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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 07:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Advani proposes constitutional ban on cow slaughter
Mr. Advani proposal reeks of hypocrisy. Why cows? Sure they are useful animals but lost of countries are doing perfectly well without this move. His attempt at disguising this as "scientific" is pathetic. The real reason, which is obvious, is to try and boost BJP's electoral chances. Sudarshan Setlur
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:13:46 +0000 Subject: Advani proposes constitutional ban on cow slaughter
India does not belong to Advani alone. There are millions of Hindus , Muslims,tribals and Christians who take beef as a cheap source of protein. Let Advani supply mutton to average Indian at Rs20/- a kg before considering the ban. Abdaal Akhtar
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:45:45 +0530 Subject: US Proposes to Sell Artillery Radar to India
Procurement of Radars for counterbombardment is vital and will provide the much needed teeth. The hostile & active Artillery across the border is known to harass innocent civilians, disrupt everyday life and more importantly facilitating infiltration. The role of these radars in locating hostile batteries and silencing them should not be glossed over! It is going to fetch rich dividends. No doubt, we need to induct these into service immediately, but please can we have a clean defence deal? Nothing could be more painful, for a professional Soldier who has given the best part of his life battling Equipment & Manpower shortages, than to hear about a deal that stinks. Will the decision makers please ensure that this malady is set right? S D Bhilavdikar
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: US Proposes to Sell Artillery Radar to India
After reading this news, one can understand what is US's interest in this region. The tendency of creating a tensed situation, and then selling weapons was their native idea, and will remain as a modern idea too. Debnath Bhuniya
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:07:59 +0530 Subject: The Gujarat deadlock
As one who drew flack from partisan and legally ignorant readers for my two columns on rediff.com arguing that the EC's Order on Gujarat was faulty on Constitutional and legal grounds, I felt vindicated by the expert opinion of Subhash C. Kashyap in his guest column of September 6. Kindly allow me to quote a couple of excerpts below from the EC's Gujarat Order to show, once and for all, how it has contradicted itself blatantly for reasons that can be best guessed. In paragrapgh 4 of its Order the EC says "Wherever the Assembly has been dissolved prematurely by the Governor and where the President has not taken over the administration of the State under Article 356, elections to constitute a new Legislative Assembly have always been held in such time as have enabled the new Assembly to meet within the period of six months from the last date of the last session of the dissolved Assembly." And in the next para, the EC's Order says "The Commission sees no convincing/justifiable reason to take a different view in the present case." Yet the EC deferred the Gujarat poll. Why? I entreat through "Dear Rediff" that readers should try and understand a writer's legal exposition before abusing his/her views on the basis of the English language media that is so skin deep and ever eager to abuse any cause espoused by the BJP. Arvind Lavakare
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:58:08 +0530 Subject: I supported Congress, not Sonia: Jaya
Dear Mr Srini, According to you ,if our leaders are inefficient then we should go for hiring leaders from abroad? What you are forgetting is that, politics isn't cricket where you can go and hire some foreign coach because we dont have ample coaches of that calibre out here. What sacrifice did sonia make for India?She isnt doing any favour by staying back after her husband's death. May be you will feel proud to say that India has an Italian prime minister,but I doubt how many of the Indians will share the same feeling. The reason for the prevailing situation can be attributed to disinterest on the part of the people.We just cant go on blaming the leaders for that, afterall we are the ones who had enthroned them. So its our responsibility to make them answerable to us. Monojit
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:32:15 -0700 Subject: Jayalalithaa opposes Sonia as PM
I am in total agreement with this sentiment. I read this other email from a reader which says- "Sonia has lost her beloved husband for the sake of this country and for a girl what else is the supreme sacrifice other than this?" That does not qualify one to be a Leader or a Prime Minister. There's enough women that have lost their husbands (the countless army men and police that have been killed and continue to be killed in the various strife-torn pockets in India). "If any Indian Abroad married their citizen and lost them for the sake of their country, at least humanity will prevail upon to consider that Indian as an heir for their post" The fact of the matter is - NO. "Do we not have humanity?" Humanity? How did that come into picture? We are talking of leadership and prime ministerial qualities. We are talking of nationalism and self-reliance. We can use the humanity to help the underprivileged in the nation, to transform society into a classless one, and to tackle any number of other issues. Shyam Rao
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 19:30:46 -0500 Subject: Jayalalithaa opposes Sonia as PM
The fact that Congress has made come-back in a big way in several states after Sonia Gandhi took over, shows that Indian electorte does not consider her foreign origin as an issue. So why should some busy-bodies like Jayalalitha and BJP make a big deal out of it? Still, because she has not held any public office before, there should be mental reservations about Sonia Gandhi straightway becoming Prime Minister, the most powerful office in the country. Rather she should serve a stint as Chief Minister in ine of the states ruled by Congress, then as a minister in the Central Cabinet, before trying her hand at Prime Ministership. Dinkar Koppikar
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:00:24 +0530 Subject: Jayalalithaa opposes Sonia as PM
Its shame on us that we can't have one leader from the population of one billion. & we look at a completely ignorant person for leadership. I never had any problems with sonia Gandhi. She is an Indian citizen & we don't have any problems with that. I would like to ask the supporters of Soniaji to tell me her capabilities. what experience & knowledge does she have of Indian politics of our policies? she cannot speak proper Hindi how can she solve the problems of masses. She has lost her husband for the nation agreed, but that does not mean she should be next Prime minister. Then many of our jawans give there lives for the cause of nation how many of there wives get even a party ticket. our problem is that we are stuck in the 70s & 80's & don't want to come out of the family era. its high time we realize our responsibilities & take steps to handle them. Shinde
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:28:00 +0100 (BST) Subject: Sandeep Pandey Returns Magsaysay Award Money
I went through the readers reactions which ranged from appreciation to outrage.In my opinion its absolutly worthless to comment on somebody without knowing him fully.People who are very offended by Mr. Pandey's comments and term him hypocrite should go and see his work and them comment on that .Even if out of sheer hypocrisy one is helping out poor children getting educated is much better than the persons merely chanting the patriotic slogans.Having said that I do not know Mr. Pandey or his work but what appears to me is that he is a very simple soul and does and say things totally on his own conviction without worrying about the media and society.But had he been so caring about what the people say he would not have left his meritorious carreer for the children's education.I wish if we could be more tolerant about the words and paying a little more attention to the actual work we will not have Laloos and Jayalalithas ruling the country. Sunil K
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: Fear over Tibet!
The article was impressive and well-written. I really enjoyed reading the facts about Tibet's current situation. Hope, we would have an opportunity to have more those article coming up from you. Jai-Hind, Jai- Tibet! Tashi Tsering
Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: Fear over Tibet!
Article was great. What can you expect of a country as the article puts it "manages" another countrys aspirations for the sole reason that it is ethnically theirs? Look at the usurped land mass in arunachal pradesh, leh and other parts of india's boundaries, the Chinese aggression has never diminished from time immemorial...first it was the mongols (mughals) Islamic barbarians now its the commies...history has not taught us anything. We have tolerated everything. I guess that's the reason we are alive, albeit weakly. Balasubramaniam
Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: 'India is my country, I cannot be thrown out like this'
I strongly believe that Rediff should not publish such foolish emotional articles. The Indian media has fooled enough of us, by serving us with this stupid Pak-Indian family dramas. I believe Tasleem should leave for Pakistan immediately. And High Court has done the right thing by not granting extension to her visas. Who knows what her husband has done. For the sake of Indian National Security, India should put her husband in jail and should deport her. Her husband should have thought about her ailing or whatever grandmother-in-law, when committing the fraud in US. Her husband's irresponsibility should not be India's burden, not at the cost of National security. Besides, if she feels so strongly about India being her country, let her first go and talk about this to Pakis. Why doesn't she appeal the Pakis that India *was* our country and so let us merge with it? I urge Rediff to not publish such articles and fool us Indians emotionally. There is no need for our high courts to appease muslims any further. If muslims want to live in India, they should live like rest of the Hindus/Indians live. Why should they be granted special privileges? In this case, clearly Tasleem should not be granted special privilege. She is a Pakistani citizen and so she has to leave for Pakistan, since India does not want to grant her a citizenship. Rageshwari.
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2002 6:17 AM Subject: 'India is my country, I cannot be thrown out like this'
Personally, I think we should let her stay atleast on ethical grounds, as long as she doesn't have any malacious connections. After all, by caring for her family, she is proving what we so strongly believe in... the family values. We should probably be this aggresive only in cases where we see a threat to the nation. Ratnakar
Date: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:08 PM Subject: B V Karanth: End of an Era
I felt sad at the news. He led a purposeful life and successful in inspiring numerous students and hence has tremendously contributed to theatre particularly kannada. He will be remembered ever for his immense work of creativity in music and theatre. But we will always feel that we could have had more from this great personality. S.Guruprasad
Date: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:33 AM Subject: B V Karanth: End of an Era
As a tribute to Late B V Karanth, I would like to share my memories with you.Sri Karanth came to Lucknow to work with Darpan, Lucknow in 1972 and directed Two Plays. Haya Vadan of Girish Karnad and Evam Indrajit of Badal sarkar. I had the privilege of working with him in both the plays, as Kapil, the lead in Hayavadan and Amal in Evam Indrajit. My actual entry to the big theatre started with these plays and I owe a lot to Sri Karanth and Premaji. I met him last in March,2002 at NSD where I had gone to stage two plays in Bharangam and had taken promise from him that when he comes to Lucknow this winter for Bhartendu Natya Acadmy, he will find time to do a play with us also. The whole Darpan Parivar will miss him for years to come. Kindly pay our Heartfelt homage to the great soul and convey our condolences to Prema Ji. Anil Rastogi
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