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To: JPR who wrote (11934)	4/11/2002 5:42:56 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Is it Thackeray or Thugeray?: It is in the eye of the beholder. Isn't this the guy who adores Hitler? And isn't this the guy that most Indians regard as a great "patriot" (while referring to Gandhi as a "traitor")? Well, best of luck, folks! Now that the British have left and memories of Gandhi have been obliterated (you have to be a 75+ year-old Indian to have some first-hand knowledge about Gandhi, and there are very few of them alive now), there is no one to police/persuade you to behave.

To: JPR who wrote (11934)	4/15/2002 8:49:06 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Foot in mouth disease -I did not mean it: Sonia Sonia slides on Freudian slip The intellectual lightweight takes on the poet ... By Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI APRil 14. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today sought to defuse the controversy over her remarks about the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. In a statement this evening, Ms. Gandhi clarified that she was "not happy about the expression" she had used in Guwahati on Saturday. At a press conference in Guwahati, Ms. Gandhi had, in response to a question about Mr. Vajpayee's challenge to her, remarked that ,he had lost his "dimagi santulan (mental balance)". Later, she informally clarified that what she had meant was that Mr. Vajpayee was increasingly losing his cool. Today, she formally clarified that the term she had used was not intentional and happened on the spur of the moment. "It was not meant by me," she said. Ms. Gandhi, however, expressed "grave concern" at the frequent changes in the stand of the Prime Minister on the secular issues, in general, and the disturbing situation in Gujarat, in particular. "The latest illustration of this inconsistency is the contrast between the speech made by him in Gujarat and the one in Goa," she said. It was important to note that Mr. Vajpayee was not only a leader of the BJP but also the Prime Minister, the statement added.

To: JPR who wrote (11934)	4/20/2002 10:55:21 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Bal Thackeray does a bit of mockeray (mockery) Bal Thackeray objects to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah for the post of President; he in a rub-it-in sarcasm recommends appointment of Musharaff to the office of the president, reasoning that all outstanding problems between India and Pakistan will be resolved. I see no objection in either being appointed as the president, for the office has no real power. If that is the only way we han have a handle on Musharaff and Pakistan, I will stand for that choice. Since Musharaff's appointment won't happen, there is nothing wrong on entertaining way-out ideas. On a separate line of thought, I see India and Pakistan in the image of Lord Ganesa and the mouse: The Lord is the purveyor and remover of obstacles and the mouse gnaws on the karmic merits. Once the mouse (pest) is brought under perfect control, India will attain pest-free moksa.