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Date sent: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 18:38:57 EDT The interview with DRK was very educative, and also a very honest and forthright expression of a man who was in such an important post and job. Kudos to him ...goes without saying. May his tribe in our country increase for the good of our nation. His interview has had a profound impact on me. Thank you for the interview. Please do publish interviews with such great sons of our land to motivate us. Krishna
Date sent: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:12:23 +0800 Fascinating reading. A real gutsy guy. Sriram
Date sent: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 17:58:53 -0700 (PDT) It was an informative interview. From his interview it clearly shows that they had evidence against the LTTE. But he did not say WHY? Can he or anyone else answer this, WHY? WHY? WHY?. Did they do it just because Rajiv was against their cause? Or to take revenge for the deaths (rape and destruction) of thousands of innocent Tamil men, women and children? Or to take revenge for the deaths of 13 LTTE leaders? (These leaders were arrested during the ceasefire period. LTTE protested against the arrest and requested that they must be kept under the custody of the Indian army. But the order came from Delhi(?) to hand over the LTTE leaders to the Sri Lankan army). Or to take revenge for the deaths of an LTTE leader and an activist (a woman) who died 'fasting' with no food and no water. Or...??? Why? Why? Why? Nesan, Toronto
Date sent: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:26:30 -0400 This is one of the best interviews I have seen on Rediff. Please continue to provide this kind of interviews rather than interviewing politicians. Kuppu
Date sent: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:14:40 +0530 Oh, well, another attempt to 'reintegrate' the north-east after sustained neglect for half a century. The Indian administration needs a reality check on the NE: the cultural, social and political life in the area is 'substantially' different from that of the rest of India, as any person from the NE 'living outside' the region might well attest. Fernandes would do well to spend a couple of months living among the ordinary folk in the NE before displaying his bravado. Just as an aside: some years ago, the eminent columnist B G Verghese had pressed upon the need to include Sikkim and North Bengal into the general 'definition' of the NE, which seemed to make a lot of sense. The ethos of the people of Sikkim and Darjeeling is visibly closer to that of the NE than the rest of India. Secessionism, admittedly, may not be the answer: however, it is time that the Indian government tried to understand the realities of the NE through the eyes of the local people rather than through a 'superior' Delhi-based 'vision.' It is not too late yet to prevent the NE from becoming a tragedy, but time is running out. Jayant S, Pune
Date sent: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:37:08 EDT I think the Congressman is just trying to woo Indian American voters to create more fund-raising opportunities. This guy's comments are so useless since no official action is going to be taken by the US. He is just some obscure politician trying to get in the news. You are just helping his cause by giving his remarks coverage.
Date sent: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:33:42 -0000 This is something really great. Nothing to say more. I hope all youngsters think alike and be committed to the country rather than religion and caste. FaxFiler Team
Date sent: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:04:16 +0530 Think of Swamy, and instantly a picture of arrogance, of megalomania personified, comes to mind. Do we Indians really need people like Subramanian Swamy in our midst? One cannot but loathe the thought of such a pompous brat controlling the destinies of the teeming millions of our country. It is indeed a pity that our educated voters do not use their votes to throw the Swamys of Indian politics out of public life, into perpetual political oblivion.
Date sent: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:09:55 EDT What a refreshing contrast Manjula is compared to Varsha ! I enjoy Manjula's articles. S Subramany
Date sent: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:37:30 +0530 This is an very interesting article for us as our family estate in Bombay has a lot of encroachments. We are interested in keeping the existing encroachers on the ground floor and are ready to construct a couple of floors. Could you kindly keep me updated on this or anybody interested to tie up with the Singapore based company and us. We would like to be the first to implement such a project. We are Bombayites or say Mumbai-ites. Madhu
Date sent: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:30:54 -0400 I am a born and brought up "Vile Parle-ite" and find this whole argument pointless. I mean it's obvious to anyone that this is some form of politics. Come on, you can already get anything you want in Vile Parle -- "good" or "bad!" Ask me, I know! I'd just like to say that before you go and say that the citizens of the "rather upper middle class area" opposed the opening of the Mac outlet, please report on what you based this generalisation on -- was some poll taken or what? I would really be interested in seeing what percentage of the actual residents opposed this opening. I find it hard to believe that this can be a significant percentage. Basically if this is supposed to be a report (as opposed to an essay or an editorial) statements with such generalisations need to be supported by numbers. A general question regarding the VHP: When this person Mata says, "People have been drinking for thousands of centuries here, nothing new in that," what does this say about the VHP? What are they against -- anything new? Something bad, but old, is fine for the people? Lastly, I'd just like to say I think McDonalds is doing a great job in India and I sure hope that when I go back to India there will be a nice juicy Macburger (vegetarian!) waiting for me! Gautam -- a vegetarian Gujarati from Vile Parle
Date sent: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:27:41 PDT God save us and this country from the Sangh Parivar -- the self acclaimed protectors of Indian culture and morality. Mata says he wants to bring the sadhus from the Kumbh mela into their agitation. Well, these are the same sadhus who fight over such trivial issues as who should take the first dip. Then we have crusaders such as Pramod Navalkar and Kirit Somaiyya who oppose rock shows, late night concerts etc. How do they promote swadeshi -- by going around in Toyotas, by showing off mobile phones, by approving both phases of Enron in quick time, by rushing to the US for medical treatment.... There are many other problems in this vast country compared to the opening of McDonalds in a suburb of Bombay. Shankar Iyer
Date sent: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 21:26:30 -0700 It was an outstanding interview with a remarkable man. I had missed the interview initially but the strong reactions of your readers on both sides alerted me that something great was cooking. It is easy! When a vestige of conditioned voice begins to spatter violently, it is sign that some place a blazing sun has disturbed its centuries old submissive sleep. It is the irony of such Indians' psyche that a hard hitting wake up call is not enough to rouse them to bold ingenious thinking. Bred on the poisonous imitation of Bollywood culture where a villain wields a base ball bat (not a more natural hockey or cricket bat), where a poor farmer milks a Scottish cow and wears a Texan hat without navigating to shirts or pants from his loin cloth, it is understandable that a mild sugar coated pill is not going to do the trick. Unfortunately Gurumurthy is not brash enough to shake those few Indians even for their own good. Rasik Sanghvi, New York, NY How Readers reacted to Varsha Bhosle's last column
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