Megalomania of the corrupt

But what lessons can drawn by the ordinary citizens to fight corruption when it sees that the institutions meant to be watchdogs like the CVC , are demolished by appointing the compromised like PJ Thomas? Now we are awaiting the appointment of the next Dir CBI

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The response of the Government of India to query of the SC

- The Central Government, represented by Attorney General GE Vahanvati, hit back at the judges saying that if impeccable integrity was the criterion then every judicial appointment would be subject to question

Is this sentiment of the day ?

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@Vinod Sharma,

Sir, the big issue of today is Raja and the big numbers which have gone into the pockets of his supporters and cronies.

Tehelka created a sensation for Rs 1 lakh for Bangaru Laxman, but is now hiding somewhere as is the rest of the media in pinpointing all the people who are responsible for the loot by the Raja. Yedurappa too is bad and okay we need him out of the system.

But Yedurappa cannot become the reason for the COngress not to take action against Raja and his cronies. Neither do Yedurappa’s crimes total up even to a fraction of the money made in the telecom scam. Land allotments to own kin are common by CM’s all over India. Check out Mayawati , Amar Singh, Hooda, Chautalas etc etc.

In Andhra Raj Shekhar Reddy left his sons rich enough to buy TV channels all in the pretext of helping the poor. The Marans, Jaya and Karunanidhi own channels and papers. While who owns what in national channels can be a matter of conjecture.

So in the end two questions are now bugging me

a) Will the Congress keep saying that since MMS is honest we need not probe the telecom kickbacks

b) Since ownerships of so many media houses reflect the investments of politcos, is the press and electronic media really as free as we want them to be?

Would want to know your opinion on this….

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Reiterating again,

Adarsh and Karnataka(/BJP) are regional corruption. Regional papers have to give more focus on them. CWG and 2G are corruption at national level and their scale is HUGE compared to the first two. These have to be probed more in national newspapers. (That does not mean, one justifies coruption in Maharashtra or Karnataka).

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Atleast Sharmaji has headed my Call of looking in the Mirror, and I see Vijay, Rajiv and Rajeev commenting like lame ducks.

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@ Vinod;
At least tone and tenor of your pen has changed slightly for better. I had a very high regard for MMS, which is getting diluted gradually. Best I can think about him is that he compromised in the national interest of India by accomodating these corrupt people, as he wanted a stable government prior to visits by Bush and Obama for mega deals with USA with a larger picture in mind.But the manner in which Raja got the communication was like snatching it from MMS. If we trace the history of this episode, I get the impression that this was being planned since 2006 when dayanidhi prepared the ground took spectrum from defense, as he must have smelt that this is where big money is. so in UPA II, DMK was hellbent to take this portfolio and did its tricks. My only objection in this particular episode is that how a PM can be bullied into submission by his ministers? UN Security Seat, removal of sanctions for dual use technology and Nuclear sanctions were such deals that those should have been dealt in a bipartisan manner and even BJP would not have allowed that opportunity to go away from India and would have supported the govenment selectively on these issues. I think congress wanted credit for itself only and hence went on suffering these corrupts. But Suresh kalmadi and his CWG? how come Suresh was tolerated? when it became obvious that he is doing large scale corruption,and if you could not remove him, you could have eaily made him ineffective. that is where doubt about congrees, bahti ganga main haath dho lo attitude comes in.

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This blog from Sharmaji confirms our suspicion that most of the journalists are lobbyist who are inclined to serve Congress for their vested interest.

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This article demonstrates he is paid agent of congress!! All his efforts are to attack BJP and confuse people! Disgusting individual!! It hurts that media is like this and on the time we enjoy this crooks foolishness!!

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I am with Azhir on implementing Sharia law for politicians and bureaucrats and enablers. Line them up and shoot them. Fear (getting caught and going to jail for minimum 10 years) or getting killed is the only “motivator” for these rascals.

The sad thing in india is that all tehse bumper croiminal money making is done by the so called Dalits/Dalit friends – Karunanidhi, Mayavati etc.
Karunanidhi will make this now a brahmin vendetta against teh poor supprssed dalits and win the election again!

MAy be we should amend teh constitution that the President will rule for two years if a single party does not get majority. Then these frucking regional parties – more family business houses, be it Karunanidhi or Dev gowda or even YSR (but he is congress family business)! – will get eliminated..Regional parties are for themselves. The very fact DMK, from Dayanidhi days, sensed teh opportunity, forced to carve it out,a nd insisted on having that portfolio (instead of prestigious ones like defence or home) speaks volume about what tehse regional parties are interetsed in.

Obviously Congress, BJP all are stealing; but it looks the stealing by Lalu and Karunanidhi is like they do not even fear God….

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@AJ aka Rajiv aka Rajeev aka Paritosh aka Pankaj#zero

“I believe vinod has spent a lot of time with pakistanis”, another undian rocket scientists blaming ISI for the ugliness in his own people. You truely can represent Indians.

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Not just Azhar, all most Pakistanis are thick skinned.

Well, when Pakistan and Pakistanis are generally looked down upon criminals and worst specimens of humanity, ruled by a thug criminal state, you just need a thick skin to survive.

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Mr Sharma, your opinion here is just an attempt to muddy waters and deflect attention from Congress corruption.

Regarding Yeddyurappa, so what exactly is the evidense other than Congress paid guys making allegations ??

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Vinodji

There is a growing consensus on the blog that by highlighting a pickpocket (Yedurappa), you are deflecting attention from an international crook (Raja)

Why dont you blast your critics by going whole hog against this Raja and all those who are lax about him?

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Vinod Ji,
Being the eminent journalist that you are, and this being the only forum where we can interact with you ( as you, somehow curiously, are absent on Twitter – I am taking the opportunity to ask you two contextual questions:

1. What is your take on Radia-Vir Sanghvi tapes. I am not asking about others but only about Vir, since he is a HT colleague and a fellow blogger. Would you still want to be in his company after what is being alleged against him and with strong prima facie evidence?

2. How did it feel when you adressed Sagarika as Barkha Dutt? Knowing you, I find it hard to believe that you did not do it intentionally ( btw Sagarika says that she will call you Tarun Vijay in of her shows as revenge !! )

Regards,

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Yes , Yeddiruppa is important , moreso at present when the scams are coming out in torrents ,he is the only fig leaf available.

“Gujarat Riots”, “Babri Masjid demolition”. “communal exclusivist agenda” ,” Amit Shah Amit Shah” cannot come to rescue these days.

Ok let us take a close look at Yeddiruppa. The allegations are that he allotted land to his kith and kin. But was that allottment “illegal” or was it “immoral” judging by the highest yardsticks of morality . Who is making the allegations , HD Devegowda and his son Kumaraswamy , both humble farmers. Who is supporting them, the Congress Party.
Why not make a complaint to the Lokayaukt ? If the evidence is so overwhelming , self- explanatory and obvious , the Lokayaukt can give his findings in a couple of days. Why not file a criminal complaint . Why objection to Yeddiruppas suggestion of an independent Judicial Enquiry?

If media Reports about BJP central leadership wanting to remove Yeddy are correct I think they feel that the Yeddy allegations are having the effect of blunting the campaign against Raja

Let us not forget in the Spectrum Scam, things started moving only after the CAG Report and SC observations . Whereas hue and cry in the media , protests by Political parties, individual MPs, were not having any impact on this shameless Government.

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What we need to today is a revamp of our legal system, i.e. more teeth to judicary for speedy and time bound judgements coupled with the hardest punishments. Even recourse to higher courts for every judgment needs to be reviewed.- it could be delaying tactics to buy out witnesses, destroy evidence etc. Our former prez, Kalam mentioned once that not a single rich or prominent citizen ever filed a mercy application to him against capital punishment. meaning they were let off ( we have Ansals, BMW Nandas etc) and only the poor applied to him for mercy

Our only hope is in speedy and fair judicary to limit this corruption ( it can never ever end folks ) , with independent instituions like supreme court, CAG office, RTI Act , Public demonstrations etc. Media is an important watchdog in all this, And not every Media person is some party’s Chamcha or Dog….Vinod is a highly respected journo, who offers excellent analysis and views.

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@Vinod Sharma,

The COngress may come out a big loser in caswe it does not probe the telecom scam to the satisfaction of the people.

a) First of all it has too puncture the figure of 176000 crores of loot. Those are probable losses in case 2g prices had been similar to that of 3g, which of course is a distinct possibility.

b) It has to get the figure out of the money made by Raja and cronies. My guess is that it would probably in the range of 3000-4000 crores which by itself is huge. ( 122 licnces at an average kickback of Rs 25 crores ) My experience in the government is that a kickback acceptor is willing to take rs 100 to cause a loss of rs 1000 to the government.

c) It has to unconditionally probe Rja even if it means unravelling his links with the COngress and with journalists.

If the COngress does not do all this, chances are that the muck will stick and it could snowball into a Bofors like situation.

A mid term election or a lame duck government is bad for the country. Journalists, especially thoise who had nothing to do with Raja could well advise the Congress to handle this with care.

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Dear Shri Vinod Sharma,

there is really no comparison between DK Baruah and Yeddyurappa. Not even between Yeddy and Indira, because Indira never claimed “I am India”, whereas, Yeddy nearly claimed “I’m Karnataka”.

If comparisons need be made , it should be between DKB and MMS, both of whom are their respective “her majesty’s voice/s”, MMS more so because for the last six years, he has been nothing if not a shadow of the majesty, a humble servant, a ‘bezubaaan’ front for all the evil coming out of 10 Janpath. So please correct the improper ‘connections’.

As for the so called corruption of Yeddy, even here there is very little that can be compared with the spectrum Raja. His crime is, to quote Dr. Subramanyam Swamy, like a traffic violation whereas Raja’s was mass murders..

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I fully agree with Mr.Sharma’s view on Yeddy and Karnataka. BJP should show some spine and sack this unprincipled SOB.

However we should not shift our focus from UPA scams starting from Agriculture to Infrastructure to Telecom. Why are poeple not looking into scams by Pawar and Co.?

It is time to bring down UPA alongwith corrupt Nehu-Gandhi Dynasty. I wish to see Sonia/Rahul exposed in these scams..Nothing moves in UPA without their permission.

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@Rajeev,
I agree with you about the collective silence by the media on the tapes. Its shameful.

meanwhile, I hope this news has not being missed.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article907752.ece?homepage=true

The Pakistani spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, are being sued by the family of an American couple and their unborn child who were slain by militants during the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday afternoon last week, alleges wrongful death on behalf of Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who was pregnant at the time. Both were both gunned down at the Chabad Lubavitch centre, one of the sites in Mumbai targeted by the attackers.

The Holtzbergs were killed even as their two-year-old son Moshe survived the attack, after being whisked off to safety by his nanny, Sandra Samuel. Reports said that the grandfather of Moshe, who now lives in Israel, was one of the plaintiffs.

Media reports added that the plaintiffs, including the relatives of two other victims of the terror attack, alleged that the ISI had aided the 10 men carrying out the commando-style attacks that left more than 160 people dead. An extract from the lawsuit reportedly said that the ISI had “provided critical planning, material support, control and coordination for the attacks.”

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When Rahul says “PM has got nothing to be embarrassed about”, is it not Megalomania on the part of Rahul Gandhi?

Kal ka chhokra Manmohan Singh ko certificate de raha hai…

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@Pankaj,
Graft, corruption is in every country and society. The best socities are open , so that media can report on them and courts are strong so that effective rectification may be done.
So the only way to fight corruption is to have a free and open media ( which in this case looks compromised which is a terrible tragedy ) and free functioning courts.

However just the fact that this corruption is getting widely aired in India , the media reporting on it and the public demanding action, is the best hope in a bad situation.

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Sharmaji highlighted an interesting point — “the only successor to B S Yeddyurappa (in Karnataka) is B S Yeddyurappa.”

Not only it smacks of BJP and especially Yeddyurappa’s arrogance, it is also an insult to the intelligence of Indian people, who are only taken for ride by corrupt politicians.

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Sharmaji, I have a few observations/queries which may not be stricly in line with the topic of blog but would still like to know your views on them.

The defence for Congress or rather BJP criticism is usually visible and strong at television discussions. Though Congress is criticised in plenty but its the BJP who is usually cornered at television debates. Infact, some of the journalists’ disgust toward BJP is so clearly visible on their faces when they are commenting on BJP. Please shed light why is that? Is it because BJP has a darker or a sinister side than what is common knowledge and since journalists are more privy to that as opposed to common people, therefore take BJP at task at TV discussions?

What I observe is that the a high percentage of voices at internet are in defence of BJP they usually have strong opinions. Congress’s voice is relatively milder at blogs, internet forum.

Why are the voices supporting Congress usually silent or mild on internet forums in contrast to strong rebuttals from them one sees at TV discussions?

If BJP is such strongly supported on internet forums, why is the same support not translated in elections?

Curious to know your views.

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As Bihar moves towards a landslide win for the NDA , I am reminded of a statement made by this
P M of India some time back , immediately on his arrival from a foreign visit that

” Horsetrading of the worst type was going on there”.

He then sent a proclamation to the President of India ( Mr A PJ Abdul Kalam ) who was abroad and obtained his signatures , to dissolve the Bihar Assembly when Nitish was all set to form the government.

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@ Kushagra,

Now let me tell you why BJP will find it difficult to get a good media coverage….

a) “Pran jaaye par daroo na jaaye… ” This is the dictum with which most of my journalist gang is inspired by. Unfortunately the BJP has chosen to identify with the prohibitionists and Muthaliks. And in a country where the girls and boys in the media love to hang out late and mix… well BJP looks like an uncleji type of party.

It would prosper if it revises its so called “backward” values

b) The BJP has to get more younger, smarter and english speaking type seducers. It of course need not actually get bar dancers. But maybe it needs to shed a few of the Togadias…

c) BJP seriously needs a change of agenda. More inclusive so that younger generation gets attracted to it rather than the chikna Rahul Gandhi .

d) The media houses and press owners have a lot of business agandas, which can only by gauranteed by the party in power. For them the over corrupt Amar Singh too was a hero for this reason. Maybe the BJP should start working along these lines….

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Vijay , you are bang on . There is a reference in a book written by Vinod Mehta on how the promoters of media houses use the Editors they hire. The other points made by you are also correct. BJP is yet to come to terms and engage with the 26 year old India . But I also have a different take on this.
Let me recall ceratin images from my own childhood days. I know some may agree with my views but many shall disagree.

During the 1965 war with Pakistan , and I was in standard 3 at that time at Allahabad my hometown, the residents of my neighbourhood had started a small kitchen at the Allahabad Rly station, through which trains carrying our troops would pass by. There was heavy movement of troops at that time.The residents had taken milk, atta, sugar ,aloo , ghee etc, and kerosene stoves and would prepare tea, aloo puri sooji halua etc . The kids would rush with these the moment a train would arrive and serve to the troops.Our jawans would get so happy with us that I still remeber some of those faces. This kitchen ran through out the war .

And those were days of shortages. India was not so affluent at that time. Even middle class families were dependent on the Ration shops for their provisions. Sugar was expensive and rarely would buy from the open market.

Now I often wonder , how much of this spirit shall we see in present day times. The point I am trying to make is that if the BJP also tries the same tricks to win elections and moves away from its ideological moorings, there would not be much left of it. Yes they have to evolve ways of communicating and engaging with the young Indian. with compromising with its core issues.
It is of lesser importance whether it loses or wins elections.

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@Praveen,

You are right. Though I was not born in 65, I do remember the 71 war when I was 3. And I know my mom who was a teacher, took special care to teach without fees, children of the Jawans who had gone to war.

There is a tremendous nationalism in our country and maybe the BJP should try to tap that but with an agenda which is contemprory and inclusive. In case it can showcase corruption free governments of the states it rules and also show that it is attracting capital — both Indian and foreign without comprimising on national interest, it has a future.

It also has to show that it takes Muslims along both for ethical reasons as well as practical considerations as Muslims form 14% of the population and it straight away not only loses their vote but also ends up putting the nation in a state of confrontation.

I know some Muslims who voted for Vajpayee in 1999. Maybe the BJP has to get a eloquont leader who is acceptable to all and also fits in with its agenda.

Jaswant Singh was a possibilty, but he shot himself in the foot,,,.

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Greed and avarice is the hallmark of these multi millionaire politicians. Ashok Chavan & BSY have made thousands of crores – they could have shared their booty with their family members easily without raising any hackles and thereby staying in power without trouble for long, but no. They want what ever they can get as a gift / bribe / commission etc. No limit to greed of this political breed.

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Today, Yediyurappa’s retention not only shows about corruption and helplessness in Party leadership but also about another ugly bit, “caste politics” (Religious leaders of his caste coming to support him and threatening, party would loose its voter base). During all this tamasha, what has a north Indian learnt about Karnataka apart from corruption? They knew one dominant caste “gowda” earlier. Now they have learnt about another, “lingayat”.

When the gossips of Yediyurappa quitting the post were floating, there was also the hushed debate of who should succeed him. Out of of the choices, several others had tainted hand as well. The objections to the honest people were; One belonged to Gowda community, who are not traditional supporters of BJP (instead support JDS of Deve Dowda). Another was a Brahmin, so had no voter base. Only silver line I find is Bihar’s result. If Karnataka has reached the rock bottom today in corruption and caste politics (hope, it can’t go below this!), it should witness the emergence of development politics over caste. Hope, it will happen soon.

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26/11: U.S. court summons ISI chief, Saeed
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article910738.ece?homepage=true

A U.S. court has issued summons to senior Inter-Services Intelligence officials including its powerful chief Maj. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, along with Mumbai attack masterminds and Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi in response to a lawsuit filed by relatives of two American victims accusing them of providing material support for the 26/11 attacks.

The 26-page lawsuit was filed before a New York Court on November 19 against the ISI and LeT by the relatives Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were both gunned down by militants at the Chhabad House in Mumbai. Their son Moshe was saved by his Indian nanny.

The 26-page lawsuit accusing the ISI of aiding and abetting the LeT in the killing of more than 160 people was filed before a New York Court on November 19, following which the Brooklyn court issued summons to Major Samir Ali, Azam Cheema, the ISI, Major Iqbal, Lakhvi, LeT, Sajid Majid, Mr. Pasha, Saeed and Nadeem Taj.

“The ISI has long nurtured and used international terrorist groups, including the LeT, to accomplish its goals and has provided material support to the LeT and other international terrorist groups,” said the lawsuit filed by relatives of the slain Rabbi.

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Dear Vinod,

Everyone has their hand in the bin. So who bells thecat?.

Those struck with megalomania on the basis of money also have carefully studied the odds before they posture as they know their worth to their masters – its a question of how much they can push the envelope

It is an open secret that many of these people are also responsible for significantly contributing to the party funds. Can the treasurer of the party say “get me funds, I dont care how, but dont keep anything for yourself?”

Given their short and unpredictable shelf life, the average politician seeks to maximise his/her returns – methodology notwithstanding.

And so what if they lose the chair after that? The corpusgenerated will more than suffice in “maintaining” relationships for the subsequent self preservation

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The Bihar elections are a shot in the arm for the NDA and a warning bell for the Congress.

The Congress will do well to remember that unless it unravels the @ G scam to the satisfaction of the Indian public, the muck will stick on. Getting the BJP into the picture everytime the mention of Raja and the thousands of crores looted may fool some but not the majority of Indians. Rahul’s magic too will start waning after a point and in my view he MAY NOT pitch for the PM’s post in the next Lok Sabha and some grand old man like Pranab or Chidu (he is young and age may be a disadvantage in case he is asked to move over) may be projected.

The BJP should remember that it won because development in Bihar has been gr8 ewspecially compared to the failed Lalu era. Plus Muslims voted for it.

So it should get a development based nationalistic agenda upfront. And talk about equal treatment of all religions ( as against Congress which in the name of and not about pitching HIndus against Muslims….

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Yesterday I saw some images on the TV.
There was this lady who walked smartly like the Colonizers of the yore , with a leather office bag in her hand , followed by some old Indians whose faces I could recognize as that of Motilal Vohra , Mohsina Kidwai and others , none daring to get closer than arm’s length . The lady stepped towards the media , condescendingly made a brief statement in her accented English ,. some pearls of wisdom flowed which were lapped up by a starry eyed media. None dared to put a question to this Lady. It was really Her Majesty .

Then there were these very plebian ordinary looking Indians Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Arun Jaitly all hugging and shaking hands with each other . Or that very rural type unshaved mofussil politician Nitish Kumar All so unimpressive.

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@ Parveen,

Now I think we need to change our attitude towards the gora skin!!

let me tell you one thing. Sonia has been good for the Congress as she bought it together when it was falling apart in the end ninties. But…

As a matter of principle we need to go beyond one family in search of rulers however good they may be. At one point at the end of my school days I was a big big fan of Rajiv Gandhi. Even when the BOfors sacm came out I liked to believe that he was innocent and probably the money had gone to the COngress as election funds.

However I strongly feel now that the concept of family rule has spread to each and every state in India where politicians try to make sure that their children succeed them. That’s bad. Very sad for our democracy to evolve.

Coming back to gora skin, let me tell you that the COngress men in the picture were of a mindest and age who believed that goras rule the world. And white is superior

Well, as per evolution theories, all of us evolved out of African men and women– even Pakistanis who think they are fairer !!

And in my visit to US and Europe I noticed that there is a marked difference of the Goras towrds us, as compared to the 90’s when I first went there. The IT guys made us look like geniuses (which is only partly true, as compared to the Mani Aiyar’s of the previous generations who made us look like willing slaves!!

And by the way the berown skinned Indian women are thought to be the sexiest in Europe… that is what I heard in the pubs !!

So I think the COngress guys should learn a bit from the IT guys…

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@ Vinod
I wish, I had more time and more info. to know about this whole affair of Yeddy versus Raja. could you please let me know about the nepotism, monetary corruption, done by yeddy? I mean in term of rupees, how much he has given to his sons in the shape of favorable land allotment? Now can you compare this with Raja’s loot in terms of money. straight forward, no beating around the bush. The G2 Affair appearing as a grand scheme, persued through years carefully and executed almost flawlessly.
Yeddy is also known as fighting Reddy brothers and their mining maphia and they are after him with all their money power and clout which it brings. So, yeddy has taken support of his caste, as I see it. This is not very encouraging, but that is fact of life. Now, Gowdas, Yadavs, DMK, Mayawati and other such people taking the same route are not opposed with the visceral hatred as compared to any one associated with BJP . Can any one mention any corruption, even 1/10 of what these stalwarts, regional satraps, have done? But still they are not untouchables as compared to BJP. I see that this contempt for BJP is researved as they are the real challenger for central government and that will be “Pet per Laat”, for many, many people including our illustrious journalists. The otherday, Digvijay singh was saying that BJP is also responsible for G2 Scam. Is there a limit for idiocy?
Having said this, I still feel, MMS is one of the best qualified and finest PM in the whole world but being undone by his own sharafat. He is captain of the ship in a choppy sea, and should be ready to take many unpleasant decisions. You are also not in the same league, Glamour Quotient, and privileges as compared to foody Vir and toothy Barkha. So why compromise with your Pen(Key Board) or are you too scared for your perks and privileges, howsoever miniscule they are. HMV role is good for lesser people but looks bad for responsible journalists.

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We are all savouring the sweet victory in the Bihar elections. The sweetness is flavoured by the total rout of the congress wizkid, the prince, who wants to be the prime minister and the casteist-status quoist Laloo and his discredited gang. It was also hilarious to watch media pandits, who, for more than fifteen years, gladly and willingly lapped up all the antics of Laloo and even his illiterate, ignorant and arrogant wife, now vaxing eloquent on Nitish Kumar’s miracle cures for Bihar.

It is easy to understand and even sympathise with the media’s acute discomfiture. For fifteen years these pundits propagated all kinds of falsehood coming out of Bihar and its CEO, only because the media wallowed in the greatness of Laloo who had put a stop to the rath yatra of Advani. He had, additionally, endeared himself to the secularists by having arrested Advani. All that talk of “chara ghotala” was the creation of an embittered BJP. Hadn’t Laloo “turned around” the forever-ailing railways? He even became the most coveted speaker at IITs and IIMs for his supposed economic wisdom. He was even invited to address the famed Harvard Business School! His teflon coating was as strong as that of Sonia Gandhi and her late husband. Nothing could dent his image as the shining star on the secular firmament.

But, people have a way of looking beyond the fog, the mumbo jumbo of secular-communal politics. And the battered, bruised, raped and looted people of Bihar finally saw Laloo for what he was- an intellectual pygmy, a corrupt-to-the-core political pretender, who had outlived his grace period disgracefully; it was then that the people brought in the JDU-BJP combine, despite all the secular propaganda against the BJP.

It goes entirely to the credit of Nitish Kumar and the BJP leadership for having given no ear to the disparagement, discouraging criticism that constantly came out of the Laloo-congress camp. Even a small, insignificant instance of Nitish Kumar not wanting Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar was blown out as an international event, filling the internet and digital waves for months. Talk shows talked endlessly and expectantly of an impending break in the relations between the two coalition partners. Calculators and psephological “projections” were extensively used to show how Nitish can and should dump the BJP and how it will then be the FINIS for the BJP, the unwanted, hanger-on on Nitish’s high table.

This time around, having realised that the alliance was strong and unswerving in its bid to root out the corrupt Laloo rump once and for all, the media has begun to sing a different tune. In the picture they have drawn, the BJP is still the hanger-on, the unwanted stain on the great sheen of Nitish Kumar. The facts that the BJP performed exceedingly well, that it got, despite all the secular prattle, generous support from the Muslims, and also that the BJP has come very close to a position of being able to form an alternate government in a worst case scenario (like Kumaraswamy did with the BJP support in Karnataka two years ago) were all strictly off the talk-table on TV shows. The BJP was given no credit for having fought the elections well, having strategised beautifully to defeat the Laloo-Rahul challenge. If the BJP was mentioned at all, it was to warn it to keep on the right side of Nitish Kumar and never to talk of such inanities like Hindus, Hindutva etc. The fact that these elections would have, in any case, swept away even an alliance of congress-Laloo had they fought on a single platform was also studiously avoided.

However, for many of us these media shananigans are routine. Let us, keep in mind that victories like this come only rarely and therefore, for once, let us really rejoice at the truly great BJP-JDU victory. Let us also enjoy the feel good mood created by the puncturing of Rahul’s spurious claim as the greatest vote-catcher and a “youth icon”.

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@Azhar,

Arre baba thum yahaan bhi aa gaya?

Learn from us Indians. We are trying to catch and punish our corrupt by improving our democracy, unlike Pakistanis who fall on the feet of their corrupt Zardairs and Musharraffs who stack their billions in foreign banks or Dawood Ibrahims who make billions thru narcotic smugling and invest it in Pakistani terror factories and economy.

In dear Ajju, on this anniversary of 26/11 you should atone by killing a few jehadis and ISI men. And also remember that Shuja Pasha has been summoned by the New York courts as the ISI was the fountainhead of terror behind 26/11. Of course if you love terror and want to become a suicide bomber, you can make fun of the American courts who would be extraditing Shuja Pasha soon..

NOw dont try to defend Shuja Pasha and the terror machine called ISI as you are in the USA and HOmeland security is keeping a record of all the internet postings of Pakistanis….

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@Vinodji,

Well coming back to the topic of the blog, Yedurappa is small fish as compared to the bigger fish called Dev Gowda. And the biggest fish called Raja.

I have listened to all the tapes at the OUTLOOK site and I am astounded that journalists went so deep in deciding who should have which berth and why Congress should give tlecom to Raja. Shame!! And they still talk about exposing corruption. Good that OPen and Outlook got the sleaze upfront.

Vinodji, by the way Yedurappa never said Yedurappa is Karnataka and Karnataka is Yedurappa as DK Baroah did. Neither did the BJP plaster the whole country with this statment that yedurappa is Karnataka. In fact Yeddy has given up a few spoils he had collected.

Vinodji I think you have fallen vivtim to the Congress spin of diverting attention from the crores in 2G….

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@Vijay

And you so conviniently forget your Minister Mr. Terrorist Modi was not issued a US visa because of his invovlvement in GujRat killings.

ISI is stuck in your throat, and USA and NATO force know if ISI stops helping them, then only God knows what will happend to them in Afghnaistan.

As far as homeland Security goes, this is the Good Old USA and not undia. An as far as internet posting goes they also track people who are joyous when your terrorists army kills innocent people in Kashmir. So be careful next time you put smiles when you kill innocent civilians.

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@ Everyone,

The New York courts have asked for the extradition of the ISI chief.

a) How should India add more power to this proposal so that Shuja Pasha and Sajid Mir like David Headley are caught by the US justice department. Remember the US is also getting sick and tired of Pakistan. After throwing aid at all the Pakistani leaders standing with begging bowls, the Pakistanis come back like bed bugs biting for more blood

b) Headley is far more invovled with ISI, says today’s HT report.

I think from this point we should remember reports in DAWN and other Pakistani papers that Pakistani parents dont mind selling their children to the ISI and Hamid GUl for 2 lakh rupees to become suicide bombers. We should head hunt for Pakistanis who will become RAW agents and become suicide bombers in Pakistan.

Jiska suicde bomber ussi ka sar

HEY !!! BRIGHT IDEA!!

We can try to convince Azhar and Sal to become suicde bombers forr RAW!!

Azhar and Sal… humko suicide bomber mil jayega… thumhare ghar walon ko do lakh…. aur tumko jannat….

Saare khush!!!

Wah wah … what a scheme !

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EXPOSED !! EXPOSED !! !! EXPOSED !! COngress most corrupt, yedurappa least in Karnataka!!

I am giving an excerpt from Tehelka which shows that SM KRISHNA an DeV Gowda donated omre to their family than Yedurappa!!

So clearly the media is focusing more on Yedurappa to deflect the light from the 2 G!!

Hey Ram… hai Allah!! Congress has shot itself in the foot again!

He then listed how much land previous chief ministers had given away. SM Krishna (Congress) denotified 633.33 acres, Dharam Singh (Congress) 110.33 acres, HD Kumaraswamy (Janata Dal–Secular) 346.23 acres and he, Yeddyurappa (BJP), 259.12 acres so far. It seemed like he was comparing a roll of honour. Not for a moment did it occur to Yeddyurappa that he was illegally allotting land to family members under the CM’s discretionary quota or the G category.

Now, TEHELKA is able to establish that Yeddyurappa may have inadvertently been speaking the truth. Documents with TEHELKA show that crores of rupees worth of land has been given away from as far back as 1989 in the flourishing metro of Bengaluru, where real estate is among the costliest in India. It appears that chief ministers of all parties regularly flouted rules and stretched official definitions to benefit party workers, legislators, ministers, family members, friends, drivers, maids and other servants. The provision all of them used was where the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) Act allows governments the discretion to allot sites to ‘persons in public life’.

Krishna, now External Affairs Minister, Singh, Kumaraswamy and Yeddyurappa used the ambiguity of the provision to allot land to people of their choice. Their whimsical decisions have cost the exchequer several crores of rupees. In many cases, sites measuring 50×80 sq ft and 60×40 sq ft in prime localities of Bengaluru have been sold for a song. For instance, sites that would have fetched the BDA Rs. 2 crore each in the market were sold to allottees for as low as Rs. 10 lakh.

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@ Azhar;
Shhhhh, this place is not for mentally deranged people. scoot.

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Azhar is ‘Gali ka kutta’ in this forum just as Pakistan is ‘gali Ka kutta’ in the Indian subcontinent.

No matter how much you shoo him away this dog will keep barking. He also has a crooked mirror around his neck, tied by Jinnah. So when ever Azhar looks down, he sees his image ad thinks the entire world looks like this ‘gali ka kutta’ or Pakistan.

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EXPOSED :D !! EXPOSED !! EXPOSED — Pakistan’s new official PAAPA

After reading about Azhar’s pride in China’s peformance in the Asiad, it is clear that Pakstanis now think along with Mohammad Ghori and Osama Bin Loda, Chariman Mao must have contributed semen to have produced part of the present generation !

Azhar dear, how can Pakistan with 6 medals in the CWG as compared to India’s 101 and only 7 in the Asiad as compared to India’s 64, make fun of India???) Funny !!!

Let me tell you that the Asiad came after the fatigue of the CWG for us. Our top guys like Vishwanathan Anand (world Champ chess) Sushil Kumar (world champ wrestling), Maahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes etc did not go to Asiad, Neither did our cricket team (No 1 test team as per ICC) and Women’s rteam (higher rated than Pakistan) did not go. So we are at least 10 gold short

In fact Pakistan is lucky that we did not send our cricket team as it would have lost its cricket gold and silver.

Anway enjoy that you Papa in China and in Saudi Arabia has got more than Pakistan!!

What a Cuntry !!! Wah Wah Wah:D

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lets say, the Pakistanis have a mixed ancestry of Chinese , Arabs , Turks and blah blah blah.

wanna see Mr Azhar Hussain’s real photo ?? as he has a mixed ancestry , he looks like this.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2lselat.jpg

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+@ Vinodji,

The time has now come to post a new blog on how to make India corruption free. After Tehelka’s release of data it is clear that SM Krishna and Deve Gowda were bigger culprits than Yedurappa, a Kindergarten student in the school of corruption.

The basic issue still remains 2 G. It will not go away till the culprits are punished. Shekhar Gupta has written, today, what I had said a week back, That the old bofors feeling is back.

If the Congress hand is clean it should go in for a full fledged probe and in case DMK starts doing bhangra it can cash in on Jaya.

Meanwhile Vir Sanghvi today signed of from the COunterpoint column for six months. A pity. For he was among the few journalists who could see beyond the Kabab parties at the Pakistanis high commissions and see that Pakistani culture and people are now totally different from us since they have been buggered by Martial law and consistent fanaticism ever since evil cobra Gen Zia took over. And we can never trust them since their commitment to jehadi agenda is total.

But then Vir took a wrong turn ever since he chose to become the poster boy of the COngress. It has to be India first and last for all of us….

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@Vijay

This is your culture and this is first time I am happy to see guys slip and slide towards that western culture. I very much doubt that Hinduism promotes such behaviour, or does it?

Delhi draped in rainbow colours as gays walked for pride
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, November 28, 2010
First Published: 19:51 IST(28/11/2010)
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Wearing their sexuality on their sleeves, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) brandished rainbow-coloured flags, held banners and swayed to drum beats with pride at the third edition of the Delhi gay parade on Sunday. Over 1,000 members of the LGBT community and their supporters
marched from Barakhamba Road to Jantar Mantar off the posh commercial district of Connaught Place.

Some had their faces covered with multi-hued masks and wings, while most others walked smiling at the cameras – unabashed and fearlessly.

Popularly referred to as ***** pride march, it was led by two men on a pink scooty holding balloons of different colours.

They were holding placards reading ‘Delhi pride festival’, ‘All we need is love’, ‘Come out and play’ and ‘Straight but not narrow’.

A large posse of police personnel, however, were never far from the marchers, keeping an eye on the goings-on.

Just like the previous parades, this year too the funds were raised by the LGBT community and masks, rainbow-coloured scarves, whistles and candies were distributed.

According to the organisers, the crowd at this time’s parade was much larger than the previous two as it was the first one after the Delhi High Court’s historic judgment decriminalising consensual homosexual relationships.

“Not only lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders participated, many other people also came out. The most heartening thing is that families of many members of LGBT community also came to support them. Slowly things are changing,” said Mohnish Malhotra, one of the organisers.

However, he said the march was not just about celebration but a protest against discrimination faced by the LGBT community.

“We are protesting against discrimination faced by the LGBT community. The community is often subjugated to violence by police and thugs. They are blackmailed and forced into marriage by families, which leads to suicides,” he said.

“It is a big celebration after the Delhi High Court judgement last year. It is the biggest turnout. By looking at it we know that things are changing. It’s a great feeling to be yourself and not pretend to be someone else,” said Mahashweta Das, one of the participants.

A large number of foreigners also took part in the parade.

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@ Azhar hussain

Arre baba Nakal ke liye bhi akal chahiye !!!

When You cut and pasted the long list of squash champions you did not use your brains!!

More than half the people in your list are NOT PAKISTANIS !!! HA HA AHA

That is the trouble with you Pakistanis. The brain has been hijacked by the Djinn and ghost of evil cobra Gen Zia and the salsa done by Mull Omar!!

Arre yaar Azhar, reform. Kill the ISI, the jehadis, the Dawood Ibrahims, the Mulla Omars. A better Pakistan will emerge!!

As for your second posting on Lesbians and Homosexuals. Let me tell you most Indians are against homosexuals but then it is a question of individual freedom. Your Saudi Arabian papa are the biggest homos of the world. In fact the Saudi prince, and your hero was caught in London, killing his homo partner in a lift.

By the way, I was at this Gay parade as an observer along with a dear friend– and maybe my fiancee tommorrow, who had been assigned this duty to cover this for her TV channel. As much as I loath the idea of this homosexuality, I will still concede that it is a question of individual choice. In my view against the order of nature. But I cannot make morals for all.

But…. the cake !!!

THERE WERE AT LEAST A FEW PAKISTANI HOMOS THERE AND THEY WERE WILLING TO SWEAR THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS MORE PREVALENT THERE BECAUSE OF LACK OF CHANCE TO TALK TO GIRLS…

AND AT LEAST TWO of your past presidents– the one who is an evil cobra now killed by mangoes and the guy who presided over the Kargil flop show … well loved young boys!!! : D

THis is true. And I am not going to reveal more as it would definitely endanger the Pakistanis who were here…..

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More than half the people in your list are NOT PAKISTANIS !!! HA HA AHA

The point was and still is your 1 billion cannot produce so many champions in the next 100 years.

List of British Open Men’s champions by number of victories
Champion Number of titles
Jahangir Khan 10
Geoff Hunt 8
Hashim Khan 7
Jonah Barrington 6
F.D. Amr Bey 6
Jansher Khan 6
Mahmoud Karim 4
Azam Khan 4
David Palmer 4
Total 55
Out of 55 Championships, Pakistan prevailed 27 times

Champions Runner-up
Pakistan 30 Pakistan 25
Australia 13 England 18
Egypt 13 Australia 14
England 7 Egypt 7
Ireland 6 Scotland 3
Scotland 1 France 2
Canada 1 India 1
Wales 1 New Zealand 1
France 1

You cannot match this

If you compare yourself to same size country, you guys look like jokers and Asian Games proved.

As far Gays goes, the differrence between your sick culture and ours is that if our religion says its bad that is homosexuality is forbidden then Vijay it is forbidden. I don’t care what the gora’s say it is not part of us, period. No If And or Butt.

We don’t care if you except it, thats your prorogative. Maybe you will be able to slow your population growth this way, good for you. Sex with kids is exceptable by Western standards, it is quite popular in Europe and they also go to Thailand for it.

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Azhar,

Your frustration of being a Pakistani is showing !!

Maybe you should become a Thai, an American pr a Somalian and give up your Pakistani citizenship forever!

Nobody questioned the fact that Jansher or Jahagir did well in the squash coiurts. But that is before the homosexual evil Cobra changed the school curriculum so that Pakistanis are now only good for suicide bombings, killing minorities, telling lies and heroin smuggling.

Isn’t narco-terrorist pakistan the only truth about your cuntry?== Pakistan the world champion of heroin smuggling!

Is’nt aid beggin your only occupation?? Pakistan the world champion for beggin for Aid(s)

Is’nt terror your best game? Pakistan and ISI the world champion of terror and terrorists?:D

Is/nt suicide bombing your unique Pakistani pride? Pakistani the world’s suicide bombers…

I can extend the list to 50 more Pakistani championship winnnings.. but I dont want to shame u so that u will commit suicide. I want you to reform and become intelligent, warm, truthful, peace loving, democratic like Indians

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Azhar,

As I had explained to you…

I have taken you as a test case, as a guinea pig, in trying to understand whether it is possible to reform a Pakistani who has undergone brainwashing in a school curriculam designed by evil Cobra Gen Zia and Mulla Omar. I don’t know whether I will succeed. But I will keep trying till you reform and go home to kill the ISI, the jehadis, the Hafeez Saeeds and Dawood Ibrahims.

Now I am about to go to sleep. But I am filing my report to the psychological forum for today. That Gen Zia’s brainwahing is very difficult to remove from a Pakistanis head….

And by the way you check up with the Homos in Delhi’s gay parade… your evil cvobra and your Kargil flop show were Homosexuals… and the nadas who are slaves of vaderas are basically all homosexuals companions like Nawab Khwaish ali and most of sexually frustrated Pakistan///

yeh Saxh ka saamna karo…

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@Vijay

What a moron you have become, it is sexual frustration that causes homosexuality in Pakistan and in the non-muslim countries it is because they want to get….. wow in Pakistan they would call you Bahot Baray Chutiya ho Tum

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It is a “registered” and quoted fact that in absolute numbers (not as percentage of populatioo0 there are more Pakistanis registered on gaysites (such as gaydar, manjam etc) than Indians.

It is a fact that (published by google), that Pakistanis surf porno sites more than any other nationality.

This excuse “our religion does not allow this” is a bit old and tiring. that is what they always say –when somebody explodes a bomb in the railway station or explodes in a place of worship –the usual answer is “they are not muslims, because a Muslim will not do suicide bombing”

Case closed.

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@Azhar
Now the Saudi King ( Pakistan’s father ) calling Pak president rotten !
Its tough being a Saudi dog on Chinese leash with a mirror hung by Jinnah around the neck !!

Come on bark !!

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And one more thing for india dog Rajiv is Henry Kessinger has called Indra Gandhi a “*****” and a dog knows very well what is a ***** for a dog.

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“B*tch”

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@ Sal
Woh bhi le lenge. Kyon Jhel nahi pa rahe kya?

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@ Azhar Hussain

Your culture and religion does not promote this… see the video onn PM Gilani and Sherry Rheman. And that is what your culture promotes — public molestation of women by the Prime Minister….

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Mr. Sal don’t be so desperate…your country and your people calls west several names but still survive on the crumbs given by US…What a shame!! when you can’t earn your own bread why do you brag so much…YOu must learn to be humble… You need money from US to buy arms to be given to talibans and take a beating from them.. and money given for flood victims goes for buying arms for JEM and JUD… Pathetic and disgusting people…

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His rage against the twosome may be understandable because the two leaders had reneged on their earlier commitment to vote for the BJP-Left Front cut motion but staged a walkout instead thus letting the government win but not at all his manners and lack of civility. Finally why is no one protesting against the indignity the Congress and the Janata Dal United MLAs are inflicting on the legislature by using the chamber as their eating and sleeping place?

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I only copy paste as I am not good in writing.

Innocent well-meaning people have fallen prey to the media’s evil designs. The Gujarat riots were plain riots- not pogrom’ or ‘massacre’. The state government- far from being involved in the riots- handled the riots effeciently and controlled them in 3 days- while riots continued in Gujarat for 6 months in 1969 and 1985 under Congress rule in which close to 10,000 people each were killed. At the time of the 2002 riots, this same English media did report the truth at times. The following facts will make it clear-
1) On 28 February 2002 , The Hindustan Times reported that the entire police force of 70,000 had been deployed in Gujarat view of apprehensions that riots may break out.
2) On Feb 28 The Indian Express reported that “(On Feb 27) the state government had deployed the Rapid Action Force in Ahmedabad and other sensitive areas and the Centre sent in CRPF personnel”.. Both these reports were published even before a single riot had taken place.
3) Riots began in Ahmedabad on Feb 28 at 11 AM . India Today weekly ( 18 March 2002 ) reports that Modi informally requested the Centre for deployment of Army at 12-00 noon i.e. within 1 hour. The same weekly also reports one column of troops reached Ahmedabad at 2-30 AM on 1st March and staged a flag march the same morning at 9 AM.
4) The same weekly in the issue also says that the then Defence Minister George Fernandes was in Ahmedabad at 2-00 Am on 1st March on Modi’s request and was bravely on Ahmedabad’s streets that morning (1st March) at a great personal risk.
5) The Hindu reported on 1st March 2002 that, “The Army units, frantically called by the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi…started arriving in Ahmedabad…”.This shows that some Army units reached Ahmedabad so quickly on Feb 28 that The Hindu had time to report their arrival on Feb 28 itself and publish it on 1st March!
6) Out of 18,600 villages, 240 towns and 25 district headquarters, hardly 60 places saw riots. One-third of Gujarat, i.e. Saurashtra and Kutch were completely unaffected by riots even in the first 3 days. After the first three days- riots were limited to Ahmedabad, Vadodara and some places near Godhra- and almost all were started by Muslims.
7) In the first three days- Gujarat police shot dead 98 rioters- majority of whom were Hindus. On 1st March, The Hindu reported that- “At least 10 people have been killed in police firing in Ahmedabad alone by evening (of Feb 28)”. Then on 2nd March, The Indian Express reported that “Police shot dead 20 people in Gujarat, 12 in Ahmedabad, on 1st March”. Then on 3rd March, Indian Express reported-”77 more people have been killed in Police/ Army firing (on 2nd March)”. Then on 2nd March ‘The Hindu’ reported that-”Unlike Feb 28 when one community was entirely at the receiving end, the minority backlash on 1st March has further worsened the situation.”
The Times of India dated 18 March 2002 devoted a complete report titled, “Riots hit all classes, people of all faith” on Hindu victims of the riots and says, “Contrary to popular belief that only Muslims have been affected in the recent riots more than 10,000 persons belonging to the Hindu community have also become homeless”.
9) The Indian Express devoted two full reports exclusively to Hindu victims in Ahmedabad in its issues dated 7 May 2002 and 10th May 2002. The victims were not only homeless; they did not even have relief camps to live in, and hence had to live in temples.
10) India Today weekly reports in its issue dated 27 May 2002, “A series of attacks by Muslims on policemen has further added to mutual lack of faith. Now strapped with the anti-Muslim label, the police has been slow in acting against Muslim fanatics”.
11) India Today (27 May 2002) also gives details of attacks on Hindus by Muslims. The same weekly reports in its issue dated 15 April 2002 that- “A young Hindu went to Himmatnagar (Muslim) area of Ahmedabad to do business and was found dead, with his eyes gouged out”. This issue also gives details of Muslim aggression.
12) India Today weekly dated 22 April 2002 also reports that ‘Gujarat police saved 2,500 Muslims from certain death in Sanjeli, North Gujarat on 1st March 2002′. The weekly also says- ‘Like Sanjeli, 5,000 Muslims were also saved in Bodeli town in Vadodara district by the police’ and ‘Thousands of Muslims were also saved in Viramgam town from 15,000 armed Hindus’ by police and the Army. The UPA government- staunchly anti-BJP, has given figures of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus killed in the Gujarat riots, and 223 missing, in Rajya Sabha on 11 May 2005. A total of 790 Muslims were killed in the riots- more than thrice that number were saved on one day at a single place.
13) Throughout Gujarat riots- there are only two instances of real anti-Muslim riots-The Ehsan Jafri case and the Naroda Patiya case. In the Ehsan Jafri case, the police shot dead 5 Hindus outside his house and saved the lives of more than 200 Muslims. There were 250 people inside Jafri’s house and the mob killed 39- with police saving more than 200- despite being overwhelmingly numbered by the rioters who were more than 10,000..
14) There have been 4 convictions of Muslims for rioting after Godhra and Muslims were given various sentences. 4 Muslims were convicted by a Vadodara fast track court on 16 October 2003 and given life imprisonment. Ex-Vadodara Deputy Mayor and Congress leader Nisar Bapu was acquitted, but his son and son-in-law were convicted. This was reported in at least three English dailies, including The Times of India dated 17 October 2003. 9 and 7 Muslims were convicted in two separate judgments on 18 and 28 March 2006 by fast track courts in Ahmedabad- reported by all major English dailies the next day. Muslims were hardly the cattle hiding from the slaughter house that the media makes them out to be. The conviction of Muslims proves that Muslims were equally on the offensive.
The newspaper editors and others who call the Gujarat riots as a ‘holocuast’, ‘pogrom’, ‘genocide’ or ‘massacre’ should look at their own newspapers’ reports on these very things. Will these facts awaken the conscience of the newspaper editors and journalists and ofcourse the electronic media and make them reveal the bitter truth of the Gujarat riots- that even after Godhra, the riots that followed were not one-sided?
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Mera bharat REALLY mahan, unless how can a ISI mole pass as a journalist in HT.
Here is a copy and paste from the paper THE HINDU
For the first time since the riots in Gujarat eight years ago, State Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday subjected himself to marathon questioning by the Supreme Court-appointed SIT in two sessions lasting for more than nine hours.

Zia should realise this is NOT A ISLAMIC REPUBLIC , it is not malaysia , saudi or HIS BELOVED PAKISTAN. WE DONT DO SUMMARY EXECUTION LIKE BHUTTO WAS HANGED AND THEN HIS GENITALS PHOTOGRAPHED TO MAKE SURE HE WAS A PRACTISING MUSLIM(source patrick french India , a portrait of billion people)

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I have never seen Zia Haq ever writing anything that is a concern to all. Every time he writes something it has to be the winging about Muslim community! If he really thinks he is writing for all irrespective of religious background, he needs to work first to improve his credibility before people can give him some decent hearing!
Is that asking too much of him? may be.

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Zia Haq, blinded by the rage against the Gajarat Chief minister, has been writing all gobbledegook for a long period of time ever since he started this blog with the support of the HT establishment! He has no sense that many legal hurdles have been hurled by the Congress, the Muslims and the pseudo-secularists of India at Mr. Narendra Modi and to-date, they utterly failed at uncovering anything bad against him! This is so as there is nothing to frame him and like a great son of the soil, he has been doing great deeds for the Gujarat state and the good people of that state have been returning him to the seat of governance repeatedly. Mr. Huq like other nefarious detrators will be consigned to the history’s dustbin whereas Mr. Modi will soon move to the seat of the nation’s power to change the destiny of the country.

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MR.MODI IS NOT GUILTY OF GENOCIDE.IT IS VOTE BANK POLITICS AND IS PREVALENT IN EVERY PARTY OF INDIA.HAD NOT IT HAPPENED IN 1984 ?MY DEAR, IT IS INDIAN PRESS WHICH IS PUBLISHING YOUR COMMENTS.MY COMMENTS ABOUT HINDU,CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN PAK WERE NOT GIVEN PLACE EVEN IN READER’S COMMENTS IN PAK PAPER THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE.SEE THE DIFF.VOTE BANK IS NOT LIMITED TO ONE PARTY. MR. SALMAN KHURSHEED IS SAYING ON THE EVE OF UP ELECTIONS THAT THERE WILL BE QUOTA FOR MUSLIMS IN OBC QUOTA.NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN AGAINST HIM. EVEN MR. BENI PRASAD VERMA IS SAYING SAME THING.HAVE YOU WRITTEN COMMENTS THEN?EVEN OUR NEWSPAPERS HAVE POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS.THEY PUBLISH WHAT SUITS THEIR POLITICAL MASTERS.THIS IS PREVALENT ALL OVER THE WORLD.THIS WORLD IS CREATED BY ALLAH(GOD) TO BEHAVE IN THIS WAY.NO ONE CAN CHANGE.

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aaloke this is hindu india and hindu justice sysytice system which is unequal.

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nothing better is expected from hindu justice system where twice born cannot commit any sin.though he is not twice born but supported by them.

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The muslims are strange species..There are tons of evidence against muslim rulers who killed hindus but muslims come up with stories and claim that muslim rulers were all benevolent..however when it comes to non-muslim rulers, they are pronounced guilty without any evidence.

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This is TAQUIYA in full swing. With your name you are trying to hide your circumcision status. A plonker like you should know summary justice is WE THINK MODI IS GUILTY , THUS LETS HANG HIM , like YOUR INSPIRATION ZIA AND SADDAM DID.
In India we investigate , AND IF WE FAIL TO PRODUCE ENOUGH EVIDENCE THAT CAN STAND THE RIGOURS OF LEGAL ARGUMENT

WE LET THEM FREE

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Zia is a Islamist first. Being fair, just and human is not one of his concerns and even if it is, it comes only after his “ummah”. Just read his artcles and that’s clear.

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Did he bravely burn the Hindus in that train in godhra too? Brainwashed arabized nutter.

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All BS..What about Deganga riots? What about killing of hindus in Pak and BD after 1947?
What about killing of hindus in Kashmir?

You guys have no clue about anything. You simply have no clue about muslim psyche. When they are in majority, they won’t allow minority to live peacefully.

Only idiots like you don’t read history and learn from it. When muslims come up with 9/11 conspiracy, why don’t you teach them your philosophy?

You will get your mother, wife, daughter and grandmother raped by muslims to earn some brownie points..No wonder people like you still exist..There was Jaichand and now we have Abhinav Sharma the brahmin who will even lick feet of rulers to get some favors.

Now shut up and shove muslim L**d up your arse.

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Pakistan had 25% hindus at the time of partitions..now it has just 1.5%..All of those have been either killed or converted or pushed into India.

During 1947, Pakistani muslims killed close to 1.5 million hindus and raped 100,000 hindu women and now BD muslims are doing the same..

The likes of Zia and Abhinav Sharma (son of a raped women) don’t see all these atrocities. This species is evil to the core..Always indulges in propaganda..

If you compare Mohammad with Jesus or Buddha, you will know why Islam is such a crappy religion..full of BS..

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Ten years can be a lifetime in today’s here-and-now world. Ten years after the Gujarat violence, the state claims to have moved on. Relative peace and the engine of enterprise have taken the state into another orbit. Its Chief Minister Narendra Modi is being seen in some quarters as a potential Prime Minister, a role model of good governance. But what of those who were caught in the vortex of violence? Have they been able to move on? Have they achieved any sense of closure? Have the scars of a divided society healed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzh4ozwotkE

Let’s begin our journey to find some answers in the town where it all began: Godhra. For the residents of Signal Falia, a Muslim ghetto near Godhra railway junction, February 27th 2002 is a morning they will never forget. A majority of the 94 accused of burning the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express, leading to the death of 59 Kar Sevaks, were from the dusty by-lanes of Signal Falia. Inayat Jujhara was an elderly government clerk who spent nine years in jail under POTA till he was acquitted last year. The nine years were like an eternity for him and his family who now run a small provision store in the area.

Sixty three of the Godhra accused were acquitted last year. But for many it was a case of too little, too late. Siddiq Bakkar pushed a trolley on Godhra railway station when he was picked up and jailed. He was acquitted of all charges six years later, but by then, his life had changed. His 18-year-old son gave up his computer studies to do manual labour in the area.

Siddiq has got his freedom. 31 others, however, were convicted by the lower court, awaiting appeal in higher courts under stringent non-bailable anti-terror laws. Naseem Medha’s husband Siraj is facing the death sentence. Raising four children, she insists her husband is innocent, but doesn’t have the resources to fight a long, legal battle. Her ten-year-old son Amir was born in 2002, months after the train burning.

Most accounts of that day have maintained that the train burning was preceded by stone-pelting and scuffles between the Kar Sevaks and the local mobs from Signal Falia. Whether the fire was a pre-planned conspiracy or an accident has never been fully established and remains the subject of some dispute. Whatever caused the fire in the S6 coach, Signal Falia and its residents have been tarred with the brush of terror for life.

In the gritty by-lanes of Signal Falia, the signs of an uncared neighbourhood abound. Overflowing gutters and litters everywhere. A number of the young here are unemployed. No one, they say, will give you a job if Signal Falia is your address. The anger and discontent at being edged out of Gujarat’s growth story is palpable.

The only time the young of Signal Falia break out into a smile is when they talk cricket.

Signal Falia’s alienation can be contrasted with the hustle and bustle in the rest of Godhra. A communally sensitive town, Godhra has always had an unofficial border that separates Hindu areas from Muslim mohallas. But after a decade of peace, most traders we meet insist that business is breaking religious boundaries. Godhra too wants to be on the growth engine with a new Ram-Rahim model of business seen as the way forward.

But is it really possible for Godhra to bury its past when one part of the town still feels targeted and neglected after 2002? It’s a question I pose to the BJP’s Rajesh Chauhan, the president of the Godhra municipal council. “People want to forget,” he says, “including the Muslims.”

But forgetting February 27 is easier said than done for those who really suffered. I am now in Ahmedabad, the city of my birth, where I have many happy memories. My adult memories though were shaped by what I saw on Feb 28th and the days that followed. Ten years later, I am back to revisit the very places that were torn apart by communal violence.

In Ahmedabad, I meet up with the families of those who died in the train burning. In the Vastral suburb, we meet Prafulla Behn Soni who lost her husband Mansukh Bhai and son Jassal in the S6 fire. Aged and alone, the tears flow easily.

At Ahmedabad’s Rabari colony, we meet Janak Panchal, who lost his cousin Shailesh and Vilas Jadhav, who lost his father Sadashiv. They are more direct: they can neither forgive nor forget.

In the narrow streets of Shahpur’s Nagorichowk in the walled city of Ahmedabad, neighbours turned against neighbours. Small incidents of rioting were not unknown in this congested area where Hindus and Muslims live cheek by jowl. But Feb 28th was very different in its scale and intensity.

Ten years later, there is calm on the surface. But the urban buzz here can be deceptive. The police presence is a constant reminder of the area being a tinderbox. The home of Abdul Hamid, who has a small neon sign business, was destroyed by his neighbours. Today he’s rebuilt his home, but the fear factor hasn’t left him.

So why doesn’t he leave Nagorichowk? “Where else can we go? We don’t have money to go anywhere else,” he says.

On the other side of the road, where the Hindu wagri community lives, the response is equally sharp. Bharat Bhai Dantani still says it’s the others who start the violence.

A home rebuilt on one side of the road barely a few metres away from their Hindu neighbours. Divided by religion but still sharing the same physical space. The one thing that unites Hindu and Muslim in Shahpur is the desperate lack of basic facilities.

But even Shahpur’s overflowing toilets appear tolerable when compared with what we witness in the resettlement colonies on the outskirts of the city. These colonies came up to house the poorer Muslim families who had run away from the riot hit areas. One such colony, Citizen Nagar, has been created bang next to Ahmedabad’s largest garbage dump. Large families crowded into small tenements, the living conditions are sub-human.

Nadeem Saiyad, a carpenter, talks of the lack of facilities. “We survived being killed during the riots; now we are subject to the slow poison (of the garbage dump),” he says.

The womenfolk of Citizen Nagar are even more forthright in telling us how they feel like second class citizens, erased from the imagery of a Vibrant Gujarat.

Citizen Nagar has almost fallen off the map. Not so Naroda Patiya, an Ahmedabad suburb and scene of the worst massacre of 2002. 95 people lost their lives in the violence here, many of them killed by locals who they knew well. The killers still live in the immediate vicinity, but that has not stopped the likes of Shakila Bano from returning to their homes. Shakila, a seamstress, lost eight members of her family in the violence, including her mother and brother. Today, she is a key witness in the Naroda Patiya case, determined to bring the killers to justice.

The biggest impediment to getting justice for riot victims like Shakila, says Abdul Shamshad, a young activist lawyer, is the lack of faith in the police. Post-2002, Gujarat’s police force stands totally discredited in the eyes of the minorities. “All those arrested in POTA were Muslims, be it encounter killings or other cases. There is no faith in the police,” says Shamshad.

Many of the accused in cases like Naroda Patiya are Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists. Today, the VHP office in central Ahmedabad wears a deserted look, its leadership marginalized by its own BJP government. But the VHP’s office bearers still espouse the action-reaction theory to justify the 2002 violence.

Ashwin Patel, general secretary of the VHP in north Gujarat, says, “The violence (of 2002) was the reaction of the Hindus, not just the VHP.”

But beyond the trauma and antagonisms of riot-scarred areas like Naroda Patiya, there is another Gujarat – a new Ahmedabad, geographically divided with very few mixed neighbourhoods, but economically upwardly mobile. For the new generation of Amdavadis, the scent of economic opportunities has meant that they don’t want to look back at the past with anger but fast forward to the future with hope.

I meet up with the young professionals of a knowledge process outsourcing company. Their upbeat mood symbolizes the mindset of a state in economic overdrive. They don’t want to think of the past, they just want to move ahead. They see Modi as a role model. One of them says even Hitler was targeted. They also admit there are two Ahmedabads, but that they only want rapid growth.

In Vadodara too, one finds unmistakable signs of ambition, this time on the cricket field. The Baroda Sports Club has thrown up the Pathan brothers, Irfan and Yusuf, sons of the muezzin at the local mosque, who’ve become household names in the last decade. Their coach Mehendi Sheikh is still working overtime to create the next generation of the Pathans.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the man who has dominated Gujarat’s skyline over the last decade. The Modi government’s latest buzzword is sadbhavana or harmony. But is sadbhavana anything more than just a clever slogan or simply an attempt at an image makeover by a clever chief minister in an election year?

Meet Zakir Sacha, a former government employee, who shared a platform with the chief minister during Modi’s high profile sadbhavana yatra. He was one of the few Muslims to publicly endorse Modi. What made him do it?

To understand what Modi needs to really do to win Muslim hearts and minds I meet Dr J S Bandukwala, a retired professor from Vadodra’s MS University. Dr Bandukwala’s house was destroyed in the riots. Today, he has a message for the Chief Minister.

Conflicting views, contrasting emotions – how does one reconcile them? What would Gandhi have done is a question I have often asked in the last ten years. It’s a question I pose to Chunibhai Vaidya – at 95, possibly the oldest living Gandhian at the famous Sabarmati Ashram.

Question: what would Gandhi have done about 2002?

Vaidya: If he were to come, there would have been no 2002.

Question: How would he have brought reconciliation?

Vaidya: He would have looked beyond religious identity and spoken of universalism.

In quest of an answer to what sadbhavana would really involve, I also invited Dara and Rupa Mody, a Parsi couple, to the Sabarmati Ashram. The Modys lost their teenage son Azhar in the Gulberg Society massacre. His body has not been found and their tragedy was even the subject of a Hindi film, ‘Parzania’. Over the last decade, I have kept going back to them, if only to share their grief.

Ask them about sadbhavana and they speak of how Modi has never ever met them, and how sadbhavana has no meaning for those who lost it all.

In the tears of the Modys, I feel I have found an answer to my quest for reconciliation in post-2002 Gujarat. Wiping the tear from every eye, be they the tears of a Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Parsi. Where a human being reaches out to fellow human beings – surely, that is the true meaning of sadhbhavna. Surely, that is the true message of Gandhi and of God. It’s a message of compassion which a new Gujarat and its leadership need to imbibe.

–Source: IBNLIVE

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every word written by auther is fact.anyone has any objection can legally challenge.

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He writes only about “Muslims” and his ummah. He says that’s his job at HT. nothing wrong with that but he does have this unhealthy attitude of looking at everything through some distorted Islamic prism. He exhibits attitudes which can only be found in people who belong to cults. For example, not one word from him about the various terror attacks linked to his ummah other than talk trash about the governments which are doing something against the Islamists like the Americans.

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Where is you logic when Muslims of Godhra pre planned the mass murder of Hindus. Stop your nasty ideology and think what your forefathers use to believe in.

there was no mascare,bogey was torched by brhmnst of vhp who hate shudras and women more than muslims.bogey was reserve all reserve passangers are alive.bogey was locked by railway.how they entered is mystery.

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Saving Face directed by Pakistani investigative documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge, received the prestigious Academy Award in the category: Best Documentary (Short) at the 84th Annual Academy Awards®. Here is the acceptance speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rvRi6skW-M&feature=youtu.be

The category of Best Documentary (Short) was presented by Rose Byrne & Melissa McCarthy to Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge. This marks both Sharmeen and Daniel’s first ever Oscar award and was also the first Oscar to be awarded to a Pakistani in the history of the Academy Awards. Upon receiving the award, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy thanked the Heroes of Pakistan , The Academy, her colleagues, cast and crew, fellow nominees, parents, friends and family and said “I am deeply humbled and blown away by the outpouring of support and well wishes that I have received. It is an indescribable feeling and is a dream come true! This is for all the budding filmmakers who think that their work will not be appreciated or recognized; if I can do it, so can you. Today, Pakistan was in the news for all the right reasons and I am thrilled

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The Gujarat Experiment have established certain laws:
To kill Muslims at a large scale, the BJP must be in power at all levels, starting from the district to Delhi.
The Police must back-up and kill Muslims wherever it can.
Later on, the civil administration must do all that it can to wipe clean evidence against prominent personalities who are culpable for the riots.
The judicial system must move very slowly indeed, if at all some FIRs are registered and the cases are put up to the courts.
Any medical help and insurance or governmental aid should be delayed or even refused.
The vanquished widows, orphans and others must be denied entry into their villages and homes – that would yield precious real estate to the victors.
However, what should be done to those who are still languishing in shelters and camps – thats still being worked out and would be known after the next elections.

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sumit bose the following is true history of bengal,

THE MENACE OF HINDU FASCISM
Dr. W.C. Deb
Eminent Hindu leader of Bengal
Says the three “eminent” Congress leaders — Lal, Bal, Pal — engineered partition of India. Hindu terrorist Savarkar’s call to “Hinduise politics and militarise Hinduism” inflicted so much violence on Muslims.
Calcutta University was a Hindu fortress. Most Hindus in every village were richer than the richest Muslim. Not a single Muslim had cultivable land in my village. In the 80s, Hindu communalism transformed into Hindu fascism.
It was the Muslim invaders who gave us the name “Hindu”. Savarkar formulated the “two-nation theory” much before Jinnah. The worst anti-Muslim culprit was Bankim Chandra Chatterji, a Bengali Brahmin, the author of Vande Mataram. Muslims never observed untouchability. That is how Dalits opted for Islam in a big way and got liberated.
Muslim rulers Indianised themselves. Dalits fought Brahmins and when defeated embraced Budhism and fought them again after becoming Muslims. Bengali Muslims are mostly Dalit converts. Even Swami Vivekananda said “Islam was a great blessing and liberated the oppressed”. Upper castes partitioned Bengal. Gandhi was a cunning fox” and “a Hindu revivalist”.
“Babri Masjid” was a Hindu conspiracy.
Muslims are too poor to be polygamous but Bengali Brahmins were polygamous.
Though an upper caste Hindu (Kayasth), Deb is very critical of Gandhi, Nehru, and all the Bengali upper castes. On the Babri Masjid, he says it was a Brahmin-instigated conspiracy as old as 1885. He quotes L.K. Advani, the villain who demolished the Masjid: “The Congress wanted the demolition and they had it done by us”.

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Hehe. That is your basic problem – thinking that this random statistic of “75%” represents the Indians in the country.

And if you think prosperity can compensate for justice, I am sorry, but you are badly mistaken. You just cannot see that as computer literate ToI commenting citizens, you are one of the privilege class of citizens who is getting all the prosperity.

You don’t care if the 24×7 uninterrupted supply of electricity that you get in this advanced and prosperous state of yours, comes at the expense of drowning out the livelihoods or poisoning the bodies of lesser privileged countrymen.

You don’t care if the peace you see around is got by illegally killing of your own state people by the police. You don’t care if the “astonishing development” of industries have happened by pawning off land as low prices from poor vilagers and given at a pittance to large industrial conglomerates like Adanis.

As long as you selfishly keep defending your personal prosperity and the sham peace nobody can save you. You don’t deserve the democracy you think you have got.

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I don’t care much about their lies either. But just as they seem to have already been found guilty, as you say, you also seemed to have already reached the conclusion that Modi has not done anything wrong ever, without having a fraction of the data these activists have actually got by being there in person at the affected places. You are merely sitting in comfort of your home, spouting out all your biases, without doing a fraction of the work these people have done.

But I don’t blame you. All use armchair opinionists are guilty of the same thing.

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Godhra pre planned the mass murder of Hindus

can u give me the list o those died.or what compensation they got.

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ur abuses will not change the truth.killer modi is hindu harday samrat,why.

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Quoting what happens to Hindus in Pakistan is to expose the hypocrisy of Islamists. They want special priviledges when they are in a minority but wouldn’t even treat nonmuslims as even equals or even let them alone (murders, forced conversions,rapes)when they are in a majority like in Kashmir or Pakistan or just take your pick of any Islamic country. When someone is talking about gujrat and they talk only about Muslims being killed and ignore Indians being killed there, they are obviosly indulging in propaganda. If you are singing that same tune, you are a traitor and an Islamist too. Cultism where the center of gravity of the cult is not inside India but in some other place is a danger to this county since that cultism will manifest itself in communal and traitorous ways.

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The arab cult has historically seen humane behaviour as a human weakness. So what you are suggesting is to turn the other cheek like Jesus supposedly said to the Arab cultists. You are suicidal if you are really a “abhinav sharma” or deceitful if you are practicing taqiyya here.

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aaloke and bose,

If the rulers are genuinely interested in the well-being of its own population will it divert such huge funds for border defence?
Aryan rulers hate Bahujans and to punish them they play such war games.
The only thing that guides and directs the Indian upper caste rulers is hate. They hate the over 85% oppressed, starving Indians and that is why to keep them permanently under slavery they are not solving the border disputes.
In other words there is no chance of a border settlement with China.
WANTED MORE BOMBS
The Hindu rulers have just pushed through a nuclear deal with US which the observers see as a sign of America trying to use India against China. India became a nuclear power to fight Pakistan. Now it wants more bombs and more powerful ones to face the super power China. That means more money will be diverted to buy bombs.
BRAHMINISTS GAIN IN EVERY WAR
Look at the American hypocrisy. It is against Iran going nuclear but it is giving all-out help to further enhance the capabilities of the already nuclear power (India).
The hate-mongering Jews, after enslaving the White Western Christians, forced the West to attack Islam. Iraq and Afghanistan are pounded. But the West did not win — rather defeated. Their next target is said to be China for which they are using India’s Brahminical rulers.
Having been once defeated, is it ready to face China, now a super power? The Aryan rulers are not bothered.
If there is a war with China or Pakistan those who die in battlefield are our people. The money meant for us will be spent. Both ways the Brahminists stand to gain.
China is fully aware of all these developments and that is why it has encircled the whole of India. All the countries surrounding India have become closest allies of China after Hindu rulers quarrelled with every neighbour.
ITCHING FOR ANOTHER WAR WITH PAKISTAN
Pakistan and “Hindu India” had several wars and Indian rulers are itching for another war. “Hate Muslim” campaign is at its height in India.
Brahminical terrorism led by the Abhinav Bharat is preparing the ground with Israeli funds and weapons.
But China has assured full support. It has become Pakistan’s biggest supplier of defence hardware and fighter planes and guided missiles. And even bomb.
As long as Brahminical rulers continue to hold India’s neck, the Bahujans will be kept at starvation level with war and violence against neighbours always exploding on our face.
But when will the Bahujans wake up? When will they understand the Brahminist game to keep us enslaved? No answer

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aaloke and bose and all other this is what vivekanand says about islam,

स्वामी विवेकानंद के शब्दो में

स्वामी विवेकानंद (विश्व-विख्यात धर्मविद्)

‘‘…मुहम्मद (इन्सानी) बराबरी, इन्सानी भाईचारे और तमाम मुसलमानों के भाईचारे के पैग़म्बर थे। …जैसे ही कोई व्यक्ति इस्लाम स्वीकार करता है पूरा इस्लाम बिना किसी भेदभाव के उसका खुली बाहों से स्वागत करता है, जबकि कोई दूसरा धर्म ऐसा नहीं करता। …हमारा अनुभव है कि यदि किसी धर्म के अनुयायियों ने इस (इन्सानी) बराबरी को दिन-प्रतिदिन के जीवन में व्यावहारिक स्तर पर बरता है तो वे इस्लाम और सिर्फ़ इस्लाम के अनुयायी हैं। …मुहम्मद ने अपने जीवन-आचरण से यह बात सिद्ध कर दी कि मुसलमानों में भरपूर बराबरी और भाईचारा है। यहाँ वर्ण, नस्ल, रंग या लिंग (के भेद) का कोई प्रश्न ही नहीं। …इसलिए हमारा पक्का विश्वास है कि व्यावहारिक इस्लाम की मदद लिए बिना वेदांती सिद्धांत—चाहे वे कितने ही उत्तम और अद्भुत हों—विशाल मानव-जाति के लिए मूल्यहीन (वॅल्यूलेस) हैं…।’’—‘टीचिंग्स ऑफ विवेकानंद, पृष्ठ-214, 215, 217, 218)अद्वैत आश्रम, कोलकाता-2004
स्नेह और सहिष्णुता के प्रचारक स्वामी विवेकानन्द कहते हैं ‘‘पैग़म्बर मुहम्मद सल्लल्लाहु अ़लैहि वसल्लम संसार मे समानता के संदेशवाहक थे। वे मानवजाति में स्नेह और सहिष्णुता के प्रचारक थे। उनके धर्म में जाति-बिरादरी, समूह, नस्ल आदि का कोई स्थान नहीं है।’’
स्वामी विवेकानन्द इस्लाम के बड़े प्रशंसक और इसके भाईचारा के सिद्धांत से अभिभूत थे। वेदान्ती मस्तिष्क और इस्लामी शरीर को वह भारत की मुक्ति का मार्ग मानते थे। अल्मोड़ा से दिनांक 10 जून 1898 को अपने एक मित्र नैनीताल के मुहम्मद सरफ़राज़ हुसैन को भेजे पत्र में उन्���ोंने लिखा ��ि
‘‘���पने अनुभव से हमने यह जाना है कि व्यावहारि��� दैनिक जीवन के स्तर पर यदि किसी धर्म के अनुयायियों ने समानता के सिद्धांत को प्रशंसनीय मात्र में अपनाया है तो वह केवल इस्लाम है। इस्लाम समस्त मनुष्य जाति को एक समान देखता और बर्ताव करता है। यही अद्वैत है। इसलिए हमारा यह विश्वास है कि व्यावहारिक इस्लाम की सहायता के बिना, अद्वैत का सिद्धांत चाहे वह कितना ही उत्तम और चमत्कारी हो विशाल मानव-समाज के लए बिल्कुल अर्थहीन है।’’विवेकानन्द साहित्य, जिल्द 5, पेज 415
स्वामी जी ने स्पष्ट शब्दों में कहा है कि
‘‘भारत में इस्लाम की ओर धर्म परिवर्तन तलवार (बल प्रयोग) या धोखाधड़ी या भौतिक साधन देकर नहीं हुआ था।’’विवेकानन्द साहित्य, जिल्द 8, पेज 330

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aaloke and bose,

dont forget that brhmnsm(hinduism)is the only religion where man is born unequal.so every hindu hate&cheat other.this is the root of our poverty.

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