Indian Interests

[abhishek_sharma]

From facebook



"District collector, U. Sagayam of Madurai, Tamil Nadu - By refusing to take bribes, the Madurai collector has earned 18 transfers in 20 years, a modest house and bank balance and lots of respect"

Three years ago, as district collector of Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, U. Sagayam voluntarily declared his assets: a bank balance of Rs 7,172 and a house in Madurai worth Rs 9 lakh. Once, when his baby daughter, Yalini, who had breathing problems, was suddenly taken ill, he did not have the Rs 5,000 needed for admitting her to a private hospital. At that time he was deputy commissioner (excise) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and there were 650 liquor licences to be given out. The going bribe for each was rumoured to be Rs 10,000.

(He needs a special mention here because the assets of an IAS officer-couple in Madhya Pradesh were valued at Rs 360 crore. They had 25 flats in three cities)

'Reject bribes, hold your head high', says a board hanging above Sagayam’s chair in his modest office. That’s the code he lives by, even if politicians are incensed they cannot bend him their way—he’s been transferred 18 times in the last 20 years—and has made enemies of both superiors and subordinates. “I know I sit under a dangerous slogan and probably alienate people,” he says. “But I have been the same Sagayam from Day 1. Standing up against corruption is not for a season. Nor is it a fad. It’s forever”, he says.

On a hot summer afternoon, on Madurai’s busy main road, the district collector, U. Sagayam, saw a young man talking on a cellphone while riding a motorbike. He asked his driver to wave the man down, got down from his car and meted out instant punishment: plant 10 saplings within 24 hours. Somewhat unconventional justice, some might say. But that’s how Sagayam works.

He also took on a mighty soft-drink mnc when a consumer showed him a bottle with dirt floating in it. He sealed the bottling unit and banned the sale of the soft drink in the city. In Chennai, he locked horns with a restaurant chain and recovered four acres valued at some Rs 200 crore.

Sagayam’s masters degrees in social work and law come in useful in his role as an administrator. He knows the rulebooks in detail and is not afraid of using them, however powerful the opponent. No wonder then that Sagayam’s career is marked with the scars of countless battles.

Sagayam’s wife Vimala has stood by him all these years but she was rattled by some of the threats during the elections. “He always says if you are right, nobody can hurt you,” she says. “But sometimes it becomes difficult.”

Sagayam says he learnt honesty on his mother’s knees.

[ramana]

http://dharmanext.blogspot.in/2013/02/h ... -sins.html

This was written and published in 1986! So soon after the 1984 massacres.

Wow this guy is reverse watermelon: Red/Pink on the outside exuding a Left/Liberal persona and green Jihadi at the core.

[nawabs]

Congress is using your tax money to promote beef!

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/02/19/c ... 48326.html

Navbharat Times has published an interesting story, headlined “अल्पसंख्यकों को सरकारी सलाह, खून बढ़ाने के लिए खाएं गोमांस” , about a booklet that is being circulated among children in minority-dominated areas of Uttar Pradesh. The booklet, called ‘Poshan’, has apparently been produced by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, headed by K Rahman Khan, in collaboration with the Department of Child Welfare. It urges children to eat green vegetables, chicken and beef to “generate oxygen and blood in the body”. This is possibly the first official, tax-funded promotion of beef in this country.

The Constitution’s Article 48 explicitly states: “The state shall endeavour to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle.” If the state begins promoting the consumption of beef, it would be violating the Constitution. Such considerations have never stood in the way for the Congress in its pursuit of crass minorityism and pandering to Muslim vote-bank politics. Last year’s Union Budget listed the slaughter of bovine animals as an activity exempted from service tax.

Examples of Congress’s contempt for the Constitution abound. For instance, the Constitution’s Article 44 says “The state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.” What the Congress has done, instead, is to reinforce shari’ah through the obnoxious and deceptively titled Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act that was pushed through Parliament by Rajiv Gandhi to overturn the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement in the Shah Bano case.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – the more things change, the more they remain the same in this wondrous land of ours!

[abhishek_sharma]

From the Urdu Press

Helicopter Scam

Commenting on the controversial purchase of 12 VVIP helicopters by the Indian Air Force from an Italian firm, the daily Siasat, in its editorial on February 17, writes: "It would be correct to infer that like in the case of the scams of the past, this scam too would be put through a prolonged process of investigation. Therefore, if the CBI inquiry is monitored by the court it would generate confidence, as the eyes of law and judiciary have credibility among the people. Unless an inquiry is conducted under judiciary's monitoring, it cannot produce any useful result... The UPA government can get this case investigated probably because the matters were settled by the NDA government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee during its tenure... The Supreme Court should take the initiative and intervene in the matter and get it investigated."
Rashtriya Sahara, in its editorial on the same day, writes: "It has been reported that in 2003, some changes in the nature of the helicopters were permitted by the IAF, the National Security Agency, the Special Protection Group and, above all, the PMO — the last through then National Security Advisor, Brajesh Mishra. This has been revealed by none other than a respectable leader of the BJP, Jaswant Singh... Obviously, this is not pleasant news for the BJP."
Jadeed Markaz, in its front page commentary on February 17, emphasises the fact that the UPA government that came to power in 2004 did not review this deal or consider if a dozen costly helicopters should have been purchased for the use of the president, the PM and some top bureaucrats in a poor country like India. Nai Duniya, edited by former SP leader Shahid Siddiqui (February 25), opines: "The Congress had achieved considerable success in diverting the people's attention from price rise and scams by hanging Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru but, with the approaching elections, another defence scam has created trouble for the Congress."

RAIL BUDGET

On the railway budget, the daily Hamara Samaj writes: "The general opinion was that this year's budget would aim to please the people because nine state elections will take place this year, and the parliamentary election is due in 2014. But this budget can't be termed `populist'. It is a solid step towards improving the financial position of the railways." Inquilab, in its editorial, writes: "From a non-partisan perspective, Pawan Kumar Bansal's budget can unhesitatingly be described as unpleasant, the most important reason for which is that railway travel has become costlier, despite there being no increase in the basic fare. This will hit the people of all classes and regions. Increase in freight charges will lead to a rise in the prices of different items, leading to increased inflation. Sahafat's front page report on the budget has been headlined as: "Intekhabi track par dauri Pawan Express: Rail kiraya naheen barha magar safar hua mahenga (The Pawan Express runs on an electoral track: travel becomes costlier without an increase in basic fare)". The paper has highlighted the opposition's remark that this is a "Rae Bareli budget, not a railway budget" and will be the "farewell budget" of the UPA.

Hyderabad Blasts

Rashtriya Sahara (editorial, February 26) writes: "The investigation into the recent bomb blasts in Hyderabad is creating a lack of confidence among the people instead of generating confidence. There is little hope of any clear leads from the arrests made so far. The most worrying news is that some of the young persons who have been taken into custody had been honourably acquitted by the court and given certificates of good character by the Andhra Police. These developments are intensifying concern. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's statement that this is the last act of disorder and terrorism, implying that no such incident would take place again, is inexplicable." The editor of Inquilab, Shakeel Shamsi, on February 23, writes: "Anybody may have set off the bomb blasts but the country's media has hurriedly described it as an Indian Mujahideen (IM) act. Apparently there was no basis for this suspicion... [And] even though the terrorists of Abhinav Bharat had played with blood in this very city's Mecca Masjid, as usual, the media did not mention this organisation even once. It seems to us that it is only because of such speculation that the police has not been able to reach the truth behind most bomb blasts."

Compiled by Seema Chishti

[Sushupti]

Yeh kya hua, kaise hua

[Sushupti]

[ramana]

I don't believe a word of his. Being a spy he is trained to lie. So one doesn't know when he is telling truth. He has called BRF a Hindu forum and now he is claiming he is a Hindu! So is he supportive of BRF now or is still dissembling?

During Kargil he was shouted down for saying "Soldiers are paid to die!" when Lt Kalia and his troop got tortured and killed. And has not come back after that!

yet he got first news of the 13/12/2001 attack from BRF!

[member_23629]

^^^ Well, you don't become a Hindu just by proclaiming yourself as a Hindu, just like a woman doesn't become a mother merely by delivering a baby. A woman becomes a mother only after committing herself to the welfare and protection of the child. Similarly you become a Hindu only when you swear to protect Hinduism and fellow Hindus. Just going to temples or doing puja or sporting a tilak doesn't make you a Hindu.

[Aditya_V]

They are changing strategy, they don't want to look anti-Hindu, but want the BJP to look anti-Minority. These guys thrive on Hate, they don't run on track record.

[Prem]

O Burri nazar Wale terra Muh Kaala !!
Rawman Ji

Sarakti Jayye Hai Mukh se Niqab , Aahista Aahista !!
Naqli Hinduon Ka Bhiara Khwab , Ahista Aahista !!
Aise Bhi Mazboori kya Hai Janab, Ahista Aahsita

[Sushupti]

[Sushupti]

[Prem]

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/ ... for-broke/
India’s Congress Party Goes for Broke
Walter Russell Mead

India’s Finance Minister and potential PM candidate surprised many yesterday by releasing a budget with sharp increases in government spending. Before yesterday, P. Chidambaram was a darling of foreign investors for his commitment to reforming India’s sluggish economy. But by defying expectations for an austerity budget and choosing instead to increase spending by 16 percent for the next fiscal year, the three-term Finance Minister, with the ruling Congress Party behind him, went all in to appease the party faithful. -The new budget comes on the heels of the announcement that India’s overall growth was just 4.5 percent last quarter, its lowest level in almost four years. By announcing such a strikingly populist budget, featuring increased spending and a tax hike on the super rich, the Congress Party is signaling just how hard it is running to stay in the same placeInternational investors and credit rating agencies, several of which previously threatened to downgrade India’s rating to “junk,” are carefully watching this unfold. Also watching with interest is Norendra Modi, the wonder-governor of Gujarat who has plans for the top job. Modi, the candidate of choice for many in India’s rising business-minded middle class, holds positions that stand in contrast to the populist tendencies of the Congress Party, which gets much of its support from the rural poor. But Congress is blamed for numerous corruption scandals and an economic downturn, and its popularity has slipped drastically. With the 2014 elections looming on the horizon, a populist budget makes a lot of sense. Is it good for India? We’ll see.

[abhishek_sharma]

Coomi Kapoor Column

All atwitter

When two leading lights of the Twitterati take potshots at each other, sparks are bound to fly and the Tweet world goes atwitter. It began with Lalit Modi taking digs at Arun Jaitley, against whom he holds a grudge since he believes Jaitley played a role in his ouster from the IPL. In response to one of Modi's comments, someone posted that it was because of Jaitley that the Radia tapes were not discussed in Parliament and Barkha Dutt was saved from embarrassment. Modi promptly posted the tweet to Dutt, and the journalist entered the fray. Threatened with legal action, the man who tweeted the comment about the Radia tapes retracted and according to the Twitter buzz, even closed his Twitter account. Dutt asked Modi to retract since the man who actually made the charge had backtracked. But Modi is not one to back down. Instead, he raised a long-standing grievance against Dutt for "negative coverage" of the IPL when he was in charge. The slanging match was fast and furious. Dutt wondered how a man on the run who was not willing to face a probe in India could lecture her on ethics. Modi threatened legal action in retaliation. "My lawyers in London have just written to you to address the issue on hand immediately."

Innocents abroad

There were some embarrassing moments during the goodwill visit to Australia in February by a parliamentary delegation led by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla. For instance, a woman MP from the DMK was asked to give the vote of thanks at one of the dinners. The MP was effusive in praising Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry and the minister for having selected her for the trip. But she completely forgot to thank the host country and her parliamentary counterparts from the other side for the dinner. A JD(U) MP got into a heated argument with the hotel staff because they could not understand his request for a "balti (bucket)" and a "mugga (mug)" for his bath. The management was equally puzzled about his request for "nimbu (lemon)" with hot water and the riddle could not be resolved even after he kept describing it as a "sour fruit". Finally, a fellow Indian was summoned to translate his instructions to the hotel manager.

Confidential error

The Indian High Commission in Australia had prepared a backgrounder for all the MPs visiting the country as part of the delegation. One of the MPs did not realise that the information provided was confidential background material and in the middle of a conference, he started reading from the paper given to him by the Indian Embassy, much to the embarrassment of our diplomats. It was left to another MP to cut him short.

Not so attentive

In contrast to his mother Sonia Gandhi who was in her seat 20 minutes before the presentation of the Budget last Thursday, Rahul entered Parliament 10 minutes late. He looked bored and at one point, left the House while the Budget speech was being read out. Finance Minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini, son Karti, daughter-in-law Srinidhi and 12-year-old granddaughter Aditi were in the Distinguished Visitors' gallery to watch Chidambaram read out his eighth Budget speech. The Finance Minister's family had been instructed not to comment on the Budget to the media before the presentation, no matter what the provocation. Some years ago, Nalini Chidambaram, in response to a journalist's query, had made a remark that had created a flutter in insurance circles. This year, the Intelligence Bureau took particular interest in ensuring the secrecy of the Budget and IB Director Asif Ibrahim personally made a trip to the government press where the Budget is printed.

Regrettable regret

The RSS is unhappy at the wording of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's clarification on his remark that the RSS and BJP were running terrorist training camps. However, there is little the RSS can do since the wording of Shinde's retraction was first cleared by BJP parliamentary leaders, including L K Advani. After the BJP threatened that it would not allow Shinde to speak in Parliament if he did not apologise, the Home Minister was anxious to make amends. Since Shinde is popular with MPs because of his polite behaviour—he pleaded with folded hands that he should not be humiliated in his old age—the BJP leadership agreed to let him off lightly and accepted a statement of regret rather than an abject apology. Parliamentary Affairs Minister. Kamal Nath's remark that Shinde had not apologised for his remark was meant to rile the RSS-BJP.

[devesh]

I think signals have gone out to put Modi in charge in 2014. is this good? I don't think so. I smell a trap being laid.
I think we are falling for a wonderfully presented bait, the nature of which we don't fully understand.
the methodology of the "trap" and the kind of "trap" are very important. I think we should be really careful here.
This could be a trap for not just Modi, but for a whole host of people.
The sudden U-turn of so many different "pillars" in the Western media is cause for concern.

[RajeshA]

Coomi Kapoor Column

All atwitter

Regrettable regret

The RSS is unhappy at the wording of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's clarification on his remark that the RSS and BJP were running terrorist training camps. However, there is little the RSS can do since the wording of Shinde's retraction was first cleared by BJP parliamentary leaders, including L K Advani. After the BJP threatened that it would not allow Shinde to speak in Parliament if he did not apologise, the Home Minister was anxious to make amends. Since Shinde is popular with MPs because of his polite behaviour—he pleaded with folded hands that he should not be humiliated in his old age—the BJP leadership agreed to let him off lightly and accepted a statement of regret rather than an abject apology. Parliamentary Affairs Minister. Kamal Nath's remark that Shinde had not apologised for his remark was meant to rile the RSS-BJP.

What kind of screwed up thinking is this? If he is old, then go do Sanyas! WT_ is he doing as an Home Minister? And what kind of BJP Leadership is that that it falls for such a lemon?

[RoyG]

^^Who knows what really happened. This is the indian media we're talking about.

[brihaspati]

http://newindianexpress.com/cities/hyde ... 434741.ece

“Till four years ago, old city culture was all about offering prayers, helping the poor with humility on these auspicious days. There is a sudden change in the attitude of the old city’s young lot. Celebrations are now all about sloganeering on bikes and disturbing the peace which is completely un-Islamic. It is sad that many youngsters these days are not spiritually inclined,” remarks the ‘Khateeb’ at the Jama Masjid in Musheerabad, Anwar Tirmizi.

Moulana M Mukhtar, Imam at Zamzam mosque in Secunderabad echoes similar opinion. He says going around on bikes creates a lot of problems for the general public and would send a wrong message about Muslim youth.

[brihaspati]

30,000!! And there is bride drought in the north! Just imagine if Islam did not stand in the way of marriage. Something must be going wrong in the valley if Mirwaiz talks of land-of-the-rishis.

http://www.newageislam.com/islam,-women ... ge/d/10158
Due to Un-Islamic Customs, 30,000 Girls in Srinagar, India Waiting For Marriage

Posted by Kashmir Life

January 24, 2013

Expressing concern over growing immorality and extravagance in the society, Chairman Mutahida Majlis Ulma, Jammu and Kashmir, Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Umer Farooq said that thirty thousand girls in the Srinagar are waiting to get married as a result of social evils.

He said that immorality and social evils are responsible for the situation and collective effort is needed to eradicate these social evils from the society.

“Current situation in Kashmir is worse than before. Kashmir was considered as place of brotherhood, sympathy and morality but the land of Rishi’s has turned into a place of immoralities”, said Mirwaiz while addressing the Seerat Conference at Lal Bazar organized by Masjid Rehmat and locals volunteers.

“Immorality is crossing limits and Nikah has become an affair of trade between two parties. We should think who is responsible for the 30,000 girls who can’t afford expenses of un Islamic and unethical traditions. Social evils and extravagance has worsened our society”, said Mirwaiz.

He said that parents and guardians have lost control over their wards and “we all need to make collective effort to stop this all before it is too late”.

He appealed the Islamic scholars, parents and other people to perform their responsibilities for betterment of the society.

[partha]

Wharton student forum statement caught my eye -

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 782849.cms?

The student body which runs the annual WIFE it was "extremely impressed with Modi's credentials, governance, ideologies and leadership, which was the primary reason for his invitation." However, as a responsible student body within the University of Pennsylvania, "we must consider the impact on multiple stakeholders stake holders in our ecosystem."

"multiple stakeholders"? Now, where do we keep reading this phrase?

[Bharath.Subramanyam]

Got a shocking information from a friend . This friend recently met with one of the old great scientists of US he had worked on Manhattan project.

Then the old scientist told him about Manhattan project and said that British were planning to put nuclear bombs on India during World War II, if India mutinied or war reached India. He said fortunately the project couldn't make much enriched uranium. There was no material even to test properly (of course people would have heard about the test that was conducted under the Football field of University of Chicago). So there was just one test (Trinity test) in July 1945 and then immediately Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Very fact that Britain wanted to use nuclear bombs on India during WWII shows that blood thirstiness & genocidal mentality is same for Christiandom (whether it is 1857 or 1947). I think we need to think of Subash Chandra Bose, INA, Naval Mutiny, Sardar Patel etc with this info in background.

[Yayavar]

^^ One needs to get better validation before believing the above. The US did not even agree to dropping the bomb in Korea war when they were being pushed back and beaten by the Chinese. US had kept UK off the bomb making and did not share the technology with them until much later. UK got its first weapon in 50's iirc.

So while I'm of the opinion that Churchill could be bloodthirsty and so could others the above is not something one can state with certainty since it is 'my friend heard from an unknown scientist ...'.

[Sushupti]

Wasn't sure where to post it.

[Sushupti]

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[Prem]

Think New York Is Costly? In New Delhi, Seedy Goes for 8 Figures
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/world ... times&_r=0

NEW DELHI — The fading bungalow at 38 Amrita Shergil Marg does not immediately shout real estate bling.here is no tennis court, no infinity pool, no Sub-Zero refrigerator or walk-in closet. The paint is chipped, the bathrooms are musty and the ceilings have water stains. The house may ultimately be torn down.Yet when it went up for public auction, the winning bid was almost $29 million. And many neighbors consider that a bargain. One block away, a gracious if not quite Rockefeller-ready residence once leased by the Mexican ambassador is now reportedly on the market for more than $100 million. Other nearby houses are going for $40 million to $70 million.“The price of the Mexican residence is $110 million,” said Jorge Roza de Oliveira, Portugal’s ambassador to India. “You can buy a home in New York and Miami and Lisbon and London and keep a lot of change for that much.”Real estate prices in the heart of New Delhi, especially for the bungalows built nearly a century ago during the British Raj, are among the highest in the world.
Though India’s economy has cooled, the demand for property in elite areas remains so strong that even finding a house for sale is tricky: formal listings do not exist; prices usually circulate by word of mouth. Transactions often require some “black” money, or stacks of cash paid under the table to avoid taxes.
The buyers are often Indian industrialists looking for a trophy property, a real estate Rolex. Or, real estate agents and sellers say, they can be politicians or their proxies, who often pay with trunks of cash.
For their money, buyers get a lovely piece of land and a piece of history, if not much in the way of amenities. Many houses require a major overhaul. Services, if far better in these elite areas, are still inadequate: drinking the tap water is not advised, and power failures remain an irritant.The obvious question about the prices, in a country where hundreds of millions of people still live on less than $2 a day, is: Why?To a large degree, India is experiencing the sort of real estate boom common to big, emerging economies. When Japan’s economy was soaring in the 1980s, prices in Tokyo were so frothy that the 845-acre compound of the Imperial Palace was valued at more than all the real estate in California. More recently, China has seen a boom, with real estate values rising in some cities by 500 percent.But the spike in New Delhi is also being fueled by ego, status and some unique distortions in India’s economy. Few properties come available in the leafiest, most prestigious section of the capital, known as Lutyens’ Delhi, because the area is mostly dedicated to government housing. Powerful government ministers live in British-era bungalows with stately lawns of several acres, while lesser officials are eligible for different categories of government housing in an oasis largely separated from the rest of the chaotic capital, where many people live crowded into slums or shanties.“This is the best part of Delhi, the core of Delhi,” said Munish Kumar Garg, who oversees the allocation of government housing. “If these properties in Lutyens’ Delhi were put on sale, there would be a queue two kilometers long.”Mr. Garg, the director of the government’s Directorate of Estates, controls one of the more valuable residential real estate portfolios in the world. Asked how many New Delhi properties fell under his agency, he shrugged. “It would be difficult to know,” he said. “Maybe 10,000.”

[svinayak]

They say India is in recession and India is a backward country

[brihaspati]

The Americans had an actual plan to bomb UK - but this was planned before the Atom Bomb came in. So, such ideas cannot be entirely ruled out. Churchill had diverted aircraft meant for European theatre (coming from US) to SE Asia, and Monty had frantically tried to assemble "overwhelming" air superiority in the Burma arena - to tackle the puny threat of the Japanese+INA move. Churchill showed his predilection to carpet bomb [or supported those in RAF who wanted so] civilian populations, and the Americans freely used incendiary bombs specifically targeted at high-concentration civilian areas.

If Churchill really had access - yes he is most likely to have used it on Indians. Only the British test came much later to be of use.

[Sanku]

If Churchill really had access - yes he is most likely to have used it on Indians. Only the British test came much later to be of use.

Thanks to the posts by Surasena-ji --> I am now begining to think that the Japanese angle in the WW II was not so much imperialistic, but more in terms of Shinto/Native asian religion vs Xism.

It was pretty much a religious war (like many others mentioned that Nazism was an attempt to Germanize Xism) -- at least that is my current reading. That is why the Brits have/had such deep rooted hatred for Japanese and try and portray them as devils.

[Agnimitra]

Thanks to the posts by Surasena-ji --> I am now begining to think that the Japanese angle in the WW II was not so much imperialistic, but more in terms of Shinto/Native asian religion vs Xism.

Then what about the genocide in China? Japanese consider themselves gods of all Asia.
Also, I don't know if this is true but British authors also try to show that the Japanese had contempt for "black-skinned Indians".

[Sanku]

Thanks to the posts by Surasena-ji --> I am now begining to think that the Japanese angle in the WW II was not so much imperialistic, but more in terms of Shinto/Native asian religion vs Xism.

Then what about the genocide in China? Japanese consider themselves gods of all Asia.
Also, I don't know if this is true but British authors also try to show that the Japanese had contempt for "black-skinned Indians".

True, there is ONE incident of genocide in China, i.e. the rape of Nanking. I have following things on that topic

1) I consider a lot of it to be slightly hyped -- in the sense the numbers are possibly true, but are much lesser from Allied fire bombings, their behavior in India etc.

2) How or why would this add to take away from characterization of Japan-Axis battle as something along religious lines?

[member_19686]

There are a variety of reasons for Japanese imperialism & indeed a feeling of racial superiority was one.

The Japanese may borrow things from others but they in no sense regard themselves as inferior for that, if anything they are superior as they improve upon these things. The borrowal is also never complete, they are very pragmatic and only borrow what they think is of benefit to their national interest. If they think free market is best in one area they take up that, if they think state control is good in another area then they put that into action. Even prominent Japanese commies revered the Emperor & only advocated those aspects of Marxism that they felt would make Japan stronger. I can post more about Japanese political thought but its OT here.

These views of superiority have always had a strong undercurrent, they historically felt that they should take leadership of Asia which united under them would then take on the West. This seems to have been part of Hideyoshi's grand scheme when he invaded Korea & tried to invade Ming China, his plan was then to advance into India to get rid of the Portuguese.

Even prior to the Meiji restoration there were many Japanese thinkers advocating Japanese expansion to relieve the intense population pressure which were leading to famines and consequently the sins of abortion & infanticide (so said Sato Nobuhiro). At the same time Russia was threatening the northern shores & attacking the Japanese settlements in Sakhalin & Hokkaido. Sato said (in the 1820's) first Japan should open up to trade, centralize education, navy etc & then it should take over Kamchatka peninsula, Korea, Manchuria, in the South they should conquer Luzon & Java. Only this way could they put a halt to British plundering of Asia & stop the Russian threat, then it should conquer the rest of China, India which united under the Emperor would lead to the unification of the world under Japan (including the West).

When the Meiji restoration happened, these factors came into play because for the first time in recorded history the Japanese were the actual leaders of Asia and not playing second fiddle to China or anyone else because of the great sacrifices they made to catch up with the West. At the same time they saw that the West was rampaging all over the globe including in neighboring China, the Russian empire was making inroads into Manchuria & Korea which culminated in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 & Russia's defeat. This exacerbated Japanese imperialism, some claimed that they should liberate Asia from the West & then take on the West (e.g. the socialist/Marxist patriot Ikki Kita) under Japanese leadership, of course most of these grand schemes were just in words & they just ended up replacing the Western imperialists with their own brand as far as the locals were concerned.

There were indeed brutalities in China but the Han are hardly in a position to pontificate as they have been even more ruthless imperialists throughout their history (most of PRC including many areas of Southern China were non Han but Hanized over the years through conquest, settlement, & genocide) which they are continuing today. It is a bit rich for them to complain about the "Rape of Nanking" from 75 years ago while committing the "Rape of Lhasa" today.

In their 1500+ years of recorded history, the external aggression periods were limited to Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea & the period between 1890s-1945. One may compare the Han & mleccha record with that.

Mlecchas are even worse, their historical record is abominable as is their current behavior (hey how come no war crimes tribunal for Bush & co for the invasion of Iraq?). As they won WW2 they fed the world an overdose about Nazi & Japanese brutality while covering up their own. Chacha Sam that beacon of "liberty" itself was founded on extermination of the natives & a long line of mleccha luminaries have justified their treatment of the natives including Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand, Teddy Roosevelt, Christopher Hitchens to name a few.

How many people know that it was that champion of "liberty" & worshiped as such by the Americans & their Indian fellow travelers who advocated "Indian removal"?

I am talking of course about Thomas Jefferson, his plan was for the US to take away native lands, the natives themselves would be induced to take up agriculture, Christianity, and assimilate. If they refused then they would be exterminated or pushed westward by the expanding USA. Andrew Jackson merely implemented his vision and gets all the blame. Check the total area of USA at its founding & check its total area today, those excess 7+ million sq. km's you think they got that through "freedom" spreading.

ctrl f Jefferson here:

http://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/20 ... dentities/

I don't think I have to repeat the British record here, the biggest criminals of them all & the most shameless liars too along with their Gunga Dins they left behind.

The world is always hearing about Auschwitz, Nanking but no one including Indians themselves talk about the British actions after they suppressed the uprising of 1857, think about why that is.

PS: The Japanese were very ruthless & thorough in their suppression of Christianity. A friend of mine's mleccha student was a missionary in Japan & failed miserably. He eventually apostatized & ended up becoming a biologist studying evolution, in their conversation he told him that the Japanese showed no defensiveness about their treatment of Christians including when figures such as Inoue Chikugo (an Inquisitor in Tokugawa Japan who prepared special tortures for Christians to get them to apostatize) were mentioned. Hindus by contrast would get apologetic about Shivaji's beheading of the four padres. Therein lies the reasons why Japan is secure & remains a land for the Japanese where as India is becoming a land for anyone but Hindus.

See:

http://vajrin.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/ ... or-hindus/

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Mother Teresa was no saint

Agnes Gonxha, the Albanian nun who became famous as Mother Teresa, was a political tool of the Vatican, adroit in legitimising corrupt dictators and outright crooks rather than in serving the sick and dying in whose name she earned her enviable reputation and fabulous wealth. Far from being a saviour, she was a suppressor of the poor, according to Christopher Hitches, author of Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.

Teresa is currently the subject of scrutiny by Canadian researchers Serge Larivee and Genevieve Chenard of the University of Montreal’s department of psychoeducation and Carole Senechal of the University of Ottawa’s faculty of education. The trio debunks her sainthood as the creation of an orchestrated media campaign, a fact that Der Spiegel and author Aroup Chatterjee have long exposed as the brainchild of BBC documentary filmmaker Malcolm Muggeridge. Many have since attributed Teresa’s sustained glorification as part of Cold War propaganda regarding the ‘humanitarian face’ of the West as opposed to the stodgy harshness of the Soviet bloc.

One of Christopher Hitchens’s most startling exposes of Teresa pertain to her association with Robert Maxwell and Charles Keating, Jr. The flamboyant Maxwell somehow involved her in a fund-raising scheme run by his newspaper group, the Mirror Group. He then made off with the money. In fact, after his death it was revealed that he had even misappropriated the group’s pension fund. Many wondered how Mother Teresa had time to spare for such a wicked man.

Actually, she was exceedingly generous with her time when it came to rich (and dubious) persons. In the 1980s, Charles Keating (sentenced to 10 years in jail for his role in the Savings and Loan scandal, then among the greatest frauds in American history) set his eyes on the savings of small investors. Five US Senators doled favours to him in return for huge campaign donations disguised as other people’s money.

Keating donated $1.25 million to Teresa at the height of his success, though not out of his own pocket. He gave her the use of his private jet. Teresa, on her part, permitted Keating to exploit her prestige and gave him a personalised crucifix which he carried everywhere. But in 1992, after several political and financial crises, Keating was finally brought to trial. It was certain he would receive the maximum sentence permissible under California law.

Teresa made a dramatic intervention in the trial, writing to Judge Lance Ito for clemency for Keating, but omitted to mention her original involvement with him. Clearly expecting her reputation to do the trick, she said, “We do not mix up in Business or Politics or courts. Our work, as Missionaries of Charity is to give wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor. I do not know anything about Mr Charles Keating’s work or his business or the matters you are dealing with. I only know that he has always been kind and generous to God’s poor, and always ready to help whenever there was a need. It is for this reason that I do not want to forget him now while he and his family are suffering. Jesus has told us ‘Whatever you do to the least of my brethren … YOU DID IT TO ME’. Mr. Keating has done much to help the poor, which is why I am writing to you on his behalf. Whenever someone asks me to speak to a judge, I always… ask them to pray, to look into their heart, and to do what Jesus would do in that circumstance. And this is what I am asking of you, your Honour.”

The false innocence of this appeal riled Paul Turley, Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles, who was one of the prosecutor’s in the case. He crafted a response on his own initiative and as a private citizen, which he sent to Teresa.

This letter, which was made available to Christopher Hitchens exclusively, states, inter alia, “I read your letter to Judge Ito, written on behalf of Mr Keating, which includes your admission that you know nothing about Mr Keating’s business or the criminal charges presented to Judge Ito. I am writing to you to provide a brief explanation of the crimes of which Mr Keating has been convicted, to give you an understanding of the source of the money that Mr Keating gave to you, and to suggest that you perform the moral and ethical act of returning the money to its rightful owners.

“Mr Keating was convicted of defrauding 17 individuals of more than $900,000. These 17 persons were representative of 17,000 individuals from whom Mr Keating stole $252,000,000. Mr. Keating’s specific acts of fraud were that he was the source of a series of fraudulent representations made to persons who bought bonds from his company and he also was the repository of crucial information which he chose to withhold from bond purchasers, thereby luring his victims into believing they were making a safe, low-risk investment. In truth and in fact, their money was being used to fund Mr. Keating’s exorbitant and extravagant lifestyle.

“It is not uncommon for ‘con’ men to be generous with family, friends and charities. Perhaps they believe that their generosity will purchase love, respect or forgiveness. However, the time when the purchase of ‘indulgences’ was an acceptable method of seeking forgiveness died with the Reformation.

“You urge Judge Ito to look into his heart – as he sentences Charles Keating – and do what Jesus would do. I submit the same challenge to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would do if he were given the fruits of a crime; what Jesus would do if he were in possession of money that had been stolen; what Jesus would do if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his conscience?

“I submit that Jesus would promptly and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners. You should do the same. You have been given money by Mr Keating that he has been convicted of stealing by fraud. Do not permit him the ‘indulgence’ he desires. Do not keep the money. Return it to those who worked for it and earned it! If you contact me I will put you in direct contact with the rightful owners of the property now in your possession.”

Needless to add, Turley received no reply from Teresa. This episode bears repetition as it is the best documented evidence of the hypocrisy and priorities of the person being fast-tracked to sainthood by a Church challenged by sexual and financial scandals.

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/03/06/m ... 52605.html

[Prem]

Hugo Chavez’s ruinous eco philosophy has heirs in India
http://www.firstpost.com/world/hugo-cha ... 50320.html

In Chavez’s case, his lavish social spending, which made him enormously popular with the poor (from whose ranks he rose), was underwritten by Venezuela’s oil wealth during a period of global economic boom and excess liquidity, which saw oil prices soar for much of his term. India’s bleeding heart socialists, on the other hand, have been looking to build a First World social welfare infrastructure on a decidedly Third World economy, using borrowed money.Having proved spectacularly ill-equipped to grow the economic pie, Chavez dragged down everyone to the lowest common denominator of socialism by expropriating private property – and allowing shopping malls to be converted into “skyscraper slums”.
It is in this area that the parallels in India acquire greater resonance. Much like Chavez did, the UPA government has bought itself popularity on the cheap by spending money on grandiose projects in the name of the poor, but where the delivery mechanism is so flawed as to render the spending wasteful.Virtually every one of the big-ticket spending binges of the UPA government – in the name of the poor – leaks like a sieve: from the farmers’ debt waiver (in which the CAG pointed to irregularities on Tuesday) to the NREGA rural employment guarantee scheme (which is actually killing jobs) to the Food Security Bill (which, as Firstpost established, is a flawed – and enormously expensive – way of addressing food security for India’s poor), spending borrowed money is the surest path to economic ruin.All of them reflect the error of building social safety nets – however well-intentioned they may be – without adequate consideration of their economic sustainability or the outcomes. It is this that has pushed the Indian economy so perilously close to the edge, requiring Finance Minister P Chidambaram to cut back spending at precisely the point of the economic cycle when GDP growth is at its slowest in a decade.Simultaneously, for a government that claims to protect the interests of the poor, it has been overseen another profligacy in the plunder of national resources and assets – from telecom spectrum to coal blocks to land – by the privileged few.

[abhishek_sharma]

Views from the Right

UNPOPULAR BUDGET

Both Sangh Parivar journals have come down on the Union budget. A full-page article in Panchjanya claims that the budget has ignored the aam aadmi by "upsetting their household budget by reducing subsidies and fuelling price hike". It also claims that Finance Minister P. Chidambaram "underlined the need to increase investments, but has not indicated any significant measures to achieve it".

Organiser has a story on the budget asserting that it was an "unpopular Budget" by an "unpopular UPA", which has already brought the economy to the "1991 precipice". The cover story claims that the budget "stink[s]" of Chidambaram's "sleight of hand" to reduce fiscal deficit by "hiding expenses" and "roll back on welfare, investment, public sector and defence". It seeks to buttress its claims by highlighting that the stock markets gave a "thumbs down" on Budget Day.

Another story highlights "Chidu's Modi obsession", by claiming that Chidambaram's admission of growth as a "necessary condition", without which there will be "neither development nor inclusiveness", was a "brazen plagiarisation" of the mool mantra of the UPA's "most feared political opponent and the NDA's strongest contender for the country's top job" — Narendra Modi's Gujarat model. The article, however, criticises Chidambaram's apparent dig at Modi in his budget speech, where he sought to suggest that the UPA doesn't accept the model where a state grows rapidly but women, tribals and minorities are left behind.

JPC TRAP

Both weeklies have criticised the government's move to set up a JPC to look into the VVIP chopper scam, alleging that it is an "attempt to push bribe under the JPC carpet". A special report in Organiser claims the move is a "cover-up" after the Congress sensed that "the stink of the deal was now reaching the much-protected Gandhi dynasty". In this context, it also says the constitution of the JPC was "completely farcical" as it has no member from the principal opposition party. Panchjanya's report rubbishes the move by pointing out that the experience of the last five JPCs generates no confidence in going for another one, especially when a CBI investigation can do the job. The "Congress (is) trying to convert a criminal case into a political debate," Organiser says.

INTERNAL INSECURITY

The editorials in both weeklies deplore the Union government's handling of the internal security situation arising out of the recent blasts in Hyderabad (Organiser) and ethnic violence in Assam (Panchjanya). The editorial in Organiser claims that the government's attempt to use the Hyderabad blasts to renew discussions on the NCTC was part of "a routine reaction of the UPA to kick up dust on various issues when it is in trouble". An article by RSS leader Ram Madhav suggests a "different counter-terrorism set-up" should "involve various stakeholders" like the "police, intelligence, judiciary and media". The "massive centralised set up" should focus on "extensive research, documentation and preparation of dossiers" that can be "accessed by stakeholders".

Panchjanya looks at ethnic violence during the panchayat polls in Assam and laments that "Delhi is deaf to the cries of the Northeast". It asserts that this violence reinforces the view that the question of the rights of the Northeast's ethnic population has been sacrificed by the Centre and the state's Congress government at the altar of "vote-bank politics".

Compiled by Ravish Tiwari

[Sushupti]

Off topic. First warning - JE Menon

[RamaY]

My first post on this forum without comments

Watch video: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/c ... ily/267832

[devesh]

My first post on this forum without comments

Watch video: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/c ... ily/267832

replace "Church" with "Mandir"/"Temple":

evidence of backward Hindus being anti-backward-caste.

[RamaY]

Devesh garu - I think you should delete your post. You are not the intended audience.

[Prem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... r9w#t=547s
1942 Map

Aaj Himala ki Chotti se phir hamne lalkara lai
Bhagg jayo o Arbi Puttar, Pakistani Land Hamara Hai !!

[Yayavar]

Recall seeing this movie on DD long time back. But i think the map is more of what British controlled since it seems to include Burma too and possibly Bhutan/Nepal. The your sher is apt .