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- Biblio
- An ethical menagerie Swapan Dasgupta
- 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
...
- Economic and Political Weekly
- In praise of RSS T Mani Chowdary
- 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'?
...
- Economic Times
- Where is culture is knee-deep Raghu Krishnan
- 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,
...
- Financial Express
- BJP's classless reform plank Editorial
- 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
...
- Hindustan Times
- Battered and pushed around Sanjoy Hazarika
- 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
...
- Indian Express
- Behind the curtain, Vaghela is lost Bishan Kumar
- 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
...
- Mid-day
- Politics is a bad word Lajpat Rai
- 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-
...
- Guess who came to dinner? Rajdeep Sardesai
- 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
...
- Look who's talking M V Kamath
- 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
...
- Midday
- The economics and science of riots M V Kamath
- 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.
...
- Observer
- Why Barabari? Posted By ashok - 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
...
- Organiser
- RSS dialogue with Muslims Muzaffar Hussain
- 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".
...
- Sarva Panth Samadar Manch Dr Shreerang A Godbole
- 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
...
- Hindu idol found at Mathura mosque Posted By ashok - 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
...
- Organiser (Readers Forum)
- Aruna & Asaf Ali G S Hiranyappa
- 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.
- Communal vote-bank; and a response Syed Shahabuddin
- 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
...
- Outlook
- Pioneer
- Shifting loyalties; and a response Aasif Iqbal Khan
- 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=
...
- Sunday Observer
- Telegraph
- Forcing a faith accompli Imtiaz Ahmed
- 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-
...
- The Afternoon
- The Asian Age
- Genocide accepted is genocide engouraged News
- 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
...
- Congress says sorry to Muslims Posted By ashok - 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.
- An American in search of female God S P Nanda
- 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
...
- Congress says sorry to Muslims Posted By ashok - 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.
- An American in search of female God S P Nanda
- 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
...
- The Economic Times
- Irrelevant subsidies Editorial
- 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
...
- A growing aggression Power Play
- 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
...
- Foul! Editorial
- 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 Editorial
- 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
...
- The Bourbons of imperial Delhi T V R Shenoy
- 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
...
- Who is bashing whom? S Venkitaramanan
- 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
...
- The Financial Express
- Islamist dreams have no place in Bonsnia A K Ray
- 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
...
- Reason should replace sentimentalism Sushant Sareen
- 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
...
- Electoral travesty in Bosnia Henry Kissinger
- 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 Free Press Journal
- Another Salman Rushdie in the making? Virendra Kapoor
- 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
...
- An amazing order, this Editorial
- 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
...
- The Hindu
- The Hindustan Times
- Autonomy for Kashmir - 1 Jagmohan
- 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
...
- The Indian Express
- Apotheosis and crucifixion Mani Shankar Aiyar
- 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
...
- Stealing a Government Editorial
- 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 Editorial
- 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
...
- The corrupt sleep easily The Editorial
- 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
...
- Pan-Islamic forces funding militancy Ritu Sarin
- 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
...
- Pan-Islamic forces funding militancy Ritu Sarin
- 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
...
- Threat to today's beneficiaries K V Kumaran
- 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
...
- Mockery in Gujarat Editorial
- 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
...
- Aliens in the east Editorial
- 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
...
- Activism prevails over restraint Swapan Dasgupta
- 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-
...
- The presumptive order - An editorial Editorial
- 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
...
- The Mumbai Age
- The Observer
- Secularism allergy S Fazle Haidar (Letters)
- 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.
- Turning the tables Posted By ashok - 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
...
- Of Mother and her good deeds Yoginder Sikand
- 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 Yoginder Sikand
- 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
...
- Cong MLA's houses raided Sitasharan Jha
- 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
...
- Partisanship tp the fore Posted By ashok - 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
...
- Sinned against Dina Nath Mishra
- 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
...
- Celebrating a cycle Sujay Bhattacharya & Rupa Ray
- 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
...
- The Pioneer
- Traversty of democracy Editorial
- 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
...
- The same difference M Hashim Kidwai
- 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
...
- Suicidal policy The Editorial
- 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
...
- Does secularism have a future? Anirudh Despande
- 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
...
- In the name of Allah Ajaz Ashraf
- 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
...
- The deplomatic fiasco over CTBT Pushpesh Pant
- 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
...
- Secular police Syed Shahabuddin
- 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
...
- The Statesman
- The fault, dear Brutus....... Editorial
- 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
...
- The Sunday Observer
- Royal messenger Purnima Goswami
- 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 Purnima Goswami
- 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,
...
- The Telegraph
- Daughters of right Debjani Banerjee
- 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
...
- The Time of India
- Amarnath Compensation -I Dilip Joshi
- 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
...
- The Times of India
- Religio-Nationalism Dipankar Gupta
- 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
...
- Only BJP K N Panikkar, Qamar Agha
- 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
...
- Strange Bedfellows in Uttar Pradesh Meenakshi Jain
- 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
...
- Understanding Jinnah Atiqur Rehman
- 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
...
- Muslims need new leaders and agenda SK Sadar Nayeem
- 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
...
- Shame and scandal Editorial
- 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
...
- India at Fifty and two responses Asghar Ali Engineer
- 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-
...
- Amarnath Compensation - II S S Joshi
- 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
...
- Beauty Bashing - an editorial Editorial
- 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
...
- Don't throw away the front door M D Nalapat
- 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
...
- India's veto of the CTBT is futile Praful Bidwai
- 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
...
- Farcical Finale Editorial
- 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
...
- The Aryan issue Shrikant G Talageri
- 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
...
- Thackeray-Gowda kiss Shastri Ramachandaran
- 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
...
- Partial Justice Editorial
- 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
...
- Times of India
- Secular Muslims - a letter M H Moosa, Mumbai
- 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
...
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