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Barbarians at the Gate

On February 22, 2009, In Politics, By

In a major development, Pakistan government agreed to introduce Islamic law in Swat valley and neighboring areas. It was a result of ceasefire agreement with the Taliban. The Taliban fighters will be encouraged by this agreement and will soon launch a major offensive all across the region. Pakistan’s policy of “strategic depth” with Afghanistan or “thousand cuts” with India is in tatters. Very soon it will be fighting a deadly war with a monster of its own creation.

The three A’s of Pakistan “Allah, Army and America” have been replaced by “Anarchy”, “Al Qaeda” and “Afghanistan”. The Pakistan army has suffered severe causalities and is not interested in fighting fellow Muslims. At the same time the Durand line (Pak – Afghan border) is becoming diluted and the generals know they are fighting a losing war. America is no longer interested in this region and will be making cosmetic arrangements so that its stand on Al Qaeda doesn’t get diluted.

In a nutshell Pakistan has become a major security threat for all nations especially India. No country is interested in fighting this new war because of the complex nature of the enemy and their own demographic compulsions.

Indian security establishment must take serious note of the development or else it will be caught napping as before. Mumbai attack was just a trailer.
More such barbaric attacks from western border are going to happen in future.

The mass media in India is busy romanticizing Islam, glamorizing western lifestyle and dehumanizing Hinduism; it has no guts to take up serious issues. Similarly the Pakistan media was obsessed with Kashmir, Palestine & global Muslim atrocities, unconcerned that they would be devoured by the monster of Islamic militants. Which had been created and nurtured by their successive governments.

The future strategy should be to somehow convince the Pakistan military & government to launch an offensive against Taliban and other Islamic insurgents. The Indian government will also have to become more proactive and borders will have to be sealed to prevent infiltration of any kind.

Tagged with: india • Pakistan • taliban

The Hindu Reforms Movement -II

On February 16, 2009, In Politics, By

The recent Ram Sena – Loose women debate raised an important question – who are the guardians of our moral culture?

We are living in a deeply divided society with multiple religions, cultures & people belonging to different socio – economic status. The local version of the Crusades (Christian’s vs Muslims) is being fought in India. It is one religion against the local culture or even both religions jointly against the local culture.

In an increasingly intolerant society the fissure are being exploited by politicians & mass media. The divide & rule practise is already being implemented by the politicians in the name of minority benefits to target vote banks. And by mass media, which is quite evident by watching hysterical anti Hindu news in almost all news channels.

Every religion has its separate personal laws, official hierarchy, exclusive headquarters and absolute spheres of influence in a country. It is time to organize the Hindu religion as a single entity on the basis of a progressive religion with a democratic setup.

The first step must be to remove state control over temples & Hindu trusts. An organization can be formed on the basis of Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee to look after the fund collection and its disbursal. Similarly a network of schools can be setup to impart Hindu values & beliefs. Subsequently a reforms committee can be setup to look into the various problems affecting the Hindu society such as dowry, caste, illetracy & women emancipation etc.

Hindus have to organize themselves or else the current twisted version of secularism will make Hindus a second rate citizens in India.

Tagged with: Add new tag • hindu • india • ram sena • religion • secularism

Om Vs Rome

On February 11, 2009, In Uncategorized, By

There is intense power struggle going on in Karnataka.

Rome is loosing control over power and Om is on the rise.

Rome will do anything to continue its grip on power.The first step is control over media.

The terms Hindu Taliban,Pink chaddis,Pub Bharo are just a beginning!

While OM will rise from people’s will.

People must remember that we have thrown out the British once,we will do it again!

Tagged with: hindu • hindu taliban • pink chaddis • pub bharo

Is the media partial against the BJP?

On February 1, 2009, In Politics, By

It is very easy to observe, even for a layman that the media in general and news channels in particular are becoming more and more pro government. In each and every media report, analysis, story, debate or interview it is found the media is adopting a very partial response against the BJP.

For e.g. if we take up two issues that affected the nation last week:

1. Chief Election Commisioner, N Gopalaswami, recommended the removal of his colleague, Navin Chawla. He has thoroughly documented the “partisan” functioning of Chawla.

But the news channels have started a criticism of Gopalaswami without taking into account the merit of the document. There was no mention of the charges – What are the contents of the letter submitted to the President of India? Did the CEC’s NGO did actually take money from the Congress party MP’s?

2. Recently a group of activists barged into a pub, assaulted women. On the same day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers went on the rampage disrupting Republic Day celebrations at a school in Nashik. The workers assaulted parents and beat up participants. They didn’t even spare posters of the martyrs of 26/11.

The media completely ignored the later issue .Whereas the former was sensationalized as an assault on women’s independence. They even said it was an attempt to Talibanize India.

For the incident it directly involved the BJP government in Karnatka. But in a similar issue coincidentally happening the same day involving the attack on North Indians by MNS, it did not criticize the Congress government in Maharashtara.

There are numerous instances where the Indian media has taken a partial stance.

What is the agenda?

Why are there double standards?

Why are all news channels behaving the same way?

Is it because of the contract for pro government advertisements like “Bharat Nirman” or “Minority scholarship” that are likely to barge us before the general elections.

Maybe but the credibility of fair journalism in India has certainly taken a backseat.

Tagged with: BJP • chawla • election comission • gopalaswami • mns • navin chawla • taliban • upa

India – A country without a Prime Minister!

On January 26, 2009, In Politics, By

In 2008 we all suffered from poor governance in India by the UPA government. Now they have gone step further and removed “governance”. The prime minister will be out of action for a minimum of 4 weeks. How can a nation as complex as India be governed without a prime minister? But as Supreme Court said – even god cannot save India.

First there was no home minister, then they shifted finance minister and now there is no Prime Minister. Can’t we even select a prime minister from 1.2 billion people? As it is there are very few elected representatives occupying higher posts in cabinet.

Or does the decision making power lie else where and it doesn’t make a difference whether we have a prime minister or not.

As usual the mainstream media will not cover any lapse of UPA government and be a good prompter for the ruling congress government. Elections are approaching fast and the media will try its best to embarrass the BJP. Instead of focussing on this issue of national importance they are busy covering frivolous stories of some boys beating girls in a bar.

Tagged with: BJP • congress • india • Manmohan Singh • Politics • upa

The Gandhi’s & the Art of Keeping India Poor

On January 19, 2009, In Politics, By

Sarojini Naidu once remarked – “it costs India a great deal of money to keep Gandhiji in poverty. His consumption of fresh fruit, increasingly his staple diet, would have bankrupted many a middle class household”.

Similarly India has had to pay a very heavy economic price for twisted socialist policies of the Gandhi family.

Recently Rahul Gandhi indulged in slum tourism and was accompanied by Miliband the visiting foreign secretary of UK. According to the host, Shivkumari, “It was their sudden visit to my hut. The arrangements of mattress and pillow etc were made by the Trust (Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust) people. After their departure, a vehicle came and took those items”.

The entire exercise was a great experience in looking at Indian poor people as a museum exhibit. Doing anything to remove poverty is a separate subject . Reducing poverty in India would also reduce the vote bank of the Gandhi family. This practice of “breeding poverty” has been passed on from generations.

Under Indira Gandhi, economic policies were used as a powerful tool to increase control of government over trade, industrial production, and credit allocation. It expanded her power exponentially at the cost of nation.

It was only when P. V. Narasimha Rao became the Prime minister that we saw the dismantling of the license raj. The situation was so bad that economic reforms were adopted to avert impending international default in 1991.Rao’s finance minister was coincidentally Manmohan Singh, who played a central role in implementing these reforms.

The impact of those reforms was huge and it improved all sectors of our economy like foreign investment, manufacturing, banking, trade and the nascent software sector. All of them grew by leaps and bounds. India’s image also changed, from a beggar state to that of an IT hub.

There has been growth but their is a problem of inequity. The number of poor people in India is very large. In villages basic facilities such as drinking water, electricity, sanitation and medical facilities are lacking. But poverty cannot be removed by lip service or sloganeering like”Garibi Hatao”. It can be removed by generating wealth and that can only be done by rapid industrialization.

Lessons can be learnt from Gujrat, where even in times of global recession investors have promised to invest a phenomenal Rs 12,000 lakh crore. No wonder leading industrialists are praising the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and suggest that he could be the prime minister.

Today,India has been growing economically not because of but “inspite” of the Gandhis.

Tagged with: gandhi • Gujrat • indira gandhi • modi • rahul gandhi • sonia gandhi

The Israel & India Connection

On January 11, 2009, In Politics, By

India and Israel established diplomatic relations as late as 1992.The previous BJP led government initiated several efforts to form close strategic ties with Israel mainly on account of the fact that both nations suffered from Islamic terrorism. The goodwill was always reciprocated from Israel which during the Kargil war provided India with advanced military hardware, at the most crucial time.

Over a short period, India & Israel ties have progressed rapidly:

There is a major defence partnership between India & Israel in process and it is India’s second-biggest arms supplier.

Trade between India and Israel is expected to reach eight billion dollars. Israel is also a source of technology collaborations for several Indian companies especially in sectors such as horticulture, bio-tech and medical equipment.

Both India and Israel have been victims of savage by Islamic militants. As recent as last month, in Mumbai attack, Islamic terrorists from Pakistan targeted and specifically killed Jews.

Every sovereign nation has the right to defend the security of its citizens. Fed up with daily rocket attacks from Hamas terrorists, Israel launched a war on Gaza.

As expected, the Indian government expressed strong condemnation of hostilities in Gaza and reiterated support to the Palestinian cause. The present Indian government is unable to take a balanced stand on war. The UPA government headed by the Congress party is shy of associating itself with Israel as it will loose the Muslim vote bank. Going a step further minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed’s of IUML has demanded snapping of ties with Israel. The drama in all Muslim dominated areas has also started where anti-Israel slogans & demonstrations by politicians is a way of show offs.

There cannot be durable peace without a strict implementation of cease fire by all neighbours. There are too many parallels between Indo-Pak and Israel-Hamas affairs to be ignored. On both sides countries have been hijacked by Islamic terrorists and governments are unable to take action against those non state actors.

Certain states may be ungrateful, but Israel is fighting our fight too. Since India and Israel are both fighting a war against Islamic terrorism, we need to have close cooperation with Israel and reciprocate the help they offered during Kargil war.

Tagged with: Hamas • india • India and Israel • Islamic terrorists • Israel • Kargil

Clash of Civilizations in India

On January 4, 2009, In Politics, By

Last week, hundreds of people, including women and children, gathered in Srinagar (J&K) in a protest march. They were not protesting against rising prices, militancy or any domestic issue. But the protest was against Israel’s aggression against Palestine. So why are people living thousands of miles away concerned with an issue that has least effect on them? This question was answered by Professor Samuel P. Huntington.

In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article by Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington titled” The Clash of Civilizations”. That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in the three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s.

The article successfully shifts the discussion of the post-cold-war world from ideology, ethnicity, politics, and economics to culture–and especially to the religious basis of culture, a subject generally ignored in contemporary political science.

Huntington talked about the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma.

This theory has enormous implication for India.

Partition was a grim reality. The two nation theory was successful and geographical borders of India were decided on the basis of religious bias.

Even after decades of partition local politics in India is easily swayed on the basis of religious differences. Politicians have successfully developed vote banks along religious lines.

Unable to implement the uniform civil code is our single biggest failure. Also continuation of policy of special status for the J&K state prevents the state from integrating into the country.

India is unable to take strong measures on Pakistan just because it will affect the local Muslims. Inspite of repeated provocations from Pakistan we are unable to come up with a single strategy. Even simple steps such as cutting off trade relations & stopping of issuing of visas are not being implemented.

The UPA government is pulling all stops to consolidate the minority votes before the next general election. It is crossing all limits in minority appeasement and is disregarding the constitution feature that ensures equality to all citizens.

Professor Huntington, who passed away in the US on Dec 24, must have gone to his grave a contented man. His theory has survived the test of time and is very relevant to the peace & stability of Indian subcontinent. Fundamentalist Islam will be the primary source of conflict in most parts of the sub continent.

In India, we seem determined to prove him right since as a nation we are more divided on religious basis now than ever before. And it will only end up weakening India as a nation state.

Tagged with: india • kashmir • Samuel P. Huntington • The Clash of Civilizations

Worlds Largest Refinery now in India

On December 28, 2008, In Uncategorized, By

Amongst all news of gloom and doom there is some good news from the Reliance group.

India’s Reliance Petroleum has started processing crude oil at its new refinery, creating the world’s biggest refining complex. The $6 billion project will make the oil complex in Jamnagar in Gujarat the world’s single biggest supplier of fuels to the global market, pumping out 1.24 million bpd of ultra-clean fuels.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has also commenced production of hydrocarbons in its KG-D6 block of Krishna Godavari Basin with the production of crude oil on 17th September 2008. The field is initially producing about 5,000 barrels of crude per day and is expected to reach its peak hydrocarbon production of 5,50,000 BOEPD over the next six to eight quarters.

A first of its kind hydrocarbons production from any deep water field in the country, Reliance KG-D6 will account for 40% of country’s current indigenous hydrocarbon production. It is estimated that the production from KG-D6 facility will save India an annual foreign exchange outflow of US$20 billion.

It is very important that India reduce its dependence on imported Oil. To do that we need to develop not only new oil exploration initiatives but also initiate new forms of energy and new ways of using it like – wind, solar, hydel and other new technologies.

Tagged with: Gujrat • oil • Reliance

The 100,000 Crore Telecom Scam – Biggest scam in the history of India

On December 21, 2008, In Uncategorized, By

Who says there is recession?
There is a company in India – Green House Promoters Private Limited, which recorded a huge ‘domestic’ turnover of Rs 755 crore in the very first year of its operations. Of course it is a mere coincidence that Union Telecom Minister A Raja’s wife MA Parameswari, is a director in that company.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/143633/Zero-to-Rs-755-crore-in-1-year!.html

The telecom minister is accused of deliberately under-pricing telecom spectrum — a scarce national resource, especially in cities and allotting it to a clutch of privately-owned mobile telecommunications companies, thereby causing a huge loss to the exchequer.

Why can’t there be simple guideline – All government licenses will be auctioned.

Tagged with: pioneer • raja • telecom scam

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