Harry Survives Deathly Hallows!
Would Rural India Survive ,Too?
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
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Please watch:
Documentary on Nandigram in English
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3924953024386968311&hl=en
India-US joint press statement on nuclear talks
Washington, July 21 : Text of India-US joint press statement issued Friday after four days of meetings in Washington July 17-20, 2007
http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=48044
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Unlike the first six books in J.K. Rowling's series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" doesn't have Hogwarts school as a friendly backdrop. No more Quidditch, Blast-Ended Skrewts or skiving snackboxes.
From the outset, it's a struggle-to-the-death in a magical world of good versus evil. Rowling delivers a bloodbath. The death-toll rises alarmingly -- almost casually -- as Harry continues his struggle to rid the world of Lord Voldemort.
The Potter epic has themes derived from Greek mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, "Star Wars," Tom Brown's "Schooldays" and Enid Blyton.
The stage is now set for a classic, final confrontation of Sherlock Holmes versus Professor Moriarty or "The Matrix's" Neo versus Agent Smith proportions.
The question is whether good must die to nullify evil. At what cost can The Greater Good be achieved? It's a question, we soon find out, that troubles Harry throughout "Hallows," as it did the prescient Dumbledore before him.
The odds are stacked heavily in Voldemort's favor: The sixth book revealed he had taken unprecedented steps to make himself immortal.
Before reaching a final showdown, Harry must first track down five remaining Horcruxes -- preserved soul-fragments -- and destroy them.
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Readers have rarely seen Voldemort, the man described as the most powerful dark wizard of all time in action. "Hallows" gives him the leg room to, literally, cut to the chase. No more sending out mere minions to launch an assault. Indeed, the first few pages sees Voldemort fly -- no broomsticks needed, thank you -- in a blockbuster chase featuring at least a dozen of your favorite good guys.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/07/21/potter.agrawal/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Who's afraid of Wal-Mart?
1 Jul 2007, 0030 hrs IST,
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
Historically, MNCs have had high profit margins arising from quasi-monopolies in technology and finance, and political influence translating into protectionism. In the US, trade unions fought for a bigger share of the surpluses, and obtained the highest wages in the world. In effect, MNCs and the trade unions shared monopoly profits garnered at
consumer expense.
Wal-Mart has defied this model. Far from seeking high margins, it has relentlessly cut prices and kept profit margins so low that competitors give up. Its profit margin is just 3% of sales. Prices at Wal-Mart can be half or less than at major department stores. Wal-Mart quality is often poor, though that is improving.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Whos_afraid_of_Wal-Mart/articleshow/2164180.cms
Selling in Rural India
P. Balakrishna
B Sidharth
The Indian rural market with its vast size and demand base offers a huge opportunity that MNCs cannot afford to ignore.
TO expand the market by tapping the countryside, more and more MNCs are foraying into India's rural markets. Among those that have made some headway are Hindustan Lever, Coca-Cola, LG Electronics, Britannia, Standard Life, Philips, Colgate Palmolive and the foreign-invested telecom companies.
Opportunity
The Indian rural market with its vast size and demand base offers a huge opportunity that MNCs cannot afford to ignore. With 128 million households, the rural population is nearly three times the urban.
As a result of the growing affluence, fuelled by good monsoons and the increase in agricultural output to 200 million tonnes from 176 million tonnes in 1991, rural India has a large consuming class with 41 per cent of India's middle-class and 58 per cent of the total disposable income.
The importance of the rural market for some FMCG and durable marketers is underlined by the fact that the rural market accounts for close to 70 per cent of toilet-soap users and 38 per cent of all two-wheeler purchased.
http://www.blonnet.com/2004/02/16/stories/2004021600160900.htm
Consumerist state called India
Practically, the consumer services sector in India is the most competitive, because it boasts of the most sought after careers and growth charts for candidates and companies alike. Who doesn’t want to be a part of the new ‘consumerist state’ called India?
Our search practice therefore becomes especially challenging in this secttechnology_advisoryfinancial_servicehospitality_servicesindustrial or, since case histories and personalities cloud the vision, and smartness and glib talk is sold by practically everybody in the industry. To bore beneath the surface of all that, takes Executive Access’ expert team handpicked from the industry with considerable knowledge gathered from people and processes in the Indian/Asian industry.
http://www.executiveaccess.co.in/consumer_service.php
Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has been named global 'FDI Personality of the Year 2007' by FDI magazine and Financial Times Business, published by London-based Financial Times Group. A proposal from European aerospace consortium EADS, the holding arm of Airbus Industrie, to set up a consultancy and training centre is among 17 foreign investment proposals cleared by the Indian government.
Bangalore-based Real Estate Bank India Limited (REBI) plans to start operations in West Bengal to provide information on real estate transactions under one roof. In a new report, Goldman Sachs finds that India has 10 of the 30 fastest-growing urban areas in the world. India will have 36 mega cities with populations of over 5 million by 2051 and some cities are slotted for immense growth due to their locations as industrial hubs.
The Weather forcast heralds new disaster for Rural India under Post Manusmriti US Galaxy Order in Indian Comrador led Brahminiccal system!With the monsoon continuing vigorously in most parts of the country, 26 more deaths were reported in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal during the past 24 hours. Harry Potter survives Death Hollows as the hackers fortold. Would the Rural India survive, too? Back from her record-making 195-day space odyssey, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams said Friday the Bhagavad Gita and Lord Ganesha took care of her during the journey and said she will come to India this year to share her experiences. Indian Rural People also survive on religious faith. Without God, they would`nt be able to survive at all as the MNC Promoter Raj has deprived of Life and Livelihood in villages! After Gayatri Mantra recital in US Senate, there is something to chear about as the revered Vishwanath temple in Varanasi went online with the launch of an exclusive website to give information on day-to-day rituals! Here's a shortcut through cyberspace to the gods - instead of going all the way to the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, one of India's most popular pilgrimage destinations, devotees can now offer prayers from their homes through a website created by the temple committee.
Earthquake aftermath is worrisome, but nuclear power still a vital energy option.It wasn't the best week to have a nuclear plant in your backyard, not with an earthquake in Japan damaging a key nuclear plant there. But we can't afford to allow an old, unfounded fear to trump the historical record. This is official stance. West Bengal is set to get a Nuclear Power plant in Haripur area in Midnapur. Indo US Nuclear Deal has to open the floodgates of Nuclear option. Left opposes Nimitz but waits for the Nuclear Reactor to be imported from USA and it depends on the deal!So, despite the vocal and somewhat pseod ideological opposition to detoriation in Agro Sector,Nuclear power remains one of our best sources of clean, cheap energy, and it's a vital asset in the effort to minimize the buildup of carbon in our atmosphere that appears to be raising global temperatures.The facts about what happened at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant are still emerging . Meanwhile, officials from Southern California Edison, which operates San Onofre, are predictably assuring us that whatever happened in Japan couldn't possibly happen elsewhere.
Nuclear is an important option. However, it probably doesn't belong on or near earthquake fault lines. Unlike Japan, which has far fewer options, the United States has a whole continent on which to select more suitable locations for nuclear facilities. Of course, building them will mean overcoming the objections of Americans who don't want a nuclear facility in their backyards and who will offer any reason ---- legitimate or otherwise ---- not to build them. That's why Yucca Mountain is stalled .
From dawn to dusk, thousands of fans of Harry Potter thronged book stores in cities and towns across India to grab the seventh and possibly the final edition of the series by J.K. Rowling as the Potter magic cast a spell and held students and parents in its fantasy grip. Snaking queues, excited faces and an electric atmosphere. For the thousands of Potter fans across the country the moment they have been long waiting for has finally arrived - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", the seventh edition of the Harry Potter series, has been released early Saturday morning.
Government plans to invite private companies to develop SEZs, or industrial clusters, in some insurgency-prone areas of the country. The pilot project is proposed to be initiated in the north-eastern region, in the Bodo-affected areas of Assam. Later, similar projects will be initiated in areas like Chambal Valley and MCC-prone belts in Jharkhand and Telangana (Andhra Pradesh). The plan will come up for discussion at the parliamentary committee meeting of the ministry of tribal affairs early in August. Subsequently, proposals will be sent to home, finance and commerce ministries.
In recent times, the government has given tax concessions to corporates setting up units in the north-east. However, only a few companies, such as Delhi-based DS group, have set up industrial base in the region.
The ideology behind the move is clear: it’s an attempt to solve the problem of insurgency and youth restlessness in sensitive areas by creating economic activity and generating employment opportunities. It is learnt the tribal affairs minister PR Kyndiah, who himself hails from an insurgency-prone area on the Assam-Meghalaya border, is taking a keen interest in the matter and has met developers of some SEZ projects.
Indian and US negotiators kept looking for a formula to seal their civil nuclear deal Thursday with Vice President D. Cheney getting into the act to save the day, but did not seem any closer. Two years after President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set out on their "historic initiative", India and the United States have finalised an agreement to implement their path-breaking civil nuclear deal. With global brands flooding the Indian market, it is time the country became a creator of intellectual property rather than merely using it, said Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath. The spread of financial literacy is a must among all classes of society so as to achieve inclusive growth, said Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram here today.
India and Australia Thursday agreed to conclude a mutual legal assistance treaty even as External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee conveyed New Delhi's concerns over "fair treatment" of Haneef, an Indian suspect in the foiled UK attack, to his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer.
India and Japan Thursday reviewed their bilateral trade issues and discussed progress of the ambitious Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor (DMIC) project, to be jointly developed by the two countries, ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit next month.
Heavy to very heavy rains are likely to occur at most places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, and Kerala.Heavy rains are likely to occur at many places in Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
A survey conducted across several districts in West Bengal has indicated that a rising awareness against dowry is fuelling the incidence of child marriage and trafficking.The survey was conducted by Women’s Studies Research Centre (WSRC); the Department of Sociology, Burdwan University; and Centre for Women’s Studies, University of North Bengal, supported by the West Bengal Government’s Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“We found that the traffickers approach the villagers in the guise of grooms without any dowry demand and lure them into marrying off even minor girls,” said Ishita Mukhopadhyay, Director, WSRC, Calcutta University. “The girls are then sold and sent to other places like Mumbai, Dubai or Kashmir,” she added.
The Southwest Monsoon has been active over Bihar and active over Orissa and Kerala.It has been subdued over Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Telangana and north interior Karnataka.
Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places in Lakshadweep, and at many places in south Tamil Nadu, and coastal Karnataka.
Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places in Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chattisgarh, Konkan, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, north Tamil Nadu, interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in Uttaranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada.
Heavy to very heavy rains have occurred at most places in Assam, Meghalaya, and Lakshadweep.
Heavy rains have occurred at most places in Orissa, Bihar, Kerala and at a few places in south interior Karnataka.
Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Jharkhand, and at many places in Arunachal Pradesh, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Rain or thundershowers have occurred at a few places in Uttar Pradesh, Konkan, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka.
No talks with Buddhadeb: Mamata
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said there would be no talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee on the Nandigram and Singur stand-off as he lacked "credibility".
"When I was on fast in December last year on the Singur issue, the chief minister had written to me for talks. But six months have passed and he has made no commitment that unwilling farmers would be given back their land. There can be no talks with a person who has no credibility," Banerjee said.
She was addressing a massive rally to commemorate 'Martyrs Day' in memory of 13 Youth Congress (YC) activists killed in police firing heralks, the TC supremo said, as the chief minister's hands were stained with the blood of the 14 victims of police firing at Nandigram.
Till her party's demands for justice for the victims of the March 14 firing at Nandigram were met and land "forcibily acquired" for the Tata Motors' project at Singur were returned, there could be no talks, Banerjee said.
"It is a decision of the party," she said, adding that the CPI(M) could purchase most, but not the Trinamool.
"As long as we live, we will live with our heads held high and never surrender to the CPI(M)," she said.
Maya echoes Centre on quota in pvt sector
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Maya_echoes_Centre_on_quota_in_pvt_sector/articleshow/2222130.cms
NEW DELHI: Barely days after the Centre conceded the option of private sector quota, BSP chief Mayawati on Friday made a strong plea for introducing job reservation in private sector, setting up the possibility of using it during election time to corner what is now an extremely friendly Congress.
Given a new constituency she has cultivated with 'sarvjan' slogan, Mayawati took care to demand job quota for poor among upper castes. She said quota for SC/ST and OBCs be filled across the country.
The demand for private sector quota, which Mayawati said she had discussed with the Prime Minister during her meeting, is significant as an indicator to a future political strategy.
Mayawati is expected to step up Dalit rhetoric. Sources said there have been uncomfortable signals from the ground after her increasing emphasis on Brahmins during elections as well as during her first two months of government. This has created doubts in the minds of her core voters.
The dramatic decision to raze the Gomti Nagar cricket stadium in Lucknow was interpreted by political observers as an attempt to demolish the doubts among Dalits. Coming within a week of the PM’s panel ruling out quota and instead plumping for skill development to increase the share of SCs/STs in the private sector, Mayawati has made a clear bid to stand distinct from Congress.
Her forays into poll-bound states of HP, MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, which have stro-ng presence of tribals and Dalits, could see the twin, balancing demands being raised to mobilise votes. That these assembly polls would mark a countdown to Lok Sabha battle makes it a threat both for BJP and Congress.
Mayawati's forceful demand that the Constitution be amended if needed to fulfill her demand and that reservation policy be put in the 9th schedule to make it immune from legal challenge, sits well with her directive to party workers to carry out a LS campaign "to make her the PM".
BSP has begun the groundwork not only in UP but also Maharashtra and MP to work up a tally which makes it an indispensable player at the Centre.
The Legacy of the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh – Part V
Sat, 2007-07-21 02:32
By Rabindranath Trivedi - for Asian Tribune from Dhaka
Part-V: Pundit Nehru, Indira Gandhi Visit Bongoan Refugee Camps in March 1950
Dhaka , 21 July, (Asiantribune.com): Pundit Nehru visited West Bengal on March 6, 1950 along with Mridula Saravai and daughter Indira Gandhi (Later Prime Minister of India). He visited Bongaon along with Chief Minister Dr Bidhan Roy and Indira Gandhi and saw for herself the pitiable condition of the Hindus of East Bengal. (this experience on Hindu exodus from East Bengal may help Indiraji in 1971). In a public meeting at Bongaon, Pundit Nehru said “partition of the country brought many evils at its train...”
Later on March 10, 1950 Pundit Nehru wrote a letter to Liaquat Ali Khan stating that,’ I returned from Calcutta last night after four days stay there. These four days were very exhausting, not physically so, for I am used to physical exertion. They were exhausting for other reasons. As more and more facts came to my knowledge and the effect that those facts and occurrences had produced on people’s minds, I was greatly depressed ... I had suggested to you that you and I should visit East and West Bengal.... I am so anxious to do something in my individual capacity that I have been thinking repeatedly of visiting some of these places, not as Prime Minister but as a private individual... I would gladly give up my Prime Minister ship and go to East and West Bengal entirely as a private citizen and stay for while there...When I was in Calcutta, I had a message from Basanti Devi ( Mrs.. C.R. Das) saying that she would like to go to Dacca, if her visit could do any good... Perhaps you know that her family originally came from Dacca. Her suggestion was that she might go there with her daughter (Mrs. Arpana Roy, mother of Sirdhartha Shankar Roy) and one or two companions and stay quietly in Dacca for a while, hoping that her presence itself and meeting a few old friends might be helpful. ”
On the same Prime Minister J L Nehru in a cabled message to Prime Minister Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan mentioned that ‘The Dacca trouble started on February 10th by a procession and a meeting of secretariat employees. Fiery speeches were delivered and immediately after, arson, looting and killing commenced. It is significant that government servants should have taken the lead and organised this.”
A number of correspondences were exchanged between Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan. Meanwhile, it is learnt that Indian Army in disguise entered East Bengal with the consent of President Rajendra Prosad and Ballav Bhai Patel. Prime Minister was in dark. Pakistan could guess the consequences, the Bangla press and Pakistani print media, as usual, carried the palm for its inventive genius and vitriolic and malicious attacks. India issued a note of warning, Indian army was silently withdrawn, and Pakistan did not say anything regarding the presence of Indian forces.’ Prime Minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru asked Pakistan to stop the communal disturbances; otherwise he would take ‘other steps’ this warning produced good results. Prime Minister Liaquat Ali of Pakistan visited India, and the famous “Delhi Pact”, commonly known as “Nehru-Liaquat Agreement”, was signed on April 8, 1950.
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/6628
Jyoti Basu hopes of a Left win in Haldia
Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu Friday said the ruling Left Front in West Bengal will win the July 22 election to Haldia municipality in East Midnapore despite its debacle in the Panskura civic poll in the same district following the Nandigram wave favouring the opposition.
'We will win. Though last time we won all the seats, this time I am not sure if we would win all but we will win the municipality,' Basu told reporters after a meeting of the state Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) secretariat.
Elections in Haldia, the port town and growing industrial hub in West Bengal located about 125 km from Kolkata, will be a harbinger of people's mood following the land acquisition controversy that rocked the state and put the communists on the defensive.
Haldia has also been chosen as an alternative destination for a chemical hub project that was planned in Nandigram. Trinamool Congres chief Mamata Banerjee, however, said she would not allow the hub even in Haldia.
The communists had swept the last polls by winning all 25 wards.
The Trinamool Congress and the Congress have formed an alliance to contest the Haldia civic polls.
Ambedkar
In the religious field, Ambedkar at first encouraged attempts to join in religious festivals, to enter temples, to perform marriages with Vedic rites. Later he called the caste to a conference on conversion and asked them to leave the fold of Hinduism. For twenty years following that decision in 1936, Ambedkar played with the possibilities of entering Islam, Sikhism, Christianity or any one of India’s numerous sects within Hinduism. The final decision was to convert to Buddhism, which meant literally to revive a religion long dead in India (1992:61).
The conference in 1936 called to determine the matter of conversion was announced as a Mahar conference. Ambedkar held that each caste must determine its own religious destiny by itself (1992:74).
In the political field, Ambedkar at first supported special representation for the Depressed Classes, then joint electorates with Hindus, then separate electorates, and toward the end of his life denied the workability of the reserved seats for the Scheduled Castes for which he had spent so much time and energy.
The list of candidates reveals something of the nature of the Mahar political movement in the 1930s. The majority of tickets were given to Mahars, although there were at least two candidates from other Untouchable castes, a Mang and a Gujarati Scheduled Caste man. The absence of Chambhars, the wealthiest, ritually highest group among the Scheduled Castes in Maharasthra, is striking (:106).
Ambedkar seems to have attempted to win these castes over, frequently appearing at Chambhar or Mang meetings. He gaved a detailed reply to criticism raised at a Chambhar conference in 1939 and devoted space in Janata in 1941 to a long letter from a Mang accusing him of being only a Mahar leader, but by this time the Mahar conversion announcement had further alienated other castes. Neither group was active to a large degree in the Independent Labour Party, founded in 1936 or its successor, the Scheduled Castes Federation, in 1942; or later in its successor, the Republican Party in 1957. Nor was the attempt to make the Independent Labour Party a working class party successful. Caste Hindu labor was not ready for Untouchable leadership, nor could the identification of the Congress with Independence be overcome (:107).
Addendum to Part II
Prakash Ambedkar, Ambedkar’s grandson, has moved from a quiet leadership of the Buddhist movement into the spokeman for the Bhartiya Republican Party, and for the first time a Brahman woman, Neelam Gorhe, has joined the ranks. In the North, Kanshi Ram has secured some success with his Bahujan Samaj Party, but his support in Maharashtra is not strong.
The most interesting socio-political development among Ambedkar’s followers is the rise of the Dalit Panthers, a militant group of young educated Buddhist formed in 1972. The Panthers offered a challenge to the politicians in Ambedkar’s movement and attempted to counter violence against Untouchables in the village. They also brought to public attention the emerging Dalit Sahitya, the literature of the oppressed, an important cultural contribution to Marathi literature.
Now, in the late 1980s, the united power of the Dalit Panthers is much reduced by splits, but local efforts continue and the literary movement which accompanied the rise of the Panthers is still blooming. Ramdas Athvale of Bombay and Gangadhar Gadhe of Aurangabad lead an important faction of the Panters. Jogendra Kavade of Nagpur speaks for unity among Dalits and Muslims. Arun Kamble of Bombay have formed an alliance with the Socialists (now the Janata Party). Bhai Sangari leads a faction of the Dalit Panthers in Bombay in alliance with one of the founders, Namdeo Dhasal, still a formidable force as a recognized innovative poet. Raja Dhale, co-founder with Dhasal of the Panthers, has established a group called Mass Movement, and continues his artistic efforts and his translation of the Buddhist text, the Dhammapada. It is a disunited but active scene! There is also a group of Dalit Panthers in Gujarat (Zelliot 1992: 179-180).
Ghanshyam Shah, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The traditionally deprived groups such as Dalits, lower castes, other backward castes, and Adivasis (tribals) joined hands with the Hindutva forces and actively participated in committing violence against Muslims during the 2002 communal carnage in Gujarat, A question arises: what made these groups participate in violence and how have they been mobilized by the dominant Hindutva forces? The question is relevant because the Hindutva ideology perpetuates the traditional hierarchical Brahminical social order. It is not only dominated by upper castes but also serves their interests against the interests of the deprived communities. This paper is an endeavor to probe into this question.
Three caveats are in order. One, the deprived groups are not homogeneous. They not only vary in their numerical strength but socially and economically each group is stratified. Two, even the reported participation of these groups is confined to certain areas and not of the whole region. For instance, participation of Dalits is mainly confined to certain localities of Ahmedabad and not of other cities, not to speak of rural areas. Similarly, participation of the Adivasis was confined to certain blocks of a few districts. Three, participation in riots varies from silent support to involving in killing, maiming, and burning property. The 2002 communal carnage was to a large extent planned and not spontaneous. It had four types of actors: the organizers, skilled operators, agent provocateurs, and silent spectators.
In this paper I argue that the trajectory followed by the dominant non-Hindutva social reformers for social transformation/empowerment of the poor has not challenged the hierarchical social order, though it opposed caste-based discrimination. And, in the course of time, ruling elites and scholars have legitimized the growth of caste-based identity politics within sanskritization model as the inevitable consequence of parliamentary democratic politics. The Hindutva forces have skillfully hijacked the democratic process of rising aspirations of the deprived communities to translate their agenda. They floated various organizations and carried out activities to build unity and harmony among the upper and lower castes against the "others" (Muslims). Systematic propaganda reinforcing enmity against Muslims has been skillfully carried out. Fear psychosis and a sense of injustice among the Hindus has been repeatedly hammered. Time and again, Muslims are branded as anti-national, fundamentalist, conservative and backward, terrorists, and spies for Pakistan. The Hindus are reminded that they are apostles (Upasak) of Shakti—the worshippers of Maha-Shakti with Trisul in the hands of Shiva, sudarshan in the hands of Krishna, bow and arrow in the hands of Ram. Hindus are cajoled to take arms against their enemies. They are reminded that weakness, timidity, and unmanliness are great sins and bravery and masculinity are great punya (virtues). Various new Hindu religious sects that came up in the last four decades, though not necessarily in alliance with the Sangh parivar, facilitated the Hindutva forces to carry out their agenda.
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Karnataka: State sponsored decoit in the name of Maoist party
CPI (Maoist) statement on state sponsored decoit
Respected editors,representatives of the media and progressive and democratic organizations and individuals. Struggle greetings to you. We are sending this release on dacoit of 4 houses near Agumbe, for your kind information and requesting to publish the same in the esteemed media with due consideration.
Yours in struggle
Gangadhara
For the state committee
CPI(Maoist)
karnataka
Wide news are conspicuously spread that we did dacoit of 4 houses and taken kilos of silver, tens of thousands of rupees and snatched ear rings and thali and chains from the women by thrashing them e t c.
This is stage-managed dacoity by the bajarangadal,bhaaratheeya janatha party leaders and police combine. Police themselves participated with sophisticated weapons and wearing masks with baja ranga dala goons in dacoity as they and bajarangadala are good experienced ones on this by their routine practice of running theft,loot and sandal wood smuggling. This is for diverting public attention from cowardly atyadka fake encounter of theirs and imposing fascist terror and killings on people further.They trying avoid any enquiry of their crimes of cold blooded murders. They earlier also did these type of dacoity nearby kallugudde and other area in smaller level in the name of us. They also burnt government bus in nearby sringeri and tried to charge it on us, but their intention was not fulfilled.They exposed themselves before the public.Police kept silence on those matters.No heroic! Arrests, no heroic! encounters were made for that.
They and so-called law keepers did not shout for action on bus burners and looters at that time. The leaders of bajaranga dala and police officials jointly planned this shameful dacoity. They looted gun only for charging blame on us.
We never do dacoity,we only sieze looted belongings of common people with criteria of social justice. We do any thing with open declartion. we never hide those things from the people.
We did not sent any threatening letter to BJP MLA of theerthahalli Aaraga jnanendra and others.We are not indul