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Starting: Tue 02 Feb 1999 - 10:35:26 EST
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- A Balakrishnan
- A. P. Venkateswaran
- Dealing with Pakistan The Hindustan Times
- Feb 20, 1999
>>>There is instant coffee and there is instant tea; but, there is no such thing
as instant diplomacy. Strangely enough, this is the path that India seems to
have opted to take, in trying to achieve an immediate improvement in relations
with Pakistan, through the announcement that Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee will be travelling by the newly-established bus service from Amritsar
...
- Ajay Singh / New Delhi
- Arun Shourie
- On treasuring a moment India Connect
- February 25, 1999
>>>"You have said that this is a historic visit, that this is a defining moment
in the history of South Asia, but what is the substance in these
declarations?," asked the correspondent at the joint press conference of the
Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers in Lahore -- the usual European or
American correspondent, with the usual condescension and derision. But I
...
- Arup Chanda
- Arvind Lavakare
- An unwilling media Rediff on the Net
- February 9, 1999
>>> It has taken a seasoned French journalist to deliver the
much deserved but much-belated sledgehammer blow to the
Indian media. Writing in The Hindustan Times of February
1, 1999, Francois Gautier, the Delhi-based South Asia
correspondent of Le Figaro (France's largest circulated
...
- Bibhuti Mishra
- By Bibhuti Mishra
- David Frawley
- The Missionary Position, Part 1 BJP's Website
- February 17, 1999
>>>Conversion has always been a topic that arouses, if not inflames, our human
emotions. After all, the missionary is trying to persuade a person to
change his religious belief, which concerns the ultimate issues of life and
death, the very meaning of our existence. And the missionary is usually
denigrating the person's current belief, which may represent a strong
...
- Free Press News Service
- George Iype
- H. V. Seshadri
- HT special correspondent
- Interview by Uday Mahurkar
- J Sesha Sai in Port of Spain
- 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.
- Kumkum Chadha
- M V Kamath
- Trivialization of media Mid-day
- February 25 1999
>>>Events are moving so fast that it is hard to keep up with them. There is no
time to sit back, relax and contemplate on the verities of our political
life. So much was written about the killing of an Australian missionary and
his two children, in a remote village in Orissa. Since then there have been
reports of eight people burnt to death in Bihar, 21 shot down, also in that
...
- Selective horror Mid-day
- Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:52:30 -0500
>>>Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government came to power,
the English language media has led a vicious and venomous campaign against
it without let or hindrance. It has been, to say the least, a disgraceful
exercise. Nothing is too mean for the English language press to resort to,
to bring down the BJP government. And may I say that every important
...
- Political hypocrisy Mid-day
- February 17 1999
>>>Two of my favourite characters in contemporary political life are Sonia
Gandhi and Jyoti Basu. I have never known two greater hypocrites in my
life. I do not know Soniaji. Nor do I know what her religion is. All I know
is that she was born of Italian parents who are practising Catholics. From
that I presume that Sonia is also a Catholic and if she remains a
...
- Mahendra Ved
- Mohit Dubey
- Number of poor on decline in PM's constituency! Times of India
- Feb 10, 1999
>>>LUCKNOW: The number of people below the poverty line is on the
decline, and sharply too, in the Prime Minister's constituency.
That is if the records maintained by the Supply department of the
district are to be believed. Officially, the Public Distribution
System has been catering to a sharply declining number of people
...
- N S Rajaram
- Political Bureau
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal
- PTI
- Rajeev Srinivasan
- Death of a Missionary Rediff on net,
- January 29, 1999
>>>None of us can help but condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the
recent burning of an Australian Christian missionary, Graham Stains, and
his two small sons, in a remote Orissa tribal area. There is no greater
fundamental right than the simple right to life; and it is unpardonable
to deny this to anybody, especially two little boys. Stains' skin
...
- Rashme Sehgal
- Saira Menezes and Venu Menon
- The zealots who would inherit Outlook
- February 22, 1999
>>>In 1972, missionary Rita saw a vision of the whole of India as a vast
over-ripe harvest field. There was an urgent call to reap this harvest
before it is too late."
This is the telling opening line of booklets put out by the East West
...
- Sandhya Jain
- Double-speak, dubious intentions BJP Website
- February 3, 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
...
- Shekhar Iyer
- Special Correspondent
- Staff Reporter / New Delhi
- Swapan Dasgupta
- This time the government must not be moved India Today
- February 15, 1999
>>> For India's "nattering nabobs of negativism" -- Spiro
Agnew's evocative description of the liberal underclass - the past week has been truly bewildering. The Government
they love to despise has moved in unexpected ways. First,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee effected a diplomatic coup by offering
g
...
- T V R Shenoy
- TVR Shenoy
- UNI
- Varsha Bhosle
- God is in the details... Rediff on the Net
- February 18, 1999
>>> As I sit to write, the screaming, front-page headline of
The Asian Age catches my eye: RABRI CASTE ASIDE BY BJP.
I'm not surprised by the presentation or the pun; I know
the paper's agenda. My attention has shifted to a tiny
item: "Medical report says nun was not raped." I
...
- Vir Singhavi
- Statesman by night, PM by day The telegraph, Calcutta
- Feb. 16,1999
>>>It is a ritual that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would like
to adhere to on each of his foreign trips. Last November,
in New York, he took a large group of officials for dinner to a
Chinese restaurant. This time, too, Vajpayee made his aides scour
Montego Bay for a suitable Chinese eatery before inviting three
...
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