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Clash of Myth and Reality as India Plays NAM Tune on Myanmar
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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"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all." The Congress party has deplored the violence unleashed on innocent monks and civilians in Myanmar.
- Will Durant
"If there is one place on the face of this Earth "where all the dreams of living men have found a home "from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of"existence, it is India."
- Romain Rolland - French Philosopher 1886-11944
Myth: The president refuses to admit that climate change is real and that humans are a factor, the handout said. Myth: The U.S. is doing nothing to address climate change. Myth: The United States refuses to engage internationally.
Europeans say technology is crucial but not a substitute for binding targets on emissions.
Bloody Riots Erupt in Islamabad Over Musharraf Decision
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Less than 24 hours after Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled in favor of President General Pervez Musharraf's eligibility to run for a second term in office, government forces laid siege to the Supreme Court grounds, where several hundred lawyers had taken ...
What a Joke! India has reaffirmed its strong commitment to the Non-Aligned Movement and stressed its ''enduring relevance'' in the current international situation! Involvement in the Asian Nato means nothing! US ready to interfere in Myanmar and India concentrating on the Nuke Deal as well as the new strategic regrouping mean nothing at all!
The Kirnahaar Kulin Brahmin frm Bengal is always ready to prove his loyality and managerial assets! it is quite unlikely that countries with major investments in Myanmar, such as China and India, would agree to take any punitive measures. On the other hand,Though Bush and U.S. lawmakers rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.-brokered international treaty intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions that expires in 2012, he is seeking ideas for what should come next. Critics have said they fear he might use his talks to undermine the next round of negotiations in December in Bali, Indonesia.But on Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice countered that the United States is serious about global warming and making progress to slow its growth rate in carbon dioxide and other industrial warming gases.
"I want to stress that the United States takes climate change very seriously, for we are both a major economy and a major emitter," Rice said. "Climate change is a global problem and we are contributing to it, therefore we are prepared to expand our leadership to address the challenge. That is why President Bush has convened this meeting."

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the strength of the Movement has historically been its inclusiveness, which enabled to take into account the diverse interest in the 118-member group.Reasserting New Delhi's firm support to NAM, he said it had enduring relevance in the international situation prevailing now.
Before attending meeting of the Coordination Bureau of NAM, Mukherjee participated in the ministerial meeting of the Asian Development Dialogue (ACD) where the countries discussed regional situation and reviewed the ongoing cooperative endeavours within the group.The ministers also discussed ideas to begin a cultural dialogue within the group, officials said. Kazakhstan offered to host to next ministerial level meeting in Astana in October 2008.

On the Other hand, Hundreds of Myanmarese students gathered in New Delhi on Saturday to protest against the military junta in Myanmar, and urged New Delhi to intervene, as fresh protests led by Buddhist monks were witnessed today in Yangon. The Congress today deplored the violence unleashed on ''innocent'' monks and civilians in Mynamar, and said unilateral resort to violent means is most reprehensible and must be eschewed. Daily protests began last month and had grown into the stiffest challenge to Myanmar’s ruling junta in decades. They were initially started by people protesting massive fuel price hikes, with crowd sizes mushrooming to tens of thousands after monks joined in.The junta, which has a long history of snuffing out internal and external dissent, started cracking down Wednesday, when the first of at least 10 deaths was reported, and then let loose on Thursday, shooting protesters and clubbing them with batons.Small groups of activists and ordinary citizens had continued to turn out since then. Housewives and shop owners were among those taunting troops and then quickly disappearing into alleyways. But the mood was somber Saturday, with few people in Yangon and Mandalay leaving their homesThough Myanmar is rich in natural resources, 90 percent of its 54 million people live on less than $1 a day, making it all the more difficult for some people to imagine a successful people’s power revolution.Images of bloodied protesters and fleeing crowds have riveted world attention on the escalating crisis, prompting many governments to urge the junta to end the violence.
The U.S. urged “all civilized nations” to press Myanmar’s leaders to end the crackdown, which has also resulted in hundreds of arrests. Win Mya Mya, an outspoken member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, was among those seized overnight, according to family members.The United Nations said it was worried the current unrest could impede efforts to feed some 500,000 people. Authorities already have placed restrictions on the movement of food in some areas around Mandalay, Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, said in a statement from New York.

At the United Nations, Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo described Gambari’s visit as critical. “If he fails then the situation can become quite dreadful,” he said. He added that he believes the junta “will be restrained” during Gambari’s visit.
Yeo said that if Gambari could “help them achieve national reconciliation, that would be of enormous value.”

Soldiers take their positions along a street to quell defiant protesters who gathered in pockets to continue protests against the military junta Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar asU.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar Saturday, looking to convince the military junta to end its brutal crackdown on demonstrators that has virtually strangled a people’s movement to end 45 years of military rule.Hope was slipping through the hands of protesters taking on the governing junta, however, as streets that saw violent government crackdowns in the previous days were mostly quiet. Troops were stationed on nearly each corner of the two biggest cities, Yangon and Mandalay.Gambari arrived at the Yangon airport and was being briefed by U.N. officials. He was expected to head immediately to Naypyitaw, where the country’s military leaders are based.
Western diplomats said Gambari’s schedule was set by the government and likely would not include meetings with pro-democracy figures, such as Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest.

The stunning admission by Democratic frontrunners Clinton, Obama, and Edwards that they might keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2013 "is tantamount to an announcement of a permanent occupation that could cost U.S. taxpayers $5 trillion and bankrupt any opportunity to address health care reform, education, jobs, or any other domestic policy initiatives," Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said today.

In remarks prepared for a speech in New Hampshire tonight, Kucinich is expected to challenge the credibility, motives, and fitness of the Democratic frontrunners to serve as President "when they either voted to go to war or voted to continue the war. They took us into this war, and, with every vote for continued funding, they have kept us there. Now, they're telling us we may be there forever, diverting trillions of dollars from desperate domestic needs to financing an illegal, immoral, and endless war. It is time to end this war, and it is time to expose their hypocrisy."

Kucinich noted that "Senators Clinton and Edwards were among the most outspoken advocates in 2002 for giving President Bush the authorization he wanted to invade and occupy Iraq. And, until he announced his candidacy this year, Senator Obama supported the war every time he voted to continue funding it. Whatever they say on the campaign trail, they have all voted in support of this war - repeatedly."

"It is absolutely astonishing that these candidates have the audacity to portray themselves as pro-peace and anti-war when their statements, their actions, and their votes reveal just the opposite. They must be held accountable and answerable for their roles in this illegal, immoral, and disastrous war, and, that's what I intend to do."
KABUL, Afghanistan: A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government.
Strengthening a call for negotiations he has made with increasing frequency the last several weeks, President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and factional warlord leader.Karzai said he has contacts with Taliban militants through tribal elders but that there are no direct and open government communication channels with the fighters.
“If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I’ll personally go there and get in touch with them,” Karzai said. “Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?”

12 tourists wounded in first-ever Maldives blast
A bomb exploded at the entrance to a recreation park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 foreign tourists Saturday, a government official said.
The homemade bomb exploded outside Sultan Park in the capital, Male, leaving 12 people, including two Britons, six Chinese and two Japanese, with burn injuries, government spokesman Mohamed Shareef said.
Shareef did not immediately know the nationalities of the other two wounded.

To 13 September 2007
The Lokayukta
Bhabani Bhaban
Alipur
Kolkata - 27
Respected Sir,
We have conducted fact finding over the incident of unnatural death of three children working in an illegal factory producing crackers.
we are coming with a sordid tale of grave human rights violation, where three children died on 28.08.2007 at about 11.00 a.m. Ill-fated children were Hasan Ali, son of Sirazul Islam, Sahana Khatun, daughter of Mustakil Islam and Saruf Ali, son of Seikh Sarif Ali, aged 14, 15 and 11 respectively were working in a factory which was manufacturing illegal firecrackers. The victim-children were residing at Bedo Narayan Para under Malikapur Post Office and Barasat Police Station in District 24 Parganas (North). All of them were working in firecracker factory adjoining to their houses of earning a meager amount before Shab-e- Barat, a Muslim religious festival. All the fatalities belonged to Muslim community. All victim children belonged to the families living under Bellow Poverty Line, although the families never found the BPL cards. All three were students of National Child Labour Project School (NCLP).
One Julfikar was living in the neighborhood of these children and acting as a stooge of big actors of these illegal firecracker factories like Mussaraf and Nazrul. According to the locales this illegal activity of making firecrackers are continuing in the said area for last 20 years and many influential persons are involved with this, police have direct monetary terms with Nazrul and Mussaraf .
The local police have all information regarding this illegal act but they kept mum because all of them were slapped by silver shoes. The police and local administration were getting regular bribes and kickbacks from the violators. All of these happening were known to every household of the locality.
Three hours after the mishap police came to the scene, though the place of mishap only 3 K.M from the police station. While police reached the place Saruf Ali already breathed his last and other two were gasping with 80 to 100% burn injury, they were shifted to BN Bose Hospital at Barrackpore by the villagers only. Police did nothing to shift them to the hospital as they reached the place late. Sahana died after 12 noon and Hasan died after 4.00 p.m. Barasat police registered a case of Unnatural Death having number 372, and sent the bodies for post mortem examination, registering the case was also in haste. After that Barasat police started a case vide no. 573/07, under sections 286/ 304 of IPC.
After the sad demise of three innocent children police started their horrific acts as usual. They raided the village at midnight and arrested innocent persons like; Rafique Ali, Madar Ali, Abdul Karim, Tukai and Bapi, who had no distant relation with the mishap. During their raid they ransacked the houses of poor villagers and claimed that they had seized explosives amounting nearly 25 lacs.
Till now police did not try to get hold of actual kingpin but Julfikar has been arrested from Ranaghat nearly 80 k.m from the place of occurrence.
Meanwhile police refused to divulge the name of accused to our fact finding team. This is also a clear indication that they are trying to shield actual murderers of children.
This whole incident actually put the state and its machinery with functionaries in front of a big question mark. It should be dealt with care and vigilance.
Whereas the preamble of the Constitution resolves to secure to all citizens of India, Justice, social, economic, political; Equality of status and opportunity and promote among them all Fraternity.
And whereas, despite the original Article 45 of Directive Principles of the Constitution having made it the duty of the State to provide free and compulsory education to all children up to age of 14 in ten years (1960), the number of out of school children particularly from the disadvantaged groups and those engaged in labour has remained large and increasing.
And whereas 86th Constitutional Amendment Act 2002 has provided for free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a fundamental right under Article 21A. An act has been tabled to ensure all these guarantees as Right to Education Act 2005, provisions of this act shall be subject to the provisions of Articles 29 & 30 of the Constitution.
According to law child in need of care and protection also dealt in and shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (d) of section 2 of the Juvenile Justice (care and protection of child) Act, 2005 [56 of 2000].
Compulsory education means an obligation on the State to take all necessary steps in terms of this Act to ensure that every child of the age of six years is enrolled in a school and participates in it and complete elementary education.
State has the fundamental duty to incorporate the working child in this process with definite definition about working child. In view of the State working child means a child who works for wages, whether in cash or in kind or works for his/her own family in a manner which prevents his/her from participation in elementary education.
Last but not the least; India ratified the United Nation Convention on Rights of the Child nearly three decades back but all these jargoning and verbose failed to protect the survival and development of Hasan, Sahana and Saraf.
We therefore demand that the persons responsible for horrifying incident of causing death to three children must be punished severely in accordance with penal laws. The police who entered into illegal transaction with wrongdoers and allowed the business of firecracker to run must be identified and their role should be independently investigated and if found guilty must be punished with the real culprits.
Thanking you
Your sincerely
Kirity Roy
State Director
NPPTI, West Bengal
&
President, MASUM

Place of occurrence Sahana's (15 years) burnt body Hasan Ali (14 years)

Parents of Sahana Sahana Khatun Parents & siblings of Sarif Ali

US advised India to save Tibet from China
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Posted online: September 10, 2007

The United States had advised India to take military action against Chinese aggression on Tibet in 1964, a new book by veteran journalist Kalyani Shankar has divulged it.

Marking a US attempt to regulate the India-China relationship in the sixties, the book India & the United States: Politics of the Sixties said that the then US Ambassador to India Chester Bowles in his discussion with the Indian counterpart including prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Morarji Desai, TT Krishnamachari and YB Chavan suggested that India should give an ultimatum to China to take its military installations back from Tibet, else it should face military action by India.

Bowles, in a "top secret" letter to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the then US President Lyndon Johnson, had said that the "ominous development" of the Chinese nuclear weapons could be made to serve "our political purposes here in India." He had "referred vaguely" to information about a testing installation in West China that they had received from other sources.

"India could take a position similar to that which we took in Cuba, ie (that is) an ultimatum to the Chinese to remove such installations from Tibet or to see them blown up by the Indian Air Force," Bowles said in the letter dated September 16, 1964.

Indo Bangladesh Relations and Coup in August 1975
Sat, 2007-08-04 02:45
By Rabindranath Trivedi - for Asian Tribune from Dhaka
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/6807
PART- I: Coup in Bangladesh Killed Bangabandhu on 15 August 1975
Dhaka, 04 August, (Asiantribune.com): The August, the 8th month of the zodiac, named after the great Augustus, is full of ecstasy and sorrowful events in this subcontinent. August gave birth to two nation states as Hindus and Muslims, India and Pakistan, sixty years ago in August 1947. The August also mourned for Rabindranath who died on 7 August 1941(Thursday 22 Srabon 1348 Bengali year) and Founding Father of Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who died in a coup along with his family members except two daughters on 15 August 1975.
With their death, these noble sons of Bengal had contributed to civilization and their endeavor for nationhood had earned both for themselves and the Bangalees an honoured place in the community of nations.
The East Bengal renamed East Pakistan turned into a perpetual colony of Pakistan. The political movement that was launched for Bengali language and for democratic rights on different occasions subsequently turned into a freedom movement and war of Bangladesh liberation in 1971. In the War of Liberation the great poet Rabindranath was a source of inspiration at all stages.
It is a volatile nation whose roots baffle the historians. Bangladesh, rightly observed an American political scientist,” is a country challenged by contradictions”. The history of the birth of Pakistan was associated with communal strife and bitterness. But Bangladesh is the product of the War of Liberation. It was a movement against the Pakistani military-bureaucratic oligarchy for the establishment of democratic rights.
I was moved by Tagore's posthumous volume where
"Death like Rahu" reveals:
“That whatever I grasped as truth was only a tissue of lies -
How could the laws of nature be so unnatural?
This I know in my heart of heart;
He who knows the world exists -His I-ness is witness of the world's existence:
He too exists in the ultimate I.'

Some scholars have translated those verses, yet the intrinsic meanining of those poems employs a statement of doubt and negation- asserts doubts and negation and ultimately transforming into a confident affirmation. Those poetic statements become a means of communicating quintessential truth and amazingly fine nuances of feeling. Not a word is extra; some, in fact, are really telegram in verses.
Since Rabindranath's last journey for the 'great unknown' on August 7, 1941 (Thursday 22 Srabon 1348 Bengali year) the world has rolled in her orbit sixty six times. Many waters have flown to the Bay of Bengal. Since his death in 1941, India was partitioned and Bengal was divided in 1947 and its accompanying bloodshed. West Bengal has indeed gradually lost her leadership of India in every field-- political, commercial, intellectual and artistic. The crux of the political problem was the Hindu-Muslim divide in Bengal. It is even today a congenital defect that has crippled both the communities and particularly the Hindus in East Bengal.
Bangladesh is a product of Bangla language and double secessions. Bangladesh is a nation state that changed its statehood and identity twice in less than a quarter of a century. The dramatic emergence of Bangladesh runs counter to conventional tenets of nationalism in South Asia."The most tragic death of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a coup on the night of August 15,1975 continues to haunt Bangladesh. The Coup of August 15,1975 in which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family were assassinated, shows how easy it really is to change a government by such means.
The events of the three months following the coup, especially the power struggle in the week of November 3, 1975, have also shown that it is easier to change a government than to established and maintain an effective administration.” (Raunaq Jahan, 2005, p- 165)
The country is now bitterly divided internally. The struggle for democracy still persists. A democratic Bangladesh at peace with itself and the world will be a long time coming unless the legacy of Bangabandhu is faced honestly and there is national atonement for the brutal murder, former editor of the Bangladesh Observer, Mr.Obaidul Huq (Obaidul Huq, 1996, p-132) noted.
It may be recalled after six decades of partition of India Founding Father of Pakistan M.A. Jinnah was in favour of making Pakistan a modern secular state as evident from Jinnah's 11August, 1947 speech in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly (CAP). But Jinnah's strong advocacy of Urdu as the national language of Pakistan provoked the Bangali of East Bengal to think seriously about their position. Their cultural identity threatened.)"Non-Muslims would have stayed back in Pakistan if Quad-e-Azam M A Jinnah's reinterpretation of the two-nation theory had been carried out. Its ethos becomes secularism, not religion.
He said that Muslim ceased to be Muslims and Hindus ceased to be Hindus; they were either Pakistani or Indian. Mahatma Gandhi, in turn, declared that he would live in Pakistan and seek no visa to enter. Gandhi was shot dead by the extremists and Jinnah was abandoned by similar elements and left dying as a disillusioned man. Both leaders who were at the helm of political affairs then did not envisage that the minorities would have to quit because of their religion in the country to which they belonged. Both were dejected when the migration began, Kuldip Nayer writes.' (The Daily star, 17 Dec. 2004).
The sad demise of Mahatma M K Gandhi by bullets and Quid-I-Azam M A Jinnah by Tuberculosis in 1948 put minorities in East Bengal under a pecuniary situation . If Jinnah continues his office one more decade, minority in the subcontinent may not quit their ancestral homes. "Non-Muslims would have stayed back in Pakistan if M A Jinnah's reinterpretation of the two-nation theory had been carried out. Its ethos become secularism, not religion..” Jinnah unequivocally did not want a theocratic state run Mullahs. His statements about minorities are significant: I am going to constitute myself the Protector –General of the Hindu minority in Pakistan’. Speech after speech confirmed this. A cabinet was created; Jinnah had seven ministers in the cabinet, one a Hindu Mr. Jagendra Nath Mondal.
“ Had Jinnah’s vision prevailed- and found an echo in India- we would have been a very different South Asia… There would have been open boarder, free trade and regular visiting between the two countries. The lack of tension would have ensured that the minorities were not under pressure and, as both Jinnah and congress leaders like Gandhi and Nehru wanted, lived as secure and integrated citizens. The fabric of society would have been different,and a more humane subcontinent might have engaged: s land true to the visions of the leaders and spirit of the sages.”(Jinnah,Pakistan and Islamic Identity, OUP, 1997,P-183)
And the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib in a coup on 15 August1975 put under identity crisis.
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh , these two nations under subsequent military rules over decades raised the question "Can Pakistan Survive?" and " Fragility Thy Name is Bangladesh”. Pakistan Army has been in politics; lacking in legitimacy, soldiers in power are always on the defensive. They rely on Mullahs, the prayer leaders, to mitigate some of it. The most glaring examples of military-Mullah alliance was seen in East Pakistan during 1971 and in General Zia's regime during 1970s and 1980s , the two are natural and historical alliances”( M V Naqvi, DS,14 April 05) .
History repeats itself , what had been a possibility in M A Jinnah's Pakistan that was established in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib's Bangladesh -a secular democratic state, a state which makes no difference between a citizen and a citizen, which deals fairly with all irrespective of caste, creed or community in its constitution of Bangladesh-1972 but subsequent military regimes in Bangladesh changed the course of the nation .
“This, I believe, is what makes Bangabandhu the central figure of our time. In assessing the state of nation, the prospect the nation has before it; it is relevant to go a little into what may be called the driving force behind the phenomenon that is Bangabandhu. From 25th March 1971 to 10th January, 1972 Bangabandhu is totally absent from the scene where unequal forces are locked in a deadly struggle. Bangabandhu and Bangabandhu alone is the symbol round which the adherents of the forlorn cause group themselves. And that is no accident says Prof Abdur Razzak of DU.And he opined: “In those dark days, in that testing time, among the millions who would constitute the nation, there was no misunderstanding and there was no ambiguity.
Bangabandhu alone was the symbol. But there have been other symbols in the long freedom struggle in the subcontinent.” To take only two examples: Gandhiji and M A Jinnah. Either of them could sway millions; make them do their biddings. Jinnah, a man of the highest integrity, of very great forensic skill, a dedicated public man, had after due deliberation, espoused a cause which he believed to be righteous and brought it to amore or less successful conclusion. MahatmaGandhi was different. He did preach love.
But that was because love was Dharma-Dharma for all men. He belonged to the world. It was accidental that he was an Indian. He was a medieval man in the best sense of the term. Important as this life was, it was with him but a mere appendix to the far more important life to come, the everlasting life in God. This is the difference, large as life, between Bangabandhu on the one hand and Jinnah and Gandhi on the other. Bangabandhu had forged an indivisible fusion between and the nation.”(Bangladesh: State of the Nation,Prof Abdur Razzak , DU, 1981 P4-5)
History repeats itself, what had been a possibility in M A Jinnah's Pakistan that was established in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib's Bangladesh -a secular democratic state, a state which makes no difference between a citizen and a citizen, which deals fairly with all irrespective of caste, creed or community in the Constitution of Bangladesh-1972 but subsequent military regimes in Bangladesh changed the course of the nation and becomes a theocratic state. "Sheikh Mujib combined in himself the charisma of Fazlul Huq and the patent political skill of Suhrawardy.
He consolidated the party, discovered the nation. He built upon the foundations of his elders but the thrust, the originality of his own leadership is beyond dispute. .. He gathered around him a band of devotees, willing to lay down their lives for the cause and many did. He was the man of the people, as Bhashani was, and, a leader of youths where he resembled Suhrawardy. Unlike political philosophers, Abul Hashem for example, he lacked in creed but his vision was whole. Heroes and tragedies go together. Tragedy was perhaps inevitable in this case too, but the form it took will remain an eternal shame to the people. Students of Shakespeare will look for the tragic flaw in Mujib's character…. What failed him, or who failed him?
In Shakespeare's heroes, it is not always the fatal flaws, which work on these flaws. In the case of Sheikh Mujib, the last, perhaps the greatest and certainly the most tragic of our heroes, the tragedy stemmed, perhaps equally from both within and without. The greatness of a tragic hero is hardly diminished on account of the flaws. The flaws explain, however weakly that may be, but never justify, the huge waste, the tragedy of the fall. There is a time for mourning and a time for exegesis.
Apparently, we have already passed from the one to the other. At a farther remove from both, there is a time for the poet, for the raw life to be transformed into art, for lived experience to be rounded off into a poetic vision. When the time comes, a great tragic poet may find his hero in Sheikh Mujib. He will have enough material for his work. What I wonder about, is how will he provide the catharsis-"Calm of mind all passion spent"? This will be his supreme challenge, opined Zillur Rahman Siddiqui in 1982.
The successive post-1975 governments have changed the concept of nationalism from Bengali nationalism-characterized by ethno-linguistic identities and not by religious (Muslim) identity - to Bangladeshi nationalism-characterised by religious (Muslim) identity of the Bangladeshi majority- which make them distinct from the Bengali Hindus of the Indian state of West Bengal who never showed any interest in forming a separate state based on Bengali nationalism.
In August 1975, I was then at Bangabhaban, the president’s palace, I could recollect those early days of Martial Law. In a nation wide broadcast on the 15 August, Khondakar Mustaq Ahmed propounded the doctrine of historic necessity He glorified the role of the Armed Forces in the following words: The armed forces had to come forward in changing the government as it became impossible to bring a change.
The armed forces have opened up the gate of “golden opportunity’” before the countrymen by discharging responsibility with utmost sincerity. “In course of time, what had been construed as a golden opportunity for the people would, in fact, is a “golden opportunity” for the army - an all-embracing form, the Bishwarupa - for making or unmaking the government and the constitution of the country. “ Wrote Dr Aleem-Al-Razee in his book (Constitutional Glimpses of Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
“In Bangladesh, the end of one dream marks the beginning of another. The Army crackdown in March 1971 ended the Bengali’s dream for a fully autonomous East Pakistan, but it immediately created a new vision, the hope for an independent republic of Bangladesh. Perhaps, so it is now, although the traumatic collapse of the Mujib regime--and the death of the founder of the state--would leave the Bengalis in a state of shock for a long, long time. …. Yet sooner or later, the young republic, long used to a succession of tragedies, will again start looking at its future ready to make a new beginning. Again, there will be new dreams, new dreams and new hopes,wrote Mr. S M Ali.
Since then three and half decades have passed. Bangladesh has been changed in her course of path under military regimes .The legacy of lies in the body politic of Bangladesh that It was just

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Palash Biswas
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Marxist Nonagenerian Patriarch Jyoti Basu holds the Firepower and defeats Party General Secretary Prakash Karat to save the Agenda Brand Bengal Brahminical!Basu was chief minister of the communist stronghold of West Bengal state in eastern India for nearly a quarter of a century and is regarded as a key party figure.Rizwanur Rehaman case does a wonder for Buddhadeb to have a cakewalk on the Highway of capitalist development.Priyanka, the wife of graphic designer, Rizwanur Rehman, whose body was found near a railway track last Saturday, told the CID on Saturday that she had wanted to stay with her husband. Sensex India may celbrate as The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex hiked smartly 726.87 points or 4.39 per cent to 17291.10 in the week ending on Friday, after hitting an all time high of 17361.47, on the back of strong capital inflows from foreign institutional investors ..."The 'equal evil' formulation suggests that the imperative to fight the BJP can no longer be justification for supporting a government which is in a strategic embrace with the 'imperial' US," said The Times of India.The Congress party, which is now more than three years into its five-year mandate, has said it is ready to make all efforts to address "legitimate concerns" over the agreement signed in 2005.
Congress has set up a 15-member all-party committee to review objections by its left-wing allies to the nuclear accord.

The row over the pact, seen as a cornerstone of deeper ties with Washington, has left Premier Manmohan Singh facing his biggest test since taking power in 2004 and has sparked the possibility of a general election more than a year ahead of schedule.The party, which props up the Congress coalition in parliament, told the government earlier this month it would face "serious consequences" if it chose to press ahead with the pact.
But it has so far not said it would topple the minority administration.
Basu and other figures in the communists' West Bengal powerbase had been arguing for a moderate approach, warning that in the event of the collapse of the government, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could stage a return to power.Now the West Bengal unit appeared to be signalling it believed the risk of aligning with the United States was as big a danger as a BJP comeback, Indian newspapers said on Saturday.
However, IBNlive reports with a different flavour which expresses well the success of marxist Misinformation game plan. See: In a repeat of May 2004 where the pragmatists had failed to convince the hardliners to join the government at the Centre, the West Bengal unit of the CPI(M) is finally coming around to Prakash Karat’s way of thinking. AFP reports: Veteran Indian communist leader Jyoti Basu ruled out "any compromise" with the government over a landmark nuclear deal with the US amid growing speculation about mid-term elections.
India's communists have been putting pressure on the minority Congress government, saying they will do "whatever necessary" to stop it from implementing the civilian technology deal with the "imperialist" United States.

"Pranab Mukherjee had called me up. I said we can talk, but there is no question of compromise. We are not going to endorse the Congress policy." This is how Jyoti Basu — CPI(M) politburo member and former West Bengal chief minister — explained his stand on the nuclear deal on Saturday.

This appeared to be a complete turnaround by Basu from his earlier stand when he had said that nuclear power was needed in India and that even he had tried to get a nuclear plant in West Bengal during his tenure as the CM of the state.

And CPI-M’s 15-member politburo too witnessed three clear lines emerging within the party top brass on what constituted the bigger threat — imperialism or communalism.

The party’s West Bengal unit leaders, Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar continued to toe the line that the domestic political agenda of keeping the BJP at bay should not become a casualty in the fight against imperialism.

On Friday, Kolkata witnessed a sizzling rock contest, Rockilution — war of the bands, where bands from the city and its neighbouring states vied for the top ..Puja Market is the latest Hype of Bengali Brahminical Hegemony sidelining Nandigram and Singur.The Marxist subversion game is in full swing as Mamata Bannerjee and Intelligentsia Bengali led by Mahashweta Devi are involved in the CPIM masterplan to divert the Peasntry dalit Muslim Insurrection! Ruling out a CBI inquiry, Shahi Imam Hazrat S M Noorur Rahman Barkati today said they have confidence in the judicial inquiry of the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehaman case. All TV Cahnnels led by the CPIM mouth piece 24 and Ghanta and manusmriti Flagbearer Star Anand as well as the toilet Print led by Ananada bazar Patrika overplay the story unbound.Describing the three-day Kerala Trade and Technology Business Show (KTTBS), which concluded here today, as ''very successful'', State Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem said potential business worth almost Rs 91 crore was generated at it. Buddadeb and his party has ensured a cakewalk for FDI and Capitalist Development under MNC and promoter Builder Raj with Capital Investment amounting Ninety Thousand corores without any resistance!
What a successs!
Eminent Odissi danseuse Sanchita Bhattacharya has fashioned a special composition depicting the nine different forms of Goddess Durga. Amidst CPIM Polit Bureau and central committee meetings, Kolkata today witnessed bright sunshine after experiencing heavy rainfall for four days. The political heat over Indo-US nuclear deal shot up further today with CPI(M) ruling out a compromise on the issue and warning of "appropriate action" if the UPA government went ahead with the deal. Declaring that the CPI(M) would not compromise on the Indo-US nuclear deal, veteran leader Jyoti Basu today said the party would wait for the Congress to take a final stand on the issue at the joint committee meeting before taking appropriate measure.
Veteran Communist Jyoti Basu has in recent times opposed early elections and supported nuclear power, if not the nuclear deal. NDTV reports.But at the end of the first session of the Central Committee, he came to the point without beating about the bush. No compromise on the nuclear deal, he said.
''There is a Left-UPA nuclear panel meeting on the 5th and on another date in October. Let's see what happens there, what stand the Congress takes. Pranab Mukherjee had called me on Thursday. I told him he must be at the meetings. But we are not going to make any compromise. Prakash Karat has spoken. Now Congress will have to spell out its stand,'' said Jyoti Basu, CPI-M Politburo member.
The way the CPI-M now sees it, the onus of an untimely election now lies squarely on the Congress, which it feels, is already making poll preparations.
So the Central Committee too has initiated an electoral stocktaking of its own and is drawing up a three-pronged strategy of campaign.
Communalism has been identified as enemy number one
Those joining hands with imperialists - read America - are also enemies of the country
And Left and democratic forces must consolidate their strength
With a decision, almost, on the main point on the agenda, the Central Committee is now discussing how an early election might affect its party Congress, due in March, the Tripura Assembly polls also due in March and Bengal's panchayat elections in May.
So are the UPA's days numbered, are early polls inevitable or is there a slim chance of a slip between the cup and the lip? The CPI-M says there is.
All will depend on what the Congress says at the joint nuclear panel meet on October 5, next Friday.
Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams met Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi at her residence here Saturday, on the first day of her six-day visit to the Indian capital. Earlier,Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who is among the star speakers at the international astronautical congress which concludes in Hyderabad today, was given a rousing welcome at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre on Friday morning.The Congress will organise a 'padyatra' on October 2 to mark Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary which is being observed as 'Ahimsa Diwas'. The Congress party said Saturday that there is no threat to the central government until the joint mechanism with the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal is functional and there is no violation of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) agreed upon by the two sides. BJP General Secretary and former Union Minister Arun Jaitley today ridiculed elevation of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as Congress General Secretary and felt that it was unlikely to make any impact in politics.
The CPI (M) on Saturday reasserted its tough stance over the Indo-US nuclear stating that the party would not 'compromise' on it. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said that his party is ready to face the mid-term polls and would help in pulling down the UPA government if the Left Front agrees to. Union Panchayati Raj Minister Manishankar Iyar today said his ministry had sought a Rs 4,000-crore World Bank (W assistance for strengthening the Panchayati Raj institutions, and clearance from the Finance Ministry was awaited.
Gujarat has favourable environment to make a mark globally in shipbuilding, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said Saturday.
It is an exhibition that attempts to set the records straight and dispel popular but mistaken notions about the revolt of 1857. Titled ‘Revolt in the Periphery: Bengal in 1857-1858,’ the exhibition organised by the West Bengal State Archives, was inaugurated by the West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi here on Thursday.
“The display seeks to question the notion that the 1857 revolt was confined to the north Indian Gangetic heartland, affecting only a small geographical area without any other reverberations,” said Basudeb Chattopadhyay, Director, WBSA. The exhibition was part of an initiative taken in 2007 by the various State archives to document the effects of 1857 in the peripheral regions, namely, Punjab, Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Orissa and the Tamil and Andhra regions. The WBSA exhibits wanted to highlight the pan-Indian character of the revolt, while examining the stereotype that the role of Bengali was limited to playing the loyalist to perfection.
Red FM, the radio station whose radio jockey's alleged 'derogatory' comments on new Indian Idol Prashant Tamang has led to violence in West Bengal, today tendered its apology saying that the humour and the satire of the jockey was unintentional. Curfew, which was imposed in Siliguri after fans of Indian Idol Prashant Tamang and local residents clashed on Friday, was lifted from some areas as the situation returned to normalcy. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry Saturday issued a show cause notice to private radio channel Red FM for an alleged derogatory remark made by a radio jockey on "Indian Idol" winner Prashant Tamang that had sparked violence in northern West Bengal.
Ruling out a CBI inquiry, Shahi Imam Hazrat S M Noorur Rahman Barkati today said they have confidence in the judicial inquiry of the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehaman case.

Police Saturday surrounded a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district where some guerrillas are hiding and were trying to persuade them to leave the complex peacefully.
Scam hits Sardar Sarovar project

NDTV Correspondent
Friday, September 28, 2007 (Bhopal)
The Sardar Sarovar project has come under the shadow of a scam that promises to be huge to the tune of hundreds of crores.
It has come to light that compensation money for people displaced by the project was used to purchase land but the land existed only on paper as brokers colluded with corrupt officers to dupe people.
More than a hunderd FIRs have been lodged and the number may increase but the FIRs are against the ousted rather than the corrupt officers.
A big scam to the tune of hundreds of crores has hit the Sardar Sarovar project.
Compensation money meant for purchase of land was used to purchase land only on paper in collusion with brokers and officers.
More than hunderd FIRs have been registered and the number may increase but what once again it seems the victims are the oustees rather than the corrupt officers.
It was a double blow for Sitaram a tribal from Dhar in Madhya Pradesh.He lost two acres of fertile land to the Sardar Sarovar dam project.
Now the district administration has lodged an FIR against him for fake registration of land. Land he never got.
Under the special relief package Sitaram got a cheque of Rs five lakh 65 thousand last year to buy land.
He didn't know how to go about things. The local land acquisition officer and a lawyer promised to help him.
They allegedly asked him to sign some documents and gave him Rs one lakh 50 thousand out of his money. The rest he was told would be spent on getting him the land.
''I asked them for the registration papers. They told me to come after eight days. Now one year has passed and all I got was this FIR that I have got a fake registration done,'' said Sitaram.
Officials have duped many like Sitaram, displaced by the dam project but there has been hardly any action.
Fake land registration
In Khargone and Dhar 266 cases of fake land registration have come to light.
''FIRs are being registered. Who ever will be guilty will be punished,'' said L N Dongre, DIG, Khargone Range.
So far nearly 3000 oustees in Dhar and Badhwani have claimed a special package. Over half of them have been taken for a ride claim activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan.
The organisation filed a complaint in 2005 even submitted evidence.But so far only two officers in Khargone have been suspended.
''This enquiry should be done by CBI as the gang operating is so huge and the issue is so complex,'' said Medha Patkar, NBA Activist.
The chief minister has ordered a high level enquiry in the matter.
Meanwhile the displaced people hardly got any compensation and now face criminal prosecution while the big fish, the officers, have yet to be caught.

Mittal plants ready for 2008 takeoff
SUBRAT DAS
Bhubaneswar, Sept. 27: ArcelorMittal is expected to go ahead with its greenfield steel projects both in Orissa and Jharkhand, with the Orissa project to begin from next year.
“We would start construction as soon as the detailed project report is ready,” said chief executive officer Sanak Mishra at an international steel conference today.
“Preparation of the report has been entrusted to the Dastur & Company and is at an advanced stage. It is expected to be ready by the middle of October,” said the India chief of the UK-based steel major. The project’s first phase would take an estimated 48 months from the time of the report submission, he said, adding that the first phase would be commissioned by 2011-12.
“The project’s progress is going according to schedule. We would be getting back to the Orissa government by October to apprise them about the progress,” said Mishra.
Parrying questions on the Chiria mines (Jharkhand) controversy, ArcelorMittal’s India CEO said: “We have identified three ore blocks out of which we are zeroing in on one.” Giving a status report of the Jharkhand project, he said: “The blueprint is ready.” The concept study and site identification has been prepared by HATCH, while Mecon undertook the site suitability study, he added.
ArcelorMittal had signed an MoU with the Jharkhand government in October, 2005 for setting up of 12MTPA greenfield plant along with a 1,500MW captive power plant.
A year later, it signed another MoU with Orissa for a green field steel plant of the same capacity and investment.
At the news meet today, the CEO said Mecon subsequently completed Orissa’s land selection study, initially undertaken by HATCH. Sparc did the land schedule documentation work.
The site for the proposed 12MTPA plant has been selected in Patna tehsil of mineral-rich Keonjhar and the preliminary process of land acquisition is on, he added.
Mishra clarified that the company had not asked for more land, as reported in some newspapers. “The actual requirement would be known once the project report is ready,” he said.
In the MoU, the state government has committed to provide 8,000 acre for the project in Patna tehsil of Keonjhar.
While 6,000 acre would be required for the plant, 1,000 acre each would be needed for the CPP and civil township. Ecosmart is preparing the rehabilitation and resettlement plan and its expected to be submitted by October end.
Mishra, who has been negotiating with the Orissa government, said the company had applied for the captive mine lease for the steel plant.
But, he did not specify any ore block.
“We will be talking to the government shortly. The government would recommend the lease for us,” he added.
Following heavy monsoon rains that led to floods in different parts of India during the months of June-July 2007, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Gujarat and Orissa were once again hit by very heavy rainfall over the weekend of 22-23 September 2007 (sources: United Nations Development Programme and All India Radio).
Orissa: One of the hardest hit areas was Orissa where, under the influence of the depression formed over the Bay of Bengal on 21st September, most of the coastal districts experienced heavy rain for three days. On 23rd September, the depression lay over Angur district in the interior of Orissa.
As on 23rd September, five people (three in Cuttack and two in Bhubaneshwar) were reported to have been killed in the state. Large areas in six blocks of Balasore district were waterlogged. Flash floods were reported in the Budhabalanga river. In Bhadrak district, the Baitarani river crossed the danger level on 23rd September, and a breach on the embankment of the river was closed down immediately. However, the river levels have now started receding. The district administration is keeping a close vigil on the situation and has initiated relief distribution in affected areas.
According to a report prepared on the basis of inter-agency coordination, some key details of the flood situation in Orissa are as follows:
- Continuous heavy rainfall due to low pressure in the southern and coastal parts of the state has resulted in a rise of water levels in all the major river systems, except the Mahanadi system. The heavy rain in the Chhattisgarh region may have an impact on the Mahanadi river system.
- Balasore district has been affected by floods for the third time this monsoon season. Approximately 500,000 people and 415 villages were affected. The road connection has been cut off between Baliapal and Basta. Eleven fishermen were rescued from Balaramgadi.
- Approximately 200,000 people having been severely affected in Mayurbhanj district.
- River Baitarani is expected to touch the danger level in Bhadrak and Jajpur districts. Large parts of Jajpur district have been affected due to floods in the Brahmani river.
- In southern Orissa, the water levels in the two major river systems, i.e. the Bansdhara and Rishikulya, are rising, with Bansdhara being expected to touch the danger level.
- In Cuttack district, 270 mm rainfall was recorded and seven breaches have occurred in the Sapua river. About 50 feet of road has been washed away between Cuttack and Narasinghpur.
- Tidal waves affected 611 families in Kendrapara district and washed away 50 metres of sea shore in Paradeep port.
- In Jagatsinghpur district, 1,000 thatched houses were damaged due to heavy rain and areas covered under 19 village administrative units were affected.
- In Nayagarh district, heavy rain over four days cut off 21 villages from the district headquarters.
- The Special Relief Commissioner for Orissa has deployed the Orissa Disaster Relief Action Force for search and rescue in Mayurbhanj district.

How poor is India, how unequal?

Sunil Jain in New Delhi
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/sep/27poor.htm
Are 22 per cent of Indians poor, or is it 28 per cent? Do 77 per cent of Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day? Have inequality levels, as represented by the Gini coefficient, risen from 30.3 in 1983 to 34.3 in 2004-05?
While the Planning Commission itself released two poverty estimates earlier in the year, the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) released the 77 per cent figure last month, and a study by economists Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari came out with the increased inequality figures a few days ago.

Since the data differ dramatically, depending on what definitions of consumption are used, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Ahluwalia has written to National Statistical Commission Chairman Suresh Tendulkar seeking clarity on the matter.

Ahluwalia has pointed out that the difference between the consumption estimates as reported by the National Sample Survey (NSS) and the National Accounts Statistics (the NAS gives the GDP numbers) was around 5 per cent in the 1950s (the NSS numbers are lower), and this rose to 30 per cent in the 1980s and is around 52 per cent at the moment.

According to Ahluwalia, if one is to use the old Planning Commission method of adding back this difference in consumption, poverty levels would be in the low single digits, for instance.

The National Statistical Commission (NSC), which has been discussing the matter for over a year, will meet again next month to figure out a course of action, and may commission a report to suggest a way to reconcile the big difference in the consumption data got from the NSS and the NAS.

Another issue the NSC needs to give a recommendation on is which NSS estimate has to be used for calculating poverty levels. The old definition asks respondents to state what consumables and durables they bought in the last month - this gives poverty levels at 28 per cent.

The new definition, however, estimates poverty levels to be 22 per cent - the new definition, which is more sensible, asks respondents what consumables they bought in the last month (this is the same as in the old method), but in the case of durables, it asks respondents what they bought in the last one year.

So, if you bought a cycle two months ago, it shows up in the new definition but not in the old one.

The rising level of inequality, as measured by the Gini, however, is something that is easily dealt with. While Debroy-Bhandari report that the Gini fell from 30.3 in 1983 to 30.1 in 1993 and rose to 34.3 in 2004, economist Surjit Bhalla disagrees.

At a seminar in the capital where the findings were presented on Monday, Bhalla argued that Debroy-Bhandari needed to adjust consumption expenditures for price differences in various parts of the country (Rs 100 of consumption in Delhi will buy a lot less than Rs 100 in Bhopal).

Once this is done, according to Bhalla, the Gini fell from 31.9 in 1983 to 30.3 in 1993 and rose to 32.5 in 2004 - so, while Debroy-Bhandari report a 14 per cent worsening in inequality levels since the reforms began in 1991, Bhalla reports a figure which is around half that.
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Immoral Basis and Doubtful Prospects
Cautionary Note to India from a Longstanding Friend
http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/26/stories/2007092656691300.htm
Down the garden path
Aaron Tovish
Good leadership looks as far down the road as possible to anticipate obstacles and detours. On the nuclear deal, a combination of U. S. and Indian hubris has led India down the garden path without any clear strategy for reaching the ultimate destination other than economic enticements and intimidation.
I write as a partner of India in several important nuclear disarmament initiatives in the 1980s and 1890s. Good friends warn you when you are making a mistake. It is in that spirit that I say the following difficult words.
Indian government leaders have made a major mistake thinking the United States could be their battering ram to break out of their nuclear isolation. Although many illusions have been carefully cultivated, the final result will be an embarrassing failure. It is time for the leaders to look for face-saving ways out of this debacle.
Until recently, India was as articulate as any country in the international arena in pointing out and condemning the pronounced unilateralist tendencies in U.S. foreign policy since the advent of the Bush administration. So how has it failed to see that, for the rest of the world, the U.S.-India deal falls squarely into this unilateralist pattern — and thus will be rejected by many countries just as surely as the other unilateralist policies of the U.S.? If the U.S.-India deal could be pursued unilaterally, then whether or not a good idea, it could at least be implemented. But the deal depends, at the very least, on a universal absence of opposition in the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and, as I will show below, the 192-member Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). As anyone who has followed the lame 64-member Conference on Disarmament for the last decade can testify, consensus is a non-starter in the diplomatic world.
No one should be fooled by the fact that the deal appears to be progressing steadily to date — although even that might be a too-kind description. It is true that no NSG country has as yet openly declared an intention to stop the deal cold. It is clear that to do so would be to incur the united wrath of the U.S. and India, as well as a dozen other countries eager for nuclear reactor contracts. So for now the countries that oppose the deal are hoping that it will implode of its own accord. This way they would be spared the onerous task of stepping into the breach. But as soon as it becomes clear (if indeed it ever does) that the deal has reached the stage for action by the NSG, they will gird themselves and step forward.
Do not, however, expect direct resistance. The following logic could well lead to a more effective opposition than frontal opposition. Such is the nature of the trap India and the U.S. have set for themselves.
The fundamental issue that guarantees a veto is violation of Article I of the NPT. Countries that take their obligations under treaties seriously (unfortunately the U.S. is not one of them) will want strong assurances that peaceful nuclear commerce is not directly or indirectly benefiting a nuclear weapons programme. To many it is obvious that supplying foreign uranium for the peaceful programme frees up domestic supplies for the military programme. This goes against the spirit of Article I, which bans assistance that “in any way” assists in the acquisition of nuclear weapons by non-nuclear-weapon states. For some countries that will be reason enough to oppose the deal.
But many others will be taking a narrow interpretation of Article I — that is, direct assistance must be avoided. For them the key thing will be confidence that a true firewall has been erected between the peaceful and military programmes. As was learned in Iraq in the early 1990s, site-specific safeguard agreements are inadequate to that task. Thus, it will be essential to have several of the key elements of the so-called ‘Additional Protocol’ complementing the safeguard agreement. These countries will insist that there can be no action in the NSG until India and the IAEA have concluded all safeguard and Additional Protocol negotiations.
Contradiction
Already this sets up a contradiction with the U.S.-India deal. It would allow commerce to begin only after the site-specific safeguards are operational, but would leave the Additional Protocol out of the picture until it “enters into force.” This is one example of why the U.S. is precisely the wrong partner to help India overcome its isolation. The U.S. negotiators could not press India on this issue because the U.S. itself has yet to bring its Additional Protocol into force. This tempted the Indian government to score a point for sovereignty (and supposed equality with the U.S.) but the long-term effect is a collision course with the NSG.
The Additional Protocol comes in three flavours: one for nuclear-weapon states parties to the NPT; another for non-nuclear-weapon states parties to the NPT; and a third for neither of the above. NSG members will insist on seeing the Additional Protocol with India so that they can be sure that specialised equipment, specially trained personnel, and even specific designs and operating manuals are not transferred from the peaceful programme to the military programme. In short, a thorough Additional Protocol is a sine qua non for their confidence that the deal will not lead to violations of Article I.
This Additional Protocol cannot, therefore, look anything like the nuclear-weapon states’ Additional Protocols, which deal almost exclusively with export matters. India cannot expect to negotiate with the IAEA on an equal footing with the nuclear-weapon states where there is no pretence even of establishing a firewall between the peaceful and military programmes. If India forces this issue, it might succeed in getting its way with the IAEA, where a majority of the Board of Governors can help force the issue, but it will set itself up for a fall in the NSG, where any single member can veto it.
But it will not be necessary for any NSG member to use the veto, since it will have a much easier basis for opposition. If India wishes to be treated as a nuclear-weapon state, despite the fact that it does not qualify as such according to the definition given in the NPT (having tested a nuclear weapon before 1969), then the effect of the deal going through would be to create a de facto sixth nuclear weapon state. As such, this becomes a matter of direct concern to the non-nuclear-weapon states parties to the NPT, who have adhered to the treaty on the basis of there being only five recognised nuclear-weapon states. Thus, the NSG should not take any action until the NPT states parties have had a chance to consider these far-reaching implications of the U.S.-India deal.
The next opportunity for the NPT parties to take up this issue will be the 2010 NPT Review Conference. (Preparations are already under way for that conference, but those preparatory meetings have no power to take decisions on substantive matters.) The operative positions of the states parties are those adopted by consensus in 1995 and 2000, i.e., with the concurrence of the U.S. All of them flatly contradict the very premise of the U.S.-India deal. (So we see the ugly head of U.S. unilateralism rising again.) A nuclear-weapon-state-like Additional Protocol would require the NPT parties to agree that India should no longer be considered a non-nuclear-weapon state. And that would have to be done by consensus. Not very likely, to say the least.
The only alternative for action on the deal before 2010 would be to force the issue in the NSG. But that would certainly elicit several vetoes. This would wreck not only the NSG but also the NPT. It is unlikely that the U.S. would be willing to go down that road — even if the administration were willing, Congress would not let it. In short, India would be left standing alone at the altar.
If India wants to avoid this long-drawn-out, losing battle, it will need to agree to an Additional Protocol that is closer to a non-nuclear-weapon state’s Additional Protocol than a nuclear-weapon state’s. This would be a first indication of distancing itself from the U.S. unilateralist approach. It is a necessary condition for going forward multilaterally with the deal, but not a sufficient condition. To satisfy all NSG states, India would have to further distance itself from its erstwhile sponsor by signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The U.S. signed the CTBT in 1996 but has since declared that it has no intention of ratifying it, thereby creating an obstacle to the treaty’s entry into force. The vast majority of NSG members have not merely signed but have also ratified the treaty. They will not accept a deal in which res

India remains the Princely state unified under Brahminical Hegemony
Tampering History is the Essential Part of the game
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
Email: alashbiswaskl@gmail.com">palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
India remains the Princely state unified under Brahminical Hegemony. Nothing changed. Nothing at all. Democracy, reservation and later Globalistion opened some avenues of knowledge for the enslaved majority underprevileged indigenous people victimised and persecuted continuously with Manusmriti Laws!A lot of introspection has gone into the achievements of the last six decades of Indian independence. Thinking has begun about the future of India. Former President Abdul Kalaam had challenged the country to first begin envisioning as a country by sharing publicly his 2020 vision. Now we have people beginning to talk of India in the next 60 years. What lies in the womb of future for the three hundred million black untouchables in India? Would the persecuted nationalities survive without addressing the challanges ahead and without having an encounter with the Brahminical White Hegemony alligned with Zionism? Where this legacy of Islamophobia anmd intense dalit hatred would lead the Nation?
The History is only avenue to know tha roots. It is the medium of self realisation which leads to awakening. Pan Black Untouchable resistance against Brahminical white supremacy and zionist hindu Imperialism is a reality, the ruling classes worldwide have to encounter. Thus, they tamper the History. And it is nothing new in India. They ensured monopoly of knowledge with the glorified Varnasharm and Karma siddhanta. They tampered the society with Manusmriti and all rubbish holy books. They created myths and legends. They created gods, goddesses and Avtars to destroy the indegenous societies and nationalities demonising them. They transformed all these myths and legends in history. So the hegemony is intact. India is ruled by a dynasty. Ruled by Princely Individuals. The statepower is nothing better than a princely state loyal to the Imperialist Power dominant. The comradors do not understand anything but the interests of their masters! In recent years, the government of India and several state governments have decided to revise history books, particularly relative to the ancient period, bringing up recent data that calls into question the Aryan invasion and the many theories that have arisen from it.Mind you, during emergency, Mrs Indira Gandhi tried to rewrite eternal history with Time capsule planted undergrounnd.When Mrs. Gandhi imposed the emergency in 1975, and was vehemently opposed by JP, Acharya Kripalani and a few other surviving Gandhians, she promptly paraded Acharya Vinoba Bhave who declared that the period of emergency was actually Anushashan Parva, a time of discipline. But because by that time, Vinoba Bhave was more or less considered senile, his pronouncement carried little clout.
Over the past few decades numerous archaeological finds have been made throughout North India, considerably widening the civilization of the region and uncovering its continuity through time, rendering the Aryan Invasion idea obsolete, Hindutva forces and Intellegentsia Brahminical claimed to justify tampering of History durin g NDA tenure in the Centre.What a logic they present! For example just see:
Quite predictably, leftists in India raised a cry of tampering with history, as if history is a fixed science that cannot be adjusted. The fact is that history books in India still largely teach the British view of India from the colonial era and have not changed much since the independence of the country over fifty years ago. The only exception is history books in Marxist states like Bengal that have been rewritten in a communist slant, which is even more against the traditions of the country than the British view.
History books are always being rewritten and they should be, as new information comes in and our understanding of culture widens. This does not mean that history should carelessly be rewritten to suit an ideology, as in communist Russia or in Nazi Germany, but that we must not turn old accounts of history into an unalterable dogma. History is not a material science like physics that deals with hard facts and even physics textbooks are continually being updated. The West has often tried to give its version of history the finality of science, but political changes since the end of the colonial era have revealed the biases behind its accounts, particularly of Africa and Asia. The western account of history cannot be given the finality of the physical sciences and should be expected to change radically over time.
Colonial Distortions of History East and West
Up to two decades ago, the history of America was taught as the wanton aggression of the Native Americans, the so-called Red Indians, on the gentle white settlers who simply wanted to farm and raise their families in a wide land that had room for many people. This was the predominant view of Christians and of educated Europeans in America. The real history was one of the genocide of native peoples and their cultures in a greed for land and power. The so-called savages honored all treaties. The so-called civilized white man didn’t honor any.
The European history of Africa followed similar prejudices, with the native blacks as uncivilized barbarians that had to be civilized by the white Europeans. That the blacks did have venerable and rich old cultures and were really the target of exploitation and genocide was covered over. The same phenomenon occurred throughout the colonial world, including Asia, where native peoples were subjugated and their cultures denigrated. Like the blacks, some Asians were turned into slaves or serfs, uprooted from their land and taken to foreign countries and commercially exploited. This was also done in the name of civilizational advancement through Christianity and European culture. That is how over a million Indians ended up in the Caribbean in Trinidad and Guyana.
The European treatment of India was the same as that of America and Africa, starting with the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, who brought the cruel ways of the Inquisition to India. The Indian mutiny of 1857 occurred because the British brought in aggressive and intolerant missionaries and had the country in the grip of a cruel economic exploitation. Yet such oppression has been left out of the history of India as told by the Europeans and independent India has not rewritten the record adequately. Similarly, the destruction wrought during the Islamic period, which was worse than the British period in terms of religious and economic exploitation as well as genocide, has been similarly ignored or downplayed so as not to offend minority communities.
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Who remembers the role of Frontier Gandhi?In today’s day and age of religious and ethnic stereo typing, it is worth recalling the memory of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, giant of a man of a stature larger than his name who belied all stereotypes. A deeply pious Muslim but tolerant and liberal the Frontier Gandhi was a staunch Congressman and a Gandhian all his life and unequivocally opposed to the partition. Born and bred in an area where guns and violence are more than a way of life, Badshah Khan, as he was also known, became a hero in a society dominated by violence; notwithstanding his liberal views, his unswerving faith and obvious bravery led to immense respect. Throughout his life, he never lost faith in his non-violent methods or in the compatibility of Islam and nonviolence.
It's the RSS taking on Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia in Rajasthan. The stanza exposing the British loyality of the Scindhias during Mutiny 1857 has been deleted.The controversy this time is over Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's famous poem Khoob Ladee Mardanee on Rani Laxmi bai, the heroine of the 1857 mutiny.But in the BJP's fortnightly magazine published in Rajasthan the poem has omitted references which describe the Scindia's as friends of the British and clearly upset with this sycophancy the RSS made it a point in it's monthly magazine to set matters right. As has been noted by several historians of British-ruled India, the numerical presence of the British in colonized India was never very significant. Yet, the British were able to maintain a vast and stable empire in the Indian subcontinent for almost two centuries. They were able to recklessly exploit India's natural resources and drain the wealth of it's citizenry through the imposition of excessive and unreasonable taxes - all without unmanageable challenges to their political authority during much of their debilitating reign.Thus, loyalism became a powerful political trend in British India that either countered nationalist forces outright, or attempted to diffuse their impact and efficacy through calls for political moderation, non-violence and tactical restraint. Loyalist forces made frequent and fervent appeals to the Indian masses to be patient with the British, to be content with the slow pace of political reforms, and to be grateful for minor concessions concerning self-rule. Those who demanded a more radical and confrontationist approach with the British (such as Tilak) were branded as "extremists" and dismissed as unrealistic or utopian radicals.
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In the post-Mauryan period Patanjali and his hirelings under the patronage of Pushyamitra tempered with all the ancient texts. All interpolations, manipulated mutilations, stuffings and subtractions were effected with concatenation in retrospect. Ashoka, who is considered the greatest monarch the world has ever produced, was buried under the debris of Buddhist monasteries. Two hundred years ago India did not know anything about Ashoka. It was Cunnigham who retrieved Ashoka from there and foreign historians brought him in the history books. That is why Dr Joshi does not like foreign historians. Historians who attribute India’s slavery to the caste system and hold the priestly class responsible; for that they are termed by him as Leftists. The Leftists have conscience. Fascists are devoid of both conscience and morality. Now Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and some historians with dubious credentials whose names are kept secret, are tampering with history. L.K. Advani has objected to the Ashoka Wheel in the tricolour, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly unanimously when Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the Minister in Nehru’s Cabinet.
Majnu Shah, Jhalkari Bai, Master Surya sen, Birsa Munda, Sidhu and Kanu and thousands of anti imperialist Icons are never accomodated in the history. They ejected Netaji out of Indian geopolitics and divided the nation to ensure the transfer of power to the Nehru Gandhi dynasty who lead the lines of ruling princely individuals whose loyality roots are quite in deep. The role of princely states during British raj is no secret. But the heirs of those states rule India and the martyrs have been ousted of history as the forces of National dalit movement have been scattered all over the subcontinent. See the destiny of the most militant Sikhs and the Dalit castes of East Bengal origin! Peasant, dalits and tribals always resisted the Imperialism and elits supported the supression. They term these insurrections sometimes as Sanyasi, Bheel, Kol, Santhal and Munda for instance to kill the inspiration , power, roots and history!
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904-1948) was an Indian poetess famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs. She was born in a village called Nihalpur in Allahabad District. After her marriage to Thakur Laxman Singh of Khandwa in 1919, she moved to Jabalpur. She joined the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921 and was the first woman Satyagrahi to court arrest in Nagpur. She was jailed twice for her involvement in protests against the British rule. She has authored a number of popular works in Hindi poetry. Her most famous composition is Jhansi Ki Rani, an emotionally charged poem describing the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai. The poem is one of the most recited and sung poems in Hindi literature. This and her other poems, Veeron Ka Kaisa Ho Basant, Rakhi Ki Chunauti and Vida, openly talk about the freedom movement. They are said to have inspired great numbers of Indian youth to participate in the Indian Freedom Movement. Here is the opening stanza of Jhansi ki Rani:
Roman transliteration
Sinhasan hil uthe rajvanshon ne bhrikuti tani thi,
Boodhe bharat mein aayi phir se nayi javaani thi,
Gumi hui azaadi ki kimat sabne pahachaani thi,
Door phirangi ko karane ki sabane man mein thaani thi.
Chamak uthi san sattaavan mein, vah talvaar puraani thi,
Bundele harbolon ke munh hamane suni kahaani thi,
Khoob ladi mardaani vah to jhansi vaali raani thi.
English translation
The thrones shook and royalties scowled
Old India was re-invigorated with new youth
People realised the value of lost freedom
Everybody was determined to throw the foreigners out
The sword that glistened in '57 was old
This story we heard from the mouths of Bundel bards
Well fought the brave queen of Jhansi.
Please read the Hindi Text:
http://www.geeta-kavita.com/article.asp?article=jhansi_ki_rani
A new school curriculum set to go into effect in India in 2002 had drawn protest from churches who saw it as an attempt by the pro-Hindu coalition government to "tamper" with history in order to promote Hinduism at the expense of minority religions.The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) in a statement on December 7 expressed "serious concern over tampering with historical data" and cautioned education policy makers "not to deprive the coming generations of the possibility to know the truth in its integrity, an essential ingredient for any civil society."Earlier, the executive committee of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) decried attempts by the government "to promote Hindutva [Hindu nationalism] through education."
Supporting Hinduism "will only perpetuate religious fundamentalism and further the marginalization of minorities," cautioned the NCCI, which represents 29 Orthodox and Protestant churches in India.Christian education officials declared that in spite of government claims to the contrary, secular scholars and Christian educators had been left out of the drafting of the new curriculum.
"All five members of the drafting committee belonged to one community, [Hindu]," said Sister Celine Xavier, general secretary of the All India National Association of Catholic Schools (AINACS), which represents 15,000 schools.
So far, the proposals for the new curriculum existed only in a document called the National Curriculum Framework for School Education. But church leaders feared that once the curriculum went into effect, school textbooks would follow.
"The outcome will be more biased texts than those that are already taught in some of the states," said Valson Thampu, a Church of North India pastor and a professor ...
It is pertinent to note here that the RSS was born in 1925. Why didn’t Dr Hedgewar and his friends join the Hindu Mahasabha, which was revived in 1923? The answer is simple. The RSS is not a Hindu but a Brahmanical organisation and it doesn’t want to reform the Hindu society but wants to Revive Social Supermacy (RSS) of the Brahmins.The RSS has nothing to do with nationalism or Hinduism. It had betrayed both. The RSS had played a traitorous role during the freedom struggle. It did not take part in the freedom struggle and many RSS volunteers like K.B. Limaye, the chief of the Bombay RSS unit, left it. Golwalkar asked the RSS volunteers to “preserve your energy”. He was afraid of a ban on the RSS. It betrayed the Hindus during the civil disobedience movement (1938-39) against the Nizam of Hyderabad where the Hindus were under attack. Dr Hedgewar refused to land his volunteers saying that the RSS was a cultural organisation. Savarkar was constrained to say:

The epitaph of the RSS volunteer will be that he was born, he joined the RSS and died without accomplishing anything.
Short of calling the RSS a Brahmanical outfit as it would have adverse impact on the Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar asked its members not to attend RSS shakhas which was a normal practice.
The RSS did not participate in the protests organised by the Congress party, Muslim League, Communists and Forward Bloc in Calcutta in 1946 when Rashid Ali was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for taking part in the Naval mutiny. Two persons were then killed and fifty injured in police firing. When Nehru and Bhulabhai Desai were pleading the INA case in Lal Quilla, no RSS volunteer was seen near its wall. Now L.K. Advani wants to change the name of Lal Quilla. What about Lal Krishna Quilla? It did not oppose the partition of India whereas an equally communal Jamait-e-Islami, under Maulana Maududi and his softas, opposed tooth and nail Savarkar’s ‘Two-Nation Theory’ adopted by Jinnah and the partition of India. Golwalkar by his utterances facilitated the partition knowing that in an undivided India, an RSS activist like Atal Behari Vajpayee would never become the Prime Minister and the RSS’ desire of imposing its will on the nation would remain a dream.

RSS supporting Intellegentsia claims:
THE ‘history’ being taught in Indian schools is factually wrong and ignores convincing scientific evidence from the fields of archaeology, geology, genetics, and archaeo-astronomy. It is also contrary to ancient Indian literary evidence, claims the world famous Vedic acharya, David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies. During the course of a rather lengthy visit to India earlier in the year, Frawley stressed the need to thoroughly revamp Indian history by incorporating recent discoveries within a multi-disciplinary framework that incorporates all relevant data in a consistent fashion.
In a paper co-authored with N. Rajaram, Frawley points to recent articles in the British Journal Current Biology, that have major implications for India. Based on genetic tests, the articles note that a key mitochondria DNA of the Western Eurasian strain accounts for no more than 5.2 per cent in Indian populations, as against over 70 per cent in European countries like Germany. Simply put, this means that the supposed Aryan invasion is contradicted by genetics. This means that there was no ‘Aryan invasion,’ not even any significant ‘Aryan migration.’
What is more, the study shows that this West Eurasian strain is present in roughly the same proportion in North and South India. This means that there is no genetic divide between the so-called Dravidians and the Aryans in India. Hence, according to the latest scientific evidence, both the Aryan invasion and the Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy have no basis.
study of Harappan archaeology and Vedic literature shows that Vedic mathematical texts (Sulva Sutras) were used in the design and construction of carefully planned cities of the Harappan civilisation. The American mathematician, A. Seidenberg, has established that both Old Babylonia (1900-1750 BC) and the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2050-1800 BC) borrowed heavily from Vedic mathematics, which was already well known in Harappan times. Natwar Jha’s decipherment of the Indus script shows that the Harappan civilisation belongs to the later Vedic period. The recent deciphering of the "World’s Oldest Writing" shows that the core of the Rig Veda must already have existed by 3500 BC.
At the same time, there is no evidence – physical or literary – of invading hordes, horse-riding warriors from Afghanistan with iron weapons, Eurasian skeletal types, destroyed cities, or any of the standard images portrayed by the Aryan invasion theory. The theory, Frawley states, was an offshoot of a nineteenth century colonial mindset that projected the experience of colonising Asia and Africa onto Vedic times and called it ‘history.’ It came into being when there was no data from archaeology, but has persisted due to political and other considerations.
Like elsewhere in the country, the 1857 rebellion enjoyed considerable popular appeal in the Nizam's kingdom, and in Hyderabad, there was a clamor for war against the British. In one of his briefs in praise of British General Thornhill, Salar Jung acknowledged that Hyderabad was seeped in disaffection with the British, and seeing the grave danger to British rule, acted quickly to fend off the challenges to British colonial presence. His timely and brutal actions in suppressing the mutineers was of crucial import and was duly acknowledged by Sir Richard Temple who described as "priceless", his services to the British Government.But Salar Jung was not alone in his opposition to the 1857 rebellion, which essentially took on the character of India's first War of Independence. When the troops of Indore and Mhow rebelled and joined the 1857 war against the British, the Holkar Raja felt compelled to apologize to the British for the behaviour of the troops under his command, and sought to affirm his loyalty to the British in no uncertain terms. Troops in Tonk, Kota, Gwalior, Bhopal and Bharatpur also rebelled, but their rulers remained staunchly loyal to British interests.

The gateway to Bundelkhand, Jhansi is a city that is linked still with the legend of its fiery queen, Rani Laxmibai. In the 1857 war against British, she led her troops into battle, striking a blow for Indian independence and laying down her life for the cause. Jhansi is ideally located for various rewarding excursions in the area. Within easy reach are fascinating destinations like Orchha, Shivpuri, Deogarh and Khajuraho. Now adding another dimension to this splendid destination is the Jhansi festival, an annual event scheduled in February/ March each year that displays the arts, crafts and culture of the region.
Rani Recollecting the Strength & Battle at Kalpi
Rani, after riding strenuously, reached Kalpi and met Rao Saheb. She succeeded in getting Rao Saheb’s support. All the troops consisting of some regiments of the Gwalior contingent, several of native infantry, the contingent of different revolutionary and Jhansi garrison joined hands against the British force. On April 17, Rao Saheb issued a

proclamation to the chiefs and Taluqdars of Kachhwahagarh in which he promised suitable jagirs, positions and titles if they helped Peshwa. Rao Saheb, Rani Lakshmi Bai and Tatya Tope planned to resist the advancement of British force at Kunch on Jhansi Road. On April 26, 1858, Hugh Rose left Jhansi and action at Kunch started on May 7, 1858. Sir Hugh Rose reused his flank strategy and retreated the revolutionaries capturing the old fort. Rani returned to Kalpi disappointed. The uneasiness increased as Tatya Tope went to Chrukhi, a village about 20 miles away to see his parents, leaving the army to its fate. During this time, revolutionary strength increased as Nawab Ali Bahadur II of Band also joined them at Kalpi. Now, the union

was left with the only option of saving Kalpi at any cost. The defense of Kalpi was well planned. The revolutionaries were under three influential leaders Rao Saheb, Rani of Jhansi and Nawab of Banda. This time they swore that they would either drive the British force away or die. Four days, from May 16 to May 20 constant skirmishes occurred between the two armies. Revolutionaries were gaining grounds. But the arrival of British camel corps turned the fortune against them. The fort of Kalpi was evacuated and leaders left the place at night.

Gwalior - The Last hope
The defeats had turned the spirits down, but Rani Lakshmibai tried to motivate the revolutionaries. She rode about in military attire armed with swords and pistols. Now their only hope was support from Gwalior and Tatya Tope went to Gwalior to convince the Scindhia's of Gwalior who continued to be anti-revolutionary. It was decided that first the troops shall be won over and then get the possession of the state.
After the retreat at Kalpi the revolutionaries decided to proceed towards Shergarh but a letter from Gwalior directed them to move towards Gwalior. It brought a ray of hope among the revolutionaries. They started marching towards Gopalpur on Gwalior Road. The troop increased at Gopalpur as they were joined by Nawab of Banda and Lalpur Gosain, an officer of Nana Saheb with 200 foot soldiers, 150 horses and 3 guns from Shergarh. Tatya Tope had also arrived at the camp from Gwalior.
On their way to Gwalior, Rahim Ali Khan of Kumona joined the revolutionaries with 400 sabres and 400 matchlocks from Bariely. Till then no favorable sign was seen from Scindhia. Rao Saheb sent a friendly letter to Baiza Bai and Maharaja from Dehgaon. The revolutionaries reached Sipoli on May 30, 1858. At the same time Scindhia was gathering his huge troop of 8,000 men and 24 guns. The fight commenced on June 1, 1858 and revolutionaries began to flee. Rani Lakshmi Bai handled the situation by her influential speech. She said, “…where shall we go if our own servants get us beaten. We are determined to die here, let those who are also determined, come with us, but let those otherwise disposed go away.” Her speech produced good results. Scindhia had to flee to Agra as his troops had joined the revolutionaries. After gaining Gwalior, Nana Saheb was declared Peshwa. The administration was taken in hands very tactfully. The three-month salary due to the Scindhia's troop was paid along with two months pay as gratuity. The jail was thrown open and all the major posts were taken by the Peshwas. Finally, the revolt started from Jhansi had reached its peak. With great determination the young Rani had successfully provoked the fire in the heart of every Indian, who had never thought of raising voice against the Paramount Power till 1857, they took weapons and accepted martyrdom with smiling faces.

Rani’s Death
The fall of Gwalior was a jolt to the British Government. Hugh Rose who had laid down the command after Kalpi started for Gwalior on June 6, 1858. Kota ki Seria, southeast to Gwalior was decided to be the place of attack. Sindhia was also invited to proceed towards Gwalior. On June 16, Sir Hugh Rose arrived to Morar Cantonment, where large number of revolutionaries had gathered to oppose the British troops. After a fierce battle, Morar was won by the revolutionaries.
Every effort was made to regain Gwalior. General Smith opened fire on the hills between Kota ki Seria and Gwalior on June 17, 1858. Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi died on the battlefield. It was the greatest blow and her death broke the heart of revolutionaries. The last battle continued till June 19, 1858 when the British were victorious. Tatya Tope was hanged but Rao Sahib managed to escape.
Today, after more than two centuries, the world lauds her bravery. She lived a valiant life of 28 years. In that short span of life she did not gain Jhansi back but achieved an immortal place in the heart of every Indian. She was an eminent leader, capable commander, courageous, and dauntless persona. She received an ovation even from her adversaries. Sir Hugh Rose was full of praise for the qualities of the Rani. He had aptly observed : The high descent of the Rani, her unbounded liberality to her troops and retainers, and her fortitude which no reverses could shake rendered her an influential and dangerous adversary. He considered her to be ‘the bravest and best military leader of the rebel’.

The Scindia, also spelled Sindhia, Sindia, or Shinde, are a prominent Maratha family in India. The dynasty was founded by Ranoji Rao Scindia.
Meharban Srimant Ranoji Rao Shinde was the founder of Gwalior Dominious. The son of Sri Jankojirao Shinde ji, Patil of Kanherkhed, in Maharashtra, he sought to establish a Hindu kingdom north of the Narmada River. Meharban Srimant Ranoji Rao's date of birth is not known.
The closing years of Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath's career were fraught with events strengthening the Maratha cause and ultimately lay the foundation of that vigorous policy which knew no defeat as long as the Maratha confederacy existed. Ranoji seems to have been in an obscure position in the peshwa's regime, directed more towards the attainment of territorial aims by diplomatic skills rather than by arms. Little that is thoroughly trustworthy is known of the earlier years of Ranojirao, whose family was reduced to straightened circumstances during the internecine dissension which raged for a long time between Satara and Kolhapur. He was thus, in charge of the Maratha conquests in Malwa in 1726.
Ranoji established his capital at Ujjain in 1731; His successors were: Meharban Srimant Jayaji Rao Shinde, who succeded the Shinde Empire from Narmada To Yamuna Meharban Srimant Jyotibarao Shinde a brave worrior, killed in a war near Orchha against Muslim rulers Meharban Dattajirao Shinde SawaiBahadur most powerful and brave among all shinde sena. Meharban srimant Jankojirao Shinde fought thoughtfuly in the battel oof Buradi Ghat, Shukrataal,and in the famous battel of Paniput.
Daulatrao Scindia (1794–1827) moved the Sindhia capital to Gwalior. The Sindhia state of Gwalior became a major regional power in the latter half of the eighteenth century; they figured prominently in the three Anglo-Maratha Wars, held sway over many of the Rajput states, and conquered the state of Ajmer.
After the defeat of the allied Maratha states by the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1818, the Shinde Daulatrao Maharaj was forced to accept local autonomy as a princely state within British India and to give up Ajmer to the British.
After death of Maharaj Daulat Rao, who was very closest friend of Bajirao peshwa II, Maharani Baiza Bai ruled the empire cleverly saving from Britishers, till the adopted child Janakoji rao took over the charge. Srimant Jankoji died in the year 1843 and his widow maharani Tarabai Raje Shinde successfully maintained the position and adopted a child from close lineage named Jayajirao.
The Scindia family ruled Gwalior until India's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, when the Maharaja Jivajirao Scindia acceded to the Government of India. Gwalior was merged with a number of other princely states to become the new Indian state of Madhya Bharat. George Jivajirao served as the state's rajpramukh, or appointed governor, from 28 May 1948 to 31 October 1956, when Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh.
In 1962, Rajmata Vijayraje Scindia, the widow of Maharaja Jiwajirao, was elected to the Lok Sabha, beginning the family's career in electoral politics. She was first a member of the Congress Party, and later became an influential member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Her son Madhavrao Scindia was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 representing the Congress Party, and served until his death in 2001. His son, Jyotiraditya Scindia, also in the Congress Party, was elected to the seat formerly held by his father in 2004.
Vijayaraje's daughters have gone with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vasundhara Raje Scindia contested and has won five parliamentary elections from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Under the Vajpayee government from 1998 onwards, Vasundhara was in charge of several different ministries. In 2003 she led the Bharatiya Janata Party to its largest majority in Rajastan, and became the state's Chief Minister. Her other daughter, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, contested assembly elections from Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh and won in 1998 and 2003. Upon the BJP's win in the state, she became the state's Minister for Tourism, Sports and Youth Affairs. Vasundhara's son Dushyant Singh entered the Lok Sabha in 2004 from Rajasthan.
Did India get Independence due to Gandhi and Nehru alone?
Goebells’ Clones says that India got freedom due to non-violence preached by Nehru and Gandhi. But question is: did any other Asian country of that time get freedom due to non-violence?
1945-1950 was the season for independence of Asian countries. We got independence
due to Subhash Chandra Bose, S. Bhagat Singh,Veer Savarkar and many others of their ilk who gave blood for the nation. Government may forget sacrifices of patriots, but people will not forget them because these forgotten heroes still live in their hearts. Let those organizing road shows understand that those who love their patriots cannot be impressed by political gimmick.
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Why is the government relentlessly stonewalling queries about Bose? There are several theories.
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