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- A B Mahapatra
- Aasha Khosa
- Ultras spreading disinformation: J&K Govt The Indian Express
- 6 September 1997
>>>Fifty-five-year-old Mukti lies m a local hospital coping with a paralytic
stroke, least aware that she has been made the butt of a high pitched
propaganda on human rights violations.
Her husband, Ghulam Mohammad, a National Conference (NC) leader at Wathrove
village in Ganderbal, had alleged that a policeman involved in
...
- Adam Easton
- Amita Verma
- VHP angry at convent conversion of students The Asian Age
- 27 August 1997
>>>Attempts made by three Christian missionary schools in Uttar Pradesh's
Uttarakhand region to convert students to Christianity through a
"self-awareness programme" has kicked off a series of protests in the region.
While the state government expresses its helplessness on the issue saying
that missionary schools are beyond its jurisdiction, the Vishwa Hindu
...
- Andre Beteille
- Not in the affirmative The Telegraph
- 30 August 1997
>>>Quotas cannot replace education as guarantor of socio-economic equity
Jawaharlal Nehru had said on the eve of Indian independence, "The spirit of
the age is in favour of equality, though practice denies it almost
everywhere." He then went on to declare, "Yet the spirit of the age will
triumph." A good way to assess the changes that have taken place in the 50
...
- Antony Flew
- Arun Shourie
- Fascism will be inevitable if aggression is resurgence The Observer
- 12 September 1997
>>>'Dalits fight back,' 'Dalit resurgence,' 'Dalit politics will never be the
same again,' 'Mumbai massacre a watershed' - headlines, news stories,
comments in the wake of the firing at the crowd in Mumbai. There was a
little hiccup - the leaders of the 'Dalits' whom these publications had
been building up for years were thrashed by the 'Dalits' whose resurgence
...
- Bishwanath Ghosh
- Mark Tully pulls out all stops for Hindutva The Asian Age
- 27 August 1997
>>>The BJP has found a new advocate in Mr Mark Tully, the former BBC
correspondent, who feels that Indian civilisation has a Hindu base to it
and that Hindus should proclaim their identity with pride.
The party is so thrilled with one of India's famous foreigners endorsing
its line that it has devoted seven pages to Mr Tully's views in a recent
...
- Chidanand Rajghatta
- Indian lobbying comes of age The Indian Express
- 6 September 1997
>>>London has its literati and Paris its designers. New York has its brokers,
San Francisco its flower children. Even Chicago has its architects. But
Washington? Washington has its... lobbyists. Dark-suited oily sheikhs who
smile strictly with their mouths and talk power in a whisper that bespeaks
not just the flutter of greenbacks but the electronic beep of money
...
- Indian lobbying comes of age The Indian Express
- 6 September 1997
>>>London has its literati and Paris its designers. New York has its brokers,
San Francisco its flower children. Even Chicago has its architects. But
Washington? Washington has its... lobbyists. Dark-suited oily sheikhs who
smile strictly with their mouths and talk power in a whisper that bespeaks
not just the flutter of greenbacks but the electronic beep of money
...
- Chitra Subramaniam
- Daniel O'Hara
- Daniel Pipes
- Dina Nath Mishra
- Fanning the flames of terrorism The Observer
- 11 September 1997
>>>'Meanwhile, ISI activities in Afghanistan are also of growing importance to
Pakistan's ability to deter and contain India through the escalation of
Islamist terrorism and subversion. It has been a cornerstone of
Islamabad's strategic design that it would be next to impossible for an
India preoccupied with domestic instability and terrorism to launch a war
...
- Dr Yashwant V. Pathak
- Hindus in South Africa protest against conversion attempts Organiser
- 31 August 1997
>>>The hall of the Phoenix Stanmore Regional Hall, Grove End Drive, was packed
to the capacity. Mostly the audience was from people of Indian origin, who
came to South Africa almost 130 years ago. Due to long apartheid era,
these people faced lot of problems for continuing contact with their
cultural Motherland India. The spiritual inspiration which they used to get
...
- Dr. Jan Knappert
- Dwarika Prasad Sharma
- Citizenship denied to refugees from Pakistan The Times of India
- 10 September 1997
>>>"After ten years of residentship in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere, you can
get citizenship but in Jammu and Kashmir, you can be denied it forever,"
says Hardit Singh Panchhi, chief of the Sharanarthi action committee.
Though Mr Panchhi represents refugees in the state who had fled that part
of it which was occupied by Pakistani "tribal raiders", and who enjoy full
...
- Editorial
- The Maran line in right The Financial Express
- 17 September 1997
>>>If news reports quoting industry minister Murasoli Maran in New York are
correct, the ICI bid to enter Asian Paints through a nine per cent stake is
likely to face a rough ride at the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
This is as it should be. The fact is ICI in trying to gatecrash into
India's best paints company without a by-your-leave from the promoters. The
...
- G. A. Wells
- Gareth Jones
- Russians find solace in Buddhism as monasteries flourish The Asian Age
- 19 August 1997
>>>Dmitry knew exactly what he wanted to do after quitting the Army, although
his decision dismayed his parents and surprised his former comrades.
"My aim is to become a Buddhist monk. I have been reading up on Buddhism
for many years and ave visited several Buddhist countries," he said.
He is one eight young Russians following a five-year course of study in
...
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet
- Ayodhya: BJP opens up the wound The Times of India
- 26 September 1997
>>>The chargesheeting of 49 top ranking BJP leaders by the special court at
Lucknow on charges pertaining to the Babri Masjid demolition is being
sought to be exploited by the Hindutva forces to their advantage.
Undaunted by the charge- sheets, BJP president L K Advani in a signed
editorial in the BJP Today, has clearly indicated that in the coming days
...
- Ibn Al-Rawandi
- Imran Khan
- Is Dawood searching for a safe haven in Orissa? The Observer
- 28 August 1997
>>>Is the notorious mafia don Dawood Ibrahim searching for a safe haven on the
peaceful Orissa coast for his gang - is a question that has been worrying
the state officials for some time now.
Highly-placed sources said that they had information of the gang's
activities by officials responsible for coast surveillance. This issue
...
- John McCarthy
- Uighurs smoulder under China's yoke The Guardian, London
- 4 September 1997
>>>They dispute the name of the land they seek to liberate, and their Chinese
oppressors condemn them as "splittists". Trapped between farce and tragedy,
exiled Uighur nationalist groups have lacked credibility.
But early this year, as Uighurs in China stepped up their popular guerrilla
campaign against Beijing's rule in East Turkestan, the United National
...
- Julia Llewellyn Smith
- Kim Housego
- Release from the jaws of death (Part III of IV) The Sunday Observer
- 31 August -
>>>Kim Housego says the Al-Faran hostages could have been freed. The third of
his four-part account.
It was in Anantnag that David and I had been released, on 23 June 1994. Two
days earlier, large crowds had taken to the streets, angrily protesting
against the murder of Dr Qazi Nissar, the mirwaiz (religious leader) of
...
- Lata Mangeshkar
- M D Nalapat
- Congress: The 'messiah' school vs. the realists The Times of India
- 1 September 1997
>>>Sitaram Kesri's generous promise to Prime Minister Gujral that he would not
be disturbed for another year begs the question of likely developments
within the Janata Dal. Should there be an attempted palace coup within the
ruling party, then Congress support may not be enough.
Indeed, it is this very support that has created enemies for Mr Gujral
...
- M V Kamath
- Dishonesty, thy name is Congress The Free Press Journal
- 22 August 1997
>>>'On one point and on one point alone, one can be in agreement with the
Congress. Coalition governments can never function in Delhi. We need a
strong Central Government for preserving the security and integrity of the
nation. But Kesri must be told that it is beyond the Congress to provide
the necessary strength. A party which has to ask Sonia Gandhi to lead it is
...
- M. J. Akbar
- Emperor Gujral does have some underwear but, no clothes The Asian Age
- 31 August 1997
>>>The list of optimists who want to father a child out of an impotent
government is not only long but keeps growing. It is a curious paradox but
the very weakness of a government tends to breed hope. One is not talking
about mere carpetbaggers, who make up a substantial portion of any
capital's task force and whose chief pleasure derives from direct hits at
...
- M.C. Chagla
- BJP, the only alternative BJP Today
- 16-31 August 1997
>>>(From Shri M.C. Chagla's address to delegates to the first plenary session
of the Bharatiya Janata Party at Samata Nagar, Bandra Reclamation, Bombay
on December 29, 1980)
I am not a member of the party and I am not addressing you as a delegate.
Still I assure you that when I am talking to you I do not feel like an
...
- M.K. Narayanan
- A dithering State cannot tackle insurgency The Asian Age
- 1 September 1997
>>>A great deal of pessimism exists in knowledgeable circles about the
over-all law and order situation in the country today. These persons are
especially worried that if problems are not suitably addressed it could
adversely affect the security situation per se posing a grave threat to the
nation. However, it would seem that those at the helm of affairs in the
...
- Madhu Kishwar
- Get your basics right - An open letter to PM The Indian Express
- 26 September 1997
>>>When I read the front page lead story which said: Link Senior
School-Certificates with teaching of 5 illiterates.. Gujral, I found it
hard to believe that a thinking and well-informed person like you can come
up with such a naive reaction to one of the most serious problems facing
this country and could propose such a hare-brained scheme. You are reported
...
- Madhuri Santanam Sondhi
- Apology for honour, not for revenge The Asian Age
- 8 September 1997
>>>We must be grateful to the Queen of England and members of the academic
community in Punjab, who, with some help from the Prime Minister, have
returned Jallianwala Bagh to the national consciousness. This return
cannot be a means of settling old scores - which is impossible - but
demonstrates the fact that history sought to be denied or ignored has a way
...
- Malini Nair
- Tamil to unseat Sanskrit in TN temples The Telegraph
- 17 August 1997
>>>The Tamil Nadu culture minister, Mr M. Tamizhkudimagan, last week
inaugurated a laksharchana (a lakh prayers) at the Madurai Meenakshi
temple. This week, he will participate in a kodiarchana (a crore prayers)
at the Kapileshewar temple here.
There is an unusual aspect to the rituals - they are not being conducted in
...
- Manvendra Singh
- A nation subverts itself The Indian Express
- 24 September 1997
>>>A Jammu and Kashmir Rifles battalion lost eight soldiers in an ambush to
the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issac-Muivah) group at
Chiesema, near Kohima on July 22. This was 10 days before the much-hyped
ceasefire between the security forces and the militant group was to come
into effect. Ceasefires are agreed upon on the basis of covert negotiations
...
- Marie Colvin
- Mario Cabral E Sa, Goa
- Is the March Over? Hindustan Today
- 1997 October
>>>"When all are baptized, I order all temples of their false gods destroyed
and idols broken into pieces. I can give you no idea of the joy I feel
seeing this done." Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552)
In 1567 The captain of Rachol Fort in South Goa bragged to his Portuguese
king back home, "For nights and nights went on the demolishing,
...
- Mushirul Hasan
- A legacy divided - Pitting Gandhi against Ambedkar The Indian Express
- 6 September 1997
>>>A leading newsmagazine published excepts from the well-advertised book of
Patrick French. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the obvious target. The
editor was delighted, but the readers were not amused. It was unmistakably
clear from their sharp reactions that Gandhi still commands widespread
respect in our society. This was not all. Quite a few readers recounted the
...
- National Organisation of Insurance workers
- Nigel Williamson
- Gentle guru still seeking new ways to learn The Times, London
- 3 September 1997
>>>There is an aura of serenity about Ravi Shankar that touches all who come
within his orbit. When you meet him it is almost tangible, but its power
works in less intimate surroundings too: in the humid and sweaty big top at
July's annual Womad gathering his mere presence reduced several thousand
boisterous, beer-swilling festivalgoers to hushed reverence before he had
...
- P K Sajeesh
- ISI threat looms over 'liberal' TN Muslims The Indian Express
- 30 August 1997
>>>Several Muslim organisations have sought police protection in the light of
threats made by an Islamic fundamentalist organisation - that those who
fail to follow its code will face attacks.
Muslim leaders, who have approached police for help, wished to remain
anonymous as they are worried the fundamentalists may target them if their
...
- P M Kamath
- China is India's ultimate threat Mid-day
- 1 September 1997
>>>The Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the US Congress,
Benjamin Gilman recently said in New Delhi that China's growing power poses
a threat to India. Parliamentary standing committee on defence also in its
report in 1995 had considered China as a potential security threat to
India. The report stated that China "is likely to remain the primary
...
- PK Sajeesh
- TN witnesses one more 'Jumma killing' The Indian Express
- 1 September 1997
>>>The death of assistant jailor S Jayaprakash (44) in Madurai on Friday
afternoon is yet another case of 'Jumma (Friday) killing' in the State.
Sources said the assistant jailor could have been murdered by a dreaded
Islamic fundamentalist organisation as it believed that he had not
respected the sentiments of Muslims. The enmity between the assistant
...
- Political Bureau
- Advani still justifies demolition The Economic Times
- 18 September 1997
>>>Unfazed by the court's nood to chargesheet its top brass in the Ayodhya
case, the BJP has decided to be defiant over the demolition of the Babri
Masjid.
Indicating that the party would brazen it out in the coming days, BJP
president Mr L K Advani has justified the demolition of the disputed
...
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
- Jain Samaj Rebuffs move to Divide Hindus Organiser
- 31 August 1997
>>>The Jain Samaj has made it clear to all concerned including the government
that Jains are not a minority and that those who are trying to seek that
status-or grant that status-should desist from such attempts.
The Jain Samaj has further reiterated their stand that they are Hindus.
Ever since the attempt of some people to get the Jains declared as a
...
- Leaders turn graft crusaders to outdo BJP The Telegraph
- 19 August 1997
>>>Crusade against corruption is the new mantra every leader is swearing by.
After the President and the Prime Minister called for a national movement
and a satyagraha against corruption, Mr Sitaram Kesri, Mr V.P. Singh and Mr
Jyoti Basu have woken up to the issue and flayed the corrupt.
Today, it was the turn of the Tamil Maanila Congress chief, Mr G.K.
- Prajnan Bhattacharya
- Kalyan - a veteran leader moulded in saffron The Observer
- 23 September 1997
>>>He is a staunch follower of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The
66-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party national vice-president, Kalyan Singh,
who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday for the
second time, has the distinction of representing his Assembly constituency
for' a record number of times
...
- Press Report
- Press Trust of India
- Ex-ISI chief calls for jehad over J-K The Indian Express
- 17 September 1997
>>>The former director general of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)
General Hamid Gul, has claimed that his country was "coming to the brink"
of waging a nuclear war with India over Kashmir and gave a call to the
so-called Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) government to declare jehad (holy
war) over the issue.
- R. Ramdas Thampuran
- A genius and a saint The Hindu
- 31 August 1997
>>>Narayana Guru was the initiator of a non-violent social revolution in the
late 19th century. R. Ramdas Thampuran outlines the life and teaching of
the guru on his 143rd birth anniversary
Sri Narayana Guru was an extraordinary phenomenon who strode over the
spiritual firmament of Kerala like a collosus during the late 19th century
...
- R.C. Batura
- The Ayodhya chargesheet Organisation
- 21 September 1997
>>>Four years ago, on September 2, 1993, the then Prime Minister of India,
Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao, had in the course of his speech at a
Congress-Muslim conclave declared that charge-sheets in the Ayodhya temple
case would be filed within 10-20 days. Rao was in a hurry to please the
Muslim minority on the eve of the assembly elections then due in four
...
- Rahul Bajaj
- The rights wrong here The Financial Express
- 27 August 1997
>>>The debate set off by Rahul Bajaj in this newspaper and other forums about
the role of for foreign capital in India appears to have touched a raw
nerve among India's liberal elite. Many newspapers have taken a negative
view of Bajaj's call for setting equity limits for MNCs and protecting
Indian companies from external takeovers for some time.
- Rakesh Sinha
- Not a negative role The Hindustan Times
- 5 September 1997
>>>Ideological predisposition has been a predominant factor in evaluating the
role of various groups and individuals in the freedom struggle. Marxist and
subaltern historians, who are ideologically poles apart from the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), have bracketed it with the Hindu Mahasabha and
other Hindu organisations formed at various stages of the anti-imperialist
...
- Ramesh Chandran
- Ravi Peruman
- Catholic nuns are aging Hindustan Today
- 1997 October
>>>Catholic nuns are aging into a health care crisis. Of the sisters now in
the USA, only 569 are under age 30, just 3% under 40, while 70% are over
age 60. Buildings that once housed novices are being converted into
nursing homes. Health care costs for seniors are so high that orders are
selling property, seeking government aid and merging orders. Accounting
...
- Samudra Gupta Kashyap
- Ghosts of the past The Indian Express
- 27 August 1997
>>>Seventeen years ago, when a group of youths met in the Rang-ghar, a 17th
century Ahom amphitheatre in Sibsagar in upper Assam and announced the
formation of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), hardly had the
government and the intelligence agencies anticipated that this group would
one day rise to become a major secessionist force.
- Santanu Banerjee
- BJP threatens suit over Nazi parallel in WB textbook The Indian Express
- 28 August 1997
>>>The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is planning to
take the Left Front Minister for Higher Secondary Education Satya Sadhan
Chakraborty, who co-authored a text book defaming the party, to court.
Rashtra Bigyaner Ruparekha, a prescribed text book for Class XI and XII,
according to party sources here, gave a distorted version of the party both
...
- Satiricus
- Sangh fancy v. Secular facts Organiser
- 14 September 1997
>>>Some people never learn. Especially if they are RSS people. These people,
it seems, simply cannot get rid of their obsession with history. They
continue to cling to the silly belief that history and itihasa are one and
the same thing-that history means itihasa, and itihasa means Iti-ha-asa "it
happened thus". Consequently they are intellectually incapable of
...
- Sheela Reddy
- 'Ulfa is no longer a people's movement' The Asian Age
- 25 August 1997
>>>The crux of your book appears to be that terrorism erupts wherever the
psychology of Us and Them is exploited by vested interests. In the case of
Punjab, Sikhism with its history of persecution and armed resistance to
that persecution provided an ideal breeding ground for furthering the
political and pecuniary ends of assorted politicians and religious leaders.
- Shyam Khosla
- Ayodhya back on national agenda Organiser
- 21 September 1997
>>>Special Court's order on framing of charges against top leaders of the BJP
and the VHP, including Lal Krishna Advani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and Ashok
Singhal, in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Baburi Masjid case is likely to bring the
Ayodhya issue back on the top of the national agenda. It may well generate
a national debate on the true contents of nationalist secularism and
...
- Britain lost the opportunity - and the grace Organiser
- 31 August 1997
>>>Great Britain should have volunteered to tender an unqualified apology
during the Queen's visit. Skipping visit to Amritsar or finding excuses not
to visit Jallianwala Bagh will only add insult to injury.
Inder Kumar Gujral's turn-round on his "advice" to the British Queen that
she skip Amritsar during her state visit is amusing. If H.D. Deve Gowda
...
- Subhash Pathak
- Sudip Chaudhuri
- For the Seoul of the state The Telegraph
- 25 August 1997
>>>What should the state do? This is the moot question addressed by this
year's World Development Report of the World Bank. For years, the World
Bank has been actively propagating the idea that the state should not play
an active role in economic development. The state should decide how
resources are to be allocated. Such basic economic decisions as what
...
- Swami Agnivesh
- T N Gopalan
- Alarming rise of Muslim fanaticism in TN The Pioneer
- 31 August 1997
>>>Four Ghastly murders of Hindu Munnani activists in Tirunelveli and killing
of a supposedly liberal ulema in the State capital have sent shock waves
among the Tamil Nadu police.
It is premature to say whether a well-knit ISI-funded terrorist network is
behind the murders, a State police official said.
- Tara Sinha
- Corporate India - The second coming of Swadeshi The Times of India
- 1 September 1997
>>>In 1947, Indian business was a small group led by men of substance, who
carried with pride their swadeshi credentials: Birla, Tata, Mafatlal,
Mahindra, Shriram, Godrej, Dabur... These pioneers were driven by the
belief that their endeavours contributed to Indian nationhood. Many
cherished a commitment to their country and their fellow citizens. Several
...
- Times of India News Service
- Tufail Ahmad
- Redefining minority The Observer
- 1 September 1997
>>>Despite the pioneering work undertaken by sociologists such as, Imtiaz
Ahmed, to analyse the various communities within the Muslim society, the
media and the academic world treat Muslim as a homogeneous community,
thereby neglecting the social discrimination suffered by their sub-groups.
The term 'minority' has been in frequent use, ignoring its negative impact
...
- Tufail Ahmed
- 'Minority is not a nice term; it's time we redefine it' The Free Press Journal
- 29 August 1997
>>>Despite the pioneering work on caste-like divisions among Muslims by
sociologist Imtiaz Ahmed of Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Press and the
academic world treat Muslims as a homogeneous community, thereby neglecting
the social discrimination suffered by their subgroups. The term 'minority'
has been in frequent use, ignoring its negative impact on the 'collective
...
- Venkatesh Kesari
- BJP is a clean, secular party, says ally George The Asian Age
- 20 August 1997
>>>Firebrand Socialist leader and the chief of the Samata Party George
Fernandes has described the BJP as a secular party, constitutionally as
well as politically, and said the present alliance of his party with the
BJP will continue in Bihar and other states.
Speaking to The Asian Age, Mr Fernandes said: "Let us have an open debate
...
- Wilson John
- Smouldering Seven The Pioneer
- 31 August 1997
>>>Assam can never be a digestible part of India now or in the future - All
Assam Tribes and Races Federation, 1945.
There can be no greater irony than the fact that during the special session
of Parliament called by the Meghalaya-born Speaker Purno Sangma, not a
minute was spared for the troubled seven states or "seven sisters" which
...
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