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Date sent: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:13:22 -0500 This article comes as an eye opener for all those who believe that India is the saint and the receiver of all wrong doings at the hands of its neighbours. Very hard to believe, but one cannot thing of such conceit by a nation that has Satyameva Jayate as its slogan. Are we sure we have the right version of the story as far as Kashmir and Punjab are concerned? Srinivas Murthy
Date sent: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:06:35 +0530 This incident should be really looked into. After all, it is hard to believe that the Indian armed forces could be so mindlessly cruel to people who trust them.
Date sent: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 00:09:15 -0700 The VHP is a religious body for Hindus. It has got a right to fight for any injustice in any state in India. If the Kerala government feels the VHP's actions are not justified and nothing wrong has been done, it should fight the VHP in the courts. But nobody can deny the VHP a right to build a religious movement for any reason it feels has overstepped the right of a Hindu or any Hindu organisation. The VHP should follow a peaceful movement and start educating people about the state takeover of temples and appeasement of other religions while neglecting Hindu institutes. E K Nayanar's threat seems to me like a typical Marxist threat that we will not hesitate to kill RSS and Hindu activists in their typical style as adopted in West Bengal and Kerala. Kerala and West Bengal is not Marxist jagirdari. If Hindus learn about injustice only after such a movement, the VHP should get more active. Advising only the VHP to abandon their plans in the interest of the nation and letting others perpetuate injustice is not acceptable. If local Hindus feel they do not need the VHP and no injustice has been done, why will they seek the VHP's support?? Why will they create social tensions by such a movement?
Date sent: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:46:59 -0700 And this 'Secular Socialist' wants to become the PM. Hey, first pay up what you owe the taxpayers. naren nayak
Date sent: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:15:55 -0400 Good. I like the move by the girls and ladies in Air-India. I would appreciate if this movement would spread across all industries, work environments, education, sports and all fields. Unless and otherwise there is enough justification and proof medically to discriminate between genders, discrimination must never be allowed to creep in. This is a changing world and information flows more freely and is more accessible. Stupid beliefs must be routed out of our system if we have to evolve personally and if our society has to evolve globally. The various moderations that were placed earlier on the feminine gender by our ancestors were to help them and not stifle them. But those were the days when technology had not found remedies for the inconveniences. Nowadays with rapid improvement in technology, medicine, transport and all fields, it has become easier for everyone to have an equal stand irrespective of colour, caste, religion, gender, language etc. We must try to understand why our ancestors had certain moderations and discuss whether it is necessary for us to follow them in our current system. If not, we can grow out of them without forgetting to log these early practices in some place for us to understand the human evolution. The reason we are not able to comprehend why discrimination was practiced earlier is because of lack of documentation or inefficient knowledge transfer. While I support the airhostesses in their cause, I would like to mention that there are some persons who misunderstand equality among genders and in effect start discrimination by themselves. A woman must not think that there is no separate queue for the feminine crowd in a counter of service. Also, we all must grow out of certain restrictive and paranoic attitude which we camouflage as conservative attitude. Broadmindedness in marriages and more social mingling of opposite sexes would help people understand each other in a better manner. In earlier days, gender discrimination was greatly appreciated to attenuate the immoral sexual advances by persons of opposite sex which to a great extent was and is from the male gender. As the population was thin, such discrimination proved effective. With a huge population as what India has now, discrimination has a negative feedback with people getting kicks out of just brushing themselves against women in public transport etc. There are many black sheep among the men who exploit women sexually and this is on the rise than being the other way. The reason for this is not just men, but women too, who do not want to come out of their cocoon and speak out. Women need not be ashamed if exploited sexually. It is those cheap lecherous creeps who would have to cringe and cower in shame. I reiterate that for our society to improve in this current world, more social mingling of opposite sexes and better understanding of our old and current customs and changing trends is necessary. In fact, I would go to the extent of saying that this world would be a fair playground for all people only when even the worst of the handicapped and crippled could get things done as easily as the most able-bodied, intelligent and powerful of other persons. To achieve this global dream it would require people from all fields to join hands together and strive incessantly and with sustained interest. Such small bickerings of discrimination would then get eradicated from this world altogether. Bala
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:35:04 -0700 Air-India has one of the worst services among the airlines. The fact that the air hostesss argue it is the service that matters and not the looks doesn't make sense at all. I have witnessed the not so sophisticated crowd that fly Air-India, being "HARASSED", yes!, you got that right. This, I have always thought was unacceptable and totally ridiculous. Just when I thought I have seen enough, I stopped flying Air-India. No wonder AI is doing so poorly. It is such a sad story that there is discrimination among the desis, and that too an airline customer is on the receiving side. My opinion is that only when these hostess (the term doesn't sound appropriate at all), start respecting customers, can they legitimately claim what they claim now. Subbu
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 11:51:37 PDT I think we should follow BA's policy that nobody above 45 flies. After all, I wouldn't want to see my grandmother serve me tea or coffee, not to mention the pathetic way in which they handle CUSTOMER luggage. To date everybody who I know has flown Air-India or Indian Airlines has had a "NEVER AGAIN" experience. Wish there was some way I could convey this to their management and the USELESS staff of OUR NATIONAL carrier!!! It sucks, doesn't it?? A REDIFF Regular
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 98 11:05:35 -0800 After going through this interview, I cannot control myself. I get irritated about this country's destiny that it has these sycophants who think nothing but their gain as outcome of anything. No doubt these old people are assets of society, but we have to understand that there is a line of demarcation which suggests there are a few things that only younger people should do. In this fast-paced world we don't need old sycophants like Mr Karunakaran, we need active people who think of newer things, who look outside the country also, who go with the faster pace of the world. I am utterly disgusted with Mr Karunakaran's thoughts about Ms Sonia. No offence but Ms Sonia Gandhi came to India to live with one of the wealthy families of this country, who lived with educated people of this country, who only saw the brighter side of this India coin. She does not know the history, she doesn't have any interest in India except that she has to live here because of her marriage, she does not understand India at all. Just because she belongs to a name who will attract voters, you cannot claim her to be eligible enough to lead India. To hell with people like Mr Karunakaran, who even at his ripe old age only think of gain and have never done anything, will never think about doing anything for this country. A disgruntled reader
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 14:17:01 -0500 Karunakaran, Arjun Singh and other seasoned politicians make ideal sycophants to Madam Sonia. They admire the Nehruvian dynasty, its crippling socialism and (Bofors) scam raj of last 50 years. Now that they have the backing of the 1,000 crore (Fodder Scam) looter and the Leftist hypocrites, they have started a battle cry for power. Will the Madam oblige these sycophants?
T R Rao
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:05:33 -0500 Well said.
Date sent: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 14:22:05 -0400 >>".........Yashwant Sinha has proved that just because your name sounds like a Bihar mispronunciation of Jaswant Singh,............................." Yashwant (from Yash: Fame [Skt]) Sinha (From Sinh: Lion [Skt]) is the "correct" form. Jaswant & Singh mean exactly Yashwant & Sinha, respectively. No more, no less. Y S is not a mispronunciation of J S. In fact, J S is a regional corruption of the "more classical" Y S. That Mollywood (after all, it's Mumbai now, I'm told) guy...... Yash Chopra. Could his name be a Bihar misprounciation of "Jas Chopra"? No opinion on the opinion presented in the article. Cheerio Vinayak
Date sent: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:09:07 I do not know who this Ghosh is, but certainly seems a Leftist who just hates the BJP. I do not think Vajpayee's decision to go nuclear can be compared to 'govt talks big, but it knees are made of jelly.' I would think otherwise. You have two persons in this interview -- Diwanji who is taking this and is a known BJP hater and a Leftist, so what do you expect? A useless interview.
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