Monsoon Mania

I pity this writer. She has the minimal understanding on the issue. She has written the piece under influence which has nothing t5o do with intellect. Nowadays many literate people have taken to writing as a source to win bread. Team ANNA nor its supporters are going to be bogged down by these goons. Anna will surely have to wage a war that can take long time but he is destined to win & then the writer will say I knew he was going to make it.

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Hi,

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Hehehe so now we shall get rain updates from you while we in the North are horribly stuck somewhere between stage 3 and 4.
Its so hot hear that you can break an egg on the road and you shall get an omelette in 2 mins straight :’(

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I am smiling, not because of the monsoon’s whims, but at the way you wrote it.

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First time in Mumbai during the monsoons and my husband has decided I’ve finally completely lost it.. I spend my time poking my head out of the window and whining “Why is not here yet? When will it rain like they show in the movies?” and my poor dear husband says “Wait, it is only June. By the time September comes by you’ll be driving me up the wall asking why isn’t the monsoon over yet.”
Alas, the first proper day of monsoon, as in the first day it rained so heavily on a weekday is the one day I’m in Calcutta. It’s hot and so humid here that a mere 5 min trip outside the airconditioned environs of my hotel has me running to drink water and take baths (2 down, 2 to go). But on the plus side, I get to have rolls, phuchka, churmur and aloor dom so it isn’t that bad really..
P.S. When will it rain like they show in the movies?

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I wish it pours in Bangalore too …. We have been missing it ….

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That’s the most original reason I’ve seen so far to stick with print.

And now I want to visit Mumbai during the monsoon.

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Truely super hero of the century as far as India is concerned.

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Babri masjid was mosque destructed by hindu terrorists get that staraight,even after exavation its proved..this is old used technique keep idol or stone wherever u want to build temple..automatically people will put some orange powder some cloths and u have the illegal temple ready..BJP targets the majority votebank yet they are not able to win elections ..this shows the incompetency of BJP and hindu terrorists supporting and vot ing it..india is a secular and will be secular

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Why can t we have an agreement that Hindus offer their pooja on mon/tues and muslims on friday/other day. If we people can co-exist, I am sure god can as well and as some say, GOD is one so let them both be at ONE place.

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BABAR WAS A INVADER ON INDIAN SOIL.THE MOSQUE WAS BUILT BY DEMOLISHING PART OF THE TEMPLE.
I APPRECIATE HINDUSTAN TIMES BY CONTINUOUSLY REVIVING THESE TOPICS TO SUIT THEIR POLITICAL MASTERS -CONGRESS.
BUT TO EXPEXT A WAYOUT ON THESE ISSUES UNDER CONGRESS LED GOVT IS IMPOSSIBLE.THEY ARE THE PEOPLE USED TO GET EDUCATION MONEY AS ENRON CHIEF USED TO SAY OR OIL MONEY WHICH LED TO OUSTER OF FOREIGN MINISTER OF CONGRESS MR.SINGH ETC.
ONLY A STATEMAN WHO CAN THINK BEYOND THIS BLOG WRITER WILL HELP.HINDUSTAN TIMES SHOULD COME WITH SPECIAL ISSUES ON TEMPLES DESTROYED BY MUSLIMS INVADERS AND MOSQUE DESTROYED BY HINDUS AS A SPECIAL ISSUE WITH PERMISSION FROM THEIR MASTERS.

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There is no doubt that Congress governments in many states collude with the RSS. Case in point, Andhra Pradesh, where Chief Minister and some of his cabinet colleagues are RSS followers. They have expanded the bhagmati temple at Charminar the temple never existed at the site before 1974. Muslims should create their own parties without relying on the Congress.

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Muslims are curse to Humanity. No religion in the world behaves the way Muslims behave. They are fanatics.

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Dhaka | Dec 9 2012 | HE BD Bureau :: A Hindu young man was beaten to death by a Islamic mob near the district courts in the Old Dhaka amid nationwide Bandh (blockade) today clashes that halted the Dhaka-Aricha Highway. The Bandh was called by the opposition group of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Nationality means here the Islamic Nationality of BD) and the Jammat-e-Islami Party of Bangladesh. It has been alleged that members of the students union of both parties ‘Jatiyatabadi Chatra (Students) League’ and ‘Islami Chhatra Shibir’ were behind the brutal killing of this Hindu Youth named Biswajit Kumar Das (24 yrs) with lethal weapons like Iron rods and sharpened chopper.

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No Muslim was killed during destruction of mosque but Indian Muslims have engaged in numerous terror attacks and killed many civilians in revenge. Contrast that with reports coming out of Muslim world where Hindu temples, Buddhist statutues, Christians praying inside churches are destroyed and killed but still no Hindu or Christian terrorists in Pakistan who massacre civilians in bomb blasts in buses or markets- only Muslim terrorists in Pakistan. How do you explain that?

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previously…. with the help of wapons muslims who were less than 1 percent in population converted all temples into mosques and so babri was one of it…..

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Mr Zia haq show me one election when MUSLIMS have voted with out keeping BJP in mind? people of your community have become pawns in the game played by parties like CONGRESS, LEFT, SP .

you feel MUSLIMS really vote for issues as development and education i feel all they care about is keeping COMMUNAL BJP out at all cost.

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“According to Zoya Hasan of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, when Muslims see an emerging threat from Hindu nationalists threatening their identity,”

Why would indian Muslims of Indian ethnic stock tie their identity to a dilapidated building built by a self confessed genocidal fanatic like Babur who came from Uzbekistan and occupied the land of their Indian ancestors ? If this is true, what sort of idiotic ideology promotes this kind of cult like mindset?

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Let me tell you why I hate Islam. Fact – “Muslim majority countries
don’t develop (unless there is oil) and don’t respect minorities”. So
I am in favor of Islam free India – A country where every religion but
Islam is welcome. I’m not against holy Qur’an or current Muslims. I
would like new borns to be converted to any other religion, in case you
are not a fan of Hinduism.

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Two
decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has
covered since 1947. It’s been a long journey, chequered with events that
challenged, threatened and sometimes even sustained – in their own
convoluted way – the idea of the Indian state. The epoch begins with
what happened in small-town Ayodhya on Dec 6, 1992 when a medieval
mosque, labelled as a monument of Mughal pride and persecution, was
pulled down by a frenzied mob of right-wing Hindu ‘activists’. One need
not go into the well-documented details of what happened that day.

The
only aspect I want you to consider here for the sake of the argument I
will be making later is that the demolition of Babri Masjid, organised
by the BJP government in UP and tacitly supported by the Congress
government at the Centre, was still considered an assault on the Indian
state. It was constitutionally a ‘crime’ and therefore liable to
prosecution, which of course did happen. That nobody has been punished
yet for the demolition and its protagonists today grace the Parliament
and dream of
becoming the Prime Minister of the country is a different story.

Two
decades later, there is a lot of talk about the nation moving on.
Presumably towards less hatred and more ‘development’, thanks to another
epochal event that happened a year before Ayodhya 1992 – the opening of
the Indian market. But has the state really moved on? If so, then has
the state moved forward on a trajectory of democracy, justice and
equality, or has it actually regressed into a delusional and scarier
behemoth? Let’s consider another example on the ‘decadent’ (couldn’t
resist the pun)
timeline as the title of this piece suggests.

Let’s
move a decade forward to an event that is again simply called Gujarat
2002, undeniably the most unfortunate event since Ayodhya 1992. How do
we look at Gujarat 2002 vis-a-vis the Indian state? Well, we can’t,
because Gujarat 2002 was all about the state. It was a state-sponsored
and organised pogrom against its minorities, the main protagonist of
which has grown more powerful since the violence and represents the
collective dream of Hindu middle-class as well as its corporates of
becoming India’s next Prime
Minister.

So
what changed? For the sake of argument, we can say with some comfort
that the Babri protagonists were largely punished by India’s syncretism.
Of course, the BJP gained from Ayodhya 1992, forming a short-lived
government in 1996 and then coming back to power in 1998. Yet, the
protagonists of the demolition – Kalyan Singh, Vinay Katiyar, Uma
Bharti, Murli Manohar Joshi and even L K Advani – could never come out
of its shadow. In contast, Narendra Modi’s only claim to fame, if you
will, is Gujarat 2002. Modi without the pogrom has no resume to flaunt
or
claim his legitimacy as the tallest leader in the same BJP.

Allow
me to elaborate. What changed in a decade since 1992 – in the same BJP -
was that while Advani, the supreme architect of Hindutva in India,
could not become an accepted prime ministerial candidate because of
Ayodhya 1992 and the violence that followed, Modi, on the other hand,
has not only been largely excused from any serious prosecution by the
law of the land for his role in Gujarat 2002, he is even the BJP’s only
consensus candidate for the prime minister’s post.

In
other words, while we may bask in the growing secularisation of the
state – marked by a larger rule of law as well as open-market capitalism
– the fact remains that the Indian state continues to be schizophrenic
about its self-image. If Ayodhya 1992 was about a bunch of non-state
loonies pulling down a mosque, Gujarat 2002 was marked by the same state
being an active participant in a pogrom against its largest minority.
While Ayodhya 1992 sought to correct a perceived historical wrong by
erasing its material testimony, Gujarat 2002 did not even care to show
any pretension other than a crude and
violent majoritarianism.

Mumbai
2012, to move on and conclude, further complicates the pattern of the
Indian state’s failure to define itself in a more rational, democratic
and more importantly, secular manner. By choosing to honour a rabid
hate-monger who mocked at all the ideals a liberal nation is supposed to
stand for, the state displayed its pathological schizophrenia like
never before. The state funeral of Bal Thackeray, in other words,
expunged him of his role in the killing of hundreds of Muslims in Mumbai
post-Ayodhya 1992, which is just one among his and his
party’s many assaults on the state. Moreover, as the year 2012 closes,
the killer of Gujarat 2002 is set to return as the Chief Minister of the
state for a record fourth term.

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PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE IN KORAN IS IT WRITTEN “LOVE” “PEACE ” ..FIRST SHOW ME ..ISLAM SPREADS HATRED

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islam is crazy ..fact 1) it has words like kafirs etc 2) muslim lie when they tell jihad is all about peaced etc ..now where will you dinf word like love etc..muslims only like to kill anf they cry when some body ***** them in written !!

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hey writter u *** BABUR WAS NOT EVEN INDIAN LOL

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Interesting choice of words. We enslaved, and victims then converted to Islam.

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All politicians are in favor of other religions. Fact still stands.

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“Muslims see an emerging threat from Hindu nationalists”
When will Zia talk about Hindus seeing an emerging threat from Muslim nationalists, of whom there is no dearth in India?

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“What the Babri incident did to us”.
It is dismaying that “us” for Zia means “us muslims”. One would hope that for a ’secular” blogger, “us” would mean, “us Indians”. If indeed, Zia “belongs” more to muslims than to India, he should perhaps seek for an asylum in Pakistan where he would feel more “at home” with all the “us muslims”.

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