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Light a candle for 4,733 Sikhs slaughtered by Congress hoods

2011-10-30T22:56:00.000-07:00

This week, light a candle in your window. And whisper a silent prayer in memory of more than 4,000 Sikh men, women and children slaughtered by Congress hoodlums 20 years ago. In Delhi [ Images ] alone, 2,733 Sikhs were burned alive, butchered or beaten to death.

Women were raped while their terrified families pleaded for mercy, little or none of which was shown by the Congress flag-bearers. In one of the numerous such incidents, a woman was gang-raped in front of her 17-year-old son; before leaving, the marauders torched the boy.

For three days and nights the killing and pillaging continued without the police, the civil administration and the Union government, which was then in direct charge of Delhi, lifting a finger in admonishment. The Congress was in power, and senior Congress leaders, perhaps for the first time in their political careers, led from the front while the prime minister, his home minister, indeed the entire council of ministers, twiddled their thumbs.

Even as stray dogs gorged on rotting human entrails, gutters were clogged with charred corpses and wailing women, clutching children too frightened to cry, fled baying mobs armed with iron rods, staves and gallons of kerosene, All India Radio and Doordarshan kept on broadcasting blood-curdling slogans of 'Khoon ka badla khoon se lenge' (We shall avenge blood with blood) raised by Congress party workers grieving over their dear departed leader, India Gandhi.

Rajiv Gandhi [ Images ], having ensconced himself as prime minister, later sought to justify the terror unleashed by his party. Addressing a rally at Delhi's Boat Club to celebrate his mother's birth anniversary, he thundered: 'When a big tree falls, the earth will shake.' And shake it did!

In mid-morning on October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh guards posted at her home. The assassins, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh [ Images ], later said they had killed the prime minister to avenge the Indian Army's [ Images ] assault on the Golden Temple [ Images ] -- Operation Bluestar -- at her explicit instruction on June 5 that year. Beant Singh was killed by the Indo Tibetan Border Police soon after Indira Gandhi's [ Images ] assassination. Satwant Singh and an alleged accomplice, Kehar Singh, against whom there was thin evidence, were executed for the crime.

Indira Gandhi's death was officially confirmed by All India Radio and Doordarshan at 6 pm, after due dilligence had been exercised to ensure Rajiv Gandhi's succession. By then, stray incidents of violence against Sikhs, including the stoning of President Zail Singh's car, had started trickling in at various police stations.

That night, the Congress party machinery went into a rumour-mongering overdrive: in colony after colony (Delhi, the seat of India's colonial rulers, is a sprawling conglomerate of 'colonies,' some upmarket, most little more than shanty towns), rumours spread like wildfire, describing in graphic details how 'Sikhs were distributing sweets to celebrate Indira Gandhi's assassination,' how 'gurdwaras had been lit up as if it were Diwali [ Images ],' and, how 'Sikh terrorists had infiltrated the city.'

By the morning of November 1, hordes of men, shouting Congress slogans, had started running riot in south, east and west Delhi. They were armed with iron rods and carried old tyres and jerry cans filled with kerosene and petrol. Owners of gas stations and kerosene stores, beneficiaries of Congress largesse, provided petrol and kerosene free of cost. Some of the men went around on scooters and motorcycles, marking Sikh houses and business establishments with chalk for easy identification. They had been provided with electoral rolls by their political masters to make the task easier.

By late afternoon that day, hundreds of taxis, trucks and shops owned by Sikhs had been set ablaze. By early evening, the killing, loot and rape began in right earnest. The worst butchery took place in Block 32 of Trilokpuri, a resettlement colony in east Delhi. Scores of families were killed over November 1 and 2: most of them were despatched by putting burning tyres around theirs necks.

The pogrom continued with the active abetment of the police. On November 1, some residents of Lajpat Nagar took out a peace march to thwart the violence. The police stopped the march because the participants did not have 'official permission.' In many places, police asked Sikhs to hand over their kirpans, took them away forcibly if the Sikhs refused, before the marauders descended upon them.

To prevent Sikhs from taking refuge in gurdwaras, most of Delhi's 450 gurdwaras were sacked in the early hours of the violence. The expedient means of setting houses ablaze was used to get at Sikh families who had taken refuge on the roofs of their homes. Entire families were roasted alive.

A sort-of curfew was imposed in south and central Delhi at 4 pm on November 1. But no action was taken in east and west Delhi and the outlying area of Palam where the massacre of Sikhs was being carried out with macabre ferocity and astounding impunity. Curfew was imposed in east and west Delhi at 6 pm, ensuring that the killers had an extra four hours.

P V Narasimha Rao, who was the home minister and responsible for maintaining law and order in Delhi during those dark days, was fully aware of what was happening. But he chose not to deploy the army in time which could have prevented the pogrom. In his affidavit submitted to the G T Nanavati Commission, inquiring into the pogrom, Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora, much decorated hero of the 1971 war, has said, 'The home minister was grossly negligent in his approach, which clearly reflected his connivance with perpetrators of the heinous crimes being committed against the Sikhs.'

The army was alerted at 2.30 pm on November 1; when the General Officer Commanding went to meet the lieutenant governor for orders, he was kept waiting for an hour. The first deployment of army jawans took place around 6 pm on November 1 in south and central Delhi, which were comparatively unaffected, but in the absence of navigators which should have been provided by the police and the civil authorities, the jawans found themselves lost in unfamiliar roads and avenues. The army was deployed in east and west Delhi in the afternoon of November 2. But, here, too, jawans were at a loss because there were no navigators to show them the way through byzantine lanes.

In any event, there was little the army could have done: magistrates were 'not available' to give permission to the jawans to fire on the mobs. This mandatory requirement was kept pending till Indira Gandhi's funeral was over. By then, 1,026 Sikhs had been killed in east Delhi, the majority of the dead were residents of Block 32 in Trilokpuri.

The slaughter was not limited to Delhi. Sikhs were killed in Gurgaon, Kanpur, Bokaro, Indore and many other towns and cities across India. In a replay of the blood-letting in Delhi, 26 Sikh jawans and officers of the Indian Army were pulled out of trains and killed. There has been no effort to compute the death toll in these places, but the most conservative estimates have placed it at 2,000.

After quenching their thirst for blood, the brave leaders of the Congress and their foot soldiers retreated to savour their deeds of revenge. The flames died, the smoke from smouldering shops and homes lifted and the winter air blew away the stench of death. Rajiv Gandhi's government, in a casual aside, issued an official statement placing the death toll at 425.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee [ Images ], who was then president of the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ], had instructed party leaders in Delhi to organise relief camps and provide succour to the survivors of the pogrom. Madan Lal Khurana and Vijay Kumar Malhotra had braved the marauders to move from colony to colony, giving whatever help they could. Vajpayee contested the official death toll and asked his colleagues to collate figures. Their total added up to 2,800. 'The BJP is an anti-national party,' responded the Congress.

There were demands for a judicial inquiry to fix responsibility and add up the casualties. Rajiv Gandhi stonewalled these demands. Human rights organisations petitioned the courts. Rajiv Gandhi's government declared that courts were not empowered to order inquiries.

Meanwhile, Rajiv Gandhi dissolved the Lok Sabha and went for an early general election. The Congress launched a vitriolic hate campaign through advertisements and posters ('Can you trust a Sikh taxi driver?'). In Rajiv Gandhi's constituency, Congress party workers raised a rather telling slogan against his opponent and sister-in-law, Maneka Gandhi: 'Beti hai Sardar ki, qaum hai gaddar ki' (She is the daughter of a Sikh, a community of traitors).

Rajiv Gandhi rode the crest of a gigantic 'sympathy wave.' The Congress won 401 seats in the Lok Sabha. The BJP was reduced to two seats, punished for sympathising with the Sikhs.

By 1985, Punjab [ Images ] was fast slipping into a bottomless spiral of secessionist violence and Rajiv Gandhi was desperate to show a breakthrough. He mollycoddled Akali leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal into agreeing to sign a peace accord with him. Sant Longowal listed a set of pre-conditions; one of them was the setting up of a judicial inquiry into the anti-Sikh pogrom. Political expediency made Rajiv Gandhi concede this and other demands (it is another matter that the accord foundered and Sant Longowal was assassinated by terrorists).

Thus was born the Ranganath Mishra Commission that shall remain known forever for white-washing official complicity and political patronage without which the slaughter of Sikhs would not have been possible. Submissions and affidavits were surreptiously passed on to those accused of leading the mobs to facilitate their defence. Some of these documents were later recovered from the house of Sajjan Kumar, one of the Congress leaders who had been accused by victims in their signed affidavits. Gag orders were issued, preventing the press from reporting in-camera proceedings of the Commission.

For full six months, Rajiv Gandhi refused to make public the Ranganath Mishra Commission's report. When it was tabled in Parliament, the report was found to be an amazing travesty of the truth, an exercise that was dedicated to drawing a bizarre distinction between Congress party workers and the Congress party -- the former were guilty, but not the latter; no responsibility was fixed nor were the guilty named.

Subsequently, three other committees were set up: the Jain-Banerji Committee to find out why cases were not registered by the police and, if registered, why was it not done properly; the Kapoor-Mittal Committee to look into the role of the police; and, the Ahuja Committee to compute the number of deaths. The findings of the first two committees are gathering dust in some corner of South Block.

The key finding of the Ahuja Committee is of relevance -- a total of 2,733 Sikhs were killed in Delhi. There is no record of an apology being offered by either Rajiv Gandhi or his government for placing the death toll at 425, leave alone for their description of the BJP as 'anti-national' because it had placed the figure at 2,800.

In these 20 years, nine commissions and committees have been set up to look into different aspects of the anti-Sikh pogrom. Much bluster has been heard about bringing the guilty to book. What we have seen is inertia, political intervention and tardy prosecution. Overwhelming evidence against Sajjan Kumar, Jagdish Tytler and H K L Bhagat has been set aside by skulduggery and gerrymandering.

Two thousand seven hundred and thirty-three men, women and children killed in Delhi, another 2,000 killed in other towns and cities, scores of women raped, property worth crores of rupees looted or sacked. Families devastated forever, survivors scarred for the rest of their lives.

After 20 years, all that we have to show as justice being done is the conviction of six men, who did not have the requisite financial or political clout to manipulate their way to freedom and are serving sentence for 'murder.'

Sajjan Kumar is back in business as a Congress member of the Lok Sabha; Jagdish Tytler is minister for NRI affairs in the UPA government.

Those who survived the pogrom of 1984, haunted by nightmares of a genocide the world has forgotten, wipe their tears in silence.

Kanchan Gupta(SOURCE- REDIFF.COM)

Who is supreme- people or parliament?

2011-09-09T21:52:00.000-07:00

Some people from the dias of Anna Hazare at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi allegedly spoken a few controversial words to the parliamentarians and the parliament issues privilege notices to actor Ompuri and members of team Anna, Kiran Bedi, Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kezriwal. Interestingly, no notice has been issued to Anna Hazare, who spoken rather more controversial and objectionable words to the politician classes. Why? The political class of our country know the answer of the question better. The notices to team Anna and actor Ompuri have been taken as the side effect, say after affect of the peoples movement. The political class of our country is not ready to take the movement easily. They claim the supremacy of the parliament and the parliamentary system. At the same time, they do not think and do not want to think, who make the parliament. The problem arises from here. There are fashionable terms for the dictators in the political arena, such as Supremo, high command etc. These are not easy to take words. The high command or the supremo of the party decides what an MP or MLA should think, speak and do. Once one get elected, his mind, soul and body get dedicated to the supremo. He can not think, speak and do, what his people want.

This is not matter of any one party or any particular type of party, but our entire political system is chained. The supremo or high command of any party decide the fate of the people related to it. And lastly the incumbent party decide the fate of the national. In our democratic system, people once in five year caste their vote to elect their representative. The candidates make tall and popular promises to catch their vote. And once the candidate wins, never cares the wish of the people. They claim that they did a lot to eradicate the problems of the people. Since the days of India's independence, people are listening the music of development at different tunes. The Indians are tolerant naturally. But, the arrogant political class thinks, people are gentle and can be cheated easily. The liberalization and the globalization made the things more worse. The illegal nexus of politics-industry and bureaucracy promoted corruption in public life. The shrewd and cunning people made their place in politics. The power, politics and paisa made them too arrogant. They think they are everything and people are nothings. They think that they have power to rule either they get elected or not.

The arrogance of the political class is the main reason behind the mass movement of Anna Hazare. Our political class did not take the movement easily. They argue that the crowd of five to ten thousand people can not undermine the parliament and the with the support of five to ten thousand people one can not claim to be the representative of people. When the support for Anna got larger across the country, their well implemented formula “divide and rule” came into their mouth. They shouted, you have not support from Muslims and Dalits. They also alleged that the movement got financial support of America and RSS. But their divide and rule policy did not work this time. It is due to the Chanakyas of Anna. Arvind kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan and Kiran Bedi defeated the government every time. Team Anna studied the each and every aspect of government for the last four month and made its strategy. Team Anna knew that when and where the government would play what type of trick and prepared itself for the same.

Team Anna knew that government will do its best to stop the agitation. The team also knew that the government would arrest them. So they posted Anna's message on You tube and the tube done miracle to the people of the country. The hundreds of thousand people came out on the road. The government sent them to Tihar jail, where lacs of people sat on dharna against government's action. The government knelt down and given release order. This is the government and the same police, which a couple of hours before, thought that team Anna was a threat to law and order of the land and arrested them, but now it thinks that they are not threat.

To be continued...

The best Hindi-Hindi dictionary

2011-08-17T05:54:00.000-07:00

I think definition-of.net is the best on-line hindi-hindi dictionary available so far and hope you will also love the same. However, the dictionary developed by foreigners but quality is far better than the domestic ones. The dictionary contains more than 3.25 lacs of database. some characteristics of the best dictionary.

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Fight against neo-colonial rule part-2

2011-08-15T06:19:00.000-07:00

IN nineties, Dr Manmohan Singh, then Finance Minister and currently Prime Minister of India, came with an imported theory of economic development, named Globalization, liberalization and reforms. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia have been the Indian face of World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Western nations want to capture the vast indian market and its resources. So, they used these faces and imposed their economic policies in India through these Indian faces. Overnight, Licence and permission Raj came to end. The fate of indian economy handed over to corporates and markets, and the markets were opened to the western nations. It had been claimed that only the open economy can eradicate the poverty and bring prosperity to India. After, two decades of the open economic policy, the illusion has broken and the much hyped claim came to trivia. The economy get centralized. The governments became the tool to collect taxes and to go on foreign tour. Subsidies have been terminated. They think for corporates and their interests. They think for four paise loss of companies but they do not think about the suicide of the farmers.
To be continued--

FIGHT AGAINST NEO-COLONIAL RULE

2011-08-09T08:51:00.000-07:00

Anna Hazare is nothing, but symbol of true indigenous nationalistic character of Indian soul. This soul is nearer to the dream of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi had a dream of self-dependent, decentralised, rural economy based India. At the beginning of the independent India a little had been done to realize the dream of the great soul, but colonial thinking of the rulers of India, left the Gandhian theory and model of development. They failed to understand the basic structure and culture of Indian society. They adopted the imported theories of development for India, those were irrelevant and against to the fabric of indian society.
The imported and fabricated thinking of communists began to inject into the nerves of Indian masses. They projected Dharma(literally, religion) and morality as Afeem(opium) for the development. They propagated that there should not be religion in public life, what is the soul of the Indian society for the hundreds of centuries. They observed that religion(dharma) and politics can not and should not go together, so there should not be public demonstration of religion. Our neo-colonial rulers also supported these theories and adopted in the syllabuses of schools. They propagated that Aryan were outsiders and India had nothing on which Indian could have pride. They had literally no contribution to the world in the field of Science, Technology, Medical Science, Philosophy, Art and even Culture.
In nineties, Dr. Manmohan Singh came with......

TO BE CONTINUED..

Important links for hindi language

2011-08-08T10:19:00.000-07:00

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pseudo-seculars sold the democracy

2010-11-25T01:18:00.001-08:00

sale! sale! sale! yes, The greatest democracy of the world, the Indian democracy is available for sale. Is anyone to buy the same. Offer is for limited time.

Yes, our democracy is for sale. our great seculars are selling our democracy.

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India, the republic, is now on sale. Participating in the auction is a group of powerful individuals, corporate houses, lobbyists, bureaucrats and journalists. Just before the 2G spectrum allocation scam became breaking news,
the Income-Tax department was busy tapping the phones of Niira Radia, a lobbyist whose clients, the Tatas and Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd, have interests in several key sectors such as telecom, petroleum and natural gas.
Radia’s conversations show how even cabinet berths can be decided by this select oligarchy. Her interface with discredited (now former) telecom minister A. Raja, DMK mp Kanimozhi and Ranjan Bhattacharya, the foster son-in-law of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, shows how she successfully lobbied for several cabinet berths. The transcripts suggest that journalists Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt also lobbied for Raja with the Congress party. However, both journalists, in separate statements, decried the use of the label “lobbyist” and termed their conversation with Radia as part of their normal journalistic duties. Other journalists such as Prabhu Chawla, G. Ganapathy Subramaniam and M.K. Venu also had elaborate conversations with Radia on issues ranging from telecom to the Ambani brothers’ dispute on gas pricing. At times they proffer advice and trade information.
The more than 104 conversations involving Radia that were tapped by the I-T department expose a systemic rot. These tapes are now annexures in a Supreme Court petition by lawyer Prashant Bhushan seeking Raja’s prosecution.
The reaction of the Congress leadership is surprising since all these tapes were available to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as Pranab Mukherjee and P. Chidambaram in their capacity as finance ministers in the two UPA governments. Regardless of the existence of the tapes, the Congress leadership agreed to reinduct Raja with the telecom portfolio into the UPA-II cabinet.
The tapes also paint a dismal picture of how everything—from cabinet berths to natural resources—is now available for the right price. The now controversial 2G allocation was just one of the many manipulations orchestrated by players in high places. There are conversations on civil aviation with 1980-batch IAS officer Sunil Arora, publicist Suhel Seth and many others which have not been included here. The worst fallout, however, is that it has besmirched the hitherto ‘fair’ name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who agreed to take Raja back in the same ministry that now stands exposed in the biggest scam in independent India, despite knowledge of the tapes.

Niira Bhajan

“When it came to spectrum, they went to Raja and paid him a bribe and got spectrum allocated.”
“Uddhav’s already taken funding from both groups. I’d suggest, tell Krishna Kumar to talk to Uddhav.”
“Otherwise I will tell them to tell Uddhav to go after them. I don’t think Congress will do much.”
“I believe Maran has given about 600 crores to Dayalu, Stalin’s mother.”
Mere client Tatas bhi bahut beneficiary thhe (in the 2G spectrum allocation).”
“Senthil, Rahul Joshi, maine donon ki le li. You can’t run stories against my clients and get away with it.”
“I have a note, no, a whole dossier, on Praful Patel on the last five years jisme ye poora aspect hai.”
“Inka pichhle paanch saal mein yahi attempt to tha, inko destroy karo, donon careers ko.”
“Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Venkaiah Naidu, ye sab coterie hain na of Advani.”
“Naresh wants to kill it (Air India), Vijay wants to kill it and Praful is not really interested.”
“Raja has promised me that he will not do anything in a hurry. I made Kani speak to him as well. ”
“The solicitor general, Gopal Subramaniam, I am gonna go and brief him. He hates them.”

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‘What Do You Want Me To Tell Them (The Congress)? Tell Me. I’ll talk To Them.’
Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV

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A. Raja, Former telecom minister
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‘I Am Surprised Raja After All You Did For Him Is Playing This Game’
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons
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'Who Do You Want Congress To Talk To? Karunanidhi? I’ll Speak To Ahmed Patel.’
Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director
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‘Give Your Story To A Paper Which Will Carry It As A Lead Flyer. Isko CNBC Ko Do.’
M.K. Venu, Senior business journalist
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‘So, How Did You Find Sunil (Mittal)? What Did You Think Of Him?’
Tarun Das, Former CII honcho
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‘Mukesh Said, Haan Yaar, Ranjan, Congress To Ab Apni Dukaan Hai’
Ranjan Bhattacharya, Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law
the PM
The Truth Conditions
Manmohan Singh’s time, strangely, has seen more scams than any of his predecessors. What price the ‘Mr Clean’ image?
Saba Naqvi
the PM
There Was A Swan, It Had A Tale
Media grandstanding aside, it was the Pioneer that broke open the 2G scam
Debarshi Dasgupta
cag report
Those Missing Zeroes
What punishment awaits the guilty? And can the loss be recouped?
Arindam Mukherjee
Hear it as they spoke it: The Ratan Tata, Barkha Dutt & Other Tapes
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Niira Radia: Hi, did I wake you up?
Barkha Dutt: Hi Niira. I have been up most of the night. The stalemate continues.
NR: They need to talk to him directly. That’s the only way. And that is the problem.
BD: Apparently now the message from the other side is why did Baalu go public? They claim that at this point they had offered them this formula and these guys said no. These guys never told them they would withdraw outside support. Apparently, the PM is pissed off that Baalu went public.
NR: That’s Baalu’s doing na?
BD: Yeah. Baalu’s doing. He’s not being instructed by Karunanidhi to do that.
NR: He was told to tell the Congress and come away. But the media was outside.
BD: Oh god! So, now what should I tell them? Tell me.
NR: I had a long chat with the wife and the daughter. The problem is they need to talk to Karunanidhi directly. The problem is they cannot talk in front of Maran, Baalu. They need to talk to Karunanidhi directly. There are enough Congress leaders from Tamil Nadu who can do that. The biggest problem is the followers of Azhagiri are saying you cannot give Maran a cabinet post and keep Azhagiri in the minister of state status.
BD: Will Karuna drop Baalu?
NR: Look, if you tell him Baalu is the only problem, I’d imagine he will drop him.
BD: But you see the problem is also a choice of portfolios, na?
NR: They haven’t said anything. Portfolios haven’t yet been discussed.
BD: Congress claims, for whatever it is worth, that DMK wanted surface transport, power, IT, telecom, railways and health. Abhi Congress has offered IT, telecom, chemicals and fertilisers and labour. This is where it stands. Will DMK accept?
NR: Maybe not. They will have to drop Maran if they have to accept that. Maran is pushing coal and mines.
BD: Who is pushing?
NR: Now Maran says you give me coal and mines. My honest advice is you tell them, they need to tell him directly that we are happy because Kanimozhi has no issue even being an independent. But Azhagiri is now telling her you cannot accept independent charge if Maran remains a cabinet minister. Congress is sending messages through the media and through various sources that Maran is going around telling everyone that he is the only acceptable person. That’s not correct, na?
BD: I know. We have taken that off.
NR: Congress needs to tell Karunanidhi that we have not said anything about Maran.
BD: Okay, Let me talk to them again.
NR: The choice of candidate, we leave to you. We leave the choice of candidates to you. We have some reservations about Baalu. Let them tell that we are not telling anything about Maran.

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'Who Do You Want Congress To Talk To? Karunanidhi? I’ll Speak To Ahmed Patel.’
Vir Sanghvi, HT advisory editorial director

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All Lines Are Busy
There was not one pie Niira Radia didn’t have her hand in nor any area—media, corporate or government—she didn’t have a contact in
radia tapes
‘I Know Who Planted In Congress That Azhagiri Knows No English’
A. Raja, Former telecom minister
radia tapes
‘How Do I Make Dad Understand? He Doesn’t Understand...’
Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP
radia tapes
‘I Am Surprised Raja After All You Did For Him Is Playing This Game’
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons
radia tapes
‘What Do You Want Me To Tell Them (The Congress)? Tell Me. I’ll talk To Them.’
Barkha Dutt, Group editor, English news, NDTV
radia tapes
‘Give Your Story To A Paper Which Will Carry It As A Lead Flyer. Isko CNBC Ko Do.’
M.K. Venu, Senior business journalist
radia tapes
‘So, How Did You Find Sunil (Mittal)? What Did You Think Of Him?’
Tarun Das, Former CII honcho
radia tapes
‘Mukesh Said, Haan Yaar, Ranjan, Congress To Ab Apni Dukaan Hai’
Ranjan Bhattacharya, Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law
the PM
The Truth Conditions
Manmohan Singh’s time, strangely, has seen more scams than any of his predecessors. What price the ‘Mr Clean’ image?
Saba Naqvi
the PM
There Was A Swan, It Had A Tale
Media grandstanding aside, it was the Pioneer that broke open the 2G scam
Debarshi Dasgupta
cag report
Those Missing Zeroes
What punishment awaits the guilty? And can the loss be recouped?
Arindam Mukherjee
Hear it as they spoke it: The Vir Sanghvi- Niira Radia Tapes
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Niira Radia: Hi.
Vir Sanghvi: Hi, can you talk?
NR: Yeah, yeah. Okay.
VS: You know, Maran did not meet Sonia.
NR: He did not.
VS: He won’t meet Sonia, he’s been there, they say we’re not treating him as official spokesperson at all. He called just now, I saw your message, he is calling up Ghulam Nabi Azad every half an hour and making new demands. As far as we’re concerned, there are two wives, one brother, one sister, one nephew, it’s all got very complicated for us. We’ve made a basic offer, if Karunanidhi responds to us and tells us he’d like to respond directly, he’d like to talk to Mrs Gandhi, we’d be happy. He spoke only to Manmohan Singh. We’ve told Maran they’ve to come back to us and tell us what they think of our offer. And, apparently the DMK is getting very bad press in Chennai.
NR: Hmm.
VS: So, he said we’re going to wait for two days. Let them come back, we’re of the line that this is not a Congress-DMK problem, this is an internal DMK problem because they can’t get their act together between all his wives and children and nephews. He’s got to get his act together and nominate one person and we’d be very happy to deal with him. We’re not happy with this Maran who keeps calling up Ghulam Nabi and saying ‘talk to me, talk to me’. They are not taking him seriously.
NR: Very interesting. I’m glad you spoke to Ghulam Nabi, did you?
VS: I spoke to Ahmed (Patel). Ghulam Nabi is not a very key figure. Ahmed is the key figure.
NR: Right.
VS: Yeah. So, Ahmed says Ghulam has been dealing with Maran. But Ghulam is not our official person and we’re not taking Maran seriously. As far as they are concerned, they’ve asked for five crucial ministries, it’s an idiotic and unreasonable demand. We’ve made them a perfectly reasonable demand. Now, it is for Karunanidhi to get back to us, Kani to come and see us, anyone can come and see us and say I’ll put you on the line with my father et cetera, lines are, doors are, open to her. But we can’t have a situation where Maran keeps calling us and saying I’m the person and telling Ghulam, I want this, I want that, who is Maran?’
NR: Hmm.
VS: Maran has gone back apparently today to Chennai?
NR: Yeah. He has gone back.
VS: Ahmed says, ‘We told him, we told Maran also that we’ll deal with Karunanidhi, so he has gone back. So, they are quite hopeful, they say, we made a very reasonable offer, we have lot of regards for Karunanidhi, we would like to deal with him. We have no regard for Maran.’
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VS: Hello.
NR: Sorry to disturb you. They had a meeting.
VS: Okay.
NR: M.K. Narayanan had come. And as suggested it was Kani only. But they are still stuck to their four formula and one independent.
VS: Okay.
NR: But these people will also think about it and let him know tomorrow morning. He (Ahmed Patel) clarified everything.
VS: Okay, very good.
NR: I think that there was no issue and there was lot of relief from the chief minister’s side. And he realised that, you know, this is all being done by...
VS: By Maran.
NR: Yeah. But the thing is that it appears that he is still under a lot of pressure to take Maran, you know.
VS: Where is this coming from, this pressure?
NR: It’s coming from Stalin and his sister Selvi.
VS: Okay.
NR: I believe Maran has given Rs 600 crores to Dayalu, Stalin’s mother.
VS: It’s hard to argue with that kind of pressure.
NR: Isn’t it? But if they stick to three and want one independent charge, then Kani gets an independent and then Azhagiri, Baalu and Raja come in.
VS: That is not so bad, you know.
NR: Yeah, so I think.
VS: Unless Maran is one of the cabinet.
NR: Yeah. But I don’t think he can give it to three family members. That will send a very wrong signal.
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VS: Hi, Niira.
NR: Hi, Vir. Where are you, Delhi or...
VS: I am in Jaipur. Coming back this evening.
NR: Okay. I’ve been talking to my Tamil Nadu friends. I don’t know whether you are in the position to get through to anyone at Congress. I met Kani just now.
VS: I was supposed to meet Sonia today but I’ve been stuck here. So, now it’s becoming tomorrow. I’ve been meeting with Rahul, but tell me...
NR: They are not understanding that they are actually communicating with the wrong guy. Not because I detest Maran but actually the father has not nominated Maran to negotiate. Now, you know, it’s like a banana republic where the cabinet...
VS: Then why has Maran become the face, they all hate Maran.
NR: No, he’s not. I know. But the Congress is under another impression. They have already apparently indicated to Maran that the prime minister will not give infrastructure to DMK. But he is desperately pushing for an infrastructure berth himself.
VS: Right.
NR: But the problem is that there is a leader which is Kani’s brother who is Azhagiri who’s won that election and he is a mass leader. He controls half of Tamil Nadu. And the father cannot afford to upset him because...
VS: Obviously...
NR: Simply because of his position.
VS: Yeah.
NR: Right now the Congress doesn’t seem to be understanding this.
VS: So, who should they talk to?
NR: They need to talk directly to Karunanidhi. They need to talk to Kani.
VS: Let me try and get through to Ahmed.
Hear it as they spoke it: The Vir Sanghvi- Niira Radia Tapes(source- outlook india)

who was Swami Laxmanananda?

2008-10-09T10:00:00.000-07:00

kandhamal has been the headlines of the national as well as international media, but they failed to understand the root cause of the problem. Not only they failed to understand the real issue, but even they did not try to find out the fact. They are revolving around their self-made nucleus and casting their pseudo-secular thought. The majority of media houses, in India, either owned or promoted by churches or communists. So, they are no willing to see the problems of majority. our minority commission and human right commission understand the right of muslims and christians. they issue the notices and take stand human right violation done in Gujrat, Orissa and Karnatka. They remain deaf and blind in the matter of human right violence in Kashmir, Meghalay, Mizoram, Assam.
That's why I am writing about Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, Who was brutually killed on 23of August of this year. No media taken a pain to find out the conspiracy in the killing of the octogenerian seer. I am talking about the media, who advance justice on the issue of Jessica Lal killing case, Rizban-ur-rahman killing case, BMW case and so on. Once Orissa goverment states (without any investigation), they understand, the government is telling truth. Rizban-ur-rahman is important for media, because he marries to a hindu girl. BMW is important, because Sanjeev Nanda, a VVIP son was involved in the case. Jessica Lal is important, because, she was page three celebrity, what is important for TRP. But what is in Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati. He did not came in the chorus of peudo-secular rhythm. Being a VHP leader made him untouchable in the secular media. For secular media, he was terrorist and should be prosecuted.
No matter, he dedicated his entire life in the the service of tribal people, in the betterment of the tribal society, in the upliftment of the downtrodden people of jungle. No matter, he was regarded as mother, father, mentor and guide of hundreds of people in the tribal area. No matter, tribal people treat him as God.
It's our pseudo-secular media, which imagine a character, make news, make pressure on police, courts and government, for which Laxmanananda was not even in its snippets. Its only because, Laxmanananda was the greatest barrier in the path of conversion. He taught hundreds of tribal children to stand their own feet. He taught hundreds of tribals to cultivate profitable crops. He helped them to live a better life, so that they need not the help of christian missionary and their go, who help only those who convert into the chritianity.
At the time of killing, 84 year old Laxmanananda, was engaged in educating the tribal students of the region. The region illiteracy and school dropout rate is very high. He managed to get them interested in studies. He managed to teach the tribal people the merits of multi-crop cultivation, animal husbandry and horticulture. This good-doer character made him the larger than life personality and respectable to everybody in the area. If anybody had any grievance, he used to be at his door in no time offering the solution and consolidation. He was like the patriarch of the area. He go huge popularity among tribals. He has a mass support base in the district for his social service. He became the ever greatest barrier in the path of conversion in the district. How could power blind church and missionary bear the person?
And at last, the obstacle has been removed with his associates. In no time Orissa goverment and police announced that naxalite had killed Swamiji. Police arrested the people involved in the violence and arsen, but failed to arrest even a single suspect killer of Swamiji. A large number of male were arrested, at last women and childred left to fight against the police. Sitation became grave due to the anger flowing out from women folk.
People also attacked media, accusing partiality in news coverage.

why is kandhmal burning

2008-10-07T12:09:00.000-07:00

Kandhmal became the name of burning and violence against Christianity. Even media never tried to investigate the root cause of the burning and violence. In the name of secularism(pseudo-secularism) media ever ignored and tried to manipulate the facts. In one hand, in India, largest number of people in the world are being killed in home grown terrorism, in the other hand, so called secular(pseudo-secular) Indian media and leaders are trying to justify the terrorism in the name of Hindu militancy. They are demanding ban on these Hindu organizations. Let leave the vote-centric leaders, our media, as if, are working for the christianity, not for whole society. they are working for ban on the Hindu organizations. Once again, they do not want to know the root cause of the kandhmal violence. Here, let us try to investigate the root cause of the violence in kandhamal-
1. Cast Conflict vs communal violence- During the recent foreign visit of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, the kandhamal became the international issue. International fraternity complained Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr. Singh asked Orissa government to restore peace in the region. Some of our television channels termed the Kandhmal violence as International Shame. Before this, our same Prime Minister termed the violence as National same.
Kandhamal is burnig for a longtime. Why Kandhamal is burning? Is it communal issue. Our ruler and their suppoters and even media projected the issue as communal violence. Each of them ignored the origin of the problem. some of them, do not know the problem and some of them do not want to know the problem. The orissa government is criticised by the pseudo-seculars media and leaders, but the goverment failed to reply properly. The goverment always said the main reason of the violence is the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati.
The continued exploitation of the kandh tribe in the region is the main cause of the violence. The kandh tribes have been opposing their right being enjoyed by the exploiters, mainly the converted christians, panna. The killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and his associates in his own Ashram made the sitation worse. kandh tribals constitute nearly 53 percent of the kandhamal districts total population. Kandh tribal are angry as their genuine and constitutional rights of reservations are being exploited by the exploiters, the converted panna christians.
The cast conflict started in the last decade of the last century. the conflict is between kandh-the scheduled tribe and the panna scheduled cast. since last two decades, panna(SC) have been accused by kandh tribal(ST) of grabbing the tribal land through illegal means taking andvantage of the innocence and the ignorance of the tribal people. The Kandh always have been opposing the demand of ST status to The panna(SC). Some of converted panna christian got ST Status and enjoying the rights of the tribal people. This is the root cause of discontent of the Kandh people.
2. Socio-Economic difference- The converted panna christian are economically and educationally far ahead than the other tribals because their church and missionary link. Once the panna work under kandh and now they are affuent. This socio-economic gap appeared as cast conflict and target is panna-the converted christian, so some people name it as communal violence.