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'Excellently presented. I shall have my honeymoon planned in the Maldives'
E-mail from readers the world over
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:03:52 -0400 Sometimes the Indian judiciary comes up with surprises. In the current circumstances, the punishment meted out to Bal Thackeray, even if limited, is a very bold step. If all problems are handled this way, I am sure our country will be the best in the world. Jahan daal daal par sone ki chidia karti hai basera.... woh Bharat desh hai mera...
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:54:05 -0400 Experts like Kanti Bajpai, S K Singh and Jasjit Singh have very rightly cautioned Indian diplomats about going overboard in response to recent statements emanating from the United States. While there is no way India can afford to go back to the Non-Aligned Movement (of Cold War vintage) -- when we talked loudly of neutrality and held Russian hands under the table -- we must be cautious about any US role. Previous experience should not cloud our eyesight and we should use every opportunity to consolidate the favourable US postures towards India. At the same time, we must make it clear that we will not tolerate interference or any kind of meditation from them. Positive American postures can be reciprocated by India by being flexible on some issues which do not relate to Indo-Chinese and Indo-Pakistani relations and Indian security. We can vote occasionally in favour of the US in the United Nations if that does not harm our interests much. For instance, we can keep quiet about Kosovo about which the Americans are a little sensitive. Mukund Kute
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:35:33 -0400 This was a good report with a nice, balanced analysis which warns of the dangers inherent to closer ties with the United States. Not many reports are available on India's economy on Indian websites. The ones that are there are biased. This report on the Indian economy incorporates a global viewpoint. It is not just a non-resident Indian view or a purely desi view. Paresh
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:18:51 -0700 I think it is a crying shame that the honourable external affairs minister hasn't thought it fit to even mention Pakistan's brutal torture and murder of Lieutenant Saurav Kalia and his men in his speech. Bapa Rao
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:14:39 +0530 I have no problems with the gist of what Kanchan Gupta is saying, but the reference to The Guardian's printer's devil was in poor taste and could have been avoided.
Dipankar Sengupta
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:07:35 +0530 I am amused and terribly confused as to what these people are arguing about? Is it the use of the verse that is condemnable or is it the inappropriateness of the verse? I understand from the report that there is only talk of pro-Hindu and anti-Hindu views of the scene without anybody questioning the need for the protection of dharma (the religion) at the hour of crisis, which is what the verse says! Although the use as background music of a verse from a holy scripture of Hinduism by such an acclaimed director like Stanley Kubrick is suspect, one should not, I feel, argue whether or not Krishna was right in asking Arjuna to fight against his own relatives or the credibility of these great warriors. If that was a wasteful war, then what do you say about the two World Wars, or the way the United States decimated Iraq? I definitely agree with the point that art is not politics, but that does not justify one's using art according to one's whims and fancies without any relevance to a given situation. I think, instead of arguing on whether or not to have the verse in the movie, one should rationally analyse the necessity of having that verse in the orgy scene with reference to the meaning it implies. Hosakere L Narendra Bhatta
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:00:07 -0700 Anil Nair's column on the BJP-DMK tie-up is unusually vapid even for your generally bad line-up of columnists (D'Souza, Nandy, Bhosle and Saisuresh come to mind). He seems unable to think past the BJP = brahmins equation that he seems to have thought up by himself! Once you question this equation, the whole column comes crumbling down. A long, long time ago, the DMK first came to power with considerable help from the Swatantra Party which was mostly a brahmin party. The Dravidian-brahmin alliance, therefore, is nothing new. The Swatantra Party was a capitalist outfit while the DMK was socialist in its outlook. Their common platform was the defeat of the Congress which at that time was, and continues to be, dominated by the so-called forward castes, excluding brahmins. Coming back to your columnists in general, I suppose given the looser constraints on a Web-based publication, you are willing to let anyone and everyone write. Except for the length of the pieces, the quality of the pieces tends to be worse than what you see in usual news publications where you come across some well-thought-out articles more often.
V Nagarajan
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:50:06 -0500 It was so nice to read the excellent article about M L Jaisimha. But I was disappointed by the mention of Chandrababu Naidu at the end of the article. What is he compared to Jaisimha? Why did the writer do this, thus spoiling an otherwise beautiful article? He should be ashamed of himself. Kenneth Menen
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:37:32 EDT I have enjoyed everything in rediff.com --- from the interview with Shivkumar Sharma to the stories on Kargil. Was just going to say it's a pity we don't get more news from India, especially Hindustani sangeet, when I realised all this information is just a couple of clicks away. Peter W
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Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:41:39 -0500 Cool! Your travel section is good.
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Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:31:05 -0700 Excellent! It would be even better if the fast facts link was on each page. Thanks. Pais
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:34:38 +1000 Excellently presented. I shall have my honeymoon planned in the Maldives.
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Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:08:31 EDT Excellent. A few links to Maldives tourism at the end of the article would have been a useful reference. Raj
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