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Home > News > Commentary > Arvind Lavakare
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December 19, 2003 |
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Invention of history
'The likes of Sharada Prasad and Shashi Tharoor are welcome to hail Nehru all they want. But please let them not play the inventors of history.'
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November 24, 2003 |
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Disaster Down Under?
'With a batting line-up whose overall performance varies from brilliance one day to the dismal on the very next, one shudders at its prospect on the bouncy, pacy pitches of Australia where we go now.'
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November 18, 2003 |
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One Way Street
'Free to hurt others without being man enough to suffer hurt oneself --- that's the one-way street of India's freedom of the press. Instead, a two-way traffic would be the best for a true democracy.'
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November 14, 2003 |
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It's the basics, stupid!
Surprised by the Indian team's continuous downslide since the World Cup? Arvind Lavakare isn't.
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November 11, 2003 |
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Buses & ferries to nowhere
'Pakistan's DNA is one of duplicity, of arrogance; it is a country that has falsehood running in its genes.'
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October 14, 2003 |
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Welcome MSD, but be focused
'On Gandhi Jayanti, a group of educated urban Muslims crossed the Rubicon: they decided to take on the hardliners in their community.'
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September 9, 2003 |
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Blindfolded in Best Bakery
'Besides being Constitutionally barred, the NHRC's demand for a re-trial of the Best Bakery case is a demand that is dangerous, nay disastrous, for the already fragile justice deliver system of India.'
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July 7, 2003 |
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India, an Islamic nation!
'A debate has been raging whether India can be considered a "Hindu nation" or a "Hindu state", and here's an opinion maker converting a constitutionally pronounced "secular state" into "an Islamic nation" overnight!'
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July 1, 2003 |
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Back to the courtroom yet again
'All the other Hindu religious leaders associated with the VHP's Dharam Sansad are dismayed at the Kanchi acharya's audacity in ignoring them. So are millions of Hindus as well as the BJP.'
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June 23, 2003 |
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Why not at an arm's length?
'Let's just watch Pakistan stew in its own juice. And let's also watch the truth dawn upon America, as it eventually will one day.'
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June 17, 2003 |
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Losing the 'Seeing Eye'
'Have Vajpayee and Advani been cocky in believing that whatever be Pakistan's rhetoric, they can still work out an honourable pact with that country?'
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June 10, 2003 |
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Heal yourself first, your Holiness
'All in all, the Papacy would seem to be simply offering salvation with discounts and incentives without seeking redemption itself.'
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June 3, 2003 |
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Atavistic under duress
'Pakistan has neither withdrawn its forces, nor evacuated J&K even 54 years and six months after its acceptance of the UN resolution. Why then India should even be questioned about honouring its commitment to a plebiscite in J&K?'
says Arvind Lavakare.
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May 31, 2003 |
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Beware of Vajpayee's peace moves!
'A PIL needs to be filed stopping the government from implementing any agreement with Pakistan on Kashmir until it is ratified by a two-thirds majority of each House of Parliament and approved by the J&K government.'
says Arvind Lavakare.
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May 20, 2003 |
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Road maps of confusion
'Confusion seems the highest common denominator in this current round of Indo-Pak peace business,' says Arvind Lavakare.
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May 13, 2003 |
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Are we dreamy-eyed suckers?
Make no mistake --- the Indo Pak peace edifice will stand or crumble only on the agreement of the future fate of J&K.
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May 6, 2003 |
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This hat-trick can't be a rope-trick
'Will we be willing to undergo a catharsis to amend our Constitution in order to legitimise the LoC as being the boundary of our nation's sovereignty?'
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April 29, 2003 |
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Deliver the truth, not poetry
'Two policy somersaults in just about 24 hours must be a record for any prime minister. It certainly makes one wonder whether Vajpayee has become too forgetful if not exactly senile.'
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April 23, 2003 |
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A case for law students
'If the objective of a government-owned multi-purpose complex is revived, the Ram Janambhoomi Nyas and other Hindu land owners around the disputed area may well kiss the last goodbye to their erstwhile land.'
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