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- A case for education, prosperity for Indian masses (letter)
- Prafull Goradia
The Asian Age
- November 23, 1998
>>>Sir, This is with reference to the report Cleric asks Muslims to
avoid UP schools (November. 20). Declaration of a fatwa a
against fatwa is an unusual development. The first fatwa was
issued by three Maulanas of the Darul-Uloom, Deoband; and, the
second has been issued by chairman of the All India Muslim
...
- A little does of religion - prescription for row
- S Gopinath Reddy
The Indian Express
- November 12, 1998
>>>The lying Hospital of Operation Blessing International which
was launched two days ago has run into controversy for
persuading patients to pray and listen to a sermon on what he
message of Jesus Christ is=94.
...
- A selective memory
- M. V. Kamath
The Hindustan Times
- November 21, 1998
>>>The CPI-M leaders' violent reaction to Mr L. K. Advani's
revealing comments on the Communist role during the Quit India
Movement indicates a delightful forgetfulness; or, in the more
expressive words of Srimathi J. Jayalalitha, a selective memory,
worthy of better causes. Methinks the Comrades protest too
...
- Aiyer's advocacy of Emergency to be poll issue
- Bahas persecuted in Iran
- Statesman News Service
The Statesman
- November 10, 1998
>>>Between 29 September and 3 October, this year, 36 teachers were
arrested, two persons sentenced to death and 532 homes were
raided in Iran. The victims have one common feature - they
belonged to the Baha’i faith.
...
- Believe us, we are not ill-treating them
- S Gurumurthy
The Observer
- November 24, 1998
>>>‘In India, more attacks on Christians’ screamed the headlines in
Washington Post on page 29 on November 17, 1998. The popular
American newspaper said, “India is experiencing a new wave of
communal conflict. Hindus, who make up 82 per cent of the
country's 950 million people, are attacking Christians - a 2 per
...
- BJP embarrasses Congress, CPM with quotations
- Blasphemy - After Taslima Nasareen's Lajja Tehmina Durrani's
- Muzaffar Hussain
Organiser
- November 22, 1998
>>>It should not surprise anyone if the oft-debated Pakistani
writer Tahmina Durrani matchest the uneviable position of the
Bangladeshi Taslima Nasareen. Taslima has in her novel Lajja
advocated the cause of the minorities in Bangladesh and in the
process has bitterly attacked the Muslim orthodoxy. In her turn
...
- Can Pakistan survive?
- Dina Nath Mishra
The Observer
- November 12, 1998
>>>It is no secret that Pakistan's economic and financial conditions
have deteriorated further after the nuclear explosion in May this
year. It is virtually on the brink of collapse. Bill Clinton has
lifted some of the economic sanctions mainly to help Pakistan.
The problem is not confined to this alone. The fact is that the
...
- Celluloid stereotypes of Islam
- Edward Zwick
The Times of India
- November 19, 1998
>>>"Insidious, incendiary and dangerous."
That is how the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has
chosen to characterise my film: "The Siege" in a letter sent to
every major media outlet in the Americas. The group's objections
...
- Cong pacifies Mamata on Sonia-Basu meet
- Vijay Simha
The Indian Express
- November 17, 1998
>>>The Congress today tried to mollify Trinamool Congress chief
Mamata Banerjee after her criticism of the Sonia Gandhi-Jyoti
Basu meeting, saying that the Congress-CPM togetherness was on
secularism - an issue Mamata has already raised.
...
- Congress shedding crocodile tears over secularism: BJP
- Observer Political Bureau
The Observer
- November 12, 1998
>>>The BJP on Wednesday charged the Congress with playing communal
card in every election and shedding crocodile tears for
secularism during non-election times. Pegging its charge around
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's election speech in mizoram's
Christian-dominated areas, the BJP accused the Congress of
...
- Film lorifying communist movement faces criticism
- P.K. Surendran
The Times of India
- November 24, 1998
>>>After the book it is cinema. The ruling CPM of Kerala, charged
with "crimsonising" bid of history-writing, is now drawing flak
for "glorifying" the communist movement in a movie.
Pulayars (a scheduled caste) on Monday took out a protest march
...
- Foreign militants woo locals with money in Poonch
- Arun Sharma
The Indian Express
- November 24, 1998
>>>Foreign mercenaries, who would earlier use the gun to get the
locals in the border districts of Poonch an Rajouri to accede to
their demands, have shifted strategy in the face of an unyielding
populace. They are now trying to lure the locals with money, says
General Officer Commanding, 25 Division, Major General V S Yadav.
- Fragmented view - Focus on future nuclear policy
- K Subrahmanyam
The Times of India
- November 9, 1998
>>>Pittsburgh: Indian analysts and commentators visiting the US face
two sets of questions on the nuclear issue. The first relates to
the motivation of the BJP government in the timing of the tests
and domestic political rivalries focused on nuclear capability.
The second are mostly from Americans with a more pragmatic
...
- From refugees to bonded labour
- Shyam Koul
Kashmir Sentinel
- September 1 - October 15, 1998
>>>Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah's spasmodic
exhortations to displaced Pandits to pack up and go back to
Kashmir, have by now become the premier joke for the homeless
community. They have grown to learn that he is not very serious
about it, which he himself knows too. It must be said though
...
- Gandhian approach to religion & modernity
- Madhuri Santanam Sondhi
The Times of India
- November 24, 1998
>>>The Indian debate on secularism moves between several
interpretations: (1) the original western sense ,is separation
of state and religion; (2) the impartiality of state arbitration
between competing religions; (3) a belief system opposed to
religion, and (4) equal recognition to all religions. The
...
- Guatemala Mayans flex political muscles
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant The Hindu
- August 17, 1996
>>>On a set of Maya ruins at the outskirts of this capital, the
Vice President of Guatemala last month swore in 21 Maya priests
as members of a new government-sponsored Council of Elders.
Throwing flower petals and sugar into a crackling fire as they
chanted and danced, the shamans in turn bestowed their official
...
- he Left distorts (Interview with Arun Shourie)
- Swapan Dasgupta
India Today
- November 23, 1998
>>>Controversy and Arun Shourie are inseparable. He, has taken on
governments, politicians and corporate houses, championed
contentious causes and assumed the role of India's permanent
gadfly. After questioning the mythology centred on Babasaheb
Ambedkar and offending Dalit activists, Shourie has now targeted
...
- High on opinion polls, low on the future
- M. J. Akbar
The Asian Age
- November 15, 1998
>>>After years of sobriety, the Congress High Command is feeling
high once again: there is nothing more than the faint whiff of
opinion polls in the air and jostling has started for
portfolios. Two polls have put the Congress ahead of the BJP in
the Assembly elections for Delhi and Rajasthan, and even the
...
- Ill-treatment of Christians in India
- India tops Osama bin Laden's hit-list
- Gaurav C Sawant
The Indian Express
- November 24, 1998
>>>India tops the priority list of countries targeted by Osama bin
Laden. The USA is second, followed by United Kingdom and Israel.
A recent encounter between the Army and Afghan infiltrators near
the Haji Pir pass in the Pir Panjal ranges and the material
recovered from their possession has revealed this startling
...
- ISI pushing Pak armymen to keep militancy alive in J&K
- Press Trust of India
The Observer
- November 9, 1998
>>>Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) is inducting its
regular armymen into Jammu & Kashmir to keep alive militancy in
the valley, a senior police official has said.
This new gameplan of using "regular Pak armymen" was uncovered
...
- Living in the ISI's shadow
- Maloy Krishna Dhar
Kashmir Sentinel
- September 1 - October 15, 1998
>>>Our Political masters, Jayalalitha included, cry hoarse about the
foreign hand whenever their cup of milk sours, their favourite
targets being the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or that ogrenext-door, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Their
noises, however, do not reflect the extent of the danger India
a
...
- Living outside heritage - Who's afraid of Sanskrit?
- Bharat Gupta
The Indian Express
- November 20, 1998
>>>Nearly two thousand years ago, a poet commented on the Indian
scene: "Intellectuals are engaged in envious quarrels, rulers
are intoxicated by arrogance, the people are burdened with lack
of education and so Good Speech is weak and emaciated." It is not
difficult to imagine that, there have been repeated moments of
...
- Muslim students recited Saraswati Vandana, says Hindu
- Nature of Pak's proxy was changing: Advani
- Nuclear deterrence
- K Subrahmanyam
The Economic Times
- November 26, 1998
>>>In this country among the intellectuals there is strong aversion
to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence, though of late the BJP
government has put forward minimum deterrence as its strategic
policy. Though leaders of other parties have not been as vocal as
the BJP leadership on nuclear deterrence, the fact that the
...
- Nuclear Elimination - A disarming argument from India
- Muchkund Dubey
The Times of India
- November 19, 1998
>>>Mr Strobe Talbott must be congratulated for the clear-cut,
precise and lucid manner in which he has enunciated in the
article that appeared in the November 13 issue of The Times of
India, "the American perspective" on the diplomatic process
going on between the US on the one hand and India and Pakistan
...
- On the forgiving trail (Letter)
- D. K. Saraf
The Asian Age
- July 4, 1996
>>>Sir, This refers to Mr Z. Kittler's letter, Mother not so
Saintly, I fully support Mr Kitler's disapproval of Mother
Teresa who, instead of refuting the charges, perpetually prays
for those who criticise her.
...
- Our students don know India's problems (Interview with Murli Manohar Joshi)
- Debashish Mukerji
The Week
- November 15, 1998
>>>The cabinet minister most closely identified with RSS is
certainly Dr Murli Manohar Joshi. With his prominent tilak, his
angavastram and choti, he still looks the RSS pracharak he had
been for many years. It was widely held that Joshi, a former
physics professor in Allahabad University, was allotted the
...
- Pakistani terrorist body to target Himachal Pradesh
- Press Trust of India
The Indian Express
- November 9, 1998
>>>A Pakistani Islamic militant group has declared that it is going
to further expand its militant activities in India by including
Himachal Pradesh and claimed that it has sent large number of
Pakistani trained terrorists for strikes in Kashmir since last
year.
- Secular love for Macaulay
- Rakesh Sinha
The Hindustan Times
- November 3, 1998
>>>The conference of education ministers, which turned into a
political battleground, served one great purpose by triggering a
debate on the nature and content of our education policy. The
agenda of the HRD Ministry to 'Indianise, nationalise, and
spiritualise' the education system, which was regarded by the
...
- ssaulting_India's pluralist ethos (Letter)
- D. Harikumar, Kochi
The Hindu
- November 6, 1998
>>>Sir, - This has reference to the articles, ssaulting India's
pluralist ethos (The Hindu, Oct. 26) by Ms. Malini
Parthasarathy and "BJP belies hopes of moderation" (The Hindu,
Oct. 28) by Mr. Inder Malhotra. The core of their argument is
that the (so-called) Indianisation, nationalisation and
...
- The growing menace of pseudo-secularism
- M. V. Kamath
Organiser
- November 22, 1998
>>>One of the saddest, most tragic things one is being forced to
witness these days is the degradation of secularism by its most
vocal champions, the secularists themselves. We have reached a
stage where, in the name of secularism, a determined effort is
made to denigrate India's culture and national heritage and even
...
- The Holy trek to Sabarimala
- K Vaidyanathan
The Observer
- November 21, 1998
>>>A few years ago, when SV Pillai was Chairman of Pfizer Limited,
he was under great tension. His company was on strike, his irate
employers summoned him to Hong Kong for consultations, and back
home in Ernakulam, his brother had suffered a heart attack. "All
I could do was pray to Lord Ayyappa in Sabarimala. Thank God, the
...
- Vidya Bharati: in the RSS tradition
- Debashish Mukerji
The Week
- November 15, 1998
>>>Like all good RSS pracharaks, Dinanath Batra is forthright with
his views but diffident when it comes to talking about himself.
Born in 1932 in Dera Gazi Khan - now in Pakistan - he has been
an educationist all his working life, initially as headmaster of
the DAV School at Dera Bassi in Patiala district, and
...
- Voices of Sonia - What she says depends on the ghost writer at hand
- Swapan Dasgupta
India Today
- November 23, 1998
>>>Among the more uncharitable things said about Rajiv Gandhi was
the accusation that he was prone to believing the person he
spoke to last. No such charge has been levelled against the
current head of the Congress. A possible reason could be that no
one really has the remotest idea what Sonia Gandhi actually
...
- Who said the BJP is faring bad?
- M. V. Kamath
The Free Press Journal
- November 19, 1998
>>>The fight between the opposition Congress and the ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party never mind their supporters in other
parties - is now on and it promises to be bitter. In February/
March earlier this year the Congress was effectively disowned by
the nation and for very good reasons. The Congress Party had
...
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