jul 7th
forwarded by a friend.
netaji, the forgotten leader.
there is a great book, 'brothers against the raj', about netaji and his brother. i started reading it, but was intimidated because it is too large.
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Friday, July 08, 2005
Thursday, July 07, 2005
pearls of wisdom from Teesta Setalvad
jul 7th
i wonder what teesta setalvad calls the bombers in london. surely not terrorists or jihadis. how about 'disaffected youth'? or 'the boys'?
see below for her plea not to call the terrorists at ayodhya terrorists. why, it may hurt their tender feelings, and we can't have that, can we? let's call them, um... 'freedom fighters'? or 'seminary students'? or 'innocent boys'?
in contrast to all this tenderness towards the dead pakistani terrorists, here's what she had to say when the godhra massacre of innocents on the sabarmati express took place:
Teesta Setalvad, head of Communalism Combat, a group that opposes religious extremism in India, said that 'while I condemn today's gruesome attack, you cannot pick up an incident in isolation. Let us not forget the provocation. These people were not going for a benign assembly. They were indulging in blatant and unlawful mobilisation to build a temple and deliberately provoke the Muslims in India.'
of course, the pakistani terrorists were *not* trying to deliberately provoke the hindus in india. indeed, how could the secular armed forces shoot down these martyrs instead of plying them with biriyani?
i guess teesta setalvad is a classic example of a convert trying very hard to justify her conversion. zaheera sheikh also hinted that teesta and family have enriched themselves greatly through all this.
that teesta setalvad says these things with a straight face is a tribute to her epidermal fortitude. that this stuff is reported with a straight face in the english-language media is a tribute to the large amounts of money changing hands.
http://sabrang.com/news/2005/5july05.htm
July 5, 2005
Press Release
Communalism Combat, SAHMAT and the National Campaign in Support of
Democracy condemn the attack on the Ramjanmabhoomi complex by unidentified
persons this morning and appeal to all to maintain peace and calm. This
incident reveals a serious lapse in security. Those who have
perpetrated this crime need to be investigated and punished. However
all persons in authority, political leaders and leaders of all
organisations need to be held responsible to the Indian Constitution
and Indian law so that an atmosphere of hatred and venom is not spread
by those interested in whipping up communal sentiments all over the
country.
Such an incident poses a challenge to the secular fabric of the
country. Transparency needs to be followed in investigation. The media
needs also to respond responsibly to information when labels like
'terrorist' and 'jehadi terrorist' are used intentionally by some
organisations. Above all, this should not become an occasion for
venom and hatred against minorities clouding our public sphere once
again.
Teesta Setalvad, Mumbai
Rajendra Prasad, Delhi
Dr Kumar Saptarshi, Pune
i wonder what teesta setalvad calls the bombers in london. surely not terrorists or jihadis. how about 'disaffected youth'? or 'the boys'?
see below for her plea not to call the terrorists at ayodhya terrorists. why, it may hurt their tender feelings, and we can't have that, can we? let's call them, um... 'freedom fighters'? or 'seminary students'? or 'innocent boys'?
in contrast to all this tenderness towards the dead pakistani terrorists, here's what she had to say when the godhra massacre of innocents on the sabarmati express took place:
Teesta Setalvad, head of Communalism Combat, a group that opposes religious extremism in India, said that 'while I condemn today's gruesome attack, you cannot pick up an incident in isolation. Let us not forget the provocation. These people were not going for a benign assembly. They were indulging in blatant and unlawful mobilisation to build a temple and deliberately provoke the Muslims in India.'
of course, the pakistani terrorists were *not* trying to deliberately provoke the hindus in india. indeed, how could the secular armed forces shoot down these martyrs instead of plying them with biriyani?
i guess teesta setalvad is a classic example of a convert trying very hard to justify her conversion. zaheera sheikh also hinted that teesta and family have enriched themselves greatly through all this.
that teesta setalvad says these things with a straight face is a tribute to her epidermal fortitude. that this stuff is reported with a straight face in the english-language media is a tribute to the large amounts of money changing hands.
http://sabrang.com/news/2005/5july05.htm
July 5, 2005
Press Release
Communalism Combat, SAHMAT and the National Campaign in Support of
Democracy condemn the attack on the Ramjanmabhoomi complex by unidentified
persons this morning and appeal to all to maintain peace and calm. This
incident reveals a serious lapse in security. Those who have
perpetrated this crime need to be investigated and punished. However
all persons in authority, political leaders and leaders of all
organisations need to be held responsible to the Indian Constitution
and Indian law so that an atmosphere of hatred and venom is not spread
by those interested in whipping up communal sentiments all over the
country.
Such an incident poses a challenge to the secular fabric of the
country. Transparency needs to be followed in investigation. The media
needs also to respond responsibly to information when labels like
'terrorist' and 'jehadi terrorist' are used intentionally by some
organisations. Above all, this should not become an occasion for
venom and hatred against minorities clouding our public sphere once
again.
Teesta Setalvad, Mumbai
Rajendra Prasad, Delhi
Dr Kumar Saptarshi, Pune
Go sues microsoft
jul 6th
poor Go. they were the victim of one of microsoft's most egregious 'overhanging the market' tricks. as soon as Go announced their pen computing initiative, microsoft apparently did a nondisclosure with them, understood their direction, and promptly announced microsoft's own pen initiative. which of course caused Go to die a slow, painful death as everyone began to wait for microsoft's Pen Windows. as soon as Go was killed off, microsoft shelved the pen computing initiative.
someone did a spoof on the apocryphal 'microsoft kitchen' where a maker of stoves is driven out of business by microsoft announcing the new and wonderful roadmap to build a microsoft stove. (i just googled 'microsoft kitchen', and lo and behold, there is a roadmap of that name right now, although i didnt bother to read it -- this is hilarious! life imitating fiction?)
a lot of silicon valley types saw the Go case as the archetypal microsoft approach to taking over promising markets. Go had a lot of hype behind it, and looked quite promising.
although, in microsoft's defense, i should say that handwriting recognition was probably too difficult at the time for anyone to pull off, and in hindsight, it was probably not such a great idea anyway. even palm, once successful with its graffiti, has backed away from it. i personally find that i have gone from being a regular graffiti scribbler to being content with pecking at a keyboard onscreen. but it is possible that Go had good operating system ideas which may have, eventually, come to fruition at places like palm or Be with their tiny OS as compared to microsoft behemoths. wasn't Be also suing microsoft?
looks like microsoft is also trying to settle its suits by throwing money at them rather than the old tactic of crushing the opponent through protracted and expensive legal battles. an attempt at image makeover in the wake of widespread public and regulator animosity? microsoft does need to get away from its take-no-prisoners style, which is a little offputting in a giant dominating the industry.
is microsoft really under some pressure as intel woos apple and the mac os x may appear on pcs as an alternative, while linux is also making headway?
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12065856.htm
poor Go. they were the victim of one of microsoft's most egregious 'overhanging the market' tricks. as soon as Go announced their pen computing initiative, microsoft apparently did a nondisclosure with them, understood their direction, and promptly announced microsoft's own pen initiative. which of course caused Go to die a slow, painful death as everyone began to wait for microsoft's Pen Windows. as soon as Go was killed off, microsoft shelved the pen computing initiative.
someone did a spoof on the apocryphal 'microsoft kitchen' where a maker of stoves is driven out of business by microsoft announcing the new and wonderful roadmap to build a microsoft stove. (i just googled 'microsoft kitchen', and lo and behold, there is a roadmap of that name right now, although i didnt bother to read it -- this is hilarious! life imitating fiction?)
a lot of silicon valley types saw the Go case as the archetypal microsoft approach to taking over promising markets. Go had a lot of hype behind it, and looked quite promising.
although, in microsoft's defense, i should say that handwriting recognition was probably too difficult at the time for anyone to pull off, and in hindsight, it was probably not such a great idea anyway. even palm, once successful with its graffiti, has backed away from it. i personally find that i have gone from being a regular graffiti scribbler to being content with pecking at a keyboard onscreen. but it is possible that Go had good operating system ideas which may have, eventually, come to fruition at places like palm or Be with their tiny OS as compared to microsoft behemoths. wasn't Be also suing microsoft?
looks like microsoft is also trying to settle its suits by throwing money at them rather than the old tactic of crushing the opponent through protracted and expensive legal battles. an attempt at image makeover in the wake of widespread public and regulator animosity? microsoft does need to get away from its take-no-prisoners style, which is a little offputting in a giant dominating the industry.
is microsoft really under some pressure as intel woos apple and the mac os x may appear on pcs as an alternative, while linux is also making headway?
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12065856.htm
EU kills off software patents
jul 6th
this means that the us will continue to the only country that propagates these increasingly dubious patents in software. this, i suspect, is because there are plenty of clever lawyers in the us who are ensuring job security for themselves.
http://swpat.ffii.org/log/05/ep0706/
at least a small blow has been struck in rethinking intellectual property. indian technology types really need to put some thought into how to take advantage of/fit into the existing and emerging IPR regimes. it's pretty ad hoc right now, and that is like the old non-aligned movement nonsense: short-term warm-and-fuzzy feelings, long-term disaster.
this means that the us will continue to the only country that propagates these increasingly dubious patents in software. this, i suspect, is because there are plenty of clever lawyers in the us who are ensuring job security for themselves.
http://swpat.ffii.org/log/05/ep0706/
at least a small blow has been struck in rethinking intellectual property. indian technology types really need to put some thought into how to take advantage of/fit into the existing and emerging IPR regimes. it's pretty ad hoc right now, and that is like the old non-aligned movement nonsense: short-term warm-and-fuzzy feelings, long-term disaster.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Geopolitics and Sanskrit Phobia by Rajiv Malhotra
jul 6th
forwarded by a friend. as usual malhotra does a thorough job of exposition. i like the idea that there are several key civilizations: christian, muslim, and chinese/maoist, indic. the first three are all attempting to destroy the last. as the sabha bulletin has it, it is the 3Ms ganging up on us: marxists, mullahs and missionaries. (oops, correction, it's 4Ms: i forgot macaulayites for an instant). do see the latest SABHA report.
killing off sanskrit is intended to destroy indic civilization from the roots. this is succeeding, too. i am not going for that strawman comparing english with sanskrit; they both have their place. i have expounded in great detail about languages in rediff columns several years ago. my argument is that sanskrit is the only real candidate for national language; even at this late stage, it should be anointed as such. sanskrit is the natural choice based on its importance as a classical literary, liturgical and link language which has influenced all other indian languages greatly.
that reminds me: the 'eminent historian' [sic] of ancient india romila thapar does not read sanskrit. then what kind of historian is she if she has to depend on motivated translations by whites especially missionaries?
Geopolitics and Sanskrit Phobia by Rajiv Malhotra
killing off sanskrit is intended to destroy indic civilization from the roots. this is succeeding, too. i am not going for that strawman comparing english with sanskrit; they both have their place. i have expounded in great detail about languages in rediff columns several years ago. my argument is that sanskrit is the only real candidate for national language; even at this late stage, it should be anointed as such. sanskrit is the natural choice based on its importance as a classical literary, liturgical and link language which has influenced all other indian languages greatly.
that reminds me: the 'eminent historian' [sic] of ancient india romila thapar does not read sanskrit. then what kind of historian is she if she has to depend on motivated translations by whites especially missionaries?
american enterprise institute: us india relations
jul 6th
a summary of what has beeen going on in the us-india relations sphere. no extraordinary revelations, but a survey nonetheless.
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050622_Indiareport.6.22.05.pdf
a summary of what has beeen going on in the us-india relations sphere. no extraordinary revelations, but a survey nonetheless.
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20050622_Indiareport.6.22.05.pdf
bloomberg: why asian consumers are ignored
jul 6th
interesting. the 'savings glut' ie. asians save too much.
and i thought there's no such as thing as too rich, or too thin, or saving too much.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_mukherjee&sid=aag0MfrEjno8
interesting. the 'savings glut' ie. asians save too much.
and i thought there's no such as thing as too rich, or too thin, or saving too much.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_mukherjee&sid=aag0MfrEjno8
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