On Morrissey

I always read your the download central part and that has been the most curiously awaited section of the Brunch for me.
Every time you come with a new and and an old band making comparisons, keeping us in touch with the genuine oldies and the current tastes. Is there any link from where I can download the songs listed in your articles. I was not that much fond of the rock bands before but now your articles have made me curious to know and listen them. Please provide any link.. waiting for the next article..

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the biggest secret this exponent of truth hid and which has affected indias pOlity for the last 60 years . —he was instrumental in giving social recognition and his name to one mr firoz khan who married indira gandhi in london . INDIRAS NAME WAS CHANGED TO MAMOUN BEGUM . aFTER OPPOSITION BY KAMALA AND NEHRU THIS COUPLE BACK IN INDIA UNDERWENT A VEDIC FORM OFMARRIAGE FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION BY VEDIC RITES AS NERHRU THOUGHT THAT OTHERWISE BOTH HIS AND INDIRAS POLITICAL FUTURE WOULD BE IN JEOPARDY . GANDHI SOLVED TE PROBLEM BY DECLARING FIROZ TO BE HIS ADOPTED SON AND HENCE GAVE HIM THE NAME GANDHI

THE REST IS HISTORY AND A DYNASTY WAS IMPOSED ON THE COUNTRY —-
ONE WISHES THAT THIS APOSTLE OF TRUTH ETC WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE TRUTHFUL IN THIS MATTER AND MENTIONED HIS ROLE IN ALL THIS — TRUTH CAN BE TAILORED TO SUIT ONESELF AND ONES OPINIONS
READERS CAN GOOGLE WIKIPEDIA FOR MORE DETAILS

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Who blasted Makka Masjid in Hyderabad? Who exploded bombs in Ajmer & Malegaon? If the NIA can find answers to these questions, they can also find answers to the questions raised in the above article.

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At a macro level view, wouldn’t this create more demand? As prices will be competitive and goods will be easier to obtain for the consumer.

More demand would lead to more consumption. More money flowing back to the retailer and supplier. While I understand some of that will be kept by the retainer, lots of it would go back to the supplier as well, right? Isn’t it better to have that, than to sit back and say no we cant do it because the farmer will lose? I think that’s quite pointless.

Using that logic, we should close down large malls, multiplexes etc. Pointless again.

This is just my opinion.

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Not sure how this gentleman even allowed to write misleading blog.. Its common sense that this will bring huge investments for creating supply chain, cold storage which will create huge jobs.. Kirana stores are cheat.. they sell inferior good at high price .. with no return policy. If you want to return something .. you are doomed … do you suggest , India should shop all over life in such a manner.. ?? When global retailers come.. competition will increase and consumer and suplier 9 farmer) will be benefitted.. If you are crying for those corrupt middleman than its fine .. they just contorl the supply and artifically increase the price … please do some research and then write… when computers came to india .. these kind of people said it will increase unemployment.. now India as over 25 M in computer related industry .. This is good chance to get rid of this corrupt trader lobbies.. I am coming from farmer background .. and traders will simply refuse to take your stuff if you ask good price … in the end you do not have choice to sell at reduce price as it will rot..

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These were the same concepts backward thinking folks always had , when computer technology & communication techology was freed and opened up in india 20 years back – their theory was india will lose lakhs of jobs…what would’ve happened to our youth of india today if then we had listened to them. Let the customer decide what they want and let india have investment in logistics and supply chain and customer front infrastructure…it will be best boon india could have when we look back 10 years from now in both manpower work force it will create and also the modern techology it will bring from Farm to the customer !!! The naysayers will always be naysayers….who have their own vested interests to keep the same old hoaders and middle man traders who are pinching money from both farmers and the customers

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Whatever paul…i too stay in usa for last 12 years and u are absolutely wrong. The single biggest reason for low food inflation in usa is Walmart’s every day low prices and highly efficient technology and logistics efficiency and smaller mom and pop thrives here too. There will be always be small nbr of haters of a company due to their vested interests…you cannot change their mindset. India needs to remove the 5 to 10 touch points between Farmers and consumers. The baniyawalas and trade mafiya unions have been making lot of profit by not paying the farmers and then making consumers asking high price to customers with low quality stuff this has been going on for last 60 years…. In case you do not know 40 to 50 % of india’s vegetables and fruits are damaged before reaching customers. I accolade this FDI opening rule change…this is the best change indian farmers and customers will have…competition is always a good thing. Do not make it far fetched by connecting walstreet demos to these…. You are correct this will be a big inflection point for india…but for good though…

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Eventually this will turn into a farmers vs corporations battle with the govt. on the side of the corporations. This battle is in a advanced stage in America, with the corporations close to winning. See this:
http://www.healingtalks.com/health/decades-of-suppressing-and-now-criminalizing-of-raw-milk-sales/

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The logic applies to Congless too, my bengali friend. Congress is the original Baniya party, and they also get hafta from shopkeepers, more so than any other party. So your informed analysis, is really, just a pile of dung.

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Eventually this will turn into a farmers vs corporations battle with the govt. on the side of the corporations. This battle is in a advanced stage in America, with the corporations close to winning. See this:

http://www.healingtalks.com/health/decades-of-suppressing-and-now-criminalizing-of-raw-milk-sales/

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paul,
You are mixing Apples and Oranges. The FDI opening rule is for FDI in retail frontend and not for taking farm land from farmers !! In USA for generations it has been big land owned family farmers. I believe this fdi opening is fair and open and will benefit both in the increase of jobs for workforce in future and also improve our supplychain logistics.

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I don’t think any country’s model is good or bad. I do know that the free market should set prices. Capital should flow to wherever it is used most efficiently. If this means individual retailers will lose jobs, or small farmers will suffer, then that is what it will be. I’m sorry, but people should acquire new skills and make themselves more competitive. I’m not sure where you are going with the US pressuring anyone. The US has been a market to all countries and has allowed all producers to sell their products. In return, what have the other countries given? A whole boat load of protectionism. If now the US asks a country to open a market in return, what is the issue? If this whole process exposes India’s sub par productivity and underemployment, so be it. It cannot be sustained forever.

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So farmers did get a higher price? Sounds like farmers did get benefits. It takes time for things to trickle down. Once 3-4 big players become dominant, it will put downward pressure on prices. On the specific question of apples, more data is needed to determine causality. There may be other factors in play. But, one the whole, small farmers and small retailers are inefficient users of resources and are a cost to the economy. I get the moral argument. But, inefficient resources should find a way to get new skills, or be simply left behind. Yes – the world is cruel, I get it.

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1. CII is a lobbying body. Their statements are self serving. They don’t give a sh*t about the small retailers in India.

2. All this is happening just to allow walmart a foothold in India.

3. Small retailers and farmers are not equipped to handle competition from companies like walmart.

4. Efficiency won’t increase magically by just hand waving. There’s nothing walmart can do that we can’t do ourselves.

5. When Walmart begins to have lot of stores and thus more clout in India, they will become a MONOPOLY. Then they will start to pay farmers LESS. This is what happened in USA. It will happen here.

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Pragmatism is good – and you do not have to break the egg for being a pragmatist as there are various ways of having an egg – like boiling it instead of frying it. So neither the Congress nor the BJP can ignore the historical ties that India has with West Asia – the BJP went out of its way to bypass all old West Asian friends and make freinds with Israel and paid the price for it in the 2004 elections. So have the egg without breaking it – boil it first – be friends with Israel without being an enemy to others – even the American Jews are getting sick of Israel and its extremists, so why are you intent upon licking the Zionist shoe?
People voted out Bush because they had fallen sick of him and brought in Obama in the hope of a fresh perspective. Obama could not do much for India as India never figured highly after 1947 in the US’s scheme of things. Now that the Yankees are suitably disillusioned with Pakistan, both the democrats and the republicans would like India to join hands with America for containing China, that is why Obama allowed australia to sell uranium to us.
The american president, either republican or democrat, would act in the interest of his own country – nobody would support India for altruistic reasons. Bush loved India as he was hated throughout the world. Obama started twisting our arms as he had to sell defense and other things to us. Moral of the story – we have to proceed on our own path without breaking old ties the way the Yankees do. The Yankees can afford to break hearts because they have the money – we can’t as we don’t have that kind of resources.

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Both Democratic and GOP have same policies towards India and whoever wins in next election will not make much difference but most probably Mr.Obama will win because GOP does not have any strong candidate.Regarding China we have to take care ourselves on eastern border by strengthen our armed forces with latest weapons and modern infrastructure and ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons.America always thinks her own interest first and there is no permanent friendship with any nation in their books and generally do not change its foreign policy easily.What Mr.Bush did it was good for both countries and not alone for India.My guess is Obama adminstration was disappointed when India decided not to buy 126 fighter planes and change his adminstrations attitude to wards India but it may change soon.

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This is perhaps the stupidest article I’ve read this month. The best corrective to the flawed nostrums about the true nature of the Republican Party is to be found by watching any of the dozen of the debates among the Republican candidates. Almost without exception, their number one priority is to side with Israel to the exclusion of all other foreign affairs. And they have been vocal in their intentions to start war with Iran if possible. They propose doubling down on Bush’s disastrous economic policies and deficits for as long as the eye can see, which needs must cause a drastic retrenchment of any US activities in the Pacific theater. Put very simply–and entirely from an Indian perspective–if you were to side with Republicans, you would lose medium-term certainty of an American alliance (surely you remember that China holds much US debt and may not continue to bankroll its own entrapment) and you would probably also lose attention in the short-term, since they are much worse at prosecuting the wars to your west THAT THEY STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. If all the treasure rests between Israel and Iran, you’re only lucky that Obama is ending the Iraq war now so that maybe there can be some oxygen and political capital to tend to the Indian-American alliance.

Just remember: the mountainous debt problem that the US finds itself in was incurred because of Republican policies. That, and the expensive and distracting wars that the Republican war machine started in Southwest Asia has weakened America’s financial (and thus, military and diplomatic) position, exposed it to weakness via China, and distracted America from more determinedly cultivating relationships with partners in South and Southeast Asia. Note that the spiralling debt under Bush was enabled by China and the contours of that relationship allowed China to keep their currency low and embark upon a decade of economic growth by exporting to America. Thus, to the extent that Obama is able to reverse all of Bush’s messes, India and America may very well be brought into closer harmony. (You will remember that without a war in Afghanistan the Pakistan-American partnership would not have gotten so much play over the last decade, especially as India was liberalizing and could have served as a more preferable economic trading partner to China.)

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Why would you “love” Obama? He’s owned by the same private central banks he decries in his two-faced bs speeches. He’s taken more rights from Americans than Bush ever did with indefinite detention. He’s caught red-handed running guns that were used to kill police officers, and who knows who else, to Mexican drug lords; then has the nerve to use it as pretext to take more rights away from Americans. If you can’t see by now that Obama is not the swell guy he poses as for the fools, you’re a fool. He needs to go, and Ron Paul is the only choice that isn’t cosmetic and insignificant. The ONLY choice.

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On the balance of things, President Obama is likely to win the next Presidential term. This article has too many suppositions, assumptions, and presumptions. Even factually, everything may not be correct!

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Arnab Mitra is assuming too many issues. India – US relations reached their nadir during Nixon (Republican) presidency. George Bush inherited good relations from Clinton (Democrat). The assumption that Bush always supported India has also been laid to rest with the amount of military aid that was given to Pakistan despite evidence of same having been diverted to sponsor terror attacks against India. The real issue is not US position – Obama has also expressesd the hope that India gets ready to take on China & promised support for the same – but of Indian political leadership. Indian leadership has always been timid and this reflects in current lack of strategic intent in the government. Unfortunately, the entire political spectrum , including the Communists,BJP & all other parties, share almost the same thinking in foreign policy matters. The problem is not economic or military strength – India could easily sign a pact with US to counter a China specific aggresion – but unwillingness to take a stand & the resultant leadership role. India’s unwillingness to counter Pakistan’s terrorism by reasonable strong arm tactics – as opposed to its perinial pleadings to the International community top pass meaningless resolutions – is the reason why thousands of Indians have died in terrorist attacks every year for the last several decades. When India , at long last, found a Home Minister who took his job seriously, we find all politicians baying for his resignation. PC has easily been India’s most effective Home Minister, in the last 3 decades, and we see attempts being made to make CRPF & other para military organisations more responsive to internal security challenges. Yet , instead of allowing him to do the job, political parties are more concerned about how to dislodge him. China will be happier with this than with who becomes the US president.

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I am definitely interested as a Muslim in having good relations with the west Asian countries as Indian Muslims have to go on pilgrimage to Makkah & Madina! That does not mean that we have to be enemies with Israel, not at all. Israel is a foreign policy arm of the USA – when it goes to war, it is akin to the USA being at war with Israel’s imagined enemies. Iraq or Iran were never and will never be any threat to the US – but it destroyd Iraq and is now at the verge of launching a war against Iran – all in the name of defending Israel! Whereas the easiest route for Israel to keep peace in the neighbourhood is by accepting the Palestineans rights and allowing them to have a state of their own. However, the whole point of creating Israel in the middle east is altogetherly different, with which we have nothing to do. The Arabs and Muslims have lived in peace with the jews since the advent of Islam all over the middle east, whether in Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, algeria, Morrocco, Turkey… u name the Muslim country and there you would find Jewish people. Whereas Jews were persecuted all over Europe throughout history and were finally kicked out and sent to a newly-created state of Israel as good riddance. It is the extremist Zionists who in their quest for power, are creating mischief and trouble in that part of the world. Arabs and Muslims have no fear of neither the Zionists nor the RSS, we can easily take care of any challenge – the need is to balance things in India’s favour and that requires having best of relations with West Asian countries without licking the zionists’ boots.

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Please give the whole neo con agenda the proper salute that it merits. Flush the toilet and go on with your day

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Yes congress will be succesful in Manipur and Goa and that will be the glory.
Congress supporters have already started putting excuses for loss in UP. The fact is that UP is make or break for UPA. if in UP congress doesn’t come at even second position, Rahul’s image will be dented beyong repair. This poll is semifinal for loksabha poll in 2014 and not winning in any major state (UK, Punjab and UP) should make UPA realise that their days are over.

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very well i agree with dis blogger

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i was thinking it too.let make kohli captain

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While we need to make changes, there is a need to go about it carefully. Kohli is yet to establish himself as a regular in the test team. arnab is correct that changes are needed. Probably, the next test should have Dinesh Kartik, Rahane, Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Pujara, Raina/ Yuvraj, Jadeja, Ashwin, Zaheer, Yadav, Rahul Sharma / Ishant as the playing XI. Kartik should be recalled as he has runs against SA in SA & England in England before he was dropped as Sehwag returned. His innings were the start of Indian wins on those tours. There are a number of talented youngsters around but it would be better to give the captaincy to a more experienced player – Yuvraj or Raina or even Zaheer. Zaheer can certainly lead for a couple of years & pass on the mantle to one of the youngsters later. Dhoni is far too defensive on sporting pitches & his keeping / test batting record is far from good.

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How people can become forgetful and thankless is being seen with their attitude once Dhoni and “Team” failed in two test series. The biggest reason for this failure is failure of our batting line up..but Dhoni has to be blamed for it. Gambhir and Sehwag have emerged as the most failure batsmen in these two series and before Dhoni is asked to resign from test captaincy, these two guys should be asked to leave team India and play for IPL in which they stay happy. Not a single pesonality in the current team is a better captaincy material than Dhoni. Records tell that.

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Wonder what spark you see in Kohli apart from his omnipresent middle finger. If Kohli becomes the captain them we will have a team of brats who will hurl abuses after taking taking every wicket and scoring every half century.
The temperament and behavior of Virat Kohli reminds me of the infamous Pandher Kohli of Noida.

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Given his behavioural pattern Down Under,
isn’t it a scary idea to have Kohli as skipper?

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dhoni should not be blamed for it he cant go and bat for the whole playing 11 alone.its the batsman fault not dhoni .

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One of the best articles I have read laying out the challenges before the indian foreign policy establishment and their current state of lily liveried stupor.

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A sensible article with the logic of power equations. Power begets respect and respect begets compliance. Power not shown is as good as absent. Politics of power is to exhibit but never use it. India has to learn a lot in mind control. But for that we have to break away from the slavery hangover that still persists.

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I like your approach; did our leadership struck back after 2008? and you talk of striking at **** nukes? Do u imagine us to be Israel with the backing of the US and Europe?

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What Mitra envisages is the policy of developed and wealthy nations. The only remark I would make on Mitra is that he is living in a fool’s paradise, or USA’s Israel. If India becomes as powerful as Israel, that is be able to wag the dog, then much more can be done in the foreign sphere.

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Palestians are lazy good for nothing people

hassan the only thing i can say is that u are an ignorant man.palestanian are very hard working intelligent and productive people.

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support their cause and take away the pressure from the facist Arab regimes of Kuwait,Saudi Arabia,etc

they are welfare states not fascist.israel is apartheid fascist state voilated many uno resolution.they are the secret intigators of most of the voilence in the region.

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Chappell has already been vindicated when he boasted before the Indian tour of Australia that he can demystify the great Indian batting.

If we look at ourselves, we can call Indian as a sub human civilization at best.
Compare Indian population and the Nobel prize winner.
Compare Indian population and Olympics gold medals.
Indian yearly population growth is equal the total population of Australia.

There are so many facts to prove that Chappell is absolutely right.
The problem is not only with what we are taught by parents but it is one aspect of problem. Indian enlightenment never happened and all we gained was due to Western rule. Hindu revivalism also happened due to British rule otherwise Indians would have continued with Sati and child sacrifice.

It is time for Indians to change their mentality if they want to be the actual super power that they dream about.

http://thepoliticalopportunist.blogspot.in/2012/03/religiousterrorism-drugs-without.html

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Make the children sleep in a separate room since very early years – that will inculcate in them the confidence to handle situations on their own.

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Yes Indians are most certainly racist. Gora and habshee and mooslims oh my! Most likely rooted in the self loathing stemming from the Raj as well as the EVIL varna (caste system).

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I believe the concerns about invasion of one’s privacy and also misuse of information for personal political benefit are genuine…..if these can be addressed by amending the law, the RTI is good…..otherwise it has more negatives than positives, and probably consideration should be given to scrap it. No developed country has a law which encourages invasion of privacy !!

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This is the only tool available with powerless aamadmi to seek informations from the governments or its functionaries, if this power is curtailed as now the government in the center saying, it will be the biggest blow to check the corruption in governments and hidden deals that generally takes place in between governments and big houses. For transparency in government functioning the RTI in true form must be intact.

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Ajay,

What if babu’s start demanding bribe to run the software (in other words, let the software deposit money to the accounts of the targeted beneficiaries) every month ? We shouldn’t forget that the there will be a huge chain of officers for maintaining all the process at different levels.

But unfortunately, this scheme is definitely going to get what the UPA wants…. the votes in next elections. Majority of the poor, illiterate voters are not going to care about what 2G or CWG was/is. They will vote for a party who will promise direct money transfer in their accounts.

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this is nothing but a scheme to skim the money from the poorest of poorest indians and as per the corrupt congress records and the many congress gunda ministers involved this is sure fire way of looting them. one should be wary that such schemes are thought of and launched by the lungi wearing chodu-umbram and (the one who got elected by fraud in last election and who had been the master mind of all the countries biggest scams)
this sardar prime minister has no guts to start any thing that is beneficial to indians and is simply a yes man to his master the italian maid so there is no credibility there. t
the fact is that these scamsters would never give up unless they are all in tihar jail and soon.

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There are a lots of ways of corruption here. Congress or their ministers will send money to wrong accounts. Where money is transferred will not be transparent. If all transfers are first publicly announced on internet, and then there is a private party scrutinizing this money transfer i.e. who is getting the money, may be then corruption may be less. I have my all doubts, how UPA government will change its nature of corruption. UPA has designed it as another method of corruption.

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You cannot keep on inventing new bicycles to keep your learning (read skimming) process on. Instead of Cash Transfer, which are a source of headache in Australia (centerlink) as well with a far smaller population, work could have been done on improving the PDS system. In your lingo, that is one bicycle that we have fallen of many times so…!? Your observations about Australia are totally flawed because you have given a layman’s account. I have spent 5 years in Australia and Centerlink was one of my objects of study. Today I’ve friends who are working with the Aus govt and hear routine rants about the porousness of the system. And all this with a population that would note exceed the combined population of Delhi and Mumbai..! Have you forgotten that in April this year only the Aus govt had to pass an order prohibiting the usage of centerlink’s money for booze, cigarettes, porn and gambling…!?
So ‘mate’ take it easy with inaccurate analogies..!

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while it is true that there could be many glitches in the implementation initially of the Direct cash transfer, enough time has been invested to somehow make modifications in existing systems to see that the genuine needy get their due and not be robbed by not the rich but by the very same poor people. One would not expect a poor to rob another poor but that is just what seems to happen at the grass roots level. This may fail but it is definitely worth trying and who knows once implemented with modifications based on the problems over a period of time the scheme may work out to be best. Also this is the only way for the government to reach the Aam Admi without middle men. the officials cannot be deemed as middle men. There would be problems with the officials as well. But that problem also can be solved with technology over some time,

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Darling…………………. ….Kya ab apne Swiss bank account me seedha pahuch jayega ?

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you should stay in Juhu my dear… sounds like your culture starts and ends there

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Bad journalism…cheap aspirations…lack of self awareness , misnformation and disinformation…all included in this article…if Barrista is your criterion for culture…that is sad,,,Many of these backpackers are probably more educated and richer than you….

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I’d advise Naomi to bath in the Ganges at Benares and dismiss once for all the idea the holy river is polluted. I bathed in it in the late 60’s and caught nothing after years in India….

Goa? ….Got what it deserved.! Alas. I prefer the local fishing community to any trance party. And now with the Israeli soldiers and the Russian mafias expect the worst.

A friend.

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It is cold war. All countries suffer from Muslim violence. We have the reasons to stop Muslim immigration. I don’t know why they still trade with Muslims on International level. Muslims you hate us, we are white pigs, don’t talk with us then, don’t socialise with us, don’t ask visas to our countries.

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boys im coming From Afghanistan to Delhi , who can help me to go to gays party?

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Periyar Maniammai University in Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu where they discriminate students from Kerala and other states.The staff treat students as slave because they are from other state and want to study.They don’t teach in this university and students just sit free.No proper examination system at all.University is just minting money don’t even care about the students. Many students have left Periyar Maniammai university when it was dilisted becauz of the torture they faced for being an other state student in everything.Periyar Maniammai University is worst university.Never should a student from Kerala dare to enter this palce.they don’t speak english but tamil and if some speaks engl tey laugh.Total a village where only students from village come and study, never join PERIYAR MANIAMMAI UNIVERSITY and spoil your life as we did in two years MBA department from kerala

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