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- Blitz
- Vivekanand = Hinduism = RSS = communalism S. Kulkarni
- 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
...
- Dawn, Karachi
- IMF can't tackle the crises (Part I of II) Henry Kissinger
- 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
...
- Economic Times
- Govt to present white paper on ISI Posted By Ashok Chowgule - 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
...
- Hindu Vivek Kendra
- Foreign Missionaries Ashok Chowgule,
- 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
...
- The Popes Call For A Dialogue Ashok Chowgule,
- 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
...
- Foreign Missionaries Ashok Chowgule,
- 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
...
- The Popes Call For A Dialogue Ashok Chowgule,
- 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
...
- Attacks On Christians? Ashok Chowgule
- 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
...
- Media coverage of global vision 2000 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
...
- Hindustan Times
- Nuns' rape an `isolated criminal act' T.N.Nair
- 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
...
- India Post
- India Today
- Friends not masters Swapan Dasgupta
- 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
...
- Mid-Day
- Her fearless pen Muhammad Najeeb
- 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
...
- Community service M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- What's the church afraid of? M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- Organiser
- Ramayana in the North-East Jyoti Lal Chowdhury
- 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
- 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
...
- Outlook
- Pauper princess Shameem Akthar, Ratnagiri
- 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
...
- Radiance
- Rediff on the Net
- Ladder of lies T V R Shenoy
- 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."
...
- Reuters
- The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- The Asian Age
- VHP demands CBI probe into rape of nuns UNI
- 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
...
- The Bombay Times
- Interview with APJ Abdul Kalam Pritish Nandy
- 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
...
- Interview with APJ Abdul Kalam Pritish Nandy
- 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
...
- The Daily
- Logic of encounters Editorial
- 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
...
- An open letter to Sonia M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- The Economic Times
- The US and nuclear India K Subrahmanyam
- 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
...
- Military & governance in Pakistan K Subrahmaniam
- 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
...
- Get real, CPM (and Comment) Editorial
- 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
...
- Strategic dialogue with the US K Subrahmanyam
- 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
...
- The Examiner
- How do Hindus view Jesus Christ? Felix Machado
- 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
...
- The Free Press Journal
- A vision for the coming millennium M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- The Hindu
- Bearing the cross for their faith? Anita Joshua
- 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,
,
...
- Telling a Ramayana G N Devy
- 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.
- The Hindustan Times
- Internal security at danger level V. N. Gadgil
- 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
...
- Internal security at danger level V. N. Gadgil
- 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
...
- Cutting it out G. S. Bhargava
- 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
...
- Motivated hype? Editorial
- 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
- 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
...
- TN blasts: Kerala link confirmed T. N. Nair
- 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
...
- The Indian Express
- Fundamentals of change Associated Press
- 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
...
- Seeing saffron in a song Nirupama Dutt
- 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
...
- Indian to sentence Columbus Reuters
- 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
...
- Those inscrutable Indians Shekhar Gupta
- 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.
- The Observer
- Basic feature of secularism Dina Nath Mishra
- 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
...
- Uniting Hindus across the globe Ram Swarup
- 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
- 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,
...
- The tyranny of the IAS N K Pant
- 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
...
- Games the nuclear elite plays Dina Nath Mishra
- 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
...
- The reds and cursed totems P P Bala Chandran
- 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
...
- Ladens men plan holy war on Intifadah technique Srinand Jha
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- The Pioneer
- Timely amendment Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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
...
- AMU hostels act as ISI havens Deepak Sharma
- 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 Statesman
- Jamshedpur riots report S. Sahay
- 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 programmes on DD mooted Sanjay Basak
- 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,
...
- The Sunday Times of India
- The Telegraph
- The Post Secular Age Frank Morales
- 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
...
- The Times of India
- Modernity & Morality; and comment Andre Beteille
- 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
- 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.
- Electrify and be dammed Lalita Panicker
- 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.
- Mulayam's statement evokes suspicion Mustafa Alvi
- 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
...
- The Times of India, Ahmedabad
- Faith healing row deepens Posted By Ashok Chowgule - 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."
...
- Tribune
- Don allow meddling with Vaishno Devi shrine Jagmohan
- 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
...
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