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Starting: Sun 01 Nov 1998 - 19:44:48 EST
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- Bhaskar Roy
- D. Harikumar, Kochi
- Assaulting India's pluralist ethos The Hindu
- November 6, 1998
>>>Sir, - This has reference to the articles, ssaulting India's
pluralist ethos (The Hindu, Oct. 26) by Ms. Malini
Parthasarathy and "BJP belies hopes of moderation" (The Hindu,
Oct. 28) by Mr. Inder Malhotra. The core of their argument is
that the (so-called) Indianisation, nationalisation and
...
- Debashish Mukerji
- Our students donknow India's The Week
- November 15, 1998
>>>The cabinet minister most closely identified with RSS is
certainly Dr Murli Manohar Joshi. With his prominent tilak, his
angavastram and choti, he still looks the RSS pracharak he had
been for many years. It was widely held that Joshi, a former
physics professor in Allahabad University, was allotted the
...
- Debashish Mukerji
- Education controversy: It is war of ideas The Week
- Nov 15, 1998
>>>If asked what ails education in India most people would point to the
inadequate infrastructure. Too few schools, too few teachers, not
enough outlay on education. For the Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya
Shiksha Sansthan, the education wing of the RSS, however, this is only
part of the problem. More important perhaps is the kind of education
...
- Dina Nath Mishra
- Can Pakistan survive? The Observer
- November 12, 1998
>>>It is no secret that Pakistan's economic and financial conditions
have deteriorated further after the nuclear explosion in May this
year. It is virtually on the brink of collapse. Bill Clinton has
lifted some of the economic sanctions mainly to help Pakistan.
The problem is not confined to this alone. The fact is that the
...
- Basic feature of secularism The Observer
- October 29, 1998
>>>Insulting anything related to the cultural traditions of Hindus
of this country has become a synonym of contemporary secularism
as practised by the opponents of BJP. This was amply demonstrated
in a recently-held conference of the state education ministers
and secretaries when hell broke loose on the melodious recital of
...
- Inder Sawhney
- Interview with MM Joshi
- M. J. Akbar
- High on opinion polls, low on the future The Asian Age
- November 15, 1998
>>>After years of sobriety, the Congress High Command is feeling
high once again: there is nothing more than the faint whiff of
opinion polls in the air and jostling has started for
portfolios. Two polls have put the Congress ahead of the BJP in
the Assembly elections for Delhi and Rajasthan, and even the
...
- M. V. Kamath
- Growing menace of pseudo-secularism Organiser
- November 22, 1998
>>>One of the saddest, most tragic things one is being forced to
witness these days is the degradation of secularism by its most
vocal champions, the secularists themselves. We have reached a
stage where, in the name of secularism, a determined effort is
made to denigrate India's culture and national heritage and even
...
- Who said the BJP is faring bad? The Free Press Journal
- November 19, 1998
>>>The fight between the opposition Congress and the ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party never mind their supporters in other
parties - is now on and it promises to be bitter. In February/
March earlier this year the Congress was effectively disowned by
the nation and for very good reasons. The Congress Party had
...
- N K Singh
- Observer Political Bureau
- P L Jaiswal
- Ethics essential for value education The Times of India
- October 30, 1998
>>>The current controversy over the HRD ministry's move to
"Indianise, nationalise and spiritualise" education - in
particular the proposal to teach Sanskrit and include the vedas
and the upanishads in school curricula - is a shocking example
of the levels to which politics has descended in this country.
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal
- Growing menace of pseudo-secularism Hindustan Times
- Nov. 28, 1998
>>>NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (HT Correspondent)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today called upon journalists to
continue their search for truth and uphold the highest traditions of
the fourth estate that were geared towards the progress and prosperity
of the nation.
- BJP claims 8 months of scam-free rule Hindustan Times
- Nov. 23, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party today claimed that even with the
'temporary increase' in vegetable prices due to unseasonal
rains compounded by the 'Congress-hoarder collusion', the
BJP-led Government at the Centre had provided the nation
with a riot-free and scam-free rule over the last eight
...
- BJP seeks to embarrass Cong on emergency The Pioneer
- Nov. 20, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to embarrass the
Congress on the question of the 1975 internal emergency by
accusing it of justifying an "anti-democratic step." In a
statement, party vice-president K L Sharma joined the issue
with Congress spokesman Mani Shankar Aiyer, who had only
...
- Rajeev Deshpande
- BJP will not pay the `price', asserts PM The Pioneer
- November 8, 1998
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is confident the price
rise of essential commodities is not an "all-India"
phenomenon and will not become an over-arching issue in the
forthcoming Assembly elections. Consequently, he feels, it
will not work too much to the BJP's disadvantage.
- Rakesh Sinha
- Secular love for Macaulay The Hindustan Times
- November 3, 1998
>>>The conference of education ministers, which turned into a
political battleground, served one great purpose by triggering a
debate on the nature and content of our education policy. The
agenda of the HRD Ministry to 'Indianise, nationalise, and
spiritualise' the education system, which was regarded by the
...
- S Gurumurthy
- Believe us, we are not ill-treating Christians The Observer
- November 24, 1998
>>>In India, more attacks on Christians’ screamed the headlines in
Washington Post on page 29 on November 17, 1998. The popular
American newspaper said, “India is experiencing a new wave of
communal conflict. Hindus, who make up 82 per cent of the
country's 950 million people, are attacking Christians - a 2 per
...
- Sandhya Jain
- Indians in blood and colour unite The Pioneer
- November 1, 1998
>>> Indians in blood and colour have united, and are on a
carnival of self-denial, self-denigration and
self-incrimination, the like of which we have not seen
since raj "toadies" were silenced by the fervour of the
nationalist movement. There can be no other explanation
...
- Satish Mishra
- PM confident of poll victory Tribune
- November 14, 1998
>>> ON BOARD IAF AIRCRAFT, Nov 13 - Reiterating that the
November 25 poll in four states will not be a
referendum on his coalition government at the Centre,
the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, told
newsmen on board his official aircraft that the BJP
...
- Swapan Dasgupta
- The Left distorts: Interview with Arun Shourie India Today
- November 23, 1998
>>>Controversy and Arun Shourie are inseparable. He, has taken on
governments, politicians and corporate houses, championed
contentious causes and assumed the role of India's permanent
gadfly. After questioning the mythology centred on Babasaheb
Ambedkar and offending Dalit activists, Shourie has now targeted
...
- T V R Shenoy
- T.V.Lakshminarayan
- PIO card details released Tribune
- November 14, 1998
>>> The Centre's proposed scheme to
issue persons of Indian origin (PIO) cards to people of
Indian origin holding alien passport will not be
applicable universally as the government plans to put
certain restrictions on the persons applying for the cards.
- Tavleen Singh
- UNI
- PM launches war against price-rise Rediff on the Net
- Nov. 2, 1998
>>> The government today announced a series of
measures including abolition of customs duty on pulses,
wider procurement of onions and sought the states' help
in launching a vigorous nationwide de-hoarding drive to
check the rising prices of essential commodities.
- Vaihayasi P Daniel
- Varsha Bhosle
- Pulp friction The Rediff On the Net
- Nov. 19, 1998
>>>Newswise, this certainly has been the most boring week of the year. And
I'm afraid it's going to be the same for a while. Some may consider the
recent statements from the major players worthy of interest or alarm...
Nah, it's nothing but electoral rhetoric. What is interesting though is
the way the press is going about it: From all the papers I scan, I now
...
- Virendra Parekh
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