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Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:33:15 -0700 This is ethnic cleansing at its worst. The only thing that can bring peace into the valley is elimination of these "freedom-fighters". They are too uncivilised to talk of peace. Kamal Prasad
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:22:54 -0500 The story is simple -- Hindus kill Muslims wherever they are in a majority and Muslims do the same in their strongholds. Politicians continue to blame it on the British and India goes backwards in time. Not surprisingly, the solution is also simple -- "Get out of that dreadful country." Sony
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:25:53 -0500 Did you say Hindus were massacred in cold blood? I take strong exception to the language. Hindus cannot be massacred. This word 'massacre' is reserved for non Hindu communities by the secularists. Who cares if a few Hindus die for no fault of theirs? This is just another incident of cleansing which will escape the eyes of everybody, because the dead are Hindus. Hail EQUALITY!!
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:52:37 EDT It is foolish to expect that the Hindus who have not learnt anything from thousand years of massacres will learn anything from this little massacre!! Vinod
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:06:08 -0700 Good news for everyone. Good for the BJP and clean politics. I could not gather, however, what crimes are commited by Hegde and Jethmalani. Are they chargesheeted? Will someone in Rediff write about their cases? I agree with Jayalalitha for one rule for all. In future, the BJP should let all investigations go without any interference so that this same rule could be applied to Jayalalitha one day. What is hilarious is the chorus by our Marxist and Congress friends. They have no moral right to talk about sanity since we know fairly well how the CPI-M is blocking the scam in West Bengal and how they supported Mulayam and Laloo. The Congress, the mother of all corrupt, should keep quiet for its own good. Charges of corruption and political movements should be differentiated. There is no need for Advani, Joshi or Uma Bharti to resign.
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:32:39 -0500 The defenestration of Buta Singh is a right move by A B Vajpayee. The issue here is not being chargesheeted. The reason for which he is chargesheeted is of more relevance. Muthiah resigned (or was rather forced to) because he was chargesheeted on corruption charges. Ditto with Buta. A B Vajpayee and the BJP would be held in greater esteem if they do away with our ex communication minister -- Sukh Ram too. It's a pity that a man thrown out of the Congress (which is synonymous with corruption) is rewarded with a deputy CM post in a BJP government. The BJP, if it wants to gain in the longer run and remain a clean party, should dump the corrupt politicians. Ganesh
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:58:04 +0900 Absolutely disgusting. Sycophancy at the worst possible levels. A lady, who broke every dignity of the office and amassed wealth, now claims she has done nothing. And, there are a thousand bootlickers to support and praise her. It is a shame being an Indian under such conditions. And, the worst, the people vote for her -- despite knowing that she probably holds a place in the Guiness Book of World Records for elevating sycophancy to unheard of levels. On the other hand, we have people who have been charge-sheeted and claim that they were wrongly implicated. Did the police go mad to "wrongly implicate" them? In any case, any politician is guilty of something by default. Such is the sad state of affairs in India. Yet, there is no one who is worried about it. UDAY
Date sent: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:32:49 +1000 Shame Shame! Indian politicians should hide their faces in shame. Personally, I don't care what you call the city. But it is SO SO SAD that the only thing they could think of changing in the city was its name. There are far more severe problems in the city/state/country which they refuse to look at. I think that it is because the politicians/bureaucrats are a bunch of uneducated, uncivilised and unworthy bunch of morons. The fault lies in the system of democracy which lets everyone vote. These idiots get elected with the help of votes from people who have ABSOLUTELY NO idea what the hell they are doing. It seems that for these poor people, voting means nothing more than standing in a line and stamping a piece of paper with lots of pictures, LITERALLY. For god's sake, Netaji, do something before you die. Do something to prevent me from spitting on your grave. If I was a politician, that would be my only motivation to do some good for the country (that people don't spit on my name, after I die).
Aditya
(Indian, Indian, Indian)
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:17:55 -0400 If this trend goes on, I guess in future somebody will try to rename India as 'Ram Rajya' or if not so much back in history, may be 'Akbar Rajya'. When will our politicians grow up?
Tapas
NJ, USA
Date sent: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:48:55 -0400 Does India want to become a Superpower? So for we have been considered as one of the developing countries in the world. This linguistic confusion really puts India back. We should forget about regional language when it comes to the national level. We Indians are so mad after regional languages that every state wants to have their language as the national language. Though I am from Andhra, Hindi is the most common language in India, to consider as the only National Language.
Date sent: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:10:59 -0700 If we do not see a mess in all the states because of languages we have learnt nothing in the past 50 years. It is good to recognise a language so that the poor people and people who do not know English can function in a society, the best way is to hire interpreters certified by the courts. Giving 19 languages the same weightage is foolish and dividing. Since we cannot agree on any one language we should use English which is widely spoken in the world commerce as a compulsory language for education. Tell the Amma of Tamil Nadu that corruption in Tamil is the same as in English and so to prepare her defence, rather than inciting a language division. Mulayam wants Urdu to suck up to the Muslim votes in his state.
Date sent: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:12:32 -0500 Thank you for another wonderful interview from Rediff. Ram Raghavan
Date sent: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:50:29 PDT I believe there is some truth to what Mr Iqbal Wahaab is saying in that the waiters in Indian restaurants that I have been to are not the most friendly and efficient lot. I don't know what the reasons are for this despicable disposition of these 'miserable gits', perhaps they are underpaid and/or they lack training. But the responsibility and the blame squarely falls on the management more than the waiters themselves. As it is their responsibility ultimately to make the dining experience of the customers a pleasant one. This irresponsible and unpleasant behaviour of the curry waiters is not limited to the UK, but one can easily spot the same type of behaviour in the US and even in India. What the hell is the matter with these people anyway????? Mohan Marette/USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 07:34:47 +1000 This was a marvellous article. Thank you so much.
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:22:46 -0500 I have been reading your zine for a couple of months. I like the news articles, news from India is not something that I see a lot of, it is the travel articles that I enjoy the most. They alone would keep reading your excellent zine. James M Wilkes
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:41:22 +0800 Ahhh ... your description brings old memories flooding back. My ancestors hailed from Thrissur district, but we are based in Singapore (my brother and I are born in Singapore). My parents used to bring us to Kerala during the early '70s to my father's village just off Perumbilav along the National Highway (lately called Priyadershini Nagar). Then much of the surroundings were filled with thick vegetation that looked much like primary forests, several snake pits, and roaming jackals. Tar-ed surfaces were few, and there were plenty of houses with palm leaved rooftops. "Attached bathrooms" were non-existent. Either there was a pond in the estate or the folks went out to other ponds at various paddy fields or at the temples for a bath. Electricity didn't exist -- students crowded around small oil lamps to study. Jackals howled at night and kept everyone indoors. Night travels had great demand for torchlights, mainly due to poisonous serpants slithering on the ground. Otherwise, one could walk safely only with the aid of moonlight! All these have changed since the arrivals of "Gulf-returns". Up came the concrete jungles, thick vegetation were cleared for more concrete colonies. More Muslims now occupy houses that once belonged to Hindus (only the Muslims have the money to spend -- what happened to the "others"?). Even colleges and hospitals have quickly sprung up, funded by "Gulf money". Exotic fruits and vegetables which I have only seen in big cities now fill the markets of the suburbs. More items are now imported into Kerala rather than grown/manufactured locally. There are now far much more private buses with "Limited Stop" licenses than KSTRC buses. Even narrow beaten paths have been tar-ed to accomodate bus travels. Onset of electricity has created its own demon -- television. Never venture to another's house on Sundays at 1600 hours. The household will be glued to their television sets and would be hostile to any visitors during that time. Such is the march of progress -- or is this progress ? Ravi How Readers reacted to Dilip D'Souza's last column
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