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ASSEMBLY POLL '98
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'Where go all the cultural guards on the Anjana Mishra issue?'
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:34:27 -0500 Where go all the cultural guards on this issue? Are they alive? Where is Bal Thackeray and his great Sena members? Where is the VHP and Sangh Parivar or others who are speaking about the cultural validity of India? What happened to Varsha who is always talking about fanatic issues? Who is going to show real justice to this woman? We are repeatedly say India is a country with cultural values. Is it this kind of culture that we are talking about?
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:38:34 +0000 I think one of the most admirable and outstanding decisions of India and the A B Vajpayee government is to award the Bharat Ratna to Amartya Sen. In the field of development and removal of poverty in India, I think it will be a great watershed. Yours is one of the best sites promoting India's development. May I suggest something: 1. After 50 years of Independence, we have not yet looked back at our achievements and failures. Unless, we analyse them our future progress will be slow. Many persons involved in the major events of the past are alive, and they can explain in what circumstances India made its place in history. Some suggested topics are:
Green Revolution There are also areas where we have lagged behind like:
Literacy/Primary education I hope Rediff will start a debate and discussion, and will provide us the thoughts of great people who were part of the events.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:34:52 -0500 Hope you keep on giving reports on constructive developments in India too, not just on political games.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:20:57 -0800 Sonia and Mulayam can contest elections from Pakistan, this will give us in India a way of getting rid of them.
Date sent: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:31:09 -0700 So Joshi knows what the problem is! People have converted to other religions for medicines, clothes, food and schools. He knows the cause for conversion. Instead of finding a way to solve these basic issues, he wants to go against the missionaries. If he dares to, let him make Hindu missionaries who can provide better schools, food, medicines and clothes. Let him prove that Hindus are more dedicated to their religion and they can work better for the poor and needy. Let him provide these necessities with better quality. Let him provide such basic necessities not only to Hindus, but Christians and Muslims too. Let him prove that he cares more for the poor and that is what Hinduism teaches him to do. I am sure if he could do it at least in some parts of India, he can convert the remaining population too to Hinduism and hence his goals (if at all any) to protect Hinduism from conversion would be achieved more than 100 per cent! Rama
Date sent: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 02:37:53 EST Very good reporting. Keep it up.
Date sent: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:30:30 -0500 India Today's recent issue is full of manipulations of Bhagwat and Pawar. Let's not take the name of Lokmanya Tilak for glorifying Bhagwat. The fact is, he is dismissed due to his defiance. He spent his life in the Navy and served to the best of his capability. We all do that. We get paid for that. I am sick of the retiring and dismissed public servants patting their own back after the service ends and telling we Indians that they did a great national service. The acknowledgment of great service comes to those who do it selflessly. That is why Amte, Hazare, Pandurang Shastri Athavale are admired and Christian missionaries, and people like Bhagwat, Pawar, P V Narasimha Rao and most of our politicians are looked down with disgust.
Mukund Kute
Date sent: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:06:05 +0000 One has to respect Dr Cohen for becoming a specialist on South Asia. But there is only so much that he can say or do. The problem with these "specialists" is that they have to say different things to gain acceptance into the corridors of power in India and Pakistan. For example: "I guess today India and Pakistan need another Simla to resolve the issue and the solution is really quite obvious: convert the Line of Control into a border." One can only ask Dr Cohen that if this was a possible solution and each country has been in control of more or less the same territory then this problem should have been solved itself by now. I does not take a genius to recommend such an option. It takes a man of courage to say enough is enough. Outside powers have made it a habit of using Kashmir to sell their weapons to India and especially Pakistan. They have used the misery that Kashmir has generated for their own benefit while promising each of the three parties (let us not forget the Kashmiris) what they want. Everything is acceptable except a solution. It is time that the three parties woke up. India will never become a superpower if it cannot find a non-military solution to this problem. The ball is in India's court. In the remote possibility that Pakistan does collapse lies India's own undoing. So both countries need to accept the ground realities and come up with a compromise. And this compromise cannot be the present line of control. If India and Pakistan cannot resolve this issue then the future of the area is extremely bleak. So it is time that we all grew up.
Ras H Siddiqui
Date sent: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:16:05 -0800 Excellent. Darryl is pushing the correct solutions to the 21st century -- transportation issues ie, public transportation. However while he has talked about the issue in general, I disagree with his indication that the frequency of the service can judge of the quality of the service. Having travelled to several countries in Asia and North America, I think the content of the service is actually a true indicator of the quality. Though he has not denied that factor in this article, he seems to have bypassed it conveniently. Bombay's bus/train services are pathetic in terms of content and this issue needs to be addressed maybe in another article. It is also important that Darryl continues to lead and track the progress of this all important transportation issue probably following investigative journalism in order to make his public awareness proactive rather than in hindsight and to make public officials aware of public scrutiny. All would be lost if this was an isolated article instead of a long term awareness campaign.
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 11:48 AM You have hit the nail in the coffin in this article. A good captain can bring the best out of ordinary players. A bad captain can do nothing with the best players in the world. Remember we don't have Mark Taylor or Hansie Cronje as the captain of the team. Captaincy and Azhar -- poles apart. All the wins under Azhar have come at home on friendly tracks with Sachin blasting every bowler on sight. When it comes to playing abroad one needs a thinking captain and a captain who "makes things happen" and not wait like Azhar "for things to happen by itself." Azhar and the team management can give excuses in numbers for poor performances outside India. I would say the captain has to take considerable blame for lackluster performance. Azhar is a wonderful batsman but unfortunately not a thinking captain. He rotates bowlers just for the sake of rotation and less said the better on field placements.
Arun
Date sent: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:25:16 -0000 This is with reference to the article by V Gangadhar on Dravid. Firstly, I would like to mention the three centuries that Dravid scored during the tour of New Zealand. Though the first two centuries were made in a Test match, it was scored at good pace. What more, both the innings were flawless. The points here to be mentioned are the first century was scored in the company of tailend batsmen like Srinath and Prasad (this doesn't take away any credit from their valuable innings). Greats like Gavaskar, Shastri, during the course of the match, mentioned this innings as the best they have ever seen. It was so well paced and the innings was of sheer brilliance. About the second century, I mention that eventhough the top NZ bowlers were not in action, it is against these irregular bowlers that most batsmen find tough to maintain concentration ( ask Sachin) and lose their wicket. Dravid was not carried away by his effort in the first innings and played a tremendous knock. Both of these innings by Dravid have once again proved his class. He really toyed with the NZ bowling in both these innings. Also, just to prove all those critics like Gangadhar (??) wrong, the third century was the icing on the cake. It came at a situation when India lost its best batsman and it was a century scored under pressure.
Date sent: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:46:09 -0600 It's sad when a decent person like Rajeev rakes up the same Radha, Sita (Ummm Nita) issue. If people with brains descend to such mindless gutter thought, I doubt we have much to look forward to from the likes of the goons in Bombay. The question is not why Sita, Gita and not Malati, Chandrika. The question should be why we as a people of this century should even bother. Why are we Hindus so touchy about such stupidity? We have this great century ahead of us where we could do so much, turn our country around and make it an example. But we turn it instead into a spectacle. And why does Rajeev Srinivasan, rather than educating the millions of touchy Hindus, encourage that fringe. You could do a lot more. You could tell us to lead better lives. Instead you sermonise about a couple of actresses and what they did on screen.
Date sent: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 20:23:41 EST Great. Fine exposure for a young and upcoming talent. Keep it up!
Date sent: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:53:08 +0530 Mahesh Bhatt is a loser. His last 12 films have bombed at the box office, his scripts are disgusting and he is nothing but one of those who has no idea of what they are doing. He has just been lucky a few times and that's it. With Zakhm, Mahesh has adopted a new technique. The best way to get attention is by being controversial. That's what Zakhm is. It's a movie about riots that are over and by releasing it now, just shows how desperate he is to get attention. I saw Criminal a few years back and it showed Mahesh Bhatt has a very low IQ. Fugitive was an excellent movie and even a copy in Hindi could have been as excellent but instead he put Ramya's character and made a mockery out of it. It's good he is on his way out.
How Readers responded to Dilip D'Souza's earlier columns
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