This Months Article

Starting: Sat Apr 1, 2000
Ending: Sun Apr 30, 2000

Messages: 72

• Lefts hidden agenda exposed
• Meenakshi Jain - The Weekend Observer - April 1, 2000
>>> THE fraternity of leftist historians is understandably incensed at the public exposure of its duplicitous handling of the Towards Freedom project. Several decades of unchallenged academic dominance have rendered it unaccustomed to dissent, much less to a frontal assault on its invention of historical events. ......
 
• Islamic Militants Undaunted by Clinton Rebuff on Kashmir - Insurgents Say Holy War Will Escalate
• Pamela Constable - Washington Post  - April 2, 2000
>>> Except for the black saber painted on the entrance sign, this sprawling rural complex could be the campus of a thriving agricultural college. New brick buildings are rising among healthy wheat fields and shallow fish-breeding ponds. Students lounge on the grass, and workers toss grain into tractor carts. ......
 
• Musharraf: 'Differences with US'
• Geraldine Carroll - BBC News - April 3, 2000
>>> Pakistan's military leader, General Pervez Musharraf, has warned that deep differences remain with the United States on key issues concerning security. ......
 
• Kidnapped RSS pracharaks plead for help
• Nitin Gogoi - Rediff on Net - April 3, 2000
>>> The four Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharaks abducted by an insurgent group in the northeastern state of Tripura have written to their colleagues stating that they are alive, but under great physical and mental stress. ......
 
• Vajpayee's poems cost Pak writer dear
• The Times of India - April 4, 2000
>>> Pakistani writer Aftab Hussain has taken refuge here after fleeing his country, following harassment by the military regime of Gen.  Pervez Musharaff for publishing the translated version of a book written by Prime Minister Vajpayee.  Hussain, who also refused to implicate the ousted premier of his country, Nawaz Sharif, on Monday said he had no option but to leave Pakistan. ......
 
• Brahmins were not iconoclasts
• Meenakshi Jain - The Hindustan Times - April 3, 2000
>>> Frightened by the growing avalanche of archeological evidence, which threatens to pulverize Marxist historiography, the desperation of leftist academics to salvage their rendition of the past is entirely understandable. ......
 
• Central Asia is new hotspot for fundamentalists
• The Times of India - April 4, 2000
>>> After burning their fingers in Chechnya, Afghanistan and Pakistan, trained mercenaries are seeking fresh pastures to export their brand of 'fundamentalism', with Tajikistan, Kazhakastan and Kyrgyztan, emerging as the their new hotspots. ......
 
• Saffron socialism
• K.M.  Shrimali - The Hindustan Times - April 7, 2000
>>> I remember it was in 1967.  Blitz, then quite a well known weekly of Bombay, had created an enormous aura around the young David called George Fernandes who had defeated S.K.  Patil the Goliath to become an MP.  The famous Vivekananda Hall of the Delhi School of Economics in the campus was packed to its capacity .......
 
• Comrades in arms
• Rakesh Sinha - The Hindustan Times - April 11, 2000
>>> The agony of K.M. Shrimali (Saffron socialism, April 7, The Hindustan Times) can be well understood. He is not alone among those who have been fervently wishing a 1979-type action replay by the socialists in the National Democratic Alliance. .......
 
• ISI agent shot dead in Andhra Pradesh
• Rediff on Net - April 7, 2000
>>> The Andhra Pradesh police claim to have shot dead an agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Thursday evening in Jagityal town of Karimnagar district. .......
 
• End the menace of terrorism!
• Major General Ashok K Mehta (retd) - Rediff on Net - April 7, 2000
>>> We have the will and the means to end this menace, was the warning given to Pakistan by Prime Minister Vajpayee at the joint press conference with President Bill Clinton following the Sikh massacre. This belated declaration of intent and capability rings hollow against the background of the decade-long proxy war which has thrived because it has gone unpunished. The will and ways to end the menace of terrorism were forfeited when the Indian State failed to strike at the source and roots of insurgency across the LoC in the early 90s. .......
 
• A General scorned
• T V R Shenoy - Rediff on Net - April 7, 2000
>>> General Pervez Musharraf is a supremely tactless individual. Soon after he kicked out Nawaz Sharif, the self-appointed 'chief executive' of Pakistan compared himself to Kemal Ataturk. This annoyed the Islamic fundamentalists in his own country. Not very surprising given that the great Turkish leader was renowned for his aggressive attempts to  .......
 
• Three Muslims embrace Hinduism
• The Deccan Chronicle - April 7, 2000
>>> Tiruvanantapuram - Amid tight security and chanting of mantras, young Muslim scholar Hassan Palakkode and two others, including a woman, on Thursday embraced Hinduism at a ceremony held here according to vedic rites. After the "ganapathi homam" and purification ceremony, the trio, Hassan Palakkode, Akbar and Jama, were formally converted to Hinduism and adopted new names Kamala Hassan, Raju and Uma respectively.  .......
 
• Bourses off Course
• Jay Bhattacharjee - The Times of India - April 8, 2000
>>> The decline in stock prices in the country's capital markets recently has understandably caused widespread panic and dismay among ordinary Indian investors as well as in official circles. There has been the usual postmortems in the print media and the electronic talking shops. Yet, one of the basic factors and possibly the root cause of the current crisis has hardly been discussed. .......
 
• Hyderabad jeweller killed by fundamentalists
• The Times of India News Service - The Times of India - April 9, 2000
>>> No arrests had  been  made till  Saturday in  the case  of jeweller Mahaveer Prasad Modi's murder on Thursday night. Mr Modi was shot at point blank range in his shop in the crowded Siddiambazar area here. .......
 
• Clinton's message to Pakistan
• M.B. Naqvi - Dawn, Karachi - April 9, 2000
>>> THE people of Pakistan had better concentrate on what Bill Clinton said and how he said it on TV. What he may have told in private to Gen. Musharraf is less relevant. The US president chose to speak to the people of Pakistan directly and whatever his personal motivation, he came off as an earnest well-wisher of Pakistan. .......
 
• Cancel Rushdie visa, Muslims tell govt
• Rediff on Net - April 10, 2000
>>> The All-India Muslim Unity Forum has criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government for giving visa to controversial writer Salman Rushdie who is to attend the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in New Delhi on April 14. .......
 
• Indian nationalism cannot be anti-Hindu
• Sandhya Jain - The Pioneer - April 11, 2000
>>> Even as the Centre dithers over whether or not to bring out a White Paper on ISI activities in India and whether or not to call a halt to the Samjhauta Express and Lahore bus service which have seriously compromised the country's security and the integrity of its currency, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has once again displayed a painful .......
 
• 'God shows the light, but you have to find the way yourself'
• Roli Srivastava - The Times of India - April 11, 2000
>>> "Rocks fascinate me," he exclaims with a glint in his eye, and quickly opens a wooden cabinet. Rummaging its contents, he retrieves a green and a brown piece of rock, and with child-like enthusiasm coaxes, "See them closely. How uneven and unattractive they are". .......
 
• FIIs bring taxmen to their knees
• Ashok Mahajan - The Observer of Business and Politics - April 12, 2000
>>> LAST week was a hectic time on the littoral of the bourses. Stocks sank and rose unprecedentedly caught between wild upheavals - the neap tides and spring tides of trading. April 4th turned out to be a Black Tuesday on Wall Street where Nasdaq nosedived 350 points, consequent to the adverse verdict pronounced against Bill Gates' Corporation. ........
 
• Prostrating at the FII altar
• Olga Tellis - The Observer of Business and Politics - April 11, 2000
>>> IT is interesting to watch how the alleged match-fixing by the Indian bookies in collaboration with South Africa's cricket captain Hansie Cronje is developing. And maybe one would like to take a bet that the world and its Indian chamchas in politics, business and the media will soon say that if India continues to treat foreign cricket teams in this manner then foreign teams will have to rethink about coming to play on Indian soil!  ........
 
• Women's panel pitches for triple talaq ban
• The Telegraph - April 4, 2000
>>> Stoking the debate on Muslim Personal Law, the National Commission for Women (NCW) today demanded a banning of verbal talaq that leads to instant divorce. "This is the commission's first report on a minority community and our public hearings revealed that Muslim women are suffering because of the practice of triple talaq," NCW chairperson Vibha Parthasarathy said. .......
 
• Mahanta presents proof of ISI mischief
• The Hindu - April 7, 2000
>>> The Assam Assembly today was told in detail the nature and extent of ISI activities in the State by the Chief Minister, Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. .......
 
• Secular Arjun passed UP-type religion bill in '84
• Shubhabrata Bhattacharya - The Asian Age - April 11, 2000
>>> The most self-proclaimed secular Congress leader, Mr Arjun Singh, had as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1984 presided over the passing of a legislation similar to the one piloted by Uttar Pradesh's RSS chief minister, Mr Ram Prakash Gupta. .......
 
• Sonia to Digvijay: Consult religious leaders on '84 bill
• Shahid Faridi - The Asian Age - April 12, 2000
>>> Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh to convene a meeting of religious leaders of the state to discuss the Religious Places Act passed in the state in 1984 under Mr. Arjun Singh's chief ministership. .......
 
• Indians rank high on 'happiness barometer', second only to Americans: survey
• K. Balakrishnan - The Times of India - April 14, 2000
>>> "Happiness is the end for which human beings are designed," said Aristotle. The question of how well this end is being served in human societies around the world was the object of a 22-nation survey undertaken by Roper Starch Worldwide, the international market research agency, and its associates in India, ORG-MARG. .......
 
• Fear grips missionary schools in Mathura, Agra
• Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui - The Times of India - April 14, 2000
>>> A sense of fear and grave apprehension has descended upon all Christian mission-run schools in Mathura and Agra district following a string of attacks on priests and nuns. Since March 31, at least five convent schools run by Christian missionaries were ransacked in Mathura and Agra districts, leaving many injured and property ransacked. .......
 
• RSS irked over shelving of temple, Article 370 issues
• The Times of India - April 14, 2000
>>> The growing indiscipline within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the shelving of core issues like the Ayodhya temple and scrapping of Article 370 have started worrying the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The Sangh's unhappiness on this score is abundantly reflected in the latest issue of its mouthpiece Panchajanya. .......
 
• Mission Hindutva: VHP reconverts 50 tribals in Bengal
• The Asian Age - April 14, 2000
>>> In yet another religious conversion drive by the VHP, about 50 tribespeople, including Christians, made a symbolic return to their original faith by pouring milk and paddy into a blazing ritual fire in a remote village of West Bengal. .......
 
• Jagmohan weeds out 'rootless politicians'
• Harish Gupta - The Indian Express - April 15, 2000
>>> After taking on the builder-bureaucrat mafia thriving in posh Delhi colonies and sending eviction squads after politicians overstaying in government bungalows, Union Urban Affairs Minister Jagmohan is now trying to rid Sapru House of what he calls 'rootless politicians'. .......
 
• INDIA Vs PAKISTAN - Contrasts In Social Development
• Sultan Shahin - The Observer of Business and Politics - April 14, 2000
>>> MS Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of the deposed Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, jolted public opinion in India recently by comparing the political systems of the two countries and observing that India was much more civilised. For the wife of a politician in detention facing charges that could lead to capital punishment, this was indeed an act of great political daring. But this must have come quite easily to her because comparisons with India in every field are a way of life in Pakistan. .......
 
• Illegal migration from Bangla still on despite checks
• Manoj Anand - The Asian Age - April 14, 2000
>>> The deployment of the BSF and the fencing on western frontier of Assam, specially to check the influx from Bangladesh, is totally ineffective with unabated flow of migrants from across the border making a mockery of the process of checking the infiltration. .......
 
• Clinton admits India visit spurred Sikh massacre in J&K
• C. K. Arora - Rediff On Net - April 15, 2000
>>> United States President Bill Clinton has openly acknowledged that his visit to India and Pakistan last month was the driving force for the massacre of 35 "perfectly innocent" Sikhs in Village Chatti Singhpora in Kashmir. .......
 
• "I told them that I was a devout Hindu and nothing would change that"
• The Hindustan Times - April 15, 2000
>>> Radiating joy emanating from the sweet taste of freedom, Roop Lal arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport this evening. He had a gleam to his eyes as he was wheeled out of flight PK-270. Over 25 years of incarceration, repeated torture and a paralytic attack in Pakistan had not robbed him of his vitality. .......
 
• Clinton attributes Sikh killings to his visit
• TV Parasuram  - The Economic Times - April 16, 2000
>>> The US President Bill Clinton has said the massacre of 35 Sikhs in Chattisinghpura in Jammu and Kashmir on March 20 was carried out because he was visiting India and was perpetrated by those who do not want the turmoil in the state to be eased. .......
 
• 'Grand alliance' in Bengal may not work, say former PMs
• The Times of India News Service  - The Times of India  - April 16, 2000
>>> The "mahajot" or the grand alliance being forged in West Bengal could muster up to 60 per cent of the popular vote. But this arithmetic may not work in the elections due next year, four former prime ministers-Chandra Shekhar, V.P. Singh, H.D. Deve Gowda and I K Gujral-have warned. .......
 
• Who Called the Dotbusters?
• Nandini Basu Bandopadhyay  - Outlook  - April 17, 2000
>>> What happens when the world's third richest nation seeks help from one of the poorest? All hell breaks loose. That is what happened when German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called on IT professionals, mainly from India and East European countries, to plug the yawning gaps in hi-tech industries in his country. Almost immediately, politicians, trade unions and ordinary Germans cried foul. And, uncharitably enough, Indians became their favourite target. .......
 
• A captain you can bet on
• Mark Manuel - Afternoon Despatch and Courier  - April 18, 2000
>>> The calling from Pune, this reader burdened by anxiety for disgraced South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje. And he was calling because he believed it was the Christian thing to do. The call came when I was having coffee with an advertising friend who had met with Cronje for the J Hampstead ads and was now defending him hotly. .......
 
• 'Church backing Tripura rebels'
• Subir Bhaumik in Calcutta - BBC News  - April 18, 2000
>>> The government in India's north-eastern state of Tripura says it has evidence that the state's Baptist Church is involved in backing separatist rebels. .......
 
• Curtained lives and stifled voices
• Pamela Philipose - The Indian Express  - April 18, 2000
>>> The purdah works both ways. It locks lives in, it locks lives out. Muslimwomen are truly the twice-forgotten, the minority within the minority. Whilestereotypes often based on prejudice proliferate, there is very littleaccurate knowledge about a community of women that number some 60 million.What are the specific problems they face? How do they cope with them? Whatare the safeguards provided by the law with regard to these women? Howeffectively are these laws being implemented? .......
 
• Change in the air
• Pamela Philipose - The Indian Express  - April 19, 2000
>>> Pathan Shamim is a taxi driver and thinks nothing of driving for 17 hours ata stretch. She is 30-year-old divorcee, wears her hair in a plait, andsupports her son by plying her vehicle between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Shamimwas one of the Muslim women who testified at the public hearing organised bythe National Commission for Women (NCW) February. She explained why she doesnot wear a burqa: ``Purdah is not about wearing a burqa; it is about modestyand dignity in one's own eyes.'' .......
 
• Respect For Other Religions
• Anees Jillani - Jung  - April 6, 2000
>>> There lives even now a Hindu owner of a middle-sized Hotel in New Delhi who has a Muslim wife. She was married at the time of partition, was abducted, raped but later rescued by the armed forces. Her Muslim husband who had by then migrated to Pakistan was contacted by organisations handling repatriation of such women .......
 
• Secular Arjun passed UP-type religion bill in '84
• Shubhabrata Bhattacharya - The Asian Age  - April 11, 2000
>>> The most self-proclaimed secular Congress leader, Mr Arjun Singh, had as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1984 presided over the passing of a legislation similar to the one piloted by Uttar Pradesh's RSS chief minister, Mr Ram Prakash Gupta. .......
 
• Indira to Gowda It was Bomb All the Way
• K Subrahmanyam - The Times of India  - April 17, 2000
>>> THREE recent publications have unravelled the mystery surrounding the Indian nuclear weapons programme. Taken together they help to build a national consensus on the Indian nuclear policy both in respect of nuclear arsenal and the international arms control arrangements acceptable to the country. .......
 
• Putin to West: Wake up or pay heavy price
• Vijay Dutt - The Hindustan Times  - April 19, 2000
>>> The 60-odd, mostly British Muslims, protesters outside 10, Downing Street where Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting Mr Tony Blair, must have been shocked at the almost threatening retort by the former KGB agent against critics of his Chechnya policy. His less than 24-hour visit has caused much shivers among both Muslim fundamentalists and western leaders. .......
 
• We the people
• M V Kamath - Mid-Day  - April 20, 2000
>>> A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege - and the pleasure - of being invited to meet Lord Carrington, former secretary general of NATO and former secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs and minister of overseas development. In his years of public life - he is now 81 - he has held so many important positions that his CV could fill a whole book. But the man himself is so unpretentious that he could well have been your next door neighbour. .......
 
• Immigration storm hits Britain
• Reuters - The Indian Express  - April 20, 2000
>>> Britain sailed into a new storm over immigration on Tuesday with a call by the Opposition Conservatives to hold asylum seekers under lock and key. .......
 
• Rootless Congress cries 'headless'
• Sandhya Jain - The Pioneer  - April 25, 2000
>>> The growing disillusionment of the Congress with Sonia Gandhi's uninspiring leadership and the inner party centralism sponsored by her coterie, is a classic instance of mistaking the symptom for the disease. Congress has been rootless for far longer than it has been headless, and it is surprising that the party has not woken up to this fact even in its present crisis. In one sense, Sonia Gandhi is merely incidental to the malaise gripping the party, and it would be unfair to apportion all blame to her in the absence of meaningful introspection from other leaders with claims to intellectual eminence and grassroots support. .......
 
• Darbar for TERRORISTS
• Shah Imran Ahmed - Rashtriya Sahara  - April, 2000
>>> The Himalayan kingdom has become a dangerous staging ground and haven for terror and ISI activities against India. .......
 
• Ram over Babar: Is Narasimha Rao preparing to do a deal with militant Hindus?
• Aditi Phadnis - The Sunday  - October 10, 1992
>>> An exercise has begun in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to hand over Ayodhya to the Hindus. At least, this is the impression gathered by senior journalists and political leaders who have met Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and key officials in his secretariat over the last few weeks. .......
 
• Why Sangh?
• Ma. Shripati Shastryji - Amar Bharati  - April 2000
>>> The Sangh started by P.P.Doctorji in 1925 has expanded all over Bharat upto Tehsil level. Here in Kenya too Sangh has been working for the last 50 years. Once Pt. Nehru went to Manali in Himalayas, for a holiday. It was winter. He was taking early morning walk. He thought he was alone, when suddenly he saw a prabhat shakha in action and exclaimed," Have they come upto here?" .......
 
• Government of the comrade
• BJP Today  - April 16-30, 2000
>>> Loud protests were made over the Gujarat government's decision to lift the ban on government employees joining the RSS.  The  proceedings of parliament have been stalled for days together. Rallies and demonstrations have been organised by the different political parties. The loudest voice of protest belonged to Congress-men. It is however understandable because the word RSS is anathema to them. The chorus against the BJP government was joined by the CPM and other Left Parties with all the power in their lungs. .......
 
• Nine Questions
• Hinduism Today  - May/June, 2000
>>> Back in the spring of 1990, A group of teenagers from the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont, sent a formal request to HINDUISM TODAY's publisher, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, for "official answers"  to nine questions they had been commonly asked about their religious heritage by their American peers.  These same questions  had  perplexed the Hindu youth themselves, and their parents, they confided, had no convincing answers.  HINDUISM TODAY took up the challenge and provided the following answers to the nine questions. We begin with advice on the attitudes to hold when responding. .......
 
• Pope's apology of an apology
• R.C. Batura - The Organiser  - April 23, 2000
>>> Pope John Paul II has been going places associated with Jesus Christ. Last month (March 21-26) he was in the Middle East. Apart from paying obeisance at Bethlehem, Jesus' birth-place, the Catholic pontiff also visited holy places associated with Muslims and Jews and offered his regrets and apology for the atrocities committed by Christians against the followers of Islam and Judaism. .......
 
• Constitutional thugs out to "save" the statute
• Arabinda Ghose - The Organiser  - April 23, 2000
>>> The farcical agitation by the Congress Party on April 14, the birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, to prevent the "saffronisation" of the Constitution of India, by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government can best be compared with the demand by prisoners sentenced to long prison terms for committing heinous crimes for safeguarding their "legitimate" rights inside the jails. .......
 
• Towards Freedom Project
• Rakesh  Sinha - Newstime  - April 20, 2000
>>> The excruciating polemics over the historiography of the freedom struggle is not far fetched. It is somewhat an extension of the dichotomy between the Marxist and liberal- nationalist historians in their interpretations of ancient and medieval Indian history. However, unlike them, the present debate is bound to create wider horizon of participation and interest since the history of the anti -colonial struggle is very much rooted in the nostalgia of the four main ideological or political groupings, the Congress, Communists, socialists and the RSS. .......
 
• Has economic reform bypassed the poor?
• Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar - The Sunday Times of India   - April 23, 2000
>>> Has economic liberalisation failed to reduce poverty? Data from the National Sample Survey (NSS) of households suggest that the proportion of people below the poverty line has remained more or less unchanged around 36 per cent in the 1990s. So several critics have jumped to the conclusion that liberalisation and fast growth have bypassed the poor. .......
 
• They went home to Chicago with mehendi on their palms and teeshirts bedecked with the colours of Holi
• Sameera Khan - The Sunday Times of India   - April 23, 2000
>>> Some weeks ago, high school student Danielle Klinkow, 17, left for India with plenty of warnings from friends and family- "Don't drink the water," "Don't get hijacked or blown up," and "Please, don't come back smelling of curry." .......
 
• Pak agency picks on poor of Nizamabad
• Deccan Chronicle - April 24, 2000
>>> Pakistan's ISI has infiltrated into several pockets in this district by floating various frontal organisations and luring the locals into   carrying   out  subversive  activities  against  the State.According  to intelligence  reports  conveyed to  the State government, the ISI agents have picked on the poverty- stricken  and unemployed Muslims in the district, specially in towns like Nizamabad, Bodhan and Kamareddy. .......
 
• N-debate: PM dares, Sonia stares, Cong cuts sorry figure
• Swaraj Thapa - The Economic Times  - April 26, 2000
>>> Hardpressed over not wanting to trigger a confrontation with senior colleague Pranab Mukherjee, Congress president Sonia Gandhi tied the party in knots on the nuclear deterrence issue today. The party found itself in an embarrassing situation unable to clearly articulate its position on the subject. .......
 
• The Marxist and the Madam
• T.V.R. Shenoy - The Indian Express  - April 27, 2000
>>> If Calcutta sneezes can Thiruvananthapuram escape catching cold? I hopeSonia Gandhi has laid in a giant supply of Vitamin C because the Congress(I), and perhaps the CPI too, seems set for a bad case of the sniffles.Dealing with West Bengal first, I know Congressmen are currently cock-a-hoopabout how Sonia Gan-dhi has nipped a potential rebellion in the bud. I amnot so sure; can Ghani Khan Choudhury draw back from the proposed Mahajotwithout becoming the butt of every satirist in Bengal? .......
 
• Arrested ISI agent played key role in hijacking of IA plane
• DH News Service - Deccan Herald - April 27, 2000
>>> In a breakthrough, the North 24 Parganas district police here arrested an ISI agent, identified as Abdul Jalil alias Bellal Miah from a village close to Bangladesh border, on late Tuesday night. .......
 
• In a sleepy Lahore village, Lashkar trains Kashmir's Mujahideen
• Kamal Siddiqi - The Indian Express - April 27, 2000
>>> ``It costs millions to make a tank but only a few rupees to defend against it,'' says the advertisement for the Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Toiba, which gave advertisements in Pakistan's leading newspapers earlier this year espousing Muslims to pay for the Mujahideen fighting in Kashmir and Chechnya. The advertisement concludes by commenting ``Remember! If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.'' .......
 
• Attacks not communal, says panel
• Shubhabrata Bhattacharya - The Asian Age - April 27, 2000
>>> After visiting the sites where incidents involving Christians were repor-ted in recent days, including over the Easter weekend, the National Commission for Minorities has come to the conclusion that the incidents were not per se communal in nature or in undertone to merit its intervention. .......
 
• All the wrong priorities
• Arvind Lavakare - Rediff on Net - April 27, 2000
>>> The mature and sensitive ones have always known that our so-called national newspapers have a perverse perspective on what constitutes news and national affairs. Our media's total neglect of a report appearing on a BBC News Web site is one more proof of that indictment. .......
 
• Narmada is the only solution, says Keshubhai
• Rajiv Shah - The Times of India - April 28, 2000
>>> Denying reports of starvation deaths, chief minister Keshubhai Patel feels that Narmada is the panacea for a permanent solution to the recurring droughts in Gujarat.  He says there is need to have watershed projects to replenish water, but blames the previous Congress governments for not doing enough on this score leading to overuse of groundwater. .......
 
• Clerics warn against talks with India, harp on jihad
• Munir Ahmed - The Times of India - April 28, 2000
>>> Hundreds of Islamic clerics warned Pakistan's military rulers Thursday against peace talks with India saying jihad or holy war was the only way to settle the protracted Kashmir dispute. .......
 
• Clerics espouse jehad to settle Kashmir row
• The Navhind Times - April 28, 2000
>>> Hundreds of Islamic clerics warned Pakistan's military rulers today against peace talks with India saying jehad or holy war was the only way to settle the Kashmir dispute. .......
 
• The twain can't meet
• T V R Shenoy - Rediff on Net - April 29, 2000
>>> Order. Counter-order. Disorder. That classic trinity sums up Sonia Gandhi's policy vis-à-vis the Congress unit in West Bengal. But we should not allow ourselves to be so distracted by Ghani Khan Choudhury and Signora Gandhi's peculiar shuffle that we forget the rest of the country. I refer specifically to events that are unfolding in the second bastion of the Left Front -- Kerala. .......
 
• 'Imam harming Muslim interests'
• The Hindustan Times - April 29, 2000
>>> Rajya Sabha on Friday witnessed noisy scenes over the reported remarks of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid. .......
 
• South Asia Called Major Terror Hub in a Survey by U.S.
• Judith Miller - The New York Times - April 30, 2000
>>> The State Department has for the first time identified South Asia as a major hub of international terrorism, accusing Pakistan, a traditional American ally, and especially Afghanistan of providing safe haven and support to international terrorist groups. .......
 
• 'All we're asking for is a rightful share'
• The Times of India - April 30, 2000
>>> Former cabinet secretary Zafar Saifullah is now the chairperson of the Movement for the Empowerment of Muslim Indians. He spoke to Jyoti Punwani on the need to bolster the lot of his community. .......
 
 

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