how indians were taught to hate their own spectrum of brown skin: Turks and euros did it

https://x.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1843119623258132570

casta' was invented by european conquerors in the Americas to differentiate themselves from the mixed race populations they created and lorded it over: terms like mulatto, quadroon, octroon, mestizo, all markers of whiteness. then they applied 'casta' to jati and fooled us.

i also think severe racism against indians was the contribution of brit women, who came on the 'fishing fleet' to snag colonial officers. these drab females found themselves in competition with sexy indian women, and invented taboos against miscegenation based on skin color.

the rop turks/ubzeks (they called themselves 'gurkaniya timurids' but brits gave them the nice title 'mughals') were the first to introduce skin color prejudice into India. the RoL whites then delivered the coup de grace.

Thanksgiving..

Celebrating the day Americans fed 'Undocumented Aliens from Europe'.

Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?

Liz Truss now the least-popular UK prime minister in the history of polling



62 per cent of Tories feel they made the wrong choice between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compared with 15 per cent who said they had got it right.

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.

He's four months old.

— Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness) October 19, 2022

Quick notes: Reparations | Anti-woke investing...

• When do we file reparations case against Britain? Poland demands USD 1.3 trillion reparations for WWII from Germany



• Indians love East India Company: Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of building a super app are starting to come true. People in India will soon be able to order their groceries through WhatsApp.



• Vivek Ramaswamy: Woke Inc author wants to pick a fight with BlackRock.. A wealthy biotech entrepreneur turned anti-“woke” evangelist, Vivek is at the vanguard of a new conservative movement—one that’s bringing America’s political divisions to the money-loving heart of Wall Street.




• Who needs a backdoor when you have a front door? Predatory loan apps in India rake in huge fees, and are driving some users to suicide. First, they gain user data access, including users' contacts and call records, which they use for recovery and harassing people. In some cases, the operators of these apps get user consent by pretending to use their contacts in case they are not reachable.
  
  Some apps, however, take all that data without getting any prior consent from users. A few apps also claim that they need access to contacts and call records for fraud prevention. Nevertheless, the actual purpose in most cases is to use the phone numbers obtained for recovery purposes, which sometimes become too harsh to bear.



• Foldable winged Ornithopter: NIT-Rourkela alumnus achieve patent for Uri-like UAV



• 'China is a backstabber': Do we still think that if we are nice to China, it will be good to us?



• China admits endless lockdowns have consequences: China says COVID has exacerbated decline in births, marriages



• Calling everyone else racist: New York Times union alleges 'Racial Imbalance' in performance reviews



• Warming world: Warmer air holds more moisture -- about 7% more per degree Celsius and that eventually comes down, in this case in torrents. Pakistan is used to monsoons and downpours, but they were spread out over three months -- not 37.5 centimeters in one day.



• Kronos Quartet: R.D. Burman's Mehbooba, Mehbooba

Talking of loot...

Did Auntie Beeb ever investigate where all the British colonial loot went?

BBC: Tracking where Russia is taking Ukraine's stolen grain

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• The Great Loot: How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India 


• Our museums are full of stolen colonial loot – let’s face up to our shameful history and give it back






• Stealing Africa: How Britain looted the continent’s art


• Britain can't decide whether it should send its looted treasures back to their rightful owners

Quick notes: Sabotage specialists | Harvard slavery...

• UK sent sabotage specialists to Ukraine: They are among the most highly qualified specialists in the world in organizing coups d’etat, mass protest rallies, contract killings of political figures, recruiting agents, including those in the highest echelons of power, preparing terrorist attacks. . . . British dirty tricks honed over centuries.



• TB2: Jack-of-all-trades: Turkish-made attack drones likely had a role in the sinking of Russia's Moskva missile cruiser. The ship's defenses were diverted to a Bayraktar TB2 drone in the sky when the Ukrainian side opened fire using anti-ship missiles. Analysts also suggested that the TB2 drones could have been used to spot the exact location of the cruiser in the Black Sea, enabling precision strikes.
  
  The sinking of the Moskva is the single-largest blow the Russians have suffered at the hands of the Ukrainians. It marks one of the largest ships to fall in combat since the end of World War II.
  
  "The TB2 is "a jack-of-all-trades" weapon. Turkish forces have proved the TB2's effectiveness as a strike platform in Libya and Syria, as did their Azerbaijani allies in Nagorno-Karabakh. Less well known -- because less apt for video display -- is the TB2's role as a communications relay, spotter, jammer, sensor, target designator and decoy. These capabilities have been honed especially in Syria and northern Iraq operations. The Ukrainians have taken this to a new level with maritime ops, as a force multiplier, evidenced by the sinking of the Moskva."
  
  Cmdre Venugopal Menon (retd): Mystery behind the sinking of Moskva



• Profit from Slavery: New report says Harvard university profited from slavery during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries through its financial connection to donors. Harvard leaders and staff enslaved more than 70 people. These are not an entirely new revelation.



• Han Debt Trap: "China wants to take advantage of Sri Lanka's inability to repay loans in time. Beijing is waiting for a good time to enter into a debt-to-equity swap and acquire land in Sri Lanka".



• China moves in after Shell's exit from Russia: China's biggest state-owned energy companies are reportedly negotiating the opportunity to buy a stake in a major Russian gas export project from Shell after the British oil and gas corporation exited Russia over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. China's automotive industry is also eyeing opportunities in Russia. One of the Chinese auto manufacturers may buy Renault's stake in Russian carmaker Avtovaz



• Mohe Panghat Pe Nandlal: Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan singing Krisha Bhajan... Precious!



• Bhairavee, Thumree: Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ustad Bismillah Khan




• France: 60% support banning Islamic veil in public.

Quick notes: Thanksgiving | Sinjar revisited...

• Religion of "Love": 400 years on, Native Indians still regret helping the Pilgrims survive their first Thanksgiving.
  
  Thanksgiving portrays an idea of “us seeming like idiots who welcomed all of these changes and supports the idea that Pilgrims brought us a better life because they were superior.”
  
  The English pushed the Wampanoag off their land and forced many to convert to Christianity. “We had a pray-or-die policy at one point here among our people”.. “If you didn’t become a Christian, you had to run away or be killed.”
  
  “For us, Thanksgiving kicked off colonization. Our lives changed dramatically. It brought disease, servitude and so many things that weren’t good for Indigenous cultures.
  
  



• Yazidis still displaced in their own country: Sinjar's volatile security situation is the main reason not all Yazidis want to come back. And for many survivors, it's simply unthinkable to come back to a place inhabited by their tormentors.
  
  "They wanted to force us to change religion". Some 12,000 people were kidnapped or killed in the first week of what the UN has characterized as the Yazidi genocide in August 2014. IS fighters kidnapped and indoctrinated children. Boys were trained to become IS fighters, and women and girls were sold into sexual slavery.



• Carbon Border Tax: New ploy by rich nations? UK could hike import duties on countries that "fail to tackle climate change".



• The $80 bln hole in India's climate pledge: India can deliver on its pledge, provided a $80 billion hole in the heart of the country’s power system can be filled. Discoms’ payment arrears are now nearly $14 billion, almost a fifth of which are claims of renewable power producers.



• Anand Malligawad: Meet the activist cleaning up Bengaluru's lakes




• BBC's credibility is a thing of the past: Debunking the BBC debunk of ivermectin



• Is Facebook Bad for You?: It is for about 360 million users. Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 of its users report engaging in compulsive use of social media that impacts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships
  
  Social-curse: Instagram, FB and Tiktok addiction is a massive problem.
  
  Not a company we should trust: Metaverse will invade workers’ privacy.



• China Could Be Exploiting Internet Security Process to Steal Data: There are opportunities for a communist entity, a bad actor, or another untrustworthy entity to issue Digital Certificates to other “nefarious folks” that would appear to be trustworthy but aren’t.



• Rwanda goes electric with locally made e-motorbikes: There will be a loss of fuel tax revenue - but the benefits include a shift to locally produced power sources, lower fuel importation costs and job creation



• The Empire State Trail: A new 750-mile bicycle route from Manhattan to Buffalo to the Canadian border opened to the public. A combination of protected paths, city streets, highway shoulders and country roads that pass by small towns and cities — offers views of wetlands, waterways, grasslands and mountain ranges.

Quick notes: Atmanirbhar America | Krishna Ella...

• Atmanirbhar America: U.S. Senate mulls $30 billion in funding to boost chipmaking sector.. The semiconductor industry has been pushing for an investment tax credit for spending on semiconductor tools.



• Coolies get lectured: U.S. Defence Secretary raises human rights concerns with Jaishankar. . . . . . . Don't grovel before USA.

  China treats US as dogs.
  
  US treats India as dogs. Because “English Advantage”—this is how one treats ones coolies.
  
  There is a global hierarchy. https://t.co/nd2ZrgFrUi

  — Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) March 20, 2021




• Covaxin more effective against variants: Some experts suspect Covaxin could be more effective against variants since it combats the whole body of a virus instead of the "spike-protein" tip.
  
  'Rarely does one see such commitment.': Bharat Biotech's Krishna Ella wins Covaxin fight. . 'He came back from the US only to work for his country.'. . 'He has invested his fortunes to build this company and is married to his work.'
  
  AstraZeneca: German team discovers thrombosis trigger.



• 'Brick on Wheels' - A machine that can produce 12 thousand bricks in one hour




• 1,100 megawatts: Pakistan's China-built nuclear reactor starts operation



• BIG-IP: Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10. As if the mass-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers wasn't enough, the vulnerability this time is in BIG-IP, a line of server appliances sold by F5 Networks



• The Mahavakyas: That the Reality is remote is a misconception. It is removed by the instruction that it is within one’s own self.

Quick notes: Bio-warfare | Special flights...

• Biological warfare: There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least once.



• Healed with herbs: Ghanaian nurse based in the US and her family have defeated C-19 using herbs. “I soaked garlic, ginger and grains of selim in water for 24hrs and I started taking it orally. I also used another traditional healing method where for 20 minutes each morning, I sat by a bucket full of hot water and covered myself with a blanket so as for the body to absorb all the heat from the hot water”.



• Healthcare mess: Insurance-led healthcare with indifferent medical outcomes and cost inflation.

India heading down the same path of insurance led allopathic cost inflation and indifferent medical outcomes. Stop this and pursue ayurvedic wellness. @PMOIndia https://t.co/eTGql6FDD4

— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) April 30, 2020




• Indian taxpayer's burden? Around 3-5 lakh non-resident Keralites are expected to return. State govt has written to the PM for operating special flights for Keralites stuck abroad.



• C-virus lingers in the air in hospital settings: C-virus could linger after being shaken from medical workers’ protective gear, or be present in the air in toilets used by patients. Some traces were also found in aerosol deposits on surfaces in ICUs.



• Tracking user data: Xiaomi, India's largest smartphone maker, sending browser data to China.. Xiaomi was also collecting data about the phone, including unique numbers for identifying the specific device and Android version. Such “metadata” could easily be correlated with an actual human behind the screen.



• America in a nutshell:
  

  America in a nutshell
  
  *26 million people laid off
  *Goldman Sachs CEO getting a 20% raise to $27.5M even as the two main investor advisors give the raise plan an "F" gradehttps://t.co/H0jpfAfCG1

  — Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) April 29, 2020




• Green stimulus: Pakistan pays out-of-work labourers to plant trees. The work includes setting up nurseries, planting saplings, and serving as forest protection guards or forest firefighters.

Quick notes: Kurds abandoned, Colonial loot...

• Trump throws Kurds under the bus: Almost immediately after the decision to pullout American troops from Syria, Turkey masses troops near Kurdish-held town in northern Syria. Without U.S. soldiers as a buffer, the Kurds are now stuck between Turkey, Assad and ISIS



• Staggering loot: Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times the total annual GDP of the UK today.



• EV rentals in Pune: Zoomcar will offer 500 Tata Tigor EV for rent.



• Shiva Tandava Stotram – Chong Chiu Sen aka Sai Madana Mohana Kumar:



• जटाटवीगलज्जलप्रवाहपावितस्थले
  गलेवलम्ब्य लम्बितां भुजङ्गतुङ्गमालिकाम् ।
  डमड्डमड्डमड्डमन्निनादवड्डमर्वयं
  चकार चण्डताण्डवं तनोतु नः शिवः शिवम् ॥ 1 ॥
  
  जटाकटाहसम्भ्रमभ्रमन्निलिम्पनिर्झरी-
  -विलोलवीचिवल्लरीविराजमानमूर्धनि ।
  धगद्धगद्धगज्ज्वलल्ललाटपट्टपावके
  किशोरचन्द्रशेखरे रतिः प्रतिक्षणं मम ॥ 2 ॥
  



• On A2 milk: Indian native breeds of cows and buffaloes are of A2 milk type and hence are a source for safe milk. The frequency of A2 allele was 100% in the five high-yielding milk breeds — Red Sindhi, Gir, Rathi, Shahiwal and Tharparkar, meaning that these breeds do not have A1 allele or A1A1/A1A2 genotype. In the remaining breeds, the availability of A2 allele was 94 per cent.



• Christians Groups oppose Meditation, Yoga In Schools: The groups claim children in public schools across the U.S. are being “indoctrinated” by “Buddhist-based mindfulness methods in an “outright unconstitutional” practice.. Missouri megachurch pastor John Lindell similarly blasted yoga for its “demonic” Hindu roots in November. He added the “spiritually dangerous” practice was “ “diametrically opposed to Christianity.”



• Draft EV Policy: Delhi "would like to" achieve 25% Electric Car penetration by 2023



• Chinese colony: Uganda is adding compulsory Chinese lessons to its high school curriculum

Sentinelese demonstrate survival skills

A selection of comments from WaPo and other sources on Missionary intruder killed by Sentinelese tribe:

So the Sentinelese kill a missionary the moment he lands. No wonder this tribe has successfully survived 60,000 years on their own. They know trouble when they see it.

Someone forgot to tell this guy that historically if you’re going to bring Jesus to a new people you’re supposed to bring an army, and lots of blades and guns to help convince the new people how much Jesus loves them, in case they can’t see clearly on their own or have any silly attachments to any other gods they may have been worshiping for a few thousand years or so

By spreading the word, Christian missionaries think they're saving "primitive" tribes from going to Hell. What kind of God would send people who have never even heard of Chistianity to Hell?

Not only did he break the law, but this man was holding out a hope that he could single handedly convert an entire island to Christianity. However unlikely that would have been, he basically dreamed of carrying out a cultural genocide and erasing beliefs these people may have held

Reading that the Indian govt had created a "buffer zone" to protect these last few indigenous tribes from outside influences gives me a lot of respect for the Indian govt. The Indian govt also gave Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people a santuary in their country in 1959. Deeds are stronger than words indeed!

A willful intruder into the sanctity of the home of other people for thousands of years.

Misguided Christian colonization attempt ignores tribe's collective, resounding "Not Interested."

You're freedom of religion should never effect My freedom from your religion

Christianity depends heavily on dividing humans into the saved and the damned, with the saved free to do pretty much whatever they want to the damned. Scapegoating is built in.

Arrogant evangelical risks killing an entire Neolithic people with diseases to which they have no immunity. The Sentinelese clearly don't want your civilization or your gospel. Unless invited, stay the f off indigenous territory. #AbolishProselytism https://t.co/5cYzyUQg1J pic.twitter.com/M9jISUq9IE

— The Decolonial Atlas (@decolonialatlas) November 21, 2018

Prof Harari on lies and the Bible:

He's a missionary, not a tourist.

And the first time they met a colonizer, the British kidnapped six Sentinelese, two elders and four children.

The entire group of abductees fell ill. The elders died and the sick children were abandoned with "gifts". https://t.co/vfv1Lg9KeA

— Andrew Parsons (@adrparsons) November 21, 2018

Quick notes: Foreign rifles, Pashtun movement...

• Pashtun movement: A new nonviolent mass movement has swept through Pakistan in recent months, demanding an end to Pakistan military’s oppression and extrajudicial killings of minority ethnic Pashtuns. This grassroots movement has rattled Pakistan’s deep state, primarily the notorious spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence.



• Flipkart deal: Is it really good news for India? For India as a country, the falling of Flipkart into foreign hands is a serious setback to Modi’s ‘Make in India’ dreams. The entire e-commerce battle is now America versus America.



• Indian trader, farmer groups decry Flipkart deal: Traders say they are most concerned about predatory pricing and steep discounting by e-commerce firms with deep pockets thanks to foreign funding that could edge out smaller rivals. “If you look at our history as a country, there was a history of colonialism. And there is always a fear that you start with trade and then it becomes control”.



• Foreign rifles trump 'Make in India': Army closing indigenous high-tech project to save money for imported guns



• Santana Dharma has always existed and will always exist:

"The Hindu Religion alone is Santana Dharma. The various creeds that you hear of nowadays have come into existence by the will of God & will disappear again thro His will.....The Hindu Region has always existed & will always exist" Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna date 20.10.1884 p642

— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) May 6, 2018

• Rape Jihad: Teenage girl who plotted British Museum grenade terror attack was "sexually groomed" and "groomed to be radicalised" online by IS fighter Naweed Hussain.

Quick notes: Libertarians rising, Han menace...

• Libertarians Rising: Clinton 41.4%, Trump 36.5%, Johnson 8%



• Italy cracks down on Hans: A crackdown on the powerful Chinese community in Tuscany draws the ire of China's foreign ministry.



• Still under 'British' rule: Private holders, including British companies, still hold about five lakh acres of land in Kerala.



• Mythbusters tests global warming theory Does CO2 warm air?




• Peter Sagan's droolworthy bike:

Quick notes: Koh-i-noor, Costly comment...

• Queen may face legal challenge: A lobby group headed by businessman David de Souza is mounting a legal challenge against Queen Elizabeth II demanding the return of the world famous Koh-i-noor diamond to India. The last Sikh ruler, Duleep Singh, a 13-year-old boy, was made to travel to Britain in 1850 when he handed the gem to Queen Victoria.



• Bhagwat words untimely: "Sangh’s chief said that review reservation. People believe that the BJP will follow whatever is the diktat of Sangh."






• Advice for Modi:

@NarendraModi should take other help than @RSS_Org . Art of Living, for instance, has a fantastic grassroot base https://t.co/ScG86rNzNf

— Francois Gautier (@fgautier26) November 8, 2015




• Animals as food: The shoe’s on the other foot now - those who want to kill animals and eat them ought to justify their view. It shouldn’t be the other way round.”

Quick notes: Soldier's general, Pilfering Indian treasures...

• The real hero of 1965 war: Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, GOC, Western Command, disobeyed the then army chief and took on a superior Pakistani armoured column.
  
  In his book In the Line of Duty: A Soldier Remembers, General Harbakhsh has written: 'Late at night on the 9th of September, the chief of the army staff rang me up... his advice was that to save the whole army from being cut-off by Pakistan's armour push, I should pull back to the line of the Beas river. Pulling back to the Beas would have meant sacrificing prime territory in Punjab including Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts and would have been a far worse defeat than that suffered at the hands of the Chinese in 1962.'  The move would have also resulted in bidding goodbye to the entire state of J&K and the army's 15 Corps that had performed extremely well over there.



• The Subhash Kapoor case and the plundering of India's past: The mentality of colonialism which in essence says: 'We have a right to these objects; they are the world's patrimony not just one nation's patrimony. We are better able to protect them than the natives.' That's the kind of attitude with which these things have been traditionally acquired by American, British and other institutions. 



• How India's tax system helps cigarettes flourish: Cigarettes were 175 per cent more affordable in 2011 than in 1990, according to the WHO, all because real incomes have been growing at a faster clip than taxes on cigarettes. Cigarette-price rise = demand drop.  It’s a simple equation, which can greatly help stub out smoking, according to the WHO.



• Ummah Impotence:

While the believers pray for the miserable Syrian refugees, the non-believers provide them food and shelter. pic.twitter.com/9X4arOrC3O

— RSS (@RSS_Org) September 7, 2015

Quick notes: Rs 300 Cr baggage, Sundar Pichai...

• Evangalical baggage: Thanks to Jairam Ramesh, the Modi government will have to shell out Rs 300 crore — over the next two years — and deal with a society registered in the UPA regime packed with “eminent persons” (mostly Church Activists) which include members of Sonia Gandhi’s NAC.



• Sundar Pichai: The Most Powerful Man in Mobile



• India can use: Type an SMS message in English and receive a text back with its Spanish or Chinese translation.



• Weavers became beggars: For at least two centuries the handloom weavers of Bengal produced some of the world's most desirable fabrics, especially the fine muslins, light as "woven air", that were in such demand for dressmaking and so cheap that Britain's own cloth manufacturers conspired to cut off the fingers of Bengali weavers and break their looms. Their import was ended, however, by the imposition of duties and a flood of cheap fabric – cheaper even than poorly paid Bengali artisans could provide – from the new steam mills of northern England and lowland Scotland. Subsequently, India became the exporter of raw materials and foodstuffs – raw cotton and jute, coal, opium, rice, spice and tea – rather than manufactured goods
Colonialism lives on: We won't give up on multi-brand FDI say retail MNCs



• pSecularistan:

UPA cleared jamat-e-islami's Malayalam channel MediaOne in no time, but Janam TV by Hindus stuck for 2 yrs http://t.co/nCkTxG8fgG
— NewzMirror (@newzmirror) June 23, 2014




• Aereo: Finished?

Quick notes: Rally mystery, Colonizers face the heat..

• Whose rally? Anna Hazare was told it was Mamta's rally and Mamta was told it was Anna's rally.. so, who organized it? The CIA? 



• Raksha for women: BJP launches Raksha app to aid women's security in the country.



• Jayalalitha is watching you: For all sycophants, here is your next PM.



• 14 Caribbean Nations Sue Former Colonizers for Slave Trade: The lawsuit will demand reparations from the governments of Britain, France and the Netherlands



• Asus Chromebox: A Tiny, Cheap, Very Useful Computer



• Perfect Spot:




• Dr Spine
  :

Quick notes: Better than YSR, English obsession...

• Land of the pure: Muslim groups remind Telaban chief of his promise of providing 12 per cent reservations to Muslims. (YSR's 5% pales in comparision).



• 
  The colonisation of the mind: Confidence level is the casualty when people are made to feel inferior if they are not proficient in English.

















• Moody's finds fraud in '180 IQ' budget:  PC has underestimated the fuel subsidy bill for the current year in his interim budget by about 40 per cent.



• California drought: Why farmers are 'exporting water' to China. Lesson for India: Don't deplete precious resources to earn a few export dollars.



• Crows with 180 IQ:

Gangrape accused to "represent India" at papal inauguration!

Quite appropriate too - given the occasion, the individuals and the
global organisation concerned.

After violating Indian sovereignty
with impunity by blatant contempt of the Indian judicial system (not that GOI or the Supreme court covered themselves with glory by facilitating the escape of the murderous pirates) - in the curious case of the Italian marines - this should be seen as a deliberate assertion of power by the Vatican intended to show the uppity Indians (Hindus) their place and demonstrate that - with the support of the global church, criminals can not only get away with murder, rape and more - but, indeed will be celebrated, lionized and accorded a hero's welcome.

The natives of India are as helpless today as when Francis Xavier brought the genocidal inquisition to Goa or when the Portuguese demolished the Mylapore Shiva temple to build the "Santhome Cathedral" and concocted wicked stories about
"Brahmins murdering the alleged St. Thomas".

Is this not an issue worth protesting for the various advocates of Women's rights?

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/pj-kurien-heads-indian-team-to-attend-popes-inauguration/20130318.htm#


An Indian delegation led by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien on Monday left for the Vatican from Delhi to take part in the installation of Pope Francis as the 266th Pontiff of the Catholic church.

According to Kurien's office in his hometown Pathanamthitta, the delegation include his wife Susan Kurien, and MPs Anto Antony of the Congress) and Jose K Mani of the Kerala Congress-M.

LTTE campaign delays execution of RG's assassins

Whatever our ideological perspectives may be, it is a fact that Rajiv Gandhi was a former Prime Minister of the nation whose patriotism was unquestionable. Despite being weighed down by Congress culture, his intentions were not malafide.

A careful perusal of the advocates of clemency for his
assassins and the institutions
(and nations) supporting them -
in the conspiracy to abort the delivery of justice is very informative.

There are some brainwashed useful idiot Hindus inadvertently adding their voice to this vile and seditious campaign. That is sympomatic of the LTTE itself -
poor Hindu Tamil footsoldiers
instigated and brainwashed
by the Christist LTTE leadership to die as cannon fodder in their
separatist war against Sri Lanka
(and ultimately against India itself).

I fervently hope that President Pranab Mukherjee puts an end to this evil expeditiously, by the stroke of his pen - in the same
manner that belatedly and finally delivered justice to Mohd. Afzal Guru &
Ajmal Amir Kasab.


http://m.timesofindia.com/india/LTTE-campaign-delayed-Rajiv-Gandhis-killers-hanging-source-says/articleshow/18550382.cms


NEW DELHI: Three Rajiv Gandhi assassins have opposed the execution of the death sentence awarded to them by pointing to the 12 year-lag between the Supreme Court's confirmation of the high court's order to send them to the gallows and the rejection of the mercy petition by President. Behind this argument, it turns out, is a well-organized campaign by LTTE cadres, sympathizers and human rights groups opposed to death penalty who could well have been the reason for the delay in the first place.

The announcement of death penalty led to the European Union issuing a demarche to the Indian government. Tamil and human rights groups lobbied France, South Africa, Germany, Denmark, UK MPs, the Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore as well as Indian ministers for not carrying out the death sentence. Rashtrapati Bhavan was bombarded with clemency pleas.

It was against such a backdrop that President K R Narayanan did not take up the clemency pleas in 1999.

Among the other petitioners who sought death penalty waiver were NGOs like Campaign against Death Penalty, Dravidians for Peace & Justice, South Africa chapter, South African Tamil Federation, The World Saivite Council, the South Indian Foundation and the Federation of Tamil Associations in France.

Others quoted Gladys Staines who forgave those who murdered her husband and children.

Among the political leaders who petitioned for the four were MDMK's Vaiko and SAD's Simranjit Singh Mann.
Rev Dr Arul Das James, Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore, and Baba Amte also supported clemency while the then minister of state for petroleum and natural gas E Ponnuswamy forwarded a plea as well. From the judiciary, V Krishna Iyer and Justice Hosbet Suresh also submitted pleas to Narayanan.