Internal Security Watch

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 25 Jan 2011 11:57

Arjun wrote:
ravi_ku wrote:http://maloykrishnadhar.com/extreme-rig ... the-nation

an excellent analysis and a must read.

Wonder if secular singhs and their ilk listen to sanity
Parts of it are good...but there are other larger parts which seem like a load of BS...

Example being this == out here
I have studied and still studying myriads of websites and print media patronized by the Hindu protagonists from India and abroad. These are not less virulent than the sites propagated by al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood and other the jihadi Muslim groups (about 1000)

Typical, cant defrentiate between agressor and defender, it Hindus were doing what certain IM's and psy-psec's are doing in Saudi then there would be soem justification for such a view

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 25 Jan 2011 12:02

He is just ringing the warning bell sir. Hope somebody listens to it before its too late.

But with our head in the sands diggy rajas and Rajmata's antics, I am sure that it is going to get worse before it has a chance to be better.

I wouldnt say even he understands it fully and it clearly shows in some incoherance in that article.

We are all the blind men poking and prodding the Indian elephant. Some are trying to understand the prodding and some are trying to prod for fun. If it decides, enough of this prodding by "you" worthless.............

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 25 Jan 2011 12:07

shyam wrote:Make sure to conduct the court in May-June-July and fan is available only for the Judge.
- Observers can not bring anything to court. No camera, recorders or laptop. Can't take notes inside the court.
- No preference for Binayak Sen's case. File will be taken up only when its turn arrives.
- It has to be observed how they are trying to study how Binayak was nailed down. They will try to fix that gap with their next agent.

Let the Observers first Publically Declare what are thier Intrests are with Maoists and certain NGO's are . Then they can attend.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 25 Jan 2011 18:42

India should apply to become observers on investigations into Sebian and Kosovan atrocities. Same goes for ETA.
From wiki : about teh KLA - read up on its other qualifications and then this one :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army

The Yugoslav authorities, under Slobodan Milosevic, regarded the KLA a terrorist group[32]. The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization for attacking Serbian police and military targets, until 1998,[8][9] and President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Robert Gelbard, described that same year the KLA as, "without any questions, a terrorist group".[11][37] Around 1998, some months before the war of March 1999, the US government removed the KLA from its list of terrorist organizations, and they approached the KLA leaders to make them interlocutors with the Serbs.[9][38] France didn't delist it until late 1998, after strong US and UK lobbying.[10] During the war, the KLA troops collaborated with the NATO troops, and they were qualified by the NATO as "freedom fighters".[9] In late 1999 the KLA was disbanded and its members entered the Kosovo Protection Corps.[9] KLA is still present in the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base list of terrorist groups,[32] and is listed as an inactive terrorist organization by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism from the Homeland Security.[39]

Probably folks here will see the methods by which USA and UK transforms Jihadis from terrorists into "freedom fighters" and turns them into allies - a good model to remember for Jammu and Kashmir.

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 25 Jan 2011 19:33

What exactly is meant by Observers in the court. Is it like some election in some Banana republic where observers are sent ?
Are we over-reacting or GoI has gone krazzier than ever..

Karan M · Post by **Karan M** » 25 Jan 2011 20:16

This the same EU which had also created a huge fuss over Kandhamal.

Virupaksha · Post by **Virupaksha** » 25 Jan 2011 20:17

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_b ... ve_1498902

Oil mafia burns alive additional collector in Nashik

Preliminary reports say Sonawane had gone there to conduct a raid on petrol and diesel mafia. There some people, believed to be associated with the mafia, who set him on fire causing his death," additional director general (law & order) KP Rahuvanshi told PTI.

Another report said Sonawane had stopped at a roadside hotel on way to a certain place to oversee security arrangements for an event when he found people adulterating fuel.

Sonawane objected to it, leading to a scuffle during which he was set ablaze resulting in his death.

jai ho and all that,

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 25 Jan 2011 20:50

VikasRaina wrote:What exactly is meant by Observers in the court. Is it like some election in some Banana republic where observers are sent ?
Are we over-reacting or GoI has gone krazzier than ever..

At the best perhaps they would be sitting in the spectator's gallery in the courts. I don't think these 'observers' would have any say on the pleading of the case, or the final sentence. Because they would have the same rights as to what a normal spectator would have in a court. Or perhaps even better, some thing like a court reporter (in the Indian news papers).

The problem only could be that these observers return to their country, and once in their safe territory starts bad mouthing the Indian judiciary, or accuse it of partisanship etc. etc. I don't think they have any legal standing in the Indian judiciary. Because if we had such a provision, our own folks would have started misusing that by now

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Abhi_G · Post by **Abhi_G** » 25 Jan 2011 21:27

ravi_ku wrote:http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_b ... ve_1498902

Oil mafia burns alive additional collector in Nashik

Preliminary reports say Sonawane had gone there to conduct a raid on petrol and diesel mafia. There some people, believed to be associated with the mafia, who set him on fire causing his death," additional director general (law & order) KP Rahuvanshi told PTI.

Another report said Sonawane had stopped at a roadside hotel on way to a certain place to oversee security arrangements for an event when he found people adulterating fuel.

Sonawane objected to it, leading to a scuffle during which he was set ablaze resulting in his death.
jai ho and all that,

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/oil-m ... n/742029/2
No names taken to obscure identification of the "mafia" people? Check the reactions from the ministers....

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said the government will not tolerate such incidents. "We will take prompt action to bring the guilty to justice," he said.

Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who is on a visit to Satara district in western Maharashtra, said the incident was a blot on humanity. If anyone dares to commit such atrocity on an officer, he should be dealt with sternly, he said.

brihaspati · Post by **brihaspati** » 26 Jan 2011 01:18

The very presence of "observers" and their potential negative remarks can hang on the prosecution itself. It is a silent psychological manipulation process. There should be a campaign of trying to reserach the background of the "observers" and their past records and public positions on issues.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 26 Jan 2011 01:21

arjunm wrote:Many Indologists who have spent their life time to paint Indian Sacred Texts black only to dismiss them as "loony" tales ....they have later regretted and repented their doings during their last phases of life...in the end, Indian Texts are sacred like they were before....gone and perished to dusts are those so called Indologists...so...Brihaspatiji...let people take time to understand things...may be a personal experience will help them understand it better....do not waste your time and knowledge...RSS, VHP vagera are just few sticks in a huge forest...

My question is did the western scholarship did a fake study and translation of the Indian text. They did a 90% accuracy and then have been doing a wrong interpretations to mislead the future students.

Acharyaji not exactly fake study but intentional "lost in Translation" type interpretational errors to undermine the brilliancy of our ancient Scholastic works. You probably know how the California NRI parents disgusted by the narration of Hinduism in-contrast to Islam and Christianity legally challenged it in the California Court to fight and won and ultimately reverse it, and guess who fought tooth & nail in his effort to demonize Hinduism, none other than Michael Witzel, German born bigget,head of the Sanskrit study at Harvard..

I feel Witzel is a small fish in this game.
There is something bigger which includes fitting western concept inside Indic domain and make it believe by the indics using social engineering and education over long term.
They want to change Indic domain and envelope over few hundered years and their interpretations for indics and rest of the world

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 26 Jan 2011 05:17

From twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/centerofright

http://bit.ly/gSZT4v" Police widows oppose Binayak Sens's bail. Will court hear them too

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 26 Jan 2011 11:25

^Police widows oppose Binayak's bail http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 362719.cms

BILASPUR: The widows of two policemen killed in a Naxal attack have filed an intervention application opposing the bail plea of civil rights activist Binayak Sen.

They have argued that since Maoists had called for a week long bandh to condemn the conviction of Binayak Sen, it showed that Sen was "a leader of Naxalites".

Further, they alleged that Binayak Sen was "adopting pressure tactics to interfere in our independent judiciary by bringing persons from European countries".

The application was filed on behalf of Ranjana Choubey and Lalita Yadav. On 12 July 2009, their husbands, Superintendent of Police Vinod Choubey and Inspector Sanjay Yadav, were killed in an attack and landmine explosion orchestrated by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district, that left 26 policemen dead.

"The applicant has filed the application on behalf of herself and for the public at large," stated the application, that included newspaper clippings as evidence of the Maoist bandh.

Shailesh Ahuja, the lawyer representing the women, said the court had admitted the application. "The court has asked me to assist the prosecution," he said.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 26 Jan 2011 11:27

http://videos.oneindia.in/watch/35714/j ... yatra.html

The city of Jammu has been placed under maximum security and the state's borders with Punjab have been sealed

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 27 Jan 2011 16:30

As a result of resolute, strong and force actions by GoI to ensure that sentiments of "others" are not in the least disturbed, "others" reward the fine actions of GoI suitably.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rim-s ... il/742666/

RIM snubs India, says can't give access to BlackBerry Mail

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said providing solution to access its enterprise mail service is "not possible" and asserted that the issue was not unique to them and has to be dealt at an industry level.

rkirankr · Post by **rkirankr** » 28 Jan 2011 14:57

Clean chit for BJP and Sangh Parivar in church attacks case
Expect the DDM to denigrate the Judge who headed the commision to investigate church attacks

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 28 Jan 2011 15:37

Ishrat Jahan encounter was staged, claims Gujarat cop

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 378591.cms

Now please give us the evidence of staging of encounter..

one more linkhttp://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... er/743260/

Ishrat Jahan encounter killing was fake: IPS officer

During the hearing, Verma told the division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari that "there are two possibilities in the case; one is that four people (who got) killed in the encounter had come to kill Gujarat Chief Minister (Narendra Modi), and the other is that they were killed in cold blood by the police".

"There is a possibility of the second one (having taken place) irrespective of the first one," he told the High Court. He suggested that there should be a fresh FIR in the case since evidence raises doubts as to under what circumstances shots were fired (at Ishrat and others).

SO basically if there is a possibility with a probability of .0001%, it becomes fact. Media reporting along with Goverence in this country is hitting an all time low that there is definately going to be some bad consquences. People Like Digvijay SIngh are playing with fire for short term election benefits which is going to blow having serious consequences for all of us. The latest claim by Digvijay singh is that Vir Sarvarkar and not Jinnah responsible for the creation of Pakistan

Digvijay Singh blames Savarkar for 2-nation idea

Congress leader Digvijay Singh has kicked up yet another controversy by claiming that the real father of the two-nation theory leading to the country's partition was Veer Savarkar and not Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 374340.cms

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 28 Jan 2011 19:29

It is agains muslim, malegaon and modi season in the media

CBI Opposes bail to Malegaon accused

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/maleg ... used-81923

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 28 Jan 2011 19:32

CVC Thomas refuses to quit according to media

NDTV published this new a short while ago and now removed it.

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 29 Jan 2011 00:33

Murugan wrote:It is agains muslim, malegaon and modi season in the media

CBI Opposes bail to Malegaon accused

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/maleg ... used-81923

So why is the CBI opposing bail for these muslim men if they are truly innocent of the malegaon blasts?

If Asemanand's confession isn't verified yet, does it mean CBI has doubts about whether he really did it or not? So the CBI is admitting that between the muslim men imprisioned and Asemanand, it really doesn't know who conducted the blasts?? Then why was Assemanand's confession given such wide publicity if it was doubtful??

Looks like they want to implicate both Aseemanand and the muslim men in the blasts, one for political purpose and one for really committing the crime

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 29 Jan 2011 00:42

Politicsparty is reporting his surveys give TMC a clear advantage in upcoming WB polls. Expect INC to start talking about Gorkhaland. Are there any reports of PC meeting Gorkha leaders from WB?

arjunm · Post by **arjunm** » 29 Jan 2011 05:00

Tamasha No 2, CBI refuses bail for these Nine Muslim accused even after a sure and manufactured connections to "Hindu Terror"...

Malegaon blast case: CBI opposes bail to nine accused

Mumbai: The nine Muslims who have spent four years in jail for the Malegaon blast should not be granted bail, said the CBI in court today.

On the 17th of this month, the men asked that they be released because of Swami Assemanand's confession that right-wing Hindu groups were responsible for the blast which killed 37 people in the communally-sensitive town of Malegaon in Maharashtra in 2006.

But the CBI told a special court for the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) that Swami Aseemanand's confession - recorded in December in a Delhi court - has yet to be verified.

Other than that, the Muslim men have produced no valid reason for their bail.

The Malegaon investigation was handed over to the CBI in December 2006. For the next three years, the CBI did not submit any report on the case. In February last year, it said that there was no evidence to charge the nine men jailed for the Malegaon blast, but stressed that it believes they are indeed responsible for the terror attack.
That remains its stand in court, boosting the demand by politicians to ask that the government to submit a white paper on Hindu terror and the persecution of Muslim youth.
"LK Advani had said that all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. I can also say now that all RSS men are not terrorists but all terrorists are RSS men!'' said Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh today.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/maleg ... 81923?pfro

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 29 Jan 2011 10:10

ramana wrote:Politicsparty is reporting his surveys give TMC a clear advantage in upcoming WB polls. Expect INC to start talking about Gorkhaland. Are there any reports of PC meeting Gorkha leaders from WB?

He has some moles inside INC. These are surveys conducted by INC and inone of the survey in karnataka, INC is getting a total of not more than 55.

Looks like INC is doing extensive surveys for some reason.

sum · Post by **sum** » 29 Jan 2011 13:27

Muppalla wrote: He has some moles inside INC. These are surveys conducted by INC and inone of the survey in karnataka, INC is getting a total of not more than 55.

Looks like INC is doing extensive surveys for some reason.

Expect half of IB staff to be sitting in the "political wing" and doing this menial work ( as Shri M.K.Dhar points out in his book) instead of catching the millions of terrorist scum roaming the country...

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 30 Jan 2011 04:07

Smuggling racket busted, IB man held

A smuggling racket being run allegedly in connivance with immigration and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport has been unearthed with the arrest of an IB official and a businessman.

Investigations by the Customs Preventive Unit indicate involvement of senior IB officials in the racket. Officials believe the businessman from Central Delhi could be the kingpin, and provided logistical support with his contacts within Immigration at various airports. The racket came to light when Customs officials arrested a UP-based businessman, Rajdeep Chawla (30), at IGI. According to Custom officials, Chawla landed at the IGI on January 26 from Hong Kong on an Air India flight, and handed over a polythene bag of a Hong Kong duty-free shop to immigration officials at the arrival hall.

An immigration official, later identified as Virender Singh (36), a Junior Intelligence Officer with Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), went inside his office and came out with another bag.

“Singh was intercepted and the bag was searched. During examination, we found one brown tape-wrapped packet. We also searched the FRRO room and seized more than 9,000 memory cards. Chawla was detained by officials, and 260 imported watches, 13 fuel injectors were seized from him. The total value of the seized goods was nearly Rs 35 lakh and the accused was evading duty of more than Rs 20 lakh,” said a senior Customs officer.

The questioning of the two apparently revealed a lucrative smuggling racket, being run in connivance with immigration officials. According to sources, the businessman had got in touch with immigration officials and given a description of the person coming to India with the smuggled goods. Singh was then told about Chawla by one of his senior officials and paid Rs 25,000 to get goods cleared from Customs.

Can we even think how bad things are across the country? Imagine the number of narcotic rackets running in this country.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 30 Jan 2011 10:27

Aseemanand says no to ‘saffron’ group lawyers

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Aseem ... ers/743629

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 30 Jan 2011 23:39

ravi_ku wrote:http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_b ... ve_1498902

Oil mafia burns alive additional collector in Nashik

Preliminary reports say Sonawane had gone there to conduct a raid on petrol and diesel mafia. There some people, believed to be associated with the mafia, who set him on fire causing his death," additional director general (law & order) KP Rahuvanshi told PTI.

Another report said Sonawane had stopped at a roadside hotel on way to a certain place to oversee security arrangements for an event when he found people adulterating fuel.

Sonawane objected to it, leading to a scuffle during which he was set ablaze resulting in his death.
jai ho and all that,

Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Tweet:

UPA has killed Dy. Collector Sonawne. Anti adulteration unit set up by Ram Naik under NDA was disbanded by Deora in first 3 months.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 01 Feb 2011 08:06

A predictable death -

Popat Shinde succumbs to burns

Vinaya Deshpande

Mumbai: Popat Shinde, prime accused in the case of murder of Nashik Additional Collector Yashwant Sonawane, succumbed to his burns in a city hospital on Monday afternoon. “He had suffered 70 per cent burn injuries. Post mortem will be done after the police panchanama,” P. P. Lahane, Dean, Sir J J Hospital, told The Hindu.

Shinde received burns when Sonawane, who was set on fire, caught hold of him at Manmad, Nashik, on January 25. The Additional Collector lost his life in his bid to foil kerosene pilferage.

The statement of Shinde, who was part of a kerosene mafia, was not recorded by the police. His two sons have already been arrested. One of them, a minor, has been sent to a reformation centre. The First Information Report mentions 11 names. Except the minor, all the accused are in police custody.

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/01/stories ... 340800.htm

The interesting thing is that the first report of the Police mentioned that Popat Shinde was not injured. Subsequent reports started saying that he was severely burnt.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 01 Feb 2011 08:11

Orders stopping cops from taking on mafia come under scanner

Two circulars dated March 8, 2004 and January 24, 2011 issued by State Food & Civil Supplies department, will haunt the Democratic Front government in the backdrop of the brutal killing of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane.

While the first one restricted the Police from carrying out drives against adulteration in petroleum products, the other one took away the State’s powers to check transportation of furnace oil.

The first circular clearly states that no police officer below the rank of a deputy superintendent can carry out searches to check irregularities in petroleum products.

Also, the authorised officer will have to take officials from Food & Civil Supplies department into confidence and take them along for the raids.

Home Minister R R Patil blamed critics for the situation. “Police were at the receiving end after the drive against dance bars and other such issues. I was accused of engaging in moral policing. Now that the oil mafia has claimed a life, the role of the police is being scrutinised.”

However Patil assured that the police will not remain impassive. “State-wide campaigns against sand, oil and milk mafia will continue unabated,” he said, adding that in the last three days, police have arrested 163 persons involved in several adulteration rackets.

The blame game over Sonawane’s murder was not restricted to the ruling coalition. The BJP too jumped into the fray. State general secretary Vinod Tawade alleged that Rs 25 crore was paid to concerned ministers by the oil mafia leading to the January 24 circular. Said Tawade, “The business of adulteration petroleum products thrives in Navi Mumbai and parts of Raigad. Only CBI can nail the perpetrators as State Police can not take on them."

Threatening to take BJP leaders to court, Minister Anil Deshmukh defended the January 24 order, saying it was based on Union Government directives. He said, “The state did not have any role in it,” he said flashing a letter by the then Petroleum Minister Murli Deora. “It was for all the states and not for Maharashtra only.”

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2 ... anner.html

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 01 Feb 2011 09:50

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mps-a ... e/744409/0

Bhopal : A routine practice of releasing prisoners on Republic Day, in accordance with norms set a decade ago, has blown up into an embarrassment for the Madhya Pradesh government after five activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were released on January 26.
.....
Every January 26 and August 15, Madhya Pradesh releases prisoners who have served at least half of their terms and demonstrated good conduct in prison. On January 26, acting on a government circular, the administration of Khachrod sub-jail in Ujjain district released Jadil Parwaj, Aiyaz Riyaz Ahmed, Akbar Afzal Khan, Mehruddin Shaikh and Irshad Ali. The five men were convicted as recently as January 12 for “anti-national activities” by an Additional Sessions Judge who sentenced them to terms of between one year and five years, to run concurrently.

This is probably the first time that SIMI activists have been released in this manner in Madhya Pradesh.

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 01 Feb 2011 10:25

News about this has been trickling in for a few weeks...

Ahmedabad: The deadly Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever or Congo fever claimed another life in Gujarat, taking the death toll to four. A 25-year-old doctor identified as Shabbir Ali died in Ahemadabad due to Congo fever.
Shabbir Ali was working in a civil hospital and was being treated in Sterling hospital in Ahemadabad. Both his kidneys were damaged and internal haemorrage occured in his organs.

The rare deadly virus had earlier killed three people in India last month. The three dead then included a woman, and the doctor and the nurse who treated her in Ahmedabad city.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ahmedabad-co ... 042-3.html

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 01 Feb 2011 17:53

Sonawane attack: Main accused dies, family protests

But Shinde’s son Sagar said that they did not believe a dying declaration had not been made. “He was speaking with relatives and police in Nashik. He was preparing to give a statement of what happened and all the links in the racket, including the names of senior officials,” alleged Sagar.

“I don’t think he was so severely burnt that he should die. I suspect he might not have been treated at all,” he said.

Sagar said Shinde may have given a statement. “He may have revealed the names of certain politicians and bureaucrats. I am not willing to claim his body.”

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sonaw ... sts/744422

Bidhu B · Post by **Bidhu B** » 01 Feb 2011 19:02

Rajiv Malhotra along with Aravindan Neelakandan is going to discuss “Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines” in New Delhi on Feb 9 at 4:30 pm, on the occassion of the launch of their book by the same name. The venue is Vivekananda International Foundation, 3, San Martin Marg, Chanakya Puri. Web: http://www.vifindia.org

Book launch and keynote address are by Ram Jethmalani. Speakers include B Raman (Director, Institute for Topical Studies), S. Gurumurthi, Vice Admiral (Retd) Raman Puri, and Upendra Baxi (Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick).

The book “Breaking India” http://www.breakingindia.com focuses on the role of the US and European churches, academics, think tanks, foundations, governments, and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. The book is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foriegn-funding of these India-based activities.

A note from Rajiv Malhotra:

A strong line up of eminent public intellectuals from across the political spectrum will discuss “Breaking India,” the title on my new book. The chief guest will be Ram Jethmalani, and the other speakers will be B. Raman, S. Gurumurthy, Vice Admiral (retd.) Raman Puri, Upendra Baxi, and myself. The web site http://www.BreakingIndia.com has more information about the book. A brief synopsis, titled, “Six Provocations in ‘Breaking India’” is given below after the invitation, to highlight the issues and controversies it hopes to provoke.

You are invited to the event which will be held on February 9th, 2011. Tea will be served at 4:30pm, and the discussion/launch will be from 5pm to 7pm. There will be tea and a light meal afterward. The venue will be: Vivekananda International Foundation, 3 San Martin Marg, Chanyakyapuri, New Delhi. Details of the speakers and program can be found on the below invitation. I look forward to seeing you at what promises to be a lively discussion.

PROVOCATIONS IN “BREAKING INDIA”

1. DRAVIDIAN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTED, EXPLOITED & POLITICIZED:

The fabrication of South Indian history is being carried out on an immense scale with the explicit goal of constructing a Dravidian identity that is distinct from that of the rest of India. From the 1830s onwards, this endeavor’s key milestones have claimed that south India: is linguistically separate from the rest of India; has an un-Indian culture, aesthetics and literature; has a history disconnected from India’s; is racially distinct; is religiously distinct; and, consequently, is a separate nation.

Tamil classical literature that predates the 19th century reveals no such identity conflicts especially with “alien” peoples of the north, nor does it reveal any sense of victimhood or any view of Westerners or Christians as “liberators.” This identity engineering was begun by British colonial and missionary scholars, picked up by politically ambitious south Indians with British backing, and subsequently assumed a life of its own. Even then it was largely a secular movement for political power (albeit with a substratum of racist rhetoric).

In recent decades, however, a vast network of groups based in the West has co-opted this movement and is attempting to transform Tamil identity into the Dravidian Christianity movement premised on a fabricated racial-religious history. This rewriting of history has necessitated a range of archeological falsities and even epigraphic hoaxes, blatantly contradicting scientific evidence. Similar interventions by some of the same global forces have resulted in genocides and civil wars in Sri Lanka, Rwanda and other places. If unchallenged these movements could produce horrific outcomes in South India.

2. LINKING OF DRAVIDIAN & DALIT IDENTITIES:

India has its own share of social injustices that need to be continually addressed and resolved. Caste identities have been used to discriminate against others, but these identities were not always crystallized and ossified as they are today, nor were they against a specific religion per se. Caste identity faultlines became invigorated and politicized through the British Censuses of India, and later intensified in independent India by vote bank politics. A dangerous anti-national grand narrative emerged based on claims of a racial Dalit identity and victimhood. But Dalit communities are not monolithic and have diverse local histories and social dynamics.

There are several inconsistencies and errors in these caste classifications: not all Dalit communities are equivalent socially and economically, nor are they static or always subordinate to others. While Dravidian and Dalit identities were constructed separately, there is a strategy at work to link them in order to denigrate and demonize Indian classical traditions (including spiritual texts and the identities based on these) as a common enemy. This in turn, has been mapped on to an Afro-Dalit narrative which claims that Dalits are racially related to Africans and all other Indians are “whites.” Thus, Indian civilization itself is demonized as anti-humanistic and oppressive. This has become the playground of major foreign players, both from the evangelical right and from the academic left.

It has opened huge career opportunities for an assortment of middlemen including NGOs, intellectuals and “champions of the oppressed.” While the need for relief and structural change is immense, the shortsighted selfish politics is often empowering the movements’ leaders more than the people in whose name the power is being accumulated. The “solutions” could exacerbate the problems.

3. FOREIGN NEXUS EXPLOITS INDIA’S FAULTLINES:

An entity remains intact as long as the centripetal forces (those bringing its parts together) are stronger than its centrifugal forces (those pulling it apart). This study of a variety of organizations in USA and Europe demonstrates certain dangerous initiatives that could contribute to the breaking up of Indian civilization’s cohesiveness and unity using various pretexts and programs. The institutions involved include certain Western government agencies, churches, think tanks, academics, and private foundations across the political spectrum.

Even the fierce fight between Christians and Leftists within the West, and the clash between Islam and Christianity in various places, have been set aside in order to attack India’s unity. Numerous intellectual paradigms, such as postmodernist critiques of “nation,” originating from the West’s own cultural and historical experiences are universalized, imported and superimposed onto India. These ill-fitting paradigms take center stage in Indian intellectual circles and many guilt-ridden Indian elites have joined this enterprise, seeing it as “progressive” and a respectable path for career opportunities. The book does not predict the outcomes but simply shows that such trends are accelerating and do take considerable national resources to counteract. If ignored, these identity divisions can evolve into violent secessionism.

4. RELIGION’S ROLE IN THE COMPETITION FOR SOFT POWER:

Global competition among collective identities is intensifying, even as the “flat world” of meritocracy seems to enhance individual mobility based on personal competence. But the opportunities and clout of individuals in a global world relies enormously on the cultural capital and standing of the groups from which they emerge and are anchored to. As goes India and Indian culture (of which Hinduism is a major component), so will go the fate of Indians everywhere. Hence, the role of soft power becomes even more important than ever before.

Religions and cultures are a key component of such soft power. Christian and Islamic civilizations are investing heavily in boosting their respective soft power, for both internal cohesiveness and external influence. Moreover, undermining the soft power of rivals is clearly seen as a strategic weapon in the modern kurukshetra.

5. INTERROGATING THE TERM “MINORITY”:

The book raises the question: Who is a “minority” in the present global context? A community may be numerically small relative to the local population, but globally it may in fact be part of the majority that is powerful, assertive and well-funded. Given that India is experiencing a growing influx of global funding, political lobbying, legal action and flow of ideologies, what criteria should we use to classify a group as a “minority”? Should certain groups, now counted as minorities, be reclassified given their enormous worldwide clout, power and resources?

If the “minority” concerned has actually merged into an extra-territorial power through ideology (like Maoists) or theology (like many churches and madrassas), through infrastructure investment (like buying large amounts of land, buildings, setting up training centers, etc.), through digital integration and internal governance, then do they not become a powerful tool of intervention representing a larger global force rather than being simply a “minority” in India. Certainly, one would not consider a local franchise of McDonalds in India to be a minor enterprise just because it may employ only a handful of employees with modest revenues locally.

It is its global size, presence and clout that are counted and that determine the rules, restrictions and disclosure requirements to which it must adhere. Similarly, nation-states’ presence in the form of consulates is also regulated. But why are foreign religious MNCs exempted from similar requirements of transparency and supervision? (For example: Bishops are appointed by the Vatican, funded by it, and given management doctrine to implement by the Vatican, and yet are not regulated on par with diplomats in consulates representing foreign sovereign states.) Indian security agencies do monitor Chinese influences and interventions into Buddhist monasteries in the northern mountain belt, because such interventions can compromise Indian sovereignty and soft power while boosting China’s clout.

Should the same supervision also apply to Christian groups operating under the direction and control of their western headquarters and Islamic organizations funded and/or ideologically influenced by their respective foreign headquarters? Ultimately, the book raises the most pertinent challenge: What should India do to improve and deliver social justice in order to secure its minorities and wean them away from global nexuses that are often anti-Indian?

6. CONTROLLING THE DISCOURSE ON INDIA:

The book shows how the discourse on India at various levels is being increasingly controlled by the institutions in the West which in turn serve its geopolitical ambitions. So, why has India failed to create its own institutions that are the equivalent of the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, etc.? Why are there no Indian university based International Relations programs with deep-rooted links to the External Affairs Ministry, RAW, and various cultural, historical and ideological think tanks?

Why are the most prestigious journals, university degrees and conferences on India Studies, in sharp contrast to the way China Studies worldwide is under the control of Chinese dominated discourse, based in the West and mostly under the control of western institutions?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Feb 2011 21:46

Pranav:
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 1#p1021881

Murali Deora's role in cancelling sureviellance of adultration was noted in Politicsparty.com and was identifed as Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Oil venture.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 02 Feb 2011 01:56

^^ So Ambani was adulterating fuel and selling it to the people. I suppose, he was trying to compete with the subsidies.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 02 Feb 2011 02:04

Read all about it here.

http://www.politicsparty.com/INDIA_PETROL_MARTYR.php

While he is hyper about defending the first family he usually spills beans on those he thinks are against them.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 02 Feb 2011 02:20

Well its no secret that every Oil Minister has been on Reliance payroll. How was the fuel adulterated? So Mukesh acting like a Mafia man now? Well, the families position has always been "they will seek opportunities wherever they are". And that was the position when Reliance Telecom got fined by govt for doing something with the international telecoms about 2 years ago. Does that statement show any repentance for doing an illegal act?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 02 Feb 2011 02:30

I thought it was his hypper rant again. However the Maha HOme Minster waved a letter from Deora from 2004 exempting searches of suspected kerosine adulterators.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 02 Feb 2011 10:22

Pro-Binayak Sen demonstrations in US, Canada and UK

The more I read about Binayak Sen the more convincing it gets that there is US/EU involvement in Maoism in India and this guy is more than an innocent doctor. When Naxals are beheading villagers, raping women, collecting HAFTA none of these US/EU observers Nautanki seems to be going on? why is there so much interest in the case of one Induvidual when there are probably 10,000 such equally deserving cases?? what is going on?

somnath · Post by **somnath** » 02 Feb 2011 10:47

Aditya_V wrote:why is there so much interest in the case of one Induvidual when there are probably 10,000 such equally deserving cases?? what is going on?

simple - class solidarity. Look at the stereotype - he isnt a jihadi, he isnt a gun-wielding (or even a planning) left wing guerilla...He is a highly qualified doc who gave up a potential good life to work with the wretched of the earth...And he has fashionably liberal ideas...Add to that the tenuous grounds of the conviction (something acknowledged by everyone even slightly to the left of Attila the Hun

), and you get the picture...A true knight in shining armour battling for liberal values...

why just the "western" liberal circles, I expect Dr Sen to become a minor celebrity in India as well the moment he is (if and when) released...Crtainly in the campuses...

Juxtapose the pictures - Afzal Guru, SAR Geelani, Kobad Ghandi, Hafiz Sayd, Azad, Binayak Sen....Where do you think the most amount of liberal horror would be at the state's treatment?

Which is why I think that the C'garh govt made a huge tactical error in going after him (besides the tenuous legal grounds)..