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Daughters of right - Debjani Banerjee
- 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
...
Genocide accepted is genocide engouraged - News
- 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
...
In praise of RSS - T Mani Chowdary
- 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'?
...
The corrupt sleep easily - The Editorial
- 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
...
RSS dialogue with Muslims - Muzaffar Hussain
- 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".
...
Autonomy for Kashmir - 1 - Jagmohan
- 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
...
Secular police - Syed Shahabuddin
- 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
...
Suicidal policy - The Editorial
- 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 same difference - M Hashim Kidwai
- 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
...
Re-conversion to Hinduism; MPCA demands probe - Posted By ashok - The Free Press Journal
- 30 August 1996
>>>The Madhya Pradesh Christian Association (MPCA) on
Thursday urged Prime Minister, H D Deve Gowda to look
into the re-conversion to hinduism of christian tribals
in Raigarh and Surguja districts of Madhya Pradesh,
reports PTI, MPCA president, Pushpa Iyengar in a two-page
...
ISI linked to Rs 20 Cr hashish haul - Posted By ashok - The Mumbai Age
- 2 September 1996
>>>In the largest drug seizure haul by an enforcement agency
in the country this year, the Mumbai police seized 171
kilos of hashish, believed to be sponsored by the
Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Service
Intelligence, on Saturday.
Another Salman Rushdie in the making? - Virendra Kapoor
- The Free Press Journal
- 2 September 1996
>>>What is it with Islam that its followers cannot bear the
mere thought of someone examining it critically? Even if
the one dissecting its precepts and practices is selfavowedly a good Muslim. Anwar Sheikh, a British citizen
of Pakistani origin, has earned enough notoriety among
...
Aryan civilisation may become 'bone' of contention - Express News Service
- The Indian Express
- 10 December 1995
>>>An innocous animal bone, found at the Harappan site of
Kuntasi, seven km from the Gulf of Kutch, may destroy the
firmly held beliefs about the Harappan and Aryan
civilisations, according to archeologists here.
The bone in contention, which was earlier believed to be
...
Turning the tables - Posted By ashok - 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
...
Secularism allergy - S Fazle Haidar (Letters)
- 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.
Traversty of democracy - Editorial
- 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
...
Irrelevant subsidies - Editorial
- 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
...
Who is bashing whom? - S Venkitaramanan
- 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
...
Gowda's poll plans - Editorial
- 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
...
Rescue the family from the individualists - Bharat Dogra
- The Indian Express
- 4 September 1996
>>>Family and local-community relationship constitute one of
the most precious aspects of human life. Yet despite this
recognition there has been a decline in family and
community ties in recent decades in most parts of the
world.
Stealing a Government - Editorial
- 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
...
Apotheosis and crucifixion - Mani Shankar Aiyar
- 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
...
A fait accompli Manmohan? - K P Gopalan (Letter to Editor)
- 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
...
Reason should replace sentimentalism - Sushant Sareen
- The Financial Express
- 4 September 1996
>>>The expectations of a detente between India and Pakistan
which had arisen after the United Front Government
assumed office have predictably been dashed on the rocks
of reality. The reasons for this are not far to see.
The basic problem in bringing back on the rails the
...
Islamist dreams have no place in Bonsnia - A K Ray
- The Financial Express
- 6 June 1995
>>>The shell that landed in Sarajevo on August 28, assuming
that the Serbs fired it, delivered five messages: first,
Serb nationalism must be recognised and given full
importance; second, there can be no compromise with
Croatian imperialist ambitions Imitating those of the
...
With friends like these, having enemies is better - Arun Shourie
- The Asian Age
- 30 August 1996
>>>Some months ago an official of the United States state
department met me through a common scholar friend. The
official had been following Indian affairs for many
years, in particular the Indian press. He knew more
about the press, specially about trends in our Indian
...
Rock Edict XII - Toleration
Where is culture is knee-deep - Raghu Krishnan
- 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,
...
Secular Muslims - a letter - M H Moosa, Mumbai
- 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
...
Not a smooth run for BJP; and a response - Amulya Ganguli
- Indian Express
- 5 September 1996
>>>BY its own admission, the BJP's central leadership opted
for a compromise last year to defuse the factional
squabble in the party's Gujarat unit because it did not
want a split on the eve of the general election. As L.
K. Advani has explained, the Congress was contesting the
...
Rituals enchant, but to snare - Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
- 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
...
Behind the curtain, Vaghela is lost - Bishan Kumar
- 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
...
Why Barabari? - Posted By ashok - 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
...
Model of Hindu temple unearthed in Pakistan - P S Suryanarayan
- 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
...
Gandhi on Hinduism - a book review - La. Su. Rengarajan
- 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
...
The fault, dear Brutus....... - Editorial
- 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
...
Religio-Nationalism - Dipankar Gupta
- 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
...
China's super power status is bogus - Harvey Stockwin
- The Times of India
- 6 September 1996
>>>Hong Kong: Despite the claims of massive sustained
economic growth made by foreigners, China's statistics
are highly suspect. Inside China those who report
statistics see the figures as an inevitable part of the
perennial political patterns of sycophancy - one of the
...
German street wins its name back after 50 yrs - DPA
- The Times of India
- 5 September 1996
>>>In a quiet, dignified ceremony near the Bayerische Platz,
where before World War II many prominent Jews once lived
in the city, Albert Einstein among them, a street has
finally won back its old name.
The Nazis ordered Haberland strasse changed to
...
The presumptive order - An editorial - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- 7 September 1996
>>>Special Judge V. B. Gupta's exhaustive judgment that
criminal conspiracy and corruption charges be filed
against L. K. Advani is bound to have a demoralising
effect on the BJP. Apart from ruling Advani out of the
crucial Gandhinagar by-election next month, the order has
...
Manmohan's sin, Chidambaram's virtue - Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
- The Economic Times
- 9 September 1996
>>>For years, we have been told it is a sin to increase our
foreign debt. Suddenly the sin has been declared a
virtue. Finance minister P Chidambaram had permitted
foreign institutional investors to invest 100 per cent if
their money in debt instruments, against the earlier
...
PSU craze for 'alien' security worries govt - Rakesh Verma
- Sunday Observer
- 8-14 September 1996
>>>At least 10 public-sector units have violated the Union
home ministry's specific directive and employed a Swedenbased multinational `security' agency suspected to be a
front for commercial espionage.
The latest instance is that of Metallurgical and
...
Court 'nails down' Advani's claim in Hawala case - Press Trust of India
- The Observer
- 9 September 1996
>>>The designated court dealing with Rs 65 crore Jain-hawala
scandal in its order on framing the charges of corruption
and criminal conspiracy against Bharatiya Janata Party
president L K Advani has 'nailed down' his earlier claim
that the case against him was "fit for discharge".
Secularism slaughtered across seven seas - Posted By ashok - 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
...
Hinduism includes Sikhs , Jains and Buddhists - Posted By ashok - Organiser
- 8 September 1996
>>>Excerpts : Interview of Mr Buta Singh by Organiser
representative Pramod Kumar
What is your opinion about the proposed reservation bill
for the so-called dalit Christian?
My opinion is that when any section of the poor people is
...
Sikhs and Buddhists are not Hindus - Posted By ashok - Organiser
- 8 September 1996
>>>Excerpts : Interview of Mr B P Maurya by Organiser
representative Pramod Kumar
What is your opinion regarding the proposed Bill to be
introduced in Parliament for extending reservation
facilities to the so-called datit Christians?
...
Hindu idol found at Mathura mosque - Posted By ashok - 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
...
Communal vote-bank; and a response - Syed Shahabuddin
- Organiser (Readers Forum)
- 8 September 1996
>>>Please refer to Shri R.C Batura's article "Gowda's
Operation Vote-Bank" in Organiser, 14-7-96. The article
states that Muslim leaders and organisations are opposed
to the transfer to the consolidated case relating to
title to the Babri Masjid site, now being heard by the
...
Aruna & Asaf Ali - G S Hiranyappa
- 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.
Look who's talking - M V Kamath
- 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
...
Forgetful ex-MPs owe MTNL crores - Chindu Sreedharan
- Sunday Observer
- 8-14 September 1996
>>>It happens with clockwork regularity. Every time members
of Parliament vacate their offices, many of them 'forget'
to clear their telephone bills - and Mahanagar Telephone
Nigam Limited has arrears of over Rs 8.5 crore as proof
of such amnesia.
Guess who came to dinner? - Rajdeep Sardesai
- 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
...
VHP will send team of 'archeologists' to site in Ayodhya; and a comment - Vasindra Mishra
- The Times of India
- 10 September 1996
>>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), an allied organisation
of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has once again
decided to come to the forefront in view of the assembly
elections in Uttar Pradesh and cash in on the Ram
Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue.
...
Partial Justice - Editorial
- 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
...
Politics in Gujarat plummets to all-time now - Sudheendra Kulkarni
- The Pioneer
- 10 September 1996
>>>Gujarat, the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi, has not been
unfamiliar with criminalisation of politics. Not long
ago, when the late Chimanbhai Patel was the Chief
Minister, it was difficult to distinguish between
ministers and the mafiosi. Government was a byword for
...
Celebrating a cycle - Sujay Bhattacharya & Rupa Ray
- 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
...
Anwar Shaikh of Great Britain
The Rock Edicts of Asoka
An amazing order, this - Editorial
- 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
...
Rao deeply involved in St Kitts forgery..................... - Tyrone D'souza
- The Times of India
- 11 September 1996
>>>Reliable legal sources whose opinion was sought by the
Central government in the St.Kitts forgery case have
revealed that the available evidence collected in the
matter strongly points to the "deep involvement" of
former prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. But the death
...
BJP may reap benefits from Sangma's rule - Political Bureau Agencies
- The Economic Times
- 11 September 1996
>>>The BJP today seized upon the Lok Sabha speaker P A
Sangma's observation, that the deputy speaker of the
Gujarat assembly had committed a constitutional
impropriety by recognising the party's splinter group, to
emphasise its political point that its rivals have been
...
Electoral travesty in Bosnia - Henry Kissinger
- 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
...
The Bourbons of imperial Delhi - T V R Shenoy
- The Economic Times
- 11 September 1996
>>>They learn nothing and forget nothing, was the barbed
commentary of a contemporary on the idiot Bourbons who
precipitated the French Revolution.
It is hard to imagine, say, Indrajit Gupta or Murasoli
Maran tottering around in buckled shoes and perukes, but
...
Thackeray-Gowda kiss - Shastri Ramachandaran
- 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
...
Hasina govt offers ray of hope to minorities; and a reponse - Tarun Basu
- The Economic Times
- 11 September 1996
>>>When Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated
the Janmashtami festival in the port city of Chittagong
last month, she sent a hopeful signal to the nearly 18
million minority population of the country.
Three years ago the Janmashtami procession in Dhaka was
...
The Aryan issue - Shrikant G Talageri
- 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
...
Charles' interest in Hinduism worries former archbishop - PTI
- The Economic Times
- 12 September 1996
>>>Former archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie has
expressed concern over Prince Charles' interest in
Hinduism, a new biography of Runcie published by the
London Times says.
An excerpt from the book published on Tuesday said
...
Good for himself, yes, but for Dalits? - Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
- The Indian Express
- 12 September 1996
>>>In the labyrinth of Indian power politics, Bahujan Samaj
Party supremo Kanshi Ram has emerged as a veritable
Minotaur. He is the dominating figure, and all paths seem
to lead to his no-nonsense and-threatening presence.
This is the scene in that ostensible cockpit of Indian
...
Gains from iniquity but India is no better or worse off from CTBT - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- 12 September 1996
>>>With the UN General Assembly voting by an overwhelming
majority for the CTBT, the world has taken a significant
step towards nuclear disarmament. Some of the treaty's
key provisions are heavily flawed and there will be
disappointment over missed opportunities. But even
...
Farcical Finale - Editorial
- 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
...
Age of Empowerment Muslim OBCs Discover Mandar - Praful Bidwai
- The Times of India
- 12 September 1996
>>>What is common between Sharad Pawar, Sharad Yadav,
Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, Mrinal Gore, Hassan Kamal
(lyricist), Haroon Khalid (journalist), Shabbir Ansari
and Vilas Sonavane (non-party political activists)? They
are all supporters of the All- India Muslim OBC (Other
...
India's veto of the CTBT is futile - Praful Bidwai
- 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
...
Don't throw away the front door - M D Nalapat
- 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
...
Beauty Bashing - an editorial - 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
...
Should Muslims sigh for a second Jinnah?; and a comment - Syed Shahabuddin
- The Pioneer
- 13 September 1996
>>>Fifty years after Independence, a small section of Muslim
Indians continues to pine and sigh for a second Jinnah,
not with-standing the tragedy that Partition has meant
for the Muslims of the subcontinent. Indeed, short of
deunification, impossible in Islam, or of sanctification,
...
Battered and pushed around - Sanjoy Hazarika
- 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
...
The economics and science of riots - M V Kamath
- 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.
...
Shifting loyalties; and a response - Aasif Iqbal Khan
- 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=
...
President VHP's poser to pseudo-secularists
Logic behind perversion of caste; and a supporting letter - Ram Swarup
- The Indian Express
- 13 September 1996
>>>Today casteism is rampant. It is a new phenomenon. Old
India had castes but no casteism. In its present form,
casteism is a construct of colonial period, a product of
imperial policies and colonial scholarship. It was
strengthened by the breast-beating of our own
...
BJP's classless reform plank - Editorial
- 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
...
Scholar Heckled - Islamic feminist booed at public meeting
Politics is a bad word - Lajpat Rai
- 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-
...
Activism prevails over restraint - Swapan Dasgupta
- 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-
...
Aliens in the east - Editorial
- 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
...
India, the other country that can say 'No' - Maurice H Bood
- The Observer
- 14 September 1996
>>>Remember the book written by two Japanese, one of
whom
was president of Sony, titled Japan A Country That Can
Say No? A `No' addressed to the United States. this time
India become the other country that can say `No'. In so
...
Amarnath Compensation - II - S S Joshi
- 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
...
Amarnath Compensation -I - Dilip Joshi
- The Time of India
- 16 September 1996
>>>Swami Agnivesh, in questioning the propriety of the
government's announcing monetary compensation to the
families of the Amarnath tragedy victims, has raised a
very pertinent point.
Every now and then we hear of the government
...
'It's time to reassess Jinnah'
The deplomatic fiasco over CTBT - Pushpesh Pant
- 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
...
Forcing a faith accompli - Imtiaz Ahmed
- 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-
...
Secularism in Practice - three letters and an editorial
BJP hails Kashmiri for peaceful polls - Press Trust of India
- The Observer
- 19 September 1996
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday hailed the people
of Jammu and Kashmir for "making the current assembly
elections successful."
The conduct of polls would not have been successful had
the people not come out to vote in large numbers, senior
...
India at Fifty and two responses - Asghar Ali Engineer
- 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-
...
Farcical Lok Pal - an editorial - 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
...
Sinned against - Dina Nath Mishra
- 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
...
Partisanship tp the fore - Posted By ashok - 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
...
Foul! - Editorial
- 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
...
Mockery in Gujarat - Editorial
- 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
...
Administrative callousness - the Amarnath tragedy - Jagmohan
- The Times of India
- 20 September 1996
>>>While speaking in Parliament on August 29, on the tragedy
en route the holy cave of Amarnath (August 21-25), I
asked Home Minister Indrajit Gupta whether Government had
any department or cell dealing with disaster preparedness, mitigation and management. Responding to this
...
Islamisation is concerned with little besides putting women in their place - Express News Service
- The Indian Express
- 20 September 1996
>>>In 1974, as the lone expert on Islamic studies at the
University of Oklahoma at Stillwater, Pakistan-born Dr
Riffat Hassan was appointed faculty advisor to the local
chapter of the Muslim Students' Association - a fiercely
male bastion where women were excluded even from the
...
The new Indian immigrant - the UK story - Sagarika Ghose (London)
- 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,
...
Shame and scandal - Editorial
- 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
...
Muslims need new leaders and agenda - SK Sadar Nayeem
- 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
...
Sarva Panth Samadar Manch - Dr Shreerang A Godbole
- 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
...
Turning our Backs on Indian Philosophy - Siddharth Varadarajan
- The Times of India
- 21 September 1996
>>>I was recently asked by a school in Delhi to act as a
judge in a debating competition. The motion was: 'Within
ourselves lie our triumphs and failures'. Those arguing
in favour stressed the necessity of hard work. The
example of Mr Deve Gowda was cited as proof that
...
Constitutional morality violated in Gujarat - Soli J. Sorabjee
- The Indian Express
- 21 September 1996
>>>The incidents of violence and other acts indulged in by
the members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly would
shame
even the rowdiest street fighters. But whilst we rightly
bemoan the disgusting behaviour of these legislators we
...
Sarva Panth Samadar Manch - Dr Shreerang A Godbole
- 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
...
Turning our Backs on Indian Philosophy - Siddharth Varadarajan
- The Times of India
- 21 September 1996
>>>I was recently asked by a school in Delhi to act as a
judge in a debating competition. The motion was: 'Within
ourselves lie our triumphs and failures'. Those arguing
in favour stressed the necessity of hard work. The
example of Mr Deve Gowda was cited as proof that humble
...
Constitutional morality violated in Gujarat - Soli J. Sorabjee
- The Indian Express
- 21 September 1996
>>>The incidents of violence and other acts indulged in by
the members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly would shame
even the rowdiest street fighters. But whilst we rightly
bemoan the disgusting behaviour of these legislators we
cannot justly condone yet another assault on the Consti-
...
In the name of Allah - Ajaz Ashraf
- 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
...
Threat to today's beneficiaries - K V Kumaran
- 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
...
Understanding Jinnah - Atiqur Rehman
- 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
...
Strange Bedfellows in Uttar Pradesh - Meenakshi Jain
- 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
...
Test-ban treaty will push India over the threshold - Brahma Chellaney
- The Pioneer
- 25 September 1996
>>>Although the deceptively labeled "comprehensive" test ban
treaty has been opened for signature, the stark reality
is that India holds the trump card on its entry into
force. The treaty is unlikely to take effect because
India has vowed never to accept it. India secured the
...
Only BJP - K N Panikkar, Qamar Agha
- 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
...
When a Khan & Singh unite, wedding bells toll a different harmony - Neeraj Mishra
- The Indian Express
- 26 September 1996
>>>Special Armed Force were posted outside the residence of
senior IAS officer A V Singh at Char Imli here late last
night following tension over the marriage of his son,
Mrityunjay Singh, and the daughter of IGP Shakil Raza.
According to the Habibganj police, a complaint had been
...
Fatwa on Rushdie stays as EU-Iran sidestep issue. - Agence France Presse
- The Indian Express
- 26 September 1996
>>>The European Union and Iran have dashed hopes of an early
agreement which would end a seven-year Iranian death
sentence against British writer Salman Rushdie.
Contrary to earlier reports from European diplomats in
Brussels that both sides were "95 per cent" in agreement,
...
Centre tells the supreme court it is unable to enact uniform civil code - Rakesh Bhatnagar
- The Times of India
- 04 September 1996
>>>The Union government on Tuesday expressed its helplessness in enacting a uniform civil code (UCC) . It told the
supreme court that such legislation would be against the
government's policy not to interfere with the personal
laws of minority communities.
.
Keeping alive a 450 year-old tradition in TN - V R Mani
- The Times of India
- 08 September 1996
>>>The Ramanatha Swamy temple here is known throughout the
country as one of the four important Hindu pilgrimage
centres but what is not known widely is that the temple
has a long tradition of having only Maharashtrian priests.
.
Muslim Indian's future is the future of India - Syed Shahabuddin
- The Pioneer
- 27 September 1996
>>>I am constantly asked, "Do the Muslims of India have a
future?" or, "What future lies in store for Muslim Indians?" These questions reflect not only a sense of frustration, insecurity and pessimism, but a fatal lack of
'faith' and self-confidence. I say faith because the
he
...
Does secularism have a future? - Anirudh Despande
- 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
...
The yogi & commissar - When materialism takes over, principles become a casualty - Kuldip Nayar
- The Afternoon
- 26 September 1996
>>>It may sound odd but I found West Bengal chief minister
Jyoti Basu and the Sankaracharya of Kancheepuram echoing
the same thoughts on India's unity. They are concerned
over the future and want the nation to fight fissiparous
elements. I met them both a few days ago, the Sankar-
...
Enter. yet another anti-Hindu front - Varsha Bhosle
- The Sunday Observer
- 22-28 September 1996
>>>The BSP-Congress alliance is the only solution to Mulayam
Singh Yadav's goonda raj and the BJP's communal agenda" -
Jitendra Prasada, UP Congress chief. "The PM exposed the
United Front's true face by hobnobbing with Thackeray" -
Sharad Pawar.
VHP declares deadline for Krishna Bhoomi - Shahld K Abbas
- The Observer
- 23 September 1996
>>>The Viswa Hindu Parishad has fixed November 12, the
occasion of the festival of Bhaiya-Duj, as the fresh
deadline to step up its stir for emancipating the Lord
Krishna Janam Bhoomi at Mathura from the clutches of
police. Talking to a group of visiting, Delhi-based
...
Yu're not a son of the soil, Karnanidhi tells Ganesha - V R Mani
- The Times of India
- 26 September 1996
>>>Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi, president of
the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has raised a piquant
question: Is Lord Ganesha a native of T.N. or not? According to him, the elephant-headed god's origins are not
Tamil.
.
Cong MLA's houses raided - Sitasharan Jha
- 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
...
An ethical menagerie - Swapan Dasgupta
- 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
...
Silicon Valley a taste of Hindu fervour - Avninder Singh
- The Indian Express
- 28 September 1996
>>>Come August 15, and the tricolour comes fluttering out,
microphones are installed on the ramparts of Red Fort,
and even the streets of New York witness an 'Indian Day
Parade'. There are a thousand other celebrations ranging
from the small to the grand. The Festival of India, held
...
A growing aggression - Power Play
- 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
...
Tamil culture, product of dialogic activities - Posted By Ashok V Chowgule - 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-
...
Rosenthal's article in NY Tines
Kabul's fall a threat to India's security - Political Bureau
- The Economic Times
- 30 September 1996
>>>The fall of Kabul to radical Taliban forces and the
hanging of former president Najibullah has caused tremendous nervousness here over the country's security.
While the foreign secretary preferred to keep mum on the
development and did not go beyond saying that the counun-
...
An American in search of female God - S P Nanda
- 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
...
Developments in Cong to benefit BJP in UP: Advani - Political Bureau
- The Observer
- 27 September 1996
>>>Bharatiya Janata Party President Lal Krishna Advani has
said that the circumstances leading to the exit of Mr P V
Narasimha Rao as the Congress president and the subsequent court directives against him would have their
adverse fallout in respect of the prospects of the Conon-
...
Basu calls for moratorium on corruption - L K Sharma
- The Times of India
- 29 September 1996
>>>Jyoti Basu, West Bengal chief minister and United Front
leader, said the corruption cases against Narasimha Rao
and Sukh Ram would have no impact on the stability of the
United Front government.
For ever, a pragmatic communist, Mr. Basu called for a
...
Pan-Islamic forces funding militancy - Ritu Sarin
- The Indian Express
- 28 September 1996
>>>The Assembly elections may have revived the long-lost
hopes of normalcy in the Kashmir Valley, but whatever the
nature of the political process in the State, marginalising militancy will be no easy task.
For, according to a secret Government report, militants
...
Of Mother and her good deeds - Yoginder Sikand
- 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
...
And now, reservations for all Muslims - Varsha Bhosle
- The Observer
- 29 September 1996
>>>And why am I, yet again, haranguing Muslims and reservations? Because, like all the other perpetually hurt and
oppressed, I see demons everywhere and can't stop whining.
At its first national convention, held in Delhi on August
st
...
Do you hear anyone talk about reconstructing the mosque? - Posted By ashok - The Indian Express
- 29 September 1996
>>>Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is busy again,
campaigning for his party in Uttar Pradesh. He crisscrosses the state and stops to address the waiting
crowds. The importance of his mission is underscored
when he tells people, "The outcome of the Assembly elecec-
...
Congress says sorry to Muslims - Posted By ashok - 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.
Royal messenger - Purnima Goswami
- 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,
...
Should we help Pakistan swim - or sink? - B G Verghese
- The Times of India
- 29 September 1996
>>>Recent reports from Pakistan speak of a major economic
crisis caused by food and fiscal deficits as well as
mounting debt and defence burdens. This situation has
been further aggravated by growing political and social
unrest, evidenced by the recent outbreak of violence. It
...
BJP likely to secure majority in UP polls
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