Pranab will be assertive, not adversarial

Mr Mukherjee will make an excellant President.

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Let us hope Mukherjee will discard Mataji and Betaji after 2014 elections if they try to patch up a coalition with 2MP and 5 MP parties.

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Just returned from a three week trip to USA. US newspapers widely covered the Indian presidential consensus (or lack of it), the deceleration of economy, the increase in inflation etc. India’s declining growth was covered on most of the national TV channels too.

Also watched several “news maker” interviews where prominent members of US Congress wanted US to have close partnership with India.

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Vinod Sharma

Pranab will be a good President, possible not as good as Abdul Kalam who is revered by all.

The Congress has to atone for its sins of getting such rotten eggs like Pratibah Patil and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. For this reason alone it should have got in Kalam.

Pranab was rather pedestrian as Finanace Minister in 1981 and 1982. His nonperformance was nothing to write about , even now. He is there, is visible and is generally polite and affable.

Not a genius… but definately better than duffers like Patil SOnia probably needs him to guide Rahul’s elevation to the chair.

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In 1982, the Institute of CA’s organised a lecture on Pranab’s budget analysed by nani Palkhivalla, in which Palkhivalla tore into what Pranab’s half hearted proposals.

The RBI governer then was Manmohan Singh.

Pranabda could never swallow that his junior was his boss now.

And I think with his pedestrian budgets and the retrospecitve tax propsals have been his revenge on MMS and Indian economy

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Why is BJP now pushing Sangma? Unless they see some benefits in 2014 from NE states, it does not make any sense to put him against Pranab.

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which is why most of the time he used to spend in his office.

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Bipin Ji – तुसी महान हो

You have inspired me to adapt the following from a great lyric. I hope you do not mind my response in this way. It is not my intention to fire my gun while resting it on your shoulders, but it is to scumb to an urge inside me, whilst keeping my promise to myself.

After reading your above post शिन शिनाकी बबला बू is heard singing.

गर्जत बरसत धप्ड खायो रे,
लायो रे संग में, हमरे शरमवा
विजय का करूँ हाय, गर्जत बरसत धप्ड खायो रे

रिमझिम-रिमझिम तेवर बरसे
अभी तो विनय की छाप मिटत नाहीं
एक और लगत है तिलक समान ….तिलक समान
गर्जत बरसत धप्ड खायो रे

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Beautifull Ravi, naya roop, sarpanaka ko mubarak

Welcome back from Tora Bora, Ravi

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vijay-
What else? He is sent to spread the hate message. His buddy RamAvtar has gone for intensive training.

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folks had a wonderful time in Milano. If you want me to talk about the trip then i am happy to that , but not until i am asked to. else it looks self flagellation.
As for Pranab , HE SINGLE HANDEDLY SNOOTHED THE PATH FOR THE RISE OF AMBANIS, IN TURN AMBANIS FILLED THE COFFERS OF CONGRESS PARTY.watch GURU again.
Before criticising Pranab on his current tenure BE CAREFUL , you are criticising Prof Kaushik Basu ,Prof in Economics at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
His HANDS WERE TIED BY THE CPM IN SARI, unlike MMS who had a free rein

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Pranab assertive? The author of this article is gullible to the extreme. Congress has denigrated the post of the Presidency. It is now the home of the incompetent and the servile.

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An interesting article in NY times about the rise of the ‘different”. How India, china etc growth is different from the post WorldWarII countries, and the danger to USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/opinion/rise-of-the-different.html?smid=p

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Rajya Sabha seat is not too far for you From congress. You have defended Congress well on all TV channel.

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r u kidding me? he is the most incompetent and useless FM in recent memory…he should be canned not given the honor of being India’s first person

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Vinod Sharma writes ‘ I write without prejudice or bias’. Really! He is a diehard Congressman and known BJP baiter. See his using the word saffron.

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Nothing much is expected of you since you are a branded congressman,writing for congress,a paid character. Not worth reading your biased views .

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There is a misconception about Kalam. By any stretch of imagination, he
was not a scientist. He was manager of engineers for a missile programme.
No doubt he was successful. Scientists do scientific research, and publish
their findings in repute scientific journals and give lectures on their findings.
Kalam was far from being a scientist. No scientific forum ever invited him to
deliver lectures on his ‘’scientific research” or nobody is aware of any
significant “publications” by Kalam. Somehow, the politians and the media
started projecting him as a scientist, and everybody assumed that was true
and went along. It is sad that we don’t have a culture of questioning people’s
credentials. We just like go along with propaganda.

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Good morning friends.Back from China early thus morning.

Pranab Mukherji after being nominated for president said ‘ Mera khada hona
bahut mushkil tha, yeh to Sonia ke haath ka kamaal hai’.

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He messed up the economy completely. He is good riddance to Rashtrapati Bhavan where he will not be able to do much harm.

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~~~ WHY PRANAB VACATING THE FM MAY BE GOOD FOR INDIA ~~~~~
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Let us all face the truth, once a while. That Pranab Mukherji is hardly the Aishwariya Rai of Finance. He does not create any excitement… but has ended up doing more of the 80’s socialist thing.

Gopi and Vinoo went back to 1980’s to dig out Prnab’s inspid finace ideas. I will talk about now.

If I go to a resturaunt in India or in a hotel– my taxes add up almost more than the bill. Every thing is taxed. Our hotel rooms in big cities are now more expensive than US and China. While working so many more taxes have been added that it is now a byzantine problem.

Pranab could only think of taxing more…. rather than creating conditions for more investment.

He even unleashed the retrospective tax, which led to all of India’s present problems.

He was clearly biased in doling favours to UPA states and using people’s money to bolster the COngress chances. Put the taxed money into a Nehru family named scheme and proclaim that BabyG and Mummy G have done charity.

Then stop funding of central projects in NDA states… especially Gujarat.
yes a boring boring COngress FM who deserves a goodbye.

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Even NDTV feels that Pranab will be used to tweak teh 2014 elections to get Baby G on the hot seat!!
Very surprising that NDTV has ;eaked the truht all of us here knew!
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New Delhi: By all accounts, Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi does not trust the man she nominated on Friday to become the next president of India, Pranab Mukherjee. But with her party facing tough elections due by 2014 he may be her ace in the hole. (Your choice for President? Vote here)

Until now, India’s president has been viewed as a ceremonial head of state. But with the next elections widely expected to produce a fragmented parliament with no clear winner, Mr Mukherjee, a loyal Congress man, will play a key role in deciding which party takes the lead in forming a new government.

Perhaps more importantly, Mr Mukherjee, 76, now finance minister, could help the Gandhi family keep its grip on power. Mrs Gandhi’s son, Rahul, is a leading contender to become prime minister in any new Congress-led coalition. As president, Mr Mukherjee would have a say in who gets that job.

Mr Mukherjee was nominated by the Congress party in the face of opposition from a key ally within the ruling coalition. The party, however, won support from other coalition partners for its choice and appeared confident that Mr Mukherjee would win the electoral college vote on July 19.

Analysts say Mr Mukherjee could play an influential role in steering the country through potentially one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern Indian history.

With neither of the two main parties — Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party — expected to win convincing majorities in 2014, a fragile coalition that includes several regional parties could emerge to claim power.

In that scenario, Mr Mukherjee, famed for his political acumen, could as president exercise more authority, taking advantage of a vaguely worded constitution.

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What is the difference between men’s cricket and women’s cricket?

In men’s cricket there is short leg between two long legs and in women’s cricket
there is deep gully in between two fine legs.

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A must read – a very detailed analysis

Politics after President Pranab

Siddharth Varadarajan

The ease with which the Congress finally had its way on the presidency does not take away from the tough times that lie ahead

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3543968.ece?homepage=true

Excerpts

In getting Mulayam Singh to back Pranab Mukherjee for the post of
President, Sonia Gandhi may have managed to undo the unconvincing but
significant partnership that Mamata Banerjee stitched together with the
Samajwadi Party. Yet the tactical victory the Congress has snatched will
do little to alter the political trendline that is — as things stand
today — taking the party inexorably towards defeat in 2014.

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But the Trinamool Congress leader — and others who aspire to rule this
country — might well have the last laugh if the UPA reverts to
business-as-usual: the underlying dynamics at play in national politics
remain fundamentally unchanged and the outlook does not favour the
Congress. Not by a long shot.

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Second, there will be no early elections. Neither the Samajwadi Party,
which will likely support the UPA on all major issues, nor the Trinamool
— which will continue to blow hot and cold and perhaps even quit the
UPA — can or will precipitate the collapse of this government. In any
case, the Trinamool by itself can do nothing. As for the SP, the
priority is to consolidate the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar
Pradesh, which requires a workmanlike, if not close, relationship with
the Centre.

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Seventh, the BJP will continue to face a crisis of national leadership
with top brass remaining at daggers drawn. If the party gets re-elected
in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and wrests Rajasthan from the
Congress, this will open the door for it to select one of its successful
Chief Ministers as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014
general election.

Eighth, Narendra Modi will not be one of those leaders. Whatever his
administrative acumen may be, the taint of the 2002 pogrom will not be
erased and the Gujarat Chief Minister will remain unacceptable outside
his State both to the electorate at large and to parties like the Janata
Dal (United), which will be a key constituent of any National
Democratic Alliance government. Among its other State-level leaders,
therefore, the BJP could seek to project at the national level Shivraj
Chauhan or Vasundhara Raje.

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~~~ ART NEWS FROM THE HINDUSTAN TIMES ~~~~ ~!! ~~~
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Art forms are surely evolving and so is the HIndustan Times. Here is a a new art form which our favourite paper has highlighted with a video

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SHOCKER: Thai woman paints with boobs Agencies

New Delhi, June 19, 2012First Published: 12:14 IST(19/6/2012)
Last Updated: 13:34 IST(19/6/2012)share share on facebookshare on linkedinshare on googleshare on emailmore…1 Comment email printWoman paints with boobs on Thai version of Britain’s Got Talent.We have seen people using their hands and even legs to paint, but a Thai woman stunned everyone when she decided to use her breasts as brush on Thai version of Britain’s Got Talent.

“The 23-year-old smeared herself in paint before gyrating against a canvas to dance to music. Judges appeared shocked while the hosts turned away,” reports The Sun.

As expected, the two male judges gave thumbs up while the female judge turned her down. Anyway she got passed that round with two votes in her favour.

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Mr Vinod Sharma while writing this post appears to be echoing the sentiments of 10 Janpath and does not appear to be too thrilled with Pranab Mukerjea’s selection as the UPA candidate.He has even mentioned how he may cooperated with the NDA in the past. His feelings are similar to that of Sonia Gandhi, who was outwitted by Pranab in getting himself nominated much to her discomfiture .
The BJP and the NDA are not too unhappy with Pranab’s candidature. Election of Pranab is I think a foregone conclusion . But what they are attempting to do with an alternate candidate, is to start a political dialogue and cooeperation with parties like BJD , TMC, AIADMK . None of these parties have any problems with Narendra Modi. If it happens it will only strengthen BJP’s position and also that of the NDA.
I think whereas the Congress party and the media too may be comlimenting Sonia Gandhi and outwardly they may be celeberating , but in fact they may actually be lamenting this development.
The political developments are more about the formation of tyhe next government and less abpout the next President of India.

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Many people do not realise this that Pronob Mukherjee is being kicked out of the cabinet because US considers Pronobda has ruined Indian economy during his tenure as a finance minister .The Ministry will be taken over by Dr Manmohan Singh. MM was not handling anything except being a dummy prime minister. US has realised its folly and want MM to take chrage of the finance ministry. ministry.
Goodbye Pronobda have a nice sleep as president.

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Parents adopt new methods to kill baby girls

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Parents-adopt-new-methods-to-kill-baby-girls/articleshow/14219200.cms

When a baby girl is born in any home, normally the first words spoken are
Hamare ghar mein Laxmi aayi hai.

Here tragically and without any remorse we are killing our Laxmis.

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Reforms coming soon- Dr Kausik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser to GOI

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/basu-says-crucial-reforms-coming-soon/

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President’s foreign trips boosted trade ties: Industry

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Presidents-foreign-trips-boosted-trade-ties-Industry/articleshow/14246523.cms

Excerpt

Industry chambers — Assocham, CII and Ficci
today presented a booklet titled ‘Engaging the World’ to Patil this
morning. The booklet is a compendium on business delegations taken by
the President during her State visits.

The booklet said that
during her visits, issues of concern to Indian industry were raised,
MoUs were signed and trade and investment prospects of Indian industry
were addressed.

“The impact of these state visits has been
multi-pronged. New vistas have been opened for Indian businesses … ,”
Ficci Secretary General Rajiv Kumar said in a message in the booklet.

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What would life be without a game of tennis….

C U guys as I rush to floodlit courts….

Just lobbing the ball high my choice of Possible GOOD PM’s for 2014

Take any order

a) Jaswant Singh

b) Nitish Kumar

c) JayaLalita

d) Modi

e) Jaitley

f) Chidambaram

g) Manmohan SIngh (with Digiviansh and baby G in locker)

h) Jairam ramesh
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The Possible bad ones

a) Baby G

b) Sonia G

c) Mulayam SIngh

d) Lalu

e) Mayawati

f) Robert G
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Quite possibly the the Next PM will be from this list !

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I came across this and found it too funny to not to pass it on.

The following speech was given by 6th grader Sophie Paterson at the Central

Hawke’s Bay Primary Schools Rotary speech competition in New Zealand.

Hi, today I am going to talk to you about farts.

Some people
think farts are rude and some people think farts are funny, like
me.

I think farts are hilarious.

Farting is a fact of life.
Everybody farts. The Queen farts, superstars ****
and I ****. We will ****
until the day we die.

And apparently a person can still **** after
death!!

Do you know why we ****?

Flatulence, wind or farts,
whatever you like to call them, is the production
of the mixture of gases in
the digestive tract, that are by products of the
digestive process.

The average person farts about 14 times a day, which produces about half
a
litre of **** gas.(Personally, I think I **** more than 14 times a day).

Farts are made up of the following: Nitrogen, the main ingredient making
up
59 percent; next behind is hydrogen at 21 percent; 9 percent carbon
dioxide;
7 percent methane, 3 percent oxygen and 1 percent other stuff.

But listen to this – hydrogen sulphide is the compound that makes them

stink!

Here are the top 10 farter’s:

1. Termites
2.
Camels
3. Zebras and my pony Free
4. Sheep
5. Cows
6. Elephants

7. Labradors and retrievers
8. Humans (vegetarians)
9. Humans
(non-vegetarians)
10. Gerbils (also known as the
desert rat)

If
If you are going to ****, do not sit by flames, because farts are very

flammable.

Also, they can come motoring out of your body at 10 kmh.

No wonder some of you have holes in your undies!

Please do not
panic if you find yourself trapped in a small space like a
closet, as it is
impossible to suffocate in your own farts. Unless Ben (my
little brother) is
in there with you!

Anyway next time you ****, don’t think it’s rude.
Just know that
everybottie, oops, I mean, everybody, farts.

Thank
you for listening to my fartastic speech.

Here’s a little poem that I’d
like to share with you.
A trump is a violent explosion
It comes from the
Valley of Bum
It rolls up and down your trouser leg
And comes out with a
violent hum!

There was a young fellow called Steve
Who farted
whenever he pleased
With buttocks a-thunder
He forced gas asunder

And blew all the leaves off the trees!

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It was quite heartening to see the admiration and respect for
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam coming from all regions of the country, from all groups.
Adulation for a teacher, respect for a Guru came through that :

“Gurur Brahmo Gurur Vishno Gurur Devo Maheshwara
Guru Sakshat para Brahma Tasmi Sri Guruve nama:”

The eternal India lives on – among sleeze, dirt..
You feel good once a while – that all is not lost.

(although a Muslim political party MMKK in TN accused Karunanidhi for Quran blasphemy because he said Kalam brings Kalagam – chaos. These guys were after him to apologize because he blasphemesized a Quran character kalam!)

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Why Nationals Fail ?
http://www.deeshaa.org/2012/06/15/why-nations-fail/

A very long article, though the author has repeated himself few times but overall an interesting write up.

A small excerpt.

There are major differences in the cases of India and the US, though they
were both British colonies at some time. The Americans won their freedom by
defeating the British, and decided that they will not ever be subjects of a
king. They gave themselves a new set of rules, and were not interested in
reusing or recycling British rules. They wrote an absolutely brilliant
constitution which gave the people power over their government. It is short
enough for one to read over a lazy cup of coffee, and most Americans have read
it in high school.
The American constitution spelled out what the government could and could not
do. The constitution severely limits the power of the government, and prudently
distributes it across three institutions—the legislative, the executive, and the
judiciary. The people are the masters and the government that they elect does
what the people allow them to do. In India’s case, the government is the master
and the people exist to serve it. The Indian constitution is a set of
prescriptions and prohibitions limiting the freedom of the people.

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Things you wanted to know about Rajnikant, but were afraid to ask.

1) When Rajnikant was a Student,
Teachers used to Bunk the classes!!!

2) Rajnikant started a college.
All student were confused while taking admission because name of the college was:

“Rajnikant’s Medical College of Engineering for Arts & Commerce”!

3) Rajnikant purchased a road roller… Guess why?
To Iron his Clothes. mind it!

4) Once a farmer replaces scare crow in the farm with Rajnikant’s statue…
And the Birds returned the grains they took last year as well!

5) If Rajni works in BPO, clients would work in shifts!

6) Rajinikant got 150 questions in exam paper asking – “Solve any 100 questions” He solved all 150 and wrote, ” Rascalla!, CHECK ANY 100!”

7) One day Rajani thought to play cricket in monsoon and rain stopped due to play!
Tonight at 9 Rajani can be seen in the sky
He is participating in the Asian Games’ high jump event!

9) Rajnikanth’s next project is the Titanic in Tamil.
However, Rajni has changed the climax, a wee bit…….
Both the lead actors survive.
Rajni swims across the Atlantic Ocean with the heroine in one hand and
… the Titanic in the other

10) Rajnikanth doesn’t breathe…air comes to hide in his lungs”

11) “Who says the! world will be destroyed in Dec 2012
Rajnikant just bought a Laptop with three years warranty”

12) Rajni can walk faster than light….
“Rajni cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another”.

13) Once a photo of Rajnikant was given for Xerox.
Don’t even try to guess what happened….
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
We got two copies of the Xerox machine!

14) Once upon a time, Rajnikant used Tooth Powder to get strong teeth
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Today that powder is known as“AMBUJA CEMENT”

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Keep Mamata’s photo at home, it’ll bring you luck: Trinamool leader

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/keep-mamatas-photo-at-home-it-will-bring-you-luck-trinamool-leader/1/201435.html

Senior Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal food and supplies minister Jyotipriyo Mallick, who is known for his bizarre political pronouncements, once again dragged himself into controversy by asking his party activists not to look at CPM supporters as it will bring bad luck to them.

“You should never look at CPM activists as it will bring bad luck. If they are on left, turn right. If you are heading out for any work and see the face of any CPM worker you may end up getting crushed under the wheels,”

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Now, Mallick’s Talibanesque diktat has reached a crescendo as he has also urged his party members to carry a picture of Trinamool chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at home for good luck.

“Keep a picture of Mamata Banerjee at your home and look at it before going
out. One must make sure to look at the picture before going out of home,” the Trinamool leader said.

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So Who Wants To Do JEE-Huzoori?

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?281274

Brand IIT versus GoI. It’s only the latest battle in this summer of seemingly endless discontent. Union minister for human resource development Kapil Sibal continues his on-off battle to snap away at the heels of the IIT-combine in his quest to rewrite the statute books. Sibal’s goal of a single engineering
examination for the centres par excellence and all engineering colleges has caused consternation and heartburn. But, more importantly, it has led to plenty of confusion (and even fear) among the hundreds of thousands of students lining up to enter the portals of the country’s premier engineering institutes.

==

Dr Pritam Singh, former director of IIM-Lucknow and a prominent
management teacher, feels that globally, all leading institutions have followed a common thread without any impact on their own systems. Says he, Universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell have a common exam along with smaller colleges and universities. That has not eroded their brand value. The branding of an academic institution is not through an entrance examination but through the kind of intellectual capital it produces. The Brahminical arrogance of some institutions which consider themselves superior and others untouchable is not fair.”

==

Dr. Pritam Singh is bang on target.

These IIT-brahmins should also realise

1) The JEE exams is not the end in itself. All round development of child takes place in a proper school / institution and not in coaching classes and by appearing in one entrance exam.

2) Appearing for multiple exams is a financial burden (by way of examinations fees and perhaps travel to different centres) on (bright) students from not so well to do families.

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Two young women file plaint to annul their childhood marriages

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3547824.ece

Twenty-year-old Rekha Kumari, a resident of Peepar in Jodhpur district, has approached the Sub-Divisional Officer with a request to annul her marriage solemnised 15 years ago with a boy four years elder to her. She sought protection from the village panchayat members who, she said, were threatening her family.

According to police sources, the village panchayat threatened to expel her family from the locality and warned of heavy fines if she did not accept her childhood marriage and start living with the man, who incidentally is also threatening to abduct her.

Rekha, presently studying at the Government College in Peepar, was married off by her grandfather when she was only five years old. Her ‘gauna’ (shift to in-laws’ house) is yet to be performed.

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In another instance, 23-year-old Santara, a resident of Manpuria village
in Dausa district, has refused to go back to her husband’s home, saying
she was married in childhood when did not know anything about nuptial
relations. She has lodged a complaint with the police accusing her
community elders of pressurising her to live with the man.

==

Brave women indeed.

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Ravi;
Just go and read **** papers. no more kabbadi here.

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All;
I was just wondering, when I have all the world to go and blog, why I come here??
It is because, we have here, RAVI, MANOHAR, PATHAK G, AND FEW MORE. Where I will find such fruitful company,? No where. Having said this, I am happy that there are Shenoy, Vijay, Vinoo, Binoy, Gopi and countless others, who will say truth, whatever is the consequence.

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Beizati aur biwi badee ajeeb cheez hoti hai
Dono achi tab lagti hai jab doosron ki hoti hai.

Good morning friends.

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Violations of women’s rights must stop.
http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/violations-of-women-s-rights-must-stop-1.1037916

Men’s obsession with marrying younger women sometimes borders on paedophilia.
—
But, the world has moved on in the past 1,500 years. It is for that reason that we no longer cut off the hands of thieves. It is also why we no longer stone Muslim adulterers to death. It is indeed gratifying to learn that you can get married in the UAE if you are 18 years old. However, if you are less than that legal age, a judge will have to decide whether you are competent enough to wed and not leave the decision to your father or brother. The UAE seems, once again, to be way ahead of the rest of the Arab pack.
–
This article is published in news paper comming out of Dubai.

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Treachery now has a new name: Mulayam Yadav (He should voluntarily give up the surname Singh).

He has made sure, India doesn’t deserve Dr.Kalam.
India only deserves Pratibha Patil and hewr likes.

After jointly announcing the name of Kalam for president, Mulayam and Mamta went and met him and “persuaded” him to contest. Kalam agreed, because the last time, it was Mulayam himself who suggested his name.

After being arm-twisted by Sonia Gandhi’s very persuasive argument, “Anybody but Kalam”, Mulayam literally back-stabbed Kalam and gave his support to Pranab Mukharjee.

Not only that, he also spoke to Kalam and told him not to contest.

A very decent ex-president very decently agreed.

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Doctor to injured patient : Jab car ek lady chala rahi thi to tumko road se
durr chalna chaiye tha
Patient : Kaun sa road, mein to park me leta hua tha.

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People who wonder why nothing works in India or why progress is snail paced should read Mohan’s reference to “Why nations fail”

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Looks like an all out war is on the horizon and we would probably see realignment of political parties. Interesting days ahead.

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RSS supports Narendra Modi as PM, slams Nitish Kumar

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-supports-Narendra-Modi-as-PM-slams-Nitish-Kumar/articleshow/14293305.cms

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday supported Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as NDA’s prime ministerial candidate and slammed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for saying that NDA should have a secular PM nominee.

“To keep alive the Hindutva ideology, the Hindu ’samaaj’ (society)
should come together. And the country should have a prime minister who
believes in that ideology or propounds that view,” Bhagwat told
reporters.

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Nitish: Modi did not follow Raj Dharma during Gujarat riots

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Nitish-Modi-did-not-follow-Raj-Dharma-during-Gujarat-riots/Article1-875397.aspx

Tiwari said that few postpoll surveys had pointed out that had the
then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee “dismissed” the Narendra Modi
government after post-Godhra riots, the NDA would not have lost the 2004
general elections.

He said while Vajpayee had asked Modi to follow the ‘Raj Dharma’ and
wanted the government to go, the move was “vetoed” by BJP leaders like
LK Advani.

“People who voted for BJP due to liberal face of Vajpayee went away
from it after Gujarat riots and the floating votes went to Congress
because people do not accept fanatic politics,” he said.

“Those people in BJP who want the party to come to power will have to
realise that they cannot do it by putting a fanatic face in the front,”
Tiwari said in an apparent reference to Modi.

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Presidential poll: NDA defers meeting

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Presidential-poll-NDA-defers-meeting/articleshow/14293067.cms

With uncertainty over P A Sangma’s candidature for the presidential poll in the wake of NCP’s threat to sack him, BJP today decided to adopt a wait and watch attitude and deferred the NDA meeting.

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Strange that the BJP cannot find its own candidate – both Pranab Mukherjee and P A Sangma belong to the UPA side. First they tried to back a person who was not in the race to begin with. Now they are waiting for what happens to latter’s prospects – enough pressure is being put on him by Sharad Pawar. We will have to wait and see.

The BJP is hoping to bring JD(U) on board re Presidential elections, but with Nitish Kumar – vs – Narendra Modi battle in full swing, it is not likely that the JD(U) is going to fall in line. Shiv Sena has already made its stand clear in support of Pranab Mukherjee. Where does that leave the BJP?

As Swapan Dasgupta suggested that the BJP should not waste its gunpowder on the Presidential elections and save it for many more battles that will follow. To me it looks like, some leaders in the BJP have made it a prestige issue of putting/supporting a candidate never mind the consequences.

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India Today Editorial Director M.J.
Akbar on the politics behind Presidential polls 2012

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-editorial-director-m.j.-akbar-on-the-politics-behind-presidential-polls-2012/1/200838.html

The Congress, for reasons best known to itself, assumed that it could live above the reach of growing public anger and still control events by a wave of Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s magic wand. Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mamata Banerjee have drained the magic out of this wand by telling Congress that omnipotence may work with gods, but is not sustainable in human affairs.

UPA can pretend that this is business as usual, and the PM blithely continue on his 10-day tour to the more exotic parts of the world, but his Government has become about as fragile as that of Deve Gowda or Inder Gujral after Congress withdrew its support. When democracy slides off into confusion, there is only one solution: more democracy. Time for fresh elections.

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~~~ EUREKA !! EUREKA !!! CHANGE HAS HAPPENED ~~~ !!

One good thing I have noticed is nobody is giving spin of the mythological powers of Sonia G, Baby G and Robert G and tried to give them credit for getting Pranab into the President’s seat. In fact Mulayam has taken the credit here… saying that the Congress was actually reluctant to push up Pranab Da.

NDTV, the opening batsman of Dynastic, family rule in fact revealed that Sonia does NOT trust Dada as he put up his hand for PM’s seat in 1984.

My good ol’ pal Pathak G has chosen to withdraw form the blog (very unfotunate), rather than defend the indefinsible performance of Digvinash, Baby G and Sonia G.

I hope he has changed his mind on dynastic succession and family rule….

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Purno Sangma has resigned from the NCP. The NCP has 15 MLAS in the the 59 member strong Meghalaya Assembly. The Congress has 26. Will Sangma’s resignation lead to political uncertainty in Meghalaya ? Has the NDA got one more friend if not an ally yet ?

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Different types of orgasam

Positive O Yes O Yess Yesss.

Negative
O No O Noo Nooo.

Spiritual : Oh God Oh Godd, I’m coming.

Classical Indian Nahin Nahiin Nahiiin.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Oh Baby Oh Yeah, Oh Baby C’mon.

Heavy Metal
Come on Honey, Harder, Yeahhh Baby.

The Grand Maratha  Aai Ga, Aayyi Aayyi Aayyii Gaa.

The Parsi Oh Mummy Mummy Mummy.

The Gujju Oh Bhagwan mari gai, mari gai…ahhhh.

The South Indian Aaiiyo Aaiiyo Swami, Aaiyayyo Ssswaaami.

Punjabi Chal Utar Ja Huun meinu hor v kaam karne hain !!!

Sindhi Sutho, sutho, . Hey Jhulelal,  jhulelal, dado sutho

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America and Two Pakistans.- an interesting article by Stephen Cohen, a US/India/Pak expert

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/opinion/america-and-the-two-pakistans.html?smid=pl-share

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A boy went to a girl’s hgouse with a rose, to propose to her.
He rang the bell.
Girl’s father came out, opening the door.

Boy: “uncle, please support Anna Hazare….”

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~~~~ YEH LAAL RANG KAB MUJHE CHODDEGA ~~~~~~
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@ Gopi

Well it seems that the intelligent keralites do seem fed up of the Reds. Now here is a suggestion. Let us all start a movement called “When will this red color free me… !”

There was a Rajesh Khanna song sung by Kishore Kumar, with the same words. My Mom was a big fan of Rjaesh khanna and recently I gave her a Rajesh Khanna CD collection…. and when I heard this song….

I am inspired to start a movement against these reds !!!

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BREAKING NEWS ======BREAKING NEWS
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LALOO JOINS HANDS WITH RSS…….ATTACKS NITISH
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RSS supports Narendra Modi as PM, slams Nitish Kumar
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...

Today, Laloo Prasad slammed Nitish for his pseudo secularism.

He has questioned Nitish Kumar’s stand in 2002 as Railway minister under Vajapayee. He didn’t even set up a Railways Inquiry commission then.

Laloo says secular Nitish lives happily with communal BJP in his ministry.

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Manmohan’s sermon at Los Cabos :

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3547667.ece

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MMS makes India proud. Conducted himself as a true thought leader.

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India condemning millions to stay poor, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal
says

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-condemning-millions-to-stay-poor-Lakshmi-Narayan-Mittal-says/articleshow/14304306.cms

ArcelorMittal is waiting for six years to implement its USD 30 billion projects
mostly in Odisha and Jharkhand states,
facing problems relating to land acquisition and regulatory issues.

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Gopi and all

You have coined three very popular and apt statements.

1) the BJP works overtime to lose elections.

2) The BJP does not know how to unwrap gift boxes

3) The BJP slams its welcome doors to success.

Empirical evidence suggests it probably is so.

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The question arises as to why it is so?

1) Is it the quality and the mental make-up of people who have joined
the BJP and some of them are holding leadership positions today?

or

2) Is it the ideology of the RSS/BJP that acts as an handicap for its
failure to grab opportunities that come its way (and they have been
plenty for the last two years or so)?

or

3) Is it the combination of both?

or

4) Are there some other reasons?

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The end of Empire

Samar Halarnkar

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Samar/The-end-of-Empire/Article1-875788.aspx

In his 1655 book Voyage to the East-Indies, English clergyman Edward Terry notes how foresight appeared lacking in Indian battles. “The armies on both sides,” says Terry, “usually beginne with most furious onsets, but in short time, for want of good discipline, one side is routed and the controversie, not without much slaughter, is decided.”

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The writer Abraham Eraly narrates how the declining days of the Mughal empire were marked by soldiers putting personal benefit above king, God and country. During Aurangzeb’s Deccan campaign, says Eraly, Mughal officers at times took money from the Marathas not to act against them — or gave money to the Marathas, to stop the harassment. The generals bickered and worked at cross purposes, “hindering each other and frustrating campaigns”, he writes in his 1997 account of Mughal India, The Last Spring.

Do these observations still sound familiar? That is because something
intrinsic to the Indian character has not changed over hundreds of years.

So it was the past week.

Regional satraps Mamata Banerjee and Mulayam Singh joined forces overnight, made loud declarations of battle against the Congress, fulcrum of the ruling coalition, only to break up the next day. Mulayam, with an eye possibly on general elections in 2014 and realising his son needs federal support, then backed the UPA. The UPA’s so-called ally, Mamata, opened a new front on, er, Facebook. In the BJP, fulcrum of the Opposition, it was evident there was no candidate or plan, except to oppose anyone the UPA proposes (though not every BJP ally thinks so).

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The Maratha confederacy, for instance, gained enough power to occupy Delhi, but its chieftains, never empire builders, yielded quickly to the British. The Mughals somehow clung to power, until Bahadur Shah Zafar’s dominion ended at the gates of Delhi. His poetry reflected their eclipse. Those who rule Delhi today — and aspire to tomorrow — would do well to heed India’s last emperor:Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon, na kisi ke dil ka qaraar hoonJo kisi ke kaam na aa sake main vho ek musht-e-ghubaar hoon(I am neither the light in any eye, nor the solace to any heartI am no use to anyone, a handful of dust).

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“Raj Karega HIndustani….” WHo said this?

Well it was Sharad pawar…. who deep down knows that it is shame on India to have fallen to levels of naukercy where family rule and dynastic succession have taken the national jewel called Indian national Congress into the hands of
Baby G’s, Sonia G’s and Digviansh G…

Cmon Pathak G…. your considered opinion on this….

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i am watching an old Rajesh Khanna film with my parents… a promise I had to keep since I had been pretty busy for the past month.

I am stuck by the depth of the lyrics… something which few songs have now.

In fact I had met the lyric writer Anand Bakshi at a friends plcace years back.. I was a pimply kid… and he was a whisky guzzling heavyset Punjabi– like some of my biradari. But now when I think of him … as I read this lyrics… I have new respect for him. And wonder wy…. but why… cannot the writers get the emotion into the lyrics….

चिंगारी कोइ भड़के, तो सावन उसे बुझाए
सावन जो अगन लगाए, उसे कौन बुझाए?
पतझड जो बाग़ उजाड़े, वो बाग़ बहार खिलाये
जो बाग़ बहार में उजड़े, उसे कौन खिलाये?

हम से मत पूछो कैसे, मंदिर टूटा सपनों का
लोगों की बात नहीं है, ये किस्सा हैं अपनों का
कोइ दुश्मन ठेंस लगाए, तो मीत जिया बहलाए
मनमीत जो घांव लगाए, उसे कौन मिटाए?

ना जाने क्या हो जाता, जाने हम क्या कर जाते
पीते हैं तो ज़िंदा है, ना पिते तो मर जाते
दुनिया जो प्यासा रखे, तो मदिरा प्यास बुझाए

मदिरा जो प्यास लगाए, उसे कौन बुझाए?

माना तूफ़ान के आगे, नहीं चलता जोर किसी का
मौजों का दोष नहीं है, ये दोष हैं और किसी का
मज़धार में नैय्या डोले, तो मांझी पार लगाए
मांझी जो नाव डुबोए उसे कौन बचाए?

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All;
At this point of time, I am more pro BJP than Congress but BJP, every passing day, appears more dud. where is Arun jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, yashwantji, jaswant ji, and what about the next Generation? what about Adwani??Everybody is more sleepy than next. If it comes to that, then let the Modi take the command and remove these sleepy people. No fresh ideas, no initiatives. Gopi is right in his diagnosis, the only thing missing is treatment.

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Ishwar, you wanted me to share my experience in Milano. here you have it. Yes it was ryan air to BERGAMO. I took the funicular train climbing a steep 45 degree to Cittica alta. It was incredible, the cobbled streets and houses are from the middle ages. Next was SIRMIONE , mind boggling , just type the name in google images , you will know what i am saying. THE FUNDAMENTAL THING THAT STRUCK ME , SO FEW PEOPLE , AND THERE IN LIES THE ANSWER TO ALL OF INDIA’S MISERIES.
nEXT i WENT TO VERONA , there is a house with a balcony , known as Juliet’s house from Romeo and Juliet. Apparently Romeo and Juliet is partly fact.
Milan is MIND BOGGLINGLY expensive
Saw the seventh wonder of the world Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting on the walls of the monastery *** church SANTA MARIA DELLA GRAZIA.You need to book ticket well in advance for a month.
Also saw with my own eyes WHAT BARBARISM RELIGION can inflict.
The Bishop in order to enlarge the entrance to the kitchen , chopped off the part of the picture showing christ’s legs. SO MUCH FOR DEVOTION.
there is so much i can talk about Milan cathedral,, like Donato Bramante , And Rondadini Pietta , if interested let me know

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All;
It is good that BJP is going ahead with Sangama, Sena or no Sena. JDU or no JDU, ultimately, you should prove your self, all variables taken into account. If your ideology and thought process is winner, you win. Otherwise youa are a loser. Give it a chance.
Frogs, who ae croaking, on shear number of of MPs will have to answer. You can not melt away.

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Wife: What would you like to do the most if you come to know that world
is going to end in one hour?
Husband: Sex, of course.
Wife: what would you do for remaining 59 minutes?

Good morning friends.

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Mulayam Singh is agent of BJP, claims Congress spokes person
Rashid Alvi.

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BREAKING NEWS———- BREAKING NEWS
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Our great secular (limited edition) fellow blogger (?) Pathakji has, like a zahreela saamp, shed the over-used cover and has adopted a new identity: NITIN GUPTA.
First a Brahmin, then a Kshatriya, now a bania, next…………

He is careful to remain a Hindu, like engrich.

We are looking at interesting times and happy blogging.

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The resistible rise of Modi
Christophe Jaffrelot – co-editor of ‘Muslims in Indian Cities’, is a senior research fellow at CERI, Sciences Po, Paris and professor of Indian politics and society at the King’s India Institute, London

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/the-resistible-rise-of-modi/964585/

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Excerpts

n the post-Bofors context, the BJP had made a name for itself against a corrupt Congress: it was clean, it was a party “with a difference”. After six years at the Centre and at the helm of many state governments, this myth has imploded. Today, even as the Sangh Parivar supports the Anna Hazare movement, its own political wing is struggling with scores of serious cases of misdemeanour, including that of businessman Anshuman Mishra and former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, not to say anything of the induction of former BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha whom the BJP has previously denounced as “tainted”.

But this is nothing compared to the development of a much more serious disease, by RSS standards — the rise of indiscipline. In February, after leaving the BJP branch of Himachal Pradesh, rebels led by four-time MP Maheshwar Singh announced the formation of a new political outfit named Himachal Pradesh Lokhit Party (HPLP). Last month, in Rajasthan, Gulab Chand Kataria announced a yatra to protest Congress governance in the state. The state party leader, Vasundhara Raje, however, thought that only she could convene a yatra. Having had her authority challenged, Raje complained to BJP President Nitin Gadkari,threatened to resign, and had 52 of 78 MLAs back her. And now, BJP CMs are congratulating Pranab Mukherjee for the strong chance that he may be president, even though P.A. Sangma may be their official candidate.

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To counter Modi, a coalition may take shape across the board, gathering together his opponents in the BJP and in the rest of the Sangh Parivar. This irregular coalition may support Gadkari, Advani or someone else of their choice as prime-ministerial candidate in 2014, knowing that none of them could give a decisive fight. To see whether his rise is resistible, we may have to wait for the Gujarat elections. Are Indian voters — disillusioned by the Congress and others of the political class, and affected by the economic slump — willing to turn to an authoritarian and inegalitarian administration?

Either way, the BJP’s troubles are set to multiply. It will either continue to suffer from a leadership problem or lose more allies. The NDA has shrunk from 17 parties to seven since the late 1990s. And the selection of Modi as a candidate for prime ministership would alienate more allies, including the JD(U) — which is already supporting Mukherjee for the post of president. The disintegration of the NDA, if it continues, will accelerate the formation of a third front under the aegis of regional parties like the JD(U), Nitish Kumar being a credible candidate for PM himself. This is the scenario that may unfold even if Modi is not the BJP’s chosen leader, given the steady rise of state parties at the expense of the national parties over the last 20 years.

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One day, Jimmy is walking home from school. When he gets home,
he finds his grandpa sitting on the Porch without any pants on!

So he goes up to his grandpa and says “Grandpa, do you realize
that you’re not wearing any pants?” His grandpa replies “Yes
Jimmy, I do.”

Jimmy then says “Well, why are you outside without any pants on
Grandpa?”

His grandpa looks at Jimmy and responds “Well Jimmy, yesterday
I sat outside without a shirt to long, and I got a stiff neck.
This was your grandma’s idea.”

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The BJP is confused…its leaders have ego -problems… they make statements contradicting each other …many friends are unhappy with the BJP for these reasons .
The Congress is a disciplined party..and none of the problems which the BJP faces . But something appears to be going wrong.
Its in-house Chanakya …Guardian to its Yuvraj ..says Mamta is immature and erratic. The party has to issue a press -release that he is not authorized to speak for the party.
The official spokesman ..says Mulayam is a BJP agent … the Party has to disown him.
The Lady who owns and runs the Party and her Son ..aspiring to be a serious politician and more than a TV wonder … at every appraisal after its electoral defeat say that the Party loses because of itself … not the opposition.

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CREEPING HINDU-SHARIA IN BANGLAHORE

Many in this blog need no encouragement to start criticising or even lampooning the tenets of Muslim Sharia, as if its introduction would regress India into a medieval state. This predictably ignores very similar regressive political pressures that are building within our own mainstream society. It is therefore very easy to conclude that opposition to regressive practices of Islam is used as a weapon to attack Islam whilst pushing similar regressive measures of our own.

Mr. Dhoble, the head of the social service branch of the Mumbai police, has said that he is merely inspecting establishments to see whether they have complied with regulations, which include the rule that they can serve liquor only to those who are at least 25 and have a permit to drink. He has also told reporters that bars and discotheques are places where “immoral activities happen,” that scantily clad girls have to be saved from the forces of modernity because they are “our daughters and daughters-in-law” and that if men returned home early to their wives, it would be very good for society. ……..

Every Valentine’s Day, thugs roam the streets of Indian cities, beating up couples who are holding hands or kissing, and on occasion forcing them to undergo wedding ceremonies. In the past they have disrupted private parties and beaten up the revelers, and even destroyed gift shops that displayed the red heart.

The moral outrage of politicians, aspiring politicians and the police, which is not always a form of extortion, is usually aimed at upper-class fun. In 2009, the members of a rightist Hindu outfit called Sri Ram Sene attacked a pub in the southern city of Mangalore and beat up the men and women who were present. As happens in the case of almost all such attacks, the thugs were accompanied by a television news crew. Video of the attack went viral on the Internet.

“These girls come from all over India, drink, smoke, and walk around in the night spoiling the traditional girls of Mangalore,” Pramod Muthalik, the leader of the group, told a newspaper. “Bars and pubs should be for men only. We wanted to ensure that all women in Mangalore are home by seven.”……… In Bangalore, goons supported by local politicians have beaten up girls for wearing jeans and other alleged Western attire.

Full article can be found here ….http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/asia/21iht-letter21.html?_r=1&ref=asia

CREEPING LIBERALISM IN SAUDI ARABIA

In contrast one of world’s most conservative and repressed society is witnessing pressures to liberalise.

Thus far, the Wahhabi clerical class has complied with the monarchy’s frequent requests to sanction its various measures. However, such compliance has come at a price: the imposition of austere cultural measures that are alienating the growing middle class, which is demanding a relaxation of some of the country’s strict social traditions.

The irony of the current situation is that the monarchy can still afford to liberalize without losing power. Saudi politics today are no longer a simple contest between violent Islamist extremists and the monarchy. A political center has evolved over the years with a moderate intellectual cohort and an equally moderate religious class coming together in issuing various petitions for greater liberalization of the state.

Full article can be found here….http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/opinion/tensions-in-the-house-of-saud.html?_r=1&ref=global

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‘Sri Ram Sene ready to riot for money’

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/‘Sri+Ram+Sene+ready+to+riot+for+money’+/1/97235.html

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Shiv Sena & others not to disturb couples on Valentine’s Day

http://news.oneindia.in/2012/02/13/shiv-sena-others-not-to-disturb-couples-valentines-day.html

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you just need to go out at 1 am in the morning in Baroda to see and experience
the huge number of women and men walking on the roads, free from any threat,
real or imagined. That state, when you know that the chances of your being
assaulted at that time are close to zero, is to my mind the epitome of security,
the first dharma of governance.

Manik Chowk is an area in Ahemedabad where you will find young college
students boys and girls at 2AM and no one bothering them.

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In Saudi five times a day during Namaz all shops are supposed to closed.
Even a customer being served at that time has to leave the premises. Any one violating will be severely punished.

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Fire at forth floor secretariat in Mumbai where Adarsh files are kept.

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@ MOhan

Let us welcome the BJP but let us remind them it has to be without moral police.

The moral police in Mumbai is of course due to the Congress.

The BJP should keep 3 leaders in front . Jaitley, Modi and Sushma. Depending on the ground situation and acceptability by allies, they should make one the PM.

Frankly after seeing Jagan’s scale of loot, I think he has left Gaddaffi behind. It was all okay till YSR was the Congress face. The truth only came out because of the rift.

Imagina the Congress CM just gave 1.41 lakhs acres to his son… !! what a crook… what a crook … a real typical COngressi….

1,41,000 acres by the way is about 5 cities of the size of Chandigarh!!

Wah COngress wah !! Kya baap hai…

Like Mumbai was given as dowr in the British queens marriage, COngress dynasites gift India to thier sons !!!

Wah Wah !! What a party !!!

DynaStic Succesion zindabad !!

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Dr Shantanu/Ishwar

Dr Shantanu, looks like u had a good time in Milan. Your comment on only few people atr the lake — I read about the negative population growth in italy; men and women deciding not to get married and not to have children; grown up boys/men living with parents (they had a term for that) etc.. Pretty soon men and women from Asia will have to be imported to keep italy going.

I agree with Ishwar on population as resource. Indias entry and success in certain sectors over the last 15 years (which has made India grow big time) would not have been possible without the population advantage. The key is , a sIshwar stated to educate and develop skills. The key is as Mohan’s link “”why nations fail” indicated to keep govrernment out of many activities, especially production, education, development etc.

What if Indias middle class is quadrupuled to 800MM – a market four times US, 5 or 6 times Europe..Indian entrepreneurship can achieve it, if government and politicians are kept out; gain I recommend all to read Mohans link to “why nations fail”

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The enigma of Indian engineering

James Trevelyan

The author is Winthrop Professor in the school of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. His book How to Become an Expert Engineer is due to be published later this year.

A narrow education is making engineers oblivious to the importance of human interaction and raising the cost of even simple tasks

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3547601.ece?homepage=true

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Energy also costs many times more. With intermittent supplies, one needs a UPS or generator to run electrical equipment reliably. In addition, electric machines are usually inefficient and poorly maintained so it can be four-five times as expensive to achieve the same results as in Australia. Bulk users like steel plants have reported to me that they face twice the electric energy cost of their competitors in industrialised countries.

How could South Asian electricity and water services be so expensive and phones so cheap?

Could corruption explain this? Reliable sources estimate the additional cost at 15-25 per cent. However Australia is not immune: dishonest behaviour imposes significant extra costs there as well.

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In Australia, a copious water supply and sanitation takes around 2 per cent of the economic resources of a family. In South Asia, barely enough potable water to survive can take 20-40 per cent of a family’s economic resources. Effective engineering in Australia accounts for much of the difference.

Therefore, it is not the lack of money that influences national poverty as ineffective engineering that imposes crippling high costs for water, energy and other essential services. Good engineering liberates human effort for social developments such as governance, healthcare, education, social services and even recreation.

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The mobile phone revolution has transformed expensive, corrupt, inefficient government monopolies with appalling service into thriving, profitable enterprises providing high quality service at minimal cost, around the world. India is no exception.

Although we can’t be sure, there seem to be some key human factors. First, mobile technology increases investor confidence: people can’t steal the service without paying. The phone won’t work without a pre-paid card or reliable credit. Second, the technology provides reliable and efficient ways to collect a vast number of small payments and reassures users that their credit will be secure. Third, the social chasms between engineers and the technicians who work with the equipment are easier to surmount than in the case of water and electricity. Fourth, the saving in time, measured as an economic value, more than makes up for the cost for users.

Success has come from human factors invisible to most engineers, inadvertently blinded by their education.

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Lights out

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lights-out/964594/0

The aborted attempt by the Uttar Pradesh government to switch off electricity to heavy consumers like malls after 7 pm is a reminder of the gathering crisis in the power sector, but more than that, of the fact that states are still in the dark. In 10 years, from 2000 to 2010, the UP state regulator has revised electricity tariffs only once. As a result, by the end of fiscal year 2010, the aggregate losses of all state utilities, including UP, have risen to Rs 1,23,000 crore. The borrowing of the distribution companies from the banking sector to finance this loss has approximately doubled, according to Crisil figures, to Rs 2,67,000 crore.

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The scale of crisis is enough to pull the balance sheets of several banks into trouble. As banks have baulked at providing fresh loans, the companies have reached the end of their capacity to buy additional electricity to feed their grid. So even though year 2011-12 has ended with a capacity addition of 20,000 MW, the power cannot be sold to bankrupt discoms. Instead of taking steps to correct this mismatch by fixing the tariff regime, UP seemed to be planning to handle the power shortage by reaching out for sledgehammer rules to conserve power.

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Studies show that as industrial consumers get used to low tariffs they skimp on improvement in the quality of their electrical machinery and end up losing on electrical efficiency. The correct remedy for power shortage is to ensure that the so-called independent regulators actually act independently and raise tariffs in keeping with the rise in costs — a saving grace here is the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s directive mandating that each state regulator examine costs and give a power tariff ruling each year.

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Vote for Baba Ramdev. He will be a PM who can help you make your ends meet.

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Your head and toe

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Big hello to all my friends here-
Gopi- still going strong , Mohan, Balwinder praaji, Parvez from my hometown, Shoeb from downtown (south India haha), Manohar- great articles below, ?Rizwaan- anyone see him now?, Shenoy- still slamming Ravi?, Vijay the party animal, Ishwar, Rajiiiv the Pak specialist, Ashish the eloquent bong-
I sometimes cast a lazy eye over you all. How is everybody?
I see the same old moronic junk from Ravi- although Shan cingulate slamming him again after a 6 month period of bizarre buddiness – is new.
so ravi says hindu taleban is attacking Valentine day couples. Ravi you total jerk- when Hindus blow up 5000 girl schools and massacre shias and ahmadiyas- then use the words hindu sharia or taleban. how on earth do my friends above let you get away with spouting nonsensical comparisons like that, is beyond me.
ONLY BALWINDER PRAAJI AND SHENOY WORKING IN TANDEM, not alone, COULD HAMMER THIS TROLL

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MohanR,Pankaj, gopi, et al. Guys thanks for you interest in my post relating to my trip to Milano.there is so much to write ,it has to be in instalments.
gopi, POPULATION EXPLOSION IN THE GREATEST IMPEDIMENT TO PROSPERITY.no ifs and buts.Italy used to be bloody poor post WW2.
admitted american marshal plan did help.however coming back to Milano.
First some interesting facts about the LAST SUPPER painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.Leonardo did not use the usual fresco painting technique, because he painted it over a period of two years. with fresco painting it needs to done very quickly while the plaster is wet.He was searching for a face to represent judas .He used to visit the prisons in milan.he had made sketches of ugly men .
One day the bishop asked him why the picture of judas was drawn yet.
Leonardo replied “I amlooking for a person whose face will fit , IF I CANNOT FIND ANYBODY I WILL DRAW YOU”.because leonardo used water colour it had detoriated within two years .then when Napolean’s troop occupied that
PLACE THEY USED IT FOR TARGET PRACTICE.however it survived the bombing of ww2 , AND IS NOW A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SIGHT.
The Milan Central train station in THE BIGGEST AND GRANDEST TRAIN STATION IN THE WORLD.i have seen Grand central in Newyork , which appears puny. This is really huuuuuuuuge.this was a megalomaniac project of Musolini. just opposite the station i found a guy from delhi in a kiosk selling bus tickets. There are LOADS of Bangladeshi.I didn’t even bother to ask their nationality , i straight way spoke in bengali when asking for direction.
On a sunday the area near milan central near the pirelli building is absolutely
empty.IMAGINE THIS IN ANY INDIAN CITY.
Entire MILAN architecture is very 1800

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Milano had a very distinguished visitor, Dr.Shan
The city bowled him over, never made him pareshan

He was struck by the city’s sparse population
As an Indian, he well knows reckless copulation
among the people is the the only reason why
India is poor. To accept it, no need to feel shy.

The tragedy is, the older generations didn’t care,
And the younger generation has no time to spare.

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Bikini is a dress where 90% of the woman’s body is exposed, but look at
the men’s decency they still stare at the covered 10%

Good morning friends.

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Four letter principle is India’s big green victory at Rio

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Americas/4-word-principle-India-s-big-green-victory-at-Rio/Article1-876692.aspx

New Delhi sees its greatest success at the Rio + 20 summit to be the embedding of an obscure four-word principle throughout the final outcome document. This principle, “common but differentiated responsibilities,” (CBDR) say Indian officials, will be the country’s principal negotiating weapon in the years to come.

CBDR, in effect, is an escape clause for poor countries in any multilateral green negotiations. Its origins lie in the 1992 Rio Declaration and were added to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first climate change agreement. CBDR basically says that developing countries cannot be expected to fulfill the same environmental obligations of rich countries.

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Talking heads

Does a parliamentary standing committee need Aamir Khan’s ‘expert’ intervention?

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/talking-heads/965074/0

Excerpts

After his TV show Satyamev Jayate examined distortions in healthcare, Aamir Khan’s opinion has been solicited by none less than the parliamentary standing committee on commerce. By “consulting” Khan on the question of FDI in pharmaceuticals, the panel has made expert deliberation seem like a silly gimmick. Healthcare was merely the brow-furrowing concern of the week for Satyamev Jayate, and as with any show that flits from one subject to another, its mastery of the problem was less than perfect. While the use of affordable generic drugs may seem a no-brainer, it is a risky choice in the absence of solid regulation. Many doctors prescribe known, reputed drugs because they are assured of quality, not because they are sellouts to Big Pharma. The answer, clearly, lies in empowering the drug regulator, so that there are no questions about quality — and then letting big-name companies compete with generics, which will automatically drive down prices.

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Like a lot of good TV, Khan’s show drills down complex questions to their emotional core. It also has a grand, if occasionally garbled sense of mission — Satyamev Jayate even congratulated itself on Lok Sabha passing a sharp bill on the sexual abuse of children, as though the law was enacted in a burst of understanding brought on by the show, rather than being the product of long deliberation, whose timing was entirely coincidental. Now, the standing committee has strengthened that saviour complex.

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When the race is over, Sangma gets BJP support

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3554115.ece?homepage=true

The Presidential ‘race’ is over for all practical purposes even before it has begun. Barring an unforeseeable situation, UPA nominee and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the First Citizen on July 25.

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For the BJP, the last-minute decision has come at a cost. Its inability to forge consensus within the NDA, after the Janata Dal (United) and the Shiv Sena refused to toe the line, would haunt the party for at least a few weeks. Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were at pains to emphasise that the division within the NDA would have no bearing on the alliance as such.

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@ Dr Mishra

Thx for remembering me…

Well… I am sort of busy in buidlings but do make it a point to punch in a few lines while on the move or when time permits…

Hope u do go underwater these days!

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Aid awareness slogan.

Try different positions with same woman instead of trying same position
with different women.

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Mishraji thanks for email. Nice to see same ole badmaash crowd at Glassy junction hehe
Shenoy saab- you are what is called ‘growing old disgracefully’ hehe keep it up

but sorry Mishraji I have no appetite to take on Ravi again. Shenoy and riswan and I had lot of fun setting his tail on fire, but then HE SEEMED TO ENJOY IT EVEN MORE!! bolo main zhoot boliyan ?
so Ravi you are safe- allatime you speak garbage like when you said total nonsense about school fees in UK- mainu sab pata hai- I did not challenge you.

hello my dear Dr shan of cingulate, you got tripped by Manohar on rly stations but never mind, you sound different now- got married did you ? will wonders never seize
vijay, mohan, gopiji- sab lage raho munna bhai

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~~~ Where is Baby G these days??? ~~~
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Have not seen the Amul milk dabba carrying Baby G for some time now.

Even his cheerleaders in the media are strangely silent.

Has he changed and become more sensible?

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Mohan

Some months ago I wrote a similar joke to yours:

An American, a French Man, an English Man and an Indian were on the deck of a cruise ship.

As they were enjoying their banter, the American excused himself and went to his cabin. When he returned he brought with him a case of cigars. He lit one and then chucked the nearly full case over board. Everyone looked at him bemused. The American said, Oh don’t worry …

There is plenty more back-home.

Watching this the French man felt that he needed to do something similar. So he brings out his case of Champagne, he opens one bottle, has a swig and throws the entire case into the sea, saying….

There is plenty more back home.

This put some pressure on the English man. What shall I do?? He thought to himself. Then quick as a flash he lifts the Indian and throws him into the sea.

With a smile on his face has says “There plenty of those back home”.

Your best buddy had an Autistic Fit…the rest I am sure you are a witness to.

Ever since, both the Raja and his Rani have been bobbing up and down in deep waters.

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Like much of UPA and its initiatives, which only mess up things, siBBal has failed again.

a) It was obvious to all that school board exams vary from state to state so they cannot be equated. In an enterace as tough as IIT where 0.001 % marks make a difference only a UPA type dumbo would try try to call the marking pattern from Kashmir to Kerala to Delhi as same.

b) The IIT exams are cruel, tough and even heartless. Having given them and knowing that to judge yourself in life based on those entry tests wold be ruining your self esteem. A friend of mine did not qualify… but is now the a piano player in the US and a pretty famous one at that.

However it is possible that many students who do otherwise well in other colleges and even in engineering would just about get 15-20% in the IIT exam. This would just hurt them and kill their self esteem forever at age 17.

SO TO HAVE A SINGLE EXAM for IIt and other colleges without taking all this onto consideration… is just foolish, stupid, and bound to hurt our education system forever.

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Manohar
Is there anything wrong in parlaimentary committees seeking advice/opinion from Amir khan or anybody else/

In fact wouldnt this country be better off without nonsensical parliamentary committees who are bent on stealing and nothing else

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hehehehehehehe

Assi vottee ko vachan diya tha ki is blog pey nahin jaana, but you loafers just split me open. Bhaut hi khush keeta Mohan, fabulous joke on Ravi. As Shastri said when Yuvraj hit 6 sixes- its bhalle bhalle all the way.

Shenoy saab I have semi retired, so please you hire new speedboat with Mohan and take harpoon to go Ravi hunting. hehe oh this is cruel, I have laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair.

what is this Shenoy about – “”"he used to send bus tickets, liquor slips, bottle corks etc by courier!”"” ??

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==Sangma wants debate with Pranab ahead of presidential polls

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sangma-wants-debate-with-Pranab-ahead-of-presidential-polls/articleshow/14337085.cms

Pinning hopes on “conscience vote” and his tribal identity, P A Sangma today virtually dared UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee for a debate ahead of presidential polls, saying democracy needs debate.

Maintaining that in a democracy people have the right to choose and there should be a debate at a time when the economy is sinking and scams are unimaginable, Sangma said, “Who is responsible for all this corruption…It has to be a candidate to candidate debate”.

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Keeping in mind, his outstanding career in politics and also being a Speaker of the Lok Sabha, this idea by P A Sangma really takes the cake. He has stolen the original idea from L K Advani

Desperate situations makes people suggest outlandish and desperate ideas.

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Gopi and other Hindutvawadis

The following will be music to your ears. I received it in my email – cannot vouch for its authenticity and the date when this letter was written.

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Dear John Dayal,

A few years back, you wrote a letter to Jenab Mohammad Hamid Ansari, then Chairman, National Commission for Minorities, where you complained of harassment of nuns and Christian workers at Bus Stops, Rail Stations in Tirupati government-owned areas and objecting to a request to have the Constitutionality of the Seven Tirumala Hills being made out of bounds to Christians. Do you really think that for instance the Government of France would allow Hindu proselytizers in Lourdes, one of the most sacred places for Christians? Never. The French Government even has a branch of the Home Ministry looking into what they call ‘sects’.

Amrita Anandamayi of Kerala is on that list. Although she has not committed any crime except embracing people and although her followers are doing remarkable social work, as good as any Christian organization in India, she is being harassed in France, the accounts of her group are being scrutinized, she faces difficulties in buying land and she has to keep a low profile.

Tirupati is one of the most sacred places for Hindus. Why should nuns and missionaries go there to convert innocent Hindus? It’s an affront to the majority community of this country who have always respected the Christian faith.

Remember that the first Christian community of the world is the Syrian Christian in Kerala? Do Christians in India realize how much freedom they have here? Any preacher from abroad can come to India, rent huge grounds, organize prayer meetings, advertise in the national press, get media coverage… Just try to do this in Saudi Arabia, or even China and see what will happen to your preachers …Then you go on complaining of a “sustained hate campaign by the religious fanatics” of the so-called Sangh Parivar in Andhra Pradesh. But you must be knowing that thanks to Chief Minister Rajshekhar Reddy, who died in an helicopter accident, nearly 20% of Andhra Pradesh has converted to Christianity. His son Jagan Reddy is very much a Christian too – he has even erected a cross over his massive new house in Hyderabad. Yet his name sounds Hindu. Do Christians in high places need Hindu names to fool the gullible masses of Hindus?

Come on, Mr John Dayal, you are the one who is waging a systematic campaign of hate against Hindus. As a born Christian, I can see how Christianity is evolving slowly in the West, where it is becoming more and more accepted in the masses that there are other religions, such as Buddhism or Hinduism which have their own values. Yet in India, Christianity is becoming more and more rigid, more and more of a proselytizing spirit, like it was fifty years ago in the West. Christians in India represent only 2.5% of the population, yet they make so much noise, they occupy so much space in education, health care, journalism that you would think that they constitute the majority of this country.

Again recently, you have targeted Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, respected not only by millions of Hindus, but also by many Christians in western countries and even by Muslims (he was received warmly last month in Pakistan). By doing this, you are showing that you are practicing a Christianity that is obsolete, aggressive and maybe even dangerous. It is time Christianity in India becomes a little more humble and quieter.

Nobody is contesting your faith, but please leave alone ancient places of worship like Tirupathi and great sages such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. And remember: Sonia Gandhi may not be here forever…

Yours Francois Gautier

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François Gautier, born 1959 in Paris, is a writer and journalist based in India. He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years in the “international city” of Auroville India at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. He has been living in India since the 1970s.

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All;
America plans new covert raids in Pakistan.
let us help them in anyway.

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Nalanda: An Avatar In Distress

The resurrection of an ancient centre of learning runs into modern problems

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?281280

Excerpts

Some nine centuries after the great seat of Buddhist learning was felled by the march of history, Parliament passed the Nalanda University Act in August 2010. Controversies continue to swirl around this ancient university being brought to life by an act of faith and law, mentored by a high-powered group of worthies led by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. Questions continue to be asked about this modern-day liberal university in the making. Will Nalanda University take shape in New Delhi or in Nalanda, near Patna? Will its vice-chancellor be permanent? But most importantly, can Bihar, not exactly known for the quality of higher education it imparts, play host to an international university which, in its heyday (possibly in the Gupta dynasty era from the 6th century BC to the 12th century AD) was the repository of world knowledge?

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What about courses and infrastructure, the backbone of any university in the making? The campus in Nalanda just has a wall to show for all the effort so far. The first two faculties to kick off the academic exercise in this university will be environmental studies and historical studies, to be followed by others such as information technology and international relations. It is perhaps a sign of the changes since the original Nalanda that the courses being introduced reflect contemporary needs fuelled by a global market.

“A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth,” said Jawaharlal Nehru. “It stands for the onward march of the human race towards even higher objectives. If the university discharges its duties adequately, then it is well with the people and the nation.” This speech was recently reiterated by CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury in a debate on the university in Parliament. Will the university fulfil the visions of the first prime minister, the scholars who studied in the ancient university of Nalanda and the parliamentarians who passed the act? Well, frankly, we don’t know. At this moment, in the best of traditions, a debate rages on.

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Mehdi Hasan Filled Different Vacuums in India and Pakistan

http://naqvijournal.blogspot.in/2012/06/mehdi-hasan-filled-different-vacuums-in.html

Excerpts

Mehdi Hasan once said he aspired to do for Urdu ghazal what his relative Ustad Amir Khan did for Hindustani classical singing. Amir Khan controlled and stabilized the note on which, with effortless deliberation, he built the architecture of a raga.

With similar control on the note, Mehdi Hasan proceeded to sketch the raga, not build it, so that he could superimpose its outlines on the mood of each ghazal.

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The extraordinary popularity of Mehdi Hasan and the genre he mastered is also an interesting sociological study. It filled a need in India for one set of reasons and in Pakistan for quite another.

The “dhishum-dhishum” cinema of the 80s, dominated by Amitabh Bachchan, took the lyric out of Bollywood song. The Indian sensibility, reared for centuries on the rural, pastoral lyric, felt an aesthetic vacuum. The prospect of “hum, tum ek kamrey mein band hon” becoming a staple was forbidding. This space was filled up by the Urdu ghazal. The market found the commodity.

In Pakistan music was being muzzled by the votaries of Islamization. Abdul Karim Khan’s youngest daughter, Roshanara Begum, migrated to Pakistan and proceeded to fade out in the absence of sponsors or an audience. Her sister Hirabai Barodekar thrived in India.

The bogus conflict created by the clergy between music and shariah in Pakistan, snuffed out pure classical music. This in its turn created the space for the ghazal which Mehdi Hasan cleverly tied to classical music. Singing Urdu ghazal was kosher for the Mullah; music otherwise was not!

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Friday Musical Links

Enjoy

1) BADSHAH – 1954 – aa neele gagan tale pyaar ham karei.n – Lata Mangeshkar + Hemant Kumar
Lyricist : Hasrat Jaipuri
Composer: Shankar Jaikishan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnOFZw8wElg

2) RAJ HATH – 1956 – mere sapne mei.n aanaa re – Lata Mangeshkar
Lyricist : Shailendra
Composer: Shankar Jaikishan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktb9hCRzNXg

3) MUSAFIR KHANA – 1955 – thoDaa saa dil lagaake dekh – Shamshad Begum + Mohammad Rafi
Lyricist: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Composer : O P Nayyar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2YW68wrVtM

4) NIGHT CLUB – 1958 – kahaa.n phir ham kahaa.n phir tum – Geeta Dutt
Lyricist: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Composer : Madan Mohan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmjyRb4eqs

5) JADOO – 1951 – pyaar ke saagar se nikli .. ek jhooT hai – Mohammad Rafi
Lyricist : Shakeel Badayuni
Composer : Naushad Ali

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkA2uYieBAU

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My late night reporting. Continuing from where i left about Milano.The focalpoint of Milano is the DUOMO or the MILAN CATHEDRAL.It is 2nd largest and highest (now some geezer will google just for the sake of proving me wrong).It is indeed breathtaking.it is so huge my panasonic Lumix camera couldn’t capture it in one frame. It is smothered with some 10000 sculpture of monks and other religious figures.The entire cathedral facade is italian marble.If you climb to the top of the cathedral (which you can do for a fee of few euros) YOU CAN SEE SWITZERLAND.It was Sunday , when i went in i was in for a surprise of my life.
The ceiling is so high , one can hardly see it.The church service was in full swing. THIS WAS A GRAND AFFAIR , THE ONE WHICH I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE . THIS WAS POMP AND SPLENDOUR.This was HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE harking back.
There was the CHOIR being conducted like an orchestra. The chorus was DEAFENING , and the cadence takes your breath away. I could have just stayed for the choir music , IT WAS ON A GRAND SCALE.then there was incense in the background and the bishop delivering his sermon interrupted by the choir music.it was some experience.There was also MUMMIFIED bodies of cardinals kept in glass boxes for all to see.
The other great attraction is the art gallery PINOCOTECA DI BRERA
It is highly rated . it has some 37 rooms. i had researched beforehand , so went straight in to see DONATO BRAMANTE , Christ by the column , MONTEGNA, the dying Christ . My discovery was Franseco Hayez The Kiss
and Joseph olivera ,
The italian unique thing is the PIAZZA or the square. it is a huge place where people can congregate.In London the nearest thing is trafalgar square.
But Milan squares are much granderhere is bramante

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Counting wrongly to 2014

Vidya Subrahmaniam

Narendra Modi’s autocratic style and the continuing questions about his
role in the 2002 riots make his prime ministerial ambitions unrealistic

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3559605.ece?homepage=true

Excerpts

Over the past month, the Gujarat Chief Minister has chased after his detractors with the force of a typhoon, establishing his supremacy within the Bharatiya Janata Party, and making sure each conquest added to the chatter about his 2014 bid for Prime Minister. Mr. Modi first vanquished Nitin Gadkari who had mistakenly assumed that his dominion as party chief extended to Chhote Sardar. The result was the public humiliation of Sanjay Joshi whom Mr. Gadkari had appointed to a party post knowing he shared a bitter past with the Gujarat Chief Minister. Mr. Modi had Mr. Joshi removed from the post and the party, showing the party chief and his lieutenant who the boss was.

Then unprovoked, he swung at Nitish Kumar, lampooning Bihar’s caste preoccupations and contrasting its backwardness with Gujarat’s material superiority. Of course, the Bihar Chief Minister wasn’t going to take the insult. A star in his own right, and the fulcrum around which the National Democratic Alliance is built, Mr. Kumar set the terms for who was and who wasn’t going to run for Prime Minister on the NDA’s ticket. Mr. Modi wasn’t because the candidate’s secular credentials were non-negotiable. Since then a full-fledged war has erupted between Mr. Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), on one side, and the BJP and the sangh parivar, on the other, over Mr. Modi’s eligibility to lead the NDA into the next general election.

Obviously, Mr. Modi’s larger aspirations are not going to go uncontested. Overawed as the BJP and its spiritual mentor are by Mr. Modi, they also know that his hegemony cannot be questioned and a party led by him will be a one-man show.

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Let’s face it. Mr. Modi is no Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was as much a champion of Hindutva as a man of lofty vision, breaking new ground on Kashmir and Pakistan. No other BJP leader could have pulled off a visit to Minar-e-Pakistan and as much is proved by Lal Krishna Advani’s failed attempt to imitate the veteran via an ode paid to Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The Gujarat Chief Minister lacks even the acceptability of Mr. Advani who built the BJP brick by brick and commands a measure of loyalty even today when he is seen to have served out his utility.

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National Interest: UPA 3, the chance
Shekhar Gupta

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/national-interest-upa-3-the-chance/965637/0

National political equations are being rewritten. Key players have been forced to reveal their cards. The Congress is an unexpected gainer, provided its leadership now has the courage and agility to build on this fortuitous turn. The NDA and the BJP seem to be in disarray, though there are new opportunities for them as well. The build-up, the shifting and shuffling of alliances have all begun ahead of the 2014 general elections as the combatants stir themselves out of the trenches.

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The gains for the UPA include the more formal arrival of Mulayam Singh Yadav in its tent, the fraying of the most unlikely — but vital — alliance between the NDA and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), and the sudden, self-inflicted irrelevance of its most difficult ally, Mamata Banerjee. Is it all negative for the BJP and NDA? Not quite. If the NDA hopes to win in 2014, it would need Naveen Patnaik, J. Jayalalithaa, the dominant anti-Congress party in Andhra Pradesh and, with luck, even Mamata in its camp. The presidential election has given it its first opening in eight years to resume business with Patnaik and Jayalalithaa. It is most likely that Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is replacing the TDP as Andhra’s leading (and now dominant) regional party, will vote with the NDA too. Mamata has an issue with 33 per cent Muslim voters in West Bengal, but she has done business with the NDA before and is now bitter and lonely enough to take a new look at life. Further, the BJP, and, more importantly, the RSS, have also made their first moves to indicate that Narendra Modi will be their candidate for NDA’s prime minister in 2014. That’s why it is not all negative for the NDA, howsoever silly it may have been made to look right now. Our national politics is not only out of the freeze, it’s bubbling with action.

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Imagine what would have happened if Adam and Eve were Chinese?
We would still have been in paradise as they would have eaten the snake instead of an apple.

Good morning friends.

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Free medicines for all from October

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-medicines-for-all-from-October/articleshow/14347633.cms

General elections around the corner?

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Calcutta High Court strikes down Singur Land Act

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article3558305.ece?homepage=true

In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday struck down the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, terming it “unconstitutional and void.”

The law was enacted by the Trinamool Congress-led government to return a portion of the land acquired for the Tata Motors’ small car factory at Singur to “unwilling farmers” — in fulfilment of a key poll promise.

The Bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri set aside the order of single judge I. P. Mukerji who had ruled that the Act was “constitutional and valid.”

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Act in haste and repent at leisure.

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President Pratibha Patil gives life to dead man

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/President-Pratibha-Patil-gives-life-to-dead-man/articleshow/14349473.cms

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DEAD MAN WALKING
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PRATIBHA PATIL BECOMES SANJEEVINI PATIL, BECAUSE SHE GIVES LIFE TO A DEAD MAN AND DISCHARGES HIM FROM JAIL!
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FIRST PRESIDENT TO RUN UP BILLS OF 230CRORES ON TRAVEL ALONE!

FIRST PRESIDENT TO GRAB DEFENCE LAND MEANT FOR BUILDING QUARTERS FOR TOILING SOLDIERS.
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Is special status to Bihar JD(U) price for support?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Patna/Is-special-status-to-Bihar-JD-U-price-for-support/Article1-877411.aspx
Is this the secularism of Nitish Kumar ?

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@ Nitin Gupta

I read your comments on IIT and that of Manohar. I was not surprised that they were opposite of mine. With an added masala that I have little knowledge of the process.

Let me clarify at this stage.

I was in IIT. Not for BTech, for which I got a rank to qualify me for chemical engineering/textile engineering which I did not want, but for my MTech, Furtheron on my professor wanted me to join the faculty as a teacher and complete a PhD… which I thought i should not do as my requirements for cash were higher and I really wanted to do research in a field with hands on work experience… which I happen to do now.

I think you are unable to see the issue in totality, while I am speaking pure sense out of experience

a) IIT enterance is cruel hearltess exam where the question paper is way above that of most other colleges. A student who may enter many colleges may just get a 0 (ZERO) in IIT entry. No point in demoralisng a student for the rest of the life.

So a common enterancee to all engineering exams… well would either require the IIT entry paper to be made simple… then more students will end up getting 100% which would then make choosing students for IIT difficult.

b) School board results are highly different from state to state. How can you use that as a basis for IIT entry…. when marking is so variable. Many state boards are lax and give high marks. So boards are stringent. Only a duffer would equate the results. A 98% student of some board may only get 75% if he sat for an exam in Delhi.

I suspect that this is a Rahul G and Si BB al proposal to try to make IIT a way to get a vote bank thru reservations.

BY the way the topic of my research was– ” Can a nueral command in the mind… follow the laws of Newtonion Physics?”

So before you comment that I have little idea of what I am speaking about… try to understand the implications of what I am saying.

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~~~ FRIDAY PREMIERE RELEASE !! BABY G KA SIDE EFFECT!!! ~~~
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Many of us felt angry and sad that Sonia G cried– “phoot phoot kar”– for the murdered terrorists of Batla House, Digvinash ji cried “Phoot phoot” kar for Osamaji, Salman Khurshid cried at Azamgarh, “phoot phoot” kar and Baby G cried after the UP election results.

While Priyanka G cried for Nalini– the killer of her own father.

Manu Singhvi cried because he was denied the rights to more BJ’s

Unfortunately in its en-devour to divide and rule– the third class COngress and its trolls have divided India as never before. All that crying for the dead terrorists have lowered the standard of public discourse in India and unleashed a string of “crying” dramas.

a) The Akalis in Punjab are crying for the killer of Beant SIngh and the murdering terrorists

b) The national Conference in Jammu and Kashmir is crying for restoration of 1953 position.

The standard of public life has been irredeemably lowered by the Congress/

Well ALL OF US SHOULD NOT CRY. BUT JUST RESOLVE TO GIVE THIS IMMORAL, CORRUPT, DYNASTY OBSESSED CONGRESS A HUGE KICK IN THE GA_ _ _ IN 2014

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Alan Mathison Turing’s 100th birthday: Google pays tribute with a doodle

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Alan-Mathison-Turings-100th-birthday-Google-pays-tribute-with-a-doodle/articleshow/14353203.cms

Google on Saturday marked the celebrations of the 100th birth anniversary of computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing with an attractive doodle. Turing, who is also known as the founder of computer science, played a significant role in breaking the wartime Enigma- enciphered messages.

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As he grew, Turing showed exceptional ability in solving advanced problems. His innovative mind conducted several test and also worked on the design of the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1946, he presented a paper which is known as the first elaborate design of a stored-program computer.

His life is full of achievements and because of this extraordinary work he was appointed Reader in the Mathematics Department at the University of Manchester in 1948. His contribution in mathematics and ‘Computing machinery and intelligence’ are still considered to be significant work.

Turing was convicted of his homosexual actions as criminal act in the United Kingdom in 1952. After two years of conviction on 8 June, 1954 he was reported dead due to cyanide poisoning which was believed to be a suicide.

In 2009, after a campaign the then prime minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown issued an apology for Turing’s treatment on behalf of the British government.

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Tamil Nadu

Government school slams its doors on married girls
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3559934.ece?homepage=true

Is there any bar on married girls pursuing their education in Class XI of a government school? This intriguing question has arisen in the minds of many people at Melur, a town situated about 20 km from Madurai, abutting the highway leading to Tiruchi and Chennai.

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Already there is a conflict between the general law relating to marriage and the personal laws of different communities. It is high time the law makers gave a serious thought to the issue,” he adds.

C. Anantha Raj, Executive Director of Equal Right, a non-governmental organisation here, says that marriages of minor children are not uncommon in the villages of southern districts.

The police do not interfere because not many complain about it. Such cases come to light only when someone blows the whistle due to a family feud. Further, it is only in rare cases that minors are allowed to study after marriage. The general practice is to make them raise a family. “Education is empowerment and if we are going to close the doors of a school to married girl students, then that is going to strike a death knell to women’s empowerment,” he concludes.

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Portraitist of the Nehruvian era

Sunil Janah, the photographer whose searing coverage of the Bengal Famine and vivid political portraiture of the 1940s and 1950s helped chronicle a tumultuous era in the life of India, passed away at his home in Berkeley, California on June 21. He was 94 years old.

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Unlike other photographers, Janah was an active political worker whose political work happened to be photography. Because of his talent and reputation, P.C. Joshi happily acceded to requests from the Congress party, the Muslim League and the National Conference in Kashmir to allow him to photograph their meetings and conventions. As an insider with a political ideology, Janah’s photographs stood out for their passionate engagement, idealism and an uncompromising artistic vision.

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Hospital demonstrates complex heart procedure to specialists in the U.S.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article3558232.ece?homepage=true

Interventional Cardiologist at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital in Coimbatore Rajpal K. Abhaichand and his team on Thursday demonstrated through videoconferencing a tough angioplasty to a gathering of heart specialists at Orlando in the U.S.

Dr. Abhaichand said two stents were placed in the left main artery in a 62-year-old man’s heart. What made the procedure complex was that two stents had to be placed simultaneously at a branching point of the artery, involving two regions. Because of this, blood supply to the entire heart had to be stopped for 30 to 40 seconds. If stenting is done in one region, the supply is stopped only to that location and the rest of the heart gets blood.

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RBI’s Cruel Intentions

http://www.mediacrooks.com/2012/06/rbis-cruel-intentions.html#comment-form

The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) has suddenly announced that ‘people from all walks of life’
want to see new figures on our currency notes. Umm… let’s see, they want figures
like B.R. Ambedkar, Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Shivaji
on our notes. Who are all these people from all walks? That’s a recent
report in the EconomicTimes
of June 17,2012. Alright, the demand for Ambedkar’s picture on currency notes is
not new. It came from a relatively unknown NGO in 2010 as DNA
reports.

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Sign board outside the prostitute’s house.

Married men not allowed.
We serve the needy, not the greedy.

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An excerpt from an article I read
” While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man… Eventually the topic got around to Sonia and her role as Congress President.
“The old farmer said, ‘Well, you know, Sonia is a Post Turtle.’ Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked what post turtle meant. The old farmer explained, ‘When you are driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that is a post turtle.’
“Seeing a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, the farmer elaborated, ‘You know she did not get up there by herself, she does not belong up there, she does not know what to do while up there, she is elevated beyond her ability, and you just wonder what kind of dumb person put her up there to begin with…’”

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A Gujarati detective in Scotland Yard

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/A-Gujarati-detective-in-Scotland-Yard/articleshow/14348191.cms

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Manohar

regarding your reference to John Dayal—–
John is another example of how garbage rises to the top in India through secular commissions and government shenanigns

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China falsifying economic statistics to disguise true depth of troubles:
Keith Bradsher, New York Times

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/China-falsifying-economic-statistics-to-disguise-true-depth-of-troubles-Economists/articleshow/14358403.cms

As the Chinese economy continues to sputter, prominent corporate executives in China and Western economists say there is evidence that local and provincial officials are falsifying economic statistics to disguise the true depth of the troubles.

Record-setting mountains of excess coal have accumulated at the country’s biggest storage areas because power plants are burning less coal in the face of tumbling electricity demand. But local and provincial government officials have forced plant managers not to report to Beijing the full extent of the slowdown, power sector executives said.

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The question is whether the actual slowdown is even worse. Skewed government data would help explain why prices for commodities like oil, coal and copper fell heavily this spring even though official Chinese statistics show a more modest deceleration in economic activity.

Manipulation of official statistics would also provide a clue why some wholesalers of consumer goods and construction materials say sales are now as dismal as in early 2009.

Keeping accurate statistics for internal use by policy makers while releasing less grim figures to the public and financial markets may also help explain why China’s central bank suddenly and unexpectedly cut interest rates earlier this month.

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Jonathan Sinton, a China energy specialist at the International Energy Agency, said he had not heard of false data in China’s electricity sector, and he doubted it would be feasible at the five biggest electricity generation companies that together produce half of China’s electricity.

“If there is a problem, it is going to be located in the smaller producers,” he said, cautioning that even these producers would eventually have to submit accurate information to reconcile fuel, electricity and financial accounts.

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Where does the truth lie?

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Is Hinduvatta spreading its wings in US.?

Yoga in Times Square

http://www.timesunion.com/news/slideshow/Yoga-in-Times-Square-44814.php#photo-3096225

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Bishan Singh Bedi’s son???

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-rave-party-apurva-agnihotri-rocky-s-among-44-who-tested-positive-for-drugs-235183

He is the Mahesh Bhatt of Indian Cricket – having an opinion on everything. Would love to hear from him on this one as well

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After Pranab da’s election, the Rashtrapati Bhawan can be renamed “Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Rest House for retired congressmen”.

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many comments are being censored out.

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@ Nitin gupta
You have full right to make fun of my IIT connection… no problems!

By the way the first thing I learnt as a serious science student was to kick out mythology, sperstitiion, blind worship of families and spin…

I think your devotion to the mythological power of Sonia G is very very touching… !!

I think your idea that Baby G has full right to be PM and deserves to be one…. because his pop, grandmum, grandfather was one !! Wah janab Wah !! Kya spin hai…

Beautifull… this way America should be still ruled by the Linolcns and the British by the Churchills !! That would be real progress…

C’mon Pathak G… the world has moved beyond naukercy…
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You hace still not told me the difference between Rabri Auntie and Sonia auntie…

After all both are there becasue of their husband and want to hand over the reins to their sons !! And the husbands were accused of serious crime.
I am sure this is the India you would want… is it not !!???

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~~ WHY NOT A SOHRABUDDIN TYPE ENQUIRY AGAINST SHEILA~
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As I understand, Sonia G, Digiviansh and Baby G have been crying “phoot phoot” kar for the past three years, after the Batla house terrorists were assasinated.

When a killer, extortionist and murderer like Sohrabuddin was killed in Gujarat– everyone from the Congress president to Manish Tewary to Arundhati Roy jumped in to hold an enquiry against Modi.

Since terrorists were aso killed in Batla house and Rahul G, and Sonia G beleive that they were innocents. why should not an enquiry be held against Shiela DIxit??

Noboy… Nobody… Nobody… can answer this for me….

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~~BREAKING NEWS !!! GOOD NEWS FOR NAUKERS AND SLAVES !!! ~~
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Bhangra pao ji !! Bhangra Pao !! Salsa and Disco bhi chalega !!

Shri Digviansh ji, one of the most popular characters on this blog has announced that RAHUL WILL NOW BE HANDED OVER THE CONGRESS PARTY ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE !!!

Wah Wah !! Wah !! Kya inner party democracy hai !!
Wha COngress Wah !!
To all who dont beleive this
read NDTV

Bigger role for Rahul now, says Digvijaya
Published On: June 23, 2012 | Duration: 1 min, 14 sec

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Mohan

I seemed to have overlooked your response to my link about China.

You know the situation there better than me.

China being a authoritarian regime and every aspect of life is being tightly controlled by the state, it would is possible (and they must be doing it) for them to cook up figures to show everything about China is great and hunky-dory. There is no accountability.

Contrast this with our country. All figures are reported as they are, of course, some might try to be economical with the truth (and they do) and hide some uncomfortable data, but not for long – ultimately the truth is there for all to see. RTI Act and CAG reports are some of the sources that help us to know the (grim) reality. This is possible only in a democratic set-up.

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A boy to his sexily dressed girl friend ‘Darling, have some faith in men’s imagination, you don’t have to demonstrate’

Good morning friends.

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Khushnaseeb woh nahin jiska naseeb acha hai balki
Khushnaseeb woh hai Jo apne naseeb se khush hai.

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One day, we may need an “Indian” quota

http://satyameva-jayate.org/2012/06/23/indian-quota/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SatyamevaJayate+%28%7C%7C+Satyameva+Jayate+%7C%7C%29

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Hindu marriage ties non-Hindus in knots, couple gets HC wrap

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hindu-marriage-ties-non-Hindus-in-knots-couple-gets-HC-wrap/articleshow/14366238.cms

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Shan

In the earlier post re: Singur Land case, you responded –

“let me remind you , THE SAME HIGH COURT had initially RULED IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVT IN A SINGLE BENCH, a year ago”

What are you trying to prove and show? That the single judge is more wiser than the two judges! The Supreme Court will now decide who was.

Common sense and established rules & procedures tells us that a judgment by a larger bench takes precedence over that of smaller bench or of single judge. The High Courts can override judgments of the lower courts.

A judgment of the Supreme Court will override the judgment of the High Court (even if it is heard by a smaller bench than that of the High Court). A larger bench of the Supreme Court can also override the judgment of a smaller bench.

To the best of my knowledge, the largest bench of the Supreme Court to hear a case, consisted of 13 Supreme Court judges.

Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala

The case originated in March 1970 when Swami Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru, head of a monastery-like establishment in Kerala called a “muth”, challenged the Kerala government’s attempts, under two state land reform acts, to impose restrictions on the management of church property. Although the state invoked its authority under Article 31, a noted Indian jurist, Nanabhoy Palkhivala, convinced the Swami into fighting his petition under Article 29, concerning the right to manage religiously owned property without government interference. Even though the hearings consumed five months, the outcome would profoundly affect India’s democratic processes.

The majority judgement – by seven judges of the thirteen-judge bench – overturned the anti-Parliament, anti-amendment rigidity of the Golak Nath decision (I.C. Golak Nath and Ors. vs. State of Punjab and Anr.); upheld the constitutionality of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Amendments, and – most importantly – it also ruled that an amendment could not alter the basic structure of the Constitution.

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You have chosen not to respond to the query regarding I P Mukerji and I will leave it that.

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@ Mohan
Let me tell you a fact you may already know. That as a HIndu, it is almost impossible to divorce– in India.

The laws which have evolved are so foolish that bad marriages, violent marriages and marriages without sex and relationships CANNOT be dissolved unless both partners go to the courts, where lawyers misguide one of the partners and in the end it takes about 10 years of a big fight, in which all sort of wild allegations of dowry, in laws harrasment and what not are made.

India should mature and allow an easy divorce in case there is no compatibility. I personally know of cases where a woman is having an extramarital affair but will not divorce her husband and instead level false charges which are punishable under a section 498, whre there is jail on a single complaint by a woman.

Laws which were meant to protect a woman are now the biggest hurdle in happy marriages.

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Air India pilots go on hunger strike

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Air-India-pilots-go-on-hunger-strike/articleshow/14369491.cms

The strike on Sunday entered its 48-day and has reportedly caused a revenue loss
of Rs 530 crores.

More that 1 1/2 month and no solution yet. Does anybody care?

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Bridge over troubled waters

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article3563000.ece?homepage=true

A new report on water sector options in the face of changing climate has called for fresh approach to studying alterations in the patterns of rainfall and snowfall, availability of surface and ground water and the existing water infrastructure.

The report—Water Sector Options for India in a Changing Climate– laments the lack of studies in the country on the impact of climate change in the water sector, but at the same time is optimistic about the situation offering a `unique opportunity’ for revisiting the sector for better understanding, planning and management.

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Farmers should be encouraged to use practices that increase the carbon content in soil so that moisture is retained for longer periods, especially during gaps between rainfalls. The use of reservoir operations should be transparent, accountable and participatory to reduce the flood disaster potential during unforeseen changes in climate.

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The better option, the report points out, would be to create small, localised storages that can serve local communities and can be maintained by them. The country requires urgent action to protect existing groundwater recharge systems and to create more by saving every drop of rain where it falls.

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Megalithic burial site found in Kadapa

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3565463.ece?homepage=true

A megalithic burial site dating back to 500 BC was detected near Devandlapalli village in Rayavaram panchayat of Tsundupalle mandal in Kadapa district (AP).

A study of megalithic culture in Kadapa district was initiated by Robert Bruce Foote and he reported the first megalithic habitation site in 1914 at Yellanur village, which was published in The Foote Collection of Indian Pre-Historic and Proto-historic antiquities catalogue raisonne by Madras Government Press.

In archaeological explorations conducted by Associate Professor G. Sambasiva Reddy, Assistant Professor of History and Archaeology and Assistant Profesor of Geology K. Raghu Babu of Yogi Vemana University, a complex of 20 megalithic monuments were noticed and some of them were dolmens and remaining were dolmen encircles with slabs the left over monuments, dolmenoids-cists encircles with slabs.

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The exploration team appealed to District Collector V. Anil Kumar, officials of the State Archaeology and Hyderabad circle of Archaeological Survey of India to protect the megalithic monumental complex in Kadapa district for future generations.

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Apathy, the disease

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article3562996.ece?homepage=true

Ranibai Vasave travelled for 45 kilometers from Shahada taluka to Nandurbar in March this year to confront officials in the district about the lack of basic heath facilities in her village. The 30-year-old adivasi woman was joined by many others who had gathered for the jan sunwai in this district in the northwest corner of Maharashtra. Their complaints ranged from the failure of funds meant for pregnant tribal women reaching their beneficiaries to the primary heath centre in the village not stocking medicines.

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The issue of vacant Class 1 posts of medical officers was one of the most prominent in the public hearing, and has been a major cause of concern in Maharashtra. In the district hospital in Nandurbar alone, there are 14 posts, whereas only four have been filled. This includes the post of a radiologist, which has been empty for more than year, Dr Hemantkumar Borse of the Nandurbar district hospital said.

“The private radiologists in town flourish because of the lack of specialists in government hospitals,” he said. Entwined with this is the issue of government doctors practicing in their own private clinics. “This is illegal and merits criminal action. On one hand the doctors say they are overworked in government hospitals, and on the other, they run their business openly,” Dr Jadhav laments. At the public hearing, villagers are not scared to point at the government doctors, stating that they run private practices. “We want the doctors to stop their business and do their duty towards the people,” a villager said.

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‘Secular PM’ comments are being made for vote-bank politics: RSS

Of course the following are N O T done in service of V O T E B A N K politics.

1.To perpetually create, foster and foment communal tension. Which the RSS does.

2.To deliberately use RELIGIOUS symbols – Rath Yatra – in pursuit of Vote Banks. Which the BJP does.

3.To Plan, Provoke and Execute COMMUNAL RIOTS to frighten Hindus into the Snagh fold.

4.To perpetually describe Minorities as Vote Bank but never acknowledge
the L U N G A Y A T S are also a Vote Bank who a few years ago changed their allegiance from Congress to the BJP.

In India every one practices VOTE BANK politics Congress is not alone,
and the RSS /BJP Combo are also in the thick of it.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Secular-PM-comments-are-being-made-for-vote-bank-politics-RSS/Article1-878003.aspx

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Sad news

The rescue operation ends in tragedy.

Mahi has been declared dead after being pulled out of the borewell.

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“I would be the last one to know what is happening,’’ he remarked to me. “There is a core group which is the inner circle, then a buffer

group, then a duffer group and finally a loafer group. I belong to the last category.’’-Digvinash Singh.

On her Facebook campaign for Kalam as president, the TMC chief claimed she was a victim of Machiavellian politics. In a meeting with party MLAs and MPs, she referred to the “Italian mafia’’.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no-duffer-no-buffer/965969/0

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Ashish

I am sure you expect me to address every single point that you raise. So here I will. To make it readable I will include your original text in italics and my response in normal text.

Why do you persist in calling the Lingayats, Lungayats? Unhone aapka kya bigada? There are three reasons for this.

1 – Gopi Thomas and others have repeatedly accused the Muslims of acting as anti-Hindu VOTE BANK. Gopi has on more than one occasion, like a returning officer, counted the number districts, towns and muhallahs where the election results were sufficiently close, that had the Muslim Vote been distributed evenly among all the candidates, then his preferred candidate would have won. That actually could be said about many many more Hindu and other minority groupings (caste, community, etc) than it could be said of Muslims. Yet Gopi and others without fail use the term Vote Bank in reference to Muslims but never ever in reference to any other groupings. To counter this, I point out the voting pattern of Lingayats and point to their role in changing the regime in Karnataka from Congress to the BJP and the recent threats issued by Yedurappa to the BJP. Lingayats are his power base and he can and does deliver them as a Vote Bank.

2 – I use Lungayats, so that I can add ballast to already stench saturated nose of B. V. Shenoy. You know why I wish to do that. This pathological liar, communal to core, illiberal to the last sinew in his body, attacks me and I often fail to over-come my basic instinct to retaliate.

Surely you can rise above this kind of petty name calling? I have not seen anyone calling you a Sick as a twisted reference to your religion, have you

3 – Lingayats have बिगाड़ा nothing of mine. I have not knowingly met any one from that community. They were chosen for the above two reasons. Sure I can, and more often than not, do rise above petty name calling but there is a limit to my low threshold of tollernece of lies, and irrational abuse against me. I know मुरीदके just as much as I know जलपाईगुड़ी – which is not at all. However the conjugal pairing of Raja and Rani of this blog have accorded me the FREEDOM of मुरीदके and a holiday appartment in Tora Bora. No one but no one has had the moral courage to stand against this type of abuse. So I do it myself.

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Opinion. Stated ad nauseum; becomes belief. Not fact.

Belief and Fact – Even Quantum Physics is based upon an unshakable but reasonably held belief rather than a scientifically proven fact. The belief that RSS is an organisation that repeatedly causes communal tension to achieve its political objectives is VERY widely held belief. I could name many eminent writers and analysts who hold this belief, but you have
already dismissed all such writers as – JNU Types, purveyors of Victimhood, others have objected to their Shavet Lingham, Jewishness, post-colonial imperialism, etc. I sent you a link where some historians have pointed out that formation of the RSS itself is based on a belief that for centuries Hindus have been the victims of aggression both from without and from within the country because their religion.

2 Heard of Ram Rajya? Or Khilafat? That was universal symbolism, eh? Or, is it that, “Others abide our criticism, Gandhi art free”.

Not sure what point you are trying to make. The use of Rath Yatra is nowhere comparable to Khilafat/Umma/Ram Rajya. Each of these are romantic constructs of the over excited religious fundos.

3. Hmmmmm… again, to frighten 87% of population to join the “sangh fold”- against 13%. I have no great admiration for the intelligence of the RSS; but, surely they are not that dumb?

Once again I can quote many many writers and analysts who will point to the strategy OTHERING used by the RSS of; Muslims are re-producing at such a fast rate that soon India will be a Muslimn Nation. Creating and spreading rumours, Milk has been poisoned by Muslims, look at these dead dogs and in the case of Ahmedabad a dead cat. These rumours start circulation in preparation for the riot to come. Hindu women in particular become afraid and have even been known to stop sleeping (Read Indians – Portrait of a People, by Sudhir Kakar and Katharina Kakar).

So my friend RSS may try to frighten 87% of our population in order to gain perhaps no more than 10% recruits. Similar techniques are used by other communal organisations in India as well as in Pakistan, LeT readily comes to mind.

4. Minorities are a vote bank- described thus or not. Juxtaposing Lingayats in
the context is,.. well, let’s say, there are others as well that are picking up
their jaws from the floor.

The entire population of India can be divided into various “Vote Banks” some more visible and practicing herd mentality, than others. For as long you continue to believe that O N L Y minorities form Vote Banks and that Lingayats are not a Vote Bank then I am afraid Jaws and Floors will remain on collision course.

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Ravi-
Do not understand your constant anti-Hindu attacks. I do not care whether you are Pakistani, Indian Muslim, or as you say Mona Sikh; your constant barking shows either 1) you or your family were inflicted deep wounds by Hindus or 2) you have been programmed by somebody to emit constant hatred.

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I think Chacha Hafeez Saeed dictated a note …whch Ravi Osama penned with Engirch’s pen !!

Arre baba dole lena hai toh… RAW ka double agent ban jao!!

With these happy thoughts… and a smile I proceed to go out wth my friends… in a semi beer induced laziness… to do the most ordinary of things, whcih many of us have nto done for a long time….

An icecream at India Gate… to beat the heat, as we did in school days !

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Economy is going to be in severe tailspin; nobody seems to do anything; MMS and Montek talk about it…talk is cheap,.

what is the opinion of people on this forum about the possibility of Rengarajan as the FM – my gut is that he willbe 100 times better than Pranab.. the issue is the depth of the problems where even a Rengarajan cannot fix

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Kerala is country’s most crime-prone state, NCRB statistics show

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kerala-is-countrys-most-crime-prone-state-NCRB-statistics-show/articleshow/14364473.cms

These are one set of statistics Kerala will not be proud to own up to: God’s own country, and not the badlands of north India, is the most crime-prone state, ahead of Uttar Pradesh and even Delhi.

The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures comparing incidents of crime with the population of a state, notes Kerala is most affected by crime and Kochi is the most dangerous city. Figures compiled till 2010 show that Kerala has a crime rate of 424.1, more than double the national average of 187.6.

Kochi’s crime rate is even scarier at 1,879.8 compared to most cities, where the figure averages 341.9.

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All;
Why we should FEEL proud about Gujarat.
1. Most electricity produced-30337 MW.
2. Most wind Energy produced-100.50 MW.
3. maximum refining of crude oil- 50% of Indian refining.
4. Most of pharma production-45% of India.
5. Most of the CNG handled.
6. Most functioning Sea ports- 41
7. Most Airports- 11
8. Most SEZs- 18.

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Mahi lost battle of Life.
shattered.

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Japanese couple in an argument over ways of SEX

Husband: Sukitaki.
Wife replies: Kowanini!!
Husband says: Toka a anji rodi roumi yakoo!

Wife on her knees literally begging: Mimi nakoundinda tinkouji!
Husband replies angrily: Na miaou kina tim kouji!

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And you sit and read this interestingly as if you understand Japanese!
You are unbelievable… I always knew you will try to read anything on SEX!!! X_X =))

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My earlier joke was not appreciated by anyone so I will post a
Pure Vegeterian Joke.

Husband : Dekho mein tumhare liye mooli, gajar, kakdi, karela, or
kele laya hu .

Wife : Kahin lambe tour pe jaa rahe ho kya ?

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The problem of Narendra Modi

Whatever his devotees may think of him – Modi remains a divisive figure.

He is reviled and appreciated in equal measures, not only in India, but also in his home state Gujarat as well as his own party the BJP. He has also divided the very tightly controlled and disciplined party the RSS.

In the press he gets mixed reports perhaps more adverse than favourable. This has led his admirers to declare the media as being biased and bought.

Judge for yourself, here is randomly select sample of world press.

The problem of Narendra Modi

Modi will eventually have to come to terms with the legacy of 2002 if he wishes to move to bigger things.

Narendra Modi is a divisive figure. This has sometimes worked to his advantage and at other times to his disadvantage. Modi has passionate supporters who constitute a solid political base. He has also collected a large army of detractors who can see nothing positive in him. 

This almost binary reaction is now becoming a problem for Modi, and could put his attempt to move to national stage after 2014 at risk. The recent attack on Modi by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has to be seen against this background.

http://www.livemint.com/2012/06/21115613/Views–The-problem-of-Narendr.html

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Modi’s shadow looms large over nation

It is easy enough to demonise him but a larger question needs to be asked

By Ravi Menon, Special to Gulf News

Published: 00:00 June 17, 2012

Narendra Modi, the longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat, has achieved the rare distinction of being one of most divisive figures in India’s recent history. Not even Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin, Nathu Ram Godse, generated such an amount of sustained hatred.

http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/modi-s-shadow-looms-large-over-nation-1.1036589

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13 June 2012 Last updated at 06:08

Viewpoint: Narendra Modi makes his move

Many Indians cannot accept Gujarat ’s strongman as Prime Minister. It may be time to accept he may become that anyway says commentator Samar Halarnkar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18352532

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Modi Can’t Be Projected as PM Candidate: Brajesh Mishra

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi cannot be portrayed as prime ministerial candidate as it is impossible for the BJP to get a majority on its own in Lok Sabha polls, Brajesh Mishra has said.

Mishra, key aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said Modi
becoming prime minister depends entirely on BJP getting a majority in Parliament
on its own.

“First of all, we must be clear that BJP is not going to get majority on
its own. Impossible. And therefore, he (Modi) cannot be put forward as a
successor. They will have to find somebody else,” Mishra told CNN-IBN.

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=766341

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A Party… a drive along wth friends… and 6 hrs later… the subeject is still Narendra Modi !
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O boy… MOdi must be doing somethng right that so many people have to create spin aganst hm and start beleiveiing it themselves !!

Start the day with Modi and end the day with Modi… seems they are genuinly scared of Modi !

@ Manhor

I think t is funny you castigated SHoeb. He is one of the most decent people here. Why do you want him to fit the image of what you want Musliims to be. Backwards, loving the personal law and only obsessed with religious politics.

I think you should laud Shoeb for breakgn the mould. In fact you should check your own reactions of trying to side up with Ravi, even though he has a snake like agenda of trying to divide India and then get in jehad.

When the subject was Pranab… he got in Modi and RSS. Pretty low IQ predcatible Jehadi pavlovian reactions….

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~~~ HOW THE RSS & bjp PEOPLE ARE HONEST AND STRAIGHT ~~~~
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iF YOU look at the top hundred corrupt chors of India– 50 would be of Congress, 45 of regional parties and maybe 1 or 2 from the BJP. That s the huge differnece between the character driven BJP and the dynasty slaved Congress.
You may or may not agree with the RSS. But the fact is any poltician, Minister or PM or MP wth an RSS background will not steal. loot or cheat as Congressis daily do.
I work in four states as an engineering consultant. The scale in loot of the Congressis and regionals as comapred to BJP is so huge… almost 176000 to 1.
All this spin of the Rs 50, 000 given to bangaru to level scores of the massive cheating is media created trash. It is like comparing a school kid pincihgn a sandwich from a canteen to the brazen dqacoity, murder , rape and loot of Gabbar singh!!

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~~~ WHY CHANGING ENGRICH, RAVI AND OTHER PAKISTANIS IS IMPOSSBLE ~~~~
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Many of us are surprised and perplexed to the extent Engrich and Ravi try to peddle in lies and hatred for India and Hindus.
This is all to do with their edducation system in Pakistan. NDTV carries an aritcle which explains their brainwashng.
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Pak kids taught ‘A’ for Allah, ‘B’ for ‘bandook’
Press Trust of India | Updated: June 24, 2012 17:50 IST

London: Citing stark examples from school curriculum, a prominent Islamabad-based scholar has said that extreme religious and anti-India views fed into children in schools reinforced the cycle of extremism that showed no signs of receding in Pakistan.

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist and a prominent commentator on current issues, showed the examples at a seminar in King’s College on the role of education in combating terrorism, organised by the Democracy Forum.

The examples showed by Hoodbhoy included images and text from a primer that mentioned the Urdu equivalent of A as ‘Allah’, B as ‘bandook’, Te as ‘takrao’, J as ‘jehad’, H as ‘hijab’, Kh as ‘khanjar’ and Ze as ‘zunoob’.

Hoodbhoy, whose presentation title was ‘How education fuels terrorism in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’, also showed a college that is seen as going up in flames, containing images of things considered sinful: kites, guitar, satellite TV, carom board, chess, wine bottles and harmonium.

Examples cited by Hoodbhoy from another curriculum document for Class V students included tasks such as discussion on: ‘Understand Hindu-Muslim differences and the resultant need for Pakistan’, ‘India’s evil designs against Pakistan’, ‘Make speeches on shehadat and jehad’.

“There has been a sea change in Pakistan in the last six decades. The poison put into education by General Zia-ul-Haq was not changed by subsequent regimes. And attitudes have changed over the years, makes my country alien to me,” Hoodbhoy said. Recalling his growing up years in Karachi, he said the city was home to Hindus, Parsis and Christians. “They are all gone. The same is true of much of Pakistan. Minorities have no place in Pakistan today”.

He held madarsas partly responsible for the situation, and regretted that efforts initiated during the regime of General Pervez Musharraf to reform them did not go far.

After the 2007 Lal Masjid incident, liberal voices were also less welcome in Pakistan’s news media, he said.

“Every attempt at education reform has failed to remove the hate material in curriculum, but there is a minority that wants change. The situation will remain in freefall, until something drastic is done to change the situation,” he said.

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Just now finished watching Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate on huge amount of harmful pesticide being used in farming. Are we all really consuming poison daily?
Organic farming was promoted in ths programme. Is this this solution?
I am not an expert on this, would love to read views of learned people on this blog.

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Manohar;
By chance, I have come across an article by Ram Puniyani. Now, I believe, this guy is hero of many people here. I will take him head on now. You watch the show from side line.

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