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'It's maddening when the Western press describes Hillary as being "the first man on Everest," with no mention of Tenzing'
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:38:45 +1000 This interview is great. I highly appreciate the effort you are putting in and request you generate more interviews like this in the future. Persons who can be interviewed: Ananda Krishnan -- Former VC, Anna University. Kamal Haasan and Abdul Kalam. Karthik Karthik, we have already carried an interview with Kamal Haasan.
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 08:50:52 -0600 What happened to the two crimes that occurred on the same day? A mentally disturbed 16-year old girl was raped by a jawan near the police station in front of 100 people in daylight. What happened to it? What about the low caste woman stripped and made to drink dirt in front of her family on the same day of the model's murder? Did these cases also be investigated in the same manner the model murder is being investigated? If so, why isn't that news being published by Rediff or any newspaper? Is it because the model case makes more saleable news than the ordinary person's rape? The media stinks! Rama
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 19:51:49 -0700 As far as the serving of drinks at the bar owned and run by Malini Ramani, Bina Ramani's daughter is concerned, it seems that an IGP, no less, was present on the premises at the time! I am quite sure that he was shocked! Shocked to find that drinking was going on in the bar. With due apologies to the chief of police in Casablanca. Amused as usual, by our hypocrisy, Chandrajeet
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:20:14 -0700 The triggerman of the killing was Manu Sharma. It so happened that Gill and Khanna were with him at that time, that does not mean that Gill and Khanna participated in the killing. How can anybody vouch for Manu Sharma's actions including his carrying a concealed gun? I think the police is being soft on the killer and focusing their entire investigation on people who have no politician to harbour them.
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:22:54 -0400 In your interview of Major H P S Ahluwalia, why do you assign an interviewer (Onkar Singh) who is utterly clueless about the topic, and who clearly cannot be bothered to check any facts before the interview? Throughout his interview, he persists in referring to Sir Edmund (or "Sir Hillary", as the interview refers to him) as being the first man to climb Everest. It's not until the end of the interview that the name of Tenzing Norgay is even mentioned (and no thanks to Onkar Singh -- it's mentioned, unprompted, by H P S Ahluwalia). I find it maddening when the Western press accounts describe Hillary as being "the first man on Everest," with no mention of Tenzing. Perhaps it's because Hillary is still alive, perhaps it's because of some implicit cultural bias, whatever. But I cannot understand why an Indian interviewer should ignore what is arguably one of the proudest achievements by an Indian. Or, for that matter, why Rediff should assign someone so clueless to this interview. Or, for that matter, why Mr Singh's editor should allow this to pass. This is not the first such instance. Yesterday, you carried a report from UNI ('Hillary ready to share credit with Mallory') which did exactly the same thing -- in fact, it starts out by saying: "Forty-five years after conquering Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary today said he would be glad to share the credit for reaching the summit with George Mallory" Um, yes. But perhaps he might want to share credit with Tenzing Norgay first. The whole article never mentioned Tenzing (or even gave any indication that Hillary was only one of two people on that first climb). I understand that UNI is a wire service, and you only buy reports from them. But you certainly have discretion over which reports to buy, or even to add to or rewrite them -- things your editors, presumably, are paid to do. Sanjay Jain
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:09:09 -0700 He seems like a guy who loves the mountains not the commercialisation. I think he is bothered, worried and angry about commercialisation killing the natural flow. I do so, but can't help it. We plan to hike Mount Ranier, Seattle, where I live... Thanks for a good article. Shital
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 15:13:14 -0400 The killing of 10 militants shows that the Vajpayee government is functioning well and has every intention to keep performing before and after the polls. Militancy in Kashmir needs to be removed from the roots. The security forces should continue their search all over the valley in full force. At the same time, more and more Indians should visit Kashmir, spend generously in local bazaars, thus giving income to Kashmiris. If money starts flowing in, I doubt how many Kashmiri citizens will oblige the militants. Mukund Kute
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 21:57:34 +0530 Well, India does not need the Titanic. It only needs the state government of Maharashtra, the Mumbai elitists in environmentalist garb and fisherfolk-like people to be baited by the latter with their own (sic) livelihood. And the country can sink or rust, who cares! For once, and remember this is the only chance, there will never be another one henceforth because all wars will end in nuclear disaster and clear catastrophe. There will be no trophies to be proud of later on. Vikrant could have been kept, should have been restored to the new use and would have been the pride of an Independent India. Maybe if the people just prodded and cajoled the state government into changing the name from Vikrant to something like Chh...... Sh........? Only then would it stay.
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 11:02:48 -0500 Thanks for the preview on Samar. It would have been helpful if you had a summary of the movie credits at the beginning or at the end of the article -- like the list of actors and the characters they are playing, director, music director etc. And that goes for any movie pre-view that you do.
Apurva Pathak
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:30:56 -0500 I share Kamal's hopes for a better future for India. In 50 years, we have seen success and growth like no other country. In 1951 we had a famine, today we are in a position to feed the world (forget the poor and wanted. They are there everywhere. It's only we Indians who seem to be fascinated with this sentence that 'We are a poor country), who says so? We are one of the few countries in this world who can live in total isolation. We showed it after Pokhran II. Give some more time to India to rediscover itself. Fifty years less. Be hopeful for a better tomorrow. I give my country full points for the progress we have made. Not that I am a blind patriot but I share Kamal's optimism for my country. The next millennium belongs to India. This generation will see it through. Raghu
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 12:44:30 -0400 Don't you have anything new to tell us? The same old "Sachin can take apart any attack" etc has become stale. Some writers like Manjrekar and Gurusinghe just state the obvious. Please give us something new which can hold our interest. I am sure, with all the experience Rediff's cricket staff holds, they can do much better.
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 11:16:08 -0400 This must be one of the most non-informative columns I have ever read. The World Cup has many better contests than "Sachin versus Sanath." I think Asanka should stop thinking like a horse and see more than "Sachin versus Sanath." I think people are just trying to put up all these baseless contests against Sachin to get media attention. Every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to match their favourites against Sachin, whether they are worth comparing or not.
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Excellent. Please make such articles a regular feature. Rajesh
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