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Date sent: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:29:02 +0000 The work of comparing something like films, stories, novels, or anything for that matter in India is a very tough job. Just for the reason that there are at least 20 languages to be considered. So a (incomplete) man who knows only Malayalam and English cannot do name some works as the best in India. It's a joke. For him only some 2-3 states will be India. To think that by including some Bengali works he will be thought of as an intellectual is again a big joke. There definitely are works (either films or stories) in other languages which can outclass all of his titles. This could mislead some eager foreign web browser. So, please ask that man to stop listing his (shortsighted) titles as India's best. It's a waste of so many resources.
Date sent: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 13:30:19 PDT Computerisation is way behind in India and such news will put a break on a just started system. In the US you can track the location of a small mailed packet mailed, and see when it was delivered by sitting in your home. Whereas the Indian Railways may not be able to tell you where a particular train is even after making it to the station. The media should reconfirm such news before publishing it because such news will have huge impact on the success of the country.
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 05:11:42 -0800 Rediff and other leading web sites in recent times have brought out excellent articles such as these on various issues that confront our nation today. I have written in the past and I will continue to do so in the future that these articles should be sent to various parliamentary members and their secretaries. No amount of such information to the elite class will help reform our society, which is filled with dogmatic ideas and draconian thinking. Once again I strongly urge that this kind of information should be proliferated among the bureaucratic circles and also to the uneducated masses. Venkat
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:56:25 -0500 (EST) It's an irony that someone with name like Dwarkadas calls Krishna a myth. I have a simple question to these 'intellectuals' who question historicity of any thing Hindu, but refuse to use the same objectivity for other religions. We don't have to go too far. We can ask ourselves. Do we all have any piece of heritage or article or writing or anything else which belonged to say our great-great-great-great grandparents? Most of us don't. We are talking about someone who lived only 150-200 years ago. In most cases all we know is their names. Yet even then we firmly believe they existed. Not only that we believe that our family heritage tree is well defined. Yet when it comes to someone who was there 5,000 years ago, whose greatness has been known and told-retold for ages, all the places about him do exist, such as Mathura, Vrindavan, Dwarka, Ujjain, Nagpur. There are places named after him. So here is my question to Ms Dwarkadas -- you cannot prove your own ancestors existed only a few generations ago, yet you consider their existence as a fact, yet you have no doubt calling Krishna mythical when there are so many places named after him and so much literature/ traditions after him? Where is the consistency?
Date sent: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:14:28 -0400 A fitting reply to Mr Gupta's controversial article on Mother Teresa -- "Did She Require a State Funeral?" Ashwin's article had rectified the damage and succeeded in defining the role of a secular State. According to Ashwin, missionary zeal cannot be confused with the exemplary achievements of this great women. Mother Teresa saw god in the weak and downtrodden and thrived to make them feel belonged. This surpasses compartmentalisation of religion that Mr Gupta constantly refers to. Indeed an eye opener.
Date sent: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:50:50 -0700 I think if Mulayam Singh's wish come through, it will be the biggest mistake for the future and youth of India. Well, the world is getting smaller and more competitive, and the only way any young Indian will be able to withstand that competition and come up on the top is if s/he can speak, read and write good English. I am not discounting regional languages but whether we like it or not, English is the most used language by a majority of human beings. I hope before it is too late that someone brings this to the knowledge of our political leadership. I am proud to be an Indian with a knowledge of English. It does not make me any less Indian. Of course I speak six other regional languages. Mr Yadav wake up! Don't deprive Indian youth by misguiding them for your political ambitions.
Date sent: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:52:32 -0400 (EDT) Good Interview from Dawaram. When Gopal went into the forest, even I thought that Veerappan has changed. It was foolish to believe that a man who had killed hundreds of people would change.
Date sent: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:02:50 -0800 Fabulous article by Pritish Nandy. He is as clear thinking as always. Keep them coming. Sunil
Date sent: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:48:54 -0500 Your article on Che Guevara made interesting reading. Ironically, Che is now revered as an icon -- revolutionary chic! An entire tourist industry has grown around him. Gaurav Kampani
Date sent: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:04:16 -0500 It was interesting reading. The saving grace now in the Indian political scenario is that some people at the top have slowly started recognising they can exercise their rights!! Right or wrong, T N Seshan did, and we saw a change for the better! I am very happy as an agonised citizen that our President has exercised his right! On a foreign soil it is very disheartening to hear our motherland referred to as a 'Third World country,' and realise our politicians down the ages since Independence have vastly contributed to it!! I would like to know more about this new person Saisuresh Sivaswamy. If journalists can keep their head high and report facts as they are, and keep editors doing a straightforward job, the masses can be set to rethink!! If you create a hope in the minds of the common man that we can change our country's destiny, he will wake up! Hope is so important for a positive turn of events. I almost stopped reading newspapers for portraying a hopeless situation and highlighting only negative happening in the country and cities. This creates fear in the reader's mind. Sensationalism is not the end all of good journalism. Is nothing good happening anywhere and is there no hope? There is, but we hardly see it in the newspapers!! All the best and hope new blood (in thinking) will change society! Usha Saisuresh Sivaswamy, columnist, commentator and host of The Rediff Political Chat has worked at the Illustrated Weekly, Onlooker, The Indian Post, Mid-day, edited Bombay Tribune and was founder-executive editor, Express Newsline.
Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:22:56 -0600 Why do we still have so many castes when we call our country a secularist country. We might respect our own religions but we need to adapt the religion of 'Indianism' before another country like Britain starts creating strife between our communal groups as it happened when the British came to India. I think all this points to only one thing: Education. We need to educate the people of our country. If we take a look at the per capita of different nations, those countries with a literacy rate above 90% have higher per capita. I also feel that these communal problems can be solved only when people start thinking logically and this is possible only with education. Rahi R
Date sent: Tue, 4 Nov 97 13:01:00 EST Rajeev Srinivasan gives following 7 great promises that Hindus should keep. I have news for him. The Swadhyay movement under the Templeton and Magsaysay award-winning Pandurang Shastri Athavale has been doing just that for the last 43 years. It has grown from a mere 19 followers to over a million people. Transformed by Swadhyay. And the secular/pseudo progressive press has done its best to keep this information suppressed for it goes against their Communist (adharmic) and minority appeasement agenda. Also, the RSS considers key elements of above promises such as Nishkam Karma of Promise 1. brotherhood of promise 2. shuchita (purity) of conduct of promise 3. family values of promise 4. charitable work of promise 5. also promises 6 and 7 as articles of faith. And they have been on the Indian scene for the last 72 years and have grown from 25 people to over 10 million. I was sceptical about these two until as a scientist, I took time to know them and understand the values of both the Swadhayay and RSS before forming an opinion or shooting the mouth of like the press or Commie pseudo intellectuals.
Date sent: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 22:14:03 +0500 All I have to say is that before the Islamic laws of the country are challenged or condemned, the Quran must be consulted. As Muslims we are bound only by the laws of the Quran; and by the laws of the state only if they are in conjunction with the Quran. The emphasis or 'ridicule' here must not be placed on the law, but on its execution. The issue must not be how to prove a rape case, but why what prompted the act in the first place.The West is constantly challenging our laws and ways and we are as usual trying to ape their ways, not realising the social and moral decadence present in that society as a result of their 'gender equality' and 'liberalisation'. I think it's time we learn about ourselves and our religion before fighting for 'human rights'.
Date sent: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:22:56 -0600 I am from Chicago, Illinois. I think this feature is really good. I'm a diehard fan of Hindi music and movies, and I agree with all the selections you made.
Date sent: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:45:22 -0500 It is a sheer tribute to him, and above all to you guys at Rediff to rekindle the lost hope in most of the people around with these true stories. Congrats you are definitely one of the best on the Net. Pravin New York
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