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- 3_ISI_=27recruiting=27_agents_nabbed?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:24:17 -0000
- 45,000 Reangs hounded by Church to rootless existence
- Sujit Chakraborty
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.
...
- =27Attack_on_minorities_a_ploy_to_defame_BJP=27?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:19:27 -0000
- Observer Political Bureau/ Agencies
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.
- A break with the past
- Kanchan Gupta
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.
...
- A broad look at debate over 'Fire'
- A symbol of true Indian tradition
- An aberration, but unpardonable
- Dina Nath Mishra
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.
...
- Bajrang Dal to sue Sonia
- Express News Service
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.
- Baptist priest held in fake currency racket
- The Asian Age
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,
...
- BJP campaign to project Government's achievements
- Observer Political Bureau
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.
...
- Boundaries of faith
- M. V. Kamath
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
...
- Bukhari protests visa for Rushdie
- Agencies
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
...
- Central mulls role in curbing infiltration
- China shuts down Buddhist monastery, nunnery in Tibet
- Christian Arrested for Mandasaru Christian Killings
- Posted By Ashok Chowgule 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
...
- Christian newsletter adds fuel to row
- Yashwant Raj
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.
...
- Christians seek security as ashram plans reconversion
- Sanjay Sharma
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.
- Conversion row: US should not interfere
- M. V. Kamath
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
...
- Conversions: Bearing false witness
- Sandhya Jain
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
...
- Cut, Paste and preserve their calumny
- Arun Shourie
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
...
- Discrepancies in nun rape case continue to vex police
- Imran Khan
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.
- Don=27t_mix_politics_=26_religion=3A_Kanchi_see? r?Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:04:13 -0000
- Express News Service
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.
...
- Double-speak, dubious intentions
- Sandhya Jain
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)
...
- Electoral pressures force Basu to take BJP line on illegal immigrants issue
- Arup Chanda
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
...
- 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
...
- Fraud, lure, fear used for conversion: Govindacharya
- Political Bureau
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.
...
- Gandhiji on conversion of Harijan
- George opposes politicisation of attack on Christians
- Vinayanand Jha
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
...
- Hindu tradition is catholic, Mr PM
- Sandhya Jain
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
...
- Hinduism & Semitic faiths
- Insurgency in J&K: Signed, sealed and stamped
- Srinand Jha
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.
...
- Is English media biased against BJP?
- M. V. Kamath
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
...
- Journalists sent on a trip to PWG hideout
- Pranava K Chaudhary
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.
- Linking history to a specific territory restricts its scope
- Shabnam Minwalla
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.
- Marxists=27_=27manifesto=27_is_terror_and_intim? idation?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:12:44 -0000
- T K Devasia
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.
...
- Metamorphosis
- Editorial
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
...
- Mr Prabhu, wait. Every word of mine is based on judicial findings
- Gurumurthy
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
...
- Muslim intellectuals welcome visa for Rushdie, but say timing is improper
- No threat to Christians
- A. R. Kanangi
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.
- Priest in Ambernath held for attempts at 'exorcism'
- Yogesh Pawar
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.
...
- Propaganda against Hinduism
- Ram Swarup: The wittiest mind
- Koenraad Elst
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.
...
- Ramakrishna Mission gets Gandhi Peace Prize
- Shikha Mukerjee
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
...
- Reconversion stuns Bihar missionaries
- Newstoday
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.
...
- Salman Rushdie granted visa to visit India
- Sonia's Tirupati trip raises VHP hackles
- Express News Service
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
...
- Sonia=27s_Tirupati_prayer?Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:04:33 -0000
- Editorial
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,
...
- Stop conversions
- Stop conversions before talking about convergence
- Virendra Parekh
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 &
...
- The allies cannot be told to love us and love our friends (interview with M. Venkaiah)
- Sharad Gupta
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
...
- The man behind RSS
- The Observer
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 preying Church
- Varsha Bhosle
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.
- The question of artistic freedom
- Keshav Rao Jadhav
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
...
- The saffron Tricolour (Question and Answer with K N Govindacharya)
- The Times of India
(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 -
...
- The zealots who would inherit (and a response)
- They still exist, tall men, sun-crowned, to be counted
- S. Gurumurthy
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
...
- VHP will counter evil designs of missionaries: Dalmia
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant 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."
...
- Young criminals become foot soldiers in Holy War
- J Dey
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.
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