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'Stop spitting venom on Hindus!'

How Readers responded to Saisuresh Sivaswamy's recent columns

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:17:39 -0800
From: srinivas murthy <smurthy01@sprynet.com>
Subject: The law of averages and Sonia Gandhi

Saisuresh, going by your recent spate of articles, I had expected you to come up with some kind of defence to tow the line your 'Amma' has been following! I am glad Sonia made this serious mistake. I am gloating, in fact.

Srinivas Murthy

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:55:53 -0800
From: Sunil Ganu <sunil.ganu@exodus.net>
Subject: The law of averages

Nice to see this article. The Congress is going to be exposed everyday. Those in the party can't live without power for long. The more they are kept out of power, the more greedy & impatient they will be. Supporting the Bihar government not only exposes the bankruptcy of the leadership, but the hypocrisy, greediness and frustration of Sonia Gandhi. I am happy that the motion was defeated in the Lower House.

Sonia's party doesn't care what is good for the country. They are just looking for an opportunity to humiliate the BJP. This country will suffer more if they still have any hope from the Congress.

Sunil Ganu
CA USA

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:28:57 PST
From: "indian indian" <indian_indians@hotmail.com>
Subject: Msg for Saisuresh

I believe that you are born to hate Hindus. This is evident from your articles. Your personality and thinking are reflected in your articles. Some foreign missionary or some witch has planted you in India to write against the majority community. The editor must think many times before publishing the rubbish your are writing.

You are supporting a foreign national. You live in the country, practice your religion or faith, but don't convert the tribals and others. Live happily and let others live peacefully. Stop spitting venom on Hindus.

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:54:07 -0500
From: "Arya, Puneet" <puneet.arya@qwest.com>
Subject: Saisuresh Sivaswamy

Regarding your latest article an Vajpayee's trip: I was glad to see that you finally gave credit where it was due. And pointed out the reason why the Congress got frightened.

From the tone of your articles in the past, you are particularly harsh on the BJP and friends. You don't quite do the same thing on the Congress and Sonia, who till now has been presented by you as the great white hope. I just wish you would see that Sonia in no time would be just another politician.

Conservatives (fundamentalists in your eyes) with a moderate leader, in many foreign countries are the guys who have led their country to the state they are in. The US, Germany and Israel are examples.

Career politicians like Atal and Advani, Pilot, Bakht and Hegde are the type who should lead this country. Their family attachments are nil, I think every one of them would do the country proud. Of course, the Congress doesn't know how to be out of power, and is going to now stoop to the likes of the Yadav duo. I hope the people would see through this, but I have a feeling that they won't. The govt will fall apart and we would be back to the same Congress that ruled us pre-1991.

Puneet

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:47:50 +0100
From: scai@umassd.edu
Subject: The Thin Red Line

What a hash of an article! What do you want to conclude? And where did you want to go? Or, may be, you just wanted to write against the present government?

Shashi

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:22:24 -0800
From: "Kuppahalli, Sameer" <sameer.kuppahalli@intel.com>
Subject: The Thin Red Line

Sir,

We are back to the perverse logic. Because the RSS pracharak and the present governor of Bihar sought to do something good for the people there, the Congress is justified in performing a volte face. Just because the RSS has been crying hoarse for at least 25 years that we are having illegal immigrants pouring in from the West Bengal border, it has to be fiction and not fact. This becomes a fact 25 years later when Buddadev Bhattacharya acknowledges that this is indeed a problem. The logic here is that the RSS cannot be correct. These worthies in the Opposition have decided that for the nation.

No Saisuresh, the Congress' fear is not understandable. This is a party that has, by the very same machinations, pushed our nation to the brink of disaster. Why do our political parties hesitate to act just because the RSS has brought the issue to the fore? Weren't dalits being massacred in Bihar? Does this fact change just because there is an RSS governor? What happened to the worthy qualities that you journalists attributed to Sonia Gandhi? The Bihar volte face has proven beyond doubt that this is a party that cannot act in the interest of the nation. And nor can its president! Talk of rising above partisan politics!

And please don't start this hard-liner versus soft-liner -- Vajpayee versus Advani -- issue again. There isn't a single leader in the BJP who opposed President's rule in Bihar, unlike most other parties that are squabbling over the issue.

Please think hard before you start on Sonia and her leadership in your next column.

Sameer Kuppahalli

Saisuresh Sivaswamy