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Date sent: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:37:04 -0800 Your report contains the phrase "saffron leadership". Other reports contain similar phrases like saffron brigade and the like. I think you should quit using phrases like these which only give India's enemies one more way to depict the current government as fascist. The BJP is the last best hope for India. If this government falls, the policies of appeasing our enemies will resume. In a few decades, Indian women will be ordered to wear burqas or perhaps Hindus will be fighting for a homeland from abroad.
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:56:04 -0700 By threatening the world ever so often about the next war between India and Pakistan being a nuclear one, I think Pakistan is trying to force the international community to intervene in the Kashmir issue. The nuclear bomb in their hands is a true menace to the world. Every time Pakistan wants to be heard, all it has to do is talk about a nuclear war with India and the world will sit up and listen. I guess they figured that if they scared the world enough, they can have it their way. How irresponsible is this? Sujeeth
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:16:59 -0500 It is a shame that Ayub Khan is giving credit to the British for its help in the partition of India. If Mr Khan can keep his mouth shut, a lot of tension between India and Pakistan will settle down by itself. His statements are very provocative and totally uncalled for. Kashmir has to be discussed between the two nations and not internationally. Mansoor
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:21:20 -0700 (PDT)< I have a question. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub is talking **** about India for the last two or three months as we all know. And that's OK because his father was in the Pakistani army during the Indo-Pakistan war. His father was defeated as well as Pakistan. Now he is trying to take the revenge for his father's humiliation. I don't know the full story, but you must be. Now he hold the foreign ministry and his words have some weightage in the international community. Why does India not make his father's story public to defend itself? Why don't Pritish, Varsha or Rajeev write anything exposing him? If we tell the international community about the main reason behind his statements, then we can nullify his remaks about India. Please try to shut that guy up. Rajeev
Date sent: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:44:13 +0200 Let the US be busy with sanctions, and not worry about an accidental launch of N missiles. All their technology and spy networks could not detect nor expect the tests by India. India is aware of the possible accidents, Indians are (I'd like to be modest) amoung the most balanced people on earth, only too emotional. Let India check out for and buy early warning system from those countries which are willing to accept India in their closed 'nuclear club' and were not outright for sanctions towards India -- from France, for example.
Mushtaq Ali
Date sent: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:54:06 SGT Excellent article! I think people in India need to come out of the 1962 debacle (just like Pakistan needs to come out of the 1971 debacle). India, China and the world of 1998 is not the same as 1962. I think the raving by George about China was to create a platform for India to justify its nuclear tests -- but it was done in a very childish manner. The Indian people get the leaders they deserve! Singapore ex-PM Lee Kuan Yew subtly said that by naming the enemy, you are creating one! George should be sacked! He is only good at destruction -- remember he is the same guy who played a key role in bringing down the Janata government. He can call a railway strike, he can throw out Coca-Cola, IBM, but ask him to do one thing constructive -- he can't! Agreed that China can be a 'potential' threat to India -- but the way George has handled it, it is stupid! The Chinese leadership is quite smart at diplomacy -- after all, they don't have to contest an election every two years!
Nilesh Sahita
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:58:57 -0400 I am really sick and tired of Sonia. Why is she in our country to begin with? Europian countries do not grant citizenship and hardly allow Indians to enter their country and here we are worshipping her and may potentially appoint her head of our state. The Gandhis are gone. THANK GOD. It seemed Iike India was their personal property. Do not bring them back.
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:10:50 -0400 I have been sickened by the role of the Opposition with regard to the BJP government. The Congress should be ASHAMED of itself to threaten the government. The Congress is so bankrupt, it needs a non Indian born citizen to lead it. The Congress has ruined the country for the last 50 years and should be thrown out for good. The BJP had the guts to make the country proud by standing tall with the nuclear gamble. The Raos/Deve Gowdas/Gujrals/Shekhars did not have the courage to take the next step. The people should rally behind a great man like A B Vajpayee. Venkat Subramaniam
Date sent: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:00:04 PDT Nothing could be more shameful for an Indian to be ruled "again" by a foreigner. I feel pity on the political state of affairs prevailing in India where politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Laloo Yadav, Chandra Shekhar, just to meet their narrow political ends, aggree with this idea. I think no self respecting Indian will allow these elements to succeed in their game plan. Ankush
Date sent: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:37:28 -0400 In this entire article, I could not pinpoint what the author has to say. Rather than talking to the point, a biased history lesson is repeated which we all know it happened not too long ago. Rather than publishing such half baked articles, Rediff should interview people like Nani Palkhivala, Ram Jethmalani, Kapil Sibal or the attorney general. If not this, you can at least reproduce the interview of Subhash Kashyap in The Times Of India dated June 29th. In 1977, to keep the unity of the newly formed Janata Party intact, Parivarists accepted the resolution to dismiss the state goernments. But that sacrifice of their ideology was paid back by Madhu Limaye by blaming the Jana Sangh to split the Janata Party. The BJP has rightly decided after that they will not sacrifice their ideology anymore. The BJP stands for a strong Centre, but good, clearly defined Centre/state relations. We all know that. But whatever the BJP does, be it a suggestion to review the Constitution or refusal to misuse Article 356, credit is never passed to them for their stand.
Date sent: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 21:09:38 +0530 The article shows one of the finest cartoonist's agony, excitement, contentment with his work and wit with the reality of our country. He truly reflects a common man. Dr Madhu
Date sent: Mon, 29 Jun 98 09:15:00 PDT Simply Superb! Sulabh
Date sent: Fri, 26 Jun 98 19:49:04 UT Hi! First of all, I would like to say that your site is simply the best! Great work! Keep it up! Now, someone had posted a message that the IT task force should have a feedback forum. Well, it has a website. I haven't visited it, but I am sure it has provisions for posting your ideas. The web addy is: http://it-taskforce.nic.in Astha How Readers reacted to Dilip D'Souza's earlier columns
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