Monday, March 30, 2009
RSS threatens legal response to Pawars allegations
False allegation have been levelled against Sangh by Sharad Pawar . Sangh will give its reply. It will take therequired legal action”, Jain told reporters here adding that Pawar s provocative statement was a fit case to invoke provisions of NSA against him.
Sharad Yadav speaks on indian black money in Swiss banks
UPA against Busting Swiss Account Holders
Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav, at a press conference in Patna on Sunday, accused the UPA government of creating hurdles in the way of obtaining information about the Indians who hold accounts in Swiss banks saying if India could get the money back, it could pay back its entire foreign debt and still have so much money left that could cover the nation's annual budget for several years to come.
Call yourself a Hindu- get slapped with the NSA
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25 lakh crore - Indian Black money in international banks
Get black money back, get nation out of red: Modi
“Indians’ black money is Swiss banks is estimated to be around Rs 25 lakh crore and if it can be repatriated back to India, the nation would be free from international debts within no time,” Modi told newspersons.
Kanchan Gupta on Congress and muslim appeasement
Congress deals Muslim card
The Congress believes that it will be able to consolidate the votes of Muslims by striking a deal with a Muslim organisation headed by amaulana who had openly called for the assassination of Mr George W Bush while the US President was visiting India in March 2006 and offered a reward of Rs 25 crore to anybody who would undertake the ‘holy mission’. Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, who appeared at the party office on Thursday to pledge his support to the Congress, now says that the “issue has lost its relevance as Bush is no longer in power”. Which only underscores the fact that he saw it as being ‘relevant’ so long as Mr Bush was in office.
Now, look at the contradiction between the Prime Minister’s feelings and his party’s deeds. Everybody knows that Mr Singh “deeply loves” Mr Bush, that he rarely, if at all, missed the opportunity to declare that love, although he would do it in the most cravenly maudlin manner. His feelings, it must be presumed, have not diminished with Mr Bush’s exit from the White House; honourable men do not disown their friends and benefactors. Yet, the Congress has embraced Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, seemingly unmindful of the fact that he had wanted the man whom Mr Singh so admires and for whom he has nothing but fulsome praise, to be killed.
Now, look at the contradiction between the Prime Minister’s feelings and his party’s deeds. Everybody knows that Mr Singh “deeply loves” Mr Bush, that he rarely, if at all, missed the opportunity to declare that love, although he would do it in the most cravenly maudlin manner. His feelings, it must be presumed, have not diminished with Mr Bush’s exit from the White House; honourable men do not disown their friends and benefactors. Yet, the Congress has embraced Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, seemingly unmindful of the fact that he had wanted the man whom Mr Singh so admires and for whom he has nothing but fulsome praise, to be killed.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Varun has suddenly dwarfed the media-supported Rahul
Family legacy and the Varun effect
Nobody has ever heard a dynasty member to say with understandable assertion that he or she is a Hindu. Rather, they have always tried to look differently at things. They banned Hindu organisations, imposed the Emergency, removed basic human rights, never willingly facilitated the Sikh massacre probe, rewarded hardened criminals, made alliance with those who were convicted for murder or were facing scandalous charges, had the Muslim League join the government after Partition. Yet, they are nice, decent, peace-loving, patriotic democrats who love to tell others: 'Go read the Gita.'
Friday, March 27, 2009
Hindus in Bali
Hindus celebrate `Nyepi'
Balinese Hindus celebrated Nyepi, the arrival of the Saka New Year on Thursday in a somber, quieter atmosphere, as the heat of the upcoming elections robbed Nyepi of its most festive element; the Ogoh-ogoh (giant papier mache doll) street parade.
Scores of Denpasar' residents lamented the Grand Council of Customary Villages (MUDP) recent decision to ban the Ogoh-Ogoh parade. The MUDP feared the noisy event would be exploited by political parties vying for public support, or even worse trigger street brawls involving party supporters.
Ogoh-ogoh parade is usually held on the night before the Nyepi. The giant dolls, which generally represent the evil spirits, are escorted by children and youths carrying bamboo torches and dynamic gamelan ensembles in a parade that marchs around villages. Eventually, the youths set the Ogoh-ogoh ablaze, symbolically banishing the demons.
Ever wonder why the Hindus of Bali dont get a country of their own while the people of East Timor moved to form their own country? Is it because the people of East Timor are Christian and have the backing of powerful Christian countries and lobbies while the Hindus are left to fend for themselves while the country with the worlds largest Hindu population fumbles to discover its identity?
Doctored hate speech?
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CPM in unholy alliance with Madhani?
Squirming, CPM tells Kerala unit: stay off Abdul Madhani
Madhani was acquitted in the Coimbatore blasts that killed 58 people a few minnutes before LK Advani was scheduled to arrive at the spot to address an election gathering.
However, new evidence seems to suggest that Madhani might not be innocent. Read the news report here.
Blame god for conversions
'Conversion is God's work'
The lady is following the footsteps of the famous con questadors of Portugal and Spain, who brought untold misery on the natives of South America, the Portugese Catholics who raped, pillaged and killed Hindus in Goa, the same pious folks who were doing gods work in Europe by killing untold millions for being witches and sorcerers and the same footsteps of the thousands of missionaries who convert by deceit, trickery and threat in India right now.
Advani vs Manmohan - Advani throws the challenge
Advani’s barrage against Manmohan: I pity him
Addressing a public meeting at the Kankaria Football Ground here on Friday, he asked the people to choose from opportunism, dynasty and nationalism. Advani told the gathering that if the BJP won, then India stood to win, where it would be counted of in this world.
He said that the present government, of Sonia Gandhi and not Manmohan Singh, was a total failure with not a single achievement to show, which was an “all-time record”. He appealed to the people to vote for a “determined leader and honest government”.
The Congress responded by hiding behind technicalities. Spokesman Digvija Singh said that a debate is not necessary as India is not a presidential system. Read Congress response here. DigVijay Singh again completely skirts the main issue and proceeds to poke fun at the BJP. Excellent way to miss the point buddy!!
The BJP found support from Nitish Kumar on the debate issue. Read news report here.
I would say that this is an excellent idea. Thiss is a great way to bring out the core issues and the stand of both the BJP and the congress on various issues. The people have a right to know what these parties stand for and how their actions and proposals impact the future of the nation. The BJP is ready, but is the Congress ready to pick up the gauntlet?
It is disconcerting to see Congress attack the BJP and Advani on issues that have no direct bearing on the circumstances that nation finds itself in and will be facing in the future. Advani's age seems to be of great concern to the congress while it seems to have forgotten that Manmohan Singh is himself 76.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
B Raman on Varun Gandhi
VARUN GANDHI: AS MUCH SINNED AGAINST AS SINNING
6. In TV interviews, he has given a number of arguments as to why he contended that the tapes had been doctored. Many of his arguments could be dismissed as after-thoughts but not one, namely, his contention that in a tape he is shown as referring to a sister of his whereashe had no sister. If what he says about the contents of the tapes is correct, there is a serious mistake of fact in the remarks which he isshown as making. Where there is such a serious mistake of fact, there is a presumption of innocence in favour of the accused. He has notbeen given the benefit of this presumption.
7. There are certain procedural infirmities in the way the Election Commission has passed its order of March 22,2009, against Varun. Thefirst infirmity arises from the fact that the Commission has passed an ex-parte order without giving Varun an opportunity to appear beforethe Commission and explain his conduct. An ex-parte order is permissible if a person against whom an enquiry is being made was given anopportunity to appear before the enquiry body and explain his conduct, but he did not do so. When a person fails to respond to a summonsto appear before an enquiry body and explain his conduct, he is presumed to be avoiding the due process of the rules or the law. There is anautomatic presumption of guilt against him.
7. There are certain procedural infirmities in the way the Election Commission has passed its order of March 22,2009, against Varun. Thefirst infirmity arises from the fact that the Commission has passed an ex-parte order without giving Varun an opportunity to appear beforethe Commission and explain his conduct. An ex-parte order is permissible if a person against whom an enquiry is being made was given anopportunity to appear before the enquiry body and explain his conduct, but he did not do so. When a person fails to respond to a summonsto appear before an enquiry body and explain his conduct, he is presumed to be avoiding the due process of the rules or the law. There is anautomatic presumption of guilt against him.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
TheHoot article on the media circus
Media communalism
If the media really believed that Varun Gandhi’s speech would cause unrest among a section of the people, did the repeat telecasts of the speech make any sense? S R RAMANUJAN finds the media’s indignation hypocritical.
We are testing the waters - Election Commission
Above advice
We are testing the waters” a top Election Commission official said of the EC’s statement to the BJP to not field Varun Gandhi. As a choice of phrase, it is odd; as a precedent, it is dangerous. The EC’s legal defence is a little known and never used 1994 order, permitting the EC to withdraw national status to parties that violate the model code of conduct. But this is sophistry: the Supreme Court has unambiguously held that the EC cannot disqualify candidates, or interfere in the party’s right to select them. And for good reason: errant candidates must be given a chance to explain, they must be shown the evidence against them. These are procedural requirements of “natural justice” that are in the realm of the courts. And it is the courts that must
punish Varun, not the EC. The EC’s role ended when it filed an FIR against Varun Gandhi; prudence demanded that they wait for the courts to decide.
Misappropriation of tax payer money
Modi alleges misappropriation of Rs 50,000 crore by UPA
Pune (PTI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday night alleged that a CAG report has found a huge sum of Rs 50,000 crore unaccounted for and "missing" from the 'Central government coffers'.
"The country wants to know from Prime Minster Manmohan Singh about this money that has simply vanished," Mr.Modi, who launched the election campaign of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra from the city, said.
Training guns on Singh, Mr.Modi said the country should know whether the huge sum of "missing" money purportedly mentioned in the CAG report was being used for "election purposes" by the ruling party or handed over to some "preferred NGOs".
Advani bats for ex-servicemen
Advani picks up gauntlet for ex-servicemen
The demand for one-rank, one-pension (OROP) raised by ex-servicemen has taken on a political hue with the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA’s) prime ministerial candidate, L K Advani, promising that the BJP would fulfill this demand if voted to power.
Addressing retired soldiers in the capital on Thursday, Advani said the current policy of different pensions for two individuals retiring after equal length of service and from the same rank is “illogical.”
Kanchan Guptas piece on Varun Gandhi
Varun was harsh, but so is truth
The media-driven furore over what is being described as Mr Varun Gandhi’s ‘hate speech’ deserves to be countered with matching crudity: If he is ‘communal’, then his critics are biased against Hindus. Nothing else explains why newspapers and 24x7 news channels should twist the entire issue out of context and plaster it all over their front pages and feature it on prime time news bulletins, while ignoring the basic rule of responsible journalism — facts are sacred, opinion is free.
Before we go into the reason why he said what he is now being pilloried for, here are two questions for you to ponder over: Are we now living in such dreadful times that we cannot mention the Bhagavad Gita in public discourse lest we be condemned as ‘communal’ by newspapers and news channels which couldn’t stop pointing out, ever so admiringly and approvingly — some would say ecstatically — that Mr Barack Hussein Obama took his oath of office by placing his left hand on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible? And, is it now an unpardonable offence to say ‘Jai Sri Ram’?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Separation of Church and state? Think again
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
EC action against Varun Gandhi in haste - GVG KrishnaMurthy
EC action against Varun Gandhi in haste
Bharatiya Janata Party's Uttar Pradesh candidate Varun Gandhi may have sparked off a controversy by his allegedly provocative speeches, but the ElectionCommission's action against him has been in haste and beyond jurisdiction, says former election commissioner GVG Krishnamurthy.
"The Election Commission has no jurisdiction to take action against Gandhi" for his alleged inflammatory speeches, Krishnamurthy said in an interview.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Religion of "love" condones killing of Hindu leader
Orissa Hindu activist shot dead
Angry villagers refused to allow the police to take possession of the body of the Hindu leader.
They are demanding compensation for the family of the victim, the immediate arrest of the killers and protection for Hindus.
Leaders of Hindu organisations reacted sharply to the killing.
"This is the result of the nexus between the state government on the one hand and the Christians and Maoists on the other," said Subas Chouhan, leader of another Hindu hardline group, Bajrang Dal.
"The Maoists have been given a free run in the area to bump off those working for the interests of Hindus," he said.
The Christists of course blamed the Hindu leader for his own death and said and whined that the tribals were not allowed to collect Mahua flowers to make an alchoholic brew. Gee, talk of having a high level view of things. And this is what Nirmala Carvalho had to say about the killing on Asianews.it which is a known Christian mouthpiece - Radical Hindu leader killed. Tension in Orissa .
CPI and Islamic terrorists in electoral embrace - Kerala
Madani row worsens; CM summons ATS head
The Chief Minister summoned Vinod Kumar after reports appeared that the Home Ministry, looked after by CPI(M)’s Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, had put a freeze on the investigations by the ATS not to antagonise Madani to avoid embarrassment in the polls. The CPI(M) was depending heavily on Madani for winning Muslim votes in Ponnani and other certain other seats.
However, Vinod Kumar, who had met Achuthanandan with Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose, told him that there were no hindrances in the probes by the ATS. Jacob Punnoose told the Chief Minister that the squad had come across several crucial evidences but these could not be shared with the media at this juncture.
However, Vinod Kumar, who had met Achuthanandan with Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose, told him that there were no hindrances in the probes by the ATS. Jacob Punnoose told the Chief Minister that the squad had come across several crucial evidences but these could not be shared with the media at this juncture.
Most interesting that the Kerala ATS will not release any evidence to the press on Madani, while the Mahaarashtra ATS did a "investigation by media" of Sadhvi Pragya.
Erasing Hindu symbols in Kashmir
We are deeply anguished to learn that a bill has been introduced in the J&K assembly by the PDP, MLA Peerzada Manzoor Hussain proposing to change the name of historic Anantnag town to Islamabad.
This is part of the same process by which the names of 700 villages in the valley have been changed. Even the names of the landmarks like the Shankaracharya Hill has been changed to Takht-i-Sulaiman and the name of historic Hari Parbat has been changed to Koh-i-Maran.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Hindu vote bank is necessary to save India
Hindu vote bank is necessary to save India—Vishwesha Teertha Swami
large number of people of Bengaluru assembled at the National College Ground to listen to over a dozen swamijis of different mutts across Karnataka. On March 8, 2009, Dharma Raksha Vedike, a wing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, organised a Dharma Jagruti Sabha—a huge public function to demonstrate unity among Hindus. As part of the programme, three different shobha yatras were taken out simultaneously from the nearby grounds and a huge crowd gathered at the venue shouting slogans such as Bharat Mata ki jai, Vande Mataram, navella Hindu, navella ondu (We are Hindus; We are united) and Hindu eddare desha edditu (Nation rises if Hindus rise).
large number of people of Bengaluru assembled at the National College Ground to listen to over a dozen swamijis of different mutts across Karnataka. On March 8, 2009, Dharma Raksha Vedike, a wing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, organised a Dharma Jagruti Sabha—a huge public function to demonstrate unity among Hindus. As part of the programme, three different shobha yatras were taken out simultaneously from the nearby grounds and a huge crowd gathered at the venue shouting slogans such as Bharat Mata ki jai, Vande Mataram, navella Hindu, navella ondu (We are Hindus; We are united) and Hindu eddare desha edditu (Nation rises if Hindus rise).
Varun Gandhi - Hindu and harassed
‘I am a proud Hindu’
I am a Gandhi, a Hindu and an Indian in equal measure,” he told some journalists.
“I am proud of my faith, and am not apologising for it,” Mr. Gandhi told reporters while reading out a written statement. Calling himself a “proud Hindu,” he said since the announcement of parliamentary elections, the Pilibhit constituency was witness to communally provocative incidents and its Hindu residents were “under siege.”
I am a Gandhi, a Hindu and an Indian in equal measure,” he told some journalists.
“I am proud of my faith, and am not apologising for it,” Mr. Gandhi told reporters while reading out a written statement. Calling himself a “proud Hindu,” he said since the announcement of parliamentary elections, the Pilibhit constituency was witness to communally provocative incidents and its Hindu residents were “under siege.”
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
1456 billion $ - Indian public money in Swiss banks
Dr Kathiria demands inquiry into Indian accounts in Swiss banks
Dr. Kathiria requested the Speaker, Lok Sabha, that he should be allowed to raise an open discussion about enormous money—almost 1456 billion USD—deposited in secret Swiss bank accounts by the Indians. Dr. Kathiria said that 1456 billion USD means 13 times the total foreign debt of the country! If this amount is realised, then, even after paying up the entire debt, the country will have a surplus amount—12 times the entire debts
Dr. Kathiria requested the Speaker, Lok Sabha, that he should be allowed to raise an open discussion about enormous money—almost 1456 billion USD—deposited in secret Swiss bank accounts by the Indians. Dr. Kathiria said that 1456 billion USD means 13 times the total foreign debt of the country! If this amount is realised, then, even after paying up the entire debt, the country will have a surplus amount—12 times the entire debts
Varun Gandhi busted for hating the wrong people
Varun Gandhi gets busted for "hate" speech. The sickoolar parties, the bhaiyyas, behnjis and heck even the commies are on his case. One would have thought that with a lineage as illustrious as his own, he would know the only people who should be hated are the evil Hindoos.
Verdict - Guilty of hating the wrong people. Gee dude, if youve gotta hate, you must hate the Hindoos.
Of course he is in good company this being no worse than Omar Abdullah screaming that KAshmir is for Kashmiris and will not let any other Indians take even an inch of it ,while justifying the violence against Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir or the allegation made in the aftermath of Mumbai that it was the Hindus who have done it.
Verdict - Guilty of hating the wrong people. Gee dude, if youve gotta hate, you must hate the Hindoos.
Of course he is in good company this being no worse than Omar Abdullah screaming that KAshmir is for Kashmiris and will not let any other Indians take even an inch of it ,while justifying the violence against Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir or the allegation made in the aftermath of Mumbai that it was the Hindus who have done it.
Karnataka - Sickoolar parties protest Hindu unity
Are "Sickoolar" parties scared of Hindu unity? Indications to thaat end are coming in Karnataka with JD (Sickoolar) and the always "Sickoolar" Congress asking the EC to disallow the Hindu Samajothsav on the grounds that it aims to create a Hindu votebank. Read full article here.
Seems like the Congress is unable to digest its complete rout in Karnataka. From a state that used to be dominated by the Congress and send 29 out of 29 MPs to the parliment from a congress ticket, it is now reduced to whining and complaining about everything and warming the opposition benches.
Seems like the Congress is unable to digest its complete rout in Karnataka. From a state that used to be dominated by the Congress and send 29 out of 29 MPs to the parliment from a congress ticket, it is now reduced to whining and complaining about everything and warming the opposition benches.
Monday, March 16, 2009
DISHONEST CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS IN FAKE HINDU CULTURAL GARB
CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS IN FAKE HINDU CULTURAL GARB
---by Babu Suseelan
The real intent is to implement the policy of psycho programming and mind manipulation to demand the voluntary participation of Hindus for conversion. The plan is to break the spirit or sap the vitality of Hindus, who continue to enjoy a spiritual life. It is a trick for exploitation and bondage as well as to crush Hindus. The evangelist strategy of enslavement and dehumanization is now turned into dishonest and deceptive strategy. It is an attempt to convince Hindus that they are not complete until they accept Jesus as the only God. Over the past 60 years, thousands of Hindus have been deceptively converted specifically by Christian evangelists with fake promises and deceptive tactics that masquerade Christian belief in the guise of Hindu spiritual practices. The Christian gospel is preached by “Christian Swamis” wearing saffron clothes and Rudraksha (Beads). These fake Christian swamis promote their rigid Christian faith by using a new Hindu name.
---by Babu Suseelan
The real intent is to implement the policy of psycho programming and mind manipulation to demand the voluntary participation of Hindus for conversion. The plan is to break the spirit or sap the vitality of Hindus, who continue to enjoy a spiritual life. It is a trick for exploitation and bondage as well as to crush Hindus. The evangelist strategy of enslavement and dehumanization is now turned into dishonest and deceptive strategy. It is an attempt to convince Hindus that they are not complete until they accept Jesus as the only God. Over the past 60 years, thousands of Hindus have been deceptively converted specifically by Christian evangelists with fake promises and deceptive tactics that masquerade Christian belief in the guise of Hindu spiritual practices. The Christian gospel is preached by “Christian Swamis” wearing saffron clothes and Rudraksha (Beads). These fake Christian swamis promote their rigid Christian faith by using a new Hindu name.
Converting the Hindoos
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The demand for church planters is increasing, as is the pressure to meet conversion targets set by the US TMOs. Despite, the sluggishness of the conversion activities in Himachal, Rao says that "approximately a few thousand" have been converted. "Two years ago we had only five missionaries, but within two years their number increased to twenty-two. Coming year [referring to 2004] a new batch will graduate from our college. In addition, 20 new students will enrol this year." The Believers Church Bible college in Solan churns out 20 well-trained church planters every year, all locals. Across India, the Believers Church runs 200 Bible colleges. "Our main motto is evangelisation. After training, we send out the students to different parts of north India, especially to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh," says Simon George, manager, Punjab Bible College, Hiran.
The demand for church planters is increasing, as is the pressure to meet conversion targets set by the US TMOs. Despite, the sluggishness of the conversion activities in Himachal, Rao says that "approximately a few thousand" have been converted. "Two years ago we had only five missionaries, but within two years their number increased to twenty-two. Coming year [referring to 2004] a new batch will graduate from our college. In addition, 20 new students will enrol this year." The Believers Church Bible college in Solan churns out 20 well-trained church planters every year, all locals. Across India, the Believers Church runs 200 Bible colleges. "Our main motto is evangelisation. After training, we send out the students to different parts of north India, especially to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh," says Simon George, manager, Punjab Bible College, Hiran.
Steps to Check Bangladeshi influx - Advani
Advani assures steps to check Bangla influx
He charged the Congress party and the UPA Government “with having colluded in this external aggression by not following the Supreme Court’s directive of taking “effective action” to check the influx from Bangladesh.”“Two Cabinet ministers opposed the banning of SIMI, a well-known outfit sponsoring terrorism. The Supreme Court had to do the needful. “One Cabinet minister demanded that all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants be given Indian citizenship,” he charged. BJP’s prime ministerial candidate appealed to the voters to elect a strong government at the Centre so that the government and the people can together save the nation from the scourge of terrorism, vote bank politics and corruption.
He charged the Congress party and the UPA Government “with having colluded in this external aggression by not following the Supreme Court’s directive of taking “effective action” to check the influx from Bangladesh.”“Two Cabinet ministers opposed the banning of SIMI, a well-known outfit sponsoring terrorism. The Supreme Court had to do the needful. “One Cabinet minister demanded that all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants be given Indian citizenship,” he charged. BJP’s prime ministerial candidate appealed to the voters to elect a strong government at the Centre so that the government and the people can together save the nation from the scourge of terrorism, vote bank politics and corruption.
UPA return will imperil security
UPA return will imperil security: Advani
We are going through a period of crisis and Gandhi, Churchill, De Gaulle, Mao, Ho Chi Minh led their respective countries during crisis and they were not in their youth,” Sinha said, pointing to Advani and appealing to people to vote the BJP leader in as PM to ensure that the nation was strong enough to tide over the present crisis with regard to economy and security. Sinha was speaking at the launch of his book ‘Guarding India’s Integrity’ which was released by Advani.
We are going through a period of crisis and Gandhi, Churchill, De Gaulle, Mao, Ho Chi Minh led their respective countries during crisis and they were not in their youth,” Sinha said, pointing to Advani and appealing to people to vote the BJP leader in as PM to ensure that the nation was strong enough to tide over the present crisis with regard to economy and security. Sinha was speaking at the launch of his book ‘Guarding India’s Integrity’ which was released by Advani.
One Rank one pension says Advani
Advani bats for one rank, one pension demand of ex-servicemen
The former Deputy Prime Minister said even the common man is extremely worried about this issue and expressed concern that some retired defence personnel had returned their medals in protest against government failure to implement the demand.
The former Deputy Prime Minister said even the common man is extremely worried about this issue and expressed concern that some retired defence personnel had returned their medals in protest against government failure to implement the demand.
70000 turnout at Hindu rally
Massive turnout at Hindu Rally
Dharma Rakshana Vedike convener Shree Rajashekarananda Swamiji of Vajradehi Mutt administered oath to the 70,000-strong gathering at the Hindu Samajotsava 2009, organised by the Dharma Rakshana Vedike at Nehru Maidan, pledged to oppose terrorism, religious conversions, untouchability and foster brotherhood among Hindus to realise the ‘Hindu Samrajya.’ Seers at the venue without mincing words urged the Hindus to vote for those political parties which fight for their rights.
Oh they did it - them Hindus used the "H" word.
Dharma Rakshana Vedike convener Shree Rajashekarananda Swamiji of Vajradehi Mutt administered oath to the 70,000-strong gathering at the Hindu Samajotsava 2009, organised by the Dharma Rakshana Vedike at Nehru Maidan, pledged to oppose terrorism, religious conversions, untouchability and foster brotherhood among Hindus to realise the ‘Hindu Samrajya.’ Seers at the venue without mincing words urged the Hindus to vote for those political parties which fight for their rights.
Oh they did it - them Hindus used the "H" word.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
PC - Severe punishment if "Mumbai" happens again
India more secure now than three months ago: PC
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Sunday warned that the
country's reply to any attack on its territory like the one in Mumbai "will be severe".
- YAWNN!! We have heard that one before.
"India is the only country where candle of democracy is spreading light."
- Coming from the party that selects its leader based on bloodline, thats a pretty bold statement.
Anyway, Mr PC care to explain why Manmohan Singh moved you out of the finance ministry? Agreed, the job was vacant due to the departure of Mr. Patil. But coonsidering what an expert you are on matters of money, why did he move you out at such a financially difficult time?
Answer - In the land of the blind, the one eyed maan is king. In the government of non performers, PAtil was made the falll guy and took the blame for the goof ups of you and your colleagues.
And no, you dont get credit for fixing a problem you created. The Mumbai attacks should not have happened in the first place. That it did is a failure on your part, that it did not happen again is something you are "supposed" to ensure. This is like a person who wants the nobel peace prize for not ever having gone to jail. You are supposed to stay out of prison, STOOPID.
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Sunday warned that the
country's reply to any attack on its territory like the one in Mumbai "will be severe".
- YAWNN!! We have heard that one before.
"India is the only country where candle of democracy is spreading light."
- Coming from the party that selects its leader based on bloodline, thats a pretty bold statement.
Anyway, Mr PC care to explain why Manmohan Singh moved you out of the finance ministry? Agreed, the job was vacant due to the departure of Mr. Patil. But coonsidering what an expert you are on matters of money, why did he move you out at such a financially difficult time?
Answer - In the land of the blind, the one eyed maan is king. In the government of non performers, PAtil was made the falll guy and took the blame for the goof ups of you and your colleagues.
And no, you dont get credit for fixing a problem you created. The Mumbai attacks should not have happened in the first place. That it did is a failure on your part, that it did not happen again is something you are "supposed" to ensure. This is like a person who wants the nobel peace prize for not ever having gone to jail. You are supposed to stay out of prison, STOOPID.
In powerhouse India, child hunger abounds
Child malnutrition in India - 60 years of Congress policies?
Of course Manmohan Singh offers his usual cliches - national shame blah blah.....
We pride ourselves on many things but as a nationa we are ashamed to face the present. We need to take care of the poorest of the poor, but instead we have home ministers who love fancy suits, PMs who lose sleep over a loneterrorist suspect in Australia, a shadow PM who seems more interested in pushing her own bloodline onto the people and a Government whose sheer apathy towards governance is mind boggling. What happened to democracy? Why is it that tax payer money is not reaching the people who need it the most? Why is it that naationaal interest is a distant second to political expediency?
Of course Manmohan Singh offers his usual cliches - national shame blah blah.....
We pride ourselves on many things but as a nationa we are ashamed to face the present. We need to take care of the poorest of the poor, but instead we have home ministers who love fancy suits, PMs who lose sleep over a loneterrorist suspect in Australia, a shadow PM who seems more interested in pushing her own bloodline onto the people and a Government whose sheer apathy towards governance is mind boggling. What happened to democracy? Why is it that tax payer money is not reaching the people who need it the most? Why is it that naationaal interest is a distant second to political expediency?
BJP's IT Vision Document
BJP’s IT Vision Document
The highlights of the 30-page IT Vision document are:
• Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC) with unique Citizen Identification Number (CIN) for every Indian citizen in 3 years; to replace all other identification systems.
• 1.2 crore (12 million) new IT-enabled jobs in rural areas.
• 1 crore (10 million) students to get laptop computers at Rs 10,000. Interest-free loan for anyone unable to afford it.
• National Digital Highway Development Project to create India's Internet backbone, and Pradhan Mantri Digital Gram Sadak Yojana for last-mile access even in the remotest of villages. • Broadband Internet (2 Mbps) in every town and village, at cable TV prices (less than Rs 200/month).
• All schools and colleges to have Internet-enabled education.
• 100% financial inclusion through bank accounts, with e-Banking facilities, for all Indian citizens. Direct transfer of welfare funds, preferably to the woman of the house.
• Every BPL family to be given a free smart mobile phone, which can be used by even illiterate users for accessing their bank accounts.
• Number of mobile subscribers to be increased from 40 crore at present to 100 crore in five years. Internet users to equal mobile subscribers. India to equal China in every IT parameter in five years.
• Video conferencing to be made affordable and universally accessible.
• Primary Health Centre in every village to be linked to the National Telemedicine Service Network. Basic health insurance scheme for every citizen, using the IT platform. Cashless hospitalisation.
• India’s ranking in the United Nations’ Human Development Index, which is currently 128, to be improved to 50 in five years, with the long-term objective of bringing India within Top Twenty by 2020.
• Massive expansion in the use of IT in agriculture, rural development, SMEs, retail trade, and informal and unorganised sectors of the economy.
• National e-Governance Plan to cover every Government office from the Centre to the Panchayats. The ‘E Gram Vishwa Gram’ scheme, launched by Shri Narendra Modi in Gujarat, to be implemented nationwide.
• Government spending to be made corruption-free. A former Prime Minister had once said, “If I put Rs. 100 in the pipeline in Delhi, only Rs. 15 reach the end beneficiary.” In contrast to Congress governments’ Leaky Pipeline, the BJP’s IT Pipeline will ensure 100% benefit to people. Those who misappropriate public funds will be punished.
• All post offices to be converted into IT-enabled Multi-Service Outlets. All telephone booths to be upgraded to Internet kiosks.
• Citizens will have a simple 1-800 BSNL Toll Free Number, which will be accessible 24x7x 365 days of the year, to contact their Member of Parliament.
• Unlimited VoIP access to all
• e-Bhasha: National Mission for Promotion of IT in Indian Languages.
• Special focus to bring women, SC/STs, OBCs and other weaker sections of society within the ambit of IT-enabled development.
• Use of IT for the protection of India’s priceless cultural and artistic heritage.
• Government to standardise on ‘open standard’ and ‘open source’ software.
• Domestic IT hardware industry to be aggressively promoted to minimise dependence on imports.
• Domestic hosting industry to be promoted to minimise international bandwith charges.
• An independent body, Digital Security Agency (DSA), to be set up for cyber warfare, cyber counter-terrorism, and cyber security of national digital assets.
The highlights of the 30-page IT Vision document are:
• Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC) with unique Citizen Identification Number (CIN) for every Indian citizen in 3 years; to replace all other identification systems.
• 1.2 crore (12 million) new IT-enabled jobs in rural areas.
• 1 crore (10 million) students to get laptop computers at Rs 10,000. Interest-free loan for anyone unable to afford it.
• National Digital Highway Development Project to create India's Internet backbone, and Pradhan Mantri Digital Gram Sadak Yojana for last-mile access even in the remotest of villages. • Broadband Internet (2 Mbps) in every town and village, at cable TV prices (less than Rs 200/month).
• All schools and colleges to have Internet-enabled education.
• 100% financial inclusion through bank accounts, with e-Banking facilities, for all Indian citizens. Direct transfer of welfare funds, preferably to the woman of the house.
• Every BPL family to be given a free smart mobile phone, which can be used by even illiterate users for accessing their bank accounts.
• Number of mobile subscribers to be increased from 40 crore at present to 100 crore in five years. Internet users to equal mobile subscribers. India to equal China in every IT parameter in five years.
• Video conferencing to be made affordable and universally accessible.
• Primary Health Centre in every village to be linked to the National Telemedicine Service Network. Basic health insurance scheme for every citizen, using the IT platform. Cashless hospitalisation.
• India’s ranking in the United Nations’ Human Development Index, which is currently 128, to be improved to 50 in five years, with the long-term objective of bringing India within Top Twenty by 2020.
• Massive expansion in the use of IT in agriculture, rural development, SMEs, retail trade, and informal and unorganised sectors of the economy.
• National e-Governance Plan to cover every Government office from the Centre to the Panchayats. The ‘E Gram Vishwa Gram’ scheme, launched by Shri Narendra Modi in Gujarat, to be implemented nationwide.
• Government spending to be made corruption-free. A former Prime Minister had once said, “If I put Rs. 100 in the pipeline in Delhi, only Rs. 15 reach the end beneficiary.” In contrast to Congress governments’ Leaky Pipeline, the BJP’s IT Pipeline will ensure 100% benefit to people. Those who misappropriate public funds will be punished.
• All post offices to be converted into IT-enabled Multi-Service Outlets. All telephone booths to be upgraded to Internet kiosks.
• Citizens will have a simple 1-800 BSNL Toll Free Number, which will be accessible 24x7x 365 days of the year, to contact their Member of Parliament.
• Unlimited VoIP access to all
• e-Bhasha: National Mission for Promotion of IT in Indian Languages.
• Special focus to bring women, SC/STs, OBCs and other weaker sections of society within the ambit of IT-enabled development.
• Use of IT for the protection of India’s priceless cultural and artistic heritage.
• Government to standardise on ‘open standard’ and ‘open source’ software.
• Domestic IT hardware industry to be aggressively promoted to minimise dependence on imports.
• Domestic hosting industry to be promoted to minimise international bandwith charges.
• An independent body, Digital Security Agency (DSA), to be set up for cyber warfare, cyber counter-terrorism, and cyber security of national digital assets.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Security problems in the PMs office?
PMO's email system infected for three months
The matter came to light during one of the hearings of the Central Information Commission where the PMO submitted that "there was virus problem during the months of Feb-Mar-Apr that was finally diagnosed only late in April".
And we call ourselves an IT power??!! How is this even possible that such problems be allowed to occur at the highest public offfice in the worlds largest democracy? The "virus" was around for 3 months!!!! Is there nobody in charge? And this is PM who is supposed to provide leadership to the country.
The matter came to light during one of the hearings of the Central Information Commission where the PMO submitted that "there was virus problem during the months of Feb-Mar-Apr that was finally diagnosed only late in April".
And we call ourselves an IT power??!! How is this even possible that such problems be allowed to occur at the highest public offfice in the worlds largest democracy? The "virus" was around for 3 months!!!! Is there nobody in charge? And this is PM who is supposed to provide leadership to the country.
Status of Hindus in Pakistani
Organised conspiracy’ against Hindus in Sindh: Mirza
“It was a well-thought conspiracy against Hindus to occupy their property and compel them to flee,” he said
Hindu boy kidnapped and killed, 2 others missing
Taliban terror forces Hindus to flee Pakistan
500 years ago there were large number of Hindus in Afghanistan, 100 years ago there were Hindus in Pakistan, 50 years ago there were Hindus in Kashmir. Now in each of these places there are hardly andy and those who stayted behind are facing an uphill battle everyday. If this progresses what will be the state of Bharat in the next 100 years? Its time for people to realise the full danger of teh situation and fight the barbarians who are at the gate.
“It was a well-thought conspiracy against Hindus to occupy their property and compel them to flee,” he said
Hindu boy kidnapped and killed, 2 others missing
Taliban terror forces Hindus to flee Pakistan
500 years ago there were large number of Hindus in Afghanistan, 100 years ago there were Hindus in Pakistan, 50 years ago there were Hindus in Kashmir. Now in each of these places there are hardly andy and those who stayted behind are facing an uphill battle everyday. If this progresses what will be the state of Bharat in the next 100 years? Its time for people to realise the full danger of teh situation and fight the barbarians who are at the gate.
BJP's plan for India's development
BJPs poll promises
Strong Leader, decisive government
A quick summary -
1. Talking about security concerns, he said over two crore illegal Bangladeshis were estimated to be in India.
2. it will make Multi-purpose National Identity Cards mandatory.
3. provide laptops to students at Rs 10,000 Interest-free loans will be provided for those who cannot afford it.
4. Specifically, this will mean a radical shift of emphasis in favour of agriculture, rural economy, infrastructure development, SMEs, informal sector of the economy, affordable health care for all, meaningful education for all...and last but not the least national security, both internal and external," Advani said
Strong Leader, decisive government
A quick summary -
1. Talking about security concerns, he said over two crore illegal Bangladeshis were estimated to be in India.
2. it will make Multi-purpose National Identity Cards mandatory.
3. provide laptops to students at Rs 10,000 Interest-free loans will be provided for those who cannot afford it.
4. Specifically, this will mean a radical shift of emphasis in favour of agriculture, rural economy, infrastructure development, SMEs, informal sector of the economy, affordable health care for all, meaningful education for all...and last but not the least national security, both internal and external," Advani said
Friday, March 13, 2009
Congress should win for Slumdog success
Really, Congress deserves all ‘credit’ for Slumdog’s Oscars—Modi
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi says the “real credit” for Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar glory should go to the Congress suggesting that but for the party’s rule for several decades there would not be any slums to be made into a movie. The Congress quickly hit back at the senior BJP leader’s fresh offensive against the party alleging he has a “perverted mindset” which has become so much a part of his thinking.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi says the “real credit” for Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar glory should go to the Congress suggesting that but for the party’s rule for several decades there would not be any slums to be made into a movie. The Congress quickly hit back at the senior BJP leader’s fresh offensive against the party alleging he has a “perverted mindset” which has become so much a part of his thinking.
Global power clash update
China is worried about its US assets
Washington needs to continue selling treasury notes to fund its $787bn stimulus package. Last month, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, urged Beijing to maintain its stock as she visited China.
"They are worried about forever-rising deficits, which may devalue treasuries by pushing interest rates higher," Frank Gong, a JP Morgan economist, told Reuters. "Inside China there has been a lot of debate about whether they should continue to buy treasuries."
The reasons for this statements are not hard to see -
1. Nancy Pelosi sermonising to China about Tibet.
2. Tim Geithner talking about China manipulating its currency.
3. The clash between US naval intelligence ships and Chinese patrol vessels.
Here is the catch, Chinese options limited on treasury bonds.
Washington needs to continue selling treasury notes to fund its $787bn stimulus package. Last month, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, urged Beijing to maintain its stock as she visited China.
"They are worried about forever-rising deficits, which may devalue treasuries by pushing interest rates higher," Frank Gong, a JP Morgan economist, told Reuters. "Inside China there has been a lot of debate about whether they should continue to buy treasuries."
The reasons for this statements are not hard to see -
1. Nancy Pelosi sermonising to China about Tibet.
2. Tim Geithner talking about China manipulating its currency.
3. The clash between US naval intelligence ships and Chinese patrol vessels.
Here is the catch, Chinese options limited on treasury bonds.
The Church’s first big step
Tamil Nadu Lawyers’ mutiny – the Church’s first big step
The drama unfolding in the Tamil Nadu Bar and judiciary is uncannily likethe drama which is even now unfolding in Pakistan and India after the Mumbaiterror attacks on 26 November, 2008; the serial rapist is successfullyplaying virgin victim. The US has given the world another new phrase forparroting obediently – ‘good Taliban/bad Taliban’ which is a bold andoriginal departure from good cop/bad cop. From good Taliban it is only asmall step to good jihad, good church, good rapist and good genocide. Nowpermit me to coin a new word - good lawyers.
The irony of the ‘good’ will be better understood if we grant the Tamil NaduBar to be part cut-throat and part craven, albeit in unequal parts while thejudiciary, and this includes the Supreme Court, is almost wholly craven. Thecraven lot in the Bar comprises of the so-called ‘decent’ lawyers who havenot summoned the courage to take a stand against the rowdies, goondas,hooligans and thugs in the Bar; these are lawyers funded by knownanti-social and anti-national groups at home and abroad while deriving theirimpunity from dravidian anti-national polity and Tamil-chauvinist (readcrypto-Christian) political parties. The Tamil Nadu judiciary has been asometimes silent, sometimes benign and even indulgent spectator of this longhistory of rampant goondaism bordering on terror tactics by a section ofTamil Nadu lawyers. It is a history going back to over a decade. As JusticeSrikrishna put it in his report, “Suffice it to say that a number ofcriminal cases were registered by the police against several advocates forindulging in activities that amounted to criminal offences”.
This section of goonda lawyers emboldened by the political clout of thePresidents of the Madras High Court Advocates Association and the Tamil NaduAdvocates Association, RC Paul Kanagaraj and S Prabakaran respectively, havenot only publicly affirmed the cause of Velupillai Prabhakaran who is anotified fugitive Sri Lankan Tamil terrorist wanted in India for theassassination of Rajiv Gandhi, they have gone so far as to celebrate theterrorist’s birthday within the High Court premises. Dravidian (byconnotation secessionist) politics has equated the extremely complex andcivilisationally troubling Sri Lankan Tamil issue with the LTTE; thissimplistic diminution of the issue has however exposed the Church in TamilNadu and also exposed in the process the cold and calculating ways of theWhite western church of all denominations.
It is not simply coincidence that all processions and demonstrations insupport of the LTTE and Velupillai Prabhakaran, in the guise of support forSri Lankan Tamils have a Christian padri leading from the front. Roadsidemeetings addressed by politicians belonging to the ‘Viduthalai Chiruthai’(Leopards for Freedom, a name closely resembling the Tamil appellation forthe LTTE, ‘Viduthalai Puli’ or Tigers for Freedom or simply Tamil Tigers)are also organized near churches; the flock in these churches constitute theaudience at these meetings. A few years ago a Christian nun was arrested inSouth Tamil Nadu for distributing inflammatory pamphlets in support of theLTTE and Tamil Eelam (the secessionist Tamil state). Velupillai Prabhakaran,and his son who has been anointed terrorist-heir apparent, are bothChristian; the LTTE’s verbose supporter in Tamil Nadu, the notorious Vaikoor Vai. Gopalaswamy is also allegedly Christian. Vaiko, chief of MDMK, yetanother secessionist dravidian Tamil political party was incarcerated byJayalalithaa under the NSA for sedition. He is now her devoted WalterRaleigh.
The most striking tell-tale sign of the hand of the church in the cause ofthe Tamil secessionist movement is Jayalalithaa’s endorsement last week ofTamil Eelam; she had been vehemently opposed to the idea of Tamil Eelam andhad staunchly maintained that she was as committed to the territorialintegrity of Sri Lanka as she was to the resolution of the civil war withjustice for the Sri Lankan Tamil people. This radical departure onJayalalithaa’s part of endorsing Eelam is only a continuum of the radicaldeparture she made in December 2008 when several Christian padris, whichincluded one Bishop, conducted special Christian prayers on Christmas dayfollowed by special service in her home at Poe’s Garden. This went farbeyond the usual Christmas festivities in which Hindu political leadersparticipate for their Christian cadre and for secularism. Needless to say itwas Vaiko who offered Jayalalithaa lemon juice after her day of fasting forthe well-being of the LTTE.
If we take into account the fact that south of Chennai, almost every singlefishing hamlet on the Tamil Nadu coast is wholly Christian and/or Muslim andthat the Muslims of Sri Lanka are almost wholly Tamil speaking, and if aftertaking into account the fact that Jayalalithaa allowed World Vision,ActionAid and other rabid Christian NGOs to run amok in Tamil Nadu after thetsunami, were it to be said that Tamil Nadu is sitting on a politicalvolcano waiting to erupt, it would not be overstating the situation. Wellorganized fishermen’s organizations and unions in Tamil Nadu have nowstepped forward publicly to demand Tamil Eelam.
Pope John Paul II abusing the hospitality of the Indian state and Indianpeople declared on Hindu-majority Indian soil, on the sacred Hindu day ofDeepavalli that he intended to plant the church in Asia in the thirdmillennium. China, India, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, stubbornlyHindu, Buddhist and Confucian, are top on the agenda of the Catholic,Protestant and other primitive, uncivilized denominations like the AmericanBaptist, New Life and other freewheeling churches belonging to no knowndenomination but flush with dubious money. Tamil Nadu is the largestrecipient of foreign funds and this money, coming from White ChristianAmerican and European government and non-government donors is being investedwith great foresight and calculation by local Churches and Christianagencies in several sectors ranging from real estate, banks, televisionchannels, TV soaps and other serials on television, penetrating the Tamilfilm world with growing numbers of Christian actors, musicians and technicalsupport staff, giant jewelry outlets, religious conversion throughallurement, buying hugely expensive time for tele-evangelising in severalTamil satellite channels, starting more and more educational institutions,funding political parties, creating NGOs, the list is endless and theirdetermination to penetrate and influence all aspects of public life,alarming. (http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1)
Church activity and investment in Tamil Nadu is directly linked to thecontinuing civil strife (I refuse to call it ethnic conflict because it ispalpably false and misleading) in Sri Lanka. The church is working towardsthe creation of a pan-Tamil nation out of the territories of Tamil Nadu inIndia and the North and East of Sri Lanka; and the useful idiots in TamilNadu and Sri Lanka, facilitating the diabolic objective, must wake up to thetruth that the pan-Tamil nation they are working for is a Christian statelike East Timor. (Give url of monograph) The church penetrated the Maoistsof Nepal and Kandhamal in Orissa, the church’s creepy fingers have touchedChandrababu Naidu, Jayalalithaa and now Navin Patnaik; if the communists arePatnaik’s new bed-fellow, the Christian Maoists of Kandhamal probably playedpimps. It is time the so-called decent elements in the Tamil Nadu Bar andjudiciary realized that their reputation has been held hostage and theirstrings pulled by the invisible hand of the church in India and foreignchurches.
A sizeable segment of the well-educated, social and political Sinhala elitein Sri Lanka is also Christian but the Christian segment, while visible andpowerful, is still in a minority vis a vis the Sinhala Buddhists; theSinhala Christian political ruling class is tamed by its dependence on thepowerful Buddhist clergy for its legitimacy. The invisible church behind theSinhala Christian ruling elite seeks to control the state apparatus even asthe visible and assertive church seeks to control the voting populace amongthe Tamils. The church, with Machiavellian intent, is thus playing both endsof the game. The civil war in Sri Lanka while seemingly between the Sinhalaand Tamil speaking people, now being given the brazenly false Hindu-Buddhistconflict colour, is actually the Church manipulating the people of Sri Lankathrough well-directed and choreographed civil strife aimed ultimately atcreating a separate and secessionist Christian Tamil state.
The ruling Sinhala Buddhist and Christian elite has thus fallen into thediabolic Christian trap of seeking Pakistan’s aid to break the LTTEbackbone, something which India ought to have done had the Congress PrimeMinister not been pulled by his strings by the hand of Italian ChristianSonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi’s UPA abandoned Sri Lanka to Pakistan (read Chinaand USA) just as it had abandoned Nepal to the Maoists (read China and USAagain). The Sinhala Sri Lankan government is playing the foolish game ofpitting the potentially secessionist Tamil Muslims of the Muslim-majorityAmparai district in the East against the other Tamils of the region hopingto keep Amparai as a thorn in the flesh of the Tamil-majority region. Abeginning was made when the North was separated from the East for the firsttime in any calculation towards a political settlement of the issue. This isa foolish hope because ultimately, the Muslims, like the Christians owetheir allegiance not to their native country but to their religion.
No political commentator or terrorism expert has pointed to the significanceof an LTTE suicide bomber killing 15 people and wounding several others,including Sri Lankan Postal Services Minister Mahinda Wijesekara, on the 12th of this month outside a mosque in Akuressa in southern Sri Lanka. Theoccasion was Milad-un-Nabi, - the birthday of Prophet Mohammedi. The LTTEwas targeting both Sinhala politicians who were present in large numbers atthe mosque and also the Muslims.
The Sri Lankan Tamil issue is therefore not simply ‘spilling over’ intoTamil Nadu in India but has always been inextricably linked with Tamil Nadu.Tamil politics, unless the caste Hindus of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil (Saiva)Hindus of Sri Lanka wake up, is all about intra-Christian political tusslebetween the Sinhala ruling Christian elite and the Tamil commoner Christian.It is also the Asian theater in the never-ending Christian-Muslim cosmicwar. It bears repetition that Tamil Nadu is being increasingly, visibly andaggressively Islamised and Christianised with astronomical amounts offoreign money pouring into the state legally through foreign donors and NGOsand illegally through Hawala and other routes. A similar scenario hasalready unfolded in Kerala.
The violence let loose with impunity by the Christian and dravidian Tamilchauvinist section of the Madras High Court lawyers is Christian investmentin education yielding political interest. Fewer than a hundred lawyers, thehistory-sheeters with a long history of crime were let loose in the state bytheir handlers and this murderous, criminal gang brought the Tamil Nadu Barand judiciary to its knees. The Supreme Court fared no better. The Church iswell-organized and well connected. Having triggered the sequence of violenceon the 17th of February, this group provoked the volatile CJI to put hisfoot in the mouth when he committed the ultimate impropriety of lashing outat the police without allowing the police to present their version of theevents of February 19. The CJI, like most of the country was intentionallykept in the dark about February 17.
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Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, heading a three-Judge Bench, told SolicitorGeneral G.E. Vahanvati, appearing for the State: “The police entering thecourt halls, attacking judges, lawyers, staff and causing damage is a veryserious matter. We are serious about it. Even if the police wanted to arrestsome lawyers, in all fairness they should have informed the acting ChiefJustice or at least the Registrar-General. We want to know under whoseinstance the police entered the premises. Give us the names of the officerswho asked helmet wearing policemen wielding lathis to enter the court hallsand we will deal with them firmly.”’
“We will ascertain from the government who is responsible for this mess. Ifit is not possible for the government to tell us at whose instance thepolice entered the HC premises and used force against the lawyers, then wewill find it out. We don’t want any cooperation from the police. We know howto handle such situations.”
(In)famous last words! The incumbent Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnanlike another of his colleagues in the Supreme Court is given to emotionaloutbursts and indiscreet, even intemperate statements.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1038&Itemid=71Not stopping with playing to the gallery with this highly improper outburstagainst the police, the CJI took a leaf from out of Alice in Wonderland andoff-ed with the heads of five highly respected police officers of the rankof Joint Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and had them summarilytransferred out of Chennai. Thus did the highest officer of the country’sjudiciary dispense justice; by listening to just one side of the story, thecriminal lawyers’ side. The scumbag lawyers indicted by a Division Bench ofthe Madras High Court for physical and verbal violence against Dr.Subramaniam Swamy and other litigants in Court hall 3, and indicted byJustice Srikrishna in the interim report, are still unpunished. They havenot even been found guilty because for the Madras High Court and the SupremeCourt, notwithstanding the Srikrishna report which has described the eventsof February 17 in great detail, February 2009 never had the 17th day.
“My view, albeit prima facie, is that the soft-pedaling policy followed bythe Madras High Court Judges has led to the present piquant situation.The lawyersappear to have been encouraged by the wrong 'signals sent out andseemed to thinkthat they could do anything and get away within the Court premises.Regretfully, far from being the upholders of the rule of law, the lawyersseem to have behaved as hooligans and miscreants. The incidents that transpiredover a last month or so make it clear that the lawyers seemed to be underthe impression that, because they are officers of the Court, they are immunefrom the process of law and that they could get away with any unlawful actwithout being answerable to the law enforcing agency. It is most unfortunatethat the soft policy adopted by the Acting Chief Justice of Madras HighCourt and its administration sent out clearly a wrong message thatencouraged and emboldened the lawyers into becoming law breakers”. (Excerptfrom Justice Srikrishna’s interim report)
The Supreme Court by abusing the police through punitive transfers has thusfacilitated the transformation of the rapist into victim.
Pandering to the hysterical demand by the lawyers for a judicial commissionto go into the events of February 19 in the Madras High Court, the CJIconstituted the one-man Justice Srikrishna Commission. Mandated by theSupreme Court to submit an interim report within ten days of commissioning,Justice Srikrishna submitted his interim report on the 4th of March, 2009.The findings of the Srikrishna Commission shocked the nation. The blatantlyone-sided anti-police version peddled by the lawyers and a section ofcomplicit print and electronic media was beginning to tilt rapidly toachieve a state of relative balance.
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Notwithstanding the damning indictment of the conduct of the lawyers byJustice Srikrishna, the Tamil Nadu Bar and the judiciary remained craven anddid not summon the courage or the will to bring the criminal lawyers tojustice. Confronted by the extremely hostile reception to his findings,Justice Srikrishna withdrew from the commission and the CJI, just as cravenas the Tamil Nadu judiciary, instead of holding the Tamil Nadu Barresponsible for Justice Srikrishna’s withdrawal, and instead of constitutinganother Commission with two or three retired judges, abdicated hisresponsibility and threw the case back into the lap of the Madras HighCourt.
For its part, both the Madras High Court and the state government have nowcommitted themselves to act as per the findings and recommendations of theSrikrishna Report to probe police action in the court premises on February19. Both have chosen to remain ignominiously craven and have not brought theevents of February 17 into the ambit of the probe. If the CJI was going topass the buck to the Madras High Court to probe the events of February 19,then he ought not to have transferred senior police officers punitively outof Chennai with unseemly haste. If the responsibility for pinning blame forFebruary 19 was going to be left to the local judiciary, then the SupremeCourt ought to have restrained itself from needless activism, encroachinginto the Executive domain. Investigating police action and dealingappropriately with the results of the probe ought to have been left to thestate government.
The Church has succeeded on all fronts – penetrated law colleges usingadmission norms in its favour, getting these students, irrespective of theirmerit, into enrolling themselves as practicing lawyers in the Bar, usingsuch members to gain control of the city and state Advocates Associations,using these associations and Dravidian, Tamil chauvinist, secessionistpolitical parties beholden to the church for its munificence to paralyze thesystem, sowing discord between different pillars of democracy, and finallyto bring the judiciary to its knees. This is just the first step – testingthe waters, so to speak, before taking the plunge to set events in rapidmotion to culminate in the Christian Tamil state called Eelam. Unless theuseful idiots mindlessly serving church interests wake up now, they willwake up one day to find that Eelam is a fait accompli like East Timor.
Radha Rajan,
The drama unfolding in the Tamil Nadu Bar and judiciary is uncannily likethe drama which is even now unfolding in Pakistan and India after the Mumbaiterror attacks on 26 November, 2008; the serial rapist is successfullyplaying virgin victim. The US has given the world another new phrase forparroting obediently – ‘good Taliban/bad Taliban’ which is a bold andoriginal departure from good cop/bad cop. From good Taliban it is only asmall step to good jihad, good church, good rapist and good genocide. Nowpermit me to coin a new word - good lawyers.
The irony of the ‘good’ will be better understood if we grant the Tamil NaduBar to be part cut-throat and part craven, albeit in unequal parts while thejudiciary, and this includes the Supreme Court, is almost wholly craven. Thecraven lot in the Bar comprises of the so-called ‘decent’ lawyers who havenot summoned the courage to take a stand against the rowdies, goondas,hooligans and thugs in the Bar; these are lawyers funded by knownanti-social and anti-national groups at home and abroad while deriving theirimpunity from dravidian anti-national polity and Tamil-chauvinist (readcrypto-Christian) political parties. The Tamil Nadu judiciary has been asometimes silent, sometimes benign and even indulgent spectator of this longhistory of rampant goondaism bordering on terror tactics by a section ofTamil Nadu lawyers. It is a history going back to over a decade. As JusticeSrikrishna put it in his report, “Suffice it to say that a number ofcriminal cases were registered by the police against several advocates forindulging in activities that amounted to criminal offences”.
This section of goonda lawyers emboldened by the political clout of thePresidents of the Madras High Court Advocates Association and the Tamil NaduAdvocates Association, RC Paul Kanagaraj and S Prabakaran respectively, havenot only publicly affirmed the cause of Velupillai Prabhakaran who is anotified fugitive Sri Lankan Tamil terrorist wanted in India for theassassination of Rajiv Gandhi, they have gone so far as to celebrate theterrorist’s birthday within the High Court premises. Dravidian (byconnotation secessionist) politics has equated the extremely complex andcivilisationally troubling Sri Lankan Tamil issue with the LTTE; thissimplistic diminution of the issue has however exposed the Church in TamilNadu and also exposed in the process the cold and calculating ways of theWhite western church of all denominations.
It is not simply coincidence that all processions and demonstrations insupport of the LTTE and Velupillai Prabhakaran, in the guise of support forSri Lankan Tamils have a Christian padri leading from the front. Roadsidemeetings addressed by politicians belonging to the ‘Viduthalai Chiruthai’(Leopards for Freedom, a name closely resembling the Tamil appellation forthe LTTE, ‘Viduthalai Puli’ or Tigers for Freedom or simply Tamil Tigers)are also organized near churches; the flock in these churches constitute theaudience at these meetings. A few years ago a Christian nun was arrested inSouth Tamil Nadu for distributing inflammatory pamphlets in support of theLTTE and Tamil Eelam (the secessionist Tamil state). Velupillai Prabhakaran,and his son who has been anointed terrorist-heir apparent, are bothChristian; the LTTE’s verbose supporter in Tamil Nadu, the notorious Vaikoor Vai. Gopalaswamy is also allegedly Christian. Vaiko, chief of MDMK, yetanother secessionist dravidian Tamil political party was incarcerated byJayalalithaa under the NSA for sedition. He is now her devoted WalterRaleigh.
The most striking tell-tale sign of the hand of the church in the cause ofthe Tamil secessionist movement is Jayalalithaa’s endorsement last week ofTamil Eelam; she had been vehemently opposed to the idea of Tamil Eelam andhad staunchly maintained that she was as committed to the territorialintegrity of Sri Lanka as she was to the resolution of the civil war withjustice for the Sri Lankan Tamil people. This radical departure onJayalalithaa’s part of endorsing Eelam is only a continuum of the radicaldeparture she made in December 2008 when several Christian padris, whichincluded one Bishop, conducted special Christian prayers on Christmas dayfollowed by special service in her home at Poe’s Garden. This went farbeyond the usual Christmas festivities in which Hindu political leadersparticipate for their Christian cadre and for secularism. Needless to say itwas Vaiko who offered Jayalalithaa lemon juice after her day of fasting forthe well-being of the LTTE.
If we take into account the fact that south of Chennai, almost every singlefishing hamlet on the Tamil Nadu coast is wholly Christian and/or Muslim andthat the Muslims of Sri Lanka are almost wholly Tamil speaking, and if aftertaking into account the fact that Jayalalithaa allowed World Vision,ActionAid and other rabid Christian NGOs to run amok in Tamil Nadu after thetsunami, were it to be said that Tamil Nadu is sitting on a politicalvolcano waiting to erupt, it would not be overstating the situation. Wellorganized fishermen’s organizations and unions in Tamil Nadu have nowstepped forward publicly to demand Tamil Eelam.
Pope John Paul II abusing the hospitality of the Indian state and Indianpeople declared on Hindu-majority Indian soil, on the sacred Hindu day ofDeepavalli that he intended to plant the church in Asia in the thirdmillennium. China, India, Nepal, South Korea and Sri Lanka, stubbornlyHindu, Buddhist and Confucian, are top on the agenda of the Catholic,Protestant and other primitive, uncivilized denominations like the AmericanBaptist, New Life and other freewheeling churches belonging to no knowndenomination but flush with dubious money. Tamil Nadu is the largestrecipient of foreign funds and this money, coming from White ChristianAmerican and European government and non-government donors is being investedwith great foresight and calculation by local Churches and Christianagencies in several sectors ranging from real estate, banks, televisionchannels, TV soaps and other serials on television, penetrating the Tamilfilm world with growing numbers of Christian actors, musicians and technicalsupport staff, giant jewelry outlets, religious conversion throughallurement, buying hugely expensive time for tele-evangelising in severalTamil satellite channels, starting more and more educational institutions,funding political parties, creating NGOs, the list is endless and theirdetermination to penetrate and influence all aspects of public life,alarming. (http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1073&Itemid=1)
Church activity and investment in Tamil Nadu is directly linked to thecontinuing civil strife (I refuse to call it ethnic conflict because it ispalpably false and misleading) in Sri Lanka. The church is working towardsthe creation of a pan-Tamil nation out of the territories of Tamil Nadu inIndia and the North and East of Sri Lanka; and the useful idiots in TamilNadu and Sri Lanka, facilitating the diabolic objective, must wake up to thetruth that the pan-Tamil nation they are working for is a Christian statelike East Timor. (Give url of monograph) The church penetrated the Maoistsof Nepal and Kandhamal in Orissa, the church’s creepy fingers have touchedChandrababu Naidu, Jayalalithaa and now Navin Patnaik; if the communists arePatnaik’s new bed-fellow, the Christian Maoists of Kandhamal probably playedpimps. It is time the so-called decent elements in the Tamil Nadu Bar andjudiciary realized that their reputation has been held hostage and theirstrings pulled by the invisible hand of the church in India and foreignchurches.
A sizeable segment of the well-educated, social and political Sinhala elitein Sri Lanka is also Christian but the Christian segment, while visible andpowerful, is still in a minority vis a vis the Sinhala Buddhists; theSinhala Christian political ruling class is tamed by its dependence on thepowerful Buddhist clergy for its legitimacy. The invisible church behind theSinhala Christian ruling elite seeks to control the state apparatus even asthe visible and assertive church seeks to control the voting populace amongthe Tamils. The church, with Machiavellian intent, is thus playing both endsof the game. The civil war in Sri Lanka while seemingly between the Sinhalaand Tamil speaking people, now being given the brazenly false Hindu-Buddhistconflict colour, is actually the Church manipulating the people of Sri Lankathrough well-directed and choreographed civil strife aimed ultimately atcreating a separate and secessionist Christian Tamil state.
The ruling Sinhala Buddhist and Christian elite has thus fallen into thediabolic Christian trap of seeking Pakistan’s aid to break the LTTEbackbone, something which India ought to have done had the Congress PrimeMinister not been pulled by his strings by the hand of Italian ChristianSonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi’s UPA abandoned Sri Lanka to Pakistan (read Chinaand USA) just as it had abandoned Nepal to the Maoists (read China and USAagain). The Sinhala Sri Lankan government is playing the foolish game ofpitting the potentially secessionist Tamil Muslims of the Muslim-majorityAmparai district in the East against the other Tamils of the region hopingto keep Amparai as a thorn in the flesh of the Tamil-majority region. Abeginning was made when the North was separated from the East for the firsttime in any calculation towards a political settlement of the issue. This isa foolish hope because ultimately, the Muslims, like the Christians owetheir allegiance not to their native country but to their religion.
No political commentator or terrorism expert has pointed to the significanceof an LTTE suicide bomber killing 15 people and wounding several others,including Sri Lankan Postal Services Minister Mahinda Wijesekara, on the 12th of this month outside a mosque in Akuressa in southern Sri Lanka. Theoccasion was Milad-un-Nabi, - the birthday of Prophet Mohammedi. The LTTEwas targeting both Sinhala politicians who were present in large numbers atthe mosque and also the Muslims.
The Sri Lankan Tamil issue is therefore not simply ‘spilling over’ intoTamil Nadu in India but has always been inextricably linked with Tamil Nadu.Tamil politics, unless the caste Hindus of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil (Saiva)Hindus of Sri Lanka wake up, is all about intra-Christian political tusslebetween the Sinhala ruling Christian elite and the Tamil commoner Christian.It is also the Asian theater in the never-ending Christian-Muslim cosmicwar. It bears repetition that Tamil Nadu is being increasingly, visibly andaggressively Islamised and Christianised with astronomical amounts offoreign money pouring into the state legally through foreign donors and NGOsand illegally through Hawala and other routes. A similar scenario hasalready unfolded in Kerala.
The violence let loose with impunity by the Christian and dravidian Tamilchauvinist section of the Madras High Court lawyers is Christian investmentin education yielding political interest. Fewer than a hundred lawyers, thehistory-sheeters with a long history of crime were let loose in the state bytheir handlers and this murderous, criminal gang brought the Tamil Nadu Barand judiciary to its knees. The Supreme Court fared no better. The Church iswell-organized and well connected. Having triggered the sequence of violenceon the 17th of February, this group provoked the volatile CJI to put hisfoot in the mouth when he committed the ultimate impropriety of lashing outat the police without allowing the police to present their version of theevents of February 19. The CJI, like most of the country was intentionallykept in the dark about February 17.
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Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, heading a three-Judge Bench, told SolicitorGeneral G.E. Vahanvati, appearing for the State: “The police entering thecourt halls, attacking judges, lawyers, staff and causing damage is a veryserious matter. We are serious about it. Even if the police wanted to arrestsome lawyers, in all fairness they should have informed the acting ChiefJustice or at least the Registrar-General. We want to know under whoseinstance the police entered the premises. Give us the names of the officerswho asked helmet wearing policemen wielding lathis to enter the court hallsand we will deal with them firmly.”’
“We will ascertain from the government who is responsible for this mess. Ifit is not possible for the government to tell us at whose instance thepolice entered the HC premises and used force against the lawyers, then wewill find it out. We don’t want any cooperation from the police. We know howto handle such situations.”
(In)famous last words! The incumbent Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnanlike another of his colleagues in the Supreme Court is given to emotionaloutbursts and indiscreet, even intemperate statements.
http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1038&Itemid=71Not stopping with playing to the gallery with this highly improper outburstagainst the police, the CJI took a leaf from out of Alice in Wonderland andoff-ed with the heads of five highly respected police officers of the rankof Joint Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner and had them summarilytransferred out of Chennai. Thus did the highest officer of the country’sjudiciary dispense justice; by listening to just one side of the story, thecriminal lawyers’ side. The scumbag lawyers indicted by a Division Bench ofthe Madras High Court for physical and verbal violence against Dr.Subramaniam Swamy and other litigants in Court hall 3, and indicted byJustice Srikrishna in the interim report, are still unpunished. They havenot even been found guilty because for the Madras High Court and the SupremeCourt, notwithstanding the Srikrishna report which has described the eventsof February 17 in great detail, February 2009 never had the 17th day.
“My view, albeit prima facie, is that the soft-pedaling policy followed bythe Madras High Court Judges has led to the present piquant situation.The lawyersappear to have been encouraged by the wrong 'signals sent out andseemed to thinkthat they could do anything and get away within the Court premises.Regretfully, far from being the upholders of the rule of law, the lawyersseem to have behaved as hooligans and miscreants. The incidents that transpiredover a last month or so make it clear that the lawyers seemed to be underthe impression that, because they are officers of the Court, they are immunefrom the process of law and that they could get away with any unlawful actwithout being answerable to the law enforcing agency. It is most unfortunatethat the soft policy adopted by the Acting Chief Justice of Madras HighCourt and its administration sent out clearly a wrong message thatencouraged and emboldened the lawyers into becoming law breakers”. (Excerptfrom Justice Srikrishna’s interim report)
The Supreme Court by abusing the police through punitive transfers has thusfacilitated the transformation of the rapist into victim.
Pandering to the hysterical demand by the lawyers for a judicial commissionto go into the events of February 19 in the Madras High Court, the CJIconstituted the one-man Justice Srikrishna Commission. Mandated by theSupreme Court to submit an interim report within ten days of commissioning,Justice Srikrishna submitted his interim report on the 4th of March, 2009.The findings of the Srikrishna Commission shocked the nation. The blatantlyone-sided anti-police version peddled by the lawyers and a section ofcomplicit print and electronic media was beginning to tilt rapidly toachieve a state of relative balance.
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Notwithstanding the damning indictment of the conduct of the lawyers byJustice Srikrishna, the Tamil Nadu Bar and the judiciary remained craven anddid not summon the courage or the will to bring the criminal lawyers tojustice. Confronted by the extremely hostile reception to his findings,Justice Srikrishna withdrew from the commission and the CJI, just as cravenas the Tamil Nadu judiciary, instead of holding the Tamil Nadu Barresponsible for Justice Srikrishna’s withdrawal, and instead of constitutinganother Commission with two or three retired judges, abdicated hisresponsibility and threw the case back into the lap of the Madras HighCourt.
For its part, both the Madras High Court and the state government have nowcommitted themselves to act as per the findings and recommendations of theSrikrishna Report to probe police action in the court premises on February19. Both have chosen to remain ignominiously craven and have not brought theevents of February 17 into the ambit of the probe. If the CJI was going topass the buck to the Madras High Court to probe the events of February 19,then he ought not to have transferred senior police officers punitively outof Chennai with unseemly haste. If the responsibility for pinning blame forFebruary 19 was going to be left to the local judiciary, then the SupremeCourt ought to have restrained itself from needless activism, encroachinginto the Executive domain. Investigating police action and dealingappropriately with the results of the probe ought to have been left to thestate government.
The Church has succeeded on all fronts – penetrated law colleges usingadmission norms in its favour, getting these students, irrespective of theirmerit, into enrolling themselves as practicing lawyers in the Bar, usingsuch members to gain control of the city and state Advocates Associations,using these associations and Dravidian, Tamil chauvinist, secessionistpolitical parties beholden to the church for its munificence to paralyze thesystem, sowing discord between different pillars of democracy, and finallyto bring the judiciary to its knees. This is just the first step – testingthe waters, so to speak, before taking the plunge to set events in rapidmotion to culminate in the Christian Tamil state called Eelam. Unless theuseful idiots mindlessly serving church interests wake up now, they willwake up one day to find that Eelam is a fait accompli like East Timor.
Radha Rajan,
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Nevin Chawla-Congress nexus update
Election Commission: Sonia & Left in the dock
As for Mr. Navin Chawla, he owes his position as next CEC-designate to his proximity to the Gandhi family, which began during the notorious Emergency of 1975-77, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi was close to her brother-in-law Sanjay Gandhi, and joined some of his business ventures, as subsequently brought out by a commission of enquiry. While Mr. Chawla’s religious affiliations are not known, he owes much of his fame to authorship of two books on the Albanian nun, Teresa, whose so-called sainthood is subject of much controversy in the West as well as in India!
It is pertinent that in March 2005, just two months before his appointment as Election Commissioner, Mr. Chawla was bestowed the Mazzini Award by the Italian government. Ms. Sonia Gandhi, as is well-known, is an Italian-born Roman Catholic. Her son and Amethi MP, Rahul Gandhi, has studiously refused to answer questions regarding the nature of his citizenship (given the Roman law) and whether he also holds an Italian passport, a situation untenable in Indian law.
As for Mr. Navin Chawla, he owes his position as next CEC-designate to his proximity to the Gandhi family, which began during the notorious Emergency of 1975-77, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi was close to her brother-in-law Sanjay Gandhi, and joined some of his business ventures, as subsequently brought out by a commission of enquiry. While Mr. Chawla’s religious affiliations are not known, he owes much of his fame to authorship of two books on the Albanian nun, Teresa, whose so-called sainthood is subject of much controversy in the West as well as in India!
It is pertinent that in March 2005, just two months before his appointment as Election Commissioner, Mr. Chawla was bestowed the Mazzini Award by the Italian government. Ms. Sonia Gandhi, as is well-known, is an Italian-born Roman Catholic. Her son and Amethi MP, Rahul Gandhi, has studiously refused to answer questions regarding the nature of his citizenship (given the Roman law) and whether he also holds an Italian passport, a situation untenable in Indian law.
SAY YOU ARE A HINDU, HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH
SAY YOU ARE A HINDU, HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH
The pathological dislike----even hatred--- that some of our journalists----particularly in the electronic media--- have for Modi could be seen or sensed as one watched the TV coverage of the counting of votes on December 23,2007. Initially, as it appeared that the BJP might not do well in the final tally, there was excitement among many of the TV anchors. They thought they have tasted blood. After an hour, the BJP candidates started racing ahead and it became clear the the Congress (I) was in for a drubbing. The disappointment on the faces of some of the anchors was to be seen to be believed. A five-star lady anchor could not help remarking: "Modi might be able to win the elections in Gujarat, but he still can't get a visa to go to the US and other Western countries." Some consolation!
They would have noticed that in the Hindu diaspora in the West, more young people admire Modi than grown-ups. Many of his young admirers in the US were born and brought up there and had the benefit of the best of secular education. In spite of this, there is a sense of pride in them that the Hindu community has at long last produced a leader of the calibre of Modi.
The pathological dislike----even hatred--- that some of our journalists----particularly in the electronic media--- have for Modi could be seen or sensed as one watched the TV coverage of the counting of votes on December 23,2007. Initially, as it appeared that the BJP might not do well in the final tally, there was excitement among many of the TV anchors. They thought they have tasted blood. After an hour, the BJP candidates started racing ahead and it became clear the the Congress (I) was in for a drubbing. The disappointment on the faces of some of the anchors was to be seen to be believed. A five-star lady anchor could not help remarking: "Modi might be able to win the elections in Gujarat, but he still can't get a visa to go to the US and other Western countries." Some consolation!
They would have noticed that in the Hindu diaspora in the West, more young people admire Modi than grown-ups. Many of his young admirers in the US were born and brought up there and had the benefit of the best of secular education. In spite of this, there is a sense of pride in them that the Hindu community has at long last produced a leader of the calibre of Modi.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Vijay Mallya - I acted on my own
Mallya's shocker: I bid on my own
“I bid independently... I wanted to get back the items to the country... I am not sure if anyone was aware that I was bidding,” chairman of the United Breweries Group said.
“I don’t know what Ambika Soni has said but I acted on my own,” Mallya said.
If this is true, all the talk about the government trying to stop the auction is hot gas!
Kudos to Vijay Mallya for this generosity.
“I bid independently... I wanted to get back the items to the country... I am not sure if anyone was aware that I was bidding,” chairman of the United Breweries Group said.
“I don’t know what Ambika Soni has said but I acted on my own,” Mallya said.
If this is true, all the talk about the government trying to stop the auction is hot gas!
Kudos to Vijay Mallya for this generosity.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
More on Indias neighbours
Attack fuels a nation's unravelling
JUST minutes before it was about to leave the Pearl Continental Lahore, the Sri Lankan cricket team's security detail received a tip-off urging it to alter its route from the hotel to the stadium.
The call, believed to have come from Lahore police, warned of a credible threat to the team as it headed out by bus for the third day of its final Test match on its tour of Pakistan.
The security detail had good reason to heed the warning.
JUST minutes before it was about to leave the Pearl Continental Lahore, the Sri Lankan cricket team's security detail received a tip-off urging it to alter its route from the hotel to the stadium.
The call, believed to have come from Lahore police, warned of a credible threat to the team as it headed out by bus for the third day of its final Test match on its tour of Pakistan.
The security detail had good reason to heed the warning.
Indias neighbourhood goes from bad to worse
Pakistan needs 'international help' with security: Australia
Australia has warned that Pakistan faces an existential threat from terrorism, as governments and terrorism experts weigh the implications of Tuesday's deadly attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore.
Last month, within days of admitting Pakistani nationals were involved in last November's terror attacks on the Indian financial hub of Mumbai, Pakistani President Asif Zardari admitted the Taliban has established its presence in "huge amounts of land" extending far beyond its tribal homeland.
Australia has warned that Pakistan faces an existential threat from terrorism, as governments and terrorism experts weigh the implications of Tuesday's deadly attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore.
Last month, within days of admitting Pakistani nationals were involved in last November's terror attacks on the Indian financial hub of Mumbai, Pakistani President Asif Zardari admitted the Taliban has established its presence in "huge amounts of land" extending far beyond its tribal homeland.
Seattle Art Museum features - Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a Hindu God
Hindus laud Seattle Art Museum
Hindus have applauded internationally renowned Seattle Art Museum (SAM) for launching an interactive website featuring “Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a Hindu God”.
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, praising SAM for its promotion of Hindu faith traditions, culture and art, urged all major museums of the world to organize exhibitions of Hindu art, sculptures, and architecture to make aware the present and future generations about their richness.
Hindus have applauded internationally renowned Seattle Art Museum (SAM) for launching an interactive website featuring “Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a Hindu God”.
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, praising SAM for its promotion of Hindu faith traditions, culture and art, urged all major museums of the world to organize exhibitions of Hindu art, sculptures, and architecture to make aware the present and future generations about their richness.
Bobby Jindal - Uneasy about his ethnic background?
Bobby Jindal and irrational exhuberance
Excerpts from the interview on CBS 60 minutes -
Asked if their family maintains any of the Indian traditions, Supriya Jindal told Safer, "Not too many."
He's a classic example of the American melting pot. This oyster and crawfish-eating Louisianian tends to downplay his ethnic background. "When we sent a reporter and photographer to India to write about his family and their origins, the Jindal family was very queasy about that undertaking," Amoss said.
To all the pea brained, applauding folks back home - Read this article, shut up and sit down. Stop being more eager to call him Indian that he is himself.
Excerpts from the interview on CBS 60 minutes -
Asked if their family maintains any of the Indian traditions, Supriya Jindal told Safer, "Not too many."
He's a classic example of the American melting pot. This oyster and crawfish-eating Louisianian tends to downplay his ethnic background. "When we sent a reporter and photographer to India to write about his family and their origins, the Jindal family was very queasy about that undertaking," Amoss said.
To all the pea brained, applauding folks back home - Read this article, shut up and sit down. Stop being more eager to call him Indian that he is himself.
Monday, March 2, 2009
State of temples in Pakistan
A scene of an obscene nature
When most of the temples located in the city’s old quarters are either in poor physical shape or struggling to survive the greed of real estate builders, this little unknown temple is in good shape. Only the statues of Hindu deities are gone and a shop has been carved out instead.
The compound adjacent to the plot, where once stood the temple with its grandeur, has already been turned into an apartment building. A physical inspection of the very residential scheme suggests that the temple’s main structure, during the construction, was carved out untouched
Compare this with the condition of mosques and churches in India
- > PM offers support for building Churches
An excellent book by Arun Shourie -> Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them
When most of the temples located in the city’s old quarters are either in poor physical shape or struggling to survive the greed of real estate builders, this little unknown temple is in good shape. Only the statues of Hindu deities are gone and a shop has been carved out instead.
The compound adjacent to the plot, where once stood the temple with its grandeur, has already been turned into an apartment building. A physical inspection of the very residential scheme suggests that the temple’s main structure, during the construction, was carved out untouched
Compare this with the condition of mosques and churches in India
- > PM offers support for building Churches
An excellent book by Arun Shourie -> Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them
Government control of temples weakening Hinduism
Government control of temples weakening Hinduism
Though India is a Secular Republic, and though secularism commands separation of state and religion, State governments have taken over all prominent Hindu temples and shrines which is an anti-secular act. The best part is that only Hindu temples have been targeted for government control whereas no Christian church or Muslim mosque has been touched.
Though India is a Secular Republic, and though secularism commands separation of state and religion, State governments have taken over all prominent Hindu temples and shrines which is an anti-secular act. The best part is that only Hindu temples have been targeted for government control whereas no Christian church or Muslim mosque has been touched.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
This planet needs Hindu ethos by Tarun Vijay
This planet needs Hindu ethos by Tarun Vijay
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
It's the so-called secular flabbiness of the neo-rich and subjugated colonised English-speaking elite that has taken up the place left vacant by British sergeants and colonial masters. Hate Hindu- is their new professional slogan. Anything Hindu is despicable and arrogantly dismissible. Destroy Ram Sethu, arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya on Diwali night, ignore the brutal killing of an 80-year-old monk on Krishna Janmashtami night in Kandhamal, simply delete the memory of Godhra and never answer why 59 men, women and little kids were burnt to death in a steel compartment, on February 27 seven years ago, never ever mention the 290 Hindus murdered during what is known as Gujarat riots, never discuss the forced exodus of five lakh Kashmiri Hindus after their women were raped and children killed by 'brave' Nizam-e-Mustafa' Ghazis.
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