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- Foreign Missionaries
- Ashok Chowgule,
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>The issue of foreign missionaries has to be seen in the context of
religious conversions. Otherwise, it is not possible to look at their
role in the proper perspective, given their history in India and in the
rest of the world. Although there are attempts to rationalise and
sometimes negate the history, there is no denying that Christianity
...
'Hindu values, what is wrong with them? After all, 85 per cent of Indians are Hindus
Internal security at danger level - V. N. Gadgil
- The Hindustan Times
- October 25, 1998
>>>The presentation made recently by the Home Ministry to its Consultative
Committee about ISI activities in India reveals a disturbing picture of
the country's internal security. The situation is indeed alarming if not
frightening. The Home Secretary informed the Standing Committee on Home
...
Interview with APJ Abdul Kalam - Pritish Nandy
- The Bombay Times
- October 13, 1998
>>>I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history, people
from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands,
conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Portuguese,
the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took
over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We
...
The Popes Call For A Dialogue - Ashok Chowgule,
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>In its editorial "Call for a dialogue" (October 19), The Indian Express
has said that latest Vatican encyclical - Fides et Ratio (Faith and
Reason) - 'shows a greater readiness to engage in dialogue with other
cultures and philosophies as well.' This indeed is a welcome step
forward. However, the document has not dealt with some of the
...
Hands off Parsis!
Straining at the leash - BJP's exaggerated vision thing; - Shefali Misra
- The Indian Express
- October 30, 1998
>>>You have to give our government full marks for trying. It may
never get its way. Its very effort may be misplaced, misguided,
mischievous, so that it is a good thing that it does not get its
way-but you can't fault it for not trying. You could wonder why
such frantic energy is manifest in suspect matters and why not
...
The cost of terrorism in India
Draft white paper reveals Pak role in fomenting terrorism - Inder Sawhney
- The Times of India
- October 30, 1998
>>>Pakistan's ISI-sponsored terrorist operations in Jammu and
Kashmir received a tremendous boost with the deployment of UStrained militants from Afghanistan, says the proposed draft of a
white paper on ISI operation which is to he presented in the
winter session of Parliament.
.
Modernity & Morality; and comment - Andre Beteille
- The Times of India
- October 29, 1998
>>>Indians who have set their hearts and minds against secularism
will not fail to take note of the adoption of the Shariat Bill
by the National Assembly of Pakistan. Some of them may envy the
direct and forthright manner in which Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif has sought to replace secular by religious principles in
...
Ethics essential for value education - P L Jaiswal
- The Times of India
- October 30, 1998
>>>The current controversy over the HRD ministry's move to
"Indianise, nationalise and spiritualise" education - in
particular the proposal to teach Sanskrit and include the vedas
and the upanishads in school curricula - is a shocking example
of the levels to which politics has descended in this country.
The US and nuclear India - K Subrahmanyam
- The Economic Times
- October 29, 1998
>>>After a visit to seven universities, two think tanks, three
national dailies and a few government officials in the US, one
is struck by the vast difference in attitudes towards the Indian
nuclear tests between mainstreet USA and the sections of vocal
anti-nuclear opinion in India. By and large there appears to be
...
Basic feature of secularism - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- October 29, 1998
>>>Insulting anything related to the cultural traditions of Hindus
of this country has become a synonym of contemporary secularism
as practised by the opponents of BJP. This was amply demonstrated
in a recently-held conference of the state education ministers
and secretaries when hell broke loose on the melodious recital of
...
Electrify and be dammed - Lalita Panicker
- The Times of India
- October 29, 1998
>>>The power situation in the country appears to be worsening by
the day, with the National Thermal Power Corporation threatening
to wield the big stick with defaulters like Delhi and Uttar
Pradesh. But Power Minister PR Kumaramangalam sees brighter
prospects ahead as his much touted power reforms get underway.
Saraswati Vandana is Advani's plank on unsteady turf - Political Bureau
- The Economic Times
- October 29, 1998
>>>THE Bharatiya Janata Party seems set to make the controversy
over Saraswati Vandana, which broke out at a recent meeting of
state education ministers, a poll issue with Union Home Minister
L K Advani attacking the party's main rival, the Congress(I) on
the issue.
Internal security at danger level - V. N. Gadgil
- The Hindustan Times
- October 25, 1998
>>>The presentation made recently by the Home Ministry to its Consultative
Committee about ISI activities in India reveals a disturbing picture of
the country's internal security. The situation is indeed alarming if not
frightening. The Home Secretary informed the Standing Committee on Home
Affairs that out of the 535 districts of India, as many as 210 districts
...
Interview with APJ Abdul Kalam - Pritish Nandy
- The Bombay Times
- October 13, 1998
>>>I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history,
people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our
lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the
Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and
looted
...
'Hindu values, what is wrong with them? After all, 85 per cent of Indians are Hindus
Foreign Missionaries - Ashok Chowgule,
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>The issue of foreign missionaries has to be seen in the context of
religious conversions. Otherwise, it is not possible to look at their
role in the proper perspective, given their history in India and in the
rest of the world. Although there are attempts to rationalise and
sometimes negate the history, there is no denying that Christianity
...
Educating Murli; More than saffron
Advani promises death rap for rape by amending law soon - Inder Sawhney
- The Times of India
- October 28, 1998
>>>Union home minister L.K. Advani said on Tuesday that the law
would be amended soon to prescribe capital punishment for rape.
He said the government held the view that rape should attract
the most deterrent penalty.
...
The Popes Call For A Dialogue - Ashok Chowgule,
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>In its editorial "Call for a dialogue" (October 19), The Indian Express
has said that latest Vatican encyclical - Fides et Ratio (Faith and
Reason) - 'shows a greater readiness to engage in dialogue with other
cultures and philosophies as well.' This indeed is a welcome step
forward. However, the document has not dealt with some of the
...
Is Rushdie welcome in India?; and a comment
Timely amendment - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - The Pioneer
- October 23, 1998
>>>American Ambassador, Richard Celeste was reported to be keen to
discuss the Jhabua rape incident when he called on Union Home
Minister, LK Advani, which had irked some people in Delhi. But
when the meeting took place the American diplomat did not talk
about Christian minorities in India at all. In fact, spent most
...
Vatican urged to seek forgiveness for past misdeeds - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - Radiance
- October 25-30, 1998
>>>The Association of Islamic Conference in Canada has asked the
Vatican to admit the mistake of the church and the Christians
against the Muslims during the Spanish Inquisition and during the
Crusades in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon between 1095 and 1273
AD. Indications are that the Vatican is preparing an important
...
Globalisation on the solid foundations of Swadeshi - L K Advani
- The Observer
- October 27, 1998
>>>Text of the speech the Union home minister, L K Advani, delivered
at the 71st Annual Session of the Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) on October 25, 1998 at New
Delhi.
...
Her fearless pen - Muhammad Najeeb
- Mid-Day
- October 26, 1998
>>>Pakistan's most famous authoress says fearless expression of
thoughts on social evils and wrong alone can save the country
from chaos.
"One of the things that I became one hundred per cent sure was
...
ULFA runs hotels and schools in Bangladesh, says report - Samudra Gupta Kashyap
- The Indian Express
- October 26, 1998
>>>What does the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) do with the
money it extorts from big business houses and the common man?
According to the Union Home Ministry the outfit has set up a
number of money-spinning companies in Bangladesh, ranging from
hotels to poultry farms.
Fundamentals of change - Associated Press
- The Indian Express
- October 26, 1998
>>>Introduction: A 3-day conference of the Right-wing Jamaat-eIslami party ends with a pledge to fight for an Islamic
revolution in Pakistan and bring about radical social changes by
boycotting all things Western - and Indian
...
West looks towards East for healing touch
Cong can face BJP alone: Naidu - United News of India
- The Indian Express
- October 26, 1998
>>>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Venkaiah Naidu today
said the Congress had developed cold feet in the states going to
the polls next month. He said the Congress was desperately
looking for allies as it was not in a position to face the BJP
alone.
Seeing saffron in a song - Nirupama Dutt
- The Indian Express
- October 27, 1998
>>>Tow friends, one man and another a woman, both liberals of HinduMuslim parentage, called me up the other day with a query. They
wanted to know the message of a Daler Mehndi song, the video
clip of which was shown all too on the television. The number
sang of knives being aimed at the heart and the refrain of Sanu
u
...
Uniting Hindus across the globe - Ram Swarup
- The Observer
- October 24, 1998
>>>Hinduism Today has now been in existence for quite some time and it is
possible to assess it on the basis of what it has been and what it has
done. No need to make subjective claims or to go by them.
Hindu communities are now found in many countries, but with the
...
Irrevocably an Indian state - K Francis
- The Observer
- October 24, 1998
>>>What are the criteria which make a region an integral part of a nation
state? The creation of a nation state is a recent development in
history.
The founding fathers of India, while creating the Indian nation state,
...
Human rights: Amnesty holds a mirror to America - William Raspberry
- The Times of India
- October 23, 1998
>>>It will surprise no one that Amnesty International has launched a
yearlong investigation of human rights violations. But it will shock a
lot of us to learn that the target of the investigation is America.
Human rights violations in America? Oh sure, an occasional overzealous
...
Survey says 51% people want BJP govt to continue - Political Bureau
- The Economic Times
- October 24, 1998
>>>A survey conducted in eight metropolitan cities concludes that 51 per
cent of the people want the BJP-led government to continue in office,
but 42 per cent are dissatisfied with its performance.
Assembly elections to four states, two BJP-ruled are due on November 25,
...
Vande Mataram then, Saraswati Vandana now - S Gurumurthy
- The Observer
- October 24, 1998
>>>The scene is the conference of education ministers from states. A
melodious voice began rendering Saraswati Vandana, which is the
traditional invocation for education programmes.
And hell broke. The education ministers from the states where the
...
Nuns' rape an `isolated criminal act' - T.N.Nair
- Hindustan Times
- October 17, 1998
>>>Even as a massive rally, led by Archbishop Mar Jacob Thoomkuzhi, was
held in Thrissur on Wednesday to protest against the recent assault on
four nuns in the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, a fact-finding team
sent by the CPI-M state committee has come back with the impression that
the attack was not planned by any political party or fundamentalist
...
The tyranny of the IAS - N K Pant
- The Observer
- October 23, 1998
>>>It is another thing that wily mandarins of the civil services may
ultimately water down the BJP-led coalition's promise to. the
armed forces that their state of preparedness, morale and combat
effectiveness shall receive early attention and appropriate
remedial action. But the fact is important that some thoughts
...
f Govt decides to send a recommendation on Bihar, it can do it (Interview of L.K.Advani) - Ajay Suri
- The Indian Express
- October 19, 1998
>>>He may be known more for his tough posturing and hard-hitting
approach, but that is not all to Union Home Minister L.K. Advani.
He makes no bones about the dangers awaiting the Kashmir Pandits
should they decide to the Valley at this juncture. His advice to
the north-eastern states to talk with the militants further
...
Succession Act section discriminates against Christians, says Kerala HC
Issues of external instigation and international security - M. K. Narayanan
- The Asian Age
- October 19, 1998
>>>It is hardly the best of times, but hopefully it will not lead to
the worst of times. Enmeshed in needless contradictions, an
excess of concern over not so critical issues, and bogged down
over "transparency...... openness" and "unaccountability," the
truth is that too many cooks and too much of interference in the
...
An institute that aims at quenching dentity-crisis' - Sheeba Nair
- The Times of India
- October 21, 1998
>>>Try imagining a Mumbai-bred teenager waking up at 4 a.m.,
tidying up his or her room, then leaving for a session of yoga
or jogging, then bathing and also finishing a simple breakfast
by 8.30 a.m. - all voluntarily?
...
Cutting it out - G. S. Bhargava
- The Hindustan Times
- October 12, 1998
>>>Cut-outs are a south Indian, particularly Tamilian,
embellishment of what is intellectually called the political
process. They made their triumphant entry into politics when
M.G. Ramachandran, as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, made cinema
the key to public life. In the early days of competition between
...
A vision for the coming millennium - M. V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- October 15, 1998
>>>What will India be like, say, fifty years hence? Or, if fifty
years is too long a time to peer at, what will India he 25 years
hence? Will it be any better than what it is now? Or will things
get worse? There are some who believe that conditions in India
will progressively worsen and the nation will be in for hard
...
Temple cottages not hotels, rules HC
India not soft, finalises stop - ISI plan
Visual on ISI activities alarm MPs
Govt to present white paper on ISI - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - Economic Times
- October 16, 1998
>>>THE GOVERNMENT will present a white paper to Parliament on the ISI's
subversive activities in the country. This was agreed to at the
Consultative Committee meeting of the home ministry here today. The
meeting, chaired by Union home minister L K Advani, was attended by 21
members of Parliament who unanimously raised the demand for a white
...
Ladder of lies - T V R Shenoy
- Rediff on the Net
- October 15, 1998
>>>Two recent statements from Communist Party of India-Marxist general
secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet deserve our attention. He wondered why
the Left had not stuck roots outside Kerala, West Bengal, and Tripura
"despite its glorious role in the freedom struggle." And he slandered
the Bharatiya Janata Party as "the men who killed Mahatma Gandhi."
...
India gaining upper hand against Kashmiri secessionists - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - The Times of India
- October 17, 1998
>>>"India has slowly gained the upper hand against Kashmiri secessionists,"
according to a US congressional study on India and Pakistan. This
suggests that the possibility of India agreeing to US or other
international mediation is even more remote than before, says the report
prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which advises
...
"Attack on Christians?" (Church leaders conspire to blacken Hindus) - Ashok Chowgule
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>The Catholic church, with the help of their stooges in the media, has
undertaken a programme to politicise the attacks that have taken place on
Christians. In some cases, they have been successfully able to divert the
issue from the cause for which there is a retaliation against the
Christians. In other cases, purely secular crimes have been termed as
...
Many foreign mercenaries killed in Udhampur, Doda - Dwarika Prasad Sharma
- The Times of India
- October 17, 1998
>>>Several groups of militants, mostly foreign mercenaries, have been
eliminated in on-going-helicopter-supported commando operations in
the mountain ranges of Doda and Udhampur districts, sources said.
The highly trained and motivated platoons of commando operating at
...
Temple rituals: HC notice to Govt. - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - The Hindu
- October 14, 1998
>>>The Madras High Court has ordered notice to the State government on a
writ petition to restrain it from interfering in any manner with
ceremonies, poojas, rituals, consecration and mode of performing daily
rituals in temples.
...
Motivated hype? - Editorial
- The Hindustan Times
- October 13, 1998
>>>The Sunday Telegraph report on India's purportedly "secret" plans for
simulated war games on its border with Pakistan is a good example of
hyperbolical hearsy which, on closer examination, would hold as much
water as in a porous porringer. The report claims that over 100,000
Indian troops are to participate in the simulated war game involving
...
Freedom struggle and Indian Communists - Rakesh Sinha
- The Hindustan Times
- October 12, 1998
>>>The party congresses of both the Communist parties, coincided with the
closing of the golden jubilee year of India's independence. This was an
occasion for them to pay tribute to the martyrs of the Quit India
movement and the best way to do this would have been to abandon their
oft-repeated justification of the pro-British "people's war" line. But
...
"India'll never loosen its grip on Kashmir" (Interview of Girish Chandra Saxena) - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - The Indian Express
- October 17, 1998
>>>This days of retirement interrupted a second time by that call from
South Block in May, Girish Chandra Saxena, 70, again finds himself in
what must be one of the most picturesque residences in the country. And
Srinagar's Raj Bhavan, he admits, has its recuperative powers. During
his first tenure as Governor from 1990-1993, when militancy was at its
...
Rushdie can return: Advani
Jamshedpur riots report - S. Sahay
- The Statesman
- September 24, 1981
>>>It can be said without any hesitation that the summary of the
Narain Commission's report released by the Bihar Government was
highly selective, and in that sense tendentious. It dwelt at
great length on the RSS involvement in the riots, especially the
role of Mr Dina Nath Pandey. It briefly touched on the
...
RSS sympathisers appointed to key ICSSR posts (and a comment) - Josy Joseph
- The Asian Age
- October 14, 1998
>>>The Indian Council of Social Science Research has been
reconstituted by the Centre to accommodate several pro-RSS
academies. The move by the human resource development minister,
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, comes a few months after he reconstituted
the Indian Council for Historical Research with historians with
...
Cost of terrorism - Involve the people in the fight against ISI - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- October 16, 1998
>>>The heavy cost terrorism entails to the nation was brought home
by the home ministry at Wednesday's meeting of the chief
ministers of eight northern states. The nation has been spending
thousands of crores of rupees in its fight against terrorism.
Yet, the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) was able to
...
Attacks On Christians? - Ashok Chowgule
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- October 98.
>>>The Catholic church, with the help of their stooges in the media, has
undertaken a programme to politicise the attacks that have taken place
on Christians. In some cases, they have been successfully able to
divert the issue from the cause for which there is a retaliation against
the Christians. In other cases, purely secular crimes have been termed
...
Columbus Day sparks protests in Latin America - Reuters
- Reuters
- October 14, 1998
>>>Indians in Honduras symbolically executed Christopher Columbus
on Monday while demonstrators stripped named in Mexico, staked a
claim to ancestral lands in Paraguay and marched in protest
elsewhere in Latin America on Columbus Day.
...
Community service - M. V. Kamath
- Mid-Day
- October 15, 1998
>>>Caste has come to stay, says a headline in one of our national
dailies, as if it is a new discovery. It has, has it? Now, isn't
that interesting? Caste has always been with us and it will
probably be with us for a long time to come. But the world - and
things associated with it - has lost much of its edge in recent
...
Proxy Pak war costs India Rs 50,000 cr - Agencies
- The Indian Express
- October 15, 1998
>>>The Pakistan-sponsored terrorist violence has taken a toll of
29,151 civilians and 5,101 security personnel besides inflicting
an estimated damage worth Rs 2,000 crore to private property.
According to a detailed presentation made by the Ministry of
...
The real culprits - It is not the BJP, but other parties which are communal - A.R. Kanangi
- The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- October 10, 1998
>>>They are all self-appointed friends and protectors of minority
communities. There is method in their madness. They create fear
in the minds of members of Muslims and Christians. They are ready
to rush to their rescue at the slightest provocation. Any lame
excuse is good enough to bash the big, bad BJP. There is
...
Bearing the cross for their faith? - Anita Joshua
- The Hindu
- October 11, 1998
>>>edded to Christ, they were prepared to bear every conceivable
cross for His sake. But, even in the worst of their nightmares,
they had never seen themselves as being forced to bear the kind
of cross that rape inflicts on a hapless woman. Their folly living in the back of beyond to serve the poorest of the poor,
,
...
Games the nuclear elite plays - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- October 15, 1998
>>>Five months have passed after Pokhran-II. Hypocritical
condemnations of India for its tests by 'nuclear-haves' have
been totally been exposed. Had US, Britain, Russia, France and
China been serious and sincere about their commitments, tests In
the Indian subcontinent should have been utilised as a great
...
Military & governance in Pakistan - K Subrahmaniam
- The Economic Times
- October 15, 1998
>>>The resignation of an incumbent Pakistani Army chief is an
unusual event in that country's history. The resignation was
admittedly a consequence of the stringent criticism by the Army
chief of the performance of the Nawaz Sharif government and his
proposal to set up a national security council in which the
...
Taslima has to apologise, withdraw books to be pardoned - Ershadul Huq
- The Observer
- October 15, 1998
>>>One of Bangladesh's top religious leaders spearheading the
movement against Taslima Nasreen has said pardon for the
controversial feminist writer can be considered only if she
personally apologises to Muslims and withdraws her works from
the market.
Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany - Manik Mehta
- The Observer
- October 15, 1998
>>>Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who first fled the Soviet
invasion of that country in 1980 and later the turmoils of the
ensuing civil war, face a bleak future in Germany. Germany has
an Afghan population of 60,000 consisting largely of Muslim
refugees.
Islamic schools in Pakistan breed terrorists
Indian to sentence Columbus - Reuters
- The Indian Express
- October 13, 1998
>>>Honduran Indians will sentence Christopher Columbus Americans
today, 506 years after his iscovery of the continent.
The Indians began a mock trial of Columbus in July on charges of
genocide and robbery resulting from 1492 beginnings of the
...
How do Hindus view Jesus Christ? - Felix Machado
- The Examiner
- October 10, 1998
>>>For many Hindus Jesus Christ remains an inspiration for social
teaching. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) would be an eminent
example among these. He found the whole social teaching of Jesus
Christ beautifully summarised in the Beatitudes. More than as a
person, Jesus Christ is understood as a moral principle or an
...
Centre website to counter Naga rebels - Rezaul H. Laskar
- The Asian Age
- October 7, 1998
>>>The Union home ministry's campaign against Naga rebel groups is
all set to enter a new dimension - cyberspace.
The home ministry has drawn up plans to create a website on the
Internet, or the information superhighway, to counter the anti-
...
VHP demands CBI probe into rape of nuns - UNI
- The Asian Age
- October 4, 1998
>>>Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary Giriraj Kishore on
Saturday demanded a probe by the Central Investigating Agency
into the rape of four nuns in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh.
Talking to reporters, Mr Kishore said the Centre should hand
...
Mercenaries sneak into Valley, courtesy Laden - Vijay Dutt
- The Hindustan Times
- October 5, 1998
>>>Over 700 elite Islamic mercenaries have crossed over from
Pakistan through the Pir Panjal mountains and established
bases in the Kashmir Valley, according to a report in the Sunday
Times. They have been helped by agents of the multi-millionaire
...
Vajpayee calls for phased programme for nuclear disarmament in this century
Ramayana in the North-East - Jyoti Lal Chowdhury
- Organiser
- October 4, 1998
>>>Oral tradition of the story of Rama existed in the form of Kesar
Saga in the Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. The Ramayana
values inspired the people and the kings of Assam not only of
the indigenous Asura and Salastambha dynasties but the kings of
the subsequent Ahom dynasties as well who belonged to the Tai-
...
Perceptible change in J&K - Shyam Khosla
- Organiser
- October 4, 1998
>>>Counter-insurgency Action Plan hammered out by the BJP-led
Government in the light of Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's proactive policy on Kashmir is showing results despite Pakistan's
diabolical attempt to sustain its proxy war. Advani has shown he
has the political will to deliver and he has marshalled human and
d
...
Caste system in India - True perspective - Swami Venkata Ganapathi
- India Post
- October 9, 1998
>>>It pains me to read various writers in India Post condemning our
Vedic culture and civilization because of castes or caste
system. They betray little understanding on one hand and effect
of centuries of brain washing on the other.
...
If it is not Islamic then What is it? - Venkata Swamy
- India Post
- October 9, 1998
>>>Times news report from Peshawar, Pakistan dated September 18,
1998; states:
"The refugees who are arriving here each day on foot from the
northern Afghan city of Mazar-I-Sharif say they fled a city
...
Politicians instigating people against army in Jammu areas - Dwarika Prasad Sharma
- The Times of India
- October 11, 1998
>>>Instigating demonstrations against the security forces to
politically exploit the situation created by the incursion of
foreign mercenaries into Rajouri and Poonch districts is
reminiscent of the trend in the Kashmir Valley at the height of
militancy there, according to political analysts.
Vivekanand = Hinduism = RSS = communalism - S. Kulkarni
- Blitz
- 21 October 1993
>>>In our Independence Day special issue, which thematically
celebrated the centenary of Swami Vivekananda's historic speech
at Chicago on September 11, 1893, chartered accountant and social
thinker 5. Gurumurthy had described in his article how our pseudosecular Congress government sought to de-saffronise the great
t
...
Media coverage of global vision 2000 - Hindu Vivek Kendra
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- 18 August, 1993
>>>1. In line with their jaundiced outlook of the Sangh parivar, the
English media in India has once again resorted to untruths in
their coverage of Global Vision 2000 organised by Vishwa Hindu
Parishad. The manner in which this was done once again shows that
the plan is deliberate, and It seems that the badge of
...
Two Editorials
What's the church afraid of? - M. V. Kamath
- Mid-Day
- October 8, 1998
>>>WHAT the Vatican gays or does is strictly its own business and
calls for no comment from outsiders like me. But when the
Vatican's watchdog agency, the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, sends a letter to bishops around the world instructing
them to withdraw books written by Fr Anthony de Mello, SJ, I, a
...
AMU hostels act as ISI havens - Deepak Sharma
- The Pioneer
- October 8, 1998
>>>The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan is spending more than
Rs 5 crore per month on the 39 terrorist training camps being run in
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), officers of the northern command
divulged here on Tuesday.
...
The reds and cursed totems - P P Bala Chandran
- The Observer
- October 9, 1998
>>>I think it was sometime in the early nineties when a Japanese soldier,
still donning his Second World War battle gear, had to he persuaded out
of his jungle hideout in Burma by telling him the truth he initially
refused to buy - that the war had indeed ended almost 50 years ago and
that his country, along with its axis partner, had lost it to the
...
SAC scientist charts Sarasvatis Tibet to Gujarat course - Shyam Parekh
- The Times of India, Ahmedabad
- October 9, 1998
>>>A river as mighty and as wide as Sarasvati could not have originated but
from a glacier or a glacial lake in the Himalayas and its flow was
continuous from the Himalayas to Gujarat between 6,000 to 8,000 BC, a
hypothesis based on ancient scriptures and substantiated by
remote-sensing satellites says.
Faith healing row deepens - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - The Times of India, Ahmedabad
- October 9, 1998
>>>The controversy surrounding US-based faith healer Roger Houtsma has come
to the boil with minister of state for Home Haren Pandya accusing him of
violating regulations and the latter maintaining, "Testimony and words
of the Bible are my weapons and I cannot give it away to anyone except
Christ."
...
Ladens men plan holy war on Intifadah technique - Srinand Jha
- The Observer
- October 10, 1998
>>>A Jihad (religious war) based on the Intifadah technique or techniques
employed by the Mujahideens of the Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO) are proposed to be experimented by the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
(POK)-based Kashmiri insurgent groups, which are understood to have
received huge funds lately from Saudi-based billionairs such as Osama
...
Hindu backlash against evangelism - Virendra Parekh
- The Observer
- October 10, 1998
>>>Christian missionaries and their secularist friends will be making a big
mistake if they treat recent attacks on Christian missions and
missionaries in several parts of the country as misdeeds of miscreants
of the lunatic fringe of heathens. The resentment against missionary
machinations runs deep in the Hindu society, though its expression
...
The other side of religion - Ashok Mahajan
- The Observer
- October 10, 1998
>>>Religion has often been a driving force in the reform of social abuses,
but it has also been associated with cruelty and oppression. The
Filipinos were 'christianised' by Spanish friars in the name of King
Philip II, more than four hundred fifty years ago. They were renamed by
them "Philippines" in honour of their Spanish king.
Friends not masters - Swapan Dasgupta
- India Today
- October 12, 1998
>>>Over the years, it has become customary for Indian prime ministers to
end their foreign visits on an almighty high. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's US
visit was no different. So what if all those brave words about not
signing the iniquitous CTBT sound a little less convincing now. And so
what if Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms is still
...
IMF can't tackle the crises (Part II of II)
IMF can't tackle the crises (Part I of II) - Henry Kissinger
- Dawn, Karachi
- Oct 6, 1998.
>>>WHAT began 15 months ago as a currency crisis in Thailand and then
spread across Asia, now threatens the industrialized world.
No government and virtually no economist predicted the crisis,
understood its extent or anticipated its staying power. A series of IMF
rescue packages has not arrested its spread and threatens the political
...
Don allow meddling with Vaishno Devi shrine - Jagmohan
- Tribune
- September 9, 1998
>>>The tragedy of present-day India is that it has developed
clogged and corroded mind in which an elevating breeze can
hardly blow in. It has become virtually incapable of doing any
creative and constructive thinking and translating such a
thinking into solid action on the ground. And, what is equally
...
Fight is on here for Muslim women's rights - P.K. Surendran
- The Times of India
- September 28, 1998
>>>A handful of Muslim women in Kerala are fighting a grim battle
against the mighty men of their community.
NISSA, which in Arabic means women, formed by some 20 divorced
Muslim women in July last, is demanding equality for them in the
...
Logic of encounters - Editorial
- The Daily
- October 3, 1998
>>>The Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray's pronouncement that
police encounters to eliminate criminals should continue has to
be viewed in light of the fact that somehow the rule of law has
not made too much of an impression on the underworld or its
minions. Naturally the common man looks to people like Thackeray
...
Taliban poised to launch unrest in Islamic nations
Pretence of the rootless - CPI(M) in the power market - T.V.R. Shenoy
- The Indian Express
- October 8, 1998
>>>N January 1961, Lyndon Baines Johnson, then Vice-President of
the United States, attended the first cabinet meeting of the
Kennedy administration. He came out raving about his fellows.
"Dean Rusk is a Rhodes scholar," he told his mentor Sam Rayburn,
"McNamara was head of Ford, and Bundy was dean of Harvard..."
...
A dream that will not be a reality - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- October 8, 1998
>>>Introduction: The tragedy of BJP's opponents is that they want
to bank on the formula of 1996 even at the end of 1998.
The ongoing exercise of the Left Front to polarise all the antiBJP forces is bound to be futile as the perceptions. of the
e
...
Get real, CPM (and Comment) - Editorial
- The Economic Times
- October 8, 1998
>>>Against all odds India's largest Left party, the communist Party
of India (Marxist), seems to be changing. This gut-wrenching
evolutionary drama is being played out in Calcutta, venue of the
party's 16th party congress. Today, leaders say that the CPM
will extend 'issue-based' support to the Congress, till recently
...
Missionaries must leave: VHP - am temple construction to begin in 2001
RSS programmes on DD mooted - Sanjay Basak
- The Statesman
- October 28, 1998
>>>With the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Mr
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, observing that SS functions and
programmes should find its due place in the national network=94,
it becomes evident that the big brother of the Sangh Parivar
continues to wield tremendous power over its olitical wing=94,
...
Those inscrutable Indians - Shekhar Gupta
- The Indian Express
- October 7, 1998
>>>Introduction: The Private correspondence of Anna and Rupert
Murdoch. lair is in my back pocket. Even the mighty Chinese
are now reasonable: taking BBC off the air, jucking that silly
Patten's book was a small price to pay. New York's Major
Giuliani loves me. But look at these Indians.
Pawar's role under cloud over Bihar - Vijay Simha
- The Times of India
- October 7, 1998
>>>The rumblings in the Congress haven't ceased over its handling
of the recent Bihar crisis with party president Sonia Gandhi
having to do some damage control following the dissent voiced by
some Congressmen on the support to Laloo Yadav.
...
72% say Bihar merits President's rule - Posted By Ashok Chowgule - Outlook
- October 5, 1998.
>>>In an opinion poll conducted for a national weekly, which has
congratulated the President for returning the recommendation, the
following results are very illuminating. This poll was conducted
in five centers spread across Bihar.
...
Missionaries' misdeeds infuriate locals' (Excerpts) - Vitusha Oberoi
- Mid-Day
- October 6, 1998
>>>Interview of Acharya Giriraj Kishore, Gen. Secretary, VHP.
Q: How do you view the rape of four nuns in Madhya Pradesh?
A: It was a criminal act and the VHP condemns the episode. No
organisation can condone such a nasty thing.
President set a wrong precedent: Shekhar - R B Singh
- The Indian Express
- October 6, 1998
>>>Former prime minister Chandra Shekhar today said President K R
Narayanan had set a wrong precedent by rejecting the Union
Cabinet's advice to dismiss the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar.
Addressing mediapersons at the Press Club here, he said in a
...
Anti-Sonia lobby fires first missiles on Bihar - Express News Service
- The Indian Express
- October 6, 1998
>>>Former Congress minister S S Ahluwalia's letter to party
president Sonia Gandhi, criticising the line adopted in favour
of Laloo Yadav in the recent Bihar crisis, is being seen in
party circles as the first step of a possible anti-Sonia
grouping which could time its attack when the November assembly
...
A reflection of Pak crisis - M. V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 27, 1998
>>>Pakistan 1997: Edited by Craig Baxter & Charles Kennedy;
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Harper Collins, New
Delhi, Pages 189; Rs. 350.
Though Pakistan is our next door neigh-boor and we have had so
...
Pauper princess - Shameem Akthar, Ratnagiri
- Outlook
- October 12, 1998
>>>What did the fey Burmese princess Fayas brood over as she paced
before the bare house built by her Indian husband? Did she
reflect over the vanished glory of her father Teeba, last king of
Upper Burma who, despite being a prisoner of the British, lived
here regally, displaying a generosity that bordered on
...
he attack is only natural (Interview) - K. S. Narayanan
- Outlook
- October 12, 1998
>>>VHP all-India secretary Baikunt Lal Sharma 'Prem" spoke to K.S.
Narayanan on the VHP's stance towards the recent attack on nuns
in MP. Excerpts:
Q: Is the attack on Christian missionaries in Jhabua in MP
...
The Post Secular Age - Frank Morales
- The Telegraph
- Mon, 05 Oct 1998 22:21:31 +0530
>>>The last two centuries have been a conspicuously unique era in
the history of the human race. For, unlike any other epoch in
our history, the last 200 years have witnessed the systematic
and seemingly unstoppable deconstruction of religion as an
important element of Western society. So successful has the
...
Vajpayee describes India and US as natural allies - K.P. Nayar
- The Telegraph
- September 29, 1998
>>>In a landmark speech which took think tanks, intellectuals and
policymakers in America by surprise, Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee today described India and the US as "natural allies,"
whose relations "constitute the key element in the architecture
of tomorrow's democratised world order."
...
An open letter to Sonia - M. V. Kamath
- The Daily
- September 29, 1998
>>>Dear Madam, forgive me for writing this open letter to you, but
this is the only way to reach you and to reach all those millions
of people or at least a fraction of them, interested in the
future of the country. All these days I was wondering what will
transpire at your Panchmarhi meeting. Now that it is over and its
...
PWG links with Kashmir ultras bared
TN blasts: Kerala link confirmed - T. N. Nair
- The Hindustan Times
- September 30, 1998
>>>The Kerala connection with the serial blasts that rocked
Coimbatore seven months ago was established yesterday when the
Special Investigating Team (SIT) of Tamil Nadu CID filed a
chargesheet before the fifth judicial magistrate's court naming
Abdul Nasser Mahdhani, chief of the People's Democratic of
...
Advani has made a difference to J&K
Laden now set to target Kashmir
Hindu nationalists should claim Gandhiji back - Virendra Parekh
- The Observer
- October 1, 1998
>>>A great irony of Indian politics is that the name of Gandhiji one of the greatest Hindus ever born - is used to browbeat the
Hindu society.
Communists and the Muslim League had no use for Gandhiji when he
e
...
Strategic dialogue with the US - K Subrahmanyam
- The Economic Times
- October 1, 1998
>>>In the wake of the Indian nuclear tests the more pragmatically
inclined American academics who had earlier served in the
government and are now in think-tanks have advocated a more
sustained and intensified strategic dialogue between the US and
India. The idea of such a strategic dialogue is not new. There
...
Mulayam's statement evokes suspicion - Mustafa Alvi
- The Times of India
- October 1, 1998
>>>At a time when Pakistan is engaged in a proxy war against India
by sneaking terrorists into the border state of Jammu and
Kashmir, the statement of the Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam
Singh Yadav made recently in Mumbai to effect that India must
lend Rs two thousand crore to Pakistan to enable it to tide over
...
It may be a move to destablise India, Bangladesh with trained rebels - Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - The Asian Age
- October 3, 1998
>>>The biggest problem Kashmir is facing at present is the
infiltration of the Bangladeshis, the chief minister of Jammu and
Kashmir, Dr Farooq Abdullah, told reporters here on Friday.
"They come to the state, go across the border, and cross back. It
...
Telling a Ramayana - G N Devy
- The Hindu
- September 20, 1998
>>>The literary community is now paying attention to oral literature. But
in order to understand this genre, especially that of the 20th Century,
one must examine an altogether different area of expression - tribal
languages. G. N. DEVY looks at India's love for the spoken word, which
has found a powerful means of expression in cinema for instance.
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