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'US should get its legs of leadership back'
'How could we have gone from a position of strength in the international community to virtual isolation,' asks Karl F Inderfurth, former US assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs.
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March 26, 2003 |
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'Iraqis are always under fear'
'Anyone who says Saddam is the best thing to happen to Iraq is not speaking the truth. It is the fear of Saddam that forces people to silently agree with whatever he has been doing all these years,' says UN Observer P J Sebastin.
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March 25, 2003 |
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'US position on Iraq is total 'dadagiri''
'This war is part of a total strategy of new imperialism,' says Eduardo Faleiro, one of the few foreign leaders allowed inside Iraq during the first Gulf war.
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March 24, 2003 |
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'War is now just another arm of diplomacy'
'The fear the USA must have is that the Iraqi armed forces could turn Saddam Hussein's eventual overthrow into the final act of a martyred hero for a future Arab revolution,' says security and terrorism expert Richard M Bennett.
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March 10, 2003 |
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'Every day you have to think of survival'
'In a coalition government, you have to survive and then you have to run the government. In single-party government you have to only run the government. You don't have to think of survival,' says former Maharashtra chief minister Vilas Deshmukh.
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March 8, 2003 |
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'Savarkar never opposed the minorities'
'He only went against them when they talked against India. He said we will not stop people from practising their religion,' Vishwas Savarkar tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
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March 6, 2003 |
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'China is bigger security concern to India than Pak'
'The US and India are engaged in a dialogue for missile defence. I hope it will allow the Indian government to protect the Indian people from Chinese missiles,' says China expert Richard Fisher.
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March 4, 2003 |
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'The first battle is awareness'
'None of the crème of our youth is opting for the military,' says Vice-Admiral S C S Bangara, commandant of the National Defence Academy.
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March 3, 2003 |
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'Savarkar cannot be a role model'
'It is wrong to put Savarkar's portrait in Parliament. Young people should not be told to emulate him as their role model,' says historian Bipan Chandra.
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February 28, 2003 |
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'Govts should free nations under terror'
'I am not bound by the niceties of international politics where people decide issues based on their national interest and give it a moralistic name,'says Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.
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February 27, 2003 |
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'Godhra was a pre-planned crime'
'We are looking out for one more accused. Once he is caught, the Godhra mystery will be solved,' says Gujarat Minister Amit Shah.
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February 24, 2003 |
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'Himachalis will defeat the BJP'
'During BJP rule, corruption has entered almost all aspects of governmental functioning,' says former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadara Singh.
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February 19, 2003 |
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'Hardly any point in telling us to talk to Pakistan'
'To suggest that we have to take a decision on dialogue because certain countries have a certain view is showing great disrespect for Indian foreign policy,' says Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal.
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February 18, 2003 |
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'This is an unjust war'
'To get control over world affairs Americans need to fight many wars. But American soldiers are not ready to die,' says the Salah Al-Mukhtar Iraqi ambassador.
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February 6, 2003 |
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'We do not have a magic wand'
'Tough decisions will have to be made. All of a sudden we cannot tax people and pay our debts. We have to take it step by step.' Exclusive interview with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
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January 28, 2003 |
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'People are tired of the BJP'
'I foresee a Kashmir-like situation in Himachal where we could play a pivotal role in the formation of
the new government,' says Himachal Vikas Congress chief Sukh Ram.
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January 20, 2003 |
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'Musharraf is operating on a tripwire'
'China will continue to play Pakistan against India to achieve complete superiority. But China at best
is a regional power, we must not exaggerate its capabilities,' says nuclear analyst Dr R R
Subramanian..
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January 6, 2003 |
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'This conference has a body, heart and soul'
'I am not saying we will get $10 billion from overseas Indians at the end of the Pravasi Diwas conference. We will get just a trickle but the interest will be generated,' says FICCI Secretary-General Amit Mitra.
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January 3, 2003 |
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'Pravasi Diwas is not a mela,'
'A confident India is now coming in contact with NRIs,' says J C Sharma, secretary, ministry of external affairs on the first conference of overseas Indians.
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