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Shadow over coal

If the government really intended to divert attention away from the coal block allotment controversy, as is being charged by the BJP, it looks to have succeeded with its decision to allow FDI in retail. The latest issues of Sangh Parivar weeklies, Organiser and Panchjanya, reflect that. Both journals were critical of the government on the issue of FDI in retail.

The cover story in Organiser has charged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with having “capitulated to [the] US’ demand for market access” by allowing foreign investment. Admitting that the decision was successful at diverting attention away from coal block allotments, the editorial in Organiser has projected this decision — along with the diesel price hike and cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders — as the “beleaguered prime minister’s... googly” against Congress President Sonia Gandhi, “akin to Indira Gandhi’s bank nationalisation”.

“In one stroke, Manmohan Singh has killed several birds. He has pleased his foreign masters, he has distracted the opposition ire [sic], foxed the Congress party into supporting him a little longer and won favours for the corporate class,” writes Organiser. It also contends that the PM timed his decision to bail out US President Barack Obama as he runs for re-election, where Obama is charged of “losing American jobs to Asia while the large Indian middle-class buyers’ market had been restricted to foreign companies”.

The editorial in Panchjanya argued that the government ignored over six crore domestic retail traders while succumbing to “US pressure” to open up the retail sector. Organiser also highlighted Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s decision to pull out of the UPA government to assert that the ruling Congress betrayed its allies.

Sudarshan Loss

Both Sangh Parivar weeklies mourned the death of former RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan with extensive coverage of the life and works of the Parivar’s former head. Series of reports and photographs in both journals pay homage to Sudarshan for inspiring generations of RSS workers. The attendance of top BJP leaders — L.K. Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Gopinath Munde, Ananth Kumar and Narendra Modi, among others — at RSS headquarters to pay tribute was highlighted.

While the reports on Sudarshan talk of his commitment to “swadeshi and economic self-reliance”, Organiser in particular has sought to show that Sudarshan “pioneered inter-faith dialogue”. To substantiate its claim, Organiser specifically pointed out about the presence of “many religious leaders from Muslim, Christian and Buddhist sects” at RSS headquarters. Organiser underlined the tributes paid by Jamat Ulema-e-Hind’s president, Maulana Kazmi and published pictures of Muslim community members paying their respects to the former Sangh Parivar chief.

BUILDING BRIDGES

An article in Organiser also spoke of Sudarshan’s “relentless efforts and consistent attempts” build bridges with the Muslim community in the country. In support, the article also acknowledges the “determined effort” put in by “senior RSS leader Indresh” to “achieve this seemingly difficult and unachievable target” — that is, building bridges with Muslims. The article refers to his engagement with several Muslim leaders during his tenure as RSS chief.

“Sudarshanji had deep knowledge about Islam and Christianity. Several Muslim intellectuals and clerics respected him. They used to visit him and he also used to participate in their programmes,” Panchjanya said.

Though both weeklies published pictures of Sudarshan and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee together, they did not discuss the differences between him and Vajpayee when the NDA was in power.

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That article is to create false image of India.
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Carl wrote: :rotfl: Is this a joke? Seriously, is that what "Lord Meghnath Desai" thinks it means? I can't believe it.
Shows that you have to be a total coconut - brown on the outside and white on the inside to become a "lard". The fool does not understand and no one has explained to him either.
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Ignoring or filing cases is the proper way of protesting against a film one does not agree with. Not by Killing Ambassodors, rioting and Announcing Bounties.

Looks like the lastest ploy of INC to break the grip of Baba Ramdev.

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From the Urdu Press
RIOTS OVER VIDEO

While news pages of Urdu papers are full of reports of angry demonstrations in response to the film Innocence of Muslims, editorials and opinion pieces in many newspapers have taken a different route.

The multi-edition daily Inquilab, in its editorial on September 21, writes: “Islamic history is witness to the fact that its leading lights have never believed in an inflammatory response to a provocative action. A well thought-out response is much better than uncontrolled anger. Goods and manufacturers from those countries where anti-Islam episodes are taking place should be boycotted. Pressure should be exerted on the concerned governments to compel them to take the right diplomatic steps. In response to provocation, Islamic teachings should be disseminated... Efforts should be made to influence people in other communities so they might stand up in defence of Islam even before Muslims.”

Delhi-based daily Jadeed Khabar wrote on September 23: “It is being proved that these conspiracies are hatched to destroy the lives and property of Muslims. It is our responsibility to abort the evil designs of anti-Islam forces. While staging peaceful protests against ill-intentioned activities, we should let the world know that Muslims cannot tolerate any insults or misbehaviour against the Quran or the Prophet. Muslims should protect their life and property because the life of a human being is considered (in Islam) to be more valuable even than Kaaba.”

Mamata’s Decision

Describing Mamata Banerjee’s decision to withdraw her support to the UPA government as “unwise”, Rashtriya Sahara in its September 20 editorial, writes: “If one looks at the ground reality, this is the second defeat of politics based on egoism, stubbornness and an illogical attitude. In the first case, Mamata understood the situation when she realised that she had been left alone and she had agreed to Pranab Mukherjee’s candidature for the office of president. And now she has ignored everyone’s advice. She is out in the cold again. She will realise sooner or later that her decision will benefit neither West Bengal nor herself.”

The daily Inquilab in its editorial on the same day writes: “At a time when political stability is the prime need of the hour, Mamata Banerjee’s step against the Central government simply amounts to benefitting the BJP, which is waiting for an opportunity and quietly enjoying the sad plight of the UPA. The situation demanded for all UPA allies, including the Trinamool Congress, to present their opinions to the government and pressed it to avoid taking anti-people decisions. It is not necessary to withdraw support to exert pressure.”

Calling Banerjee’s decision a “a hard reply to the Central government’s hard decision,” Daawat says “one cannot expect a positive stance in answer to an arbitrary action. More than the feelings of the allies, the aam aadmi is feeling deceived [by the Centre]. In these circumstances, the Centre is depending entirely on the Samajwadi Party. But, as political observers are saying, the Samajwadi Party can blackmail the government.”

Aseem Trivedi Case

Rashtriya Sahara, in its September 2 editorial, writes: “In the past, appropriate action has been taken against many important people for insulting the national flag or national song. But describing it as rebellion against the country and the nation is certainly an exaggeration.” The daily Sahafat writes: “The first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, described Section 124(A) of the Indian Penal Code as objectionable in 1951 and said in Parliament that it should be revoked. After that, Nehru remained PM for 14 years but did not take any action against this law for unknown reasons.”

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Brajesh Mishra passes away.
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^^^ best known for bailing out Rahul in Boston, when he was arrested with unaccounted-for cash, and also for his foul-mouthed abuse of Gen VK Singh.
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Now that whatever he had in his store is carried to his pyre hopefully atleast someone in D4 can be unshackled
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Irrigated field day

The political turmoil in the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, after NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s resignation as deputy chief minster, has provided Sangh Parivar weekly Organiser with another stick to beat the UPA with. In a cover story on the alleged irrigation scam in Maharashtra, Organiser seeks to project the tussle between the NCP and the Congress as “corruption competition”, where, it alleges, “Pawar Inc tries to outperform Sonia Inc”.

The full page report in Orgainser describes the investment of Rs 70,000 crore in irrigation and another Rs 40,000 crore on repair of dams as “brazen loot” by the Congress-NCP.

Underlining that while the popular narrative of Ajit Pawar’s resignation has been the tussle within the “uncle-nephew Pawar team”, the report claims the development is part of a “strategy to make a last-ditch attempt to put Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan in his place”, because he has been “raking up various scandals to corner the NCP”. The report also claims that the uncle-nephew tussle is only for “public consumption” as “there are massive financial scandals brewing in the background from which both might be seeking to escape”.

Given that an RTI activist has come down against BJP president Nitin Gadkari, claiming that he made efforts to suppress the irrigation scam expose, the article laments the role of NGOs using the information received through RTI to get “best deals” for them.

“Many of the NGOs, who have suddenly struck gold in these land scandals, are no less culpable. They buy land near the newly irrigated regions of the dams after having scoured through RTI responses to find the best deals,” says the article, despite acknowledging the role of NGOs in exposing “land scandals in which the Pawars have got embroiled” over the last few years.

Gilgit-Baltistan

The latest issue of Panchjanya has sought to draw attention towards what it calls a fresh trick from the Pakistan government to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as one of the provinces of Pakistan, saying that the “Pakistan-controlled illegal” assembly of the region has passed a resolution to this effect last September. The article points out the issue is now with the Gilgit-Baltistan Council headed by the Pakistan prime minister, and will reach its national assembly after the council gives its approval that will pave the way for making Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan’s fifth province.

Underlining that despite Pakistani control over the region, the courts and the constitution do not consider the region as part of Pakistan, the article fears the current move is aimed to change this permanently.

The article asserts it is the demand of all “patriotic Indians” that Delhi “object to this illegal step”, suggesting that the government tell the world about its strong objections to the move. Regretting that the government has not indicated “when and how” it is going to object to the development, it praises those members from the region and local organisations who objected to the resolution.

Sinking ship

With the cabinet reshuffle not taking place, the editorial in Panchjanya claims the delay shows the UPA partners’ lack of interest in continuing to ride the ruling bandwagon and, consequently, it is another example of the “disintegration of [the] UPA”.

The editorial rejects suggestions that the delay is because of the inauspicious Hindu calendar and claims it’s because of the inability of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to get allies to close their ranks behind the government. It claims the current situation is an outcome of allies being “ignored” by the Congress.

It justifies its assessment saying that NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s remarks that Mamata Banerjee was free to take her decision is an indication that he was also “open to part ways from the UPA, if the Congress persisted with its unilateralism”. In this context, it also highlights that another UPA partner, the DMK, is reluctant to induct more ministers. The editorial claims the Congress wanted to “project unity” in the UPA through the ploy of a cabinet reshuffle. “But, nobody is ready to join this sinking ship,” argues the editorial, concluding that it is not surprising as the allies are no longer keen on sharing the blame for this allegedly “insensitive” government.

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nawabs wrote:Desai questions 'suitability' of Gita in modern India

http://in.news.yahoo.com/desai-question ... 00298.html
Professor Emeritus of London School of Economics Lord Meghnad Desai on Wednesday said the Bhagavad Gita was not "a suitable text for modern India".

"Why are we respecting the text uncritically, which has so many flaws?" he asked while delivering a lecture on "The Bhagavad Gita: A secular inquiry into A sacred text" at AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies.

He said: "The Bhagavad Gita has many flaws and certain questions should be raised by us. My purpose is to analyse and deconstruct the text. I am trying to read the Bhagavad Gita as a secular text and not as a sacred text. I am putting certain questions to the authorship though multiple authors are there."

Desai added that there are certain elements in the text of the Bhagavad Gita which are not suitable in modern India.

The Professor Emeritus said: "In the text, it has been asked to do karma without thinking about the consequences. How can it be said that we should not think about the consequences? Whatever we do affects others too. For example, if I start drinking and then driving without thinking about the consequences, I might kill many people on the road."

He added: "If I do that, I might have to go for psychological examination. It is not possible that we go on thinking just about doing karma without thinking about others. How can we think only about ourselves and not others and go on killing people."

Desai said the people should think about the consequences so that we do not harm others by our actions.

At the lecture organised by Nalanda University, he also talked about women and observed that women had not been mentioned in the text anywhere.

He said: "Women have not been mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita anywhere. It is just two shlokas where they have been mentioned. One among the two is that mentioned in 9.32 (chapter 9, verse 32) that is mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah striyo vaisyas tatha sudras te 'pi yanti param gatim. The translation for this is ' son of Pritha, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth, women, vaishyas [merchants] and shudras [workers] can attain the supreme destination.' This is again to be thought about."

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai is an Indian-born British economist and Labour politician.

Hetukar Jha, the head of the department of sociology, Patna University, chaired the event. The officer on special duty (academic affairs and university development), Nalanda University, was also present on the occasion. Asian Development Research Institute founder member Shaibal Gupta and Gopa Sabharwal, the vice-chancellor of Nalanda University, were also present at the event.
Western educated morons coming back to teach us uneducated yindoos... glorious days ahead, both for the culture,nation and religion... :|
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actually, he wasn't "western educated" in the strictest sense. his foundations were laid in India. he got a Master's in India b4 leaving abroad. so clearly, not much can be said of the foundations if he is fulminating such nonsense at ripe old age.
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devesh wrote:actually, he wasn't "western educated" in the strictest sense. his foundations were laid in India. he got a Master's in India b4 leaving abroad. so clearly, not much can be said of the foundations if he is fulminating such nonsense at ripe old age.
I guess you are right deveshji, the virus of macaulitism can infect at any age and time.... I have a deep personal experience with that... :x

Btw, I have read some nice blogs discussing Indian Interests and Indian History, would it be okay if I post them here??
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^^^

The period when Desai was educated, or even today. Indian education system does its best to make sure that Indians disrespect such wisdom.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201209 ... ndia.shtml
Emerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma's Losing Patent Battles In India
Emerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma's Losing Patent Battles In India
from the this-could-get-interesting dept

Techdirt has been following the important story of the kidney and liver cancer drug marketed under the name Nexavar since March, when India granted a compulsory license for the first time since re-instating patents on pharmaceuticals. Naturally, the patent holder, Bayer, fought back, and appealed against that decision. Now we learn from Intellectual Property Watch that Bayer has lost:
Last Friday (14 September), the Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) which is responsible for hearing appeals on patent applications, rejected a petition by German pharma major Bayer AG, seeking a stay on an order of India’s Controller of Patents granting a compulsory licence (CL) to Indian generic drug maker Natco Pharma Limited, for a drug used to treat liver and kidney cancer.
It's quite possible that Bayer will try to appeal to a higher court, but what's noteworthy is that this is just one of several other important pharma cases in India at the moment. For example, the Delhi High Court held that Roche’s patent on the cancer drug Tarceva was valid, but that an Indian generics manufacturer had not infringed on it because it had only been selling a variant of the drug. Another high-profile case concerns the blood cancer drug Gleevec, sold as Glivec in India, whose manufacturer, Novartis, is fighting India's refusal to grant it a patent. Here's the background: The legal dispute in the Glivec case centres around a provision of India’s 2005 patent law, called Section 3(d), which states that "the mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant." The dispute brings to the fore a fundamental question: what is an "invention"? Or more precisely, how much innovation is required to obtain a patent in India?
Novartis insists that it is not fighting in order to get more money, but to vindicate its "honor". What this probably means is that it is trying to establish the principle that patents can be given for new forms of drugs, even if they provide no enhancement over earlier versions. If it loses the Gleevec/Glivec case, that could have serious repercussions for future patent applications by the company in India.
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^^ foolish meghanand. Geeta speaks volumes about good karma and bad karma. Drinking and driving is a bad karma and if you are intelligent enough you will not drink in the first place let alone drink and drive, your first act drinking is a bad karma in itself and one can drive by brain haemorrhage by falling down forget about driving.
Some idiots cannot simply think about what they are thinking and $hit1ng when they speak up. Call themselves rationalists. I call then low iq idiots who never excelled in their studies and ended up studying social work which people have done without books for millenniums. Loosers. :rotfl:
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Cross posted from AF-Pak thread.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

And while we Indians are busy with internal strife, scandals, appeasement and generally denigrating each other, even this forum missed this development which is mentioned in this story above - Washington Post article dated Oct 5 2012. There are several other sources who have confirmed this to me personally.

US has accepted the facts that 1) They cannot defeat Paki, 2) They cannot withdraw from Af without Paki, 3) They cannot have a stable Af post withdrawl without placating Paki, and 4) The Placation and accomodation to Paki, I call it total capitualation, on part of US has now seriously begun. This means Af will forever in the future be in Paki sphere of influence and India is left holding the bag again.

Now we will all moan and groan about the "evil West" conspiring with Taleban to keep India in check - as if India is so mighty that it requires Islam and the West together to keep it in check.

In all seriousness, this is what we get for relying on others to fold and others to do our job for us and taking a backseat pretending to be all Chankian. The law of "Physics" still holds. Do your own dirty work. Be proactive. Be straightforward and dont flinch from a fight. And as the real Chanakya would say(wll before the advent of Islam and before the Islamists perfected this axiom), "Always err on the side of aggression".
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Watch and learn, there are very few national treasures like him.

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One Embassy, 26 lac for a trip, anther 34 Lacs, SPg 64 Lacs for only 5 trips.

Don't know what the cost by PMO , 3 Lacs has been proved a lie, what else is the PMO lying about, how can we trust them.

I think in the last 8 years, she, rahul and Priyanks might have made 200 trips.

it looks like it costs INR 30 Lacs plus security 15 lacs per trip, does not Include Air parasite cost.

Looks like Nation has spect atleast INR 1,500 crore on this.

Who bore the cost of her Medical bills

Rs 64 lakh spent by SPG on Sonia’s travels: RTI
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^^^

From the links above. The numbers are un real.
According to the Indian embassy in Brussels, Sonia travelled to Belgium between November 9-12, 2006 and incurred Rs 34,292 in expenses.
Really only 34292 for a 3 day trip?
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Pratyush wrote:^^^

From the links above. The numbers are un real.
According to the Indian embassy in Brussels, Sonia travelled to Belgium between November 9-12, 2006 and incurred Rs 34,292 in expenses.
Really only 34292 for a 3 day trip?
If this true then I can live on Rs. 26 a day. :lol:
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Don't know if posted- remember Varsha Bhosle of rediff many years ago, who wrote some excellent articles. She has died evidently of a self inflicted gunshot.
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Yes very unfortunate. I knew her personally and well, though we have been out of touch for some years now. Tragic.
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May she rest in peace!! She lost her job becuase of her patriotism.
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Pratyush wrote:^^^

From the links above. The numbers are un real.
According to the Indian embassy in Brussels, Sonia travelled to Belgium between November 9-12, 2006 and incurred Rs 34,292 in expenses.
Really only 34292 for a 3 day trip?

The rest of the expenses probably footed by foreign gvernments for favors made - with Belgium it may have been the permits given in middle India
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Aditya_V wrote:One Embassy, 26 lac for a trip, anther 34 Lacs, SPg 64 Lacs for only 5 trips.

Don't know what the cost by PMO , 3 Lacs has been proved a lie, what else is the PMO lying about, how can we trust them.

I think in the last 8 years, she, rahul and Priyanks might have made 200 trips.

it looks like it costs INR 30 Lacs plus security 15 lacs per trip, does not Include Air parasite cost.

Looks like Nation has spect atleast INR 1,500 crore on this.

Who bore the cost of her Medical bills

Rs 64 lakh spent by SPG on Sonia’s travels: RTI

The trail is covered. Gurumurthy had written about how foreign intelligence provided Sonia security during her numerous visits outside. Governments foot her bills for favors provided. All trails covered because nothing is direct. Money transfers through neutral countries not seen as allied to SG
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JEM, Please do start a thread on Varsha Bhosle. She was the first among the nationalist journalists and was a refreshing contrast to the SLIME (Self Loathing Indian Media Elite) who dominate the media nowadays.
RIP.
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http://news.yahoo.com/indias-gandhi-fam ... 05703.html
India's Gandhi family hit by loan row, DLF shares plunge
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Indian government ruled out an inquiry into allegations of improper dealings between the son-in-law of India's most powerful politician, Sonia Gandhi, and property developer DLF Ltd, even as the firm's shares plunged on the claims.
Robert Vadra, a flamboyant businessmen who is married to the daughter of the ruling Congress party chief, has denied the accusations, leveled by anti-corruption activists, of improper dealings with DLF, India's biggest property developer
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Shares in DLF, which has also denied the allegations, plummeted 7.3 percent on Monday, posting the company's biggest daily fall since February 22 and wiping $576 million off its market value. Traders said investors were spooked by the allegations.
"I think those who made their allegations have made their statement, the company concerned has made a statement and the individual concerned has made a statement," Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters."Now beyond that, I have no facts and unless there is a specific allegation of quid pro quo or corruption, I am afraid private transactions cannot and ought not to be allowed to questioned on the basis of imputations and insinuations."
India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, who is setting up an anti-corruption political party, accused DLF on Friday of arranging favorable loans and real estate transactions for Vadra. The claims were detailed in a document posted on the group's web site."We would like to state that the business relationship of DLF with Mr Robert Vadra or his companies has been in his capacity as an individual entrepreneur, on a completely transparent and at an arm's length basis," DLF said in a statement.
"Our business relationship has been conducted to the highest standards of ethics and transparency, as has been our business practices, all around."
Vadra also issued a statement calling the accusations "utterly false, entirely baseless and defamatory".As a member of India's widely revered "first family", Vadra is close to the centre of power. Sonia Gandhi is known to play a major role in decision-making on big policy issues and her son, Rahul, is seen by many in the Congress party as a strong contender to be the next prime minister.The businessman condemned what he said were attempts to "deliberately misrepresent numbers contained in my financial statements, manufacture lies and malign my family in order to gain cheap publicity for them and for the launch of their political party".
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With Affirmative Action, India’s Rich Gain School Slots Meant for Poor
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HENNAI, India — The two women both claim that affirmative action cost them coveted spots at elite public universities. Both cases have now reached the Supreme Court.one of the women, Abigail Fisher, 22, who is white, says she was denied admission to the University of Texas based on her race, and on Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court is to hear her plea in what may be the year’s most important decision. The other woman is from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and two weeks ago the Indian Supreme Court ordered that she be admitted to medical school pending the outcome of a broader court review.“When I came to know that I could not get into any medical college, I was really shocked,” C. V. Gayathri, the Indian student, said in an interview. “I didn’t speak to anyone for a week. I cried. I was very depressed.”
Though the outlines of the two cases are similar, differences between how the world’s two largest democracies have chosen to redress centuries of past discrimination are striking. While affirmative action in the United States is now threatened, the program in India is a vast system of political patronage that increasingly works to reward the powerful rather than uplift those in need.Indeed, the caste-based affirmative action here raises questions for nations like Brazil and Malaysia that have adopted anti-discrimination programs that are in some ways similar to India’s. Without diligent judicial oversight, experts say, the efforts can help perpetuate inequality rather than redress it.In Tamil Nadu, for instance, 69 percent of university admissions are now set aside for what the state has determined to be “backward castes.” Many of those favored with these set-asides have controlled Tamil Nadu’s government and much of its resources for generations, but they claim special status by pointing to a caste survey done in 1931. (Ms. Gayathri, 17, is a Brahmin whose parents are civil servants with modest incomes.)Five prominent university officials in Tamil Nadu said in interviews that those given set-asides at their institutions were generally the children of doctors, lawyers and high-level bureaucrats. The result is that rich students routinely get preference over more accomplished poor ones who do not happen to belong to the favored castes. None of the officials would allow their names to be used for fear of angering the government ministers who benefit politically and personally from the program.
Caste is no longer an economic restriction,” said Viktoria Hnatkovska, an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and a co-author of several studies on the changing role of caste in India. ( Gora ji aa gye define karne ke liye) Nonetheless, quotas have transformed the taint of “backwardness” into a coveted designation.The Gujjars of Rajasthan, for instance, held violent riots two years ago to protest the government’s refusal to declare them as “most backward.” Politicians win elections in India by promising to bestow this one-time curse, which has led to a dramatic expansion in those considered backward decades after the designation had true economic meaning.
Indeed, caste awareness among the young is sustained in part because of set-asides, so a program intended to eliminate the caste system is now blamed by many for sustaining it.
When I was filling out my college application forms, there was this box for caste,” said Sneha Sekhsaria, 25, of Calcutta. “I had to ask my dad what our caste was, and he had to think about it for 15 minutes before telling me that we were in the general category.”
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India's top court orders toilets for every school

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/wo ... 6489912172
ndia's Supreme Court has ordered that schools nationwide must be provided with toilets and drinking water within six months, calling it part of children's right to an education.The court said in the judgement seen by AFP on Saturday that research showed wherever toilet facilities are inadequate, parents are reluctant to send their children to school -- especially if they are girls.Lack of toilets and drinking water "clearly violate the right to free and compulsory education of children," the court said in the judgement handed down earlier in the week.The court stated children need to "study in a clean and healthy environment" and said its ruling applied to state and privately run schools.State governments must provide "toilet facilities for boys and girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient classrooms, appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff etcetera, if not already provided, within six months".
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Who Killed Gandhi?
Letter of Nathuram Godse!

On January 13, 1948, I learnt that Gandhiji had decided to go on fast unto death. The reason given was that he wanted an assurance of Hindu-Muslim Unity... But I and many others could easily see that the real motive... [was] to compel the Dominion Government to pay the sum of Rs 55 crores to Pakistan, the payment of which was emphatically refused by the Government Who was the in power then?.... But this decision of the people's Government was reversed to suit the tune of Gandhiji's fast. It was evident to my mind that the force of public opinion was nothing but a trifle when compared with the leanings of Gandhiji favourable to Pakistan.

...In 1946 or thereabout, Muslim atrocities perpetrated on Hindus under the Government patronage of Surhawardy in Noakhali made our blood boil. Our shame and indignation knew no bounds when we saw that Gandhiji had come forward to shield that very Surhawardy and began to style him as 'Shaheed Saheb' – a martyr – even in his prayer meetings...

...Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogans of truth and non-violence which he ostentatiously paraded before the country... I could never conceive that an armed resistance to the aggressor is unjust... Ram killed Ravan in a tumultuous fight... Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness... In condemning Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Govind as 'misguided patriots,' Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit... Gandhiji was, paradoxically, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and nonviolence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever...

...By 1919, Gandhiji had become desperate in his endeavours to get the Muslims to trust him and went from one absurd promise to another... He backed the Khilafat movement in this country and was able to enlist the full support of the National Congress in that policy... very soon the Moplah Rebellion showed that the Muslims had not the slightest idea of national unity... There followed a huge slaughter of Hindus... The British Government, entirely unmoved by the rebellion, suppressed it in a few months and left to Gandhiji the joy of his Hindu-Muslim Unity... British Imperialism emerged stronger, the Muslims became more fanatical, and the consequences were visited on the Hindus...

The accumulating provocation of 32 years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhiji should be brought to an end immediately... he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was the final judge of what was right or wrong... Either Congress had to surrender its will to him and play second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality... or it had to carry on without him Who benefited the most from Gandhi's death? ... He was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement... The movement may succeed or fail; it may bring untold disasters and political reverses, but that could make no difference to the Mahatma's infallibility... These childish inanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character, made Gandhiji formidable and irresistible... In a position of such absolute irresponsibility, Gandhiji was guilty of blunder after blunder...

...The Mahatma even supported the separation of Sindh from the Bombay Presidency and threw the Hindus of Sindh to the communal wolves. Numerous riots took place in Karachi, Sukkur, Shikarpur and other places in which the Hindus were the only sufferers...

...From August 1946 onwards, the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus... Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with mild reactions in the Deccan... The Interim government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them...

...The Congress, which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism, secretly accepted Pakistan and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us... This is what Gandhiji had achieved after 30 years of undisputed dictatorship, and this is what Congress party calls 'freedom' Gandhi wanted a muslim-ruled Bharat, where as Congress wanted a Secular ruled India. Anyone who wanted the Hindu majority ruled Bharat was a communal fanatic then, and now :evil: ...

...One of the conditions imposed by Gandhiji for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan government...

Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it... The people of this country were eager and vehement in their opposition to Pakistan. But Gandhiji played false with the people...

...I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred... if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time, I felt that Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan...

...I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus... There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book, and for this reason I fired those fatal shots...

...I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me... I did fire shots at Gandhiji in open daylight. I did not make any attempt to run away; in fact I never entertained any idea of running away. I did not try to shoot myself... for, it was my ardent desire to give vent to my thoughts in an open Court. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled of against it on all sides. I have no doubt, honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.
The finger of the hand pressed the trigger. The bullet thought it was doing its swa-dharma.
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From the links above. The numbers are un real.
According to the Indian embassy in Brussels, Sonia travelled to Belgium between November 9-12, 2006 and incurred Rs 34,292 in expenses.





Rs 34292 for 3 days is possible. These guys in Brussels have no shame. Until recently they were eating up "Independence Day" celebration fund. We local Indians were arranging for samosas and tea. Then some body complained to MEA and things are better now. So it is entirely possible that GOI gave them Rs 3429200.00 to spend on HM Soniaji but they spent only 34292.00 onlee.
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Views from the Right
Whose money?

The Sangh Parivar journal Organiser does not seem impressed by the PMO’s clarification on the controversy about the expenses of Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s foreign trips, an issue raised by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi recently. The Organiser suggests the government’s denial of footing Gandhi’s bills further “deepens” the “mystery” about the trips.

In an editorial, the Organiser has reasoned the government’s denial was “more grave” as it does not explain whether the cost was “borne by either the Congress party or a third private source”. The Organiser argues it is “obligatory” to know who funded these trips and why, because Gandhi “influences the government, in fact runs it by remote control”.

The editorial emphasises that the issue is not her trips for health reasons. The editorial seems to suggest it has no problem with the government funding her medical treatment as it supported Murasoli Maran and Priyaranjan Dasmunshi. The Organiser disapproves of the Congress’s attempts to convert the issue into one “involving only her health trips of the recent past”, as against what should be “the frequent travels abroad of not only her but her family, extending to her son-in-law”.

An accompanying report claims that Modi, who is “slowly, but, steadily” “emerging out of Gujarat on the national scene” has “stumped” Gandhi and faulted Congress leaders for jumping to her defence without questioning her on this issue. “Within [the] Congress it is an undeclared and covert fascism. The Congress leaders, like that of the Nazis, have been trained to go down saving the ruler rather than stand up to him and say that he is wrong,” says the report.

Foreign direction

PANCHJANYA, the Sangh Parivar’s Hindi journal has criticised the government’s recent decision to provide legislative backing to FDI in the pension and insurance sectors. This follows the UPA’s approval of FDI in retail, which had already angered the Sangh Parivar. An editorial in Panchjanya describes these decisions as the “wrong path of economic development”.

Despite expressing apprehensions as to whether the government will be able to get these decisions approved by Parliament, the editorial accuses the government of “selling the country to the US in the name of economic reforms”. While the BJP understands that FDI in insurance and pension is different from FDI in retail, to which it’s opposed in toto, the editorial does not spell out whether it should be opposed to the former in the same measure as it is to the latter. Panchjanya’s editorial does not state whether FDI in pension and insurance is bad and why so, considering the way it has argued against FDI in retail. It has steered clear of clear opposition to these two reforms, suggesting that “supporting or opposing” was not as important as pondering whether these decisions taken in a “hurry” are in the interest of the country.

The editorial suggests it will be “dangerous” for the country to adopt a “foreign approach” for economic development at the expense of the “swadeshi” way. A cartoon alongside the editorial suggests opening the floodgates of FDI in retail, insurance and pension will drown the ordinary citizens whom the PM seeks to help.

Thus spoke the chief

BOTH Sangh Parivar weeklies covered RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s lecture in the capital recently. His Deendayal Upadhyaya Memorial Lecture is the cover story in both the Organiser and Panchjanya.

The Organiser highlights Bhagwat’s remarks that “globalisation is nothing but Westernisation” that “limits choice, variety, diversity and national sovereignty” because “hegemonistic global players impose uniformity, monopoly and consumerism... Swadeshi is the Indian way”. Panchjanya has highlighted his argument that “true Bharatiyata”can be the solution to all problems in the world and, therefore, the challenge was being a “true Bharatiya”.

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From the Urdu Press
Agony of the Innocent

The acquittal by the Supreme Court of 11 Muslims arrested by the Gujarat police under TADA in 1994 for an alleged conspiracy to cause violence during the Jagannath Yatra in Ahmedabad, and the court’s observation that the law should not be used wrongly to harass anybody on the basis of religion, has evoked a big response.

The daily Siasat, published from Hyderabad and Bangalore, in its editorial on September 27 writes: “Even though TADA had been repealed by the government, its effects are still lingering. But after this judgment of the SC, Indian Muslims should take credit that the justice system of secular India is prepared to protect innocent citizens. Muslims should gather the courage to demand their rights according to the principles of the Indian Constitution...”

The daily Rahnuma-e-Deccan, published from Hyderabad, in its editorial on October 3 writes: “The recent judgment of the SC has proved right the doubts and questions about TADA and POTA... The cases being contested should be processed seriously. The reports and evidence produced by the police and other investigative agencies should not be relied upon and evidence should be gathered from other reliable sources...” The paper adds: “An important consideration is the question of compensation for the time (18 years) they spent in prison for a crime they had not committed.”

Kejriwal vs Vadra

The multi-edition daily Inquilab, commenting on the Arvind Kejriwal-Robert Vadra controversy, in an editorial on October 9 writes: “Is Arvind Kejriwal campaigning against corruption or against the corrupt? If he has decided to confront the corrupt, his campaign can never take him to his perceived destination... Kejriwal’s revelations once again prove that he is active against only one political party and is not prepared to open his mouth against other parties...”

Delhi and Patna-based daily, Hamara Samaj, in its editorial on October 9 criticises Congress leaders for rejecting an investigation into Kejriwal’s allegations: “If there is nothing to hide, what is the point in rejecting the demand for investigation?”

The Delhi-based daily, Jadeed Khabar, writes: “It is also being said that an important person in the Congress itself played a role in these revelations because the Congress is a party that does not want a party member to become taller than his stature.”

Modi’s charges

Commenting on Narendra Modi’s allegations about the expenditure on UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s foreign visits, Rashtriya Sahara, in an editorial on October 3 writes: “This time Narendra Modi is looking befuddled. He is quickly changing the gears of his rath. First, he challenged Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, saying that they would not come to Gujarat for the election campaign. When he learnt that Sonia Gandhi was to launch Congress’s election campaign from Rajkot, he suddenly changed gear and resorted to making allegations about the expenses of her foreign visits. Before that, he tried to spread the poison of communalism by saying that the Central government gave subsidy on the export of beef but not on the export of cotton. In other words, he implied that the Centre helps Muslims but not Hindus. Here, too, he slipped, as beef is exported not only by Muslims but also by non-Muslim traders.”

Lucknow-based weekly Jadeed Markaz writes: “When Modi’s lie was exposed, instead of apologising, he said that the people of the country have the right to know how much of their hard-earned money was spent on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign visits. Now the question being raised is why thousands of crores of taxpayer money is being spent on the security of the communal members of the RSS, including Modi and Advani, who are also facing criminal charges...”

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rsingh ji,
that amount is roughly 500-600 euros. Depending on the star-category acco+security [lets say host country took care of that], mere accommodation costs can run upto 2-6 times that whole amount per day. This is not a believable amount. There is a certain slush fund made available for special purposes that doe snot have to appear on audit. Expenses could have been debited to that account.
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In the much reviled and declining land of US, Austrian Felix Baumgartner free jumps from 23 miles above earth and breaks the world record of speed (he broke the sound barrier) and height, advancing science, particularly in the areas of developing better space suits, and space travel in general . Amazingly, he did it as a private effort with no help from the government.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... l?ITO=1490

In the meantime, our esteemed minister in the Government of India hardly makes news by coming up with the following gem.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-new ... 44952.aspx

Apparently, the reason Mr. Khurshid could not have been involved in the scam, as alleged, because "the amount was too small" for Kurshid or any other Central Minister, says the minister who is also Khurshid's own party colleague. "If it were 71 crores instead of 71 lakhs", said the esteemed minister, it would be far more believable.
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http://themoderatevoice.com/163960/indi ... -remedies/
For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation -- but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to protect a similar product of its own.Earlier this year, India successfully fought off Nestle's attempt at the European Patent Office (EPO) to secure a patent, saying that using cow's milk as a laxative was mentioned in ancient texts and was therefore not new.Indian government officials are fighting hundreds of other cases to try to protect the country's "genetic heritage", a topic high on the agenda at the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity currently meeting in Hyderabad."India is one of the mega centres for biodiversity in the world," said Vinod Bhatt, director of research at Navdanya, a non-profit body that seeks to promote indigenous knowledge.

We cannot allow theft of our traditional knowledge that dates back thousands of years and is rooted in our culture. We have to protect ourselves from commercial exploitation by the Western world," Bhatt told AFP.Traditional knowledge, used for centuries by indigenous communities under local laws and customs, plays an important role in areas such as food security, biodiversity, agriculture and medicine.
library is a digital database established in 2001 to record 250,000 traditional formulations, including the Hindu "ayurvedic" system of medicine that has become hugely popular in the West."Every known medicinal plant in India is under piracy attack," said Gupta, citing an example where a US patent application was made by Britain-based firm Provexis on the use of banana extracts as treatment for diarrhoea.Evidence from the TKDL proved the banana preparation was previously well-known, and the application was withdrawn.Some 200 researchers took eight years to create the TKDL database, combing through Hindi, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Urdu texts on ayurveda, yoga and other less-known health systems such as unani and siddha.The TKDL is accessible to foreign patent offices, which can consult it before deciding whether to grant exclusive rights to applicants.India woke up to the threat of what is now termed "bio-piracy" 20 years ago after a European patent was granted to a US group on an anti-fungal product derived from the native Indian "neem" tree.Outraged campaigners and Green Party politicians in Europe challenged its validity, and India finally won a 10-year legal battle in 2000 to have the patent revoked as neem seeds had been used for centuries as a medicine, insecticide and contraceptive.
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