|
|
|
|
|
| HOME | NEWS | DEAR REDIFF | |||
|
COMMENTARY
|
|
|
'Arrest the elite!'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 08:07:11 +0530
The Congress and the TMC without the AIADMK will get the minimum = zero seats.
Arun Nehru,
Date:
Fri, 7 May 1999 13:48:17 -0700
Bina Ramani does not consider herself to be a law-breaker. She is not responsible for Jessica's death in anyway and we will not accuse her of that. But she did have the rich and the notorious including a DCP around. This watering hole has been there for long and she has been pushing her luck serving liquor illegally. Thanks to patrons who saw sexy women behind the counter the business has boomed. Bina, you have no MORALS!
Date:
Fri, 07 May 1999 16:45:36 -0500
I was going through the article 'The hostess with the mostest'. It was an eye opener :) The only thing you left out was to name the people in the picture associated with the article. Also, in the link story about Jessica Lal, u could have had a picture of her too! You know, we are so apt to doing with pen and paper that we many a times overlook the multimedia capabilities of the Internet. Anoop
Date:
Fri, 07 May 1999 13:54:28 -0400
It is totally ridiculous. That a lady with UK passport is declaring herself as non-Indian, selling alcohol illegally, and giving this kind of interviews! What is our system doing about this? What is happening with police officers and the administration of Delhi? Why then do our political leaders shout against Sonia just for the sake of political reasons? Will this same lady dare to sell alcohol in UK or Canada or in the US late in the night? That too without a permit? What is the problem with our country and its laws? God save my country.
Date:
Sat, 08 May 1999 10:26:42 -0600
It's really pathetic to know that the investigating agency has not filed a case for "tampering with evidence". HELLO, wake up, get things going! The investigating agency makes a mockery of the public. Did they not know that it was obvious that the owner of the restaurant, Bina Ramani, had tampered with evidence? Then why not file a case? C'mon don't tell me that the people in the government were not aware that she was not an Indian citizen, and was illegally running the business in India. A commissioner of police can go to the restaurant and spend the night there, and later comment that he was not aware that the restaurant had no licence to serve liquor! From this we can come to only these conclusions: either this man is trying to save his skin or he is not sincere to his uniform. Murali
Date:
Sun, 09 May 1999 14:15:34 +0530
How stupid 'the elite' of Delhi can be? "Bina Ramani's contribution to the enhancement of the heritage of Delhi and on what she has given to the social circles of Delhi..." What heritage? The heritage of power brokers and political pimps?? The heritage of the nouveau-riche, who do not know where from and how the money pours in and where it goes? Who, outside the protective confines of the colonies and colonnade, are a big zero??? Surely somebody must be kidding!! Isn't what she did in her restaurant a form of bootlegging? The dourness of the story has been more than recompensed by such jokes! Thanks for the story.
Date:
Sun, 09 May 1999 17:02:14 +0400
Hello: Yes, it is high time the rich socialites of New Delhi started paying a price for breaking rules!! So what if Bina Ramani has given a lot to "Delhi's Heritage" -- the law is the law! She should be penalised for whatever laws she has broken and, hopefully, the rich & the famous will start realising that they are not above the law. Regards,
Anu Agarwal
Date:
Sat, 08 May 1999 10:58:34 PDT
Hi there! I just read the news piece on Jessica Lal. Could I say that Rediff could use its growing popularity to contribute to the cause of justice? I doubt whether Jessica's relatives will get justice, as more often than not we do not get it in India. This has become a country where connections could help one get away with any crime. We all know it. The media also tend to follow-up the case for a while, but only for a while. Please grant such events the publicity they deserve. Let's contribute our mite to improve the system, to pressurise the police to do what it should. Thank you. Manoj
Date:
Sun, 9 May 1999 10:30:23 +0530
Dear editor, Though the interview was interesting, it didn't give convincing explanations and effective remedial measures. As an independent researcher in psychology, I have found out that an error in upbringing is the only cause of all human problems, which includes violence, poverty and all the rest. The details are at http://members.rediff.com/gippnac/freemind.htm or http://sites.netscape.com/prasannaji/naturalmind Would you be kind enough to forward this message to Dr Achal Bhagat and Shri Amberish K Diwanji? With best regards,
Prasanna
Date:
Sat, 08 May 1999 19:26:03 +0000
South Asians, especially Pakistanis, need to wake up!!! It is back to the dark days of the Zia Regime once again. Friday Times is one of the last "Free" Forums left to us. Rehmat Shah Afridi, Benazir Bhutto, Hussain Haqqani and now Najam Sethi. The shoring up of the Nawaz mediocrity by silencing the judiciary, the presidency and moderation in the military needs our attention. And yes, all democratic Pakistanis must now be RAW agents.
Ras H Siddiqui
Date:
Sat, 8 May 1999 04:10:25 -0400
Ask the communists if Tibet had nukes whether they would have waged the war of genocide that they did on them. Ask them if "Tibetans living abroad" wasn't the wrong phrase and just plain "living" was what they meant to say.
Date:
Sun, 9 May 1999 22:38:26 -0400 (EDT)
Yes, it should be celebrated each day by all of us -- where would we be without them?! May the gods continue to love women who bear the children!
Date:
Mon, 10 May 1999 07:59:07 +1000
Hi Sonia, I just loved your article. It brought tears to my eyes, and I really agree with it. I could identify with all the motherly stuff you mentioned in your article, being myself the mother of two sons. My elder son's school had organised a fair (another way to fundraise -- each household sends something that the mother would like to get for mother's day, and the kids take money and buy something for their mother from the stuff that has arrived from various houses). My son forgot to take money, in spite of me reminding him (See mothers have to be careful to remind sons to buy something for them, so that the sons don't feel too bad as well). He ended up borrowing 5c from a friend, and asking a teacher if he would get something for the 5c. After refusing initially the teacher eventually gave him a bar of soap, and that is what I got for Mother's Day! Though all of this made me want to cry, I agree with you, I will swap the one day's luxury to a lifetime of knowing about the lives they are leading and being close to them as they grow up. A wonderful article. Cheers, Maya
Date:
Sun, 09 May 1999 15:37:26 -0700
Dear Rediff: Thank you so much for publishing this article by Ms Chopra, on the hollowness of the much hyped and ironical Mother's Day in the US. While reading through the article, I found the sentences and clauses engendering a theme so much in consonance with my opinion about the Mother's Day, which I had formed a year ago. Remembering you mother is a good thing. But not for the "heck of it" (just because it's Mother's Day). I feel so proud to be from India -- to be born in a culture where many of my friends used to call my mom " Maaji " or " Amma " as they do in Tamil. I also feel proud to be brought up in a way, where I always was taught the lessons of " Maatru Devo Bhava " (Mother is God); " Pitru Devo Bhava "; " Aacharya (Teacher or Mentor) Devo Bhava " and " Atithi (Guest) Devo Bhava ". Where else in the world would you find such an ethereal culture still prevailing? Only in India. Where else would you find a son, not parting with the lottery money won together by his mother and him? And lo and behold! The next moment the mother sues her son, her very own blood, for a million dollars feeling cheated! Only in the West (read the USA). Bottomline: Mother's Day is all a farce.
Sincerely,
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 14:15:42 -0400
This is a good article. Could you please try to have a similar interview with the DoT executives, and try to impress upon them that for the growth of Internet-based commerce, it is important to have
1)800 based numbers, OR
so that clients can get connected to their ISP, and spend more time on the Internet. Presently, the common user gets charged by the minute. This is not conducive to e-commerce growth. Thanks,
Abhijit Neogy
|
||
|
HOME |
NEWS |
BUSINESS |
SPORTS |
MOVIES |
CHAT |
INFOTECH |
TRAVEL |
SINGLES BOOK SHOP | MUSIC SHOP | GIFT SHOP | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | WORLD CUP 99 EDUCATION | PERSONAL HOMEPAGES | FREE EMAIL | FEEDBACK |
||