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Why Bengali and Tamil Refugees Should Not stand United to Sustain Themselves as persecuted in the same Way and Hated in Tamilnadu as well as in Bengal? Why Should the Bengalies not share destiny with our Dravid Negroid Kith and KIN as we shared it with SI

2009-11-07T19:35:55+01:00

Why Bengali and Tamil Refugees Should Not stand United to Sustain Themselves as persecuted in the same Way and Hated in Tamilnadu as well as in Bengal? Why Should the Bengalies not share destiny with our Dravid Negroid Kith and KIN as we shared it with SIKH and Chakma and Allow the Manusmriti follower Brahmins to DIVIDE Us? KilL Us?

Indian Holocaust My father`s life and Time- Two hundred One

Palash Biswas

Why Bengali and Tamil Refugees Should Not stand United to Sustain Themselves as persecuted in the same Way and Hated in Tamilnadu as well as in Bengal?

Why Should the Bengalies not share destiny with our Dravid Negroid Kith and KIN as we shared it with SIKH and Chakma Refugees?

Why Should We SWIM in Oceans of Crocodile tears and Allow Manusmriti follower Brahmins to DIVIDE Us? Kill us?

The US Corporate Post Modern Tri iblis Zionist War Monger Galaxy Order has CHOSEN us for Ethnic Cleansing in the FREE Market Democracy US Promoted in the War zone Indian Ocean under US Israel Led Strategic realliance, Nuclear deal and weapon Market. We may not fight the Mass Destruction Regime Zionist assisted by CIA and Mossad!

We may be Branded as Extremist or Terrorist any time as we happen to be seized within as Refugees resettled in Dandakarany are not allowed to gather after DUSK in any Emergency , even in death, as Maoists have captured all available Infrastructure available and the security Forces unable to Flush out the Maoists seek soft Targets in us! As Maosits arouse ETHNO NATIONALISM and Provoke Tribals against our People as the Shiv sena does in Maharashtra against so called Outsiders. As Nationwide deportation drive against the resettled refugees continue by the Ruling Hegemony Brahaminical alliance of UPA, NDA and the Left supported by DRAVID parties. As Prevention of terror Act is similar to AFPSA as weapon of ethnic cleansing aleady ACTIVE in the Entire Himalayan zone, Aboriginal Untouchable Land scpae excluding Brahaminical Himachal and Uttarakhand Hills! As Citizenship Amendment act targets us as Illegal Migrants! As Unique identity Project targets Real Property and we have to be Evacuated! As Forest act goes against all the SC, ST, OBC and converted Minorities and deprive us of Natural resources displacing us from land, Livelihood, home and Life! As Coastal Security Act is implemented only against aboriginal and Indigenous Communities! As SLUM demolition Act would empower the Promoters and builders to KILL us! As Mines Act and disinvestment Drive, FII Rule and foreign capital Inflow, India Incs, Extra constitutional elements engaged in policy making, legislation, governance treat us Illegal Migrants only and the ADMINISTRATION and Polity , Hegemony Strip us snatching all Human and civil rights! Media and Intelligentsia, Maoist Menace and Projected Mass movements, Insurrections, insurgency and NGOs target us for Infinite Persecution and repression!

Why should we not IDENTIFY ourselves, all refugees as Relatives, kith and Kin? Why Not?

Nov 07, 2009 09:27 PM
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Ananda Bazaar group recently published an Edit justifying the Govt. Decision to deny Citizenship to Tamil refugees.

Since my Childhood, I debated with my father why he emphasised on the Bengali refugee movement only and leading the Peasant across Caste, language and religion! He always answered that the bengali Refugees had been the follower of Harichand Guruchand Thakur and were responsible to launch all the Peasant Insurrections during East India company Rule branded as communal which Resulted in dalit renaissance. It Enabled DR BR Ambedkar to ensure maximum safe Guards for SC, ST and OBC communities, the Black Untouchables even after the Poona Pact and Transfer of Power to Brahmin Bania Raj. Thus, the empowerment of Black Untouchable in United Bengal and the Aboriginal Indigenous Bengali legacy formed Dalit Muslim Power equation in reaction to Brahaminical system and Zamindar Permanent Settlement under colonial rule.Thus, the Partition was manipulated which held Muslims responsible so much so diluting the Hindutva Rule of RSS and Congress led by so called leaders of Freedom struggle to PENALISE and ANNIHILATE the national dalit and Mulnivasi movement with segregation of Subaltern Landscape as Human scape.

He argued that since we are the Victims of Brahamin Arya Vengeance, we have to empower and organise ourselves first just to survive as our Existence is Endangered. Sikhs are persecuted but they are not Hindus and never subordinate to Manusmriti apartheid rule. As community and Religion, SIKHS stand together. Why should they come with us? On the other hand, we have no support from Bengal, our Home state while the Sikhs are backed by Punjab. Tibet and Bhutanese refugees are protected and they would never join us!

At the time , i had known very little about South India and the History and legacy that Connects us to Dravid Movement and Tamil Refugees.

I never do understand, why South India despite the strongest Possible Presence of Dravid Movement is as much as BRAHAMINICAL as Bengal is known from the beginning.

Only in karnataka, while I had gone to TUMKUR Dalit Reds headquarter and visited dalit panchayata led by Women , I came to know about Untouchability sustain itself in hardcore form right in the Dravid Land which is known to be different from the Aryavart and personality like Karunanidhi dares to break the Myth of Mryada Purushottam!Bonded labour is also Prevalent in south India.

More over the Plight of Tamil Refugees is worst. Bengali Refugees toeing their Insurgency Heritage and National Dalit Aboriginal Insurrections and resistance, continued to fight against Persecution infinite and they also resist the Nationwide Deportation Drve enhanced by Citizenship amendment act and Nilekani led Unique Identity Number. But we never hear about any Tamil refugee movement as they depend on the Dravid political Parties and these parties betray them in the same manner as the Bengali Brahmin hegemony, civil society, media and intelligentsia tried their best to finish us!

Jailalita is an Ayer Brahmin and her Apathy may be traced in Brahaminical roots of Dravid Politics right in Tamilnadu!

What about karunanidhi?

I have been writing that all over FIVE Dandakaranya states THREE Million Refugees resettled are stranded in CROSS Fire under Operation green Hunt, Operation Godavari and Operation Venus. Lalgarh and Jharkhand , Bihar and UP refugees are not counted. Mamata Banerjee turned Matua to get suitable Dalit SC Vote Bank and supported Gorkhaland and Lalgarh agitation to get ST Votes. She did never support the cause of Refugees and never condemned the Marichjhanpi Genocide, the first in Marxist Regime even after thirty years!

Mamata has never opposed the Deportation Drive against the Refugees. never opposed Citizenship Amendment act to brand all refugees from east bengal as Bangladeshi Illegal Migrants.

But she sheds an OCEAN of CROCODILE tears!
The Ocean is physically Closer to Tamilnadu and the Tamil and south Indian Non Brahamin dravid Negroid leaders do seem to have inherited the Elite Bengali Brahaminical vengeance and Hatred against the Tamil refugees deep in their heart as they never Oppose them being branded as LITTE people!

In dandakaranya the Tamil refugees are also resettled and they face the Stand off quite helplessly. Tamil and Bengali refugees are seized within dandakaranya. I know that the maoist Movement has no sympathy for the Refugees, Tamil or Bengali . On the other hand they arouse ETHNONATIONALIST Hate against Tamil as well as Bengali refugees. I have faced Ideological debate right in Karanataka when the Maoists declared that the Tamil and Bengali refugees have Captured the land of aboriginal indigenous tribes. Maoists and their Sympathisers like ARUNDHATI ray and Mahashweta Debiu and Medha Patkar do not recognise us,the refugees the Black untouchables as indigenous aboriginal black Untouchables and negroids. The Criticise Corporate Imperialism, LPG Mafia and Monopolistic Aggression, but they Never strike against Corporate interest anywhere. NGOs Follow suit. Politicians just Betray, destroy and shed CROCODILE tears. Worse is the fact that the Brahaminical Elements pit us , the Refugees against the TRIBAL People. It was preplanned that all the refugees Bengali, Chakma, Sikh, Tamil have been resettled systematically in dense FOREST areas inhibited by the aboriginal Tribes so that we continue to indulge in INFIGHTS infinite excluding the Brahamin kashmiri Pandits and Caste Hindu SINDHI and Brahamin Bengalies and kayasthas are adjusted in Urban and semi urban areas. Whereas Indian aboriginal History, legacy , culture, folk, gene, everything belongs to Dravid and nag roots. But the DRAVID leaders from South India ally with North Indian Brahamins to Kill Tamil as well as Bengali refugees. It is strange that the DRAVID Movement and Ambedkarite movement is nowhere Connected.

While the Dandakaranya Bengali refugees in ORISSA had been SEIZED within by Tribals aroused by the Maoists and Tamil refugees kept silent.

I respect ARUNDHATI, Mahashweta,Medha and so on, but the question remains unanswered that they seem to be most CONCERNED and Committed to the Causes of Tribal people but have no sympathy for Tamil, Bengali, Chakam, Raisikh refugees, SC and Obc communities. It means they strengthen the Manusmriti Rule escalating the Caste and Community Divide.
Not only Mayawati and north Indian Politicians, it is fact, Brahamin politicians led by Mamata Banerjee,Dravid leaders like Jailalita and Karunanidhi also evokes Casteology and arouse ETHNONATIONALISM to Push for Ethnic Cleansing and Free market, market Sovereign democracy! We are fools who easily tend under Mind control system and Media and CROCODILE tears of Hypocrite Destructive Politicians and Ideologies!
Palash Biswas
Kolkata, India

http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262761

Southern Spice
Chennai Corner
Mention Tamil refugees and CM Karunanidhi gets tearful: "I don't see those staying in camps here as refugees, I see them as Tamils…"
Pushpa Iyengar

Crocodile tears
Mention Tamil refugees and CM Karunanidhi goes into drama mode. Some weeks after he sent a 10 MP team including daughter Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi to Sri Lanka to visit the IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in their camps he was apparently unaware of the plight of the 73,241 refugees (31,802 Sri Lankan Tamils live outside camps) under his very nose in 115 camps in 26 districts of Tamil Nadu till a local magazine blew the lid off the scandalous conditions including poor amenities (no toilets, poor electricity), lack of bore- well, no access to higher education, no jobs. While sanctioning Rs 12 crore immediately after an emergency meeting with ministers – who are in a tizzy currently visiting camps all over the state to submit a report by November 10 – and officials, he got tearful: "I don't see those staying in camps here as refugees, I see them as Tamils…the amenities available to Tamils living in the state should be made available to those living in the camps too." Please note that he said Tamils, not citizens, so clearly he's got an eye on the assembly elections.

Also note that camp denizens had conducted agitations over a period of time, but politicians in TN were looking only at Tamils in Sri Lanka hoping to reap an electoral harvest. There was even a hunger fast at Chenglepattu camp recently by inmates protesting they were languishing without a trial. But no one listened.

Strangely, although some of the refugees have been here for over 25 years, none of the reports about their plight reached Karunanidhi although he's into his fifth term as CM. Does that mean he's a prisoner of the bureaucrats and police who did not do their duty by the refugees? Or are DMK party leaders callous like the Karnataka MLAs who lived in luxury at five star resorts in Goa and Hyderabad when they should have rolled up their sleeves to work and pay back the rain-affected people who voted for them? AIADMK's Jayalalitha has mercifully restrained herself from criticizing Karunanidhi – her preoccupation is with the politics of Mullaiperiyar dam and targeting Union Minister for IT and Communications Raja on the Spectrum scam – because she is culpable too having had two terms as CM since 1991.

PMK's Ramadoss, who is freelance having left the AIADMK front recently, has also joined in the refugee politics: "Compared to Tamil refugees, Tibetan refugees live with more freedom and in a much healthier environment." The Dalai Lama might not agree, considering China's objection to him visiting Arunachal Pradesh...

A cop-out
About eight months after the free-for-all at the Madras high court complex between agitating lawyers and police, the court has ordered disciplinary action and contempt of court proceedings against four IPS officers including the then Chennai police commissioner K Radhakrishnan, the then additional commissioner A K Viswanathan, the then JCP (north) M Ramasubramani and the then DCP (Flower Bazaar) Prem Anand Sinha. "To ensure fair and unbiased proceedings, it is for the government to place these officers under suspension," said the bench comprising Justices FM Ibrahim Kalifulla and R Banumathi. The four cops are planning to appeal in the Supreme Court.

But the CM apparently chose not to take the court's suggestion and AIADMK's Jayalalitha is asking why. In a case like this where the government has to take sides between cops and lawyers, there is no contest on whose side a politician, who gets "his" cops in place to carry out his agenda, will take. But Karunanidhi chose to let the cops, who are down in the dumps, know where his sympathies lie not too subtly. In his avatar as DMK chief he wrote a letter to the party cadre, a couple of days after the high court ruling, saying, "During the last three years (since his current government came to power), crime detection has gone up and so has the recovery (in theft cases) rate in the state. The police have been ceaselessly fighting against criminals and anti-social elements to guarantee protection to the public."

Karunanidhi, who holds the home portfolio, went so far as to say that the police should not be judged by "isolated incidents" that would put a "black mark" on their career. "This would not only make them hesitant to perform but also turn into a societal issue," he said.

He claimed that his views would be the same if he was in the opposition. "The police face several challenges. They risk their lives to maintain law and order and maintain peace. We should commend them for this," he said.

All true really. But politicians should take the blame for the state of the police. And in fact, politicians should also be blamed for lawyers holding the courts to ransom and indulging in protests. The free-for-all on February 19 was the culmination of weeks of agitation by a section of militant lawyers airing their pro-Tamil (read LTTE) views that finally led to excesses by the police including a lathicharge and vandalism of court property. It should also be said that the same lawyers refused to come back to work for over a month demanding action against the cops despite pleas by judges that litigants were suffering.

And for those who think only cops are feared, lawyers are even more feared. A rookie lawyer says even running a stop sign has no consequences because once the lawyer card is played, cops back off.

A Love Letter...
And if Karunanidhi was hoping for supportive cops with the assembly elections 18 months away, he's got it dude. His letter to the party cadre was like manna from heaven for the police force who were feeling kicked in the solar plexus by the courts. Word went around police stations that Karunanidhi's letter should be displayed prominently. "We see his statement as a morale booster. He indirectly told us that he was aware that we are doing a good job. And we wanted all police personnel to know what the CM feels."

Karunanidhi has flirted with the courts before – on the Sethusamudram project and recently on the Mullaiperiyar project. In the first case he converted the state-wide bandh he had called into a public meeting – after hurrying to the secretariat to clear files – when word came in that the Supreme Court did not take kindly to his defiance. On the Mullaiperiyar issue, he shelved the public meeting (although he claimed he was postponing it) altogether. He did not want to make an enemy of the UPA - his initial idea was to condemn Jairam Ramesh for clearing a survey for a new Mullaperiyar dam – at a time when union minister for telecomunications A Raja is this close to falling into the CBI net for his alleged involvement in the Spectrum scam. Besides, after Sethusamudram he did not want to be seen defying the court which is hearing Kerala's and TN's case on the Mullaiperiyar issue.

The real McCoy?
Autorickshaw drivers in any city fear to fall foul of the police. But in Chennai, cops must be auto drivers' best friend because many actually own them and also because for at least 15 years, meters in autorickshaws are showpieces, if they exist at all. It's all about bargaining (a ten kilometer distance could be between Rs 110-150) and hapless citizens have no choice but to opt for the cheaper "share" autos, which, incidentally, have hit auto drivers where it hurts the most – in their wallets. Not that share autos are angels and follow rules, they drive in non-designated areas. But since "mamools" are effective communicators, cops are over the moon , autorickshaw drivers are happy and only citizens get penalised.

So, it was little wonder that Palani Kumar, an autorickshaw driver from Annanagar spent Rs 1400 of his own money to print 150 posters in support of the police after the high court judgement. The poster claims, "Politicians, actors, media and advocates get preferential treatment; while the public and police, who protect everyone round the clock, face injustice." A tad incorrect, because I've yet to see a cop paying a bill in a restaurant.

But Palani may have printed posters to get his 15 minutes of fame (as proved by this column), to get on the police' right side or a concerned citizen who speaks out when he sees injustice. He says he had got the posters printed when exercised over another issue while in Madurai, but no one noticed. "I follow news regularly by reading at least three Tamil dailies. I was saddened by the court's verdict and wanted to express my anguish."

So he was never wronged by a cop? He had a string of bitter encounters but claimed he was looking at the bigger picture which was that politicians, actors and the media thumb their nose at rules and get away.

So, he's a rare auto driver who uses his meter, right? Wrong! "Nobody asks me to, they (customers) just prefer flat rates and I oblige." Is he for real?

Walk, don't play on the beach
Cops have turned out to be villains for youngsters wanting to play cricket at the Marina.. Although the decision to ban cricket- playing on the beach was taken by the corporation, cops – the enforcers – became the bad guys. Even the 228 playgrounds offered by the authorities have not mollified the youngsters mostly because the parks do not lend themselves to playing cricket. If more than one team comes, then it's out of the question. Some parks have trucks parked in them, some are garbage dumps, some have anti-social activity happening there. Besides, the Marina was preferred because many of the parks they played cricket at got taken over for building construction. Chennai Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni says, "If there is construction debris on any ground it will removed once work is over." But this is yet another example of a generation gap. It's the walkers (mostly middle/old aged with a wide reach to the powers) who first complained to the Chennai Police Commissioner provoking the ban. At an Annanagar ground where yoga happens, the senior citizens often have words with youngsters playing tennis. The older ones want peace and quiet and the young ones are loud and boisterous and that's where the problem arises.
http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262720

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PAKISTAN ON Ramp Despite Rampage, Classic Case Study in Free Market Democracy Promoted by US Corporate WAR Economy Zionist!

2009-11-07T14:49:01+01:00

PAKISTAN ON Ramp Despite Rampage, Classic Case Study in Free Market Democracy Promoted by US Corporate WAR Economy Zionist!

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 416

Palash Biswas

http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/

While we see events with a VISION to look through the Geopoltics, Beyond Power Politics and Political Borders, we may realise what Free Market democracy means.

Major Siddharth barves informed me that MULNIVASI KARMACHARI SANGH plan to DEMONSTRATE in the Heart of Indina Commerce Capital on November, 22nd.It is quite a REFRESHING News. He also told me what ARUNDHATI Ray has written in OUTLOOK India, it exposes the Ruling Hegemony naked. Chidambaram Waging WAR against our people,we may not feel as the Blood touches us no where. I told Barves that I Never Contradict the Facts but simply I object that the Social Activists and Intelligentsia toes the line of Ruling Hegemony and the Toilet Media to DEFINE the Tribal people only as ABORIGINAL and Indigenous. thus, they break our solidarity while the Brahaminical System isolets the Triballandscape and Humanscape from rest of the country, specilly the SC,OBC and Converted Minority. Nationalism and Ethnonationalism so blind close the doors and windows of Humanity to see around and feel the BLOOD Spilled all over the Divided Geopolitics to accomodate Brahamin bania, Corporate Manusmriti apartheid raj ZIONIST under the TRI IBLIS satanic Order.

Free Market Democracy launched MONOPOLISTIC Aggression against BlackUntouchables worldwide and the GLOBE bleeds. My dear friends, it is BLOOD spilled all over we have to swim across to feel the Relax and Luxury of the GLOBAL Village on the Super Highway of ETHNICCleansing. We would not perhaps understand SOMALIA, Nigeria, Indonesia, Rawanda, Latin America, East europe, Phillipnes under FREE Market democracy as we never did understand Middle east Stand Off and the Oil War, Nuclear Biologicaland ChemicalWar fare and the Civil War and War Economics! We never Consider the Defence Budget and internal security Budget, Strategic Realliance, Nuclear Energy, India Incand Extra constitutionalPolicy Making, Legislation and day today Governance guided from Washington and Tel AVIV in dircet Supervision of CIA and Mossad, UNESCO and World bank, Gatt and WTO, IMF and FIIs!We are MIND Controled People who never know about Resource and revenue Management. We did never understand the SENSEX GLITTERING Economy as we donot play with indices! We are easily duped with Flagship Welfare Progrrammeand do support a Disasterous Unique Identity Number Project led by former INFOSIS Man! We Never did oppose AFPSA in the entire Himalayan Zone! We Never realised that we are subject to ethnic Cleansing and Mass Destruction on name of Development and Economics. We entertain in Parliamentary Reality Soap opera and Subvert in Communalism, casteology and Ethnonationalism! WE believe in the simple logic of RECESSION,Infalted Statics,manipulated Mandate, Sell OFF PSU to set right the Foreign Borrowing with foreign capiatl inflow destrying our Nature, Indigenous Production system, Livelihood and Economy. We feel proud to see Moon Mission flop and Nuclear Muscles FLEXED, group photos of Miltary Rulers!

But simply ,provided we see beyond Political Borders, we may see what happens today in pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Afganistan and Nepal, we share the SANE Destiny.

Thus Pakistan on Ramp Despite Rampage may proveto be a CLASSIC Case Study in US PROMOTED ZIONIST FREE MARKET Democracy which we may acceptly as Plastic Money boom, SEZ Drive, Displacement, Jobloss, Ethnic Cleansing, Defence Budget, IT and Technolgy Boom, realtyBoom,Knowledge economy and Privatisation of Services in Shopping Mall,Mutiples, Fashion Show, SPA, BRAND, ICON, CRICKET, retailchain, Bonded farming, Modigfied Genetic SEEDS and Chemical package, NuclearEnergy and Knowledge Economy!

Just , lookinto pakistan and you will get the INEVITABLE Resuts!

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Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement of the masses of Sindh)
announces Long March
The Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement of the masses of Sindh) announces
46 days historical Long March 8th Oct to 22 Nov 2009 (from Kandhkot to
Karachi) for Autonomy, NFC, Water, Education and Resources and Rights of
Sindh and against Corruption, Lawlessness, Terrorism, Unemployment and
man-made Inflation. Prior to this mega event the annual central elections of
Awami Tahreek, shall be held on 28th September 2009 at Yesrab Hall
Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh.
Awami Tehreek Long March
KARACHI: The Rasool Bux Palijo-led Awami Tahreek (AT) announced on
Friday that it would organise a long march in first week of October against the
alleged settlement of outsiders in the Sindh as well as other issues faced by
the province. AT President Abdul Qadir Ranto made this announcement while
addressing at a protest rally at the Karachi Press Club. A number of women
activists belonging to AT women wing Sindhyani Tahreek also participated in
the rally. Ranto said that the planned protest long march would begin from
Kandhkot and end in Karachi. "Besides settlement of outsiders in Sindh, the
party would also record its protest on other issues, including restraining Sindhi
students from admissions in educational institutions in Karachi and the
allotment of millions of acres of provincial land to non-Sindhi population," said
Ranto. Sindhyani Tahreek's Zahida Shaikh as well as AT's Abdul Hakeem
Halepoto, Hakim Zangejo, Mazhar Rahujo and others also spoke on the
occasion.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C08%5C08%5Cstory
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Obama's quest for a Pakistan policy Thursday, November 05, 2009
Mushahid Hussain

Hillary Clinton's visit with a difference was probably the most significant event in Pakistan-American relations since the advent of President Barack Hussein Obama. She came, she saw, but while she did not quite conquer the "hearts and minds" of Pakistanis, Hillary at least earned their grudging admiration. She showed more guts than the bunkered-up Pakistan rulers, who refuse to leave the comfort and safety of their "5-star prisons" in Islamabad.

Unlike the aloof and abrasive Holbrooke, Hillary reached out to the "real" Pakistan. She got a peep into the emerging Pakistani society -- dynamic, vibrant, outspoken and self-confident. She seemed taken aback, used as visiting high-level Americans are to a sanitised Islamabad, where the officially-certified truth of the fawning ruling elite links sycophancy and servility to their self-perpetuation.

A profile of this "new" Pakistan is instructive, with three key ingredients. First, while the "old" Pakistan was politically a "one-window operation" -- monolithic and centrally-guided -- today's multiple power centres go beyond the military-security Establishment or the traditional political elite, and these now include the fiercely-independent media, an assertive civil society, confident young men and women with faith in their country's future, and a free judiciary that for the first time is truly an autonomous player.

Second, in contrast to the "old" Pakistan where the political elite was united in its belief that the road to Islamabad lies through Washington, the "new" Pakistan has little time for 'business-as-usual' political shenanigans, an absence of fear of power and authority, and no "Holy Cows."

Third, there is a broad popular consensus woven around a rejection of the mediaeval mindset and terrorism of the extremists, the corruption and capitulation of the ruling elite, and the hubris and diktat emanating from Washington.

While Pakistan's fourth flirtation with the United States goes through its predictable course of romance-disillusionment-distance, there is some good news and bad news regarding Washington's Afghanistan policy. First, the good news. Unlike Lyndon Johnson and George W Bush, Barack Hussein Obama is not allowing his generals to lead him to "Vietnamistan," as critics are calling the escalation in Afghanistan. As seven meetings of his "war council" demonstrate, Obama has bid goodbye to the non-starter that was his "Af-Pak" strategy. The smart politician that he is, Obama would not want his presidency to sink in the mountains of the Hindukush, hence the "review and reflect" mould.

But the bad news is that the Obama administration remains clueless on Pakistan and Afghanistan. They know what they don't want to do -- not escalate to such an extent that the US will end up facing another quagmire. But they still don't know what they should be doing or how to go about it.

After "Afpak" is dead and hopefully buried, here's what Pakistan should tell Washington on how to go about a doable strategy:

-- Trust Pakistan as an ally, and treat Pakistanis with the respect and dignity they deserve. After all, they have the highest stakes and suffered the most as the "eye of the storm" since the 30-year unrelenting war in Afghanistan (attempts at encouraging a civil-military divide amongst "good" and "bad" Pakistanis won't work);

-- Don't make Afghan policy hostage to a failed and flawed ruler in Kabul, who neither has credibility nor any legitimacy. Cobble together a government of national unity in Afghanistan, and do it quickly. Karzai today is just another Babrak Karmal;

-- Stop treating terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan as only a "Pakhtun problem." The Pakhtuns, on either side of the Durand Line, are suffering the most. They have faced death, destruction and displacement with fortitude. The Pakhtuns are the most hardworking of the ethnic groups living in Pakistan, with a deeply democratic and egalitarian ethos. During a conference at NATO headquarters in July 2007, Khalid Pashtoon, an Afghan MP from Kandahar, told the gathering that notwithstanding tall clams of expansion of the Afghan National Army (ANA), representation of Pakhtuns from the troubled southeastern Afghanistan in the ANA was still less than 1 percent;

-- Remember, the road to stability in Kabul now lies through Pakistan, so its security and strengthening should be paramount, not the other way around. Pakistan, with a functioning, modern, state infrastructure, is doable with greater intelligence coordination and fashioning of a fresh, comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy, which the country still lacks. American-style "nation-building" in Afghanistan is not doable.

"Af-Pak" lies buried for a combination of reasons. It was cobbled together in a hurry based on certain assumptions, notably a distrust of Pakistan military-security establishment's intentions regarding extremism, and confidence in the Kabul administration's ability to serve as an anchor of US political strategy in Afghanistan. Both have been disproved by subsequent developments.

Much has happened in the region since then. Pakistanis have demonstrated unprecedented resolve, unity and determination to protect the vision of their Founding Fathers regarding their country, as the successful military operations in Swat-Malakand and South Waziristan demonstrate. The US now has no political prop to its military strategy, especially after the disastrous election fiasco in Afghanistan.

There has been the first official interaction between the Indian government and the ISI, and a softening of the Indian stance on Kashmir, with a renewed willingness to "talk to all, without preconditions." This change of heart in New Delhi is partly premised on a fear of the resurgent Maoists (who now influence 20 of India's 29 states) and on the fiery polemics between China and India, the first such strident exchange in 30 years.

For the future, three core areas of distrust and conflict remain in Pakistani-American relations. And unless these are resolved by the Obama administration, neither the bilateral relationship nor any US strategy in Afghanistan will succeed.

First, the two sides view their enemies differently -- the US does not view our enemies within as their foes nor do we view their adversaries in Afghanistan as our threats. Hence, a mutual lack of cooperation in tackling each other's enemies, whose most recent manifestation was the US/NATO forces in Afghanistan timing the closure of check posts on their side with the Pakistan strike in Waziristan.

Second, India and its role in Afghanistan are viewed differently in Islamabad and Washington, with the latter brushing aside Pakistani concerns and taking no interest or measures to stop the growing proxy war between the two rivals in Afghanistan.

Third, the US views the Pakistan military and security services essentially in an adversarial light, to be contained, controlled and "cut down to size." Washington conveniently overlooks the fact that the main threat to the democratic dispensation is not from any budding Bonapartists waiting in the wings, but from the same reasons – "bad governance and increasing corruption" -- that Obama mentioned in his stern phone call to Karzai on Nov 2. These issues, vital for Pakistan's stability and democracy, were in the original Biden-Lugar bill, but are strangely missing from the final legislation, for reasons best known to Washington.

Irrespective of what Obama decides for Afghanistan, the Pakistani state is already in the process of reinventing itself, a process that has been hurt by US ignorance and arrogance regarding its much-maligned ally. The challenge for Obama is to fashion a Pakistan policy that matches the new realities in the region, rather than reflecting an old, outmoded mindset.

The writer is a senator and senior political analyst. Email: mushahid. hussain@gmail.com

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Who are Behind the Chaos in Afghanistan?
Dhu al-Qi'dah 14, 1430 A.H, November 02, 2009
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Source and Author Unknown

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

The Americans follow contradicting programs in Afghanistan. These contradictions have greatly contributed to the chaos and corruption now rampant in the country. After invasion in 2001, Americans announced the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reconstruction (DDR) program which was aimed at encouraging former warlords and gunmen to surrender their arms for cash incentives, employment opportunities and vocational training. After a time, they left the program uncompleted, and opted to raise their own militias under the name of Campaign and Security Guards.

These so-called security guards escort American and other NATO member countries military and logistical convoys from one province to another, particularly to Uruzgan, Helmand, Farah and other provinces in the south. Some militias are used to detain suspected Afghans.

Recently, New York Times disclosed that following the American invasion of Afghanistan, Wali Karzai created the Kandahar Task Force which is involved in various human rights violations.

According to the Times Weekly, Wali Karzai frequently used the Kandahar Task Force against his opponents and on one occasion, they killed police chief of Kandahar province. Similarly, Americans pay tens of millions of dollars to private militia annually for escorting their convoys.

The private militias extort money from common people and levy agricultural tax on farmers named Ushar. They are involved in burglary, kidnapping and other unscrupulous activities. All these are overlooked by the invaders as the militia support them in their fight against so-called terrorism.

Applying The Sons of Iraq replica to Afghanistan, the invading Americans have created militia from among the Afghan minorities in the north of the country. Recently, they created such militia in Qazal Qila and appointed a Turkmen as commander. The Turkmen and Uzbek are ethnical minorities and their militias are notoriously known for human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

To many observers who closely monitor developments in Afghanistan, these moves by the invading Americans can be part of plan dubbed as Chaostan, which was unveiled by Mc Crystal, American top commander in Afghanistan during his recent speech in London. According to this plan, the Americans want to create chaos in Afghanistan by plunging the country into geographical, racial and religious fighting once again.

Mullah Brader Akhund, Deputy-Amir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in one of his interviews said that Mujahideen had captured several groups of armed men who were involved in destroying schools and bridges. They admitted that they were paid by foreign intelligence agencies to do so. In this year Eid ul Fitre message, the Amir ul Momineen, Mullah Omar Mujahid instructed all Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate to disarm armed groups who are involved in encroachment on people's life, property and honor on the provocation of the enemy.

Similarly, the bomb blasts in congested places, which have killed hundreds of innocent civilians, is of great concern to the Mujahideen and the Afghan people. This year in the holy month of Ramadan, a bomb went off in Kandahar just at the time when people were to break their fast. More than 50 people were killed in the explosion.

The Islamic Emirate denied having hand in the explosion and condemned it as a horrendous and despicable event. Later Dawa Khan Mina pal, a Radio Liberty reporter was detained by police of the Kabul puppet regime when he was trying to investigate the blast to find out who were behind this gruesome event.

Many observers agree that foreign intelligence agencies are involved in anti-human activities to malign the good name of the armed Mujahideen who are fighting Americans and other forces of the NATO member countries. Recently, the Afghan surrogate president Karzai complained in a press conference that unknown helicopters were airdropping armed men in the north.

According to him, these armed men disturb peace and security there. But Mujahideen in the area say, the foreign invaders airdrop the militia there to target Mujahideen hide-outs during the night and they also attack ethnically sensitive areas in order to provoke racial fighting.

The Americans think, by doing so, they can justify the presence of their troops and enlist supporters from among Afghan minorities against Taliban. These hidden agendas are driving our country into an unknown direction. Unequivocally, the foreign military presence in Afghanistan is part of the Afghan problem.

The more they stay in our country, the more, they will plunge our country into chaos and uncertainly. The only solution is that the invaders leave Afghanistan and let the Afghans to form an Islamic government where people from all ethnicities can participate in the government making on the basis of their talent and services to the people. This will vault out the country from the current vortex of conspiracies and ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan and the whole region.

Pak on ramp, despite rampage
NASIR JAFFRY
Islamabad, Nov. 6: The big names from the West refused to come and the event had to be pushed back by over a fortnight after a chain of terrorist attacks, but Pakistan still managed to unveil its second fashion week.

The four-day event — the last was held in 2005 — was scheduled to start on October 15 but started on November 4.

Ayesha Tehmina, the chief executive officer of Fashion Pakistan, said in Karachi that security fears and over 300 deaths in a series of suicide attacks and explosions in October had rattled the industry.

"Fashion Pakistan, which has organised the event, has invited 32 designers from across the country," said Tehmina Khalid, a spokeswoman for the organisers, adding that designers and models were not coming from abroad because of security reasons.

The Marriott hotel in Karachi, the venue, falls in a red security zone and has been heavily guarded since the fashion week began.

The event is part of Fashion Pakistan's objective to encourage and promote the fledgling industry that struggled for four years to put together this fashion week. Karachi is known as one of Pakistan's more fashionable cities.

The first fashion week in 2005 was dubbed a success, though the industry has no figures recording sales.

Fashion shows and events have been organised in Pakistan for the past few years. Several small shows are held every year by individual designers.

Fahad Hussain, a young designer, said the event was nothing less than a treat for him and he was delighted to see the "lovely amalgam" of East and West, which is the basic philosophy of his designs.

Pakistan's top designers Sonya Batla, Imbias, Aeisha Varsey, Fahad Hussain and Shameel Ansari marked the opening with low necklines and slim-fits, though the skin show was understandably restrained.

No Islamic organisation has issued an edict against the fashion week yet.

Pakistani celebrities, TV and sports stars as well as politicians buy the creations of Tariq Jamshed, Freiha Altaf, Deepak Perwani, Imbias, Maheen Karim, Junaid Jamshed, Nadya Mistri and many others.

The Pakistani media too have promoted the event. English-language papers like Daily Times, The News, The Nation and Dawn have separate Sunday editions dedicated to fashion and new trends. Most private TV channels have telecast shows on the fashion week.
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Wars pierce heart of US army
- Battlefield-set doctor kills 13 in texas base
Texas, Nov. 6: An army psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America's war zones has killed 13 people in the largest active duty military post in the US in the worst mass shootings ever at a base in the country.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected gunman of West Asian descent, has been shot four times and is on ventilator in a hospital after the rampage at the Fort Hood army post in central Texas. Of those killed, one was a civilian and 12 were soldiers.

Less than 24 hours later, another shooting struck an office building in Florida. At least eight people were injured but local media said two were killed. ( )

Hasan, 39, was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire, a witness said.

Clad in a military uniform and firing an automatic pistol and another weapon, Hasan, a balding, chubby-faced man with heavy eyebrows, sprayed bullets inside a crowded medical processing centre for soldiers returning from or about to be sent overseas.

The victims were cut down in clusters, officials said. Witnesses told military investigators that when the gunfire stopped, soldiers schooled in battlefield medicine ripped their clothes to make tourniquets and bandages.

Sirens typically used to warn of tornadoes sweeping across the plains alerted residents, schools locked down and the Fort Hood community struggled to understand what had just happened.

Fort Hood, named after a general and 160km south of Dallas-Fort Worth, is a virtual city for more than 50,000 military personnel and 150,000 family members and civilian support personnel. It has been a major centre for troops being deployed to or returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan and is considered one of the safest places in the world.

A woman police officer is being credited with stopping the shooting rampage. Responding within three minutes of an alert, Fort Hood police sergeant Kimberly Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself. Munley's condition is said to be stable.

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from either Jordan or Palestine, Hasan joined the US Army right out of high school, against his parents' wishes.

Military records indicated that Hasan was single, had never served abroad and listed "no religious preference" on his personnel records.

Fox News quoted a retired army colonel, Terry Lee, as saying that Hasan, with whom he worked, had voiced hope that President Barack Obama would pull American troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, had argued with military colleagues who supported the wars and had tried to prevent his own deployment.

Obama called the shootings "a horrific outburst of violence" and urged Americans to pray for those who were killed or wounded.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council, speaking for many American Muslims, condemned the shootings as a "heinous incident" and said: "We share the sentiment of our President."
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE AND AGENCIES

India and EU sign nuke pact
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, Nov. 6: India and the European Union today signed a pact on a nuclear energy project and decided to conclude their long-delayed free trade treaty by next year.

The two sides also agreed to expand cooperation in countering terrorism by speeding up negotiations between Europol, the EU's top criminal intelligence organisation, and Indian agencies. The agreements followed talks at the 10th India-EU summit here between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and leaders of the 27-member bloc.

The EU team included Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently heads the rotating EU presidency, and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.

India will participate in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project. The project on fusion energy is said to be the costliest experiment of its kind costing 10 billion euros (around Rs 70,000 crore).

The first reactor is expected to be ready in Cadarche, France, by 2016.

The pact was signed by Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU's external relations commissioner who represented the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

The discussions between Singh and the EU leaders covered a broad spectrum of issues, including the global financial crisis, energy security, climate change, trade and counter-terrorism. The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan also came up.

On terror, Swedish Premier Reinfeldt said: "India and the EU stand together in combating terrorism, which is a serious threat to international peace and security."

Trade was also high on the list. It was decided that the talks for a free-trade pact, launched in 2007, should be wrapped up next year.
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Scores NOT Settled as Yet as PrbahasH Joshi is NO MORE!We Loved him Most and We hated Him Most. Finally It Is Pack Up Time!

2009-11-06T19:02:37+01:00

Scores NOT Settled as Yet as PrbahasH Joshi is NO MORE!We Loved him Most and We hated Him Most. Finally It Is Pack Up Time!

Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time - Two Hundred

Palash Biswas

http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/

We LOVED him Most and We Hated him most.He recruited us, destroyed us, dumped us and Never looked back. He forgot our names. He visited kolakat and never called us. He was ahgainst RSS but he would land in RSS base SARSWAT Brahmin Home in Kolkata.

Noted journalist Prabhash Joshi died of a heart attack on Thursday night. He was 72.

He was admitted to a private hospital after he complained of chest pain at 11.30 pm where doctors declared him dead, family sources said.

We met in Grand Hotel in Kolakat where he was staying and I had just jumped in without any formal Appointment letter as he had asked me to join.Dr. Mandhata Singh, Kripa shankar Chaube, Dilip Mandal and Sanjoy Sharma were the other journalists recruited by Joshi were present at the occassion. We had not faced Joshi as on the ady scheduled for our Interview, Rma nath Goenka Passed away and Joshi, very close to him was away. Rather we faced BANWARI and Shyam Acharya having attended the Mourning in the Premises of Express Bhawan. Aruna Asaf Ali paid Condolence and we were called in the cabin of Resident Editor Banwari. I had applied for New Editor. Joshi called us in Kolkata. The appoinment letter was pending as our status and payscales were still Undecided.In Grand Hotel, Joshi made it very clear that status means nothing isn Express group and journalism is no CAREER. It is Mission. But I was reluctant and Joshi clarified that Amit Prkash singh is the News Editor and I was NEXT to him. He asked me to shift my family from Bareilly where I last worked in Amarujala. My Wife Sabita was Working as School teacher and her job was Permanent. We did shift and I got the appoint ment letter after SIX months back dated and the status remained as SUB Editor there after as Joshi believed that only Brahmins could lead in any Sphere of Life. We could not know as I have been joining Newspapers without appointment letter and getting Appoinment Letters with Status afterwards. In AWAZ, Prabhat Khabar, dainik Jagaran, I worked in senior Positins and joined the Job without an appointment letter. My Identity and roots in balck Untouchable society made no difference in North India. But Kolkata Management was quite different which was up against me from the Beginning!

Last night we watched, Sachin Tendulkar cross the Everest of Seventeen Thousand runs and India falling short three RUNs! We knew that Joshi would be reporting as he Never Missed Sachin Tendulkar in Full Bloom. He loved the Cricket God so much so that we stranded sometime whether his Nostalgia about Malva is as passionate or not. I personally always criticised Joshi that he Subverted Burning Issues not taking any stance , making the readership indulged in Cricket.He attacked RSS most aggresively but he was the best Defender of Manusmriti apartheid Rule and even declared that Pdt. Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Atal Bihari bajpai happenthe only people who deserve to RULE and lead India as all of them are Brahmins. You may understand the IMPLICATIONS very well. He duped and DUMPED us but he was DUMPED more pathetically without any favour.

We expected him to write the Next KAGAD kare on Sachin Tendulkar! But the Exciting Event Proved Too FATAL! Now, we may not hope RECOVERY in any Condition.I am just writing the Truth which I did not tell and kept in my heart for so long. Now, it make NO diffrence as Joshi himself taught us that STATUS is IRRELVANT in Journalism. Fortunately , I have NO Status to sacrifice neither I have nothing on stake and anything would rather help me to free me from the Bondage I bear tyhanks to Prabhash Joshi!

He chose a SARASWAT Brahmin in Kolkat as resident Editor and Promoted another Brahmin as chief subeditor who was never in charge of the main desk. He promoted a Brahmin who failed in the nationwide exams and I recommended him to include in the team as I was hinted that AP singh and I had to run the Kolkata edition.The Discrimination and Partiality broke up the team Joshi selected. He never believed OUTSIDERS and chose his Men. promoted them and Defended them persecuting others specially NON Brahmins.

I wrote on this very openly.I was not at all Glad to see JOSHI being sidelined as I knew the Impact for which JANSATTA got the SLOW POISON and could not Sustain its reputation. I talked on this from the Dias of India International Centre in presence of national Intelligentsia and civil Socitety.

We had lost the man who could deal with our problems.

I could have left Kolkat in 1995. I have Managed the Escape Route and decided to return Home. Unfortunately, at the very time Sabita fell ill and she had to undergo Open heart surgery. The Resident Editor Shyama Acharya and my Colleagues , each and every one in Express Group stood by us. I was obliged to decide to stay with the lot whatever may come!

Joshi had asked me in Grand Hotel,` Whay have you come down One Thousand Miles?’

`I have to settle some OLD Scores!”I replied.

Joshi did not ask for Explaination!

Now I realise, I had the Psyche Intact and Aware of the circumstances but could not explain as i had not done the Home work perfect as I did know nothing about Manusmriti rule or Brahaminical hegemony. In Uttarakhand, Caste hindus constitute the Majority Population and we had very good relationship. In fact, since my Primary School days all my teachers and friends had been Marxists as well as Brahmins. They tried their best to Promote me. Even the Benagli Brahamins resettled in Terai were within the limit of our Extended family. Freedom Fighter Basanta Kumar Banerjee lived in Khanpur Number two just two miles away from Basanti Pur. I had free excess in his library as he remained the best friend of my Father. Communist Party general secretary Comrade PC joshi belonged to Almora and my Father was the leader of the Peasants and Refugees in Nainital.He was a Brahamin. harish Dhowndial who was tried for waging against the state along with my father as they led Dhimri Block Peasant Uprising, had been my Local gourdian in Nainital.Pitambar pant was my Primary teacher. Tarachandra Tripathi lifted me from Bengal hotel and put me in his home and shaped me in what I am today. He was a FOLLOWER of Rahul Snkrityayan. He was a Hindi lecturer and Expert in Indigenous and aboriginal History in GIC, Nainital. It was he who made me shifetd in English Medium as he believed it would help our Black untouchable communities as he expected me to rise in Resistance. Shekhar Pathak and Dr. Uma Bhatt, Kabita Pandey and Prema Tiwari, Madhulika Dexit, and every Brahmin professor in DSB college behaved with me as EQUAL and with friendly gesture. In allahabad , I stayed with Shekhar Joshi, the Eminent writer.

Naturally,being a Marxist and involved in Nationality Movements as well as Environment Activism , I Never Read AMBEDKAR and knew nothing about Annihilition of caste and Caste system. I was rather well acquainted with the Spring thundreing. I had Opposed Marichjhanpi campaign of the dandakaranya refugees purely on Environment ground and I knew nothing about the Genocide!

I had NO APATHY against the Brahamins and Brahaminical system. My earlier writings in Hindi dealt with Class Struggle and materialist Interpration of History.

I could not have explained the Unsetted Scores. Which I understand Betetr now and for which I may not leave Bengal as the SCORES Remain Unsettled as yet.

I did not apply at first as I had not seen the vacancy. I had a quarrel with Ashok Agrawal, who changed the First Page of Amarujala cancelling my page as I was the Shift Incharge and underplayed the RIOTS . meerut was in flames and we were trying our best to amintain communal Harmony. Agrawal Came up from Agra all the way and was FIRY as we were losing circulation steep down as we AVOIDED Sensation and our RIVALS did their best to flare Up communalism and Encashing it. It was quite insulting for me as Agrawal used unproper words and tore down the first page and Pasted Himself THREE Banners top to Bottom. Immediately, I walked out of the Presmises. Rahul maheshwari, the Resident Editor got the news and caught me on the Gate> we had good TUNING. Agrawal was accusing me,Biren Dangwal and sunil sah of MISLEADING Immature Rahulji. However Rahulji, Convinced me to return. I declared at the very MOMENt that I would not be working with them any more.

I knew abiout Kolkata Edition and was in no mood to settle in Kokat as my Home in the Terai was within TWO Hours Distance and I could land at Home any time. But I applied for Kolkata Job writing a Personal letter to the Editor in Chief Prabhash Joshi that I had NO GOD Father!

Joshi asked me about this and I told him about my vision and roots . he was so convinced that he did not ask me on UNSETTLED Scores for which I continue to abse in Kolkata even today.

My Friends in Bareilly were against my joining Jansatta. My Friends in New Delhi, including Editorial staff and Reporters who were my frineds as delhi Press Circle knew me well while I was working in Bareilly and Meerut also warned me that JOSHI is a PURE Brahmin and it would be DISASTROUS for me to join Jansatta. Subhash Dhulia, then Professor in JNU Mass Communication center.also opposed teh Idea. But I was influenced by Joshi`s missionary Journalism and was quite FED up with the RSS based Newspaper owners in North India.I also wanted to write in bengali as I had been writing in bengali in my school days before shifting in Hindi! I was also aware of bangla nationality and expecting a Progressive Secular society based on Justice, Equality and Peace!

Sunil Sah had worked with Joshi and he tried his best to convince me that I should not join. Then, Biren dangawal supported me and said the Option was always open. But Agrawal got me write down the Resignation letter immedaitely and declared at last there would be some space in the Editorial!

I met Prabhash Joshi earlier while he shifted from chandigarh as Resident editor of Indian Express, New Delhi. I was working in coal Fields where I was Well Reputed and the Circulation Manager of Indian Express New Delhi met me while on his visit to Caol Fields. he asked me to write an application to the Editor in Chief S. Nihal Singh.Singh sent a Letter and asked me to meet him in new delhi. While I landed in Express Bhawan, S. Nihal singh already left. Mr Grover sent me to Prabhash Joshi and he informed me that there was NO Vacancy and he would consider me in future. I was so upset that I did not apply for Jansatta when the Vacancies Published for delhi edition!

But JANSATTA chaged Hindi Journalism a lot and I had to reconsider my earlier dcision as I also missed Chandigarh Edition while I was in Meerut.

Joshi Promoted my friends superceding me everytime and he Never consider me. We would have Lunch together in rajsthan Guest house and he would always ask me to sit beside him and discuss anything. After some time, he also forgot may name as he used to call me Biswas. It was shocking. Meanwhile , I got myself UPDATED with the History of Bengal and Scientific Manusmriti Rule which Joshi Defended.

I wrote so many things but Joshi never cared to reply in public. Yes, It was a game of Unsettled Scores!Prabhash Joshi made Jansatta a Disastrous Minesfield for Non Brahmin Journalists. Thus, the team which he created, diintegrated very soon and the team splinterd. We remained DUMPED and Unrecognised and Equally, the Brahimns recruited Joshi could not help him being DUMPED and you may not find a single copy of Jansatta in your area neither you fetch or collect it from somewher else. We repent for all those days while the READERS had to SHARE Jansatta as we could not Publish enough copies in demand! Joshi was a Magnet. he was a Miracle but his MALVI Brahamincal mindset could not help him and the CONTROVERSIES on his HINDUTVA never stopped irrespective of CONDOLENCE and Mourning Mode! We may not deny the hard facts and we may not Hide the DEP Cuts in our Mind and heart for which no one, but Prabhash Joshi was RESPONSIBLE!

But it was Prabhash Joshi who taught us what should be Journalism all about. He emphasiesed on rural reporting and cultural roots. While I was shifted from the main desk within months as Amit Prakash singh nd Me turned SWORN Enemies as the BRAHMINS working in Jansatta trapped us in the False war. I was never considered and AP singh also lost the Game and finally Sidelined. During my Tenure as the In charege of dak Editions , I had to dal with more than Two Hundred Stringers and reporters.

What we gained or lost under Joshi, it may be deabated but Joshi led us to make Jansatta a BRAND, the leading Hindi newspaper. We remained STAGNANT and DUMPED but the Newspaper lost its STATUS Gradually and perhaps with the DEMISE of Prabhash Joshi , it is Finally the Pack Up time!

Noted journalist Prabhash Joshi died of a heart attack on Thursday night. He was 72.

He was admitted to a private hospital after he complained of chest pain at 11.30 pm where doctors declared him dead, family sources said.

He is survived by wife Usha Joshi, two sons -- Sandeep and Sopan -- daughter Sonal and mother Leela Bai.

Joshi, who began his career with Nayi Duniya, was the founder editor of leading Hindi daily "Jansatta" in 1983. After retiring from the newspaper in 1995, he continued as the chief editorial advisor.

Originally from Indore, Joshi, a veteran writer and Gandhian, changed the definition of Hindi journalism with the publication of 'Jansatta'.

Joshi also worked with the Indian Express as the resident editor at Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Delhi.

A prolific sportswriter, especially in cricket, he, incidentally, suffered a heart attack after watching the yesterday's India-Australia ODI match.

His body will be taken to Indore tomorrow by an evening flight where the last rites will be performed at the banks of Narmada.

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MULNIVASI Aboriginal Indigenous TRADE Union Global Must Be the TOP MOST Priority as Organised Sector Mass Mobilisation only may SAVE Persecuted Humanity Worlwide as well as the GANG RAPED Nature and Natural Resources!

2009-11-06T07:54:25+01:00

MULNIVASI Aboriginal Indigenous TRADE Union Global Must Be the TOP MOST Priority as Organised Sector Mass Mobilisation only may SAVE Persecuted Humanity Worlwide as well as the GANG RAPED Nature and Natural Resources!

Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time- One Hundred NINETY Nine

Palash Biswas
http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/
MULNIVASI Aboriginal Indigenous TRADE Union Global Must Be the TOP MOST Priority as Organised Sector Mass Mobilisation only may SAVE Persecuted Humanity Worlwide as well as the GANG RAPED Nature and Natural Resources!
I have been warning the Ambedkarites, Social and Eco Activists, Black Brotherhood, Economists, Academia, Mass Movement leaders, nationality leaders for last few years that we have NO spare Time for shaping the SURVIVAL Strategies. I had meetings in different parts of the country including Mumbai, the Capital of Commerce, Business and Ethnonationalism, I attended National Convensions and NGO seminars, talked to Trade Union Leaders, PSU employees and all old friends. I taked to BAMCEF Factions,BSP, Republican and even Marxist leaders with All DISINVESTMENT Counciland Commision reports in my port folio. I talked to SHEETAL Makram and wrote to VTR, the editor of Dalit Voice. I interacted with Intelligentsia and posted BLOGs daily.
But Major Siddarth Barves, Dilip Mandal, Makram and a few of us working in the ame wave length, could not mobilise our employed educated masses and the leadership and Ideologues to rise above Demogogues and Hypocrites, Ethnonationalism and Vote bank Equation or Resource Mobilisation.
Now, we have no time. And it is the ULTIMATE ASSULT for which MONTEK, Ptaroda, Nilekani, Rangrajan, RBI, SEBI and India Incs have taken Over Parliament, Killed the Constitution,presented Human Face like mamata Banerjee, Co Opted Dravid and Dalit, SC, ST and OBC leaders in the system, shaoped in Madhu Koda and Shibu Soren, Projected Mayawati!
Our Greatest ENEMY in Knowldge Hegemony, Indian Express Group Recruiter and Hindi Journalism ICON Prabhash Joshi is NO MORE. He killed many of us but he was the Man who PUSNED us Launching Pad to Shape in, as Nucear MISSILES!
We had always BIG Fights amongst us! I have to go Down the Memory Lane once again.
But the Immediate CHALLENGE presented by Nationalisation Credited, GARIBI Hatao and Socialism Pleader Zionist DYNASTY led by LPG Mafia and GUIDED by US War Economy Dictations, represented by Extra Constitutional Elements, Allows US Never to be in Mourning MODE as we PERISH without a BREATH in this Bloody Free Market democracy!
I was Expecting Joshi to write on Sachin Tendulkar this sunday in his Jansatta Column but he has left his pen for ever. We have spent years working together in Express Group. We Had very seriuos Differences. I had very serious Differences with my Father late Pulin Babu. I have reseravtion on the stance taken by MAHASHWETA Debi who taught me and my generation waht RESISTANCE means all about. Prabhash Joshi, Notwithstanding, his Pure Malvi Brahaminical HEGEMONY Manusmriti Mind Set taught us to face the Challenges of Technology and Neoliberalism, Free Market Democracy and Resistance against the Genocide Culture toSustain Humanity, Peace and Nature. My Father, my teachers back Home in Nainital, Prabhash Joshi and Mahashweta Debi made us what we are now!We are not clones but we have BLOOD Relations. It makes me cry deep in my heart and mind while we LOSE such Personalities with who we could play BIG FIGHTS as we all wanted to Change this World as a PLANET fit for Humanity and Civilisation!
Rather I should write later on or it would turn very subjective!
Today, the most objective topic seems to be DIVESTMENT with a AAM AADMI face stepping Ahead like Predestined DEATH and Destruction and perhaps, it is 2012 all about.
As much as Rs 30,000 crore could be available to the government after the Cabinet today made it mandatory for all listed and profitable public sector undertakings (PSUs) to have a minimum public float of 10 per cent. And decided to list all unlisted PSUs which made profits during the past three years. In a major policy shift, the Cabinet also decided to mend rules that will allow the government to dip into the disinvestment corpus and fund its ambitious social sector programmes. The decision to use the money raised from stake sale in PSUs will help the government tide over the immediate crisis on the fiscal front. A high fiscal deficit, estimated at 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product in 2009-10, had posed huge challenges for the government, forcing it to borrow more from the market, and threatening to undermine the growth prospects in the medium term.

As much as Rs 30,000 crore could be available to the government after the Cabinet today made it mandatory for all listed and profitable public sector undertakings (PSUs) to have a minimum public float of 10 per cent. And decided to list all unlisted PSUs which made profits during the past three years. In a major policy shift, the Cabinet also decided to mend rules that will allow the government to dip into the disinvestment corpus and fund its ambitious social sector programmes.The decision to use the money raised from stake sale in PSUs will help the government tid

e over the immediate crisis on the fiscal front. A high fiscal deficit, estimated at 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product in 2009-10, had posed huge challenges for the government, forcing it to borrow more from the market, and threatening to undermine the growth prospects in the medium term.

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Why is SO RED the GULMOHAR Flower!

2009-11-04T15:13:37+01:00

Why is SO RED the GULMOHAR Flower!

Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Ninety SEVEN

Palash Biswas

http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/

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Common name: Flame Tree, Royal Poinciana • Hindi: Gulmohar गुलमोहर • Bengali: Krishnachura • Kannada: Kempu torai
Botanical name: Delonix regia Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Discovered in the early 19th century in its native Madagascar by botanist Wensel Bojer, Gulmohar is a flamboyant tree in flower - some say the world's most colorful tree. For several weeks in spring and summer it is covered with exuberant clusters of flame-red flowers, 4-5 in across. Even up close the individual flowers are striking: they have four spoon shaped spreading scarlet or orange-red petals about 3 in long, and one upright slightly larger petal (the standard) which is marked with yellow and white. The delicate, fern-like leaves are composed of small individual leaflets, which fold up at the onset of dusk. Gulmohar gets 30-40 ft tall, but its elegant wide-spreading umbrella-like canopy can be wider than its height. Gumohar is naturalized in India and is widely cultivated as a street tree.

This Morning I was Awoke by a PHONE Call from New Delhi. Some KAVIRAJ was in the Residence of MR. Parimal Biswas who called me last Night while he stumbled on some of my articles. Next Morning, he hosted some of his acquaintances amongst which KAVIRAJ, I got the title only and dared not to ask a REPEAT of his Name avoiding his shock that I forgot my Class Mate in Dineshpur High school! Kaviraj belonged to Lakkhipur and he informed me and IGNITED me the MEMORIES down the GULMOHAR Lane! In Nineties I wrote a Short story on the untimely death of my Six Year Nephew, BIPLAB in 1990. He was the first Child in our family in Basantipur representing Next Generation, One year elder to TUSU and TUTUL. Padmlochan, the Poor Father and Namita the Mother could not collect them for years. For me the Shock was so intense that I would often forgetthatthe boy was dead and Call Him by name anytime, any Hour. Some one my father, Mother or Jethamosahi would then remind methat BIPLAB was NO MORE! The story was Titled as GULMOHAR KAA Rang LAAL KEUN?

Every year from April to June The gulmohar tree is in full bloom. In Dinesh Pur, there is a small ground before the Hospital which is SURROUNDED by Gulmohar Trees and we used the Ground as our Open Air Class Rooms during our Stirke in Dineshpur High school right in 1970. Where from I could see the Blue sky and my Classmate ARPANA, the RASOGULLA dressing her HAIR in the Sweet Sunshine sitting on the roof of the building opposite to her HOME and missing the Class which IRRITATED me most as I had been their Leader and was Responsible that no one shoul miss studies during OUR Fight to get Question papers In Bengali Script for Bengali language. I would express my Anger next day and Arpana would be rather very annoyed. Then, GURUDASI would intervene!

THOSE GIRLS WERE SIMPLY VERY homely!Most of the girls in sixties and seventies would get Married in Childhood. Pundra Kstriyas were very reluctant to allow their girls to join any Class Room.

In Shaktifarm only, in 1972 I met the Girls from paundra Kshtriyas from Ratan farm Number one in the School. Sundar Pur was the most educated village in Dineshpur areas but no Girl from sundarpur was allowed to join the school. The People, Namoshudras from Barishal Districts resettled in Haridaspur, Netaji Nagar, Vijoynagar, Chandipur and Shibpur also did not allow their girls to get education in those days.

Gurudasi was married off just after she passed Class Eight Board Exams to a School teacher , ironically. Arpana`s family was not resettled and they have no land. They got shelter in our village Basantipur and lived with Bidhuda`s family. We were INFANTS then.Later they shifted in Dineshpur Bazar and her parents stated a SWEET House famous for Rasogulla. We named the GIRL Rasogulla as she was SWEET and Beautiful. We used to read in the same Class and were Rivals as She got Better Marks in Bengali than me and it also ANNOYED as I had been the First Boy in the School in every sense!

REBA, Mamata and Ranjeeta and ANNAPURNA were in class Nine with Jyotsna in Class Nine. Jyotsna was most beautiful and got married in 1977 while I completed my Graduation and she passed intermediate. I never considered her as her brother tried to Propose her as my Bride first. My parents rejected simply because they knew my plans in Higher Studies.The Poor Girl was married off to a Refugee colony in a AGRARIAN Family and I never saw her again! Ranjeeta was very innocent and I felt very soft for her as She resembled ditto to my cousin Beena. She was a very good SINGER and for thatshe could not pass her High school and was MARRIED to a YOUNGMAN from Bengal who tortured the Very Good Girl and it pained me.

Mamata was daredevil as her father Harendar nath Roy was known to swm in different stream always.Her brothers Himanshu ans Sudhangshu da were my friends. She possessed Unquestionable leadership qualities and led the GIC during our CHIPKO Movement. After marriage she is active and political as we expected. Arpana lost for ever and Annapuran married to our friend BIREN Kirtunia, the most INNOCENT girl of the LOT, REBA Roy was also Married to HARIPADA Biswas, a Science techer then and now, the Principal of GIC, Dineshpur. AMAZINGLY this girlREBA renamed as REKHA transformed herself into a most effective Woman Leader in Uttarakhand besides those involved in Chipko and Uttrakhand Movements! Kamala Pant, Uma Bhatta, Nandini Joshi,Basanti Bisht, Indira Hridyesh and so many Women leaders in Uttarkahand made HISTORY and it was quite amusing that our little innocent sister was amongst the selected lot.

She as an Independent candidate challenged the Congress Cnadidate in Direct election of Chairman RUDRAPUR Municipality and was defeated by a few votes as the Bengali Women working as domestic Help dared not to vote her.She was in the Women`s commision in Uttrakhand. She was the leader of women`s congress. She was well known in Political circles and motivated the Empowerment f ourWomen Folkwho led the People`s Movement in 2001 to defend the Citizenship of the Bengalies in Uttarakhand .

Her father DEVENDRA Nath Roy was the leader of her Area in AMRIT NAGAR. Our families were in friendship. Her father was with my father but her MAMA, maternal Uncle joined us in our resistance. I Visited sher house so often as I used the House of her In Laws in ANADA KHEDA Number TWO as her father In Law Nirod babu was one of the best frineds of my father. Harpadada and his elder Brother were the First Graduates who NEVER left FARMING despite being in service and My father would never lose a word in Praise fro these two gentlemen.

REBA is no more and she died in 2008,on 13th August. No One informed me. I got the news from the Smarika, Soveneur published on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Durga Puja in Dineshpur. Sabita returned HOME with a copy as my Brother Padmolocahan, himself a writer and Poet as well as social ACTIVIST was in Bijnore to join the family in Mourning.

I also got some unknown facts about my father Pulin Babu from this Booklet which Focused on Pulin Babu somuch so thatI felt UNEASY and just called SUBIR Goswami why they NEGLECTED others Radhakanta Babu, Haripada Biswas, Kumud Ranjan Sarkar,Suren Srakar, Sukhlal Mandal, Dayal Roy, Haren roy, Harendra Nath Sarkar, Meghnad Mandal, DR Nikhil Roy, Ajoy Goswami, Adhar Baidya, Somnath Da, Rohitashwa Mallick, First advocate Sukumar Mandal, First Journalist Gopal Biswas,Prafullo Mistry, Birinchi Pada Mandal and so many of them. At the same time , I appreciated the articles based on Dineshpur and Terai and the language and the Presentation, VERY Good for Beginning! thanks RUPESH ,the editor,Subir, JN Sarkar Puja Committee Chairperson and others involved.

JM Sachadev wrote in his article that right in 1955, Pulin Babu was on Hunger strike demanding Rehabilitation for the Partition Victims the Scheduled caste Refugee from East Bengal dumped in Gim Corbet fame Jungles. Consequently, Refugees were allotted Eight Acre land per family constituting Twenty Nine Land settlement Committees. I knew about the 1956 movement. But his correction seemed correct as I knew my Village Basanti Pur, Udai Nagar and Panchananpur were formed after 1956 movement as they worshipped Goddess Durga separately. But Sonu account suggests that Seven Villages in all were formed after the 1956 movement.

Sonu has traced the History of Udvastu Committee which was first formed in 1952. Sonu also mentioned that Pulin Babu also interacted with the First President of India DR. Rajendra Prasad followed by DR. Radha krishnana, Pdt. Gobind Balabh Pant and DR SAMPURNANAND. I did not know as I was not born at the time or I was rather INFANT to know as DOCUMENTATION is NEVER done by our people!

I have to be UPDATED with all activities of the Maoists, Corporate Imperialism and Ruling Hegemony guided by LPG Mafia and Galaxy Post Modern Tri Iblis Zionist Manusmriti Apartheid Order just becuse we are NOT Maoists!But Maoism is a PHENOMENON which has involved the Nature associated Aboriginal and Indigenous Communities worldwide in RESISTANCE leaing to Unprecedented Violence and Repression with Zero Intolerance!

In the Himalayan Zone,in Uttarakhand, in Kashmir, In the Entire NorthEast, In Nepal and Bhutan and in Gurkhaland and even in TIBET, our People BLEED stranded in Cross fire. They bleed in South East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, All over EUROPE, in Latin America and Africa, In Australia and Neuziland and even in AMERICA! The Ruling Class has GLOBALISED its MASS Destruction System and Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Culture but Resistance is always LOCALISED and Branded as Terrorism or Extremism or Insurgency.

The Peasnt uprising since East India Rule have always been painted as Communal Flare up defining in terms of Santhal, Munda, Bheel Insureections, Sanyasi Vidroh and so on. Even the Sepoy Revolt in 1857 is focused with Archlights most RELIGIOUS diluting social and economic Context and Isolating communities. No one would say that Spatcus was our Original Ancestor who first tried to break the BONDAGE of Enslavement. No one would accept that Stalin was Untouchable. No One would Claim that Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King hared our Blood. But Everyone would adopt Mahatma Gandhi!

Telengana Uprising was lso declared as the War Against the State. NAXALBARI was subjected to REPRESSION before Indian Military intervened in Bangladesh Liberation War.

The Sate showed its MUSCLES in Dhimri Block, between GULARBHOJ and Lalkuan Jungles in Nainital Terai with all MILITARY and Police Power available agaist the Peasant Uprising led by my Father Pulin Babu in 1958. He and his Comrades were TRIED for their waging WAR aginst the State for almost a DECADE!

Now our Black Untouchable People, Two Million Tribals in Lalgarh, Three Million SC Bengali Refugees in DANDAKARANY, THOUSANDS of Tamil Refugess resettled in Dandakaranya,Millions in Jharkhand and Eastern Uttar Pradesh are STRANDED in STAND Off Infinite, Operations to Flush out the Maosists from Maoist Frontiers so highlighted by Media! And Arundhati ray rightly defines THOSE Inflicted areas as MOW Zones!

The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain calls for the immediate release of Kobad Ghandy,Ravi Sharma, Anuradha, Sri Chhatradhar Mahato,Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee and all Maoist and other political prisoners in India.

Operation Green Hunt is an attack on the poor and indigenous peoples of India to pave the way for the continouous displacement of millions of people to serve the comprador capitalists and their international backers from Britain and USA.

The United Nations has just condemned India for it's food policy whereby 30 million additional people have been made hungery since 1990's as a result of government policies and 46% of children are undernourished.

These are the realities of India's neo liberal policies exposed by the Indian Maoists.

We the Co-ordination Committeee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain express our solidarity with Indian comrades in their battle for social justice and will do our best to let the whole world know the barbarities of the current ruling elite perpetrated against Indian peoples.

We will expose the false propaganda of neo-liberal India's so-called economic success, which is nothing but prosperity for the few and poverty for the many.

Statement issued 1st November - London 2009

CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE OF REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISTS OF BRITAIN (c/o BM Box 2978, London WC1N 3XX)

The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain call for the immediate release of our Italian comrades Alessandro Della Malva, Elisabetta Cipolli and Alessandro Orfano. We express our solidarity with these comrades.

These three brave anti-fascists are paying for their militancy and commitment for defending the anti-fascist values ratified by the Italian Constitution and conquered with the victory of the Resistance, and against the rehabilitation of fascism and fascists.

The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain expresses its solidarity with these comrades.

The CARC party and the Solidarietà Proletaria are leading in this struggle in Italy. We express our support to your struggle

Statement issued by

The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain
c/o BM Box 2978, London WC1N 3XX)

28th October 2009

http://www.revleft.com/vb/events-quicken-conflict-t121184/index2.html

I've been posting news updates, pictures and video footage of the demonstrations in the thread that link goes to, I urge everyone to read it and appreciate the significance of what's happening.

The second day of protests has finished, the Maoists and their many supporters gheraoed local government offices across the country. All day, local govt administration work across the country was shut down. I've found video footage of the protests, so I urge you all to watch that. Plus a fair few new pictures. The protests look pretty chillax, lots of singing and dancing.

A very fucking significant event has taken place, which I'm sure more reports about are going to be written. In the Dhankuta Municipality, the Maoists have seized state power! MyRepublica reports that they "captured the keys of the office, evicted the government officials from the office and announced the formation of the [parallel govt] at municipal offices". The significance of this is just out of this world. Day two of the protests, and the Maoists have already mobilised tens of thousands of people and seized state power in at least one area! I'm posting the news reports I found about this, so read them carefully and appreciate how important this is.

Plus there's some new reports about how the govt's inability to pass the budget (due to Maoist CA members obstructing the parliament) is leading to a state financial crisis in Nepal. The govt is bankrupt. It will soon have no money for everything from prisons to hospitals, police to the upkeep of the PLA cantonments.

It's all very exciting and the brave people of Nepal need our solidarity and support. The reactionary army is still there and could still easily be called out. India will be keeping a close eye on the situation. The Nepali reactionaries could easily try and pull a Chile, or an Indonesia, on the Maoists and their supporters amongst the revolutionary workers and peasants of Nepal. It's up to us to do everything we can to oppose this, and keep informed about the situation (while also informing others!).

There are links to everything I mentioned plus more besides in the thread. I'd also urge people to visit www.mikeely.wordpress.com, where the events are also being covered in detail.

Lal salaam!

--
Alastair Reith.

www.comradealastair.wordpress.com

www.workersparty.org.nz

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Ambedkarites FAIL Miserably to Address Ethnonationalism, Ethnic Cleansing and Economic Reforms in Free Market Democracy, Failed to MOBILISE Productive as well as Social Forces in a Plural Society. Lack of internal democracy Disintegrate Aboriginal Indige

2009-11-02T17:05:05+01:00

ENTRAPPED in KANSHIRAM Branded Casteology Endorsed by VTR, Ambedkarites FAIL Miserably to Address Ethnonationalism, Ethnic Cleansing and Economic Reforms in Free Market Democracy, Failed to MOBILISE Productive as well as Social Forces in a Plural Society. Lack of internal democracy Disintegrate Aboriginal Indigenous Black Identity and the Minority Market Dominating Communities RULE without any HINDERANCE!Thus, NGOs and Marxists , Terrorism and Insurgency Work as the Best Tools of the Manusmriti Apartheid Hegemony!

Indian HOLOCAUST My Father`s Life and Time - One Hundred NINETY Five

Palash Biswas

ENTRAPPED in KANSHIRAM Branded Casteology Endorsed by VTR, Ambedkarites FAIL Miserably to Address Ethnonationalism, Ethnic Cleansing and Economic Reforms in Free Market Democracy, Failed to MOBILISE Productive as well as Social Forces in a Plural Society. Lack of internal democracy Diasintegrate Aboriginal Indigenous Black Identity and the Minority Market Dominating Communities RULE without any HINDERANCE!

Thus, NGOs and Marxists , Terrorism and Insurgency Work as the Best Tools of the Manusmriti Apartheid Hegemony!

Bamcef convension is shifted to Jaipur and Bengal lost the THIRD Party Initiative in quest of change. Bengali brahmins did EVERYTHING to destroy us and the Plight of Refugees has made bengal a n INFINITE hell with continuous Refugee Influx. Matua Mamata Replicates Marxist Basu and both the factions make the Maoists most RELEVANT. Whereas SUBALTERN movement in Bengal NEVER gets momentum. I damn care for Bengal as our people have already been EXILED and Evicted from Bengal. Pranab, mamat and buddha Together with their coupled Connection with the Zionist Dynasty Ruling the US Peripherry do the SUSPENDED DEPORTATION DRIVE a reality with NILEKANI Entry with Unique Identity card already having amended the CITIZENSHIP Act! I am ENGAGED in Defence of our People who have been the direct indirect VICTIMS of ECONOMIC Reforms made possible and Prevailing by the Maoist MENACE coinciding with CHIDAMBARAM`s war!

I have been discussing the issue with our friends nationwide from the Himalayas to down to the Bay of Negal and arabian Sea and we CONCLUDE that the Mobilisation in Organised Sector, Unity amongst prodctive and social Forces and Immediate change in the Termnology in Ambedkarite IDEOLOGY to make it Relevant and Inclusive in the galaxy Village should be the TOP Most priorty. Arundhati ray may disagree but we have no other ARM as SURVIVAL Strategy in CIVIL War War Conditions in this divided geopolitics but INCLUSIVE Mulnivasi Aboriginal Indigenous black Dravid IDENTITY !

Casteology Based power Politic shas killed Ambedkar Ideology and Abriginal Indigenosu Identities as it Opened FLOOD gates of Manipulation and Corruptin leading to Swiss abnk Accuonts. All the MASSIHAS of SC, ST and OBC Movenet did indulge in Brahminical Honey Moon sidelining the basic Issues. They also behave like the DEMOGOGUES who PREACH ETHNONATIONALISM leading to unprecedented hatred and violence.

Madhu Koda may prove to be an EXCELLENT Case study but the Cupboards in Subaltern Headquarters are FULL Of Skeletons! Social Mobilisation misses in Priority list and Vote bank Equations create SUBVERSIONS leading to calamities for our people!

Meanwhile, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren Monday said that supporting Madhu Koda as chief minister was a blunder and in future his party would not support any Independent member for the position.I know well Shibu soren, the Desma GURU since his shaping time. I witnessed Shibu and Suraj Mandal ISOLATING Marxist Coordination Committe led by AK Roy to DISINTEGRATE Jharkhand Movemnet and the GRAND Sell OFF Jharkhand as I based in Dhanbad during 1980 to 1984 AMIDST the EXPLOSIVE LOOT generated in Coal Fields just after Nationalisation. I also swam in the RIVERS of Free WINE in journalism and clashed with PR managed Mines Accidents. I also joined GIGNATIC Victoria ground Jharkhandi gatherings and saw with AMAZEMENT how coal Fields and Indian parliament Changed Jharkhandi nationality being myself in the storm of the Mass Movement!

'Supporting Madhu Koda government was a blunder. In future, we will not support any Independent candidate. Independents should not fight the elections,' Shibu Soren told reporters in Bokaro Monday.

'Independents have plundered the state,' he added.

Shibu Soren was reacting to the ongoing raids by the Income Tax (IT) department and Enforcement Department (ED) against Koda, who is a former chief minister and a Lok Sabha member.

IT department and ED Saturday started raids at 70 places in eight Indian states against Koda and his associates.

They discovered illegal transactions amounting to Rs.1,600 crore and Rs.550 crore sent to foreign countries through hawala transactions. The raids are on for the third day running Monday.

Koda was chief minister of the state from September 2006 to August 2008 with the support of the Congress, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the JMM.

Asked about an alliance with the Congress in the assembly poll beginning Nov 25, Soren said: 'There is no question of an alliance with the Congress.'

The JMM will fight all the 81 seats in the assembly poll on its own, Soren said.

Same is the story in Dravid land as the DRAVID ANTI Brahmin and Anti Aryan Movement falls like Maza mango in the lap of Ayer Brahmins and GOUDAS rule in Karnatak. Kerala is Marxist but Aryan Legacy is maintained very well in Progressive Ideology Replicating Brahaminical Bengal.Comrade Nambudaripad and Comrade Jyoti Basu with comrade Surjeet turned Indian communist Movement into a RED Branch of RSS most Trusted. Thus, the Naxals first and maoists later got all the Milage backed by Government of India and India Corporation and World bank UNESCO aided MGOs. Chidambaram`s war against Maoist is the Best Ever Rhetoric of ETHNIC Cleansing as Ms Arundhati ray has Clarified in her Coverstory Published in Outlook India. The smae story is being published in HIndi in Express group Jansatta! It is well in DEFENCE of Manusmriti Rule sustained by Policy Makers, knowledge Economy, india Incs, globalisation, Intelligentsia < Civil Society and Indian Parliament and Assemblies.

We may not Defend our People, neither the Tribals nor the Tamil as well as Bengali SC Refugees stranded in the Cross fire Stand OFF and Maoism do Contribute to the manipulations of MANDATE Changing the Demography in Peace as well as Violence as ZIONISM or Hindutva forces use to do.

Ms ARUNDHATI Ray has Writtes about Corporate Imperialism and the False Gods very well but she NEVER Exposes the Scintific Surgery of Anatomy of nature and Nature Assoiciated communities by the Mainstream Politics Brahaminical, NGOs Brahaminical, Media Brahaminical, Intelligentsia and Civil Societies Brahaminical and Maoist Brahaminical with all kinds of Color ful IDELOGIES and Theories, studies and surveys, campaigns and Mass Movement.

I am afraid to say that Ms Ray also Contributes to Strategical Marketing Of Ethnic Cleansin covering the STRIKE power and Weapon of mass DESTRUCTION!

As Shibu questions the integrity of madhu Koda , in the similar manner Jaya questions timing of Raja''s spectrum scam charge!

Questioning the timing of IT and Communication Minister A Raja''s allegation of a sacm in spectrum allocation during the NDA regime, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa today wanted to know why DMK''s representatives in the Union Cabinet did not raise the issue then. In a statement here, she wanted to know what Raja and his then colleagues, including late Murasoli Maran and T R Baalu, were doing when the Telecom Ministry of the NDA regime was perpetrating the "Rs one lakh crore fraud on the nation".

"Why did not any of them protest? Why did they not at least raise the issue at a Cabinet meeting? Why did they not walk out of the NDA? By keeping silent, were they not guilty of abetting the multi-crore scam?" Jayalalithaa asked. By his charge now, Raja had "opened the doors of a new closet from which hitherto well-hidden skeletons had tumbled out and it is now up to the BJP leadership in the know of things to confirm or refute this allegation," she said.

Raja, a lawyer by profession, should be aware that one wrong does not justify another.

A murderer, when trapped, cannot get away from the long arm of justice by claiming that someone else has committed murder as well and that person was still at large," she said in apparent reference to charges of irregularities in spectrum allocation under Raja''s tenure.

Pakistan offers $5 mn for information on Taliban leaders

The Pakistan government Monday offered a reward of $5 million for information on the country's Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and 18 of his associates.

The reward is for information on Tehreek-e-Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and his associates who have vowed deadly attacks across the country in retaliation over US drone strikes.

The rewards were offered in a government advertisement on the front page of The News daily and flashed on Pakistani television channels overnight.

'Anyone who captures these people dead or alive or provides concrete information, the government will award them a cash reward,' The Nation quoted the advertisement as saying.

'The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) terrorists are daily involved in deadly activities and because of their activities innocent Muslims are going to the valley of death,' it added.

The largest rewards of 50 million Pakistan rupees each were offered for Mehsud, senior leader Wali ur-Rehman Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud, also described as a master trainer of suicide bombers.

Eleven commanders had rewards of 20 million rupees each and rewards of 10 million rupees each were on offer for five others.

Pakistan has been hit by a string of terror strikes since Oct 5 that has left over 200 people dead. The worst terror attack took place in Peshawar Oct 28 when over 105 people were killed in a massive bombing in a crowded market.

The army has stepped up its offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan and has been able to wrest control over some of the areas.Blast in Rawalpindi kills 35
A suspected Taliban suicide bomb killed at least 35 people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Monday, officials said, as the government announced a reward for the capture, dead or alive, of the group's leader.

Pakistan Taliban militants are being squeezed out of their remote strongholds on the Afghan border by a massive army offensive and have retaliated by stepping up bomb attacks and commando-style raids on urban targets.

The army offensive is being closely watched by the U.S. and other powers embroiled in neighbouring Afghanistan, as the border area has become a sanctuary for insurgent groups from both countries as well as foreign al Qaeda militants.

Monday's blast came as the Pakistan government announced rewards of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and more than a dozen other leaders.

The attack in Rawalpindi, a large sprawling city that twins the smaller, administrative capital, Islamabad, took place in an area that is home to the army headquarters as well as some hotels.

Officials said many of the victims were elderly people who had gathered at a bank to withdraw their pensions. TV stations showed ambulances and police vehicles racing through the streets, sirens wailing.

"It was a huge blast. Smoke is rising from the scene," Nasir Naqvi, who runs a travel agency near the site of the blast, told Reuters.

Last month militants launched a brazen attack on the Pakistani army headquarters in Rawalpindi, taking dozens of people hostage before commandos stormed the building and rescued them.

WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE

The announcement of the bounty on Hakimullah's head was made through newspaper advertisements as security forces zeroed in on his Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan) strongholds in South Waziristan.

"These people are definitely killers of humanity and deserve exemplary punishment," read the front-page advertisement, with photographs of Hakimullah and seven senior lieutenants, in The News.

"Help the government of Pakistan so that these people meet their nemesis," the advert said.

A reward of over $600,000 each was announced for Hakimullah, who is regarded as violent and brutal, and his top aide Wali-ur-Rehman, regarded as more thoughtful and canny.

The same amount was offered for Qari Hussain Mehsud, who is Hakimullah's cousin and also known as "the mentor of suicide bombers".

The trio spoke last month to a group of journalists in Sararogha, a major Taliban base in South Waziristan, but have not been sighted since.

Security forces have captured Kotkai, the birthplace of Hakimullah and hometown of Hussain, in the Waziristan offensive, and on Sunday the military said it was on the outskirts of Sararogha and Makeen, also strongholds of Hakimullah.

In the deadliest militant attack in more than two years, more than 100 people were killed and scores more wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb detonated in a crowded market in the northwest frontier city of Peshawar.

In a related development, the United Nations on Tuesday announced it had raised a security alert for the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas -- which include Waziristan -- ordering all non-essential international staff to leave.

The security situation has also hit the stock market, with the Karachi exchange index ending 3.13 percent lower to close at 8,872.40.

"The market started on the lower side today but the slide accelerated following the bombing in Rawalpindi," said Khalid Iqbal Siddiqui, director at brokers Invest and Finance Securities.

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ENTRAPPED in KANSHIRAM Branded Casteology Endorsed by VTR, Ambedkarites FAIL Miserably to Address Ethnonationalism, Ethnic Cleansing and Economic Reforms in Free Market Democracy, Failed to MOBILISE Productive as well as Social Forces in a Plural Society

2009-11-02T17:03:36+01:00

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DUMPED in CHILKA Lake, They are my People! Untouchability Practiced and The end of Koda the survivor!Amitabh Bachchan 'pained' by fraud allegation!

2009-11-01T19:28:05+01:00

DUMPED in CHILKA Lake, They are my People! Untouchability Practiced and The end of Koda the survivor!Amitabh Bachchan 'pained' by fraud allegation!

Indian HOLOCAUST My Father`s Life and Time - One Hundred NINETY Four
Palash Biswas

http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/

Little Indians.
--------------

Millions of little Indians, Hindus Muslims and others
for them no law, no land, no fathers mothers brothers.

They slave in little tea shops, they beg along the road,
they sleep upon their little feet, they have no bed, no board.

Government makes new budgets of which they are no part.
Governments feed on government grants, they eat their little heart.

The rich perform ablutions to please the gods above;
the gods return their favours and increase their treasure trove.

Little Indians find employment in hell holes we call factories;
their lungs fill up with poison gas, government collects the taxes.

Some little Indians go to public school in bus or car or jeep;
a million others look for food in wayside garbage heap.

Their schools are in Government file, their meals are part of Plan,
but when nation needs an atom bomb, they eat whatever they can.

Little Indians, they are taught to sing 'mera bharat mahan';
Little Indians wipe their hunted eyes - they wonder what is on.

-- Badri Raina.

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Income tax department claimed that it has found evidence of Rs 400 crore hawala transactions linked to former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda, TV reports say

Protect me? They can’t even protect my art: M F Husain

MUMBAI/DELHI: The government might be finally moving to make things easier for India's renowned painter M F Husain to return to his homeland
M F Husain
after four years of exile, but the 94-year-old artist is hardly impressed. Nor is he taking seriously the home ministry's efforts to club three pending cases against him so as to ensure their speedy disposal.

``What are they talking about?'' asked Husain in a telephonic conversation with TOI from Dubai. ``The India Art Summit held in August this year did not feature a single work by me. The reason given was that they could not afford to take the `risk'. How will they protect me if they cannot protect my work? How can I trust them?'' (Read full interview in TOI-Crest this Saturday.)

The artist feels that it's not just a question of legal cases against him. That did not force him to leave India. What caused his exile were the threats of physical harm to him by saffron groups. He wondered what would happen to him if he actually returned. ``They can, of course, promise me a bullet-proof car and the works. But, then, did Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi have any less security?''

On its part, the home ministry plans to approach the Supreme Court and request it club the three cases pending in Delhi, Gujarat and Maharashtra ^ and move for their early disposal. Said Husain's lawyer Akhil Sibal: ``Any positive step by the government is welcome. But we would also like to see a clear message that the government would do everything within the law to prevent his harassment.''

Husain said his case was not unique: ``From Galileo to Pablo Neruda, creativity has been exiled many times. I am not the first one.'' Still, the artist said he was deeply hurt by the way ``a few'' have treated him. ``It's a tremendous hurt. I'm Indian. Why should I beg these people to call me back to my country?''
Anubha Sawhney Joshi & Himanshi Dhawan, TNN 30 October 2009, 01:27am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Protect-me-They-cant-even-protect-my-art-M-F-Husain/articleshow/5178312.cms

I wanted to visit Dandkaranya once again. Our People have informed me that sometime in November or December,I would have to visit Malkangiri as they planned Matua Sammelan once again.I had visited malkangiri and Omorkot only in last march. They did not change but I may not go as the Bengali Brahaminical hegemony is Indulged once again to play with the Destiny of our People to readjust their political demography beyond Bengal. the marxist did it in Seventies ending in Marichjhanpi Genocide and mamata replicates her Rivals just after gaining recognition as regional parties in Arunachal and Tripura. her peopel in Uttarakhand are trying our people over there wuith the baits of different RLY committee memebership. Now she sends SUNANDO Sanyal to Malkangiri. I may not share the same dias being aware of the IMMINENT Disartous consequences. I alerted our people over their and have informed the CAUSE of my Refusal. But mamata is Powerful enough to get her men over there.

Sridam Biswas, the leader of REFUGEE Coordiantion Committe asked me on phone day befor yeasterday whether I would be able to attend the CONVENTION. I said, NO. I got Phone calls from Malkangiri also.

Sabita has ENTRAINED in DOON Express last Night at 12 PM sharp and expected to reach Howrah tomorrow Morning. But our people fro CHILKA Lake, in KHURDA District informed last day that they would land in my home this morning to discuss their problmes , I agreed.As we face the problem all over Uttar Pradesh, our people are scattered in bunches and have been resettled in ONE, Two, Three, Four, Five villages in Meerut, Bijnore, Bareilly, Rampur,badayoon, kanpur, Lakhim Pur Kheri and Baharaich Districts where they face INFINITE Problems in their day to day life. IN such a MINORITY, they may not defend theselves , either we may be able to protect them from outside as being afraid of Communal flare Up going up against them.We have to live and STRUGLE unted as ROCK solid with Local Communities, it had always been my Survival KIT which I convey our people everywhere. I had been in Bijnore last time and discussed the strategy with our people and convinced them.

In Orissa, the Problem is very ACUTE as they have been targeted under Nationwide Deportation drive launched jointly by LK Adwani, PRANAB Mukherjee and Buddhadeb Bhattachary aligning with NAVEEN Patnaik. A few families were already deported from KENDRAPARA already until a UTKAL Bangiya Suraksha Committe was constituted and ORIA local Communities, Political parties and media came in forward to defend our people.

Mahajati Nagar Block in Kendrapara sandwitched between PARADEEP Port and Bhitar KANIKA sanctury falls under Coast Line Security Act as well as Forest act. Citizenship amendment Act declaring the NOAKHALI Victims resettled there since 1952 executes the much Needed EVICTION to clear the GROUND for a gretaer SEZ passed by Patnaik. Abriginal Tribal and Bengali as well as tamil refugee land in almost every Orissa district is TRGETED by MNCs and India Incs including PASCO and Tatas. So Reliance gets it in CHHATTISHGARH and Tata has rooted in JHARKHAND.

The LPG Raj is clear with the fact that EX Chief Minister of JHARKHAND, madhu KDA has DIVERTED no less than FOUR Thousand Crore RS in Personal Pockets and CBI raided Sevnety Places all over the country in search of the Jharkhand State Money DIVESTED not to mension the SWISS Bank acount. if a low Profile Chief Minister may dare to DIGEST such a BIG amount, it would be rather very interesting to know HOW Much GROWTH the POLITICIANS gained inMajor Deals, SEZ Drive, INFRASTRUCTURE Projects and MOWs Signed. All the FLAGSHIP Progrramme MONEY is allocated VIA NGOS run by the RULING Class.

Times Now says that this was revealed after the "detailed questioning" of Koda by the I-T sleuths on alleged hawala transactions and investments made by him and his associates.

The department carried out countrywide searches on at least 70 premises associated with Koda yesterday and seized voluminous documents, computer peripherals and other records pertaining to bank details and investments.

The department issued notices to Koda and others for "detailed questioning" after the completion of scrutiny of the seized material, official sources said.

Some questioning at the time of searches was done by tax officials but they were largely cursory.

The notices were said have been sent under section 131 of the Income Tax Act 1961 which authorises the department to issue summons or to force attendance of any person for being examined on oath or to compel production of books of account and other documents.

The department yesterday had claimed that its had found evidence of Rs 4000 crore in hawala transaction and investments after searches were conducted at Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nasik, Ranchi, Chaibasa and Jamshedpur.

IT authorities added the department will also initiate the unlocking of seized lockers at various places of the former Chief Minister and his associates.

"Some documents showed about Rs 100 crore in foreign exchange being sent by hawala transactions to Dubai, Thailand and Malayasia," tax officials said after the searches on Saturday.

The searches were held after the Enforcement Directorate registered a case against Koda and his associates Sanjay Choudhary and Vinod Kumar Sinha on October 9 on charges of making huge illegal investments abroad.

The ED had filed an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), which is equivalent to an FIR, before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Ranchi against Koda and eight others.

Koda was chief minister between September 2006 and August 2008. Currently an Independent member of the Lok Sabha, Koda had held the mines portfolio twice in two governments, led by Arjun Munda between 2003 and 2006.

Thus, our people are quite UNSAFE and bengali ELITE Brahmin RULING Class who did everything to destroy right from the beginning would not bail them out, we may BANK on Local support only.

Nine Hundred Fifty One families from Partition Victims have been DUMPED in CHILKA lake. They were alotted land TWO Acres per family in the lake itself isolating the so called land in a dams for CULTIVATION. The land is almost INUNDATED and the SLIT salt has eaten the fertility. The Scheduled caste People have to live on with FISHING. since TATA has got the Lake, the people must be EVUICTED. For the time being they have been asked to get LICENSE and pay for FISHING, hence the LIVELIHOOD has already ENDANGERED.

Moreover, the NAMOSHUDRA and Paundra families settled in SIX Villages in CHILKA BHUSHAND Pur area are DePRIVED of RESERVATION as the CASTE Hindus do PRACTICE UNTOUCHABILITY against them. They are not allowed to fetch water in Public resources. They are NOT allowed the ENTER the Temples! They are SUBJECTED to INFINITE persecution!

you amy jsut call Nityanand SARDAR on his Cell Phone Number 09937350382 for further details.

Two Youngmen representing our people DUMPED in Chilka lake have been at my Home ad we discussed the Problems for Hours. Meanwhile, KL BISWAS from PUNE, Abhiram Mallick from Ranchi, Shyamal Paramanik from Banaras and DILIP mandal from JNU, New delhi joined us. SUSHANTO Kumar mandal and Nakul Chandra Mandal did everything to make us know about their PLIGHT and they just did not Cry. My heart Was weeping. As tehy refered my father PULIN Babu who had VISITED them and raised their issues at different level. I had been Kndrapara, cuttuck and Malkangiri, Umorkot refugee areas.

Rabi Sarkar, belonging to chilka lakeand staying in Cuttack happens to be my family friend. But I could not manage the TIME to visit the place just One Hour away from Bhuvneshwar.

Our people have SIX villages there.

BALIPATPUR Colony
JATINUAGA Colony
Gobardhanpur
Puntolby clony
Sunderpur colony
Katlagupta Colony

As Fishing as LIvelihood is not enough and cste Hindus having Hatred and apathy against them, practicing UNTOUCHABILITY, it is near IMPOSSIBLE to sustain Themselves. They have to seek JOB elsewhere where they may not be singled out as Untouchables. They have to travel palces all over the country!

Since Paundras, Malo,Namoshudra and other bengali Scheduled caste communities enjoyed the FREEDOM form Brahaminical Socity for Decades as the Local Communities were Unaware of their SC Identity, they NEVER Demanded RESERVATION and always opposed the AMBEDKARITES, even my Father. They would not spare anyone who would EXPOSE their dalit IDENTITY Fearing UNTOUCHANBILITY and DISCRIMINATION as well as Social Separation! I faced their Wrath in 1978 while I voiced their Grievances in stories based on their SC status. they were ready to kill me. I did not withdraw and faced SOCIAL ANGER for years.

Now in a Global village they Demadn RESERVATION for Extra Chances as the SC local Communities treat them as cate Hindu and caste Hindus PRACTICE Untouchability as they EXPOSED their SC status demanding Reservation! Moreoever, they sufefr INFIGHT amongst theselves . The Namoshudras and Paudras popularly known as Chandala And POD fight for Reseravtion SEPARATELY poised agints each other. While my father PULIN Babu wante a SINGLE SOCIETY of Refugees irrespective of religion, caste and language with RESERVATION and quota. They Never AGREED.

Culturally RAGGED for thousnads years, ENSLAVED for Thousands years and DEPRIVED of Knowledge they have lost ETHNIC Nationality Idenity and even Motehr Tongue. They Know Nothing about their Glorious Past and anything about the ANCIENT Bengal Ruled by Indigenous and Aboriginal communities, their NEGROID fore fathers. Even they happen to be unaware OF MAHASTHAGARH, the Paundra capital in east Bengal not to mention aboriginal and indigenous rulers all along United Bengal, Orissa, Andhra, maharashtra, Chhattishgarh, MP, Bihar and Jharkhand beside the Himalayas and the NORTH east. They are unaware of the Power Politics and remain TAMED Votebanks without Representation. Thy KNOW nothing about the FREE Market Democarcy and LPG Raj. They are UNAWAR of the IMMINENT danger to their VERY Existence.

How may I help these People? But it is my Immediate Liability!
My dear friends!

Most of us do believe we happen to be the best of the Democratic and secular lot with Academic background very sound as we may be technically perfect as living in SENSEX Shining Nuclear India depriving eighty Percent Indigenous Aboriginal people.

With Poona pact signed, Gandhi ENSURED Brhamin Bania raj which shped in Corporate MNC raj in US promoted FREE market Democracy turning India into a peripherry of US war Economy. DR BR Ambedkar being singled out alone was able to enter the Constitutional Assembly thanks to the East bengal refugees Scheduled castes who had the legacy of Peasant Uprising and Aboriginal Insurrection against foreigners since Mohanjodor Harappa to British raj. Partion was the RESOLUTION to seek Ram rajya in an Indian HOLOCAUST and Bloodshed INFINITE. The Feudal Princely Zamindar Class have adopted the Corporate Culture adjusting very well in Post Modern manusmriti apartheid Galaxy Order. Rs Ten Lac corore Indian national Budget is spent in Defence deals and kickbacks, Sixth pay commision, Energy Crisis, Nuclear space Armament and a Bailout of the INFLATED FII FDI so called RISILIENT Economy from NON Existing Recession in India. Indian comanies and MNCS grew in TRIPLE fold of which about twenty percent comes from HIRE and Fire policy. Every Profitable PSU has to be Disinvested or Divested as the Trade Union Movement is Captured by the Marxists and the Left which Never do addresses Job Loss, Unemployment and Rights of the working class. deprived of Livelihood, Land, home AVERAGE Enslaved iIndian are Destined to live aand die as SLUMDOGs in Urban Semi urban and Rural India as well. Basic services and necessities, Food Insecurity, Starvation and Pandemic Problems are Never Addressed. DEMOGOGUES hold on the State Power arousing castelogy and ETHNONationalism. Unprecedented hatred and Violence ENVELOP us and the Geopolitics is made an INFINITE battleground. Though India Suffered the Partition Holocaust and refugee Influx continues even today. The Ruling Hegemony further partitioned the Nation into Landscape as well as Humanscape DIVIDES as North India the Cow belt, South India , the Dravid land and the Himalyan Zone including Kashmir , gorkhaland, uttarakhand and Entire North east most of which is under the UMBRELLA of AFPSA since 1958. We the people divided in different landscapes and humanscapes have no Interactions as Market Dominating Minority Brahamin policy Makers, Intelligentsia, civil society and media play all the MIND Control Game to Isolate ourselves into little Islands and hence we Never may be able to break the Walls of Concentration camps of Mental blocks as we are Controlled Minds and behave like BIOLOGICAL Robots.

While Icon like Arundhati ray addresses the problems of alien landscape or Humanscpae we react very subjective and enhance the HATE campaign with personal attack. I do agree and also know personally all the details unfolded by Ms RAY.

But I am alos AWARE of the Human Documentation of hatred as revealed in high caste Indian L:iterature and Journalism! They present and showcase themselves most Human. Trashankar Bandopaddhyaya to Mahashweta Debi, SALMAN Rushdie to arundhatui ray, Amitav Ghosh to Rajkamal Jha the story is same. They seem to stand UNITED Rock Solid with the Aboriginal Indigenous People in their Anti fascist Anti Imperialist secular Inclusive Mode as GANDHI has been the best ICON in this GENRE but little Sympathy they would have in their hearts and would Never go beyound their Class and caste Interest. Just they Oblige us to raise the voice against us. For example, Ulka Mahajan and medha Patkar Phenomenon and Projected NGO mass movement in Hard RH light may explain the grownd reality as we gain NOTHING from the Projected Ideology or Insurrection. At last LPG Mafia gains stronger.

For eaxample, Ms Mamat Banerjee had aligned with the Maoists and worked together even in Lalgrah movement with Chhatradhar Mahato as well as Kishanjee. but getting the share in Powerpolitics she breaks through a major Turnaround demanding ARMY Operation against Maoist Branded Millions of Aboriginal People trying to sustain tehemselves demanding Civil and Human Rights.

Mamata Banerjee also does CONVERT she is now a MATUA. MATUA Religion was the direct product of CHANDAL Movement in Dalit Renaissanince of bengal which succeeded in Indigo Revolt as well as anti Untouchability Movement. Mamata Matua Banerjee has declared that she would worship the DALIT Avtar of GOD, harichand Thakur only but she takes no stance on Matua demands . The matuas demand citizenship for eevry East Bengal refugee, the Partition victims. mamata has not responded as yet. she has not clarified her stance on EXTRA chances for SC, ST and OBC. She has not demnaded justice for Marichjhanpi Genocide even after thirty years following suit the bengali Intelligentsia as well as society which wre HABITUAL to have every CAKE during the haydays of marxist Hegemony and now NEVR feel ashamed of being the part and parcel of railway Ministry.

Mahashweta debi, the daughter of Manish Ghatak, wife of BIJO Bhattacharya, Mother of Nabarun Bhattacharya and the niece of RITWIK Ghatak has been writing on Tribal Rights whereas she has not spoken a word against Dalit Genocide or Persecution in Bengal.She NEVER tlks on Refugee Problem UNSOLVED til this date.

mamata speaks for Lalgarh Tribal but she has kept MUM on THREE MILLION Partiotion Victim east Bengal Refugees settled in the Maoist Geopolitics STRANDED in CROSS Fire.

Arundhati Ray speaks for a different landscape and Humanscape ISOLATED from the Rest of India.We must Thank Ray as well as OUT Look India for this Highlight. We may debate on the limitation of Mrs ray limited in her Class character as Indian Communist, Marxist and Maoist Movement have always been led by BRAHAMIN General secretaries, central committes and polit bureaus and always they have BETRAYED our people. We have to bear the heat an dust of ETHNIC Cleansing while the people like Arundhati ray, mahashweta debi and Medha Patkar, BARBARA Rao and DEEPANKAR bhattachary, Prakash Karat and Brinda Karat would Enjoy the ICON status and bargain in Power Politics to hget personal and class Mileage. They would not creat any DEMOCRATIC process to resolve the Problems but would always ENCASH the STAND Off for reasons understandable!

I beleive that the DEBATE should focus on the basic Problems of ETHNIC cleansing and Mass destruction in an age of ECONOMIC Reforms and LOOT of National and Natural resources.

Nov 01, 2009 04:55 PM
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I Have been a very loyal reader of Outlook India and Ms ARUNDHATI Ray. I have been writing on the topic Maosim as detecting the Space Popular Resistance by thr INDIGENOUS Aboriginal Nature associated people against the Monopolistic Corporate Imperialist Onslaught ontheir only holding the nature associate traditional Property Natural Resouce. Since FREE MARKET sntach everything and Economic Reforms means ETHNIC Cleansing in the best ineterst of Minoriti DOMINATING CASTE Hindu Brahaminical Communities and US War ECONOMY, Democracy as well as Parliamentary system and Constituyion with the rest of SUFFERING Majority Masses remain IRRELEVANT.

The Fight for Land is alright which Ms ray Highlights quite effectively but she hardly refers the Major COINCIDENCE that MAOSIT falare UP as well as Projected NGO Mass Movements led by the BRAHAMINICAL leadership defend Corporate interest as well as MANUSMRITI Apartheid Rule. Maoist attack the State Power Structure which is as much as SINILAR to the AFPSA Repression, Military Oprion with Zero Intoletance, Man Made Calamities and Pandemics and the STRUCTURAL Insyitutional unprecedented Hatred, Discrimination, inequality, Injustice, Violence and subversion. But the Maoist do play the Power Play on their part to help either part of ruling Hegemony as it is clear with Mamata Banarejee appearing maoist to harvest the Electoral Mandate manipulated in Hypocricy and Revenge play. Maoist BLOOM just after the LPG Mafia and INDIA Incs took over Governance, policy Making and Adminstraion and so Called Representatives do feel Happy go all round with SHOCKING Wealth, Power, Previllege and loyality to Zionist Dyansty. THe Peripherry of US war Economy, latest War Zone Indian Divided Geoploitics engaged in Nuclear and Space ARMAMENT guided and aligned by and with Pentagon does depend on the Internal security on either US ARMY or CIA and Mossad. Trained in India, they fight in Iraq. But the Maoists have NEVER involved themselves in Trade Union Movement and NEVER EVER did anything to HARM and attack CORPORATE infrastructure anywhere in Free Base Areas. Maoists as well as Media Creat the GROUND of STATE sponsered Mass destruction which Strengthens the Market Dominating BRAHAMINICAL comminities. Incidentally, Ms ray, an ICON herselfis also a BRAHMIN as Mahashweta Di and mamata Banerjee, Medha and Ulka happen to be. Our people, the Negroid Black untouchables are to be SCAPE Goats!

Please visit my blog for every detail:
indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com
Palash Biswas
Kolkata, India
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262519
The end of Koda the survivor

From staging a coup to dislodge the NDA government in 2006 to become the youngest chief minister of Jharkhand, Madhu Koda has always been
a survivor till major ally JMM in the state's UPA withdrew support to his government on August 17.

Born on January 6, 1971, Koda, hailing from a tribal farming community, began his political career as a RSS worker in 1990 and entered the state assembly in 2000 on a BJP ticket from Jagganathpur constituency.

He retained the seat as an independent after BJP denied him nomination, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him.

Koda served as a cabinet minister in the erstwhile BJP governments headed by Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda before he became the fifth chief minister after Marandi, Munda (twice) and Soren.

He became the chief minister as an independent MLA after he assumed the post on September 18, 2006 in the wake of the fall of the saffron government.

He endured many pulls and pressures to survive for nearly two years before JMM supremo Shibu Soren declared that his government's 'baggage of misgovernance' could not be carried further.

Buddhadeb 'both a Marxist and a Maoist': Mamata

Countering the CPM's allegation of her party's truck with the Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said the Maoists
and the Marxists are both sides of the same coin.

"I think that the Marxists and the Maoists are both sides of the same coin. They are working together," Banerjee told newspersons here.

Alleging that the CPM was running the government with the help of the Maoists, she said there was no difference between the violent activities of the Maoists and Marxists.

"If Maoists are to be banned, why not the CPM which is also carrying out armed operations in the state?"

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had appealed to the Trinamool Congress yesterday to "severe links with the rebels".

Describing Bhattacharjee as "both a Marxist and Maoist with a double face," Banerjee accused him of inaction in tracing the missing policemen Sabir Ali Molla and Kanchan Gorai reportedly kidnapped by Maoists on July 30.

"The Union Home Minister had said that the Centre is willing to help in the search of these two policemen. I want to know why they are not being looked for even after this. Does not the Chief Minister have the responsibility to look for them?" she said.

She claimed the state government was using CPM cadre to carry out armed operations against opposition leaders and workers. 69 Trinamool supporters have been killed by CPM activists over the past few months.

Banerjee said she had handed over evidence regarding the killing of Trinamool men to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.

She also gave a list of 14 Trinamool activists who remained untraced in Nandigarm and its vicinity during the anti-land acquisition campaign there. Banerjee said according to locals, they had been killed by CPM cadre and their bodies thrown in the Haldi river.

The Railway Minister also accused the CPM of amassing huge sums of unaccounted money, and said this will come to light once the Centre takes the move to unearth black money stashed in Swiss banks.

Banerjee said the government was not "doing its duty" in checking the spiralling price rise. "Potato is selling at Rs 30 a kilo. But farmers are not getting a fair price."

She said although the PDS is in the hand of the state government, it was not doing anything to ensure supply of essentials and thereby stabilise their prices.

Trinamool, Maoists jointly unleashing violence: Jyoti Basu
With the crucial by-election to 10 Assembly seats in West Bengal barely nine days away, CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu today charged Trinamool
Congress with joining hands with Maoists to unleash violence in the state.

"Everyday our workers are getting killed. Common people, police personnel, doctors, nurses are also slain. Our party office is burnt. Trinamool Congress and Maoists are doing this together. They are taking law into their own hands," the nonagenarian leader said in a statement.

Describing the coming Assembly by-polls as "very important", Basu said, "Democracy is under attack, peace is disturbed. We had restored peace and democracy in 1977 with people's support".

Seeking support for the Leftits, Basu said, "Our result in the last Lok Sabha election was poor. Some of our sympathisers and friends had voted against us. It is not their fault. We could not take our view points properly to the people".

Basu's statement, which came after the CPM-led Left Front's successive poor showing in the Lok Sabha, Assembly by-elections and municipal polls, also admitted that there were some mistakes on the part of party.

Amitabh Bachchan gets clean chit in Barabanki land row

A five-member committee constituted by Barabanki district administration has given a clean chit to Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan in a
case of alleged land forgery.

The committee, headed by a sub-divisional magistrate, in its report submitted yesterday, turned down the charges of forgery against Bachchan following which a complaint lodged by son of the Daulatpur village head was quashed, Superintendent of Police Alok Singh said today.

The committee, constituted by District Magistrate Vikas Gothwal, in its report said Bachchan had only proposed to donate two plots in Daulatpur village to the gram samaj.

"As the process to donate plots to the gram sabha was not completed, it cannot be proved that plot numbers 711 and 793 were to be transfered to the gram samaj," the report said.

Amitabh Bachchan gets SMS threat for visiting Dargah, temple

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has revealed that he was threatened by an unnamed person through a text message for visiting a Hindutemple and a Muslim dargah. ( Watch Video )

The 67-year-old actor had described his religious routines in an earlier blog, which led the unknown person to threaten him against doing so, but the megastar is undeterred.

"That I visit a Muslim dargah and a Hindu temple has been viciously criticized by an unknown element on my mobile. He says it is incorrect of me to do so and that I should never do it again." Bachchan wrote on his blog.

The actor had visited the Haji Ali dargah in the wee hours on Thursday and then went to a nearby temple. He also visited a small dargah on and finally went to the Siddhivinayak temple.

But despite the warning, Bachchan insists that he is unaffected by such reactions.

"I am going to do it again, and shall continue to do it. And I want to see how you are going to stop me. If you have the courage and guts come and get me," he wrote.

The man has also warned the actor that his latest film 'Aladin', which hit the theatres yesterday, will not be successful because of Bachchan's act of visiting the dargah and temple.

"If the film has merit, no force on earth will be able to stop its worth. If the film is weak and does not have merit, no force on earth shall be able to make it a success. At the cost of every film of mine failing, I am not going to change my routine," wrote Bachchan.

Amitabh Bachchan 'pained' by fraud allegation
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN 26 October 2009, 01:32am IST
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is distressed over the allegations of his involvement in the Rs 500 crore fraud against him and Samajwadi
Party general secretary Amar Singh. In a pained and comprehensive blog, Big B has sought answers to more than 20 questions ‘‘despite spasmodic shoulder pain’’.

From questioning the reason behind the case of ‘‘a supposed fraud’’ being reported at ‘‘a small almost unknown police station, Babupurwa, in far off Kanpur’’, to pointing out how bogus FIRs, Bofors and Barabanki have bogged him down time and again, the Bollywood superhero says it all.

‘‘Is it a fact that no police officer was willing to register the case as they couldn’t find anything wrong?’’ he asks. That inspector of Babupurwa refused to register the complaint and was transferred an hour before the new inspector came in to lodge the FIR as his first job at the new post?

That the government later discovered that all proper procedures had been followed by the ‘‘accused’’ in the FIR? That clearances from the Income Tax Department, the Company Law Board and the hon’ble High Court of Kolkata had been obtained? And that finding themselves in an embarrassing spot, the authorities washed their hands off and sent the case to Kolkata? The questions, as per his admission, are based on his ‘‘own little enquiry’’.

Closely following the developments in regard to the Kanpur FIR, Bachchan expresses relief over the Allahabad high court dismissing a petition seeking the court’s monitoring of the investigations and progress into the FIR.

‘‘Meanwhile, back home, that most obnoxiously constructed case of this fraud of Rs 500 crore has reached another proportion,’’ his Sunday blog reads.

‘‘Without warning and with an intent to save face, the administration, on receiving its complaint back from Kolkata Courts of Law stating there was no illegality in the matter, moved Allahabad HC without informing us, or without seeking our desire for representation.

This afternoon the matter was dismissed by the hon’ble HC, in our favour apparently stating that there was no basis to this case!

‘‘I have much to say on this. But now my pain intensifies. I have to travel tomorrow to contribute in and open a diabetic center in another city. I must rest,’’ he concludes, but not without promising ‘‘more later’’

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Amitabh-Bachchan-pained-by-fraud-allegation/articleshow/5161652.cms

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Palash Biswas

IB, RAW to probe into US Lashkar operative's 'Rahul' connection
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 30 October 2009, 01:05am IST

WASHINGTON: Several references to a ''Rahul'' made by Pakistani-American terror suspect Dave Headley aka Daaud Gilani in e-mail exchanges with
Rahul Connection
his Pakistani handlers in course of planning an attack in India has raised alarms in the security establishment about the intended target.

An Indian team comprising officials from the Intelligence Bureau (I and RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) will travel to the United States next week to question Headley, after an affidavit filed by the FBI showed up references to ''Rahul.'' US authorities have also sought cooperation from India to understand the full extent of the plot that involves Headley and his handlers in Pakistan.

In an affidavit filed in a Chicago court, the FBI refers to a July 8, 2009, e-mail in which Headley tells a man referred to as Lashkar-e-Taiba member A that ''I think when we get a chance we should re-visit our last location again and say hi to Rahul.'' According to the affidavit, following his arrest, Headley told investigators that ''Rahul'' refers to a prominent Indian actor with that first name.

Although there are a few Indian actors with the first name Rahul, there is apprehension that Headley may be trying to throw investigators off-track. Concern is high also because it is the first name of Rahul Gandhi, whose father and grandmother were both assassinated..

In response to Headley’s mail the same day, the LeT member A says ''to see Rahul is a good idea coz have some work for you over there. Matters are good enough to move forward...'' On July 9, 2009, Headley responded: When you say ''move forward'' do you mean in the north direction or towards Rahul?'' to which the LeT handler replies, ''I mean towards Rahul.''

Headley’s response is a series of questions to LeT A: 1. What is the status of the Northern Project, is it still postponed indefinitely? 2. The visit to Rahul’s place, is it for checking out the real estate property like before or something different? Also is it exactly in Rahul’s city or different one? 3. How long do you think I will need to stay at Rahul’s place to complete this task? 4. Will I have to stay there continuously for a while or back and forth like before?

In the FBI affidavit, Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict tells the court that ''Based on my review of this and other communication, I believe that Headley had enquired of the LeT member A whether the Denmark project (to attack the newspaper that published Prophet Mohammed’s cartoons) was on hold, and whether the visit to India that the LeT Member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveying targets for a new terrorist attack.''

Later on July 10, LeT member A responds to Headley’s email, stating, in part, that ''There are some investment plans with me, not exactly at Rahul’s city, but near that. Rest we can decide when meet according to your ease.''

Headley was arrested when he was on his way from Chicago to Philadelphia, from where the FBI says he was intending to proceed to Pakistan. According to the Bureau, he had already made several trips to Pakistan to meet his handlers and for training, and he may also have made trips to India for reconnaissance.

Special Agent Benedict’s affidavit details further exchanges between Headley and the unnamed LeT member A as the Pakistani-American seeks more details about the next steps, time required etc, including despair inquiries about whether the ''Northern'' Danish attack was really being postponed.

''I understand these emails to reflect that beginning in July 2009, LeT member A was placing higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India rather than on completing the planned attack in Denmark,'' Special Agent Benedict told the court. ''After this time, it appears that Headley and Individual A continued the planning of an attack on (Ilyas) Kashmiri, rather than Lashkar e Taiba.''
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31/10/2009
Are we all militants, ask Kashmir's pre-paid mobile subscribers

Jammu/Srinagar: A wave of anger has swept through Jammu and Kashmir with the central government deciding to ban pre-paid mobile connections in the state from Sunday due to security concerns. Most angry are youths.

Even as the Kashmir government has promised to take up the issue with the centre, the 'walk and talk' generation in the state is furious that it has been clubbed with terrorists who misused pre-paid connections.

"Are we militants?" Shahid Khan, a student, asked in anger and frustration. "Are millions of pre-paid connection subscribers terrorists?" he asked. The decision to snap this service has resulted in total chaos among subscribers.

"It is strange that I should be punished because someone somewhere could be misusing the facility. This is unfortunate and condemnable," said Muzaffar Ahmad, 23, a college student in Srinagar.

There are around 3.8 million pre-paid connections in the state. Most of them are from Airtel (one million), and new companies have come into the state, like Tata Indicom, Idea, Air Cel, Reliance. They have made huge investments, and they too are angry. "This is a bad move," an official of a leading mobile service provider told IANS.

Most people, especially youth who have to deal with limited pocket money and prefer pre-paid connections, are very angry. "Until now we knew our limitations, how much to talk, if we go in for post-paid connections, that limit would be hard to know," said Sunita Sharma, a young working woman.

What surprises them is that the move comes right after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the state promising more opportunities.

Khurshid Ahmed, 28, a student of Kashmir University, said: "On the one hand the government says we must become information savvy and use the latest technology to keep pace with competitors from other universities and now the same government is pushing us back by at least a decade."

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, during his visit to Kashmir, had hinted at banning pre-paid connections. The security concerns are rooted in the fact that the security forces were finding it difficult to trace the militants, who were passing on instructions to their cadres through mobile phones and also changing their SIM cards at will. Invariably, police found a number of SIM cards of various companies with the militants killed or captured during gunbattles.

"Pre-paid mobile connections had multiplied our challenges, and we were facing tough times in tracking the terror-guiding hands because they were having the power of mobile phones in their hands, besides guns," a senior police official said. But he refused to comment on the home ministry's blanket ban on the prepaid SIM cards.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has termed the move as "unfortunate" and sought the prime minister's intervention. "Pre-paid services should be restored," she said in a statement. The decision has also not gone down well with hundreds of Kashmiris engaged in the business of selling pre-paid cell phone connections here.

"We take sufficient documents to establish the identity of the subscriber before issuing the pre-paid SIM card and now since morning I have closed down my shop for fear that frustrated subscribers might manhandle me," said a cell phone SIM dealer in Srinagar who did not want to be named.

Asked Ramesh Chander, a businessman: "If this is happening to mobile service providers, what sort of a message is being conveyed to industrialists and prospective investors across the country? That Kashmir is a state where terrorism is as high as before the services were launched in the state in 2003?"
Source: IANS

Justifying his decision on Iraq, former US President George W Bush today said dislodging of the "brutal dictator" Saddam Hussain was anecessity after 9/11 attacks but regretted that military had to be used to do so as there was no other "choice".

Bush, who had earned immense criticism for the war on Iraq launched in March 2003, rejected the suggestion that his action had led to radicalism among the Muslim community and insisted that the world and Iraq were "better off" now.

Protests, procession lead to traffic snarls across Indian Capital New Delhi on Saturday!A city court Saturday allowed the counsel of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims to examine the CD in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has been shown standing next to the body of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the riots in various cities following the assassination of Indira Gandhi October 31, 1984.

U.S. Army's busiest trauma center LOCATED in Afghanistan!Soldiers are fighting to suppress the Taliban and win over the Afghan people!AFGAN People have NEVER been DEFEATED in History and Soviet Diintegration is CREDITED more to the Afgan stand OFF during Soviet Socialist Imperialism! US Imperialsim may BREATHE Easy as there happen no Super Power to help the Talibans! What if the Talibans targets the SOFT Targets , US Partners in the War Aignast Terror. Globlistion of Zionism and Hindutva may not Bail Out the Innocent Humanity Endangered!However, Days after the FBI busted Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba's plot to carry out terrorist attack in India using an American national,the United States asked its citizens to stay alert during their travel to India.

"The US Government continues to receive information that terrorist groups may be planning attacks in India," the State Department said in its latest travel alert on India. This replaces a similar travel alert issued by the State Department before the start of the festival season.

"Terrorists and their sympathisers have demonstrated their willingness and capability to attack targets where Americans or Westerners are known to congregate or visit," the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the State Department said.

Describing Hussain as a "brutal dictator" who posed a danger to the US, he said it had become more important for America to remove him after the 9/11 attacks.

Removal of Hussain was important as it was "felt" that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and the then President was not allowing IAEA inspectors in, Bush said while addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New delhi.

It is quite a good sign that Indian Prime Minister sounds SOUND Diplomatic as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh again signalled his desire to re-engage with Pakistan pointing to the need for a leadership in southAsia that was prepared to take a long-term view so that the future was not hostage to the past. As media reports.Emphasising that India sought peace and progress in the neighbourhood, the PM on Friday said the country's destiny was "intrinsically linked'' with that of its neighbours. Without naming Pakistan, Singh stated India wanted to resolve all outstanding issues with its neighbours through dialogue.

I never know how the Policy would shpae in as we always find ourselves in Diplomacy Disaster right from Nehruvian Foreign Policy and South Block alaways remained ONE EYED Doe!Though, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said Pakistan saw India's offer of talks "positively," saying solutions to problemsbetween the two countries cannot be found through wars.Welcoming his counterpart Manmohan Singh's offer of talks with Pakistan, Gilani said: "Wars are not the solution, dialogue is the only solution".

Waziristan Challenge posing great THREAT than the Sleeping Dragon beyond the Great Himalyas. Growing Anti US Anger and Escalating Taliban Menace in Pakistan may not ease a little bit even after Hillary Visit in pakistan. At the same time US Army getting Training in India to fight in Iraq would not enhance Indian Security Network despite CIA and Mossad help generous and NASA Suvillience, Nuclear Armament, Indo US Nuclear Deal, Hosting the Butcher BUSH and World bank Loans with longest ever shooping list for the Global Waeapon Industry. Zionist Hindutva Nationalism would not save us from Terror and Insurgency as the Back Lash against Monopolistic aggression in Free Market Democracy and Mass Destruction agenda of All Out Economic Reforms have Changed the Landscape as well as Humanscpe INFLICTED with war and Civil war.

WAZIRISTAN has no limit , mind you!

In New Delhi, Protests by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, a religious procession and the India-Australia cricket match Saturday led to traffic snarls across the national capital.

"The persons who were seen in the CD like R.K. Dhawan (Indira Gandhi's secretary), Amitabh Bachchan (Bollywood star and close friend of the family) and some other senior political leaders were not examined by the investigation officer in the case. The entire CD looks fishy," Phulka told IANS.

In the morning, the 18-minute CD was shown in the chamber of the judge in the presence of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials, Phulka and his team of lawyers. The court has now fixed the next hearing for further arguments Dec 1.

The CBI had, in the last hearing, said the witnesses, who deposed about the alleged role of Tytler in the anti-Sikh riots, were "not reliable". But recently another witness Jasbir Singh had said that Tytler, along with others, was involved in the attack at Gurdwara Pul Bangash in north Delhi and killed Thakur Singh and Badal Singh.

The probe agency will Saturday continue its argument on the version given by Jasbir Singh. The CBI had last month during the hearing also placed before the court audiovisual evidence showing that Tytler was near the body of assassinated prime minister Indira Gandhi at the time the murders of Thakur Singh and Badal Singh are alleged to have taken place.

The BJP workers demanding justice for 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims held protests around noon near Shyam Lal College in east Delhi, Janakpuri in west Delhi, Rani Bagh in northwest Delhi and Kalkaji in south Delhi.

"Protests resulted in traffic jams from 30 minutes to one hour in all these areas. It also had a spillover effect on all the major roads connecting these areas," a traffic police official told IANS.

The anti-Sikh riots started after the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi Oct 31, 1984. Over 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the carnage which lasted three days.

Areas like Ashok Vihar, Azad Market and Chandni Chowk were affected due to a procession to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak. The procession started from Gurudwara Sis Ganj in the heart of Chandni Chowk around 10 a.m.

The nearly 10-hour procession passed through Subash Marg, Red Fort crossing, H.C. Sen Marg, Town Hall, Nai Sarak, Fatehpuri, Church Mission Road, Lahori Gate Chowk, Pul Mithai, Azad Market, DCM Chowk, Rohtak Road, Rani Jhansi Road, Faiz Road, Baraf Khana Chowk, Mori Gate Chowk, Roshanara Road, Ghanta Ghar Chowk, Nangia Park, Swami Narayan Marg, Roop Nagar Chowk, GT Road, Ashok Vihar Flyover and Azadpur 'H' point.

"Minor traffic snarls were reported from most of the places. We had already advised road users to follow the directions given by the traffic personnel to ensure smooth movement and to minimise traffic dislocation and disruption," the official added.

The third one-day international cricket match being played between India and Australia added to the traffic problem, as the stadium always falls short of parking space.

AFGANISTAN, the nation prepares for the Nov. 7 presidential runoff amid growing tensions after allegations of fraud marred the August election.

26/11: Pak court declares Kasab, 13 others 'absconders'

Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terror court conducting the trial of seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks on Saturday declared 14 other accused, including Ajmal Kasab, as "absconders" and adjourned the matter till November 7.

During today's proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks -- including Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive by Indian authorities during the strikes -- as "absconders," sources said.

Details of the other 13 were not immediately available. Khwaja Sultan, the lawyer representing LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi -- one of the seven suspects arrested by Pakistani authorities, said that Judge Awan M adjourned the case till next Saturday.

Today's proceedings were dominated by reservations expressed by the accused over the manner in which they were indicted during a hearing held on October 10. Judge Baqir Ali Rana, who was earlier conducting the trial, had formally charged the accused in the absence of their lawyers.

The accused, who have declined to plead guilty or not guilty, today again protested about the manner in which they were charged, sources said.

"I really like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister is a wise leader."

This is what former US President George W Bush had to say today about Singh with whom he had reached a landmark civil nuclear agreement which had led to the end of 34-year isolation of India in nuclear commerce.

Bush, who was at his humorous best, complimented Singh a day after the Indian leader described him as a "great friend of India".

Singh, who yesterday hosted a lunch in honour of the visiting dignitary, had told him a year back that "people of India love you".

Bush, who showered praise on Singh at the HT Leadership Summit here, described the economic liberalisation process initiated by India in 1991 when Singh was the Finance Minister as one of the two important events of that year that led to transformation of Indo-US ties.

Amid concerns in India over continuing American aid to Pakistan, former US president George W. Bush Saturday said it was in New Delhi's interest that Washington has 'a friendship' with Islamabad.

'It is in India's interest that the US has a friendship with Pakistan,' Bush said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.

He was responding to a question over the billions of dollars given to Pakistan by the US as aid which is suspected to have been used against building a war machinery against Indian interests.

Bush recalled that after 9/11 attacks, then US secretary of state Colin Powell had spoken to Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf and asked him to choose between the Taliban and the US.

Bush said Pakistan chose the US and said extremists were a threat to their own democracy.

Asserting that force alone can deal with such terrorists, Bush said: 'I don't think you can negotiate with extremists.'

'It's in our interest to stay engaged with Pakistan,' he stressed.

Bush said both the US and India were engaged in an ideological battle against extremists who kill innocents.

Expressing his 'deepest condolences' to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and their families, Bush said like 9/11 in America, the attack served as a 'moment of clarity' in India.

'Both our nations are engaged in an ideological struggle,' he said. The two countries seek to 'advance our values of liberty, tolerance and hope'.

Meanwhile,President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late Friday, with one adding that some of the alternatives would allow Obama to send fewer new troops than the roughly 40,000 requested by his top commander. As Washington Post reports:

Obama met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on Friday, holding a 90-minute discussion that centered on the strain on the force after eight years of war in two countries. The meeting -- the first of its kind with the chiefs of the Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Air Force, who were not part of the president's war council meetings on Afghanistan in recent weeks -- prompted Obama to request another such meeting before he announces a decision on sending additional troops, the officials said.

The military chiefs have been largely supportive of a resource request by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, that would by one Pentagon estimate require the deployment of 44,000 additional troops. But opinion among members of Obama's national security team is divided, and he now appears to be seeking a compromise solution that would satisfy both his military and civilian advisers.

Obama is expected to receive several options from the Pentagon about troop levels next week, according to the two officials, who discussed the deliberations on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.

Which strategy to embrace?
Before he can determine troop levels, his advisers have said, he must decide whether to embrace a strategy focused heavily on counterinsurgency, which would require additional forces to protect population centers, or one that makes counterterrorism the main focus of U.S. efforts in the country, which would rely on relatively fewer American troops.

One option under review involves a blend of the two approaches, featuring an emphasis on counterterrorism in the north and some parts of western Afghanistan as well as an expanded counterinsurgency effort in the south and east, one of the officials said. Obama has also asked for a province-by-province review of the country to determine which areas can by managed effectively by local leaders.

The president appears committed to adding at least 10,000 to 15,000 troops in Afghanistan in an effort to bolster the training of Afghan army and police officers in the country. Current plans call for the United States to double the size of the Afghan army and police forces to about 400,000 in the hope that they can take over security responsibilities.

In meeting with the military chiefs, Obama heard their assessment of the how prepared the services are to handle a new commitment. "Each chief discussed the state of their own service, how they are doing today and what the long-term consequences will be for each of their services," an administration official said. The military advisers also put the troop deployments in the context of the rest of their global deployments, including in Iraq.

It was not a "recommendations meeting," with concrete options of how to proceed, the official said. That will presumably come in the next such meeting, which has not been scheduled.

Timeframe?
The timing of Obama's decision on Afghanistan remains up in the air. But his request for another meeting with the military chiefs -- and the expectation that he will meet again with his top national security advisers before reaching a conclusion -- may leave him too little time to decide the issue before he travels to Asia on Nov. 11. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to be overseas for much of that time, except for a brief stint at home from Wednesday to Friday, giving Obama little opportunity to convene his war council in person. It appears increasingly likely that Obama will not announce his new Afghanistan strategy until after returning to the United States on Nov. 20.

Obama has come under criticism from Republicans, notably former vice president Richard B. Cheney, for deliberating so long, but his advisers have said he is determined to get the decision right rather than satisfy his critics.
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FBI busts LeT plot to use American for attacks in India, Denmark
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 28 October 2009, 01:01am IST

WASHINGTON: US investigating agencies have busted a plot by the Pakistan-based Lashkar e Taiba (LeT) to use an American national for a terrorist
attacks in Denmark and India. ( Watch Video )

The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was one of two suspects arrested early this month by FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport before he boarded a flight to Philadelphia, from where he was intending to travel to Pakistan to meet Pakistani terrorist handlers, including the fugitive Ilyas Kashmiri.

Headley's partner in the terror plot, which included plans to attack the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, was a Pakistani-Canadian named Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also a resident of Chicago who was arrested by the FBI on October 18.

According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmiri and several unidentified leaders of LeT, two of whom are identified as "LeT member A" and "Individual A." He had visited Pakistan before to meet LeT handlers and was returning there ostensibly to finalize plans for strikes.

"In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit.

"These e-mails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark," it said.

Although the affidavit named Kashmiri, it did not identify others involved in the plot, referring to them as LeT member A and Individual A. It said LeT member A “has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization” and his “identity is known to the government.”

While one reason for the FBI not naming the two other suspects could be that they are Pakistani nationals, the Bureau indicated that it received cooperation from foreign investigating agencies.

“Information developed during this investigation was shared with our foreign partners as we worked together to mitigate these threats. This case is a reminder that the threat posed by international terrorist organizations is global in nature and requires constant vigilance at home and abroad," said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

But there was no word about whether the US authorities would persuade Pakistanis to turn over or extradite the suspects, much less prosecute them in Pakistan.

The latest terror plot, one of dozens involving Pakistanis or Pakistani-origin suspects across the world, is bound to complicate monitoring in India because of the use of an American proxy and the volume of US nationals traveling to India.

US agencies have long suspected that Al Qaeda is trying to use western operatives to strike in the United States, but this is the first time LeT is known to have drafted an American national for possible strikes in India.

Although he currently carries a western name, Headley's original name was said to be Daood Gilani, which he reportedly got changed legally in 2006.

Rana, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, lived mostly in Chicago, where he owned several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, as well as in New York and Toronto. He also owned a farm outside Chicago which provided halal meat for Muslim customers, as well as a grocery store, the FBI said.

According to FBI, in January 2009 and July 2009, Headley traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Rana allegedly arranged portions of his travel.

In early September, Headley and Rana took a lengthy car ride during which they discussed the activities of the other individuals, including past terrorist acts, and Headley discussed with Rana five actions involving targets that expressly included Denmark.

According to the FBI affidavit, Headley at times has claimed to be a consultant with or representative of Rana's business, First World Immigration Services, but appeared to perform little if any actual work for the business. Despite his apparent lack of financial resources and substantial employment, Headley traveled extensively since the second half of 2008, including multiple trips to Pakistan and various countries in Europe.

“Postings to an internet group for graduates of a military school in the Pakistani town of Hasan Abdal (a group that refers to itself as "abdalians"), reflect that both Rana and Headley have participated in the group and referred to their attendance at that school,” the FBI said.

It was not clear if it is a school run by the Pakistani military or if it is a terrorist training camp.

Beginning in late 2008, Headley corresponded extensively with Individual A and LeT Member A regarding what they referred to in coded communications as the "Mickey Mouse Project," "mmp," and "the northern project," according to the affidavit. The Mickey Mouse Project allegedly involved planning for one or more attacks at facilities and employees of Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, to which many Muslims took great offense.

In October 2008, Headley allegedly posted a message to the "abdalians" internet discussion group stating that "I feel disposed towards violence for the offending parties,"referring to the Danish cartoonists and others who he identified "as making fun of Islam." Using coded language, Rana, Headley, Individual A and LeT Member A allegedly have referred to this plot, as well as discussions of other targets, as "investments," "projects," "business," and "action," and have described their hopes for success both in terms of receiving religious awards, as well as getting "rich," "richer," and making "profit." Between August 2008 and Dec.7, 2008, Headley sent multiple email messages from internet addresses locatedin Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, the FBI said.

According to the FBI affidavit, following his visit to Denmark, Headley traveled to Pakistan to meet with Individual A. During this visit, Headley traveled with Individual A to Pakistan's FATA region and met with Kashmiri. After returning to Chicago in August 2009, Headley allegedly used coded language to repeatedly inquire if Individual A had been in touch with Kashmiri regarding planning for the attack, and expressing concern that Individual A's communications with Kashmiri had been cut off. In conversations with Rana and Individual A in August and September 2009, Headley indicated that if the "doctor" (said to be a reference to Kashmiri) and his people were unable to assist, then Headley would perform the planned operation himself.

In September 2009, after initial press reports indicated that Kashmiri had been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan, Headley and Individual A allegedly had a series of coded conversations in which they discussed the reports of Kashmiri's death and what it meant for the projects they were planning. Individual A sought to reassure and encourage Headley, telling him, among other things, that "this is business sir; these types of things happen." On Sept. 20, 2009, Headley told a family member words to the effect that he had spoken to Rana and they agreed that "business must go on." In a Sept. 21, 2009, telephone conversation, Individual A indicated to Headley that Kashmiri was alive and "doing well."

In a subsequent conversation on Sept. 30, 2009, Individual A again assured Headley that Kashmiri, whom he referred to as "Pir Sahib," was "absolutely all right" and had not gotten "married," which was code for being killed.

Headley asked Individual A if it was possible to now have a meeting with Kashmiri and Individual A responded that Kashmiri "just today, was asking about you" (Headley).

Ilyas Kashmiri, a former commando said to be connected to the Pakistani military's Special Services Group, was first reported killed in a US drone attack last month. He subsequently surfaced alive and gave an interview to a Pakistani reporter two weeks ago in which he swore to wreak havoc on India and the United States.

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Giving 'tough love' to Pak, Hillary rejects mediation in Kashmir
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 31 October 2009, 03:51pm IST

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concluded a turbulent visit to Pakistan on Friday by rejecting Islamabad’s persistent thesis
that terrorism could not be contained unless the Kashmir issue was resolved. She basically advised Pakistan to abandon the path of extremism and normalize relations with India using the trade route, without obsessing on disputes.

While promising to support resumption of dialogue with India on all issues, Clinton repeatedly spurned Pakistani efforts to draw Washington into the process, suggesting such an effort may be counterproductive.

"It is clearly in Pakistan's and India's interest to resolve [their dispute]. But it isn't to us to dictate a solution. That wouldn’t last a minute," Clinton said on the show "Our Voice," one of several media engagements she had in Pakistan on an extra-ordinarily public and combative three-day visit.

Pakistan’s argument, which New Delhi finds insidious, is that terrorism flourishes in the region because of unresolved issues with India, including the Kashmir problem. In not so many words, Washington is now saying Pakistan’s problems go far deeper than that, and Clinton sought to drive home the message at several engagements.

Quoting d’Toqueville at one point, Clinton advised Pakistanis to develop ''habits of the heart'' that respected other people, tolerated other view points, and developed minority rights. In several nuances remarks, she suggested Pakistan had allowed extremists have a run of the country and that was the root cause of the problems the country is facing.

Clinton repeatedly refused to be baited by questions on India or comparisons and parity-seeking with India. She ignored charges that the US had ''bent the rules'' to offer India a favorable nuclear deal and politely declined pleas to give Pakistan the same deal, while offering help in other energy sectors.

She also dismissed Pakistan’s charges that New Delhi was engaging in subversive activities in Balochistan, saying ''we just have no evidence to this effect,'' and largely ignored some sulfurous observations about India, including a comment from one female journalist that ''even paranoids have enemies and we have an enemy right across our border.''

The angry remarks played into the new US line that Pakistan’s India phobia is exaggerated and misplaced and is not shared by the rest of the world. It was also reflected in Clinton’s media engagements in Pakistan. At every event featuring Pakistani interlocutors, there were carping questions about the perceived U.S tilt towards India, the nuclear deal. Kashmir, water dispute etc. In five interviews she gave to the western media (PBS, NBC, CNN, CBS, and BBC) during the visit there wasn’t a single India reference.

Broadly, America’s top diplomat seemed to tread the emerging US line that largely de-links India from Pakistan's neuroses and engages it at a different level, a policy underscored by a state visit to Washington DC by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh three weeks from now. But more than once, Clinton also indicated that Washington will be happier if New Delhi resumed dialogue with Pakistan.

While Clinton was visiting Pakistan, India’s National Security Advisor M K Narayanan was in the US capital tying up details of the visit that officials said would aim to consolidate the gains in the US-India ties in the past decade. Also in town was Education Minister Kapil Sibal, aiming to put academic exchanges on top of the agenda for the PM's visit when a US-India Education Council is likely to be announced.

Clinton’s Pakistan trip attracted wide coverage in the US, more than a US Secretary of State’s travels typically would. But Clinton herself said at one event that its seldom that a Secretary of State spends three days in a country, and that too with such a large number of public engagements and interactions. While she ostensibly intended it to be a charm offensive, she ended up conveying ''tough love.'' Not that she was apologetic about it. ''I did not come here to make happy talk,'' she said in one interview, although she was gracious and good-humored.

But as much as three-day SoS visits are rare, even more unusual was an under-reported three-hour meeting she had with Pakistan’s army chief Pervez Ashfaq Kiyani and the ISI chief, Gen. Shuja Pasha. The meeting came soon after Clinton implicitly accused Pakistan’s military and intelligence services of being in cahoots with terrorists, but it was also an indication who the US thinks can deliver the goods in Pakistan.
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Q&A: Pakistan's Waziristan challenge

Pakistan's army has begun a ground offensive in the volatile tribal region of South Waziristan. The army has been massing troops near the militants' stronghold for months. But what lies in wait for the army as it finally takes on the Taliban on their home terrain?

Where is Waziristan and what is it like?

Waziristan is a mountainous region in north-west Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan.

It is part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), a semi-autonomous region where the central government exercises limited control through a political agent.

For administrative purposes it is divided into two "agencies" - North Waziristan and South Waziristan.

Winters are harsh, making large tracts of the already inhospitable terrain almost inaccessible.

The tribal society found in North and South Waziristan is extremely socially conservative with a fierce reputation as "warriors".

North Waziristan is dominated by the Wazir tribe. This tribe also extends into South Waziristan and makes up one-third of its population. The remaining two-thirds of South Waziristan's population are Mehsuds.

Why is Waziristan a target?

South Waziristan and the surrounding region have been described by US officials as "the most dangerous place on earth".

hakimullah mehsud

Profile: Hakimullah Mehsud
Obituary: Baitullah Mehsud

Many analysts believe the area could harbour some of the world's most wanted men - including al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

It was the home of former Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a suspected US drone strike in August 2009. It is also home to his successor, the current Pakistani Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud.

North and South Waziristan form a lethal militant belt from where insurgents have launched attacks across north-west Pakistan as well as into parts of eastern Afghanistan.

South Waziristan is considered to be the first significant sanctuary for Islamic militants outside Afghanistan since 9/11. It also has numerous training camps for suicide bombers.

Pakistan's government is under considerable pressure from the US to tackle militancy there.

Analysts also say dislodging al-Qaeda-linked Uzbek and Arab militants in the area is an important goal.

What has happened so far?

The Pakistani army has maintained a brigade headquarters in the Wana region of South Waziristan since 2004.

But since May 2009 troops have been massing in large numbers in the semi-tribal areas on the periphery of Waziristan.

In the past few months the Pakistani army, working with local paramilitary forces such as the Frontier Corps, has launched some artillery and air strikes against Taliban militants.

SENIOR MILITANTS KILLED
2 October: Reports that Tahir Yuldashev, Uzbek militant chief was killed in August drone attack
29 September: Irfan Shamankhel, close to Taliban leader, killed in drone strike
28 September: Kalimullah Mehsud, Taliban leader's Hakimullah's brother, killed in clash in South Waziristan
15 September: Top militant Ilyas Kashmiri killed by missile in N Waziristan
6 August: Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban leader killed in suspected US drone strike in S Waziristan

Now or never for Waziristan push?
'Feared' Uzbek militant

But until now the army has said it wanted to surround the militants and use air power and artillery to ''soften them up".

This is in contrast to its recent campaign in the Swat valley where it suddenly began a three-month ground offensive in the summer of 2009 and largely succeeded in driving out Taliban fighters entrenched there.

People have been fleeing the Waziristan area for some months in anticipation of fighting.

The US has also been involved in attacks on militants in Waziristan, where suspected drone strikes have killed a number of senior Taliban militants in the region in recent months.

It was one such missile attack which killed Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud at a family compound in South Waziristan.

What are the challenges of operating in South Waziristan?

The harsh mountainous terrain is often cited as a major challenge for the army. The gullies, ravines and high mountain trails make arduous going and provide many hiding places for militants.

Knowledge of the terrain is vital - and in this respect the militants have the advantage.

However, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that the terrain in the Swat valley, where the army took the battle to the Taliban, was more difficult than that found in South Waziristan because it is more densely forested.

The Malakand division which includes the Swat valley is also a larger area than that in which any Waziristan offensive is likely to take place.

Weather will play a role. Snow is likely to blanket parts of the region from early December - particularly the Makeen area which is a Mehsud stronghold.

This is likely to pose a problem for militants and troops alike. However, the cold has not prevented the army from launching operations in South Waziristan in the past.

What might be a deciding factor is the militarised psyche of society in Waziristan. The Wazir and Mehsud tribes are often described by analysts as "born soldiers" willing to fight to the death.

There are two divisions - or about 30,000 soldiers - of Pakistan's army already deployed on the edge of Waziristan. In addition the Frontier Corps - the paramilitary force made up of recruits from tribal areas - is likely to support army operations.

The number of militants is far harder to estimate. An army spokesman recently estimated their strength at between 10,000 and 20,000 fighters.

In South Waziristan Hakimullah Mehsud heads what is thought to be the largest militant force with an estimated strength of more than 15,000 armed men - although the "hard core" of his fighters is much smaller.

The western stretch bordering Afghanistan is the territory of the Ahmedzai Wazir tribe. The current operation is likely to be confined to the Mehsud area.

Analysts say there are also at least several hundred foreign, mainly Uzbek, fighters in South Wazirstan.

What tactics are being deployed?

The army says it has sent its troops and artillery into the region from the north, east and west.

The army appears to be heading towards the Mehsud stronghold of Makeen.

If the military goes in with full force, the militants are likely to disperse rather than attempt to hold territory, analysts say.

But so far they have been reported to be putting up resistance. Militants have also destroyed an important telecommunications tower.

Analysts say the militants will almost certainly engage in guerrilla warfare. With their knowledge of the terrain they are likely to launch ambushes as has been the case in previous assaults.

Reports say the militants are already using tunnel networks and booby traps.

But a lot depends on the tactics the army deploys from now on. Previously, the military has not had a clear strategy when venturing into Waziristan.

It remains to be seen if that is the case this time round.
The army would have to hold the roads and the main towns. Currently the Mehsud-dominated centres of Ladha, Makeen and Sararogha are virtual no-go areas.

A primary military target would be to take control of the heights and put up outposts.

And they are likely to continue their policy of going after mid- and high-ranking Taliban commanders.

What has happened in past encounters?

Waziristan has a long tradition of resisting outside interference.

WAZIRISTAN ASSAULTS AND PEACE DEALS
March - April 2004: Two-week assault where military suffered heavy casualties, ending in peace deal with militant Nek Mohammad
January - Feb 2005: Peace deal with Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud ends significant army presence there
December 2007 - January 2008 - Army operation in Mehsud area partially successful but ended in peace deal with Baitulalh Mehsud
October 2009 - Army launches offensive

From the 1860s onwards, British forces made gruelling expeditions into the area following audacious attacks from Waziristan tribesmen in British-ruled territory.

More than a century later, it is no easier for the Pakistani army.

In 2004 the Pakistani army suffered heavily at the hands of Wazir-affiliated militants.

There is a possibility that a military offensive against the Mehsud group in South Waziristan could draw into the conflict militant groups based in the Wazir tribal areas of South and North Waziristan.

These groups are currently part of an al-Qaeda-affiliated network who have so far concentrated on fighting inside Afghanistan. They have "peace agreements" with the Pakistani army.

Can Pakistan hold on to South Waziristan?

Even if Pakistan's military is successful this time round against the militants, it will still be faced with the challenge of ensuring they do not get a foothold in the region again.

Mehsud tribesman are sometimes considered to be sympathetic to the Pakistani Taliban. Many are seen as unsupportive of the government offensive.

Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud are both of the Mehsud clan.

Analysts suggest that the army may have to maintain a significant presence in the region in order to preserve a military advantage. This would be a significant commitment of resources.

Officials from the region also suggest that this may be the time to integrate the semi-autonomous tribal areas into the rest of the country.

But Pakistan continued the British tradition of indirect government for a reason: the people of these areas feel independent in many respects.

Another way of seeking to foster stability in the area may be to pour in development and reconstruction funds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8296245.stm

Pakistanis too scared to leave home, many want to flee country
Omer Farooq Khan, TNN 27 October 2009, 01:44am IST

SLAMABAD: Peshawar-based Mustafa Kamal has had enough: he has just got his12-year-old son freed from a band of criminals in the lawless tribal
Internally displaced people flee
Internally displaced people fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan. (Reuters)
area of Khyber agency by paying a ransom. He has left a lucrative job with Pakistan's telecommunication department and now has the immigartion papers for Canada ready for his entire family.

``I'm lucky to have found my son alive. But I won't take any more risk. Life has become extremely dangerous — it's not worth living here. Enough'senough,'' says Kamal.

For a country badly bloodied by a wave of suicide attacks (at least eight this month alone), the next tragedy appears to be collapse of governance. The Pakistani state is pitted against a wide array of militant groups across the country in a situation teetering on the brink of a civil war. And the chasm between the government and the people seems to be growing by the day.

The popular perception is that Pakistan is fighting the US war against terror. Many people in the lawless North West Frontier Province say Pakistan has been sold to the US piece by piece. Under coercion, they argue, Pakistan has started a war that has consumed its economy, national security, and has torn apart its social fabric.

``Our national integrity is at risk. I wish not to see the end of Pakistan in my lifetime. It is not yet too late for Pakistan to return from the precipice of national suicide. Pakistan must take a u-turn and preempt the civil war. Pakistan must say an emphatic no to the US,'' says Rabnawaz Khan, a former Pakistani diplomat, stressing that an internally torn Pakistan does not weaken but strengthens militants.

The civil unrest has spilled into many parts, giving rise to fear psychosis among citizens. So much so that when twin blasts rocked Islamabad's Islamic University on October 20, many did not believe that it was militants' handiwork. Instead, they blamed ``indistinct forces out to discredit Islam or weaken Pakistan''.

That attack led the authorities to take an unprecedented step of closing down all schools, colleges and other training institutions in the country. ``The law and order situation has only worsened since the military operations against the Taliban started. How can we believe that things will normalize by carrying out a big operation in Waziristan? I think the repercussions are going to be more blasts and suicide attacks,'' said Palwasha Zia, a third year student of Home Economics in Peshawar.

``People are very scared. Every time I go to market, I worry about blasts. We are being targeted and our life has become very difficult. We are hoping the situation will get better. What else can we do?'' says Shaheen Akhtar, a deputy provost of Peshawar University.

October has been the cruelest month. Militants have struck UN offices, police buildings, army headquarters in Rawalpindi and ambushed security forces. The government response has been on expected lines: it swiftly sent troops to battle the entrenched militants in trouble-torn South Waziristan and beefed up security in all major cities. Reportedly, there were at least 72 check posts at entry and exit points around sensitive installations in Islamabad before these attacks. Now, the check points have been increased up to 300 in the federal capital.

Has it helped? Margalla Road, the most expensive and posh area of Islamabad, has almost been turned into a fortress, with concrete barricades, security pickets and barbed wires installed in most of the places. The residents say driving inside the capital has become extremely difficult as they are checked several times a day during routine work. ``Establishing security pickets in residential areas and check points have not resolved the issue of law and order; rather the situation has further deteriorated,'' said a traffic police official in Islamabad's Blue area, wishing not to be named.

Just two days after the attack on Islamic university that killed seven people, suspected militants shot dead a senior Pakistani army officer of brigadier rank and a soldier in Islamabad on Wednesday, suggesting militants are shifting tactics in the face of a sweeping army drive in their South Waziristan stronghold.

``First, it was Peshawar. Then Islamabad and Karachi, and now Lahore and Rawalpindi. When you live in a place which is under threat of continuous attacks, you'll have to think twice before you step out of your house. The scare among people is visible — there are fewer people out on streets,'' says Mujeeb-ur Rehman, a news anchor in Islamabad-based TV station.

The frequent terror attacks have greatly damaged the business climate. Nasir Dawood, who ran a boutique shop in Rawalpindi's Raja Bazaar till last week has finally shut shop. ``My business was badly damaged in the last one year. Scared customers don't come for shopping. To avoid any further losses, I had no option,'' Nasir said.

Habibullah Zahid, another businessman who owns four restaurants in Peshawar, has shifted his family to Islamabad to escape the constant threats of militants. ``Though my business was affected, I left Peshawar due to threats to my life. A group of militants or criminals in the Khyber tribal area has made it a habit to make threatening calls, demanding money in millions. I could no more give in to their demands,'' says Zahid.
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HOLOCAUST Victims Loved and Believed Indira Gandhi and Jyoti Basu Most, Who BETRAYED the Negroid Black Untouchables MOST!

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Our People, the HOLOCAUST Victims Loved and Believed Indira Gandhi and Jyoti Basu Most, Who BETRAYED the Negroid Black Untouchables MOST!

Indian Holocaust My Fathers Life and time- One Hundred Ninety THREE

Palash Biswas

DARK LADY OF INDIA
In India myths endure. So it is not surprising that many myths surround the persona of Indira Gandhi who was assassinated today 25 years ago. The way she died has added to the myths. One myth should be dispelled straight away. She is often described, by critic and admirer alike, as a deft politician who knew how to deal with her rivals. Yet the fact of the matter is that in 1971 she was re-elected as prime minister with a huge majority in the Lok Sabha in the wake of the liberation of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pak war; within a couple of years, Indira Gandhi’s rule was under attack from within and without the Congress party. The only way she knew to deal with this opposition was by declaring the Emergency and thus undermining Indian democracy. This is not quite the way that a deft practitioner of the art of politicking would have dealt with challenges to her power. She never appeared to be in full control after her return to the top job in 1980.

Indira Gandhi’s great period was a brief one — lasting from 1969 to 1971, between the break with the Syndicate and the liberation of Bangladesh. But this was also when she wore her radical mask and utilized the ideology of socialism to consolidate her own power. She had none of the idealism of her father and certainly did not believe in the institutions of democracy and civil society. Under her, the cabinet system of government became a mere extension of the prime minister’s office. She eroded the independence of the judiciary and the bureaucracy. She packed leading educational institutions, academic bodies and other civil society establishments with her cronies. In all this she broke, with disastrous consequences, from the tradition established by Jawaharlal Nehru. The Emergency was the culmination of a process of centralization of power that Indira Gandhi initiated. It is not unfair to suggest that she had little faith in democratic practices and institutions.

In foreign policy, she brought about a pronounced pro-Soviet tilt which led her to support the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She shackled India’s economic growth and private investment and entrepreneurship by institutionalizing red tape and a permit and licence raj. This opened up opportunities for venality and corruption. She used the latter with devastating effect on the polity to fund the Congress party and elections.

It is thus difficult to be dispassionate about Indira Gandhi and her era. Historians of subsequent generations could describe the period that bears her indelible stamp as a very dark period for India. What cannot be denied, however, is that in her time she was immensely popular. But she made scant use of that support to take India forward. Prime ministers with far less support — to wit P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh — have achieved much more, especially in the fields of economic reform and foreign policy. A large majority might well be an Indian prime minister’s worst curse.

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Remembering 'Iron Lady' Indira Gandhi
31 Oct 2009, 0941 hrs IST
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi were present at the Shakti Sthal in New Delhi on Saturday (October 31) to pay their respects to former PM Indira Gandhi. They attended a function at Shakti Sthal to remember her on her 25th Death Anniversary. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Vice President Hamid Ansari were also present at the memorial function.

Under her regime India reached its heights -- with the birth of its nuclear programme, but also fell to its depths with Operation Bluestar. TIMES NOW pays a tribute to India's first and only lady Prime Minister -- 'Iron Lady' Indira Gandhi.

She was born into politics, a life that chose her with Pt Nehru as father, Indira Gandhi learnt the ropes of Indian governance observing India's first Prime Minister. HK Dua, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune said, "Indira was a more hardened politician than Nehru."

She inherited Nehru's vision to some extent, but she was a more a hard politician then a then Nehru was. With 'Garibi Hato', she gave the country its first slogan of populism, one that captured the imagination of her electorate. Kuldeep Nayar, Senior Journalist said, "'Garibi Hato' captured the imagination of the nation. When she gave the slogan, there was a lot of poverty in India, where people did not have anything with them. So she requested the people to vote for her and in return she would remove poverty. This slogan captured the imagination of the people and they voted for her. But then she could not do anything then as opposition increased in voice and also volume."

In 1971, Indira Gandhi deftly handled our neighbour by assisting the war for liberation of East Pakistan. Saeed Naqvi, Journalist said, "After the 1971 war Mrs Gandhi transformed herself from 'Gungi Gudiya' to 'Durga. Gandhi came with a bang after the Bangladesh war, when Shri Atal Biharee Vajpayee in a park in Connaught Place called her "Durga" in his speech after victory over Bangladesh."

She made the country proud by initiating the nuclear weapons program. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "In Pokhran - 1 Mrs. Gandhi completed that which Pt Nehru had envisioned. She is the basic founder of technological development today."

From the Emergency, to her ouster from the Prime Minister's office to her landslide victory, Mrs. Gandhi proved that she was the Iron Lady of India! Her crumbling moment came in 1984 when she announced Operation Bluestar making it her biggest political blunder. She lived a life on the tight rope, being judged at every step, she took decisions that gave India its most controversial political period times that are etched in our memories even today!

http://www.timesnow.tv/Remembering-Iron-Lady-Indira-Gandhi/articleshow/4330972.cms

Our People, the HOLOCAUST Victims Loved and Believed Indira Gandhi and Jyoti Basu Most, Who BETRAYED the Negroid Black Untouchables MOST!

Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary while Addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, former US president, George W Bush said that both US and India were engaged in an ideological battle against extremists who kill innocents!

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh led the nation in paying homage to former Premiere Indira Gandhi on the 25th anniversary of her martyrdom at Shakti Sthal here on Saturday.

Tributes were also paid on behalf of President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, who is on a foreign visit.

Former US president George W. Bush, who played an instrumental role in the signing of the India-US nuclear deal, Saturday said the pact

was New Delhi's "passport to the world". Calling the accord "historic", Bush said at the HT Leadership Summit here that it would provide India an opportunity to get energy without making pollution.

"(By signing the deal) the US recognised India's nuclear weapon's programme. It is India's passport to the world," said Bush.

"In 2006 we signed a historic accord.... India has now the opportunity to get energy without making pollution," said Bush.

The framework of the India-US civilian nuclear agreement was a July 18, 2005 joint statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then US president Bush. Under it, India agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and place all its civil nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. In exchange, the US agreed to work towards full civil nuclear cooperation with India.

Indians Saturday flocked to Shakti Sthal to pay homage to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary Saturday. Known as 'Iron Lady', she ruled the country for 15 years in two stints before being assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the slain leader's daughter-in-law, were amongst the first to pay tribute at her memorial on the banks of the Yamuna river.

An all-religion prayer was also organised on the occasion.

The assassination on Oct 31, 1984 triggered massive anti-Sikh riots in which 3,000 people were killed in three days in the national capital.

Her death came as a violent response to the Indian Army storming the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984 to confront heavily armed Sikh extremists.

31st October, 1984.

I was asleep sound at my residence in NAGLABATTU, Meerut.I returned late in the night after the City edition was released. I joined the newspaper few months ago as I resigned from Prabhat Khabar Ranchi just because the Editor SN Vinod had stalled the imbursement of my salary as I had visited Dhrmanagari, Bijonore since SABITA was suddenly ill in her maternal home and while leaving Ranchi I just informed my immediate Boss as the editor was not in the office. I just resigned and left for Meerut as Narendra Mohan, the Editor in Chief, Dainik Jagaran had offered me to join Meerut at my will any time. I joined the paper as chief sub Editor without any appoinment letter!

Mrs Indira Gandhi was assasianted at home, our peopn from the office informed me when I was awken. I Rushed the office, 140 D, Saket. The Nation was mourning and what a Mourning! The Mourning aroused Hindutva to annihilate SIKHISM and SIKHS! We had not INTERNET at the time. I had not got my TV set at home andwe could see the Live Telecast on Doordarshan at my desk. Our Teleprinter which was habitual to produce afew hundred newsitems and feature items at best, was NEVER Enough for Full Coverage and at that time despite having Phototype setting and data Link connecting different Edition network, we had to depend on STD and Telegrams. It was a huge task at the desk and as the payment was MINIMUM, entire editorial would leave anytime and I have to draft Vacancy and recruit a fresh team. It was my routine in Meerut. Hundreds of my recruits turned Editorial heads and I stay in Kolkat as a SUB Editor thanks to the ULTIMATE BRAHMIN PRABHASH Joshi and Brahamin management reigning in Kolkata where I learnt the laws of Manusmriti and apartheid at best. Thanks, Mr. Joshi for my SALVATION!

It was the beginning of an AGE of Genocide, ethnic Cleansing and Mass Destruction which EVENTED All Round with the Introduction of Globalisation till I landed in Kolkata to destroy myself!

Meerut City was calm as it had half the Population MUSLIM and the Muslims even then could see the IMMINENT danger ahead. But we were seized within with UNPRECEDENTD Violence which caught Meerut later with the Opening of Ram Janma Bhumi Mandir in Ayodhya as I had to see the Fire in the sky and on the land every where as my Breath was polluted with Human Flesh Smell. My vision dimmed in SMOKE Infinite and Ears were indulged with the sounds of Human Skeletons on fire. It continued in eighties ending with Antiresrvation Riots during VP Regime Mandal commission. Earlier we were engaged with Assam and Tripura genocides! I wrote all my experience in ANDE SENTE LOG series of Short stories dealing with the topic of hatching Eggs of communalism!

Bengali Holocaust Victims loved and believed most Mrs Indira Gandhi and Jyoti Basu as they proved to be the BONDED Vote Bank of these leaders. My People were quite in Romance with Indian Dark lady and the Bengali Comrade!

Me and my Father Pulin Babu had sea of DIFFERENCE revolving around these two personalities. I was a Marxist and had been SPELLBOUND with the THUNDERING Spring. At the same time, as soon as I passed my High School, I was amidst the storm of Total revolution. While I passed my Intermediate in 1975, it was EMERGENCY.thus, I hated most the Dictator. Further, while I was only four years old in my Professional life as a Journalist, I had to witness Operation Blue star! How could I Romance with the DURGA Dus PRAHARAN Dharini who liberated BANGLADESH and obliged all EAST Bengal rooted refugees but at the same time while fighting PAK Army in East Pakistan, Indian Military CRUSHED Humanity in West Bengal on the name of REPRESSION Naxal Bari!

There was a Big Fight in our family to get hold of the Photos of My father with Mrs Indira Gandhi, with whom he had developed a very good relationship.My sisters fought like cats. I was DISINTERESTED and Never tried to know who got the photos at last.

On the other hand , I knew NOTHING about Bengal until I landed in Kolkata in 1991. I Never did not about the Plight of Bengali Refugees in Bengal. My Father hated Jyoti Basu from the BOTTOM of his heart as he singled out the Man as the Greatest Enemy of our people. Even I did not know about Marichjhanpi Genocide neither I cared for as I was up against the Movement purely for may LOVE for Mangrove forests as an ENVIRONMENT Activist and succeeded to convince My Father NOT to support the Agitation. As for him. he could NEVER depend on the Marxists after the Triple Betrayal sin TELENGANA, in SHRIKAKULAMand finally, in Dhimri Block Peasant Uprising led by him. He repented that the Communists used the Refugees as VOTE bank and stopped them CREATING another Homeland in Andaman and Nicobar while ENSLAVING and FINISHING them in Bengal. I confirmed it very late as my father is no more! On the other hand, My Father was NEVER Aware of the BETRAYAL on the Part of Indira Gandhi and her CONGRESS and allowed his People to be used by them as mobile Vote bank despite being a hard Core AMBEDKARITE!

Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari also visited Shakti Sthal and paid his tributes.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi also paid floral tributes to Indira Gandhi

A prayer meeting was organised at the official residence of Indira Gandhi. This was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, family members of Gandhi and other dignitaries.

A series of programmes are being organised across India to commemorate Indira Gandhi's martyrdom.

Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to give the prestigious 24th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2008 to noted journalist, writer and human rights activist Balraj Puri at a function in New Delhi.

In 1984, Indira Gandhi launched Operation Blue Star to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar.

She was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31st of the same year.

Gandhi is remembered for leading the nation to new heights on national and international fronts.

India wants to resolve all issues with neighbours: PM

Reaching out to Pakistan for the third consecutive day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India wishes to resolve all outstanding issues with it and all other neighbours through dialogue and spirit of partnership overcoming the "areas of difficulties".

He noted that Pakistan is grappling with a major problem on account of rising terrorism and wished it success in dealing with it.

"We seek to live in peace with our own neighbourhood and with the world. We have always been and wish to remain good neighbours and good global citizens," Singh said addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.

Contending that India's destiny is "intrinsically linked" with that of its neighbours, he said "we seek good relations with each one of them".

India promises level playing field to US varsities

India has promised a level playing field to top US institutions in a bid to encourage foreign investment in the education sector as New Delhi seeks partnerships with global institutions to provide quality education at home.

'With the expansion of the higher education sector and the needs of Indian students, we need not just to allow education providers in India to grow, but we also need to provide for foreign investment in the education sector,' India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said at a press conference here Friday.

Sibal, who was here to seek partnership with leading American universities for an Indian initiative to set up 14 innovation universities to push research and development, said he was encouraged by the response, which made the trip 'exceptionally satisfying'.

With the growing expansion of Indian education coupled with the passage of the Right to Education bill, India would have to add hundreds of universities, expand areas of vocational training and provide a reformed curricula, he said.

Grappling with the issue of quality, 'we need to bring in education providers who have experienced hundreds of years of quality education and have systems in place to provide quality education', Sibal said.

'The foreign institutions coming to India would have to work within the framework of law. But we have explained that to them. But they'll get a level playing field,' he said.

During the visit, Sibal met US Secretary for Education Arne Duncan besides presidents of several leading US universities individually and at a round table at Georgetown University where he spoke on 'Expansion of India's Education Infrastructure and Opportunities for Foreign Universities'.

The Indian delegation, headed by Sibal, also participated in a meeting hosted by the US-India Business Council on the subject of investment and collaboration opportunities in higher education in India.

Among those he met in Washington were the presidents of Duke and Georgetown universities. He had met with the presidents of Harvard University, Yale University, Boston University, New York Academy of Sciences and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in New York earlier.

Obama election 'was uplifting moment': Bush

Barack Obama's election as president of the US was an 'uplifting moment', his predecessor and Republican rival George W. Bush said in New Delhi Saturday.

The election of Obama, a Democrat and the US' first African American president, 'was an uplifting moment for our democracy... not my first choice, but I wish him every success', Bush said amid laughter at the HT Leadership Summit here.

Bush favours UNSC seat for India

Former US President George W Bush today favoured a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat for India, saying it has "arrived" as a strong democratic country in the world. He also wanted India and the US to work together to win the war on terror in Afghanistan to bring peace and stability in the region.

"We must see the possibility of a seat for India in the United Nations Security Council," Bush said, speaking at the HT Leadership Summit in New delhi. "India has arrived as a strong democratic country in the world.

It is a tolerant, peaceful and multi-religious democracy," he said. Bush, who visited India in 2006 when the two sides chartered out the road map for further strengthening Indo-US strategic partnership, said the two countries shared the same values of freedom and democracy.

On Afghanistan, he said, "America and India must work together to win the war in Afghanistan. The mission in Afghanistan has been long and difficult and costly.

I believe it is necessary for stability and peace." He wholeheartedly agreed with US President Barack Obama that the US-India relations were not only one of the most important ties in the world, but they should also be one of the best.

But he cautioned that it would not happen automatically and the two nations would have to make important choices, including cooperation in the war in Afghanistan.

Rukhsana's house attacked in Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu, Oct 31 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's teen braveheart Rukhsana, who had killed a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander last month and grabbed national headlines for her show of courage, came under attack again when terrorists fired grenades at her village home. Luckily, no one was present inside the house at the time.

Police said the incident took place late Friday in Kalsi village of Rajouri district, about 180 km from here.

'Rifle grenades were fired at the house and the police post in Kalsi village in Thannaa Mandi area of Rajouri late last (Friday) night,' Rajouri Senior Superintendent of Police Shafaqat Watali told IANS.

Watali said the rifle grenades exploded without causing any loss. Rukhsana, 18, and her family had been shifted to a safe place in Rajouri as an attack was feared. Police had received the intercepts of the militants planning an attack on Rukhsana's house.

'But it (the attack) does speak of their intentions to take revenge from the girl, who killed the LeT militant Abu Osama,' Watali said.

Vigil in the village has been stepped up and police have assured the people that they would be protected.

Rukhsana shot to the limelight after she hit back at terrorists who had barged into her house on Sep 27. Top LeT commander Abu Osama was attacked with an axe and shot at with his own rifle by Rukhsana and her brother Aijaz. She also fired at the two other militants, who were injured but managed to escape.

'US growth spurt mitigates uncertainty for India'

Sat, Oct 31 06:08 AM
After having helped the government frame economic policies in exceptional times that brought the global financial system to its knees, the finance ministry's chief economic advisor is moving on to assume his new role as an executive director to the IMF. A day before he leaves office, Arvind Virmani, who was appointed CEA in July 2007, tells Gunjan Pradhan Sinha that the US growth spurt in the third quarter will accelerate the revival of domestic investment. Excerpts:

With the US clocking positive growth numbers for the first time in months, how do you think it will change the scenario in India and the world?

Over the past three- four months we have got indications that recession in the US is coming to an end. The recent news confirms only one fact — that the future won't be worse. Even though it is a larger than expected bump up, recovery will follow the pattern of wavy and stretched out 'U' for the global economy. For India, it spells out mitigation of the uncertainty which crept in due to the external environment. In my expectation, it will accelerate revival of domestic investment and the economy will be less dependent on stimulating forces.

And for the rest of Asia?

Countries heavily dependent on exports would not see a fast paced recovery compared to India. Until they change their orientation, a number of nations including China would have to wait before investment levels pick up. A stimulus approach is a short term measure, it cannot be sustained for long. India is at an advantage as it has a neutral export policy and huge domestic demand.

How do you see inflation panning out in the next few months?

I expect the gap between whole sale price index inflation and consumer price index -industrial workers to narrow. CPI should peak and then start waning. There are already faint glimmerings of this. It could be peaking now. Inflation is expected to go up but not as much as CPI (IW). It will hover around 6 per cent in March 2009-10.

With talk of right timing for withdrawing fiscal stimulus measures, what is your view for the Indian economy?

The fiscal stimulus has two aspects — micro and macro. Micro measures such as interest rate subvention given to certain sectors have time limits. In that sense they have an automatic expiry. For the macro level measures that widened the fiscal deficit, there are indications that we need to go away from it. The FRBM document for the current fiscal sets targets for the next two or three years, which in all likelihood would be met. The winding down will start and by March the picture will be clear.

Gunjan Pradhan Sinha

Indira Gandhi: Fearlessness in the national interest
October 30, 2009 11:21 IST

R Rajamani, a retired bureaucrat, worked in the Prime Minister's Office between 1978 and 1983.
During his tenure he worked for three prime ministers: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi [ Images ]. Later in his stint as additional secretary at the Cabinet Secretariat and as secretary (electronics), he was associated with then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi [ Images ].

Having worked for Indira Gandhi for three years between 1980 and 1983 he had the occasion to observe many of her qualities.

He remembers Indira Gandhi on her 25th death anniversary.

My respected senior colleague in the PMO H Y Sharada Prasad was once asked why he did not write about the prime ministers he worked with. He laughed and said: "Who am I, a child trying to inscribe my name on the giant oak trees of the forest?"

This did influence me in desisting from writing or talking too much about the four prime ministers I worked for, especially Indira Gandhi for whom I worked for three years as joint secretary. There were other reasons too.

Again Sharadaji used to say that when one wrote years later about events which had occurred earlier in which one played some part, there is a temptation to put in words what one thought in retrospect one should have said then, but never really said them!

However, the main reason for avoiding these reminiscences was that I remember only the good things about people whereas most readers seem to want to read about the seamy side of great personalities.

If I do communicate my thoughts now it's not because of the temptation to break into the limelight but in the expectation that people will know that the good that men do lives after them while the evils are interred with them.

There is devilishness and godliness or goodness in all of us in varying degrees (saints excepted) and it is pleasant to talk about the good traits and deeds of great people.

What qualities in Indira Gandhi should I talk about? Before I answer this question I should emphasise that all the four prime ministers I worked for had most of these qualities in varying degrees and it was indeed a privilege and a great learning experience with them.

I have chosen Indira Gandhi because I had the longest term with her. The qualities of fearlessness, courtesy, humour, wide interests and wisdom, deep commitment to Indian science and technology, passion for the environment, objectivity and the ability to see many things through not only a national but also an international prism -- these were some aspects of her life and personality which come out in the episodic narrative I have chosen to adopt.

Fearlessness

I single this out as the strongest trait -- fearlessness to do what she thought was in the national interest and fearlessness in the personal sense; physical and mental courage in adverse circumstances. This was translated into courage which infected others.

I am reminded of the golden age of the Independence struggle when leaders led from the front as in the case of T Prakasam or G B Pant, who always stood in the first row to face bullets or lathis.

It was the hallmark of Indira Gandhi's father Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru [ Images ], who one remembers in the Avadi Congress session jumping into an enclosure to calm down some misguided sections which was trying to disturb the proceedings unmindful of the appeals of even Kamaraj Nadar!

One example in her life was when the door opened in the aircraft where she was sitting alone in the front cabin soon after take-off. The advice from the cockpit asking her to go to the back section was not heeded and when we tried to persuade her to come back she gave only a disarming smile which radiated her fearlessness. She did not leave the seat until we landed.

Of course, one has read about the fearless way she handled the Bangladesh war and other similar situations, putting the national interest above those of personal safety.

Courtesy

As for courtesy, she had this in abundant measure and was the picture of friendliness with whomsoever, she interacted, whether it was a poor lady in a village in Medak district (of which was an MP) or a visiting dignitary from abroad.

The manner in which she reciprocated Cuban President Fidel Castro's bear hug at the Non Aligned Summit is etched in memory. She responded shyly, but without fuss, thus cementing a friendship.

The only occasion when I found her losing her cool was when we were in the Andaman islands, visiting the Onge tribe there. As the helicopter hovered above the settlement built for the Onges, she asked me to find out what the tin roofed structures were.

When we landed I found out these were hutments made for the Onges who normally lived in small huts on treetops and moved from place to place as their defecation mounds grew under the trees. This was ecologically sustainable as the land was nourished and they had a cooler micro-climate atop the trees.

When I reported this to her, I realised she was upset. To compound this, the Onges who were clad in multi-coloured T-shirts were brought for dancing around her. When she asked the anthropologist present whether this was their usual mode of dress, he whispered they were not in the habit of wearing anything except a brief loin cloth and both men and women were bare-bodied.

On hearing this, she was in a rage and asked all the officers present if they realised what they had done this to these innocent people by locating them in hot tin sheds, away from their natural habitat and worse, making them wear ill-fitting and colourful clothes which they were not used to.

She thundered if they thought the prime minister of India would hesitate to talk to her people whether in their clothes or lack of it and how they had destroyed most of their values forever.

Humour

Indira Gandhi was not given to flippant humour, but showed flashes of mature humour on occasions.

Thus when the Indian Board for Wildlife was meeting and there were two consecutive items on the agenda, one relating to Save the Crocodile Project and the other to the scrapping of the Andhra Pradesh Preservation of the Elephants Act, I scribbled a note to her to say this was like the 'Gajendra Moksha' in reverse. She laughed heartily and read this out loudly to the members of the Board.

This got me into some difficulty with the Andhra Pradesh forest minister when we left the meeting and he said I have created a situation to seem as if the AP government was being insensitive to the cause of conservation, even though the ground reality was that there were no elephants in the state and there was no point in continuing an archaic enactment as a successor to the old Madras state.

I told him politely this was said in good humour and there was no reason why Andhra Pradesh should not have wild elephants now. Soon after this episode one was happy to know that wild elephants have indeed come into Andhra Pradesh in Chittoor district and now have a sanctuary for themselves!

The other bit of humour was displayed by the prime minister when she came up to me sitting in the officers's box in Parliament. When I tried to stand up deferentially, she smiled and said, "Don't tower over me like that. Sit down" and let my tall frame go back into the chair and shaking in mirth!

Interests

Her wide interests and wisdom were manifested often in the midst of all the routine and pressure of work. Whenever she found time, especially on domestic air travel, she would read a book.

Her interests were in a wide spectrum and covered not only the economic and political issues which were the daily bread and butter in her office but also discussions on India's future in wrestling with problems of education, health and employment.

After a visit to Medak where she saw the good effects on welfare, hygiene, nutrition and health of women and children as a result of a pilot Integrated Child Development Services Project a few years after it was wound up, she included this in her Twenty Point Programme.

Her interests extended to our culture, heritage and the arts; testimony to which is the present day INTACH (the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) and IGNCA (the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts), for which the ground work was done in her time.

She could visualise India's future lay in new initiatives in electronics, renewable sources of energy, ocean development, bio technology and entrepreneurship development in young technocrats to turn job seekers into job givers.

She helped create suitable administrative and technical structures. I must add that I have named only a sample of the initiatives which were the result of her wisdom and farsightedness.

The firm belief that science and technology were the anchors of the economy governed Mrs Gandhi's efforts in this field. She created scientific departments and encouraged both research efforts and the technological spinoffs.

Examples abound but mention can be made of the beginning of the Indian scientific expeditions to Antarctica and her belief in twinning new science and technology with traditional practices having a scientific content.

Thus when the scientists of the Indian Council of Medical Research were extolling the virtues of the plant ocimum sanctum in stress relief, she asked them what the Indian name was. When told it was Tulsi, she smiled and said "My grandmother knew this about Tulsi and used to give us Tulsi tea whenever we were too naughty!"

On another occasion, as we came out of an inspection bungalow we were camping at, she pointed out to me a small plant with pink and white flowers and asked if I knew what it was. Not hiding my ignorance I said I do not know the name but in my part of the country it was known as the smashan flower, being found only in crematoria and burial grounds.

She smiled and educated me that it was the plant vinca rosea (since renamed catharanthus rosea) which bore the common name of Periwinkle. She added for good measure that the chemical extract of the flower was being used for treatment of a type of cancer.

No piece like this on her would be complete without mentioning the passion for conserving India's natural resources, whether it was the forest, or the flora and fauna, or the rivers, water bodies, coral reefs and so on.

Her special interest was in ecosystems like the mountains, islands, coastal, coral reefs and riverine tracts. She was the only head of government from outside Sweden to attend the first UN Conference on the Human Environment and drawing the linkages between under-development poverty and the conservation of natural resources.

She was alarmed at the degradation of Indian forests and coastal ecosystems and their mindless conversion in the name of development without exploring alternatives.

She got enacted the Forest Conservation Act and made us introduce environmental impact analysis in public sector projects. The coastal zones were protected under her directive, which stood the test until a law was enacted later.

The only two projects she stopped in the interests of conserving biodiversity and the fragile Himalayan ecosystem were the Silent Valley Project and the Tehri Hydro Electric Project. It is noteworthy that in both cases there were alternatives to produce the same power with micro and mini hydel sets causing no damage to the environment. Unfortunately, the Tehri project was reopened later underlining the mindset that 'Big is Beautiful'.

In the present day context with spotlight on conservation of electricity to moderate climate change one cannot but remember her frugality in eating and her keenness to switch off all lights when she left a room.

The measures she took to promote solar and wind energy and increase afforestation through social forestry were noteworthy and gave a clear impression that she was a champion of a clean and green environment for all generations of Indians.

Her objectivity and ability to understand different sensibilities and perspectives were outstanding and this was tempered by her being able to be nationalistic and yet breathe a universality of spirit.

Once her personal secretary had collected a sheaf of petitions and sorted them out and was giving one set to me as she was boarding the plane.

She was quick to spot this out of the corner of her eye and said no, that is not for him as it is political and only the other set should be given to him. Thus, she recognised the need for objectivity in recognising the role plays among people who worked for her.

When there was a discussion on India signing an International Labour Organisation vonvention on child labour and the official view was hesitant, she looked at it from both national and international prisms and ruled that we cannot do wrong just because other countries got away with doing things wrong about their children and getting away with it.

Before I finish I should relate what happened when I had returned to Andhra Pradesh to work in the state government. In August 1984, Mrs Gandhi visited Hyderabad en route to Medak to inaugurate an ordinance factory. As her principal secretary Dr P C Alexander was coming with his wife and wanted me to go to the airport to take Mrs Alexander to my house while he went on the visit. In the afternoon when he came home he asked me why I did not try to see my old boss Indira Gandhi.

I told him, how, as a mere bureaucrat, it was not possible for me to muscle into the largely political crowd surrounding her. He told me sternly that I should make an attempt in the evening when they were leaving.

At the airport I made an effort, but again the crowd was such that she reached the ladder of the aircraft and so I was turning back disappointed.

Mrs Gandhi, on reaching the landing, seems to have spotted my back and called out "Rajamani, what are you doing here?"

I went up to the aircraft and she lent over and asked me how my daughter, son and wife were and whether I was OK. I mumbled something in the affirmative, being overcome by her affection in remembering me even after one-and-a-half years of leaving office and conscious of all eyes of all the visitors including the chief minister being on me!

She sweetly said "All the best to you and the family" and left. Sadly, that was the last I saw of her.

In all the short references and cameos I have tried to capture some of the fine qualities of Indira Gandhi but by no means is it a biographer's job or an incisive presentation which would satisfy the purist. Perhaps it ends up as a feeble attempt at inscribing one's signature on a giant oak tree in the forest after all!

As told to Radhika Rajamani.

Radhika Rajamani
http://news.rediff.com/special/2009/oct/30/rrajamani-remembers-indira-gandhi-on-her-25th-death-anniversary.htm

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Our People, the HOLOCAUST Victims Loved and Believed Indira Gandhi and Jyoti Basu Most, Who BETRAYED the Negroid Black Untouchables MOST!

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No WHERE to RUN as Barack Obama has a problem of romance deficit!Trained in India, to fight in Iraq!PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal!Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT.First unique ID number t

2009-10-30T19:37:51+01:00

No WHERE to RUN as Barack Obama has a problem of romance deficit!Trained in India, to fight in Iraq!PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal!Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT.First unique ID number to be issued within a year: Nilekani,Population data collection for coastal states in progress: Chidambaram

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 414

Palash Biswas

30/10/2009
Pakistan lost opportunity to trace Al Qaeda: Clinton

Lahore: Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said it was "hard to believe" no one in Pakistan's government knew the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leaders who have been using its territory since 2002, the Online news agency reported.

Nobody in the Pakistani government knows where the leaders of the Al Qaeda terrorists network are hiding. Pakistan has missed the chance to capture or kill the militant leaders, she told reporters in the Punjab provincial capital Thursday.

Source: Agencies

Lok Sabha's winter session from Nov 19

Fri, Oct 30 05:32 PM

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The winter session of Lok Sabha will commence Nov 19 and will go on till Dec 21.

The one-month-long session is likely to conclude Dec 21, according to a release issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat here.

It will be the third session of the 15th Lok Sabha.
Indo Asian News Service

President Patil to fly in Sukhoi fighter jet

Fri, Oct 30 01:09 PM

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) For once, President Pratibha Patil will don a G-suit instead of her trademark sari as she flies in a Sukhoi-30 MKI - a frontline fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) - next month.

Patil, 74, is expected to board one of the Sukhois based in Lohegaon, Pune, and will make history of sorts by becoming the first woman to fly in an IAF war plane. The president is the supreme commander of the Indian armed forces.

'The president will be flying in a Sukhoi soon. It should happen by November end,' a senior IAF official told IANS without divulging further details.

Patil, who will be following in the footsteps of her predecessor A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, will be undergoing mandatory health tests before the sortie.

The first woman president of the country, Patil would also become the first woman to fly in an IAF war plane. The air force currently has 784 women officers working in different branches, barring the fighter stream.

Earlier, Kalam, the father of the Indian missile programme, had taken a ride in a submarine in 2006 and followed it up with a sortie in a Sukhoi the same year.
Indo Asian News Service

This is probably Jean-Claude van Damme at his sexiest. The best thing is that he's a prisoner, and there's no suggestion that he was wrongfully imprisoned. He starts off as a bad boy, but of course his tough exterior melts away to reveal his inner sentimentality when he meets a widow and her two children, one of which is played by one of those hideous Culkins.

Plot Summary for
Nowhere to Run (1993)

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is. Written by Rob Hartill

Sam Gillen is a convict who gets sprung from Federal custody somewhere in the Midwest by his bank-robbing partner. In their last heist, Sam's partner killed a bank guard, and Sam took the rap for it. Sam's partner gets killed in the break, forcing Sam to go it alone in search of the loot, which is buried on the property of a farm inhabited by Clydie Anderson, the widowed mother of two kids named Mike "Mookie" Anderson and Bree Anderson. Attempting to sneak into Clydie's house and "borrow" some salt for a campfire-broiled steak, Sam catches sight of Clydie taking a shower. Sam is spotted by Mookie. After saving Clydie, Mookie, and Bree from a trio of intruding thugs, Sam discovers that Clydie is holding out from selling her place to property developer Franklin Hale, who fears that he will be put out of business if he doesn't get Clydie's land so he can develop on it. Sam decides to hang around, sleeping first in Clydie's barn and then in her bed, while repairing her late husband's Triumph motorcycle. And Hale hires an intimidation expert named Dunston, to force Clydie into selling her land. Secretly on Hale's payroll is corrupt sheriff Lonnie Cole, a sometime lover of Clydie. A jealous Lonnie discovers Sam's true identity and threatens to expose him if he doesn't leave. Not wanting to place Clydie in additional danger for helping a fugitive, Sam decides to leave, only to find that Hale has already blown the whistle on him in an attempt to get him out of the way. After evading police chasing him in cars, land rovers, helicopters, and on motorcycles and horseback, Sam returns to save Clydie from Dunston and Hale, who are planning to burn down her house. Written by Todd Baldridge

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107711/

I chanced to see the Hollywood film NO Where to RUN this afternoon as Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT to BOOST REALTY Massacre in india!he government is believed to have decided to import 30,000 tonnes of rice as public sector trading companies MMTC, PEC and STC today floated tenders to buy 10,000 tonnes of rice each from the overseas markets.A key Indian equity index Friday closed 0.97 percent down for the fifth consecutive day to end below 16,000 points. India's consumer price index rose 11.64 percent in September from a year earlier, slightly lower than August's annual rise of 11.72 percent, government data showed on Friday.Whereas, European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change.

The winter session of Lok Sabha will commence Nov 19 and will go on till Dec 21.We may now seek NIRMAL ANAND, Innocent Entertainment from the LIVE Telecast of the Subverting Parliamentary Soap Opera as Governance and Legislation OUTSOURCED since the NEO Liberal LPG mafia tkane over the Country and Policy making is an INDIA INC affair well doen by MONTEK NILEKANI RANGRAJAN PITRODA Extra Constitutional Brigade guided and remote controlled from Washington DC! Since we have to sustain Manusmriti Apartheid Rule in Free market democracy dominated by Minority Brhmin Zionist Hegemony in a GALAXY Village!

Former French president Jacques Chirac will be tried for abuse of public funds in an affair dating from 1983 to 1995, when he was mayor of Paris, French media reported Friday.But we allow , Big FISH Swimming in BLOOD Pools available everywhere in Institutionalise Crime and corruption and depend on CIA and MOSSAD to defend nationality, sovereignity and Integrity, Internal security. We have to TRAIN US ARMY to Fight in IRAQ and worship in Communal flare up that there won`t be any Terror Strike further. We would create Ethnic Cleansing Envirinment in Holocaust Situation and USE INSURGENCY and Maoism for CORPORATE interst and put everything on SELL OFF, hike DEFENCE Budget and ensure Cash Inflow in Swiss Bank account and do wvereything to invite Foreign Capital Inflow to boost Growth Rate. NO TRIAL! Media dares not to oppose Economic Reforms and any RESISTING activity or community may well be branded as TERRORIST and EXTREMIST for Capital Punishment!

It is a HOLLYWOOD Action Thriller which showcases the MONOPLOISTC Aggression aginst the Masses. It is quite relevant in Nilekani`s World today in which WE Have NOWHERE to RUN as we find ourselves subjected to IMMINENT DESTRUCTION and the Environment of ETHNIC Cleansing overlaps the Global warming and limate Change. Realty Boom has turned this world into a DEVELOPER`s World and UNIQUE Identity number has to decide our fate as there would not be any SLUM in India as half of the Urban and Semi Urban areas live as SLUMDOGS in the Sensex shining India, United States of america has RECOVERED from RECESSION, it is said and the slide of Indian DICES continue DOWNTURN as BEARS control the Market just because we allowed FIIs to divert Capital Flow from RECESSION Inflicted Americas and Europe and they withdraw at OPPORTUNE time. Free Market Democracy and Galaxy War Economy do EVERY Thing to CREATE war and CIVIL war Situation in this Divided geopolitics which is BLEEDING and Bleeding .. Blood SPILLS everywhere whereever we look around. Remeber the SCENES in THE TALE OF TWO CITIES by CHARLES DICKENS. Minority Dominating communities worldwide have CREATED Shocking Waelth causing UNPRECEDENTED Violence, Hatred and Bloodbath ! We are DESTINED to race SUPERFAST towards the DOOM`s day in an INFINITE War Zone!

NO Where to RUN, in fact!

PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal!

It was nostalgia time Friday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday hosted a lunch for former US president George W. Bush and lauded him for bringing the landmark India-US nuclear deal to fruition.

Manmohan Singh held wide-ranging talks with Bush on an entire spectrum of India-US relations at the prime minister's 7 Race Course residence. He thanked Bush for his crucial role in ending India's decades-long nuclear isolation through a landmark nuclear deal last year, sources said.

The two leaders recalled their last meeting fondly at the White House in September last year when the fate of the nuclear deal was still uncertain.

The prime minister told Bush he was looking forward to his meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington Nov 24, the first bilateral summit since the change of guard at White House, sources said.

During his first visit to India after leaving office last year, Bush will be speaking on India-US relations at the annual leadership conclave Saturday. He has been invited by Hindustan Times, a privately-owned Indian media house.

Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, ruling Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna were among those invited for the exclusive lunch in honour of Bush. Shyam Saran, the prime minister's special envoy on climate change who played a key role in the progress of the deal, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her predecessor Shivshankar Menon were also present.

Bush underlined his optimism about the course of India-US relations in the days to come amid anxiety in some quarters here about an apparent cooling off of ties under the Obama dispensation.

'Absolutely, President (Barack) Obama will continue working with Indian governments. He's made that clear in his statements. I believe future presidents will recognise the importance of India as a global partner and India's influence on the global scene,' Bush said in an interview to the Hindustan Times.

Earlier in the day, Manmohan Singh described Bush as 'a great friend of India' and lauded him for his 'important role' in bringing the civil nuclear deal to fruition and underlined that India was working with other countries to promote civil nuclear cooperation.

'We in India recognise the important role he played in the fruition of the civil nuclear cooperation initiative,' said Manmohan Singh, who has enjoyed warm relations with the two-time US president.

'We are working with our international partners to give a boost to our nuclear programme,' he said.

Civil nuclear energy, the prime minister said, will contribute to India's efforts to use cleaner energy and to combat climate change.

Unique Identity Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani Friday said it would take about a year to issue the first unique identity (UID) number in the country.

Planning Commission approves Rs.1,011 crore for Mission Mode Project on IVFRT. Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said the Planning Commission gave in-principle approval for Rs.1,011 crore for the implementation of the Mission Mode Project on Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration and Tracking (IVFRT).

The project aims to develop a secure and integrated service delivery framework to enhance security and facilitate immigration, issue of visas and registration.

Meanwhile, ndia will push forward with financial reforms and needs to increase investment in rural education, health and infrastructure to lift its economic growth rate to 10 percent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.

The unexpectedly strong re-election of a coalition led by Singh's Congress party in May raised hopes of sweeping reforms in areas such as banking and fuel subsidies, but no major moves have been made apart from stake sales in some government firms.

"We need to push forward the reform process... and we will do so," Singh told a conference in New Delhi.

"We have to create an environment conducive to growth of entrepreneurship in our urban economy. At the same time we must ensure government's greater involvement in rural development," Singh said.

Asked about financial reforms, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said changes in labour laws and in insurance needed political consensus, not only nationally but within the ruling coalition as well.

"We shall have to converge the views within the coalition as also outside the coalition, and I am trying to arrive at that," Mukherjee said at the same conference.

Shares of banks with insurance ventures such as SBI, ICICI Bank , Kotak Mahindra and Canara Bank outperformed the Bombay stock market, which fell close to 1 percent.

Congress and its allies won three state polls held earlier this month, which should give it more leverage to push reforms.

TARGET

Prime Minister Singh, seen as pro-industry, said India's primary challenge in the next decade was not only to sustain high growth but also ensure it was equitable.

"We should aim to sustain annual growth rate of 9-10 percent per annum," Singh said.

Growth in Asia's third-largest economy slowed to a six-year low of 6.7 percent in 2008/09 (April-March) from rates 9 percent or more in the previous three years.

Earlier this week, the central bank forecast growth for 2009/10 at 6 percent with an upward bias.

Mukherjee said growth was likely to pick up from the October-December quarter and hit 9 percent in the next two years.

"I would say recovery is there, but recovery is halting and slow," he said, with any decision on removing fiscal stimulus dependent on how the economy performed towards the end of 2009.

Mukherjee said there were also inflationary worries, with annual consumer price inflation in double-digits.

The finance minister said there could be a delay of a few months in the planned introduction of a goods and services tax from next April, the start of the 2010/11 fiscal year.

Chidambaram informed that the project will be completed in September 2014 and would cover 169 Indian missions in foreign countries, 78 ICPs (Immigration Check Posts), 5 FRROs (Foreigners Regional Registration Offices) and all FROs (Foreigners Registration Offices) in the State/District headquarters.

The report also said that the computerization and networking of 42 ICPs is progressing satisfactorily, and the hardware has been delivered to 25 ICP sites and a local area network have been installed at 11 other ICPs.

It also informed that 139 e-Passport Reading Machines (e-PRMs) have been procured for installation at the Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata nd Chennai Airport ICPs.

'According to the present status of the project, the first UID issuance will take 12 to 18 months from the date of sanction of the project in August (2009). It is likely to cover about 600 million people within five years,' Nilekani told reporters in Shimla.

He was here to attend a two-day workshop organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), a premier advanced research institution in the field of humanities and social sciences.

'In our country, inability to establish one's identity is one of the biggest barriers preventing the poor from availing government welfare schemes. This problem can be tackled by issuing a unique number to each Indian that can be verified by any public authority to establish the identity of the individual,' Nilekani said.

'The number given as the unique identity will be linked to the basic information about the individual and his or her biometric information,' he said.

Nilekani said the biometric information will help in preventing duplication as the backup system for issuing UIDs would be capable of checking every entry against millions of other entries to ensure that there is no duplication.

'In the initial stages of the project, the UID will be voluntary and it will ultimately serve as identity proof for all purposes,' he said.

Population data collection for coastal states in progress: Chidambaram

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said that direct data collection for the National Population Register (NPR) is in progress in the coastal villages of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, where the biographical details of more than 20 lakh residents and biometric details of more than 1 lakh residents have been recorded.

As regards to Census 2011, the report said that field survey work for the preparation of geo-referenced enumeration blocks bas been completed in 1100 wards out of 2018 wards in 33 capital cities.

Chidambaram also informed that Rs 5.61 crore was sanctioned for the procurement of 337 new vehicles for the recently created 29 police stations and 9 sub-divisions of Delhi Police, while Rs 1.73 crore was released to Dadra and Nagar Haveli for 2009-10 under the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) Scheme.

The report also said that East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction (Amendment) Act, 2001 was extended to the Union Territory of Chandigarh by notification dated on October 9.

During the month, the powers and functions of the Central Government under the Delhi Municipal Act, 1957, save a few powers, were delegated to Delhi Government by an order dated October 26, following which a long standing demand of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has been fulfilled.

The delegation of powers is in accordance with the recommendations of several committees appointed in the past, the report said.

Chidambaram added that the Third Finance Commission for the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep submitted its report today. He also informed that the report will be processed and appropriate decisions will be taken soon.

The report also said that the Government has accepted the proposal of Orissa Government to change the name of the State from "Orissa" to "Odisha" and the name of the language from "Oriya" to "Odia".

A Bill in this regard would be introduced in Parliament, it added.

Accept Kashmir as `disputed’, Geelani tells India!

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Friday said he was ready to engage in a dialogue with India, provided the government accepted that Kashmir was a disputed territory.

"India should first accept that Kashmir is a disputed territory and then we shall enter into a dialogue with the Indian government," Geelani, chairman of a breakaway Hurriyat Conference group, said in Baramulla town, 54 km from here.

Geelani also said that the peaceful resistance movement launched by him for vacating of civilian lands in Kashmir by the Indian security forces would continue.

Geelani said he would announce the next phase of his programme in south Kashmir's Kulgam district where he called for a shutdown Nov 6.

Even though authorities did not restrict Geelani's movements and allowed him to address the gathering after the Friday prayers in Baramulla town, elaborate arrangements were made to maintain law and order in the town without disturbing the normal life.

"The day passed off peacefully and there was no untoward incident anywhere in the town. We had not put any restrictions on the movements of separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani who offered prayers in a local mosque and later addressed a post-prayer gathering in the town", a senior police officer said here.

As it is known that Barack Obama has a problem of `romance deficit’

reports from New York say: Barack Obama, the most powerful man in the US, and probably the globe, has a problem -- `romance deficit.' Simply put, the US President does not have a public place to take his wife out on a date.

Obama has ignited a debate in the US over how hard it is to take his wife Michelle Obama on a date without letting tongues wag. And probably that may be a problem with most people occupying high offices and celebrities. However,there are exceptions -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy whose romance with Carla Bruni is sometimes embarrassingly public or Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi whose escapades have gone much beyond gossip columns.

Obama was upset and hurt over all the `fuss and muss' generated when he took his wife to New York on a date recently.

The President said the criticism he received for taking his wife to Manhattan for dinner and a Broadway play was the single most annoying experience since arriving at the White House.

"People made it into a political issue," Obama said.

"If I weren't President, I'd be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers," he said, adding "That'd please me greatly".

"The notion that I just couldn't take my wife out on a date without it being a political issue was not something I was happy with," Obama told reporters.

Source: India Syndicate

Kakodkar to step down as AEC chief on November 30

Mumbai: Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Chairman Anil Kakodkar, the only one to get three extensions in the post, will demit office on November 30.

Kakodkar will also retire from the post of Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on the same day, when his term ends.

"This is the last time I am addressing you from this podium and I wish to thank you all for your strong commitment to the programme and your support to the efforts to sail through the fuel supply crisis," Kakodkar said, addressing the staff during a customary speech at the founder's day celebrations at the Baba Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

Coincidentally, today is also the birth centenary of BARC founder Homi J Bhabha.

Kamat distances himself from his spokesman's comments

Panaji, Oct 30 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Friday distanced himself from statements of his spokesperson Thursday, accusing right wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Sanstha (SS) of 'breeding terrorism' and 'dividing society'.

Speaking to reporters at his official residence here, Kamat said: 'I have not seen or heard the comments. I don't know if he said this.'

Pressed for a response, Kamat said that he would 'check what had been said'.

The chief minister's official spokesperson Vishnu Wagh, who is also advisor to the department of information and publicity (DIP) had Thursday said that the contents of Sanatan Prabhat, the multilingual daily published by the SS, had the potential to 'breed terrorists'.

'The literature published in the newspaper is socially divisive and acts like poison in society,' he said.

'Dainik Sanatan Prabhat has abused freedom of press for long now. They have consistently derided the system of democracy in the country. Their literature can easily breed terrorists,' Wagh added.

Wagh, who specifically told reporters that he was speaking on behalf of Kamat, also said that the chief minister's office had been monitoring the activities of the SS.

If police enquiries prove that the Sanstha's agenda was indeed creating communal fissures in society, then a ban on it was likely, he said.

Government planning forces' pullout from Kashmir: Chidambaram

A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered peace talks to separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government was mulling withdrawal of paramilitary forces from the valley as well as the 'vacation of occupied houses and land' by the army.

'We have identified a number of issues on which follow-up action is being taken by the central government and the government of Jammu and Kashmir,' Chidambaram told reporters here.

The issues, he said, included 'withdrawal of some paramilitary battalions and vacation of occupied houses and land by the army and paramilitary'.

Asked if there were any differences of opinion in the cabinet on troops' withdrawal from the state, Chidambaram said: 'There are no differences of opinion. There are different opinions. And they will be reconciled and the decision taken in appropriate cabinet committees. Everybody doesn't need to have the same opinion on issues.'
He said the central government was keen on 'transferring more and more responsibility to the Jammu and Kashmir police and strengthening (its) training'.

His comments come after the prime minister said in Srinagar Thursday that the responsibility of maintaining law and order 'will increasingly fall on the Jammu and Kashmir police'.

Chidambaram said the government 'intends to follow up on the promise of 'quiet talks, quiet diplomacy' with all shades of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir', echoing what Manmohan Singh said during his two-day visit to the valley. 'We are willing to carry all stakeholders with us. We need to end all the violence to begin a dialogue,' the prime minister had said.

Chidambaram said the new political initiative in Kashmir by the government was 'quiet as opposed to photo op, and quiet as opposed to in the full glare of the media'.

'I think at least in the early stages, the talks should be held one-on-one or one with two people or one with three people so that we discover the contours of the proposal of each group. And, we can then work out the common features where we can perhaps put down on paper what appears to be the outline of the package,' he said.

He said the government was also monitoring the progress of the prime minister's reconstruction programme for the state.

Manmohan unveils vision of India 2020 and new South Asia

New Delhi: Underlining that the challenges lie "primarily at home", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday unveiled his vision of India in 2020 revolving around the three pillars of inclusive growth, composite culture and a peaceful, forward-looking neighbourhood.

Manmohan Singh also made a strong pitch for sustaining 9-10 percent economic growth per annum and said the destinies of India and its neighbours are "intrinsically linked".

"First, that our challenges in nation building are primarily at home. And that these are best addressed by ensuring sustained and inclusive economic growth and development," Manmohan Singh said at an annual leadership conclave organised by the Hindustan Times here.

Putting domestic challenges like poverty and issues of economic and administrative reforms above external challenges, he said: "We do face external and global challenges. The global slowdown is a reality, rise of terrorism is also a reality and we have to face these challenges."

"But I sincerely believe that they are nowhere as daunting as the ones we face at home," he said. "If we get our house in order, if we can liberate each and every citizen of this free nation from the tyranny of poverty, ignorance and disease, there is no external challenge that we cannot overcome," he stressed.

Rejecting the clash of civilisations and sectarianism of all kinds, the prime minister said: "Freedom, democracy, pluralism and secularism go together. You cannot have one without the other."

Manmohan Singh identified the pursuit of a peaceful neighbourhood as the third pillar of his vision of "a new India by 2020 and a new South Asia".

"They will remain the three pillars on which the India of 2020 is built. 2020 is not far away," he said.

"India seeks a neighbourhood of peace and progress. We wish our neighbours well," he said. "I do believe our destiny is intrinsically linked with that of all our neighbours. We would like to see them develop and wipe out poverty and overcome the burden of history and we would like to work with them to achieve these goals."

"India is always happy to extend a helpful and supportive hand to all our neighbours. We wish to see democracy take deep roots in all these countries so that the people of South Asia are truly empowered to take their destiny into their own hands."

Without naming Pakistan, the prime minister said India sincerely wished "to resolve all outstanding issues with our neighbours through dialogue and in the spirit of partnership and friendship that should rightly characterise our relations."

CPM targets Mamata for 'Maoist links'

Fri, Oct 30 04:50 AM

Hinting that the Trinamool Congress may have had an implicit role to play in the Rajdhani train siege, the CPM on Thursday asked the Prime Minister to explain why ministers from the party were allowed to continue in the Cabinet despite the "political patronage and protection" they gave to the Maoists.

The CPM claimed that the link between TMC and the Maoists had come out in the open after the party asked for the withdrawal of the central forces from Lalgarh, and were further exposed by Mamata Banerjee's refusal to condemn the siege of the Rajdhani Express train by Left-wing insurgents.

"Ironically, such blatant support for the Maoists and their terrorist activities comes from a party that is in that very Union Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister who on repeated occasions had stated that Maoist violence constitutes the gravest threat to India's internal security," CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in an editorial in the latest issue of party mouthpiece People's Democracy.

Adding to this, claimed Yechury, is Trinamool leader and Union Minister Sisir Adhikari's "boast" to the media that he had "prior knowledge that such an attack would take place". The Prime Minister "needs to probe the source of such 'knowledge' by his ministerial colleague and inform the nation," he said.

Yechury said there is a growing unrest amongst Railway employees as they feel that adequate security has not been provided to protect them from growing Maoist attacks on railway stations, tracks and other railway facilities. "The situation will not improve, they feel, as long as the Trinamool chief is the Railway Minister because of the close political collaboration between them," he said. "These are issues that warrant a serious probe."
Express news service

Govt. released Rs.201.06 crore under MPF scheme to States: Chidambaram

Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Friday said that under the Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) scheme, Rs.201.06 crore was released to the States in October against the total allocation of Rs.1187.50 crore for 2009-10.

While, Chidambaram informed that the Centre-State Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) Project has been signed by 34 States and Union Territories and only one State is yet to sign the MoU.

The report also said that during the month, the Cabinet also approved the National Policy on Disaster Management. It also approved a proposal to strengthen Fire and Emergency services in the country under a Plan Scheme with an outlay of Rs 200 crore during the Eleventh Plan period.

Chidambaram also informed about the proposal made at the Chief Ministers' Conference, and said that the Ministry has approved a scheme for strengthening of special branches in the State with a total outlay of Rs 150 crore.

The State Governments will implement the scheme with technical and financial support from the Intelligence Bureau (I, the report said.

The report also said that Raghu Raman was appointed during the month as the Chief Executive Officer to implement the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid) project.

Raman has agreed to accept this assignment until May 2011, when the project is expected to be fully implemented.

Peaceful State Assembly elections in three States highlight of October, says Chidambaram

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday, while presenting the monthly report of his Ministry, said that the highlight of October was the State Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra, which remained, by and large, peaceful.

Addressing media persons in the capital, Home Minister Chidambaram said: "The highlight of the month of October, 2009 was the Assembly elections held in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra, which he described as, by and large, peaceful. 298 Coys of CPMFs/SAPs/Border Wing Home Guards were deployed for the elections. The sole incident that marred the peace occurred in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, in which 17 personnel of the Maharashtra police were killed. The CPI (Maoist) was responsible for the attack on the police party."hidambaram informed how on October 5, he delivered the sixth Nani Palkivala Memorial Lecture at Mumbai where he appealed to the naxalites to abjure violence and pave the way for the State Governments concerned to talk to them on their demands and include them in the process of development and inclusive growth. "I also appealed to the leaders of civil society to prevail upon the naxalites to abjure violence and take the road of democracy and dialogue," he said.

Talking about his Jammu and Kashmir visit on October 13-14, which was primarily to attend the All India Editor's Conference, Chidambaram informed that he also met the Governor and the Chief Minister of the State. "Following my visit, we have identified a number of issues on which follow up action is being taken by the Central Government and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. We intend to follow up on the promise of "quiet talks, quiet diplomacy" with all shades of political opinion in Jammu and Kashmir."

"A sum of Rs.30 crore was released to Jammu and Kashmir as advance for payment of one-time cash compensation in lieu of appointment in Government service to the next of kin of persons killed by militants. Sanction was issued for release of balance of Rs.5.3 lakh to J AND KAcademy of Art, Culture and Languages, Srinagar," said Chidambaram.

About his Jharkhand visit on Oct. 22, Chidambaram said that he reviewed the development and social welfare schemes of the Government and was briefed on the security situation and the readiness of the State Government to hold elections to the Legislative Assembly and the requirement of police personnel for elections was also discussed. "On my return, the Government recommended the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand with effect from November 1, 2009. The President of India issued a Presidential order to that effect on October 23, 2009. The Election Commission of India has since announced that elections will be held between November 25 and December 18, 2009."

On the issue of Disaster Relief, Chidambaram mentioned that on Oct. 5, he accompanied the UPA Chairperson, and the Andhra radesh Chief Minister and the Karnataka Chief Minister, respectively on an aerial survey of the flood affected areas of ndhra Pradesh and Karnataka. "The Prime Minister also visited Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Following the Prime Minister's isit, the Government announced an advance of Rs.1000 crore each to the two States from the NCCF. Central teams have been ispatched to the two States to make an assessment of the damage due to the floods and submit their reports," Chidambaram nformed.

30/10/2009
Deora sets up Committee to probe Indian Oil fire

Jaipur/New Delhi: While the fire raged on some 20 hours after it broke out at an Indian Oil depot at Jaipur, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora Friday announced a five-member inquiry committee and compensation for the victims.

The blaze broke out in the depot in the Sitapura industrial area, about 20 km from the Jaipur city centre, at 7.15 p.m. Thursday evening. Officials said nine people could have been killed and nearly 150 injured.

As a precautionary measure, the Indian railways has diverted a couple of trains running on the Jaipur-Sawai Madhopur sector.

According to trade estimates, over Rs.500 crore worth of damage has been incurred because of the fire.

While a team led by Indian Oil marketing head D.C. Dagga reached the spot Thursday night, the minister accompanied by Indian Oil chairman Sarthak Behuria rushed early Friday morning to inspect the firefighting and rescue efforts. The IOC chairman has been instructed to personally oversee the operations.

The minister was informed that while the fire has been contained to the installation area, it will only burn out after the fuel stocks finishes.

Indian Oil has rushed firefighting teams from Delhi, Panipat and Mathura, with ONGC sending a support team from Hazira.

According to the ministry, while three persons are confirmed dead, six employees of Indian Oil are still missing. Forty persons were injured and are being treated at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur.

Indian Oil will give an ex-gratia payment of Rs.10 lakh to the next of kin of each employee killed in the blaze, Rs.2 lakh for each of those seriously injured and Rs.1 lakh for those with minor injuries. In addition, the state government has already announced Rs.2 lakh for the families of those who died and Rs.1 lakh for the seriously injured.

Deora also announced that the a high-level enquiry committee has been set up, to be headed by the former chairman and managing director of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd M.B. Lal. It will also include the executive director of Oil Industry Safety Directorate as member secretary, Rajasthan government's principal secretary for mining and petroleum Govind Sharma and two experts from the oil industry.

The committee has been given six weeks to submit a report to the petroleum ministry.

The minister also met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and assured him that supply of petroleum products will not be affected by the accident.

"This will be done by working additional shifts and also working on Sundays," a ministry statement said, quoting the minister.

Hindustan Petroleum, which has recently commissioned a petroleum product terminal at Bagru, near Jaipur on its Mudra-Delhi product pipeline, will take care of the requirements of the products in the area along with other nearby oil depots.

Source: Indo-Asian News Service

Pakistani diplomat knew US LeT planners of India attack: FBI

Washington: A top Pakistani diplomat personally knew David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of carrying out a major terror attack in India for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to the US investigation agency FBI.

Pakistan's Consul General in Chicago, Aman Rashid, knew both Rana and Headley alias 'Daood Gilani', as all the three went to the same high school, the FBI said in a revised affidavit filed in a Chicago court.

However, the FBI's revised charge sheet does not say anything about the consul general having any knowledge of or connection to Headley and Rana's terror conspiracy.

"On or about September 25, 2009, Rana spoke by telephone with the consul general at the Pakistani Consulate in Chicago in an effort to obtain a five-year visa for Headley to travel to Pakistan," the FBI said.

"It is clear from the email traffic unrelated to terrorist plotting that the consul general knows Rana and Headley personally as all three attended the same high school," the FBI claimed.

Rana, 48, and Headley, 49, are not only residents of Chicago, but were the products of the same military school.

American national Headley, whose assistance was sought by LeT in planning a major terror attack in India, was helped by his Pakistani-Canadian friend Rana to obtain a visa for Pakistan so that he could travel to the North West Frontier Province for training and meeting the LeT leaders, federal prosecutors have charged.

The charge sheet also indicates that LeT was planning to use Headley for a major terrorist attack in India.

The transcripts of the taped conversations, both email and telephone, reveal that LeT was planning to use Headley for attack on a mysterious Indian actor 'Rahul' - which Indian intelligence agencies say could be a code message.

Headley stated that he intended to travel to Pakistan in early October to meet with an unidentified LeT Individual 'B' and (Ilyas) Kashmiri, the FBI told the court. It said Headley had already travelled to Pakistan from late January to early March of 2009, during which he visited Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

While it does not identify the high school where the three were students, the FBI told the court that postings to a Yahoo group of graduates of a military school located in the Pakistani town of Hasan Abdal reflected that both Headley and Rana have participated in the group and referred to their attendance at that school.

The group refers to itself as 'abdalians', or almuni of Cadet College Hasan Abdal, located in the historic city of Hasan Abdal, some 40 km northwest of Rawalpindi. It is well known for Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib, one of the most sacred places of Sikhism.

0/10/2009
I am ready to take the next flight home: MF Husain

With Indian government contemplating approaching the Supreme Court for fast disposal of cases against him, veteran Indian artist M F Husain, who is on self-imposed exile, on Friday termed it as the "greatest news" and said he was ready to take the next flight home if his safety is assured.

His remarks came days after Home Ministry sources in New Delhi said cases filed against Husain across the country over his controversial paintings should be brought to a logical end and that the Centre was contemplating moving the Supreme Court for their expeditious disposal to ensure his early return.

'I think this is a greatest news which I was dreaming about for four years. I was expecting this for a long time, after all I love my country, and people love me, except a very few who do not understand the language of modern paintings,' said the 94-year-old painter.
Asked if he could return in December, Husain told NDTV: 'Why December, if today (Home Minister P) Chidambaram gives me a call I will immediately take a plane and go to greet him first".

Husain, whose some paintings depicting Hindu deities in the nude led to protests and threats by saffron outfits, has been living in Dubai and London for the past few years.

He said the fresh indications from authorities were a "positive sign" and expressed trust in the government's ability to protect him.

'If they decide to do it they can, because its a huge big country and a great country,' he said.

'Of course it (India) is a democracy, so many views have to be respected within the framework of the law of the land,' Husain said.

Asked if he stood by his recent comment wherein he questioned the government's ability to protect him given that they had failed to safeguard his works from being vandalised by mobs, he indicated his opinion had changed.

'Till then there was nothing from the government and I was really disappointed by what was happening to me in the last 8-10 years... And now I think it is a very positive sign,' he said.

The Delhi High Court in May last year quashed some of the criminal proceedings against the nonogenarian painter, saying his paintings were an expression of creativity.

India's best-known painter said he was not the first artist to face protests from a section of people, and hoped his detractors would also develop an understanding for his work.

He said people have on several occasions in history protested against new forms of expression and "this is part of history".

'... They are little bit misguided, and so I think may be tomorrow they will understand because anything which is something new... when the impressionists came after the renaissance, there was a huge protest in Paris. They said this is like throwing colour on our faces, they walked out.'

Source: PTI

30/10/2009
No bail for NASA scientist charged with spying

Washington: A leading NASA scientist, credited with helping discover water on the Moon on India's Chandrayaan mission, who has been arrested on charges of spying for Israel was denied bail after prosecutors said he was a "walking safe deposit box" of government secrets.

Judge Deborah Robinson Thursday rejected a bail request from Stewart David Nozette, who was arrested in an October 18 sting operation, saying he was considered too much of a flight risk and should remain in jail pending trial.

Nozette, 52, pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to sell US defence secrets to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an Israeli intelligence officer for $2 million. The Justice Department could seek the death penalty.

Nozette, who had high-level security clearances worked at the US space agency NASA, the Energy Department, and even served on the White House's National Space Council in 1989 and 1990, under then president George H W Bush.

He was one of the main investigators of an American scientific instrument that flew aboard India's lunar craft Chandrayaan-1. His biography described him as the instrument's principal investigator on the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Co-investigator on Mini-SAR on Chandrayaan-1.

The Mini-RF (Radio Frequency) project flew two radar instruments - the first one on ISRO's Chandrayaan called Mini-Sar (synthetic aperture radar), which mapped lunar poles, and the second one on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The American space agency had put another instrument on the Indian lunar probe, Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which effectively proved the presence of water molecules on the moon's surface.

Nozette was known primarily as a defence technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era Star Wars missile shield effort formally named the Strategic Defence Initiative.

Because he knows so many secrets, including about the nation's nuclear missile programme, Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered special communications restrictions placed on him while he's in jail, authorities said.

"The defendant is himself a walking safe deposit box of classified information," said prosecutor Anthony Asuncion. "He is now a treasure trove of some of our most sensitive matters."

The dance of death in in Kanpur (25 years after Indira Gandhi's assassination)

Fri, Oct 30 03:22 PM

Kanpur, Oct 30 (IANS) All hell broke loose in this cramped and crowded city, over 400 km away from the Indian capital, when news of then prime minister Indira Gandhi being assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984, filtered down. What began as sporadic protests on the streets quickly turned into organised violence by evening.

As many as 127 Sikhs and eight non-Sikhs lost their lives in the violence that gripped this city, a major industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. And unlike Delhi where the violence played out for three days, all the killings were carried out over a span of 24 hours - between the night of Oct 31 and Nov 1, 1984.

Armed groups prowling the streets began targeting Sikhs who had to literally run for cover. Their shops were attacked and set ablaze. As evening gave way to night, the mobs, better organised by then, turned wild, raiding predominantly Sikh localities and lynching every Sikh they could lay their hands on.

It began when hoodlums, moving around in groups numbering 40 to 50 people, started pressuring Sikh shop owners and office keepers to pull down their shutters.

Within hours, the marauding mobs fanned out. They began burning vehicles, assaulting Sikh employees returning from their offices and factories after their shifts. Even gurdwaras in certain localities were not spared. Soon they began targeting houses. The attacks became more violent and lethal.

With a population of about three million then, Kanpur was the state's biggest city.

A large chunk of those who spearheaded the violence lived in slums mushrooming in various parts of the city that was until then known as the 'Manchester of the East' on account of its huge textile industry, which is now virtually dead.

Sikh-populated localities like Govind Nagar, Kidwai Nagar, Gumti No.5, Ranjit Nagar, Pandu Nagar, Rajinder Nagar and Daboli bore the brunt of violence. Incidentally, the mobs cutting across party lines knew their victims.

And like in Delhi, the authorities looked the other way as rioters had a field day. The alleged support extended to the mobs by then district magistrate Brijendra Yadav, whose role came in for sharp scrutiny by the Ranganath Misra Commission that was subsequently appointed to investigate the cause of the riots, emboldened the rioters.

Yadav was indicted by the one-man Commission but managed to get away with just a rap on the knuckles.

In his report, Misra, who eventually gave the Congress a clean chit for the riots, went to the extent of condemning Yadav's role. The testimony of Captain Bareth, an officer of the 16 Maratha Light Infantry, who was deployed there after the state government handed over administration to the army, is proof.

Bareth's statement depicts how Yadav refused to sign the handing over papers and how he reportedly abetted in the killing of innocent Sikhs of Kidwai Nagar locality where at least 14 Sikhs were burnt alive and hundreds injured by a mob Nov 1.

Misra said the non-enforcement of prohibitory orders banning the assembly more than five people delayed the imposition of curfew and calling in the army to stand by the civil administration.

While sporadic incidents of attacks on Sikhs were reported also from other parts of the state, including the capital Lucknow, it was incomparable to the systematic carnage carried out in Kanpur.

Sardar Kuldip Singh, a former president of the Akali Dal (Tara Singh group) who single-handedly fought for the victims, is still struggling to get them their compensation.

'Even 25 years after, I am still fighting to get thousands of victims a compensation package that was formally announced by the then government,' laments Singh, who later rose to become a Congress legislator.

Former state governor Moti Lal Vora had in 1995 agreed to compensate victims for the loss of property and life. But his transfer from Uttar Pradesh only complicated matters and those who suffered that fateful night are still running from pillar to post.

'Though the central government ordered a 10-time hike in compensation in 2005, those in Kanpur got nothing as they had not been paid in the earlier package,' observed Singh.

Worse, the hundreds of families who migrated from Kanpur to Punjab following the riots got nothing as a rehabilitation package.

DMK 'diluting' its stand on Mullaiperiyar: Jayalalithaa

Fri, Oct 30 02:42 PM

Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Friday charged Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK government with diluting its stand on the Mullaiperiyar dam issue, indicating a total lack of concern about the rights or needs of the people of the state.

'The minority DMK government's stand on the Mullaiperiyar issue is reminiscent of the story of the donkey progressively getting transformed into an ant,' she said about the alleged 'changing stance' of DMK leader and Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi.

Recalling the DMK's announcement of holding a protest meeting in Madurai Nov 1 against Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, she said in a statement: 'In a show of false bravado, Karunanidhi had announced that, fighting age and infirmity, he would personally address the gathering. Overnight Karunanidhi changed tack. The meeting in Madurai would not condemn Jairam Ramesh or the central government but to voice his protest against the Kerala government.'

She attributed the sudden change in DMK's stand to the raids on the offices of the telecom department by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the spectrum scam.

The DMK's A.Raja is the telecommunications minister.

On DMK's decision to call off the Madurai meeting citing the ongoing case on the dam issue in the Supreme Court, she recalled: 'Karunanidhi conveniently forgot that, a little over a year ago, he had organised a bandh and a protest meeting in Chennai on the Sethusamudram issue even though the Supreme Court was hearing a case on it.'

Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been at loggerheads over the Mullaperiyar dam built under an agreement signed in 1886 between the then maharaja of Travancore and the British administration.

The dam, located in Kerala's Idukki district, serves Tamil Nadu. In recent years, Tamil Nadu has demanded that the storage capacity of the dam be raised from 136 feet (41.5 m) to 142 feet (43 m) to meet the increasing demand of water for irrigation. However, Kerala is seeking the construction of a new dam, contending the existing structure had outlived its life.
Indo Asian News Service

PM asks for states' support to enforce law and order

Fri, Oct 30 12:10 PM

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the central government needs 'active cooperation' of the state governments to enforce law and order in various parts of the country.

Manmohan Singh's remarks came two days after a Delhi-bound train was hijacked by Maoist guerrillas in West Bengal, demanding release of their leader Chhattradhar Mahato.

'We are a democracy. Also there are occasions when there are differences of opinion among leaders in our own coalition. Law and order is primary responsibility of every civilised state and whatever comes in the way of maintenance and enforcement of law and order will be dealt as it is ought to be dealt with,' Manmohan Singh said at the HT Leadership Summit here.

The prime minister was replying to a question on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's 'support' to Maoists following the hijacking of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express complicated the central government's approach in dealing with the Maoist menace.

'India of tomorrow cannot be built from New Delhi alone. We need active cooperation of state governments and that applies not only to developmental process but also enforcement of law and order. We will work with all state governments regardless of their political complexion to strengthen process of law and order,' Manmohan Singh said.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) had Thursday asked Manmohan Singh to probe the 'support' given by Trinamool Congress ministers to Maoist rebels in West Bengal.

The CPI-M had alleged a conspiracy behind the train hold-up in West Midnapore, referring to the hours-long blockade of the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express.
Indo Asian News Service

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Generation next Refugess land in Black Hole INFINITE

2009-10-30T15:02:32+01:00

Littte and Dravid Destiny Tryst as Indonesia 'might expel' refugees and India Denies Tami Refugees CITIZENSHIP. We Bengalies Know Nothing about OUR Kith and KIN.My Niece was in Love with Australia and Now My Son Dotes for Phillipines as GENERATION Next Refugees land in BLACK Hole Infinite!

Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Ninety Two

Palash Biswas

We Bengali Scheduled caste Refugees exiled and scattered worldwide, the Original Aboriginal Black Untouchable negroid Clan since Indian Holocaust, are so engaged in the day to day Near Impossible sustenance, that we happen quite unaware of our kith and clan. Tamil refugees from srilanka are Rehabilitated in DANDAKARANYA and AndamanNicobar Islands side by side, but we have no interaction as we have with the Sikh Refugees in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh!Nevertheless,the Ruling Indian, specialy Bengali Hegemony has launched an Intense Hate Campaign targeted to both kinds of Refugees and Maoists do follow suit.I have encountered Maoists in Karnataka alleging that Srilankan and Bangladeshi Illegal Immigrants have Captured everything in Dandakaranya. As we hear in Uttarakhand Hills nowadays that only Sikh and Bengali Immigrants have caused all the Calamities endangering the Hill people. Even after Six decades and ruled by East Bengal rooted Bengali Zamindars like Jyoti Basu and Clan, the West Bengal GHOTI People do continue to calim that only the East Bengal Refugees have destroyed Bengal whereas Bengal has VIRTUALLY Banished us out of Bngla Geopolitics. Bengali largest Circulated Daily ANANDA Bazar Patrika, the mouthpiece of Ruling Manusmriti Apartheid Hegemony and War Economy, justifies in all possible ways the Infinite Persecution of the Bengali as well as Tamil Refugees, though they dare not to club Tibetan and SIKH Refugees with wretched us. The daily Campaigns for National Deportation Drive and writes EDIT supporting DENIAL of Citizenship and Domicile status for us , Bengali as well as Tamil Refugees. We succeeded to have a Joint Front with the SIKHS but we Never joined the Tamil refugees due to the LITTE HYpe!

My father Pulin Babu had an EXTENDED Family and without any Academia base, he had the Vision to understand our ownversion of the TRYST with DESTINY. He was always Live in touch with his kith and clan. I acompanied him, my poor committed father with unbelievable liabilities across the sub Continent until I succeeded to have a Separate ACADEMIA and professional Identity. I visited the Clan Map with him until Isettled in URBAN Hill Station Nainital andengaged myself in Nationality and environment movements with little bit of Journalism and literature on my part. And thus, I had hardly any time to help my father. My Father`s Cousins expired and the DESCENDENTS reside in Bengal and elsewhere , I Never know.It is the same EXPERIENCE with most of us. Since Indian Holocaust, we are SEPARATED.

A resourceful and committed man like Shankar Chakraborti Visisted ANDAMAN with his family spending Rs. 75 Thousand per head in package and he would get REIMBURSEMENT from hisBank. he visited every site in ANDAMAN avoiding the REFUGEE areas. Bengaliesfrom Wset Bengal including Politiciansdo avoid REFUGEE Settlement as the Tamils replicate the same.What if they practice some EXCURSIONS also seeking new and latest VOTE Bank Equations and bases as Ms MAMATA Banerjee pushing very hard to gain mileage in Uttarakhand, UP and all over DANDAKARANYA eying at our solid carrible mobile Vote bank scattered and unrecognised countrywide and she is CONVERTED in Matua without any sympathy or stance for our people.

Normally, we know nothing about our people the Dravid Nationality as whole in NORTH India! Though Aboriginal Indigenous History and legacy lie with the DRAVID population. We have no interest.

I had some interactions with LITTE and Northeast Extremist groups while I was shooting with Joshy Joseph in Manipur, Imaginary lines! They repent that China NEVER supports their Cause aginst the Popular Hype about Proactive Chinese Interest in India. It wasexposed alsoduring Thundering Spring days in SEVENTIES as CHINA did virtually Nothing to oppose the REPRESSION! Just because the Lackof Chinese Help, North east remains as an integral part of Indian Geopolitics despite so intense Multi Dimensional INSURGENCY. They have to live with us and they know it very well.We are PREDESTINED to livetogether in PLURAL India just because of msot neglected and persecuted HIMALAYAN reality and Relationship!

I talked with GONU who is indulged in the HYPE of Shining Sensex India and have very sweet Dreams as an IIT student should have. he bothers not about the Economy and Privatisation of Knowledge and jobloss as well as Unemployment as far as his Parenst are capable to pay for him.My son TUSSU lives in the same landscape.It is consoling that I was able to talk to the young man landed in Youngistan, but I find myself quite Helpless to locate my only son Partho pratim Tussu now identifying himself as EXcalibur Stevens!

My niece KRISHNA,just passed her Plus Two exams from New delhi was in love with Oceanology as well as AUSTRALIA and I could Convince her the AUSSIE Realities.Now, Tussus has decided for thetime being to settle in PHILLIPINES though depending on VIRTUAL Reality and Online Contact. i may not tell him about the FREE market democracy all over south East Asia and Minority CHINESE Hegemony!

Rather My father was Lucky despite we had very serious IDEOLOGICAL Differences. The problem is the GENERATION NEXT is so ROBOTIC that it has no feeling for anything, personal relations, society, history, art and literature, cultural roots, mother tongue, culture, heritage, legacy, nationality, identity. The CITIZENS of Global Village have no IDEOLOGYat all!

The woman refuses to give her name but says she landed in Manila in 2002 from the southern city of Shishi with her son and his wife, who were escaping China's one-child policy. The couple had a second child in the Philippines and plan to eventually return to Fujian, where the husband runs a clothing factory. Another son and his wife followed for the same reason and are awaiting the birth of their second child. The clothes store was set up to generate an income while they prepare their return to China.

The family are part of a wave of immigrants leaving China even as rapid economic growth is transforming the world's most populous nation. Most head to the US, Canada and other rich western countries, often as illegal aliens. But each year thousands also seek to make their fortunes in a middle-income country growing only half as fast as China.

The trend has created an immigration paradox. The Philippines, perhaps best-known in recent years for its outgoing migrants, has become a destination for immigrants in its own right.

The new Chinese arrivals are drawn by a combination of weak law enforcement and huge fortunes to be made selling cheap Chinese goods to a swelling Filipino middle class. Feeding the growth of that middle class is the one in 10 of the country's 86m people who are working abroad and their remittances, which reached $12.8bn (€9.25bn, £6.2bn) last year and have helped to drive consumer spending and economic growth.

According to Teresita Ang-See, an expert on Chinese in the Philippines, there are 80,000-100,000 illegal or overstaying Chinese nationals in the country, roughly a tenth of the million or so ethnic Chinese living in the Philippines. The latest influx has come in part because of Manila's move in 2005 to liberalise entry procedures for Chinese tourists and investors, a move that helped triple the number of Chinese visitors to 133,000 last year.

But their growing presence in the Philippines is resented by many Chinese-Filipinos who have worked hard to assimilate. Many local Chinese consider the recent arrivals unfair competitors in business and fret that they could stir up resentment of the existing Chinese minority.

The Chinese-language press in Manila is full of bitter exchanges between the new and old immigrants. "Although the new immigrants appear to be better educated, they are considered more uncivilised, uncouth and ill-mannered," says Go Bon Juan, director for research at Kaisa (Unity), a group promoting links between the local Chinese and Filipinos. "Even young students in Chinese-language schools tend to dissociate themselves from classmates who are newcomers."

The resentment is even more pronounced among businessmen, in part because the new arrivals have a "tendency to be brash and pushy in their business transactions", says Mr Go.

Many are drawn to illicit activities such as smuggling and drugs, he says. But they also stand accused of violating the law in more benign ways. Filipino law prohibits non-citizens from retailing but the rules are openly violated by new Chinese immigrants, whereas previous generations would often simply register businesses in the name of Filipino spouses or associates.

There are also questions about how long the new migrants want to stay. Immigration officials say some recent arrivals from China are using the Philippines as a transit point for entry to western countries using fake documents. According to the Bureau of Immigration, eight in 10 of the foreign nationals now caught attempting to enter the US illegally on flights from Manila are mainland Chinese.

"The Chinese come here as legitimate tourists or investors but try to leave for the US or Canada using forged passports or visas," says Danilo Almeda, an immigration spokesman. But "the illegal scheme hurts the Philippines' image and makes life harder for overseas Filipinos who have to face extra scrutiny from immigration officials all over the world", he adds.

http://waketrex.i.ph/blogs/waketrex/2007/07/26/paradox-for-philippines-as-chinese-set-up-shop/

TAMIL EELAM STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Tamil Refugees & Asylum Seekers

"Exile is not primarily a geographical location, it is a state of mind through which one becomes what one has left behind. In the Tamil case many actually become what they have fled from. Between the extremes of the warrior and the victim the refugee must carry out his 'bricolage', assemble the pieces and carry on. For many this life project takes the form of internalised martyrdom, the fight for Eelam being replaced by a longing for Eelam which grows into a constant part of the personality and becomes a counterweight, the counterweight, to the vicissitudes of exile..." Oivind Fuglerud in Life on the Outside : The Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism
"Exile, it is often said, is the nursery of nationalism. If so, then the yearning for a homeland has a long history.." Anthony D.Smith in*Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity, 2004

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Genocide'83 led thousands of Tamils from the island of Sri Lanka to seek political asylum in Tamil Nadu, Europe, North America and Australasia. During the succeeding years, as the conflict in the island increased in intensity, this outflow continued. Article 1A(2) of the International Convention relating to the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as a person who

".......as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it."

Except for seven states (Brazil, Italy, Madagascar, Malta, Monaco, Paraguay and Turkey), all other parties to the Convention apply the refugee definition without geographical or time limitation.

Additionally, the Convention relating to the status of Stateless Persons, the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees , the Declaration on Territorial Asylum , and the Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live provide the international legal frame work relating to refugees and asylum seekers.

During 1984 and 1985, Amnesty International opposed the refoulement of Tamils. On 9 January 1985 Amnesty announced that it believes that, if returned against their will, all members of the Tamil minority have reasonable grounds to fear:

1. that they may fall victim to arbitrary killings by members of the security forces
2. that they may be subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention

But, more often not, the efforts of Charter '87 and Amnesty International notwithstanding, the implementation of the law relating to refugees and asylum seekers has been largely influenced by policy considerations and real politick (both in the West and in India).

"Refugee claimants are among the most wretched people in Canada. They have fled countries where they have been imprisoned for their beliefs, they may have been tortured, their lives may have been threatened. They know no one or almost no one in Canada. They normally cannot speak either French or English. A refugee claim can take years to process before a final determination is reached. Until a person is recognised as a refugee, he is not recognised as a resident, even though he may be here for years. Despite his lengthy stay, he is treated as if he will be leaving in a week or two."

Nirmala Chandrahasan in her well researched 'Study of the Reception of Tamil Asylum Seekers into Europe, North America and India' during the four year period 1983 to 1987 (published in the Harvard Human Rights Yearbook, Spring 1989), commented:

"During this period the greatest number of Tamils - approximately 130,000 - sought asylum in India, separated from the northern start of Sri Lanka by a narrow stretch of sea, the Palk Straits. Approximately 70,000 Tamil asylum seekers went to Europe and North America."

She concluded:

"The treatment of Tamil asylum claims in different jurisdictions highlights two important points about recent developments in the handling of refugees. First, the reception of Tamils in North America, Europe and India indicates the extent to which national policy perspectives have shaped the respective refugee determination processes. .. A second development observed in the practice of Tamil-receiving states is the categorisation of the refugees allowed to stay into subgroups, such as "B status" (in the Netherlands) or "exceptional leave to remain" (in the United Kingdom) or with no designated legal status at all (in India). ..The question remains to what extent the fate of large groups of persons such as the Tamils can be left to the discretion of governments, rather than firmly based within a framework of binding legal norms."

Since 1987, the numbers of Tamil asylum seekers have continued to increase together with a growing determination of Western governments to stem the flow.

"Tamil refugees have a special place in British immigration law and practice over the last few years. Their arrival has provoked restrictive new laws and practices which have tightened British immigration control and made it harsher and less humane for other non-European settlers and refugees as well as Tamils." (Closed Doors: New Restrictions on the Rights of Asylum Seekers - Anne Owers - 1988)

Tamil Asylum Seekers Protesting at London Heathrow, February 1987

Even after the Indo Sri Lanka Accord of 1987, Amnesty International continued to emphasise that there was considerable uncertainty about the safety of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

In 1990, the Minority Rights Group in London, profiled the case of Seenithamby Javanarajah, an asylum seeker, who was deported to Sri Lanka by the British authorities and was tortured on his return to the island.

"During his forced return to Sri Lanka Javanarajah travelled to Jaffna where the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) was responsible for security. A month after his arrival he was detained by the IPKF and made to appear before three hooded informants' one of whom nodded his head when Javanarajah appeared. He was then taken to an IPKF camp, where he was detained, interrogated, kicked and beaten with pipes. He was severely beaten three more times over the next seven days and it was only aver 10 weeks of detention that this family managed to secure his release by bribery."

The presence of Tamil asylum seekers in Germany and Switzerland, brought with it overt racist attacks. In 1991, one Tamil woman asylum seeker was killed in Germany. Widespread protest meetings were held by Tamil associations.

In early 1994 ( in a well documented appeal ), the Swiss Federation of Tamil Associations called upon the Swiss authorities to reconsider their decision to forcibly repatriate Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka and pointed out:

"On 6 October 1993, an European Parliamentary delegation which visited Sri Lanka told the Colombo Press that ''the current situation in Sri Lanka was not conducive for Western governments to return asylum seekers''. These views give the lie direct to the claims sometimes made on behalf of the Sri Lanka government that '' the widespread human rights abuses of the last few years have sharply declined and that the Sri Lanka Government have taken measures to protect the human rights of all its citizens as a result of pressure from bodies such as Amnesty International and donor governments."

The Appeal added:

"May we respectfully say that instead of sending back Tamil asylum seekers to face detention, torture and death in Sri Lanka, the Swiss authorities and others with a liberal conscience should use their not inconsiderable influence and power, to persuade the Sri Lanka government to address the underlying causes of the conflict and recognise the right of the Tamil people to live in their own home land, free from the oppressive rule of a Sinhala dominated Sri Lanka government. "

Again, perhaps not surprisingly, the United States has adopted a particularly restrictive approach to Tamil refugee applicants. ( United States Court Rejects Tamil Asylum Claim - 1995 ). However, the case of Balaranjini Ratnam was an exception to the general approach.

The plight faced by some Tamil asylum seekers was brought to public attention by a 36 year old Tamil asylum seeker in Sweden setting himself on fire on 2 March 1994. The action of the Tamil asylum seeker in Sweden in preferring death, even by fire, to a forced deportation to Sri Lanka shows in stark terms the oppressive ground reality in Colombo and elsewhere in the island of Sri Lanka. ( Tamil Asylum Seeker sets himself on fire in Sweden - March 1994)

On 10 August 1996, the BBC reported an interview with Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar:

"There is no discrimination against Tamils in the country nor is there any danger to their lives, Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar told foreign media personnel recently... (In response to a) question as to the exact truth of the claims made by the Tamil youths overseas who complain that they were discriminated against due to fact that they were Tamils and their lives were in danger, Minister Kadirgamar in his reply said that they make these complaints so that they could seek political asylum in foreign lands. They are, in actual fact, economic refugees..."

Whilst the British Refugee Council publication Sri Lanka Monitor has taken pains to report fairly on the Tamil refugee situation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has played an increasingly controversial role in relation to Tamil asylum seekers and has been criticised for being influenced more by real politick than by humanitarian considerations. The British Refugee Council Sri Lanka Monitor reported in September 1997:

"UNHCR declares in a March Information Note that orderly and safe return of rejected asylum-seekers to their country of origin could safeguard the principle of asylum for those who genuinely need protection. UNHCR further says that rejected asylum-seekers are not singled out at Colombo airport or later and people are treated fairly and humanely during Army security checks.

Human rights agencies say that Colombo conditions for Tamils have hardly changed since the British Refugee Council mission in December last year and its report in February. The situation remains precarious for Tamils with the continuing LTTE threat to the capital. President Chandrika Kumaratunge herself said in August that she was aware of innocent Tamils being detained by security forces for ransom. London-based human rights agency Amnesty International, during its August visit, uncovered evidence of widespread torture, including in Colombo.

Observers say UNHCR's position is prompted by considerations other than the real situation in Colombo. They point to a recently leaked December 1993 internal UNHCR memo from the agency's Sri Lankan Resident Representative to its Geneva headquarters acknowledging that the security situation for Tamils in Colombo had been deteriorating as evidenced by increased arrests.

The memo advises against freezing UNHCR guidelines, which permit Western governments to repatriate Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, on the grounds that frozen guidelines would be difficult to reinstate. Freezing the guidelines would upset the Sri Lankan authorities and in order to reinstate the guidelines the burden of proof that the situation had improved would fall on UNHCR.

The recommendation to continue the guidelines had been taken, according to the memo, on the request of the then Sri Lankan Presidential Advisor Bradman Weerakoon who had pointed out that the human rights implications of a UNHCR statement would far outweigh the consequences of deportations. The memo also says that political implications vis a vis the Sri Lankan government of any UNHCR statement need to be carefully weighed, particularly since it would be used in courts in asylum countries."

The UNHCR stand paved the way for further deportations of Tamil asylum seekers from Europe.

"The governments of Sri Lanka and the Netherlands signed an agreement on 10 September for the forcible repatriation of rejected asylum-seekers deepening insecurity among 350,000 Tamil refugees across the world.

Some 350 asylum-seekers will be returned to Sri Lanka in the next twelve months and the pact is due for review in September next year. Sri Lankan authorities have agreed to issue identity documents to refugees who do not have any travel papers.

The agreement for the return of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers is the second in Europe. Under a January 1994 pact between the Swiss and the Sri Lankan governments 696 rejected refugees have been repatriated in the last 33 months.

In the first eight months of 1997 Netherlands received 14,145 refugees, an increase of 28% compared to 1996, some 1,300 of them from Sri Lanka. A plane carrying 173 Sri Lankan refugees arrived in Amsterdam's Schipol airport in February from the Turkmenistan capital of Ashkhabad causing a furore and allegations of abuse of the asylum system.

Over 15,000 Sri Lankans have sought refuge in the Netherlands since 1984. The Dutch Foreign Affairs minister has concluded that the situation in Colombo is safe for Tamils and quoting international refugee agency UNHCR, claims that those repatriated from other European nations in 1996 and 1997 have had no problem in the Sri Lankan capital.

Refugees are concerned that other European nations may follow suit. Introduction of stricter asylum laws and procedures continue and less than 5% of Sri Lankans are granted UN Convention refugee status in European countries. Several nations, including Denmark and Norway, are deporting Sri Lankans even without formal agreements.

The Danish police have listed 154 Tamils who are in hiding after Denmark began deportations late last year. Sweden introduced a new type of air ticket visa in September for citizens of twelve countries, including Sri Lanka." (British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor, September 1997)

Tamil asylum-seekers in custody for some ten months in detention centres in Australia staged a hunger strike on 12 October 1997 against prolonged detention.

"Tamil asylum-seekers in custody for some ten months in detention centres in Australia staged a hunger strike on 12 October against prolonged detention. Their asylum applications were denied by the Refugee Review Tribunal. They have appealed to the Federal Court and are likely to remain in detention until their cases are heard. Tamil refugee organisations say such detention is a violation of human rights and have appealed to Immigration and Multicultural minister Philip Ruddock. Australian press reports say new legislation is currently being considered to deny appeals to refused asylum-seekers. In July the Immigration Department introduced a charge of $1,000 on unsuccessful applications before leave to appeal was granted. Some 640 applications from Tamils are said to be pending. In July 17 Tamils were found stranded at Coral Bay, 700 miles north of Perth.

There is increasing concern over the plight of Sri Lankans who are stranded in other countries. The Tamil Refugee International Network (TRIN) estimates that over 20,000 Sri Lankans are stranded in over 12 countries in South-East Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, including 5,000 in Russia and 5,000 in Thailand. According to reports, around 1,500 foreigners including 234 Sri Lankans are held in a Lithuanian Army camp. A young couple who returned to Sri Lanka blame their travel agent for the harrowing journey through Moscow and Minsk in Belorussia. They were transported in a container and locked-up in a barn for nine days with meagre food. They walked many miles in the bitter cold before reaching Poland through Lithuania but were arrested and returned to the Army camp in the Baltic state. After receiving some money from relatives in Denmark they were returned to Sri Lanka through Moscow.In the meantime, the Sri Lanka government has continued to persist in its denial that Tamils have a well founded fear of persecution if they return to the island. (British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor, October 1997)

On 18 August 1998, Denmark signed a repatriation agreement with Sri Lanka. The British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor, reported in September 1998:

"Despite increasing signs of tension in the capital, and warnings from human rights organisations, the Danish government has signed a repatriation pact with Sri Lanka. Denmark became the third European country on 18 August to sign an agreement with Sri Lanka for the repatriation of rejected asylum-seekers, following the examples of Switzerland and Netherlands. A number of Sri Lankans had been returned before the agreement was signed.

The repatriation will be phased and the accord envisages the return of 350 asylum-seekers in the first year. ... Two weeks earlier, Emergency rule was extended to the whole of Sri Lanka. NGOs have highlighted the unsafe conditions in Colombo and other parts of the island for Tamils and the continuing violations of human rights."

The Colombo based Human Rights Action Committee ( huract@slt.lk ) in a Press Release on 8 April 1999 declared:

"Veluppillai Balachandran, a 39 year old Tamil refugee, killed himself on the 23rd March 1999, rather than be deported to Sri Lanka. He had previously staged a hunger strike to attract attention to his plight while he was held in the deportation prison (in Moers - NRW) and he had given several warnings to the courts and to the authorities in the deportation prison that he would kill himself rather than be deported to be tortured by the racist Sri Lankan military. Mr. Balachandran's suicide is a tragic indictment of the asylum process in Ger-many where a Tamil who clearly had a „well founded fear of persecution" was rejected as a genuine refugee and thereby left with no option but to kill himself."

The British Refugee Council Sri Lanka Monitor commenting on the plight of Tamil asylum seekers in Germany said:

"Sources say at least 50 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers have been deported from Germany in the last six months. The UK-based National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns says asylum-seeker V Balachandran, 39, committed suicide in a German prison on 23 March, before deportation to Sri Lanka.

The German Foreign Ministry claims that the 700 people disappeared in Jaffna in 1996 were LTTE cadre who had infiltrated the peninsula after its capture by the Army. The Ministry further claims that the Sri Lankan authorities implement the Emergency regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a pragmatic way and regarding torture, have taken steps to improve the situation.

But the US State Department reports that security forces continue to torture and mistreat detainees and the government has not made regulations under torture law to prosecute security personnel. In a March Background Paper, UNHCR, quoting sources, reports on torture, disappearances, extra-judicial executions and mass arrests of Tamils in Colombo.

UNHCR continues its "passive" or indirect monitoring of rejected Sri Lankan asylum-seekers from Switzerland and informally assists Denmark and Netherlands to check on returned refugees. UNHCR also receives information regarding refugee returns from Norway. UNHCR reiterates its view that Sri Lankan asylum-seekers whose claims have been processed through full and fair procedures and found not to fulfil the refugee criteria may be returned safely to Sri Lanka. This, UNHCR adds, does not obviate other reasons for non-return such as is contemplated under the UN Convention on Torture."

http://www.tamilnation.org/refugees/index.htm

Arts and Culture The challenge of China
HINDSIGHT By F Sionil Jose (The Philippine Star) Updated October 19, 2009 12:00 AM
I was a senior in college in 1949 when Mao Tse Tung defeated Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist Army that ended a long and bloody civil war and united a fractured country. The Hukbalahap rebellion had started, the Cold War had reached the Philippines and the Huks and the communists were demonized. Many of us who were matured by World War II recognized the imperative for agrarian reform like China's, for revolution even, and we cheered Chairman Mao's triumph.

To this very day, I continue to admire Chairman Mao and what he had achieved in spite of the calumny heaped upon him, and the excesses of his Cultural Revolution. Knowing a bit of China's history, how this great nation was exploited and humiliated by the European powers and Japan, I share with them their jubilation when, this month, they celebrated the 60th anniversary of their liberation.

I have always desired to visit China to see what Chairman Mao had done. A generation ago, it was near impossible for us to go there. I tried everything, including flattery, but was unable to get there until 1979, when as a consultant to then Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella, I was a member of the 12-member team officially invited by our giant neighbor.

My earliest memories of the Chinese amongst us were my childhood classmates in grade school, sons of a rice trader. It is in childhood, after all, where such friendships are bonded. I was often invited to their house. They had an altar in their living room with lighted candles, a tray of fruits in season and colorful images of their gods. I took these for granted; after all, many Filipino homes also had similar altars.

Then, in Manila in 1938, there was the street corner Chinese sari-sari store near our accesoria from where one can get for free a pinch of salt, a kernel of garlic. The taho vendor in the mornings, and the junk man buying old newspapers and empty bottles were Chinese. And there was the Chinese panciteria, and siopao, and Gandara in Binondo where shoes were cheaper than in those Florsheim and Walkover shops at the Escolta.

When we lived in Hong Kong in the early Sixties, that was where I really got to appreciate Chinese food. Our Chinese amah from Canton showed my wife her resourcefulness; she cleaned chicken intestines and cooked them.

In 1979 China was different, Deng Xiaoping who inspired China's economic emergence had not yet surfaced from the shadows, the Gang of Four was being blamed for the country's backwardness and the communes still thrived.

This was the stock question I asked the cadres everywhere: If you had a choice, where would you like to live and work? Always, the reply was: I will go wherever the Party would send me.

There was this Party official, however, who sought me afterwards and in broken English said he would like to work in the kitchen because food was always there.

Here now is an official statistic: 30 years ago, with 963 million, 30 percent of the Chinese were hungry. Today, with 1.3 billion people, 97 percent of the Chinese have full stomachs.

It is not just a full stomach which should gladden the Chinese — now they have the atomic bomb, and sent a man into space. Only recently, they touted the Olympics and stunned the world. And China today has trillions of dollars, a hoard that can alter the global economy.

How does this magnificent achievement by a people once demeaned and poor relate to us? Today, China wears a smiling face and claims harmony with the world.

But China is expansionist — not because of Tibet, its claim on the Spratleys and Taiwan. It is expansionist for this is the iron law of nations — when they are strong, they expand and covet raw materials; when they are weak, they contract and look for markets.

China's expansionism could afford us opportunities, but there is one niggling doubt in my mind engendered not by this iron law, but by the fact that we have a Chinese minority, people in our midst — a small but powerful minority whose loyalty to this country is in doubt, to whom I now pose this question, if there is ever a war with the Chinese, on whose side will you be?

This doubt, which had cankered me for so long, is assuaged somewhat by two individuals I knew.

Her real name is April. We met in Hong Kong when we lived there in the early Sixties.

She was born in Binondo, in one of those crowded streets alive with the odors of Chinese cooking, chatter and commerce. She was then in her early twenties, fair-skinned like all Chinese, and she spoke Tagalog without any accent. Her family, she told me, was still in Binondo and she was in touch with them. She had gone to one of the Chinese schools, finished high school, then went on to college.

She spoke Fukien and was fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, having lived in Hong Kong at the time that we got there for almost 10 years.

Why was she in Hong Kong?

When the communists took control of China in 1949, she was so enamored with them she decided to go to the mainland to help in the reconstruction of that crippled country. She said she was welcome and was soon involved with the cadres.

She was assigned to different communes where she lived as harshly as the others. She did not mind that. But as time went on, the rigid strictures and the doublethink and doublespeak of the communists started bothering her. The final blow to her sense of dignity came when she was not even permitted to cry, and that was when she decided to flee to Hong Kong.

It was easy for her to find work but not meaning to her life. She pined for the warmth, the smells of Binondo but she knew that if she returned, she would be arrested for being a communist. She was so homesick, came a time when she bought a ticket for Manila on one of the President liners. When the ship docked at the Manila pier, she went to the bridge — the highest she could reach — to gaze at the distant skyline of Binondo beyond the rooftops of Intramuros. Then back to Hong Kong.

I lost touch with April when we left Hong Kong two years later and if ever she reads this piece and is back in Manila, I hope she will reach me.

Then, there is the late Wong Lin Ken, former ambassador of Singapore to the United States and Home Minister of that government. I met him in Hong Kong at one of those beautiful seminars sponsored by the Quakers in the mid-Sixties. There were just four of us at that Kowloon seminar, a Japanese scholar and a Malaysian politician. It was Lin Ken with whom I forged the closest relationship. We all spoke with great frankness. I told him of the latent anti-Chinese feeling of Filipinos, of our apprehension of China, that in the Philippines there is a small but powerful Chinese minority whose loyalty was in doubt.

He tried to allay that apprehension. He was born in Penang in Malaysia, and China was important to him but his feelings for that country were inchoate and not strong at all, for when he was homesick, he longed for Penang, for its beaches, the palm trees the food, satay babi (pork barbecue).

He occupied the distinguished Raffles Chair at the University of Singapore and one afternoon we went around the antique shops looking for a Raffles chair for me to bring to Manila. He said there really was one which was used by Singapore's British founder.

Lin Ken told me his father was so enamored with Abraham Lincoln, he named him after the great American president. He was a perspicacious teacher and innovative thinker who challenged barnacled orthodoxies. We even had a very spirited argument because he maintained that the countries in the region were better off when they were colonized for they had good governments. There is some truth to what he said, particularly when we think of those days when we were an American colony. I reminded him of the logic of colonialism. He said yes — these countries were exploited—but now, they are exploited by their own elites.

Lin Ken was very sensitive — he could not take the stigma when Lee Kwan Yew dismissed him for incompetence as Home Secretary. Shortly after, he committed suicide.

April and Lin Ken touched my life and gave me a precious insight about how some Chinese feel about their roots and their adopted homeland.

But there are Chinese and then there are Chinese, so that this anti-Chinese feeling in Southeast Asia persists in so many forms and is, perhaps, the most vicious in Indonesia where in the recent past, ethnic Chinese were killed.

Still, our region will certainly be dominated by China which will soon be the world's second richest country, ousting that position from Japan which is just as conscious and apprehensive of a resurgent China.

The American hegemony is now challenged; the dollar as the international currency is being questioned not just by China but even by lesser economies which have suffered with the near collapse of Wall Street the other year. Globalization which the United States had promoted is, of course, unstoppable not because the United States desires it but because the economies of different countries are now interlinked. The creation of regional groups is imperative, and such groupings have spurred growth, to wit the European Union, and ASEAN as well. But as Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew insists, Asia needs a continued and strong American presence to give stability to this vast region.

How well can we manage our affairs in these rapidly changing times is doubtful because the Philippine state is weak and political bickering has stymied so much of our potential. Our leaders can do much, but only if they are Filipinos, and not Chinese, Spanish or recalcitrant Indios. In this light I would ask our taipans who wield vast influence what, if at all, they can do to make this unhappy country secure.

Loyalty to Chinese culture should not, must not translate into loyalty to the Chinese state. Those born of Chinese ancestry in this country should not be beholden to the Mainland although their relatives may still be there — this is where they live, where they made their wealth. They must not abandon their culture, which, after all, gives them their truest identity, which after all is respected in this country assuring as it does the diversity that is enshrined in the Philippine Constitution.

Moreover, Filipinos as a whole have so much to gain from the strengths and virtues of the world's oldest civilization.

It is for this reason why many Chinese Filipinos then and now have given so much of themselves, to this country.

It is for this reason why we should appreciate the persistent striving of our ethnic Chinese like Teresita Ang See.

The truth is we are fast becoming, genetically, a mestizo nation.

Way back when I visited Tanauan, in Leyte to meet my wife's aunts and uncles, I saw a photograph of her grandfather who had come to the Philippines at the turn of the last century from Fujian.

He had pigtails.

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Rajdhani CLASS sustains the Interanl Security Hype to Sustain Environment of ethnic Cleansing as India, China, Australia on fast recovery track!US recession ends, unofficially!

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Rajdhani CLASS sustains the Interanl Security Hype to Sustain Environment of ethnic Cleansing as India, China, Australia on fast recovery track!US recession ends, unofficially!

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 413

Palash Biswas

5 Trinamool, CPI-M Leaders Killed in Bengal
Midnapore (W | Oct 29, 2009
In stepped-up violence in West Bengal, suspected Maoists killed three Trinamool Congress members and two CPI-M leaders while abducting three Lefts supporters, a senior official today said.

Two Trinamool local leaders Jalad Baran Kar and Ashis Kar were called out of their homes by unidentified gunmen at Bamundiha village under Belpahari police station in West Midnapore district and shot dead, District Magistrate Narain Swarup Nigam said.

Police sources, however, said the assailants were Maoists.

In neighbouring Bankura district, Trinamool supporter Ajit Das had his throat slit and body thrown into a pond at Sangroghat under Ingas police station, SP Vishal Garg said.

CPI-M local leaders Tapan Mody and Dilip Mahato were taken away by Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) supporters from Raghunathpur and Goaltore areas in West Midnapore district last night and their mutilated bodies found today, police said.

Three CPI-M local committee members -- Ratan Patra, Gadadhar Patra and Kartik Dey -- were abducted from Goaltore in the same district during the day in retaliation for the kidnap of a PCPA supporter from Hatipota village yesterday allegedly by Marxists, they said.

Michelle Obama’s advise: Do not fall for cute looks
London: US First Lady Michelle Obama has advised young women of her country not to choose life partners on the basis of looks.

In an interview by TV news anchor Katie Couric for Glamour magazine's December issue, American President's Barack Obama's wife insisted that a person's physical features are transitory.

"Cute is good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, Who are you as a person? Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul," the Telegraph quoted her as saying.

She added: "When you're dating a man, you should always feel good. You shouldn't be in a relationship with somebody who doesn't make you completely happy and make you feel whole."

Michelle revealed that the people who have inspired her in life are her parents.

She said: "They were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modelling was immediate, it was touchable "Children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.

"That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference."

Michelle further mentioned that she understands the public attention she receives because of her position and role as the leading lady of the nation.

She added: "People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions, particularly when you're the First Lady; you're representing the nation.

"So I can't be surprised that people are interested. But I've tried to be at peace with the choices that I make first, and then be open to everyone else's reflection.

"I have always tried to put my kids first, and then put myself a really close second, as opposed to fifth or seventh. One thing that I've learned from male role models is that they don't hesitate to invest in themselves."

Source: ANI

US recession ends, unofficially
Reuters

Washington The US economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year, beating market expectations, as consumer spending and new home-building rebounded, signaling the end of the worst recession in 70 years.
The Commerce Department, in its first estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product on Thursday, said the economy grew at a 3.5 per cent annual rate, the fastest pace since the third quarter of 2007, after contracting 0.7 per cent in the April-June period.

The growth pace in GDP, which measures total goods and services output within US borders, was above market expectations for a 3.3 per cent rate. The economy last grew in the second quarter of 2008.

"Better than expected GDP is confirming that the Great Recession has ended," said Kevin Flanagan, fixed-income strategist for Global Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley in Purchase, New York.

"The question going forward is, is this more of a statistical recovery or are we going to get some meaningful momentum on a sustained basis."

US stock index futures prices rose after the economic data. The dollar rose against the yen, and US government debt prices extended their decline on the better-than-expected reports.

Recessions in the United States are dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the private-sector group often takes months to make determinations. The economy slipped into recession at the end of 2007 and has been in the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The third-quarter recovery was generally broad-based, with solid gains in consumer spending, exports and home construction.

It was also driven by government programs like the popular discount on some new motor vehicle purchases, which stimulated auto sales and production, and a $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers.

The auto discount program ended in August and the home tax credit is due to expire next month. In the absence government support, there are fears that the sprouting economic recovery could falter, with rising unemployment also inflicting damage.

Consumer spending, which accounts for over two-thirds of US economic activity, surged at a 3.4 per cent rate in the third quarter, the fastest advance since the first quarter of 2007. Spending fell at a 0.9 per cent rate in the previous quarter.

Residential investment, which was the main force behind the downturn, jumped at a 23.4 per cent rate in the third quarter, contributing to GDP for the first time since 2005, after declining 23.3 per cent in the April-June period.

The surge in consumer spending and residential investment was likely driven by government stimulus programs.

The economic recovery in the third quarter was also supported by a sharp moderation in the pace of inventory liquidation by business. Business inventories fell $130.8 billion, slowing from a record $160.2 billion plunge in the second quarter.

The change in inventories added nearly 1 per centage point to real GDP in the third quarter.

Analysts are hoping that the slowdown in the inventory decline by businesses will continue to support the economy in the fourth quarter, even as consumer spending is expected to retreat under the weight of the worst labor market in 26 years.

Excluding inventories, GDP rose at a 2.5 per cent rate compared to a 0.7 per cent increase in the second quarter.

The weak dollar boosted exports, but a rise in imports subtracted from real GDP during the quarter. Federal government spending contributed to growth, but both state and local governments were a drag.

Business investment fell at 2.5 per cent pace, with investment nonresidential structures dropping 9 per cent, a reflection of ongoing problems in the commercial property market.

A separate report from the Labor Department showed the number of US workers filing new claims for jobless benefits dipped by 1,000 last week to 530,000 last week.

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast claims to fall to 521,000 last week from 531,000.

Continued claims of people still on jobless aid after an initial week of benefits slid by 148,000 to 5.797 million in the week ending October 17. It was the lowest reading since March.
Reuters

Rajdhani Express Hijack Drama has exposed the Internal SECURITY Hype as the Minority dominating Ruling class does EVERY Thing to ENSURE the Environment of ETHNIC Cleansing and Media follows suit.On the other hand, ECONOMIC Reforms PUSHED Further with Military Option and Zero Intolerance with all kind of VOTE Bank Turnaround and Multi dimensional HYPOCRICY as clear in the Ruling manusmriti hegemony in Bengal as India, China, Australia on fast 'recovery' track, claims International Monetary Fund to give Chettiyar Chidambarma Nilekani and Montek Singh AhluwaliaFREE and Indian Incs FREE Hands !We as Railway COMMUTERS suffer so much in day to day life, NO ONE cares. During Every bandh and Political Flare up, on Religious occasion Railway as well as Roadways TRAFFIC remain Standstill. No one initiates to resolve the stand off continuing for days. Railway Security for ordianry Trains, means NOTHING. We remain Hostage during our Travel dependent on Destiny!But an ELITE Train destined to New delhi is stopped during a Bandh and it creats National Calamity unprecedented without no clue, no virtual follow Up!Meanwhile, Home Minister P Chidambaram today hit out at CPI(M) for seeking to link Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee to Rajdhani Express hijack and talked tough on Maoist violence, saying no democracy can accept "violence as an instrument of change".

I have been writing so often that neither Terror nor Insurgency may BLOOM without Hegemony protection. One or the other faction supports and protects specific groups. We saw in happen in Punjab and the Nation Faced the consequences. It is happening in the North East since the Beginning. Political parties and politicians NURTURED Maoism it is no secret. Latest example is ULFA as the pro-talk faction of ULFA''s 28 Battalion today held talks with a Central representative for the first time, raising hopes for negotiations with the banned group fighting for a separate state. Pro-talk leader Mrinal Hazarika told reporters that initial parleys were held with Additional Director of Intelligence Bureau R N Ravi.

"We told the senior officer to ensure that the dialogue process be speeded up and our demands discussed to reach a political solution to our problems," Hazarika said. The meeting was held at an undisclosed location with the government officials refusing to provide details.There was no representative of the state government in the meeting, he said.

The central government Thursday initiated the first round of formal talks with the pro-talk faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), brightening hopes that the deadlocked peace process would get a boost.

Rivals best known as Committed enemies not as Politicians, Ms Mamata Banerjee, the Railway Minster as well as the chief Minister of bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Key power stones of the MDC hegemony in India, appear with Soft Stance against so called maoist menace eying at the next Assembly elections! As the Railways has lodged a complaint against 'unknown persons' for the seizure and release of Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express in West Midnapore district yesterday.How FUNNY! They charge against each other and Never do EXPOSE the Contradictions in practical Maoism or Marxism, both indulged in Promoting Freem market democracy and ethnic cleansing, genocide culture!On the other hand, Kishanjee, the Revolutionary Hero created by Media only comes to defend Ideology non Existing !

The CPI(Maoist) today rubbished charges levelled by the CPI-M that Trinamool Congress was patronising Maoists, saying the Left party was trying to keep itself afloat by making such allegations.

"There is no need for us to have the CPI(M) or the Trinamool Congress as allies," Maoist leader Kishenji told PTI on CPI(M)'s allegations that the outfit was protected by TC.

"It is not only Sitaram Yechury, but all top CPI(M) leaders have lost touch with the people and are trying to create a sensation," Kishneji said.

On the CPI(M)'s contention that Trinamool leader and Union Minister of State Sisir Adhikari had prior knowledge of the attack on the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express on October 27 in West Midnapore district, Kishenji claimed that even he was not aware of it.

"I don't know who had prior information about the Rajdhani Express blockade. Even I didn't have any information about it. The tribals blocked the train during a bandh called by them. This is normal," he said.

"When all parties have the democratic right to protest and call bandhs, why not tribals?" he asked.

Amusingly, maistream Political parties believed to be DEMOCRATIC, sparred over the Rajdhani express hostage drama in West Bengal with the CPI-M accusing Trinamool Congress of having a hand and providing "political patronage" to extremists while the Congress dismissed these charges as "baseless and ridiculous."

The daring action by a Maoist-backed group of tribal activists holding up the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani in West Midnapore district yesterday triggered a fresh round of attack by the CPI-M against the Trnamool. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool was accused of being "in collusion" with these disruptive forces.

It was known that Trinamool and Maoists were working" in collaboration" in Bengal, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said.

"All this clearly points out that there is political patronage, otherwise these kind of things cannot possibly happen.

Trains delayed and cancelled, but Railway informs very late. trains STRANDED, No bail out. only today, I stood and waited for Airport Princepghat Down local half an hour past the scheduled time. It happens often that for hours,we NEVER know whether the sceduled train is cancelled. We face the problem so often. Any procession, Immersion may stop any train, BUT a RAJDHANI Express may not be stopped. If Stopped , it might be a MAOIST Action and the Government of India should engage itself in Security Drill. What follows next to the Rajdhani Express, no mention of PCPA or Maoists!

Only the Rajdhani express People seem to pay the fare and we bear not anything for Indian Railway and travel without Tickets! Is it ? Do we the Ordinary commuters not pay any TAX?

have your Heart beating as it would stop no where and India is shining we are Nuclear super Power aligned with Warmonger Corporate Imperialism and ZIONISM. MDC holds on the FREE market Democracy and we the majority wretched , enslaved masses have no RIGHT at all!

The IMF said on Thursday the economies of India, China and Australia were recovering especially rapidly, suggesting it notices growing pressures for authorities there to tighten monetary policy ahead of others in the region.

Charging Trinamool Congress with patronising and protecting Maoists, the CPI(M) demanded a thorough probe into the holding up of the Rajdhani Express in West Bengal and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to explain the role of central ministers in this regard.
Alleging that Trinamool leader and Union Minister of State Sisir Adhikari had "boasted to the media that he had prior knowledge that such an attack would take place," the party demanded that the Prime Minister "needs to probe the source of such 'knowledge' by his ministerial colleague and inform the nation."

Senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's first reaction to the incident was that CPI(M) cadres had blocked the train "to malign her", a statement "typical of the usual hyperbole and absurdity".

"However, when the graffiti exposed the perpetrators of this outrage as belonging to the Maoists, she expressed her desire for a dialogue and even conveyed to those holding the train hostage to suggest a venue," he said in an editorial in party organ 'People's Democracy'.

Superintendent of Railway Police Saugata Sen said today the complaint was lodged by Government Railway Police (GRP) at Jhargram in the district last night.

The complaint was against "unknown persons" and did not name anyone, he said.

Armed members of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities, believed to be around 400 in number, ordered the two drivers of the train to alight and not to take it forward after they brought it to halt placing a tree branch on the tracks at Banstala, 10 km from Jhargram station.

The activists had also taken away the drivers which held up the train for seven-and-a-half hours, while the pantry car and passengers luggage were reportedly looted.

The drivers were accused by the agitators of running the train when an indefinite bandh against "atrocities" by the joint forces during the anti-Maoist operations in troubled Lalgarh.

The train left after the joint forces arrived at the spot late in the evening after the agitators withdrew.

The bandh which began yesterday was continuing with PCPA members torching a car at Kushabani forest for defying the shutdown, police said.

In Kolkata, Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakraborty held a high-level meeting.

Meanwhile the state government said it would take up with the Railways the issue of providing security to certain trains passing through Kharagpur and Jamshedpur divisions.

Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said, "Daily 35 trains, including eight to ten long distance ones, pass through these areas. The situation demands armed escorts, pilot engines and sanitising of tracks be ensured for them."

Stating that such measures were in place in ultra-affected areas of Chhatisgarh, Assam and the Northeast, Sen said, "We are considering such measures in trains in our state. A 42-45 km stretch between Kharagpur and Chandil is the most vulnerable."

The Home Secretary, however, admitted the measures were resource-intensive.

Earlier, top brass of the Eastern and South Eastern Railway also held a meeting on strengthening security on the trains and tracks.

A day after detention of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express along with passengers by Maoist-backed tribals in West Bengal, Orissa government today identified at least seven rail routes "vulnerable" to the attack, official sources said.

The routes identified as "prone" to Maoist attack are located mostly in Koraput, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Jajpur, Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts.

"The routes were identified on the basis of past Maoist attacks," special secretary, Transport and Commerce Department, G C Ray told PTI adding special security measures were being made in the routes for safety of passengers.

The routes identified are: Rourkela-Bimalagah-Kiribur, Rourkela-Jariekela, Boinda-Jujumara, Tamka-Keonjhar, Rayagada-Koraput, Koraput-Gorapur and Rayagada-Jhimiripeta lines.

The district Superintendent of Police (SPs) have been directed to make adequate arrangement for passenger safety in consultation with the Railways, sources said.

Though 17 of the state's 30 districts were affected by the Maoist menace, many of them were not connected by train, they said, adding Rayagada-Koraput, Rourkela-Bimlagarh-Kiribur routes are highly vulnerable.

"Trains from Orissa will be provided with security up to Kharagpur on Howrah-Chennai line," said Railway SP R K Bal, adding the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express today left the station here amid security after through check-up.

Sniffer dogs were pressed into duty before a green signal was given to the train this morning.

While both the state police and the railways sounded confident of security in the train, the passengers were free from fear.

"I am not sure whether we could reach Delhi safely," a woman passenger told reporters before boarding Rajdhani along with her two daughters.

An armed jawan was deployed in each bogie of the train besides Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel, they said.

CPM treads cautious line on anti-Naxal ops, reports manoj C G in Indian Express! Please read what he writes:

New Delhi While West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has resolved to take on the Maoists with the backing of his party, there is a muted concern among sections of the CPM over the collateral damage the offensive may bring, especially at a time when the Left as a force is losing its grip in the state and Assembly elections are approaching.
Although the CPM is united in arguing that the Maoists must be dealt with firmly, the party is worried about the growing perception that the state is slipping into anarchy. The dilemma is also over whether to go hard at the Maoist sympathisers, especially the intellectuals and tribals, as this could spawn discontent that could cost the Left dearly. The party and its government, many leaders agree, are caught between the devil and deep sea.

The CPM is under tremendous pressure from its cadres on the ground who are being attacked by the Maoists on a regular basis. “They want the government to go hard at the Maoists and their demand is in a way legitimate. But the state government will have to be extra careful. The Maoists and the Trinamool workers will pounce upon us if innocent people are in any way targeted,” a senior CPM leader said.

“The action against Maoists has to be very effective. But in the name of action, if we fall into the trap of the Maoists and hurt people who are innocent, that will be unfortunate,” CPM central committee member Nilotpal Basu said. Sources said the party has advised the Bhattacharjee government to tread cautiously.

The CPM has also fast-tracked its efforts to “isolate” the Maoists politically, sources said. The idea is to wage a political campaign discrediting the Maoists as “murderers” and “extortionists” and rob them of their “ideological pretensions”. Efforts are also on to woo the tribals, among whom the Maoists have a significant base. The CPM’s youth wing DYFI has already begun efforts in this direction.

“In Tripura, we have a formation called the Tribal Youth Federation. We are planning to replicate the model in Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh,” DYFI national president P Sriramakrishnan said. The DYFI recently held a National Tribal Youth Convention in Ranchi where it finalised a blueprint for action.
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"In a few special cases...the recovery is advancing so rapidly that output gaps are already starting to close and pressures are already emerging," the International Monetary Fund said in a regional economic outlook report, released in Seoul.

It called the three economies special cases, while adding a tightening of monetary policy seemed unnecessary elsewhere in the region in the near future.

The comments add to growing expectations among global traders that some major emerging economies would start to raise interest rates and remove stimulus measures far ahead of advanced economies.

Australia's central bank already raised its interest rate this month, becoming the first major economy to tighten monetary policy since the financial crisis started.

The Indian central bank on Tuesday laid the groundwork for a rise in interest rates by tightening credit to the commercial property sector, lifting its inflation forecast and warning of the threat of asset price bubbles.

The IMF upgraded economic growth forecasts for Singapore for 2009 and 2010 from its previous projections announced on Oct. 1, but did not elaborate.

The IMF said the recovery in the region was tentative and that the pick-up in economic activity had so far been supported by factors that were either temporary or could turn out to be so.

"The risks of inflation at present are low. In most countries, large output gaps are likely to persist for some time and are even expected to widen next year in many cases, as growth is projected to remain below potential," it added.
It also advised Asian central banks not to raise interest rates only to calm asset price growth, saying lifting rates ahead of advanced economies could attract "carry trade-type" capital inflows and aggravate asset price pressures.

"For all these reasons, it would seem preferable, at least initially, to address incipient asset price pressures through targeted prudential measures rather than the blunt instrument of monetary policy," it said.

The Washington-based organisation did not specify economies facing particularly serious asset price pressures.

have your heart and mind INTACT as the Supreme Commander of the GALAXY empire, Barck Obama signed legislation Wednesday that extends existing hate crimes laws to attacks motivated by gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.

The legislation, which had stalled in Congress for years, marks the first major victory for the gay rights community since Obama came into office in January. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes bill was approved by US lawmakers earlier this month.

Shepard was a gay college student who was brutally killed in 1998 in Wyoming. Byrd was an African-American man chained and dragged to death that same year on the back of a pickup truck by three white men in Texas.

"After more than a decade of opposition and delay, we've passed inclusive hate crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray, or who they are," Obama said.

Members of Shepard and Byrd's family were at the White House signing ceremony and Obama planned a separate reception later Wednesday.

The law allows prosecutors to tack on additional punishment for crimes they believe are motivated by hatred of a certain group. Hate crime laws already exist for race, colour, religion or national origin.

The bill was approved as part of the defence department's annual budget for the fiscal year 2010.

Meanwhile, a team of Indian investigators will travel to the United States next week to question David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for plotting terror-attacks overseas, including India.

The team comprising officials of the Intelligence Bureau and Research and Analysis Wing will travel to the US to question Headley next week, official sources said on Thursday.

They said the US has already shared with India some information gathered during the investigation of the case and interrogation of Headley. The US has also sought cooperation of India to further collaborate the information provided to them by the American national, who was arrested early this month by FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel to Pakistan.

The team will also try to get information about Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana, who was arrested along with Headley, the sources said.

According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmir and several unidentified leaders of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Kashmiri is the operational chief of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir section of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami , a Pakistani-based terrorist organisation having links with the Al Qaeda.

Chidambaram Flays CPI-M for Linking Mamata to Hijack

Home Minister P Chidambaram today hit out at CPI(M) for seeking to link Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee to Rajdhani Express hijack and talked tough on Maoist violence, saying no democracy can accept "violence as an instrument of change".

"CPI(M) seems to know more about what is happening in Trinamool Congress than what is happening in West Bengal. I think these are baseless charges," Chidambaram told reporters when referred to CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat's charge that Banerjee was linked to the hijacking.

"Just because CPI(M) and Trinamool are opposed in West Bengal, responsible political leaders should not hurl charges against other equally responsible leader," he said, adding, "I am not at all happy that such charges should be levelled against a political leader."

Karat had yesterday suggested that People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), which detained the train carrying about 1,200 passengers, had political patronage of Mamata Banerjee, the Railway Minister.

Chidambaram said there was no intelligence input to suggest that the train would be detained in West Bengal on Tuesday and a probe is being conducted to ascertain who was behind the act.

He said if anyone in the government knew that Rajdhani Express would be detained, it would have made an attempt to nip it in the bud.

On the government's approach to deal with naxalism, the Home Minister said, "I have already stated our position. We do not accept violence and our security forces will act against anybody or group which engages in violence."

"The only thing I have been saying is abjure violence, we are willing to talk," he said.

"As long as they don't abjure violence, is it not the duty of the state -- central government and state government -- to take action against those indulging in violence?... Violence is unacceptable, violence must stop," he emphasised.

Describing the Rajdhani Express episode as a wake-up call, Chidambaram said violence hitherto used to take place in remote places but when it happened with Rajdhani train, people woke up.

"Today, violence is against a police officer, it can be against 1,200 passengers in a train....I have been giving this wake-up call for several months," he said.

Disagreeing with the contention by some quarters that the government was at "war" with the naxals, he said this word is used only by CPI(M) and the media. "No civilised society will go to war against its own people but people will have to stop violence."

On Karat's contention that the centre was not ready for a joint operation against the Maoists in West Bengal, Chidambaram said the CPI(M) leader "should talk to his Chief Minister, he will tell him the actual situation."

The Home Minister said "maximum forces" have been given to West Bengal for three districts where militants are operating.

"The Chief Minister is fully aware of all the action that has been taken. I have briefed the Chief Minister personally," he said.

While talking about the ways to deal with naxalism, Chidambaram referred to an effort by Digvijay Singh as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh while dealing with a violent group in Balaghat.

Singh had proposed to reduce police presence if there was no violence for three months.

Chidambaram, however, said it did not mean that that particular example would work everywhere.

Trinamool Rubbishes CPI(M)'s Demand for Probe

The Trinamool Congress today rubbished CPI(M)'s demand for an enquiry into the role of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee during the seizure of the Rajdhani Express by Maoists on October 27.

"CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury has cast aspersions on the Railway Minister's integrity though her utmost priority was to save the lives of the passengers and she could not afford to take any extreme step at that moment of crisis," TC leader Partha Chatterjee told PTI.

"It is madness on the part of CPI(M) leaders to demand a probe against her role during the crisis," he said.

"Trinamool Congress has no connection with Maoists. Time and again Mamata Banerjee has said that she was against killing of individuals, violence and use of arms. She believes in non-violence."

Chatterjee pointed out that she had adopted the Gandhian method of going on fast in the past for the cause of the farmers of Singur for 25 days.

He said that the CPI(M) instead should ask for a probe into the alleged illegal stock-piling of arms by its cadres for use against opposition parties in the state.

The people, he said, should know why the ruling party was in dilemma to ban the Maoists in West Bengal when several other state governments had done so.

Maoist Problem to be Dealt in a Holistic Way: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today parried a question on West Bengal government swapping arrested tribals for release of a policeman abducted by Maoists.

"Well, it would not be proper for me to comment on any state government. I refuse to enter into any argument with anybody on that," he said when asked to comment on West Bengal government negotiating with the Naxals.

On Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's reported remarks that there were no Maoists in the country, Singh said he had not seen the statement of his cabinet colleague.

"I have not seen this statement of the Railway Minister. Obviously, the Maoist threat is a reality and the Government of India is duty bound to deal with it in an effective manner," he said.

Asked about CPI(M) allegations about Banerjee "colluding with Maoists" and a letter the Left party had written to him, Singh said that he had read it in the newspapers.

"I have not seen the letter the CPM people have written to me. When I go back, I will look into the letter and its contents," he said.

The Prime Minister said the Maoist problem has to be dealt with "in a holistic way" through a two-pronged approach of enforcing law and order and carrying out development simultaneously.

Cong Accuses Maoists of Being Anti-People

In the backdrop of holding up of Rajdhani Express in West Bengal, Congress today accused the Maoists of being anti-people, anti-poor and anti-development who are indulging in mindless violence.

"They are anti-people, anti-poor and anti-development. Their policy of blocking development, roads and electricity cannot be called pro-common man," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.

Referring to the Congress plank of aam aadmi (common man) and the violence perpetrated by the Maoists, Singhvi said, "This is a tragic invocation of the common man. They swear in the name of common man and supposedly act on behalf of the common man but have indulged in mindless violence since 1996."

He said since 1996 alone, they have killed 6,000 people and were indulging in unthinkable madness.

Accusing the Maoists of unleashing a "reign of terror", Singhvi said if they have the guts, they should join the mainstream and start a dialogue process.

He said every state government has policies and programmes and each of the grievances of the Maoists can be looked into.

While condemning the violence, the spokesman called upon the Maoists to join the mainstream, saying there was no such thing as "desirable violence".

Singhvi dubbed CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat's allegation of involvement of a Union Minister in Maoist violence as "baseless, mindless and ridiculous".

"This is baseless, mindless and ridiculous...Such allegations cannot be dignified with a reply. No attempt has been made to provide an iota of evidence."

The spokesman advised leaders of political parties to exercise a sense of responsibility so that the national focus on Maoists is not diluted. "Such things cannot be taken lightly."

Asked who was responsible for the train incident as law and order was a state subject, Singhvi said if an issue of law and order is involved, it is a state matter. He, however, hastened to add that the Home Ministry is always ready to provide every possible help.

To a question if the party favoured joint Centre-State offensive against the Maoists, Singhvi replied in the affirmative saying, "Violence of this kind is a national threat. It cannot be tolerated."

He said the Centre had men, material and equipment to deal with the situation.

On his party's ally Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's demand for invocation of Article 355 and 356 in West Bengal and the use of army against the Maoists, Singhvi said it was a "matter of constitutional procedure".

"It is out of place for me or anybody to comment on it," he said, indicating that the constitutional procedures would have a precedence over the demands of an individual.

To a query on Banerjee allegedly taking the support of Maoist organisations for the protest in Singur and Nandigram, Singhvi shot back, "How can you link the two? (Nandigram-Singur and train hijack.) While Singur and Nandigram was a genuine issue, it cannot be linked with the train incident."

When pointed out that successive Congress governments in states have not followed land reform programmes leading to growth of Maoist organisations, Singhvi said that since 1950, several Congress state governments have initiated a series of such programmes.

He said there could be some scope for improvement and land reform programmes can be done in a democratic set up in a democratic manner.

CPI(M) Accuses TC of Giving Political Patronage to Naxals

The CPI(M) today hit out at the Trinamool Congress (TC) blaming it for seeking the stoppage of anti-Maoist operations in West Bengal and providing "political patronage" to extremists.

Demanding that the Prime Minister should explain how union ministers of Trinamool Congress were opposing the decision of the Centre on sending forces to fight Maoists, the party also alleged that attacks on railway property had risen since Mamata Banerjee took over the Railway Ministry.

Reacting to the Rajdhani Express episode in West Bengal yesterday, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said it was well known that Trinamool Congress and its leadership had "opposed police operations in Lalgarh. In fact they asked for the recall of central paramilitary forces."

Asked about Banerjee's comment that the incident was aimed at maligning the railways, he said the Trinamool was "in collusion with these disruptive forces, and therefore their accusations will carry no credibility."

Karat told reporters that since March, 65 CPI(M) cadres and supporters "have been killed for opposing Maoists politically. Otherwise why should they kill us? They are not killing other party people."

He said "the front (People's Committee against Police Atrocities), which the Maoists are utilising, and who are active in the Lalgarh area, are the same forces which have stopped this train."

Urging the Prime Minister to explain how central ministers were demanding ending anti-Maoist operations in West Bengal, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said Trinamool Congress was focussing on the 2011 West Bengal assembly polls.

"Clearly, they are taking Maoist help. That is the politics amidst which all this is being allowed to be done," he said, adding that the Railway Minister has herself indicated that she is prepared to negotiate.

"Negotiate what? Negotiate the release of a person who was earlier a Trinamool leader and has now joined Maoists," Yechury asked, alleging that since Banerjee took over as the Railway Minister, "attacks on railway property by Maoists have grown very sharply."

Indicating a plan, he said the Rajdhani being a fast-moving train cannot be stopped the way it was done yesterday. "Here you have it stopping very peacefully, then you have this attack which is conducted with all the graffiti asking for the release of Chhatradhar Mahato (PCPA chief) who everybody knows was a Trinamool leader earlier."

It was known that Trinamool and Maoists were working "in collaboration" in Bengal. "It is also known that central ministers have been arguing for the withdrawal of central forces from Bengal in the anti-Maoist operation."

"All this clearly points out that there is political patronage, otherwise these things cannot possibly happen. You are in political collaboration with a certain force whom you are protecting, that is the political patronage being given to Maoists," Yechury said.

Opinion
War Cries Won't Win This War
A state perceived by the community as caring for the people has greater chances of prevailing over the Maoists than one seen as indifferent to the people's problems.
B. Raman

Since 9/11, one talks of old and new terrorism and modern and post-modern terrorism. The reference is to the modus operandi (MO) and tactics used by the terrorists and their ability to use modern scientific and technological innovations for planning and committing acts of terrorism. Their use of modern innovations increases the lethality of their acts of terrorism, but, at the same time, increases their vulnerability to neutralisation by the security agencies. One saw in Mumbai in November, 2008, how the terrorists' use of modern means of communications facilitated not only their acts of terrorism, but also the investigation by the police.

After 9/11, the Neo Taliban of Afghanistan, headed by Mulla Mohammad Omar, has emerged as a modern insurgent force capable of planning and launching conventional-style attacks as well as sophisticated, complex, multi-target and multi-MO attacks involving the use of modern means of communications and weaponry. This should account for its successes against the NATO forces and the Afghan National Army (ANA) in certain areas and its vulnerability to neutralisation by the NATO forces in other areas due to the interception of its communications.

As compared to the Neo Taliban, the Maoist insurgents of the tribal belt in Central India are an old-style insurgent force still using tactics and MO such as ambushes, attacks with landmines and conventional weapons etc of the kind used by the communist insurgents of Malaya in the 1940s and of Myanmar and Thailand in subsequent years. Their strong points are not their weaponry, but the support from large sections of the tribal community in whose midst and on whose behalf they operate, their superior knowledge of the terrain and their non-dependence on modern means of communications.

The support of the community and their non-dependence on modern means of communications should explain the difficulties faced by the intelligence agencies in collecting human and technical intelligence about them. Their superior knowledge of the terrain gives them an advantage over the security forces. Clandestine, undetected movement through the terrain comes easily to them, but not to the security forces heavily dependent on modern means of transport for their movement.

The objective of any counter-insurgency strategy against the Maoists should be not to defeat them, but to deny them successes through better tactics and better MO by the security forces. This would be possible only with the support of the tribal community. Winning over the tribals through better governance, better development and better redressal of their grievances against the state has to be the core component of this strategy. Disproportionate use of force against the Maoists and the tribals supporting them would drive more tribals into the arms of the insurgent leaders.

Better tactics and better MO by the security forces would mean better capability for the detection and neutralisation of landmines, better skills in ambushing insurgent groups on the move and a capability for rapid intervention. The facts that there have been more instances of successful ambushes by the insurgents of the security forces than of the insurgents by the security forces, that deaths of members of the security forces due to landmines continue to be high and that a group of insurgents managed to stop the Rajdhani Express from Bhubaneshwar to New Delhi for over five hours on October 27, 2009, without any counter-action by the rapid intervention forces speak of major deficiencies in our counter-insurgency capability.

The incident of October 27 underlines the need for a specially-trained and equipped special intervention force capable of operating rapidly and stealthily in the rural areas. The National Security Guards (NSGs), who were used to counter the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai, are specially trained and equipped to intervene in terrorism-related situations in the urban areas. A similar force for rapid intervention against the Maoists in the rural areas is necessary.

Since the Maoist insurgency has spread over a wide geographic area coming under the jurisdiction of the police forces of a number of states, the command and control of the counter-insurgency operations becomes more difficult than in the case of terrorism. Should there be a centralised operational command and control or should the command and control remain the responsibility of the police forces of the affected States, with the role of the Government of India confined to co-ordination, guidance, capacity-building in the affected States and facilitation of the counter-insurgency operations? How to ensure better co-ordination among affected States and joint action where necessary? Should there be a joint action command? If so, how shoud it be constituted? These are questions which need attention.

Andhra Pradesh has had success stories in dealing with Naxalite/Maoist insurgency--through better intelligence, better terrain awareness, better physical security, better tactics and targetted attacks on key leaders. Its example should be of value to other states.

Non-state actors--whether terrorists or insurgents--cannot be defeated like one defeats a state adversary except in exceptional cases such as the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lankan security forces. The LTTE, under Prabakaran, conducted itself like a state and paid a heavy price for it. Non-state actors can be made only to wither away through a sustained campaign of attrition with the support of the community. The campaign will be long and has to be sustained. One should not expect quick results.

Hard rhetoric and war cries have no place in counter-insurgency. A state, which is perceived by the community as caring for the people, has greater chances of prevailing over the insurgents than a state, which is seen as indifferent to the problems of the people.

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B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.
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Anti-naxal commandos for India-Australia ODI and PM, Sonia do without bullet-proof screen, Kashmir safer!Is It? May we AVOID the Backlash against Free Market Democracy?

2009-10-28T18:21:08+01:00

Anti-naxal commandos for India-Australia ODI and PM, Sonia do without bullet-proof screen, Kashmir safer!Is It? May we AVOID the Backlash against Free Market Democracy?

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 412

Palash Biswas

28/10/2009

Deadly link: FBI arrests LeT's `American Kasaab'
Washington: Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was planning to use an American national to carry out another terrorist attack -- like the one that Ajmal Kasaab and a bunch of Pakistan-trained hardcore terrotists had carried out on 26/11 -- the FBI said Tuesday.

The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was arrested early this month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan.

Headley, 49, along with a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, have been arrested on charges of plotting a terror attack against the facilities and employees of a Danish newspaper which had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, federal law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.

The Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana, was also a resident of Chicago and was arrested by the FBI Oct 18.

Rana is the owner of several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, as well as in New York and Toronto.

According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmiri and several unidentified leaders of LeT.

Kashmiri is the operational chief of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir section of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), a Pakistani-based terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda. Kashmiri, who is presently believed to be in Pakistan's restive Waziristan tribal region, issued a statement this month that he was alive and working with Al Qaeda.

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New armed wing of PCPA behind Rajdhani hijack drama
Kolkata: A newly-raised armed wing of tribal agitators, aided by Maoists in West Midnapore district, were responsible for the seven-and-a-half half hour hijack drama of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express in a jungle area of West Midnapore district.

"The way the incident took place yesterday doesn't suggest that it was planned and executed entirely by Maoists.

They were definitely present during the incident, but they didn't participate," a source in the joint forces engaged in anti-Maoist operations in the district told PTI on condition of anonymity.

"The Maoists also provided covering fire when the joint forces were trying to go from Jhargram to the trouble spot, Banstala. Their intention was to resist us so that the tribal agitators could leave the spot safely," the source said.

The name of the PCPA's armed wing, according to the district police, was 'Sidhu-Kanu Gana Militia'.

Source: PTI

More than 80 people were killed in one of the most horrific terror attacks in Pakistan this year when a massive bomb blast tore through a bustling market here Wednesday, shortly after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a three-day trip to the country.

Pakistan Bleeds and the BLOOD Stains COVER the ENVIRONMENT which we share in the divided Geopolitics Turned into an INFINITE war zone in defence of zionist US Interests!

Anti-naxal commandos for India-Australia ODI as A crack team of anti-naxalite commandos has been roped to provide security cover to the Indian and Australian cricket teams at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) stadium in Jamatha, where the second ODI match held Wednesday.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that he felt the situation in his state was improving as both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not use a bullet-proof screen while addressing the people.

Is it TRUE? Omar Abdullah is a young Politician with very Positive MIND Set and we must welcome his gesture! But facts remain quite different as the Soth Asian geopolitics is UNDERMINED by the US War Economy and our Political Social Hegemomy led by India Incs and MNCs, LPG mafia obliges the TRI Iblis Zionist corporate Galaxy imperialism. Free market Democracy promotion led the MONOPLISTIC Aggression and MINORITY Dominating Foreign Origin brahaminical Communities amass Shocking Wealth depriving the Majority have Not Masses. Back lash may not be avoided in any circumstances and it is the hard hitting reality which leads to TERROR, Anarchy and Ethnonationalism and we REPLICATE Latin America, Africa and south east Asia in a status of CIVIL War and Insurgency!

As part of the tight arrangements for the day-night One Day International (ODI), police have beefed up security measures and commandos have been requisitioned from naxal-hit areas for a day, police sources said.

Police will be using night vision devices to detect any wrong doings in and around the new stadium for the first day-night encounter between India and Australia in Nagpur, they said.

"Today I felt for the first time that things have changed here since the prime minister and the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) chairperson would not be addressing people from behind a bullet-proof screen," he said.

Abdullah stressed on finding a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem.

"The basic problem of Jammu and Kashmir is not merely an economic one, but is linked to our politics," he said.

"If we want to rid the state of the menace of the gun, we must find a permanent solution to political problem here," Abdullah said here while welcoming Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, who are on a two-day visit to the Valley.

The prime minister Wednesday flagged off a new train service on the 18-km track linking south Kashmir with Srinagar and other places in the north of the valley. With this, the 129-km railway line in the Kashmir Valley is complete.

Abdullah thanked the prime minister and Home Minister P. Chidambaram for announcing a political dialogue between the state and the central government.

"My government will try everything possible to help the dialogue process so that tears from the eyes of the people are wiped out," the chief minister said.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday reached out to Pakistan, saying "the hand of friendship that we have extended should be carried forward", but declared that Islamabad had to turn off the terror tap if there was to be forward movement.

Calling on Pakistan to show "sincerity and good faith", the prime minister said India would not be found wanting in response as this was in the interests of the people of both countries.

"I call upon the people and government of Pakistan to show their sincerity and good faith. As I have said many times before, we will not be found wanting in our response," Manmohan Singh said addressing a mammoth gathering in Anantnag before flagging off a long-promised train service linking the south and north of the Kashmir Valley.

"I appeal to the government of Pakistan that the hand of friendship that we have extended should be carried forward. This is in the interest of people of India and Pakistan.

The 'hand of friendship' gesture was the second time that an Indian prime minister was extending to Pakistan. It was former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's famous 'hand of friendship' speech in Srinagar at a public rally in April 2003 that led to his historic visit there in January 2004.

Meanwhile, India today made clear its opposition to China''s participation in projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, saying it treats any such activity as "illegal". External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said India has also taken up with China the matter relating to issuance of visas to Kashmiris on loose sheets instead of passports and asked it to apply uniform visa norm for all Indian nationals.

"Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. Any activity by any country in Jammu and Kashmir is illegal and this has been made known to all concerned," Krishna told reporters here in response to a question about Chinese participation in developmental projects in PoK. China is assisting Pakistan in building a mega power project and construction of a highway in Karakoram range in PoK. Chinese President Hu Jintao, during his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in Beijing recently, emphasised his country''s commitment to these projects.

Krishna, who held talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi here yesterday, said the matter relating to issuance of visas to Kashmiris was discussed. "They (Chinese side) said they made no discrimination.

We are insisting that there should be a uniform visa norm for Indian nationals," Krishna said. To a poser about India not being seen as assertive vis-a-vis China, he said New Delhi seeks relations with everyone as equal and based on mutual respect, regardless of any nation''s economic or military might.

Peshawar bombing kills 87, injures 200
Peshawar: More than 80 people were killed in one of the most horrific terror attacks in Pakistan this year when a massive bomb blast tore through a bustling market here Wednesday, shortly after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a three-day trip to the country.

28/10/2009Peshawar bombing kills 87, injures 200
Peshawar: More than 80 people were killed in one of the most horrific terror attacks in Pakistan this year when a massive bomb blast tore through a bustling market here Wednesday, shortly after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a three-day trip to the country.

Pakistani chief protocol officer Ghalib Iqbal (centre) greets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) upon her arrival at the Chaklala military airbase in Rawalpindi on Wednesday. AFP

As doctors battled to save several of the seriously injured in hospitals, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) officials said many of the 200 injured could succumb to their injuries. Hospital sources told The News that 87 people had been killed in the blast.

Pakistani media reported that a building in the congested locality of Meena Bazar collapsed. A mosque bore the brunt. The windows of buildings were shattered. Several vehicles and around 15 shops were burnt.

The deafening blast, heard almost all over Peshawar, occurred in a market that is hugely popular with women. Most of the dead were said to be women.

Once the dust raised by the explosion settled down, stunned shopkeepers rushed to the rescue of the injured, including children. They also joined security personnel in digging through the debris in a desperate hunt for survivors.

Many people broke down on seeing the ghastly sight -- of mutilated bodies and raging fires -- and on hearing the screams of the wounded. The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital and other hospitals.

The bomb disposal squad blamed a car bomb for the disaster. Xinhua news agency quoted an eyewitness as saying that a parked car exploded, raining death and destruction.

28/10/2009

2 Indians evacuated from UN guest house in Kabul
New Delhi: Two Indians who were at the UN guest house, which was targeted by the Taliban in Kabul today, have been safely evacuated. The two Indians were working as consultants in Afghanistan, official sources said citing information received from the Indian embassy in Kabul.

Armed Afghan police guard a UN ambulance carrying bodies of victims recovered from the Bekhtar guesthouse in Kabul on Wednesday, where UN staff were killed during an attack by gunmen. AFP

More details about them were not immediately available. The Indian embassy has conveyed that all Indians are safe in Kabul, they said.

Taliban militants armed with automatic weapons and suicide vests stormed the guest house used by UN staff in Kabul early today, killing 10 people, including six UN staff, officials said.

28/10/2009
Core industries log growth of 4% in Sept
New Delhi: India's six core industries logged a growth of 4 percent in September and 5 percent in the first six months this fiscal, official data released Wednesday showed.

September's growth in the core sector -- comprising crude oil, refined petroleum fuel, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel sectors -- was the same as that logged in the like month last year.

However, the April-September growth this financial year was more than the 3.4 percent logged during the corresponding period last year, data released by the commerce and industry ministry showed.

Of the sectors under review, crude oil production declined 0.5 percent in September as against 0.4 percent fall in the corresponding month last year. In the first six months since April, production registered a decline of 1.2 percent, compared to a decline of 0.8 percent during the same period last fiscal.

The petroleum refinery sector grew 3.4 percent this September, up from the 2.8 percent growth registered in the corresponding month last year. However, in the first two quarters, production in the sector declined 3.6 percent, less than the 4.5 percent decline in the like period last year.

Coal production increased to 6.5 percent in September and 11.6 percent during April-September, compared to 11.2 percent and 8 percent, respectively, in the comparative periods last year.

Electricity generation was similarly up at 7.5 percent in September compared to 4.4 percent the same month last year, while it grew 6.8 percent in the first fiscal six months compared to 2.6 percent in the year-ago period.

The ailing cement sector too registered growth, expanding production by 6.5 percent in September and 12.3 percent during April-September. Last year, the growth was 8.1 percent and 12.3 percent respectively in the corresponding periods.

Production of finished carbon steel, however, declined 0.4 percent in September as against a growth of 2.1 percent in the like month last year. April-September growth too fell to 3 percent as against 3.3 percent a year ago.

Source: IANS

28/10/2009

China signifies opportunities for India: NASSCOM Chief
Bangalore: China presents four major opportunities to the IT industry in India, including servicing the north Asian market, Som Mittal, Chairperson of NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies), said here today.

"China holds four major opportunities for us, including servicing the north Asian market" he told a press conference during the two-day NASSCOM Product Conclave and Expo 2009 which was unveiled here today.

Other avenues for Indian software firms are to cater to the rapidly growing chinese market, addressing customers in the West, who are starting companies in China and servicing new customers out of China, Mittal said.

To a query on increasing protectionism from the West, especially USA, Mittal said he would be surprised if any direct protectionism comes into play. "In this condition of economic downturn, protectionism is natural. But now they (firms) have realised it is a knee-jerk reaction. What we need to guide ourselves against is indirect protectionism".

"Though we are not seeing high levels of growth, there is reasonable stability now. The four to seven per cent growth forecast by NASSCOM for the IT industry this year would be achieved. We have already started seeing a paradigm change in hiring", he said.

Sharad Sharma, Chairperson, product forum of NASSCOM said the focus of the Indian IT industry was "now shifting to both government and SMBs (small and medium businesses)".

With the impetus given to e-governance projects, "a lot of partnerships will start emerging", he said.

Source: PTI

Royals show off power of the Raj as maoist Captured Media , Bengali Refugees in Dandakaranya Remian HOSTAGE as No One cares for the WRETCHED Lot and Mamata Calls ARMY against Maoist Menace at last

2009-10-28T14:59:01+01:00

Royals show off power of the Raj as maoist Captured Media , Bengali Refugees in Dandakaranya Remian HOSTAGE as No One cares for the WRETCHED Lot and Mamata Calls ARMY against Maoist Menace at last

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Naxals target Rajdhani, MJ's This Is It & more

Passengers of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express train wait after two of its drivers were abducted by Maoist rebels at Banstala, near Jhargram station in West Midnapore district of West Bengal state. The train was secured after dusk by CRPF and the state police who were rushed to the spot where it was under the control of the activists of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), five hours after the dramatic incident that started at about 2.30 PM. All the 1,200 passengers are safe. AP

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OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Calcutta, Oct. 27: Mamata Banerjee obviously intended it to be one more evidence of the failure of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government, but her presentation of the families of Maoist victims at a news conference in Delhi had a more important political fine print: she seems to be distancing herself from the rebels.

She also asked the Centre to use the army against the Maoists.

This was the first time that she had publicly taken up the cause of the victims of Maoist violence. But there have been other signals in recent weeks that Mamata is increasingly finding the Maoists more a liability than an asset in her fight against the CPM.

This explains why she only expressed her "shock" at the Maoist attack on Sankrail police station. Two policemen were killed in the raid and the officer-in-charge, Atindranath Dutta, was abducted. Uncharacteristically, she did not even use the incident to condemn the state government or the CPM.

Mamata had problems with using ultra-Left associates even earlier. Her party activists recall an occasion when she had invited Siddhartha Shankar Ray, former chief minister, to attend one of her protest rallies in Calcutta against the CPM. Some of her Naxalite fellow-travellers strongly objected, referring to the killing of hundreds of Naxalites during Ray's regime in the Seventies.

Mamata had to give in to their objections and called up Ray, who was already on his way to the rally, to tell him not to come.

But her latest effort to debunk suggestions that she is in league with the Maoists has a different context. A few weeks earlier, the Maoists had killed a Trinamul Congress gram panchayat pradhan, Nishikanta Mandal, in Nandigram.

Although Mamata had promptly blamed the CPM for the murder, the Maoists openly claimed responsibility for it. Mandal was a popular figure during the anti-land acquisition movement in Nandigram and his murder caused panic in the area.

The Congress organised a protest rally in Nandigram, but Trinamul activists were upset that the party had not publicly denounced the Maoists for the murder.

The Maoists, rather than the CPM, were proving to be the new terror, the Trinamul activists had realised, and put pressure on local leaders to tackle it.

"We have been suggesting to Mamatadi that the party should not soft-pedal the Maoist issue and instead take a firm stand. Her decision to take the relatives of the two police constables, abducted by the Maoists, to the Union home minister has vindicated our position that she should take the threat from the Maoists seriously," said Trinamul president Subrata Bakshi.

A Union minister who accompanied Mamata to Delhi confirmed that she had submitted to home minister P. Chidambaram documents to show how the Maoists had "dangerously" consolidated their base in Bankura, West Midnapore and Purulia, taking advantage of the deprivations tribal people face.

But Trinamul leaders and activists know that Mamata is not used to changing her position under pressure from even her closest aides. If she is now distancing herself from the Maoists, she has her own reasons.

According to Trinamul sources, the growing fear and resentment over the Maoist killings, especially in urban areas, has forced Mamata to change her stand regarding the rebels. Even many "intellectuals" who were with her in supporting the tribal revolt in Lalgarh are increasingly uncomfortable with the Maoists completely taking over the movement.

It was one thing for them to support an agitation, even if violent, supposedly against the deprivation of poor tribals and quite another to defend killings by Maoists. The self-projection of Maoist leader Kishanji on the media also confused many of them.

Mamata also does not want to completely alienate policemen in lower ranks, whose colleagues are mostly Maoist targets along with CPM activists.

Yet another reason for Mamata's new stand on the Maoists is the rebels themselves. Of late, Kishanji and other Maoist leaders have increasingly criticised both the CPM and Mamata in the same breath.

Even the day the Sankrail OC was released by the Maoists, Kishanji's address was laced with criticism of Trinamul.

The Maoists know that her demand for withdrawal of the joint forces from Lalgarh or imposition of President's rule in Bengal is a political ploy and will not be conceded by the Centre.

Another plausible reason, a Trinamul leader said, is Mamata's feeling that her party now had more public support than a much-weakened CPM.

The Maoists have helped in weakening the Marxists for her and she feels that she can now do without the rebels in her race for capturing Writers' Buildings in 2011.

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In 1978, Father JB Mascarenus was with us in M.A. Previous Englisn and he was the IN Charge of Bhuwali Church. Prevous year, father Whitnus, Principal of St. Joseph College and a prominent KONKNI Poet had passed M.A. final in English and had been friendly enough as I was also known to be POETIC that time.

Father Mascarenus was very affectionate and loving friend in complete religious mode.He had alredy passed TRIPPLE M.A. in different subjects. He did not appear in the Exams with us , hence the relationship aged only one year. He hosted a grand PICNIC in BHIMTAL with us in that session as we came to know his ASTROLOGICAL skills while he fortold our fate seeing palms with LENSE. But he could NEVER forcast anything which followed thereafter.

He had a MOTOR Bike. he would pick me from DSB College and we would land in the CHURCH to pass the weekend. I would be very glad to attend the SUNDAY Prayer and after that I would acompany the Father to his Parish. I spent the NEXT winter Vacation with him and also joined the X-- Mass Party and sang a SONG for the first and last time as I was picked up to sing as soon as the light came back after the BIRTH of Jesus Christ.

On a Fine Warm Winter Sunday Morning, We visited an ENGLISH lady residing alone in Bhimtal. She was the widow of a COLONEL in BRITISH Raj. for the first time , I encountered the White hatred for the Negroid people. I just asked her how does she feel living quite alone. She bluntly answered that SHE HATED INDIANS and had no choice to live there as she loved her dead HUSBAND so much. Then he said, she was well enough with her Cats and dogs!

Morarjee Government was in Power and we had fought against EMERGENCY, had been active Underground. We were involved in the student Movement and was further indulged in Chipko Movement. I was also reputed as a Young Leader of the People`s Resistance specilly in the Terai Region where I had to face My Pro Indira father and his solid support base. SRICHAND, a sceduled caste MLA was the then Forest Minister and we were busy in the agitation against Govt. sponsered DEFORESTATION and Ecological destruction. We had been already DISILLUSIONED with the Total Revolution of JP and had links with Chandra Pulla reddy group and MS group of Naxalites active in Hills and Terai region. Present Cong MLA Prdeep Tamta was our leder at the time and he was a HARD Core Naxalite. We hated the STATE Power. I NEVER applied for any Govt. post. Never sat in any COMPETETION. We hated CAREER and Future Making. We were Committed to Ideology.

But the lady STUNNED me with her VERDICT on Political scenerio in India. The Tug War within the RSS dominated Pro US Janata Regime was intensified. The lady simply commented, INDIANS MUST Be RULED as they may not RULE themselves!

I was SHOCKED as we had always been Patriotic and Nationalist despite being Marxist, Maoist, Activist whatsoever. you amy not imagine how TORTURED I felt at the time as the COMMENT hunted me for years!

Recnt VISIT of the INDIAN President to UNITED Kingdom and the ROYAL show of Raj Nostalgia remind me that SUNDAY!

Every incident related to the CRISIS in Indian Democracy and the KILLING of Constitution, Persecution of the Indigenous and aboriginal, Refugee and Minority Communities remind me the HARD OLD Face of the RAJ Royal. The lackof Political Consciousness and Consensus todeal with ETHNONATIONALISM, problems of Nationality and Identity, Land struggle and sustenance of Royal Families and Zamindaries, manusmriti Rule and Apartheid Remind me the words of the lady, Indians MUST be RULED!

Meanwhile, Maoists Captured Media and KISHANJEE attracted more TRP then any REALTY Shows as the PUBLICITY Stunt was LIVE tahn life. The People like BARKHA Dutta on NDTV,SUMAN Gupta on Star Anand and Arnab Goswami on Times Now, along with the elite Panel indiscussion, Tried their best to declare the Maoists as BLOOD Thistry anti Humanity Terrorist who kill INDISCRIMINATELY but BARABARA Rao advocated the Marxists very well and the likes of Medha Patkar and Manini Chatterjee modreately showed the sypathy.

On the other hand, shocked by the HIJACKof the ICON Train RAJDHANI Express, Railway MINISTER Mamata Banerjee Called for ARMY Action against the Maoist Menace and further DISTANCED herself with the Maoists as KISHANJEE lost no Opportunity to EXPOSE her Hypocricy!

Thank you Waman Meshram to cahnge the Venue of National Convension of Mulnivasi Bamcef from Kolkat to Jaipur. We had been working very hard and orgnised District conferences, state convension and Grass root level mobilisation as MULNIVASI Bamcef is the only Natinal Organisation which has defended the Citizenship of the Partion victims from East Bengal on Continuous Exodus and amidst of the Indian Gerat Holocaust, my fathres life and time. Bamcef is opposing the nationwide Deportation Drive by the BRAHAMINCAL Hegemony led by Adwani, Mamata Benerjee,Pranab Mukhejee, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, somnath Chatterjee and Bengali Media, Civil Society and Intelligentsia together! Despite my personal adverse opinion,ideological reservation, inaction of the Ambedkarites, subversion in Casteologyand lack of Economic Vision, leadership ladder, empowerment and interanal democracy, I have NO Other Option to defend my EXTENDED Family which is my immediate liability and topmost priority as Maosists have engaged themselves to play as a Robotic Tool in hands of Hegemony Rulers and Marxists have betrayed us so many times andwe bear the wounds of Telengana, Shrikakulam, Dhimri Block, Naxal bari, MARICHJHANPI, Singur, Nandigram and Lalgrh. No political Party or social organisation stand with us nd we are used as MOBILE Political bonded Demogrphical equation variable in the perripherry of US War Economy as well as TRI IBLIS zionist satanic Galaxy Corporate Imperialist Order and strategic Realliance NUCLEAR,CHEMICAL and Biological.

Bamcef convension would have opned some spaceof third party initiative in VERTICALLY Divided Bengali enslaved Masses. It is a Great debacle. but considering the route map after the rajdhani drama, it is clear how UNSAFE UNSECURE would have been the transision of our people. it is a great DEBACLE and same thatwe could not chose a place as Every INCH is CAPTURED by LPG Mafia and the Hegemony would NEVER allow us to gather and seek an ESCAPE route as we are Predetines Scape goats!

For Eaxample, Partition victim bengali refugees got almost NOTHING from Bengal, Some of them got Five or two Cuttah land for home. Some do reside in UNAUTHORISED Refugee Colonies and still existing campsdestined to be BURNT ALIVE or DEPORTED and RST are EXILED in EXODUS.

For Example,no less than THREE MILLION ofour people are STRANDED in CROSS Fire amidst SALWA JUDUM, Operation Lalgarh, operation Green Hunt, Operation VENUS etc and no body cares for the NO Body`s People in the No Man`s Land. Mamata Banerjee now calls ARMY to deal with MARXIST Menace copleteing the CAPTURE of Bengali dalit Heritage matua movement and ensuring ElectoralVictory Next but She as being anELITE Brahmindriven by Brahaminical Interests only just ENSURED the Murder of Dalit Movement in Bengal thanks to Matua headquarter and the descendents of Harichand Guruchand Thakur. But she has NO Sympathy in her Heart or Mind for the OUTCASTE Deprived Betrayed Exiled People in constant Holocaust and exodus. Matuas PUSH for CITIZENSHIP for every REFUGEE and Matua Banerjee has not responded till this date neither she ever demanded Justice for Marichjhanpi Refugee Genocide. Maosists also treat our people as Illegal bangladeshi Immigrants as per as RSS and SHIV sena! Whom should we OPT for?

Antony rejects Mamata's demand for use of army in Naxal areas
"Whether in West Bengal or any other area, our view is that employing armed forces for internal security is the last resort. Only as the last resort we will deploy armed forces in Naxal areas," he said.

His comments on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee's demand in this regard came at a media interaction on the sidelines of a Coast Guard Commanders' conference here.

The Trinamool Congress chief had yesterday demanded that the Centre should use army to recover arms allegedly taken away by "CPI(M) goons" from the state armoury in West Bengal. Antony said law and order issues should be handled by respective state governments and ruled out talks with Maoists before they abjure violence. The government would "not tolerate" attacks by the Left extremists, he said.

"What we are asking them is to abjure violence," Antony said replying to queries if talks with the Naxals should be unconditional.

Agreeing that Naxal violence was a serious threat to internal security, Antony said the Centre would render all help to the affected states. He said the government was of the view that tribal and Maoist-affected states needed more development.

"But that is not an excuse for violence and bloodshed. The government will not tolerate anyone taking law into their hands," he said.

Antony said the government had already chalked out a plan to counter Maoists violence in affected states and was monitoring its implementation.

Following the recent spurt in Maoists violence and abductions, including that of a police officer in West Bengal, both Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Banerjee have met Home Minister P Chidambaram in the last fortnight to demand action against the Left extremists.

During her meeting with the Home Minister yesterday after two drivers of New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express were kidnapped allegedly by Maoists in West Midnapur district in West Bengal, Banerjee had demanded that the Centre should use the army.

Kishanji defends train detention

Raktima Bose

KOLKATA: "We want to teach the upper classes a lesson and change their narrow class outlook through this incident," Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji told The Hindu on Tuesday referring to the detention of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express near Jhargram in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday.

Though Mr. Kishanji denied that the Maoists had any role in the incident, he said he supported the cause of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) activists.

'Stop mortar firing'

Admitting that the local people sought his help to mediate in the issue, he demanded immediate stoppage of mortar firing and withdrawal of security troops from the area.

A national issue

"It is now an issue of national interest since it involves the Rajdhani Express…the game of passing the buck between the Centre and the State regarding the issue of development of the tribal people is over now. I am waiting for Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee [Chief Minister], Mamata Banerjee [Railway Minister], P. Chidambaram [Union Home Minister], Manmohan Singh [Prime Minister] and Sonia Gandhi to reply," Mr. Kishanji said, while speaking over phone from Lalgarh.

'Class oppression'

Slamming the security forces for opening fire at the site where the train was detained, Mr. Kishanji said: "Only because it was a blockade by the tribal people, not the educated middle class, that the police fired at them. It was a clear case of class oppression."

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No question of freeing criminals or withdrawing forces: Buddhadeb

Special Correspondent

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday ruled out conceding Maoist-backed activists' demand for calling off security operations against Left-wing extremists and releasing leaders of the Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC).

"We just cannot withdraw our forces [from the Lalgarh area where the operations are on]. We just cannot release the criminals [the arrested including PSBJC convener Chhatradhar Mahato]….We just cannot accept these demands," Mr. Bhattacharjee said.

The demands were raised by the PSBJC leadership, which is backed by the Maoists, as condition for releasing two drivers of the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express held hostage and for allowing the train, detained near the Jhargram station in Paschim Medinipur district, to resume its journey.

Later in the evening, the security forces reached the spot and by the time they cordoned off the train, the agitators had dispersed.

Recounting the incidents, Mr. Bhattacharjee said the drivers "were simply thrown out" of their cabin and surrounded by the agitators on a field near the track.

He pointed out that the agitators, who included Maoists as well as those belonging to the PSBJC, were armed when they held up the train. The police were instructed to close in on the train with the utmost caution, as the first such attempt had met with armed resistance from the extremists during which the driver of a police vehicle was injured.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram spoke to the Chief Minister twice over telephone. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also discussed the developments with Mr. Bhattacharjee.

Kishanji justifies detention

"We want to teach the upper classes a lesson and change their narrow class outlook through this incident," Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji told The Hindu referring to the detention of the Rajdhani Express near Jhargram.

Though Mr. Kishanji denied that Maoists had any role in the incident, he said he supported the cause of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) activists.

Admitting that the local people sought his help for mediation in the issue, he demanded immediate stoppage of mortar firing and withdrawal of security troops from the Lalgarh area.

Assailing the security forces for opening fire at the site where the train was detained, Mr. Kishanji said: "Only because it was a blockade by the tribal people, not the educated middle class, that the police fired at them. It was a clear case of class oppression."

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What Didi didn't say: Group that 'hijacked' train is her party ally
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Posted: Oct 28, 2009 at 0856 hrs IST

27/10/2009
Maoists hold Rajdhani Express hostage for hours in Bengal
Jhargram/Kolkata/New Delhi: A New Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was released from Maoist clutches by security forces Tuesday evening , after rebels held it and its 667 passengers hostage for over four hours in West Midnapore district. All passengers are safe, the union government said.

Demanding withdrawal of the joint security forces and release of some of their arrested leaders, around 500 members of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) held up the 2443A UP Express train by squatting on the tracks and forced out the drivers around 2.45 p.m. at the Banstala Halt station, near Jhargram station close to the Antapani jungle.

Jhargram is 155 km from Kolkata by train.

After several tension-filled hours, that saw a police team rushing to the spot ambushed by the Left wing rebels, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and state policemen finally took over the train around 7 p.m.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced the end of the security operation in New Delhi.

"The CRPF and the state police have reached the spot and the train has been secured," Chidambaram told reporters.

"The relief train will move in the next few minutes. The train is safe and all the passengers are safe," he said.

Chidambaram denied reports that there was any exchange of fire with the guerrillas.

"I would like the media to show some restraint. Don't report rumours. A civilian driver has been injured. There was no exchange of fire. No CRPF person has been injured," he said.

State Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh told IANS in Kolkata: "My men have reached there. They have entered the train. There is no sign of the Maoists now".

The drama started soon after the train left the Jhargram station.

"A group of men stood on the railway tracks and stopped the train. They asked all of us in the driver's cabin to get down and wait near the engine. They did not beat us up, but asked us not to run the train till they gave the green signal," said K. Govind Rao, the assistant driver of the New Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express.

The PCAPA has called an indefinite shutdown in West Midnapore district form Tuesday in support of its 33-point charter of demands.

"There were 667 passengers in the train," a railway spokesman said.

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'Safety of passengers was of prime concern'

K. Balchand

Railway Minister remained in constant touch with Union Home Minister and Orissa Chief Minister
NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed shock at the detention of the Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express from Bhubaneswar near Jhargram in West Bengal on Tuesday by the Maoist-backed activists.

As developments unfolded through the day, she maintained that safety of the passengers was the prime concern and it was her duty to coordinate with all concerned to secure the safety of the driver and the passengers, some of whom were reportedly injured in stone-pelting.

In the course of the day, Ms. Banerjee remained in constant touch with Home Minister P. Chidambaram and even told an upset Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that she was as much concerned as he was at the safety of every passenger.

Railway Board Chairman and members formulated their strategy in tandem with the Union Home Secretary and West Bengal government officials and the exercise paid off as the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) activists eventually allowed the festival special Rajdhani (2443A) with 475 passengers to resume its journey.

She spurned a demand for an immediate audience with her, saying that they should instead consider the plight of the innocent passengers whose political stake was limited to exercising their franchise. Her only grievance during the episode was refusal of civil authorities to permit RPF intervention.

The CRPF was rushed in as a precautionary measure. Two contingents moved in once the PCPA activists retreated and together escorted the Rajdhani Express on its onward journey. The journey commenced only after a relief train took care of the injured and relief materials were made available to the distressed passengers. While expressing relief at the PCPA allowing the train to move after detaining it for almost five hours, Ms. Banerjee said she would willingly talk to anyone should their demand relate to her department.

She refused to go into issues such as who were behind the incident. She said the concern of both the Centre and the West Bengal government was to ensure the safety of the passengers and they worked together as an emergency team with a specific goal in mind. Similarly, she avoided queries on the political ramifications of the episode. "There may be political differences and politicians will come and go, but more important are the lives of the passengers and the people."

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TRIBAL writ on track

bhubaneswar=delhi rajdhani blocked near jhargram; Drivers, passengers held hostage for close to five hours

Statesman News Service
MIDNAPORE/KOLKATA, 27 OCT: Members of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities, backed by Maoists, hijacked the 2443A Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express and held 667 passengers and two drivers hostage for nearly five hours near Banstala railway station, about 35 km from Kharagpur, a major railway junction in the heart of Bengal, giving a rude jolt to the state administration's claim of area domination by the joint forces.
A gun battle ensued as the security personnel tried to free the train from the armed intruders, leaving a police driver and two tribals injured.
The passengers' ordeal ended after nearly five harrowing hours, as darkness was engulfing the forested area, when Central and state forces surrounded the train and stormed it. By then the PCPA members and the Maoists had melted away.
The New Delhi-bound train was stopped at around 2.35 pm by nearly 500 activists of PCPA armed with traditional weapons for defying an indefinite bandh call in the Junglemahal area given by the PCPA demanding the release of Chhatradhar Mahato and withdrawal of joint forces from the entire area.
The train had left Bhubaneswar around 9.25 a.m and reached Kharagpur station at 1.45 p.m.
Shortly after leaving Kharagpur the driver Mr K Ananda Rao and his co-driver Mr KG Rao noticed tree trunks with red flags and posters tied to them on the railway tracks. The drivers pulled the emergency brakes and the train came to a grinding halt close to Banstala, around 3 kms from Jhargram.
As soon as the train stopped, armed activists of the PCPA forced the two drivers and the guard of the train to come out of their cabin and ordered them to wait close to the tracks. Thereafter, they ordered all the passengers to get down and switch off their mobile phones. Later on, they were asked to board the train, but keep their phones switched off.
Meanwhile, the two drivers of the train and another railway employee, identified as Mr BB Rao, were forced into the dense forest along the rail tracks, where they were detained till news spread that the police were closing in.
The activists of the PCPA looted blankets and food from the Rajdhani Express and put up posters in support of their demands. Mr Santosh Patra, vice president of the PCPA took responsibility for the siege.
Police and paramilitary forces advanced from Jhargram shortly after the siege started and encountered stiff resistance from the PCPA activists and Maoist extremists. A gun battle ensued, which left a driver of a police van, Kamal Mahato, severely injured. He was rushed to Jhargram hospital for treatment.
Self-styled Maoist commander Kishenji claimed that two PCPA activists were killed in the gun battle. He told The Statesman that the Maoists would stand by the families of the dead tribals and warned that the situation in Junglemahal would turn ugly after this incident.
A senior police officer said that as land mines were planted all along the road leading to Banstala, they had to change their route and move through the jungles. Around 7 p.m. the forces reached the site and took control of the train.
Mr Manoj Verma, superintendent of police, Midnapore West, said no passengers were injured and the police, along with the CRPF and RPF conducted extensive search operations in the area.
Bomb squad and dog squad were also pressed into service to sanitise the railway track.
Later at night, a special relief train and pilot engines were rushed from Tatanagar to escort the Rajdhani Express. The train left Banstala at 10.10 p.m. Several long distances trains on Kharagpur-Tatanagar section of South Eastern Railway (SER) were either diverted or cancelled following the incident.
With the safety of the hundreds of passengers of the hijacked Rajdhani Express hanging in the balance, railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee
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of South Eastern Railway (SER) were either diverted or cancelled following the incident.
The train left Banstala at 10.10 p.m.
When the security and safety of hundreds of passengers of the hijacked New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express was hanging in the balance today, railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee said the need of the hour was to rise above narrow politics and not to play with the lives of innocent people. But the respective political agendas of the players involved in the unprecedented hostage drama came to the fore.
The state minister looking after the development of the three Maoist-dominated districts, Mr Sushanta Ghosh, bluntly put his political perspective: "When the leaders (Miss Mamata Banerjee) are lobbying in New Delhi for withdrawal of joint forces, the grassroot (People's Committee against Police Atrocities responsible for the train hijack) must also join the chorus." Minutes after the security personnel took possession of the train, the union home minister Mr GK Pillai said : "All the train passengers and the drivers of the train are fully in control of the central government. The Centre has rushed a train to bring the passengers."
Union home minister, Mr P Chidambaram and chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, however, adopted sober postures trying to strike a balance between the conflicting political viewpoints. "The train is safe. All passengers are safe... good news is the train is safe. CRPF and state police have reached the spot and the area has been secured. There is no no sign of any other adversary there," Mr Chidambaram said.
Apparently he didn't claim credit exclusively for the "central forces" for reaching the train first. "There was firing and a civilian driver (belonging to the state police) was injured, but there was no injury to CRPF personnel, " Mr Chidambaram said. Mr Bhattacharjee said though the PCPA was in the forefront, the Maoists had also joined in. He outright rejected the PCPA demands for withdrawal of the joint forces and differentiated in clear terms between the demands for the release of the OC Sankrail a few days back and those of the train hijackers.
Mr Bhattacharjee spoke twice to Mr Chidambaram and his Orissa counterpart, Mr Naveen Patnaik who expressed concern over the safety of passengers. The railway ministry has sought a report on the incident from the state government.
The state PWD minister, Mr Kshiti Goswami had his bit of politicking too giving the RSP perspective : "The situation is becoming alarming with union home minister issuing threats everyday and the Maoists heading for a confrontation." The chief secretary, Mr AM Chakraborti, said development activities could not be carried out in full swing till peace was restored. He held a meeting with senior districts officials at Midnapore circuit house during the day.
Speaking to reporters, the chief secretary said there were some bottlenecks at the ground level in taking up development work in the area. "However work of some projects are on after the chief minister convened a meeting with the officials of the all department in Midnapore in August this year. And the rest of the projects will be completed in five months as safety and security of the staff of those departments has been ensured in the presence of joint forces in the area", he claimed.

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Deploy army against Maoists, says Mamata
- Minister against police role
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi. Oct. 27: Mamata Banerjee today asked the Centre to deploy the army against Maoists instead of a joint operation with Bengal police in Lalgarh, the change of stand coming on a day a Rajdhani Express was blocked by a Maoist-backed outfit.

The Trinamul Congress chief, who is the railway minister, said she had told Union home minister P. Chidambaram: "Don't use the assistance of the state government to combat Maoists. Only use the army for the task."

Trinamul had opposed joint operations by central paramilitary forces and Bengal police in Lalgarh from the very beginning, arguing that the offensive would lead to human rights abuses. "The security forces are torturing villagers in the name of a joint operation," Mamata had said in July.

Sources in Trinamul said the change in stand was triggered by Mamata's realisation that the party's current position on Maoists was indirectly drawing the Congress, which is her ally, and the CPM, her arch-enemy, closer.

The Congress and Trinamul have had differences over seat-sharing in several local-level elections over the past few months. Last month, the Congress tied up with the CPM to bag the mayor's post in Siliguri when Mamata refused to give up claim to the post

The tension between the allies was evident today, too. Mamata suggested that the home ministry was deliberately turning a blind eye to the crimes by alleged CPM cadres in the state.

"I asked the the home minister... where else in India does such violence occur? If these things had happened in Gujarat, the Centre would have intervened. Then why not in Bengal?" Mamata said.

The CPM and the Maoists are "brothers", she said. "I don't know how much of the violence in Bengal is thanks to the Maoists and how much because of the Marxists. But they are brothers."

She added that she had repeated her party's demand for the imposition of Article 355, a warning, followed by Article 356, President's rule, unless the state government "corrects" itself.

The Trinamul chief asked why the home ministry was was not agreeing to the demands when her party leaders were receiving complaints everyday of violence against ordinary people and her workers. "Is Bengal an exceptional child (among the states)?" she asked.

Mamata also suggested that the CPM may have a role in railway mishaps. "They (the CPM) are creating all these problems for the railways. Why do you think I ordered a CBI probe into the Mathura accident?" she asked, referring to the crash of two trains near Mathura last week.

Relatives of two constables, Sabir Mollah and Kanchan Garai kidnapped by Maoists three months back, accompanied her when she spoke to Chidambaram.

The home minister, Mamata claimed, told her and the relatives of the constables that the Centre had no information to suggest that the duo had been killed.

She also criticised chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who "inadvertently" said the cops had been killed.

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Royals show off power of the Raj
- With a helping hand, President begins UK visit
AMIT ROY
Windsor, Oct. 27: Pratibha Patil was greeted today with a 41-gun salute and a ceremonial at Windsor Castle the like of which neither she or those Indians lucky enough to be present will witness again in their life time.

The British put on a spectacle of such breathtaking military precision that the Queen's Indian guests were left dumfounded.

A British royal photographer, who has shot ceremonials at Windsor Castle from every conceivable angle, was deliberately nonchalant.

"Well," he said, eyeing the cavalry, the soldiers and all the Queen's uniformed men that went into welcoming India's First Citizen, "let's say they have had a bit of practice."

The president was not taking any chances with the British weather at the start of her state visit to the UK even though it was relatively mild today. Over a pale sari, she had donned a white coat and had her pallu wrapped firmly round her head in a style she has made all her own.

She also wore white gloves, as opposed to the black ones which she showed off on arrival.

As she stepped down gingerly from the dais to inspect a guard of honour, the Duke of Edinburgh gallantly reached out and steadied her lest a moment's carelessness should cause a diplomatic event. In the event, all was well. Patil made it back safely to the dais after walking past a long line of soldiers who towered above her.

The Queen and Prince Philip left Windsor Castle at 11.40am by car to go and collect their guests from a point outside the castle not far from Eton College. She returned in some style after guns had boomed a 21-gun salute from the Royal Palace and a separate 20-gun salute from the Royal Park.

First to emerge into the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle in the "Australian state coach" were the Queen and the president.

This was followed by the Scottish State Coach which carried Prince Philip and the president's husband, Devisingh Ramsingh Shekawat.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall followed them in the "Semi-State Landau", which also brought Daggubati Purandeswari, minister of state at Human Resource Development, and Lord Vestey, Master of the Horse.

The No 1 Ascot Landau was given over to Dr Christy L Fernandez, secretary to the president, Nirupama Rao, the Foreign Secretary, Nalin Surie, the High Commissioner, and his wife, Poonam.

The No 1 Ascot Landau is so called because there is a No 2 which brought Lt Gen Vinod Chopra, Military Secretary to the president, Sunil Lal, chief of protocol in India, Vijay Thakur Singh, Joint Secretary and social secretary to the president, and Pradeep Bhardwaj, Chief Security Liaison.

The British had their women in top jobs, too – Sara Thornton, Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police; Dr Christine Hill Williams, High Sheriff of the Royal County of Berkshire; and the Hon Mrs Bayliss, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.

Precisely at 12.15pm, the band of 1 st battalion of the Irish Guards struck up Jana Gana Mana…and in tune, too, followed by God Save the Queen.

The Guard of Honour was mounted by the Irish Guards who had practised to ensure every man Jack was in a straight line.

Then came the heart-stopping thunder of hooves, led by the Mounted band of The Blues and Royals, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, the March Past and the Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry Rank Past. The Raj was back in business – or so it seemed this morning. The red of the uniforms contrasted with the stone of Windsor Castle, which is 900 years old, the monarch will tell the president.

The Queen did not make the mistake of helping Patil down from the dais. The two elderly grandmothers then walked off slowly off, side by side, through the Sovereign's Entrance for a spot of lunch.

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Quota extension beyond 2010 challenged in court

2009-10-27T11:28:18+01:00

Should SC/ST be given extra chances?

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Quota extension beyond 2010 challenged in court
Abhinav Sharma, TNN 27 October 2009, 07:10am IST
JAIPUR: A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has taken cognizance of a writ petition challenging the 10-year extension of reservation in
government jobs and educational institutions. The 109th constitutional amendment to Article 334 provides for extension of reservation for another decade effective January 25, 2010. Art 334 said reservation of seats and special representation would cease after 60 years.

The petition consequently claims that the reservation for backward communities and women in public employment and for SC, ST and Anglo-Indians in Parliament and state assemblies under Art 15 (4) and Art 16 (4) is unconstitutional and all rules, regulations, etc made under these provisions in the state may be declared void.

The bench of Justice R C Gandhi and Justice G S Saraf has issued show-cause notices to the Centre and the state government authorities, seeking an explanation on the utility of continuing with the reservation of parliamentary and legislative seats for SC, ST, and Anglo-Indian community in the light of the argument that the last 60 years have been more than sufficient to have proper representation of such communities in Parliament and sate assemblies.
The court issued notices to the principal secretaries of the Union HRD and education ministries, Rajasthan chief secretary, and the principal secretaries of the state departments of personnel and education.

The writ petition was filed by one social activist Amarnath Vaish and one other. The high court recently stayed the operation of 19% reservation provision made for Gujjars, Gadia Lohars and other economically backward classes in the state.

The petitioners argued that the reservation policy in the country violates the basic structure of the Constitution of India and that the Constitutional (109 Amendment) Act, 2009, should be declared unconstitutional and the reservation period of last 60 years should not be allowed to be extended for another 10 years by amending the provision of Art. 334 of the Constitution.

“It has been given out in the petition that if SC, ST, and other backward classes were denied equal opportunities in education and jobs by the ancestors of those in the general category, the same cannot be a valid ground for depriving today’s general-category from having an equal opportunity in eduction and jobs in the public sector now. We are also filing similar writ petitions in various other high courts of the country. The next will be in Delhi High Court,” said Aruneshwar Gupta, counsel for the petitioner and former standing counsel for the Vasundhara Raje government in Supreme Court.

“Caste is a dynamic factor that keeps changing and anything that is not static cannot be said to be a reasonable criterion of classification for reservation purposes in the Constitution. The reservation policy as laid down by the founding fathers have miserably failed in the country and need to be wiped out,” Gupta said.

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Poona Pact
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The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between the lower caste Untouchables (then called Depressed Classes, now referred to as Dalits) of India led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and the upper caste Hindus of India that took place on 24 September 1932 at Yerawada Jail in Pune (now in Maharashtra), India.

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1 History
2 Text of the pact
3 See also
4 References

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To draft a new Constitution involving self rule for the native Indians, the British invited various leaders for Round Table Conferences in 1930-32. Mahatma Gandhi did not attend the first Round Table Conference but attended the later Conferences. The concept of separate electorates for the Untouchables was raised by Dr. Ambedkar. Similar provisions were already available for other minorities, including Muslims and Sikhs. The British government agreed with Ambedkar's contention, and British Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald's Communal Award to the "depressed classes" was to be incorporated into the constitution for governance of British India. Gandhi strongly opposed it on the grounds that it would disintegrate Hindu society. He began an indefinite hunger strike at Yerawada Jail from September 20, 1932 to protest this Award.

As Gandhi's health worsened, Dr. Ambedkar was under tremendous pressure to save the life of Mahatma Gandhi. A compromise, the Poona Pact, was made between the leaders of caste Hindus and Dr. Ambedkar was reached on September 24, 1932.

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The text uses the term "Depressed Classes" to denote Untouchables who were later called Scheduled Castes under India Act 1935, and the later Indian Constitution of 1950. The Untouchables are now popularly known as Dalits.

Following is the text of the pact:

1) There shall be seats reserved for the Depressed Classes out of general electorate seats in the provincial legislatures as follows: -

Madras 30; Bombay with Sind 25; Punjab 8; Bihar and Orissa 18; Central Provinces 20; Assam 7; Bengal 30; United Provinces 20. Total 148. These figures are based on the Prime Minister's (British) decision.

2) Election to these seats shall be by joint electorates subject, however, to the following procedure –

All members of the Depressed Classes registered in the general electoral roll of a constituency will form an electoral college which will elect a panel of four candidates belonging to the Depressed Classes for each of such reserved seats by the method of the single vote and four persons getting the highest number of votes in such primary elections shall be the candidates for election by the general electorate.

3) The representation of the Depressed Classes in the Central Legislature shall likewise be on the principle of joint electorates and reserved seats by the method of primary election in the manner provided for in clause above for their representation in the provincial legislatures.

Central Legislature

4) In the Central Legislature 18 per cent of the seats allotted to the general electorate for British India in the said legislature shall be reserved for the Depressed Classes.

5) The system of primary election to a panel of candidates for election to the Central and Provincial Legislatures as herein-before mentioned shall come to an end after the first ten years, unless terminated sooner by mutual agreement under the provision of clause 6 below.

6) The system of representation of Depressed Classes by reserved seats in the Provincial and Central Legislatures as provided for in clauses (1) and (4) shall continue until determined otherwise by mutual agreement between the communities concerned in this settlement.

7) The Franchise for the Central and Provincial Legislatures of the Depressed Classes shall be as indicated, in the Lothian Committee Report.

8) There shall be no disabilities attached to any one on the ground of his being a member of the Depressed Classes in regard to any election to local bodies or appointment to the public services. Every endeavour shall be made to secure a fair representation of the Depressed Classes in these respects, subject to such educational qualifications as may be laid down for appointment to the Public Services.

9) In every province out of the educational grant an adequate sum shall be ear-marked for providing educational facilities to the members of Depressed Classes.

Should SC/ST be given extra chances?

Had it been posted on and around, say nineties, I would have written NO!

I have been quite detached during Anti RESERVATION Polarisation in VP SINGH Regime and I was still working in UP as a workig Journalist who had to witness so many events of SELF IMMOLATION during anti RESERVATION movement. I knew nothing about OBC but the OBC leaders trying to cahnge the Political demography!

My father always favoured RESERVATION for social Justice and as DR Ambedkar used to say, for the REPRESENTATION of the aboriginal Indiginous SC ST and OBC Communities. Bengali Refugees in UTTAR PRADESH had no CONSTITUTIONAL safe Guard. My father was infavour to launch a campaign with the logic that the Dalit Refugee Communities are Considered SC in Bengal, Orissa and Assam,why should they be treated as GENERAL in UTTAR PRADESH, MP, Maharashtra, BIHAR andelsewhere! Those were the days that we had not educated unemployed young generation amongst us. Agriculture was the only livelihood. My Father was the only AMBEDKARITE amongst them beside Nityanad Mallick in PILIBHIT. Rest of our people neither knew either Dr Ambedkar or Jogendra Nath mandal,norcared for the DALIT Identity which they left in EAST Bengal during Prtition Holocaust. They treated themselves as PHOENIX rising from the ASHES. They had delinked from the Past and wanted to live in the Present. they had NO Vision for the FUTURE. They had seen the Worst Brahaminical system in UNITED Bengal and theywere not INTERESTED toIDETIFY themselves as DALIT.Rather tehy Identified theselves with Brahaminical ICONS of Bengal to snatch RESPECT as Developed communities specially from the DOMINATING SIKHs. Bengali Nationality had been more VALUABLE and Respectable tah DALIT identity, even we CHILDREN Never been AWARE of our Past. I Never knew the DISCRIMINATION until I landed in Bengal. The local Communities treated us as BENGALIES only and it was a PREVILEGE for which they denounced RESERVATION. My father Concentrated on Rehabilitation and Welfare.

While, I, unknowingly,EXPOSED the SOCIAL DALIT Status of our COMMUNITIES in Journalistic Zeal, they TURNED my ENEMY. They would rather kill the BOY whom they SHOWERED the LOVE and AFECTION always. Since our Educated boys were getting job in GENERAL catagory our people NEVER Demanded RESERVATION.

Only since NEO LIBERAL SET up introduced creating JOB Crunch, UNEMPLOYMENT EMERGED as a great Problem and they began to cry for RESERAVATION.

As for me, I believed in Class Struggle following marxist ideology and would NEVER recognise Caste Identity. All my writings dealt with Class STRUGLLE until the Death of My Father, Until I read AMBEDKAR and until I knew how Important were the CONSTITUTIONAL Safegourds DR AMBEDKAR Succeeded to ensure even after POONA PACT Signed, alone , single handedly!

Just the scenerio changed within a span of a decade. I Performed Vedic Rituals for the last rites of my dead parents. Though I NEVER Believe in Hell or Heaven. Being a Marxist Maoist,Caste, CREED and faith had always been IRRELEVANT. I could have born in any other civilisation, society or nation!Wht happens to those, who hpppen to be deprived of BRAHAMINICAL Last Rites while they are not Hindus!

I had studied in Shaktifarm Govt. highschool in 1972-73 session for my Class Nine course as I was sent away in an area remte and surrounded by forest. It was a replication of East Bengal in its RUSTIC form. In Shaktifarm, I had a very good relatioship with an ATHEIST, named CHAKRADHAR Mallick who , in fact, was my father`s FRIEND and used to live in SHAKTIFARM Number Three. During sixties , Chakradhar Mallick refused to perform last RITES of his parents and the Bengali Society ISOLATED the man who NEVER missed to celebrate life and continued his social ACTIVISM in the same society. My CHHOTOKAKA was alsoan ATHEIST but dared not to violet the SOCIL Discipline, though he was a REAL Rebel in EVERY Sense.

I have been ROAMING since then. In Shaktifarm, I had lodged in RATAN FarmNumber TWO at DEVEN Acharya`s home where I had to teach the little CHILDREN of the family. My School was Three Miles away and I had to cover the distance up down walking. I even enjoyed the flight of the VULTURE around. Ther was a Math outside the village. I had nothing to do with Religion but my relationship with the MAHANT, had been EXCELLENT. I liked to stay in the place as it was a BEAUTIFUL showcased with Flower Gradens and I loved Flowers. I loved the BOOKS. The religious man cared much for my opinion on politics,literature, philosophy and religion. I had already read SATYRTHA Prakash andbasic Holy Scripts including Gita, Ramayan and Mahabharat, Manasa Mangal and we had subscribed Kalayan published from Gita Press Gorakhpur. I had read ramkrishna and Vivekanand. I had also known about the religious behaviour of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. I always believed in systematic studies. Whether you agree or disagree, you must read and think and it would help to enhance your Consciousness. I would roam in the Dense Forest only one KM away where I would sit somewhere near the Broken Temple or land in an Aboriginal People as Tharus and BUKSHAS were always my relatives as had been RAI SIKHS in the Terai and SANTHALS and Munda in Jharkhand, militant tribes all over the NORTH East. I always feel at home with my Black Untouchable Negroid Brotherhood. I had no chance nor I had been that Adventurous, rather I would have liked to love or marry a TRIBAL Girl. I had no Chance. I had Never been afarid of WILD Animals neither in Uttarkhand Hills nor In Jharkhand. I always loved the forest as we grew with the Wild Animals in Basantipur and had been hyptonised by the FRAGRANCE of Jungle!

I almost forgot the brief shaktifarm days. Last time, while I Visited Dharmanagri to see my ailing Mother in Law, who is in fact DEAD and SABITA reached there only this Morning. I slept on 4.oo AM today just after Confirming her arrival in Najibabad. she caled back me this NOON.

Her family friend Amarda has lodged a DOCTOR`s family in his house as he lost his wife last year and had seen her only daughter SARBANI married offbefore our marriage. Amarda`s Grand daughter isalso married. The Doctor is a simple RMP as my CHHOTOKAKA had been. He belongs to Shaktifarm Number Six where lived my two class fellows ANIL and Prafula. Anil was the DADA in Schoolwhile Prafulla had been very soft, very gentle. They had very hard times in those days as the DRY River would turn VIOLENT in Rainy Season and sweep the Bengali Refugee Colonies Shaktifarm Number One and SIX with PADAGAON . Lalkuan to Chorgalia ,it had been Dense Forest famous for WILD ELEPHANTS. The entire area would look like as a DESRT and NOTHING would grow. They had always been in STARVING Mode.They would cross the RIVER Swimming and reach the SCHOOLin WET Clothing! The Doctor talked for long and I remebered everything.

Prafulla is now a SADHU. He helped me to escape frrom a VIOLENT Mob in a DURGA Puja Night in shaktifarm Number Four while I was involved in Publishing a Weekly fromnearby SITARGANJ. The MOB was very ANGRY with my Reporting on the PLIGHT of Refugeees as I spared non and the Politicians aroused them against. I had not withdrwan a single word despite VIOLENT Agitation and ENTIRE Bengali Community rising up against me in 1978- 79. They got me as I had been Careless and though no body would spot me. The smelt me and were in a mood to do anthing with me.PRAFULLA managed my ESCAPE! he desreves to be a SADHU!

I would write on more things about Shaktifarm.

CHAKRADHAR Mallick looked a FANATIC in his ATHEISM. Just Imagine the set up insixties amongst ILLITERATE Rural society. He sustained his line. I was an ACTIVIST from the word go since my INFANT days and saw NOTHING Wrong to adopt TACTICAL Line in dealing with Hostile Society as much as Possible. i always tried my best to avoid the CULTURAL Shock and Never objected to the RITUALS I had to perform to please our people even knowing them UNETHICAL, ILLOGICAL and ENSLAVING. I used to stay in so many religious places upabove the Hills in Kumaun and garwal while scaling the MOUNTAINS as an ENVIRONMENT Activist. Even during GIC days, I would acompany Kiran AMROHI, Nirankar and DEPTI with entire Gang to religious places to have CHARAS, GANJA and LSD for adventure. Marixts have always singled out RELIGION as OPIUM. We just sought the OPIUM not SALVATION and mixed with Hipppies and gypsies ,the visiting Tourists!

JAIPUR: Dalit activists attending a State-level dialogue on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, here on Wednesday suggested several amendments to the Rules of 1995 framed under the legislation to ensure a prompt and fair probe into crimes against Dalits and render speedy justice to the victims of persecution.

Speakers at the dialogue, organised by the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights and other Dalit groups, expressed concern over the abysmally low conviction rate under the SC/ST Act and noted that no change in the condition of Dalits had been witnessed during the past 20 years of the statute being in force primarily due to its “weak implementation”. The participants demanded that all offences under the Act be declared non-bailable and a statutory provision be made for time-bound investigation into the cases without any interference by the dominant castes, besides strict compliance with the rule to hold regular meetings of district-level vigilance and monitoring committees.

National Dalit Movement for Justice general secretary SDJM Prasad said though 3,000 cases were registered under the SC/ST Act in 2005 and 3,950 in 2006, none of them was accompanied by charges under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955, which deals with untouchability. Besides, the provision for giving immediate compensation from a separate fund in the registered cases of Dalit atrocities is generally not complied with.

Centre for Dalit Rights chairperson R. K. Ankodia regretted that dignity of life and equal opportunities were not available to Dalits even after the enactment of the SC/ST Act “because of the anti-Dalit mind-set of those responsible for its implementation”.

Justice I. S. Israni, former judge of the Rajasthan High Court, said the senior police officers who should themselves go to the scene of offences under the Act for investigations, often send their subordinates: “This practice leads to shoddy probe and weakens the cases in the court, which gives the benefit of doubt to the accused.”

Supreme Court lawyer P. L. Mimroth said police investigations into offences against Dalits were heavily influenced by the perpetrators of atrocities belonging to higher castes, while the victims were intimidated and forced to withdraw their complaints.

The activists said the police should be instructed to register FIR under correct sections of the Act and extend protection to the Dalit victims and witnesses. The investigating agencies should also apprise the complainants of the progress in the case, filing of charge-sheet and trial in the court.

Former MP Than Singh, People’s Union for Civil Liberties State president Prem Krishna Sharma, Kathumar MLA Babulal Bairwa and educationist M.C. Khandela also addressed the dialogue.

(Source: The Hindu, September 11, 2009, http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/11/stories/2009091155460700.htm )

Jaipur: A Dalit man approaching a community water pump would not have imagined what crime he was about to commit. But as he washed his hands, a group of people came down upon him, beat him up and also filed a police complaint against him.

Ramlal (40) sustained three fractures in his hands on 17 June 2007 as the mob beat him up with sticks and iron rods for touching the pump in Takholi village in Tonk district, 100 km from here.

While Ramlal was admitted in a local hospital, one of the alleged attackers filed a complaint against him in Mehendwas police station. The victim's family said they were threatened that their house would be burnt down if they approached the police. “But we finally decided to lodge a complaint,' said Shamu, a relative of Ramlal.

“One Murari Yadav has lodged a police complaint against Ramlal for attacking him on 17 June 2007 and a group of Dalit community members filed a complaint on 18 June 2007. We are probing the matter and offenders will be punished,” a senior police official said.

(Source: zeenews.com dated 22 June 2007)
In a move that could stir a hornet's nest, the Andhra Pradesh Government is contemplating the enactment of a legislation to protect and administer the properties of various Christian organisations across the State on the lines of the Endowment and Wakf Acts.

A final decision will, however, be taken after receiving the report of the House Committee constituted with Anam Vivekananda Reddy as its chairman in May 2005. The House Committee is meeting several people including Church leaders and eliciting their opinion on the issue.

According to official sources, the Minorities Welfare Department has been receiving complaints from various quarters and district collectors that properties of Christian institutions are being sold away by people who claim to be their owners.

Most of the complaints have come from Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Medak, Nizamabad, East Godavari, Guntur and Warangal districts. The Government, however, could not take action as it did not have powers to interfere in the disputes of Church properties.

“The need for such a legislation in respect of Christian institutions has long been felt as even a Cabinet Sub-Committee on Minorities also recommended the same way back in 1991,” the sources say. Subsequently, the then Telugu Desam government convened in April 1996 a meeting of Christian representatives but only two persons attended.

Before Independence, the properties were under supervision of Christian missionaries. While leaving the country, the missionaries handed over these properties to local organisations by constituting trustees. They are very valuable and are located in the heart of towns and cities.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 July 2007 )

The State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, headed by Justice Punnaiah, began a two-day visit to the district of Mahabubnagar on 15 October 2004, to probe the allegations of increasing atrocities on Dalits and other weaker sections. The Commission received petitions from several organisations alleging attacks on Dalits and atrocities against Dalit women. Besides the practice of untouchability, the Dalit organisations also drew the commission's attention to the two-glass system prevailing in the rural areas of the district.

State vice-president of MRPS Eeta Balakistaiah complained to the commission that there was inordinate delay in bringing justice to the victims. He said efforts by the authorities to contain the two-glass system were inadequate.

District president of the SC, ST employees association G Naganna petitioned to the commission saying reservations were not being implemented in certain government departments.

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Should SC/ST be given extra chances?

2009-10-27T11:21:54+01:00

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