Bagging medals the Chinese way

Awesome. Once again clarity of thought, concise content and precise verbage. The mark of good writing.
Vir’s writings should be a model for courses in journalism for youngsters learning this trade.

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“a small man in a Santa suit (with flashing neon disco sunglasses because this is Bombay)”
Could you post a picture?

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Dear Vir Sanghvi,

Nice article..! I understand you are anti-BJP and on Congress party payroll but if you don’t spit venom on BJP by fabricating the news, you are a great writer. I hope you get it that journalists should be neutral .

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Mouth piece of Congress Gvt…what can you say? Compare those in power with the Anna Team, I think anna team is much better than these rogues sitting on the chairs like they own this country.

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Country hasn’t forgotten the calls you made and role you played in the 2G scam. If an affective Lokpal established, you will be the first crony journalist to go to Tihar. Good luck!

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Sanghvi must have received a hefty pay for writting this article ! Sanghvi knows that Anna has a far larger following & let me tell him that due to the above article his following is bound to grow more.

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Govt can’t afford 2 let go CBI control because the skeltons of Sonia & other Minister who are drafting the Bill would come out and most of them would land up in jails. They would rather play politics and try get out of the jam. Let us not get them out of the hook this time.

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C’mon, Masha. Think of the Aussies, having Christmas in summer. Sing Christmas carols and all will be well.

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Grin. And the same to you, Parvana.

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Did the photocopying work, T? I mean, were you able to read comfortably?

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Potiticians in India are a waste of space. They are polluting the whole environment by their smelly gas. The are like worms who slither. Their chamchas are still saying that Parliament is supreme and only they have right to say something against the corruption. The are painting a very gloomy picture of India after the Jan Lok Paul as if it is very bright now. Our own prime minister has said that he is not capable of removing corruption. And yet few months ago they wanted to bring a useless bill that would not help the people of India. Yes parliament is supreme in the western world where politicians stand up for what they believe. Here in India Politicians are standing against Anna.
Why congress always stands up and always discredits Anna, yet nobody spoke of bringing such a bill.
Government is spending tax payers money to gain some credibility, yet it remains to be seen if they succeed.

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It is Congress India lost land to Paksiatan (PoK) and China from Kashmir. Since Congress has ruled the nation for many decades. Not resolving issues with Pak leading to terrorism in various parts of India. Today by doing caste and religion based politics they just creating a Pro congress environment, but the truth is nation has lost more under Congress rule than any other. They will not going to bring strong anti Corruption laws simply because they are scared to looses more important leaders and loose the election. Time has come when people should take best of both sides (Congress and BJP). Since Congress has already cleared quota for minorities, now people in UP should vote only for those who are willing to support Jan lokpal bill and are non corrupt. Idea is take what ever Congress is giving to minorities but choose people of your choice.

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its absurd to belive on blogs you can write anything u like…journalists those who represent nation must do some research before penning down….this article is not less than a farce and another congy trick to derail the movement

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Read your non sence blog and comments on it by people. You still didn’t get it!!!

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“That’s why I don’t care what the government thinks of Kejriwal and gang or their draft or their intransigence. I care only about being able to live my life in a corruption-free society.”

You openly diss Anna Hazare and his team for doing what they can, to get you and everyone else a chance to lead a life in a corruption-free society. You openly support the government in character assassination of the members of India Against Corruption movement. And you care about leading a life in a corruption-free society. What kind of crazy logic is that??

So either you are paying lip service to the anti corruption movement, while deriding it openly for other purposes, or you don’t know how things work.

Pull out your head from your anal aperture, so that you can see the light, buddy!

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This is the result of what may be termed the Rajya Sabhafication of the government.

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Dear Sanghvi

It’s not the question of who is fighting the war against corruption. we as billion Indians are out of our patience and frustrated. Honestly India is not a Democratic state but ruled by few big business houses and politicians. you should support the cause irrespective of wether its initiated by Team Anna or baba Ram dev – What is your contribution to the development of the Indian society except writing and reporting in colonial language – Is that all ?

please spare some time and collect the data of people that are dyeing due to hunger , poor health services , negligence of Govt officials , poor internal security , policing etc – it runs in to hundred of thousands.

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Will strong Lokpal change things ???

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I know about the UnChristmassy (is that a word..anyway it’s there now) feelings. I have been inundated with project deadlines But the other day I’d had enough…so laptop was closed firmly, and I got down to cooking. And some more cooking. And calling friends over. And having a couple of barbecues…those things always help And now I’m feeling good and festive….

I insist on wishing you a fantastic, super duper 2012, which is filled with lots of books

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Seeing how the protest has fizzled out, some might say that it is Team Anna that doesn’t get it.

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Zia are you nuts , what utter bollocks you write and I quote
“Yet, the elections in UP, a bellwether state the size of Brazil, ”
HOLY MACCARONI , BRAZIL IS NEARLY TWO AND A HALF TIMES ……….THAT OF ……….INDIA(yes you are reading it correct)
Other than that glaring mistake , generally your arguments are sound , THOUGH MUSLIMS NEED TO DEFINE THEMSELVES AS HUMAN BEINGS FIRST , INDIANS NEXT , and muslim by chance of birth.
If that is the order of priority , then education , material well being , RATIONALITY ought to play a much much bigger role than it does at the present moment.
Oh by the way , Deoband needs to demolished to smitherens

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why are these women dressed in these strange clothese this is not how Indian women dress Indian culture is very colourful full of life these women are being depressed and are dressed in a very depressing manner compeletely against Indias traditions and culture

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I disagree with these two words when presenting my country.
Majority and minority. When will India learn to be a land of Indians with a common code of conduct. All rules/rituals should merge into a common denominatuin otherwisw the country is heading for untold miseries and troubles.

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Like a mule is a cross-breed between a horse and a donkey, indians/pakistanis/bangladeshis/sri lankans are cross-breeds between Aryan and Dravidian (austral-african, black, negrito).

The muslims/christians in the sub-continent are just converts over a period of time. Babar was a half-mongol from Samarkand in present day Uzbekistan.

For eg. Salman Khurshid is Aryan type while APJ Abdul Kalam is Dravidian admixture (cross-breed). The classification is based on skeletal/skull anthropometrics.

This bloodshed is senseless in the context of the sub-continent’s genetic profile.

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the size of brazil? you mean total population?

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Click on the name of writer to see his all biased and fancy articles.

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You can see Zia is no different than an illiterate muslims. Both whine and always ask for Khairaat..They got 2 nations for themselves but are still begging. This is what is happening around the world.

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Zia is deliberately not telling the truth.
Muslims definitely vote as one group as per instruction provided after Friday prayer by their Mulla

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Mulla always dictate after Friday prayer who to vote.
And they blindly follow.

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“…elections in UP, a bellwether state the size of Brazil…” – i stopped reading the article after this! UP == Brazil … Seriously !!!

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Muslims like any other group has layers which behave differently when voting. Like other groups layers, some of the layers do vote as block and some don’t. Zia seems to take a simplistic view of Muslim attitudes to the elections.

“This is especially true when they see an emerging threat from communal politics of Hindu nationalists that threaten their identity”

A good question is if those same Muslims will vote for Islamist communal NUTTERS like the Muslim league and the rest even those the Muslim league is directly and historically involved in splitting this country in communal lines in 1947 which can be blamed for the current religious polarization in parts of India? Is this case of “NUTTERS are ok as long as they are our NUTTERS”?

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RAJX AND DIPANKAR,

10 Indictments Of Narendra Modi

1 JUNE 2002 The then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee reminded Narendra Modi in a letter to follow “raj dharma”. Vajpayee observed that there was “gross under-assessment of damages” to riot victims.

2 SEPTEMBER 2003 Hearing the infamous Best Bakery case, in which 14 people were burnt, the then Chief Justice VN Khare remarked, “I have no faith left in the prosecution and the Gujarat government. You have to protect people and punish the guilty. What else is raj dharma?”

3 APRIL 2004 In a damning observation on the Modi government, Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat remarked: “The modern-day Neros were looking elsewhere when innocent children and helpless women were being burnt and were probably deliberating how the perpetrators can be saved.”

4 FEBRUARY 2006 On orders of the SC, the Gujarat HC reopened 1,594 post-Godhra riot cases and action was initiated against 41 police officers. By June 2006, over 2,000 cases were reopened.

5 OCTOBER 2007 A six-month-long investigation by TEHELKA exposed Modi’s complicity in the riots. Several rioters, senior Sangh Parivar functionaries and the state government’s special prosecutor were caught on camera revealing in detail the role played by Modi in the carnage.

6 MAY 2010 The SIT submitted a report finding Modi guilty on many counts: a communal mindset, inflammatory speeches, destruction of crucial records, appointment of Sangh Parivar members as public prosecutors, illegal positioning of ministers in police control rooms during the riots, and persecution of neutral officers.

7 JULY 2011 Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran recommended that Modi should be prosecuted under Sections 153A, 153B, 166 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code.

8 SEPTEMBER 2011 The SC ordered that the complaints of late Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia and Citizens for Justice and Peace against Modi would be heard by a magistrate in Gujarat.

9 JANUARY 2012 Justice VM Sahai of the Gujarat HC upheld the appointment of the Lokayukta by Governor Kamala Beniwal against Modi’s wishes. Justice Sahai’s order read: “The pranks of the chief minister demonstrate the deconstruction of our democracy.”

10 FEBRUARY 2012 The Gujarat HC remarked, “The fact that the riots continued for several days itself suggests lack of appropriate action or adequate action, if not inaction, on the part of the state in handling the situation

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BALWINDER JEE AND SHAN,

10 People Who Got Away

1 MK TANDON, JCP, Sector 2, Ahmedabad, in whose region over 200 Muslims were butchered, didn’t respond to distress calls from Gulberg Society, Naroda Gaon and Naroda Patiya. He was in telephonic contact with VHP general secretary Jaideep Patel and local BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani.

2 PB GONDIA, DCP, Ahmedabad Zone IV, remained out of his area of jurisdiction when the two areas were burning. His cell phone records have shown that he was in touch with Nimesh Patel, accused in the Naroda killings. He too was in touch with Patel and Kodnani.

3 HARESH BHATT, was with the Bajrang Dal and went on to become the Godhra MLA. He admitted to the TEHELKA sting operation that bombs and other weapons were manufactured at his firecracker factory.

4 GORDHAN ZADAPHIA, the deputy home minister during the riots. Babu Bajrangi, a key accused of the Naroda Patiya riots, revealed in the sting op that he had called up Zadaphia after the carnage and was advised to flee the city.

5 PC PANDE, the commissioner of police, Ahmedabad, was accused of deliberate inaction by riot victims and activists. In 2010, IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt claimed that Pande was constantly informed about the mob build-up at Gulberg but failed to take action. Call data records show Pande visited Gulberg on the day of the massacre.

6 MADHU SRIVASTAVA, former BJP legislator was caught on a TEHELKA sting operation in 2005 confessing to have bribed Zahira Sheikh, a key witness in the Best Bakery case to retract her testimony. While Zahira was later convicted for perjury, there was no criminal action against Srivastava.

7 DILIP TRIVEDI, general secretary of the VHP’s Gujarat unit, was the senior pleader in Mehsana district, among the worst affected areas. In the TEHELKA sting operation, Trivedi admitted he weakened prosecution cases by coercing and bribing the witnesses.

8 ANIL PATEL, senior Sangh Parivar functionary, told the TEHELKA undercover reporter how he carried out mayhem in Sabarkantha district, where more than four dozen people were killed and hundreds of houses razed.

9 DHAWAL PATEL, VHP functionary, was caught on camera confessing to the manufacture of bombs at his stone quarry in Sabarkantha with the help of RSS man Amrudh Patel, an expert in handling explosives. There was no criminal action against either person.

10 FEBRUARY 2012 PK MISHRA, an IAS officer, who was Principal Secretary and party to many controversial decisions taken during the riots. A top cop had told TEHELKA that Mishra, in collusion with two IPS officers, had fabricated documents and bulldozed officers into submission

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SHAN AND AALOKE,

10 Ways The Judiciary Slipped Up

1 THE SC should have issued suo moto notice to the government after the NHRC’s 2002 report, which had observed that “a serious failure of intelligence and action marked the events leading to the Godhra tragedy and the subsequent deaths and destruction”.

2 IN 2002, the SC should have transferred 10 major cases to the CBI or to some other independent agency. Even though the apex court ordered these cases to be fast-tracked, it ruled out the transfer of cases.

3 THE SC ordered the reopening of 2,000-odd cases, which were closed by the police without proper probes. But the apex court didn’t closely follow up on the reopened cases as a result of which most of them were again closed without meeting the ends of justice.

4 EITHER THE Gujarat HC or the SC should have taken cognizance of call records submitted by police officer Rahul Sharma in 2004. These exposed the administration’s dereliction of duty and subversion of the Gulberg Society and Naroda Patiya massacre cases.

5 IN THE wake of the TEHELKA exposé of state complicity in the riots, Zakia Jafri and the CJP filed an application before the HC asking for verification of the authenticity of the tapes. The court dismissed the application. The SC too failed to take a firm stand and didn’t pass any order. It was finally left to the NHRC to order a CBI inquiry.

6 AFTER STAYING the trials in nine cases in November 2003, the SC allowed the petitions to drag on for the next five years. It was only in March 2008 that it constituted an SIT and ordered reinvestigation.

7 THE APEX COURT enlisted Gujarat cadre cops into the SIT and in a way re-entrusted the probe into the hands of the state police, which was reporting directly to the Modi government and was accused of subverting of justice.

8 THE SC chose a retired CBI director as the head of the SIT, who visited Gujarat not more than once or twice a month and kept himself at an arm’s length from the field investigations. The SC could have instead chosen retired judges to monitor the probe.

9 THE SC first expressed displeasure with the SIT’s report on Modi and made Amicus Curiae Raju Ramachandran carry out an independent exercise of assessing the material collected by the SIT and submit a report. But in a wishy-washy order passed last September, the SC left it to the discretion of the SIT whether it would like to produce the amicus report before the magistrate.

10 THERE WERE several petitions filed before the Gujarat HC and the SC praying for an investigation into the mass graves discovered in more than a dozen places across Gujarat. Both the courts turned down the prayer

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personal interest is banned but bank interest with restriction is allowed in muslim countries.yes islam is against interest banking as it generates slavery.
now big countries of world are slaves of banks.they have to fight wars to repay loans.that is america is continously at war with everbody.destroying world hurting her own economy.THAT IS WHY INTEREST IS BIGGEST EVIL IN ISLAM.

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Hard to understand why liberal Muslims have their feathers ruffled by the mention of Jihad. Jihad means to wage war. Yes, Jihad can be through mouth as well but the idea of Islam is that ‘There is no God but Allah’ Islam is not only a monotheistic religion but it is a religion that teaches its followers to religiously win the war.

The use of jizya is again a part of Islamic struggle to win the world in the name of religion. If we look at the history of Islam, the slow Islamization of the world happened through the use of dhimmitude system.

In central Asia, after the battle of Talas, in India after the invasion of Muhammed Gouri, in Persia after the defeat of Sassanid empire, non Muslims became dhimmis and had to pay a special tax. The dhimmitude also meant that they are no more the citizens and more denizens(in roman terms). Once it happened, all the conquered people slowly changed into Muslims.

Jihad as the duty of state in Islam is a baloney. There is no place for nationalism in Islam. Nationalism as per its own definition means that it is a feeling that surpasses every other feeling. So like it or not, an Indian Muslim is a Muslim first and could hardly care whether he is an Indian or not.

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

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Jihad is state of mind. A Muslim is always in Jihad. The core concept is to better one’s life, Jihad to control self and discipline oneself is the greatest of Jihad. Jihad against tyranny and oppression is mandatory. Jihad in Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya is Mandatory, because people live under oppression and tyranny. Similarly Jihad against Syrian Tyranny is mandatory. There is no ambiguity about it. What is the difference between freedom struggle and Jihad. End result is the same, freedom struggle is secular and Jihad is in the name of Allah meant to salvage Muslims from oppression. It is not meant to conquer other people’s territory.

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I have stopped feeling sorry for the rare academicians, who compromise on their intellectual integrity and have to go through mind-boggling contortions to be one of the tribe of muslim apologetics.
There are several historians of this breed that infer, for example, that Mohammad of Ghazni was not at all a raider, he did great service to “free” frozen assets! They refuse to look into the chronicler’s records of these blood-thirsty tyrants who noted with unabashed glee, how many infidels were beheaded, how many taken into slavery etc etc.
One worthy record to go into is M.A. Khan’s “1slamic Jihad”. He painstakingly noted translated from these records and written the book. That would put to rest all the mental gymnastics of this breed of apologetics who play a devious role in keeping the most brutal episode in the annals of world history.under wraps The sorry tail of this brutal millennium is that descendants of those who capitulated to save their skins and save their women and children from slavery now are in the forefront of white-washing that bloody brutal interlude, as if it is the figment of some rabid hindu imagination

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Cmon
Zia, be a sport. Ever thought that why we need a column called “They call me Muslim”

Nobody is writing a column called, “They call me a Jew, christian, Hindu, Sikh, ahemadiya, qadiani, Nirankari, Confucian, etc etc.”

SOme Musllims have made a dogma about a book written 15 centuries back as if it said everything about life, ethics, politics, war and sex. Very stupid. Out grow it yaar,

Intrpret the world as it exists today. Enjoy the sun, the moon the dogs, the tunes…

You can be the right guy to throw this bunkum about intrepreting every word written there and making a living out of it.

Will you take up the challenge?

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rdicalism is due to unemployment not because of religion.economies are destroyed by americans and russian invasion.they became suicide bmber to feed family.

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no they are victims of american presence in the are where there is america,there is no voilence or suicide bombing.

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1000% correct..but people like be politically correct..

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read arthshastra and dharamshasta and read how aadi shankaracharya kicked out budhdhist from main land.

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Whether it is Muslims, Islam, Muhammad, and Quran, or it is Jesus, Christianity, and The Bible, the Hindus, their numerous gods, their Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva) that fills in for Isvara (God), or any other religion, its followers, and its texts, the point is every organized religion is no more than a system of thought. A system of thought is not produced except in a human mind, or several human minds. Likewise, a book may be the work of one hand or several hands. There is no way of writing a book except by a human agency. Books are for reading and not for worshipping. There may be some useful things in every book. But it is extravagant to claim that any book could be the result of a revelation or ilhaam or that there could be anything like a divine book, e.g., Srimadbhagavadgita, or, for that matter, that any one book or collection of books could contain complete truth or even knowledge. It is straining human reason to be asked to believe that any book or any line in it could have a divine origin. To my way of thinking, there is nothing distinctive about Islam, Quran, or Muhammad. Those who consider Quran as the embodiment of all the collective wisdom of all ages past and future are ignoring the logic of human growth over the centuries and in the future. For that matter, it is useless to talk about something like jihad, which to my mind is a mere affectation invented by scheming individuals for the sake of claiming some kind of superiority for their religion, its originator, and the supposed author of what all had been ‘revealed’ to him by Allah (God). There is no such thing as Isvara (God) or Allah (God) and there is no such thing as a paighambar (Prophet) or a Son of God or, for that matter, a religious way of doing things. It is extravagant to even talk about something like the efficacy or impact of prayer, because there is no one to pray to and nothing to pray for, because no prayer is answered ever, because there is no one to answer it. We as human beings need to organize our affairs in a matter that conduces to the greatest benefit of everybody as far as we can manage. There are no higher courts of judgement and no rewards or punishments for one’s actions in life. At the same time, there is nothing like reincarnation or punarjanma or resurrection. There was nothing before one is born and there will be nothing after one is dead. Everything on the subject has been the imaginative invention of clever minds who manage to sway the gullible and the weak. V. C. Bhutani, Delhi, India, 13 Mar 2012, 1355 IST

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