Champakrao’s Independence Day!

This surely read like a treasure trove. I loved roaming around in CP, leafing through books to find out something that catches my eye.

Great compilation of the book stores around CP, especially the history part. The pictures are intriguing, completing the imagery of an evening in the company of books and coffee for company.

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Maharashtra civic polls: Cong sweeps Latur; No. 1 in 3 other bodies

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/maha-civic-polls-cong-sweeps-latur;-no.-1-in-3-other-bodies/937480/0

Excerpts

Congress and NCP, ruling alliance partners in the state government, contested the polls separately.

Voting was held in Latur, Chandrapur and Parbhani which were upgraded into corporations and also in Malegaon and Bhiwandi-Nizampur corporations.
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Polling was held for 371 seats in the 5 corporations. Following is the final tally: Congress-149, NCP-64, Shiv Sena -46, BJP-28, MNS-3, BSP-1, other state parties-21, registered parties-31 and independents-28.

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Where is Anna Hazare?

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Manohar,

I will reiterate, I will never trust Pakistan state.

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Well, Manohar isn’t democracy wonderful!

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This is how appeasement of “minorities” ends up. The British people are far too politically correct and have brought this upon themselves. Even after making such remarks, this gentleman has only been suspended and not dismissed from the Labour party.

The policy of Labour party on appeasing the Muslims surpasses a number of parties in our country.

Ravi – please let us know more on this – you would have a better idea on why such a statement was made by Nazir Ahmed while away from the country.

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Vijay-

Not all single lady politicos are crazy.

Our Lady (sounds like a Jesuit School!) is all brains; pragmatic, focused, and transforming the place. We really feel it here. vi va vibrant!

Gone are the thugs’ rule of Karunanidhi and family – an ex minister is arrested in connection with the cover up of a murder, and nine ex ministers//MLAs are arrested for the land grabs during DMK admn.

She put out a vision doc; the consensus of the business community is that 65-75% will get executed in the ten year horizon.

The 2014 Lok Sabha elections will be an interim assessment of her performance. Her party won a by-election recently with huge majority trouncing Karunanidhi’s people, who lost the security deposit!

Karunanidhi is trying his old snake habits, throwing the Sri Lanka, Dalit, or Muslim issues at the voters to see which one sticks; so far no takers.

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Manohar,

If Rahul Gandhi asks LET to desist from doing this, they may agree and
withdraw their warning.

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Bal Thackeray ’shocked’ at Maha’s ‘contract to feed a snake’

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Bal-Thackeray-shocked-at-Mahas-contract-to-feed-a-snake/937438/

Terming as “shocking” the Maharashtra Government’s decision to share water with people in the scarcity-hit districts in neighbouring Karnataka, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today said the Congress-led government in Maharashtra has “betrayed” the state.

“It seems that Maharashtra government has taken a contract to feed a snake. In Karnataka, immense atrocities are being heaped on Marathi-speaking people but our government has forgotten those atrocities and decided to share water with that state,” Thackeray said, in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.

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Now who is calling someone a snake?

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Three cheers to Parliament
Gopalkrishna Gandhi

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3321341.ece?homepage=true

Chennai comes up with innovative ideas. ‘Prime Point,’ set up by a gentleman known in true Tamil Nadu-style as ‘Prime Point Srinivasan,’ has instituted a set of awards for parliamentarians called Sansad Ratna Awards. ‘PP’ felicitously chose Ambedkar Jayanti for the conferment ceremony this year and conferred the honour on four MPs:

Anand Rao Adsul — Number 1 in Questions (754). The total tally of debates, private bills and questions raised — 784.

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir — Number 1 in private bills — 20 in number. Questions raised — 755.

S.S. Ramasubbu — Number 3 at the all-India level with a total score of 742 questions. Attendance — 97 per cent.

Arjun Ram Meghwal — Number 1 in debates with 251 debates to his credit. Attendance — 100 per cent.

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Read on.

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Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s drvver has shot this.

headlines today wants to broadcast it as a sting …. !!

India Today wants to do a stroy on this.

Abhishek Singhiv has taken a court order against it calling it something which will damage his repuration irreparably and forever….

Well when other CD’s can come out… why not this one???

Sach pata lage ya nahi

Or are the trolls going to do a dandiya…”Modi modi rape rape…?”

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Is India prepared to defend if there is a war?

The shocking truth about India’s armed forces.

http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-the-shocking-truth-about-india-s-armed-forces/20120417.htm

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All the people accused of the broad daylight massacre in Bathon Tola are acquitted by the Patna High court!

The lower court had sentenced them – a few for capital punishment and others for the maximum jail.

I bet this judgment will create another thousands of Maoists!

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Sanjay,

The box became very small.
I am surprised that even after budget almost fully utilized, still we hear about
army not having basic items. Is army consulted before making a budget or was
budget so small that money for even these items was not allocated . I am really
confused, something is happening between government and army which we
are not able to discern. Why they are fighting through media, why don’t they
resolve this behind closed doors? We are talking about army – the most important
body of the country – not some small bureaucrats.

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Ishwar

Congratulations. Celebrate.

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Sanjayji

The sort of scam Abhishek Manu ji is involved in… do you think it would be the right message to send to the youth of the country for character building?

What would have been the COngressi reaction in case a BJP chief spokesman or leader was involved in such a thing?

And most of all you enjopyed yourself so much in a non existent sex scam in Gujarat, what is your view and degree of enjoyment on this real thing?

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Congress jeete ya BJP jeete kya farak padega dilli mein?
balatkaar, choriyan, ghoos kya band ho jayenge dilli mein?
Kabhi aayenge BJP ke neta to kabhi congress ke neta aayenge
par jo hota aaya hai wahi hota rahega hamesha dilli mein.

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Relief for Maharashtra govt, Adarsh panel says land does not belong to Army.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Relief-for-Maharashtra-govt-Adarsh-panel-says-land-does-not-belong-to-Army/articleshow/12701524.cms

Does this means that there was no fraud?

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Trinamool MP Kabir Suman mocks Mamata over ‘toongate’, composes song

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Trinamool-MP-Kabir-Suman-mocks-Mamata-over-toongate-composes-song/articleshow/12702003.cms

Causing more embarrassment to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is drawing flak over the arrest of a professor for circulating cartoons, singer-turned-Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman has composed a song, “Hasi Niye Thako” (Live with a smile), mocking the state government.

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Sanjayji… yeh chuppi kab tak rahegi???

By the way even Mamta wants to censor facebook now.

As it is opening a facebook account in India is now conditional to giving a residence proof… by giving a phone number.

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Caught in the act? Now, an ‘objectionable’ CD of Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Source: PTI | Last Updated 09:47(17/04/12) Share9|

: Abhishek Manu Singhvi Share New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has restrained a media house from publishing, telecasting and broadcasting the contents of a CD pertaining to Congress leader and a leading advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

“Till the next hearing, the defendants (the media house), their agents and all others acting for and/or on their behalf are restrained from publishing, broadcasting and disseminating or distributing in any form or any manner the content of any alleged CD or any other material as described in the plaint,” Justice Reva Khetrapal said in an order on a civil suit filed by Singhvi.

He had sought a restraint on the media group from making public the contents of the alleged CD. The court has also sought response by May 21 from Aaj Tak, Headlines Today and India Today and Singhvi’s former driver, alleged mastermind behind the scandal.

“Irreparable injury is likely to be caused to the reputation and goodwill of Singhvi in case the defendants are not restrained. Accordingly, issue notice to defendants (one to four) which is returnable by May 21,” it said.

Singhvi alleged that the CD was “forged, concocted, morphed and fabricated”. Any move to telecast the alleged CD would infringe the right to reputation of Singhvi, the plea said.

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Ok some hint is there. There is a story on Dainik Bhaskar website that the Net is buzzing with jokes on the episode. Singhvi is being called a disciple of N D Tewari.

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Sanjayji

You once made a theorem that becsue fo the non existent sex scam in Gujarat, parents will stop children from joining computer classes.

Now do you think I should sell all my shares of CD comapnies as parents will stip children from buiying CD’s? Did the COngress have the upliftment of USB companies in mind that it allowed this scam so that CDs will stop selling . (this is extende spin.. cong style…)

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The real problem with the COngress :
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Manu Singhvi’s political career has now probably ended. His story is somewhat true for most of COngress

Here area few facts.

a) He represnted the lottery companies which had all the poor in some sort of satta scam even when lottery was banned

b) He advised Union Carbide even when India was pitted against Carbide

c) He represented the endosulphin companies ( As gopi mentioned)

d) He spoke about porn watching by BJP and castigated them.

And now the truth is out. Is this not lying, double standards and smugness….. just becasue you have the media under control and you control the engish speaking Indians?

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Mohan

Regarding the Adarsh “finding” – One does not know whether to laugh or cry…

It is similar to the Patna high court verdict on the 1996 massacre in Bathon Thola.

The powerful creates their own law.

I was counting on the army to take over. But now with the Janes weekly revelations, I dont think I can count on them either!

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Ishwar

Delhi Municipal Corporation Election Results.

1) My posting a link to Maharashtra municipal corporation results earlier was to take a dig at Anna Hazare. I had asked where is Anna Hazare?

2) Now the points to note –

a) the top Congress leadership in Delhi did not go to town with the Band Baajaa re: municipal corporation results in Maharashtra.

b) If you visit the newspaper websites, starting from Nitin Gadkari downwards – the BJP leadership is going around with the trumpets re: Delhi elections.

What say?

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Congratulations once more.

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@ Sanjay

I am on the move… but am tempted to ask you, since you have an ear into the COngress office.

Why is the UPA surrendering to Paksitan when the world is out to nail it.

Is it not obvious that Pakistan is deliberatley putting on a behsh badl wala act to get seeta out of lakshman Rekha… (India) while it goes all out to attack Afghanistan. So Pakistan needs a quiet Eastern border for two years.

Who is framing this policy? Rahul and company or MMS?

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In all the excitement of CD, Delhi Elections, we seem to have missed an interesting comment by one Bharati Singh . Here it is

bharati singh

So far we were struggling to have minimum qualification and clean criminal record should be the basic criteria for selection of our respectecfullll leaders, behan mamta has added a new one – Psychological test must be conducted to keep insane characters away from politics.

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How apt.

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Statutory warning: The following programme contains a F-word (in the lexicon of the some of the Hindutvawadis) – Nehru. You have been warned, watch it at your own peril. If you squirm, do not blame me.

What can Pakistan learn from Indian education system?
(Sochta Pakistan, 20 Jan 2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYmnPGHBkbE

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@ Sanjay

Thanks for telling me I am uni dimesnsional. I take it as a compliment since I am unwavering in my commitment ot fight terror. I am not like a barsati kukkad or a weather vane which changes direction as per profit motive or what the malkin or chotta baba of the house direct you to.

You need balls and unwavering resolve to fight terror and UPA does not have it.

I think the UPA is making a huge huge mistake. Somehitng similar to what Rajiv gandhi did i the eighties when he was carried away by Gen Zia’s promises that there was no terror emnating from Paksitan. In fact some of the old Punjabis refugee journos are still not convinced that Pakistan actually bred terror– ask Kuldip Nayar or Khushwant Singh, right now to check up. They valued their personal frienddhsip with Zia higher.

They beleived that the geb would never lie to them.

IK Gujral fell in the same trap.

I have a feelign that MMS may be falling in the same gutter.

Sanjay, I think in a matter of one year I will change your mindset. Manohar is already being pushed to come out to give more and more logic to justify mental slavery to family rule. he will change for the better I am sure.

Since you mentioned VIMHANS and some psychiatirsts, why dont you ask them who Kumar is… and what project is on to treat scizophrenia with his help and recondition the mind….

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Ishwar

You wrote

Nothing lasts for ever. The electorate has been kept poor, scared and illiterate for far too long.

Things are changing. The writing is there on the wall – some people can’t see it.

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What a daft point to make

The same electorate that has been kept poor, scared and illiterate for far too long put the NDA into the hot seat in 90s and threw it in 2004 and kept it bay in 2009.
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The same electorate that has been kept poor, scared and illiterate for far too long put elected Modi with a thumping majority twice already and will do so again later this year, perhaps with lesser number of seats..

The same electorate that has been kept poor, scared and illiterate for far too long put elected BJP in MP, Chhatisgarh, etc. and recently in Goa.

The same electorate that has been kept poor, scared and illiterate for far too long today reposed their faith in the BJP today in Delhi Municipal elections.

What say?

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150 Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/150-Afghan-schoolgirls-poisoned-in-anti-education-attack/articleshow/12705738.cms

Earlier fundamentalist in Afghanistan were stopping girls from going to school
and now they are try to kill them.

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Ishwar

I hope BJP will use the Delhi victory as a platform to build on and expand. They have to get their house in order, ensure the mining and crime mafia in MP is brought under law, empower the young grass-root leaders, provide Modi venues etc etc

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Shenoy,

The box got smaller there. I am sure everybody would have noticed that how
Sanjay vehemently defends UPA. I will not go to that length and accuse him
of coming on this blog with some agenda. May be he really believes that UPA and their
policies will ultimately bring positive results for India.
p.s. Sanjay- I will keep on disagreeing with you most of the times.

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Intellectual deficiency!

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Good, bad and ugly.
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Good : You wife is not talking to you.
Bad : She wants divorce
Ugly : She is a lawyer.
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Good : Your son is finally maturing
Bad : He is involved the with the woman next door
Ugly : You are also involved with the same woman
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Good: You start telling your children about sex as they are maturing
Bad : They keep interrupting
Ugly : With corrections.

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~~~ the worst job… in India… TO BE DEREK OBRIEN ~~~
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Kya lies bolta hai salam just to defend Mamta’s hounding all critics.

I think you need to be a real worm to say all this with a straight face…

I think in Pashcim Banga this blog and its writers would be behind bars being hounded by a mob of TMC/

Very poor show by mamta. I think her government will collapse. SOme rightists or Even Congress should grab her space. Otherwise another 34 years of CPM would push Bengal to 1946 and not 2046

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All;
Democracy and disruptives.
Abu Quatada has been arrested by UK Police. Quatada, who is fighting his deportation to Jordan has given speeches earlier that converts from Islam, Americans and others are wazib-ul-quatal and liable for terrorist attacks. Human right commission is resisting his deportation. So many disruptives here practiing same democracy, indulge in terror and then hide behind democracy, human rights and anti fascism. Rule of law should be supreme, nothing more, nothing less.

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There is a popular saying, “that you cant teach an old dog new tricks…”

What I am going to say out here is the exact opposite. That unlike animals who are instincive, human beings react to situations in terms of instincts +EMOTIONS + VALUE ATTACHMENTS to achieve primal instinctive goals. Must be sounding funny, but this is a project I am working on as a consultant to some psychiatrists. We are probing the mind to achieve simple goals for schizophrenia, ADD, hyper anger, etce etc. Along the lines is also a spinoff on how marketign strategies should be made in advertising. And how…. educational biases can be changed.

A final spin off would possibly REVERSE BRAINWASHING for terrorists, a worldwide need… and a word which I sometimes use here.

Well if you take this blog as an open group of 15 people. I have in a covert way introduced change. By adding and revealing the NEGATIVE VALUE ATTATCHMENTS TO VARIOUS POSTURES.

I should not be revealing all this. But I am just showing Sanjay that How I have changed him. While debating/arguing he dare not talk about open servility to the Gandhi family, becasue fo a fear of being termed a nauker… an acheivment he would give NEGATIVE value to after years if education and work experience.

The only way he could now mentally reconcile to being a Nauker would be in case he knows that he is getting something in way of position or money, which has higher positive value agains the negative value of being a naukar.

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Got to sign off now..

Like I said… I always salute both my enemies and friends for making life what it is.

@ Sanjay

DOnt take anything to heart. This was a blog excercise. In normal course I would not have gone into this. Anyway you made so many personal comments and I did not react at that level… So get over it and come back roaring tomorrow.

@ manohar

We are bound to be at opposite ends. I chase the truth not any party’s posture.

@ Pankaj, Mohan others et al.

Havve a cool time… keep blogging

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Sanjay Jha was called CLUNKY by Nirmala Sitharaman in TimesNow debate.

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Vijay and other friends;
Always play with superior adversary. That will hone your skills. Win against inferior player is illusion, and will lower your standard. I am a competitive player even now. After all this blog is a game of mind. By this time, you must have understood who is who. You are much more educated than me, IIT and all that. Enjoy it. Vijay, you have progressed very well, but even best can be bettered.
Just completed a book while in plane, Genetics- it is kind of made easy book, New York Times’s publication. You will enjoy it. It will tell you who is related to whom and will clear any fog in the mind of readers. Questions on genetics are welcome. After all, I am related to Sanjay and even Ravi and Engrich in someway. More on next post.

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All;
After writing this, I was afraid that I may be sounding preachy, far from it. Still collecting stones, in front of the ocean of knowledge.

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Not just drum-and-trumpet
B. Surendra Rao

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3321494.ece?homepage=true

History is the knowledge of a retrievable human past. In one sense it is what the historian does, but in another, it is available to the historian and society as a collective of accumulated, debated, dialogued, refuted, amended, renewed knowledge to choose from and build on. Historiography unfolds this rich terrain that has gone under the historian’s plough and the ideas and strategies that have gone into coaxing what is shown as a harvest of truth. Approaches to History puts together 10 critical essays of stock-taking and introspection on various aspects of Indian historical writings. They illumine several themes of interest and relevance which mainstream historiography had loftily overlooked.

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Singhvi taken off Cong duty roster, ex-driver takes CD blame

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/singhvi-taken-off-cong-duty-roster-exdriver-takes-cd-blame/938118/0

Even as the Congress decided to take spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi off the party office’s duty roster for the time being in view of the CD controversy, his former driver claimed that he was the one who had distributed a “distorted” video to take revenge on Singhvi.

The party’s decision came after Singhvi — who heads the Standing Committee on Law and Justice — secured an injunction against the broadcast of a CD that allegedly contains material which he called defamatory and fabricated.

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Gehlot for phone-tapping, Modi wants to mine Sir Creek: CM ideas lost in the din

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gehlot-for-phonetapping-modi-wants-to-mine-sir-creek-cm-ideas-lost-in-the-din/938116/0

Naveen Patnaik argued for a resource tax on mining companies, Ashok Gehlot wanted the power to tap phones in other states, and Narendra Modi urged the Centre to exploit the hydrocarbon reserves in the Sir Creek area. The suggestions offered by chief ministers at Monday’s meeting on internal security were varied and innovative but most got lost in the noise around the debate on federalism.

Non-Congress CMs had the most suggestions, with the notable exception of Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot who came up with some of the most controversial ones.

Consider:

Naveen Patnaik, Orissa

1. A “mineral resource rent tax” on private mining companies “to be charged at 50 per cent of the surplus rent”.

2. At least one public sector bank branch in each of the blocks in the scheduled tribal-dominated areas.

Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal

1. Increase in the quantity of rice to BPL families in Naxal areas.

2. Machines to detect fake currency near border, Naxal-hit areas.

Nitish Kumar, Bihar

1. Training in “humane behaviour” for the Sashastra Seema Bal at the India-Nepal border.

2. Zero tolerance towards corruption as government policy.

Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan

1. Powers to intercept telephones in other states be vested in the home secretaries.

2. Mobile phone service providers be mandated to make available call records of the last five years instead of one.

3. Security agencies be allowed to access databases of banks, passport office, railways and aviation companies, and also from NIA and NTRO.

4. A system at the Centre to monitor objectionable content loaded on websites from servers abroad.

Raman Singh, Chhattisgarh

1. A National Security Guards battalion in Chhattisgarh.

2. Housing for security personnel as priority.

Narendra Modi, Gujarat

1. Creation of a dedicated force to exploit the hydrocarbon reserve in Sir Creek area, and tapping of the solar energy potential on the western borders of Rajasthan and Gujarat. This would also help security.

2. Every sub-inspector from a training college be asked to impart 100 hours of training to constables.

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It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income. And if one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than love mankind.

Hugh Kingsmill
Was a versatile British writer and journalist.

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Why the Congress is looking like Yahya Khan
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As I sign off to enter a dug up basement for a few hours… here is one reason to smile.

In 1971, as AAK Niazi was in a process of signing the surrender, my favourite historical joker, CMLA Yahhya khan,, who had fifty diesgnations to make himself feel powerful, was fully convinced thaat his army was about to occupy the Rashtrapati Bhavan and capture Delhi.

O My God… with every stunning loss… the COngress spin doctors are coming up with newer stories on who they are actually winning !!

Gr8 !

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~~~ WHY TERRORISTS WILL ENTER THRU EASY VISAS TO PAKIS ~~~
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This is serious business. I am not here to score brownie points on this one, though I can very easily.

Rehman malik has warned that Taliban is about to enter India in a big way to create huge problems here. Murderers from FATA will be coming to murder here, wearing the aman ki aashsha logo and flag. While a few Indians will keep crying BJP and Modi.

This is through the legitimate route of religious tourism with vaid visas.

I think bloggers should highlight this in their postings. I sinverely beleive blogging does add up to some action some where.

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Cut excise or we hike petrol price by Rs 10/L, says IOC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Cut-excise-or-we-hike-petrol-price-by-Rs-10/L-says-IOC/articleshow/12709059.cms

Taking a cue from the RBI governor D Subbarao, market leader Indian Oil Corporation indulged in grand standing on Tuesday by saying state-run retailers would raise petrol price by almost Rs 10 per litre, if the government did not reduce excise duty or did not compensate their Rs 49-crore daily loss on the fuel.

“We have been very patient, not raising prices since December despite our cost of production spiraling. But there is a limit to which we can borrow money and produce fuel for the country,” said chairman R S Butola.

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Read on.

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Pak min warns of Taliban push into India, offers help

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Pak-min-warns-of-Taliban-push-into-India-offers-help/Article1-842228.aspx

Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday cautioned India that it should watch out for a surge in extremist activities amid fresh intelligence that the Taliban could be planning to enter the country.

“I can see more extremism (taking place) in India. I have asked our high
commissioner in Delhi to call on the Indian defence minister soon and share our inputs,” Malik said.

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Is this for real? How should India treat this development – sharing intelligence info re: Taliban and terrorists.

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Does the media carry out its due dilligence with due dilligence before it does stories on CDs / exposes etc. There have been cases , or rather a case , where it was loudly claimed that due diligence had been done on whether the CD was genuine or not , but that due dilligence was found to be not diligent enough. So have the India Today / Headlines Today carried out their due diligence on the Abhishek Singhvi CD ? Would they contest the case before the Delhi High Court and assert their Right to publish the contents as the people have a Right to know about the personal conduct of people who are in public life. ? Does Markandey Katju have a view on this Restraint Order ? Or does he find this issue inconvenient and shall prefer to look the other way ? Would the Congress Party use its might to sweep this issue under the carpet ? …. Time will give the answers to these questions.

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Mahesh,

Read that article on Amazon. Surprised to read that 40% of the books sold
online are through Amazon and this may reach 60% in next 5 years.
First time heard of this word monopsony. Even vendors are left with no choice
but to sell their products to Amazon.
Does this not mean that big retailers with their money power will corner
the whole market? Ultimately consumers and vendors both will be at the mercy of these big retailers.

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He lives in the thick of a forest, created by him. Man Made forest.

http://www.theweekendleader.com/Nature/248/Green-Dreams.html

One more feather in the cap of Kerala.

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Vijay
This case shall become interesting if India Today decides to contest. Also I believe Singhvi has filed a police complaint , if is so this will be another investigation to watch. Because even I belive that if India Today were to do a story they would have done a proper due diligence.

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@ MOhan

Since you got my zing back, here is one for you from my joke factory

Maybe the concerned gentleman was looking for an alternative film career… inspired by sunny !

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Shiela Dikshit wants that the blame for the defeat of the Congress in Delhi should be shared by all in the Party. Does that include the self-styled “Brahmin” General Secy. ? But has he indicated which Brahmin does he want to be ? A Kanyakubj, or Saryupari or Gaur -Saraswat , or Iyengar , or Chitpavan or Palghat Brahmin ?

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There has to be a third mysterious abgle to the CD thing whihc is not being talked about.

Is it some sort of fravour, some appointment, some x factor that Aaj Tak and India Today sensed a big story…?

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A good development…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/MCD-polls-Muslims-refuse-to-take-Congress-bait/articleshow/12710207.cms

“People here are angry with Congress. They refused to vote for the party as they are upset with the soaring prices and corruption,” said RLD’s Aaley Mohammed. Mohammad (21) is the youngest candidate to have been elected as a councillor.

“Muslims have learnt to vote for the candidate who works for us and not for the party that takes our votes for granted,” said Mohd Suhail, a resident of Qasabpura.

During its campaign in Muslim-dominated areas, Congress had tried its best to woo voters by playing the community card. While chief minister Sheila Dikshit at her public meetings slammed Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief JP Aggarwal had made a public appeal to Muslims to vote in a consolidated manner.
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Not only Muslims, a few more sections of the society are showing its back to the grand old party. Even the Congressis are admitting that the BJP didn’t do well during its last term in the MCD but still managed to sail through because people voted on the issue of price rise and corruption and not on local issues. Does it augur well for the party in the upcoming assembly/general elections?

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Google has removed most of the news on the CD. Yahoo still has about 3000 pages. DOnt be too surprised that they are snipped by 2 moro

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Google has removed most of the news on the CD. Yahoo still has about 3000 pages. DOnt be too surprised that they are snipped by 2 moro

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Mohan

Interesting info on Kareem’s man-made forest.

Have you heard about Silent Valley? It is the result of a determined poetess, Shrimathi Sugatha Kumari, and a committed group of people fighting the politicians, bureaucrats to save/build a forest preserve. Leftists wanted to level off and were against creating/preserving the forest, Shrimathi Indira Gandhi, once she met the poet and understood the issues, was for the forest, and she was quite helpful.
Sugatha Kumari also led the Krishnavanam forestation …

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Mamta’s supporters and well-wishers dissolutioned

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Bengal-back-in-Animal-Farm/articleshow/12710931.cms

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Brilliant remark by Shenoy

We know there is “paid news”.

Now we will have “paid media silence”

Remark of the month for me!

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Gopi

Dont be too kind to Akhilesh as he has to be put to test. His goons are running amuck. Today morning I was at a factory construction in Noida as a a consultant. The owner was not around.

Around ten workers were there at site.

Suddenly three car loads of people arrived. They were toughies how could and probably also worked as bouncers in pubs and hotels.

“Some people in the village are sick… we want a donation, ” They surrounded me and put forward a card which showed that others in the area too had paid, 60 to 70000.

“I am just a consultant from Delhi, ” I said trying to be cool, “designing this factory so that people get employment.”

They pushed me to a waiting Versa.

“Pradhanji ki insult kar rahe ho, ” One of them sneered, “He will help you out in case of strike… he will help you in case there is a gunfight… we are party workers who are also social workers”

These were indirect threats.

Inside the car a smiling so called pradhan was sitting with a rifle.

I called the owner of the construction site, who told me to pay up on his behalf. Problem was I just had 9,000 in the pocket.

“You have an ATM card,” one of them pulled me by the collar, ” Another one of them pushed me hard.

I still kept smiling. “ATM is two miles away…”

“We will come again….” They sneered and took the 9000.

“Once you give us the money… you will be protected and we will give you our card that nobody else will come for one year…” The Pradhan said loudly, trying to comfort me.

They left after that.
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Gopi this is the state of things on the ground which Akhilesh needs to see in the party.

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Pak SC allows 3 Hindu women to decide their own future

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Pak-SC-allows-3-Hindu-women-to-decide-their-own-future/Article1-842456.aspx

Three Hindu women, who were allegedly forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslims, were today allowed by Pakistan’s Supreme Court to decide their own future and where they want to live. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry asked Rinkle Kumari alias Faryal Bibi, Lata Kumari alias Hafsa Bibi and Asha Kumari alias Haleema Bibi to inform the court registrar’s office whether they want to live with their husbands or their families.

The bench ordered police to provide complete security to the women and warned that police officials would be held responsible for negligence if they were harmed.

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Read on.

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India to test fire Agni-5, missile that can target China

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/India-to-test-fire-Agni-5-missile-that-can-target-China/Article1-842277.aspx

India will join the elite club of nations having Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) with the test launch of its 5,000 km-range Agni-5 missile planned on Wednesday. Successful test-firing of the Agni-5 will catapult India to a hyper-exclusive club that now counts only the United States, Russia and China as members. It will be a huge strategic leap and give India capability to target all of Asia, including the northernmost parts of China and large parts of Europe as well.

The three stage solid-fuelled 50-tonne missile will be launched off Wheeler Island in Odisha and is expected to reach its target area in southern Indian Ocean.

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Read on.

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A Sindhi calls newspaper agency to print death of his grand father.

Clerk ‘ Rs. 50 per word’
Sindhi ‘ dada dead ‘
Clerk sorry, minimum 5 words,
Sindhi ‘ dada dead wheelchair for sale ‘

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Thought of the evening:
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After a nasty experience I realised that India needs two or three national level parties. But currently both of them are out to annihilate each other, leaving the floor space to regional and caste/ communal parties.

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Woman ‘molested’ for refusing to join Trinamool Congress

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Woman-molested-for-refusing-to-join-Trinamool-Congress/articleshow/12718244.cms

Another blot on Mamta Di.

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Manu Singhi CD case : One of the best comment I read.

BJP can only watch, while Congress can act.

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One more.

Singhvi stripped of all party positions. Only position for him now is missionary .

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Manohar,

Earlier you had provided a link to the news where Pakistan SC gave three Hindu
women to decide their future. Here is follow up to that story.

Want to Live With Husbands: ‘Converted’ Pak Women

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=760103

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Rajeev’s harmless post got deleted. Was it because he mentioned our
Brahmin Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi?

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If government jobs are given by way of sexual favours… is it not Yaun uthpeedan?

If government jobs are given on consideration of sex… is i not exploitation of women?

If goernment jobs are given by patronage… will not the patron demand favours in return from the person given the position in terms of decisions?

very good questions which we need to ask ourselves.

This was probably the thrust of the AAj tak probe…

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Ishwar not so fast.
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Gujarat HC quashes sedition cases against TOI Ahmedabad

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Gujarat-HC-quashes-sedition-cases-against-TOI-Ahmedabad/articleshow/12718428.cms

Excerpt

The cases had been filed after a series of investigative reports had exposed Mathur’s dubious background and questioned if Ahmedabad was safe in his hands as police commissioner. The TOI had said that the Narendra Modi government, particularly the then Minister of State (MoS) for home Amit Shah, rewarded Mathur for botching up the Sohrabuddin fake encounter probe.

A little more than a month later, terrorists had killed 57 people in the city by triggering serial bomb blasts on July 26, 2008.

Post-retirement, the state government has again rewarded Mathur by appointing him as director general of Raksha Shakti University. Shah was arrested by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin case and has been restrained from entering Gujarat.

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Sedition! Huh!

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Where were all these girls when I was of the right age?
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A young boy to his girl friend : Let us go to some remote peace full place
Girl: Will you do something Naughty?
Boy : No, darling
Girl : Then leave it, I am not interested.
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Another boy to his girl friend : Tum to meri chand ho ..
Girl : Aur tum ho mere Neil Armstrong
Boy : Neil Armstrong ?
Girl : is chand pe chadhne wala pehla aadmi.

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A special ode for Congress tonight .

Quoting Lord Chesterfield on sex

” The pleasure is momentary… the position ridiculous…. the expense damnable ! “

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All;
particularly my friends on this blog. Wanted to read all the post but can not do. So, restricted to my posts and reactions of my friends. It is obvious that they did not like my post regarding playing. I will suggest that you read it again and decipher, what I am trying to say, then feel bad. Obviously, we are not on the same page.
Vijay, You understood me totally wrong. You should read between the words, reading between the lines is passe. I have given enough hints here, who sanjay is. he is a professional writer, you know what? His style, flair, contents clearly direct to his profession apart from a plethora of other indications. When I said to play with better player, I was trying to say, that imbibe his style, the way he obfuscate issues, the way, he can not discuss certain people on this blog etc. For good debate, learn these skills. Few posts back, I had already termed him as a professional and attributes of a professional. His never say die attitude, though badly beaten on Army General Issue, he did continue to defend Government. So, nothing can be more obvious, I was trying to say that to enjoy his dilemma of compulsion of defending undefendable. Was listening this morning, Gulam Ali.. Main teri mast nigahi ka bharam rakh loonga, Hosh aaya bhi to kah doonga mujhe hosh nahin.
Shenoy sahab- You also did not take the hint about relationship, was expecting that may be you will take.
Mohan- Table tennis and topic, very dissimilar and very similar at the same time. I was suggesting Vijay to learn debating skills from him not his ideology.
Friends, it seems, long absence from India has changed my attitude, style and now, I enjoy some different confrontation- jis main, Cheeeen bulwane ki jaroorat nahin padti, and every one understands that. Keep the blogging going. Good luck.

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More news about Modi

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Keshubhai plays community card

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Keshubhai-plays-community-card/articleshow/12711184.cms

Excerpt

Barely two days after empty chairs greeted chief minister Narendra Modi at a function organized by a group of Leuva Patels in Surat, Keshubhai gave a clarion call to his community that it is high time to show detractors that “might is right”, that too addressing a nearly 60,000-strong crowd.

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Obsession of certain gentlemen here with Modi.

I request them to link the following with Narendra Modi and win a lollipop for the dunces of the year

a) Agni test firing delayed. Modi must be behind it. he sneezed. Engrich and manohar have concluded that the skies became clouded

b) Abhshek Manu Singhvi drops his guard. All beasue the woman lawyer saw a plate of Momos and said Momo de do . Manu Singhvi busy in his files just heard Mo-di… got excited… and rest his his-story !

c) COngress lost MCD elections. Obviously all the Delhi COngressis were busy shouting Modi Modi rape rape… they forgot to work in their consitituencies and lost !!

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~~~ WOW !! PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE HAFEEZ SAEED SECURITY !!! ~~~~
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Two days back, on this very blog, manohar, Mahesh and Ravi were giggling like girls and trying to potray me as a hardliner, BJP guy who was giving a bad name to the innocent state of Pakistan.

Well as I watch TV right now, news is coming in that the Lahore high court has directed the Paksitani government to provide “A ” category security to Hafeez Saeed !!

So Hafeez will never never never never be caught. Instead spin will be created as Imran Khan suggested that Saeed and LeT are good hearted people who should be won over with love.

Wah !! Wah !! Applause !

I can see Manohar and mahesh giggling that Hafeez will never be caught… and we need to win him over with love… even as he announces a hard time for India this year.!

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There is only one way to deal with goons of all kind…reciprocate in kind..

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Pakistan’s Army chief Kayani urges less spending on defence

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistans-Army-chief-Kayani-urges-less-spending-on-defence/articleshow/12720640.cms

Pakistan: Pakistan’s powerful Army chief on Wednesday said he would like to see the country spend less on defence, arguing that national security depended on development as much as on protecting borders.

Chief of the Army staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, said “peaceful coexistence” with arch-rivals India was vital to both countries and the welfare of the people should be a priority.

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Earlier they informed India about the possible infiltration by the Taliban. Now this!
What is cooking? Are we seeing more realistic Pakistan establishment or ….. ?

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Good morning gentlemen.

Love is blind and marriage is an eye opener.

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India test fires long-range missile Agni-V, joins elite club

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/India-successfully-test-fires-Agni-V-takes-a-giant-stride/Article1-842796.aspx

India on Thursday test fired Agni-V, the country’s first long range inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast. The maiden flight test of Agni-V, was postponed on Wednesday. Bad weather conditions were cited as the reason.

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Read on.

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First thaw? BJP says it will back pension Bill

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/first-thaw-bjp-says-it-will-back-pension-bill/938642/0

Excerpts

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said here today that the Bharatiya Janata Party would support the government and facilitate the smooth passage of the pension bill (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill) in the budget session of Parliament. The budget session is set to reconvene post recess on April 23.

“We are not opposed to the pension Bill. We had sought a couple of changes that were agreed to by the government. But on other financial sector Bills such as the one on banking amendment that seeks to lift the 10 per cent cap on voting rights and the insurance Bill that seeks to hike the FDI limit to 49 per cent from 26 per cent, there is resistance from within the Congress itself,” he told The Indian Express.

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Referring to one particular Cabinet minister, all of whose Bills are stuck in Parliament, Jaitley said, “In each case, the opposition started with ruling party members. The Congress party is opposing its own ministers,” he said. To another question whether the BJP can still support some of these Bills, he said, “Strategically it is not possible…as Napoleon said, when the enemy is committing suicide, you don’t disturb them.”

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Rashid Alvi says Abhishek Manu Singhvi has cold,

Singhvi’s doctor says, no cold. Looks like he has developed cold feet.

My friend in Bangalore says, Abhishek was singing this song while “frolicking” with the woman lawyer who wanted to be judge:

” bhiige honTh tere, pyaasaa dil meraa
lage abr saa, haa, mujhe tan teraa

jam ke barasaa de, mujh par ghataaen
tuu hii merii pyaas, tuu hii meraa jaam
kabhii mere saath, koii raat guzaar
tujhe subahaa tak mai.n hai.n, karuu.N pyaar haa”

But the media is collectively singing this vrind gaan:

“kuchh naa kaho, kuchh bhI naa kaho
kyaa kahanaa hai, kya sunanaa hai
humko pataa hai, tumko pataa hai
samay kaa ye pal, tham saa gayaa hai
aur is pal mein koi nahin hai
bas ek hum hain, bas ek Abhi hai……..”

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In Uganda, we had Idi Amin
In West Bengal, we have Didi Amin
Idi Amin ate human flesh dish
Didi amin loves only fried fish.

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MOhan

wehre is the joke of teh day?

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Narendra Modi as a blogger on TOI

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Skill Development: Strengthening Yuva Shakti

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/narendra-modis-blog/entry/skill-development-strengthening-yuva-shakti

Dear Friends,

I would like to share with you an anecdote of a man I know, who repairs watches. One day a watch came to him for repair during which he noticed a manufacturing defect. He then wrote a letter to the watch manufacturing company based in Switzerland pointing out a defect in the design of their product. As it turned out, the points raised by this man proved to be correct and the company not only appreciated the point raised by the man but also had to withdraw the watches from the market.

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Read on.

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Indians apni hartkaton se baaz nahin aayenge.

In a night club somewhere in Europe a girl was dancing in skimpy dress.
On one table an Italian put a note of Euro 100 in her bra, on another table
a French put Euro 200 at the same place. Then she came to a table where an Indian
was sitting. He took out an ATM card, swiped it between her b…..s and removed
Euro 300/- and quietly walked out of the club.

Indian banking everywhere.

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Vijay/Shenoy,

Communists and ‘communal’ together?
Would love to read views of Manohar, Mahesh, Ravi
and Sanjay on this .

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The Congress setback, Nirmal Baba and some very exciting IPL matches dominated TV this week
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The Congress lost the MCD elections in Delhi in such spectacular fashion that within an hour of the first news reports, a thousand lotuses bloomed. “Kamal, kamal aur kamal” is how News 24 described the unusual phenomenon. In other words, kamaal hai. By lunchtime, the Congress rout resembled a drought and the TV screen was flooded with jubilant BJP supporters. Now, news channels recognise a disaster when they see one and here was a man-made tsunami of alarming proportions for the ruling Congress. TV reporters rushed from East Delhi to West and from North to South Delhi, surveying the damage. And the one person they held responsible for the wreckage of Congress’ hopes was none other than Delhi’s chief minister, Sheila Dikshit. Or to mix the lyrics of two filmi item numbers, “Sheila badnaam hui, Dilli tere liye”.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-election-and-the-pitch/938498/0

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Agree. A joke for sure. Was there ever a doubt about the ‘master’?

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Rohini suicide, husband held

New Delhi: The husband of Garima Vajpayee — who jumped to her death from a Rohini mall on Tuesday — was arrested in the case on Wednesday. He has been identified as Padam Vajpayee (36). Police said that Padam was arrested after Garima’s family alleged dowry harassment. He has been charged under Section 304B of IPC, a source said.
The couple lived in Paschim Vihar and has two children. Police said that on Wednesday, the couple had an argument after which Garima came to the mall where Padam owned an outlet. She went to the seventh floor of the mall and jumped. TNN
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WTF, why does the police need to arrest the husband without any investigation? The couple had two children and that means they must have been married for some time. Did the parents of Late Garima Vajpayee ever received a dowry demand.
a) if yes then what did they do about it?
b) if no how could say that the death was related to dowry?

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Where is Sanjay? (fixing cong problems?)
Where is Dr Shantanu? (going after a blond “Satyavathi”)
Where is Ravi??
Where is Egrich (regrouping Taliban??)

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Gadkari has for the first time admitted that there is a problem between him and Modi. He also added that ambitious leaders are not good for the party.

I too feel that Modi is not a party man but is more concerned about his own growth. This is another reason I feel he is unfit to be PM.

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Mamta’s case just shows that all parties need to rise above personality cults.

The older regional political parties…– the abdullas, the Badals, The mulayams, the Lalus , Karuna and sons, MGR and wives…

Its all about single personalites.

Even the COngress is a family cult… though it has the potential of becoming democratic and well organised.

Can India actually have parties which are not personlaity driven?

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Vijay-
There will be family domination as long as our political party nomination process wrests with the party, and not with the people, like here in USA.

It is extremely difficult for a politician’s son/daughter/relative to get elected here just because he/she is the politician’s relative. Party does not nominate anybody for any seat. people select who their candidates should be, from Panchayat level (village) to county/district, state, federal levels.

Political party for the most part is an “idea” bearer – Democratic Party for a balanced approach between government/enterprise, Republican Party, especially with the current tea party dominance for a total free market unencumbered by regulation, government involvement, and for the most part for corporations to do stuff without caring for anybody.

The recent supreme court ruling here declaring corporations as “people” , allowing corporations to spend unlimited dollars for advocacy advetisements will upset this in the short/medium or even long term. A corporate support group, for example, can spend unlimited money to promote their candidate (say a politician’s son), put him in a very positive light, while caricaturing the opponent as out of touch, extreme etc.

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drug problems in Punjab..YTimes article – Jim Yardley -
May be Pakistan is behind in the supply.. This may be their way of destroying India. Hope there is a plan 1- to make sure this does not spread across India 2- all assistance is given to Punjab to contain this. Punjab is the last place in India I would have guessed something like this will happen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/world/asia/drug-addiction-is-a-growing-problem-in-punjab.html

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Times coverage of Missile launch by Heather Timmons. The China perspective is interesting
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/world/asia/india-says-it-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile.html?hp

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The “agni puthri” of India, role model for girls (and boys) to get into science education..
as I mentioned yesterday, this gives me four reasons to be proud -
An Indian, Malayali, Christian (not related to this Thomas), and a woman achiever! Go, Tessy, go!

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/meet-the-woman-behind-agniv-success/250201-3.html

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~~~ WHAT MAMATA CAN LEARN FROM MODI ~~~~~
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Mamta scared the nano project from Bengal so that it dropped into Modi’s lap in extreme west.

Now mamta’s East India should learn a few tricks from Modi’s West India.

I am highly impressed By Gujarat’s solar power initiative. Asia’s biggest solar village of 500 MW is partly functional now. Like Badal took advice from Modi and reversed his fortunes in the last year of his lacklustre ruel, Mamta can reverse fortune by picking up programs and ideas from Modi’s Gujarat.

Solar Energy could be good start. Whenever I have installed solar panels on houses or buildings the whole feel becomes different. Eco friendly, energy efficient and a message in that. Yhe tech has changed by leaps and bounds.

If mamta just builds up solar energy as her special initiatve… she can change her image.

Though I feel she wont have the vision too and most likely keep crying victimhood…

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And whole of Islam is all about slavery of Sayyeds…

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What happened to Bhangaarwala (Kabaadi) Sanjay? Looks like too busy clunking in Congress HQ…Poor guy is so insignificant, he doesn’t even get noticed by small fries like Shakeel Ahmed.

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Pakistan Chief Justice Chowdhary hoodwinked the whole system and made it sure that Rinkal Kumari, Asha and Lata go back to their muslim husbands.

Just watch this debate and see how muslims treat others when in majority. See how host is behaving…He is so partial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkDz7Nk_O4

One day Indian muslims will have to pay for the sins of ******** across the border.

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If you want somethin very badly, you will definitetly get it
If you don’t get it that means you never wanted that badly enough.

Good night.

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Gopi, Mohan, Vijay Kumar,

this news has made me very sad and angry:

In its moment of celebration, DRDO leaves out ‘Agni putri’
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As the Agni V missile thundered into the sky off the coast of Orissa on Thursday, it was a moment of triumph for Tessy Thomas, the scientist who broke the glass ceiling in the male-dominated arena of rocket science when she was appointed to head the Agni IV mission.

But the name of the woman who has played a crucial role in the development of the Agni series of missiles was missing in the press release issued by the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). The release mentioned all other scientists present at the launch.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-its-moment-of-celebration-drdo-leaves-out-agni-putri/939181/

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Murtaz Razvi, an eminent journalist of Dawn newspaper in Pakistan is killed…

A fine journalist, he was against the ISI high handedness, increasing terrorism etc..
Sad that we can not read his columns any more.

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A wonderul blog written by Pramit Pal Chaudhri today , also the links provided there to 3 articles on Nepal , Pakistan and Sri-Lanka. All articles are a treat to read.

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How many HIndu men are married to Muslim girls in Pakistan and still alive? One or two?

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This gentleman must be really frustrated with his wife. He was heard telling his friend
‘ next month is my silver wedding anniversary, I am taking my wife to a nice peaceful
hill station at a remote place. I will again go there on our golden wedding anniversary
and bring her back ‘
His friend asked him why? This is what he said
‘ wife is a knife to the life ‘

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Engrich,

I have always enjoyed your jokes including this one.

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~~~~ THE BATTLE OF THE WOMB ~~ how Pakistanis unite to forcibly convert ~~
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I hae been stressing that the Paksitani state and most people unite when it comes to forcibly convert minoirties, especially Hindus and CHristians. They even put forward coy suggestions that these are love marriages and we, the right wing are intruding in a matter of hearts !!

Manohar took this line.

Engrich takes the line which most of Pakistan takes. That these kidnapped girls are being converted to a better religion so what is wrong? In fact he boasts (in his earlier posting) that he has converted 10-12 girls himself.

My line is that Marriage, religion and relationships are a matter of heart. BUT >>> BUT>>> But…

WHat is being done in Pakistan is A PROACTIVE STATE WHICH CAPTURES THE WOMB SO THAT NON MUSLIMS ARE NOT PRODUCED. There is a conspiracy of silence which ensures that this act gets done smoothly and with a duplciotus facade… the same way they handle their terror program.

Here is one big question.

Show me ten HIndus who married Muslim girls in Pakistan, without converting to Islam themselves. WHat is the ratio of Muslim girls converitn to Hinduism to marry Hindus in Paksitan as compared to Hindu girls forcible married to Muslm men and accepting Islam.

There will be a conspiracy of silence on this now.

Here is an article from the International Herald Tribune:
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KARACHI:
Their logic is hard to argue with: why are Hindu men not converting? Why is it that only young girls of a marriageable age are surfacing in these cases? And if these girls are so keen to convert, why don’t they go to madrassas, learn the religion and then go through with it?

Shaking with rage, Amarnath Motumal of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), asked this barrage of questions at a press conference on Saturday. It was held with the tearful families of victims of forced conversions who demanded that their girls should be returned to them.

“When a girl is converted, why is she married off immediately?” Motumal said. “If she has converted for the sake of Islam, then why doesn’t she join a madrassa to educate herself and spread knowledge about the religion?”

He said that around 20 to 22 girls are being converted every month, but families do not go public as they fear the incident will ruin their reputation.

The family of 19-year-old Rinkle Kumari, who was allegedly abducted, forced to covert and marry a Muslim, claimed that they are receiving death threats.

“Take the case back or we will kill you all,” is the threat the family received on March 8, according to the Rinkle’s brother-in-law Inder Lal.

A frustrated Lal said that if Rinkle had converted and married of her own free will, she would have held a press conference immediately after the court’s decision. “For six days, she was quiet. It was only when the issue was raised internationally, that she came in front of the media.”

After the last court hearing in Sukkur, Rinkle appeared before the media and stated that she was not forced by anyone. But her family has stuck to its stance that Rinkle’s conversion to Islam and her marriage to Naveed Shah was forced.

“She did not even know the person,” exclaimed Rinkle’s father, Nand Lal, who is a primary school teacher in Mirpur Mathelo. “We have no internet or telephone connections at home, so there is no way she could have been in touch with Naveed.” He informed that Rinkle had recently completed her intermediate studies and two days before Rinkle was allegedly kidnapped, she was planning to go to Karachi to shop for her brother’s wedding.

While talking to The Express Tribune, the family provided new information about the alleged kidnapping. “Rinkle’s friend Kiran was the brains behind the plan. She took money from the kidnappers and gave them all the information about Rinkle,” accused Nand Lal. “We wanted to nominate Kiran in the FIR but the DSP refused.”

According to the family, Rinkle was kidnapped by armed men while on her way to the bathroom built in the courtyard.

“If she had planned to elope, she would have taken her slippers and her sweater,” pointed out her family members. “But she was kidnapped barefoot and without any warm clothes in the cold weather.”

The family, who are in Karachi for the time being, asked that Rinkle should be taken to a neutral place for at least eight days and be allowed to meet her family.

Raised voices

Rinkle’s mother covered her face with a dupatta and wept silently as the HRCP Sindh vice chairperson voiced the community’s troubles. “We can’t even sleep at night, wondering whether our kidnapped girls would become suicide bombers or would they be sold off into prostitution,” lamented Motumal.

He said that forced conversion is not a new practice, claiming that extremists are taking advantage of the religion by preaching at madrassas on how to convert non-Muslims.

“When an underage girl is forced to convert, she is not allowed to meet her family. She is told that the people who gave birth to her and raised her have become Kaafirs.”

Lata’s story

The press conference was also attended by the family of 29-year-old Dr Lata Kumari, who was kidnapped on February 28 on her way to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in DHA. Her family alleged that she has been forcibly converted and married to Nadir Baig Dhar, the son of a suspended judge.

Lata’s father, Dr Ramesh Kumar, spoke out against the harsh treatment that the family received in the court on March 7. “The police did not even let us meet Lata at the first hearing of the case and they beat us with sticks,” said Lata’s mother, a hypertension patient. “The kidnappers did not leave burqa-clad Lata alone for even a minute. Nadir and his goons would come in front of me every time I approached her. I could not even look at my daughter properly.”

Kumar said that they knew Nadir from before, claiming that the accused had converted five Hindu girls already. According to Lata’s brother Vishal, Nadir works at the quality assurance department of a motor company.

“Lata clutched my arm and asked me to do something for her,” said a teary eyed Joti, Lata’s sister. “Why are the criminals not letting us meet her, what are they scared of?”

Kumar alleged that the signature on the documents were not Lata’s.

Lata, who has an MBBS degree from Larkana, used to live at the Aga Khan hostel and had worked as a medical researcher. Two of her siblings are also doctors and live in Hyderabad, while the rest of the family lives in Jacobabad.

During the press conference, another suspected kidnapping came up. People from Jacobabad said that a Hindu girl Asha Devi, who used to work at a beauty parlour, never made it home from work.

HRCP’s Badar Soomro condemned the forced conversions of the three per cent minority population in the country. “Why are the extremists after the minorities? Let them live freely.”

On March 8, the Supreme Court directed the Sindh police IG to find Lata, Rinkle and another Hindu girl Pooja Devi, and present them at the next hearing on March 26. However, the families were not hopeful. “They [the courts] record statements under section 164 and then the girl is sent immediately with the criminals,” said Motumal. “She is given no time to think about her decision or talk to her family.”

He suggested that the court should give such girls a week’s time to make up their mind, while they stay at the Darul Aman with their mother.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11th, 2012.

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Vijay/Mohan,

On this story, Rajeev also shared a youtube link. I couldn’t watch the whole clip (36 minutes long). What I could make out from it was the fact that even the SC of Pakistan is not being fair. It asked the “victims” to record their statement to the police in their custody whether they wanted to stay with their husbands or go back to their family. The judge could have heard their statement in the court but he didn’t find it a wise thing to do. On 26th March, at least one of the girls had stated that she wanted to go back to her family.

Can’t expect better from any Pakistani institution.
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Staying on Pakistan, here’s a good one…

“Pakistan should never hand over Hafiz Saeed to India as India will start spending billions of rupees for his food and security.”

Taslima Nasreen Author

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All those wanting Orders to be passed against the Gujarat Govt , move the SC now .

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http://www.twitvid.com/9RKOW

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“The Central government on Friday said that the Kerala police had no authority to detain the Italian ship ‘Enrica Lexie’. The Centre told the Supreme Court that the Kerala Police Station had no jurisdiction to detain the ship or probe the incident as the incident occurred on high seas. ”
CM of Kerala says that he took all steps after consulting the Centre. If this was the satnd of the GOI what was the need for all the Tamasha ? Wonder what was the influence which brought such a change in the GOI ’s position. After all we had all read about the two Italian marines although in police custody were put up at the CISF guest house as guests of the State.
Wonder what was the influence which brought such a change in the GOI ’s position?

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Amid the heat and dust of the arguments on this blog, let me congratulate you for the Title of the blog.

Merciless Mamata !!

Her love is certainly merciless. Aisa pyaar toh dushmanon ko mubarak ho… !

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India Today is running a cover story called the “Booby trap.” It is about breast enhancement.

Well, find it strange that somthing which is now found to be explosive in france– with silicon implanted 30 years in various breasts “xploding” should be such a huge issue.

In the end are the girls preffering to switch over from delivering “the milk of human kindness’ to “ice igloos of hard frigidty…” ?

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Sanjayji and Vinodji, please come out of retirement and give comments

Let is compare two CDs. In one Bangaru aLaxman is deliberately induced with a paltry sum of Rs 50,000/- for a fake deal in which he promises NOTHING !! tehelka and its trolls and pimps (they supplied whores to army) just forcibly hand over the money

In the second

The Congress chief spokesman

a) Does yaun uthpeedan and promises judgeship in case of BJ ( Blow J_ _) and probably expects court decisons to favour congress

b) his party chief smiles and dismisses issue as that of love

c) Congress does nothing

d) The sanctity of the supreme court has been spoilt by BJ and moral turpitude in remises

Tauba Tauba Tauba… Yeh sab kya ho raha hai????????? Kya girawat hai congress mein !! Tauba Tauba Taub!!!

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Akbar is probably among the top ten journos of India !!!

Period.

VIndo Sharma is also among the top… as long as COngress doesnt come into the pic. See his blogs on the NE and Dev Anand and for that matter on Jagjit Singh. Bass yeh Congress ki gulami ke karan… apni position consolidate nahi kar paa rahe..

C’mon Vinodji… dump this losing Congress and dynastic worship…

And see how we all salute you …

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Thx benoy

Really inspiring article. Gujarat now has 66% of India’s solar capacity.

I think Modi’s personel advise to Badal to resurrect his image got Badal to install solar in Punjab over canals in a big way.

Unfortunately , as you would notice on this blog, msot people would spend their time villyfying Gujaratis , rather than trying to learn governance which is getting so many breakthroughs there.

Mamta can go for solar. But she wont.

Jaya probably would…

Congress states would just look at Rahul g for instructions. But would never get insprired enough to copy Modi on this…

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MERCILESS MAMATA
MERCIFUL SONIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even after the whole world has watched with hilarity and mirth the congress party’s chief of media cell on a CD indulging in sexploitation, Sonia Gandhi has shown great amount of “understanding” and spared Abhishek Manu Singhvi of the rod.

Madamji, there is this saying, “spare the rod and spoil the children”.

You are actually encouraging others like Manish Tiwari etc. to exploit such situations.

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Dirty video and subversion of system.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/randomaccess/entry/dirty-video-and-subversion-of-system

This is not only about sex, but what is being promised in return.
These people at prominent places in government are prepared to compromise anything.

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There are two aspects of the dirty video of the COngress spokeman.

a) Is fornification alowed in court premises. One has to check out the relevent PENal acts to decipher Manu Singhvi’s penis act.

We need to temember that Congress was a party of fantastic lawyers once. Wonder what lawyers like Gandhi, patel and Nehru would have said about fornification in court premises by a congresman

b) The promise of judgeship for the sexual favour. Gandhi aur nehru ke desh mein yeh girawat kaisi? This is gross gross gross abuse of position and power.

The CBI should swing into action and media for once should probe the genuine CD.

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I have a feelign that the BJP will be too decent to the COngress on this. The BJP has Jailtey who was good freinds with Manu and his father LM Singhvi. They would let COngress of the hook

Would be sad if the COngress is let off and then they would see the same Congress start shouting Modi Modi rape rape and see it misuse the CBI .

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Gopiji,

Ok won’t comment about her.

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Yes Shenoy Saab … that was the name I had heard , but I did want to mention it on this public forum. But Shenoy Saab kindly exercise more restraint when talking of courts or judges.
On the Net I have also seen news item that the present C J of India had rejected and sent back a panel of 5 names recommended by the Delhi High Court collegium , for appointment as Judges, and this name was in that panel.

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Gopi

Dont havw any illusions of the present set of ladies i hi fi positions. You can read about SImran sood who had no qualms about murdering or Maria susiaraj who chopped her lover to pieces. NDTV today,talks about one Ms Patel in Washington who asked he husband to expect a sexual oil massage and then poured gasoline over him and lit him up.

Point is girls today are equally complicit in illegal activites. Kani mozhi took the stance that she is maa behn and biwi so 200 crores should be forgotten and Nalini takes the stance that she is maa, behen and biwi so free me despite the killing of the PM.

Wwe suffer from illusions that ALL girls are soft and understanding and innocent. That is NOT so.

Had Ms Salwan not dangled herself,
SInghvi might not have mangled himself…

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In Malayalam, we have a usage “Thakarnna Tharavad” . Both these words are not easily translatable to other languages. “thakarnna”, sort of means decayed from within, decayed through deliberate actions of inheritors, decayed beyond redemption etc. “tharvad” is the ancestral house, lineage, heredity…. Some Tharvads like Palat (of ex foerign secretary Shiv Shanker Menon) produces generations of foreign secretaries (KPS Menon, PN Menon, Shiv Shanker etc) and scientists (MGK Menon) and stalwarts in other fields time and time again, whereas other Tharvads decay and self
destruct becoming “thakarnna tharavad” ..

Has India become a “Thakarnna Tharavad” ? now that we have started selling judgeships for sexual favour? Shouldnt judgeships be a little higher priced?

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This was not reported by media.

During President Zardari’s recent visit to India, our PM had asked him that what
steps he was taking to curb terrorism in Pakistan. Zardari said ” Trust me, we
are taking very serious steps to curb terrorism in Pakistan as you are doing
to curb corruption in India “

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Where have all these regulars and not so regulars gone.?

Manohar, Shan, Ravi, Ashish, Mahesh, Balwinder, Dr. Mishra, Vinay.

This blog needs different views from all of you.

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Friends,

I am in a deeply introspective mood right now after seeing the photos.

Why, why did you, Dr.Singhvi, risk your life’s achievements for the sake of a few minutes’ rolling in the buff with a surrendered woman?

What was your family’s fault? WHy did you forget about them?

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Well all of us ae vulnerable. Detection equipment have changed. Cams have changed.

And men and women have changed. I know of cases where decent guys have been caught on cam by their friends and then blackmailed. We all know of the DPS guy who shot pics of his school girlfriend and circulated them around.

Similarly they have been cases where call girls have shot their clients. Shot dirty videos that is…

So all of us have to be carefull….

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Effects of marriage.

Sher ki shaadi mein ek chuha naach raha tha. Dost ne Poocha tum kyon
naach rahe ho? Chuhe ne kaha ‘ Aaj mere Bhai ki shaadi hai ‘
Dost ‘ sher tera Bhai kaise hua ‘ Chuhe ne jawab diya ‘ shaadi ke pehle
mein bhi sher tha ‘

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Importance of being Fauja Singh .
Read on about this amazing person at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauja_Singh
Search for him on You tube to find how un-believably healthy a person for can be even at 100 .
p.s. for UK folks : Tomorrow’s London Marathon will see this person participate in the event (probably his last marathon before retiring from the long distance racing events) . If possible, feel free to take your time off and meet / greet the person and be blessed with inspiration.

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So Didi now wants to have her own state newspaper and state TV to fight against others who spread “bad news” about her and her administration!

Her citizens can eat news food instead of real food!

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Mohan,
Back to Amazon topic…..
It is not just about Amazon turning into Monopoly. There is more to it here.
The kind of capitalism we are witnessing has gotten way more complex , complexity being not just the operations but consequences as well .
During early days of 2008 Financial crisis – a popular argument was made about regulatory framework lagging behind the development. In that sense – the picture is far more murky in this part of world . Plus the social safety net is very weak. This complicates the situation much much more. We may not even know what hit us – or is already hitting us.

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Saw movie Vicky Donor, nice different movie. Punjabis and Bengalis will specially
like this.

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about Bihar CM – Brookigs Report…
ttp://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2012/0320_nitish_antholis.aspx

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Classic example of a life partner.

Someone who will stand by you through all the troubles which you would
not have had if you had stayed single.

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Missing people from the blog.

Mohan commented about some people missing from the blog. I have a feeliing that 2-3 of them might have been shamed by the latest seedy CD. Maybe they are trying to find a BJP and Modi link.

here are a few lines they can work on

a) The Driver was BJP, paid by Modi

b) The female artiste was BJP and linked to Modi

And now the mother of all conspiracy theories

c) The Principal actor and party spokesman starring in the CD , was BJP agent… out to defame the Congress !!!!!

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I think she is sick and needs treatment.

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Can you control your urges ?

A new army captain was assigned to an outfit in a remote post in the
African desert. During his first inspection of the outfit, he noticed a camel
hitched up behind the tent. He asked the sergeant about this to which he
replied ‘ Sir, as you know there are 300 men on this post and no women, and
sometimes men have urges. That is why we have this camel. Captain said ‘ I can’t
say that I officially agree with this, but I understand about urges, so the camel
can stay . ‘ After about a month the captain started having his own urges. Crazy
with passion, he asked the sergeant to bring the camel to his tent. Putting a
ladder behind the camel. the captain stood on it, dropped his pants and had a
wild sex with the camel. After he was done, he asked the sergeant ‘ Is that how
the men do ?’ Sergeant replied ‘ Not really sir, they usually just ride the camel
into the town where the girls are.’

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Bengal is funny and thrives on victimhood.

As per the mail today report it needs 22000 crores for sevicing debt and it generates revenu of 21000 crores only. It is loath to raise taxes but keeps blaing the centre.

it has money for starting a TV channel but will not have the strength to change the work culture…

The TV cahnnel will continue tales of victimhood by centre… other states, global capitalism… etc etc.

So much for the mamata’s merciless revolution….

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Well I run for 30 mts and walk for another 30, Nice to see birds in our stadium in the morning…

And soetimes if time permists… some cricket or yoga or tennis… sab time ki baat hai…

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Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s sex tape was not doctored. IT WAS LAWYERED!

http://indiawires.com/10098/featured/singhvi-sexcapade-media-as-a-protective-condom/#comment-7000

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Uncle ji,
I am sure – with all these years in life – you know the difference between spectacular and devastating .

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Mohan,
I am not passing “wholesale blame” to capitalism. My argument has been about the complexity and our inability to grapple with it. Plus also the lack of willingness.

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Shenoy,
I look for symbols of India at different places and don’t necessarily feel compelled to make strenous connections. I am surprised you bring repudiation here at all. A little curious – did you at all watch his YouTube clips ?

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Mohan-

here is the link.. Hope the guys in India can comment on this

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2012/0320_nitish_antholis.aspx

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After Agni V, we have this seedy CD of Abhishek Singhvi, which has put a new ZING in the sex life of congress politicians. So he can be given the title of ZING-VI.

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BVS

After seeing the picture of his elegant wife, I have this feeling that she does not give “it” to him, he being so-so in looks and a bit older…….

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I have a theory – Sanjay is Abhishek

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Where have the birds gone? (especially the bird that announces “Vishu” in kerala) – environment, globalization, consumerism, land use…

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article3340120.ece?homepage=true

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Ghadha Sherni se ” Darling I love you ”
Sherni ” Chal phut, Shakal dekhi hai ”
Gadha ” Shakal ko maar goli, neeche dekh neeche”
Sherni ” Oh my god, .. I love you too darling “

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Gr8 one !

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Let me shake up things a bit !! Vijay style…

Have the Sanghis… the so called Sanghis and accused to be Sanghis, finallly won that the family worshippers and COngressis have gone into hiding and have no face to show???

C;mon guys, If you have surrenderd, your silence would be eloquont. If you have still some arguments left… raise you hand and say that you still have life.

Or maybe is the CD shaming everyone into silence that “Iss par kya spin lagao… yahaan toh sach obvious hai…”

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Shenoy sahab;
Good one.

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@ Gopi

Now that we are in a generally quiter period of the blog, let me throw up an issue and get an answer from you — based not on your opinion– but in the historical context.

The core issue of nationhood. What defines a set of people to stick together as a nation.

Now let me expand this a bit. Take the british. Their own families are splitting wide open– with kids being born to single parents, , but they look up at their royal family as some sort of great entertaining representative of Briton. They may have ruled the world by dividing, but in the end will not be able to hold scotland or Ireland in the UK, when the percieved attraction of the British royal family goes down.

We have seen the Soviet Union splitting from what Stalin stitched it to become. Czechs tearing theslves into pieces, Canada often shakes with French and English at loggerheads,

Closer home many of us beleive tht the already split Paksitan will only achive peace when Baluchistan and Sindh separate.

The US too is facing a challenge to its core values of global domination thru capitalism and God as its saviour.. Though probably because of the vary nature of the melting pot… will not face internal challenges.

So.. let me throw up this question. What finally gets people to stick together…as a nation?

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All;
Now you are regreating, I warned you people not to hit too hard. What is this blog without them.This peace feels like a peace in a cemetry. Ravi, Engrich, Manohar, Sanjay and Mahesh. ..Tum sab ko chhod kar aa jao, aa jao, sab kuchh chhod kar…

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Feeling sleepy now…

Ab tumhare hawale hai yeh blog saathiyon…

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Folks , I had decided to abandon India , after ashish posted something about NRI’s and their feeling for India. Somehow it feltlike somebody holding a mirror. It is true “Do I ever want to come back and settle in India ” , Sadly the answer is No .The reason being , we are perceived as FOREIGNERS.also having lived for so long in the west , your sensibility changes , YOU REALLY CAN’T GO WITH THE FLOW. and the wretched poverty all around becomes unbearable.The FACT IS IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING “the crabs” won’t let you.
As far manu sanghvi’s BLOW job is concerned , IT SHOULD BE END OF CONGRESS. But the BJP’s silence is breathtaking, PERHAPS IT HAS TO CONTEND WITH THE 10YR OLD MAID RAPED AND BODY FOUND IN THE BOOT OF GADKARI’S CAR WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF HIS HOME.
Planning to visit barcelona.
I will be nice , thus use the name Vijay Khanna , and remind him of his lecture ON DECADENCE OF THE WEST.

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Pankaj & Mohan

I appreciate your concerns and have made an appeal for all the missing members to return. However, you both are in a minority here.

Agree, the silence can be killing for some. Ths blog has not been completely silent, as the others have made a lot of noise regaring the Abhishek Singhvi.

Pankaj, you are wrong that most of us,if not all, have been intimidated into scooting from the blog. I can speak for myself that I have been more than a match to anything that has been thrown at me and whenever I felt like it I have returned enough knock-out punches. Too frequent punches takes away the effectiveness and the surprise element.

AFAICR, Ravi (a ‘fake’ and ‘jehadi’ to boot) & Engrich (‘ISI trained jehadi’) have been away from the blog for quite sometime, before the CD controversy was reported. I will not speculate as to why Sanjay (a ‘congressi troll’ ) has been absent, must be busy or gone on a holiday or whatever, I do not know. With these people away for whatever reasons, I (another ‘congressi troll’ with the tag of ‘family naukar’ as an additional qualification) decided to go into a silent mode and watch the proceedings from the side for two reasons. 1) To check the state of the blog and 2) more important whether I could stay away from the blog. (Vijay & Co. need not believe me and I do not expect them to do so – they can keep attributing any motives they can imagine, who cares).

What was the result? The absence has been attributed to the fact the ‘congressi trolls’ have been embarrassed and shamed into silence and there has been total unanimity among Vijay, Gopi and the other usual suspects on this count. Worse, they even imagined as to what the missing members were upto with the whole group having a good laugh. CTs, anyone? BTW, no such questions have been raised about Ashish, Vinoo, Shoeb and others. How can they? After all, they belong to the group and must have real noble and genuine reasons for staying away. It does not bother me, just pointing out the duplicity of the people.

In the last 80 odd posts, about 40% of the posts have been on Abhishek Singhvi & the CD. Does it speak volumes about the lack of intelligence quotient of the ‘group’ to debate different topics and subjects? To me, it sure does. The reason is not far to seek – extreme juvenility and intelligence deficit. Was I unable to comment upon it? No, for me it was a non-issue, just as the BJP MLA’s caught with porn in their hands (those with short memories and/or selective amnesia, can go back several blogs and look).

If the absentee members do not return or do so irregularly, then what? One side can claim total conquest of one more citadel (Vinod Sharma’s Blog, no less) with the ‘enemies’ being annihilated. The group then surely must rejoice. Peace reigns, no dissent, no disagreemnts, no alternative narratives thus making debates infructuous, add more spice to the posts and the most important no need to abuse anyone anymore. No more Modi, RSS and BJP bashing either. Talk only goody-goody about the BJP and Modi and talk only baddy-baddy about the ‘enemies’. All hunky-dory and having a good time. One more addtional ‘bonus’ – fewer number of posts making navigation easier. The most common phrase would be ‘I agree’ with lots of claps. What more can one ask?

Having stayed away for 4 days, did I miss it and have the uncontrollable urge to hit the keyboard. I didn’t. There have been many interesting news/articles in the newspapers and on the net for the past 72 hours or so including a few re: Modi bashing, which I could have posted links to. I resisted the urge.

To all ‘active’ members, enjoy your newly conquered kingdom for whatever it is worth.

Pankaj and Mohan – thanks for your kind words.

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With Sanjay gone, you must have noticed that posts are not getting deleted anymore.

As far as Manohar is concerned, he is congress sympathizer but not in the league of Sanjay. I have always enjoyed reading his views and he has been honest enough to accept mistakes of congress unlike other two.

He need not band himself with people like Ravi or Sanjay.

Manohar need not be TONGUE-TIED on Singhvi.

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Manohar & Ashish

Many thanks

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Khafa Rah Kar Tum Bhi Na Rah Paoge
Jaan To Jaegi Hamari, Saans Tum Bhi Na Le Paoge
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Sapno Se Dil Lagane Ki Aadat Nahi Rahi
Har Waqt Mushkurane Ki Aadat Nahi Rahi
Yeh Soch Kar Ke Koyi Manane Nahi Ayega
Abh Humain Rooth Jaane Ki Aadat Nahi Rahi
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Now to change the mood.

An old man was heard telling his friend

Pehele jab woh mere baal sahlati thi to mera ‘hathyar’ khada ho jaata tha lekin
ab woh jab mera ‘hathyar’ sahlati hai to mere baal khade ho jaate hain.

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@ Ashish

I think you sensed along with me and many others that Mamata was a hysterical disaster waiting to happen.

I still feel that she represents a window fo opportunity to change the Pashchim Banga mindset from Marx to markets, before her government collapses without completing the term.

I am sure you can set up a marketing/development centre for your software there, and push your other bong friends in Delhi to do the same. Even if you get 5 people onto the road of enterprise, it is five people less on the road to disaster.

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Few days back we are discussing about RTE bill . Government had claimed that
every school has to admit 25% from the poor section of the society.
Please go through this article to understand whether government is really serious
in helping poor children to get educated.

http://realitycheck.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/is-the-right-to-education-quota-really-for-the-poor/

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NDTV has a great story on Gujarat becoming th Auto city of Asia.

Sad that Mamta dorve Nano to Gujarat, where Puegot, Ford and other cmapnies have now followed. Ultimately we need to create industrial potential so taht India matches CHina

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Ultimately blogs are more fress spiritied than ordinary conversations and reporting. We need to live with that….

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NDTV also has a report that APJ Abdul Kalam may just make it again as the President. That would be great news as he represents the true face of Muslim India, a role model, a gentleman, a true nationalist. In one sense it would bring closure to the brutalisation of the Muslim mind in the UP elections by parties which wanted them to be shepherded along a path of isolation.

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Mohan

I understand your dilemma. There were few preemptive strikes. My commiserations.

Thanks for letting me know that you wish me to stay on. I really appreciate it. We will see about that, it is early days.

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Viju

We discussed nationhood, the glue that binds etc etc , and decided to look into three democracies – US, Israel, and India. We briefly covered US and Israel; and left India for another day (..we are all blogging late into the night; I am getting old for this!)

I will take a profound lie uttered by a British civil servant in mid 19th century and go backward and forward from then.

John Stratchey, an eminent British civil servant, who was an acting viceroy, who served for Lord Lansdowne, Lord Mayo, Lord Lytton; in his book “India: Its Administration and Progress” (1888) stated: “This is the first and most essential thing to remember about India – that there is not and never was an India……” This was the mantra taught to the incoming officers!

This self serving colonial narrartive suited to the British policy of divide and rule, it inanely survives, an often repeated urban myth (or by our secularists) even now is that India is a nation of British creation….

More to follow….

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Now that he has quit, let the issue rest.

I’d miss him though as I am missing sanjaydhawan here.

I was having trouble posting with “Disqus”. Hence posted with my twitter ID. Others facing similar issue may log out of “Disqus” and log-in with choice of IDs available.

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The spin did not work this time. Stories of morphing and dragging the BJP into the picture also did not work. Singhvi has had to say goodbye from all his posts.

Byeond sex between consenting adults, the basic issues still remain

a) the woman had wanted to become a judge. Her name was on the list. Manu Singhvi was in a position to influence

b) Was the act performed in court premises?

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Another interesting observation on the “new communist China” –

Wen Jiaabo, PM of China is in Europe on trade promotion and to discuss European bailout.

Kerry Brown, head of the Asia Program at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, says about this visit – “China’s leaders don’t understand the logic of putting hard-earned Chinese money into supporting the SOCIAL WELFARE (caps mine) system of Europe”

Mao’s China turning its back on social welfare! We are living in a wonderful time.

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Good Comedy on Times Now.

All of us know there are two real issues.

a) Quid pro quo. Offering judgeship for BJ

b) Whether court presmises were used for fornification. Arre baba court is the temple and masjid of the people. If urges take over, how can you spol the temple ot masjid. Is it not right that you book a hotel and get over it?

Vinod Sharma was enjoying himself and insisted that he was nuetral as he was not part of the CD.

Where is Sanjay? Will he emerge after the Congress shame is over?

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Disqus is dead… totally gone under siBBal mode of censorship as it first directws the post to a moderater.

Better to use facebook right now…

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MOhan

From Times now

Vinod mehta, Arati jerath and SIddharth nath Singh are saying exactly what I was saying. Public office cannot and be sold for sexual favours.

Morphing wali kahaani bahut funny ban gayi hai !! If it is morphed all of us should fight for his protection from blackmail. how can we let a driver with a morphed CD blackmail a Parliamentary representative?

Come let us protect the poor guy form blackmail and let us probe the morphing.

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This idiot columnist is a Congress-bought agent serving her Italian master. She has no place in India. Please leave our country!

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The same idiot columnist went on to prominently predict Modi’s defeat.It is an irrefutable fact that Muslim percentage in india has grown from 6% in 1950 to 20% today.Within another generation,the results will be palpable & change india into an islamic wasteland

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India vs. China…. hahahaha!

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You Secular and Paid Media have no other work than criticizing anything which is our history as Hindu religion and fanatic. Please read real History and understand it has no connection with any religion. Even Hinduism as a religion was created by Britishers. But these people will never understand or listen !

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“Contrary to all anthropological data in the country he thought all
Muslims had four wives when the fact was that it was more Hindu and Jain
businessmen, rather than the comparatively poor Muslims, who had the
means to afford second and third establishments had married more than
once.”

Miss Andha, do check your facts before writing such a thrash. I think the research is done in your mind……We have mu$lim woman working in our household and she is a third wife of his so called poor husband. According to them “an extra wife means extra income and chance to produce more offspring to have extra income in future.”

And to be frank….I know so many Jains but have never encountered any having even a two marriages.

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I am very surprised by the crude, vulgar and indecent language used in some of the comments. What is more, sentences are ungrammatical and words badly spelt. Goddess Saraswati and Lord Ganesha dwell on the words we speak and communicate. Let us not offend them.with foul language. Besides, there is a proverb in Sanskrit: “Vade vade jayathe tatva bodha”(It is only through reasoned argument that truth is understood) Let sanity prevail.

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Khaki Chaddi Sindbad. All raapists are Khaki chaddees

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Be it Bharat or India, rape is a rape and it is an inhuman crime..a shame on a country whose citizens refer it to as Mother, and where we worship the female goddess’ stone statue, but cannot give show the basic courtesy to the females..everyday i am ashamed to be a Bharatiya and Indian, because of this among many more things..pray to any God, (s)he won’t forgive this,if (s)he there.

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Didnt he clarify what his definition of India & Bharat miss Dimwit?

All of you are so shamelessly hitch-hiking on a serious incident, to either propagate your fetishy feminism or marketing sensationalist controversial talking points that sell – distracting the public opinion from the real issues of governance failures. Whose interests are you protecting?

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If one sets aside the general abuse in quite few comments here four points have been made against the blog.
All the four merit a response.
1) “Bharat is the metaphor for the rich progressive civilization we once
were – where women were accorded due respect & treated equally.”
Whether Bharat is a metaphor or an historic entity, it is a fact that women were not equally treated. Let us start with two of our classics, Ramayana and Mahabharata.
First, the Ramayana.
Why did Sita have to undergo agni pariksha after suffering in the hands of Ravana? (read Yuddha Kand)
And again why did she have to be sent to forest in the middle of the night without a trial just because a bad individual spoke ill of her? ( read Uttara Kand)
Then the Mahabharata.
If women were treated as equals, how did Yudhishtir manage to sell Draupadi, his wife?Why did no one (except Vidur) protest when she was dishonoured in an open royal court? In the end it was the victims, Sita and Draupadi who protested. When Sita condemned Rama for his suspicions he had the grace to apologise. When Draupadi argued for her rights, Bhishma, Drona and Kripa at least were embarrassed with shame. (read the Dyuta Parva.)
Remember, Sita and Draupadi are the role models for women who protest today.
And this in spite of one Manu Smriti stating, women do not deserve freedom.“Na Stree swatantryamarhati”.
The true scriptural authority for women’s rights and functions comes from apourusheya shrutis, not man-made smritis. RSS does not even understand the difference. Its ignorance, confusion, misunderstanding and
misinterpretation of our own shastras is appalling.
And let us not forget, if women were accorded respect and equality throughout history there would not have been dowry, child marriage and
tonsuring of widows.They were treated badly because the Shriti tradition was discarded in favour of Smriti.So there were no more Gargis and Maitreyis that learned and argued Vedanta in history.
This brings us to the so-called divide between Bharat and India. It is an artificial division. We belong to one land and let us not have this partition of minds. Our shastras have a universal ideal that embraces both the East and the West:Vasudhaiva kutumbakam(The whole earth is one family.)
The first shloka of Ishopanishad, “Ishavasyamidam sarvam…” also starts with the same premise. The narrow-minded bigotry of the RSS is an abuse of the Upanishads and true shastras.
(In fact the word Hindu itself does not find a mention in holy books of sanatana dharma. That is another story.)
What about present reality? In rural India women work shoulder to shoulder with men in farms. Should they only be cooking at home and never stepping outside according to RSS prescription?
On the other hand in the land of Ganga and Yamuna, village khaps have encouraged lynching and caste killing.Time and again they have condoned rape and child marriage. All this is against religion and shastras. Does the RSS give its homily to these Khaps? Atrocities against women are all over the country.
There is a subhashit in Sanskrit, “Yatra Naryastu Pujyante, Ramante Tatra Devata”
Gods appear themselves where women are honoured.
There is no suggestion in this subhashit hat women don’t deserve that honour just because they belong to “India” and not the RSS mindscape of “Bharat”
2)”Women who made a vocal protest against the recent rape are dented & painted wannabe, loud-mouthed,fashionable feminists.”
The women who protested against rape all over India were common people. They happened to be daughters, sisters, wives and mothers. They have seen and known ill-treatment. They don;t want it to happen. So they protested and still protest. In Delhi they met with lathi charge, tear gas, water canons by the police. Some were taken to police station, abused and beaten up.
Should we call them names?
In the last 60 years women’s groups have fought for equal rights irrespective of caste and community. Mathura case and Shahbano case are just two among many. That resulted in legal reform. All this is well-documented.For all their service and sacrifice should they be called dented and painted feminists by those who do not know the record of their work.
3)”RSS is a progressive organisation and it knows what is right for women.” Really?
RSS has never accepted equal rights for women. Its spokesmen have also defended leaders like Modi when he was criticized for encouraging the Gujarat riots that saw rape and murder of several many girls and women.
4)”The author of the blog is a Congress supporter.”
If one reads other blogs by this columnist, one finds that she has criticized other political parties as well, especially, the Congress. So how does she become a spokesperson for Congress?
The logic of this argument is, “If you are not with us, you are with them.” But a journalist can always take an independent stand. She does. Some times I strongly disagree with her opinion. But I don’t attribute motives questioning her integrity. Where is any one’s proof?
I do have some last words for all who drop an opinion at a penny and abuse all & sundry.
A)Majority communalism and Minority communalism feed on another.
Neither has respect for human rights, democracy and justice. Riots and bomb blasts are two sides of the same coin. In both there is the same disrespect for life and human dignity. Advani, Mohan Bhagwat on the one hand, Maulana Bukhari and Syedna on the other look different. But their mindset is the same. It is fanatical and dictatorial. The BJP and Muslim League are blatantly communal.
Congresswallahs are communal in disguise with their vote bank politics. See how they shut their eyes whenever any self-apponted ulema issues fatwa against any one who speaks for his own or her own rights.
Hypocrisy comes in all shades.
Both the Congress and BJP are evil as are most political
parties.
B)For those interested: Do take the trouble of visiting the local library and read books on Indian history, religious tradition and philosophical schools. These are serious disciplines. Scholars have spent a life time studying them. Read with humility & respect. Then you will understand how deep and complex is our culture and civilization. Upanishads are a good starting point. So are the bhakti tradition and sufi tradition.
Let Sant Meera, Narasi Mehta, Surdas and Kabir guide our
thoughts.
Let Bhagatsingh, Chandrashekhar Azad and Ashfaqullah Khan be
our ideals.
Not Congresswallahs, Communistwallahs, RSSwallahs and
Madrasawallahs.
Let me conclude with a subhashit from our classics.
“Janani janmabhoomishcha swargadapi gareeyasai.”
Let us honour all women as mothers and let us honour the whole of our land as motherland. Then Heavens are not beyond our reach.
This has been a long message.
Dear reader, thank you for your patience.

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IN REALITY SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT MR BHAGWAT IS TRYING TO EXPLAIN. SORRY, MAM I AM NOT CONVINCED THE WAY YOU HAVE INTERPRETATED HIS STATEMENT AS IT IS NOT ABOUT URBAN AND RURAL INDIA, HE HAS PUT STRESS ON INDIAN CULTURE WHICH WE HAVE NEGLECTED IN THE BLIND RACE OF WESTERN VERSION.

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What happened in south Delhi has shamed and saddened all of us. It would be idle to believe, however, that women are not violated in rural areas where the feudal power structure is so much more deeply embedded.

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I sort of agree with Mr.Mohan Bhagwat. Since I have spent a lot of time travelling in rural areas, I feel women are more respected in rural areas. Though they may mistreat women and look them down in their own household. Where as in cities eve teasing and groping women has become a common thing.

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Thankyou immensely. So useful for a person who has just shifted to Delhi.

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If Sujata sincerely feels that more polygamy is followed by Hindus than Muslims, she needs help from a psychiatric. However, I know that such paid agents who call them media person are fooling people.

No one has ever thought of condition of a Hindu girl who marries a Hindu boy under Hindu Marriage Act under the impression that she would not be victim of polygamy by her husband as She married a Hindu under Hindu Marriage Act or Special Marriage Act. But her Hindu husband subsequently convert to Islam for second marriage. Such secular people would never take up this matter because they are paid agent of a party or religion.

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