Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Gandhi Nehru Patel


In this picture: 

Gandhiji is showing some paper to Nehruji and Sardar Patel. Since he is reading, he is wearing his glasses. But Nehruji has put his glasses on the ground, though he has a pencil in his hand. Seems he is interested in the talk and not in the paper :) 

It is said that Gandhiji personally favored Nehru though Patel was more capable. In this picture, see how Gandhiji has tilted the paper (even himself) towards Nehru; thereby Patel has to bend and try too hard to read it! (Patel appears more interested in the paper than Gandhiji’s talk; unlike Nehru). It is not nice to see Patel struggling like this despite his age. 

There is another man on the left side, but he is too distantly ignored and power is concentrated in these three (it became evident when 12 out of 15 Congress committee members nominated Patel but Gandhiji made Nehru first PM of India). Also notice a wall painting where Gandhiji is shown as breaking the chains of “gulami”! While Krantikaris used to paint pictures of “Bharat Mata” on the wall; this was the beginning of ‘hero-worship’ which is being done till date. (my personal opinion)

Monday, July 29, 2013

Name them






If you have to name one of these great leaders as (1) Prince Charming and another as (2) The Senior Leader and someone as (3) An Apprentice; who will you name? :) 

Judging just by looks and appearance and no offense to anyone. My votes are: 
(1) Subhas Chandra Bose, (2) Sardar Patel and (3) Nehruji. 

Let me know your votes too!

Friday, July 19, 2013

Morgan Freeman: Obama is not Black

We all saw how Obama tried to position himself as a Black person, so as to get votes of non-Whites. Even till date he does occasional positioning, like when a Black teen died in a scuffle of mistaken identity, Obama said that he would have looked like the kid, some years back! Essentially, it was to show his sympathy and flattering towards people from a particular skin color.
 
But the fact is that Obama is not ‘black’. Though it has been shared by many, here is what Morgan Freeman said:
 
Morgan Freeman told NPR’s “Tell Me More” host Michel Martin in an interview:
 
“They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white – very white American, Kansas, middle America,” the Oscar winner continued. “There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president – he’s America’s first mixed-race president.”
 
“He is being purposely, purposely thwarted by the Republican Party, who started out at the beginning of his tenure by saying, ‘We are going to do whatever is necessary to make sure that he only has one term,’” Freeman said. “That means they will not cooperate with him on anything. So to say he’s ineffective is a misappropriation of the facts.”
 

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Nitish Kumar Gets His Mahabodhi Treat

Islamic dislike for Buddhists and Buddhist temples and idols all over the world is no hidden fact. But it was surprising that a Buddhist temple was blasted in India after a long long time. But if you watched the trend, nothing comes as a surprise.
 
Nitish Kumar, in order to make all Biharis as “vote banks” has been playing regionalist card for quote some time. Special status for Bihar was a major trump card, which has been spent now after successful hit. Along with regional chauvinist politics which was expected to garner him votes of all castes of Hindus, he was deeply into communal minority vote bank politics by appeasing the minorities by giving them money and funds on many pretexts and under multiple schemes paid by tax payers money who are largely Hindus. But the problem arose when he started compromising on security…
 
Nitish Kumar’s communal Muslim vote bank politics made him protect Islamic terrorists every time their root was found to be in Bihar. He fought with his counterparts from Maharashtra, rubbishing any charges of being soft on terror; he tried to run down increasing Muslim radicalism in Bihar fuelled by Gulf money, and most recently, and in currently running event he and his party have been strongly protecting terrorist Ishrat Jahan! And just when he thought he had championed the cause of home grown Muslim terrorists, he gets a warning sign!
 
As of now we are still counting how many blasts happened in Mahabodhi temple in Bihar.
 
In the past low intensity blasts may be result of home-grown terror when some Indian Muslim radical would have home-made the bomb. It had happened in Pune last time – multiple low intensity blasts of this kind.
 
I think a major credit for this terror attack goes to Nitish Kumar and his pseudo secular politics. He has been protecting an Indian terrorist called Ishrat Jahan because she was born in Bihar. In the past also he has protected some terrorists every time their roots were found in Bihar. Let us hope no life is lost and no innocent blood shed. Because India will probably always have communal politicians like Nitish Kumar and home grown terrorists following Jihad; but all we need to protect are our law abiding innocent citizens who become scapegoats in the power play of politicians and violent games of Jihadis.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Times of India’s Puppygiri

It seems the Press has never forgotten what the Party did to them during the Emergency; so they are ever ready to toe its line. Then there is big ticket Advertisement revenue: if you work for govt, you will get payoffs in terms of big and small govt ads. Times of India’s crooked plan to tarnish Modi’s image was revealed this time.
 
If you want to see TOI’s clarification (it was not an apology by the way); check it out here:
 
http://www.sify.com/news/rambo-modi-story-a-hoax-times-of-india-clarifies-news-national-nhpnFNacbje.html
 
A very good article shared by BJP reveals Times of India’s Shameful act:
 
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
 
A news daily has issued a clarification relating to a front page news report which appeared on 23 June 2013. “Modi in Rambo Act saves 15000” was given pride of place just below the masthead considering that the copy related to a Chief Minister who is the toast of the nation and from whom every day, ‘the nation wants to know’.

Read complete article by Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on A ‘Normal Journalistic Report’ and a Clarification at http://bit.ly/15tV730.
 
Now immediately after this Rambo distortion, Times of India is busy in misquoting and manipulating Narendra Modi’s interview; calling it “his puppy remark”. But after this event, it seems Times of India better be careful about its own “PuppyGiri”:)

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Congress Party does not like Hindu Nationalists

There is a reason why the very party which invented the term ‘Hindu Terrorists’ to appease a group gets combative when it hears the term ‘Hindu Nationalists’. If you identify yourself with your Caste, the party will love it; if you identify yourself with any other religion than Hinduism, our PM will say, “you have first right to get direct cash transfer”; but if you say you are a Hindu, that upsets everything! They don’t need Hindus to know they are Hindus! Easy guess that if Hindus unite without getting divided on the basis of castes; that would be the end of Corruption Raaj in India.
 
For Cong party, a Hindu Nationalist means one who will never vote for it (in the present tense) and hence the dislike. From what I have read Swami Vivekananda is said to be one of the first proponents of Hindu Nationalism (at least in modern era). Hindu Nationalism is centered around the “nation” and nation building and its welfare are its supreme goals. But for some others, a dynasty or some foreign nation’s welfare is ultimate goal. E.g. Communists used to take orders from Russia and hence India is not their central interest; so they are not Nationalists; Hindu or otherwise.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Three Religions and the Phone

A friend shared this:
 
It seems that now a days the world is dominated by 4 religions. iOS followers, Android followers. Blackberry followers and Windows Phone 8 followers.
 
Android followers remind me of Medival Islamists- forcibly trying to convert others…
 
iOS followers are like present day Christians- Always trying to convert others by showing how much better their God is…
 
BB followers are like Zoroastrians- Slowly loosing relevance but still holding on…
 
WP8 followers are like Hindus – Oblivious of everything around them. Trying to peacefully coexist. Trying to catch up, slowly but steadily…
 
Now waiting for this Hindu to be attacked by others.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Why Indian Communists Love Islamists?

There is a big puzzling question. As we notice communists are generally anti-religion but they seem to love and favor Islam in India. Whichever state, e.g. West Bengal and Kerala, where communists have been in power, they have supported Islamic radicalism and have always sided with Muslims organizations and politicians. On the other hand, communist historians have been painting Indian pre-Islamic history (before Islamic invaders came to India) as a dark phase in our history. So why do Indian communists support Islamists when they are expected to be opposed to all religions?
 
A friend shared this and I think he makes good points. Please note that all can be said to be personal opinion and intent of sharing is nothing but opinion-sharing and brain storming:
 
I have just a few things to say, and most of these observations are of a very general nature, so might seem off-topic. They are more of a commentary of the state of affairs in India.
 
First, we must understand that Shourie / Goel / others are of a different breed altogether. And therein lies a duality. A duality between what happens outside India, and what happens within. It is this duality that is to blame for most of our problems.
 
The best example (and an old one) of this would be the word “secular”. Outside India, this word has two meanings.
 
One, it refers to words outside the domain of religion. For instance, we may say that “Mathematics is a secular subject”, or that “French law is secular (in that it does not derive from any religious code)”.
 
Two, as a matter of public policy, it refers to an explicit ignoring of religion. It is in this sense that France is a secular country, in that the state is made blind to religion, to the extent that no government form can have a column for religion.
 
Now in India, what is secular? God only knows, but the best definition that we get is “equal respect for all religions”. Now that amounts to an abuse of the English language you see. I’m not saying at all whether religions should equal respect or not – all I’m saying is that if you wanna use a new definition, decency, and basic respect for the language demand that you use a different word. Nowhere in the world does the word secular have that meaning!
 
More insidiously (and this is the true intention of the these word inventors), we would be correct in saying “France & India are secular countries”, but the secularism of France is as much separated from that of India, as the two countries are apart geographically! But by using such curious definitions, an illusion (of authority / modernism) is built, and then it is very difficult for anyone to oppose such things. Even today, when BJP says “pseudo-secular” how many Indians understand what is being talked about?
 
This is exactly what George Orwell warned us about when he said, “Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.” Sita Ram Goel has an entire book on this “The Perversion of India’s political parlance”.
 
Now that was a small, largely well know example. There are even some fun things here: For instance someone discovered a few years ago that the particular English translation being used in India of the French novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” had a few chapters missing! And no-body had noticed that for at least 60+ years (since independence)! (Turns out that these few chapters had a few anti-British statements, so the British deleted them) It is indeed a sad commentary on the sorry state of affairs in Indian universities.
 
And so now I come to the question you ask.
 
First, what Shourie writes is true. The Soviets had no love lost for religion, and they were not above using it for political motives. But at the same time, I would disagree that all Soviet literature was politically motivated. Soviet analysis of old Russian paganism, or of Hinduism or even of Islam is quite spot-on. Also beyond, say 1931, the Soviets were firmly in power, so I would not believe it that the Soviets were really trying to “please” anyone with their analyses. Yes there was a certain communist bent to whatever they wrote, but trust me, they did do some serious scholarly work too.
 
But thats not quite the whole story just yet! For just like the word “secular” means different things within India and without, so too does the word “communism” or even “soviet”!
 
Let me give you another example. The soviets were pretty damn frank about what was happening in their country. So if you read the soviet government reports, and these were available from their embassies – it was that easy – one could easily figure out that (say) collectivization was a colossal failure. Or that the Soviet language policy was Russianization in disguise. But what did people like Nehru say? He said that collectivization was a great success, and it is a fact that the India’s language policy is modeled after the Soviet one!!!
 
Now its obvious to ask – how is that possible? Well, the answer is simple. Nehru was dumb, his advisors were dumber, so they would at the max, listen to Stalin’s speeches or listen to Soviet envoys. Thats like buying a soap based on ads, and not scientific reports. And given the brutal honesty of the Soviets themselves in their official reports, you could hardly blame them! And what even funnier, if not tragic, is that when Sita Ram Goel pointed this out, he was declared enemy of state!!!
 
So coming back to the point, the species “Indian Communism” is as different from “Marx’s / Lenin’s / Trotsky’s / Mao’s Communism” as a dolphin is from a TV. They are two different things entirely.
 
It is this “Indian Communism” that CPI(M/ML/XXX) follow. It is this that the jholawalas of JNU follow. And it is this that attracts Iqbal. Bottom line is: Indian intellectuals, such as they are, are born and brought up on second hand British literature, and that is the source of their inspiration and understanding of the world. Few of your JNU types could even recite the soviet five year plans if you held a gun to their head. 99% of them can’t even read Russian or German (the language of Das Kapital).
 
In India, communism is basically hatred of Hinduism, period. No original theoretical contribution to communist theory has ever been made by an Indian, and this despite the fact that 99% of our social scientists wear communism like a second skin. In essence, they are posers, and little else.
 
My basic point is : the duality of political concepts within India and without. And this extend to everything. Essentially, what I want to say is (1) Soviet (or Chinese) Communism is not Indian Communism, and consequently, (2) Inferences from Soviet writings are no pointer to the attitudes of Indian communists.

Nitish Kumar and JDU are Soft on TerrorNitish Kumar and JDU are Soft on Terror

This ET news report really exposes Nitish Kumar and where his communal Muslim vote bank politics is leading us to:
 
From transit point, Bihar turns major hub for jihadis | TNN | 8 Jul, 2013
 
Of the 14 IM operatives arrested in the past couple of years by various agencies, 13 have come from Bihar’s Darbhanga district alone. There have been similar arrests from other parts of Bihar as well.
 
IM’s operations chief Ahmed Zara Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal were working on developing a module in Bihar ever since the neutralization of the outfit’s Maharashtra and Azamgarh modules in 2008.
 
In fact, before executing the 13/7 Mumbai blasts in 2011, Bhatkal along with his associates, including Bihar’s Asadullah Akhtar, had stayed in a Darbhanga village for over a year and even tested their bombs in a mango orchard there. The group later went on to execute the August 1, 2012 Pune blasts and is also suspected to be behind the February 2013 Hyderabad blasts. Both Akhtar and Bhatkal are absconding.
 
Those arrested include Asadullah Rehman alias Dilkash, Kafeel Ahmed, Talha Abdali alias Israr, Mohammed Tarique Anjuman, Haroon Rashid Naik, Naqi Ahmed Vasi Ahmed Sheikh, Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaque Sheikh, Mohammed Qatil Siddiqui, Gohar Aziz Khumani, Mohammed Adil, Mohammed Irshad, Gayur Ahmed Jamali, Aftab Alam alias Farooq and Danish Ansari.
 
Barring Mohammed Adil, a Pakistani from Karachi, the rest are from Darbhanga. Several of these suspects are alleged to be behind the German Bakery blast in Pune in February, 2010, the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore (April 2010), the Jama Masjid firing that took place in Delhi in September 2010 and the July 13, 2011 blasts in Mumbai that claimed 26 lives.
 
Despite these realities, Bihar does not seem to have woken up to the threat. The central government had asked the state about a year back to constitute its own Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on the pattern of Delhi and Mumbai police but the state simply sat over the proposal and no headway has been made in this direction till date.
 
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20964348.cms

Saturday, July 6, 2013

संपत्ति में लड़कियों का हिस्सा

नारी जीवन और जिम्मेदारियों का दायरा बहुत विचित्र है और सिर्फ नारियां ही निभा सकती हैं सब को. जहाँ तक संपत्ति की बात है तो इसमें नारियों ने भी काफी राजनीति की है :) सामान्यतः ऐसा माना जाता है कि लड़कियों को
पैत्रिक संपत्ति में हिस्सा शादी के समय मिलता है (जिसे दहेज़ कह कर बदनाम कर दिया गया है) और लड़कों
को माता पिता के बाद. पर ऐसा होने लगा कि लड़कियां पैत्रिक संपत्ति में माता पिता के निधन पर या उस से पहले बटवारे के समय फिर से हिस्सा मांगने लगीं, जो कि समाज में स्वार्थ के तौर पर देखा गया और इसके कारण बहुत से
परिवारों में भाई बहन का सुन्दर रिश्ता भी पैसे के कारण नष्ट हुआ जो कि खेदजनक है

Friday, July 5, 2013

Caste Quota Hampering Quality Education

When caste reservation % is rising every year and at every possible pretext, a serious question is if infrastructure is being developed and improved at the same pace. The answer, sadly, is no. Politicians are all concerned only about making new vote banks and gaining more votes from the beneficiaries and the fact that increasing caste reservations are playing havoc on the quality of education does not appeal to them.
 
A recent news tells more about it:
 
Colleges ill-equipped to accommodate OBC quota | TNN Jun 18, 2013
 
The admission process for various undergraduate courses at Allahabad University and nine out of its 11 constituent colleges would be commencing in the next few weeks, and even as these colleges, barring AU, take in a fresh batch of students, the infrastructure has not been upgraded, especially when more students will be joining under implementation of OBC (other backward category) reservation.
 
Different constituent colleges of the AU were asked to raise the number of seats for undergraduate courses by 54%, but their authorities, faculties and students are struggling under dearth of fund and facilities required for the higher number of students.
 
These institutions, including nine degree colleges of the city, have not been sanctioned funds by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to enhance the infrastructure. The UGC sanctioned large amount of funds to the central universities for the purpose, but the constituent colleges under the Allahabad University’s umbrella received no funding.
 
The number of UG seats at AU before implementing OBC reservation was 3,445, but now it stands at 5,305 (an increase of 1,860 seats). Similar is the condition at other degree colleges wherein the number of seats (as per year the current academic year) would increase substantially. At Jagat Taran College, the new number of seats is 1,165 as against 747 in 2007; in Rajashri Tandon it is 451 from 293, at ADC it is around 3,066, at Ishwar Sharan around 1,863, at CMP around 4,281, at SS Khanna 1,201 from 780, at SPM Degree College 800 and at Arya Kanya Degree College the new number of seats is 1,119.
 
“There aren’t sufficient classrooms, laboratories, or libraries. The teacher taught ratio (TTR) will be affected adversely by the number of faculty positions and the infrastructure remains the same while student intake increases multifold”, said a principal of a constituent college of AU. “We are told that college authorities would be given separate grant by UGC, but in the last three years we have not received any funding for accommodating the theOBC grant,” he added.
 
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-18/allahabad/40047625_1_ug-seats-arya-kanya-degree-college-au
 
This is really a sad state of affairs. Congress party which is spearheading this caste quota politics in order to divide Hindus on the lines of castes and to garner caste based vote banks, should wake up for the sake of the nation.