Hindustan Times
Oscar Voscar
What shall we send to Hollywood?
It had better be something jolly good
We better learn to do stuff as we should
For we are what they call Bollywood
It’s a twist in the letter that SRK hates
This B-town thing has stirred debates
But common usage has sealed its fate
And so we seek with the Oscars an annual date
We are an Inglis-Vinglis people after all
We feel like we sit in America’s real stall
So we learn flicks from the University of DVD
An inspired copy passes for originality
Send a film we must, and get that phoren-award
We must play a tear-jerking Academy card
A formula that will please the Beverly Hills gang
An Indian khana with a Western tang
So we make Lagaan in heat or Barfi in mist
With Brits in trouble, or an autist twist
The money may lie in Kanpur or Purnea
But the attitude must be truly California
© N. Madhavan, 2012
How dishonest of zia to bypass the link between sugata bose and ayesha jalal. THE FORMER , A GRANDNEPHEW OF NETAJI SUBHAS BOSE IS THE HUSBAND OF THE LATER.
Jihad or no Jihad THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS RATIONALITY AND SCIENCE , REST IS BUNKUM. be it hindu , muslim christianity taoism , shinto , buddhism , SATANISM(apparently there is a sect in IRAQ who worship the satan
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Hard to understand why liberal Muslims have their feathers ruffled by the mention of Jihad. Jihad means to wage war. Yes, Jihad can be through mouth as well but the idea of Islam is that ‘There is no God but Allah’ Islam is not only a monotheistic religion but it is a religion that teaches its followers to religiously win the war.
The use of jizya is again a part of Islamic struggle to win the world in the name of religion. If we look at the history of Islam, the slow Islamization of the world happened through the use of dhimmitude system.
In central Asia, after the battle of Talas, in India after the invasion of Muhammed Gouri, in Persia after the defeat of Sassanid empire, non Muslims became dhimmis and had to pay a special tax. The dhimmitude also meant that they are no more the citizens and more denizens(in roman terms). Once it happened, all the conquered people slowly changed into Muslims.
Jihad as the duty of state in Islam is a baloney. There is no place for nationalism in Islam. Nationalism as per its own definition means that it is a feeling that surpasses every other feeling. So like it or not, an Indian Muslim is a Muslim first and could hardly care whether he is an Indian or not.
http://thepoliticalopportunist.blogspot.in/2012/03/religiousterrorism-drugs-without.html
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engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 9:08 am
The use of jizya is again a part of Islamic struggle to win the world in the name of religion.
in india jaziya was not applicable on brhmns,rajputs and muslims as they were contributing in war.remaining has to pay tax for security.all over the world such taxes are imposed when state comes in trouble.
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tajender Reply:
March 17th, 2012 at 10:31 am
abhishek jee u have read more about jihad.it means stuggle for good.
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I have stopped feeling sorry for the rare academicians, who compromise on their intellectual integrity and have to go through mind-boggling contortions to be one of the tribe of muslim apologetics.
There are several historians of this breed that infer, for example, that Mohammad of Ghazni was not at all a raider, he did great service to “free” frozen assets! They refuse to look into the chronicler’s records of these blood-thirsty tyrants who noted with unabashed glee, how many infidels were beheaded, how many taken into slavery etc etc.
One worthy record to go into is M.A. Khan’s “1slamic Jihad”. He painstakingly noted translated from these records and written the book. That would put to rest all the mental gymnastics of this breed of apologetics who play a devious role in keeping the most brutal episode in the annals of world history.under wraps The sorry tail of this brutal millennium is that descendants of those who capitulated to save their skins and save their women and children from slavery now are in the forefront of white-washing that bloody brutal interlude, as if it is the figment of some rabid hindu imagination
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engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 8:55 am
, that Mohammad of Ghazni was not at all a raider, he did great service to “free” frozen assets! They refuse to look into the chronicler’s records of these blood-thirsty tyrants who noted with unabashed glee
mahmood of ghaznavi was called by competing brhmns who had share in loot.
history is full of these people.PESHWAS OF POONA ALWAYS LOOTED TEMPLE OF SHANKARACHARYAS WHENEVER IN NEED OF MONEY.
SHIVAJEE LOOTED BANIAS OF SURAT IMMEDIATE AFTER CORATION
WHEN THUGS OF BENARAS ROBBED ALL HIS WEALTH DURING CEREMONY.
dead money from the temples must be confiscated and invest in infrastructure projects.GOD DO NOT NEED MONEY.now ashrams have become money laundaring centres.
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engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 9:00 am
keeping dead money anywhere is crime against humanity.
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Sumit Bose Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 11:19 am
And beheading “infidels” or brutalizing helpless people into the “glory of 1slam” earns you 72 virgins, copious wines and 80,000 servants, in the paedophile, mass-murder,rapist, slave-merchant’s heaven ?
engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 11:57 am
all ur books are war stories all ur bhagwans came to suppres the suppressed it is only ur god who are loaded with deadly weapon.ur race is stagnant non progressive race.u are beheading muslims in communal riots and bomb planting bussines.
ur awnser is a cry of somebody who has no awnser.
Sumit Bose Reply:
March 13th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
I am quite taken up with the “arrogance of your ignorance”. Please find a source better than Zakir Naik to get a few fundas on Hinduism and Hindu practies. By being a descendent of a hapless Indian who was brutalized into the “glory of islam” , you cannot change your race, get that very clearly, you pathetic pseudo-arab.
engrich Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
i belong to hindu heart land.all my friend are hindu.glory of islam and brutality of twice born is very clear.even blind man can see this.
engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 11:59 am
CORATION
please read coronation
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engrich Reply:
March 12th, 2012 at 9:11 am
as if it is the figment of some rabid hindu imagination
sumit hindu is another name of brhmncl slvery.
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Cmon
Zia, be a sport. Ever thought that why we need a column called “They call me Muslim”
Nobody is writing a column called, “They call me a Jew, christian, Hindu, Sikh, ahemadiya, qadiani, Nirankari, Confucian, etc etc.”
SOme Musllims have made a dogma about a book written 15 centuries back as if it said everything about life, ethics, politics, war and sex. Very stupid. Out grow it yaar,
Intrpret the world as it exists today. Enjoy the sun, the moon the dogs, the tunes…
You can be the right guy to throw this bunkum about intrepreting every word written there and making a living out of it.
Will you take up the challenge?
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Jihad in Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya is Mandatory, because people live under oppression and tyranny. Similarly Jihad against Syrian Tyranny is mandatory
other people call this struggle for national liberation.
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rdicalism is due to unemployment not because of religion.economies are destroyed by americans and russian invasion.they became suicide bmber to feed family.
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no they are victims of american presence in the are where there is america,there is no voilence or suicide bombing.
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1000% correct..but people like be politically correct..
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read arthshastra and dharamshasta and read how aadi shankaracharya kicked out budhdhist from main land.
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Sumit Bose Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 9:36 am
@engrich , The Shankaracharya converted large swathes of the country back to Hinduism, no one was made a refugee. He did not use any sword or fire or brutal terror to accomplish his goal. Besides, Buddhism is Hinduism without the temple rituals. It draws its sustenance from Hindu spiritual theology. I know you HAVE to be a taqqiya (liar) if you have a good muslim, but do you need be a “ghatiya taqqiya”?
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engrich Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
shankaracharya,a darf from kerala put 52 ginnis on the head of every odh bhikshu.compleyely eliminated budhhdist from main land of india.
buhdhdism stands for egalitarianism while hinduism is mother of nazism fascism and aparteism.where men are born unequal.
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engrich Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 5:07 pm
they were brought back into hindu fold through geeta.
a scripture written by brhmns after decimation of jainese and elimination of budhhdist.to establish superiority of brhmns over true original indians.
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Whether it is Muslims, Islam, Muhammad, and Quran, or it is Jesus, Christianity, and The Bible, the Hindus, their numerous gods, their Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva) that fills in for Isvara (God), or any other religion, its followers, and its texts, the point is every organized religion is no more than a system of thought. A system of thought is not produced except in a human mind, or several human minds. Likewise, a book may be the work of one hand or several hands. There is no way of writing a book except by a human agency. Books are for reading and not for worshipping. There may be some useful things in every book. But it is extravagant to claim that any book could be the result of a revelation or ilhaam or that there could be anything like a divine book, e.g., Srimadbhagavadgita, or, for that matter, that any one book or collection of books could contain complete truth or even knowledge. It is straining human reason to be asked to believe that any book or any line in it could have a divine origin. To my way of thinking, there is nothing distinctive about Islam, Quran, or Muhammad. Those who consider Quran as the embodiment of all the collective wisdom of all ages past and future are ignoring the logic of human growth over the centuries and in the future. For that matter, it is useless to talk about something like jihad, which to my mind is a mere affectation invented by scheming individuals for the sake of claiming some kind of superiority for their religion, its originator, and the supposed author of what all had been ‘revealed’ to him by Allah (God). There is no such thing as Isvara (God) or Allah (God) and there is no such thing as a paighambar (Prophet) or a Son of God or, for that matter, a religious way of doing things. It is extravagant to even talk about something like the efficacy or impact of prayer, because there is no one to pray to and nothing to pray for, because no prayer is answered ever, because there is no one to answer it. We as human beings need to organize our affairs in a matter that conduces to the greatest benefit of everybody as far as we can manage. There are no higher courts of judgement and no rewards or punishments for one’s actions in life. At the same time, there is nothing like reincarnation or punarjanma or resurrection. There was nothing before one is born and there will be nothing after one is dead. Everything on the subject has been the imaginative invention of clever minds who manage to sway the gullible and the weak. V. C. Bhutani, Delhi, India, 13 Mar 2012, 1355 IST
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bernard lewis is voilent zoinist ashknazi jew.people like him write propaganda not truth.they are am-chair analysts.preparing arguments in favour of israel to help their illegal ocupation of middle east.
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Ignorance is commendable
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The answer to the world……….and ourselves…….
…………Galatians 3:28…….
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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