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Date sent: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 22:33:18 -0400 I think India can only move backwards with such an attitude. Instead of blaming computerisation, efforts should be made for better facilities. Srinivasa
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:49:41 -0500 When I first read the headline for this article ('India is the laughing stock of the world'), I was a bit enraged and immediately jumped on to read it! But as I read on, I found whatever Lord Desai said is very correct and truthful. China has definitely surpassed us as an economic and military power while we have slumped after an impressive start in the late 1940s & 1950s. Politically, we have made a travesty of democracy by instrumentally using it in spreading corruption, rather than curtailing it by making the elected representatives accountable. The most recent example is the UP incident. It neatly exposes everyone in the system: a coalition of crisis, a greedy set of defectors, a miserable Opposition, a partisan governor, a federal government that breaks all constitutional norms in the interest of its partymen! Thank God the President was left out this time! I also agree with Lord Desai that it is about time we kicked out old crooks like Kesri who have antiquated ideas and no ideology. We not only need younger people, but also smart people, people who have brains and know how to use it. In the US (and I guess in other Western countries too), most people who run the government hail from top universities (Harvard, Yale etc). One can see their foresight, planning and strategies in the way they defend (their own and) the interests of their country. But I also think that all is not lost. We just need to resolve collectively to bring India back, and back with a bang it will be! Avinash Detroit, MI, US
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 14:52:49 -0800 Why not make it a weekly feature, taking one city at a time like Ooty, places like Mount Abu etc?
Date sent: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 12:55:32 -0600 Rajeev Srinivasan raises very good questions. I believe it is high time that we Indians start thinking this way. The BJP thinks the answer lies in identifying with the Hindu identity, and frankly, so do I; for Hinduism is no monolithic religion, and is the cliched "way of life".
Date sent: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 10:43:53 -0800 It is kind of hard to make sense of Pritish Nandy's comments. I am not sure what was the basic objective of the piece. However, it is obvious that he is driven by his bias against the BJP. But who cares? It is good that the BJP has finally learnt that Greed is Good. Greed is at the centre of human progress. If it was not for greed for power, knowledge and material goods -- the human race would have still been living in caves like apes. As long as greed does not break any laws of the land and stands for close legal scrutiny -- it is great. Morals and ethics have their place, but not when you are in a open war. The most important reason India was plundered and ruled for the last 1,000 years by foreigners of different kinds was simply due to the local Indian definition of "ethics and morals." The ethics and morals don't have uniform definitions in the world. What is seen as immoral and unethical in India is perfectly normal in other parts of the world. To win a war -- be it political or armed -- one has to go down to the moral and ethical levels of the enemies. Indian masses and rulers in old times never understood this -- they wouldn't kill opponents if unarmed or captured. Look what Prithviraj did to Mohammad Ghouri and what Ghouri did to Prithviraj. But I am glad the BJP has finally understood this very important fundamental principle of wars. To win, they have to play with the same rules as the politicians in the Congress and United Fraud. Good for BJP and good for India. Political correctness can be left for armchair anti-BJP jokers (oops! I meant journalists). Cheers, bkumar
Date sent: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:53:57 +0500 How come such important issues don't find mention in our so-called national dailies? We at IIM-A plan to pass on our resolution (supporting the Amendment) to Pratham. Georgei Second year student, IIM Ahmedabad
Date sent: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:48:34 +0000 This message is for Varsha Bhosle: I read your article Death Becomes Them in response to Nandy's Lost Children of India and enjoyed it thoroughly. I could not agree with you more. The GOI has double standards, one for itself and the other for innocent people who are not connected. I am a Kashmiri Pandit and have suffered being a true patriotic Indian. I have always done what was expected from us and I still do it in spite of what my community has gone through. How can the KP race be treated like this? Only in India and these educated loyal India politicians with pride say that KPs living in refugee camps cannot be made comfortable in camps. If refugees are comfortable, then they may not go back. So we are being treated as a political virus and by touching the KP issue it might infect them. I think I will recommend seven prime ministers that held office since 1989 (Rajiv Gandhi, V P Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deve Gowda, & Inder K Gujral) for a group Nobel Prize in biology for identifying KPs as a political virus. Each one of them has contributed in either identifying or proving the theory of KPs being a political virus. Lalit Wanchoo
Date sent: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:29:41 -0800 Varsha, You have written a very nice article, right to the point. I have a question for you, though. Who are those "Hindutvawadis" you are talking about? The so-called Right Wing parties? Do you consider +0 to be on the right side compared to -0? Have they learnt a lesson as you wrote in Seven Lessons From Ayodhya? India needs Randhir Singh and not Ranchhod Das who are scared to admit their role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Instead of wooing 80% of the voters who are Hindus, why are these Hindutvawadis chasing 12% Muslims? Agreed that all Hindus will not vote for them. Even if they capture half the Hindu votes, they do not have to worry about coalitions. Forget about Sarva Pantha Samabhava. These guys have to read the Koran first to understand the feasibility of such a concept. Sudarshan Joshi Birmingham, UK
Date sent: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 14:57:47 -0500 Varsha Bhosle ... at last a columnist who is willing to breathe her own fire.
Date sent: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:54:42 +0100 I loved Rajeev's top ten movies -- particularly because they correspond so closely to mine. I'll now read all his stuff. Is it possible to get his e-mail address? Mr Naman: Do send us e-mail for Mr Srinivasan and we shall forward it to him.
Date sent: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 16:29:52 -0500 I enjoy your articles very much, especially the columns. However, I find this Diwanji guy pretty boorish and non-coherent. If you are paying him any money to write for you, I think you are completely wasting your resources. Please take this guy off. I think much of his "literary work" is just a piece of crap and nothing else. He babbles on things which he knows nothing about. He calls Hindi, our national language, a bazari language. Irrespective of anything, any national symbol, be it the flag, be it the anthem, be it anything, must be respected. This ************* says Hindi has no literature. Would this pundit of languages care to elaborate how much he knows about Hindi literature? It is people like him who are a curse to our nation. Hope you shut off this annoying character. Santosh
Date sent: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:20:08 +0300 Dear Mr. Nandy: WOW! That's all I can say. Kaustav
Date sent: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:08:47 -0800 Mr Nandy, Not a single member of the Tata family was or is a gentleman as you state. Admitted that they were efficient business administrators, but gentlemen? Certainly not. In fact, no member of India's business empires is a gentleman. You will ask me, why? None of these families have more than 10% stake in their empires. Henry Ford founded Ford Motors. Do they have a chairman with the last name Ford? Will Bill Gates's daughter become chairman of Microsoft? So Mr Nandy chairmanship is NOT a monarchy that is passed from one generation to another. India's leading software company, TCS, hated by many programmers, prospered not due to Jeh. Mr Fakir Chand Kohli -- who was shunted out from Tata Hydro to manage this child that had very little chance to survive -- deserves the credit. It was Mr Kohli who expanded this company from two ancient 1401 computers at Nirmal building in Nariman Point to become a global player. So stop doing chamachagiri of the Tatas. Saudamini
Date sent: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:35:49 -0500 I think the law is very reasonable. It is meant for the safety of the driver and the pillion rider. Religious leaders need to stop making a fuss over nothing. Kamalpreet Singh
Date sent: 12 Nov 97 15:32:48 -0500 "Certain political parties, such as the Bharatiya Janata Party which had lost face in Uttar Pradesh, were trying to take political advantage of the issue. But they will not succeed, he said." From all the reports about UP that I have read on Rediff, the UF and Congress are the ones who lost face in UP, to the point when the President returned their recommendations... In that context statements like the one quoted above are really funny...I am not sure if the UF & Congress want the common man to believe that the BJP is the cause of all things bad to them or they believe it themselves...I guess tomorrow if it doesn't rain or if there are floods the BJP will be the cause of it. God save our country from such clowns... kumar
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