IMPORTANT LINKS TO GUJARAT CARNAGE VIEWS OF BUSINESS LEADERS/JUDICIARY/EDITORIALS/NRI FUNDING FOR VHP, etc. ONE OF THE FIRST INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS TO SPEAK UP: Deepak Parekh HDFC Chairman Indian Express Exclusive 3/28/2002--India Inc. speaks up: ëIf govt canít protect lives, it should goí "Which kind of govt allows killings of women, children?...Home Minister, even the Prime Minister should take their share of blame" http://www.indian-express.com/archive_frame.php THE COST OF VIOLENCE TO THE ECONOMY OF GUJARAT and INDIA: Aditya Chatterjee "Why Gujarat is becoming a high-risk investment?" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=7958553 Raju Bist--Asia Times Online "Body-blow to Gujarat business" http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/dd23Df01.html MORE BUSINESS LEADERS SPEAK UP: Cyrus Guzder--At the CII Annual Day Ahmedabad 3/30/2002 "Is Secularism good for business?" Anu Aga--From the CII Website "Gujarat at Cross Roads" http://www.ciionline.org/Multimedia_Res/political_economy.html THE COST OF SPEAKING UP: Sucheta Dalal--Indian Express "Pressure Tactics"--Describes government pressure on business leaders who dare to speak out http://www.indian-express.com/full_story.php?content_id=885 BUSINESS LEADERS IN INDIA CONTINUE SPEAKING UP, NEVERTHELESS: Veeshal Bakshi Financial Express "Modi Boys Find Going Tough With India Inc"--Reports on CII meeting in Delhi and the speech by Anu Aga, CEO, Thermax http://www.financialexpress.com/fearchive_frame.php Editorial--Financial Express "Corporate Social Responsibility-CII and Ficci must speak out on Gujarat" http://www.financialexpress.com/fearchive_frame.php Reports from Financial Express "World Watches As India Inc Gropes On Gujarat" "Mind Your Business Image, US Corps Tell New Delhi" "Gujarat Events A Tragedy For India, Says Frank Wisner" "Nervous Overseas Clients Want Explanations: Zensar Chief" http://www.financialexpress.com/fearchive_frame.php "CEO Coalition Is Concerned Over Gujarat Fallout: Cummins Chief --Itís not just Deepak Parekh and Anu Aga, now Ravi Venkatesan joins them" http://www.financialexpress.com/fearchive_frame.php THE JUDICIAL VIEW: Retd. Chief Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer "The Gujarat Syndrome"--Among other things, ties the infamous VHP pamphlet (calling for a boycott of Muslims in Gujarat) to specific sections of Indian Penal Penal Code http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/05/13/stories/2002051301581200.htm A MAINSTREAM HINDU WAKES UP: P.N. Shankar "Saving Hinduism from the VHPî--A mainstream Hindu's rude awakening to the sinister designs of the Sangh Parivar http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2002/05/07/stories/2002050700140200.htm A PROMINENT GUJARATI SPEAKS OUT: I G Patel "To call Narendra Modi Chhote Sardar is an insult of that great man" The first of a series in which eminent Gujaratis speak about the riots that have engulfed and traumatised their native state. Directly calls on NRIs to stop funding VHP http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/apr/30guest.htm VHP/BAJRANG DAL/IDRF/NRI FUNDING OF HINDUTVA VIOLENCE: MK Venu "PLATFORM: Hindutva rate of growth"--Op-Ed directly calling on NRIs to stop funding VHP/Bajrang Dal. Also refers specifically to Gujarati NRIs support for Hindutva forces http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/arcscript/htarchive.asp Amberish K Diwanji "NRIs need a new mantra"--General indictment of NRIs for opposing secularism http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/mar/20akd.htm Profile/Biju Mathew "In god's name"--an older article about NRIs and VHP-America http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jan/03vhp.htm Vijay Prashad and Biju Mathew "Deceit of the Right"--Study of the Hindu Right in the United States and Funding issues http://www.himalmag.com/99Dec/deceit.htm Biju Mathew and Vijay Prashad "The protean forms of Yankee Hindutva"--Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals May 2000--A scholarly look into VHP-America and its funding by NRIs http://www.catchword.com/titles/routledg/01419870/v23n3/contp1-1.htm
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