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Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!ORION.STJUDE.ORG!UMA Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Approved-By: Uma Ramamurthy <uma@ORION.STJUDE.ORG> Message-ID: <9301211747.AA28153@SPARC.stjude.org> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.india-d Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:47:58 -0600 Sender: The India Interest Group at UKCC <INDIA-D@UKCC.BITNET> From: Uma Ramamurthy <uma@orion.stjude.org> Subject: INN Digest - Jan 21 Lines: 738 India Interest Group News Digest Thu, 21 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 10 Today's News Topics: List of Cabinet, State and Deputy Ministers Woman Officer to lead this year's R-Day Parade 122 militants surrender, chief of Dashmesh Reg. killed Panchayat Polls - a ray of hope for villagers of Punjab IRCON bags prestigious contract in Jakarta John Major to announce 3 British aid pgms to India Vast scope for export of two-wheelers from India AP Chief Minister's fate hangs in the balance Pakistan unable to find venue for Mission in Bombay Military Industrial Technology put into civil use India and Chile sign cultural agreement AIDS virus spreading fast in India Britain firm on deporting Sikh militant to India Cricket: 2nd One Day Intl - India v/s England India beat England by 5 wkts Editorials & Commentary: Beyond Ayodhya's watershed - by Girilal Jain [ Part II ] ___________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe: BITNET users: send a mail message to LISTSERV@UKCC Internet users: send a mail message to LISTSERV@UKCC.UKY.EDU In the mail msg, leave the subject line blank. 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The Editor/Owner of INN are not responsible for copyright violations by members who send copyrighted-material to INN. ___________________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 18:14:46 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.NArotham Reddy) Subject: List of Cabinet, State and Deputy Ministers From: Andhra Pradesh Bhavan, New Delhi New Delhi - Jan 18: Following is the list of members of Union Council of Ministers and their portfolios after today's reshuffle: Pamulaparti Venkata Nasrasimha Rao (Prime Minister) Also incharge of personnel, public grievances and pensions, science and technology, ocean development, electronics, atomic energy, chemicals and fertilizers, rural development, non-conventional energy sources and law, justice and company affairs and the additional charge of the ministry of industry and other subjects not allocated to any other cabinet minister or minister of state (independent charge). Cabinet Ministers: Arjun Singh Human Resources B.Shankaranand Health and family welfare Dr.Manmohan Singh Finance S.B.Chavan Home Affairs Sharad Pawar Defence Balram Jhakar Agriculture C.K.Jaffer Shariff Railways Ghulam Nabi Azad Civil Aviation A.K.Antony Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public distribution Dinesh Singh External Affairs Mrs.Sheila Kaul Urban Development Sitaram Kesri Welfare V.C.Shukla Water Resources and Parliamentary Pranab Mukherjee Commerce N.K.P Salve Power Ministers of state (independent charge) Ajit Kumar Panja - Coal Balram Singh Yadav Mines Giridhar Gomango Planning and Program implementation Jagdish Tytlor Surface Transport Kalpanath Rai Food Kamal Nath Environment P.A. Sangma Labour Capt. Satish Sharma Petroleum and Natural Gas Santosh Mohan Dev Steel Sukh Ram Communications Tarun Gogoi Food Processing industry G.Venkata Swamy Textiles Dr.Abrar Ahmed Finance and Parliamentary affairs Arvind Netam Agriculture Bhuv Chaturvedi Prime Minister's Office Eduardo Faleiro Chemicals and Fertilizers H.R.Bharadwaj Law, Justice and Company affairs K.C. Lenka Railways Kamaluddin Ahmed Civil Supplies, Consumer affairs Mrs.Krishna Sahi Industry M.Arunachalam Industry (Small scale, agro and rural industries) V.Chandrashekara Murthy - Finance Mallikarjun Defence Margaret Alva Personnel, Pension, Public grievances Mukul Wasnik Youth Affairs P.K.Thungon Urban Development P.K.Kumaramangalam Science and Technology and parliamentary affairs P.V.Rangayya Naidu Power R.L.Bhatia External Affairs Ram Singh Rural Development(Wasteland Development) Rameshwar Thakur Rural Development S.Krishna Kumar Non-conventional energy Salman Khurshid External Affairs Sukhbans Kaur Civil Aviation (Dept of Tourism) Uttambhai Patel Rural Development Deputy Ministers: Paban Singh Ghatowar Health and Family Welfare Ram Lal Rahi Home Affairs Miss.Selja Dept of Education ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 93 21:56:01 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: Four more ministers of state sworn in Source : The CGI * Four more ministers of state sworn in New Delhi - Jan 19: Former Union minister Mr.K.P.Singh Deo, veteran leader, P.M.Sayeed, Mrs.Basawarajeshwari and Mr.K.V.Thangkabalu, were Tuesday sworn in as ministers of state, thus completing the exercise of revamping of the 19 month old Narasimha Rao ministry. Mr.Singh Deo will be holding independent charge of his ministry. The President Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma, administered the oath of office to the new incumbents. The ours ministers of state, could not be sworn in as they were out of the city. A member of parliament from Orissa. Mr.K.P.Singh Deo, returns to the center after a gap. He was the minister of state for defence in the Rajiv Gandhi government and resigned over the Ram Swarup epsionage scandal. P.M.Sayeed has returned to Parliaments for the seventh consecutive term from Lakshwadeep. He is also secretary of the Congress Parliamentary party and a member of the joint parliamentary committee probing the securities scam. Mrs.Basawarajeshwari, a lok sabha member had held many important portfolios in Karnataka till 1977. This is her third term in the lower house and first entry into the Union Council of ministers. Mr.K.V.Thangkabalu, was a general secretary of the Tamil nadu youth Congress and is a member of the Lok sabha. He is the vice president of the Tamilnadu congress. With the Tuesday's ceremony, the exercise undertaken by the Prime Minister to reconstitute the council of ministers has been completed and changes in the Congress organizational structure and replacement of a few Governors is expected soon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:05:10 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: Woman Officer To Lead This Year's Republic Day Parade Source : The CGI * Army to display its deadly weapons on Republic Day Bombay - Jan 19: The army will display its modern capabilities and fire-power in the from of updated T-77 tanks, multi-barrel rocket launchers (MBRL) and Stella-10 Air defence missiles at this year's Republic day parade. The sophisticated support equipment consisting of battlefield surveillance Radar, PMS BRI equipment will also be displayed, an official release said. Digicora meteorological system which provides meteorological information to the gunners is to be shown at the parade for the first time. The Air force vehicular columns will display air-to-air R-27 R1 long distance missile, R-60 MK, MAGIC-1 close combat missiles, and a variety of aircraft guns and the rocket pads. For the first time in the history of republic day parade, a woman officer will lead this year's all-male naval contingent as one of the two platoon commanders. The air force band following the contingent of airmen, for the first time, will play the newly composed tune "Air Force Song" to mark the recently celebrated IAF Diamond jubilee. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:48:49 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: Polls Peaceful in Punjab, Newsmen Survey Shows Improvement Source : The CGI * 122 militants surrender, newly appointed chief of Dashmesh Reg. killed Chandigarh, Jan 19: The surrender of 122 militants on Jan 14 and peaceful polls in the first two phases of Panchayat polls in Punjab were a big moral boost for the security forces, who killed 24 militants in various encounters last week. In all, 29 lives were lost in the violence in the state last week. The two phases of four-phased panchayat (highest level village body) elections are over with virtually no poll related violence. More than 66,000 sarpanches (heads of panchayats) are to be elected by Jan 22 when the process is expected to be completed. As many as 122 militants surrendered before state Inspector General of Police K.P.S Gill in Amritsar district on Jan 14. Those who surrendered included two 'Lt.Gens' of separatist outfits and 39 listed militants. A total of 473 militants and surrendered in the border region comprising Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Majitha, Patala and Gurdaspur Police districts last year. Jan 12 was incident free day when no militant related crime was reported from anywhere in the state. Newly appointed chief killed: Security forces killed Dalbir Singh alias 'Subegh Singh', the newly appointed chief of Dashmesh Regiment, in an encounter. * Panchayat polls - a ray of hope for villagers in Punjab Source: Hindustan Times, Jan 11, 1993 Chandigarh - 10 (UNI): The panchayat elections scheduled to be held in four phases from Jan 16 to Jan 22 promises to once again reestablish people's power in the rural areas of Punjab, which were virtually ruled by the gun for more than a decade. The innocent villagers, who had been caught in the running battle between the State and the militants, in the process suffering at the hands of both, have now started basking in the light of freedom. Fed up with the cult of violence, the people have started coming out in the open to assert their right to live in peace and tranquility. With a spate of successes achieved by security forces against terrorists, with the help of information provided by the villagers, the element of fear has by and large evaporated from the hearts and minds of the ruralites. A small groups of newsmen who extensively toured the identified sensitive areas spread over four districts of Ropar, Ludhiana, Faridkot and Ferozepur could clearly sense a transformation in the thinking of the rural folk the latter now seem to have no sympathy for the militants, whom they earlier provided shelter -- some out of conviction and others out of fear. However, they have no great respect for Police either. The information flow to the police was more out of anger for the militants who did not even spare the families who gave them shelter, whether willingly or unwillingly. In almost all the 40-odd villages visited by the newsmen people were quite enthusiastic about the panchayat elections being held in the state after a decade. In Jagatpur village, names of two persons were being mentioned for the post of sarpanch - sitting sarpanch Sarwan Singh and Ajit Singh, a retired school teacher. People said they were trying for a consensus. In Jattana village, the home of slain hardcore militant Balwinder Singh Jattana, there was not much enthusiasm for the elections though a consensus candidate was likely to emerge in due course. * IRCON bags prestigious contract in Jakarta New Delhi - Jan 19: The public sector Indian Railway construction company limited (IRCON) has bagged the Rs 12? crore prestigious contract for the construction of "Paramuka Matraman" flyover in Jakarta. IRCON will be the prime contractor and project would be executed in association with a local company. It said the contract has been awarded by the JUDP, and has stipulated the completion time for the project as 12 months. The flyover project, the release said, had been funded by the world bank and has been secured against stiff international competition. EXIM bank of India has lent support to the project. IRCON has recently secured work for the Senen flyover costing Rs 19 crore which is also in the same vicinity and part of the same urban development project. IRCON has successfully completed two railway electrification projects on the suburban electrified section of Jakarta, involving 44 km each of railway electrification sections. * John Major to announce three British aid programmes for India London - Jan 19: British government is expected to announce three new aid programmes worth pound 30.5 million for India during Premier John Major's official visit to New Delhi next week. ( He will be the chief guest at the Republic day parade ) The British aid to India was reviewed during the Indo-British aid talks here recently and both sides expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the implementation of different bilateral projects. The aid projects likely to be announced by Major may include rahabilitation of a British electricity generation unit in Hirakud worth pound 20 million, a project to help in the modernisation of the system of Regional Engineering Colleges with an estimated aid of pound six million and an export promotion programme worth pound 4.5 million, official sources said. British accounts for nearly 50 per cent of grants element of overall external assistance to India. This assistance does not include loans. * Vast scope for export of two wheelers from India New Delhi Jan 19: A leading manufacturer of two wheelers, Hero Motors Ltd, has exported more than 129,000 vehicles this year earning a foreign exchange worth Rs 6.5 crore. the company has targeted to export 8000 more pieces during the current financial year. According to the company release, during the current year, Indian exports of two wheelers are projected to touch 50,000 pieces of which the company hopes to export about 40 per cent of the total export. After the liberalisation of country's export, import policy norms, the overall scope of upgradation of technology in the automobile sector has increased tremendously, says the release. India exports two wheelers to more than 40 countries, including Turkey, Uruguay, Madagascar and Egypt. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 20:12:59 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's Fate Hangs In The Balance Source : PTI * A.P Chief Minister's Fate Hangs In The Balance Hyderabad - Jan 20: The fate of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr.K. Vijaya Bhasker Reddy hangs in the balance following the election commission's refusal to hold early by-election to the Panyam assembly seat. Reddy, a former Union Law minister, who still retains the Lok Sabha seat, is required to fulfill the constitutional obligation of getting elected to the Assembly within six months of his assumption of office, that is before April nine. The election commission's observation that it was inappropriate to change the program of revision of polls to suit the convenience of one individual has triggered electoral controversy and caused severe embarrassment to the state administration. The state government has asked the election commission to advance the date of publication of polls for Panyam constituency in order to hold election before March 10, when the Assembly's budget session is likely to begin. The revision of electoral roll in the constituency is scheduled for completion on March nine. In the past, by-elections have been held even when registration of rolls was in progress, on the basis of the earlier list of voters. Even in Andhra Pradesh, by-election in Rajampet constituency was held while the registration process was still in progress. The sitting ruling party member from Panyam, K.Ram Bhoopal Reddy resigned on January 11 to enable the Chief Minister, his political mentor, get elected from this constituency. The other option for Reddy was to contest from Rayachoti, which is also a stronghold of Congress(I). Election could also be held in Panyam with election commission permitting minor technical adjustments in the schedule of publication of fresh rolls in the constituency. However, the election commission has chosen to hold simultaneous poll in both Rayachoti and Panyam which fall in Reddy's home district, Kurnool. Reddy may choose either but he must be hoping that there would not be another postponement before the crucial date. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:27:50 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: 81 per cent Polling Reported in Punjab Panchayat Polls Source : CGI Headlines: - 19 people killed in Bus Accident - 81.5 per cent polling in Punjab Panchayat polls - Pakistan unable to find venue for mission in Bombay * 19 people killed in Bus Accident Shimla, Jan 20: At least 19 people were killed and three injured seriously when a private bus fell into a deep ravine in Chopal area in Shimla district, in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Tuesday night. Eigheen persons died on the spot while one person succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital. The bus was on its way from Attal in Uttar Kashi to Nerwa in Shimla district. There were about 22 passengers on board the bus when the tragedy occured. * 81.5 per cent polling in Punjab Panchayat polls Chandigarh - Jan 20: A record 81.5 per cent polling percentage was recorded in the Panchayat elections in Punjab of which the third and last phase was completed Wednesday. The Cong(I) has claimed over 75 per cent of the winning candidates were supported by their party. Polling in 65 villages was either adjourned or cancelled due to the law and order situation. Ferozpur district recorded the heaviest polling ( 88 per cent), followed by Fathegarh Sahib (87 per cent), Mansa ( 85 per cent), Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Ropar, Gurdaspur and Faridkot 80 per cent each, Amritsar 78 per cent, Jalandhar 77 per cent and Ludhiana 75 per cent. * Pakistan unable to find venue for mission in Bombay Islamabad, Jan 20: Pakistan Wednesday said New Delhi's refusal to lease out the Jinnah house and difficulties faced by its personnel in acquiring office and residential accommodation for its consulate general in Bombay 'militates against the principle of reciprocity.' A foreign office spokesman said "whereas India maintains a fully operational consulate in Karachi, Pakistan has not been able to set up its consulate general in Bombay. This situation militates against the bilateral relations and the functioning of diplomatic and consular missions." Asked if the difficulties faced by the Pakistan High Commission to set up a mission in Bombay could lead to the closure of its consulate there and in turn shutting down of the Indian consulate in Karachi, the spokesman said "I will not like to take a position on a deduction of that nature. No decision has been taken in this regard.' Press reports quoting highly placed sources have in the recent past said Islamabad was contemplating closure of the Bombay consulate as well as the Indian consulate in Karachi where Islamabad has asked for reduciton of staff strength from 62 to 20 by Jan 30. In retaliation to the Pakistani decision, New Delhi has also decided to cut down the number of personnel in the Pakistani High Commission from 150 to 110. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:50:25 GMT From: reddym@Barra.COM (Reddy Mallidi) Subject: India's foreign trade deficit goes up Source : XINHUA, TASS, IPS * Military Industrial technology put into civil use New Delhi 01/15 : India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) entered into a joint venture for the first time to exploit advanced military technologies for civilian application, a defence ministry press release said here today. A MOU signed here between the DRDO and the Calcutta-based Carbon Composites India Ltd. envisaged formation of a joint venture for the management, orgnization, and marketing of products of the organization's composite products center as a viable commercial enterprise. The civilian areas to be targeted by the venture will include space, communication, non-conventional energy resources, aircraft components and medical rehabilitation. (XIN) * India's foreign trade deficit goes up New Delhi 01/13 : India's foreign trade deficit soared to a record high of $3,400m during the first 8 months of 1992-1993 (April-Nov) fiscal year. Figures from the commerce ministry showed that trade deficit doubled as compared to $1.3b in the same period of 1991-92. The country's aggregate exports in U.S. dollars during April-Nov 1992-93 were estimated at $11.594b, against imports at $14.691b. However, compared to the exports of $10.950b in the first eight months of 1991-92 the exports in dollar terms grew by 5.9% in the same period in 1992-93. In April-Nov 1992-93, exports to general currency area were estimated at $11.159b, as against $9.842b in the corresponding period of 1991-92, showing a positive growth of 13.38%. (XIN) * India and Chile sign cultural agreement New Delhi 01/13 : India and Chile signed a cultural agreement here today. The agreement was signed by joint secretary in the Indian department of culture Komal Anand and Chilian ambassador to India Eduardo Ortiz. The agreement covers the fields of culture, education, mass media and sports. (XIN) * Shumeiko in India to prepare Yeltsin's visit New Delhi 01/19 : First Russain vice-premier Vladimir Shuneiko arrived here today to hold final round of negotiations on the eve of an official Indian visit of Russian president Boris Yeltsin scheduled for Jan 27-29. Shumeiko told TASS at the airport that he aims to prepare a basis for holding the Russian state head's visit "with the maximus use". He will hold talks with Indian finance minister, Manmohan Singh, ministers of foreign affairs, trade, defence and heads of other departments. He is also expected to meet prime minister Rao. In the words of Shumeiko, over the past year and a half Russia has "somehow lost" in India the positions, which were characterstic of the Soviet-Indian relations. "We should upgrade relations with India to the previous level, but on a new basis", he said. (TASS) Jan 01/20 : Co-chairman of the joint intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation, and vice-primier Shuemiko and Indian finance minister Manmohan Singh and members of the delegations of both countries are taking part in negotiations. The talks focussed on the correlation between the rouble and the rupee used by India in the repayment of credits granted to it by the former Soviet Union. During the talks Shumeiko pointed out that Russia was attaching great importance to economic cooperation with india and expressed the hope for its dynamic and fruitful development. Later in the day Shumeiko met with Indian defence minister Sharad Pawar. (TASS) * India interested in Russian oil New Delhi 01/20 : India would like to keep receiving Russian oil and defence industry products and has a lot to offer in exchange, Indian foreign minister Dinesh Singh told reporters on Wednesday dwelling on the upcoming visit of the Russian president to India. (TASS) * Reforms to continue - Pranab Mukherji India's new commerce minister Pranab Mukherji, who sworn in two days back, underlined the continuation of economic reform programs. Inaugurating a national seminar today on administrative reforms, he said that there should not be any apprehension regarding the stability and continuation of economic reforms programs. The minister assured that the crisis in Indian economic front would be resolved as the nation's resilience, various structures and institutions would enable the country to overcome it as in the past. He said it takes some time before the results of economic reforms would be felt, adding that some results have started coming in - as one can see that inflation rate has come down to around 7%. The growth of the Indian industry and economy as whole would be as anticipated despite some setback due to recent disturbances in some parts of the country. He also stressed the need for siplifying the customs and excise procedures at the seminar. (XIN) * AIDS virus spreading fast in India New Delhi 01/20 : Last month, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) acknowledged that 150,000 of India's estimated one million prostitutes may be HIV-infected. In a report, the ICMR has for the first time given an assessment of the HIV epidemic in India, pegging the number of carriers at 637,000 in the country's urban areas. The report does not make any projections for rural India. It says there is no information about the sexual habits of the 95-million sexually active Indians who live in villages. Ofiicially only 10,856 Indian are HIV-infected. However, critics say the figures do not reflect the reality. Top Indian virologist Dr. Jacob John believes some 2.5 million may be HIV-infected, whild India's AIDS control chief P.R. Dasgupta thinks that the epidemic has reached a stage where every Indian is at risk if he or she is not careful. "The chief co-factor is unprotected sex in Indian brothels. Prostitutes and their clients are infecting and getting infected by one another, and the clients are infecting wives who give birth to infected babys", says Dr. I.S.Gilada, head of Bombay base India Health Organization. Heterosexual transmission acounts for 80% of the cases. Bombay has an estimated 100,000 prostitutes and HIV-incidence has jumped from 2% to 4% in just three years. To complicate matters, Gilada estimates that 80% of women prostitutes are suffering from sexually transmitted deseases (STDs) at any time. Besides heterosexual transmission, one hazard in India is its infected blood supply. The blood is not safe, because as much as 30% of it is from professional donors - malnourished and sometimes homeless, who sell their blood for money. Many of the donors are infected, but continue to donate blood because no machinery exists to stop them from doing so. Dr. M.L. Gupta, director of Indian Red Cross says "the horrifying truth is that mos of India's blood banks don't have diagnostic kits to screen blood". (IPS) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:55:40 GMT From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy) Subject: Britain Firm on Deporting Sikh Militant to India Source : PTI London: Jan 20: On the eve of Prime Minister John Major's official visit to India, the British Government has demonstrated its resolve to deport a Sikh terrorist "for national security reasons." Karamjit Singh Chahal has challenged, for the second time, the legality of the British Home Office's decision to deport him to India on the grounds that he faced a "Real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment" if returned to India. The British Home Office refused Chahal's plea for asylum in the UK and ordered his deportation to India accusing him of a "public history of violent involvement in Sikh terrorism." The Home Office has all along maintained that Chahal would not face torture if he returned to India. Chahal had to be expelled in the public interest because he was involved in terrorist activities, the Government told the court Tuesday. The Government has refused to accept that Chahal had the right to refugee status, but even if he did, the Home Office wanted him deported for national security reasons, the court was told. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 1993 16:13:01 -0400 (EDT) From: RNATARAJAN@Gems.VCU.EDU Subject: Second One-Day Intl - India v/s England The second one day match between India & England was a close affair after the first one was abandoned. The scores in brief: INDIA 223 for 3 in 50 overs: Vinod Kambli - 105 n.o. Sachin Tendulkar - 89 n.o. They shared an unfinished fourth wicket stand of 169. ENGLAND 224 for 7 in 50 overs: The highlight was the pathetic display by the 2 senior players Kapil Dev and Skipper Azharuddin. While Kapil conceded 13 runs in the 49th over Azhar sealed India's fate by conceding the winning run by an overthrow. West Indies clinched the World Series Cup Triangular against Australia down under 2-0. Curtley Ambrose took 3 wickets in each game while Brian Lara and Carl Hooper excelled in batting. ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:50:00 -0500 (EST) From: Gopalan Krishnamurthi<GKRISHNAMURTHI@worldbank.org> Subject: India Beat England by 5 wkts ENGLAND VERSUS INDIA ONE-DAY MATCH SCOREBOARD ENGLAND G.GOOCH C TENDULKAR B SRINATH 7 A.STEWART C AZHARUDDIN B KAPIL DEV 7 BOWLING R.SMITH LBW B KUMBLE 42 KAPIL DEV 10-2-40-2 M.GATTING C & B SRINATH 0 PRABHAKAR 8-0-30-0 N.FAIRBROTHER LBW B RAJU 7 SRINATH 10-2-34-2 G.HICK B KAPIL DEV 56 TENDULKAR 3-0-16-0 D.REEVE NOT OUT 33 RAJU 9-0-28-1 C.LEWIS NOT OUT 16 KUMBLE 10-0-37-1 EXTRAS (LB-13 NB-4 W-13) 30 FALL: 1-19 2-20 3-22 TOTAL (SIX WICKETS, 50 OVERS) 198 4-49 5-132 6-153 INDIA 201-5 (45.1 OVERS) INDIA INNINGS S.SIDHU C REEVE B DEFREITAS 76 BOWLING M.PRABHAKAR C REEVE B LEWIS 36 DEFREITAS 10-1-31-2 V.KAMBLI C AND B JARVIS 9 JARVIS 10-1-43-1 M.AZHARUDDIN LBW REEVE 36 REEVE 6.1-0-33-1 S.TENDULKAR LBW DEFREITAS 1 LEWIS 10-0-47-1 P.AMRE NOT OUT 24 SALISBURY 8-1-42-0 KAPIL DEV NOT OUT 5 GATTING 1-0-2-0 EXTRAS (LB-3 W-5 NB-6) 14 FALL: 1-79 2-99 3-148 4-161 5-195 DID NOT BAT YADAV, KUMBLE, RAJU, SRINATH. INDIA WON BY 5 WKT ------------------------------ ________________________________________________________________________________ Editorials and Commentary ________________________________________________________________________________ Date: 09 Jan 1993 12:25:33 -0400 (AST) From: Girish <bond@jupiter.Sun.CSD.unb.ca> Subject: BEYOND AYODHYA'S WATERSHED - Part 2 of 2 Article: BEYOND AYODHYA'S WATERSHED - Muslims Have To Reckon With Realities By : Girilal Jain, Former Editor-in-Chief, Times of India Source : The Times of India. Date : December 14, 1992. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The controversial building is now gone; the government's "brave" declarations notwithstanding, one must be out of one's mind to believe that it can ever be built. The consequences would be too grim even for a Nero, or a Babar, or an Aurangzab, to contemplate though one can not be too sure about our courts anxious to order the government about. A Ram Mandir already exists on the site, even if a makeshift one. The government's proposal to rebuild domes appropriate to a mosque on top is too ridiculous for words and speaks of the straits to which it has been reduced. It can, of course, get a Ram temple built on the adjoining land and hope that it can then persuade Hindus to shift the idols. But that is moonshine. Two Ram Temples --------------- The present government can at best begin constructing a temple; it is unlikely to be in a position to complete it. And what if it does? We shall then have two Ram temples side by side, both devalued because neither will be seen as being complete. In plain terms, Muslim leaders have no bargaining power left. The demolition squad has finally divested them of it, however much most of us (Westernised elite) may denounce the squad. In historical terms, it is immaterial whether or not Muslim leaders acquiesce in some so- called decisions of the government; for in reality, the government is paralysed and unlikely to regain much room for manoeuvre. It would still be idealistic to expect Muslims to "withdraw" their claim to the site. But it is not wholly inconceivable that they can see some light, stop pressing the demand for reconstruction of the "mosque", in course of time allow the claim to the land in question to lapse, and settle for a mosque around Ayodhya. A couple of points may be addressed to Muslim leaders. First, it is time they realise that the secularism-pseudo-secularism is essen- tially an intra-Hindu affair. It is, in a sense, a replay, doubtless in very different circumstances, of controversies between modernisers and traditionalists beginning in the early 19th century. When I made this point some month ago, Syed Shahabuddin wrote to me to refute this proposition on the plea that Muslims had a vital stake in the outcome of the debate. It would have been more pertinent for him to say how they could influence the outcome from the position of self-imposed marginalisation and of being objects of wooing (and that too for lim- ited electoral purposes) they had reduced themselves to. Unreasonable ------------ It would appear reasonable to think that this point did not even occur to him. For, I have yet to meet a Muslim who has realised that the description, or treatment, of his community as a "vote bank" is insulting. Similarly, it is not easy to find many Muslims who recog- nise that Indian nationalism has to be rooted in the Hindu ethos and those who deny this self-evident proposition are ignoring the dramatic change that has taken place in the Indian scene in recent years, partly as a result of the VHP's campaign over Ram Janma Bhoomi. Secondly, their own experience in a number of riots in recent years should convince them that they need the goodwill of Hindus which the Congress, decrepit in much of North India, the two communist par- ties, virtually non-existent beyond West Bengal and Kerala, the vari- ous Janata Dals, centered on individuals preoccupied with themselves, can no longer assure for them. In the hot house atmosphere of New Delhi and South Delhi, a dif- ferent world even from the old city, certain attitudes and postures prosper. Elsewhere, the reality is different. Located in New Delhi the Union government has become a prisoner of this make-believe world. ------------------------------ End of India Interest Group News Digest ***************************************