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Starting: Fri 30 Oct 1998 - 23:57:33 EST
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• A. R. Kanangi
  • Stop conversions   The Afternoon Despatch & Courier - November 14, 1998
  >>>"Who was Krishna? He was a thief Did he not steal butter?' How can he be God? Come to us, come to the real God and you will be saved." That was what the missionary man said - way back in a village.
  • No threat to Christians   The Afternoon Despatch & Courier - January 2, 1999
  >>>Christians in India are not under attack. They will never be. It is the missionaries who are paid and given funds by foreign institutions who are attracting the anger and disapproval of Hindu organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal.
• Agencies
  • Bukhari protests visa for Rushdie   The Indian Express - February 5, 1999
  >>>Visiting External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has cleared the visa for Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie to visit India for the first time since the 1980s when his controversial book The Satanic Verses was banned by the then Congress regime. The Indian High Commission here cleared the visa after a nod ...
• Arun Shourie
  • Cut, Paste and preserve their calumny   The Observer - January 22, 1999
  >>>Namboodiripas' fusillade was just the opening salvo, it turned out. The Communist Party of India published a series of pamphlets - Arun Shourie's Slanders Rebutted History has indicated the Communists, 1942 August Struggle and the Communist Party of India.... Translated into several languages, these were ...
• Arup Chanda
  • Electoral pressures force Basu to take BJP line on illegal immigrants issue   Rediff on the Net - Feb 6, 1999
  >>>Why did West Bengal's Marxist Chief Minister Jyoti Basu so aggressively highlight the issue of infiltration during his meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed ? To prevent erosion of the CPI-M's bases in the border districts in West ...
• Ashok Chowgule,
  • Foreign Missionaries   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 ...
• Dina Nath Mishra
  • An aberration, but unpardonable   The Observer - January 28, 1999
  >>>The devilish act witnessed last week in Manoharpur in Orissa, in which an Australian Christian missionary was burnt to death with his children, calls for soul-searching on the part of the Hindu society at large. ...
  • Propaganda against Hinduism   The Observer - January 21, 1999
  >>>Introduction: In Sonia Gandhi, the West has vested interests for obvious reasons. The Congress working committee resolution of January 16 has ...
• Dipak Basu, Montreal, Canada
  • A broad look at debate over 'Fire'   India Abroad - February 5, 1999
  >>>I agree only partly with Satish Yadav's comments on the 'Fire' controversy. (I.A., Jan 1) It is not true that Western societies, which pride themselves as proponents of freedom of art and speech, honestly practice what they ...
• Editorial
  • Metamorphosis   The Observer - February 2, 1999
  >>>Mr Madan Lal Khurana's recent outburst places him squarely among the practitioners of personalised politics. Granted, their presence in the mainstream national politics is not inconsequential. The surprise is that it has happened in a party like the BJP whose trademark is not just patriotism but ...
  • Sonia=27s_Tirupati_prayer?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:04:33 -0000   Newstime - January 30, 1999
  >>>When she had first entered active politics, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had shown a marked predilection for launching irrational attacks against her political adversaries, based purely on the highly imaginative stuff fed to her by her advisers. That with increasing maturity and feel for politics, ...
• Express News Service
  • 3_ISI_=27recruiting=27_agents_nabbed?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:24:17 -0000   The Indian Express - February 3, 1999
  >>>There Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents on a special mission to recruit youth from the city were nabbed at Kandivli on Monday evening. According to Additional Commissioner of Police (North-West) ...
  • Bajrang Dal to sue Sonia   The Indian Express - February 1, 1999
  >>>The Bajrang Dal plans to file a case against All-India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi under Section 295 IPC for allegedly not following the rules of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD) during her darshan at Tirupati on January 28, according to Dal's East Andhra convener Syam Prasad Mukherjee.
  • Sonia's Tirupati trip raises VHP hackles   The Indian Express - January 30, 1999
  >>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today lashed out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her refusal to sign the visitors' register at the Tirumala Devasthana Temple at Tirupati. "By refusing to affirm that she had faith in the Hindu religion ...
  • Don=27t_mix_politics_=26_religion=3A_Kanchi_see? r?Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:04:13 -0000   The Indian Express - January 25, 1999
  >>>The Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Math, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, today said that politicians should keep off the issue of religious conversions and heads of various religious faiths should sit together and thrash out the tangle. ...
• Gurumurthy
  • Mr Prabhu, wait. Every word of mine is based on judicial findings   The Observer - January 28, 1999
  >>>IT is obvious that the issue of conversions is vertically dividing the Indian society and creating fissures in the hitherto harmonious relations between Indian Christians and Hindus. The issue has assumed so much significance that the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has rightly called for a 'national ...
• Imran Khan
  • Discrepancies in nun rape case continue to vex police   The Observer - February 13, 1999
  >>>The Catholic nun rape case would seem to be concocted and part of a greater conspiracy if one is to believe the version of Maheswar Ojha, who knows Jacqueline Mary, the nun allegedly raped on February 3 evening inside a moving car by two men posing as women.
• J Dey
  • Young criminals become foot soldiers in Holy War   The Indian Express - February 3, 1999
  >>>Mumbai, notorious for its youthful talent, is being milked yet again but this time for all the wrong reasons. Several Dubaibased outfits acting as front organisations for Pakistan's ISI have been snooping around vulnerable localities in the city looking for potential criminals. ls.
• Kanchan Gupta
  • A break with the past   Rediff on the Net - february 20, 1999
  >>>Till the moment the exact details of the Radcliffe Line were publicised, everyone thought Lahore would remain in India. After all, it was a Sikh-Hindu majority town and contiguous with the border that was being worked out to carve the subcontinent into two. ...
• Keshav Rao Jadhav
  • The question of artistic freedom   Deccan Herald - January 31, 1999
  >>>If there is one industry which has most unabashedly used depiction of sex to market its wares it is the Indian film industry. Such depiction now is not only titillating but also violent. heroes now behave as if they are villains. This villainous behaviour is shown as depicting the hero's intense ...
• Koenraad Elst
  • Ram Swarup: The wittiest mind   The Observer - February 2, 1999
  >>>In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker. in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last couple of decades. ...
• M. V. Kamath
  • Is English media biased against BJP?   The Free Press Journal - February 4, 1999
  >>>Never before in the last fifty five years or so of one's close association with journalism has one witnessed in the English language media as much hatred and pure venom against one party or group as one had witnessed against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the last ten months. This is a sociological phenomenon that ...
  • Conversion row: US should not interfere   The Free Press Journal - January 28, 1999
  >>>Has anyone - and 'anyone' includes the 'secularists' among Hindus as well, ever tried to understand the Hindu psyche? Or is it considered a wholly unnecessary exercise? Consider this: Unlike Christian missionaries, Hindus have never been aggressive. Hindu missionaries have not gone to Portugal or Spain or Italy, sword ...
  • Boundaries of faith   Mid-Day - January 28, 1999
  >>>I have a simple request for Church leaders - Catholic and Protestant and I speak as a friend: Kindly don't try to internationalise whatever quarrel you have with your nonChristian fellow citizens. In the end it will prove counterproductive. You may reap the satisfaction of having embarrassed sed ...
• Newstoday
  • Reconversion stuns Bihar missionaries   The Newstime - February 7, 1999
  >>>As many as 600 members of 128 families of tribals in Palamu district of south Bihar have been motivated into returning to the Hindu fold by activities of Vanvasi Kalyan Kendra, said to be a front organisation of the Sangh Parivar. ...
• Observer Political Bureau
  • BJP campaign to project Government's achievements   The Observer - February 10, 1999
  >>>Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government's record was hundred times better than any Government in the past, the BJP said that there was a need to project its achievements properly among certain sections of the people. ...
• Observer Political Bureau/ Agencies
  • =27Attack_on_minorities_a_ploy_to_defame_BJP=27?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:19:27 -0000   The Observer - February 1, 1999
  >>>BJP President Kushabhau Thakre said that the 'campaign' against minorities in the country was part of a 'conspiracy' to defame the BJP to Government headed by it and ruled out involvement of the Sangh Parivar outfits like the VHP and Bajrang Dal in the recent violence against Christians.
• Political Bureau
  • Fraud, lure, fear used for conversion: Govindacharya   The Economic Times - February 11, 1999
  >>>In what could jettison Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's efforts to spruce up lets government's image which got a battering after the attacks on Christians in Orissa and Gujarat, the conservative core of the BJP has rejected the demand for a moderation in its stance. ...
• Posted By Ashok Chowgule
  • Muslim intellectuals welcome visa for Rushdie, but say timing is improper   The Times of India - February 10, 1999
  >>>Opinion is divided among Muslim intellectuals over a visa being granted to Salman Rushdie. "The government's decision is absolutely proper," said high court lawyer Iqbal Chagla, pointing out that India was a free and democratic country.
  • Christian Arrested for Mandasaru Christian Killings   The Indian Express - February 10, 1999
  >>>Bhuvaneswar - Ranjan Pradhan, a Christian, was Tuesday arrested on the charge of killing a girl and a boy of the same community in Orissa on Sunday and has confessed to the crime, the state's home secretary Sanjeev Hota said here. The motive of the murder was found to be rape, he told PTI adding the assailant, who attempted to rape Sunita Nayak of ...
• Posted By Krishnakant Udavant
  • Central mulls role in curbing infiltration   The Telegraph - February 3, 1999
  >>>The Centre is considering whether to enforce the Foreigners' Act of 1946 on its own to stem the tide of illegal migrants from Bangladesh into India. According to senior home ministry officials, this is just one of ...
  • Salman Rushdie granted visa to visit India   The Times of India - February 5, 1999
  >>>British author Salman Rushdie has been granted a visa to visit India for the first time since the late 1980s when New Delhi had banned his book, The Satanic Verses, BBC radio reported on Thursday. ...
  • A symbol of true Indian tradition   The Observer - February 2, 1999
  >>>A meeting was held to condole the death of Shri Ram Swarup at Constitution Club, Delhi, on January 6, 1999. Several prominent leaders paid tributes to this great son of India. Paying his tributes to the departed soul home minister ...
  • Hinduism & Semitic faiths   The Observer - February 2, 1999
  >>>The fellows excerpt has been taken from Shri Ram Swarup's chapter, 'Hinduism vis-a-vis Christianity and Islam', in Politics of Conversion edited by Devendra Swarup (Deendayal Research Institute, New Delhi: 1986) ...
  • Gandhiji on conversion of Harijan   Organiser - January 24, 1999
  >>>Menace of conversions ...Untouchability is one of the most vulnerable points of the Hindu society. As ...
  • VHP will counter evil designs of missionaries: Dalmia   The Observer - January 14, 1999
  >>>While the Christians are accusing Sangh Parivar for attacking Minorities, President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Vishnu Hari Dalmia is blaming the Church for spreading malignity against Sangh Parivar "to tarnish the image of the BJP governments." ...
• Pranava K Chaudhary
  • Journalists sent on a trip to PWG hideout   The Times of India - February 3, 1999
  >>>The CPI-ML (Liberation) on Monday disclosed that the state government had 'recently sponsored the trip of a select group of journalists to a Peoples' War Group (PWG) hideout in Jehanabad village in order to diffuse the seriousness of the Shankarbigha carnage.
• S. Gurumurthy
  • They still exist, tall men, sun-crowned, to be counted   The Observer - January 20, 1999
  >>>The press, the TV, the politicians, and the church are almost conclusive in their views; nearly unanimous that Christians in Dangs district in Gujarat are being set upon by Hindus; as if a Hindu pogrom is on against the Christians; as if the 'secular' character of the nation is in danger. Not to be left out, the ...
• Saira Menezes and Venu Menon
  • The zealots who would inherit (and a response)   Outlook - February 22, 1999
  >>>Note: The response is given first followed by the article. From: Ashok Chowgule President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (Maharashtra) ...
• Sandhya Jain
  • Double-speak, dubious intentions   The Pioneer - February 2, 1999
  >>>One can only applaud the courtesy and forbearance of the priests and trustees of Tirupati Tirumalai Devasthanam in the face Congress president Sonia Gandhi's arrogant refusal to sign the register affirming belief in the Hindu faith. Such catholicism is the essence of the Sanatan Dharma (the eternal way of life) ...
  • Hindu tradition is catholic, Mr PM   The Pioneer - January 8, 1999
  >>>"O dharma, how hard it is to understand your essence. Only you know who protects you and who destroys you." Ishwar Chandra Vidvasagar's pensive dirge may be taken as a ...
  • Conversions: Bearing false witness   The Pioneer - January 19, 1999
  >>>At least one Biblical injunction-Thou shalt not bear false witness against the neighbour-has been so badly mauled in Gujarat that one cannot but feel the urgency for a mature debate on conversions, as suggested by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Thankfully, church leaders have not refused to ...
• Sanjay Sharma
  • Christians seek security as ashram plans reconversion   The Observer - February 13, 1999
  >>>The Madhya Pradesh State administration is heading for an acid test in the next few days with the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram planning a 'mass reconversion drive' on February 14, and the Christians preparing themselves for a five-day annual fair from February 17.
• Shabnam Minwalla
  • Linking history to a specific territory restricts its scope   The Times of India - February 2, 1999
  >>>The sins of the colonisers, Leslie Gunawardana maintains, are being visited upon their former subjects. The sometimes careless, sometimes calculated Western interpretations of the history of the sub- continent have left behind deep schisms - of which the Sri Lankan conflict is just one tragic example.
• Sharad Gupta
  • The allies cannot be told to love us and love our friends (interview with M. Venkaiah)   The Indian Express - February 3, 1999
  >>>Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary M. Venkaiah Naidu was recently given an additional responsibility - coordinating between the party and the government. Party insiders think the difficult job is made easy because of Naidu's rapport with senior leaders in the party and the government. Sharad Gupta ...
• Shikha Mukerjee
  • Ramakrishna Mission gets Gandhi Peace Prize   The Times of India - February 14, 1999
  >>>The Gandhi Peace Prize, India's highest honour, was awarded for the first time to an institution - Ramakrishna Mission. In a solemn ceremony, President K.R. Narayanan presented the citation, plaque and Rs 1 crore prize to Swami Ranganathananda, the newly appointed chief of the over a century-old order ...
• Srinand Jha
  • Insurgency in J&K: Signed, sealed and stamped   The Observer - February 1, 1999
  >>>One has heard of donation coupons for causes such as the Red Cross function and the Army Flag Day, but in the insurgencyridden Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), such coupons are being used by militant organisations to collect funds for destructive causes. ...
• Sujit Chakraborty
  • 45,000 Reangs hounded by Church to rootless existence   The Observer - February 8, 1999
  >>>Mizoram has shut its doors to any possible return of over 45,000 Reang migrants who had to flee to neighbouring Tripura and Assam to escape mainly Christian missionary-backed atrocities and forcible conversions. ...
• T K Devasia
  • Marxists=27_=27manifesto=27_is_terror_and_intim? idation?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:12:44 -0000   The Observer - February 6, 1999
  >>>The Marxists, who control power in Kerala, have made life hell for a man who came from Karl Marx's own country and has settled down in a village in the State's northern district of Wayanad with his Malayalee wife and child. ...
• The Asian Age
  • Baptist priest held in fake currency racket   Manoj Anand - January 29, 1999
  >>>A Baptist priest posted as secretary of Diphupan church in Nagaland was arrested recently by the Guwahati police for his involvement in a fake currency racket. Bendeng Temjen Jamir, secretary of the Diphupan Baptist mission, ...
• The Observer
  • The man behind RSS   Rashmi Das - January 30, 1999
  >>>The secularist tradition of writing history took great pains to obscure from public notice, persons, events and totems which were representative of the Hindu psyche. This fact is exposed by G S Hingle in his book Hindutva Reawakened in which he attempts to undertake the project of interpreting history in the ...
• The Times of India
  • The saffron Tricolour (Question and Answer with K N Govindacharya)   (no publication) - January 30, 1999
  >>>The term ideologue has become hackneyed for having been used again and again in connection with BJP general secretary K N Govindacharya. Yet, no other description would do him justice. V P Singh once said of him that with him around, the BJP doesn't need a computer Indeed, ask Govindacharya and he will tell you - ...
  • China shuts down Buddhist monastery, nunnery in Tibet   (no publication) - January 30, 1999
  >>>Chinese authorities have closed a 700-year-old Buddhist monastery and an 800-year-old nunnery in Tibet after the clergy rebuffed orders to denounce the Dalai Lama, a monitoring group has reported. ...
• Varsha Bhosle
  • The preying Church   Rediff on the Net - January 21, 1999
  >>>Feelin' goo-ood... When both opposing factions get mad at an observer, s/he can be sure of being on the right track. OTOH, the Omniscient never need to bother about infractions committed in the name of secularism - for there's never any. Not even the Shah Bane amendment. For, Nehruvian secularism is Infallible.
• Vinayanand Jha
  • George opposes politicisation of attack on Christians   The Times of India - January 22, 1999
  >>>Samata Party's national president and Union defence minister George Fernandes said here on Wednesday that treatment meted out to Christians in Gujarat was ,wrong' and 'unconstitutional' and it was the duty of the government of that state to curb such incidents and apprehend the culprits. But he did not appreciate ...
• Virendra Parekh
  • Stop conversions before talking about convergence   The Observer - January 23, 1999
  >>>So devious are the means and arguments employed by missionaries and their apologists that one should be grateful to them when they make a single candid statement about their intentions and practices. We are, therefore, grateful to Rajendra Prabhu (The Observer, 14 & ...
• Yashwant Raj
  • Christian newsletter adds fuel to row   The Times of India - January 21, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: A Christian organisation's newsletter has, by falling into the "wrong" hands, added fuel to the conversion controversy for its use of certain words to describe its religious activity in the country. ...
• Yogesh Pawar
  • Priest in Ambernath held for attempts at 'exorcism'   The Indian Express - February 10, 1999
  >>>An evangelical priest George David Manuel (48) was arrested by Ambernath police today following a complaint that he had burnt portraits of Hindu gods and goddesses, to exorcise evil. He has been booked under Section 295 of Indian Penal Code. ...

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