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Home > News > Commentary > Kanchan Gupta
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Advani's Jinnah never existed
'Mr Advani could have calmed the disquiet by offering an explanation -- he owes it to the country and to the party, in that order -- but he did not do so.'
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June 02, 2005 |
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Communal truth, secular lies
'Crass pandering to fundamentalism comes easily to the Congress and its cheer leaders in the CPI-M.'
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May 25, 2005 |
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Dr Singh and Mr Hyde
'Rather than stand up to Lalu and the Marxists, he chose to toe the line of least resistance.'
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May 09, 2005 |
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Secular? That's a laugh
'We have a fast-unfolding situation where the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board is setting up sharia courts as a parallel system of justice.'
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April 28, 2005 |
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Let them eat plastic bags!
'Development and economics have been squeezed out of Bihar's socio-political lexicon by crime, corruption and caste.'
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April 19, 2005 |
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India mute on Jeevan Kumar's slaughter
'The widow and three-year-old daughter of the BSF's Jeevan Kumar can shed bitter tears. But they are of little concern to imperial Delhi.'
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April 14, 2005 |
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Harsh lessons for BJP, RSS
'It makes little sense for Advani to persist with the fiction that all is fine with the BJP.'
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April 7, 2005 |
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Jihadis score a blast of a hit
'Even as jihadis are sniggering up their Kalashnikov nozzles, the UPA is embracing them as "our brothers". '
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March 28, 2005 |
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US tells India, drop dead
'If it chooses to be charmed by the Americans, then India might as well become another client state of the US like Pakistan.'
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March 21, 2005 |
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Callous US, guilty Bush
'Musharraf would not be a welcome guest in Washington if the US had taken its freedom of religion report on Pakistan as seriously as it has taken the bunkum about religious freedom in India.'
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March 16, 2005 |
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Mr Chatterjee's hour of loneliness
'Those who swear by Chatterjee's integrity will point out that if he were helping the Congress, then Sonia wouldn't have left him high and dry.'
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March 10, 2005 |
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The false gods of secular India
'In 1989, he was relentless in his assault on the Congress. Now he is an ardent supporter of Soniaji.' Guess who?
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February 21, 2005 |
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Goodbye, Kashmir!
'Why have we agreed to open our doors to Jihad Incorporated?'
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February 04, 2005 |
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The Pandits: Dole and despair
The current dispensation in Delhi is only echoing the callous indifference towards the plight of Kashmiri Pandits that has been the official policy of at least five different Union governments in these 15 years of their forced exile.
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January 10, 2005 |
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Party time for the UN
All those who have pledged money to help the survivors of Black Sunday, Kofi Annan has been quick to tell them in Jakarta, should pay up and pay up fast. The party has begun, the bills can't be allowed to pile up.
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December 21, 2004 |
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Why treat kids as criminals?
'The current clampdown is similar to the manner in which antediluvian theocracies deal with social problems. It is at total variance with how modern democracies tackle similar issues.'
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December 06, 2004 |
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King America's amoral queen
'With its exalted status as America's ally, Pakistan is entitled to participate in US research projects to improve conventional defence capabilities, US war reserve stockpiles on its territory and purchase depleted uranium ammunition.'
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November 25, 2004 |
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Naxals, India's enemy within
'The 'Red Corridor' unites the left-extremists of India with their comrades in Nepal. It covers 155 districts in India, that is nearly a quarter of our national territory.'
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November 11, 2004 |
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BJP does not need enemies
'The obvious task for the BJP is to reinvent itself, and redefine the contours of its ideology, to address the concerns of a new India.'
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November 1, 2004 |
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Light a candle for 4,733 Sikhs
'Those who survived the pogrom of 1984, haunted by nightmares of a genocide the world has forgotten, wipe their tears in silence.'
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October 25, 2004 |
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Truth clouded by heavy shades of grey
'The unkindest cut comes in the form of P C Alexander blaming Operation Bluestar on General Vaidya who is accused of planning and executing the offensive on the basis of inaccurate and poor intelligence.'
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October 18, 2004 |
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BJP snatched defeat from victory
'It has become a prisoner of individual aspirations far removed from the popular imagination that is being increasingly captured by Sonia and her Congress.'
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October 11, 2004 |
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Say yes to the FBI!
'By accepting the American offer of help, we will add real value to our counter-terrorism efforts.'
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September 30, 2001 |
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Gen Musharraf has finessed us, and we are happy!
'No amount of official sophistry can hide the fact that Musharraf has returned home with much more than he had hoped for, and now can look forward to further capitulation by those who think out of the box.'
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July 17, 2001 |
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Musharraf went for broke, and lost in Agra
'His insistence on painting in black and white the complex problems plaguing India-Pakistan relations may have endeared him to hardliners in Pakistan, but has left practitioners of diplomacy aghast.'
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