The Hindu : 'Negative effect on India's stature'

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Sunday, Jun 23, 2002

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'Negative effect on India's stature'

Boston (Massachusetts) June 22. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, who is at Harvard for the Summer Term to teach an economics course, has stated that the treatment meted out by the Union Government to the Time magazine correspondent Alex Perry, had had a negative effect on India's stature as a country with democratic traditions.

He said that "it looks as if the Vajpayee Government is seeking parity with Pakistan in all dimensions by first destroying India's credibility as a secular nation by inaction in the Gujarat carnage, then by mobilising troops on the Pakistan frontier and doing nothing thereafter, and now by mentally brutalising a mediaperson for writing what has been known in India for years.''

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