Indian Interests

[Prem]

India is the ultimate balancer, the most non alligned alligned nation. In the long run, get good share of AS controlled lands/natural resources and bring maufacturing to Germany/China scale and keep Russia as partner in defence and source of raw material etc .

[Altair]

So where does Russia fit in?
They are mollycoddling TSP which is the bad apple. In this precarious game its necessary to handle the fragile toxic egg and take them out of the A-S orbit.

Is it possible that Russia/Putin wants to exploit the schism between US/TSP to their advantage and to drive US out of the region?

[svinayak]

It is. TSP cannot be an orphan and this is asian landmass. Nato cannot be allowed to be staioned there for long

[Altair]

It is. TSP cannot be an orphan and this is asian landmass. Nato cannot be allowed to be staioned there for long

What would be the cost associated for "India"?

[svinayak]

There are risks. Orderly decline of the anarchy is of utmost importance and this is the most difficult.

[Altair]

There are risks. Orderly decline of the anarchy is of utmost importance and this is the most difficult.

Acharya
This is wishful thinking. In the interest of our country it is best to divert any and all attention of Pakistan westward. If Russia wants to use Pakis to kickass Unkil for an ironic payback, India must be very clear to Russia. I do not think Russia would loose economically growing India for a crashing state of Pakistan but Russia also wants to reduce US-India interaction as well. This is Figure Skating on inch thin Ice with multiple partners!
It all can end in a single day of madness.
Altair

[Pranav]

There are risks. Orderly decline of the anarchy is of utmost importance and this is the most difficult.

Acharya
This is wishful thinking. In the interest of our country it is best to divert any and all attention of Pakistan westward. If Russia wants to use Pakis to kickass Unkil for an ironic payback, India must be very clear to Russia. I do not think Russia would loose economically growing India for a crashing state of Pakistan but Russia also wants to reduce US-India interaction as well. This is Figure Skating on inch thin Ice with multiple partners!
It all can end in a single day of madness.
Altair

Russians still carry the scars of the Afghan war. Yes, they may not want the US in Central Asia, but they will not go so far as to rescue the Paks. I think what they really would like is an independent Afghanistan, which is what India wants too.

Anyway, The US and Pak are still far from breaking their marriage. Let us wait and see.

[Pranav]

Re FDI in retail -

The relationship with producers is that of an “oligoposony,” with a few buyers and a large number of sellers. With consumers, it is one of an “oligopoly” with few sellers and a large number of buyers. Structurally, this provides the basis for an increase in margins at the expense of prices paid to producers or charged to consumers. The new “middlemen” appropriate these higher margins. That a part of the margin may be shared with the producer or consumer to increase retail volumes and market shares does not take away from the fact that the distribution of power within the supply chain benefits the large intermediary. In the medium term, it is the dominant position of these large players that would influence the size and direction of margins.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns ... 672067.ece

[Pranav]

Fuel mafia which facilitated 26/11 still flourishes - http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a ... 672239.ece

Petrol and diesel smuggling into Pakistan has been booming ever since the middle of the last decade, spurred on by record oil prices. Fuel smuggled from Iran is widely available in Pakistan's cities: in Karachi, smuggled petrol is reported to retail for between Rs.34 and Rs.38 a litre, and diesel for between Rs.28 and Rs.32. In Quetta, Iranian petrol and diesel, both retail for Rs.30 and Rs.33, while consumers in the port town of Gwadar can buy it for as little as Rs.24 and Rs.30. In towns like Taftan, along the Iran-Pakistan border, prices can run as low as Rs.20.

While smuggling is dangerous this does show that Indian prices are much higher than the free-market price. Lots of money being extracted from the public.

[brihaspati]

I guess it is the eternal dilemma of the Indian. The muddling of perception based on an imperfect understanding of philosophy - and Indic philosophy to boot.

What to do with your enemy? Especially your civilizational enemy - in the sense of an enemy who is not just after your land, wealth, cows and women - but also one who seeks to erase every bit of culture that you have achieved before. More importantly one who wants to destroy the very basis of your philosophy - that of unflinching and unlimited quest, the very essence of modern science anticipated in philosophical terms by ancient Indians. In that sense it is an enemy hell-bent on destroying the very basis of humanity and hence a global enemy of civilization.

The strange self-blinding imposed by a certain school of thought within Indian consciousness - always looks at overwhelming tolerance for anything and everything - including such enemies of human civilization. Tolerance is not the keyword of Indian philosophy, it comes as a contextual outcome for certain specific cases - and is not at the top of the pyramid of priorities. If tolerance was so supreme a value, then every sadhu/rishi/guru/seeker was and is a false one - for they should have tolerated the state of "ignorance" that they were born into, or the supposed dirtyness of the physical birth and sundry other things most humans find it necessary to go along with life.

With respect to TSP - this fundamental self-paralyzing dilemma paralyzes the whole nation. What to do with TSP? Sometimes in our haste we take steps to mitigate what we feel is immediately disruptive or destructive. We seek to contain and control rather than let go. What it often does is allow the formation of a festering cesspool that generates its own vicious creatures - infectious or destructive -bacteria or hyena - and then that very formation becomes a further cause of paralysis of action. We cover up a boil with bandage, put some local anaesthetic, and think oh the pain is less, and the bandage covers the ugly sore - lets keep it at that.

Where as ancient Indians did think of in their medicine to allow or even accelerate the pus formation so that it bursts open, or help it to open up by a little application of the razor - so that the festering fluids, and infections were drained away - we have forgotten to take that lesson. And all that comes from an utter confusion as to the nature of the TSP, and the very clear cut road open to deal with. Seek to isolate it from its allies, eventually to destroy it completely - and destriy its cultural roots so solidly - that no trace of it remains even in memory. This was literally done in Kashmir by a certain Sufi "saint" - who went about digging into the basement of a shiva temple, until the foundation blocks were exposed and even those blocks were dragged away and broken.

That is what figuratively needs to be done for the edifice of TSP. Paralysis of thought and objective before such enemies - is excusable in the commons prhaps, but is criminal in those who lead the rashtra on top of its admin-coercive apparatus.

[johneeG]

A kshatriya's primary dharma is to protect the virtous and punish the wicked. If in this process, he incurs sin so be it.

This was the teaching of Vishvamitra to Sri Rama to motivate him to slay the wicked Tataka.

Sri Krishna showed the same path to the confused Arjuna. The Lord made it clear in Bhagavad Gita that one's own dharma is far better than death.

So, a ruler or leader cannot follow infinite tolerance or total non-violence. If he wants to follow those lofty ideals, he is welcome to do so but after resigning from his rulership or leadership.

Dharma changes according to time, place and circumstance. A ruler's or leader's dharma is made quite clear without any room for confusion or doubt.

Total non-violence is Gandhism or gandhigiri. It is not hinduism or dharma.

Intrestingly, even Gandhiji supported WW2 against the nazis.

[ramana]

Recieved by e-mail:

I agree with you that this a fight between the continentals and the A-S.

However, the fight has been started by the A-S and not the Continentals. The A-S with their control of the Financial Markets are setting the rules of the fight. Just like he Great Game is really always about India while pretending to be about the CAS, the PIGS/ Euro-Debt crisis is really not about the PIGS but about Germany (and France). The demographic gloom and doom about Germany is A-S psyops and does not count Teutonic peoples in CH, AT, CZ, HU, LI, LU and even RU etc.

I have spent several months of the last two years in Germany and Italy. I can vouch for the fact that those societies don't feel one with the A-S global agenda. However, their governments do (much like IMF walas in Indraprastha) as they're over-penetrated and not as independent as they seem. This is all beyond the superficial allegations about the Monsieur's father's creed and the Fraulein's mother's creed.

My point is the continentals are on the defensive. However, I am rooting for them rather like Rhett Butler joining the rebs after Atlanta falls. ......

[D Roy]

Germany (besides France) also wants in with India. As does Japan.

But if India is the good old big bro taking on only zamindaars and delinquent brothers in its neighbourhood then it will have to develop its sinews so that it can clear the house bollywood style.

Germany and Japan can help us build those sinews. Both want out of the AS game. These countries are no longer into superpower politics. They simply want stability in a peaceful old age but have a lot stuff to share. They are the prominent citizens who are invited to zamindaar's mujra but only allowed to see not touch. And must forever keep an eye on the door guarded as it is by one of the zamindaar's goondas.

[ramana]

johneeG, Please edit your location and add it to your signature if you want. Currently, its messing up the forum format as its too long.

Thanks, ramana

[johneeG]

johneeG, Please edit your location and add it to your signature if you want. Currently, its messing up the forum format as its too long.

Thanks, ramana

Yea, I was also trying to do something with it. But didnt know what to do. I'll do as you say. Thanks.

Edit:
Just removed it from location. Dont know how to edit signature. I cant find the option in 'User Control Panel'. Please help...

[Prem]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 11486.html
A British Lady in India
In 1911, a young Lilah Wingfield captured her trip to India with a camera. In pictures.

( Great slideshow , Young Krishnamurthy with Anne Besant )

[Rahul M]

johnee, go to edit signature option in left panel, under profile.

[svinayak]

WHy 1911. This was the year when British govt announced that the capital of India will be shifted from Calcutta to Old Delhi.

Red Fort was used to seal this new capital with the Kings visit to reinforce the British hold. Their intention was a 500 year dominion on India.

British had discussion with Muslim League from 1905 and one of the demands was the captial for a eventual Muslim rule would be in Delhi/Agra/Lucknow area. This secret deal was unfolding in 1911. It took them till 1930 for the Cpaital to be built and then Iqbal and Jinnah started asking for Pakistan as a Muslim state. Their demands were to include Delhi, Agra and Lucknow.

[Prem]

The picture of the procession of George and Mary in slideshow is good indicator of their past grandeur. All the time whenmillions of Indians were starving to death. Now the tide is turning and so are many old Briturds in the graves . The Paki Pain in them must be excrusiating , churning tasteless food in their tummy .

[abhishek_sharma]

How Robert Vadra became Fastest Growing Multi-Billionaire

[Raja Bose]

"Hinduism is a Way of Life, and Life tends to be Organised Chaos!"

The beauty of being a Hindu lies in your freedom to be who you want to be. Nobody can tell you what to do, or what not to do. There is no initiation and or baptism. Hinduism is a way of Life. There is no central authority, no single leader of the faith. No one can pass an order to excommunicate you, or like in some countries, pass a decree that orders 'death by stoning' for walking with a 'strange' man.

We don't appreciate our freedom because we can't feel the plight of others who aren't free. Many religions have a central authority with awesome power over the individual. They have a clear chain of command, from the lowliest local priest to the highest central leader. Hinduism somehow escaped from such central authority, and the Hindu has miraculously managed to hold on to his freedom through the ages. How did this happen?

Vedanta is the answer. When the writers of Vedanta emerged, around 1500 BC, they faced an organised religion of orthodox Hinduism. This was the post Vedic age, where ritualism was practiced, and the masses had no choice but to follow. It was a coercive atmosphere.

The writers of Vedanta rebelled against this authority and moved away from society into forests. This was how the 'Aranyakas' were written, literally meaning 'writings from the forest'. These later paved the way for the Upanishads, and Vedanta eventually caught the imagination of the masses. It emerged triumphant, bearing with it the clear voice of personal freedom.

This democracy of religious thought, so intrinsic to Vedantic intelligence, sank into the mindset of every Indian. Most couldn't fathom the deep wisdom it contained, but this much was very clear, they understood that faith was an expression of personal freedom, and one could believe at will. That's why Hinduism saw an explosion of Gods. There was a God for every need and every creed. If you wanted to build your muscles, you worshiped a God with fabulous muscles. If you wanted to pursue education, there was a Goddess of Learning. If it was wealth you were looking for, then you looked up to the Goddess of weath — with gold coins coming out of her hands. If you wanted to live happily as a family, you worshiped Gods who specially blessed families. When you grew old and faced oncoming death, you spent time in contemplating a God whose business it was to dissolve everything — from an individual to the entire Universe.

Everywhere, divinity appeared in the manner and form you wanted it to appear, and when its use was over, you quietly discarded that form of divinity and looked at new forms of the divine that was currently of use to you. 'Yad Bhavam, tad Bhavati'… what you choose to believe becomes your personal truth, and freedom to believe is always more important than belief itself.

Behind all this — was the silent Vedantic wisdom that Gods are but figments of human imagination. As the Kena Upanishad says, "Brahma ha devebhyo vijigye…" — All Gods are mere subjects of the Self. It implies that it is far better that God serves Man than Men serve God. Because Men never really serve God — they only obey the dictates of a religious head who speaks for that God, who can turn them into slaves in God's name.

Hindus have therefore never tried to convert anyone. Never waged war in the name of religion. The average Hindu happily makes Gods serve him as per his needs. He discards Gods when he has no use for them. And new Gods emerge all the time — in response to the current needs. In this tumult, no central authority could survive. No single prophet could emerge and hold sway, no chain of command could be established.

Vedanta had injected an organised chaos into Hinduism, and that's the way it has been from the last thirty five centuries. Vedanta is also responsible, by default, for sustaining democracy. When the British left India, it was assumed that the nation would soon break up. Nothing of that kind has happened. The pundits of doom forgot that the Indian had been used to religious freedom from thousands of years. When he got political freedom, he grabbed it naturally. After all, when one can discard and/or change Gods why can't one discard leaders? Leaders like Gods are completely expendable to the Indian, predomonantly Hindu mindset. They are tolerated as long as they serve the people, and are replaced when needs change. It's the triumph of people over their leaders, in true democratic manner. Strange how the thoughts of a few men living in forests, thirty five centuries ago, can echo inside the heart of the Indian, majority of whom profess Hinduism. That's a tribute to the resurgent power of India, and the fearlessness of its free thinking people.

"Hinduism is a Way of Life, and Life tends to be Organised Chaos!"

[svinayak]

The writers of Vedanta rebelled against this authority and moved away from society into forests.

What??

[partha]

x-post

http://kafila.org/2011/12/06/kapil-sibal-is-an-idiot/

I urge you to write KAPIL SIBAL IS AN IDIOT as your Facebook status message, use the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal on Twitter, and write a blog post with the above title, because there may soon be a day when he may prevent you from doing so.
The New York Times reports:

The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online, three executives in the information technology industry say.

Top officials from the Indian units of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook are meeting with Kapil Sibal, India’s acting telecommunications minister, on Monday afternoon to discuss the issue, say two executives of Internet companies. The executives asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media on the issue.

[...]

About six weeks ago, Mr. Sibal called legal representatives from the top Internet service providers and Facebook into his New Delhi office, said one of the executives who was briefed on the meeting.

At the meeting, Mr. Sibal showed attendees a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi. “This is unacceptable,” he told attendees, the executive said, and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites. [Link]


Medianama has a detailed analysis that tries to reason with the unreasonable Mr Sibal. Nikhil Pahwa notes:

The Indian government needs to have a more realistic approach to the Internet.

We’ve said this before and we’ll say it again – there is a dangerous trend that has emerged over the last year and a half, of the Indian government trying to monitor, identify and block digital (online and mobile) communications, and increasingly there is paranoia over their lack of control over the digital space. [Link]

No laws are needed. This country is Kapil Sibal’s personal property. He can just summon Facebook officials to his office and ask, “What is this?” No prizes for guessing why this has come in a year where his government’s popularity took a nose-dive. If you are as outraged as I am, please do this to register our collective protest:

Write “Kapil Sibal is an idiot” as your Facebook status message.
Use the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal on Twitter.
Write a blog post with the title “Kapil Sibal is an idiot”.
Down with censorship! Down with the arrogance of the Kangress Party!

Economy going down, censorship coming back.. are we heading back to the 70s and 80s? This is just pathetic. And congress calls itself liberal. My foot.

[harbans]

GOI tries to Curb Facebook, Yahoo Postings and Sites because Madame Ji was criticized in some

What sort of example are these retards creating. Shouldn't BRF have a site dedicated to picking out censorship attempts by the State?

Even the UN is in Dec to pass a bill of defamation that assumes no religion preaches violence and terror.

[JE Menon]

Well, the man has compared SoniaG to Jesus (or Buddha, I forget who), so this sort of sycophantic grovelling is only to be expected... total jackass in this respect.

[abhishek_sharma]

From Rajiv Malhotra's "Breaking India"

[devesh]

no no....they are isolated instances of "whackjobs". it's not the "mainstream". these chistianists convert thousands, but hey, in billion people India, what are several thousands? our resident apologists on BRF will advise us to not "bash" the Christianists b/c hey they follow the Constitution and that is their allegiance.....the rest of us are "religion bashers"!!!!

[Sanku]

And Kapil Sibal and Kangress will not lift a finger to stop the real hate speech, but target the Internet Hindus in turn. Sahi hai.

[vishvak]

From Rajiv Malhotra's "Breaking India"

The only place these anti-Hindus deserve is within 4 walls of jailhouse.

It is not unexpected that bigots will abuse Hinduism. It is unexpected that Hindus have just ignored the law process in India and not filled FIRs so that these anti-Hindus would be punished by the law and reach their logical deserving 4 walls of jails quickly.

[Aditya_V]

And Kapil Sibal and Kangress will not lift a finger to stop the real hate speech, but target the Internet Hindus in turn. Sahi hai.

Problem is with limited people in Media a Carrot and Stick approach has been ensured for control. In the internet you can't control ever Blogger, hence go after ISP's and Websites. Ridiculous.

[ramana]

Dalrymple on Delhi's Birtish Spell

For most of their time in India, the British didn’t care much for Delhi. They remembered it as the home of the Mughals and for the 1857 mutiny of Indian soldiers, which was brutally repressed.

It was only when King George V announced the capital would move from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911 that they took greater interest in the city, later rechristening it New Delhi. For the next 36 years, as its newest layer was being built, the city was briefly the political and social hub of British India.

William Dalrymple British historian and writer William Dalrymple, whose books include “City of Djinns” and “White Mughals,” speaks to us about Delhi’s jackal hunting and Marmite days. Edited excerpts.

IRT: What attracted the British to Delhi?

WD: There was not much enthusiasm for Delhi itself but there was a great enthusiasm among the British to move out of Kolkata, which no one ever liked. Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century the British regarded Kolkata with horror, a place full of rich, educated Bengalis with revolutionary tendencies. There is a lot of snide, nasty racist stuff being written about the Bengalis and Kolkata by the British in this period.

As far as they think of Delhi at all they think of it as having a better climate and it being associated with the rather glamorous Mughals. There was also its strategic position, which has always been the great thing about Delhi, being right in the center of India but close enough to Afghanistan to control the troubles coming down from the Khyber Pass. We often forget that the 1919 Afghan invasion from the Khyber Pass happened at the same time as Delhi was being built.

IRT: How did the British live in the city?

WD: The British moved into the Civil Lines, which was the semi-Apartheid British colony north of the old city. They lived in large bungalows and had lots of servants and large gardens.

The British loved their sports and there are lots of reports of the time of hunting jackals, monsoon picnics at the Qutub Minar and going riding into the ruins.

The centers of British social life were the Gymkhana Club and what is now the Oberoi Maidens Hotel. It had a dance hall, where lots of balls were thrown.

IRT: What was their social background?

WD: The British people living in Delhi were exclusively the civil service, which by this stage was very meritocratic.

They tended to be, as they had always been since the 1850s, middle-class kids, often from Scotland and Ulster [a province in northern Ireland] who were willing to take the long exile of living abroad: younger sons, children of vicars, people who didn’t have land or landed interests. It was still regarded as a bit of an exile..

There was no British business class in Delhi, the traders all lived in Kolkata and Mumbai.

IRT: How did Indians view the British in this period?

The British exported their taste for things like Marmite to India.

WD: The 1920s-1930s was the time of growing nationalist movement. But such is the educational grip of the British on Indians that the old generation are brought up to respect the British. There is that odd period full of people being both strongly nationalistic and terribly British in their cultural tastes and in their sympathies because of their very colonial education. They like Marmite, and they like toast and tea.

IRT: What did Delhi’s “British” makeover entail?

WD: The British get excited about the whole idea of Imperial Delhi. They wanted to appropriate the ceremonial of the Mughals, who by the end of the 19th century are extinguished long enough not to be a threat. The British want to take on from their grandeur, so it’s under a Mughal dome that Curzon holds his great Durbar in 1903.

There is also a massive renaming of the Mughal paraphernalia of Delhi into British names – the opposite of what goes on after Independence, when British names get converted into Indian ones. So Roshanara Bagh, built by Shah Jahan’s daughter Roshanara, gets renamed Queen Victoria Gardens and so on.

IRT: How did the British respond to the building of New Delhi?

WD: Members of the British civil service tended to be philistines – they always were – and they hadn’t taken it in at all. They hadn’t realized the wonder that Lutyens had built. There is nothing the British have built in Britain in the 20th century that is as fine as Rashtrapati Bhavan – and no one had quite realized it.

IRT: What do you think of New Delhi today?

WD: I’m much more of a fan, in general, of Mughal and indigenous Indian architecture than I am of the architecture of Britain. But I do think that Lutyens’ Delhi is a spectacular set of buildings, a spectacular plan. Lutyens was extraordinarily ahead of his time by building in this lovely neo-classical style while absorbing Mughal elements in his design. The great tragedy of Lutyens is that he built this masterpiece and it doesn’t go anywhere. There is no Lutyens School of Architecture in modern India. Those ideas are not taken on.

The British had earlier filled the Himalayas with mock Tudor and corrugated iron roofs and in Mumbai they took Venetian Gothic and made a hideous mess. And suddenly, at the very end, they produced this spectacular masterpiece. Who would’ve thought the British were capable of building this?

it was to be the new capital of a new imperium. Hence the grand scale. It had nothing to do with the mercantile attitude of the British in Calcutta on Bombay or Madras.

[ramana]

Wonder if next on Kapil Sibal's list are the hindutva (RSS) news feeds on news sites?

Strong Gandhis, Weak Congress

...
The Gandhis provide unity to the Congress party. The Congress has no uniting ideologies of its own if you exclude power-hungriness and corruption. The Gandhis provide that unity.

In return, the Congress party ensures that the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty remains in power, directly or indirectly. After Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated and Sonia Gandhi rejected prime-ministership listening to her "conscience", Rahul Gandhi has been the heir apparent, waiting to be PM.

Whatever his fitness to be prime minister, he seems most reluctant to take the job. This writer analyzed months ago that the Bofors taint that destroyed his father's prime-ministership perhaps haunts him.

If he were to be PM, he would have to answer for any scams in government. If Rahul Gandhi had been in Manmohan Singh's place, the opposition would have "chewed him up in Parliament" on the 2G and other scandals, a Congress insider said. ....

The Congress understands that the Gandhis' fear of adverse publicity is providing a handle to the BJP. But the party is helpless.

For instance, the party often tries to make distance from Digvijay Singh's anti-Sangha Parivar ranting. When it doesn't stop the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the BJP plays the Gandhis' card. Digvijay is stopped on his tracks.

It was evident in the retail FDI controversy as well. While a united opposition and Mamata Bannerjee's Trinamool Congress forced the government to put retail FDI on hold, the Gandhi factor was also evident. At a point when the government was not budging, the BJP asked if the Gandhis backed the controversial policy.

Within a day or two, the government was backtracking.

And if you doubt this, consider the post-FDI controversy state of play. Congress beat reporters are being fed stories that the party leadership (meaning the Gandhis) were not in favour of retail FDI. You are reminded that Sonia Gandhi was mum when Manmohan Singh ruled out retail FDI rollback at a Youth Congress function.

This tactics of the Gandhis of riding two boats simultaneously is boomeranging. On one hand, it paralyzes the government. The government does not know if its policies will be backed by the Gandhis. When push comes to shove, the Gandhis go into hiding.

On the other hand, the perceived disconnect between the Gandhis and the government has made both sides vulnerable to the BJP. The Gandhis' have become their own government's opposition.

The middle- to long-term consequences of this are obvious. The risk- and criticism-averse Gandhis will freeze government decision-making. It's already frozen.

And fear of adverse publicity will so grow that Rahul Gandhi shan't dare to assume public office. If Kapil Sibal has decided to clean up the internet for the Gandhis, imagine the levels of paranoia. ....

[Akshut]

How Robert Vadra became Fastest Growing Multi-Billionaire

Can't see it. Video blocked in India.

[ramana]

from Bhratruhari's trisatas

A dog wags his tail, falls down at the feet of its master, and exhibits his paws and mouth to his master while eating. But mighty elephant looks steadily and eats when the feeder says flattering words!

[Hari Seldon]

^^^We Yindians seem to be a dog with an elephant trunk for a tail, closest description I could find...

[johneeG]

Hindu civilization, the mighty majestic elephant, has been tamed and brainwashed into believing that it is a dog.

Depending on who you are, it is either very funny or extremely tragic to see the elephant imitating a dog to please the 'master/mistress'.

[abhishek_sharma]

Views from the Right

Coerced confession
This week, RSS journal Organiser has strongly defended Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in the Malegaon blasts, saying his recent memorandum to the president shows how he was wrongly implicated through a coerced confession extracted by investigative agencies including the CBI and the NIA.

It also questions the recent release of the nine Muslims accused in the Malegaon blasts, saying that Aseemanand’s forced confession, which he has already retracted, was used as a ground by the NIA to not oppose their bail. “The saddest part of the story is that other than the purported confession of Swami Aseemanand, the investigating agencies have no shred of evidence against him. He was originally arrested for the Mecca Masjid blast and a slew of other blasts were tagged on to him,” says Organiser’s lead editorial. The article says Swami Aseemanand’s appeal to the president — first reported by this newspaper — has revealed the “shocking tactics” used by agencies like the CBI and NIA to get him to say what they wanted. Such treatment was meted to him only because he is a Hindu, it claims.

“The crux of all this is that under the UPA, no area of governance is fair and non-partisan. It plays the communal card even when the security of the nation is at stake. Treating terror investigations to score brownie points will not pay any dividend. It will not help the nation. The trouble is unfortunately Hindus have become inert to atrocities, they hardly react to humiliation heaped on their community and its leaders,” the Organiser says.

Alien invasion

The other focus of Organiser is the debate on FDI in retail. An article by Gopal Agarwal, the convenor of the economic cell of the BJP, claims that Walmart has spent over $11 million (Rs 52 crore) in the last two years to lobby for its entry in India.

Contending that this exposes the fair and unfair means employed by the MNC to expand its business, Organiser, through a series of articles, attacks the government’s decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in retail.

“Allowing 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail in India is not a good move, because the companies we are inviting are known to monopolise the market wherever they go. There are several reports from across the world to prove that major companies like Walmart and Carrefour use a monopolistic approach to kill local markets. Indonesia and other countries are good examples of the result of such monopolistic policies.” It argues that India is self-sufficient enough to develop its own supply chain infrastructure, where no technological expertise is needed.

Panchajanya has also commented on FDI in retail, pointing to the lack of consensus not only outside, but within the UPA and even the Congress.

No reservations

Panchajanya has a scathing editorial on the government’s proposal to create a quota for backward Muslims, saying this is part of its minority appeasement politics, timed with the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The law minister, Salman Khurshid, who also holds the charge of minority affairs, had said last week that the government is looking at a proposal to provide reservations for backward Muslims from within the 27 per cent quota for OBCs.

Panchajanya questions the ethical and social propriety of resorting to such backdoor methods of providing quotas for Muslims, given that the Constitution bars reservation on the basis of religion. Instead of using such methods, through which the Congress only seeks to address its votebank, it says, the criterion of economic backwardness should be followed so that all backward communities are benefited. It also claims that the extent to which the Congress can go to please Muslims can be seen from the way the communal violence bill has been drafted under the aegis of the National Advisory Council headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

[Muppalla]

Swamy tweets:

If I informed you that one candidate for PM is a homosexual with a British partner resident in Delhi, would that be invasion of privacy ?

Who could be this?

[Rupesh]

could be the onlee PM candidate with single digit IQ

[RoyG]

^^Swamy never fails to amaze.