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Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:56:16 -0800 A tribute to the Greatest man of this Century !! Good composition by the writer. Satish Peri, San Francisco
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:13:51 -0500 A well written article on a great soul. It is a joy to read this article. Ravi
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:19:59 -0500 Gandhi is GANDHI and no award or no prize is necessary to qualify him for what he was. It is better that he received no Nobel Prize just to prove that he could not be equated to a material symbol. Jesus never received a Nobel nor did Newton. It's good that way because they stand immortal against time. It's not worthwhile to argue this right now after such a long time. Even if the committee does realise his greatness and do award him a Nobel Prize, it would be too insignificant -- just another name on par with all others. Einstein did not receive a Nobel Prize for his General Theory of Relativity. This theory is monumental in the history of mankind. Five hundred years from now, we would identify very few people with this century -- Albert Einstein for his contribution to Science, Adolf Hitler for his atrocities, and Gandhi for his struggle for truth, morals and peace. I don't think a Nobel Prize is necessary to attribute that greatness onto him. On the other hand it would only belittle him. Oh, well, if you want another Indian to bag a Nobel Prize, may be its worth a case. But do we need to rely on a dead man to achieve something for India? Instead, please do create another Indian who can bring back the respect which the world bestowed on us when Gandhi was alive. I think this is a worthy case. Sujai Karampuri
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:22:46 -0500 The Mahatma is beyond the Nobel Peace prize.
Date sent: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:46:27 +0800 With all respects to the Mahatma, I still feel that there is good amount of reason with the Godses. Reading a little bit of history, I have always felt Partition and the troubles because of that are surely not-so-good chapters in the Mahatma's life. That day's problems still continue. Maybe, all of us who read the interview of Gopal Godse should probe into the serious points raised by Godse. After all, if it helps Mother India then we should be conscious about such points. Sampathkumar Anand Singapore
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:55:27 -0500 We liked the interview.
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 14:47:25 -0800 Please do not publish interviews which would corrupt the mind of a person reading this. Balaji
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:29:54 PST It really saddened me to learn that a person like Gopal Godse still lives in India. India probably hasn't seen a more wasted life than Godse's. These Godses are fed by the most dangerous drug on the face of earth. It is more deadlier than marijuana, and LCD is no comparison to it. This takes lives, destroys civilisations and more importantly encourages Godses to kill Gandhis. No one has yet found a cure. Gandhi was fighting this same drug. It is religious fanaticism. It's bad and against the basic principles of any religion. No religion in the world advocates a violent path, especially Hinduism is known for its message of universal love. The people who in the name of religion commit crimes are killing a religion. It really saddens me to think we the nation, India, are losing this war against religious fanaticism. The power of nonviolence was demonstrated to the world first by Gandhi. He inspired the lives of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Many lives of the world population are directly or indirectly benefited by Gandhi's life. To kill such a god and claim to have done it in the name of god is pure stupidity, and is an act of impotency. I fail to see any difference between the lives of the Godse brothers and other known terrorists of the day like Timothy McVeigh of the US, and Pakistani militants. While there is a right for every person to put forward his ideals and his opinions, there is a social responsibility for us to draw a line. And you at Rediff failed to recognise this responsibility. May I appeal to your conscience, not to give people like Gopal Godse the limelight, they are simply incapable, inefficient, terrorists. They are a social burden to Indian society. Don't waste precious online space and time on such wasted lives. Sateesh. The Gopal Godse interview was not an attempt to bring Mahatma Gandhi's assassins into the limelight. The interview sought to probe the minds and motives of the people who masterminded the assassination, not to highlight their dastardly deed or cause any disrespect to the Mahatma's memory.
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:01:35 -0800 The author is right in his apprehensions. However, one needs similar answers from the bunch who ruled during the 'scams galore' -- the telecom scam, urea scam, Bofors, helicopter scam, HDW scam, hawala, Harshad Mehta scam and fodder scam, to name a few. If these scam lords could assuage the fears of the common man -- that they will not resort to stealing from their own motherland, that they will become hardcore patriots in the future and turn this country into a land of milk and honey, maybe, the voter could vote in accordance with his own conscience. Srinivas Murthy
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:31 -0500 Mr D'Souza's article and his earlier positions on the issue of what he thinks of the political parties in India are noteworthy for these two reasons: 1. He is emphatic in his rejection of the BJP and the Congress. 2. He has not condemned the UF, RJD, SJP etc. What is interesting is not his from-the-roof-tops trashing of the BJP and Congress. But his neutrality towards the UF, RJD, SJP and the rest of the upper caste baiters.
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:30:02 -0800 This guy Dilip D'Souza always forces a response from me. He sounds so much like the Bible-thumping rightwing evangelists on the 'Christ Channels' in the US of A. Of course like D'Souza they all have been commanded by GOD to save the world from Hindutva (what happened to the original Satans and Devils?) Jessica
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 06:32:50 -0800 (PST) Being a regular reader of your columns on the Net, this article proves that you guys are also no different from the leaders of the Janata Dal or Congress. You guys don't want any good thing to happen. Dilip D'Souza is warped, but the way he analyses things I do find a trace of professionalism in him. Nice people to have.. Rajesh
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:06:13 -0500 (EST) Mr D'Souza is right when he says one cannot trust Thackeray since he could very well change again. So the statement on the face of it, seems like an exercise in exquisite redundancy (not that I have grown to expect anything else from Mr D'Souza). So let us continue along this track ... V P Singh first said he would never go against Rajiv, then he said he was quitting politics, then he said he would not spend a paisa on election campaigns after saying all of which the Raja of Manda went on to fight an election against Rajiv, organised the biggest motorcycle rally ever, spent crores on posters and got elected and subsequently became the worst PM in Indian history -- something I K Gujral should thank him for. So the King of Manda is untrustworthy. Thanks to V P, I K "I am decent" Gujral is the second worst. Next we look at I K himself. He waits in the anteroom while Laloo watches television with this brothers-in-law and children. After a few hours Laloo comes out and tells I K that he would fix him in the Rajya Sabha. I K then files papers listing Bihar as his principal residence. Now his principal residence is Jalandhar where he hopes to win on Akali/BJP support! What a fall for a fake secularist. So, I K is untrustworthy. Jyoti Basu's list of achievements .. pro-China during the war, public ledger account scam that has been suppressed, and now wants to become PM and protect national interests. Right. Anyone who believes him deserves to. Moral -- J Basu is untrustworthy. Arjun Singh better known as Mr Frustration and Scam Singh. Opportunist to the core. For the intelligent reader, the name is the guarantee of something fishy in the background. Arjun Singh -- Mr Untrustworthiness himself. The list goes on ... all of which is to show that almost every poll is trustworthy. But if someone wants to spend his/her life focusing on the untrustworthiness of one individual well what can one say except, "To each his bone." Prem
Date sent: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:29:38 -0800 This column tries to ask people to be suspicious of one person because he said something in the past. Going by the same logic, should I stop reading this writer's articles just because I don't understand his logic and wisdom here? Should I always treat this writer with bias? Before you start thinking something, I would say, I'm not a Shiv Sena supporter nor Thackeray's cousin. Never have I supported any political party in India because, over 50 years, the politicians have done nothing but helping themselves with more and more wealth. Still, I've gone and voted for a candidate, in every election, I thought was a trifle good among the worst. What sense do these writers have? They criticise when Bal Thackeray says something against Muslims. They also warn people of his bad motive when he says something good about Muslims. What should the reader do? Keep applauding all the criticism written all the time? Writing these articles will only add to the negative thinking that all Indians are beset with. Write some thing positive or stop writing. Raghavendra
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 05:29:32 -0500 D'Souza asks the BJP to convince us that it is sincere in changing its ways. Although D'Souza's intention is legitimate, the task is impractical. Think about it. How can any political party really convince the populace? Nothing is believable before the party comes to power and does things that prove its changed philosophy. Before the election, the only course left to any party is to say things during campaigning. That is what is not acceptable to Mr D'Souza. Unfortunately, nothing can be really "convincing." So, the bemoaning of moaning is just a waste of time. Vijay Sreedhar
Date sent: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:33:46 PST Mr D'Souza seems to be in a world of his own. All over the world, in all the nations, minorities live because the majority LET them live. In India, we do not wish to go so far -- we only wish that the minorities conform to the same laws as everybody else. That goes for the Muslims, Protestants, Catholics and any other minority community. If Mr D'Souza's gripe is about politicians, he is most welcome to his views. But if his views selectively apply only to the BJP, he is almost certainly biased beyond belief. Wake up, Dilip! Politicians are the same all over, including the West.
Date sent: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:33:23 -0800 Where are Dilip D'Souza and all the other secularists now? Where are the secular parties condemnations of REAL fundamentalism? Where's the apology for the temple that was burnt? It's these hypocrites that serve to open peoples eyes -- hence the growth of the BJP, the only secular party in India. Madhukar
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