HVK Archives by Publication
HVK Archives by Publication
Starting: Thu 03 Dec 1998 - 10:38:32 EST
Ending: Mon 28 Dec 1998 - 21:28:60 EST
Messages: 57
- HINDU VIVEK KENDRA
- LOKMANYA TILAK AND AMARTYA SEN MILIND GADGIL
- December 03, 1998
>>>The Nobel prize awarded to economist Dr. Amartya Sen has inevitably
become a topic of animated debate and discussion in this country,
more so perhaps because Dr. Sen is known for Leftist orientation in
his economic thinking. His two theories which are cited in the award
are: occurrence of famines is caused more by shortfall in the
...
- http://members.theglobe.com/athreya/ie081298.htm
- India Abroad
- India Today
- Atal has a PR problem Tavleen Singh
- December 14, 1998
>>>In politics, reality is not half as important as the public
perception of it. This is even more true of countries like India
where the average voter is either Illiterate or semi-literate and
thereby less likely to go looking for realities. The BJP appears
to have lost Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to the Congress
...
- Maharashtra Herald
- Mid-Day
- Conversion Job Vinay Krishna Rastogi
- December 21, 1998
>>>Recently ousted administrative officer of the Allahabad
Agriculture Institute (AAI) has demanded a high level probe
against forcible conversion to Christianity that is being
practised by the management of the institute.
...
- The fire within Pritish Nandy
- December 8, 1998
>>>Last week, the media went for me because I was seen to defend in
Parliament, those who protested against the screening of Fire.
The burning refrain was: How can you allow the Shiv Sena to get
away with this? Are you defending the attack on the film? Are you
against freedom of expression?
...
- Beyond religion M. V. Kamath
- December 3, 1998
>>>Hatred is no answer to anything, as my Christian friends should
know and whipping up passions can be counter-productive. I
mention this in the context of reports that in a village in
Madhya Pradesh called Jhajjar, four Christian nuns were raped.
It set Christian opinion on fire. In several cities and towns
...
- Organiser
- Hindus denied puja at Dattatreya Peetha - Part I Venugopalan
- December 20, 1998
>>>A planned, well orchestrated attempt was made to create tension
and disturb communal harmony throughout the country when the
dispute about Dattatreya Peetha-Baba Budangiri shrine near
Chickmagalur in Karnataka was blown up by spreading the canard
that Hindus led by Bajrang Dal were preparing to enact another
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- Haunted by Macaulay's ghost Francois Gautier
- November 29, 1998
>>>As a foreign journalist, one cannot understand all the excessive
noise made about the Education Agenda of Murli Manohar Joshi:
What is wrong in trying to "Indianise, nationalise and
spiritualise" education in India? Joshi's critics-and there have
been many-have called it "a hidden Hindu agenda". So what?
...
- The Asian Age
- Bangladeshis are world's happiest people Abhik Sen
- December 12, 1998
>>>Would you believe it, Bangladesh is the happiest nation in the world!
The United Stats, on the other hand, is a sad story: it ranks only 46th
in the World Happiest Survey. That's way behind India, the fifth
happiest place in the world, and others including Ghana and Latvia,
...
- The Daily
- The Fire that nauseates RKB
- December 15, 1998
>>>This is getting to be a bit longer than I expected it to. But
the fact of the matter is everything is getting to be a bit
confused and silly. I am talking about the movie FIRE, and the
issues it has raised.
...
- No nation can survive on lies M. V. Kamath
- December 13, 1998
>>>There is something inexplicable about Indian 'intellectuals': they seem
to hate Hinduism and anything Hindu. One can understand if they hated
certain specific aspects of Hindu society like untouchability or child
marriage or casteism or that rarest of rare things, suttee. One should
not, of course, equate these with the fundamentals of Hinduism as
...
- The Economic Times
- The saffron sage (letter) Ikbal Kaul, New Delhi
- December 18, 1998
>>>The whole saffron belt of Kashmir is presently a riot of colour,
flaunted by the purple petals and bed stigmas. The sweet smelling
saffron flowers are lending an alluring charm and ethereal enchantment
to the environment. However, this very charm has been despoiled by the
fundamentalist dons of the Kashmir University who are falsifying
...
- No first use K Subrahmanyam
- December 10, 1998
>>>Some commentators in India consider that the no first use policy
adopted by India is a wimpish one which degrades the
effectiveness of deterrence. They point to the fact that barring
China none of the other nuclear weapon powers have adopted the
'no first use' policy. The westerners used to decry the 'no
...
- Basu admits to ISI presence in Bengal Calcutta Bureau
- December 10, 1998
>>>In what can give a new dimension to the Vajpayee government's
endeavour to table a white paper on Pakistan's Inter-Service
Intelligence (ISI) activities in India, West Bengal chief
minister and veteran CPI-M leader, Jyoti Basu on Wednesday said
the members of the Pakistani outfit were present in the state.
- The Free Press Journal
- Clear - headed Advani Editorial
- December 18, 1998
>>>Following Union Home Minister L. K. Advani's categorical
assurance in Parliament that no one shall be allowed to suffer
due to his religious persuasion the ill-motivated campaign of
vilification against him by interested elements must cease.
Advani's clear-headed enunciation of the Government's position
...
- United States and rogue countries M. V. Kamath
- December 3, 1998
>>>So Iraq has caved in. It has permitted the United Nations which, in effect, means the United States to inspect its
arsenals. Iraq has been charged with storing weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) which is a cruel joke, considering. that
practically every great power, and that includes, the United
d
...
- The Hindu
- RSS for dialogue with Muslims, Christians Arunkumar Bhatt
- December 15, 1998
>>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Sangh Parivar are
reconciling themselves to the need for a dialogue with the Christian and
Muslim leadership to remove mutual misgivings and misunderstandings and
the process has already begun. But that has not deterred them from
accusing the Catholic Church of having hatched a global conspiracy,
...
- Obsolete & discriminatory Romy Chacko
- December 1, 1998
>>>Recently some members of the Christian community approached the
High Court of Kerala challenging the Constitutional validity of
Section 118 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. The Division
Bench of the High Court struck down the impugned provision on
the ground that it is violative of Articles 14, 15, 25 and 26 of
...
- ISI yielding to pan-Islamic outfits? Vinay Kumar
- November 28, 1998
>>>After a decade of sponsoring and guiding terrorism and subversion
in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and elsewhere in India, Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) appears to be gradually
slipping into the hands of the pan-Islamic organisations in
Pakistan which are keen on establishing their puritanical brand
...
- Secularism or anti-Hinduism? K. Venkatasubramanian
- December 1, 1998
>>>Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee is an intellectual with a rare sense of
humour. When he addressed a Delhi conference, recently, in
English, a member of the press corps said it was ironic that Mr.
Vajpayee should have addressed the United Nations Organisation
Summit in Hindi and a meet at home in English. Pat came the Prime
...
- The Hindustan Times
- Wrongs, not rights K.P.S. Gill
- December 15, 1998
>>>The Human rights debate in India has remained mired in a handful of
slogans and postures completely divorced from ground realities. Almost
30,000 civilians and 5,000 security personnel have lost their lives to
terrorism and low intensity warfare. Millions have been pushed,
relentlessly, into poverty and destitution as violence saps the economy.
- Deadly tentacles of terrorism Gen. Ashok K. Mehta
- December 6, 1998
>>>The fount of the recent proliferation in global terrorism and
Islamic fundamentalism is undoubtedly Ayatollati Khomeini who
used terrorist methods to combat terrorist opposition to
consolidate his power after the Islamic fundamentalist
revolution which overthrew the Pehalvi dynasty in Iran in 1979.
- The Indian Express
- President's Hindutva elation P. Venugopal
- December 18, 1998
>>>KR Bhaskaran, "a man wedded to the Hindu Dharma and culture" nothing dramatic till you know that the latter attributes
regarding the man come from a top RSS official; and the subject
is the 'Sarvadhikari', or chief patron, of the ongoing RSS Sangh
Shiksha Varg (training camp) at Mattancherry in Kochi. And, the
e
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- Opposing Hindutva to plift minorities Organiser
- December 6, 1998
>>>The chairman of the Minorities Commission Tahir Mahmood, has made
a mission of organizing minorities against the supposed 'danger
of Hindu fascism'. He has strong secular credentials. His views
on a uniform civil code have been cited in Supreme Court
judgments. But he has now emerged as a messiah of minorityism,
...
- Double-faced Congress Organiser
- December 6, 1998
>>>For years the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has led a
campaign of abuse against the Congress party and said some of
the most unkind things about it. This is common knowledge. For
the CPM, the Congress was Enemy Number One. The CPM was
committed to revolution, not a non-violent one, but one
...
- Interview: Sushma Swaraj Swati Chaturvedi
- December 13, 1998
>>>Q: So where do you go from here?
A: I do not want anything. I sometimes think my party has given
me so much. Neither was I a contender for a ministerial berth in
the last expansion, nor will I be in the next expansion. I am
very satisfied.
- The Observer
- Costs of not speaking up on Ayodhya Virendra Parekh
- December 12, 1998
>>>'Babri demolition anniversary passes off peacefully', 'Peace prevails
in. Ayodhya and Faizabad', 'Ayodhya peaceful', 'Black day passes off
without a skirmish', reported national dailies on December 7, with one
of them rounding it off with 'Demolition unfortunate: Advani'.
...
- BJP vanquished by the media Dina Nath Mishra
- December 10, 1998
>>>BJP suffered a massive defeat in the recent assembly elections in
Delhi and Rajasthan and failed to defeat the Congress in Madhya
Pradesh. Political pundits are giving numerous reasons like antiincumbency factor, price rise of a few essential goods,
factionalism, etc. Some others may add organisational lapses at
t
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- A glorious day, not a black one! Virendra Parekh
- December 5, 1998
>>>Was it a temple or a mosque that the kar sevaks destroyed in
Ayodhya? That was Rajat Sharma grilling Bal Thackeray in his
famous television programme Aap ki Adalat, soon after the
demolition of the Babri Mosque. The question was mischievously
clever. If it was a temple, how foolish of the kar sevaks to
...
- Schools that do not enlighten Firoz Bakht Ahmed
- December 5, 1998
>>>Sparsely-lit rooms (rather dungeons), dilapidated structures (or
none at all), choked and stinking lavatories, moth-eaten
furniture, dangerous fittings, unhygienic drinking water, lost
teachers and meandering students happen to be some features of
the beleaguered Urdu medium schools of India.
- The Pioneer
- Let harma be your anchor, Mr PM Sandhya Jain
- December 7, 1998
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has not acted a day too soon
to assert the majesty of his office vis-a-vis his party and
associated groups, and assure citizens' particularly minorities,
that his Government will be responsive to their legitimate
concerns. In a masterly statement, he has called for national
...
- The Sunday Observer
- Fringe culture and/or mainstream B N Uniyal
- December 13-19, 1998
>>>What is the issue at stake in this controversy over this lesbo film?
Freedom of expression? No. If it were, they would have felt outraged
when Satanic Verses was banned or when the Godse team was told to fold
up the curtains. Hindu heritage? No. Burning books, torching theatres
and issuing threats is not the Hindu way of dealing with dissent. That
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- The Telegraph
- The Times of India
- What about us? (letter) M.G. Punoose, Mumbai
- December 20, 1998
>>>This is with reference to Iqbal Masud's article 'Ayodhya: Song
of the fallen stones'. The destruction of the Babri Masjid on
December 6, 1992, was truly reprehensible. However, the Islamic
cause would be better served if its champions were equally
strong in the condemnation of the destruction of all places of
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Last message date: Mon 28 Dec 1998 - 21:28:60 EST
Archived on: Thu Dec 31 1998 - 23:45:05 EST
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