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krithivas wrote:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 016785.cms
The death of 254 Indian women from modest backgrounds in the course of a 15-year US-funded clinical trial has triggered a raging debate about its ethicality. The trial was for a cervical cancer screening method and the women who died were part of a control group kept without screening to study death rates in unscreened populations.
"Clearly these trials violated both international and national guidelines," said Sandhya Srinivasan of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), who in her editorial on the subject in April last year pointed out that "these studies would not have been permitted in the country of the funding organizations (US National Cancer Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)."
Let me quote the rest of the article for forum members who might not have followed the link.
It is a well established fact that any kind of cervical screening reduces the incidence of the cancer. Yet, almost 140,000 women in the control arm of the trial were not screened. After a complaint made to it, the United States Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) determined that the women were not given adequate information to give informed consent.

Those arguing that the trial was unethical also say it violated the international ethical guidelines on medical research, the Helsinki Declaration's guidelines, which clearly state that "the benefits, risks, burdens and effectiveness of a new intervention must be tested against those of the best current proven intervention".

Even Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines stipulate that a placebo can be used only if the disease is self-limiting or when no proven preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic method exists.

An article in the latest issue of the IJME by Dr Eric Suba, a San Francisco-based pathologist, who had filed a complaint in the US in May 2011 against the trial, has demanded compensation for the families of the women who died and immediate screening and treatment, where necessary, of the women in the unscreened group. {What are our doctors, ministers and babus doing or demanding? Are they sleeping on the job? Is it now left to doctors in the US to object to such deceptive clinical trials being conducted in India?}

The three-cluster randomized controlled trials looked for a cheap screening treatment for cervical cancer for introduction into the public health programme. {Can someone tell me what is this "public health programme"? AFAIK, India doesn't have any health programme for adults, does it?}The screening treatments being examined were Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) screening, Pap smear — which is the standard of care in the west — and HPV screening.

The trials were conducted among Indian women of the lowest socioeconomic status in Mumbai slums, villages in Osmanabad in Maharashtra and in Dindigul in Tamil Nadu. These studies compared the cervical cancer death rate among 224,929 women who were offered the different types of cervical screening to that among 138,624 women who were offered no screening at all. { Don't they already have/know these statistics? The cruelty involved is magnified because the victims were kept ignorant.}

In the IJME article, Dr Suba asked what purpose was to be served by keeping 140,000 women without screening when the effectiveness of cervical screening is well accepted. "...people should not be used to demonstrate exactly how much death results from lack of medical care," stated Dr Suba.

Trial researchers claimed that having unscreened control groups is ethically justified in India because no-screening is considered "standard care". {Then why conduct a trial at all to determine which method is best to introduce into the public health programme? What sort of cruel medical experimentation is this?}So all that the unscreened women got were health education information on cervical cancer, the importance of screening and where it was available.

Since at the time of the trial there were no doubts about the benefits of cervical screening, the creation and maintenance of unscreened control groups in the US-funded studies in India required inadequate informed consent, pointed out Dr Suba's article, something that the OHRP also had determined.

If, at any time during the past 15 years, the women in the unscreened control groups had been told the simple truth that cervical screening would lower their risk of death from cancer, they would have left the control groups and sought screening on their own, thereby nullifying a scientifically defective experimental design, Dr Suba argued. The OHRP determined that it was thus difficult to presume that the BMGF-funded studies are not compromised by the inadequate informed consent, wrote Dr Suba.
What can a common man like me do to stop such things in the future and to make sure the people involved in this are punished?
I think I am beginning to understand why Rahul Mehta writes law drafts and insists that we demand them from political leaders.
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Can the bhestern scientists who oked this experimental methodology not be tried for genocide.
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ShankarCag wrote:Can the bhestern scientists who oked this experimental methodology not be tried for genocide.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in India.

There are many diabetes related deaths due to unethical trials done in India by phoren companies with the very active connivance of @#$% Indian doctors who have greatly benefited in financial terms. Such unethical clinical human trials almost borders on what the nazis were doing in the concentration camps on the jews.

For the doctors and families, frequent business/first class jaunts to scenic countries for "conferences", including shopping and assistance at customs clearance. Frequent expensive gifts and huge cash for "administrative" expenses. People have become multi crore pathis in less than six months to nine months for participating in such trials. No receipts or records of expenses are ever asked for.

Look out for "free diabetes clinics" as this is the front for the whole scam. If you are educated they will actively encourage you NOT to come back. They prefer poor, illiterate and unquestioning "patients".
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Singha wrote:posting it here for more eyeballs and because returning the country to high growth trend is Namo's mission.
looks like UPA thugs did the job well.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/business- ... 10326.aspx

9% growth a pipedream for India, 6.5% more likely: Crisil
HT Correspondent , Hindustan Times New Delhi, April 20, 2014
First Published: 23:57 IST(20/4/2014) | Last Updated: 00:05 IST(21/4/2014)


There is an even chance that the Indian economy will grow at an annualised average rate of 6.5% over the next five years, credit rating and research firm Crisil said in a report on Sunday, signalling that the country’s slowdown is stickier than earlier believed.


The slower expansion will affect job creation and job prospects, while on the other hand, weak income will affect the sales of a range of goods — from cars to two-wheelers, from houses to cement and steel.

Crisil warned that unless pressing policy and implementation issues are addressed, even sustaining this (6.5%) growth would be difficult.

The Indian economy’s average annual expansion of 6.7% during the past five years (2009-14 and Crisil’s forecasts suggest the economy’s a steep turnaround wasn’t likely anytime soon.

"With 6.5% average GDP growth, non-farm employment over this period will at best grow by 37 million," Crisil said in a report titled "Of Growth and Missed Opportunities".

"This means an additional 14 million (people) will be forced to either depend on low-productivity agriculture or remain unemployed," it said.

By 2019, more than 51 million people would be seeking employment
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"Given insufficient job opportunities, labour force will not be able to migrate to the higher-wage, more- productive industry and services sectors," the report pointed out.

Elevated prices have hurt family budgets, as companies are offering meagre salary hikes and are holding back expansion and hiring. Besides, high inflation has prompted the RBI to raise lending rates.

Households putting off spending are early warning signals for the onset of an economy-wide squeeze.

According to the Crisil report, sales of consumer items such as cars and televisions "have taken a huge beating in the last 2-3 years" .

"The high growth phase won’t return soon-not in the next five years at least," the report said.


India’s economy has now recorded five successive quarter of sub-5% growth, and appears set to clock the second consecutive year of annual growth of below 5%, the first time in 25 years.

India’s economy grew by 4.5% in 2012-13, the worst in a decade.

From a foreign investors’ darling to an economy characterised by policy flip-flops, the Indian economy’s turnabout has been as rapid as the heady 9%-plus growth it clocked during 2004-2008.
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Bharat Rakshak forum has always been context driven to provide the context for events from an Indian point of view.
Now NYT and other media are realizing the need to provide context and not just news.
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ramana wrote:Bharat Rakshak forum has always been context driven to provide the context for events from an Indian point of view.
Now NYT and other media are realizing the need to provide context and not just news.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306877308 ... nd-context
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There are 2 types of India: Dharmic India and Abrahamic India.

More specifically,

1) Secular Republic of Abrahamic India
2) Dharmic Civilizational Bharat

The 'Republic of India' is as much a artificial creation as is Pakistan. Based in the western framework, the existence of this artificial entity dwells on the Abrahamic abstracts and ideologies like Secularism, Socialism, Marxism, Maoism, Naxalism, Fascism, Communalism and all other -isms which are irrelevant in the Indian context and whose existence does not have any bearing on the Indic way of life. The tangible core of it is the Constitution of India, the Preamble, Legislative Acts framed and passed by the lawmakers and Judiciary brainwashed in some imaginary Anglo-Saxon idea of natural justice and human rights.

Only people belonging to Abrahamic religions and those who are drowned in Abrahamic nomenclatures worship the Secular Republic of India.
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Gujarat has lowest farmer suicide rate, and Kerala has the highest: UK study
Reinforcing claims of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge and University College London reveals that the state has high levels of cash crops but lowest levels of farmer suicide rates in India.

The study, published in the journal Globalisation and Health, found that Kerala had the highest male suicide rate in India, and claims that there is a ‘suicide epidemic’ in marginalised areas of Indian agriculture that are at the mercy of global economics.

...Lead author Jonathan Kennedy told HT: “With regard to Gujarat there has obviously been some debate about how big the problem of farmers’ suicides is over the past weeks. Our research does not mean to say that farmers’ suicide is not a problem in Gujarat”.

...The analysis of 18 states found that the three states with the highest suicide rates are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. The study says that suicide rates tend to be higher in states with greater economic disparity.
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Tunisia, Peru, Nigeria and now America to retrieve illegal money in Swiss banks: India?
Prosecutors in Washington are a few days away from criminally punishing two banks for hiding information about clients and account holders. While all eyes will be focused on this international case, this court action and others over the past 24 months are shaking the global banking and financial world in ways unknown earlier.

The decision to seek guilty pleas in what is seen as two of the most advanced investigations concerns the Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse for sheltering US citizens from American laws and France largest bank BNP Paribas for engaging in business with countries like Sudan which Washington has blacklisted. The decision – keenly watched on both sides of the Atlantic – could lead to a first guilty plea from a major bank in more than two decades.

The strategy is to punish bankers, not banks, a source in Geneva told The News Minute (TNM) following protests in the US asking if Wall Street was too big to fail because it had grown larger than the economy.

The US move comes fast on the heels of several countries retrieving their monies and assets illegally parked in Switzerland, a process that was set in motion some ten years ago and from which a host of countries have benefitted. Tunisia was the latest country to receive money and assets worth $40 million hidden away in Switzerland by deposed dictator Ben Ali.

In November 2013, US$700 million in Swiss bank accounts belonging to the late head of state General Sani Abacha was returned to Nigeria. The countries to which looted funds and assets have been returned are Peru (Montesinos case – 2005), the Philippines (Marcos case – 2003), Angola (2005) followed by several others in Europe including Germany.


In addition, the Swiss government also funded a civil society group to monitor the use of recovered monies in favour of a series of projects related to the country’s development.

Following the Arab Spring, nearly US $ 1.07 billion in stolen assets linked to dictators in four countries at the centre of the uprising – Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia – were blocked. Two hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation on February 11, 2011. In a detailed statement explaining their swift action on Mubarak’s wealth, the Swiss government said the Restitution of Illicit Assets Act (RIAA) which was enacted in February 2011 allowed the government to freeze money and assets before they fled.

All this begs a question – if countries like Peru and Tunisia are able to work their way through the Swiss legal system, why is India unable to do anything? Is the shoe on the other foot i.e. is India unwilling to officially find out what it has officiously known for at least a decade?

Figures about how much money from India – either evading tax or the result of criminal activities – are hard to come by and vary between US$1.3 trillion to US$2 billion. Last week Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said talks between Bern New Delhi were serious and continuous. “This is a matter where the Swiss Minister and I are discussing with each other how information into specific account (relating to black money) can be provided by the Swiss government to Indian government.”

In his two page letter to Switzerland in March 2014, Chidambaram had threatened to drag the country to multilateral for a like the G-20 for “continuing to block India’s request.”


The G-20 is a toothless organization of economic interests and the group had no international negotiating mandate in any country. In addition some of the G-20 countries have already retrieved their monies and assets from Switzerland so Chidambaram’s statement has impressed no one.

It may be recalled that l’affaire Bofors led to Swiss laws for mutual assistance in criminal matters to be strengthened barring criminals and other offenders from blocking cases in various Swiss courts before a final decision at the federal level.

Swiss Federal Police in a statement issued in January 1997 said,”The Bofors is a spectacular case which showed the weaknesses in Swiss law in matters of international assistance in penal matters." The office further said that in future the Swiss laws would be revised to prevent illegal and criminal account holders from delaying matters in Swiss courts.

For 24 years since New Delhi approached Switzerland to trace the Bofors bribes, successive governments have failed to retrieve illegal and criminal money deposited in Swiss banks. The moot question is not why governments have failed. The critical question is why Indian systems have failed.

Justice is not vengeance – that’s the message coming out of Wall Street and over the next few days the world of banking and finance will itself be in the witness box
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pankajs wrote:The smoking gun folks!!!
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Govt says it seeks Sonia nod for ads: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140501/j ... 09.twitter
Thiruvananthapuram, April 30: A central directorate has said government advertisements are “approved” by the UPA chairperson’s office besides that of the Prime Minister, prompting the Opposition to cite this as evidence of its claim that Sonia Gandhi was involved in the government’s day-to-day running.

In reply to an RTI question, the Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity, which functions under the Union information and broadcasting ministry, said: “DAVP is the nodal agency of the Government of India and releases advertisements to the newspapers/periodicals on behalf of various ministries/departments. The designs of the advertisements are sent by the concerned client ministries/departments after due approval from the PMO and the office of the UPA chairperson.”

MMS has violated oath of office and Constituion among other things. The guy is not fit to be even a chaparasi in GOI.
They have more integrity then this charlatan. Everyday a new low is revealed.
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ramana wrote:MMS has violated oath of office and Constituion among other things. The guy is not fit to be even a chaparasi in GOI.
They have more integrity then this charlatan. Everyday a new low is revealed.
Technically, MMS or Sonia has not broken any rules. As a head of NAC, Sonia has been bestowed upon a Cabinet Minister rank, so she can claim, she is just seeing those files as part of NAC head. Congress really fears, scam taint and failures of UPA sticking to Sonia, that is why they are telling Sonia is not running govt.
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However head of NAC is a Cabinet Rank and not a Cabinet member. And there in lies the difference. Even Nilekani was a Minister of State rank and not a Minister per se.
NSA Menon is a MoS rank.

MMS was handing out this rank left and right.
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Hearing of spike in Hindu refugees of Nepali origin finding asylum in the US over the last 10 years, after being kicked out of Bhutan. They spent a long time in refugee camps in India, but were not allowed to settle in India, they claim. For some reason, the US told them they could apply for asylum in the US instead.

So these Hindu Nepalese are not being allowed to settle in India, yet we have prominent Bengali politicians brazenly daring anyone to touch illegal Bangladeshis in India? I used to think we're just a lazy, apathetic country with no policy, but this makes me think there is a policy at work...
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http://twitlonger.com/show/n_1s1k4en
To
1. Secretary, Civil Aviation
Government of India
2. Director General of Civil Aviation
India
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/.../air-india-declined...
“New Delhi: A request made by an Army officer accompanying the body of martyr Maj. Mukund Vardarajan to the pilots of an Air India Srinagar-Delhi flight on Sunday on board — that an announcement be made to the passengers about the supreme sacrifice of the slain officer — was not entertained by the pilots as it was against aviation rules, Air India sources have confirmed.Maj. Vardarajan died in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir recently. The episode has triggered enormous debate on social media platforms.According to sources, the Army officer on board the flight made two specific requests that the pilots broadcast a written message about thesupreme sacrifice made by the slain officer. “The request was not entertained since aviation rules do not allow for any announcement to be made randomly,” sources said.”
Compare this with
http://www.deltacargo.com/Pro.../Specia ... mains.aspx
Read how they do it in a country where the Soldier is respected and be ashamed.
http://www.johnnyjet.com/.../fallen-sol ... -delta.../
Also in US I have seen how soldiers are accorded priority in Boarding before everybody else.
I request the Secretary, Civil Aviation, the DGCA to read the third report and hang their head in shame for not having done what is required before even the event arose.
N. Sankara Menon.
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Aas req. by Ramanna.X-posted from the polls td.
BJP estimates are 300 or thereabouts.Even if this is a trifle optimistic and the actual figure is 270+,if one adds about 110 for the Cong/UPA,then the rest must be made up of regional parties,etc.Of these at least 20-30 seats will support the NDA .Even rebel expelled Jaswant has said that while he will not rejoin the BJP ,he will support it from outside.This will give the NDA an easy 300+ seats.

If one looks at the high turnout as being mostly a Modi wave/tsunami,then it could be a landslide for the tBJP/NDA with the BJP alone getting 300 seats.The two entities which are going to really "face the music" are the Congress-decimation,annihilation,mastication,sublimation,pulverisation,extermination par excellence....and the Left,who will be "Left Out" in grand style.In fact this election shows the Left to be "bereft" of any ideology,strategy or tactics that it could take advantage of the Congress' rejection over the litany of corruption scams,maladministration and the anti-incumbency factor. Prakash Karat looks so forlorn waiting as if for someone to feed him a juicy carrot! A hunting party/APB is required to find the whereabouts of one Yechury S. "Missing in action"!

Time for Modi doubters to "smell the chai"!
PS:The desperation in the ranks of the Congress led them to release their P-bomb,Priyanka.There is no doubt that she is a feisty woman,resembles her illustrious grandmother in many ways,and has gladdened the hearts of depressed Congresswallahs who see in her their great electoral hope.

However,the truth is that she has come out because brother Rahul,the Crown Prince,has been acting like the clown in his very own court,with outlandish statements against Mr.Modi that cannot be backed up with facts.Karan Thapar had a field day peppering the Scindia scion with the ridiculousness of the Clown prince's mouthings,esp. the land sale to Adanis,where he proved that Congress ministries had sold land at throwaway prices,whereas Modi had sold it 15 times more/acre! The BJP campaign with Ms.Irani ha salso gained momentum and RG is on a sticky wicket,hence the P-bomb hitting the campaign trail.

But this has brought into focus another sad fact for the voter,that the Clown Prince is just that .A bumbling clown in comparison with his sister who is not fighting an election.This would've lost the Congress a few more million votes as voters compared Priyanka's charisma to Rahul's and Rahul's frothing at the mouth.It also underscores another fact that she is campaigning to support her husband who is alleged to be involved in multi-crore land scams,whose truth will out once the Congress is defeated.

In the last lap,the Congress mouthpieces are uttering such absurd statements,invective and personal attacks against Mr.M,are turning him into a martyr apart from being the great "hope" of the Indian youth,dramatically increasing his popularity.His DD interview,censoring of it has also spectacularly backfired ,as was the charge of campaigning outside a voters booth and calls for his arrest,which turned out to be another own goal for the Congress.They are so desperate that they are proving to the world the truth of that old adage,"neccessity (of victory) is the mother of invention"!

PS:Prakash the "carrot" has thrown in the towel even before the last lap of polling,that too in the northern belt where it has had the most influence over the years.What a terrible let down to party cadres who should send him to a gulag."He said that the Left would not be able to lead and influence any formation of a turd front"!

The Clown Prince's latest piece of wisdom."We won't support any turd front because we don't need to,we are going to win on our own!"
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chetak wrote:
ShankarCag wrote:Can the bhestern scientists who oked this experimental methodology not be tried for genocide.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in India.

There are many diabetes related deaths due to unethical trials done in India by phoren companies with the very active connivance of @#$% Indian doctors who have greatly benefited in financial terms. Such unethical clinical human trials almost borders on what the nazis were doing in the concentration camps on the jews.

For the doctors and families, frequent business/first class jaunts to scenic countries for "conferences", including shopping and assistance at customs clearance. Frequent expensive gifts and huge cash for "administrative" expenses. People have become multi crore pathis in less than six months to nine months for participating in such trials. No receipts or records of expenses are ever asked for.

Look out for "free diabetes clinics" as this is the front for the whole scam. If you are educated they will actively encourage you NOT to come back. They prefer poor, illiterate and unquestioning "patients".
Mind boggling that IRB (institutional review board) approved such clinical trial design. We need to find who was on the IRB for this trial and publicize the findings.
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^^ I wonder. Will granting a UT status to Ladakh shift anything as far as dynamics is concerned? Besides, will it even be easy. [Will it require abrogation of section 370, I think it will.]

Found this interesting report when I was checking on this: http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news ... old-story/
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X-post from NaMo thread:

Atish Taseer's advice to Modi: The Light of Benares
Modi, if he is to bring profound change, must not go the Erdogan or Rajapaksa route. Because the conditions for the emergence of that kind of leader do exist in India
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legislation should also be introduced to preserve the rights of women in J&K. The present legal status of women is downright evil. if women married out of J&K return to J&K if their marriage does not work out or due to widowhood the women and children lose their right to pursue higher studies, seek jobs or apply for any govt benefits like low cost loans etc. The PDP ( Ms Mufti's party) introduced legislation to totally debar women's rights during their last term in govt. the legislation passed the lower house but lapsed in the upper house.
a few courageous persons are fighting this evil legal framework in the High Court of J&K
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An excellent cautionary article from Aatish Taseer. He is more worried than, hopefully, he has reason to be. Let's give Modi a chance. He had proven himself more than equal to the task in Gujarat. If he is capable of generating a similar dynamic in the rest of India, well we can't really ask for too much more. Not yet.
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^^ naah, sir. Gujarat has been a thriving state for a longish while now. Agreed, I have been a Modi supporter for a long time now [for 7 long yrs, I have been wanting to see him in central leadership and atleast 4+ yrs as PM]. but an Indian democracy isn't about a *single* person. and modi will do well to learn it.

Let me see if I can pull a link from what BoFAML mentioned through FT AL that I checked today... alright, got it:

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/14/1 ... s-a-tease/

If you see it and assume that facts are indisputable, the states are responsible for 4/5ths of the infrastructure delays... and sadly, idiocy from Modi wont cut it... nor push reforms. It aint matter if the mods take exception to this post... but if modi acts like an idiot, we are doomed. We need a good team. Not just Modi. And I am not impressed with the last few days of Modi's behavior. However, I am keenly looking at the team that will be put up come may end. Most worried about the team now.
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Views from the Right
MISSION NATION

The Sangh Parivar weeklies call the BJP’s electoral mandate the crossing of a crucial milestone on the path of national reconstruction. “With the first task… over, the real mission is to ensure execution of national reconstruction. BJP is not like any other political party. It is in politics for a larger mission of building powerful and prosperous (sic) with strong foundation of cultural nationalism,” declares the cover story in the Organiser.

While the editorial in Panchjanya sees the BJP’s mandate as the arrival of “spring”, the Organiser editorial suggests the application of the spirit behind the “Congress Free India” slogan: “The slogans of ‘Congress Free India’ and Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas have specific complementary connotations. Making Congress-free India does not mean eliminating all the Congressmen but eliminating the dynastic, divisive and detrimental (sic) to development politics…”

The cover stories decoding the mandate in both weeklies inadvertently expose the geographical limitations of the mandate. Region-wise Lok Sabha victories suggest the NDA has not been able to make much inroad into eastern India.

DYNASTY’S FALL

Both weeklies also underscore the waning influence of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in national politics, while highlighting the ascendance of saffron politics. “Having dominated politics in the world’s largest democracy, Congress’s worst performance and humiliating defeat in the 16th Lok Sabha election is a stinging slap for India’s first family. It not only reflects that the reverence for the Gandhi family is ebbing, it also indicates that the Congress party is facing decline,” claims an article in the Organiser.

“It was an irony then that Rahul Gandhi, who was to lead the Congress party during the election campaign, had to finally call his sister Priyanka to campaign in Amethi and preserve the family honour,” underlines the report, to suggest that “In changing times, gen-x which at the blink of an eye replaces cars and mobile handsets in its search for advancements, can also bring in a desirable change by using their right to vote and such a change should be gracefully accepted as part and parcel of democracy by the first family of India”.

REMOTE WORSHIP

With the BJP’s victory being credited to the active participation of RSS cadres, both weeklies have carried articles suggesting the RSS neither believes in “hero worship” nor exercises “remote control” over the BJP. An article by ideologue M.G. Vaidya, in both publications, rejects suggestions of the RSS encouraging Narendra Modi’s hero worship, but justifies Modi’s larger-than-life projection for the elections: “RSS adopted a style that never had any place for hero-worship, and the organisation has never practised personality cult,” Vaidya argues, and adds, “I wish to state that an election is a special occasion. It needs an icon to attract voters and Narendra Modi is that icon. And choosing him has proved fruitful”.

An accompanying article justifies top BJP leaders calling on the RSS top brass to apprise them of the work after the elections: “There is nothing wrong in Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh apprising the Sangh… There must be and should be a sense of responsibility… The responsibility is threefold. After election, they are firstly responsible to Parliament. Fulfilling expectations of people is the second… and third responsibility is towards nation. Sangh represents this nation,” argues the article, contrasting its influence on the BJP with the Gandhi family’s control over the UPA government: “Sonia Gandhi’s remote control has been extra-constitutional and therefore detrimental to democracy… crushing the national pride and creating a colonial mindset…”

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vijaykarthik wrote:^^ naah, sir. Gujarat has been a thriving state for a longish while now. Agreed, I have been a Modi supporter for a long time now [for 7 long yrs, I have been wanting to see him in central leadership and atleast 4+ yrs as PM]. but an Indian democracy isn't about a *single* person. and modi will do well to learn it.

Let me see if I can pull a link from what BoFAML mentioned through FT AL that I checked today... alright, got it:

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/14/1 ... s-a-tease/

If you see it and assume that facts are indisputable, the states are responsible for 4/5ths of the infrastructure delays... and sadly, idiocy from Modi wont cut it... nor push reforms. It aint matter if the mods take exception to this post... but if modi acts like an idiot, we are doomed. We need a good team. Not just Modi. And I am not impressed with the last few days of Modi's behavior. However, I am keenly looking at the team that will be put up come may end. Most worried about the team now.
Yes we have a cult of the personality right now.
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vijaykarthik wrote: but if modi acts like an idiot, we are doomed.
And I am not impressed with the last few days of Modi's behavior.
Can you detail out the reasons for your angst ?
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From the Urdu Press

The defeat of the Congress is a punishment for the authoritarianism that made it consider all its decisions correct and all its policies legitimate.
Modi’s victory

In its May 17 editorial, Inquilab writes: “The results of the elections for Lok Sabha are as sad as they are astonishing (“afsosnak aur hairat angez”). Sad because almost all secular parties have fallen like a house of cards and astonishing because the BJP has got the strength to form the government on its own, getting support in even those states where it hardly had any following. But if the successful efforts made by Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and Naveen Patnaik in Odisha… had been made by those parties who were part of a probable third front, it would have been cause of some contentment. The defeat of the Congress is a punishment for the authoritarianism that made it consider all its decisions correct and all its policies legitimate. And it did not care about the sentiments of the people and ignored the problems of the section of the population who have been supporting it at all times.”

Rashtriya Sahara, in its May 17 editorial, writes: “As the decision in the election is the result of the collective consciousness of the people, it should be welcomed and not criticised. This is in keeping with the democratic principle. Any comment about what would be the nature of the new government, what would be its policies and what trends it would demonstrate, would be premature and inappropriate at this point of time. The new government should be given ample opportunity for indicating its priorities.” However, in a commentary on May 18, the paper ascribes the defeat of “secular parties” to “an organised division of Muslim votes.”

In his signed column on May 18, the editor of Jadeed Khabar argues that the victory is of the RSS, not Modi: “Ultimately, after a long struggle, the RSS has captured control over the country’s power structure. All modern media of communication were used at a cost of thousands of crores for the branding of Modi. Modi’s success is, in fact, a result of mischievous planning and an organised campaign.”

AFTER EFFECTS

Delhi-based Roznama Khabrein, in its May 19 editorial, says: “The BJP, celebrating its victory in the Lok Sabha elections… is now being seen to be working on another important strategy. This relates to a dangerous agenda of weakening some state governments and putting its own people in power. Within 24 hours of Modi’s victory, the influences now working on regional politics would prove dangerous for the democratic set-up. Efforts are being made to disturb the governments of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Assam.”

Rashtriya Sahara, in its May 19 editorial, says: “Following Modi’s historic victory, it was being felt that the days of the JD(U) government in Bihar were numbered. After the resignation of Nitish Kumar, keeping in view the situation there, there is no hope for a strong government…”

NIGERIA’S AGONY

Siasat, published from Hyderabad and Bangalore, in a May 12 editorial, says: “With the abduction of over 200 girls [and] the threat of selling them by Nigeria’s Muslim organisation, Boko Haram, the governments of the US, Britain, France and China have come forward to help the Nigerian government getting the abducted girls released. During the last six decades, atrocities on the people and children of Palestine, their abductions and killings have come to light. These countries did not show any urgency to help these Palestinians. Why this discrimination and bias? Atrocity is atrocity whosoever be its victim. Abduction is abduction for anybody. Such cruelties should be condemned. But, obviously, the release of the abducted girls can be achieved by resolving issues [through] negotiations and not by politics or recourse to killing and bloodletting.”

Ironically, Jamaat-e-Islami’s Daawat, says on May 16 on its front page: “We do not know what is Boko Haram. Reports about them clearly show that such a group does not exist. And if it exists, it has been sponsored by the enemies of Islam. It is being used by the agents of CIA and Mossad… for defaming Islam. Even in the Indian media, comments and editorials, in sync with the Western media, are appearing.”

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SHall we track this here?

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The first thing that strikes me how are people irresponsible enough to give priceless artifacts to Editors of National Dailies?????? Who should be answering this idiocy? Some one needs to hurt for this shame.
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harbans wrote:SHall we track this here?

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The first thing that strikes me how are people irresponsible enough to give priceless artifacts to Editors of National Dailies?????? Who should be answering this idiocy? Some one needs to hurt for this shame.
Looks like a spoof to me.

CAG is not supposed to file FIR nor give directions to Minister. The language is not that of CAG writing to a minister and it is not his letterhead. I am not sure why artefatcs would be lent to editors of national dailies and for what purpose? Missing artefacts are different issue and if CAG pointed out then that should be in report. All other markings look like official but are not so.
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X-post from T&E Forum's "Technologies useful for Indian problems" thread:

Good to see technology companies moving competitively to support Indian Prakrits in multilingual interfaces:

Micromax Unite 2 launched for Rs 6,999 as a rival to Moto E
Motorola’s successful run with the Moto G and Moto E in the country has hurt most of the international as well as national manufacturers including Micromax. So, Micromax has decided to launch the Unite 2 for Rs 6,999 which not only matches up to the Moto E, but also comes across as a better device in some regards.

It is the only phone in country to support 21 languages which has been done with the aim of catering to every India. It has support for English, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Nepali, Bodo, Dogri, Konkani, Kashmiri, Maithili, Manipuri, Sanskrit :) and Sindhi.
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So it appears that the El Nino thing might mess up monsoon this year. :(
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BDY In NYC

A Gay Film Festival in India Strikes a Chord
MUMBAI — Building for the Art Deco Liberty Cinema in south Mumbai began in 1947, the year India won Independence from the British. It was the opening night party for the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, the biggest gay film festival in India. Now in its fifth year, the festival, with around 1,700 attending, according to organizers, ran through Sunday and featured 154 films — including shorts and documentaries — from 31 countries at the Liberty Cinema as well as the nearby Alliance Française de Bombay. This year’s slogan: “Dare to Dream.”“This is the time when queer is no longer queer anymore, and there is no shame in being L.G.B.T.,” the festival director Sridhar Rangayan said in his opening speech.
The filmmaker and Kashish festival director Sridhar Rangayan. Credit Atul Loke for The New York Times In an India that remains in many ways deeply traditional, even as its economic might grows, the festival took on heightened significance this year. The nascent gay rights movement scored a huge legal victory five years ago when the Delhi High Court overturned a colonial-era ban on gay sex, only to see that ban reinstated by the Indian Supreme Court last December.
Now activists worry that the election of the new Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) government, a Hindu nationalist party that is more economically dynamic but more socially conservative than the ousted India National Congress party, may deal another setback to the movement.“The bigger picture for queer India,” said Shobhna S. Kumar, the owner of Queer Ink, a publisher and online book retailer, “is it’s in limbo at the moment.”The B.J.P. has in the past supported the ban on gay sex, though activists note that the new prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been largely silent on the matter.
In India, family ties remain tight and societal expectations rigid, and many gay Indians marry and have children while keeping their sexual identity secret. The country’s gay movement emerged in the mid-1990s from the groups that provide services to those with H.I.V. and AIDS. They argued that while the law prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” — restored in December — was rarely applied, its existence impeded their work, making even those who distributed condoms potential accessories to a crime.
The next challenge, gay activists say, is to lobby parliament to repeal the law. “Freedom has to be fought for. The vigilance has to be eternal,” said Ashok Row Kavi, one of the first gay men to come out publicly in India, in 1986, and chairman of the Humsafar Trust, which provides H.I.V. and AIDS health services. “You never know who will stamp on your rights.”
With the ban back in force, it meant that this year, the film festival, while legal — organizers have a permit from India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting — showed on-screen relationships that involve illegal acts. The festival sponsors included IBM and the Indian conglomerate Godrej, and mainstream publications such as The Hindustan Times, The Mumbai Mirror and The Hindu promoted the event in their pages.Among the 28 Indian films scree“Purple Skies,” a documentary about the challenges of being lesbian, bisexual and transgender in India; as well as K.R. Devmani’s “Meghdhanushya,” or “Color of Life,”about a boy growing up gay in a conservative Gujarati family. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, a gay prince from Gujarat who came out a few years ago, provided a commentary at the beginning and end of “Meghdhanushya.”“Cinema is a very important tool for communication,” the prince said in a telephone interview. “A lot of people who act in films are our role models. We get inspiration from them.”
Other movies from the subcontinent included Visakesa chandrasekaram’s “Frangipani,” about two men and a woman in a secret love triangle in their remote village in Sri Lanka. Organizers said they held the event in a mainstream cinema to try to attract a mainstream audience and shatter stereotypes of gay people.“We wanted to break the misconception by showing films about L.G.B.T. people all around the world. They have the same hopes, aspirations,” Mr. Rangayan said in an interview. “Only their problems are different because the government or society or the law makes things difficult for them.”
India is a nation of moviegoers, with a robust movie industry centered in Bollywood in Mumbai and legions of fans across the world. But gay characters rarely appear in Bollywood films. When they have, gayness appears as a stereotype or is used for plot.For example, in the 2008 Bollywood hit “Dostana,” two straight men pretend to be a couple to snag an apartment rental, then end up falling for a third roommate, a woman. Comedy ensues.“People now say ‘You’re like Dostana.’ It has removed that dirtiness,” Mr. Rangayan said. Still, he wonders, to be associated with a punchline, “what does it do? Is it a good thing?”Recently, a Bollywood actor and former Miss India, Celina Jaitly, was appointed a spokeswoman for the United Nations’ “Free & Equal” campaign for gay rights. As part of the campaign, Ms. Jaitly starred in a music video, titled “The Welcome,” showing a family preparing for the homecoming of a beloved son. He shows up with a male partner, the family’s shock eventually gives way to smiles and — in true Bollywood style — more singing and dancing.Ms. Jaitly said she could no longer bear to see her gay friends live under a kind of “apartheid.”.
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MMS did one thing. When he came to office there was a strong Left and a Right. The Congress occupied the self opportune middle.
In his first term he destoryed the Left electorally.

As the Congress was weak he managed a vacuum into which the Modi Tsunami rode in.

In essence MMS destroyed the Left and presided over a weak middle.
By stiking to office he prevented even worse bandits like PChidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee from becomeing even more willing enablers for destroying India.
True he did not strengthen India but he also prevented far worse leaders from taking charge.
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I think Pranab would've made a better PM. Seemed like he didn't get along with Sonia.
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Children raped, forced to eat faeces in Maharashtra school - police
BY NITA BHALLA

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The owner and manager of a children's boarding school in Maharashtra have been arrested after five minors said they were raped, forced to watch ***** films and act them out with one another, police and charity workers said.

The children were made to eat faeces as a punishment if they did not comply.

The 52-year-old owner of the Chandraprabha Charitable Trust and his 30-year-old female manager were arrested on Monday after a police raid on the school in Karjat city.


"We received a police complaint from the Childline charity saying that one child had gone home for the holidays and confessed to his mother that abuses were happening," Karjat's Police Inspector R.R. Patil told the Thomson Reuters Foundation late on Thursday.

"Five children in total have now come forward and we have booked the two suspects under various offences," he said, adding that these included unnatural sex (sodomy), wrongful confinement and sexual assault.

The school accommodated 28 underprivileged children, aged between 4 and 14, for 10 months of the year, said Patil, but most were on holiday at home at the time of the raid.

Police were trying to find out whether other children were abused and if there were any other suspects.

Anuradha Sahasrabudhe of Childline, a charity supported by the government, said the children had spoken about all kinds of sexual and physical abuse.

"It's a horrific case. The children have been telling us about the sexual abuse going on there. There has been oral sex, there has been forced sex... These things have been photographed," Saharasabudhe told the NDTV news channel.

"Children have been punished by making them eat dog excreta and when they vomited, they were made to eat vomit," she added.

Police say the residential school had been running since 2002, but was not registered and had therefore escaped government inspections by child welfare officials.

Child sexual abuse is disturbingly common in homes, schools, and residential care facilities in India.

Inspection mechanisms for children's homes, shelters and schools are inadequate and many privately run facilities are not even registered, a February 2013 report by Human Rights Watch said.

In May 2012, serious sexual abuse was uncovered at a well-established residential care home for orphans called Apna Ghar (Our Home) in Rohtak on the outskirts of Delhi.

Girls said they were forced to have sex with strangers for money and that they had been abused.

(Editing by Douglas Busvine)
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/3 ... picks=true
India appeals against U.K. refusal to extradite child sex offender

Ramya Kannan
Asha Sridhar
The Indian government has filed an appeal in England for extradition of Raymond Varley, who is facing charges of sexual offences against children in India committed between 1989 and 1991.

They are appealing a May 8 order by a District Judge, admitting Varley’s plea that he was suffering from dementia and refusing to grant the Indian government’s request for extradition. The judge recorded: “Finding an extradition order to face trial for a man suffering from dementia needing ‘immediate daily support’ must be both ‘unjust’ and ‘oppressive’ and therefore barred.”

Raymond A. Varley was arrested on the basis of a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol, after a Goa court issued a non-bailable warrant against him. However, he was arrested in Thailand, and for reasons still unknown, sent to England, and not India. Sources in the CBI said they became aware of the arrest only a day later, after Interpol informed them.

Botched evaluation?

Activists in India are upset at the rejection of the extradition plea. It is reported that a person chosen by Varley evaluated him for dementia. “On questioning by the judge, the neuro-psychologist claimed that Varley chose her because she had a good website. We are shocked the court allowed this person to evaluate him, and based the judgment on that. One would have expected an independent expert to have been consulted in the case,” said Vidya Reddy of Tulir.

Christine Beddoe, former director of End Child Prostitution, Child Por*nography and Trafficking (ECPAT) U.K., who attended the trial, said: “Whether Raymond Varley is faking dementia or not, I am really shocked and dismayed that the Crown Prosecution Service failed to obtain an independent psychiatric assessment.”

“The very least we should expect is a qualified psychiatrist to properly diagnose Varley’s mental capacity, even if that means ultimately verifying his own legal opinion. It seems from the outside that serious questions need to be asked about the absence of a second medical opinion,” she added.

Describing the history of his confrontation with the law, Ms. Beddoe says, Varley has a relevant conviction from 1974, and a further 10 indictments from a 1975 case for which he served a prison sentence in the U.K. “Varley has every reason to lie and cheat his way through the legal system. He has never accepted [that] he is the person wanted by Indian police for heinous offences against children. All other grounds that his defence put forward were rejected by the judge. The court had to wait for over a year while Varley’s legal team insisted on two separate British experts to inspect the prison in Goa.”

Raymond Varley (also known as Martin Ashley) is one of the foreigners accused of sexually abusing children from an orphanage run by Freddie Peats in Goa. Peats allegedly facilitated access to the children to visiting European and Australian men. Peats was arrested in 1991 in Goa, and convicted by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Margao in March 1996 on charges of sexual abuse of minor children.

CBI charge sheet

The CBI filed a charge sheet in 1996 against Peats, Werner Ingo of Australia, E.C. McBride of New Zealand, and Nils Jonsson of Sweden. A supplementary charge sheet was filed against Raymond Andrew Varley and others. Ms. Beddoe adds: “If the current application for appeal on the extradition is refused, he will be a free man and will no longer be subject to his current restrictive bail conditions which prevent him from going near schools and children’s play areas.”

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/i ... ?css=print
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Time to get back to the original paradigm of community manned/supported/supervised Ashrams - rather than these insulated "shelter home" system where no one knows what happens between the four walls.

There must be a law by which every adult must put in 5 hours of community service per week to (initially atleast) force people to get involved and take care of vulnerable groups in our society.

Further repeal the anti Family and anti Community laws which contribute for creating so many functional orphans with nominal "relationships" in our zombiefied society.
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^^ a minimum of 50 years jail for each child abused. :evil: with a provision for death if the person jailed wants to die rather than live the life in cell. And oh !! all those jailed has to work on government road projects and digging silted reservoirs in the country in the lieu of food. Like the one in Shawshank Redemption movie :twisted:
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xpost also in General Elections 2014- Transition of power & World Reaction

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika to quit as Reliance takes over Network 18

http://odishasuntimes.com/58389/rajdeep ... etwork-18/

We badly need a Fox News type channel in India to trump the leftie MSM. This is a start. Ache din aa gaye.
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ramana wrote:MMS did one thing. When he came to office there was a strong Left and a Right. The Congress occupied the self opportune middle.
In his first term he destoryed the Left electorally.

As the Congress was weak he managed a vacuum into which the Modi Tsunami rode in.

In essence MMS destroyed the Left and presided over a weak middle.
By stiking to office he prevented even worse bandits like PChidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee from becomeing even more willing enablers for destroying India.
True he did not strengthen India but he also prevented far worse leaders from taking charge.
Very succinct observation by Ramana. 2014 is truly a watershed year. BJP in power in Delhi and the razakars back in business in hyderabad. How long before the counter actions happen is to be seen.
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Rana wrote:xpost also in General Elections 2014- Transition of power & World Reaction

Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika to quit as Reliance takes over Network 18

http://odishasuntimes.com/58389/rajdeep ... etwork-18/

We badly need a Fox News type channel in India to trump the leftie MSM. This is a start. Ache din aa gaye.
Dont be so excited, the grapevine is that Fareed Zakaria is going to be chief of Network 18 after the takeover.
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