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- Angana Parekh
- Anmol Sajjan
- Of conduct unbecoming The Indian Express
- December 23, 1997
>>>What's common between Newt Gingrich and Majrooh Sultanpuri? A great deal.
They're men who go into massive sulks at perceived 'insults' and who've
once again proved that the earth is round. Two years ago, Gingrich
paralysed America because once Clinton had not invited him into his cabin
on Air Force One thus 'insulting' him.
- Arindam Sengupta and Nandini Sengupta
- Associated Press
- Aunohita Mojumdar
- Biju Mathew
- C P Bhambhri
- BJP is filling the Congress space The Pioneer
- November 25, 1997
>>>The BJP must have been pleasantly surprised when 21 MLAs of
the Congress in UP opted t6 support and share power with its
State Government. Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Mr LK Advani, on
the basis of some hard information, openly invited the Lok Sabha
MPs of the Congress to follow the example set in UP and support
...
- C P Bhambri
- Saffron tide rising? (Part II of III) The Economic Times
- December 30, 1997
>>>The 11th Lok Sabha elections held in the summer of 1996, provided
an opportunity to the BJP to form its government and mobilise the
support of some political groups to substantiate the claim of its
parliamentary majority. It was shocked to see that none of the
many political groups decided to support it. The Atal Bihari
...
- C R Irani
- Watch Gujral in the run up to elections! The Statesman
- December 2, 1997
>>>Anyone watching the antics of Sitaram Kesri and Pranab
Mukherjee these last few days must be sick to the point of disgust.
Even Arjun Singh and Jitendra Prasada, Sonia Gandhi's foot
soldiers, have fallen silent. It was seven weeks ago that Prasada
fired the first salvo asking that the DMK be removed from
...
- C. P. Bhambhri
- The Muslim question The Hindustan Times
- December 4, 1997
>>>The dominant sections of the Indian political class have always
believed that diverse cultural groups deserve not only
Constitutional and legal protection for their specific cultural,
linguistic and religious needs, they also require a concrete policy
and programmatic interventions to take care of their perceived
...
- Chanchal Sarkar
- Questions for Bangladesh The Pioneer
- December 17, 1997
>>>One journeys to Bangladesh with a satchelful of brow-furrowing
questions, hoping to stitch answers together. Here are some: What
is the influence of Islam on people of various levels and how
different is Bangladesh's Islam from that of other countries?
What do the military think today and how stable are civil-
...
- Coomi Kapoor
- DD's new despot The Indian Express
- December 7, 1997
>>>Doordarshan's new CEO is certainly making waves. Within days
of taking over, he has hired a former DD correspondent, Prabhat
Dabral, for a phenomenal Rs 2,000 a day -working out to Rs
60,000 a month, which is twice Gill's own salary and some four
times more than the take-home pay of senior DD supervisory
...
- Correspondent
- D Jose
- Tide turns against Nayanar Rediff On Net
- December 3, 1997
>>>Kerala Chief Minster E K Nayanar has reason to worry since the trade
union group to which he belongs and which is led by bosses of the Centre
for Indian Trade Unions, seems to have lost its clout, getting drubbed
in the Communist Party of India-Marxist organisational election.
Nayanar is even uneasier because he was once a member of the other side,
...
- D L Singh
- Saffron tide rising? (Part III of III) The Economic Times
- December 30, 1997
>>>There is no doubt that before the first round of pre-electoral
politics is over, the advantage has clearly gone to the BJP.
This is not because of any surge in popular support for the BJP.
There is no indication yet that equations at the ground level,
formed since the 1989 elections, between communities, local
...
- D. Anjaneyulu, Chennai
- "Principled" politics (a letter) The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>Sir, - Your Editorial. "An unprincipled alliance" (Dec. 18) raises a
number of vital issues of socio-political significance that need to be
discussed in a rational manner and with a degree of depth as well as
consistency. While the AIADMK's decision to go in for an alliance with the
BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections has been denounced as
...
- Dharmesh Thakkar
- Dina Nath Mishra
- BJP is wise and secular The Observer
- December 25, 1997
>>>The BJP is an untouchable party by birth for all its opponents.
Former Jana Sangha members and others had to form the BJP after
they were practically hounded out of Janata Party by all non-Jana
Sangha groups on the question of dual membership, i e their
simultaneous association with RSS, a Hindu organisation. In
...
- Stability is the imperative The Observer
- December 11, 1997
>>>The Indian electorate is very scared of political instability at the
Centre, and rightfully so. If there is political turmoil in a state due to
any reason, it's the people who feel bad about it.
People want stable government in their respective states: but if
...
- Editorial
- Miracles not included The Indian Express
- December 26, 1997
>>>Tariq Anwar's repeated assertions that Sonia Gandhi can deliver
results if she leads from the front shows that the collective
Congress mind has suffered terminal calcification. He has said
this is possible because "India is a very emotional nation". In
other words, he has stopped short of calling the electorate a
...
- Waiting for Sonia The Observer
- December 25, 1997
>>>Congress' strength was that it was the only political party with
a countrywide presence. This has been particularly true for the
last half a decade when the party has been tragically deprived of
the charisma of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. But this advantage is
fast becoming an unbankable factor for t]4e party. The rash of
...
- Religion as convenience Mid-Day
- December 3, 1997
>>>How convenient for Saifee Nadeem Akhtar that he has suddenly discovered
that he is a Muslim. It was obviously not on the top of his mind until a
clever
defence lawyer pointed out to him that it would be -a useful way of quashing
the extradition request -made by the Indian Government in connection with the
...
- Express News Service
- Firoz Bakht Ahmed
- Hindu-Muslim ties are a-changing The Indian Express
- December 25, 1997
>>>The demolition of the Babri masjid, however barbaric, was not
without its blessings as it initiated in Muslims a silent process
of stock-taking, self-appraisal and introspection. Besides this,
it made Hindus feel a sense of guilt and made them realise the
hollowness of communal politics. Today's Muslims are enlightened
...
- Tokenism is all The Pioneer
- November 22, 1997
>>>Even half a century after Independence, Muslim institutions of
learning remain neglected and cut off from the mainstream
producing students who are misfits in the modern world of the
information boom. The community remains backward in so far as
strides in education, economy and development are concerned.
- G. Indira
- Imran Khan
- Congress, JD, SP face nemesis: Advani The Observer
- December 20, 1997
>>>Pepped up by the party's internal assessment of a certain victory
in the coming hustings, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday
began Its crucial election-eve national executive meet, with its
president L K Advani predicting "big surprises" in virgin areas
like Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
- J. P. Shukla
- Kalyan sees change in Muslims view The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party intends to befriend the minority
community through interaction and by allaying the suspicion
deliberately created in its psyche during the past 50 years. The
party would not take recourse to any artificial means to woo the
community but would treat them at par with any other section of
...
- J. P. Yadav
- K R Malkani
- K V Lakshmana
- K V Lakshmana / Imran Khan
- Reforms to go ahead with checks The Observer
- December 22, 1997
>>>Promising stability at the Centre and good governance, Bharatiya
Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Atal Bihari Vajpayee on
Sunday asserted that the economic reform programme would be
carried forward but with modifications to protect the domestic
big and small industry.
- K. Vaidiyanathan
- "Economy of country in jeopardy" The Hindustan Times
- November 23, 1997
>>>Yashwant Sinha finds a place of prominence among the former
bureaucrats turned politicians. This IAS officer from Bihar was
the blue-eyed boy of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narain and former Bihar
Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur. His forays into politics were
through the Janata Party under Chandrashekhar for whom Sinha
...
- Kanchan Gupta
- Picture this Nirad The Pioneer
- November 22, 1997
>>>This Sunday an Indian unknown to most of his countrymen will
enter the one hundred and first year of his life far away from Indian
shores at his semi-detached house on Lathbury Road in Oxford. If
he was unknown in 1951 when his first book, Autobiography of an
Unknown Indian, was published to critical acclaim abroad and
...
- Kay Benedict
- And PM in trouble for Akali flirtation The Asian Age
- December 18, 1997
>>>Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral is in trouble with the United
Front leaders for his readiness to contest the Jalandhar
parliamentary seat with Akali support, his unwillingness to drop
the three Rashtriya Janata Dal ministers from the Cabinet, his
breakfast with Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav and tea party with Mr Kanshi
...
- Kuldip Nayar
- Shadow over the subcontinent The Indian Express
- December 23, 1997
>>>Even after 50 years, Pakistan has not realised that with partition it
snapped its relations with Indian Muslims. For better or worse, they have
more or less merged with the mainstream. After a great deal of trouble and
hardships, they haste been able to carve a place of dignity in society. A
strong wind of fundamentalism blowing within the country and from abroad
...
- India is no Bosnia The Hindustan Times
- December 13, 1997
>>>Kuldip Nayar on Clinton's myopia
President Bill Clinton's comparison of India to Bosnia is unfair
and sweeping. The fracas between the White and the Black in the
US does not make it Bosnia. Nor do the killings of children in
...
- Lal Krishna Advani
- What's the ruckus about the BJP? The Economic Times
- December 28, 1997
>>>The most important thing that strikes me about the last year
(1997) is that the Bharatiya Janata Party's evaluation of the
consequences of the mandateless United Front government has come
true. Right from day one, from the very start, we had been
saying that this will not and could not last.
- M D Nalapat
- Autonomous Airwaves - Getting the big picture right The Times of India
- December 3, 1997
>>>Have any colour car you like, so long as it is black", said Henry Ford to
customers' of his Model T. So long as the company had a monopoly in its
price-quality range, sales were brisk. Once competition revved up, they
crashed. Some civil servants resemble Henry Ford. Steeped in memories of
the Imperial Civil Service, when there were no pesky legislators or irreverent
...
- M Ilyas Khan
- Making leaders, the ISI way The Observer
- December 11, 1997
>>>Leaders are born, not manufactured. They are thrown up by
people spontaneously. And it is the people who decide whether
any of their leaders has overstepped his mandate. No college
degrees are needed to practice this simple human function. Some
nations have attained greatness by acknowledging this truth.
...
- M V Kamath
- Congress is its own enemy The Free Press Journal
- December 11, 1997
>>>So, after a lot of turmoil, the die is finally cast. None of the
three major groups, the United Front, the Congress and the BJP
could form a stable government. The United Front - quite rightly
- refused to kow-tow to the Congress just to stay in power. It
declined to ditch the DMK. The BJP tried to inveigle some of the
...
- Spare a tear for Mother India Organiser
- December 14, 1997
>>>What keeps a party together-in one piece? An ideal, for one, or
a clear goal (independence, nationalisation, privatisation), a
charismatic leader (Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi), a sense of
being under .siege (the BJP during its Jana Sangh phase). When a
party ceases to have an ideal and has nothing to fight for, it
...
- Reclaiming Ram's Birthplace The Times of India
- December 22, 1997
>>>Reading Mr Siddharth Varadarajan's commentary "Ayodhya and After"
(December 6) one bows down to the futility of arguing with people
with a one-track mind. Like a sleep-walker entirely oblivious of
the world around him, the author speaks about "an ancient
monument" (the reference is to the Babri Masjid standing on
...
- M. G. Radhakrishnan
- Dubious moves India Today
- December 8, 1997
>>>The withdrawal of the all India Democratic Women's Association and the
Democratic Youth Federation of India from the all-party joint Action Committee
(JAC)-formed to pressure the Government into speedy investigation of the
Kozhikode sex racket case-has led to accusations that the CPI(M)-led ruling
LDF was trying to shield the guilty. The two organisations have alleged that
...
- M. J. Akbar
- And the winner is Bharatiya Janata Congress! The Asian Age
- December 28, 1997
>>>How many Bengalis does it take to change a light bulb? Five. The
scene: Flight 263 at Calcutta airport on a dawn consumed by haze
in Calcutta and fog in Delhi. There was encouragement in the
captain's flawless-diction view that she would take off soon in
the hope that the Delhi darkness would clear in midnight. As a
...
- M. K. Narayanan
- M. V. Kamath
- M.H. Askari
- India's quest for stability Dawn, Karachi
- Dec 10, 1997.
>>>A SURVEY conducted by a team of political analysts presented on an
Indian television channel the other day revealed that the mid-term
elections due to be held there in March will fail to produce a national
party strong enough to bring stability to the country - a matter which
is of direct concern to Pakistan.
...
- Milap Chand Dandia
- Naib Imam sends saffron message The Asian Age
- December 26, 1997
>>>The Naib Imam of Jama Masjid of Delhi surprised everyone here on
Wednesday when he said that Muslims were quite safe and had
nothing to worry about their well-being in the BJP-ruled states.
The son of Syed Abdullah Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid,
...
- MM Sankhdher
- India, a Rashtra misconstrued as Nation The Pioneer
- December 2, 1997
>>>Perhaps it is never too late to learn from the mistakes of the past
and begin afresh. I think it would now he appropriate, after 50
years of Independence, in the midst of turmoil, to assess where
we have gone wrong. No doubt. it is difficult to identify a single
cause for the decline on all fronts: Social, economic, educational,
...
- Mohan Mishra
- A new strategy for BJP in Bihar The Times of India
- December 25, 1997
>>>When Mr Cassam Uteem, the President of Mauritius decided to go to
Azamgarh in search of his roots, he thought he was going to
Bihar. If a person has to leave his land in order to put up hard
physical labour elsewhere, such a person must inevitably be
presumed to come from Bihar. Nor has the pattern changed over
...
- Mohit Sen
- Monobina Gupta
- N. Harihara Subramaniyan, Chennai
- "Principled" politics (a letter) The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>Sir, - If the BJP-AIADMK tie-up is an unprincipled alliance, can anyone
truthfully, say what the principles of Indian politics are? Have not our
politicians let them go a long time ago'?
Thirteen parties, very different in their ideologies, without any pre-poll
...
- N. Narasimhan, Vivekananda Kendra, Bangalore
- Ray of Hope (a letter) The Times of India
- December 24, 1997
>>>A recent experience showed me that goodness can still be found amidst the
despairful darkness we see almost everywhere. A group of us was travelling
by the Bangalore Guwahati Express to participate in the All India Well
Wisher Meet of Vivekananda Kendra, at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. The
train journey to Guwahati took 70 hours. The train has a reputation of
...
- Newsnotes
- Marxist Muzzle India Today
- December 8, 1997
>>>In the good old days, the flow of information from the Marxist headquarters
was tightly controlled. But 20 years is enough time for a breakdown. Angered
at the detailed reports appearing in the "bourgeois" press on the wrangling in
the CPI(M)'s ongoing organisational elections, Central Committee leader
Biman Bose first threatened action against those comrades suspected of
...
- Observer
- BJP wants to rope in Mamata The observer
- December 10, 1997
>>>The BJP is baking on the disgruntled elements in the Congress
and the Janata Dal to make a meaningful entry into West Bengal
and Orissa respectively. While Sushma Swaraj has been deputed
by the Central leadership to rope in firebrand dissenting Congress
leader Mamata Banerjee, local leaders from Orissa unit have
...
- Observer Political Bureau
- Advani's goodwill to aid BJP for exploring South The Observer
- December 15, 1997
>>>The BJP's Southward drive will be powered by a high-intensity
campaign by its President L K Advani, who will be concentrating
on the four major Southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh which have already accorded good to
tumultous receptions to the BJP veteran on his Swarn Jayanti Rath
...
- Observer Political Bureau / Agencies
- Congress personifies corruption: Vajpayee The Observer
- December 8, 1997
>>>In a scathing attack on the Congress, which was "now trying to
inject a moral tone into its political immorality," former Prime
Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Behari Vajpayee
said, "After pulling down the second United Front Government
within six months of pulling down the first one and failing to install
...
- Pamela Philipose
- Political Bureau
- Posted By Ashok Chowgule
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Prabhu Chawla and Swapan Dasgupta
- "I will be a decisive PM" India Today
- December 29, 1997
>>>For a man who is at his natural best before crowds, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee has suddenly become cautious and taciturn. With a long
and exhausting election campaign before him, Vajpayee seems
anxious not to give an anything away. In an interview to
Executive Editor Prabhu Chawla and Deputy Editor Swapan Dasgupta,
...
- Pramod Pagedar
- President of India
- Press Trust of India
- Rajiv Bajaj
- The saffron blitz krieg The Daily
- December 21, 1997
>>>The BJP is on a roll, and no mistake. This time the strategy has
been planned out systematically like a proper military campaign.
As it should be. From its bastion in Uttar Pradesh in the North
to the huge swathe of saffron that extends from Himachal Pradesh
to parts of Punjab to Haryana to Rajasthan to Delhi to Madhya
...
- Rajiv K Bajaj
- Hindustan's revenge The Daily
- December 7, 1997
>>>Five years ago the Babri Masjid came down just the day before.
And with it an illusion was shattered. The illusion of a
civilised democracy, evolving towards emulating the western model
it was derived from. Instead the demolition of the Babri Masjid
brought us all down to the Indian reality. The Indian reality
...
- Ravi Kapoor
- Communism's left luggage The Indian Express
- December 25, 1997
>>>Once upon a time, almost every intellectual was a leftist - and
every leftist could pass himself off as an intellectual. The
Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed; at home, the
economy was opened up. Socialism was out, bag and baggage. And
since the leftist intellectual was part of the baggage, he too
...
- Rizwan Salim
- (no subject) Hindustan Times
- December 28,1997
>>>On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992), it
is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance of
the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent,
present and the future.
...
- S. Rajagopalan
- BJP gets all too touchable The Hindustan Times
- December 21, 1997
>>>=93Dilli chalo". At any cost. It's a no-holds-barred pursuit of
power that the Bharatiya Janata Party has embarked upon in the
run-up to the 12th Lok Sabha polls. Much to the chagrin of its
detractors, who are a dime a dozen, the party today is willing to
go to any length, striking deals and making compromises.
- Sheela Reddy
- New Delhi The Asian Age
- November 19, 1997
>>>Surprisingly, it is the Hindutva parivar which has taken to
computarisation with all the adroitness of a duck to water. There
are, for instance, at least half-a-dozen websites on Internet,
including overseas friends of the BJP, emblazoned in the
predictable saffron hue, carrying among other gems, an article
...
- Shekhar Gupta
- Soumen Datta, Panagarh and Calcutta
- Dilli chalo! Sunday
- December 21-27, 1997
>>>Jyoti Basu repeats himself: =93The CPI(M) should share power at the
Centre
Jyoti Basu has said it again, and the timing couldn't have been
better. With elections round the bend and every political party
...
- Special Correspondent
- Sreedhar Pillai, Trivandrum
- Friend in need? Sunday
- December 21-27, 1997
>>>Namboodiripad seeks an electoral ally in the Muslim League
The CPI(M) veteran, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, has again made a
surprise move on the eve of the parliamentary election. He has
invited the second-largest constituent of the Opposition United
...
- Srichand P Hinduja
- Staff reporter
- A failure to active nationalism: Advani The Hindu
- November 12, 1997
>>>In his "Integral Humanism" thesis, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya analysed
the root of all our problems to be the "Neglect of the National Self." He wrote
:
"It is essential we think about our national identity. Under alien rule, this
identity is suppressed. That is why nations wish to remain independent so
...
- Statesman News Service
- Sudesh K Verma, Bhubaneshwar
- Sultan Shahin
- Follow the divine verses The Indian Express
- December 2, 1997
>>>Salman Rushdie's Muslim critics have reason to celebrate. Now the
defenders of Rushdie in the Western Press are themselves talking of his
'Satanic ways', 'shocking, bad taste', etc. in the wake of his comments on what
he called in a New Yorker article "the pornography of Diana Spencer's
death" in a "sublimated sex assault". The Christian West that was not
...
- Suma Varghese
- The empire strikes back The Free Press Journal
- December 5, 1997
>>>I know this is a slightly delayed reaction, but I cannot resist
making it. I refer to the much-publicised British Golden Jubilee
Banquet held in London a few weeks back. It was here that Cherie
Blair, the PM's wife, stole all our hearts by turning up in a
sari. But I refer to a more momentous event than that. Namely,
...
- Sunil Mehra in Tilonia (Rajasthan)
- Little people do big things Outlook
- December 29, 1997
>>>A Parliament of children shows the way, electing members on merit
who champion their rights
Election time. Party members huddle together to elect a prime
minister even as the opposition anxiously awaits their next move.
- Sunil Sethi
- What does 'dynamic instability' mean? The Times of India
- December 12, 1997
>>>When John Kenneth Galbraith, the modern messiah of economic
health in the 1970s and a dedicated India hand, called India a
"functioning anarchy" he invented one of those smart phrases that
stuck for decades with the persistence of a designer label. It
lingered because, in its time, the witticism had the ring of truth. It
...
- Suresh Kumar Unnithan
- Flesh trade under 'official' patronage! The Observer
- December 4, 1997
>>>For long, Kerala has been projected as a role model of development and
social revolution. The same state has now been reduced to a showpiece of
decadence and sexual deviance. The recent cases of organised flesh trade
with the blessings of politicians and the police have exposed the state as an
emerging centre of sleaze.
- Swapan Dasgupta
- T N Kaul (New Delhi)
- Ultimate Cure and Real Cure The Times of India
- December 4, 1997
>>>Sir, - I agree with Mr H K Dua's front page editorial, "The Ultimate
Cure" (November 30) that 'the ultimate clue lies wills the people'.
But how can they administer this cure? One way is through the
President who represents indirectly the will of the people. This is of
immediate value. But in the long iron the remedy lies in the voter
...
- Tara Kartha
- Games that ISI plays The Observer
- December 20, 1997
>>>Intelligence agencies, and the ISI in particular, have begun to
function like a state within a state.
The cloak and Kalashnikov boys at the ISI (Inter Services
Intelligence) and various other allied outfits in Pakistan are
...
- Tilak Sharma
- Time of India News Service
- Times of India News Service
- UNI
- Hindutva a way of life The Pioneer
- December 27, 1997
>>>Mr R Kumaramangalam said here on Friday that the entry of Ms
Sonia Gandhi into active politics would not help the Congress and
its leaders would be interested only in exploiting her.
He was replying to a question from newspersons at the state BJP
...
- Vidyadhar Date
- Vimal Jhanjari
- Crusade against cow slaughter planned The Times of India
- December 25, 1997
>>>For the first time since independence, heads of various religions
and faiths have combined to evolve a common cause crusade against
cattle slaughter and meat exports. At a month-long camp to be
held at Allahabad in January 1998, distinguished religious heads
will demand, a ban on cow slaughter.
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