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  • The saffron Tricolour (Question and Answer with K N Govindacharya)    The Times of India - 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    The Times of India - 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. ...
• Deccan Herald
  • The question of artistic freedom    Keshav Rao Jadhav - 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 ...
• 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 ...
• India Abroad
  • A broad look at debate over 'Fire'    Dipak Basu, Montreal, Canada - 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 ...
• Manoj Anand
  • Baptist priest held in fake currency racket    The Asian Age - 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, ...
• Mid-Day
  • Boundaries of faith    M. V. Kamath - 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 ...
• Newstime
  • Sonia=27s_Tirupati_prayer?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:04:33 -0000    Editorial - 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, ...
• Organiser
  • Gandhiji on conversion of Harijan    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - January 24, 1999
  >>>Menace of conversions ...Untouchability is one of the most vulnerable points of the Hindu society. As ...
• Outlook
  • The zealots who would inherit (and a response)    Saira Menezes and Venu Menon - February 22, 1999
  >>>Note: The response is given first followed by the article. From: Ashok Chowgule President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (Maharashtra) ...
• Rashmi Das
  • The man behind RSS    The Observer - 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 ...
• Rediff on the Net
  • A break with the past    Kanchan Gupta - 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. ...
  • The preying Church    Varsha Bhosle - 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.
  • Electoral pressures force Basu to take BJP line on illegal immigrants issue    Arup Chanda - 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 ...
• The Afternoon Despatch & Courier
  • Stop conversions    A. R. Kanangi - 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    A. R. Kanangi - 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.
• The Economic Times
  • Fraud, lure, fear used for conversion: Govindacharya    Political Bureau - 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. ...
• The Free Press Journal
  • Is English media biased against BJP?    M. V. Kamath - 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    M. V. Kamath - 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 ...
• The Indian Express
  • Bukhari protests visa for Rushdie    Agencies - 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 ...
  • 3_ISI_=27recruiting=27_agents_nabbed?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:24:17 -0000    Express News Service - 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) ...
  • Young criminals become foot soldiers in Holy War    J Dey - 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.
  • The allies cannot be told to love us and love our friends (interview with M. Venkaiah)    Sharad Gupta - 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 ...
  • Bajrang Dal to sue Sonia    Express News Service - 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    Express News Service - 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    Express News Service - 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. ...
  • Priest in Ambernath held for attempts at 'exorcism'    Yogesh Pawar - 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. ...
  • Christian Arrested for Mandasaru Christian Killings    Posted By Ashok Chowgule - 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 ...
• The Newstime
  • Reconversion stuns Bihar missionaries    Newstoday - 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. ...
• The Observer
  • Discrepancies in nun rape case continue to vex police    Imran Khan - 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.
  • Christians seek security as ashram plans reconversion    Sanjay Sharma - 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.
  • BJP campaign to project Government's achievements    Observer Political Bureau - 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. ...
  • 45,000 Reangs hounded by Church to rootless existence    Sujit Chakraborty - 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. ...
  • Marxists=27_=27manifesto=27_is_terror_and_intim? idation?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:12:44 -0000    T K Devasia - 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. ...
  • Ram Swarup: The wittiest mind    Koenraad Elst - 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. ...
  • A symbol of true Indian tradition    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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) ...
  • Metamorphosis    Editorial - 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 ...
  • Insurgency in J&K: Signed, sealed and stamped    Srinand Jha - 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. ...
  • =27Attack_on_minorities_a_ploy_to_defame_BJP=27?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:19:27 -0000    Observer Political Bureau/ Agencies - 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.
  • Mr Prabhu, wait. Every word of mine is based on judicial findings    Gurumurthy - 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 ...
  • An aberration, but unpardonable    Dina Nath Mishra - 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. ...
  • They still exist, tall men, sun-crowned, to be counted    S. Gurumurthy - 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 ...
  • Cut, Paste and preserve their calumny    Arun Shourie - 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 ...
  • Propaganda against Hinduism    Dina Nath Mishra - January 21, 1999
  >>>Introduction: In Sonia Gandhi, the West has vested interests for obvious reasons. The Congress working committee resolution of January 16 has ...
  • VHP will counter evil designs of missionaries: Dalmia    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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." ...
  • Stop conversions before talking about convergence    Virendra Parekh - 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 & ...
• The Pioneer
  • Double-speak, dubious intentions    Sandhya Jain - 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    Sandhya Jain - 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    Sandhya Jain - 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 ...
• The Telegraph
  • Central mulls role in curbing infiltration    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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 ...
• The Times of India
  • Ramakrishna Mission gets Gandhi Peace Prize    Shikha Mukerjee - 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 ...
  • Salman Rushdie granted visa to visit India    Posted By Krishnakant Udavant - 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. ...
  • Linking history to a specific territory restricts its scope    Shabnam Minwalla - 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.
  • Journalists sent on a trip to PWG hideout    Pranava K Chaudhary - 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.
  • George opposes politicisation of attack on Christians    Vinayanand Jha - 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 ...
  • Christian newsletter adds fuel to row    Yashwant Raj - 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. ...
  • Muslim intellectuals welcome visa for Rushdie, but say timing is improper    Posted By Ashok Chowgule - 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.

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