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December 30, 2002



'Indians must stand up and be counted'
'It is important now, more then ever, that Indians no matter where they are, demand their seat at the political table,' says Satveer Chaudhary, the second Indian American to be elected to a state Senate in the United States.




December 20, 2002



'Indians must stand up and be counted'
Dr Hanumappa Sudarshan, doctor and social worker in Veerappan's jungle territory, on why he's undaunted of being the bandit's next target.



December 11, 2002



'Any alliance is for the sake of convenience'
Tamil Nadu BJP chief, L Ganesan, on the growing closeness between the BJP and AIADMK.



December 9, 2002



'Why should killers like Veerappan be allowed to live?'
'I do not think Veerappan would have killed Nagappa unless it was convenient for him.' Dr Rajakumar, Veerappan's previous hostage, on the chilling murder.



December 6, 2002



'I never wanted the mosque pulled down'
'While the BJP believes only in playing politics in the name of the Ram temple, the VHP is out to mint money,' says former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh.



December 1, 2002



'AIDS is not increasing at the speed it was increasing earlier'
'In 1991 it was called a ghastly, deadly disease. Now it is a chronic, manageable disorder.' AIDS activist Dr I S Gilada assesses the health crisis the government continues to deny.




November 29, 2002



'We have to resist American imperialism'
'They will tell you it would be liberal, and that it would be very democratic. I have not heard of someone being democratically autocratic before. This is the threat we face today,' feels former Commonwealth secretary general Sir Shridath Ramphal.




November 27, 2002



'We are all Africans under the skin'
Dr Spencer Wells on the new genetic evidence that shows that all human beings have descended from a single man who lived in Africa some 60,000 years ago.




November 25, 2002



'It was wrong of the Karnataka govt to pay so much money to Veerappan'
Former director general of police C Dinakar on the inside story of the release of actor Rajakumar from the clutches of forest brigand Veerappan.




November 23, 2002



'We do not want Gujarat to become Kashmir'
Pravin Togadia, international secretary general of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, on his definition of Hindutva and the VHP's role in the run-up to the Gujarat election.




November 16, 2002



In search of extra-terrestrials
Respected scientist Dr Jayant Narlikar explains why he believes that an experiment conducted by his team may have found evidence of life outside Earth.

'Amarinder Singh is worse than Aurangzeb'
He has now seen the consequences of being tough with the Akali Dal', says former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.




November 14, 2002



'In Hinduism, dalits are not treated like human beings'
R Thirumalvalavan, head of the Dalit Panthers of India, on Tamil Nadu's anti-conversion ordinance.




November 12, 2002



'Few are neutral about Modi'
BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley on the party's support for Narendra Modi and the forthcoming Gujarat election.




November 9, 2002



'We paid a heavy price to elect a new government'
'One hundred and thirty people belonging to the army, paramilitary forces and state police lost their lives during the three-month period,' says Jammu and Kashmir Girish Chandra Saxena.




November 3, 2002



'Karnataka is a law-abiding state'
State Water Resources Minister H K Patil says there is no parallel to the kind of unjust and illegal water-sharing pacts that have been forced on Karnataka.




November 1, 2002



'We are not the initiators of the fight'
Dr V Maitreyan, AIADMK member of the Rajya Sabha, on the ordinance on religious conversions and the Cauvery row.




October 28, 2002



'The return of Pandits is an essential ingredient of Kashmiriat'
Jammu & Kashmir Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad swallows his disappointment at missing the chief minister's chair for now and gets on with the task of consolidating the party and the coalition.




October 27, 2002



'Sonia has taken a statesmanlike stand'
PDP chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who has been chosen to head the coalition government in Jammu & Kashmir, insists the post was never a hurdle in the government's formation.




October 25, 2002



'There is no groupism in the BJP'
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Rajnath Singh on the political upheaval in the state.




October 24, 2002



'We might have to take part in politics to fight fundamentalism'
Bishop V Devasahayam from the Madras Diocese of the Church of South India says the Tamil Nadu government's ordinance against religious conversions is aimed against minorities.




October 23, 2002



'We have successfully managed a very tough election'
A K Suri, director general of the Jammu & Kashmir police, explains how the security forces passed a major test.




October 22, 2002



'We will be treated as aliens in our own country'
The Auxiliary Bishop of Madras, the Right Reverend Dr Lawrence Pius Dorairaj, on the ban on religious conversions in Tamil Nadu.




October 21, 2002



'We won't compromise on our agenda'
'That is why it is important we have our own man at the helm of affairs,' says PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti.




October 20, 2002



'The democratic basis of the elections was badly undermined'
I A Rehman, director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the changes made by General Musharraf in the institutional framework have taken the country back to the pre-colonial period.




October 19, 2002



'Kashmir cannot be a battleground for the Congress and BJP'
Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, Jammu & Kashmir state secretary of the CPI-M, says the Congress and the PDP should sink their differences and form a stable alternative.




October 17, 2002



'We would like Musharraf to quit'
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, prime ministerial candidate of the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal, speaks his mind.




October 16, 2002



'Omar suffered because I failed'
'If the Congress and People's Democratic Party are not able to form the government and the situation of a constitutional crisis comes, then we are not going to sit back and look at the situation drift,' says Dr Farooq Abdullah.




October 16, 2002



'I am not incompetent'
Sacked Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on the dismissal of his democratically elected government.




October 14, 2002



'The Congress will do more good for J&K than the PDP'
'The National Conference was a national party so it should be replaced by another national party, not a regional party,' says state Congress president Ghulam Nabi Azad.

'The new government would be in place before October 17'
'We have to chalk out a common minimum programme with the Congress and those who would support the two parties in the formation of the government,' says Mehbooba Mufti, vice-president of the People's Democratic Party.




October 11, 2002



'Cauvery issue is the most difficult problem I have handled'
'Anyone who sees me walking will certainly wonder, 'Why is this chief minister walking? The chief minister represents a certain power. Why is he punishing himself?' Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna on his battle to cool tempers.




October 10, 2002



'NC lost because it was a discredited government'
'Because they were in power for a long time, they treated people as cattle who did not need anything more than fodder and water.' Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party, salutes the people's verdict.




October 10, 2002



'I don't agree the ISI has ever acted independently'
'Like any other agency in the world, it followed policies given to it by respective governments.' Professor Saeed Shafqat on Kashmir and the prospects for peace in South Asia.




October 9, 2002



'Once politics is restored, then the war game may change'
Professor Saeed Shafqat on the impact of the Pakistan election.




October 8, 2002



'The terrorists are desperate'
'They said they would kill candidates after the elections were over. So the threat continues to loom large and unless we neutralise it, more such attempts will be made,' says K Rajendra Kumar, inspector general of police, Kashmir zone.




October 7, 2002



'We have to keep changing strategy to deal with militants'
Major General P S Chaudhary, general officer commanding, Delta Force, assesses the security situation in Doda before it goes to the polls.




October 7, 2002



'Kashmir is not Punjab'
Mohammed Azam Inquilabi, chief of the outlawed militant outfit Operation Balakote and former chairman of the United Jihad Council, on his idea of a free Kashmir.




October 3, 2002



'Jaya can never claim Cauvery as her personal property'
G Made Gowda, former Congress MP and chairman of the Cauvery River Protection Committee, on the water war between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.




October 2, 2002



'I can foresee the rout of the National Conference'
Jammu & Kashmir Congress Committee president Ghulam Nabi Azad is confident that his party will sweep the state assembly election.




October 1, 2002



'Kashmir is a political problem, not a religious issue'
'We should not let it be one. It is a matter of political dispensation. And that is where we have to be strong,' feels Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.




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