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...rousing orator who shuns the public and a computer illiterate, 79, whose young tech warriors are taking on the world. But Vajpayee's greatest trick--and the one that places him among the world's most significant figures--is his pursuit of peace with Pakistan while heading the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party), which rose to power in the 1990s on a wave of Hindu chauvinism. In January the Hindu Vajpayee met Pakistan's Muslim President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and agreed on talks to try to end a half-century of war and hostility. Anwar Sadat...
Though Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani is known as a Hindu hard-liner, he now preaches about India's economic vibrancy, not religious nationalism?a reflection of how his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved away from the politics of hate. Still, Advani reverted to type at an election rally this month in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots had torn down a Muslim mosque in 1992 and demanded the restoration of what they said was once a temple to the Hindu god Ram. "We will build a Ram temple at Ayodhya," Advani declared at the rally. "India will...
...While time has left Congress behind, it has blessed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules India through a coalition. If the party that once harnessed revolution now symbolizes an old India of family, inefficiency and stagnation, so what was once a fringe party fascinated by fascism and Hindu legend is coming to represent a new India driven by an emphasis on technology and the dreams of millions of aspiring capitalists. In part, of course, the BJP simply got lucky, assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which...
...recondite science of breaking wind unaromatically. As a journalist, Singh extensively investigated and exposed godmen, whom he regards as one manifestation of a dangerous surge of Hindu fundamentalism in India. "Religious fascism has taken roots in this soil," says Singh, a vitriolic opponent of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Is the encounter between Bhagwan, the Western-educated agnostic, and Ma Durgeshwari, the Hindu godwoman, an allegory of modern Nehruvian India being seduced by the dark forces of religious fundamentalism? Perhaps. But if Singh the political thinker sees godmen as a danger to India's secularism, Singh the novelist...
...never even visit their own area. Whenever an election approaches, the Indian people are put in the position of trying to choose the lesser of two evils. But in the course of time, the lesser becomes the worst of all. In this pathetic situation, how can the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party claim that "India is shining" and that Indians have never had it so good? Maybe politicians and their houses and cars are shining, but not the poor schoolchildren in remote villages. Let every man and woman in India get a good education, enjoy all fundamental rights and eat three...