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Starting: Sun 01 Nov 1998 - 19:44:48 EST
Ending: Sun 29 Nov 1998 - 21:08:52 EST
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- Economic Times
- Hindustan Times
- India Today
- India World News
- Indian Express
- Newstime
- Organiser
- Growing menace of pseudo-secularism M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- Panchjanya
- Rediff on the Net
- Second take on Sharma T V R Shenoy
- November 14, 1998
>>> Her son has met with an accident. She must fly to Dubai
immediately but needs a new passport." Who would have
thought that those seemingly innocent words would open
up a new chapter in the ongoing saga of Romesh Sharma?
...
- Without naming names T V R Shenoy
- November 6, 1998
>>> Patriotism, according to Dr Johnson's dictum, is the
last refuge of the scoundrel. Had he met a certain
Romesh Sharma, Dr Johnson could have added a rider:
politicians are the first refuge of a scoundrel.
...
- Vajpayee sets up infrastructure taskforce UNI
- Nov. 1, 1998
>>> Prime Minister A B Vajpayee has constituted
a taskforce headed by deputy chairman of the Planning
Commission Jaswant Singh on infrastructure with the aim
of attracting investments to specific projects of
national and regional importance and ensuring their
...
- PM launches war against price-rise UNI
- 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.
- The Asian Age
- High on opinion polls, low on the future M. J. Akbar
- 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
...
- The Economic Times
- The Free Press Journal
- Who said the BJP is faring bad? M. V. Kamath
- 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
...
- The Hindu
- Assaulting India's pluralist ethos D. Harikumar, Kochi
- 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
...
- The Hindustan Times
- Secular love for Macaulay Rakesh Sinha
- 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
...
- The Observer
- Believe us, we are not ill-treating Christians S Gurumurthy
- 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
...
- Can Pakistan survive? Dina Nath Mishra
- 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 Dina Nath Mishra
- 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
...
- The Pioneer
- Indians in blood and colour unite Sandhya Jain
- 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
...
- The Rediff On the Net
- Pulp friction Varsha Bhosle
- 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
...
- The Telegraph
- The Times of India
- Ethics essential for value education P L Jaiswal
- 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.
- The Week
- Education controversy: It is war of ideas Debashish Mukerji
- 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
...
- Our students donknow India's Debashish Mukerji
- 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
...
- Times of India
- Tribune
- PIO card details released T.V.Lakshminarayan
- 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.
- PM confident of poll victory Satish Mishra
- 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
...
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