Voice of India Features Newsletter - 21 March 2010

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Editorial: Bareilly Riots and Partisan Government The Editorial Team The riots in Bareilly are causing major concerns. The procession of Muslims on March 2 to mark Barawafat turned violent as soon it was stopped from violating the assigned routes. Soon curfew was imposed which continued for more than two weeks, one of the longest in recent past. The riots have resulted in hundreds of shops gutted and scores injured with rising tension in the region.  After the incident, Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan, the national president of the powerful Muslim organization Itihad-e-Millat Council (IMC) was arrested from IMC office by police on March 8 in connection with the rioting. Read more... Bareilly Under Curfew Pramod Kumar The Muslim appeasement politics on the part of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress again demonstrated its ugly face-now in Bareilly town of Uttar Pradesh. The city remained under curfew for more than two weeks and lost the property worth crores of rupees. More than 60 houses of innocent Hindus were burnt and 10 seriously-injured people are struggling for life in different hospitals. Apart from the appeasement politics by political parties, the wrong decisions taken by the local administration too contributed in worsening the situation. Instead of taking strict and timely action against the rioters, the State BSP government crossed all limits of appeasement by releasing the mastermind of the riots, Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan who is also president of Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC). A number of criminal cases have been registered against Raza under section 147, 148, 149, 458, 307, 332, 336, 427, 152, 153 K, 295, etc. of IPC during the last two decades. Read more... Americans Dearer, Indians Cheaper Amba Charan Vashishth It is now history. India never considered herself a nation and a country inferior to any other, least of all even USA. She always dealt with other countries from a standpoint of equality and strength. She could never be bullied or cowed down under threats.United States of America (USA) though the oldest democracy in the world, has yet stood mostly by dictatorial regimes fighting against democracies in the world with only few exceptions. During the past 60 years, whenever there was a conflict between India and Pakistan, the successive democratic administrations in US have stood solidly behind  the Pak military regimes (with short-time democratic interregnums) against the largest democracy in the world in India - be it the Kashmir issue, Pakistan's aggression against India and the like Read more... An Explanation Nicholas Kazanas Two men wrote saying that while Prof Witzel deserved the lashing he got in my Open Letter to him (4/2/10), I went perhaps too far in my accusations of dishonest scholarship.I don't doubt at all that W knows Vedic and the RV. I have made this plain in other earlier writings. Moreover, I accept that he, like all of us, makes inadvertent mistakes and, whenever I met such, I (corrected them silently and ) bypassed them. I too make errors. Some years back, I wrote that Whitney translated the word rathavāhana as 'chariot-frame' and not as 'a platform upon which is transported the chariot'. I was right in that he had used the compound 'chariot-frame' (i.e. box of the cart) but in a subsequent note, which I had missed in my first reading, he explained that he meant the 'platform'. In a different paper I took the phrase brahmā́yám to mean 'this Spirit absolute' ignoring the first accent which suggests 'this brahmin priest' or, at best, 'sanctity, the soul of the world'. The term 'Spirit absolute' would have the accent on the first syllable bráhma-n.  Read more... Islamic Slaughter of Innocents Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur In a province (of Pakistan) that has been witnessing nauseating bloodshed perpetrated by those who have a painfully narrow view of Islam and are least hesitant to slaughter innocent men, women and children in their pursuit of both heaven and the shariah, one of the Punjab's leading politicians and ministers did not find anything wrong in accompanying the leader of a banned sectarian organization during a recent election campaign, writes Pakistani writer Nadim Paracha. The introduction of the Al Qaeda Training Manual (Department of Justice, USA translation) says: The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates ..., Platonic ideals ..., or Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun Read more... Your Subscription: