us Relations
• Romesh Diwan
>>> Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee's US visit has highlighted Indo-US relations.  Clinton's India visit last year brought a real change.  For the first time Indo -US relations moved to the positive quadrant.  Vajpayee's towering international stature and sagacity has given it a very strong push forward. ......
 
• Arrogance of a Pope
• Sat Maharaj
>>> POPE John Paul II has once again created international controversy, by proclaiming the superiority of the Catholic Church. ......
 
• Congress is appeasing Muslims: V.N.  Gadgil
• Sujay Gupta, The Asian Age, September 4, 2000
>>> While the Shiv Sena is upset with its ally, the BJP, for its new fondness for Muslims, Sena boss Bal Thackeray has found support from an unlikely quarter — senior Congressman and former AICC spokesman V.N.  Gadgil. ......
 
• Kashmir: Pakistan can not bring India to talks through force
• M.V. Kamath, The Free Press Journal, September 7, 2000
>>> There have been many ma or movements in India in the last fifty years such as the integration of the ‘native’ states, the Naxalite menace, the division of the country along linguistic lines, the rise of the Shiv Sena, the DMK attempt at secession and the decline of the Communist parties, but they have come and gone and have been largely forgotten. ......
 
• Big Brother Fascination
• Ramachandra Guha, The Telegraph, September 8, 2000
>>> In 1980, the respected left-wing editor, Nikhil Chakravartty, made a trip to Afghanistan.  He was invited by the Soviets, who, the previous year, had invaded that unhappy country.  On his return, Chakravartty wrote a multi-part essay in the journal he founded and edited, Mainstream. ......
 
• Double Trouble
• Dileep Padgaonkar, The Times of India, September 10, 2000
>>> If a week is a long time in politics, it seems to be akin to an entire yuga in the realms of religion and spirituality.  On August 31 a quite unprecedented event took place in New York. ......
 
• Jehad unacceptable: India
• Malini Parthasarathy, The Hindu, September 10, 2000
>>> As pronounced as are the repeated expressions of eagerness for the consolidation of the emerging Indo-U.S.  equation, on the part of the Prime Minister and his senior colleagues during their various interlocutions here, is the determination on their part to highlight what they perceive is Pakistan's incendiary role in promoting cross-border terrorism. ......
 
• Aqil who planted bomb on ‘Sabarmati’ is a SIMI member
• The Free Press Journal, September 12, 2000
>>> Mohammad Aqil (23), who was arrested in Agra for planting a high-power bomb in the Sabarmati Express which caused a big explosion on August 14 that killed 10 persons and left 65 injured, is an ISI agent and an active member of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), according to intelligence sources. ......
 
• Mauritius bonanza at whose cost?
• Dr Uttam Gupta, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 13, 2000
>>> In early April 2000, the income tax authorities issued notices to foreign institutional investors (FIIs) based in Mauritius for payment of tax on capital gains from their operations in India. Although, the demands were raised on a select few of them, and for small amounts, the total revenue involved by way of bringing all the concerned FIIs within the ambit of the tax net could run into a few thousand crores. ......
 
• NSCN (I-M) kills 10 policemen in Assam ambush
• United News Of India, The Indian Express, September 14, 2000
>>> At least 10 policemen were killed and four, including an Additional Superintendent of Police, seriously injured when suspected NSCN (I-M) ultras ambushed a police convoy near Diphu in Assam's Karbi Anglong district today.The NSCN (I-M) struck within days of the Centre's rejection of the outfit's demand for extending the area of the cease-fire to all Naga areas of the region. ......
 
• AMU students' involvement with extremists confirmed, says UP official
• Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, September 14, 2000
>>> The involvement of a few students of the Aligarh Muslim University with a Kashmiri militant group has been confirmed, Uttar Pradesh principal home secretary V K Mittal told reporters in Lucknow on Wednesday. ......
 
• Indian Church Opposes Us Congressional Hearing On Religious Freedom
• Catholic World News Service, September 14, 2000
>>> The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) has described as "unwarranted" the proposed hearing on religious freedom in India scheduled for Monday by a US congressional committee on international religious freedom. ......
 
• Curb Muslim Immigration, Prelate Suggests
• Catholic World News Service, September 14, 2000
>>> Cardinal Giacomo Biffi of Bologna has issued a public statement recommending that Italy give preference to Christian pilgrims over Muslims, in order to avoid a profound change in European culture. ......
 
• Use of Hindi a national need: Vice-President
• The Hindu, September 14, 2000
>>> Vice-President Krishan Kant today propagated taking Hindi to heights where it attained acceptance all over the country and said use of the language was a national need. ......
 
• Kashmiri pandits demand Union Territory
• The Hindu, September 14, 2000
>>> Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri pandits, today demanded that the community be declared as ''internally displaced persons'' in conformity with the United Nations Commission of Human Rights Charter. ......
 
• Security High on India PM's Agenda
• George Gedda, The Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2000
>>> President Clinton and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, intent on improving U.S.-Indian relations, are tackling a main point of disagreement: India's nuclear weapons policies. ......
 
• India's 'New' Agenda Warrants Closer Attention
• James Clad, The Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2000
>>> More than 2 million Indian Americans, many of the richest U.S.  corporations and both presidential candidates are closely interested in the visit today of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Washington. ......
 
• Naidu concerned over killings in West Bengal
• Observer Political Bureau, The Observer of Business and Politics, September 15, 2000
>>> Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu on Thursday expressed his serious concern about the ongoing political killing in West Bengal and said that the Centre must act to ensure normalcy. ......
 
• Blast accused’s statement reveals intelligence failure
• Vinay Krishna Rastogi, Mid-Day, September 15, 2000
>>> The recent arrest of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student and terrorist Dr Mobin Ahmad in connection with the series bomb blasts in the city has also revealed a major intelligence failure. ......
 
• Fountainhead of intolerance
• Mac Kher, Rediff on Net, September 16, 2000
>>> On September 5, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the Vatican body formerly known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition - issued a document reaffirming that the Catholic Church was the only true Christian faith.  It said as Christ was the son of God, non-Christians were at a disadvantage regarding salvation. ......
 
• Police tighten dragnet around errant AMU students
• Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, September 16, 2000
>>> The Uttar Pradesh police has tightened its dragnet on the Aligarh Muslim University, which was suspected to have become a haven for some Kashmiri militants with alleged Pakistani links. ......
 
• Pakistan 'has the missiles to wipe Delhi off map'
• Stephen Farrell and Zahid Hussain, The Times, September 16, 2000
>>> The "father" of Pakistan's nuclear weapon programme says his country has enough nuclear weapons to destroy India's main cities, with capacity to spare. ......
 
• Keeping Friends and the Faith
• Gustav Niebuhr, The New York Times, September 17, 2000
>>> How should religious believers respond to the plurality of faiths around them? It's a question that has grown in urgency as waves of immigration and emigration around the world have brought people of very different theologies into the same work places, schools and neighborhoods. ......
 
• Mother Teresa nuns accused of torture
• Subir Bhaumik, BBC News, September 18, 2000
>>> The head of the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa, has surrendered to a Calcutta court after the charity and one of its nuns were accused of torturing a seven-year-old girl. ......
 
• Differences in perception
• Varsha Bhosle, Rediff on Net, September 18, 2000
>>> Hehehehehe...  The European Union has lifted the sanctions it had imposed 7 months ago against Austria when Joerg Haider's "far-right" Freedom Party http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/feb/07varsha.htm was awarded a spot in the coalition government.  The party had campaigned against immigration and EU expansion and finished second among the six political parties -- sparking concern across Europe, concern that the stooopid people didn't know what was good for them. ......
 
• U.S. acquires reputed terrorism guide
• Jack Kelley, USA Today, September 18, 2000
>>> Washington - U.S.  intelligence agencies have obtained computer-disk copies of a six-volume manual that was used by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to train recruits at his terrorist camps in Afghanistan, USA TODAY has learned. ......
 
• US media takes note of PM's visit
• Vasantha Arora, India Abroad, September 18, 2000
>>> The U.S.  print media, in stark contrast to the news blackout of the last Indian prime ministerial trip here in 1994, took generous note of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's four-day official visit to the United States, which ended on Sunday. ......
 
• Baby-boomers storm spiritual arena
• Roli Srivastava, The Times of India, September 19, 2000
>>> Gautam Jain, 27, has all the qualifications necessary to secure a coveted post in a leading multinational. An ex-Sydenhamite, he has a Masters’ degree in accounting and finance from the U.S., has been honoured with awards like the Albert Bell prize for academic excellence and Scholar Athlete of the Year, and his name also features in the compendium, ‘Who’s Who in American Colleges’. ......
 
• Gen next takes a break, seeks solace in spirituality
• Reshma Patil, The Indian Express, September 19, 2000
>>> Scratch the surface of this cyber city and its dotcom facade. What do you find? A growing generation that shuns corporate careers to embrace yoga, dances to Shiamak Davar by day and seeks Conversations with God by night. ......
 
• Minority sect uses Net to feed ISI with defence data
• T. Sunil Reddy, The Times of India, September 19, 2000
>>> Call it hi-tech spying. State intelligence agencies have found that followers of the Deendar Anjuman sect reportedly fed Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) with vital information about the defence establishments located in and around the city via the Internet. ......
 
• Kashmir and the defence of democracy
• KPS Gill, The Pioneer, September 19, 2000
>>> Between words and deeds there is inevitably a hiatus. But if this distance grows beyond a certain measure, words lose all significance, and men must be judged not by their proclamations or their intentions, but by deed alone. Strong words have been spoken on Kashmir in the past months, culminating in the address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day. ......
 
• VHP wants ban on anti-national militant outfits
• Herald, September 19, 2000
>>> Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) secretary general Praveen Togadia today demanded a ban on all militant outfits indulging in anti-national activities. ......
 
• Serial blast accused brought to court amid high drama
• Herald, September 19, 2000
>>> Amid high drama for about four hours in the Coimbatore central jail all the 167 accused in the sensational Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case were produced before the special court in the evening. ......
 
• Hindu hard-liners to counter Christian militants in NE
• Gomantak Times, September 19, 2000
>>> A hard-line Hindu group with close links to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s BJP party vowed Monday it would “not tolerate” attacks on Hindu temples by Christian guerrillas in India’s northeast. The Hindu Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP - World Hindu Forum), said it would prevent separatist militants from the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), targeting Hindu temples and priests in the region. ......
 
• Message To Indian Bishops: Emphasis Christ
• Catholic World News Service, September 20, 2000
>>> As he addressed the opening session of a meeting of the Indian bishops' conference, Cardinal Jozef Tomko  emphasized the importance of faith in Jesus Christ, "man and God," and of work for religious freedom. ......
 
• Put more pressure on India: U.S.  paper
• Sridhar Krishnaswami, The Hindu, September 21, 2000
>>> The new course of American foreign policy in South Asia of embracing India and distancing itself from Pakistan's military Government, set in motion by the U.S.  President, Mr.  Bill Clinton, must be accompanied by ``more pressure on India'' to exercise nuclear restraint and defuse tensions with Pakistan, says The New York Times in its lead editorial. ......
 
• Scientist 'killed Amazon indians to test race theory' - Geneticist accused of letting thousands die in rainforest
• Paul Brown, The Guardian, September 23, 2000
>>> Thousands of South American indians were infected with measles, killing hundreds, in order to for US scientists  to study  the effects on  primitive societies  of natural  selection, according to a book out next month. ......
 
• 3000-km Agni-III ready; N-retraint can go, warns India
• Deccan Chronicle, September 23, 2000
>>> India’s most advanced Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, Agni III, which has a range of moe than 3000 km, is ready to be test fired very soon. ......
 
• Kashmir: illusion and reality
• Sudhanshu Ranade, The Hindu, September 23, 2000
>>> Kashmir is in the news every single day.  And yet it is so little understood.  Again and again well-meaning intellectuals from both sides of the border harp on the need for greater people-to-people contact to pave the basis for a way out of the Kashmir imbroglio.  But again and again it turns out that, even at the level  of intellectuals, leave  alone the people  and Governments, there is no real meeting of minds on the issue. ......
 
• Cultivating Commerce
• Ramachandra Guha, The Telegraph, September 23, 2000
>>> It is a strange admission to make now, but as a student of economics in the Seventies I was in thrall to the public sector.  With others of that generation, I had been taught to see dams like Bhakra and factories like Bhilai as the hope of the new India.  These projects, we thought, usefully married technology to the state to produce prosperity and justice. ......
 
• SIMI dares UP govt to ban it: PTI
• Rediff on Net, September 24, 2000
>>> The Students' Islamic Movement of India Sunday dared the Uttar Pradesh government to ban the organisation, saying it would only awaken Muslim students leading to their strong affinity towards it. ......
 
• UP police register case against SIMI chief
• Rediff on Net, September 24, 2000
>>> The Uttar Pradesh police Sunday registered a case against three persons, including the national president of the Student Islamic Movement of India for links with terrorist outfits like the Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Tayiba. ......
 
• Clinton would like Diwali in White House
• Ramesh Chandran, The Times of India, September 24, 2000
>>> Diwali firecrackers and diyas in White House? Yes, if President Bill Clinton has his way. The US president expressed the wish at a fund-raiser held by a small but influential group of Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, California, on Saturday, where they raised close to $1 million for the Democratic National Committee. ......
 
• Lord Ganesh on Indonesian currency note
• PTI, September 24, 2000
>>> Believe it or not, Indonesia, a country having majority Muslim population, features Lord Ganesh on its currency notes - the Rupiah. ......
 
• Arms, RDX, computer seized at Rawalpora ‘hide-out’ - Kashmir golf player is Al-Badr top man ?
• Ahmed Ali Fayaz, The Daily Excelsior, September 25, 2000
>>> Working of the Chief Minister’s security outfit SSG, as also that of the State and central intelligence agencies, has come into question with the BSF’s latest sensational operation in Rawalpora outskirts of the capital city here.  A multi-millionaire industrialist, who has been playing golf with the state’s high profile personalities, has turned out to be a senior functionary of Al-Badr guerrilla outfit which has been floated by Pakistani cadres of Hizbul Mujahideen some time back. ......
 
• The Heart of Dorkness
• Varsha Bhosle, Rediff On The Net, September 25, 2000
>>> Thank you! Thank you for your tremendous support. Vikram: bad move -- as DM, I'd probably nuke you-know-what. Krishna: I accept all three kisses. Ranjit: I'm proud of you all! Sundar, Anurag and Friends: don't dare make my stocks crash! Rajesh, Radhakant and Gagan: you've fulfilled the dream I never thought I'd realise -- to actually change the opinion of a person. ......
 
• The Epic management
• Renu Rattan, The Pioneer, September 25, 2000
>>> What is it that makes this young management guru who is in his late 20s click and why is it that corporate heads of leading Indian and MNCs flock to his workshops to take a relook at contemporary management styles?  ......
 
• Withering away of the state
• Sandhya Jain, The Pioneer, September 26, 2000
>>> At least in one respect, the Marxian dream has come true in India – the state has withered away.  It’s an all-India phenomenon, not just in the blood-red villages of Bihar or West Bengal.  What’s more, it’s given us the dictatorship of the proletariat.  Some of us are now beginning to realize that this was never meant to be dictatorship by the proletariat; it all along meant dictatorship over the proletariat.  ......
 
• European envoys meet Hurriyat leaders
• The Hindu, September 26, 2000
>>> In a significant development, top diplomats from four European countries today held talks with leaders of Hurriyat Conference whose chairman Abdul Gani Bhat said later that the international opinion favoured a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue.  ......
 
• Muslims are better off in India than in Pakistan
• Rajeev Srinivasan, Rediff on Net, September 9, 2000
>>> The  Supreme Court  has spelt  out a few home truths to the Government of Karnataka: in effect, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen, as in the case of elephant-poacher and kidnapper Veerappan. ......
 
• NLFT curb o Hindu institutions
• The Telegraph, September 14, 2000
>>> The National Liberation Front of Tripura has threatened to close all Hindu schools and institutions in tribal areas run by Ratanmoni Seva Mission, an affiliate of Banabasi Kalyan Ashram. ......
 
• The Mischief Exposed
• BJP Today, September 16-30, 2000
>>> Now we know how irrational and unpatriotic our lawmakers can be. Ever since the Supreme Court took cognizance of the public interest litigation filed by the All India Lawyers Forum for Civil Liberties on the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act of 1983 by giving Parliament time until January 2001 to repeal the Act, those responsible for the black law and those irrationally in support of it seem to have got into a hysteria over it. ......
 
• Attack on media
• Barun Sengupta, BJP Today, September 16-30, 2000
>>> Venting anger against the scribes - more often than not, in the most violent and abusive ways- is nothing new in this country. West Bengal is no exception in this regard and inspite of taking pride for an above-average political maturity, it has a long record of misconduct with the media. In my early days as a journalist, I experienced one such worst incident. At that time, CPM was deadly opposed to Anandabazar Patrika. ......
 
• Sr Francesca admits ‘guilt with great sorrow’
• Rifat Jawaid, Rifat Jawaid, September 21, 2000
>>> Missionaries of Charity superior-general Sister Nirmala denied media reports on Wednesday that a Calcutta court had fined her in connection with a case of harassing a destitute at a missionary rehabilitation centre. ......
 
• VHP move to install Ram temple model at Ayodhya
• The Weekend Observer, September 23, 2000
>>> The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will begin its campaign to install a model of the proposed Ram temple at the disputed Babri mosque site at Ayodhya even as top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) meet here. next week to discuss how to’ widen the party’s base to include Muslims. ......
 
• Pak pays the price for jehad -- Investors and its own people are running scared
• The Indian Express, September 23, 2000
>>> In an article appearing in the latest issue of the popular Pakistani Weekly, The Friday Times, commentator Khaled Ahmed explains how his country's jehad on Kashmir has not only driven away investors but is also forcing an increasing number of Pakistanis to leave the country and delink their fate from the outcome of this jehad which they can't help but support. ......
 
• ‘I was a victim of caste hatred’
• Vinay Krishna Rastogi, Mid-Day, September 24, 2000
>>> Uttar Pradesh Governor Suraj Bhan, an old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker and a Dalit, says that in all Sangh Shakhas that he attended since his youth, much stress was laid on patriotism and nationalism but hatred towards Muslims was never taught nor were scheduled castes treated with contempt. ......
 
• Jaswant Singh - A Servant of Indian Nationalism Embraces the Nasdaq Age
• Robin Wright, The Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000
>>> Jaswant Singh represents India's transition.  He grew up in the British colonial days of the raj.  He was a horseman in newly independent India's first cavalry, following a long family tradition of military men.  He resigned to run for office and has since served in both the upper and lower houses of India's Parliament, where he had a reputation as a powerful orator.  He's a staunch advocate of Indian family values.  He's a passionate Hindu nationalist. ......
 
• Kaun banega Bill-ionaire?
• Ajit Kumar Jha, The India Express, September 25, 2000
>>> Most Americans aptly fit Thomas Hobbes' description of humans: for them reason is the ``spy and scout'' of passion.  And in love and partnership are hidden self-interest and need.  To satisfy their interests, both the Bills need India.  And because both are terribly smart, they have decided to charm us by appealing to our hearts rather than our heads. ......
 
• ‘The message from Vajpayee's visit is that we have to avoid euphoria or complacency’
• Jyoti Malhotra, The Indian Express, September 26, 2000
>>> Prime Minister A.B.  Vajpayee's recent trip to the US has been the subject of substantial interest in the subcontinent and beyond.  Is there now a US `tilt' towards India and away from Pakistan? Will the new engagement have an impact on China? Marshall Bouton, Vice-President of the Asia Society, at whose dinner Vajpayee launched his American yatra, discusses what lies beneath with JYOTI MALHOTRA. ......
 
• National Commission for Minorities (letter)
• Dara Kadva, September 6, 2000
>>> I am enclosing the copy of a report, which has appeared in today's Asian Age (Mumbai Edition), written by Purnima Tripathi, about the NCM Report to the Central Government, castigating the Gujarat Government and the Sangh Parivar for alleged attacks on Minorities in that State. ......
 
• Gushes and growls
• Vinu Abraham, The Week, September 24, 2000
>>> It has been eight months since poetess Kamala Das became Kamala Suraiya renouncing Hinduism in favour of Islam. In those heady days immediately after her conversion, she was not only the toast of Kerala’s Muslim world, but flush with the excitement other impending wedding to a middle-aged Indian Union Muslim League leader. ......
 
• Cancerous growth
• Ajay Uprety, The Week, September 24, 2000
>>> The bomb that went off in a house in a busy Agra locality killing three youths on August 9 was only a portend of things to come. Five days later yet another bomb ripped through the Sabarmati Express train at Rojagaon near Faizabad, killing 10 and injuring several others. Three more blasts followed, two in Kanpur and one in Lucknow, but fortunately there were no casualties. ......
 
• Cabbages & Kings
• V.P.  Bhatia, Organiser, September 24, 2000
>>> ‘Barq girti hai to bechare Mussalmanon par’.  Even the lightning singles out the Muslim community as its target, said the famous Islamic poet Sir Muhammad Iqbal.  But the same seems to be the fate of our half Muslim pseudo-secular tribesmen, the Nehruvian negationists of Hindu culture. ......
 
• At cross purposes
• Lakshmi Iyer, India Today, September 25, 2000
>>> The American Urge to play globe-cop has put the minority Christian community in India on the backfoot.  The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)- an agency of the country’s legislative branch is holding a public hearing on religious freedom in India for the first time since the panel was founded in 1998. ......
 
• The alternative Indians may have preferred to hear
• Arvind Lavakare, Rediff on Net, September 26, 2000
>>> It was preceded by a standing ovation; it was interspersed with applause -- 21 times by one count; and at the end of its 20-minute duration, it was accorded another standing ovation -- of 30 seconds by another count.  All that seemed hyped courtesy because Prime Minister Vajpayee's address to a joint session of the United States Congress must rank as one of the drabbest speeches in international political history. ......
 
• Venezuelan becomes first to translate Gita into Spanish
• The Pioneer, September 28, 2000
>>> It is amazing how a person born as a Catholic, baptised as such and growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, where almost the entire population is Roman Catholic, takes an interest in Hinduism and translates the Bhagavad Gita into Spanish. ......
 
• Three more armymen arrested for ISI links
• Sharat Pradhan, Rediff on Net, September 29, 2000
>>> The central command authorities have taken into custody three more armymen, over the last week, for alleged involvement in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence activities. ......
 
• Delayed confession
• Editorial, The Indian Express, September 29, 2000
>>> There is nothing to beat the Bofors case for bizarre twists and turns.  Now come farcical revelations from the Hindujas.  On the face of it, the Hindujas have taken an extraordinarily long time to clarify that the payments they received from Bofors in 1986 were not related to the 155 m howitzer deal with India.  It is the classic defence. ......
 
• Saffron truth (letters to the editor) - I
• Arvind Lavakare, The Indian Express, September 29, 2000
>>> Sir: Kuldip Nayar’s rantings against the RSS (IE, Sept. 26) have become so regular they’re probably unfit for the cause of recycled newsprint that your esteemed daily supports. ......
 
• Saffron Truth (letters to the editor) - II
• K. R. Ravi, The Indian Express, September 29, 2000
>>> Sir: Kuldip Nayar writes that Mr Vajpayee may be a closet communalist, that he is not sincere in upholding India’s “plural” tradition, that the Human Resource Minister is feverishly trying to Hinduise our education system. ......
 
• ‘We need to work very hard to sustain this relationship’ (Interview: Karl F.  Inderfurth)
• Aziz Haniffa, India Abroad, September 29, 2000
>>> Still on a high following Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's highly successful visit to the United States, the administration's point man for South Asia said the die has been cast vis-a-vis U.S.-India relations and there is only one way to go, and that is up. ......
 
• Muslim sect protests Ulemas’ ostracism fatwa
• Amit Sharma, The Indian Express, September 30, 2000
>>> Followers of the Ahmadiyya sect among Muslims have strongly objected to the fatwa that a section of Ulemas and Muslim religious leaders issued against them during a recent meeting held in Mohanlalganj near here. ......
 
• Dawn gets a stiff does of Musharraf’s new medicine for the media
• Kamal Siddiqi, The Indian Express, September 30, 2000
>>> Pakistan's most respected newspaper, the Daily Dawn, which has been consistent in its aggressive criticism of the military regime, got a taste of General Pervez Musharraf's new medicine for the media. ......
 
• Rs. 5 lakh rides on flyover, daily
• The Indian Express, September 30, 2000
>>> Log-jammed traffic, idling engines and hour-long delays.  Even as the government vacillates over footing the bill for completing the unfinished 1.5-km long Andheri flyover, a report prepared by IIT, Powai, has estimated the cost of this traffic chaos. ......
 
• ISI Activities in Andhra Pradesh
• Gaurav Ghosh, September, 2000
>>> The ISI was conceived as far as 1984 under a British officer who chose to serve Pakistan as it’s deputy army chief and was instrumental in sending the raiders into Kashmir to occupy it in 1984 itself.  When they occupied only a part of it and not entirely, the ISI started covert means to do so. ......
 
• Uniform Civil Code- A Reflection
• Sri Bipin Bihari Ratho, Gaurav Ghosh, September, 2000
>>> The founding father of our constitution Dr.  B.  R.  Ambedkar, Chairman of the Constitution Draft Committee had favoured the enactment of a common civil code.  Which was highly supported by eminent nationalists like Gopal Swamy lyenger and others, while it was strongly opposed by Muslim fundamentalists like Poker Saheb and others. ......
 
• Indian Christian In Saudi Arabia Scheduled To Be Deported
• www.ZENIT.org, Gaurav Ghosh 14, September, 2000
>>> RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, SEPT.  14 (ZENIT.org).  - An Indian Christian arrested last June while carrying a video of a Christian meeting in Riyadh will be deported to India, according to a watchdog group. ......

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