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'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.
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December 20, 2002 |
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'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.
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December 6, 2002 |
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'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.
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November 29, 2002 |
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'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.
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November 27, 2002 |
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'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.
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November 23, 2002 |
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'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.
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November 16, 2002 |
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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.
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November 12, 2002 |
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'Few are neutral about Modi'
BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley on the party's support for Narendra Modi and the forthcoming Gujarat election.
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November 9, 2002 |
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'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.
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November 3, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 27, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 16, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 16, 2002 |
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'I am not incompetent'
Sacked Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on the dismissal of his democratically elected government.
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October 11, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 10, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 8, 2002 |
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'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.
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October 7, 2002 |
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'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.
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