Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 20 Jul 2014 02:57

Clinton Burkha interview.
at 13.18 when asked about visa situation for NaMo, 1st time in my life I saw slick willy stumble (explains the fishy role of his wify)

Kakkaji · Post by **Kakkaji** » 20 Jul 2014 09:01

Thanksgiving meal for team

New Delhi, July 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the BJP’s Varanasi team that worked to ensure his Lok Sabha win to a thanksgiving meal at his Race Course Road residence tonight.

The team was led by party president Amit Shah, the central prabhari (minder) of Uttar Pradesh in the elections.

Among the guests were the state BJP president, Laxmi Kant Vajpayee, three party MLAs from Varanasi, mayor Ram Gopal Mohile and local office-bearers who included Modi’s campaign manager, Ashok Dhawan, and his aide, Bechan Ram Jaiswal.

This is Modi’s first interaction with the Varanasi contingent after becoming Prime Minister.

Vajpayee said: “We are looking forward to the day he visits his constituency again. He will be given an unprecedented welcome.”

The Varanasi delegation that called on Shah at the BJP office also invited him to the city. Shah reportedly said he would come with his wife, Sonal, once she was through with family commitments.

In 2010, when Shah was externed from Gujarat after a court order saying his presence could colour the trial in the encounter killings in which he was an accused, he and his wife had spent a few months in Varanasi at the home of a friend who was a professor in Banaras Hindu University.

Sources close to Shah spoke of the “nostalgia” he experienced when he returned to oversee Modi’s campaign earlier this year.

“He was familiar with every nook and cranny of the BHU campus and its precincts."

Asked what the talking points at Modi’s dinner table could be, Vajpayee said: “It’s an informal meeting. Obviously, Varanasi will be the focus. Especially Ganga’s purification. The PM has the country to mind. But we in Uttar Pradesh will make sure the party and the PM’s agendas for the city will be fulfilled.”

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 21 Jul 2014 03:35

Discomforting disclosures

Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are learnt to have dropped in on Natwar Singh recently for what was described as a courtesy call. However, the real purpose was to prod Mr Singh into omitting any embarrassing details about the Gandhi family.

http://www.asianage.com/columnists/disc ... osures-545

Vipul · Post by **Vipul** » 21 Jul 2014 03:43

How a corrupt judge continued in Madras high court.

This expose is by Justice Markandey Katju, who was chief justice of Madras high court before becoming a Supreme Court judge. He is now chairman of the Press Council of India.

There was an additional judge of the Madras high court against whom there were several allegations of corruption. He had been directly appointed as a district judge in Tamil Nadu, and during his career as district judge there were as many as eight adverse entries against him recorded by various portfolio judges of the Madras high court. But one acting chief justice of Madras high court by a single stroke of his pen deleted all those adverse entries, and consequently he became an additional judge of the high court, and he was in that post when I came as chief justice of Madras high court in November 2004.

That judge had the solid support of a very important political leader of Tamil Nadu. I was told that this was because while a district judge he had granted bail to that political leader.

Since I was getting many reports about his corruption, I requested the Chief Justice of India, Justice RC Lahoti, to get a secret IB inquiry made about him. A few weeks thereafter, while I was in Chennai, I received a call from the secretary of the CJI saying that Justice Lahoti wanted to talk to me. The CJI then came on the line and said that what I had complained about had been found true. Evidently the IB had found enough material about the judge's corruption.

Since the two-year term as additional judge of that person was coming to an end, I assumed he would be discontinued as a judge of the high court in view of the IB report. However, what actually happened was that he got another one year's appointment as an additional judge, though six other additional judges who had been appointed with him were confirmed and made permanent judges of the high court.

I later learned how this happened. The Supreme Court collegium consists of five most senior judges for recommending names for appointment as a Supreme Court judge, and three most senior judges for dealing with high courts.

The three most senior judges in the Supreme Court at that time were the Chief Justice of India, Justice Lahoti, Justice YK Sabharwal, and Justice Ruma Pal. This Supreme Court collegium recommended that in view of the adverse IB report the judge should be discontinued as a high court judge after his two-year term was over, and this recommendation was sent to the central government.

The UPA government was at the Centre at that time. Congress was no doubt the largest party in this alliance, but it did not have a majority in Lok Sabha, and was dependent on the support of its allies. One such ally was the party in Tamil Nadu which was backing this corrupt judge. On coming to know of the recommendation of the three-judge Supreme Court collegium they strongly objected to it.

The information I got was that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at that time leaving for New York to attend the UN general assembly session. At the Delhi airport, he was told by ministers of the Tamil Nadu party that by the time he returned from New York his government would have fallen as their party would withdraw support to the UPA (for not continuing that additional judge). On hearing this, Singh panicked, but he was told by a senior Congress minister not to worry, and that he would manage everything. That minister then went to Justice Lahoti and told him there would be a crisis if that additional judge was discontinued. On hearing this, Justice Lahoti sent a letter to the government of India to give another term of one year as additional judge to that corrupt judge, (I wonder whether he consulted his two Supreme Court collegium members ), and it was in these circumstances this corrupt judge was given another one-year term as additional judge (while his six batch mates as additional judges were confirmed as permanent Judges).

The additional judge was later given another term as additional judge by the new CJI Justice Sabharwal, and then confirmed as a permanent judge by the next CJI Justice KG Balakrishnan, but transferred to another high court.

I have related all this to show how the system actually works, whatever it is in theory. In fact, in view of the adverse IB report the judge should not even have been allowed to continue as additional judge.

Kakkaji · Post by **Kakkaji** » 21 Jul 2014 05:12

Iftar goes off political turf - Break from tradition after Change in Delhi

July 20: The Gaza conflict and the change of guard since the general election seem to have taken a toll on Delhi’s political iftar scene.

President Pranab Mukherjee hosts one at Rashtrapati Bhavan tomorrow but there’s no sign yet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi or any of his BJP cabinet colleagues following suit.

Depleting the already thin calendar, the Israeli embassy has called off its July 24 iftar without assigning reasons. “We regretfully announce the cancellation of the Iftar event,” went its one-line email to the invitees.

Although Ramazan has still over a week to run, BJP sources didn’t appear too hopeful of any party bigwig organising an iftar, which marks the customary breaking of the fast in the evening.

Barring a last-minute surprise, therefore, this will be the first year since then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi began the tradition in 1980 that no Union minister from the principal ruling party will be hosting an iftar.

The Muslim clergy may not mind too much — over the past few years, many of them have become disillusioned with what they see as a “political tamasha” laced with a display of wealth.

Several Muslim organisations, Delhi-based imams and All India Muslim Personal Law Board members have urged Muslims to shun “political iftars”, arguing Ramazan was meant for prayers, piety and penance, not socialising and politics. But the advisories have had little effect.

There’s nothing official about the practice but Presidents, Prime Ministers, other Union ministers and chief ministers have been known to hold iftars as a sign of goodwill for the Muslim community. The guests tend to include leading clerics, eminent Muslims, ambassadors of Islamic nations and assorted political personalities.

Past Prime Ministers, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, have occasionally given the iftar the miss. But that happened because of national tragedies or some emergency, and they made sure that a cabinet colleague from their party hosted one instead.

BJP and bureaucratic sources didn’t want to comment on this year’s trend. A BJP leader who cannot be named said that Modi, during his 13 years as Gujarat chief minister, had never held any iftars.

“It’s a matter of the political culture and the top leadership’s temperament,” he said.

For instance, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan — once seen as Modi’s rival — held a lavish iftar at his Bhopal residence yesterday.

BJP leaders’ experiments with the iftar have sometimes led to surprises, though. One of Modi’s predecessors as Gujarat chief minister, Keshubhai Patel, had served an all-vegetarian spread in 1995.

The party’s current bosses are unlikely to forget an iftar held the very next year, 1996, by then BJP president Bangaru Laxman at the party’s New Delhi headquarters. It became the talk of the town.

First, there were no arrangements for the Magrib prayers that follow the breaking of the daylong fast. When the arrangements were hurriedly made, the namaz was offered in a different direction instead of the west.

But the BJP has come a long way since then. Chouhan yesterday not only offered a sumptuous meal, he made special arrangements for namaz on his lawns. As the host, he was the first to offer khajoor (dates) to Bhopal qazi Mushtaq Nadvi.

Among the BJP’s allies, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan held an iftar this year.

As for Congress governments, they have treated the “tradition” as a de rigueur since Indira’s pioneering effort although Sonia Gandhi, as party president, abandoned the practice after holding an iftar in 2001.

Manmohan Singh played host at his 7 Race Course Road residence almost every year barring last year, when he called the iftar off following the Uttarakhand floods.

Vajpayee too had cancelled his iftar in 2003, the year before a general election, citing a foreign trip but asked junior minister Shahnawaz Hussain to host one.

That year, then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a Muslim, too scrapped the annual presidential ritual, declaring the money saved would be donated to three orphanages. Kalam’s gesture was widely appreciated.

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 21 Jul 2014 05:38

@barbarindian: http://t.co/6em9OqMiOC $onia and the Princess recently dropped in on Natwar Singh to prod him to omit stuff from his upcoming book

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 21 Jul 2014 06:48

That year, then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a Muslim, too scrapped the annual presidential ritual, declaring the money saved would be donated to three orphanages. Kalam’s gesture was widely appreciated.

Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam should be (and is) a role model for all Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Xtians, Buddhists, Jains, and all other religions alike.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 21 Jul 2014 07:33

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 21 Jul 2014 07:34

Why the F should India do iftars? Does Saudi Arabia do Diwali?
We Hindus are still what we always were. Dhimmis with no self respect.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 21 Jul 2014 07:50

KJoishy wrote:Why the F should India do iftars? Does Saudi Arabia do Diwali?
We Hindus are still what we always were. Dhimmis with no self respect.

Why this self-flaggation ji? India isn't a Hindu Rastra to attribute GoI faults to Hindus.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 21 Jul 2014 10:21

Discomforting disclosures

Clearly nervous about the possible revelations contained in former foreign minister Natwar Singh’s forthcoming autobiography, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are learnt to have dropped in on him recently for what was ostensibly described as a courtesy call.

However, the real purpose was to prod Mr Singh into omitting any embarrassing details about the Gandhi family. Mrs Gandhi has reason to be worried.

Hope, BJP has a counter move to it and BJP should persuade Natwar Singh to release the dirty secrets of dynastic mafia.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 21 Jul 2014 10:23

KJoishy wrote:Why the F should India do iftars? Does Saudi Arabia do Diwali?
We Hindus are still what we always were. Dhimmis with no self respect.

Forget about Saudi. Even Hindu-dominant India does not parties for devotees on Maha Shivratri or Ekadasi. We even do not conduct a grand fire crack ceremony on Diwali.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 21 Jul 2014 12:22

kmkraoind wrote: Forget about Saudi. Even Hindu-dominant India does not parties for devotees on Maha Shivratri or Ekadasi. We even do not conduct a grand fire crack ceremony on Diwali.

I think we will. NM doesn't wear religion on his sleeve (its a half sleeve Modi kurta after all) but I do expect the Ramleela tradition will continue in Dilli, maybe there'll be a grand fireworks show for Dilwali as well (plenty of outdated ammo and ordnance in the IA that can be let go).

Would be nice to see another awesome Ganga Arti with NM participating, eh? Maybe from Haridwar this time....

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 21 Jul 2014 12:28

Looks like NM is wasting no time to dismantle the apparatus.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 21 Jul 2014 12:29

Interesting info

http://www.powerpolitics.in/Issues/Octo ... page23.php

That report had said, "Essentially, late on the night of January 16 (the day Army Chief General V K Singh approached the Supreme Court on his date of birth issue), central intelligence agencies reported an unexpected (and non-notified) movement by a key military unit, from the mechanised infantry based in Hisar (Haryana) as a part of the 33rd Armoured Division (which is a part of 1 Corps, a strike formation based in Mathura and commanded by Lt Gen. A K Singh) in the direction of the capital, 150 km away."

In both the episodes, the name of RC Rajamani Capital Close-up October 2013 the same general V K Singh was sought to be dragged to show him in some suspicious , mysterious light .

It is strange that the same Lt Gen was given post of Lt Guv of A&N Island administration on his retirement in July 2013. He is Brother of Meera Shankar
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/c ... s/1137460/

For instance, former Southern Army Commander Lt General (retd) A K Singh, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, is no stranger to the Nehru-Gandhi family. His sister Meera Shankar, the former Indian ambassador to the US, was Director in Rajiv Gandhi's PMO and said to have enjoyed a good rapport with Sonia Gandhi.

And now he has been given additional charge of Puducherry. It is rumored that he is close relative of Mulla Yam and is now trying to use VKS to retain his guv'ship. Congis roots go deep to the extent of moving Mechanised Infantry as a regular unit movement /exercise to test mobilisation during fog conditions and leeway to express to color it as conspiracy by VKS. NaMo taking time to read the situation seems correct course of action.
Too many IEDs are laid by fleeing congis after the battle was over in Northern plains.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 21 Jul 2014 18:13

Modi at BARC today.

My Q is whats that pink cycle doing there?

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 21 Jul 2014 18:16

and those 2 water cans

prahaar · Post by **prahaar** » 21 Jul 2014 18:26

chaanakya wrote:Interesting info

http://www.powerpolitics.in/Issues/Octo ... page23.php

That report had said, "Essentially, late on the night of January 16 (the day Army Chief General V K Singh approached the Supreme Court on his date of birth issue), central intelligence agencies reported an unexpected (and non-notified) movement by a key military unit, from the mechanised infantry based in Hisar (Haryana) as a part of the 33rd Armoured Division (which is a part of 1 Corps, a strike formation based in Mathura and commanded by Lt Gen. A K Singh) in the direction of the capital, 150 km away."

In both the episodes, the name of RC Rajamani Capital Close-up October 2013 the same general V K Singh was sought to be dragged to show him in some suspicious , mysterious light .
It is strange that the same Lt Gen was given post of Lt Guv of A&N Island administration on his retirement in July 2013. He is Brother of Meera Shankar
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/c ... s/1137460/
For instance, former Southern Army Commander Lt General (retd) A K Singh, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, is no stranger to the Nehru-Gandhi family. His sister Meera Shankar, the former Indian ambassador to the US, was Director in Rajiv Gandhi's PMO and said to have enjoyed a good rapport with Sonia Gandhi.
And now he has been given additional charge of Puducherry. It is rumored that he is close relative of Mulla Yam and is now trying to use VKS to retain his guv'ship. Congis roots go deep to the extent of moving Mechanised Infantry as a regular unit movement /exercise to test mobilisation during fog conditions and leeway to express to color it as conspiracy by VKS. NaMo taking time to read the situation seems correct course of action.
Too many IEDs are laid by fleeing congis after the battle was over in Northern plains.

Sir how come all the FS are considered to be having close familial ties with Gandhis? Sujatha Singh, now information about Meera Shankar, is the first-among-the-elite bureaucracy defined based on familial ties alone? Many on BRF spend a lot of time highlighting the family nexus in media but have no clue about the situation in officialdom (due to its opaque nature).

shravanp · Post by **shravanp** » 21 Jul 2014 18:48

Vipul wrote:How a corrupt judge continued in Madras high court.

This expose is by Justice Markandey Katju, who was chief justice of Madras high court before becoming a Supreme Court judge. He is now chairman of the Press Council of India.

There was an additional judge of the Madras high court against whom there were several allegations of corruption. He had been directly appointed as a district judge in Tamil Nadu, and during his career as district judge there were as many as eight adverse entries against him recorded by various portfolio judges of the Madras high court. But one acting chief justice of Madras high court by a single stroke of his pen deleted all those adverse entries, and consequently he became an additional judge of the high court, and he was in that post when I came as chief justice of Madras high court in November 2004.

That judge had the solid support of a very important political leader of Tamil Nadu. I was told that this was because while a district judge he had granted bail to that political leader.

Since I was getting many reports about his corruption, I requested the Chief Justice of India, Justice RC Lahoti, to get a secret IB inquiry made about him. A few weeks thereafter, while I was in Chennai, I received a call from the secretary of the CJI saying that Justice Lahoti wanted to talk to me. The CJI then came on the line and said that what I had complained about had been found true. Evidently the IB had found enough material about the judge's corruption.

Since the two-year term as additional judge of that person was coming to an end, I assumed he would be discontinued as a judge of the high court in view of the IB report. However, what actually happened was that he got another one year's appointment as an additional judge, though six other additional judges who had been appointed with him were confirmed and made permanent judges of the high court.

I later learned how this happened. The Supreme Court collegium consists of five most senior judges for recommending names for appointment as a Supreme Court judge, and three most senior judges for dealing with high courts.

The three most senior judges in the Supreme Court at that time were the Chief Justice of India, Justice Lahoti, Justice YK Sabharwal, and Justice Ruma Pal. This Supreme Court collegium recommended that in view of the adverse IB report the judge should be discontinued as a high court judge after his two-year term was over, and this recommendation was sent to the central government.

The UPA government was at the Centre at that time. Congress was no doubt the largest party in this alliance, but it did not have a majority in Lok Sabha, and was dependent on the support of its allies. One such ally was the party in Tamil Nadu which was backing this corrupt judge. On coming to know of the recommendation of the three-judge Supreme Court collegium they strongly objected to it.

The information I got was that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was at that time leaving for New York to attend the UN general assembly session. At the Delhi airport, he was told by ministers of the Tamil Nadu party that by the time he returned from New York his government would have fallen as their party would withdraw support to the UPA (for not continuing that additional judge). On hearing this, Singh panicked, but he was told by a senior Congress minister not to worry, and that he would manage everything. That minister then went to Justice Lahoti and told him there would be a crisis if that additional judge was discontinued. On hearing this, Justice Lahoti sent a letter to the government of India to give another term of one year as additional judge to that corrupt judge, (I wonder whether he consulted his two Supreme Court collegium members ), and it was in these circumstances this corrupt judge was given another one-year term as additional judge (while his six batch mates as additional judges were confirmed as permanent Judges).

The additional judge was later given another term as additional judge by the new CJI Justice Sabharwal, and then confirmed as a permanent judge by the next CJI Justice KG Balakrishnan, but transferred to another high court.

I have related all this to show how the system actually works, whatever it is in theory. In fact, in view of the adverse IB report the judge should not even have been allowed to continue as additional judge.

rNDTV's prestitute Nidhi Razdan is harping upon the 'timing'. (No timing issues when Godhra riots were routinely raked exactly during election season).

Rahul Mehta · Post by **Rahul Mehta** » 21 Jul 2014 18:59

Katju is cribbing ONLY because that corrupt High Court judge was a Dalit. Otherwise, more than 75% judges in Supreme, High and Lower courts are corrupt. Corruption , nepotism, selling judgements for promotions\transfers\appointments etc has been a norm in judge system for past 6000 years across the globe. Only corruption of Dalit judges like Paul Daniel Dinakaran or Bala Subramanian becomes issue.

And what solutions do Katju, BJP, NaMo propose? The solution they propose is ---- National Judocratic Commission, where 10 persons at apex will take all decisions. And how is it any different from existing system? If Supreme Chief judge can be managed, then so can these be 10 commissioners. IOW, neither Katju nor BJP nor NaMo nor Sonia nor AK are at all interested in fixing the problems of corruption , nepotism etc in judges. They just want National Judocratic Commission so that it becomes easy for MNC-owners to control judges. Katju is complaining ONLY to make a case for National Judiratic Commission. Rest is paidmedia masala.

SanjayC · Post by **SanjayC** » 21 Jul 2014 19:09

prahaar wrote:Sir how come all the FS are considered to be having close familial ties with Gandhis? Sujatha Singh, now information about Meera Shankar, is the first-among-the-elite bureaucracy defined based on familial ties alone? Many on BRF spend a lot of time highlighting the family nexus in media but have no clue about the situation in officialdom (due to its opaque nature).

Gandhi family heirloom Mani Shankar Aiyar is also ex-IFS.

prahaar · Post by **prahaar** » 21 Jul 2014 19:10

RMji, please explain are Sabharwal, Lahoti, Pal dalits as well? Please spare this non sense for your own thread.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 21 Jul 2014 19:26

Sujatha Singh got the FS post due to familial ties is well known. It is possible that she may have lit the Bangla visa IED as it was released to the press after she chaired a meeting on the subject. Her elevation to that post cost India prime talent as K Subramanyam's son Jaishankar was passed up for that position. He may now be appointed as special envoy for China.

Lots of civil service folks turn out to be closet CongIs. Romesh Bhandari, TN Seshan and of course our very own MMS.

Sagar G · Post by **Sagar G** » 21 Jul 2014 19:50

pandyan wrote:
Hari Seldon wrote:Modi at BARC today.

My Q is whats that pink cycle doing there?
looks like a solar powered demo cycle. water cans are connected to cartridges probably Reverse Osmosis/Water purification system demo.

My initial thoughts as well and yes you are bang on target.

Bicycle Mounted Water Purification (RO/UF) Unit Driven by Hybrid Power System

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 21 Jul 2014 21:26

prahaar wrote:
Sir how come all the FS are considered to be having close familial ties with Gandhis? Sujatha Singh, now information about Meera Shankar, is the first-among-the-elite bureaucracy defined based on familial ties alone? Many on BRF spend a lot of time highlighting the family nexus in media but have no clue about the situation in officialdom (due to its opaque nature).

Its well known that you can't have creme de' la creme postings unless you are close to the centre of power. They have been ruling for almost half a century in Independent India ( and before that ) therefore you need to be closet congi to survive and move up in creme postings. That would be true of even BJP is they continue in power for next twenty years. Cleaning up is a long drawn process.

And Media and others are well aware of this and not highlighted as neutrality of bureaucracy is cited often ( flouted in abundance) to maintain anonymity.

AjayKK · Post by **AjayKK** » 21 Jul 2014 23:37

Rahul Mehta wrote:Katju is cribbing ONLY because that corrupt High Court judge was a Dalit.

The judge named by Katju and confirmed by many media reports and the ex-Law Minister Bharadwaj on TV is Shri S Ashok Kumar.
He passed away in Oct. 2009.
He was not a dalit.
He was born EJ and passed away as EJ. Wife EJ. Children EJ, married to EJ,
He changed name from S Anthony to S Ashok Kumar by stating that he converted to Hinduism.
This was he got appointed as judge under SC quota by showing a back dated Arya Samaj conversion.
And thus, our S Anthony became Hindu S Ashok Kumar.
Wah! Such a smart thing to do, converting directly to become a SC.

prahaar · Post by **prahaar** » 21 Jul 2014 23:49

chaanakya wrote:
prahaar wrote:
Sir how come all the FS are considered to be having close familial ties with Gandhis? Sujatha Singh, now information about Meera Shankar, is the first-among-the-elite bureaucracy defined based on familial ties alone? Many on BRF spend a lot of time highlighting the family nexus in media but have no clue about the situation in officialdom (due to its opaque nature).
Its well known that you can't have creme de' la creme postings unless you are close to the centre of power. They have been ruling for almost half a century in Independent India ( and before that ) therefore you need to be closet congi to survive and move up in creme postings. That would be true of even BJP is they continue in power for next twenty years. Cleaning up is a long drawn process.

And Media and others are well aware of this and not highlighted as neutrality of bureaucracy is cited often ( flouted in abundance) to maintain anonymity.

Thanks for the explanation.

Mihaylo · Post by **Mihaylo** » 21 Jul 2014 23:58

krishnan wrote:and those 2 water cans

Imported Water Technology from Pakistan for sure.

-M

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Jul 2014 00:00

Reverse Osmosis is how you remove electricity from water.

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 22 Jul 2014 04:08

ramana wrote:Reverse Osmosis is how you remove electricity from water.

A process pioneered by the great scientist Osama-bin-sissy.

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 22 Jul 2014 06:02

kmkraoind wrote:
KJoishy wrote:Why the F should India do iftars? Does Saudi Arabia do Diwali?
We Hindus are still what we always were. Dhimmis with no self respect.
Forget about Saudi. Even Hindu-dominant India does not parties for devotees on Maha Shivratri or Ekadasi. We even do not conduct a grand fire crack ceremony on Diwali.

Forget about hindu-dominant India does what for yindooism.. i can't help my kids to be religious.

member_28108 · Post by **member_28108** » 22 Jul 2014 06:45

Hari Seldon wrote:Modi at BARC today.

My Q is whats that pink cycle doing there?

I had a close look and realized it is a solar and manual(by cycling) powered RO system to purify water(There is dirty water with mud in one water canand another filtered water in the other). This may have been an initiative to allow production of potable water from brackish/polluted water in rural areas.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 22 Jul 2014 15:44

Why Modi is silent on the Congress 'deals'

Modi administration has access to so much evidence that it can rip apart the Congress, not just the Nehru-Gandhis, but almost the entire leadership structure of the party,' says T V R Shenoy

http://m.rediff.com/news/column/tvr-she ... 140722.htm

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 22 Jul 2014 16:28

gandharva wrote:Why Modi is silent on the Congress 'deals'

Modi administration has access to so much evidence that it can rip apart the Congress, not just the Nehru-Gandhis, but almost the entire leadership structure of the party,' says T V R Shenoy

http://m.rediff.com/news/column/tvr-she ... 140722.htm

Shenoy is supposed to be a journalist. If there is stuff to be exposed about Congress perfidy, he should do his job, cultivate the sources who have access to the information, and expose said perfidy.

Instead, he is writing lazy speculative stories about Modi being chankian in keeping Congress in play. Modi has made it plain in the campaign that he will not spend his time as PM pursuing a vindictive agenda, but rather, "the law should take its own course."

Nothing prevents Shenoy from digging up the information and filing a PIL, for example.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 22 Jul 2014 16:45

Modi's communal-fascist colours exposed!

Modi sarkar has not only done zero iftar parties this year but has had minisicule attendence in others' iftars.

Instead, Modi shows off his blatantly communal side in the holy-e-holy month of ~~Ramzan~~ Ramadan by indulging in actions likely to be perceibved as insensitive if not offensive by mainorities only... sheesh. /snark off.

Adv. Ashish Shelar President @bjpmumbai presented photo of Shree Sidhhivinayak Bappa to PM @narendramodi

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 22 Jul 2014 21:49

converting directly to become a SC

Wasn't it a decision of the Supreme Court to limit reservations for 5 years from the date of announcement. Seems it is not enforced; and how do people who become judges of the Supreme Court are called backward by any sense.

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 22 Jul 2014 23:44

<small OT> Where can one buy a photo like that? Or is it a one-off to adorn PM's Office? I know one cannot take photos of Tirumala Sri Venkyateshwara. Calendars have photos of only utsava vigraha.</small OT>

rajsunder · Post by **rajsunder** » 23 Jul 2014 00:15

AjayKK wrote:
Rahul Mehta wrote:Katju is cribbing ONLY because that corrupt High Court judge was a Dalit.
The judge named by Katju and confirmed by many media reports and the ex-Law Minister Bharadwaj on TV is Shri S Ashok Kumar.
He passed away in Oct. 2009.
He was not a dalit.
He was born EJ and passed away as EJ. Wife EJ. Children EJ, married to EJ,
He changed name from S Anthony to S Ashok Kumar by stating that he converted to Hinduism.
This was he got appointed as judge under SC quota by showing a back dated Arya Samaj conversion.
And thus, our S Anthony became Hindu S Ashok Kumar.
Wah! Such a smart thing to do, converting directly to become a SC.

found this on the previous edits on the corrup judge's wiki entry which is now edited http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S._Ashok_Kumar&diff=617999366&oldid=617994509

His name on his birth was Antonysamy. His parents were Christians till their demise and till his enrolement as an advocate, he was a christian. He married a Christian lady Ms.Ebi who continues as Christian till date. But, after three years from the date of his enrolement as an advocate, Ashok Kumar had got a certificate from local Tahsildar as if he converted to Hinduism and on that basis, he got appointment as District judge in a seat reserved for Hindu Scheduled caste. Later, when his appointment was challenged on the ground of fraud about his community and religion, Ashok Kumar denied it. The Madras High Court dismissed the writ petition by holding that as the averments were disputed, it could not be decided in writ jurisdiction. Immediately, it was brought to the knowledge of District level committee for caste verification which did not proceed with the enquiry till the demise of Ashok Kumar. But, on his death, the body of Ashok Kumar was buried in a Christian cemetry in Foreshore Estate, Chennai after performing ceremonies as per the Christian customs which proved that his statement in the affidavit filed by him in the High Court was a false one.

This has been added on to his wiki entry multiple times and been removed multiple times. Looks like his family does not want the truth to come out.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 23 Jul 2014 00:19

The smashing win for NaMo along with crushing defeat of congas have put fear of irrelevance into local state congi leaders in few states.

Now Namo has to continue to concentrate on doing good work for the nation.
Allow law to take its course and catch the congi goons.
Get enough evidence to indict big fishes including Mata beta duo.

The local young congi leaders will abandon in droves with defunct leaders in congas.

Mahatma from Gujarat wanted congress mukth Bhartah probably will be fulfilled by a fellow Gujarati.

NaMo Namah.

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 23 Jul 2014 03:02

rajsunder - death rites alone does not make a person of a religion. after all, the person is dead and may not have had a choice in what is being done to his body

. he may have very well been a "crypto xtian"..but that's not the clincher for me.

katju says about IB report on him that confirms he is corrupt. are such reports under rti? maybe somebody can ask for that report to be public.