Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Bhagavad Gita´s Message on Fighting Terrorism

By Rajiv Malhotra

In the Bhagavad Gita, God appears in human form as Krishna, to guide Arjuna in the fight/don't fight dilemma that Arjuna faces. What might this 18 chapter holiest of the Hindu scriptures teach us in the dilemma we now face concerning global terrorism? Krishna's advice fits neither of the two extremes that are presently dominating the media debate: At one end are the majority of Americans who promote revenge against the terrorists, as a notion of justice - an eye for an eye. At the other end is a minority of anti-war activists who want no violence, and instead advocate that the US should take the blame for having caused hatred against itself. The Gita's message rejects BOTH these. Its short-term message for this situation pertains to the ethics of war, and its long-term message calls for systemic changes required by both Islam and the West in order to harmonize humanity.
Dharmic War

Krishna scolds Arjuna for his initial attitude of abandonment, saying that there is a global evil that must be dealt with; Arjuna is the best qualified one to fight this evil given his training, capabilities, and position. This is God's work and not his own. By analogy, one could argue that the US must play Arjuna's role, being positioned as the only superpower and having the resources to carry this out. In Hindu dharma, a ruler has the obligation to protect the public from such menaces, and to abandon this role would be irresponsible. God's advice to Arjuna is: "Engage in battle with equanimity and without getting overwhelmed by the extremes of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, and thus you won't incur sin."

A just war ("dharma-yudh" = war-as-duty) should not be for revenge but for the prevention of terrorism in the future. The Hindu idea of justice is in the form of karmic consequence; but these consequences are for God to take care of, whenever and however he chooses. The Gita emphasizes one's rightful action, but always letting God take care of the fruits. Therefore, from President Bush down to the pilots making the strikes, the attitude should be one of doing duty for the sake of ridding society of evil, and not for revenge.

Furthermore, the response has to be relevant and proportional. The Gita does not condone indiscriminate "carpet bombing". Since karma is individual and merit based, there cannot be racial profiling against anyone.

It is also made clear in the Gita that Arjuna has nothing personal to gain from winning. He does not seek power, wealth, fame or glory. Hence, it is not an act to be carried out by the ego and must be free of selfish motives. Applying this to the present dilemma, there are some implications:

The US should not be motivated for the sake of securing its oil supply, as that would be a selfish act.
The US should not focus on ending only the terrorism that is against the US, but rather, it should deal equally with all terrorism that hurts anyone in the world, including remote corners where the US does not perceive a direct selfish interest at this time. Everything is totally interconnected as per Indian cosmogony, and there is no morality in segregating the US's selfish interests from the interests of humanity at large. Unfortunately, Senator Kerry, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, amongst other policymakers, has defined the area of US interests to be from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia, which means that the Indian subcontinent's Islamic terrorism remains a blind spot.
The US cannot aid terrorists one year by classifying them as freedom fighters against a US enemy, and fight them the next year when they turn sour.
Arjuna is required to act in a sattvic mode (i.e. in an attitude of purity) even while carrying out a violent attack against evil. The US must note that collusion with evil cannot be sattvic, and that in the end such collusion cannot expect to result in lasting good, as the deed itself gets tainted by the affiliation. The Gita requires us to repudiate even the actions of our friends, if wrong. Have we as the United States had the courage to repudiate 'friends' who are clearly part of the problem? To have a sattvic activity, we must re-examine two countries we call friends, one that financed terrorists and the other that trained them:

For decades, Saudi Arabia has sponsored Wahhabi Islam, a fundamentalist variety of Islam, and funded 'madrassas' (religious schools) to expand the market share of Islam in poor countries. Madrassas often teach Islamic extremism and triumphalism, and then some of the youth advance into the hands of jihad preachers who are linked to some madrassas if not in charge of them. Yet, given their importance to the US oil supply, the Saudis have not been taken to task.
Pakistan created the Taliban, with US funding and weapons, to fight a jihad against the Soviets. This is not emphasized today by the US media, as it might embarrass prior presidencies and some of the senior cabinet members today who played a role in those governments. We must also ask whether strengthening the dictatorial Army rule in Pakistan, and thus subverting democracy, is in the best interests of Pakistan's citizens. US media has stated that 15% to 20% of Pakistanis are Talibanized, and given its population of 140 million, that is larger than the total population of Afghanistan. Pakistan has openly hosted Bin Laden's operating bases to attack civilian targets in India, killing more Indians than any other nationality from terrorism over the past five years.
Saudi's oil and Pakistan's geography give them unique value to the US short-term tactics at the expense of the long term vision. The Gita does not recommend such collusion with forces that are themselves responsible for the evil to be fought. Any such war would be a stop gap solution at best, and eventually the US would be playing into the hands of the very evil forces it seeks to eradicate. The US must encourage liberal Islamic scholars at the expense of totalitarian Islamic rulers; it must actively discourage Islamic triumphalism that drives many Islamic organizations.

Dharmic War is not Jihad

It is also important to contrast the message of the Gita with that of jihad, since some western scholars have tried to draw similarities:

The Gita's call to Arjuna is not against a country that is a thousand miles away and that has never in its history threatened anyone militarily. Moderate Muslim interpretations state that jihad is an internal fight against evil within, thereby denying the Taliban's legitimacy. There is merit to this claim. However, for 1300 years, a great many individuals, societies and rulers have interpreted jihad as a license to kill infidels and as a mandate to expand. The 7th century invasion of Sindh (India) by Arabs was explicitly celebrated as jihad, and history is filled with one wave of Islamic plunder of India after another. The Taliban's atrocities look benign by comparison. These Islamic jihads, such as by Mohammed of Ghazni, Ghauri, and all the way down to Aurungzeb, were not rationalized by the conquerors as a fight against any threat or based on any dispute. Rather, these were justified as wars to kills infidels and to destroy their idols. Therefore, attempts to rationalize terrorism by blaming US and Israeli policies ignore the history of jihad that precedes the existence of the United States and Israel.
The Mahabharata war, within which the Gita is revealed, was undertaken only after exhausting all avenues for a negotiated settlement, with Krishna himself as the chief envoy. Jihad theology does not require any such attempts, because it can be applied simply on the basis that the other party is non Muslim.
Arjuna complied with the ethics of war: he did not engage in covert activities; he declared the war, warned the people concerned, allowed them to retreat, allowed them to even take rest during nights, and did not hurt innocent people. He did not burn any city or house with innocent people or even enemies. He did not consider the death of innocent people as "collateral damage."
As interpreted for centuries by many invaders, Islamic jihad asks the holy warriors to enjoy the fruits of plunder as their reward, including the sharing of loot, slaves, and women. This scriptural authority was invoked repeatedly by Islamic invaders into India, to enlist criminals as mercenaries with the promise of becoming free and living the good life after a profitable raid of India. Such repeated jihads were selfish ventures sponsored by tribal chiefs but promoted using Islamic theology. No such enjoyment of loot, taking of slaves, or other atrocities is justified in the Gita's call to fight evil. Arjuna was not seeking heaven, with a large number of virgins, as reward.
Questioning Eurocentrism

Beyond the dharma of war itself, there are many other lessons that Hinduism offers to both sides in this clash between Islamic fundamentalism and the west. The US must introspect about its own intellectual chauvinism towards non western cultures, with includes all non western people and not just Arabs and Muslims:

Chauvinism: Western scholars have often subverted other civilizations' legitimacy: Much that the west appropriated from others is deemed to be the consequence of western superiority. This includes land and gold from Native Americans, free labor from Africans, trillions of dollars (in today's value of money) from India under the British, enormous amounts of science and technology from India (often via translations by the Arabs/Persians), know how from the Chinese, etc. The Gita would call for an honest portrayal of every civilization's contributions.
Asymmetric power: Eurocentrism has had a symbiotic relationship with power, as one feeds the other. A Eurocentric representation of different cultures in history, sociology, science and technology, and the story of civilization, is often used to justify the systemic inequalities in globalization, and the hegemony of Christianity through proselytizing. In the true spirit of India's darshanas (systems of representation and debate), there would be equal self representation by all major civilizations in the modern discourse.
Dharmic compassion: There must be a new moral order in globalization, centered around human unity and not politics. Dharmic compassion needs to be given higher priority in policymaking at all levels and must transcend the notion of 'us' and 'others'. For instance, is it moral to ignore Chinese human rights violations against Tibet, just because Tibet does not have oil or other strategic value to the US?
Cooperation amongst religions: Mere religious tolerance must be replaced with respect for all religions, and the world must invest in the preservation of religious diversity. Religious exclusivism is against dharma, as it results in cultural chauvinism and imposing one's ideology under the pretext of 'saving others from their own traditions'. Mono-theism has often become My-theism. There should not be competition for God's brownie points, as it divides faiths into camps fighting for market share.
Islam Versus Islam

The Gita's dharma is built on profound self-examination. Professor Akbar Ahmad, as quoted in Newsweek recently, says that the clash of civilizations is a clash between Islam and Islam - the liberals versus the fundamentalists. Islamic scholars need to introspect about fashioning Islam for democratic, secular and pluralistic times, and should take on social reforms seriously. Islam's history has had some such voices of progress, but these were often dominated by radical elements opposed to Pluralism and Modernity.

We must remember Emperor Akbar who utilized India's tradition of interfaith debate and cross-fertilization, to facilitate dialogs between Hindu and Muslim scholars. This resulted in spiritual innovation and syncretism of new Hindu-Muslim hybrid theologies and sociologies. India became the ground of the most progressive Islam in the world. His grandson, Dara Shikoh, the heir to the Mughal throne, was an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and Hindu texts, having personally translated the Gita and the Upanishads into Persian. His vision was to have a Hindu-Muslim harmonious society of mutual respect. However, he was murdered by his younger brother, Aurungzeb. The oppressive rule by Aurungzeb was the longest rule amongst all Mughal rulers, in which he planted the seeds of communal hatred and the eventual collapse of the Mughal Empire at the hands of a small number of British traders. Aurungzeb's killing of Dara Shikoh was the defining moment in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, with far-reaching effects till today. This Hindu-Muslim history offers many lessons on dharma and the playing out of the karma that was created.

No religion is free from radical elements, and no religion is essentially radical. Islam has had more than its fair share of radicalism through much of its history. There are many moderate and liberal Islamic scholars, but they fear the clerics, and their voices are subdued. The Gita's message would be for Islam's political leaders to empower their liberal scholars, and to examine Islam's positions on the following matters:

Promotion of Pluralism, not Abrahamism: Islamic public relations is emphasizing that Islam worships the 'same God as Christianity', that Islam believes in all the Christian Prophets, and that Islam believes in Jesus as a Prophet. This call to the brotherhood of Abrahamic religions using the "Monotheism card" is at the expense of the non-Abrahamic religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Wicca, Paganism, Native American shamanism, Shintoism, and many others. This bifurcation would merely reconfigure who is 'in' as a legitimate religion, and who is 'out' as 'worshipping false gods'. This is a double standard, as it tries to legitimize Islam by glorifying Abrahamic exclusiveness. The Gita promotes pluralism, explaining that different humans have different gunas (qualities), and therefore describes a variety of religious paths that are all valid. There is hardly a spiritual methodology known in the world today that the Gita does not list as valid.
Reconciling the two faces of Islam: Pan-Islamic global organizations have a westernized face of peace and tolerance, as opposed to a different internal face of Islam back home. The rulers of Islamic societies who deal with the west are projecting an image that is democratic and peace-loving, whereas the Muslim clergy who control the religious teachings and interpretations often tend to be radical exclusivists and expansionists. Hence there is a 'westernized Islam' practiced by a small elite and a different 'native Islam' practiced by the vast majority. This has resulted in a good guy / bad guy role playing, in which Islamic lobbyists are the good guys claiming to save the west from some bad guys of Islam.
Decoupling from terrorism: Islamic leaders are trying to decouple Islam's image from terrorism, decrying the very use of the term 'Islamic terrorism'. But they should also decouple Islam from various geopolitical struggles and missions where Islam gets routinely invoked to mobilize support. No dharmic end can be pursued using non dharmic means. Extremism is basically 'tamas guna' (ignorance). It gets mobilized into a campaign by combining it with 'rajas guna' (passion). Such a dangerous mixture of tamas driving rajas cannot be controlled towards specific purposes only. In the end, it assumes a deadly life of its own, and spins out of the control of its own creators - this is the story of the Taliban.
The us/them mentality: Islam divides the world into two categories: 'dar-ul-Islam' (the world of Muslims) and 'dar-ul-harb' (the world of non Muslims, called kafirs or idolaters). Muslim law demands different standards and norms by which Muslims must deal with insiders and outsiders. Such built-in chauvinism towards others is contrary to the Gita's teachings and is dangerous. Pan-Islamic organizations should focus on Muslims' respect and responsibilities towards others, and not just push for greater rights and privileges for Islam.
Minority rights within Islam: In Medieval Europe, Muslims tolerated Jews better than the Christians did. But in the 20th century, minority religions have been oppressed in Islamic countries. Rights of non Muslims in Islamic countries need to be made comparable to the rights that Muslims demand for themselves in the west. Islamic leaders should create Islamic commissions and forums on Pluralism, where non Muslims could submit complaints and get a fair hearing on instances of Muslim hate speech against infidels, prejudicial laws or practices in Islamic countries towards non Muslims, and crimes committed in the name of Islam. They should consider issuing fatwas to stop hegemonic Islamic triumphalism, since it has led to 'religious cleansing' of religious minorities in virtually every Islamic state since World War 2 (as evidenced by a decline in the percentage of religious minorities).
Unfreezing the Islamic Law: While Christianity is also based on canon and uniqueness of specific historical events, it has been reformed, and Enlightenment secularized the west's public space. Since the Sunni Muslim Law was frozen by order of the caliph in the 10th century, the only mechanism which exists in Islam to update the Law is the fatwa, which may be considered as the case law of Islamic jurisprudence. There are many muftis who can issue fatwas, and the Holy Quran and the Hadith are often mis-interpreted to promote extreme positions. Islamic leaders should immediately set up a panel to amend the sharia (Islamic Law), especially as it pertains to non Muslims, so as to be compatible with this global era. They should invite and encourage critical examination of Islamic history and texts by all, without intimidation of scholars, just as is common for other world religions.
Fairness in education and dialog: (A) Islam's leaders should investigate whether terrorist campaigns were sponsored in Islam's name, that they now want to disown since things have turned sour. They should examine whether they can ethically disown the baby of radicalism that was created many times during Islam's history, as an expedient means. (B) Muslim leaders who condemn terrorism have often qualified it by blaming it on US foreign policy. Yet they have failed to criticize with equal intensity Islam's own policies and long history of aggression towards non Muslims. They should sponsor an honest and complete account of the history of Islamic expansion since the 7th century by conquest, jihads, and plunder. While the Islamic expansion into the west and the crusades are known to most westerners, the long-term violent campaign eastwards into India is kept out of educational material in the name of political correctness. Only by honestly teaching history can the world heal and move on, rather than by one-sided PR campaigns.
Gita's Recipe for Humanity to Advance

Imagine hypothetically that the Gita's teachings were adopted by humanity at large. What would the way forward look like under such a scenario? Specifically, the Gita's spiritual methodologies, to upgrade each individual in this very life, as opposed to promises for the hereafter, may be broadly grouped into four categories:

Jnana Yoga (path of higher knowing): This involves understanding and living various principles, such as: (1) the complete unity and inseparability of all that exists, including all living creatures; (2) one ultimate Reality that may be conceptualized in a variety of approximations none of which could ever be complete; (3) multiple spiritual paths leading to the same ultimate Reality; and (4) the principle of rebirth and its challenge to selfishness and unethical living.
Raja Yoga (psycho-physiological disciplines): Besides popular yoga, these include esoteric meditation, kundalini, tantra, and transpersonal and humanistic psychologies that are becoming mainstream in America. Approximately twenty million Americans are engaged in practicing some form of these disciplines. Documented benefits merely after one generation of practice in the west include: better health, stress reduction, less violence, improved ethical conduct, and improved intellectual, emotional and athletic performance. A growing number of Americans are also advancing into the higher levels of Yoga at which one experiences exalted spiritual states and embodied transformation.
Karma Yoga (ethics and compassion): The Gita places high expectations of ethical conduct in every aspect of living, including: towards family and friends; towards society at large, without regard to a person's religion or ethnicity; and towards nature and ecology, since the environment is sacred.
Bhakti Yoga (devotion): This encompasses a variety of techniques for worship, prayer, and rituals. These include both personal practices in complete privacy and public group activities in a place of worship.
Recognizing that human diversity is a basic principle of creation, the Gita's spiritual repertoire accommodates as many paths as there are human temperaments: any religions' theological principles can be accommodated within this open system. The Gita therefore has several messages to the leaders of world religions today:

Religions should stop competing. Homogenizing humanity into "my" religion must stop. They should cooperate, learn from each other, and share their respective experiences as pieces of a puzzle to be solved collectively. Humanity must preserve religious diversity just as enthusiastically as we now try to preserve plant and animal species from becoming extinct.
Spiritual truths are ever unfolding, and cannot be frozen into canon. Nor do they privilege one ethnic group or culture over the rest.
Dharmic living is not achieved by joining a club of believers of any sort, or by subscribing to any theory of history of past events, but by practicing the art of living in the present in accordance with the dharma. The journey is an individual one and not a team sport to beat others. The Gita is against a triumphal attitude towards others. Its yoga is not a 'let's go kick some ass' mentality.
The power of clergy and hierarchy of any sort should be lowered, as these become too institutionalized, self serving, and obstacles to advancement.
'Dharma' is not a prophetic religion, but a spiritual framework and set of tools for personal righteousness and spiritual quest. The Gita calls upon all humanity to truthfully and courageously go beyond boundaries in the present crisis. Any ulterior or narrowly defined initiatives would be against dharma. Hindus must set the example by not seeing anyone as 'other' based on ethnicity or religion. Karma and gunas (qualities) are entirely based on individual merit and not dependent upon ethnicity or religion.

Monday, December 27, 2010

We will take corruption headon err Sonia headon !!!

Take corruption headon. Sure, take Sonia G headon to rid the nation of corruption.
From: hilda raja
Sonia’s “we will take corruption head on”sounds brave. It brought to my mind my little granddaughter while playing with her dolls would turn the heads of a few backwards. I hope SG’s head can be turned backwards to face herself from behind and the party lined up behind her .Then this ‘head on business’ will show her as the first casualty for denigrating every constitutional post and foisting herself as an extra constitutional power., undermining the PM’s post and actions, and constituting her own Parliament called the NAC. The Congress is corruption and corruption is Congress - the twain can never be parted.

Not to be left behind P.Chidambaram wants us to close our eyes and attune our antennae to the audio sounds emanating from Rahul Gandhi - he tells us that we can hear Rajiv Gandhi’s voice. Granted it is true - so what is the big deal? Rajiv Gandhi was taking the Congress not to the 21st century but down slide –his death came in handy for the Congress fortunes to be revived and the States which went to the polls after his assassination won on sympathy vote - not on the 21st century vision. To continue PC’s closed eyes listening ‘Millions are not connected to our economic system not because they do not want to but have no opportunity to. Why is the per capita income so low at the bottom 20 percent of India ”. We need to imagine a lot of things. One, to whom is he addressing to close the eyes? The PM seems always to have both his eyes and ears closed hence he needs to be charged for his silence and inaction. To whom is PC asking why the bottom of the 20 percent population of India ’s income is so low- That must be attributed to the economist Prime Minister of ours and the Congress party. It needs to be addressed by the Finance Minister who keeps asking us to live in hope - that the prices of essential commodities will come down. Can PC tell us why onions are being sold today for more than Rs 80 per kilo? Then the séance continues - he has put everyone on the couch and is performing a psycho analysis- start imaging he tells us with eyes closed and ears opened. ‘Imagine we heeded the call of Rahul Gandhi… imagine every child in school vaccinated and inoculated, imagine leaving school with skills… imagine everyone out of the college with a job” Then the analyst is suddenly pushed off his feet by the awakened tranced people and confronted with the question why have you failed to achieve all this? You think you can take us always on an imaginary trip - -Yes why did you not achieve this - why have you kept us in a trance and why the hell are you the Home Minister and why is the Congress in power which failed to achieve all this.- Damn it and be off. PC winds up his séance by predicting that the Opposition turn will not come for the next ten years- because they have still to wind up the hustle and the bustle of corruption activities and gather what remains. PC thinks he is smart – he who lost the last election by the whisker - thanks to an ever understanding EC and the ever honest MKarunanidhi who did what had to be done – so that in the third round of recounts he won by a few hundreds of votes. Shame on PC, he is making sure that his position will be safeguarded and hence this close eyes and open ears like open sesame and shut sesame. Only he will get shut within his own guilty conscience. His open ears had not heeded the wails and cries of those gunned down by the Islamic terrorists- his closed eyes see only ‘saffron ‘ for he is color blind and his great task of fulfilling the vision of Rahul Gandhi is limited to the exchanging of dossiers with Pakistan. Which is having the last laugh. Remember the WilkiLeaks referring to PC as demanding the interview with Headley for saving his face.

The grand finale of the whole theatrics of the drama enacted by the Congress and staged at Burari was good entertainment. For a moment one thought it was the BJP’s when we closed our eyes and opened our ears it sound like the BJP’s voices against corruption. Then when we got out of the trance and opened our eyes it was all Congress faces - faces of the corrupt and the leaders of the corrupt. The puppeteer had a break and the Puppet of the PM spoke. He invoked Caesar’s wife to be above suspicion. It was more a soliloquy. He has nothing to hide and is magnanimous to offer to be enquired by the Public Accounts Committee. The PM must know very well that the PAC has no powers to probe into a wide spectrum of the 2G spectrum except look into the accounts. So why should he offer to be probed by a PAC which is not empowered to probe him or the other aspects in which he is involved? If the PM is innocent as he wants us to believe then he should bravely declare that the JPC can be constituted and he is prepared to appear before it. The fact that the Congress is shying from the JPC itself reveals that it has and the PM has something to hide. What is the use of a fig leave to cover up? Finally the PM’s assertion that he did no wrong must be proved by the probing machinery. He cannot give himself a clean chit. Even a child in India will know that the PM’s silence - his appointed of Adhimuthu Raja as the Minister for Tel Com –the PM’s silence for three years - his refusal to sack the minister are the areas where he failed to perform his constitutional duties and when he failed to uphold the oath he had taken when he took over office.
Mr Manmohan Singh must also be answerable why he appointed PJ Thomas as the Chief Vigilant Commissioner. Does all this prove that like Caesar’s wife he is above suspicion? Come on Mr Prime Minister, and prove those brave words by asserting that you will face any probe by any constitutionally constituted mechanism and which is the best-the Joint Parliamentary Committee which comprises the elected representatives of the people. That is democracy. That the JPC is useless and that it will not lead to anything and that it is unnecessary etc are vague excuses-then why earlier were there JPCs? Let the useless JPC become useful this time, and if it does not, all the more better for the Congress for the PM will be proved to be like Caesar’s wife-above all suspicion.
Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul must realize that this nation is not one of zombies. We are a people capable with tremendous common sense and are highly intelligent politically and socially. They cannot try and replay the ‘God Father’ story in India . So they cannot take us for a ride all the time. There is a limit to tolerance. When she handpicked a PM she threw to the winds democracy. As it is Manmohan Singh is a Rajya Sabha member and hence strictly speaking he does not have the vote of the people. This is his biggest liability and Mrs Sonia Gandhi who does not understand an iota of democracy handpicked him to be the PM. That was an insult to the people. Even the President was her choice and it was made clear when she stood before No 10 Janpath holding the hand of the President. Body language is a strong non verbal communication - whether in holding hands or when like the mother hen she ushers and leads the PM
She has rubbed salt in our wounds when she formed the National Advisory Council-this to advise her and in turn the PM. It is a clear indication that she wants the PM to act in accordance to the decisions taken at the NAC which she chairs. So what is Parliament meant for when she has constituted a parallel Parliament with her at its head? Is this not denigration of the PM’s post and of Parliamentary democracy? What credibility and moral authority has Mrs Sonia Gandhi - the defaulter to preach, ‘we will not allow the PM’s post to be denigrated?
The latest dent to democracy is Rahul telling the ambassador of the USA That India is more threatened by Hindu extremists than by Islamist terrorists. Rahul is only an MP and one of the General Secretaries of the Congress party-why has he made such a statement and who authorized him to do so? Is this democracy? Is this not denigration of everything democratic in the GOI’s functioning? We have the PM, The Home minister, the minister for Foreign Affairs and also our own ambassadors where does Rahul come in the picture to make such a false allegation against the Hindu extremists when here there are hundreds of terrorists’ attacks by Islam terrorists. Is this democracy?
I plead to Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her son not to take the nation for a ride - it will be at their own costs. People are awakening and will not tolerate this nonsense no matter how high they consider themselves to be. It is the people of India to whom they should be ever so grateful for their immense tolerance of such inexcusable denigration of all that is democratic - but there is a limit to tolerance and the people will reach the zero tolerance of such puppettering of governance in the name of democracy.
Dr Mrs Hilda Raja Vadodara.

Don’t confuse, Rahul Gandhi is no “Bacha”
http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=12868&SKIN=B

From: Chand K Sharma
Congress Cat is out of the Bag
Ever Since Congress Party came under the influence of Gandhi, the party adopted anti Hindu stance. To prop his own ideology, Gandhi always emotionally blackmailed his colleagues, sacrificed Hindu interests and pleased the Muslims. Finally he gave his life for the interest of Pakistan at the cost of Hindus.
His prodigal political heir Nehru also followed his footsteps. He took pride in saying that he was Hindu by accidental mistake (on the part of his parents!), he was bodily Muslim and an Englishman in tastes. It was India 's misfortune that he happened to be the PM. Nehru and Gandhi, betrayed the interests of India in Kashmir and Tibet , the problems we are grappled with. The made Hindu hater Muslims equal partners in truncated India , when they had already taken away one third part of India as Pakistan .
Indira, without solving the Kashmir problem gifted away the territory to Pakistan and nullified the sacrifice of our Jawans.
Rajiv Gandhi got Indian soldiers killed for nothing in Sri Lanka and destroyed the constitutional institutions. His widow is now embarked upon on completing the left over task of destroying India and her culture.
Most of the coterie around Sonia and Rahul are Christians retaining their Hindu names to camouflage their real identity.
It is high time that Hindus should individually pledge to shun Congress party and identify it as totally anti Hindu out fit and unite their democratic efforts to throw Congress regime out of power for ever at the earliest Electoral opportunity.
Chand K Sharma
Sonia Gandhi and the hidden trail
http://expressbuzz.com/edition/print.aspx?artid=233507
By John MacLithon
The Indian media has begun even doubting Manmohan Singh’s integrity — mental, at least — as he must have been knowing for nearly two years that the Indian exchequer was defrauded of `1.76 lakh crores. But so far, Sonia Gandhi has been spared.
Yet, if you are an observer of Indian politics, as I have been, since I landed back in India in the early ’Sixties, you have to come to the conclusion that most of the funds of scams end up in the coffers of political parties, particularly of the Congress.
Today the DMK is taking the brunt of the blame, but actually political parties have been forced to follow suit after the grand old party of India’s independence, began using percentages allotted by foreign companies on mega deals, military and otherwise, to secretly fund its election campaigns and give freebies to poor villagers. Of course, Bofors was the first one of the big scams to be uncovered.
I remember in the mid-Eighties a Swiss radio colleague of mine from Radio Suisse Romande, telling me that Amitabh Bachchan’s brother, Ajitabh, (when the Bachchan family was still close to the Gandhis), was one of the first safe keepers of the kickbacks of the Swedish canon makers. Exposes of Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nhyeter further confirmed it, though Ajitabh went to court against them.
There is no doubt, further says my Swiss friend, that part of the Bofors money is still in Switzerland . Indeed, we are all waiting for the Swiss banks to reveal (under US pressure) the names of all the dictators, thieves, dishonest rulers of so many countries in the world, who have stashed their ill-gotten money in UBS bank or Credit Suisse.
Meanwhile, all roads seem to lead to Sonia Gandhi: she is the first Lady of India , although she is a simple MP like hundreds of others, the ultimate arbiter, and nothing of importance is decided without her caveat. The immense power she wields within the Congress cannot be only due to her charisma, of her having the Gandhi name or having brought cohesion in the Congress.
It is also, and perhaps mainly, because she holds the purse strings of tremendous amounts of money. These party funds are overt: all the foundations, Rajiv, Indira, Nehru, etc, which store thousands of crores; and covert, starting with the Bofors scam. Where are the secret bank accounts where the scam money is stored? Under whose names are they operated? How is the money brought back to India ? Who will answer all these questions?
We know that Quattrochi, the man who could have spilt the beans, was shamelessly let off the hook, not only by the CBI which today is conducting — two years late — the investigation on the 2G scam, but also by the then law minister who is today the governor who pretends to be after corruption in Karnataka! Not only was Quattrochi spared, but was allowed to take the money he had looted from India and which was frozen in British banks, so that he would not talk.
Will Raja talk, if he is arrested, as it is rumoured? Surely he knows a lot of secrets,as some of the 2G, Adarsh CWG money, and other unknown scams, must also have gone into the Congress coffers. That is the question that the Congress leadership should debate instead of going after ‘Hindu terror’, a misnomer if there is one.
If you look at statistics for the last 1,000 years, it is Hindus who have been at the receiving end of terror — millions of them have died, including in Kashmir in the late ’Eighties, when Benazir Bhutto launched her ‘Azad Kashmir’ movement (I was there).
Yet Sonia Gandhi remains a mystery for many of us, even for me who has known her for a long time.
I found her quite likable when she was just Rajiv Gandhi’s (the pilot) spouse, a loving wife, who had adopted the Indian way of life; a good daughter -in-law: Indira Gandhi died on her lap on the way to the hospital, after being shot by her Sikh bodyguards; and more than everything, a good mother, who doted on her children and tried all her life to protect them.
I then knew that she had kept her Italian passport, even after taking the Indian nationality (India does not allow you to hold two passports), but I have met quite a few foreigners in Delhi who also retained their origin passports after having obtained the Indian one.
I myself toyed for some time with the idea of taking the Indian nationality, as I speak Hindi quite fluently, but it is too difficult to travel with an Indian passport. I do not mind also her remaining a Christian: after all, I am still one myself. Indeed, one of my Italian journalist friends told me that he prayed with her, along with Rajiv Gandhi, at a mass in Calicut with the bishop officiating — that is
her private business.
But after her husband was blown to pieces by the LTTE, I observed a drastic change in her: she did not seem to trust anybody anymore, became aloof and suspicious. I also watched with dismay how the Congress leaders, some of them men and women of substance, whom I knew personally, applied pressure on her to enter politics for years.
Furthermore, I thought that in her fortress of Janpath, surrounded twenty-four hours by security, she gradually lost touch with the reality of India . Despite the fact that I met her a few times after Rajiv’s death, I thus took discreetly my distances with her. It is then that I came up with my famous phrase on Sonia, for which she never forgave me: “the moribund and leaderless Congress party has latched on to Sonia Gandhi who is Italian by birth and Roman Catholic by baptism”.
John.maclithon@gmail.com
John, who was a radio journalist covering South Asia for 30 years, is the author of Hindutva, Sex & Adventures (Roly Books, Delhi)

Who can save India from present slavery under Manmohan' Soniajee and Rahul jee and Priyankajee--?
Is India free from Euopean slavery beginning with Dutch, French, portuguese,English and now Italian with collaboration of Muslims,Communists,secularists, opportunists .
SONIA HATAO------------ iNDIA BACHAO.
SONIA NIKALO-------------BHARAT BACHAO.
SONIA BHAGAO-------------BHARAT SAMHALO.
All scams lead to Sonia And Sonia leads all scams.
As the famous saying goes' All the truth undergoes three stages---------- first it is rediculed, then it is violemtly opposed and finally it is accepted as self evident------------------Time has come. The mass protest and agitation is required.
STOP NOT UNTIL THE GOAL IS REACHED and thegoal is to trace, catch and punish the criminals all criminals without exception to free India now.
TUNE DIYA DES KO JEEVAN DES TUMHE KYA DEGA,
APANI AAG JALA RAKHANE KO NAAM TUMHARA LEGA.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Country of Scams, Scamsters & Scumbags !!!

Where is the Outrage on the loot of several lakh crores Rupees by corrupt Bhaaratiya politicians
One of the main roles of media and the opposition parties is to make sure that government do not squander Tax payers money nor it does loot the public money. But in Bhaaat media is anti Hindu and corrupt. Opposition parties have sold their souls to get some crumbs from the government without doing the job of looking after the interest of the common man and do not even take any interest in the security of the nation. In Bhaarat both media and opposition are dead bodies who never raise voice for the interest of common man and the nation.
Scndal after scandal keep going on unhindered in Bhaarat

Every editor who counts in the English media, pink or white or electronic, pops up in the transcripts...Every editor also understands that you need to meet them to get a fix on the issues. The Radia tapes are instructive textbook material for students of journalism and those of pubic relations, says SEVANTI NINAN.

Unearthing of scams after scams in Bhaarat has dented the reputation of one of the fastest growing economics in the world. Hardly had dust over one scam settled , yet another and bigger scam surfaces. During the past of couple of months, it started with high level corruption in the organization of Common Wealth Games, investigations into which is still going on. Although the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested couple of aides of Organizing Committee Chief Suresh kalmadi, more heads are likely to be eolled soon after tabling the final report .
This followed by Adarsh Society Co-operative Housing society scam in Mumbai, which marred the image of the ruling Congress party, who replaced the CM Ashok Chavan with prithviraj Chavan. All is not wellwith more and more startling reports of bunglings in allotment of houses were still pouring in.
2G Scam
Congress reputation took another beating following unearthing of one of the biggest irregularities in the recent times 2G spectrum allocation scam. If media reports to be believed, the scam stated to be mother of all scams, resulted in a whopping loss of 1.76Lakh Crores to the Exchequer.
While the scandal has gradually generating heat by every passing day, another scam of equally more serious nature has come to lightwhen top officials of several banks , financial institutionsand Life insurance Corporation Housing Finance were arrested and charged with accepting bribes, initially estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars . The CBI has arrested five officials from state run listed lenders, including the chief exective of LIC Housing Finance, accused of bribes to facilitate large corporate loans.
The scandal is one of the biggest to taint Bhaarat, potentially harming the image of Asia’s third largest economy as destination for foreign investors. Three senior executives from a listed private company were also arrested on charges of handing out the bribes. This the 4th big corporation scandal which is linked to the ruling congress party during the past couple of months.
Nuclear Deal of 20 Lak Crores
The India – U.S. nuclear deal was crafted by a cartel of Nuclear businesses in France, Russia, Italy, Japan and U.S. The nuclear cartel that will benefit in billions of dollars from Sales to Bhaarat is nick names J I R A F (Japan Italy Russia America France)
In all more than 100 Nuclear Reactors would be purchased by Bhaarat from JIRAF
Nothing is bought or sold without a huge commission for the decion making politicians in both the parties of sellar and buyer. Ordinary Bhaaratiya people dying to comprehend the mind boggling amounts in 1.5 Lakh Crores of Common Wealth games scams and 1.76lakh crore s 2G Spectrum scam.
Bhaaratiya people now have to comprehend the Areva Scam of 24 Billion dollars amounting to 1 lakh 20,000 crores o Rupees.
15000 Crores Pay Off
President Nicholas Sarkozy of France has got India to sign the contracts of more than 24 Billion Dollars understandably 1 Lakh 20,000 crorees of rupees for 6 Huge Nuclear Pressurised Reactors from the French company Areva SA. The politicians in Bhaarat and France will share the commission of 3 Billion dollars understandably 15,000 Crores of Rupees.
http://www.politicsparty.com/areva_nuclear_deal.php
The exploited and poor people of Bhaarat have already given the following clarion call to the country as a whole.
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Ghotala on the top of Ghotala Everyday: Congress marching Ahead with Loot system
Rajasthan's Chief Minister Gahlot assigns 100-acres of land and Jal Mahal to an inexperienced company for a mere sum of Rs. 250 crores, which is appraised at more than 2300 crores. This corrupt foot-toucher Gahlot campaigned in Bihar with sadhu-like sermons. When will the plunder of India end? India is being looted by Sonia and her feet-touchers at an unprecedented pace. Please watch the video:
http://khabar.ibnlive.in.com/videos/44534 R. Singh
It is raining scam in India at an alarming rate!
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Another Corruption in Congress/ SC chides
Maharashtra Chief Minister and currently Union Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh shielded his money lending relatives from charge sheets, which led to suicides of many farmers in Vidarbha region. Sonia was preaching that BJP can't lecture her on corruption, but she will not agree to a JPC investigation. She has collected a thoroghly corrupt cabinet and enjoys loots together. She has compromised with national security. Her two sisters have received tons of money into their accounts. People are still poor but billions are stashed away in foreign banks by these enemies of India. I don't know much money Sonia needs. These Congressmen will keep on hounding honest administrators like Narendra Modi's, because they don't like honesty in the country. Indian newspapers are subservient to the Nehru dynasty. Sedition, bomb blasts, and hooliganism have taken over the country. Naxalites have taken over part of the country. No neighboring country is friend, but the defence of the country is being neglected and the ministry has been assigned to a Muslim.
Please read today' story.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Vilasrao-shielded-MLAs-moneylender-family-SC/articleshow/7102425.cms

R. Singh

SONIA CONGRESS HATAO! DESH KO BACHAO!!

FIRANGI DAKAIT STREE KO BHAGAO! DESH KO BACHAO!!

Real Sonia (Antonio Moina) and Rahul are exposed on the Youtube by Swami. Nobody has dared contest these statements. Please familiarize with the rulers of Bharat (two Youtubes on two lines).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6HlUcr_YDA&feature=&p=88406D1876AA2A78&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6HlUcr_YDA R. Singh

The Hindu India’s situation is best explained by an ancient proverb, “A fish rots from the head down.” When the head is putrid, the body politic cannot be healthy. And when those at the helm remain wedded to grand corruption, clerks or traffic police cannot be singled out for taking small bribes.

Let us chase away the foreign female dacoit!
Let us Redeem and Reclaim our country!!
It is time to halt this galloping loot and bring to book the perpetrators of the loot. Whistle-blowers and patriots who have done service to the nation by exposing the looters should receive state protection and their personal liberties should be safeguarded, for they are the heroes of the nation. My abhinandan to them in standing up for the rashtram and protecting dharma. Their service for dharma should be enshrined in the annals of the history of this great civilization.
Individuals are free to follow any faiths in India. But their freedom to walk with a cane ends when it reaches my nose. Sonia's Italian faith may be her private affair. But she is exploiting our freedom, nobility and tolerance to enslave us and make us unfree.

The Great Denial Continues in India. There are several poor Islamic countries in the world. The missionaries have miserably failed to indoctrinate or convert poor Muslims. Only in India poor Hindus are targeted for indoctrination and conversion. Why? Because these poor Hindus are not educated in our traditional culture and religion. And there is no punishment for coercive religious conversion. These innocent people are liberated from their sacred roots and enslaved in rigid, dogmatic dogma. Once these Hindus are converted, they are abandoned for rot. Christians call them rice Christians since they have converted for a bowl of rice or chicken soup.

The pseudo secularists continue to labor under the assumption that Missionaries are free to exploit poverty for conversion. Leftist loonies go on as though these people are freely exercising their freedom. They continue advising Hindus to be tolerant. Mental illness can be amusing.

In truth, phony secularists and leftist loonies are in the pocket books of missionary mafia. What do they have in mind? Hindus are seldom alarmed by high treason, coercive religious conversion and Jihadi terrorism and missionary's grand political schemes. And the uneducated Italian lady has shown her true color in promoting Vatican agenda in India. The bogus anti Hindu congress party has no answer for coercive religious conversion, Islamic terrorism, missionary supported Naxalite violence and Maoist murder mayhem. They call themselves secularists. I would like to label them as FRIENDLY FASCISTS.
Babu Suseelan
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2G Spe Please read the new revealation on Wikileaks. US ambassador message on Congress Party's unjustified remarks on Hindus in 26/11 didsaster. Congress exploits caste to slander BJP.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/wikileaks-congress-can-stoop-to-old-caste-politics-says-ex-us-ambassador-to-india-71951
R. Singh
WikiLeaks: Congress can stoop to old caste politics, says ex-US Ambassador to India
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: December 11, 2010
New Delhi: There are new revelations from the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Cables of former US Ambassador David Mulford soon after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks can send shock waves in the Congress party.
Referring to then Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay's remarks that ATS chief Hemant Karkare's killing may be linked to his probe of Hindu extremists' hand in Malegaon blasts, and why Congress changed its stance on Antulay's remarks, Mulford said:
"Hoping to foster that support for upcoming national elections, the Congress Party cynically pulled back from its original dismissal and lent credence to the conspiracy. The entire episode demonstrates that the Congress Party will readily stoop to the old caste/religious-based politics if it feels it is in its interest." (Read WikiLeaks cable)
Read more at:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/wikileaks-congress-can-stoop-to-old-caste-politics-says-ex-us-ambassador-to-india-71951?cp
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Spectrum Scam of Raja is not the end; not even the beginning of the end, but only the end of the beginning for Sonia...-- V. Sundaram IAS (Retd.)
http://vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/2010/11/2g-spectrum-scam-of-raja-is-not-end-not.html

Why blame Sonia only? It is Jaichands who are responsible for strength of Sonia. Not only Sonia, Margreat Alva, Jayanti Natrajan, Ambica Soni who wear 1 inch diameter Bindi are all Christian. They only befool the illetrate Indian innocent women.
Corruptions matters include Sharad Pawar, Reddy, Sibal, Dixit, Mukherjee, Mulayam, etc etc etc ...........
Anand Sharma, Manish Tiwari, Satish Sharma , Vayalar Ravi, Ajit Joggi, Ambika Soni, A.K. Antony
Oscar Fernandes , Margaret Alwa, Kanshi Ram was converted CHRISTIAN., "RAJDEEP SARDESAI" ; a journalist
Justice V R Krishna Iyer, a communist,is a Christian

Congress Rajya Sabha MP, Mr.Radhakant Nayak, a Convert Christain,

Jiten Roy
Good things are beginning to happen all over India, and that is, people (Hindus) are finding out how deep India is submerged in the political and religious conspiracies. The electronic media are revealing these conspiracies to the public. Please try to use them widely, since the main-stream media are bribed by the conspirators so much that they are now enslaved, and became a propaganda machine for the conspirators. These conspiracies need to be exposed through a vigorous campaign all over India. The very same situation is prevailing in America also. I see a great parallel between these two countries, and, therefore, hope that Indians will see this parallel, and learn from it, and act appropriately in response to these issues, as American Tea-Party is doing,. I want to see a grass-root movement in India to awaken masses, especially Hindus, to be united under a pure patriotic, non-communal, and non-religious platform, as the Tea-Party movement in America. It pains me to see that India is still ruled by the minority group that has questionable record of patriotism and nationalism, to put it mildly. Jiten Roy
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Conman Digvijay Singh Stupidity !

Indian Politicians often say stupid things, issue dumbest statements, make ridiculous sound bites and idiotic gaffs. Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Arjun Singh, Digvijaya Singh, Chidambaram, Sonia Maino, are now in desperation to find lime light making stupid comments to make Hindus and India looking bad.

Recent released “Wilkileaks” is full of fascinating reports on inept Sonia Maino’s arrogance, ignorance of India, and her maroon son Rahul Gandhi’s statement which proves his cognitive disorder.

If we were to conduct an opinion poll and ask Hindus to name the one basic root cause of his idiotic statement, we would get various answers. If we were to ask, “What—in a single-word accounts for his erroneous statement on Hindus?” people might reply:

The Congress party leaders might be suffering from Ignorance, prejudice, mistakes, selfishness, intellectual paralysis, lack of sensitivity, carelessness, cognitive disorder and pro-Jihadi sentiment. All these answers would be true. All these elements, and many others, lead to his idiotic statements and Congress party’s antipathy towards Hindus and Hindu organizations.

Hindus around the world should condemn Rahul’s remarks “that Hindus could pose a “bigger threat” to democratic countries than the Jihadi terrorist group Lashker-e-Toiba, Taliban or al-Queada”. Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party General Secretary made such a foolish statement to the American Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer. Such irresponsible remark and unwanted attack on Hindus by Congress leaders in India show that the anti national Congress party is too quick to fault Hindus for Jihadi terrorism, Maoist violence, coercive religious conversion, and corruption in India. Rahul Gandhi has nothing to say about Pakistan Army sponsoring terrorism in India, ISI sponsored Lashkar –e-Toiba Jihadi terrorist attacks in Kashmir and Mumbai. Rahul’s mind could never comprehend or understand deadly forces of Taliban and al-Qaeda supported by Pakistan fermenting trouble against India’s interests.

This latest round of attack against Hindus once again shows how ridiculous the Congress party’s misstatements and their proclivity for insulting peace loving Hindus. Rahul’s statement on Hindus and his attitudes on RSS reflect a sick mindset and is part of a long standing tradition from Nehru onwards of blaming things for almost everything that goes wrong in India.

There had been anti Hindu prejudice of varying degrees of intensity in Congress policies for a long time. These Hindu prejudice and pro Muslims policy has resulted in Jihadi terrorist bombing of moving passenger trains, and killing innocent people in Mumbai, Varanasi, New Delhi, Kerala, and Kashmir. The Congress Party is quick in blaming the victims. It is politically incorrect in India to blame Muslims for terrorism. Indian government, controlled by the uneducated, Italian catholic Sonia Maino, at all levels has adopted political correctness and the fact is so strong. For the anti national, anti Hindu Congress Party, political correctness is an ideology that always classifies terrorist Muslims and violent Maoists as victims and Hindus victims as aggressors. How far they could continue with false political correctness, irrational Muslim appeasement and Blame Game of Hindus?

Mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism are terrible, awful things. Such extraordinary events happened in India several times. These events prove Congress party’s indifference, passivity, deliberate ignorance, purposeful avoidance and hostility towards Hindus.

In 1947-48, millions of Hindus were murdered or driven out from Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Muslims, and their property confiscated by Islamists. During Indira Gandhi’s assassination, thousands of Sikhs were massacred by the Congress criminals in New Delhi. The jihadis and congress criminals cracked all Indian civilized norms, revealed primitive death instincts in the form of hysteria and indulged in death and destruction.

We have no history to prove that the Congress Party showing any acts of compassion, generosity, courage and sacrifice in these Jihadi and Congress criminal made calamities. Looking principally at recent terrorist attack in Kashmir, Mumbai, Bangalore, Varanasi, Kerala and New Delhi, the Congress government behaved poorly. The heroes of these disasters were not the Congress government, or police or official workers. IT was RSS and VHP volunteers, caught up in the event, who organized themselves to do what is needed. RSS and VHP volunteers were altruistic and engaged in caring for the victims.

In the wake of the expulsion of Hindus from Kashmir, in which thousands of Kashmir HINDUS became homeless and forced to live in filthy refugees camps in their own country. In all these Muslim made tragedies, the Congress government and party leaders were sleepy and in a slumber. The Congress leaders were gleefully attending Ishtar Parties and eating decaying flesh with Jihadi leaders. In fact, these anti-national politicians lost the moral authority through corruption, looting public funds and make insulting remarks about peace loving nationalist RSS and Hindus. The Rahul Gandhi and his phony secular leaders want to control majority Hindus, to tear people apart, and to satisfy their hunger for power and money by blinding people to prevent them from seeing their dark evil practices. Congress leader’s goal is to steal, kill and destroy Hindus and India.

There is no treatment for uneducated Sonia's intellectual paralysis or for her prodigal son Rahul Gandhi’s attention deficit and cognitive disorder. The Congress Party and Rahul’s ability to protect our culture, promote our interest, and preserve our sacred spirituality is limited. Yet their ability to cause harm is great.

People who run on empty cone head can only bankrupt the country and our future.

It is time for Hindus to make a sober assessment of what is going on in India in the name of bogus secularism and Muslim appeasement. Do Hindus have to elect such morally bankrupt, corrupt Congress Party leaders into Power?

In order to secure India’s interests and sacred culture, India needs strong nationalist leaders with mission, vision and pro-Hindu strategies.

Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but failed in their own.

The saddest story of the century

I would like to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one sentence.


This outcome would have astonished leaders of our independence movement. They declared Indians were kept down by white rule and could flourish only under self-rule. This seemed self-evident The harsh reality today is that Indians are succeeding brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing
in India . They are flourishing in the USA and Britain .
But those that stay in India are pulled down by an outrageous system that fails to reward merit or talent. Fails to allow people and businesses to
grow, and keeps real power with netas, babus, and assorted manipulators. Once Indians go to white-ruled countries, they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by whites.
Rono Dutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the world. Had he stayed in India , he would have no chance in Indian Airlines. Even if the top job there was given to him by some godfather, a myriad netas, babus and trade unionists would have ensured that he could never run it like United Airlines.
Rana Talwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the biggest multinational banks in Britain , while still in his 40s. Had he been in
India , he would perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking orders from babus to give loans to politically favoured clients.
Rajat Gupta is head of Mckinsey, the biggest management consultancy firm in the world. He now advises the biggest multinationals on how to run their business. Had he remained in India he would probably be taking orders from some sethji with no qualification save that of being born in a rich family.
Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world, with steel plants in the US , Kazakhstan , Germany , Mexico , Trinidad and Indonesia . India 's socialist policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector. So Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family's first steel plant there. Once freed from the shackles of India , he conquered the world.
Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to beat Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to India , which decreed a TV monopoly for Doordarshan. But technology came to his aid: satellite TV made it possible for him to target India from Hong Kong . Once he escaped Indian rules and soil, he soared.
You may not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communications company, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $ 30 billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world. Had he remained in India , he would probably be a babu in the Department of Telecommunications.
Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million. Victor Menezes is number two in Citibank. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of
Providian, a top US financial services company. Also at or near the top are Rakesh Gangwal of US Air, Jamshd Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman Mehta of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.
In Washington DC , the Indian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members, all high tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has
stagnated. At independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the best prospects.
Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177th position among 209 countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only or main problem. India ranks near the bottom in the UNDP's Human Development Index, but high up in Transparency International's Corruption Index.

The neta-babu raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for India 's failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we
inherited from the British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money, muscle and influence matter most.
At independence we were justly proud of our politicians. Today we regard them as scoundrels and criminals. They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name of socialism, and used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks. No influential crook suffers. The Mafia flourish
unhindered because they have political links.
The sons of police officers believe they have a licence to rape and kill (ask the Mattoo family). Talent cannot take you far amidst such rank
misgovernance. We are reverting to our ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the powerful. The British Raj brought in abstract concepts of
justice for all, equality before the law. These were maintained in the early years of independence. But sixty years later, citizens wail that India is a
lawless land where no rules are obeyed.
I have heard of an IAS probationer at the Mussorie training academy pointing out that in India before the British came, making money and distributing favours to relatives was not considered a perversion of power, it was the very rationale of power. A feudal official had a duty to enrich his family and caste. Then the British came and imposed a new ethical code on officials. But, he asked, why should we continue to choose British customs
over desi ones now that we are independent?
The lack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why talented Indians cannot rise in India . A second reason is the neta-babu
raj, which remains intact despite supposed liberalisation. But once talented Indians go to rule-based societies in the west, they take off. In those
societies all people play by the same rules, all have freedom to innovate without being strangled by regulations.
This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by whites, and fail in their own.
It is the saddest story of the century.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Is India’s young population a time-bomb waiting to explode?

7 DECEMBER 2010 225 VIEWS 7 COMMENTS

One of the strongest theme in the narrative about India’s potential as a “superpower” is its youthful demographics (almost half of the population under the age of 25). Like many of us, I too have been guilty of publicly trumpeting this factor – and mentioning this as one of the reasons why this century can be an “Indian century“.

But last week I stumbled on Prof Kartik Hosanagar’s article on this topic…and that gave me cause to re-think. Here is Prof Hosanagar – in his own words (emphasis mine):

This (India’s demographic dividend) sounds great in theory. And in fact, there is ample evidence that in the past, several countries have witnessed periods of increased productivity and savings during periods in which they have enjoyed a demographic dividend. But all this assumes that this young and upcoming workforce can be trained and meaningfully employed. In India, that is a big if.

Here is why:

India still has the world’s largest number of illiterates at over 250 million. Although more and more jobs are being created thanks to the economic boom, the gap between the haves and have-nots seems to be increasing. I shudder to think what might happen if we have a sudden influx of large numbers of unemployed and disgruntled youth.

…Not only does India need to train and employ many orders of magnitude more people but it has also to start from a worse initial position in terms of existing educational infrastructure. We will need a massive infrastructure of universities and vocational training institutes spanning the country, including its rural interiors.


The conversation with Mr. Sibal reminded me of the obvious challenges ahead. But it was Mr. Vijay Mahajan, the founder of the microfinance company BASIX, who perhaps best drove home the significance of the issue. He worries that all the recent growth, while very welcome, has unfortunately not been inclusive. He believes that people increasingly have high aspirations, driven by the influence of media, but limited potential to achieve those aspirations. With limited access to quality education and employment, most of the youth will enter the labor force at the lowest levels. The frustration feeds into movements like Naxalism and even manifests itself in the form of violence based on religion or regionalism.



Now, Prof Hosanagar is not a Doomsday Pundit…

I do not wish to sound like the grim reaper. My point is not that India faces doom. Rather, I agree that a rosy future awaits India. But this future cannot be taken for granted…

As I mentioned before, I have been as guilty as many others of highlighting the demographic advantage…but I will repeat the caveat I usually put in at the end, which is:

A youthful population is an asset only if it is healthy – and it is educated (read skilled). Otherwise it can be a massive force of social disruption…

Dis-satisfied young populations – as many of you know – can be easily swayed be rhetoric and can be emotionally aroused without much effort. They can also be “primed” relatively easily to create extreme social unrest – and potentially even trigger civil wars…

So next time someone says “Demographic Dividend”, let us just pause for a moment and think how we can ensure that the demographic dividend does not turn out to be a liability..and let us try to make sure we are not sitting on a demographic time-bomb. Comments and thoughts welcome, as always.

Additional Reading: Population Age Structure and Its Relation to Civil Conflict: A Graphic Metric from which this brief, somewhat worrying excerpt:

About 86 percent of all countries that experienced a new outbreak of civil conflict had age structures with 60 percent or more of the population younger than 30 years of age.

Somewhat related post: This weekend, worrying about Assam

Map of Global Median Age, courtesy CIA Factbook via Wikipedia



7 Comments »
1. bhuvan said:
Thanks for sharing a valuable article Shantanu. Replying in jiffy will revert later. Just a quick observation and I always feel (which is not a great feeling at all), we are moving towards a CIVIL WAR/REVOLUTION SITUATION SLOWLY BUT SURELY.

7 December 2010
2. Sanjeev Sabhlok said:
Dear Shantanu

It is not population structure but policy that makes nations. There is no direct causality. Some random correlations may exist, but they prove nothing. The Russian Revolution, for instance, cannot be explained by population structure but by Lenin. And US was a very young nation after World War II (baby boom) but did not face social unrest – instead, it boomed economically.

Let’s not worry about irrelevant policy variables like population structure and focus on the need to resolve India’s problems through good governance. Revolution will occur from governance failures, not population structure issues.

Regards
Sanjeev

8 December 2010
3. girish said:
Agree totally that demographic dividend cannot be obtained without a healthy and educated indian population.One can see so much of unrest among youth who have formed various groups to fight out various different issues being faced by them. A totally irresponsible government and a lethargic judiciary will certainly fuel the civilians towards a civil war.

8 December 2010
4. Ranganaathan said:
Good post, it is highly critical to train the youth & guide them into professions. The divide of haves n have nots have grown to extreme level, as Prof.Hosnagar points out this would stem frustration in youth. We are already experiencing this in few pockets, where youth are taking to fundamentalism/Naxalism as a solution for their aspirations. There huge population under employed youth, whose grudge towards the nation & its governance might be a danger. Aspirations & expectation have grown manifolds in the last decade with IT, service, financial sector booms & with consumerism centric business models they find it very difficult to balance their lively hood. The need of the hour is to counsel, educate, train youths on various vocations & to guide them towards empowering others in their realm. Jai Hind..Vande Mataram

8 December 2010
5. Ram Lanka said:
Thought provoking post. I fully agree with the professors apprehension. Way out is inclusive growth based on indegenous ideology & technology. Growth that we are witnessing is based on BPO’s, Medical transcriptionists, software servicing and ancillary industries like travel & hospitality. These are associated spiralling incidence of alcoholism, high degree of personal indulgence, divorces etc apart from leaving out the vast majority of the country from the benefits of this pseudo growth. Another pernicious aspect of this so called growth is rapid increase of real estate business leading to vast areas of agriculture land being applied for commercial purposes & crops. This is leading to unacceptable increase in basic essentials of life like food. Add to this the all pervasive corruption. If one dispassionately looks at it, one cannot but agree with the learned professor.

I am calling this growth as psuedo & pernicious because this has no strategic direction or sense and is bereft of the wisdom that amde this land & civilization the richest in the world till the British plundered us. I am afraid, we are falling prey to the colonial players once again.

8 December 2010
6. Prakash said:
It is good to see a discussion on this issue.

How do we gainfully employ the huge Indian working age population? With modern farming and manufacturing techniques, those sectors will only employ a small fraction. Ditto government jobs. IT services for West is a candle that will soon burn out. IT sector employs a very small fraction anyway. Still, the money earned by our quality IT service companies has got the economy moving. The momentum must be maintained by improving domestic services.

To improve legal employment opportunities, India should legalise gambling. It should also undertake a massive exercise of identifying national and regional historical locations and monuments and create tourism infrastructure. Thousands of students should be trained in history and geography, arts and culture, and Indian languages. We must enforce 3-language formula. There are many possibilities, however, there are many obstacles, too. History is corrupted by political interests. Gambling is anathema to ivory tower moralists. Culture is a no-no for religious zealots from West who have money and power to stop developments in that area…

It isn’t easy.

10 December 2010
7. Anupam said:
Very thought provoking. I think there is huge opportunity for private sector to play a role in this sector.

Anupam

Monday, December 6, 2010

Sonia Gandhi´s Wealth Pursuits

3G: SoniaG, RahulG, PriyankaG Italian citizens? -- Dr. Swamy
The actual annexures and proofs can be seen in these links.

http://www.janataparty.org/ sonia.html

Sonia’s billions, KGB connections (annexures can be accessed here )

http://www.janataparty.org/ kgb_sonia.html


Under Rahul Gandhi in wikipedia .. the following information is available
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Gandhi

Controversies
Swiss Bank Accounts
Swiss magazine Schweizer Illustrierte [2] in 11 November 1991 revealed that Rahul was the beneficiary of accounts worth $2 billion dollars controlled by his mother Sonia Gandhi.[38][39]
Harvard scholar Yevgenia Albats cited KGB correspondence about payments to Rajiv Gandhi and his family, which had been arranged by Viktor Chebrikov,[40][41][42] which shows that KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov sought in writing an "authorization to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi" from the CPSU in December 1985. Payments were authorized by a resolution, CPSU/CC/No 11228/3 dated 20/12/1985; and endorsed by the USSR Council of Ministers in Directive No 2633/Rs dated 20/12/1985. These payments had been coming since 1971, as payments received by Sonia Gandhi's family and "have been audited in CPSU/CC resolution No 11187/22 OP dated 10/12/1984.[40] In 1992 the media confronted the Russian government with the Albats disclosure. The Russian government confirmed the veracity of the disclosure and defended it as necessary for "Soviet ideological interest."[41][42]
On 14 June 2002, the Delhi High Court peremptorily dismissed a Writ Petition (WP(C) 3856/2002)[43][verification needed] filed by Janata Party President, former Union Minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy[44][verification needed] seeking CBI inquiry into allegations by a Russian journalist Dr. Albats that KGB funds were paid to members of the Gandhi family.[citation needed]

Niira Radia Tapes
The name of Rahul Gandhi figures in a conversation between lobbyist Niira Radia and Mani Shankar Aiyar in the tapped recordings released in November 2010, in which Aiyar mentions that Rahul and Dayanidhi Maran had 'some business interests, which was always going to be an issue (in Ministers' portfolio allocations)'. He mentions that this was something that was dropped 'galti se' (mistakenly) by Maran in 2006.[45]

Boston Airport
In 2005 Four lawyers including Prem Chandra Sharma filed a public litigation petition in the High Court. They requested that information be made available to the public in regard to an incident on September 21, 2001 at Boston Airport where Rahul Gandhi and his Spanish girlfriend Veronique[46] were detained by the FBI for questioning, and verification if Mr. Gandhi was carrying $200,000 in cash which he was unable to explain to the airport authorities.[47][48]
The lawyers provided further evidence that Mr. Gandhi's release may have been secured by Brijesh Mishra the then principal secretary to the Prime Minister Hajpayee. The petition sought a writ of mandamus to the Indian ambassador to the US and the Union Home Secretary to make a disclosure about the episode.[47] However previously, The Hindu newspaper had reported that according to "a senior" Indian diplomat there had been no involvement by the Indian envoy to the US in the matter.[48]

Must see - Fascinating info on Sonia Gandhi and family
Please watch these fascinating videos-- Subramaniam Swamy's speaks of his extensive research on the back ground of Sonia Gandhi and family
The whole Sequence is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6HlUcr_YDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj07aTnq5gs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQ6ba8TXH8
November 24, 2010.
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India ,
South Block,
New Delhi .
Dear Prime Minister:
You may by now have realized that the 2G Spectrum scandal is not only bad for the country in the dimension of corruption, but now it emerges that there is a national security dimension too. The RAW, IB, CBI, ED all have enough material which they may have placed before you regarding the dubious aspects of the principal player in this scam.
According to my information two sisters, Anushka and Nadia, of Ms Sonia Gandhi had received sixty percent of the kickbacks in this deal i.e. Rs.18,000 crores each. The frequent travel of Sonia Gandhi and her immediate family to Malaysia , Hongkong, Dubai and parts of Europe including London requires to be probed under the law. What requires your special attention is the mode of the travel, not by commercial airliners, but by jets provided by the corporate sector which itself is illegal under the DGCA Rules. I find that often Ms. Sonia Gandhi and family have traveled to Dubai and then traveled onwards on private jets provided by dubious Arab business interests to Europe . It is not clear on what passport they have traveled. In Dubai they were felicitated by agencies of countries which are hostile to India including that of Pakistan .
You can no more not take a stand when evil is permeating in the country in the form of terrorism, religious conversion and demographic infiltration. The ill-gotten money in billions of dollars equivalent, the money laundering and Participatory Notes have all undermined our national integrity. The time is come for you to take a stand.
I am familiar with the information and data with our intelligent agencies. I also know that you can seek cooperation of other countries especially the United States in pooling information especially from inter Intelligence interaction that take place regularly. I hope therefore you will rise to the need of the hour and take effective steps to set right the sorry state of affairs in the country caused by overtly and covertly resident foreigners. In this connection I would like to meet you at the earliest. My Secretary will be in touch with your Secretariat to fix a time.
Yours sincerely,
(Sd SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY )
Sonia should quit all her positions of profit and allow herself and her family to be interrogated by a high-level commission of inquiry under the supervision and monitoring of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. Judiciary should take suo moto notice of the ripping-apart of the checks-and-balances enshrined in the Constitution which are the pillars of the Rule of Law; judiciary should join the call of the nation: singhasan khaali karo...
2G scam alone is not the issue. It is the total destruction of moral ethic, dharma, in the polity in a chamcha-raj encouraged and abetted by SoniaG.
The inquiry has to start from the top and the cancer of corruption has to be removed from this dharma nation, Hindusthan.
Many estates and pillars and fences of the democratic republic have been compromised. Judiciary, Corporates, the Fourth Estate, extra-constitutional authorities who consider themselves unaccountable to the nation and worst of all, establishment of the Chamcha Raj have all spread like cancer engulfing the entire socio-politico-economic system. The loot of the nation's wealth has reached intolerable levels; last ticker tape showed a loot of $462 billion in just 60 years of Swarajya Hindusthan and the loot is ongoing...

ramans shriman
Antonia Maino is an official foreign hand sitting in Indian power corridors under the patronage of desh drohi party twisting the Indian matters as guided by her foreign masters in all fields; political, religious social, business, military, cultural etc.
the desh drohi party veterans brought her to use her shoulder to fire their own guns, but under the guidance of her foreign masters she has shaken her shoulder and turned their guns back to them. Now these desh drohi veterans are pissing in their trousers in front of her and shitting loose due to the permanent indigestion and fear when they think what is going to happen to them while the gun is in her hand.
The critical example is of the PM himself who is seen gidgidata n trembling all the times in front of her. Same way so many stalwarts brhamins who hv 1 km long tilak on their foreheads and so many rajputs and kshrityas who have 1km long mustache each side on their face are seen touching her feet openly in desh drohi party meetings. And she is only an illiterate christian woman not employable even as house maid in her own country but holds the gun which is supported and guided by her foreign masters.
Her party members have known it very well for some time. If nationalist Hindus have to plan any thing against her they have to plan by taking full view of the strengths she has by her foreign connections and local stupid. Why?
The answer to this “why” is big but I shall try to make it short. The answer is ,

The stupid boy who married her eventually was not interested in a bar girl which she was at the time of their meetings. He just wanted to play around with her but committed the stupidity of going to churches with her where she introduced to him the locals as the son of India ’s PM.
So when the stupid boy wanted to quit finally with her, some local political mafia in connection with higher level political mafia threatened him with dire consequences for staying with her so long and duping her now. But behind this was the aim to install permanently a monitored n guided foreign hand in India ’s powerful political house. Rest is the story but that string still holds good.
From: Rashtra1947@aol.com
QUIT INDIA ! QUIT INDIA ! SONIA!!
http://ennapadampanchajanya.blogspot.com/
V. SUNDARAM I.A.S
read full - http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/10741.html
But what happens if she REFUSES to quit?

She has strong backers ( BRITAIN , USA , ITALY & ISLAM) and she can also "rule on" through Rahul. He will pursue her Ideology just as Indira pursued the Ideology of father Nehru. (She returned East Bengal to MOHAMMED in 1972 just as Nehru had done in 1947!)

There went her commitment to secularism and Akhand Bharat! Her SECULAR Bharat was left with "blackened" face. She conveyed the warning, "If a Muslim takes a mile of territory, it is HIS FOR EVER. But if a Hindu recovers an inch, he must return it to MOHAMMED with an apology!")

According to Ideology of Dynasty and Congress, Hindus and Sikhs must go on "evaporating" and their TERRITORY must go on shrinking and decreasing.

So, while it is IMPOSSIBLE to remove Sonia, Rahul will PURSUE the Dynasty's policy. ( India is TOO lucrative a coolie colony to give up without a FIGHT to the end!)

That leaves the "subservient nishkam sewak" appeasing and obliging non violent Hindu nation only way out: That is an army take-over.

Sometimes a surgical operation is the only way to save a person suffering from the consuming cancer or gangrene.

We must have faith in the Indian army that is not like an ISLAMIC army. We do not have KORAN, the book of intolerance and Jehad. Our army has the morality and ethos imbibed from an old CIVILIZATION. What civilization can the Muslims boast of from the time of savage Arabia of Mohammed to the present day Taliban?

So our knee jerk response need not be to see the Generals like Yahya Khan, Ayub Khan and Musharraf, and reject an army take over.

Kuru
From: Babu Suseelan
Sonia and Her Puppet Players

SONIA AND HER PUPPET PLAYERS

Antonio Sonia Maino, the Italian born, uneducated, Catholic lady has became the single most sinister force in Indian political life leading a group of Christians like Oscar Fernandez, Margaret Alwaye, Ambika Soni, A.K.Antony, P.J. Kuriyan, K.K. Thomas, Victor George, And Omman Chandy to form a party within the Congress Party.
The shadow party is undermining India 's national security, destabilizing our nation and implementing missionary agenda in India . India is under attack from within and without. Pakistani Jihadis and Chinese militants are knocking at our door. They are terrorizing India at will. Islamization of Kashmir and Christianization of the North East is now complete. Missionary and Jihadi supported Maoists and naxalites are terrorizing Hindus in Kashmir , Nepal , Assam , Missoram, Tripura. Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal . Sonia's secret role in implementing missionary agenda is clear.

It is up to the majority Hindus to stop her secret agenda. The apocalyptic Naxalites and Maoists with the active support of their foreign masters and Sonia's guidance is destabilizing India at will. These apocalyptic terrorist groups threaten our democracy, culture, and national sovereignty by subverting our political, social, religious and educational institutions.

Every concerned Indians must wake up from the slumber and understand the existential threats and control the puppet masters of Sonia. The silent majority must know that phony secular-atheist leaders are looting billions of rupees from the treasury every minute. Corruption, bureau pathology, ineptitude are rampant. Indians must act now to make the public aware of Sonia's hidden agenda for dismantling India .
Hindus must act now, if not now, then when?

Scandal and loot going on in Sonia Raj:
A few days after inauguration of a 640-crore bridge develops cracks. Recently a
hospital collapsed in the same Banda district of Uttar Pradesh.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/rs-640-crore-bridge-develops-crack-in-just-13-days-70043

Advani says government does not care about corruption. Sonia government is part of the scheme. Why should she care?
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/government-is-indifferent-to-corruption-says-advani-70119R.
Singh

640 crore bridge develops crack in just 13 days
Anant Zanane, Updated: December 02, 2010
Lucknow: Barely two weeks ago, it was inaugurated with great fanfare by the Minister for Public Works in UP.
Now, the Rs.640-crore Bridge has developed a massive crack - five feet long and 10 inches wide. The bridge in the Banda district is the longest bridge over the river Yamuna in UP.
The state government has set up a committee to investigate the poor construction. Experts say it will take at least a month to repair the damage.
The bridge is totally off-limits for now. Meanwhile, the traffic has been diverted to alternate routes.
This causes considerable embarrassment for Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who is the state's Minister for Public Works. Recently, a government hospital being constructed in the same district collapsed, injuring several labourers.
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Story first published:
December 02, 2010
Tags: Banda district, bridge, crack in bridge, Naseemuddin Siddiqui

Read more at:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/rs-640-crore-bridge-develops-crack-in-just-13-days-70043?cp
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

21 Economic Models explained with Cows

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and
then throws the milk away...

FIANNA FAILISM
The farmer has no cows but some friends offer to help
him out with money for 2 cows. Some of it is in Sterling and
the farmer doesn't know where it came from. After a short
investigation,
the farmer suddenly remembers that he won it on the Horses.
The farmer hands over the farm to his Son just before
the Farm goes under. No Cows are ever found.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of
four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has
dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company,
using letters of credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity
swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax
exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an
intermediary to a Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells
the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the
company owns eight cows,
with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new
president of the United States,
leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with
the release. The public then buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads,
because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an
ordinary cow and produce twenty
times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image
called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a
month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine
productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.
Not funny at all
Not funny joke
Average
Quite funny joke
Very funny joke

Thursday, December 2, 2010

How to Reduce Weight at Home - the easy way

by: Anandrahi

It is Easy to Reduce Weight at Home

Obesity has become one of the major health problems all over the world. The problem has given rise to quick-fix slimming centres everywhere. Most of these centres lure the people by offering miracle solutions with medicines, super fat free diet, and new exercise gadgets. Most of their methods prove unscientific and dangerous. Their side effects can actually ruin your health instead of making you slim and healthy. Moreover after a short period you will again start gaining weight. The exercise which can be done at home is the best method and you can learn it easily. But never jump upon any exercise schedule with full force. Take it easy. Start with only a ten minutes schedule everyday (home exercise schedule) and then increase the time of the activities gradually. You can incorporate some outdoor activities in your exercise schedule.

1. Running at Slow Pace

Running is a good exercise for weight-reduction. You can go to a nearby park and enjoy running. You can burn more than 100 calories just in fifteen minutes.

2. Running at a Place

If you don’t want to go out you can get the same benefit at your home by running at a place. You can do it in any small corner of your house. You can also jump at a place to get the same benefit.

3. Lie Down and Cycle

It is the best exercise for your stomach and thighs. You can do this exercise by lying on bed and moving your legs like you are cycling.

4. Moving Arms Up and Down

Stand at a place. Move your arms to upward direction simultaneously moving your body up with the help of feet fingers. Then bring your arms down along with your body.

5. Body Movement to Different Directions

You can do this exercise by moving any part of your body specially arms and legs to different directions as seems easy to you. Never make any strenuous movements. Such simple movements give exercise to almost all the parts of your body.

6. Do Household Work

Doing the household work as much as you can will prove one of the best weight control method. You not only get a good exercise but also get a satisfaction of completing those works which needed your attention.

7. Use Stairs

For going up try to use stairs instead of escalators or elevators. Stairs may take more time but the exercise your body get will be immensely beneficial

8. Walk to Your Working Place

Try to walk to your working place. If it is very far try to park your vehicle somewhat away from your working place so that you may get opportunity to walk. Walk as much as possible. It is the easiest way to burn extra calories and get stamina. Brisk walking burns around 180 calories in half an hour.

9. Enjoy the Fun of Cycling

Instead of two-wheelers we need to popularize cycling again for shopping or covering short distances. It is a wonderful cardio activity. It burns between 100 to 200 calories just in fifteen minutes. If you hesitate to go out on cycle keep a cycling machine at home. It is equally beneficial. But you will surely miss fun of outdoor.

10. Start Lifting Weights

Young men love to lift weights and they mostly do it to build muscles. Just after six months training they find that they are looking more beautiful and healthy. But aged and physical weak persons must consult a physician before opting for hard exercise schedule. And most of the ladies don’t like any muscle building exercise.

This simple exercise schedule will actually change your life style giving you a fit and healthy body as well as a long life.

Anandrahi
Anandrahi.com