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'What's the guarantee that Chattisgarh will not become yet another Bihar?
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Mon, 31 Jul 2000, 22:02:14EST +0530 I am very happy that the bill has been passed easily. I was born and brought in that area though I live in Navi Mumbai now. MP has a rather difficult geography. Probably projects like a railway link to Bastar from Raipur will come up. The location of the new Capital which is most likely to be Raipur, is very ideal. Pradeep Rekhawar
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Fri, 04 Aug 2000, 09:04:46EST +0530 This is excellent coverage touching economic, social, political and geographical bases. Congratulations to the rediff team. Sanjay Mittal
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Thu, 03 Aug 2000, 11:12:47EST -0400 Great article, but what is the guarantee that this new state will not become yet another Bihar? Markandeya, Navinchandra
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Thu, 03 Aug 2000, 08:58:58EST -0500 That was a very good article. I would like to see more such features on the remote places of India. Also, a handy reference to India's statewise population, GNP, literacy rate and other such information would be useful. A list of all Indian cities' pincodes, area codes etc. would be very useful too for surfers outside India. Vasudevan Srinivasan
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Sat, 05 Aug 2000, 15:30:25EST -0500 The author should spell out what concrete steps India could or should have taken in each of these crisis situations. Otherwise the article merely mouths the frustrations of well-read Indians. Narendra Dalvi
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Sat, 05 Aug 2000, 22:24:10EST +0530 My brother is a fighter pilot in the airforce and has flown the MiG-21 for the better part of his career. It is unfortunate that so many pilots have to die in such incidents. One hopes the authorities take note of the issue and do something about it. Shanker and Aparna
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Sun, 06 Aug 2000, 10:51:11EST -0500 Roughing up a highly respected writer, speaker and Union minister is not going to help either the RPI or the Dalits. Whatever Shourie wrote in Worshipping False Gods can be analysed and criticised rather than resorting to such uncivilised behaviour. A couple of years ago, some RPI gangsters poured goat's blood on Mr Shourie as he was seated on a dais. Why do we tolerate such behaviour? After 50 years of privileges and reservations, the Dalits have not advanced much and probably never will unless they find better parties to align with than the RPI and Bahujan Samaj which behave as if they are above the law. T R N Rao
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Sun, 06 Aug 2000, 17:57:16EST +0530
Such incidents will continue as long as the caste factor is given high priority as is being done now.
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Sun, 06 Aug 2000, 01:09:56EST
Can't these clowns in the RPI find some other, more decent way in which to vent their anger against Shourie? Since they haven't yet refuted any of Shourie's assertions to date, they can only try to attack his person. Such a crying shame! I am waiting to hear the words of the "secular intellectuals" on this incident. If they are really in support of academic/intellectual freedom, let them rise and condemn the incident unreservedly. P Shiva Kumar
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Sat, 05 Aug 2000, 23:01:47EST -0400 Mr Shenoy's views on privatisation of AI as against globalisation makes for interesting reading. He is probably right. But what is happening today with AI is the direct result of procrastination and indecision by the Government of India. Actually, over the period of time we should have gradually privatised our public sector industries and built up a strong India-based management and financial structure. And then we should have moved over to the globalisation platform. Instead of doing that, we have made such a big financial mess that today India's private sector has no financial or management capabilities for such privatisation. We have to attract foreign capital to sustain our industries. We are more or less in the same boat as Pakistan is in today. The only difference is that our people are better educated. What we need today is more education. Fifty years of socialistic nonsense has destroyed our economy. I am surprised that there are people in India even today who support socialism. Today, India needs money for primary education and health, housing, roads, water supply, sewages, garbage collection and disposal etc. This money can come only when the Indian government stops wasting money on supporting loss making banks, hotels, factories etc. I recently read an article in rediff about a fertilizer plant which has spent more than Rs 1,500 crore since 1979 and till today not even a gram of fertilizer has been produced. Such things should never happen. S Krishnamurthy
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Sat, 05 Aug 2000, 20:04:46EST -0700 If either of the governments -- Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh -- accepts Veerappan's demands, it would be setting a bad trend like what the V P Singh government did when it released Kashmiri militants in exchange for Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's daughter. What if a group of Kannadigas abduct some of the Tamil superstars and ask for the same thing -- granting second language status to Kannada or a favourable decision on the Cauvery waters? Let us think this way -- is it only the life of an actor which matters so very much? What about the life of the 100 plus policemen and other officers killed in the effort to nab Veerappan? The media should highlight this fact and prevent another bad trend from being set in the country. Shiv Kumar
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