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Urgent. >September 27, 2002.

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>The film Saffron Warriors will be followed by a discussion.

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>Screening Venue: 304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College

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>Time: 6-8 p.m.

 

Some of our people in the greater New York Metropolitan Area should be there

at this screening and well-prepared. This is likely to be a left-wing, but

highly intelligent, articulate and very anti-Hindu crowd. We need people

out there who have the facts and can be very in your face - we have to be

aggressive in a sophisticated way. Gandhian chappati making is not going to

do it. Rajiv Malhotra or N.S. Rajaram type of approach would be the sine

qua non.

 

These gatherings at Ivy League schools which are opinion leaders with clout

matter a great deal even if only 25 people turn up.

 

Have a nice day now.

 

Nagendra

 

 

 

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Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:50 AM

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[hicad] Digest Number 441

 

Topics in this digest:

 

1. Are Hinduism studies prejudiced? A look at Encarta

"gurudesh" <gurudesh

2. Re: Digest Number 440

Sunanda9

3. Breaking News: Terrorists attack Swaminarayan Temple

Gaurang Desai <grd_home

4. historytelevision.ca

"L. Suresh Kumar-LSK" <tolsk

5. Gunmen, not terrorists

"Murli" <imagin8r

6. Fwd: "Saffron Warriors" on friday, sept. 27

"Susheila Bhagat" <susheilabhagat

 

Message: 6

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:24:11 -0400

"Susheila Bhagat" <susheilabhagat

Fwd: "Saffron Warriors" on friday, sept. 27

 

Does anybody have any backgrond info. on Elizabeth Jones? Again the only

reporter mentioned is a Muslim. What are his credentials?

 

 

>southasia

>southasia

>CC: southasia

>"Saffron Warriors" on friday, sept. 27 Wed, 25 Sep 2002

>02:15:59 -0400 (EDT)

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>Please join us for a screening of the film "Saffron Warriors" on Friday,

>September 27, 2002.

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>The film will be followed by a discussion.

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>Screening Venue: 304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College

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>Time: 6-8 p.m.

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>Details of the film, and its producer

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>Title: SAFFRON WARRIORS

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>Producers: Channel 4, UK

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>Associate Producer: Ruchira Gupta

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>Reporter: Burhan Wazir

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>Directed and Filmed: Elizabeth Jones

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>Length: 23 minutes

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>The documentary is on Nazi-style politics in Gujarat. Is was made two

>months ago - nearly 4 months after the outbreak of systematic state-

>sponsored violence against Muslims in this western state of India.It looks

>at the rise of Hindu fundamentalism and its repurcussions on ordinary

>people. It also examines the impcat of RSS on the future of Indian people

>through the eyes of those trapped in refugee camps, business men and

>middle class families.

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>Ruchira Gupta, its Associate Producer, is an Emmy-winning journalist.

>She won an Emmy for 'outstanding investigative journalism' for her

>documentary The Selling of Innocents on the trafficking of women and

>children from Nepal to Indai. She has been a journalist for 14 years an d

>then worked in the UNited Nations in various capacities to make policies

>to end violence against women. Her last job was as head ofd

>Communication sfor the Uniteds Nations Fund for Women. Right now

>she is president of Apne Aap an initiative to end sex trafficking worldide.

>She has been posted to Kosovo, Bangkok, London, Nepal, Phillppines

>and New York. She is a key witness at the Liberhans Commission of

>Inquiry, investigating the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India

>which led t o large scale rioting against Muslims.

 

 

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Message: 1

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:38:24 -0000

"gurudesh" <gurudesh

Are Hinduism studies prejudiced? A look at Encarta

 

Are Hinduism studies prejudiced? A look at Encarta

 

http://www.sulekha.com/column.asp?cid=245733

 

 

 

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Message: 2

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:48:17 EDT

Sunanda9

Re: Digest Number 440

 

Please make a note that my email addr has changed to sunanda9

and also please delete my old email addr: sunanda9

 

Sunanda

 

 

 

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Message: 3

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:06:13 -0700 (PDT)

Gaurang Desai <grd_home

Breaking News: Terrorists attack Swaminarayan Temple

 

Gunmen storm Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, 25 feared killed,

75 rescued

http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/sep/24guj1.htm

Vrunda Shah in Gandhinagar (Gujarat)

 

Twenty-five persons were feared killed on Tuesday evening when

gunmen stormed the famous Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, capital

of Gujarat.

 

The suspected terrorists, believed to be four in number, first

threw grenades in the complex and then started firing

indiscriminately.

 

A government spokesperson said that about 25 persons may have been

injured in the attack.

 

Of the around 200 persons present in the temple complex at the

time, 75 are believed to have been rescued.

 

The gunmen are believed to have entered the temple complex, which

has four entrances, through gate nos 1 and 2.

 

About 200 persons, including devotees and visitors, were believed

to have been inside the complex at the time of the attack. The

attack by suspected terrorists took place around 1720 hours IST.

 

Security forces have surrounded the temple, situated about two km

from the state secretariat, Gujarat Agriculture Minister Purushotam

Rupala said.

 

Union Minister of State for Defence Harin Pathak said hospitals in

Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad and teams of doctors have been kept in

readiness to attend to the casualties. He said the first priority

was to safely bring out the devotees trapped inside the temple

complex.

 

The temple is a popular destination for people of the Swaminarayan

sect and others, including foreigners.

 

It is located in a massive complex spread over 23 acres and is

usually crowded in the evenings.

 

With inputs from agencies

 

 

 

 

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http://sbc.

 

 

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Message: 4

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:17:48 -0400

"L. Suresh Kumar-LSK" <tolsk

historytelevision.ca

 

feedback

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graphic visual images of 1971 horrors

one old man was telling some horror stories

( bodies were chopped, eyes gouged out, .... )

 

300,000 dead in one month due to pakistan's military actions

==> mentioned in the program

this carnage continued for 9 months

==> going by this alone, approx 300,000 * 9 = 2,700,000 dead

 

there was no mention of how many hindus died in this carnage

 

no idea whether the program mentions that

bangladesh became an islamic nation

 

no idea whether the program mentions the

deaths and torture of hindus in bangladesh after 1971

 

I saw only 10 minutes or so of this program.

 

===

 

( french production ? )

 

http://www.historytelevision.ca/schedule/schedule_program_details.asp?TitleI

D=22989

 

India: Turmoils of the Century

 

Episode: 1

 

The Raj, the Indian Empire, was more than a single country, it

was a continent. From the violent turmoil of its disintegration

were born India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This program

begins at the start of the century with the independence

struggle.

 

Using archive footage never seen in the West, it describes the

conflicts which are undermining the sub-continent: Kashmir,

Punjab, Assam, Sri Lanka's Tamils, religious riots, pogroms and

most recently the destruction of the Ayodhya mosque by Hindu

extremists. This separatist fever and interreligious violence are

sapping the foundations of the "worlds biggest democracy".

 

The most affected and unstable areas of are themselves next to

regions already ridden with violence and destabilized by civil

wars, Afghanistan, Tibet, Central Asia.

 

 

 

 

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Message: 5

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:34:26 -0600

"Murli" <imagin8r

Gunmen, not terrorists

 

It is interesting how the Western media goes through all kinds of

contortions in presenting news about India. The preferred term of CNN and

BBC for the Swaminarayan termple killers is "gunmen". No, not terrorists,

nor extremists, nor militants, nor separatists, nor guerrillas, not even

rebels (the usual euphemisms that the Western media likes to employ, now,

sadly, being adopted blindly by the Indian media). Just gunmen. The fact

that people were terrorised, and therefore those who caused the terror are

"terrorists" is of course, to be ignored.

 

Cf. the following two news reports:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2279661.stm

 

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/09/24/india.temple.commandos/ind

ex.html

 

With great difficulty, the term "terrorist" is used once in both articles

and then forgotten. BBC attributes the use of the term "terrorist" to the

BJP.

 

CNN uses the term "gunmen" or "gunman" six times. The term "militant" is

used twice, but the first attribution is to an Indian source. Of course,

they are always "suspected militants". Even after the kill and cause

mayhem, one can only suspect them, because, heck, the killings perhaps never

happened at all. It might be all a figment of the imagination.

 

BBC uses "gunmen" three times. BBC also adds:

 

"Gujarat witnessed widespread religious violence earlier this year when

Muslim mobs were accused of setting fire to a train carrying Hindu

activists. More than 1,000 people - mainly Muslims - were killed in the

ensuing rioting. Some estimates put the figure as high as 2,000."

 

Note the use of "accused of" and "Hindu activists".

 

Clearly, Hindus are dispensible.

 

Murli

 

 

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