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[1] From: Mukul Dube <arhardal@netscape.net> Date: Wed Mar 9, 2005 10:54am Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Hindutva Hypocrisy on Family Planning Were "Hindus" not told, bare months ago, to adopt the three-child norm? Or was it the six-child norm? Vedic Demography flourishes still. MD ysikand@y... wrote: > > Hindutva Hypocrisy on Family Planning > Yoginder Sikand > > One of the central themes of Hindutva propaganda is the myth that the > Muslims refuse to practice family planning as part of an alleged > grand conspiracy to swamp the country and convert it into a > Muslim-majority ------------------------------------------------------- [2] From: Kalyan Mondal <kalyan_mondal2000@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Mar 9, 2005 8:28am Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Petition Against Narendra Modi: Please Sign If we need to condemn the act of AAHO and AIANA just because of their attempt to honor N Modi then we also need to stand unitedly against Pak President Musharaf who still demands credit for the Kargil incident and was the master planner for that--- it not only kill muslims or Hindus -- it jeoperdized the world' piece-- and to our utter surprise he was considered for the Nobel Piece prize-- if we are not ready to condemn Musharaf's act, then why are so much gaainst Modi-- he is just like a child with respect to Mushraf--- So please kindly think about that too- why we are taking totally opposite stand and attitude towards two persons resposible for the genocide of common people. Khalid Azam <khalidazam@y...> wrote: Please read the petition and sign it. Please forward it to others. May be you are one of the 600 people who have already signed it. http://www.coalitionagainstgenocide.org/petition/modi.protest.php Click the link to sign the petition. Here is the petition "We are appalled that the Asian-American Hotel Owners Association and Association of Indian Americans for North America are honoring Mr. Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat, India. AAHOA's adulation of Mr. Modi as the "Man for the 21st century for Gujarat" and as "a master political strategist, a firebrand agitator, an able administrator, an extraordinary orator" is deeply troubling and makes us wonder if this is an attempt to whitewash his role in the Gujarat pogrom. --------------------------------------------------------------- [3] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Mar 9, 2005 2:18pm Subject: Goodbye Punnayoorkulam! Goodbye Punnayoorkulam! By Our Staff Reporter PUNNAYOORKULAM (THRISSUR), MARCH 8. After several years, she was returning to her native village. Writer Kamala Suraiyya was overcome with emotions as she visited the land where the Nalapat house stood, on Tuesday. She found that the place had changed. The Nalapat family had sold the land and only a `kavu' was left there. She was taken in a wheelchair to a pomegranate tree in the compound, mentioned in some of her stories. "My journey began here. I love this place, each grain of sand. But I had thought of never returning to Punnayoorkulam because people here said bad things when I became a Muslim. Don't they see that I look like a human being? Nobody wanted me. But all that is over. My wounds have healed,'' she said. The Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord accompanied Ms. Suraiyya. Ms. Weisbord's book on Ms. Suraiya, `The Love Queen of Malabar,' will be published in six months. "I've been working on the book for 10 years. I first met Ms. Suraiyya in 1995 after reading her works and knowing her through the writings of Geoffrey Moorhouse and Richard Frater. I felt attracted to Ms. Suraiyya because she was a complex person. She was traditional, yet progressive. She has shown us how much an Indian woman can grow. She was born into a Hindu family, went to a Christian school and eventually became a Muslim. There is no writer quite like her in the whole world,'' Ms. Weisbord said. "The Love Queen of Malabar' belongs to the genre, `literary non-fiction.' "The book tells a story about real things,'' Ms. Weisbord explained. Narration of Ms. Suraiyya's visit to Punnayoorkulam today would form the concluding chapter of the book. "I've come to bid goodbye to Punnayoorkulam. I don't think I'll come here again as a human being. I'll return as a bird and fly all over the place,'' Ms. Suraiyya said. http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/09/stories/2005030911550400.htm Film based on Madhavikutty's book By Our Staff Reporter PUNNAYOORKULAM (THRISSUR), MARCH 8. Film director Jayaraj will shoot a feature film based on the book, `Janu Amma Paranja Kathakal,' written by Madhavikutty (Kamala Suraiya), later this year. "I would like Ms. Suraiyya to appear in the film,'' Mr. Jayaraj said. He was here today to meet Ms. Suraiyya as she visited her native village after eight years. "I've always wanted to meet her and was overjoyed when she said she liked my film, `Desadanam.' I want Janu Amma, Ms. Suraiyya's former housemaid on whom the main character of the story is modelled, to act in the film,'' Mr. Jayaraj said. http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/09/stories/2005030911540400.htm |
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