mundra to be bigger than mumbai port? astonishing.
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
what maximum governance has done for earthquake-hit bhuj 10 years on. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12309791
Monday, January 31, 2011
Nuclear Cover Up by Dr A Gopalkrishnan
जान ३०, २०११
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sanjeevnayyar
From: sanjeevnayyar
From: Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:48 PM
Subject: [STRATEGY_INDIA] For Circulation Please
Friends : January 29,2011
A brief article of mine , titled "The Nuclear Cover-Up" is published in the latest issue of INDIA TODAY which has hit the stands today . The issue is dated February 07, 2011 but it is already on sale. For your information , I have reproduced below the text of this article . Regards -- Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan , Former Chairman , Atomic Energy Regulatory Board , Govt. of India
The Nuclear Cover-Up
By
Dr.A.Gopalakrishnan
Dr. Anil Kakodkar served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) during the crucial years from 2000 to 2009 . During his tenure , in around 2004 , the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) formulated a nuclear power plan , which concluded that India can generate a total of 192,530 GWe-years of electricity from the net available natural uranium and thorium resources in the country , by following the three-stage Bhabha plan . The 2004 DAE plan projected that this totally indigenous program will deliver 208,000 MWe of installed nuclear power by 2052 , without having to import any uranium or nuclear power reactors from abroad beyond the first two VVERs from Russia .
Following the July 2005 visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington , the government's foreign policy focus shifted to establishing an Indo-US strategic relationship , even if it meant the trading in of a part of the nation's sovereignty and its hard-earned self-reliance in the nuclear sector . In return for this strategic bear-hug , the government agreed to quid-pro-quo arrangements to purchase a significant number of power reactors from the US , as well as from France and Russia . The corporate houses in India and abroad and their Federations and Business Councils who were eager to import nuclear reactors to India were active collaborators in shaping this change of policy . Among the facilitators were also some politicians , senior bureaucrats , and scientific stalwarts from India and abroad who saw some benefit in it for themselves . Somewhere along the way , the top officials of the AEC and the DAE were also co-opted by the PM to help him justify his drastic redirection of India's nuclear policy.
To help the PM , the DAE came up with a trumped up , revised nuclear power plan in July 2008 , which was revealed by Dr. Kakodkar in his address to the Indian Academy of Sciences . This plan was centered around the baseless argument that importing 40,000 MWe of Light-Water Reactors (LWRs) between 2012-2020 is an absolute necessity to avoid a 412,000 MWe shortage in electric power availability in 2050 , which would otherwise occur . In effect , this was concocted by suppressing some of the realistic possibilities for electricity generation from available non-nuclear sources , and thereby creating an artificial deficit which was then filled by imported nuclear power reactors . Interestingly , according to DAE's 2004 plan , the same total electricity demand in 2050 was promised to be met wholly through indigenous efforts in nuclear power , national & imported coal and natural gas to fuel power plants , and by setting up renewable energy & hydro power units .
In the face of mounting opposition to the unproven French reactors to be set up in Jaitapur , Dr. Kakodkar (now retired from the AEC) has given an interview to a Marathi daily , on January 5, 2011. He appears to have said, " It may be asked why we don't concentrate only on uranium import and why are we taking foreign help in other nuclear areas. Here , we must realize that we have to take into consideration the interests of certain foreign countries and their industries also . From their point of view , if there is more real business interest in other areas of nuclear technology apart from uranium sales , then India has to consider this aspect seriously . Such give & take arrangements are inevitable when we wish to get India recognized as a nuclear power and remove the nuclear restrictions on our country ." (Translated from Marathi) .
From the above , it is clear that the arguments for nuclear reactor imports stated all along by the government and in its 2008 revised nuclear power plan were merely an eye-wash and a cover-up . The import of reactors was the price that the PM paid as a quid-pro-quo arrangement for the NSG clearance , which has now landed India in the precarious position of becoming the dumping ground for hitherto un-built & untested high-cost nuclear reactors like the French EPRs at Jaitapur which could endanger the lives of several thousand people in and around Maharashtra in the coming years.
[Dr.Gopalakrishnan is a Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board]
__._,_.___
THIS GROUP FOCUSES ON THE SCHOLARLY STUDIES OF POLICY AND STRATEGIC ISSUES PERTAINING TO INDIA'S PEACEFUL EMERGENCE AS A GLOBAL ECONOMIC, MILITARY AND CIVILIZATIONAL SUPER-POWER.
.
__,_._,___
sanjeev nayyar: Remembering Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Special
jan 30th, 2011
dharampal's books are eye-opening. they are available on the web.
the british wiped out indigenous education, because they wanted to create coolies for their world-conquest. and they succeeded. all of us come out of college as coolies for the west. it is only after a large amount of detoxification that some of us begin to see the light.
the vast majority of indians -- eg. bdutt, sagarika, digvijay -- are toxified and toxic throughout their nasty, brutish lives.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sanjeev Nayyar
From: Sanjeev Nayyar
Namaskar,
On 30/1/1948 M K Gandhi was shot dead. On this day we present two articles.
1. State of Indigenous Education India in the 18th century - excerpts from a book by noted Gandhian Dharmpal - 'In October 1931 Gandhiji was invited to address the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London where he made two observations. One 'that today India is more illiterate than it was fifty or hundred years ago'. Two that 'the British administrators instead of looking after education and other matters which had existed began to root them out. They scratched the soil and began to look at the root, and left the root like that and the beautiful tree perished'.
Dharampalji visited London archives and has reproduced British survey reports that tell us of how the Indian education system worked, report on education in Punjab, Bihar, Bengal. Ch 5 has the British strategy to kill India's indigneous education system, Ch 6 gives Table which show Sudras were highest nos of scholars, Ch 8 has two articles by Daulat Ram Gupta titled 'The Decline of Mass Education in India & How Indigenous education was crushed in Punjab'.
2. Everyone talks about Gandhi's murder but few ask why was he killed - This piece attempts to give answers. Chapters are of Law of Causation and Karma, excerpts from Nathuram Godse's book ie his defence in Court, Gandhi's changing attitude, Sri Aurobindo on Gandhi, Food for thought.
With Regards
Sanjeev Nayyar
Become a FAN of eSamskriti on Facebook - www.facebook.com/eSamskriti
Our Mission - "A platform to share knowledge and insights which will help Indians globally, to reconnect with our heritage so that together we can build a truly glorious future".
To unsubscribe write back
Silence from Muslim-Americans - Boston Globe
jan 30th, 2011
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sri
Subject: Silence from Muslim-Americans - Boston Globe
To:
From: sri
Subject: Silence from Muslim-Americans - Boston Globe
To:
Not a perfect article, but we are getting there.
Puts the spotlight directly on the soft jihadis/'sleeper cells in America
As usual the comments offer more insight and truth -- v
Silence from Muslim- Americans
deafening silence from nisha "pink panty" susan and all the other "loose women"
jan 30th, 2011
this nisha susan waxed indignant when mangalore's rama sene prevented mohammedan boys from 'grooming' hindu girls (like they are, famously, doing in england).
but there is thunderous silence when yet another mohammedan boy does indecent things.
hey, nisha susan, no green panties to send to raees?
Corruption in Egypt and in India
Here's an interesting news magazine episode, covering corruption both in Egypt and India:
Nathuram Godse's Final Address to the Court
Must read for all Indians, Hindu "secularists" (sic) and "Gandhians" (sic) in particular. A most eloquent address by the late Shri. Nathuram Godse, articulating the rationale for eliminating Mohandas Ghandy.
His speech in court was censored by the Stalinist Nehru regime, in order to prevent the Indian people from seeing the obvious and evident vulgarity of Ghandhian pacifism in its complete nudity.
An objective evaluation of the logic articulated in this speech would have the unbiased reader (i.e. not brainwashed by the cult of "secularism") concur with that argument.
This speech is very relevant to contemporary India, even though the event occurred 63 years ago. Censorship by a government under the tutelage of the Nehru dynasty is a real fact even in the 21st century. Distortion of truth and perversion of the political parlance by Christist indoctrinated, bigoted, dishonest "Secular"
Taliban media is an even greater concern. Throttling of information
is the primary mechanism that has allowed the Nehruvian STALINIST regime to survive
in power for the better part of 6 decades.
I KILLED GANDHI!!! - NATHURAM GODSE 'S ADDRESS IN COURT
Gandhiji Assassin: Nathuram Godse's Final Address to the Court.
Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated
Gandhiji, based on a F. I.. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the
Tughlak Road Police station at Delhi . The trial, which was held in
camera, began on 27th May 1948 and concluded on 10th February 1949. He
was sentenced to death..
An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did not
find favourable and the sentence was upheld. The statement that you
are about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the
5th of May 1949.
Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the
judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, "I have, however, no doubt that had
the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted
with the task of deciding Godse's appeal, they would have brought a
verdict of 'not Guilty' by an overwhelming majority"
WHY I KILLED GANDHI
Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere
Hindu religion, Hindu history, and Hindu culture. I had, therefore,
been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed
a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance
to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for
the eradication of untouchables and the caste system based on birth
alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintained
that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social, and
religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not
through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession.
I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which
thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and
Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the
company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of
Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along
with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some
prominent countries like England , France , America , and Russia .
Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all
I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written
and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more
to the molding of the thought and action of the Indian people during
the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.
All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty
to serve Hinduism and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen.
To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some
thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute
the freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race.
This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu
Sanghtanist ideology and program, which alone, I came to believe,
could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan , my
Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.
Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak,
Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became
supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their
intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence
which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or
enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is
nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every
constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if
you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable
of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life
from day to day.
In fact, honour, duty, and love of one's own kith and kin and country
might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I
could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is
unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and,
if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the
Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita..
[In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and
Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and
relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the
side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama,
Krishna , and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a
total ignorance of the springs of human action.
In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati
Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny
in India . It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and
kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his
own life. In condemning history's towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana
Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has
merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear
a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the
name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji, and the
Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for ever
for the freedom they brought to them.
The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his
last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the
existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi
had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being
of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India
he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the
final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his
leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he
would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.
Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either
Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with
playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality,
metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him.
He alone was the Judge of everyone and every thing; he was the master
brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the
technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to
withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold
disaster, and political reverses but that could make no difference to
the Mahatma's infallibility. 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his
formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself
knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury
in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled
with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty
character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible.
Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had
either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at
his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute
irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure
after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy is
blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national
language of India . It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior
claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his
career in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found
that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is
called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no language
called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a
mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue
and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma's
sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the
Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national
language of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him and
the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity
of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All
his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.
>From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947.
Lord Mount batten came to be described in Congress circles as the
greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The
official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but
Mount batten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected
India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after
thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress
party calls 'freedom' and 'peaceful transfer of power'. The
Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a the ocratic state
was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have
called 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' - whose sacrifice? When
top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore
the country - which we consider a deity of worship - my mind was
filled with direful anger.
One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast
unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu
refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent
attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and
censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was
shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he
imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan ,
there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown
some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason
that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He
was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all
perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly
attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being
referred to as the Father of the Nation.
But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty in as much as he
has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the
partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his
duty.
He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his
spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is
made of, all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will, and proved to be
powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall
be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people
would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost my entire
honor, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji.
But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of
Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and
would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be
totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of
Pakistan . People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense
or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded
on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound
nation-building.
After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision
in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I
took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on
30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that
my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought
rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no
legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and
for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards
anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present
government owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towards
the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy
was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi.
I have to say with great regret that Primes Minister Nehru quite
forgets that his preaching's and deeds are at times at variances with
each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and
out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played
a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of
Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy of
appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to
accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and
the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as
may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire
any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg
for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my
action has not been shaken even by the criticism leveled against it on
all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weighs
my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.
JAI HIND
NOW YOU DECIDE HOW HISTORY SHOULD JUDGE ME
His speech in court was censored by the Stalinist Nehru regime, in order to prevent the Indian people from seeing the obvious and evident vulgarity of Ghandhian pacifism in its complete nudity.
An objective evaluation of the logic articulated in this speech would have the unbiased reader (i.e. not brainwashed by the cult of "secularism") concur with that argument.
This speech is very relevant to contemporary India, even though the event occurred 63 years ago. Censorship by a government under the tutelage of the Nehru dynasty is a real fact even in the 21st century. Distortion of truth and perversion of the political parlance by Christist indoctrinated, bigoted, dishonest "Secular"
Taliban media is an even greater concern. Throttling of information
is the primary mechanism that has allowed the Nehruvian STALINIST regime to survive
in power for the better part of 6 decades.
I KILLED GANDHI!!! - NATHURAM GODSE 'S ADDRESS IN COURT
Gandhiji Assassin: Nathuram Godse's Final Address to the Court.
Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated
Gandhiji, based on a F. I.. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the
Tughlak Road Police station at Delhi . The trial, which was held in
camera, began on 27th May 1948 and concluded on 10th February 1949. He
was sentenced to death..
An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did not
find favourable and the sentence was upheld. The statement that you
are about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the
5th of May 1949.
Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the
judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, "I have, however, no doubt that had
the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted
with the task of deciding Godse's appeal, they would have brought a
verdict of 'not Guilty' by an overwhelming majority"
WHY I KILLED GANDHI
Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere
Hindu religion, Hindu history, and Hindu culture. I had, therefore,
been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed
a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance
to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for
the eradication of untouchables and the caste system based on birth
alone. I openly joined RSS wing of anti-caste movements and maintained
that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social, and
religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not
through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession.
I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which
thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and
Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the
company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of
Ravana, Chanakiya, Dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along
with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some
prominent countries like England , France , America , and Russia .
Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all
I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written
and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more
to the molding of the thought and action of the Indian people during
the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.
All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty
to serve Hinduism and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen.
To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some
thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute
the freedom and the well-being of all India , one fifth of human race.
This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu
Sanghtanist ideology and program, which alone, I came to believe,
could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan , my
Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.
Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak,
Gandhiji's influence in the Congress first increased and then became
supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their
intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence
which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or
enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is
nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every
constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if
you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable
of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life
from day to day.
In fact, honour, duty, and love of one's own kith and kin and country
might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I
could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is
unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and,
if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the
Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita..
[In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and
Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and
relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the
side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama,
Krishna , and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a
total ignorance of the springs of human action.
In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati
Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny
in India . It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and
kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his
own life. In condemning history's towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana
Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has
merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical as it may appear
a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the
name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji, and the
Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen for ever
for the freedom they brought to them.
The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his
last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the
existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi
had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being
of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India
he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the
final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his
leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he
would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way.
Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either
Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with
playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality,
metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him.
He alone was the Judge of everyone and every thing; he was the master
brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the
technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to
withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold
disaster, and political reverses but that could make no difference to
the Mahatma's infallibility. 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his
formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself
knew what a Satyagrahi is. Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury
in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled
with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty
character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible.
Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had
either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at
his feet to do with as he liked. In a position of such absolute
irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure
after failure, disaster after disaster. Gandhi's pro-Muslim policy is
blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national
language of India . It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior
claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his
career in India , Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found
that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is
called Hindustani.. Everybody in India knows that there is no language
called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a
mere dialect, it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue
and cross-breed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma's
sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the
Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national
language of India . His blind followers, of course, supported him and
the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity
of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All
his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.
>From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi's infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork. The Congress which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947.
Lord Mount batten came to be described in Congress circles as the
greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The
official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but
Mount batten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected
India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after
thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress
party calls 'freedom' and 'peaceful transfer of power'. The
Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a the ocratic state
was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have
called 'freedom won by them with sacrifice' - whose sacrifice? When
top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore
the country - which we consider a deity of worship - my mind was
filled with direful anger.
One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast
unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu
refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent
attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and
censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was
shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he
imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan ,
there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown
some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason
that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He
was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all
perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly
attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi. Gandhi is being
referred to as the Father of the Nation.
But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty in as much as he
has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the
partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his
duty.
He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his
spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is
made of, all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will, and proved to be
powerless. Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall
be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people
would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost my entire
honor, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji.
But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of
Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and
would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be
totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of
Pakistan . People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense
or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded
on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound
nation-building.
After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision
in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I
took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on
30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House. I do say that
my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought
rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no
legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and
for this reason I fired those fatal shots. I bear no ill will towards
anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present
government owing to their policy which was unfairly favorable towards
the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy
was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi.
I have to say with great regret that Primes Minister Nehru quite
forgets that his preaching's and deeds are at times at variances with
each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and
out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played
a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of
Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi's persistent policy of
appeasement towards the Muslims. I now stand before the court to
accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and
the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as
may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire
any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg
for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my
action has not been shaken even by the criticism leveled against it on
all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weighs
my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.
JAI HIND
NOW YOU DECIDE HOW HISTORY SHOULD JUDGE ME
Sunday, January 30, 2011
hooray! james "water-carrier for pakistan" astill to leave
jan 30th, 2011
this fellow, the economist stringer in delhi, has been the worst foreign correspondent in india since oh... the NYT's john burns, the NYT's barbara crossette, the NYT's elisabeth bumiller. hmmm... maybe a pattern is emerging here.
i understand astill is, finally, leaving. it may be short-lived relief, though, because the voice of NATO, the 'atlanticist' surely has even worse bigots on staff. the previous guy, simon long, was actually quite a decent person, though.
more on slick willie: a puff piece talking him up. gag me!
jan 30th, 2011
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
puff-piece on william dalrymple. in poor taste, like headley-mania among certain chatterati.http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/017_05/7000
governance: singapore's secret ingredient. and modi's
jan 30th, 2011
friedman waxes eloquent about governance in singapore.
the model followed by modi appears equally good: "max governance; min government"
modi looks like he's a clone of lee kwan yew.
microfinance god yunus, nobel prize winner, in some trouble
jan 30th, 2011
charitable interpretation: yunus has lost it with age, but refuses to step down.
a bit like verghese kurien, the god of amul, although i do wonder in his case also how much of it is clever marketing (helped by buddies in the elm like fellow kerala xtists bg verghese, tn ninan, kgs george et al) and how much is real.
uncharitable interpretation: microfinance is a huge fraud.
this suspicion arises because of the enthusiasm of india's stalinists for the idea, and the concomitant crony capitalist moves that have helped folks like SKS microfinance to make huge money.
and now they are trotting out this new hoax of 'inclusive growth' which basically means "more funds diverted from the taxpaying hindu public to our party cadres, mohammedans and xtists". more hare-brained schemes like NREGA.
incidentally, 108,000 crores disappeared into NREGA schemes, and there have been no audits. i suspect much of this money now resides in swiss accounts belonging to the rich and famous. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/nrega-rs-1l-cr-spent-so-far-but-no-audit/articleshow/7388433.cms
Huge crowd in BJP rally at chennai- It was also telecast live in Raj Digital TV
jan 30th, 2011
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sri
Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:02 PM
Subject: Huge crowd in BJP rally at chennai- It was also telecast live in Raj Digital TV
To:
BJP agitation brings traffic to a grinding halt
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/bjp-agitation-brings-traffic-to-a-grinding-halt/243537.html
V Gangadharan
Express News Service
First Published : 30 Jan 2011
CHENNAI: The culmination of the BJP's Tamarai Yatirai, christened as Chennai
Porattam (Chennai agitation) was a big draw throwing traffic out of gear on
GST Road and the fact that the saffron party was able to pull in such huge
crowds raised many eyebrows.
The valedictory event of the yatirai evidently tried to compete with main
stream Dravidian parties by putting up huge digital banners, posters,
festoons and party flags besides lifesize hoardings of State BJP chief Pon
Radhakrishnan with Nitin Gadkari on arterial roads of the city and its
suburbs.
Interestingly, a big chunk of the crowd wore 'Pon Radhakrishnan masks' and
raised Bharat Mata Ki Jai, slogan when party leaders spoke. Cadres came in
huge numbers from various districts of the State and vehicles of all sizes
hired by party men clogged vehicular movement on the GST Road.
Tamarai yatirai began in November last with a five point agenda. The main
demand was scholarship for poor Hindu students on a par with minorities.
Good governance, priority for farm sector, reining in price rise, protection
to temples and its properties were the other demands. The yatirai traversed
over 9000 km covering all districts in the State.
Taking a vow that his party would send MLAs to the assembly, Pon
Radhakrishnan said the first voice of party members in the legislature would
be to demand scholarship for poor Hindu students
--
India was the richest country on earth till the British invasion in
the 17th century.
Ancient Indian achievements
http://www.astrojyoti.com/historicindianfirsts.htm
From: sri
Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:02 PM
Subject: Huge crowd in BJP rally at chennai- It was also telecast live in Raj Digital TV
To:
BJP agitation brings traffic to a grinding halt
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/bjp-agitation-brings-traffic-to-a-grinding-halt/243537.html
V Gangadharan
Express News Service
First Published : 30 Jan 2011
CHENNAI: The culmination of the BJP's Tamarai Yatirai, christened as Chennai
Porattam (Chennai agitation) was a big draw throwing traffic out of gear on
GST Road and the fact that the saffron party was able to pull in such huge
crowds raised many eyebrows.
The valedictory event of the yatirai evidently tried to compete with main
stream Dravidian parties by putting up huge digital banners, posters,
festoons and party flags besides lifesize hoardings of State BJP chief Pon
Radhakrishnan with Nitin Gadkari on arterial roads of the city and its
suburbs.
Interestingly, a big chunk of the crowd wore 'Pon Radhakrishnan masks' and
raised Bharat Mata Ki Jai, slogan when party leaders spoke. Cadres came in
huge numbers from various districts of the State and vehicles of all sizes
hired by party men clogged vehicular movement on the GST Road.
Tamarai yatirai began in November last with a five point agenda. The main
demand was scholarship for poor Hindu students on a par with minorities.
Good governance, priority for farm sector, reining in price rise, protection
to temples and its properties were the other demands. The yatirai traversed
over 9000 km covering all districts in the State.
Taking a vow that his party would send MLAs to the assembly, Pon
Radhakrishnan said the first voice of party members in the legislature would
be to demand scholarship for poor Hindu students
--
India was the richest country on earth till the British invasion in
the 17th century.
Ancient Indian achievements
http://www.astrojyoti.com/historicindianfirsts.htm
Pak Holds US Diplomat Hostage Following Firing Incident
Pakistan has rejected US calls to release one of its diplomats from police custody, following his arrest in a shooting incident. The US is demanding his release, saying he has diplomatic immunity.
Hindu MP to Leave Sindh for India
A minority Hindu serving as a politician in Pakistan's Sindh province has submitted his resignation, so that he can move to India.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
nice han-xtist combination fraud: andhra 'students' wearing radio-frequency collars
jan 29th, 2011
figures: a semi-english-literate chinese woman (susan su) creates a 'christist university' for pure fraud.
and all these andhra people -- i bet they are mostly neo-converts looking for an easy passport to the us -- get caught. they should have taken different avenues of which i can suggest two:
1. claim you are a 'divinity student' or padre. you get an immigrant visa with little trouble. your church can help
2. marry a kerala christist nurse. there are plenty of them in the us with immigrant visas.
no need to get caught in this sort of sordid drama when there are such easier alternatives for christists.
i don't know if the 'collar' story is true or is just made up by indian media. i wouldn't put it past the migra to do it, of course.
you guys remember jaichand pallekonda, the doc who is also a christist fundamentalist and a foulmouth and an andhra guy? i wonder if a) he's involved in this scam, and b) why not a peep has been heard from him about unfairly yanks are treating fellow-andhras.
the indians who cooperated in this deal
Govt woes mount after apex court rap - CVC Thomas case - MINT - Govt thinks all Indians are FOOLS
jan 29th, 2011
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sanjeev Nayyar
From: Sanjeev Nayyar
Namaskar,
GOI says 'committee that took the decision to appoint P J Thomas as CVC did not know about the criminal case against him in Kerala'. Appalling the PM and Home Minister did not know about the case. Do they think Indians are fools to see thru this lie. Wonder how he was appointed Telecom Secretary in the first place and his role in the 2G scam. Wish someone investigated that as well. Rgds sanjeev
New Delhi: Twin blows in the Supreme Court on Thursday compounded the political problems facing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance.
First, it was censured by the apex court for shoddy investigation into black money stashed away in European banks. Then, its legal representative conceded that the committee that took the controversial decision to appoint P.J. Thomas as the central vigilance commissioner (CVC) did not have information about a case against him in Kerala—a claim that was immediately rubbished by one of the three members on the committee—Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The other two members of the committee were Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P. Chidambaram.
An analyst described the government's stand in the court as either the "height of incompetence or duplicity" and said it would provide fresh political ammunition to an already aggressive BJP.
The court also issued notices to six economic and public agencies of the government for failing to ratify a 2003 UN Convention on Corruption, which would have made acquiring information on white-collar crime from various countries possible. It would also have made it mandatory for India to release information to other countries.
... deleted
Azim Premji: "National Calamity....Complete Breakdown in Governance at Centre...It has reached a point of catharsis"
jan 29th, 2011
there goes premji's chances of a bharat ratna.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ravi
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:51 AM
Subject: Azim Premji: "National Calamity....Complete Breakdown in Governance at Centre...It has reached a point of catharsis"
To:
From: Ravi
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:51 AM
Subject: Azim Premji: "National Calamity....Complete Breakdown in Governance at Centre...It has reached a point of catharsis"
To:
PTI
can govts block twitter?
jan 29th, 2011
contrary to what this article says, and despite the fact that you could use TOR to get random ip addresses, govts can still effectively shut down twitter.
"An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I'm Worried That Others Aren't Worried," Barry Rubin
jan 29th, 2011
is egypt going to end up with a fundie government? pretty likely. just like iran.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: GLORIA Center <administrator@gloria-center.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Subject: "An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I'm Worried That Others Aren't Worried," Barry Rubin
To:
By Barry Rubin
From: GLORIA Center <administrator@gloria-center.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Subject: "An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I'm Worried That Others Aren't Worried," Barry Rubin
To:
An Interview on the Egyptian Revolt: I'm Worried That Others Aren't Worried
January 29, 2011
http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2011/01/interview-on-egyptian-revolt
1) How do you judge the Egyptian protests?
It is tempting to see this as a revolution that will bring down the regime. But Egypt is not Tunisia. And while the demonstrations are passionate it is not clear that the numbers of participants are huge. If the elite and the army hold together they could well prevail, perhaps by removing Mubarak to save the regime. We should be cautious in drawing conclusions.
2) Do you see the threat of an Islamist takeover by the Ikhwan?
So far the uprising has not been led by the Muslim Brotherhood. But it is the only large organized opposition group. It is hard to see how it would not be the leading force after a while. The leadership would have to decide that it is facing a revolutionary situation and that this is the moment for an all-out effort. But if it does so and fails there will be a terrible repression and the group will be crushed. It appears that the Brotherhood is joining the protests but has not made its basic decision yet. In the longer term if the regime is completely overthrown I do believe the Brotherhood will emerge as the leader and perhaps the ruler of the country.
... deleted
fouad ajami in wsj on egypt's likely direction: fundie rule
jan 29th, 2011
there are entire passages in this essay that could be applied verbatim to india.
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
The insightful fouad ajami in the wsj. Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs http://bit.ly/f5rqRW see any parallels?
ibnlive's World's unexplained religious apparitions
jan 29th, 2011
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sri
Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Subject: Must see -- ibnlive's World's unexplained religious apparitions
To:
Note -- it is headlined "religious apparation" ... not supersitition
or anything by ibnlive.
Out of curiosity I clicked this tempting ibnlive link.
Only to find it was full of corspe god trash. No wonder only 15 of
our readers "liked" it. Whereas 59 (including mua) "disliked"
Please read the entertaining, but truthful comments (below) as well.
World's unexplained religious apparitions
http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3209-0.html
Liked: 15
Disliked: 59
Comments -
from arunesh129 at 21:47, Jan 28, 2011
How come there is no brouhaha about mass hysteria whenever there is a
so called miracle witnessed by Christians. There is nothing spiritual
about blood red tears from statures this is all satanic.
from Vineet Sharma at 19:17, Jan 28, 2011
any such hindu belief is called as myth and so called
supersition.........so that should be the bench mark .....it cannot be
that hinduism has all myths whereas chrisitanity and mother marry
myths (with all due )respect) are religious
appartitions........ridiculous
from sridh2003 at 16:08, Jan 28, 2011
If this kind happen in india u media people tell hindus makeing fraud
to earn money. If its happen out side india its maricale for media.
what a hypocrati
from arun23285 at 14:22, Jan 28, 2011
the garuda flying over the ornaments in our own country in
sabarimala...is a great wonder in itself
from abhijith01 at 11:52, Jan 28, 2011
this is a piece of crap. Please change the news headline to "Christian
Apparitions" If it were to be an impartial journalism, you would have
reported many such inexplicable beliefs across various relegions
within India like Ganesha drinks milk or some inexplicable landmarks
like "Naama Chilume" near Bengaluru where we can see water flowing out
of 4 inch deep hole that was believed to be caused by an arrow of Lord
Ram and many more resonable news than "tainted windows", "marks on the
wall caused by rain water", "blurred image of a man-made fence". looks
like website is adding this as a content area filler news. Such myopic
news is not what is expected in IBN-Live. Hope CNN IBN will be
sensitive enough in future before publishing such crap and biased
information.
--
From: sri
Date: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Subject: Must see -- ibnlive's World's unexplained religious apparitions
To:
Note -- it is headlined "religious apparation" ... not supersitition
or anything by ibnlive.
Out of curiosity I clicked this tempting ibnlive link.
Only to find it was full of corspe god trash. No wonder only 15 of
our readers "liked" it. Whereas 59 (including mua) "disliked"
Please read the entertaining, but truthful comments (below) as well.
World's unexplained religious apparitions
http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3209-0.html
Liked: 15
Disliked: 59
Comments -
from arunesh129 at 21:47, Jan 28, 2011
How come there is no brouhaha about mass hysteria whenever there is a
so called miracle witnessed by Christians. There is nothing spiritual
about blood red tears from statures this is all satanic.
from Vineet Sharma at 19:17, Jan 28, 2011
any such hindu belief is called as myth and so called
supersition.........so that should be the bench mark .....it cannot be
that hinduism has all myths whereas chrisitanity and mother marry
myths (with all due )respect) are religious
appartitions........ridiculous
from sridh2003 at 16:08, Jan 28, 2011
If this kind happen in india u media people tell hindus makeing fraud
to earn money. If its happen out side india its maricale for media.
what a hypocrati
from arun23285 at 14:22, Jan 28, 2011
the garuda flying over the ornaments in our own country in
sabarimala...is a great wonder in itself
from abhijith01 at 11:52, Jan 28, 2011
this is a piece of crap. Please change the news headline to "Christian
Apparitions" If it were to be an impartial journalism, you would have
reported many such inexplicable beliefs across various relegions
within India like Ganesha drinks milk or some inexplicable landmarks
like "Naama Chilume" near Bengaluru where we can see water flowing out
of 4 inch deep hole that was believed to be caused by an arrow of Lord
Ram and many more resonable news than "tainted windows", "marks on the
wall caused by rain water", "blurred image of a man-made fence". looks
like website is adding this as a content area filler news. Such myopic
news is not what is expected in IBN-Live. Hope CNN IBN will be
sensitive enough in future before publishing such crap and biased
information.
--
J&K cops ‘offered urine for water’ to Ekta yatris, tore up Indian National flag into pieces and carried posters - ‘Indian dogs, go back’.
jan 29th, 2011
lala lajpat rai: beaten to death during the protest against the simon commission in 1927 must be turning over in his grave.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ravi
To:
From: Ravi
To:
J&K cops 'offered urine for water' to Ekta yatris
January 29, 2011
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
When separatist leader Yasin Malik and others marched to Lal Chowk with black flags, the police offered them hot tea and cigarettes. But we were arrested for trying to hoist the National Flag… When we asked for water, the police offered us urine."
Dozen of BJP youth wing workers who have returned to the Capital — with fractured limbs and numerous wounds — narrated the story of brutality unleashed by the Jammu & Kashmir Police in Srinagar on January 26.
These youth leaders had to sneak into Srinagar and hide in small groups to continue with the plan to hoist the National Flag at Lal Chowk, after threats by separatists and prohibitory orders by the State administration.
While Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) chief Anurag Thakur and BJP leaders were arrested upon entering Jammu & Kashmir, a couple of youth wing workers made an attempt on January 26 morning to hoist the flag at Lal Chowk.
KK Upadhyay, an engineer from Gurgaon, was the first who tried. He was beaten up. The next group of workers came as close as 20 metres from Lal Chowk. No sooner did one of them take the flag out of his pocket and wave it, that several policemen pounced on him, snatched away the flag, tore it (the National Flag) into pieces and beat him up, fracturing his left hand in the process.
"J&K Police personnel were carrying posters — 'Indian dogs, go back'. The arrested BJP activists were forced to take off their clothes in sub-zero temperatures. Third degree torture was meted out. Does Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have any explanation for this kind of an action? He should apologise to the nation," Anurag Thakur told The Pioneer on Friday.
Bhrigu Bakshipatra, Rajesh Chowdhary, Mohan Reddy, Suresh Bagashia (office-bearers), Shyantanam Basu (executive member), Jitendra Meena, Virendra S Khinchi, Lokinder Singh Rajawat, Vijay Upadhyay, Vinod Rawat, Bhupinder Chowdhary, Ashok Bhati (from Rajasthan), RP Singh, Shikha Rai, Hiren Mishra (from Delhi), Pradeep Singh Vaghela, Harsh Sanghavi, Alpesh Sashikant (from Gujarat) and Jitendra Gupta (from West Bengal) had to be admitted to a local hospital after they received serious injuries in a police lathicharge.
The State Police, Thakur said, not only tortured party workers but also used obscenities against the BJP national leaders. Maintaining that his yatra was a success – as party workers managed to hoist the flag so close to Lal Chowk despite police cordoning off the area – Thakur said his next plan was to reach out to the people, students in particular, and expose the UPA's pro-separatist polices.
"We have been successful in our endeavor to excite and rejuvenate India's youth into proactively taking the cause of national integration and sovereignty," he said.
China to Merge 9 Cities Into Largest Mega-City
China is planning to create the world's largest mega-city by merging 9 nearby cities together through various development projects. The proposed area will be home to 42 million people.
Friday, January 28, 2011
'solving' kashmir
jan 27th, 2011
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
says @DNA: Kashmir issue would have been resolved if Nehru had not died: Farooq Abdullah http://bit.ly/hXEfXc | i'm afraid to ask how
memories of imperial oppression
jan 27th, 2011
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
MORE IMPERIAL COMPARISONS. the EU 'observers' at binayak sen's trial deserve to be met with 'simon commission go back' slogans (1927).
RajeevSrinivasa rajeev srinivasan
HISTORY. are we reliving the emergency, or are we reliving british raj? in simon commission protests lala lajpat rai was beaten to death.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)