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Starting: Sun 01 Sep 1996 - 00:00:-60115 EDT
Ending: Mon 30 Sep 1996 - 00:00:-22274 EDT
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  • A K Ray
  • Aasif Iqbal Khan
    • Shifting loyalties; and a response   Pioneer - 13 Sept 1996.
      • >>>This is with reference to the report, "Bukhari offers support to BSP". = Imam Bukhari has once again shifted his loyalty. By doing this, the 'self-proclaimed Muslim leader' has once again proved his immaturity. = Although the BSP claims to be the champions of the oppressed sections, = it has given clear demonstration of tis opportunism. It first joined han= ...
  • Agence France Presse
  • Ajaz Ashraf
    • In the name of Allah   The Pioneer - 22 September 1996
      • >>>It is 10.45 in the morning, and Mushirul Hasan is immaculately dressed, ready to go to office. But he does not have to travel far - all he has to do is to enter the living room of his house where are seated two men from the administrative staff of Jamia Millia Islamia, holding ...
  • Amulya Ganguli
  • Anirudh Despande
    • Does secularism have a future?   The Pioneer - 27 September 1996
      • >>>A recent seminar on 'Secular Values in Liberal Democracy', reminded one of the Russian poem about a peasant who boards and falls asleep in a stationary train which never leaves Kharkov. How else do you accept a motley group of middle class individuals who discuss historical and ...
  • Arun Shourie
  • Asghar Ali Engineer
    • India at Fifty and two responses   The Times of India - 16 September 1996
      • >>>We have entered the 50th year of independence - an independence won at the cost of division of our country. Why was India divided? Who is to blame and where does the responsibility lie for partition? The popular view is that Muslims were responsible for the creation of Pakisis- ...
  • Atiqur Rehman
    • Understanding Jinnah   The Times of India - 23 September 1996
      • >>>This is apropos of the article `It's time to reassess Jinnah' (September 15). Film-maker Akbar Ahmed would be doing a great service to culture and history by portraying Mohammed Ali Jinnah in a proper perspective, eschewing both the "demonology" of ...
  • Avninder Singh
  • B G Verghese
  • Bharat Dogra
  • Bishan Kumar
    • Behind the curtain, Vaghela is lost   Indian Express - 5 September 1996
      • >>>EVEN before the verdict is pronounced on the fortnightlong imbroglio involving the State Govenment, the main architect of the rebellion, Shankersinh Vaghela, stands a loser. Worried by lack of support, Vaghela is now trying to sell the impression that he is not interested in ...
  • Brahma Chellaney
  • Chindu Sreedharan
  • Debjani Banerjee
    • Daughters of right   The Telegraph - 23 August 1996
      • >>>Woman and the Hindu Right, a compilation of essays and interviews, uses the events of December 6, 1992, as a pivotal point for the exploration of Hindutva ideology. Unfortunately, the editors note, the recent electoral success of the Bharatiya Janata Party - one of the units ...
  • Dilip Joshi
  • Dina Nath Mishra
    • Sinned against   The Observer - 19 September 1996
      • >>>Prior to special judge V B Gupta's judgment to proceed against BJP president L K Advani by framing the charges, the mood in the BJP camp was quite optimistic. The judgment came as a shock to many. Not only was the BJP camp optimistic, but all those who were following the ...
  • Dipankar Gupta
    • Religio-Nationalism   The Times of India - 6 September 1996
      • >>>Recent dissensions within the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have certainly undermined its claim of being a disciplined and united organisation. Indeed, Mr Shankersinh Waghela's expulsion from the party and his unrepentant reaction to it signal a deeper malaise. The ...
  • DPA
  • Dr Riffat Hassan
  • Dr Shreerang A Godbole
    • Sarva Panth Samadar Manch   Organiser - 15 September 1996
      • >>>Sarva Panth Samadar Manch under the aegis of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is a disturbing development 1) Does Sarva include only sects arising from Bharatiya philosophy and non-Bharatiya, non-Biblical spiritual paths? If so, I welcome such a Manch. Unfortunately, this does not ot ...
    • Sarva Panth Samadar Manch   Organiser - 15 September 1996
      • >>>Sarva Panth Samadar Manch under the aegis of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is a disturbing development 1) Does Sarva include only sects arising from Bharatiya philosophy and non-Bharatiya, non-Biblical spiritual paths? If If ...
  • Editorial
    • The fault, dear Brutus.......   The Statesman - 24 August 1996
      • >>>On wonders whether the Prime Minister, Mr Deve Gowda and his pal, Mr Narasimha Rao have ever wondered why the Bharatiya Janata Party are making such rapid advances. In trying to break up Uttar Pradesh in a desperate bid to contain the BJP in the coming elections, they are in ...
    • Stealing a Government   The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>Politics in India having been reduced to unseemly demonstrations of partisan conduct, many are likely to take a perverse delight in the embarrassment caused to the BJP Government in Gujarat by Deputy Speaker Chandubhai Dhabi on Tuesday morning. The jubilation is ...
    • Gowda's poll plans   The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The Prime Minister is doing his reputation no good by allowing the impression to gain ground that he may choose the Rajya Sabha route instead of contesting a Lok Sabha seat to become an MP. There is no legal bar, of course, to a Prime Minister belonging to the Upper House, but it ...
    • Irrelevant subsidies   The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The agricultural credit system is in a mess. Regional rural banks, credit co-ops and land development banks are in varying stages of decay and bankruptcy. The main reason is that successive loan write-offs have encouraged wilful default, and recoveries are pathetic (as low as 30 ...
    • Traversty of democracy   The Pioneer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The crisis that has engulfed the BJP government in Gujarat has once again underlined how much politics has become a game of rough and tumble. Faced with a concerted move by expelled dissident leader Shankarsinh Vaghela to destablise his government, the state Chief ...
    • Shame and scandal   The Times of India - 20 September 1996
      • >>>What an irony that Gandhinagar, especially created and named after that apostle of non-violence, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, should have borne witness to the bloodiest chapter in Gujarat's legislative history! With the bizarre incidents of Tuesday, the Gujarat assembly has as ...
    • Mockery in Gujarat   The Indian Express - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The riotous scenes witnessed in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday during the vote of confidence in the Suresh Mehta Government were a blot on Indian democracy. For the second time in 15 days, the country was witness to the unwholesome conduct of legislators who have been ...
    • Foul!   The Economic Times - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The ruling United Front has shown its spots and they look very much like those of the Congress. The imposition of President's rule in Gujarat is an act of extreme cynicism and reveals a poor grasp of realpolitik. Admittedly, the display of rowdyism in the Gujarat House on Wednesday is ...
    • Farcical Lok Pal - an editorial   The Economic Times - 19 September 1996
      • >>>The Lok Pal as envisaged in the Bill introduced in Parliament last week is a complete waste of time. It does not give the Lok Pal the power to prosecute any politician it finds guilty; it can only recommend to a competent authority its finding. As such, the proposed Lok Pal Pal ...
    • Aliens in the east   The Indian Express - 14 September 1996
      • >>>Union Home Minister Indrajit Gupta told the consultative committee attached to his ministry only half the story when he said that the Centre was "actively considering" the proposal from Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta to repeal the Illegal Migrants (Deter" nation by ...
    • BJP's classless reform plank   Financial Express - 9 April 1996
      • >>>Bharatiya Janata Party's ambitious economic agenda is to reform the IMF-inspired reform strategy marshalled by the Congress administration. BJP's election manifesto is all for liberalisation, for minimising the commercial activities of the government and for a severe cut-back in ...
    • Beauty Bashing - an editorial   The Times of India - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Beauty is potent, money is omnipotent, goes a proverb, suggesting that it is moolah in the makeover market which is at the bottom of film star Amitabh Bachchan's sudden conversion to the cause of the comely. But then what explains the madness of those who would rather die-quite ...
    • Farcical Finale   The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>With the mobilisation of as many as 121 nations to sponsor the draft, there was never any doubt about the U.N. General Assembly adopting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This despite the fact that the votaries were fully aware that the treaty was not intended by its ...
    • An amazing order, this   The Free Press Journal - 9 September 1996
      • >>>It is indeed a sign of the times we live in that even a man of L K Advani's sterling character has to bear the cross. Friday's order by a Delhi magistrate rejecting the BJP President's plea against the CBI chargesheet against him in the Rs 65-crore Jain Hawala case may well be ...
    • Partial Justice   The Times of India - 9 September 1996
      • >>>Slowly but surely, the wheels of justice have begun to turn. Had a suggestion been made even a year ago that one day the long arm of the law would catch up with practically the entire political spectrum, it would have been laughed out of court. It was precisely this ...
  • Express News Service
  • G S Hiranyappa
    • Aruna & Asaf Ali   Organiser (Readers Forum) - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Aruna Asaf Ali, nee Ganguli, was a brave and resourceful revolutionary patriot. Her dauntless deeds in the Quit India movement of 1942 have given her an imperishable reputation. Her death recently at the ripe age of 87 marked the end of a dedicated life.
  • Harvey Stockwin
  • Henry Kissinger
    • Electoral travesty in Bosnia   The Financial Express - 11 September 1996
      • >>>America's political campaign has had the strange effect of tranquilising discuss ion of foreign policy. But the pace of international events has its own momentum. By the end of the year we shall be facing a moment of truth in Bosnia: it will no longer be possible to gloss over the ...
  • Imtiaz Ahmed
    • Forcing a faith accompli   Telegraph - 10 September 1996
      • >>>Secularism is discussed in the abstract a great deal in India. But what it should mean concretely in terms of actions on the part of the state and its organs is rarely seriously debated. One consequence of this is that certain actions of the state or its organs which consti- ...
  • Jagmohan
    • Autonomy for Kashmir - 1   The Hindustan Times - 14 August 1996
      • >>>While replying to the debate on extension of President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda said in the Lok Sabha on July 12. 1996: "What has happened in the past would not help. It will be a futile exercise" (The Hindustan Times; July 13, 1996). The ...
  • Justice Krishna Iyer and 12 others
  • K Balakrishnan and G V L Narasimha Rao
  • K N Panikkar, Qamar Agha
    • Only BJP   The Times of India - 24 September 1996
      • >>>We were pained to read Mr V. R. Krishna Iyer's letter 'Not BJP Alone' (September 18) in which he attempts to dissociate himself from an earlier letter signed by himself and many others ('Secular Front', September 10). It is surprising that an eminent jurist like him who ...
  • K P Gopalan (Letter to Editor)
    • A fait accompli Manmohan?   The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>It was shocking to learn from The Economic Times (20 August) that of all the money seized from Mr Sukh Ram's house, about Rs 1.44 crore will have to be returned to him as per the new assessment scheme of the income tax, introduced by former finance minister, Manmohan Singh on ...
  • K V Kumaran
    • Threat to today's beneficiaries   The Indian Express - 23 September 1996
      • >>>The controversial Dalit Christian Bill that the P. V. Narasimha Rao Government sought to move on March 12, 1996, the very last day of the 10th Lok Sabha was entitled: The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Orders (Amendment) Bill 1996. This Bill made no provision to include de ...
  • Kuldip Nayar
  • L K Sharma
  • La. Su. Rengarajan
    • Gandhi on Hinduism - a book review   The Hindu - 3 September 1996
      • >>>EDU HINDU DHARMAM ?: (Tamil) Selections from Mahatma Gandhi's writings complied by Ravindar Kumar; Translated by Dr. Palani Arangasami: National Book Trust, India, A-5 Green Park. New Delhi- 1100016. Rs. 31. Eclipses in Hindu Life and Thought : Dr Jayasree ...
  • Lajpat Rai
    • Politics is a bad word   Mid-day - 13 September 1996
      • >>>Politics is full of bad people because good ones keep away from it. Ale common man does not have time for it since his daily struggle for survival keeps him busy. He is only galvanised into action by political managers when elections approach. These managers have a vested inter- ...
  • M D Nalapat
    • Don't throw away the front door   The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>It would be wonderful if the world were what the Indian supporters of CTBT assume it to be. According to them, the whole world is peace-loving, except India. if only this country were to disarm itself, the scourge of nuclear weapons would be eradicated. The reality is ...
  • M H Moosa, Mumbai
    • Secular Muslims - a letter   Times of India - 5 September 1996
      • >>>Sir, - Although belated, former cabinet secretary Zafar Saifullah's exhortations to Muslims to think not only about their rights but also their duties towards their country (August 20) is very sound advice indeed. About 25 years ago, Prof Khusro, former member of the ...
  • M Hashim Kidwai
    • The same difference   The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>The contention of some Congress leader at the meeting of the Congress Central Election Campaign Committee for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election at Lucknow that the party never joined hands with the BJP is quite contrary to facts. During the tenure of Mr P V Narasimha Rao's ...
  • M V Kamath
    • The economics and science of riots   Midday - 2 March 1996
      • >>>The other day I attended a seminar on education, religion and problems of tolerance. I wasted my time. Some of the certified intellectuals of Mumbai were the participants. Not being an intellectual and having no such pretence I was completely out of place among them. ...
    • Look who's talking   Mid-day - 7 September 1996
      • >>>In an interview to The Times of India the Prime Minister, Deve Gowda asserted that 77 per cent of the people in the last general election voted for secularism. They did nothing of that sort, and lies such as this must be exposed without delay. Secularism was not the issue ...
  • Mani Shankar Aiyar
    • Apotheosis and crucifixion   The Indian Express - 4 September 1996
      • >>>The appointment of R. K. Dhawan as General Secretary of the Congress has put the seal of finality on the process that will lead to the election of the Congress President on January 21, 1997. In a year of repeated setbacks, nothing could be better news than this. And we have ...
  • Maurice H Bood
  • Meenakshi Jain
    • Strange Bedfellows in Uttar Pradesh   The Times of India - 25 September 1996
      • >>>Alliances are the order of the day in the Hindi heartland. The virulently anti-suvarna Bahujan Samaj Party is now lined up with the Congress; the mutually antagonistic Mulayam Singh, Ajit Singh and Mahendra Singh Tikait are on a newly discovered fraternity trip. What conclusion ...
  • Muzaffar Hussain
    • RSS dialogue with Muslims   Organiser - 1 September 1996
      • >>>The RSS has always endeavoured to keep in touch with various sections of society. During the 1980s, the Sikhs had some problem with the Government of India. A militant section among the Sikhs began to demand a separate Sikh homeland, "Khalistan". ...
  • Neeraj Mishra
  • News
    • Genocide accepted is genocide engouraged   The Asian Age - 28 August 1996
      • >>>During the first months of my new government, Pakistan decided to make a million-dollar contribution to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. We did this despite vehement arguments from those who believe the best way to deal with past horrors is to bury the truth alongside the ...
  • P S Suryanarayan
    • Model of Hindu temple unearthed in Pakistan   The Hindu - 28 August 1996
      • >>>A 'unique model' of a Hindu temple is said to have been discovered during archaeological excavations in the Swabi district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. According to some Pakistani media reports published yesterday, the items recovered during recent excavations ...
  • Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
    • Rituals enchant, but to snare   Indian Express - 5 September 1996
      • >>>IT was a curious conversion which affected some of the most sensitive souls in Europe, ever since Luther and Calvin imposed their iron rule of puritanism in a large part of the continent. The German peasant and the Swiss townsman banished not only icons from the churches but ...
  • Political Bureau
  • Political Bureau Agencies
  • Posted By ashok
    • Why Barabari?   Observer - 5 September 1996
      • >>>In his article former Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyer sarcastically commented, "Atal Behari Vajpayee ...has posed to the Muslims of the India 'Babri ya barabari? ... Who is Vajpayee to make barabari for our largest minority conditional on their surrendering of Babri to the Sangh ...
    • Turning the tables   The Observer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>A more bitter anti-climax could not have been imagined for the BJP. The one-day session of the Gujarat assembly on Wednesday was summoned specifically to demonstrate that the BJP government led by Mr Suresh Mehta still commands majority support. But that agenda was sidelined ...
    • Re: Congress says sorry to Muslims   The Asian Age - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The Congress on Thursday apologised to the country's Muslims for its "failure to do justice to the community." "The Congress has not done full justice to the Muslims and, on behalf of the party, I apologise for the same," AICC general secretary B.P. Maurya said here on Thursday.
    • Congress says sorry to Muslims   The Asian Age - 20 September 1996
      • >>>The Congress on Thursday apologised to the country's Muslims for its "failure to do justice to the community." "The Congress has not done full justice to the Muslims and, on behalf of the party, I apologise for the same," AICC general secretary B.P. Maurya said here on Thursday.
    • Partisanship tp the fore   The Observer - 20 September 1996
      • >>>Gujarat assembly has been suspended. And along with it democracy. No party, including the Centre, is free from the taint of having derailed democracy in the reckless pursuit of partisan interests. It was deputy speaker Chandubhai Dabhi who first inaugurated the train of ...
    • Hindu idol found at Mathura mosque   Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>The Mathura administration has found clinching evidence which proves the Hindus' claim that the Shahi Mosque at Mathura was built over Shri Krishnajanmabhoomi temple. According to the locals, on August 14 the local administration started digging in the courtyard of the ...
    • Secularism slaughtered across seven seas   Organiser - 8 September 1996
      • >>>Satiricus is happy to see that one more larger-than-life liberal intellectual, namely', Shri Amulya Ganguli, has started using his freedom to Express secular sentiments with such commendable vigour in his jehad on Hinduism -communalism. Satiricus can quite appreciate Babu ...
  • Posted By Ashok V Chowgule
    • Tamil culture, product of dialogic activities   The Hindu - 09 September 1996
      • >>>There were two theories about colonialism in India-one arguing that British colonialism destroyed the capacity of Indians to think independently and the other emphasising that long before coming of the British. Indian society was moving in the directing of prefiguring colonialnial- ...
  • Power Play
    • A growing aggression   The Economic Times - 22 September 1996
      • >>>A conference organised by OBC Muslims in the capital last month has once again turned the spotlight on reservations for non-Hindu backwards and Dalits. Since the initiative taken by Shabbir Ansari and Vilas Sonavane comes close on the heels of the Dalit Christian issue, it can only fuel ...
  • Praful Bidwai
    • India's veto of the CTBT is futile   The Times of India - 12 September 1996
      • >>>As the 50th session of the U.N. .general assembly (GA) reconvenes to vote on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the dice appear loaded against the treaty's opponents. If the sole purpose of New Delhi's controversial veto against the treaty at Geneva was to prevent the CTBT from ...
  • Press Trust of India
  • PTI
  • Purnima Goswami
    • Re: Royal messenger   The Sunday Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Alfred Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford - the man who started mass production of cars in 1908 was in India recently. His illustrious forefather had laid down the foundation of Ford fortunes and of the greatest success story of the century with his car model T-Ford. No, ...
    • Royal messenger   The Sunday Observer - 29 September 1996
      • >>>Alfred Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford - the man who started mass production of cars in 1908 was in India recently. His illustrious forefather had laid down the foundation of Ford fortunes and of the greatest success story of the century with his car model T-Ford. No, ...
  • Pushpesh Pant
    • The deplomatic fiasco over CTBT   The Pioneer - 16 September 1996
      • >>>Never was so much woed by so many for so little. The battle for the CTBT evokes for many of us today not the images of glorious pilots doggedly spitting fire in the sky in defence of the motherland but prompts more apt comparisons with a different war theatre associated with ...
  • Raghu Krishnan
    • Where is culture is knee-deep   Economic Times - 5 September 1996
      • >>>EK THI Miss India. Ek tha Big B. Ek thi Miss World. Aur ek tha BJP...Set that to the music of the latest hit song released by ABCL and you have the perfect score for the dramatic threat by the BJP's Karnataka equivalent of Sushma Swaraj - Pramila Nesargi - to "pound" the angry, ...
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
    • Guess who came to dinner?   Mid-day - 9 September 1996
      • >>>Of all the media-manufactured controversies in recent months, the one that has left me slightly perplexed is the fallout of the Deve Gowda-Bal Thackeray meeting. Not since Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler (I'm sure Thackeray will be pleased with the ...
  • Rakesh Bhatnagar
  • Rakesh Verma
  • Ram Swarup
  • Ranjana Sengupta
  • Ritu Sarin
  • S Fazle Haidar (Letters)
    • Secularism allergy   The Observer - 4 September 1996
      • >>>Reference write-up in Agenda page "With Friends Like These - who needs Enemies" by Mr Arun Shourie (Observer of Business and Politics, August 30) which contains verbatim texts from eminent foreign personalities, also adding annoyance at 'secularist' Indians.
  • S P Nanda
    • An American in search of female God   The Asian Age - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Her Indian conception of the Goddess being a living force developed into a deep conviction in less than three decades of research has now prompted her to launch a women's spirituality movement in America and Europe, though not yet an organised one. It aims at demolishing ...
  • S S Joshi
    • Amarnath Compensation - II   The Times of India - 16 September 1996
      • >>>I fully agree with Swami Agnivesh's views. Ex-gratia payments announced by the government to all and sundry are nothing but a misuse of tax-payers' money. The government is an old hand at this, of course, having for decades wasted the common man's money on ...
  • S Venkitaramanan
    • Who is bashing whom?   The Economic Times - 4 September 1996
      • >>>In her famous book "Who is bashing whom?" Ms Laura Tyson, currently chairperson of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, pleaded forcefully for a conscious policy of government aid to encourage US high tech industries. She pointed out how free trade was just a ...
  • Sagarika Ghose (London)
    • The new Indian immigrant - the UK story   Outlook - 4 September 1996
      • >>>>From the heart of Punjab and small towns on the Gujarat coast, they fled deprivation, clutching the last of their material possessions. in the chilly drizzle of their adopted country, they tentatively settled, often five families under one roof, slogging at menial trades, ...
  • Sanjoy Hazarika
    • Battered and pushed around   Hindustan Times - 1 January 1996
      • >>>In 1964, East Pakistan built the Kaptai hydroelectric dam in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, ostensibly to improve the energy and power availability in the province. It is among the earlier cases of "development" projects causing forced displacement in the subcontinent. The project ...
  • Shahld K Abbas
  • Shastri Ramachandaran
    • Thackeray-Gowda kiss   The Times of India - 11 September 1996
      • >>>Prime Minister Deve Gowda's meeting with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray is well behind us. What remains is the abounding speculation over what the two did when they met at the home of Mr Amitabh Bachchan who is brand currency in cinema, politics, business and lately the Miss World ...
  • Shrikant G Talageri
    • The Aryan issue   The Times of India - 9 September 1996
      • >>>This refers to the report entitled `Saamna hits back at Phadke for criticising violence culture' (August 27). In this, Vidhydhar Date refers to my book Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism, which is being translated by the State Board for Literature and Culture, as "a book ...
  • Siddharth Varadarajan
  • Sitasharan Jha
    • Cong MLA's houses raided   The Observer - 26 September 1996
      • >>>Indicted by the judiciary for going slow against politicians and top bureaucrats in the multicrore animal husbandry (AH) scam, the CBI and IT department sleuths on Tuesday swung into action against senior Congressman and former minister Rajo Singh MLA, who is alleged to be one ne ...
  • SK Sadar Nayeem
    • Muslims need new leaders and agenda   The Times of India - 20 September 1996
      • >>>With assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh round the corner, strategies are being drawn once again to woo Muslim voters. Largely self-appointed leaders of the community are being courted. Warnings and placatory statements are being exchanged daily. Amid this messy bargaining stands ...
  • Soli J. Sorabjee
  • Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • Sujay Bhattacharya & Rupa Ray
    • Celebrating a cycle   The Observer - 24 August 1996
      • >>>About 365 km from Shimla hidden away within the folds of the mighty Himalayas lies a small ham. let with a population of about 650 souls. The village of Tabo at a height of 3280 metre lies at the lower edge of the Spiti valley, close to the borders of Tibet. Surrounded by ...
  • Sushant Sareen
  • Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    • An ethical menagerie   Biblio - 1996 August
      • >>>There were two unintended consequence of the Ramjanmbhoomi movement which culminated in the demolition of the Babri shrine in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. First, our collective knowledge of German history registered a phenomenal improvement; and, second, the publishing ...
    • Activism prevails over restraint   The Indian Express - 14 September 1996
      • >>>Political commentators who detected a wave of disappointment in BJP circles after Special Judge V. B. Gupta's September 6 order to frame charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against L. K. Advani in the hawala case, were not far off the mark. Since the day the BJP presisi- ...
  • Syed Shahabuddin
    • Secular police   The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>I am surprised to the West Bengal Home Minister's prescription for secularising the police force. He should make a clear distinction between the work place and living quarters. Please of worship should be permitted in police barracks and police lines, but not in police ...
  • T Mani Chowdary
    • In praise of RSS   Economic and Political Weekly - 10 August 1996
      • >>>It is indeed sad that very slanderous articles like 'In Praise of RSS' are published in your. scholarly journal (July 27). If Godse was in the RSS and later drifted away from it and then shot the Mahatma, could we say that it was RSS which inspired him to assassinate Gandhiji'? ...
  • T V R Shenoy
  • Tarun Basu
  • The Editorial
    • Suicidal policy   The Pioneer - 3 September 1996
      • >>>The reported move by the Janata Dal to enlarge the Scheduled Caste reservation quota to include all nonHindu Dalits has disturbing implications for the already fragmented social fabric of the country. In fact, the party leadership's stated intention to do so in its ...
    • The corrupt sleep easily   The Indian Express - 2 September 1996
      • >>>The courts can hardly be faulted for releasing Sambasiva Rao and two senior officials of the National Fertilisers Ltd implicated in the Rs 133-crore urea import scandal on bail. Having waited in vain for 90 days for the CBI to file a chargesheet - hardly a difficult proposition in ...
  • Tyrone D'souza
  • V R Mani
  • Varsha Bhosle
  • Vasindra Mishra
  • Virendra Kapoor
  • Yoginder Sikand
    • Re: Of Mother and her good deeds   The Observer - 28 September 1996
      • >>>With branches in over 100 countries, the Missionaries of Charity, over which Mother Teresa presides, is among the largest charitable organisations in the world. Scores of books have been written in praise of the Mother, and in recognition for her services she has been awarded with ...
    • Of Mother and her good deeds   The Observer - 28 September 1996
      • >>>With branches in over 100 countries, the Missionaries of Charity, over which Mother Teresa presides, is among the largest charitable organisations in the world. Scores of books have been written in praise of the Mother, and in recognition for her services she has been awarded with ...

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