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Starting: Wed 01 Jul 1998 - 22:00:27 EDT
Ending: Wed 29 Jul 1998 - 21:21:07 EDT
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- Ambikanand Sahay
- Arun Shourie
- Causes of demise of Buddhism in India (no publication) - July 24, 1998
>>>"There can be no doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the
invasions of the Musalmans," writes the author. "Islam came out as the enemy
of the 'But'. The word 'But,' as everybody knows, is an Arabic word and
means an idol. Not many people, however, know that the derivation of the
word 'But' is the Arabic corruption of Buddha. Thus the origin of the word
...
- Ashis Nandy
- Epidemic of Nuclearism - Profile of Genocidal Mentality The Times of India
- July 10, 1998
>>>===========================================================Editor's Comment: Nandy has made a serious indictment of the western
society. The United States has had the bomb for 55 years now. So much of
what he writes about the genocidal mentality should apply to it, and one
should see the effects of them in place. Surely the United States should
be a most dangerous place to live. It is amazing...
- Bhaskar Roy
- Biju Mathew
- Dina Nath Mishra
- A strike that failed The Observer
- July 23, 1998
>>>The eight-day postal strike which ended on July 16 was
politically motivated and was part of a strategy to create
uncertainty in the minds of the people about Vajpayee-led
government. The strike achieved nothing. Piles of mailbags heaped
up for more than a week in the head post offices (HPOs). Post and
...
- Good performance despite obstacles The Observer
- July 9, 1998
>>>There seems to be a strong undercurrent among the non-political
citizenry throughout the country that the Vajpayee government is
not being allowed to function by allies like AIADMK and opponents
like Laloo Prasad Yadav, Jyoti Basu and Mulayam Singh. The AIADMK
leader, Jayalalitha, has been delivering shocks to the Vajpayee
...
- Does the CPM own West Bengal? The Observer
- June 25, 1998
>>>The CPM, which has been running a political fiefdom in West
Bengal for about two decades is by far the most worried, among
political parties, by the BJP's arrival at the centre. The
ideological leader in both UF governments, it is now trying to
provide leadership to the entire opposition, including Congress.
- Geroge Iype
- Haima Sukhu
- Music video on Pokhran Asian Age
- July 9, 1998
>>> Mumbai: A psalm in the form of a music video
heralding the indomitability of the Indian spirit and reflecting the joyous
mood and heightened patriotism after the Pokharan nuclear blasts will be
aired on all major television channels from July 10.
...
- K Subrahmanyam
- Nuclear risk reduction key issue for talks The Times of India
- July 27, 1998
>>>During this week's SAARC summit in Colombo, Prime Ministers Atal Bihari
Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif are expected to resume the dialogue between their
two countries. The resumption of dialogue will be in the aftermath of both
India and Pakistan conducting nuclear tests and declaring themselves
nuclear weapon states. In a sense, this could be considered a new
...
- K.P. NAYAR
- Kanchan Gupta
- Hundred days and thrust for news ways to governance Indian Abroad
- July 10, 1998
>>> T a k i n g s t o c k o f a G o v e r n m e n t s p e r f o r
m a n c e d u r i n g i t s f i r s t h u n d r e d d a y s i n
o f f i c e i s s o m e t h i n g u n i q u e l y I n d i a n ,
s o r t o f a f i r s t t e r m e x a m i n a t i o n i n w h
i c h t h e e x a m i n e r s a r e r u t h l e s s l y b r u t a
...
- Kanchan Gupta in Colombo
- Kuldip Nayar
- Blessed are the tyrants Indian Express
- July 7, 1998
>>>Practically every day brings an evidence of America's bias against India.
The latest is that President Clinton wants Beijing to be South Asia's
policeman. New Delhi is right in describing it as a reflection of
"hegemonistic mentality of a bygone era."
...
- M V Kamath
- India can do without N-club membership The Free Press Journal
- July 16, 1998
>>>In his exclusive interview to Malini Parthasarathy of The Hindu,
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State, appeared to be
earnestly addressing himself to the task of narrowing the gap
between the U.S. policy perception and that of south Asia,
particularly India. On the other hand, the Secretary of State, Ms
...
- Promoting US-China ties The Daily
- July 7, 1998
>>>What is the matter with President Bill Clinton that he should so
abjectly consent to eat out of Chinese hands and accept any
humiliation imposed upon him? First, the Chinese insisted that on
his visit to Beijing, Clinton should not make at stop-over in any
other country. This obviously referred to Japan. It is like India
...
- Post-power postures Mid-Day
- July 9, 1998
>>>There is no worse animal in India than a frustrated politician.
And there are so many in this country. There is, for example,
Subramanian Swamy, who has to make news now and then by saying
some revolting and outrageous things.
...
- M. V. Kamath
- Will BJP Government be out of the woods? The Free Press Journal
- July 23, 1998
>>>Poor Congress! Poor United Front! In fact, poor everybody in opposition!
They just do not seem to know what to do. The two Yadavs have 'united' and
Mulayam Yadav and Laloo Prasad Yadav have decided to bury their bloodied
hatchets to form a new party. Ms Mayavati is spending her time trying to
explain that she has no difference with her leader Kanshi Ram.
- M.V. Kamath
- US willing to sell its soul to China The Free Press Journal
- July 2, 1998
>>>Ask any man in the street anywhere in the world which of the two
countries - China and the United States - is more powerful and
the instant reply would be: the United States, of course! And
the reply could not be more wrong. In recent weeks China has
shown without the shadow of doubt that it is the stronger of the
...
- MALCOLM W. BROWNE
- Meenakshi Shedde
- MN Buch
- N Sathiya Moorthy
- N.S. Rajaram
- Pankaj Tuli
- A 'dream tour' of Chandni chowk Hindustan Times
- July 9, 1998
>>> Here's a bit of Arabian Nights stuff fanciful enough to make
Shahjehan turn around in his grave. The idea is to put the
unique 2 km stretch of road, starting from Red Fort down to
the Fatehpuri Masjid on the world tourism map since this is
the only road of its kind that weaves through all the major
...
- Pioneer News Service/New Delhi
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal
- VHP to urge UNO to stop religious conversion UNI
- July 26, 1998
>>> Businessman B K Modi, the newly elected working
president (external) of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, will
represent the organisation in the United Nations. He has
been authorised by the VHP to represent the organisation
and provide direction, guidance and assistance on all
...
- Posted By Editor@ofbjp.org
- Posted By OFBJP Editor
- BJP counsel, at MIT, speaks on budget India Abroad
- July 10, 1998
>>>Boston (USA): Dinesh Vyas, a member of the Indian Supreme Court bar and
legal counsel to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, recently talked on "the
Indian budget and the impact of sanctions on post-nuclear India" at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA on June 21.
The talk was organized by the India Quality Group (a think tank of OFBJP)
...
- Prakash Nanda
- Press Trust of India
- Pritish Nandy
- Prof. B. B. Lal
- Ravindra K Sinha
- History will not forgive Clinton The Observer
- July 15, 1998
>>>Jawaharlal Nehru once said: "Nuclear powers are under a delusion.
Even this mighty source of power is not going to enable the
countries who possess it to Impose their will on other
countries... . Those who desire peace should know once for all
(sic) that there can be no world peace, no equilibrium or
...
- Smeeta Mishra Pandey
- Somasekhar Sundaresan
- Swapan Dasgupta
- Tara Shankar Sahay
- Tavleen Singh
- Nobody loves us India Today
- July 12, 1998
>>> This week finds me in a nationalist mood. Not khaki
knicker-saffron flag BJP chauvinist but nationalist in the
real sense. The mood is due to a combination of
circumstances, general and personal. Heading the general
category is the disgust I felt as I watched on television
...
- Varsha Bhosle
- The great Indian soap opera Rediff on Net
- July 2, 1998
>>> You'll have to agree: last week's been a laugh riot. I'd
thought that I was the only one with an evil mind, but
an e-pal beats me to it. This guy is what I perceive as
The Old Man From The Mountain -- flowing beard, shrewd
twinkling eyes et al -- though he's neither old nor from
...
- Zafar Jung
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