Why the Brahamins Hate Most the Peasantry? Indian Parliament in Recession.Tata Attacks Mamata Once Again in Marxist Language!FII sales Push SENSEX Fal

Why the Brahamins Hate Most the Peasantry? Indian Parliament in Recession.Tata Attacks Mamata Once Again in Marxist Language!FII sales Push SENSEX Fall Continue. PSU firms told to Stay Put in Mutual. Small IT in Big Trouble

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 88
Palash Biswas
It is GAASI today.
My landlady hails from Dhaka. She has two sons. In my neighbourhood, Kundus also belong to Dhaka. A part of Roychowdharies is also left in Dhaka. The Dhaka people celebrate GAASI, a rural peasantry festival cooking mixed Dal and distributing it in neighbourhood.We got our share of the Festival dal abundantly.
What we the Indian Peasants get from this Independent democratic nation? Just Inherent Inequality, Inherent Injustice, Infinite enslavement, continuous persecution leading to displacement and deportation, Violation of Human rights and Civil Rights!
I never believe that the elected so called Representatives of Indian People in this patriarchal Hindu Majoritarian Political system would retreat from its Pro US Pro Capitalist stance and would ever make an issue of our suffereing in a troubled time of unemployment, food insecurity, calamities and Great depression!though it is believed that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's plan to push through legislative changes such as increasing overseas investment in insurance and the pension industry is likely to be hampered by the opposition. Debate on the new bills may be bogged down by protests over inflation, religious violence and terrorist attacks in the parliamentary session beginning today. As many as 36 bills are listed for parliamentary approval, while 26 are to be introduced in the session scheduled to end Nov. 21. The government wants to push through legislation in the time that is has left before national elections that need to be held by May next year, seeking to shore up its waning popularity. Singh's Congress party, which heads the coalition that came to power in May 2004 with a pledge to help the poor, has lost ground in nine of the 11 state polls held since January 2007. It faces elections in another five states in November and December.
How they defend shamelessly the Corporates, just see!With the benchmark Sensex closing below 10,000, there is little to be hopeful about, even on the corporate earnings front. The results so fa
r don't paint a very pleasant picture – shrinking margins and weakening fundamentals. While sales for the fifty firms that have come out with second quarter results so far have gone up 42 per cent, net profits are up just 17 per cent. This clearly indicates thinning margins.
The major results so far have come from the IT and financial services sectors. IT majors Infosys Technologies, HCL Technologies and Satyam Computer Services have met analyst expectations, but have also lowered guidance for the rest of the year. The rate at which new employees are being added has also come down. The next year could be worse, going by the state of the US economy and the exposure of IT firms to the financial sector there.

On the other hand,Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Friday defended delay by airline companies in payment of their fuel bills saying they were not defaulters, but the Petroleum Ministry maintained that Jet Airways had defaulted on payment of Rs 259 crore to Indian Oil Corporation.
A day after the Petroleum Ministry gave details of the dues of Naresh Goyal’s Jet Airways and its new found ally Kingfisher, Patel told reporters in Parliament that airline had a 60-day period to make payments. “So they cannot be branded as defaulters,” he said.
Petroleum Ministry, however, countered Patel saying Jet had failed to make payments even after expiry of the 60-day grace period.
After blaming Mamata Banerjee for the Nano pullout from Singur, Ratan Tata on Friday kept the embers burning by publicly asking the people of West Bengal to 'choose' between the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government or a "destructive political environment of lawlessness."
The comments by the Chairman of the Tata group in an open letter to the people of West Bengal led Banerjee's Trinamool Congress to quickly demand an unconditional apology or face legal action for targeting the firebrand leader.
"Tata should explain what he meant by confrontative actions by the Trinamool Congress led by Ms Mamata Banerjee and supported by vested interests," senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee said.
: Fallout from the financial crisis grew in the real economy Friday with job losses and a backlash against banking chiefs as shares ended a crazy week with a new roller-coaster ride.
European stocks strengthened, fell and rose again in the turbulence after a French bank's admission that it lost 800 million dollars in a derivatives trading "incident" while the German parliament passed a 480-billion-euro (650-billion-dollar) rescue package.
Ukraine said it was negotiating a 14-billion-dollar emergency loan with the International Monetary Fund and Argentina announced it had struck a deal with three foreign banks to renegotiate annual payments on part of its 150-billion-dollar sovereign debt mountain.
The impact of the crisis spread further with more companies around the world blaming major job losses on the financial turmoil which saw bank lending freeze up in a crisis of confidence over "toxic" US mortgage debt.
Chinese toy maker Smart Union, which was heavily reliant on US brands such as Mattel and Disney, has gone bust due to the financial crisis , leaving up to 7,000 people jobless.
Shareholders of Fortis are seeking damages from the Belgian-Dutch financial services group, the Dutch state and others after the firm was broken up earlier this month, lawyers said on Friday.

With General Elections next year and five states going to polls starting November 14, there are many issues like the global financial crisis and its impact on the Indian economy, terror attacks, communal riots, price rise and the Indo-US nuclear deal, which the Opposition will try to raise.

It could also be the last session under the leadership of Manmohan Singh.

But with elections for Assemblies of Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Mizoram already announced, there are many who feel that there is no point of continuing with a month-long session.

So it might well be cut short by at least 10 days to allow leaders to campaign aggressively in a poll that is already been billed as mini General Election.
Brahamins ruling South Asia now enjoys most the latest Nuclear status and anti peasant stance is strengthened vehemently. Peasantry is targeted to boost Corporate, MNC, Builder and promoter interests along with strategic readjustmeny underway in US lead despite the US and Western Capitalism collapsing and emergence of Martin Luther King`s dream as the most deciding factor of the Destiny of United states of america. Thus, the super slave planted Prime minister ably assisted by the elite Bengali Brahmins, Chetia Chidambaram gang of World bank IMF slaves go all out to save the endangered corporate US Imperialism and launching a Killing campaign against Indian Peasantry. Ratan Tata is the most appropriate corporate Icon to finance and enhance the deportation from life and livelihood drive!
Generation Next is made to plan future on IT launching pad. Now Small Indian IT sector crunches! it is in big trouble. Jet airways employees, of course, have been reinstated with Salary Cut. Realty, IT, Construction, Bank sectors crash! Replicating DOW jones won`t help Indian Economy as the Ruling Brahmins despise most the Indian Indigenous Black Untouchable peasantry and violates the basics of human Rights as well as Economics! FII won`t boost Hindu superpower Economy but the Illusion is quite Intact! GOI directed PSUs to stay put in Mutual as FII sales push SENSEX Fall continue! The Indian ruling Hegemony is over engaged in Pre Loksabha Power Vote Bank Coalition Equations making the Political system and Financial crisis irrelevant. It is all out once again to stop Mayawati as NRIs rally against the almost sure to be the first Black president Barrack Hussein Obama!
US industrial output posts biggest fall in 34 years!
Big industry production plunged in September by the most since late 1974, largely reflecting fallout from hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
The Federal Reserve reported on Thursday that production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities plunged 2.8 percent last month, on top of a 1 percent drop in August.
The Fed estimated that disruptions related to the hurricanes accounted for about 2.25 percentage points of the total drop in industrial production in September. In addition, a strike affecting the commercial aircraft industry also was a factor in the poor showing, accounting for around a half percentage point of the overall decline, the Fed said.
The drop in industrial production in September was the biggest since December 1974, when output fell 3.5 percent.
The latest showing on industrial activity was worse than economists expected. They were forecasting a decline of 0.8 percent.
Our people are scattered all over India now. The Hindu Bengali Refugees from Faridpur, Jassore, Dhaka, Noakhali, Comilla, Barishal, Khulna, Chitagang, Kushthia and Pabna mostly. In West Bengal, NABAANY and Tusu remain the main harvesting festival. It is Gaasi in East Bengal. Since the migrated people from East Bengal are mostly the Peasant castes like the Namoshudra and the Paundra kshtriya, having aboriginal roots demonised, we inherit the East Bengal rural culture.Common among Hindus is the acceptance of the caste system as the structure of society. For virtually all Hindus, even those in revolt against some aspects of the system, caste is taken for granted as the way of life. To be considered Hindu, a group must identify itself in some way as a unit in the caste hierarchy. One cannot join a caste; one is born into it and lives, marries, and dies in it. Even migrating from east Bengal, we remain as the most despised communities.
Why the Brahmins hate most the Peasantry? it is the basic question to understand the dynamics of development and Post modern Manusmriti as well as the mapping of famine, calamities and annihilation!
why they hate Barack Hussein Obama as well as Mayawati?
The battle for a key electoral prize - India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh - is turning into a major political theatre involving the country's two most powerful women.
In one corner is Mrs Sonia Gandhi, 62, the Congress Party president of impeccable political pedigree as the widow, daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law of three former prime ministers.
In the other corner is Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Mayawati, an upstart diamond-loving spinster who became the first low-caste leader to become head of a state and is now being touted as a possible prime minister in the future.
Listed by Forbes magazine as among the world's 100 most powerful women, both have gone toe-to-toe ahead of national elections next year.
A day after their debate in which they tried to solve Americas economic crisis, Senators John Mccain and Barack Obama came together and laughed it all out at a political dinner in New York.

And Barack Hussein Obama had to say a thing or two about himself - mostly about his middle name.

"I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. But today my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome. One other thing. I have never, not once, put lipstick on a pig or a pit bull or myself," Obama said.

Speakers at Republican events had earlier began referring to "Barack Hussein Obama", with heavy emphasis on their opponent's middle name.
Scores of Christians have converted to Hinduism in Orissa's troubled Kandhamal district in the past weeks to save their lives and properties, a government official admitted on Friday.
"We have received over 50 complaints where people alleged that Hindu villagers are forcing them to convert to Hinduism if want to save their lives and properties," a senior district administration official told IANS.
"Over 30 people have informed us in writing that they changed their religion to Hinduism on their own and without any force," he said, adding that all the complaints were being investigated and action would be taken as per law.
However, Sajan K. George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), said that the number of people who converted to Hinduism forcibly would be more than 600.
"The villagers tonsured my head and forced me to drink cow dung water," a victim claimed in a relief camp in this town, the district headquarters of the volatile Kandhamal district that has borne the brunt of the communal violence following the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides on Aug 23 at his Jalespata Ashram.
Hindus in the region blamed Christians for the killing and went on a rampage against the community.
At least 36 people, mostly Christians, were killed and thousands of homes burnt in the district during the violence. Over 20,000 people, mainly Christians, have taken shelter in relief camps after their houses were torched by rampaging Hindu mobs.
Although there has been no violence since past over two weeks, tension continues in the region over religious conversions.
While night curfew is in force in nine towns in Kandhamal, prohibitory orders banning any gathering of four and more people are in force across the district.
The global financial turmoil may revive the International Monetary Fund's role as the world's financial firefighter, providing loans to cash-strapped countries and developing an early warning system to prevent future crises.
Seeking a greater role for his 185-nation organisation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ambitious French leader of the IMF, has embraced enthusiastically a mandate to use its resources and skills to play a central role in the global economy.
He says he is ready to begin an immediate overhaul of the fund.
Meanwhile, as major powers ponied up $3 trillion last week to start bringing order to the global economy, Iceland, Hungary and Ukraine indicated they might seek financing from the IMF to improve their particularly dangerous fiscal maladies.
In recent years the IMF has been relegated to the sidelines with its loan portfolio diminished as well as its role on the international stage. Many countries that had been borrowers sought funds in capital markets and built huge reserves so they would not have to come hat in hand to the IMF.
In addition, China and other wealthy countries have provided loans to developing countries, many in Africa, with no strings attached.
Founded in the aftermath of World War II , the IMF became the international community's fire brigade in the 1990s, providing loans to countries in financial trouble from Thailand to Turkey, while requiring dire belt-tightening measures.

It is now Nuclear patriarchy Hindutva, the Ruling Hegemony of India as India on Friday moved a step closer to launch its maiden unmanned moon session when the lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-I was mated w ith the polar rocket which is set to blast off on October 22 from the Sriharikota spaceport. Gearing up for the final countdown, Space officials said all operations for the mission are progressing satisfactorily and barring a cyclone threat the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C11) will keep the date with the country's historic mission on October 22 at 6.20 AM.
The US on Wednesday reiterated president George Bush’s pledge of providing “reliable fuel” supplies for Indian civilian reactors while announcing a nuclear trade mission to India, in December, to explore business opportunities pegged at $150 billion (Rs 7.3 cr) over the next 30 years.
US commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez noted that the US-India Business Council (USIBC) would spearhead the mission to scope out India’s growing market for civilian nuclear technologies.
“I’m pleased to announce that the commerce department has certified the US-India Business Council for a civil nuclear trade mission to India this December,” Gutierrrez told the day-long Green India Summit jointly organised by USIBC and the Confederation of Indian Industry.
“As president Bush said, India will have a reliable fuel supply for its civilian reactors, which will meet energy demands and reduce dependence on fossil fuels,” Gutierrez added. “US companies are eager to contribute to India’s developing nuclear power sector. However, private sector firms, both US and Indian, require nuclear liability protection in order to do business,” Gutierrez said urging India to “draft and ratify a domestic law consistent with the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage.”
India, last month, wrote a letter of intent to sign up to the convention. Top Washington lawyer Omer Brown, who represents GE Energy among other nuclear suppliers on the liability issue, told DNA that the Indian parliament will have to approve the CSC like any other treaty.
Among the pending legislation is the Banking Regulation Bill, which seeks the removal of a 10 percent cap on voting rights of overseas investors in non-government banks, and a Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Bill that aims to increase the foreign investment limit in the industry.
The government also plans to introduce a bill that will seek to raise the overseas investment limit to 49 percent from 26 percent in domestic insurance companies.
Both the banking regulation and pension bills have been pending for more than three years in parliament as the four communist parties that supported the federal coalition government until July opposed them.
Nuclear Deal
They withdrew their support over the country's just- concluded nuclear agreement with the U.S., prompting a confidence vote that the government won.
Getting approval for the bills may be difficult without the support of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, as the ruling coalition has a thin parliamentary majority.
``I don't think these bills will actually be taken up as this government has no commitment to reforms,'' Prakash Javadekar, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman, said by phone, without stating what the party's stand will be. ``These are their final days.''
The Bharatiya Janata Party will raise the increase in prices of essential commodities, the rise in terrorist incidents and the failure of the government to deal with the global financial crisis, Javadekar said.
More than 140 people have been killed in at least 40 bomb blasts since May 13. Communal violence has taken place in the eastern state of Orissa, where clashes between Hindus and Christians since August left more than 35 dead.
Assam Fighting
Ethnic fighting in the northeastern state of Assam between indigenous Bodo tribespeople and Muslim settlers from Bangladesh has killed more than 50 people.
The government won't shy away from debate on any issue, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said in New Delhi.
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to make a statement on the conclusion of the nuclear deal with the U.S., which allows companies such as General Electric Co. to sell atomic fuel and technology to India's growing energy sector for the first time in three decades, Ravi said.
The government is expected to come under fire from the communist parties over the nuclear deal.
India's finance ministry will also seek approval for extra spending on items that were not mentioned in the budget for the financial year ending March 31, Ravi said.

Economic recession in rich countries triggered by the global financial turmoil is likely to last at least 18 months, the head of the United N
ations' Development Programme (UNDP) said on Friday.
"It will definitely last more than a year -- between a year and 18 months," Kemal Dervis said in an interview with Turkey's NTV television. "How long it will eventually last will depend on the measures to be implemented."
Dervis, a former Turkish economy minister, also urged reforms to restructure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to allow it to monitor the economies of rich countries and not only the developing world.
"The IMF should be a genuine international institution which ensures economic coordination and healthy policies across the world rather than acting only as the police of developing countries," Dervis said.
"It is absolutely necessary for the IMF... to have a say in American monetary policies, American financial control policies or European and Japanese control policies, or at least to disclose what it sees and to draw attention to the problems it sees," he said.
"It is not currently in such a position because the rich countries does not give it a mission on this issue," he added.
Dervis also stressed that developing countries should have a greater role and participation in IMF management and decision-making.
Indian Parliament is the supreme House of Brahminical hegemony in India. The Parliament is in session. We witnessed the Nuke Opera Reality show last time and now we have to witness the Capitalist American Ways being justified in Parliamentary debate. I am afraid that the Brahmin leaders of different colour are very competent to subvert the real issues relating the livelihood, land and life of the masses. Rather any minor issue is bound to kill the time of the parliament and no bdy is going to question the Government of India how it bypassed the parliament and Constitutionof India making India the periphery of united states of America!
Reinstatement of sacked employees by Jet Airways has fuelled angst among Corporate India and some of leading human resource executives are looking upon it as a defeat of professionalism at the altar of populism.
"People touted this as the victory of morality, common man's win, employees' rights and other such things. In my humble opinion, India Inc has lost again," a leading HR consultant said.
Echoing the sentiment, diversified conglomerate ITC's Human Resource Vice President, Anil Sharma said, "It was made to believe... How can a company call its sacked employees back to work just 48 hours after they were retrenched by the airline!"
Sharma further said the decision was really impulsive by a business house, which was trying to survive despite the rising cost burden.
Although the Jet's decision of reinstatement of the sacked staff has been hailed by common man, analysts said this would hurt investment sentiments for the stocks of the Airline company and in turn, its shareholders.
The government on Thursday deferred a decision on hiking Foreign Direct Investment cap in the insurance sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent, as it watches for the impact of the global financial crisis.
The issue of liberalising the insurance sector was to come up before the Cabinet but was deferred, Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal told reporters after the Cabinet meeting.
The bull is on the run! But not in the direction one would want. He’s kicked enough storm and leaving behind him dust which the market is anxiously waiting to settle, so as to ascertain the damage.
There are foreign forces behind the madness, as politicians would say--the US sub-prime crisis that has ballooned into a credit crisis across world markets. And there doesn’t seem to any comfort from the measures being taken by the central governments.
In one of many such stampedes, the Sensex of Bombay Stock Exchange Friday closed below the 10,000 mark at 9,975.35, a loss of 606.14 points or 5.73 per cent from the previous close. The low of the day was 9,911.32 and high of 10,786.93.
Realty and power stocks led the decline as investors were on a selling spree on unabated fears of a sharp global economic slowdown.
The BSE Realty Index slumped 8 per cent with industry leader Unitech shedding as much as 10.84 per cent. Other losers in the pack were Peninsula Land falling 11.03 per cent, DLF down 8.73 per cent, Orbit Corp plunging 13.43 per cent and Indiabulls Realty down 11.42 per cent.
Among power stocks, Reliance Infrastructure (-10.05%) suffered the most. Suzlon Energy (8.55%), NTPC (9.29%) and BHEL (8.23%) were also under severe pressure pulling the BSE Power Index down 7.27 per cent.

I remember our social fabrics and rituals related to peasantry as it is associated with National Production, Indigenous Economics and Food security. Myths and Superstitions were closely related to Nature as we happened to the people closely associated with Nature.
My home in Basantipur, situated near pantnagar University, had been the centre during the folk festivals including GAASI. We had a music teacher for almost ten years at home to learn all about folk as well as music.
GAASI is related to productivity. The food is cooked in kartick and eaten in AGAHAN. It is the motto. The home meant BAHAND. It means the tribe in the rigid sense. It is clan.The Balck untouchables used to worship the cattles and the Instruments associated with harvesting. Rice Powders, coconuts and GUR were the basic content of the recipe in gaasi, which is quite different from dhaka and comilla people. Since we gave up harvesting as a family and most of us settled in towns, since we have no cattles and no agricultuaral instrument mentionable at our home, we have been decoupled with the Heritage.
How the hatred of the Brahmins work against the Peasantry, West Bengal Social reality of Singur plus NANO, reflects it most. Since Mamata symbolises and represents Singur Insurrection, Mamata is demonised. West Bengal Brahmins began the Puja countdown Fifty Days before with US feel. The Theme Puja was sponsered by corporates. Nano was the main recipe. Mamat was made Mahisashur.Interestingly, in Nandigram, Buddhadeb replaced the Demon Mahishashur!
It is hard to miss the irony. At a time when the banking industry is in a crisis globally, fixed deposits of public sector banks have emerged as the safest haven for badly hit investors who are frantically liquidating their positions in equity markets and mutual funds. While asset management companies have started feeling the heat as retail and corporate investors queue up to redeem their funds, branches of public sector banks have seen a rush for term deposits from investors who want to ensure there is no further erosion in their wealth. Investors are even shying away from private sector banks, after the financial crash abroad. The State Bank of India, the largest state-owned bank, which has launched a special 1,000-day fixed deposit scheme, has mobilized over Rs 5,000 crore across the country in just 12 working days. It is also witnessing huge inflow of money into other schemes. Many PSU banks are seeing infusion of funds, which are getting diverted from the stock markets. "Our term deposits normally grow at 17% annually. If the present trend continues, we could end up with 25 to 30% growth," said a top official of Bank of Baroda. "Our deposit schemes are drawing funds diverted from the stock market," acknowledged H C Pattnaik, chief general manager, SBI Gujarat.
The flight from markets to banks is not difficult to understand. From a peak level of 21,200 on January 10, 2008, the sensex has fallen almost 50%. During the same period, assets under management (AUM) of equity funds have dropped by 22%, while AUM of liquid funds has plummeted by around 44%. Sandeep Dasgupta, CEO, Bharti-AXA MF, admitted that liquid and FMP (fixed maturity plan) schemes have been under redemption pressure from corporate and retail investors.
The government's drastic economic rescue efforts will eventually pay off, President Bush insisted Friday, offering calming words to anxious Americans but no suggestion of a quick revival as Wall Street braced for another wild day.
The economy didn't falter overnight, "and it's going to take a while for the credit system to thaw," Bush said just before the markets opened, speaking across a park from the White House at the US Chamber of Commerce building, a symbolic headquarters of American business.
Despite a flurry of radical actions by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve, banks in the United States and abroad are still wary of lending money to each other and to their customers. The credit clog is depriving the wheezing US economy of oxygen.
Financial and credit problems have dragged on for more than a year and took a dangerous turn for the worse last month. All the fallout threatens to plunge the US economy - as well as the world economy - into a painful recession.
That has led to erratic trading on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrials have swung widely, slashing a trillion dollars of wealth from the markets one day, only to pile some of it back on the next. The Dow was down slightly in the first hour of trading on Friday.
See how the failed Capitalist System works on survival strategy!
European Union regulators called Friday for a clear plan on valuing some of the shadowy high-risk credit derivative investments that have b
een estimated at around US$600 trillion (euro444 trillion).
Billions of euros (dollars) has been wiped off banks' balance sheets in recent months on fears that some complex investments may be based on assets that are nearly worthless, such as housing loans that may not be paid back as a recession puts people out of work.
EU financial services chief Charlie McCreevy called on national supervisors and the financial industry to agree on the real risks credit derivatives pose, and how they can be limited to prevent further losses unraveling.
``I would like to have, by the end of this year, concrete proposals as to how the risks from credit derivatives can be mitigated,'' he said in a statement.
There is a pressing need, he said, for a central clearing counterparty or negotiator to trade derivatives. McCreevy pointed to a vacuum in the system since the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers last month which negotiated many of the world's derivative contracts.
``At US$600 trillion, the size of derivatives markets today are such that we cannot let this over-the-counter market continue without adequate counterparty clearing,'' he said.
McCreevy said this was urgent for credit default swaps which offer insurance for lenders worried about a borrower's ability to pay them back. Lenders are due a substantial payout if a company goes bankrupt, as many large businesses have in recent weeks, including three Icelandic banks.
As much as US$60 billion (euro44 billion) may be owed on credit default swaps, he said, and it is unclear if the money will be paid out and who is responsible for paying for it.
``The opaqueness of these products leads to nasty surprises when things go wrong,'' he said. ``The potential knock-on effect to other players in the market is obvious ... No one is able to say how these swaps will unwind.
Regulators do not have the information they need to see potential liabilities for the banks they monitor and need ``a much better view of where the real risks in these instruments lie,'' he said.

Now see, CPIM and Ratan Tata simaltaneously launched all out attack against Mamata. CPIM lost its Vision and lost its faith in its gods Marx,Lenin, Mao and Che. Marxists replicate mannerism of Henry Kissinger and George Bush. national and international issues have become quite irrelevant for the Gestapo Masters. They Focus on campaign annihiliation as the Americans declared War against Terrorism. Ratan tata Left West Bengal, but he addressed the People of West Bengal with massive advertisement published in local dailes. Tata condemend Mamata in the same language as the Cpim Central committe did.He advised the people of west Bengal to choose between Mamata and Buddhadeb. Is it Parliamentary Democracy ? The corporate is dictating Politics! While the marxists defend the US Corporate Interests most with the rhetorics of antiimperialism and antifascism. It is all about Brahminical Hatred against Mainstream peasantry, comprised of SCs, OBCs, STs and Minorities ensalved in caste system for thousands and thousands years!Meanwhile, fascist Narendra Modi, the RSS icon of Genocide Gujarat Version also addressed both Buddha and Mamata pleading to adopt Americanism for Industrialisation! If tatas have left Bengal and relocated Nano project, why they choose to address the people of West Bengal? In fact, tatas may not afford to produce nano at this moment of Global Financial crisis and credit crunch. It got the Escape Route in singur, but it has not gave up nano Project and thus, wants to return to west Bengal. Thus it is a cent Percent Marxist Tata Joint venture henceforth!
Attacking Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for her "opposition" to Nano project, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said West Bengal has been deprived of industrialisation and people will assess her politics.
"If Mamata Banerjee has succeeded in relocating Nano project from Bengal, people of Bengal should consider relocating her," Yechury told reporters in New Delhi.
He claimed that people of the state have been deprived of proper industrialisation and that youths of Bengal were denied of potential jobs due to relocation of the Nano project.
"All this goes to the sort of politics that the Trinamool Congress and its leader are playing. We have also appealed to people to look into it," he said.
On the other hand, after pulling out the Nano project from Singur, Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata on Friday asked the people of West Bengal to support the present government in building a prosperous state or see it consumed by a destructive political environment.
In an open letter to the people of West Bengal which appeared in select dailies in Kolkata, Tata said the citizens should decide whether they wanted education and jobs in the industrial and hi-tech sectors or 'wants to stay as they are'.
"The people of West Bengal, particularly the younger citizens, will need to express their views and aspirations as to what they would like to see West Bengal become in the years ahead," the letter said.
"Would they like to support the present government of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to build a prosperous state with the rule of law, modern infrastructure and industrial growth, or would they like to see the state consumed by a destructive political environment of confrontation, agitation, violence and lawlessness?" Tata asked.
Defending his decision to withdraw the Nano project from Singur, Tata said it was not taken in haste.
Tata said he was compelled to write the letter to explain how his company's dream was shattered by an environment of 'politically motivated agitation and hostility that finally left us with no option but to withdraw the project from the state'.
He said Tata Motors had decided to locate the Nano project in West Bengal two years ago which 'reflected the tremendous faith and confidence we had, and still have, in the investment friendly policies' of the present government.
"All through the two years we have been constructing the plant at Singur, this feeling of faith and confidence in the vision and objectives of the state government has been reinforced," Tata wrote in his letter.
"Unfortunately, the confrontation by Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee and supported by vested interests and certain political parties, opposing the acquisition of land by the state government, have caused serious disruptions to the progress of the Nano plant," he said.
He wrote "the land acquired by the state government at Singur and leased to Tata Motors has been, we believe, through a transparent process with fair compensation."
West Bengal's Opposition Trinamool Congress, the Congress and a ruling Left Front partner on Friday attacked industrialist Ratan Tata's open letter to the people asking them to support the state government, terming his action as "politically motivated" and "unprecedented".

"It is unprecedented. I have never heard of an industrialist giving a statement directly in favour of a state government and its chief minister and directly against a major opposition party," senior Trinamool leader Saugata Roy said.
"It sounds like a statement issued on the eve of the Lok Sabha election. I do not know why Mr Ratan Tata brought himself to this level. It was not expected," Roy said.
"His statement will give rise to the suspicion that Tata's movement (out of Singur) was in conjunction with the state government and the Marxist party to help them politically," he said.
State Congress working president Subrata Mukherjee said Tata's open letter was "in bad taste for a monopoly businessman to to speak in favour of a political party."
"We saw the other day, CPI(M) leader Benoy Konar telling the Governor to contest the Lok Sabha poll on a Trinamool Congress ticket for allegedly siding with the party. If that is so, then on that logic Ratan Tata should also contest the poll on a CPI(M) ticket," Mukherjee said.
Reacting sharply, veteran leader of LF ally, Forward Bloc, Ashok Ghose said Ratan Tata's comment on the internal politics of West Bengal was 'undesirable'. "It is not expected of a person of his stature."
The government on Friday ruled out privatisation of state-owned bank and added that it has not given any direction for consolidation of t
he PSU banks.
"No directive has been issued by the Government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on consolidation of the banks, as of now and there is no proposal to transfer the control and management of PSBs to the private sector," Minister of State for Finance P K Bansal said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
Further, a view is yet to be taken on the Reports of the Raghuram Rajan and Anwarul Hoda Committees' recommendations, he said.
The Amendment to the Banking Regulation Act is in accordance with best international practices, he said. On a call given by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the employees of PSU Banks were on strike for two days on September 24 and 25, he said, adding, the loss of business due to strike is not possible to quantify.
In another reply Bansal said the government has recently advised the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, to review the existing norms and guidelines of Kisan Credit Card.
All the banks have a robust internal grievance redressal mechanism to address customer complaints, including denial of Kisan Credit Card by the banks to the farmers, he said.
Under Debt Consolidation and Waiver Scheme for States, he said, the past Central loans contracted till March 31, 2004 and outstanding as on March 31, 2005 are to be consolidated and rescheduled for repayment in 20 equal annual installments at a reduced interest rate of 7.5 per cent.
This is subject to States enacting Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Acts with suggested core provisions, he added.

Pl read the dalit Voice Edit:
When US rejected capitalism why Indian rulers are hugging it ? Free market musketeers warned
The current financial crisis that threatened the world’s richest and the most powerful capitalist stronghold, USA, has proved wrong India’s three notorious free market musketeers — Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram and Ahluwalia — who are determined to sell this impoverished country to Tatas, Ambanis, Birlas and such other corrupt capitalists.
Our micro-minority upper castes (15%) led by the less than 3% Brahmins are the greatest admirers of the LPG market mantra. They hate governmental control and use their corrupt manuwadi monopoly media to malign and run down public sector, constitutional reservations and any development efforts. And that is how these upper castes have become blind bumlickers of America.
Socialist solution: But what happened in their own dream-land in the middle of Sept.2008? The American capitalism simply collapsed — putting a big question mark on the free market philosophy. So much so, even blind haters of communism and socialism started calling American President “Comrade Bush” for kicking capitalism, discarding the market mantra and following the socialist solution.
Death of capitalism: Is capitalist America going socialist? Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, two of America’s biggest investment banks on Wall Street, are simply humbled, their ears boxed and reduced to mere bankers under the communist-type control by the US Govt. Is it the death of capitalism?
India’s free market Frankensteins, headed by the Khatri Sikh PM and the Tamil Chettiar FM, beware.
America has less than 3% Jews who control the entire economy. They own not only almost all financial institutions, run stock exchange, but even the American Federal Reserve (counterpart of the Reserve Bank of India). All over the world the sole authority to print currency notes is a fully owned govt. institution. But only in America it is totally private and that too in the hands of Jews. To that extent the economy is privatised in USA.
LPG maniacs: The “Jews of India” have launched a powerful drive to privatise everything in India and have almost succeeded. The Khatri Sikh PM, the Chettiar FM and Planning Commission Chief, a world Bank import, as flag-bearers of the LPG marching brigade, have been blindly following the American model. Because globalisation is a zionist manufactured concept. WTO is a zionist creation. We had devoted a chapter itself to this subject in our book, Shape of the Things to Come (DSA-2005). In the second week of September 2008 when the President of America nationalised several world famous banking and financial institutions, it simply shocked the world.
Is it not a clear indication that unbridled capitalism has failed? And that “free economy” will hand over the innocent lambs to the capitalist wolves?
In America, the Jewish capitalist wolves are having a hearty meal and here the “Jews of India” are having a Bada Khana in the name of free economy and democracy.
China safe: The American crisis did hit all the capitalist countries in England and other West European countries but nothing happened in China, a communist country which has a tight control on its economy.
But in India where the Brahminical wolves run the show, merrily eating innocent lambs, the capitalist-roader Manmohan Singh Govt. got a shock. But fortunately the governmental control is fairly strong in India and that is how India is saved.
The latest crisis must warn our LPG lunatics. Free market will give a free ride to Banias and Brahmins and other suckers.
Here is a warning: Financial capitalism is not suitable to India’s caste-ridden society which has already sucked the blood of its over 85% of the weaker sections and fattened the overfed 15% upper castes. Without dismantling this deathless caste system if Manmohan Singh and Co. were to introduce market economy the Marwadis and Manuwadis will make a mince-meat of the Bahujan Samaj.
America saved itself by applying the socialist solution. India, already a beggar nation and socially paralysed, will get economically crippled if we follow the capitalist path. In the name of free enterprise the Marwadis and manuwadis will control even the air, water and squeeze us to death.
Shift of power from West to East: In our different writings we have predicted the fall of America. And such a fall has begun with full force. The Georgian crisis has revealed the shift of power from West to East. Russia gave a kick on the neck of USA and has warned the White Europeans that they must stay neutral. (DV Oct.1, 2008 p.11: “Georgian war divides the world”).
The American boast of unipolar world stands shattered. George W. Bush as the most hated American President is getting ready to go to the International Criminal Court.
Economically US is weakened. And with the imminent entry of a Black into White House the Jews holding the neck of America will be on notice. (DV Sept.16, 2008 p.6: “Will forces of history put a Black man in White House?”)
Homeless “Jews of India”: Will the Jews pack off to Europe with their dollars? Will the emerging super power China, along with Russia, Iran, Venezuela, the entire Muslim and African world bring peace to the strife-torn world under the leadership of Barack Obama?
Then India’s Black Untouchables and the entire Bahujan Samaj (85%) will get a breathing time. Such a situation is sure to make the shocked “Jews of India” to piss in their pants. But we Bahujans are a people with a heart. We realise that none in the world is there to welcome them. The American Jews may manage to settle in Europe — not the zionist Israel which itself will disappear. The “Jews of India” will be homeless. But we will assure their safety and security. And settle the cow-worshippers in the foothills of the Himalayas in their dreamland of Gorakhpur.
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On the level of the little tradition, Hinduism admits worship of spirits and godlings of rivers, mountains, vegetation, animals, stones, or disease. Ritual bathing, vows, and pilgrimages to sacred rivers, mountains, shrines, and cities are important practices. An ordinary Hindu will worship at the shrines of Muslim pirs, without being concerned with the religion to which that place is supposed to be affiliated. Hindus revere many holy men and ascetics conspicuous for their bodily mortifications. Some people believe they attain spiritual benefit merely by looking at a great holy man.
The basic social unit in a village is the family (paribar or gushti), generally consisting of a complete or incomplete patrilineally extended household (chula) and residing in a homestead (bari). The individual nuclear family often is submerged in the larger unit and might be known as the house (ghar). Above the bari level, patrilineal kin ties are linked into sequentially larger groups based on real, fictional, or assumed relationships.
Although Hindu society is formally stratified into caste categories, caste did not figure prominently in the Bangladeshi Hindu community. About 75 percent of the Hindus in Bangladesh belonged to the lower castes, notably namasudras (lesser cultivators), and the remainder belonged primarily to outcaste or untouchable groups. Some members of higher castes belonged to the middle or professional class, but there was no Hindu upper class. With the increasing participation of the Hindus in nontraditional professional mobility, the castes were able to interact in wider political and socioeconomic arenas, which caused some erosion of caste consciousness. Although there is no mobility between Hindu castes, caste distinctions did not play as important a role in Bangladesh as in they did in the Hindu-dominated Indian state of West Bengal. Bangladeshi Hindus seemed to have become part of the mainstream culture without surrendering their religious and cultural distinctions.
Unlike Islam, Hinduism lacks a single authoritative scripture and a historically known founder. In a sense Hinduism is a synthesis of the religious expression of the people of South Asia and an anonymous expression of their worldview and cosmology, rather than the articulation of a particular creed. The term Hinduism applies to a large number of diverse beliefs and practices. Although religion can best be understood in a regional context, the caste system, beliefs, rituals, and festivals of the Hindus in Bangladesh -- about 16 percent of the population--are peculiarly Bengali.
Hindu philosophy recognizes the Absolute (Brahma) as eternal, unbounded by time, space, and causality and consisting of pure existence, consciousness, and bliss. The highest goal is release (moksha) from the cycle of birth and rebirth and the union of the individualized soul (atman) with Brahma. To attain this goal, a person may follow one of several methods or paths of discipline depending on his or her own temperament or capacity. The first of these paths is known as the way of works (karma marga). Followed by most Hindus, it calls for disinterested right action--the performance of one's caste duties and service to others--without personal involvement in the consequences of action. The way of knowledge (jnana marga) stresses union by eliminating ignorance; mental error rather than moral transgression is considered the root of human misery and evil. The way of devotion (bhakti marga) advocates union by love; its essence is a complete and passionate faith in a personal deity.
The Namasudras whom the Hindus hated as chandals, with massive .... mechanism nearer home of the vast majority of the Muslims and low castes in East Bengal.But it was really the Matua sect which offered an organisation for the social movement of the Namasudra community.
H H Harichand did not believe in asceticism; he was more of a family man; and it is from within the family that he preached the word of God. He believed that 'Grhete thakiya yar hay bhaboday. Sei ye param sadhu janio nishchay' (the best ascetic is he who can express his devotion to God remaining a family man). He mobilised all the neglected sects and castes and inspired them to remain true to the openness of Hinduism.
H H Sri Sri Harichand died on Wednesday 23 Falgun, the year 1284 of the Bangla calendar.
The Maha Baruni Bath Festival of the believers of the Hindu religion at village Orakandi under Kashiani upazila in Gopalganj is one of the biggest festivals in Bangladesh. The fair is organised every year marking the birth anniversary of Hindu priest Sri Sri Harichand Thakur, who was born in the village.
As they believe that Harichand’s residence is one of the holiest places containing holy water, thousands of pilgrims take baths in Kamona Sagar and Dudh Sagar — two ponds in the residence — on the date of his birth ‘to purify them with the holy water and to be cured of their diseases.’
Thousands of pilgrims from across the country, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Thailand attended the festival.
The story is about Thakur, Harichand (1811-1877)and the Caste called Namasudras who were persecuted by the Muslims of east bengal and when in anticipation they came to west Bengal they faced persecution from Muslims as well as upper caste hindus. An upper caste Hindu himself the Thakur after whom the village and railway station are named stoop up and proclaimed that all hindus to that matter all humanity is one and there should be no discrimination whatever. He gave a mantra to fight HARI OM (Almighty the superior) along with a black stick to fight the persecutors.
He was born to, Yashomanta Thakur, and Maithili Brahmin and a devout Vaisnava inOrakandi of kashiani upazila in gopalganj (Greater faridpur) now Bangladesh.H H Harichand's doctrine is based on three basic principles-truth, love, and sanctity. The doctrine treats all people as equal; people are not seen according to castes or sects. Himself a Brahmin, he professed mixed with lower-caste people and treated them with the same dignity as he did other castes. This is why most of his followers believe H H Harichand to be an avatar (incarnation) of vishnu, and are from the lower strata of society. They used to affirm:Rama hari krisna hari hari gorachand. Sarba hari mile ei purna harichand (Rama is lord, Krishna is lord, lord is Chaitanyadev. But all of them make our Harichand, who is our lord.)H H Sri Sri Harichand left 12 instructions for the matuyas, known as Dvadash Ajna (Twelve Commands).
The victims of persecution Namasudras are spread all over India and on the eve of the mela they descent on this small town in lakhs if not a million. The town sees activity from the midnight of the 03rd April 2008 to 5th April and its an ocean of people everywhere chanting Haril Bol and hari Om to the drum beats and the bell beats. Its an auspicious 3 days of spirituality and naivette here in Thakur nagar of North 24 Paraganas some 70 kms to the capital Kolkata.


Nabanna (New Crop) is a Bengali harvest celebration ususally celebrated with food and dance and music. Its a festival of food, many local preparations of bengali cuisine like pithe are cooked and offered. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... By Scott Kriebel (vega4@gwu. ... Pithe or PiÅ£ha are a kind of sweet cuisine of Bengal region — Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. ...
The festival is celebrated with mela which are called nabanna mela. Its one of the numerous festivals that gave the name "baro mase tero parban" (thirteen festivals in twelve months ) to the land of bengal. Although the nabanna parban is somewhat different from other ones since its not connected to a religion like Ratha Yatra. The villegers and locals from both the major religious groups join the festival with equal participation. There are also several fertility rituals which make the festival truly a harvest ritual. The festival gets a lot of support from the creative army of the Bengali Culture. Several poets, musicians baul and painters flock in into such mass gather. There is a famous play written on nabanna by the play writer Bijon Bhattacharya which depicts the sad incident of the great Bengal Famine of 1943.[1] For Mela Festivals today, see Mela Festival. ... Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ Bôngo, বাংলা Bangla, বঙ্গদেশ Bôngodesh or বাংলাদেশ Bangladesh), is a historical and geographical region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Ratha Yatra is one of the major festivals associated with Lord Jagannath, Puri, Orissa state, India. ... Look up Creative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term creative can refer to: Creativity is defined as the ability to be creative. ... Baul on a train in West Bengal Bauls (Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which comprises Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. ... Bijon Bhattacharya in Nabanna Bijon Bhattacharya (1917-78) was a prominent theatre and film personality from Bengal. ... Also Bengali Famine, Bengal Famine of 1943 Catastrophic famine that devastated the eastern Indian state of Bengal in 1943 and 1944, during World War II. Severe famines in Bengal had also occurred in both the late 18th and late 19th centuries. ...
Although Bangladesh has absorbed several waves of immigrants since the onset of the twentieth century, the overall trend has been a steady emigration of people driven out by political and economic problems. Following the partition of British India in 1947, more than 3 million Hindus may have migrated from East Pakistan; during the same period some 864,000 Muslim refugees immigrated to East Pakistan from India. The operation of the Pakistani military in East Pakistan in 1971 caused an estimated 8 to 10 million refugees to cross the border into India in one of the great mass movements of modern times. After the independence of Bangladesh, most of these refugees returned, although an undetermined number remained in India. After independence, Bangladesh received some 100,000 stranded Bangladeshis from former West Pakistan. About 600,000 non-Bengali Muslims, known as Biharis, who had declared their allegiance to Pakistan during the 1971 war, continued to reside in Bangladesh.
It has been reported that, beginning in 1974, thousands of Bangladeshis moved to the Indian state of Assam, and, in the 1980s, some tribal groups from the Chittagong Hills crossed into the Indian state of Tripura for political reasons, contributing to bilateral problems with India. Bangladeshis also migrated to the Middle East and other regions, where a large number of skilled and unskilled persons found work. Bangladesh also lost some highly skilled members of the work force to Western Europe and North America.
Internal migration indicated several recognizable trends. Because of increasing population pressure, people in the 1980s were moving into areas of relatively light habitation in the Chittagong Hills and in parts of the Sundarbans previously considered marginally habitable. Agrarian distress caused some movement to urban areas, especially Dhaka. Because of the inhospitable urban environment and the lack of jobs, many newcomers returned at least temporarily to their villages, especially during the harvest season. Unemployment, however, was even higher in the countryside and was a long-term national problem in the mid-1980s.
Bangladesh's tribal population consisted of 897,828 persons, just over 1 percent of the total population, at the time of the 1981 census. They lived primarily in the Chittagong Hills and in the regions of Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. The majority of the tribal population (778,425) lived in rural settings, where many practiced shifting cultivation. Most tribal people were of SinoTibetan descent and had distinctive Mongoloid features. They differed in their social organization, marriage customs, birth and death rites, food, and other social customs from the people of the rest of the country. They spoke Tibeto-Burman languages. In the mid-1980s, the percentage distribution of tribal population by religion was Hindu 24, Buddhist 44, Christian 13, and others 19.
The four largest tribes were the Chakmas, Marmas (or Maghs), Tipperas (or Tipras), and Mros (or Moorangs). The tribes tended to intermingle and could be distinguished from one another more by differences in their dialect, dress, and customs than by tribal cohesion. Only the Chakmas and Marmas displayed formal tribal organization, although all groups contained distinct clans. By far the largest tribe, the Chakmas were of mixed origin but reflected more Bengali influence than any other tribe. Unlike the other tribes, the Chakmas and Marmas generally lived in the highland valleys. Most Chakmas were Buddhists, but some practiced Hinduism or animism.
Of Burmese ancestry, the Marmas regarded Burma as the center of their cultural life. Members of the Marma tribe disliked the more widely used term Maghs, which had come to mean pirates. Although several religions, including Islam, were represented among the Marmas, nearly all of the Marmas were Buddhists.
The Tipperas were nearly all Hindus and accounted for virtually the entire Hindu population of the Chittagong Hills. They had migrated gradually from the northern Chittagong Hills. The northern Tipperas were influenced by Bengali culture. A small southern section known as the Mrungs showed considerably less Bengali influence.
The Mros, considered the original inhabitants of the Chittagong Hills, lived on hilltops and often fortified their villages. They had no written language of their own, but some could read the Burmese and Bangla scripts. Most of them claimed to be Buddhists, but their religious practices were largely animistic.
Tribal groups in other parts of the country included Santals in Rajshahi and Dinajpur, and Khasis, Garos, and Khajons in Mymensingh and Sylhet regions. Primarily poor peasants, these people all belonged to groups in the adjoining tribal areas of India.
Until the partition of British India in 1947, Hindus controlled about 80 percent of all large rural holdings, urban real estate, and government jobs in East Bengal and dominated finance, commerce, and the professions. Following partition, a massive flight of East Bengali Hindus effectively removed the Hindu economic and political elite and cut the territory's ties to Calcutta. After the emigration of the Hindus, Muslims moved quickly into the vacated positions, creating for the first time in East Bengal an economy and government predominantly in Muslim hands. These vastly increased opportunities, especially in the civil service and the professions, however, soon came to be dominated by a West Pakistani-based elite whose members were favored by the government both directly and indirectly. Soon after independence in 1971, an ill-prepared Bangladeshi elite moved into the areas vacated by West Pakistanis. Except for members of small non-Bengali caste-like Muslim groups known as "trading communities," Bangladeshi Muslims almost immediately established control over all small- and medium-sized industrial and commercial enterprises. The 1972 nationalization of non-Bengali-owned large industries accelerated the establishment of control and influence by the indigenous community.
The sudden rise of a new managerial class and the expansion of the civil and military bureaucracy upset the balance in both the urban and the rural sectors. Party affiliation, political contacts, and documented revolutionary service became the main prerequisites for admission to the rapidly growing new elite of political and industrial functionaries; the established middle class and its values played lesser roles. In the countryside, new elites with links to the villages bought property to establish their sociopolitical control. Also taking advantage of the situation, the rural political elite amassed fortunes in land and rural-based enterprises. The result was the growth of a new, land-based, rural elite that replaced many formerly entrenched wealthy peasants (in Bangla, jotedars).
Bangladesh is known for its local music style in the region like Gomvhira in Chapainawabganj, Bhawaiya from Rangpur, Pala gan from Lalmonirhat etc
The main foundation of festivals is ritual and most of the ancient rituals were collective activities. Many of the rituals were related to agriculture and were determined by lunar months. The ancient rituals were magical processes to tame supernatural power; in the subsequent cultures, this characteristic feature was retained. The spontaneous agro-based ancient festivals lost their spontaneity with the passing of time and became more formal.
The biggest religious festival of the Hindu community in Bengal was and still is the durga puja. Hindus participate in it with great enthusiasm. Durga Puja is an old festival but it is difficult to say with any degree of certainty how old it is. The most antiquated embodiment of goddess Durga who slew the Mahisasura belonged to the fifteenth century. The nature and mode of the Durga Puja, which would be performed in the past, were different. It is the folk form of the past, which has turned now into an autumnal festival. It is also known as untimely awakening of goddess Durga as Ramachandra invoked her, because in the past Durga Puja was performed in the spring and that was the propitious time for offering Puja to the goddess. But in the ramayana compiled by Kirttivasa, it is mentioned that Rama offered the goddess untimely Puja from which the practice of performing the Puja in the autumn was introduced.
A series of festivals centering Durga Puja is held in Bangladesh. Usually on the sixth lunar day of the bright fortnight in the Bengali month of Ashwin, the ceremonial awakening of goddess Durga takes place. Thereafter, Puja is performed for three days on the seventh, eighth and ninth, and the immersion of the image of the goddess Durga with her companions is held on the tenth day. People exchange greetings for fifteen days after the immersion of the image of the deity. On the following full-moon day, laksmi puja takes place. On the last day of the Bengali month of Kartik, Kartik Puja (worship of god Kartik who is the commander-in-chief of heavenly forces) is performed. On the fifth lunar day of the bright fortnight in the Bengali month of Magh, saraswati puja is held. Before that, on the new moon day usually in the month of Kartik, kali puja is performed. The series of Pujas, which starts in Aswin with Durga, comes to an end with Sarasvati. Thus Although there is provision for offering Puja separately for all the gods and goddesses, there is no distinct system for offering Puja to ganesh. However, before starting Puja to any other god or goddess, it is the usual practice to offer Puja to Ganesa because without pronouncing 'O Ganeshaya Namah' no Puja to the other deities becomes efficacious.
In Bengal, Durga Puja was introduced in the sixteenth century by Raja Kangsanarayana (dewan of Bengal and ruler of Tahirpur) who was a mace-bearer of Emperor akbar. After introduction, it took almost three hundred years for Durga Puja to become the universal and biggest religious festival of the Hindus of Bengal. Durga Puja was observed for the first time as a festival full of pomp and grandeur in Kolkata in the nineteenth century. Thereafter Durga Puja gradually spread to various regions of Bengal. The zamindars played the main role in making this as the most popular festival.
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MANIPUR CASE
Not Christians, but Hindu terrorists converting Tribals to Hinduism
MADHU CHANDRA, NEW DELHI
Hindutva terrorists have chosen conversion as a yardstick to kill missionaries, rape nuns and vandalize churches. Who actually does fraudulent conversion? Charges made against Christians and made to appear as real because of their Brahminical media.
I am a living example, representing 2.5 million Manipuris where my forefathers were forcibly converted to Hinduism in 19th century. Since then every Manipuri (Meitei) has to add Singh at the end of every name although many youngsters are abandoning it by returning to indigenous Meitei religion.
Casteism and untouchability emerged after Hinduism entered Manipur where caste never existed earlier. Brahminisation (hinduisation) is continuing in different tribal areas. We have witnessed this process in Dang district of Gujarat during Sabri Kumbha Mela in 2006. The Tribals of Jhabua (MP), Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal etc. are the example of conversion of non-Hindu Tribals into Hinduism.
Anti-conversion law is forcefully implemented in India and the tribal Christians in Kandhamal dt. of Orissa are in the grip of these forces. To be alive in these village one must become Hindu. Otherwise get out or get killed. This is the law in Orissa. The govt. calls it “freedom of religion”.
Christians in MP, Orissa and other states, where anti-conversion laws exist, are accused of forced conversion when they themselves are the victim of forced conversion at the hands of hindutva forces. So much so the Christian population in the last 20 yeas has declined in India. Where then is the question of more people being converted to Christianity?
The allegations of conversion is a lie. The force, fraud and fraudulent conversion carried out is done by none other than hindutva forces, that too totally against the will of the individuals. (finicy@gmail.com)

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Gujarat Muslims face forcible conversion
SHABNAM HASHMI
On Sept.17, a battery of forest officers and police descended on the village of Nandapeda, near Ahwa, in the Dangs, Gujarat. Nandapeda is the only village with majority Muslim population in the Dangs district considered the poorest district in the whole of India.
The govt. has been forcing the Muslims to convert to Hinduism or face eviction from their land. They moved the Gujarat High Court against the govt. move. The families have been living in the village for over 100 years. Justice Jayant Panchal had in July sought explanation from the govt. After hearing all parties Justice Anant Dave admitted the case on Sept.11, 2008 and ordered status quo on the “disputed land”.

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DV silver jubilee at Lucknow
V.T. RAJSHEKAR
Lucknow: Dalit Voice family members of UP state held a day-long meeting here on Sept.28 to celebrate the silver jubilee of the English fortnightly. Moses Parmar of the OM Northern region hosted the day-long session attended by about 120 people from different parts of the state.
DV representatives from outside the state like Andhra Pradesh, Maharshtra, Haryana, Bihar were also present. A couple of local Muslims attended.
However, it was an all-male affair as usual with the exception of one single woman. Despite specific request our family members even from Lucknow did not bring their wives.
DV wants to bring about Ambedkarite revolution upsetting Brahminism. Is it possible to destroy Brahminism without the support of the youth and women?
Discussions were held on Budhism and particularly Vipassana meditation which was condemned by the entire gathering. Mahar Budhists admitted that the Mahar monopoly of Budhism was the cause of the confusion in their state.
The speech delivered by the Editor will be published later.

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Budhism adulterated
PROF. T.D. KOSE, F-1, ADITYA APTS., NR. PRATHAMESH ENCLAVE, GURUDWAR ROAD, SHASTRI NAGAR, CHANDRAPUR - 442 401
Thank you for reopening the Debate on Budhism. To save Budhism and to liberate it from Brahminism and also to expose the frauds and fakes of Vipassana, we must launch district and taluk-wise camp where relevant literature in local language must be distributed showing clear adulteration of Budhism. This will expose the Brahminical conspiracy. I had discussed this with many bhikkhus but no use. They are all addicted to Vipassana.
Most of the Budhists are emotional about Vipassana. Hence the need to launch a big campaign to save Budhism. DV is doing the right thing — yet it has a limitation. It should spread speedily nationwide. Such a campaign is a must. Otherwise Budhism will be Brahminised and nothing will remain.

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Budhism reduced to farce
PRADIP SETHI, ATHARNALA, PURI 752 002
DV gives us mental muscle to think independently. Because DV goes to the heart of the issue. DV’s famous Debate on “caste identity”, “Dalit-Brahmin alliance” and the current debate on Brahminisation of Budhism are fantastic.
A common man’s religion needs good scriptures, rituals and some dos and don’ts. But Dr. Ambedkar’s Budhism is a religion of rationalism, closer to truth and modern in makeup.
But the votaries of Budhism are sleeping and “eating” dirty meditation with the commercially designed a Vipanasa. Even Budha said that he got nothing from his six-year-long yoga and meditation.
We fail to understand how sitting silently (without any work) for hours will help Dalits or Dalit movement. It is a joke to think that a group of people with shaven heads, uncommon costume chanting Budha Vandana with begging bowl will promote socio-cultural revolution in the present world. Can we turn the clock back?
We would go a little further. Can we say we are giving disproportionate attention to Budhism in the shape of a religion to promote Dalit empowerment?
Have the Budhists started a chain of English-medium schools with modern outlook? Did they groom good number of journalists, advocates or doctors? What is the use of this idle meditation?
The motive behind some mischievous Budhists seems to be pacify a group of troublesome persons. Funding agencies working in this field hold the remote-control. They only know when to go, where to go and how to go. And their cunning representatives are rushing now to rehabilitate themselves in the space created by Dalit movement. But the poor innocent Dalits are becoming vegetarian, keeping Budhist ringtone in mobile phone, using a pen of stickered Budha or pasting photo of Budha here and there in their houses. The list can go on. We can call all these things nothing but a farce of religion.
People who love Budha and Babasaheb are expected to strengthen the basic values of this movement. To conclude with a famous quote: “In our time, we will repent not for the evil deeds of bad people, but the silence of good”.

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Corrupted RPI leaders
BHIMRAO GANVIR,196/421 - BHIMASHA, MAHAVIR NAGAR, AT/PO: RANALA, TQ. KAMPTEE, NAGPUR DT. - 441 002
This refers to DV of Aug.16, 2008, p.23: “Selling Babasaheb beggars become millionaires in Maharashtra”, by Dr. V.D. Chandanshive.
I liked this article very much. The role of RPI leaders like Jogendra Kawade and Mrs. Sulekha Kumbhare needs elaboration.
During the recent graduates constituency election in Vidharbha, Gadkari (BJP) was elected with the support of Kawade and Mrs. Kumbhare. Kawade resigned from his Vidhan Parishad seat in protest against Khairlanji multiple murder of Bhowtmange family. But both these leaders helped the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) victory.
BAMCEF is also divided into 3-4 factions. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had said that social revolution was must before political revolution. How can we succeed when social revolution is forgotten? All our Dalit leaders are running after political power forgetting social revolution. Kuldip Kumar is perfectly right.

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Brahmin says Dalits are useless idiots
SHANTAM, POLICE OFFICER, RAJMAHAL VILAS, BANGALORE - 560 001
You are a bunch of morons writing bullshit. Get a life you idiots. No one listens to your bullshit seriously. You are a clinical case with high degree of paronia. Need to be admitted to a mental asylum. Morons. This so-called Bahujans are useless idiots. They are the ones who are backward and made the country backward. A bunch of low IQ morons. Look how Dalit pussies are screwed by smart Brahmin boys. Whole media is about smart Brahmins. All the smartest men are Brahmins in India. Bahujans are ugly dicks and pussies. Can never be great. Always will be servants of Brahmins. Even if you give them 100 percent reservation they will be dumbheads. Because Brahmins are smart they will find ways to beat these pussies and idiots like you. How many people read your shit magazine. Only a bunch of loonies. You don’t have any say. Your Mayavathi is completely under the grip of Brahmins. Satish Mishra decides the tunes to which she has to dance and all the while you dumbfucks believe that Dalits are winning and ruling you idiots get a life. (shantam84@yahoo.com)
We like honest Brahmins like you. But you are such a brave man, representing such a heroic community, why did you give a false name, false address, false designation, false email ID? And hide like a rat? Cowards die many times before their death. But the hero dies only once. Anyway, thank you for keeping a watch on our website which holds a mirror before your ugly face. The whole world is also seeing this face in our website. Anyway we are publishing your email so that the world will read and laugh at your cockroach mentality — EDITOR.

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HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY TO LAUNCH VARNA YUDDHA MISSED
Dalits sleep as fake Maoists get ready to clamp fascist dictatorship
COM. AYYANKALI
As predicted long ago, the much feared global economic crisis has finally begun to unfold. The entire Western and zionist capitalist financial framework is collapsing. ICICI Bank run by a Gowda Saraswat Brahmin, K.V. Kamath, has already made losses and all GDPwallahs are silently crying.
Iran or Pakistan may be attacked by the zionist-Western warmongers as a last resort to come out of this crisis using what is known as “military Keynesianism” to create “artificial demand” in the crumbling economy by destroying existing things and grabbing the oil fields. This may lead to World War-3, but this will also fail.
MARXISTS TURN CAPITALISTS
All the IIM-educated Brahmin financial wizards are now being ridiculed and laughed at by Brahmin manuwadi fake marxists.
As DV predicted, all these “financial experts” are now listening to Yechury and CPM, if not Brahminical manuwadi fake maoists. As the situation worsens, more and more such Brahminical capitalist elements will change their colours overnight and rush towards marxist manuwadis.
As the capitalist crisis increases, the fake Maoist Prachanda is rushing towards capitalism taking help from his Indian Brahmin brothers to form SEZs (special exploitation zones). This means several Nandigrams and bloodbath of Nepali Bahujans and nothing else.
Even “Sacred Brahmins” in the RSS may turn fake leftists as the crisis starts biting. Mayawati’s BSP may become the Congress Party of the Dalit-Bahujans.
To tackle Brahminical fake Maoism, a new Maoist Party led by the Negroid Dravidian Dalit-Bahujan proletariat as well as oppressed nationalities is now becoming a very urgent necessity. Such a party has to ideologically adopt what I call V.T. Rajshekar thoughts, Steve Biko thought and Maoism as adopted by the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM). Is Gaddar listening?
It has to be an armed party to launch the long awaited Varna Yuddha (caste war) through mass Gujjar-type caste insurrections using Maoist people’s war strategies.
Events are overtaking us as usual and such revolutionary thinking is lacking. Our Dalit-Bahujans are certain to be taken for a ride for another 100 years, if they fail to realise what is happening and where this economic crisis is leading to.
Dalits may be deceived
Our Dalit-Bahujan mass must understand all this right now — because even their most sincere repentance will be utterly useless after Brahmin fake Maoists succeed and clamp a Brahminical state-capitalist-feudal dictatorship in India under the guise of Maoism.
The question is: Will the Brahminical fake Maoists succeed? Well, the simple answer is a resounding yes.
If the Dalit-Bahujan masses fail to wake up, they will be enslaved by the Socialist Brahmin fake Maoists much more effectively than the “Sacred Brahmin” RSS fascist-terrorists can ever hope to do.
Already, Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena is financing Maoists. Imagine what will happen under a social fascist dictatorship imposed by the “Socialist Brahmins” under the guise of Maoism.
Gaddar’s role
Frankly, no Dalit-Bahujan seems to be understanding the danger. Gaddar is happily in the pockets of the manuwadi Brahmin-Reddy- run fake Maoist party. K.G. Satyamurthy sleeping. Anaimuthu of the Periyarist Communist Party is also sleeping. Sharad Patil is nowhere in the picture.
JHARKHAND JUNGLE
The only Dalit-Bahujan-led Maoist Tritiya Prastusti Committee is somewhere in the Jharkhand jungles. There is no understanding and no co-ordinated action to adopt caste war as the fundamental strategy and apply Maoism to the concrete conditions in India right now. In the absence of any such urgency on the part of revolutionary-minded Dalit Bahujans, the now unfolding economic crisis can only help Brahminical manuwadi fake Maoists win and establish the most horrible social fascist dictatorship that has ever existed under the name of so-called “Maoism”.

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Brahminism & Muslims
V.T. RAJSHEKAR
A 16-page pamphlet in English by Sufi Nazir Ahmad Kashmiri, a noted Muslim scholar from Kashmir (reproduced here), was published way back in 1967. It was published by Jamia Rural Institute, New Delhi - 110 025 and also c/o No.45, Marcoir Labbai St., Madras - 600 001. A photocopy of the text was sent to us long, long back by a DV family member Brother Yoginder Sikand who found it in the library of Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad, where he was working then with a request for publication in DV.
The recent Kashmiri Muslim uprising in the Valley made us think of publishing it though every word said in the pamphlet is more relevant even today as Brahminism, gasping for breath, is becoming more and more violent subjecting the country’s overwhelming Bahujan population to great hardship.
Enemy identified: In this English pamphlet titled Revival of Brahminism & its Consequencs”, Sufi Nazir Ahmad rightly identifies Brahminism as the principal enemy facing every section of the Indian society. That is his greatness which we did not find in any other Muslim religious leadership of this country.
Brahminism, he says, is not merely the enemy of Muslims but also the Dalit, Tribals and Backward Castes. Here lies the depth of thinking of the author because we have not come across a single Muslim religious leader of India with such a courage and philosophical insight. There may be some like him today but they dare not identify the enemy oppressor. It is this failure of the Muslim religious leadership (to identify the enemy) that has caused all the confusion among the Muslim masses who suffer daily at the hands of Brahminical persecution. Not only they have been impoverished but denied education and employment opportunities. More than anything they are daily being portrayed in the press and TV as traitors and terrorists and their life and little property destroyed.
Hindu is not our enemy: The Muslim masses no doubt are angry but they don’t know against whom they should be angry.
India’s Muslim religious leadership identifies the enemy as the Hindu but in India even the non-Hindu (if not the anti-Hindu) Dalit, Tribals and Backward Castes are also called Hindu. Brahminical rulers say over 85% of the people in India are Hindu.
The Hindu is not the enemy of the Muslims. The real and the only enemy of the Muslim is Brahminism, which is not only the enemy of SC/ST/BCs but even the Brahmins. Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, the Father of India, has also identified Brahminism as the one and the only enemy of India.
It is here that Sufi Nazir Ahmad comes to the rescue and clearly identifies Brahminism as the sole enemy of the Indian Muslims. Dalits (20%), Tribal (10%) and Backward Caste (35%) are not Hindu and were never Hindu. Similarly the Christians and Sikhs.
What is Brahminism: Who then are the Brahminical people. They are the 15% upper castes: the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and shudras (20%).
They only are the Hindu. But the Muslim religious leadership identifying Hindu as the oppressors of Muslim has done the greatest disservice and committed the greatest crime against their own innocent Muslim followers.
Another greatness of the Sufi saint is in reminding the Muslims their principal duty. That duty is the Quran calls upon every Muslim to fight for the liberation of all the oppressed — not merely the Muslim. Since the Dalits are the country’s worst oppressed, the Muslims, being converts from the indigenous population, should have treated Dalits as their blood brothers and forged a Dalit-Muslim unity to fight the common oppressor — Brahminism.
Islam and Brahminism cannot co-exist.
Such a clear message has not come from any Indian Muslim religious leader except Moulana Moududi, founder of the Jamate-Islami.
Where is the Umma: Such a poverty of thinking in the Indian Muslim leadership has brought disaster after disaster upon a community that ruled this country for 800 years before the British came. Within 61 years of “independence” India’s single largest community (20%) of Muslims has been totally enslaved and looked at with suspicion as terrorists and traitors. It is this fear complex (cowardliness) that made the entire Muslims of India to become silent spectators when the Kashmiri Muslims were fighting and dying in Aug.2008. Where then is the Muslim umma? What a shame upon the Muslim brotherhood? We don’t know where Sufi Ahmad lives now and how he is. We will be grateful if any person alerts us on reading this — EDITOR.

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How Muslims can help destroy Brahminism
Foreword
The right course of action for the 20th century Brahminism
Human race all over the world is in fact a single community. Man is a moral being as opposed to animals. This peculiar nature of man is a truth universally accepted. There are, however animal urges also in man. The essence of human religion consists in developing this special moral nature and in keeping animal urges with in the moral bounds. This is the basis of universal human brotherhood.
What the Brahmin has, however, done during the last four or 5,000 years to eliminate all possibilities of such a brotherhood and is doing even now, is briefly sketched in the following pages with the intention of getting this in human scene terminated by the hand of Brahmin himself and thereby enabling him to atone for the sins of thousands of years. May God grant success to this effort.
Solution to Kashmir Problem :
Since these lines were originally written in Kashmir it may also be submitted that the problem as understood or as explained outside the state is not the same as exists inside the State. The fact is that while Brahmin intolerance has cleared Muslims from Jammu, the process is now in operation in Kashmir. If this problem is considered while overlooking this real truth it can never be understood. All the Brahmins of the state seem to be determined to conceal this truth.
It may also be submitted that even a just political solution of the problem lies in one direction: that the two parts of the state are forthwith joined together and internal autonomy is given to it and militarily it is made a joint protectorate of India and Pakistan. This will also have a soothing effect on the minorities in India and Pakistan and will possibly bring their foreign policies and even defence nearer to each other.
Nov.11, 1967 Sufi Nazir Ahmad
Kashmir.
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The soul-killing contradiction of the Indian society & the only way to resolve it
These lines are being written just in Srinagar. One can most clearly discern here the working of the age-old contradictions of the Indian society. It seems that in this state the history of thousands of years of Brahminism is being repeated. Although this revivalist movement of Brahminism has been carried on throughout India for the last 20 years, it does not seem to be so clear there as in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
The fact is that on the eve of independence, some nationalist Muslim leaders disregarding the feelings and sentiments of Kashmiri Muslims in general attempted to accede this state to India ( I am not discussing here the question of permanent or temporary accession) which opened the floodgates of Muslim extermination. In the light of these developments a sensitive man can see with his naked eyes the working of Brahminism in the past thousands of years of Indian history.
A WORD OF JUSTICE FOR JINNAH
These Muslim leaders were probably under the illusion that the Hindu-Muslim conflict which a reformer politician like Gandhi and an old nationalist logician like Jinnah could not resolve could be resolved by them under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. Throughout this Congress-League conflict the friendship of these leaders with Jawaharlal Nehru was probably due to this delusion and it continued to grow instead of diminishing and its consequences became evident in 1948. The result of this friendship which is now manifest as a reality clearly shows that this friendship was suicidal to the Muslims.
Jinnah continued to remain an ardent nationalist through most of his life, but during all this period he felt the reality in all its aspects that the new kind of nationalism which was raising its head in India would leave no place for Muslims or Islam. Hence if Muslims as Muslims were not protected they will disappear from India in the next 50-100 years along with Islam. This was the realisation which prompted the nationalist Jinnah to become the sponsor of Pakistan movement.
BRAHMINS CAPTURE CONGRESS
Nationalism in India which was founded by men like Raja Ram Mohan Ray and which was fostered by Bengal and Maharashtra and completed in Northern India by the Arya Samaj, the Hindu Mahasabha, its study forces a man to the same conclusion which was drawn by Jinnah. Jinnah in his biography when he mentions the death of Pandit Motilal Nehru has also mentioned that thereafter the Congress organisation passed into the hands of those who were the supporters of Brahministic brand of nationalism.
This nationalism was in fact a revival of Brahminism. It was this nationalism whose essential part was negation of Muslims and Islam.
Anyway, a political thinker could certainly arrive at this conclusion only.
GREATEST TYRANNY OF HISTORY
The most palpable tyranny of this new nationalism is that it started its work by making Aryan culture and religion as the basis of Indian renaissance, although history has unmistakably shown that when this Aryan clan came to India it deprived the old inhabitants of the country of their human rights permanently by making them untouchables. They were treated as more unclean than cats and dogs.
And then by making this most heinous fascism of history a religion they imposed it permanently on the people of this country.
But these Brahmin reformers, treating Islam and Muslims as anti-national and alien to the nation and the country, started to put an end to them and to make Brahminism or Aryan fascism as the corner stone of national reformation although wisdom and honesty demanded that the matter should have been reversed.
MUSLIMS APPLY WRONG REMEDY
The remedy which Muslim politicians devised for this hostility to Muslims was itself more than 50% against the purpose of Islam. Islam means an organisation of the entire human race on the belief of a universal creator of the world and a universal human brotherhood. Therefore, all the privileges of a Muslim are subservient to this belief and they ought to be so.
ACTION OF KASHMIR MUSLIM LEADERS
But the Muslim politicians of India entirely separating Muslim rights from the duties started a purely political movement in opposition to the representatives of Brahminism which culminated in the achievement of Pakistan and which even on political lines, instead of solving Hindu-Muslim conflicts has made confusion worse confounded.
Anyway the Kashmiri Muslim leaders partly under the influence of the new religion of nationalism and partly under the delusion that the task which could not be accomplished by the combined efforts of Gandhi and Jinnah could be accomplished by them under the supervision of Nehru, took these steps which were also supported by Gandhi in the hope that probably Kashmir would materialise his dream of Hindu-Muslim unity. They, however, seem to be leading to the annihilation of Muslims from the state. The following facts explain it:
JAMMU CLEARED OF MUSLIMS
It so happened that immediately as the Indian army entered Kashmir, Brahmin brand of nationalism fully established itself there. Jammu came into their control on the very first onslaught and they began to clear it of Muslims without the least fear; and the Muslim population of Jammu is now reduced from 66% to 30%. Now the same operation is being carried on in Kashmir. Whatever flowering platitudes are used the reality is just this. The slogan with which Balraj Madhok started the recent Pandit agitation leaves no room for doubt that the freedom with which a Madhok or a Prem Nath Dogra can operates in this state is not available even in India generally. For whatever oppression is done in India comes to the public in some form or other and its echo is also heard in the world outside.
BRAHMINICAL MEDIA MISCHIEF
But no one is allowed to know what happens in Jammu and Kashmir. The correspondents of the foreign papers who are here are full fledged supporters of the aforesaid Brahman nationalism and upholders of its cause.
So they cannot be such traitors to their country as to present any such fact to the world which might hamper the advance of this nationalism here. They can however represent the fact of a Hindu girl marrying a Muslim to the world as a matter of universal disorder. But they can never think of informing the world as to how the 66% of the Muslim population of Jammu was reduced to 30% in the last 19 years.
NON-MUSLIMS BROUGHT INTO JAMMU
They will not let the world know how many lakhs of non-Muslims were brought from outside. The irony is when Indian Army entered the state of Hyderabad, they drew all the Muslims, who had entered the state from the adjoining areas of India. But in Jammu and Kashmir they are doing the reverse. Yet they will not let the world know a word about what slogan Balraj Madhok used in inaugurating the Pandit agitation. And now when the next target is to be attacked under the leadership of Sankaracharya of Puri instead of Balraj Madhok they are not going to reveal. What preparation have been made to make it a success. As this will be a treason to “nationalism”. Obviously the “nationalist” journalist will not lose any part of his faith or honesty by telling a myriad lies but to speak a single truth against this nationalism will mean a total loss of honesty and faith and so he is ever on guard against it.
UGLY INSTANCE OF NATIONALISM
The birth place of the writer of these lines is the town of Poonch in Jammu province. In 1948 along with other thousands of Muslims my whole family was driven at the point of sword towards the other part of the state. This family had built some residential premises in Kahoota, some 12 miles below Haj Pair, which were burnt to ashes in the disturbance of 1965. In the vicinity of Rajauri, which is in the Indian province of Jammu, I have still some relatives although I had renounced my home in 1933 and began to tour India.
It was my firm conviction that I have to carry out a great mission and had left my home under this pressure. However, in 1961, I established my contact again with this state in furtherance of the same mission and as I was an old inhabitant of Jammu I had gathered so much information as no minister nominated by the Indian Govt. could probably gather. At the same time god has given me a sympathetic heart as well. And so last year I tried to persuade an important Congressite Muslim leader of the state to put the real condition of the state before the whole country and try to change it. But the reply which this Muslim leader gave was such as would cause humanity to weep for centuries.
This leader replied: “This will give a bad name to the country and it will be exploited by Pakistan”.
SHEIKH ABDULLAH’S NATIONALISM
Such is the training of nationalism which is tantamount to suicide and under which any Muslim can hold office in the state. The respite which Sheikh Abdullah and Bakshi got was on this condition and Sadiq and Qasim hold their offices due to this nationalism. In the circumstances if any minor local newspaper commits anything for this bad name of the country and motherland, it is caught by the throat and strangled. It is suppressed on the charge of “fanning communalism”. This is the nationalism which is in operation in Jammu and Kashmir and the world is kept utterly in the dark about it.
UNHAPPY END TO THE MUSLIM NATIONALIST
The Muslim leader who gave the aforesaid reply has been for the last two years first castigated by Jan Sangh workers as a “Pakistani” and later as the “worst Pakistani”. And now intensive propaganda is afoot to oust his party and constitute Madhok Raj.
Sheikh Abdullah, Bakshi, Qasim and Sadiq are being made instruments in establishing by stages this pure and clear nationalism and now the establishment of real nationalism is being tried. Governor’s rule will be nothing but Jan Sangh Raj. Since the entire Secretariat of the State and most of the officers lent from outside are embodiments of this nationalism.
PURI SANKARACHARYA
It is reported in newspapers (Times of India, Oct.26, 1967) that after Madhok and Prem Nath Dogra the supreme supervisor of the Kashmir policy of Jana Sangh will be Sankaracharya of Puri. Under his leadership a committee has been constituted to safeguard the rights of non-Muslim minorities in Kashmir province.
In Jammu, the rights of minorities have been fully safeguarded. Its minority is raised from 34% to 70%. And now the same safeguard to minorities is intended in Kashmir. As to the “safeguard of minorities” in India itself, it is communalism in the language of all these swamis and Brahmin deities and it is the basic duty of the national govt. to crush it, which the Congress Govt. has been admirably performing. This Govt. during the last 20 years did not for once see the necessity of instituting an independent judicial enquiry into the Hindu-Muslim riots. What more could it do? As to the establishment of pure nationalism it is for Jan Sangh and the RSS to accomplish it for which they have fullest freedom. This has been the working of pure nationalism in free India during the last 20 years.
May god grant to every true human soul the capacity to comprehend it fully. And may god grant sadhus like Sankaracharya of Puri the sense to distinguish the position of a true sadhu and the life work of a executioner at the gallow. In fact such a basic contradiction is working in the Muslim-Hindu outlook that the only way of solving it is to end one of them.
Brahminism divides human race into millions of high and low castes involving society into eternal contradictions and demolishing all foundations of human equality in rights and duties.
But to the Brahmin it gives such a high place as is almost divine and from where he downgrades the rest of the human race in stages, keeping them subservient to his own interest. This process has been continued by him in history for the last about 5,000 years sometimes openly and sometimes unseen like an underground channel.
As against this, Islam is a system of universal human brotherhood on the basis of faith in one creator of the world in which there is no room for any discrimination of race or colour or clan which may in anyway influence human rights and duties. This statement about Brahminism and Islam is an unavoidable historical truth and it is on this account that Jan Sangh leaders declaring Islam to be extra-national and extra-territorial are making repeated declarations of their determination to destroy it.
APPEAL TO DALITS
I, therefore, appeal to every Brahmin in particular those who even in this disturbed state can think rightly in the moral light of human conscience and every Dravidian, Adivasi and Untouchable leader to awaken fully his conscience and to ponder whether the two facts stated above are absolute truths. May be the same sun rises again in India which will not only put an end for ever to the age of murder and plunder but will also change the immoral night of the darkness of materialistic oppression and the fraud of secular democracy into light as well.
FASCIST BRAHMINISM CALLED RELIGION
When Brahminism began its free play in India it classed the old inhabitants of India as unclean and degraded them below the level of animals in its own interest. Thereafter this fascism was elevated into a religion and the people were made to agree to it. It was in the course of this process that a system of high and low caste was devised which buried for ever all possibilities of human quality and its rights and duties. It was now a religion whose violation was not only violence of the law of the land but also made the transgressor fit for hell.
BUDHISM DESTROYED
Propagation of Budhism somewhat loosened the grip of Brahminism to some extent but then there was the movement for the revival of Brahminism which did not rest till Budhism was driven out of the country leaving in its wake a reign of social and political anarchy in the land.
For a vast country like India and for the entire world Brahmin system of millions of castes and millions of deities can be a cause of spiritual moral, social and political anarchy but not in any way a basis for unity. A system so fatal to democratic interest can for a while be imposed by physical force but it cannot last for ever and is bound to end in anarchy.
MUSLIM RULERS CRITICISED
This was the historical moment when Islam came to India. But it entered the country in two ways. The first was the Muslim saints, merchants and ulamas came here and this was the right way. Their aim particularly of saints was to propagate Islam. The other was the entry into India of Muslim conquerors. This was a doubtful manner of coming for the aim and purpose of these conquerors was in principle similar to those of Aryan conquerors. They came here to establish their empire.
Yet there is one thing which distinguishes them from Aryan conquerors and it is that there was no sanction in their religion that like Aryan conquerors they could degrade the old inhabitants of the country and keep them out of the pale of their religious tradition becoming themselves masters and covering themselves with sanctity. It is however a fact that the object of their coming here was not to spread and propagate Islam.
In fact the true Islamic preachers were regarded their rivals. Nevertheless they were in open conflict with the higher castes of Brahminic society, and it continued. The social system for which these higher castes were fighting has already been elaborated. They were not fighting for the rights of the masses but for their own supremacy.
TYRANNY OF CASTE SYSTEM
The battles of Muslim conquerors had their two-fold effect on Islamic history. In the first place the motives of the Muslim saints, ulamas and merchants who could preach Islam with sincerity and selflessness began to be looked upon with suspicion by the common people. If it were not so there are reasons to believe that Islam would have spread here in the same way as it did in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia etc.
The majority of this country would have accepted the divine unity and the system of Islamic brotherhood as a matter of necessity as this was the most suitable way to liberate the common man of the country form the tyrannies of caste system.
BRITISH PERIOD
The other effect was that due to continuous wars of Muslim conquerors the representatives of Brahminism were able to use the religion of untouchability against Muslims also. But this working of the system of untouchability throughout the Muslim regime was just an undercurrent and Muslim conquerors never treated it as anything but the superstition of non-believers. Although in their essence they were not just superstitions but the undercurrent of the soul of Brahmanic social system.
During the British period the system of untouchability against the Muslims and the supremacy of Brahmins began to run side by side and nearly all the high class Hindus who opposed Muslims and called Muslims as tyrants and oppressors and aliens like Rana Pratap and Shivaji were regarded as representing the soul of Indian patriotism and heroism. In this hysteria of prejudice it was totally forgotten that this class of super human Brahmins had also come from outside and had perpetrated unprecedented tyranny upon human nobility and equality declaring human beings particularly the old inhabitants of the country to be unclean and untouchable and making themselves super human.
THE AGE OF FREEDOM
To regard this system of belief and action as the real ideology of the country and to consider the upholders of unity of god and human brotherhood as enemies of the country was nothing short of uprooting faith, honesty, justice and equality.
Now in the age of freedom the process continued by Brahminism in so far as Muslims are concerned is the same as adopted against local inhabitants on is coming here. During the last 20 years the way in which Muslims have been killed and plundered without a single independent judicial inquiry being instituted into it, has now become a national convention which has bee carried for thousands of years against the honour and respectability of the ancient inhabitants of the country.
DALITS SUFFERING
If their plans against the Muslims are successful, the rights which they have temporarily given to the Dravidians and Untouchables under the pressure of international democratic forces will also be taken away and they will have to remain content with their old status, as this has been the religion of this country for about 5,000 years.
The injustice done in the name of religion is more lasting than political injustice. Is there any force in the superficial slogans of secularism etc. which can change the impact of this religious heritage of genocide?
Nehru was the greatest supporter of secularism and was also considered the strongest opponent of the caste system. But what was the result? Just this that his family today rules the entire country with the possibility that sometime later it may even be given the status of constitutional monarchy. Even the national convention of killing and plundering of Muslims without any inquiry was established in his own moderate regime and the question of Kashmir is also his family question which has been treated as being synonymous with the preservation of the freedom of India, probably even more important.
India would have probably become the centre of the entire free Asia and Africa, but it was just this family question of Kashmir in which Nehru involved sometimes China and sometimes Russia.
DOUBLE THINK ON KASHMIR & HYDERABAD
Police action against the Muslim State of Hyderabad was launched on the ground that a minority in fact cannot be given the right to rule over an absolute majority. And then it was enforced with such perfection that it constitutes its own example. But when Kashmir was brought under control this rule of justice as altered to mean that the Muslim majority cannot in anyway have the right to remain in majority forever and constitute a danger for ever to the supremacy of Brahmins.
Under this rule Jammu has already been cleared of this danger and now the process is being carried on in the Kashmir province. Thousands of devises are being tried to see that the small majority which Muslims still command there should never enable them to get their rights accordingly.
PANDIT AGITATION
Only the last summer Sadiq announced that he was going to constitute a commission for the purpose of giving the right of participation in the Govt. to the various communities in proportion to their numerical strength. But a few days after this statement a great storm was raised which will be remembered in history as the Pandit agitation.
Now Sadiq realised his position and under some secret compromise changed this commission into a regional one from which it seems to be understood that the question of communal representation will never come before it so that Muslims will be made to remain content with their age-old position.
MUSLIMS AS NEW CLASS OF UNTOUCHABLES
This will be a new national convention and Muslims will become a new class of untouchables. The result will be that while the province of Jammu will be ruled by Jan Sangh, Kashmir province will become the preserve of Kashmiri Pandits. It may be anticipated as a matter of fact that under this system of justice Sadiq and Qasim will remain on their gaddi for another five years. A way may probably be found in this period to clear Kashmir also from the Untouchables. May the disciples of Gandhi just know what is the nature of work undertaken in the name of Gandhi in Kashmir?
NON-BRAHMINS WARNED
This is the revival of Brahmanism after a thousand years and its operation, although it is very difficult for the Brahminical social system to succeed in this age of universal democracy.
But there is a clear possibility of a bloody future for Muslims in particular and non-Brahmin communities in general. Specially in view of the fact that the rights which all Muslim organisations of India are trying to secure indicate that they are the successors of Shahabuddin Ghori, Zahiruddin Babur, Nadir Shah Durrani etc. without being the least trace that they have any relations with Muinuddin of Ajmer, Nizamuddin of Delhi and Sheikh Ahmad of Sirhind.
WHAT IS CENTRAL DUTY OF A MUSLIM
No doubt profitable trade of preceptors and disciples are being carried on in their holy names, but there is not the least sign in these preceptors and disciples of any desire to conveying the message of unity of god and human brotherhood to every home. It is this alone that the secret of their humiliation and ruin lies.
Popularly all these people call themselves Muslims and some of them are devoting all their efforts to become the leaders of Muslims but they do not believe in practice that all the rights of Muslims emanate from the performance of their duties.
CONTRADICTION BETWEEN ISLAM & BRAHMINISM
And the great and most central duty of a Muslim is to liberate humanity from casteism, untouchability and racial or geographical discriminations and to put them under the banner of the universal brotherhood of Islam.
The ideal of a Muslim, according to the Quran is:
This, your community, is one community and I am your creator. So fear me.
The above mentioned fact is the contradiction which exists between Islam and Brahminism and the existence of one implies the negation of the other.
Brahmanism is a system of high and low castes which exalts Brahmin to the proximity of god and grants him a superhuman status, degrading the rest of the humanity as to the level of his servants, while Islam regards all such concepts as atheistic and implies a ceaseless effort to deliver humanity from this course and bring about universal, human brotherhood.
According to Islam all true religions have tried for this human unity. Look to the Quran:
Human race was one community (then differences arose among them) then god sent to them prophets who were harbingers and warners of fear of god and with them came the code of injunctions that it may resolve the differences.
WHY MUSLIM IS HATED ?
Thus to eliminate all discriminations of caste and race and colour which make human rights and duties subservient to caste and country is the basic teaching of religion.
The entire basis of the religious struggle is to remove this discrimination which has prevailed in the world in the form of caste, colour or community. But Brahminism stands for creation and fostering of such differences.
It is only for this reason that Islam and Muslims are castigated as extra-territorial and plans are made to exterminate them which is a matter for serious thought.
THOUGHT FOR EVERY SENSITIVE HUMAN
As a result of it, it is a matter for thought for every morally sensitive human conscience:
(1) To revive Brahminism and make it a corner stone of India’s social edifice is to revive justice and equality or to spread oppression and tyranny?
(2) Is it possible to establish human peace and prosperity by making moral and spiritual values subservient to discrimination of caste and untouchability and race and country or this facility can be secured by making these distinctions subservient in every way and in all aspects to moral and spiritual values?
(3) Even for the limited object of unity of the country and the nation, is it necessary to eliminate in every way the Islamic system of unity of god and human brotherhood and to revive all aspects of Brahminism (the same age-old undemocratic system of caste distinctions) or even this limited object can be secured by throwing away all these pre-historic superstitions and humbugs and to appropriate in its place the belief in a universal god and the system of universal brotherhood?
It is now for every Dravidian, Adivasi and Untouchable leader and also for every Brahmin leader to think with full moral courage. After all how long this drama of human killing and plunder will be allowed to continue and that too in the sacred name of religion, which in fact is the establishment of human brotherhood on the foundations of moral and spiritual duties.
There is no doubt that today a peaceful bloc can be organised under this ideal at least from Indonesia to Morocco, Algeria, Turkey and Iran and moral force can be created which may generate a wholesome world wide human reaction against Marxist tyranny and Western imperialism and immoral diplomacy. This is not a very difficult thing to accomplish and this one act will condone the sins of thousands of yours.
I also appeal all Muslim organisations to cooperate fully in conveying this request before all sensible Indians.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/oct_a2008/articles.htm
Reports
3 reasons for collapse of America
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Just as Truth never comes out in India, governed by its 3% Brahminical Bhoodevatas, in America too, governed by its 3% Jews, Truth is never known. This is also the case with the American financial collapse as DV goes to press.
What we gathered is: (1) the fury and frustrations of the ruling Jews over the US failure to defeat Iraq and control its oil, (2) their failure to force President Bush to attack Iran to protect their blue-eyed boy zionist Israel, and (3) finally their failure to check the rise and rise of Barack Obama, a Black and a Muslim.
These are the three principal reasons for the desperate Jews to rise in revolt and start killing the very American economy itself after their failure to control its politics.
Yes. This is the end of the American imperialism, which must be welcomed by the whole world particularly those in Asia and Africa.
America is the world’s most famous thoroughbred capitalist country. The 700 billion dollar bail-out plan proposed by its Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and strongly supported by the Jewish bumlicker, President Bush, is a total socialist solution which America is forced to embrace as capitalism failed.
The story is not over. It has just begun. Just as the zionist fat is on fire in US, in India the hate-mongering high caste brain is also on fire. We will watch the fun...

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Karnataka: After attack on Christians Muslims wait for their turn
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: The Karnataka people voted for the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) in the recent Assembly election. And the party honestly started implementing its Brahminical policy by attacking Christians, a soft target, as a dress rehearsal for a major bloodbath against Muslims. The party has decided to repeat Gujarat in Bangalore to capture South India. They will do it.
Manuwadi worry: So the attack on churches did not come as surprise to us. They are doing their duty to hinduise India. The Hindus (meaning the 15% upper castes led by Brahmins) are seriously worried that the “Hindu population” (meaning the 65% SC/ST/BCs who are victims of Hinduism) is slipping out of their control — either through conversion or forging solidarity with Muslims/Christians.
Fake SIMI story: Thinking sections among the upper castes are not even getting sound sleep in the night because of this worry. Only a Brahminical manuwadi knows how much he is worried about the revolt of the SC/ST/BCs. The one and the only way to stop the revolt is to hinduise (enslave) SC/ST/BCs who are not Hindu and never Hindu.
One fantastic weapon the Brahminical people discovered is “terrorism” which enabled them to recklessly arrest and kill the Muslims. The manuwadi monopoly media operated by their most cantankerous boys and girls is doing a wonderful job. But even this weapon is failing lately because the people have started blaming the govt. itself when “intelligence” agencies failed. The entire SIMI story proved to be a big Brahminical bullshit, according to the Tehelka revelation (DV Sept.16, 2008, p.9).
Ever since “independence” (1947), when the manuwadis directly took control of the country after killing Gandhi, they have been very systematically implementing their policies.
Next turn of Muslims: The credit for achieving great success goes to their manuwadi media. But not one victim of the Brahminical terrorism is understanding the importance of the media — except Dalit Voice which alone has been singing the song without any response from its victims.
The BJP has tested the waters in Karnataka by attacking the churches. The next turn is Muslims. Bangalore will shortly witness a repetition of Gujarat. And with that BJP flag will fly still higher.

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Brahminical bid to break up Bangladesh
A CORRESPONDENT
London: Bengali Hindus are plotting to partition Bangladesh by creating a homeland for its “minorities”. They have come up with a new blog about this on internet:
http://www.bangabhumi.blogspot.com
S. Guha Thakurta, Advocate is the designated Agent, Hindu Republic of Bir Bango, Editor, Shakti Samachar, 16-Marcus Lane, Calcutta - 700 007.
Bir Bango Hindu Council is headed by Dr. I.J., Mondal of South Khulna dt.
The partition of Bengal was not liked by the upper caste Bengalis and they were conspiring to create a separate Hindu state out of East Bengal itself but later supported the Bengali Muslims to fight for Bangladesh. In 2003, a report appeared in the Times of India about the formation of the state in exile:
Feb.4, 2003: A provisional Hindu republic was established in Bangladesh six months ago with the declared objective of forming a “Hindu Republic of Bir Banga” having its capital at Shaktigarh in the Chittagong hills. Though the republic is still on paper, a “supreme revolutionary council” and a 17-member interim government in exile have been formed to launch an armed struggle to bring about partition of Bangladesh and form the Hindu republic comprising almost the entire southern half of the country.
VHP international secretary-general Praveen Togadia said during his recent visit to Calcutta that his organisation was in favour of a partition of Bangladesh and creation of a homeland for the persecuted minorities there as well as those now living in exile in India.
The proposed constituent state of federal India comprises Dinajpur-Rangpur division in current northwest region of Bangladesh for over 15 million tortured non-Muslim (Hindu, Christian, Budhist and Ahmediya) Bangladeshis. After that through a plebiscite in this new Indian state it would be decided whether they want to remain a separate state or merge with West Bengal to form a united Bangal state of India, says the blog.
Zainal Abedin, Raw & Bangladesh, 1995, pp.270, Fatema Sahab, 7-Fakirpool, Inner circular Road, Motijheel, Dhaka
Zinal Abedin, The Chittagong Hill Tracts - A Victim of Indian Intervention, 2003, pp.240, Eastern Publications, 16 - Silvester House, London.

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FALL OF THABO MBEKI
Racists & zionists finally topple Africa’s towering personality
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Angry White racists and zionists, who were ousted from South Africa — the continent’s richest and the politically most powerful country — finally succeeded in creating confusion and chaos by managing the ouster of Black Africa’s towering personality, Thabo Mbeki (66).
AIDS INVENTION
It is Mbeki who made S. Africa the continent’s most important country and also the world’s most respected. And yet the Whites and zionists went on squeezing S. Africa. Finally they found an ideal stooge in Jacob Zuma whom they systematically groomed to take on Mbeki. Poor Mbeki is on the way out.
Earlier, the Whites and zionists, who still control many things in S. Africa including its diamond trade, discovered AIDS to physically weaken the powerful Blacks, S. Africa got world-wide publicity as a country virtually dying out of AIDS. They forced the Mbeki Govt. to buy their drugs and use it on a large-scale. But Mbeki put his foot down. He said if his Black people were poor and hungry it was because of the White racist rule which could be cured by socio-economic remedies but not AIDS drugs.
The enemies of Mbeki, headed by a Jew, Bill Gates, the king of the AIDS empire, did everything to damage Mbeki and his spotless career.
BLACKS REJECT MANDELA
They used even Mandela, a stooge of the Whites to destroy Mbeki’s reputation. The Jewish Nobel Foundation gave Mandela a Nobel Prize but the Blacks rejected Mandela.
Zuma was the discovery of the Western enemies of Mbeki and Africa. We will not be surprised if the enemies do everything to divide the powerful ruling African National Congress (ANC) and paralyse S. Africa by grooming Zuma.
ROLE OF CHINA
The world outside is not getting a true picture of Africa because the entire media is controlled by the Whites. China has emerged as a trustworthy supporter of Africans but we could not find China doing enough to avert the current S. African crisis.
Mbeki has emerged as Africa’s tallest and the most respected leader. And felling such a towering personality, the most impoverished and crisis-ridden Black continent and the mother of the whole world population, will suffer a big setback. This is exactly what the racists and the zionists wanted.

DV Jan.16, 2008 p.13: “Zionists cause defeat of Mbeki?”
DV Jan.1, 2008 p.10: “AIDS as a weapon of war”.
DV Nov.1, 2007 p. 25: “Why this sudden silence on AIDS?”
DV Oct.16, 2007 p.5: “AIDS: Western conspiracy to finish Blacks”.
DV Feb.16, 2007 p. 10: “AIDS used to finish Blacks?”
DV Jan.1, 2006 p.8: “Fears over Bill Gates sudden love for slaves of India”.
DV April 16, 2005 p.6: “Nobel laureate says West invented AIDS to exterminate Blacks”.
DV March 1, 2005 p.7: “Western racist bid to topple Mbeki will not succeed”.
DV Feb.16, 2005 p.4: “AIDS, a White Western conspiracy?”
DV Oct.1, 2004 p.13: “AIDS drugs aim at Blacks”.
DV Sept.16, 2004 p.12: “AIDS: Western conspiracy?”
DV Aug.16, 2004 p.20: “A White man’s conspiracy to finish Blacks?” & p. 21: “African AIDS statistics bogus”
DV Aug.1, 2004 p.8: “AIDS — a biological weapon of racists?”
DV July 16, 2004 p.5: “Why blame Whites & Jews for AIDS?”
DV June 1, 2004 p.15: “AIDS scare to promote big business in drugs”.
DV May 16, 2004 p.12: “Why Dalit dosctors silent on AIDS?”
DV April 1, 2004 p.13: “DV fears on AIDS”.
DV Edit Jan.16, 2004: “Whythis sudden love for Blacks? AIDS another White conspiracy to keep Africa enslaved?”, “West conspiring to topple Mbeki?” & p. 5: “Dalit doctors must testify”.
DV Feb.16, 2003 p.23: “AIDS — more a business than disease?”
DV Jan.1, 2003 p.8: “Western conspiracy to topple Mbeki & enslave S. Africa through AIDS”.

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INDIA SHINING
Bangalore unsafe for women
Bangalore: Working women in the city do not feel safe at their workplace. Shockingly, compared to other metros, Bangalore tops the list in this regard. According to a national survey by the Associated chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) on cities with a large concentration of IT and BPO firms, 44% of women working in Bangalore have expressed insecurity at workplace, which is higehst,when compared to Delhi-15%, Mumbai-18% and Chennai -24%, Kolkata -22%, Hyderabad-38% and Pune 24%.
—(Times of India, Sept.17, 2008)
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World famous corrupt country
New Delhi: The cash-for-votes scandal that marred the July 22 trust vote might well have cost India a few points on the transparency index as the country has slid down to the 85th position in terms of the global ranking for corruption from 72nd last year. The fall by 13 places may not surprise those who have had even a brush with India’s governing mechanisms, but it is not the report card that an economy growing at 8% would expect. India’s integrity score on a scale of 10 has gone down marginally from 3.5 in 2007 to 3.4 this year, but it has meant a sharp slip in ranking as some other nations have improved. At the 85th slot India is pretty much in the middle of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of 180 countries. Given India’s size and muddled politics, a comparison with high-scoring Nordic countries would be out of place, but even holding the 72nd slot would have been some consolation.
—(Times of India, Sept.24, 2008)
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Inhuman Hindus
New Delhi: Chairman of All-India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations Udit Raj told to 9th session of UN Human Rights Council at Geneva Sept.9 to 17, 2008: atrocities, untouchability, insufficient wags, bonded labour, child labour, landlessness, illiteracy, inequality of opportunities, manual scavenging are still the order of the day in the life of Dalits. The Indian National Bureau of Crime Report (2006) said 27,070 crimes had bee committed against Dalits, though many go unreported. 13 Dalits are murdered every week, 5 Dalit homes are burnt every week, 6 Dalits abducted every week, 3 Dalit women raped every day, 11 Dalits beaten daily and a crime committed against a Dalit every 18 minutes. Literacy rate for Dalits remain abysmal: 54.69%. The enrolment of Dalits in graduate education is 8.37% as against 91.63% of others, 37.8% children had to sit separately while eating in 37.8% govt. schools.
—(scstconfederation@gmail.com, Sept.20, 2008)
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Dalits & Muslims as blood brothers
(Dr. Ambedkar’s Praise for Islam)
S.K. Biswas
Noted Dalit Historian
Foreword by
V.T. Rajshekar
Ruling Brahminical forces are rapidly hinduising (meaning enslaving) the non-Hindu, if not anti-Hindu Dalits and Tribals, pushing them into Hindu temples so that they are killed in hundreds in stampede.
Such a reckless hinduisation helps the enemy to get ready, cheap and abundant force to kill Muslims and Christians who are our blood brothers and also create a permanent hatred against them.
Brahminical terrorist groups like the RSS have gained enough expertise on this strategy which helped them create the killer Modi.
Islam came to India not only as a liberating religion but bravely challenging the Brahminical aggression on its indigenous population.
That is how Islam has become the fastest growing religion. Brahminism, renamed Hinduism to mislead the Bahujans, is treating them as slaves. Having failed to curb its growth, the Brahminical rulers are today using police and para-military forces to demoralise Muslims dubbing them terrorists — although hardly anybody arrested is convicted.
Here is a book that explains the Brahminical trick.
2008 pp.40 Rs. 30
DALIT SAHITYA AKADEMY
Write to :Dalit Voice
No. 109 - 7th Cross, Palace Lower Orchards, Bangalore - 560 003, INDIA.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/oct_a2008/reports.htm
Why BJP has not even a single economic programme ?
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Upper caste readers of our Dalit Voice website bombard us with email saying DV is “harping” only on socio-cultural issues “totally ignoring” economic crisis, which, they say, are our real problem. Yes, their criticism is correct.
It is our considered opinion that India’s problems are essentially social and cultural caused by the Brahminical aggression on the country’s indigenous people. We have said this hundred and one times. If there are economic problems they are caused by the Brahminic socio-cultural aggression.
Will our upper caste critics answer the following:
At the national executive meeting of the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP)— in which the upper castes have their heart— in Bangalore in the second week of Sept., the party president Rajnath Singh, a Thakur (upper caste), in his 12-page opening address highlighted the following demands:
(1) Road leading to Amarnath Shrine be nationalised, (2) displaced Kashmiri Pandits (Brahmins) be rehabilitated in special enclaves in the Valley, (3) abolition of Article 370 of the constitution conferring special status for Kashmir.
BJP has not even a single economic programme. The killer Modi is the Hindu Hriday Samrat. If India becomes Hindu Rashtra, all the problems will be solved. This was the only song heard at the meeting.
BJP’s sole single programme is to strengthen Brahminical cultural hegemony. Yet not even one objection came from upper castes who hiss and howl at DV.

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Brahminical hunger for bomb
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: The cat is out of the bag. It is now clear that the Brahminical rulers have been bluffing. And Manmohan Singh is the king of bluffers. The nuclear deal is not to supply “cheap power” but to make bombs.
The fear expressed in our Sept.1, 2008 Editorial on Indo-US nuclear deal (“Bahujans defeated: N.Deal victory for Brahmins”) which the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hurriedly pushed through in parliament on July 22, 2008, have come true. We had said:
The Jews holding the neck of America wanted to sell nuclear power to India and their cousins, the “Jews of India”, wanted to buy it to make bombs to fight their two hated neighbouring enemies — Muslim Pakistan and Communist China — with which the overwhelming Bahujans of India had no quarrel.
Our fears that the rulers were in such a great hurry to push the deal and that too in such a great secrecy to make bomb have been confirmed by the world famous journal the Economist in its editorial itself Aug.30, 2008, p.13). The world quickly understood that India’s sinister aim was to make bomb.
Our less than 15% blood-thirsty Brahminical rulers are hungering for bombs but never bothered about bread to feed our hungry billions. The nuclear deal has given us one more proof of their Brahminical heartlessness.
George W. Bush, America’s most hated President, wanted to use India against the peace-loving giant China. India’s rulers hate China and perhaps assured Bush that the nuclear deal would be used to make bomb to attack China.
We do not know why Bahujan leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Karunanidhi, Mulayam Singh Yadav etc., who spent their life fighting Brahminical forces, supported the deal at the July 22, 2008 parliamentary vote of confidence.
India’s purpose is clear. It wants to leave itself the option of more bomb tests in future, while being able to ride out any sanctions — including from America whose laws would require them — that would follow. The Economist even suggests that American officials have been coaching India the tactics of avoiding sanctions. To that extent the US Jews were in secret league with the “Jews of India”.
Fortunately, the dying days of George W. Bush is nearing and their hated Black man (Barack Obama) is stepping into the White House. The Economist scented the roguish behaviour of the “Jews of India” and called upon the NSG and also America to put the foot down on India’s secret efforts to make bombs.
The secret nuclear deal is yet another proof to show how India’s anti-human rulers are simply bending and breaking the back of over 1,200 millions of innocent Indians to serve their selfish interests.

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Why Brahmins hate agriculture ?
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Total neglect of the rural areas — particularly agriculture sector — is having devastating effect on the country. Because the rural people not only depend on agriculture for living but more than that the foodgrains to fill their hungry stomach.
Do you know what the rulers have done? They have kicked the very stomach of the SC/ST/BCs and Muslims and made them starve. This is the result of the 60-year-old Brahminical rule. Here is a report in the country’s principal Brahminical daily, Times of India (Delhi) of June 25, 2008:
New Delhi: The impact of a neglected agriculture sector are bound to haunt the country for long. India could become a chronic net importer of rice and wheat by 2020 if the trends are not reversed.
Assocham has warned that India will have to increase its rice yield growth rates by 250% to ensure self-sufficiency. Simultaneously by current trends the country could fall short of 23 million tonnes of wheat by 2020 that it would need to meet through imports. The latter figures emerge out of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute’s work.
Bhumihars of Bihar: The Brahminical rule is literally killing every part of India but the Brahminical media is not giving it publicity. And their television is diverting the attention of the hungry.
Do you know why the Brahminical people hate agriculture? Because Brahmins are prohibited by their shastras to touch the earth. If a Brahmin touches earth he is ex-communicated. The Bhoomihars (Brahmin) of Bihar are the best example to prove this point.

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Jews decide to ditch Obama
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Here is the latest news from America. The whole world wants Obama as President. But the hate-mongers inside USA, the brothers of the “Jews of India”, who control the world’s sole super power hate Obama because he is a Black with Muslim connection. And one with his brain inside his head.
The Jews may form not even 3% of the American population but they decide everything including the presidentship. Their awesome power is mainly due to their control on the media, that too the TV which can manipulate anything and everything.
Already “public opinion” is being shaped through bogus opinion polls favouring the anti-people Democratic candidate McCain .
If everything fails to damage Obama they have the Brahmastra in their pocket — the computers. Since the entire voting is done through computers, which are controlled by the Jews, any mischief is possible.
The enemy has decided that at any cost Obama should not be allowed to win.
Still we predicted the Obama victory. How? Our calculations are based on what we called as the “forces of history”. (DV Sept.16, 2008, p.6: “Will forces of history put a Black man in White House?”).
DV Feb.1, 2007 p. 23: “A mere 2% Jews hold neck of USA forcing war on Muslims”.
DV Nov.1, 2005 p.23: “Zionist mind control through media”.
DV Oct.16, 2005 p.27: “Zionist puppet show goes on by controlling America’s free press”.
DV Oct.1, 2005 p.23: “Break zionist grip on America for sake of world peace”.
DV July 16, 2005 p.22: “America controls world, Jews control America”.
DV Aug.16, 2004 p.8: “Zionists making US into war-monger”.
DV Dec.16, 2004 p.8: “Israel as No.1 threat to world”.
DV March 16, 2004 p.13: “7 Jews control US media: DV proves right”.

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How to save our sinking judiciary
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: No paper in India has attacked India’s higher judiciary so mercilessly as DV has done – even declaring a war on this upper caste high courts and the Supreme Court.
Stinking origin: Finally a part of the rot is coming out in the public. The Supreme Court has ordered impeachment of a Calcutta High Court judge and a CBI probe of two Punjab and Haryana High Court judges.
But this action is on the judges’ money corruption which is a small part of the overall world of corruption in which “Hindu India” is buried neck deep.
The bottom line is the higher judiciary is corrupt because it is wholesale upper caste. It is the strength and courage which the judges get out of their caste status, that makes them indulge in reckless money corruption with impunity.
Money corruption is not confined to judges alone. The judges were shielding corruption by taking shelter under the contempt of court provision. The judges take bribes from the upper caste litigants. Both the bribe-taker and the giver have the same stinking origin.
Quota in judiciary: Those who criticised the higher judiciary of corruption never said that it was their upper caste status that caused it. Because those who criticised them also belonged to the upper caste who constitute the country’s micro-minority 15% rulers.
The upper castes are heading every wing of the country: defence, judiciary, media, banks, industries, academia, scientific institutions, bureaucracy. All professions. Even the political leadership. The private sector. This upper caste is wholesale corrupt with minor exceptions. Until their caste monopoly is broken and SC/ST/BCs plus Muslim/Christian/Sikh Bahujans take over, the corruption, whether in judiciary or any field, cannot go.
Chief Justice Balakrishnan, a Dalit, knows it but he is helpless. And the already sick India will get more sick. But it will not die because of the caste system.
Please read our booklet, Judicial Terrorism, V.T. Rajshekar & Iqbal Ahmed Shariff, DSA-2006, pp.20, Rs. 25.

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INDIA SHINING
42% Indians live below poverty line
New Delhi: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than even sub-Saharan Africa. That is the sobering news coming out of the World Bank’s latest estimates on global poverty. The fine print of the estimates also shows the rate of decline of poverty in India was faster between 1981 and 1990 than it has been between 1990 and 2005. This is likely to give fresh ammunition to those who maintain that economic reforms, which started in 1991, have failed to reduce poverty at a faster rate. India, according to the new estimates, has 456 million people, or about 42% of the population, living below the new international poverty line of $ 1.25 per day. The number of Indian poor also constitute 33% of the global poor, whose number is pegged at 1.4 billion people. India also had 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population, living below $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa considered the world’s poorest region, is better — it has 72.2% of its population, or 551 million people, below the $2 a day level.
—(Times of India, Aug. 27, 2008)
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Further fall in status of Tribals
The status of the weakest among the reserved categories, the Scheduled Tribes (STs), seems to have remained virtually unchanged. There has been a substantial increase in ST-owned establishments in north-eastern states but that offset by decline in many other states like Orissa, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Over three quarters of the establishments owned by SCs and STs are own account establishments (OAE) or establishments owned and run by the family members. The proportion of such establishments owned by OBCs is 71%. However, just over half (56%) of businesses owned by the general category are OAE establishments. For the reserved categories, especially STs and to some extent SCs too, their share in the total number of businesses with hired workers has remained small.
—(Times of India, Sept.8, 2008)
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Economic collapse
New Delhi: Growth in six core infrastructure industries dropped to 4.3% in July 2008-09 from 7.2% a year ago, which economists feared could stunt the expansion of an already slowing economy. Crude oil was the worst performer in the grouping with a negative growth of 3% in July this year against a positive trend in the comparable month of last fiscal.
—(PTI - Deccan Herald, Sept.8, 2008)
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
Piotr Maciejewski,Ul. Klemensiewicza 1c/7, 01-318 Warszawa, Poland: I already received your sample literature. Besides I bought many books in the Bluemoon Books. I will dwell on the subject and come back to India in February. So I will be familiar with opinions presented by diverse writers. As far as meeting people is concerned, I count on your guidance when I come back. The whole Europe loves Gandhi but nobody has heard about Dr. Ambedkar. I think it should be changed.
Not only Europe, even the whole world knows and loves only M.K. Gandhi. This is because only Brahmins had the ability to write and publish books and media. The rest of over 90% were dumb-driven cattle to whom Dr. Ambedkar came as saviour. History is always written by the victors. The situation remains unchanged even today. You say this situation has to be changed. How? Who will change it? No chance. Dr. Ambedkar wrote a book itself to educate the Western audience on the factual position of India of the pre-independence days. The title of the book is What Congress & Gandhi Have done to Untouchables. This is reproduced in a Maharashtra Govt. Publication Vol. No.9 (1990). Photocopy of the original book is available with us. A mere 15% of the upper castes are holding the neck of India. We are bringing out Dalit Voice for the past about 30 years but being in English it can’t reach our people. English-speakers are not even 5% of our population. English teaching is not permitted. Only the upper castes are encouraged to read English so that they can become rulers. Political leadership might have passed into our hands to some extent but decision-making and implementing authorities continue to be our oppressors. We are gasping for breath. India is a highly deceptive society. Since all those whom you met and all those books and media that you read are upper castes, our oppressors, you will never get at the truth. Gandhi was the leader of the upper castes who deceived us and hence the chief architect of India’s fall — EDITOR.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/oct2008/reports.htm
D.V. SUGGESTION TO PRABHAKARAN
Instead of dying unsung, unwept, LTTE may shift to TN & complete Periyar’s historic mission
One of the world’s longest lasting 25-year-old war between the ferocious Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and Lankan Govt. is likely to be over by the year-end. The Tigers have been meeting with defeats after defeats — yet fighting with their back against the wall.
The Lankan war is one of the greatest tragedies of the subcontinent in which DV took lot of interest in the initial stages. We did visit Lanka for a week-long study early in the eighties. Representatives of the Tigers used to often visit our office. We had great admiration for Velupillai Prabhakaran but when the Tigers refused to listen to our suggestion we kept silent.
Purest Dravidians: Lanka is a Budhist country. The ruling Sinhalas are mostly Backward Caste Indians from Bihar (India). Good people, harmless people. The Tamils wrongly call themselves Hindu. Prabhakaran belongs to the Backward fishermen caste. The dark-looking Tamils are ethnically same like the non-Aryan (non-Hindu) purest Dravidas and Adi-Dravidas of Tamil Nadu across the Pak Strait. Both speak Tamil and worship the same indigenous deities.
We don’t know how and when the Lankan Tamils started calling themselves Hindu and picked up a quarrel with the peace-loving Sinhala-speaking Budhists, who too are non-Hindu.
Dr. Ambedkar call rejected: When Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar visited Colombo to study Budhism, the Tamils complained against Sinhala rulers and his solution was that Tamils should embrace Budhism which they rejected.
In course of time the Tamil-Sinhala differences widened and developed into a bloody war. In Sri Lanka, we visited the tea estates where the Tamil Untouchable workers complained that they were being discriminated against by the Tamil “Hindus”. We were also invited by the Tamil-speaking Muslims of Colombo and they said they preferred to go with the Sinhala rulers than with the Tamil Hindus.
That means the Tamil Tigers are not supported by the Tamil speaking Muslims and Dalits. The papans in Madras, who keep a close watch on the Lankan development, very much feared the Tigers and were continuously sharpening this contradiction and fishing in the troubled waters.
Brahminical hand: The mysterious hand behind Lankan strife is India’s Aryan Brahminical rulers guided by the Tamil papan. He is the villain of the piece. We had said all this in our earlier reports on Lanka and also had passed on the information to Prabhakaran. But the Tigers were not ready to listen.
The papans had convinced Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minister, to send the Indian army in the guise of IPKF (Indian Peace Keeping Force) to Lanka and managed to break the back of the Tigers. These papans call themselves Hindu but at the same time sent the Indian army to fight the Lankan Hindus (LTTE).
Rajiv Gandhi murder: Why the Tamil papans hated Lanka’s Tamil Hindus? The papan fear was that with the death of the dreaded Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy, who broke the backbone of the papan pest, the angry Dravidians of Tamil Nadu (TN) might invite the Tigers to TN to carry on the mission of Periyar. The stupid Rajiv Gandhi played into the hands of these papans and got killed in Madras by an angry Lankan Tamil woman who was a victim of IPKF atrocities in Lanka.
India’s Brahminical Govt. spent billions of rupees on the IPKF to fight LTTE in Lanka. Even today India’s RAW is continuing the mission in Lanka. The Indian army and navy are actively assisting the Lankan Govt. to hunt and fight the Tigers.
DV advice rejected: The Brahminical rulers of India are closer to Budhist rulers of Lanka than the Lankan Hindus. Papans are experts in the law of contradictions and hate Periyar. But the LTTE leadership may be Tamil but takes little interest in the Tamils of TN. Or even Periyar.
The Tigers did not listen to our suggestion but played into the hands of the crooked papans. So much so, today they are well on the way to total extinction. President Rajapakse of Lanka has said he would not rest until he captured or killed Prabhakaran in his Kilinochchi headquarters.
The dream of independent Tamil Elam (homeland) in the North thus stands shattered — not by the Sinhala enemies but by the Tamil-speaking papans of Madras.
The Tamil Tigers are one of the best guerilla fighters the world has ever seen. They are also the pioneer of terrorism. We like them. We salute them but alas their energies are misdirected.
Fighting wrong enemy: All their heroism, guts and grit are wasted on fighting an unlikely enemy instead of the real, genuine, criminal-minded, centuries-old Aryan papans.
Even at this desperate last stage when they are facing total annihilation, it is possible for Prabhakaran to shift the strategy and bring peace to his helpless Tamil followers if he takes our tip.
The Tamils of neighbouring Tamil Nadu and the entire Tamil diaspora love and respect Prabhakaran and his LTTE.
He can quietly shift his operations to TN and further the mission of Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy — and thus help liberate the purest Dravidian land from the menace of anti-national Aryan papans. The ball is in Tigers’ court.
Periyar’s verdict: Such a shifting is no doubt dangerous because it is like jumping from the Sinhala frying pan into the papan fire. The Tamil papans are the country’s most deadly and dangerous vaidiks. No less a person than Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy had said this. The LTTE-Sinhala clashes were engineered by these very papans decades ago. Every effort was made since then to concentrate all attention on the LTTE and liquidate them. The Lankan Govt. was given all the support.
Will the papans who moved heaven and earth to finish LTTE within Lanka itself allow them to enter TN?
But in the interest of saving themselves, also liberating their Tamil brothers and more than that fulfilling the mission of Periyar, LTTE has a historic responsibility. Prabhakaran must devote rest of his life for such a noble and historic cause rather than wasting his life and also that of the thousands of Lankan Tamils fighting the Budhist Sinhalas, who are their non-antagonistic enemy.

DV May 1, 2002 p.5: “Peace in Lanka disturbs peace of Tamil Nadu’s corrupt rulers”.
DV Sept.1998, p.11: “Rajiv Gandhi murder: LTTE blamed to divert attention from real killers”.
DV Nov.1, 1995 p.17: “Brahminical rulers routed & ate dust in Lanka”.
DV Edit Aug.16, 1995: “What has gone wrong with Tamils? Why they allow themselves to be swallowed by alien Aryans?”
DV Document, April 1, 1993 p.20: “The case of Bangladesh & Lanka: India’s upper caste aggression threatens neighbouring countries”.
DV Sept.16, 1989 p.21: “Tips to Lankan Budhists & Tamil Tigers”.
DV Sept.16, 1987: “Thoughts on Lankan Accord: DV proves right on Elam”.
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Orissa clash was between pro-RSS Tribes & Ambedkarite Dalits
PRADIP SETHI, ATHARNALA, PURI - 752 002
As far as the latest violence against Christians in Orissa in general and Kandhamal in particular, we want to give the correct picture to the Christian leadership.
(1) In Orissa, the clash is between Tribals (ST) and the Dalits (SC). STs are with the Hindu terrorist RSS but the SCs are with the Christians though both SC/STs have the common root and common sufferings. The major SC caste is Pana and ST is Kandha and Kuei. The long-term plan of the Hindu terrorists is to destroy the growing SC-ST unity and make them kill each other.
Phulbani (now called Kandhamal) is a backward district of Orissa. Total population is 6.48 lakhs. Of this, SCs are 16.9%, ST-51.96%. Among SC, Panas are 85.331 and among ST Kandhas are 3,14,356. Christianity is popular among SCs (population 1.18 lakhs) with 11,000 churches and prayer halls in 144 panchayats.
From 1970 Hindu terrorist leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati was working here destroying or reshaping the tribal culture, creating a rift between tribal Kandhas and Pana Dalits.
(2) To revive the Sharna religion among Tribals, Dr. Dindayal Munda of Ranchi may be consulted. Tribal Babas and Dehurys should be used in this mission. Dalits will certainly help.
(3) The Adivasi (tribal) identity should be revived by strengthening their customs and rituals.
(4) Special schools (preferably English-medium) exclusively for SC/STs should be run by Christians with a management body of non-Christians.
(5) More non-Christian (but Tribal and Dalit) NGOs should be promoted by the Christian leadership to counter the present dangerous environment created by the Hindu terrorists.
We are ready to discuss all these issues with representatives of Christians in Orissa with our team mates. Editor V.T. Rajshekar will be too glad to join in finding a long-range solution.
Brig. Usman Khalid adds from London: The conduct of the pro-Hindu Indian state never comes up for criticism in the Western media whether it is the Muslims, the Christians or the Untouchables who are the target. But the outcry against China was deafening even though it was the Tibetans who looted and burnt down Chinese shops in Lhasa.

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Hindu hate on rampage
SHYAMALENDU DIGAL, 317 - IMMT CAMPUS, BHUBANESWAR - 751 013
Kandhamal district in Orissa is facing a severe Brahmin-sponsored attack on Christian Dalits. The attacks are carried out in a very planned way destroying thousands of houses and churches and shattering the soul of all people.
I never imagined that such barbaric acts will take place in my life time. India claims to be a civilised society before the world community. This is totally false. Law and order are meant only for the upper caste people. The Brahminical media is bent upon destroying the Dalit-Adivasi unity. The innocent Adivasi people are given false information by the upper castes that Dalits are taking away their rights. Nobody is talking about the poverty of this area, about the lack of communication, as the area is yet not connected with the rails. The leaders are instigating people on religious grounds. DV must condemn the barbaric act of these fascists.
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Failure of Orissa DV members
Though you are a new member of the DV family, yours is the first Letter we received on the Orissa violence despite having a fairly good circulation of DV in Orissa. Your Letter is powerful and shows your deep concern but all of us are made helpless because the upper castes (Hindus) who have captured every lever of power in the country want to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra. They have almost succeeded. Kashmir, Punjab and Orissa experiments are part of this hinduisation drive. We have been shouting and screaming but the educated Dalits are sleeping or have even joined the enemy. Our Orissa DV family members should have immediately met and taken some drastic steps. They too have failed. Not only that, all of us have also failed — EDITOR.

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COMMUNICATION
DV failed to “Organise” members after “Educating” & “Agitating” them
SUBHASH CHAND MUSAFIR, NATIONAL INSURANCE CO., ADMN. OFFICER (IT), PALAMPUR - 176 061
This refers to your invitation for the DV silver jubilee at Lucknow. I am reading DV since 1995. I also joined you at the DV Lucknow workshop four years ago. We had started organising Ambedkarite missionaries at the Shimla DV workshop but after the Chandigarh workshop all our organizational work had become a flop. I do not understand what you want to organize by holding such meetings in different parts of India without constituting a winning team.
You say that Babashaeb has given us his “Three Commandments, i.e. Educate, Agitate, Organize”. DV has Educated and Agitated the hard-core revolutionaries of this country. You have given swords of enlightenment in the hands of thousands of Ambedkarites not only in India but even abroad.
100 best people: But now you are not moving towards the Third Commandment, Organize. DV is just like a commander-in-chief of the Army who motivates his soldiers to fight but does not order them to fight in an organized way.
A revolutionary movement does not need masses. A winning team of a few people can launch a successful revolution. If you do not organize a team of at least 100 such people at the national level then what is the use of such DV workshops?
Mayawati leadership: UP has many Ambedkarites who understand Brahminism better than the rest of India. Dalits of the UP have successfully become the ruling class under the leadership of Mayawati.
If you do not want to move on to the Third Commandment (Organise), then why are you Educating and Agitating people? Do you think that somebody else will do this work of Organisation?
There may be lot of excuses for not doing this job— like not having sufficient funds. But once we form a team, funds can be managed. You have been talking about “Media Centre” since 1980. What for we need a powerful media? Media is needed only to launch a revolution. Such a media can activate only an ideologically-oriented person but not everyone. Without a team or Organisation, a mere media cannot be a success.
The ideology of DV can only mobilize Ambedkarites but not the masses who are uneducated. You must think on this.
Yes, I agree with you that there are even less than 10% English-knowing Dalits whom we can call reservationwalas. These people will never follow Ambedkarism. I also agree with you that DV has failed to Educate and Agitate as I am of the opinion that all the DV readers will never join us. Even good writers, good speakers and even good readers may not prove to be good Organisers.
Our “Educated” and un-educated people have been forcibly converted into Hindu. They visit Hindu temples like Vaishno Devi, Tirupati, Kashi etc. But tell me have you not Educated or Agitated even 500 Dalits through DV? If yes, then why are you not interested to Organise them?
Kanshi Ram miracle: It is true that the Brahmin uses our people against our blood brothers like Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Budhists by hinduising them. We will have to chalk out a plan to free such slaves enjoying Brahminical slavery.
Not only in Maharashtra, even in other states of India there is no mass agitation of Dalits after Babasaheb. Kanshi Ram did a miracle of educating the people and making them a ruling class through political party (BSP). Under the leadership of Mayawati, it is flourishing. But Ambedkarite ideological socio-cultural movement must be launched without having any expectation of political gain. Silently we have to Educate, Agitate so that they get Organised.
DV has done its job: It is true Kanshi Ram was fed up with “educated” babus. But it is also a fact that some honest “educated” Dalits supported Kanshi Ram under the banner of BAMCEF which resulted in the formation of DS4 and later BSP.
I disagree with you that you have failed to Educate and Agitate the people. If I can be Educated and Agitated there must be at least 100 DV readers like me who have been also Educated and Agitated. I only want to Organise them.
Yes, it is true that you are running DV under great stress and strain. Your tireless work will not be forgotten for ever. It will definitely lead to the liberation of indigenous people of this country. I am serious on this issue of Organisation of all Ambedkarites throughout the country under your leadership.
Tell me frankly, are we all to die without achieving anything. Babasaheb had given us 22 oaths. Can we not follow Babasaheb by taking at least one oath to launch a successful revolutionary movement in an Organised way during our lives.
I am too much worried about your health and the fate of DV after you. That is why I am requesting you to Organise at least 500 hard-core missionary Ambedkarite during your lifetime.

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Hinduisation of “educated” Dalits killed our movement
The “Three Commandments” of Dr. Ambedkar was reprinted four times. Some copies of the latest edition (2005, pp.20. Rs. 20) are available. Our DV family members and others do order it but we don’t know what they do after buying it.
The upper castes (15%) are not only well “educated”, extremely “agitated” but also “organised” into a mighty force. But our “educated” people have joined the upper caste oppressors. Those who did not are silent.
LATEST CRAZE
However, the latest craze among Dalits, is “political power”. To get this power one need not study the “Three Commandments”. In fact, studying it will harm them.
Brother Musafir says he is “Educated” and “Agitated” by reading DV and there must be at least 100 DV members in the whole of India like him. And he says he wants to “Organise” them. Fine
The Three Commandments — the three stages, Educate, Agitate, Organise — suggested by Babasaheb are not his discovery. He borrowed the concept from Budha. It is the English translation of Budham, Dhammam, Sangham. This is the Tri Sarana.
The three are not water-tight compartments. We have explained it in our above said booklet that it is like a three-storeyed building. You can’t go to the 3rd floor without climbing the staircase leading from 2nd floor and you can’t go to 2nd floor without going up the first floor.
Organising is not possible without agitation and agitation is not possible without education. (Ibid, p.11).
BABASAHEB’S “FINAL WORDS”
Remember, Babasaheb called these three (Educate, Agitate, Organise) as his “final words”. Yet some Brahminical people played the mischief and put “Organise” before “Agitate” and distorted the Dalit movement itself for about 25 years after the death of Babasaheb.
It was DV which corrected the order of the Three Commandments and put an end to the mischief.
MAHAR BUDHISTS
Fine. Since then Babasaheb’s final words are being published correctly though in some places distortion continues.
Take Maharashtra, Babasaheb’s own birth place, where all the Mahars are Budhists and they utter the Tri Sarana daily.
Why even the Mahar Budhists did not climb up the 2nd floor and reach the III Floor (Agitation) even after uttering the Tri Sarana daily? Because Budhism has been swallowed by Brahminism. And Goenka has set up his big business in Maharashtra to misinterprete the Tri Sarana. Budhism itself has been Brahminised.
WE ADMIT OUR FAILURE
So, Brother Musafir is wrong in saying that DV has Educated and then Agitated at least 100 DV family members. If you want us to be frank, we honestly do not know who these 100 persons are.
If the number of Educated and Agitated in India is quite high, why it did not result in Dalit movement? Why such a movement died even in Maharashtra?
At the Delhi DV silver jubilee we announced closing down of DV but some brothers intervened and we decided to continue. That is all we are doing now. Instead of our “educated” and “agitated” members swelling in number, one by one they are deserting us in search of “political power”.
MUSLIM FAILURE
Muslims just do not want to understand things and thereby getting into serious trouble. Sikhs are fast getting hinduised. Dalits are enjoying their slavery.
For whose sake are we bringing out this paper? Except to read our own words and enjoy and be proud of it? — EDITOR.

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Georgian war divides the world
USMAN KHALID, OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT
The Western media, particularly of the US, has presented the conflict over South Ossetia as a Russian invasion of Georgia.The actual fact is that the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian military launched a sneak attack to kill and drive the Russian population out of South Ossetia.
America humbled: During the Stalinist rule, (Joseph Stalin was a Georgian) it was a policy of USSR to resort to forced migration of ‘difficult minorities’ (like Chechen) to distant lands and to include Russian majority provinces in states dominated by ethnic minorities. It was in pursuit of that policy that South Osettia was included in Georgia whereas North Ossetia is still a part of Russia. Since the Russian majority in South Ossetia wants to return to the fold of Russia, the population rebelled. Russian peacekeepers, together with Georgian ones, had been stationed in South Ossetia since the early 1990s.
The present crisis started when on orders of President, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Georgian peacekeepers turned their weapons against Russians. Saakashvili was educated and trained in the US and was elected with money from the neo-con Jews. Saakashvili is far more guilty in invading South Ossetia than Serbian President Milosovich who invaded Kosovo and was indicted by the International Criminal Court.
America calculated that Russia would not respond but had no plans if it did. When Russia decided to intervene it calculated that the US would huff and puff but not risk a war. As it happened the Russian calculation turned out to be correct. But huffing and puffing goes on to the detriment of Europe and the US. The Azerbaijan-Turkey pipeline that bypassed Russia and delivered Azeri oil directly to Mediterranean port of Ceyhan was blasted and remains closed. Europe depends on nearly half of its gas supplies on Russia and is not eager to pick a fight with it.
No.1 enemy of US: Russia has warned it will attack US anti-missile shield soon to be deployed in Poland and it will reconsider permission to over-fly its territory by military aircraft supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan. The US has abandoned efforts to further tighten sanctions on Iran, as there are no prospects for getting such a resolution through the UN Security Council. The No.1 enemy of the US is once again Russia rather than China. For a while at least, America will woo China in an effort to drive a wedge between Russia and China. The diplomacy and propaganda have all the features of the cold war.
Iran invasion: Since America is the bigger loser if the cold war is resumed, it is unlikely it will be pursued with much vigour for any length of time. But the rest of the world has learnt its lesson. The defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and inability to come to support of an ally it encouraged to invade its neighbour, underlines that there are limits to American power. The next American President may be less trigger-happy but America’s ability to bribe or browbeat other countries into alliance with her would henceforth be strictly limited. The threat of invasion of Iran has receded and the vulnerability of the logistic chain to troops in Afghanistan exposed. It is quite likely that USA may like to withdraw also from Afghanistan. Would India step in to fill the vacuum, so to say?
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India stands isolated
America losing face in the zionist-controlled Georgian adventure, China rushing to stand by Russia, Iran offering full solidarity, the European Union wavering to condemn Russia has totally isolated India. So much so, the hate-mongering Hindu leaders of India stand totally isolated in the world. They should have thrown their lot with China, Muslim countries and Africa but the racist Brahminical rulers hate the whole lot of them.
They have not only quarreled with all the neighbouring countries of India, gloating over the political confusion in Pakistan but busy with their bomb-making project — hiding it under the cover of “Indo-US peaceful nuclear deal”.
ZIONIST COUSINS
They think that none in the world can outsmart the racist “Brahmin brain”. But once Barack Obama wins, they will get totally isolated in the world. China will take over the leadership of whole Asia. Muslims never trusted the Hindus. Their zionist cousins in US defeated and economically ruined, where can the Hindu supremacists go?
Inside India, they have created so much of hate and horror that no caste, community, tribe or religion trusts this micro-minority of 3% “Jews of India”. Where can they go now?
None will take them. But we have reserved a place for this cow-worshippers a place in the foothills of Himalayas in Gorakhpur — EDITOR.

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Deras established to kill Sikhism & promote Brahminism in Punjab
RAGHBIR SINGH DHILLON, MOHALI, PUNJAB
It is said god appears in the world when injustice crosses all limits. Four famous Bhagawans said to have appeared in ancient India. One was Ram. The other was Krishna. The third was Budha. The fourth was Mahavir.
During the era of Bhagwans, some Bhagats and saints were also born in poor families of workers considered “low caste” and Untouchable but the dominant Brahmin-Khatri combine did not confer on them the status which palace-born Bhagwans enjoyed because their dharma did not allow them. Only that dharma was recognized and preached which helped the upper castes to exploit the poor by keeping in tact the division of society on caste basis.
Anti-Brahmin saints: Surprisingly, no Bhagwan appeared in India since Mahavira despite the marauding forces of Muslims from the West under which even Hindu Rajas suffered the same agonies to end which gods had appeared for wars with demons in ancient India.
India, considered the land of rishi munis, has produced many Bhagats and saints like Kabir, Ravi Das and Nama born in poor and neglected families who preached against the class division. But since their thinking was not in tune with the Brahmins they had to face shabby treatment because they were born as “low caste” cobbler, weaver, tailor and Dalits. So much so even Rishi Valmiki who is said to have looked after the sons, Luv and Kush of god Rama during the period Sita stayed away from his palace, could not get any recognition from the Brahmins although he too is claimed to have written the Ramayan.
Sikh revolution: These Bhagats, saints and their followers were not allowed access to temples of Brahmin gods. These Bhagwans are worshipped in upper caste mandirs to perpetuate the class division and to carry on the feeling of hatred against low castes. No such mandir was allowed to exist in memory of low caste Bhagats and saints.
Around the age of these Bhagats and saints, a social revolution for the liberation of the people despised by followers of palace-born Bhagwans started taking shape in the 15th century to take care of them. Guru Nanak the pioneer of this Sikh revolution was himself born in a family highly charged with Brahmin-made caste system. In spite of that he challenged the age-old Brahminical rite of wearing janeoo (cross-thread). Instead of man-made stone gods worshipped in temples, he preached justice and truth.
Brahmin strategy: Stung by this ever increasing influence and power of Sikh Revolution the owners of stone gods in temples adopted a new strategy in the late 19th century under which they succeeded in installing in venerated Sikh holy places Amritdhari Brahman Sikh priests like Brahman gurus in temples who every other day issue contradictory edicts to confuse the Sikh masses.
Establishing a network of deras in Punjab is also a part of this strategy.
So it has become necessary for the defenders of Sikh Revolution to scuttle the efforts of inimical forces to maintain the purity of Sikh faith— the hope of humanity. The dignity of Guru Granth is not enhanced by simply bowing before it or holding darbars or publicizing large figures of people administered amrit and in taking out big processions but in acquainting the people with Sikh philosophy with its practical use and creating desire in them to live by it removing any caste, creed, race or region distinction of superiority from their minds.
(raghbirsinghdhillon@yahoo.com)

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Sikhs forget DV’s service & sacrifice
BALDEV SINGH, A-32, SECTOR-50, NOIDA - 201 301
The book, Sikh Genocide,by me (DV Sept.1, 2008, p.28) is a collection of three booklets published by noble men after 1984 (Blue Star), dealing with the killing of innocent Sikhs and the way Punjab was dealt as a law and order problem and not a religious, social and political movement. No doubt Dalit Voice is not directly referred in that book but was always in mind of the editor. It will be directly referred to in my forthcoming book, Was Bhindranwale Congress Creation?. This allegation is repeatedly levelled by Akalis and BJP. I have a copy of your Birth Pangs of Khalistan, (DSA-1987). I had distributed in Punjab many copies of it but had no effect. Your efforts, sacrifice (Chandigarh jail in 1986) are not recognised by the Sikhs. They have forgotten it. They are very selfish people. What the Gurus had taught them is completely forgotten. Thugs and criminals have taken over Sikhs. God will not help them any more.

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DEBATE ON BUDHISM
Brahminical bluffs on Budhism : In defence of war & violence
Dr. K. JAMANADAS, “SHALIMAR”, MAIN ROAD, CHANDRAPUR - 442 402
Please note Budhism has spread all over the world and no force was ever used for its spread. Dr. Ambedkar believed that Budha’s ahimsa was not as absolute as the ahimsa preached by Mahavira. About Budha’s ahimsa, Dr. Ambedkar said:
“The Budha was against violence. But he was also in favor of justice and where justice required he permitted the use of force.”
He quotes the Budha’s dialogue with Sinha Senapati, the commander-in-chief of Vaishali. Sinha having come to know that the Budha preached ahimsa went to him and asked:
“The Bhagvan preaches ahimsa. Does the Bhagvan preach an offender to be given freedom from punishment? Does the Bhagvan preach that we should not go to war to save our wives, our children and our wealth? Should we suffer at the hands of criminals in the name of ahimsa?”
“Does the Tathagata prohibit all war even when it is in the interest of Truth and Justice?”
BUDHA DEFENDS WAR
Budha replied:
“You have wrongly understood what I have been preaching. An offender must be punished and an innocent man must be freed. It is not a fault of the magistrate if he punishes an offender. The cause of punishment is the fault of the offender. The magistrate who inflicts the punishment is only carrying out the law. He does not become stained with ahimsa. A man who fights for justice and safety cannot be accused of ahimsa. If all the means of maintaining peace have failed then the responsibility for himsa falls on him who starts war. One must never surrender to evil powers. War there may be. But it must not be for selfish ends....”
Sword of Budha
The Budhist image, which is pictured with a sword in right hand, is described as of Manjushri Bodhisatva from Tibet. Below is an excerpt from an article by Leigh Brasington (March 20, 1997):
… With a superbly concentrated mind, you can see much more deeply into the nature of things as they are. Because the ego has to become very quiet to “do” the Jhanas, after “doing” them, you see things from a much less egocentric perspective. This is why Jhana practice can be referred to as “sharpening Manjushri’s sword”; once the sword is sharp, once the mind is concentrated, it is much easier to cut through the bonds of ignorance. (Manjushri is the Tibetan Bodhisattva of Wisdom and he is usually pictured with a sword in his right hand, which he uses to cut thru the bonds of ignorance.)
From the above discussion, we can more fully understand the Buddha’s teaching of Sila, Samadhi, Panna – morality, concentration, wisdom. You clean up your act so that when you sit down to meditate, you can fully concentrate. You use the Jhanas to concentrate your mind as strongly as you are able. You then begin wielding Manjushri’s sword by doing an insight practice that enables you to gain wisdom by seeing things as they really are rather than by seeing things from your usual egocentric perspective.”
It should be clear from this account that the image of Budha with a sword has significance in the process of Meditation and not connected with the usual uses of sword to kill people.
BUDHIST-BRAHMIN CLASH
Lotus Sutra is supposed to mention about Ischantaks, who deserved to be killed. May be. I got a Marathi translation of Saddhama Pundarika Sutra. It does not make any mention of it. This means, it is not the main teaching of Lotus Sutra.
The Brahminical people praise the glorious past of India, but refrain from mentioning which period it was. Their difficulty is that the glorious epoch of Indian history was Budhist and not Brahminic.
During the Budhist period the special privileges of the Brahmins were eroded. So the Budhists became their enemies.
HINDU HISTORY OF DEFEAT
The strife between Budhists and Brahmins is the crucial point in the Indian history. Ultimately, the Budhists lost. But the Hindu society got the slavery of women and curse of the caste. That caused the downgrading of India. But the Brahminists blame the ahimsa of Jains and Budhists as the root cause of defeat in all foreign invasions. Golwalkar mentions this throughout his literature.
When Dr. Ambedkar pointed out that the history of India is the history of defeats, Savarkar wrote a book Saha Soneri Pane (six golden page) describing six golden episodes in 2,500 years of Indian history.
SAVARKAR DEFENDS VIOLENCE
Savarkar was in favor of military conflict against colonial rule and advocated militarization of Hindus. He criticized the Budha in very bitter words. He wrote a drama, Sanyasta Khadga, about 60-70 years ago ridiculing the Budha for his ahimsa. The funny part is that drama is being staged even now by Brahminists. This drama is also taught in graduate courses in Maharashtra universities.
How can we say the ahimsa of the Budha was responsible for the defeat of Indians at the hands of foreign invaders? It was the caste system and not the ahimsa of Budha that caused the defeat of Hindus. Examine the events after the mahaparinirvana of the Budha in 543 BCE.
ASHOKA USED SWORD
Two centuries after the Budha, Chandragupta Mourya established an empire. He was reportedly a Jain. Jains are famous for absolute ahimsa. But his Jain religion did neither come in his way in driving out the Greeks, nor it was a hindrance in marrying the daughter of Greek Ambassador Selucus.
Alexander the Great had come a little earlier and defeated many Hindu kings and returned. His victory was because the Hindu kings and tribes fought dividedly and Hindu kings like Ambhi helped the invaders. It was not that Indians were less brave or because they were practicing ahimsa as preached by Mahavir or the Budha.
Chandragupta’s grandson, Ashoka (273–236 BCE), was a staunch Budhist. He extended his empire to the extreme end of India with the aid of the sword. Even after the Kalinga war, he was maintaining a strong army.
Ashoka’s grandson, Bahidratha, was treacherously murdered by his Brahmin commander Pushyamitra. It was during the military guard of honor of his army. That means, he was also maintaining an army. His only fault was he appointed a Brahmin army commander. Pushyamitra Shunga, a great persecutor of Budhism, is highly praised by Savarkar and constitutes the first of the ‘six pages’.
BUDHISTS AS WARRIORS
Satvahanas used to be considered Brahminic because the Nanaghat inscription of Nayanika describes ashwamedhas. But they were Budhists and Budhism flourished in their rule. They were the “Lords of three oceans”. They were brave and ruled by strong hand.
King Milind, noted for his religious discourses with Budhist Bhikku Nagsen, was from Kabul. He settled in India at Sialkot in Punjab and became a Budhist. He was a brave soldier and had a vast army. He had decided to invade the empire of Magadh, and caught hold of the horse of ashwamedha of the then ruler Agnimitra Shunga. But had to return back to Punjab, as the Sakas had invaded his kingdom.
KANISHKA’S HEROISM
Kaniskska of Kushana Kula was also an important Budhist Emperor. His empire was vast and he had even threatened to invade China.
Naga kings flourished at Vidisha, Kantipuri, Mathura and Padmavati. They were patrons of Budhism. By their matrimonial support the Imperial Guptas emerged and revived Brahmanism.
Harshavardhana was a very important Budhist emperor. He was a great warrior and conqueror. His army was small in the beginning. After increase in his territory, it increased to 60,000 elephants, 100, 000 cavalry and several lakhs infantry, as is described by Huen Tsang.
RAJPUTS AS ENEMY OF BUDHISM
After the death of Harsha (647 CE), Rajputs were created by the Brahmins from Tribals and remnants of foreign hordes to oppose Budhism by force. In North India, it was from havan at Mount Abu and in South India it was through Hiranya Garbha ceremonies.
Rajputs were staunch supporters of Brahmanism and enemies of Budhism.
Except for a Budhist Pala dynasty, which ruled Eastern India right up to Mathura for about 400 years, the Rajputs ruled rest of India till the Muslims came.
Rajputs were trained to fight right from childhood after their kadgabandh. They were motivated to fight by preaching them stories of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Gita.
KULIN SYSTEM
The Gita was used by rebels against the British during colonial times. The British then contemplated ban on the Gita. Commenting that “dynamite that Gita contained”, K. M. Pannikar tells us this fact.
In parts of Rajasthan, Mahajan tells us, the word ‘Rajput’ is used to denote the illegitimate sons of a Kshatriya or a Jagirdar. But by and large they are considered higher castes. They fought the Budhists and when no Budhists remained they fought among themselves. The Rajputs were not followers ahimsa of Budha. Why then, they were defeated by Muslims? By the time Muslims under Bakhtyar Khilji invaded Bengal, the Budhist Palas were replaced by Brahminic Senas – the originator of Kulin system – who, perhaps purposefully, neglected to protect Nalanda and other Budhist universities.
When Md. Bin Kasim invaded Sindh in 712 CE, Budhism had disappeared from Western India and Brahmin kings were ruling. Even then this juvenile lad of Khalifa conquered Sindh and killed the Hindu king there and sent his daughters as presents to Khalifa.
VEDANTA WAS ANTI-HUMAN
One hundred years after the Muslims captured Sindh and part of Punjab, Shankaracharya arose, flourished and taught the Vedanta. Shudras must not read or hear the Vedas, if they hear Vedas molten lead should be poured in their ears, if they utter Vedas their tongues should be cut, and if they learned Vedas, they should be killed. This was his Vedanta in practice.
Rajputs were strong supporters of violence. These shudra devotees of violence were shattered under horses’ feet like dust by Md. of Gazani. How did it happen? Was it because of ahimsa of Budha?
JAICHANDRA WAS NOT TRAITOR
Jaichandra is wrongly blamed for inviting Md. Ghori to invade Prithwiraj Chauhan. This is injustice as proved by the inscriptions of Jaichandra and a Tibetan version of text called Chandraraj Lekh.
Jaichandra was son of Vijaychandra (1155-1170 A.D.) and grandson of Govindchandra of Gahadval clan. His education was arranged by his grandfather and grand mother, the famous Budhist Queen Kumardevi, at Varanasi under Siddha Bhikshu Jaganmitranand. The Tibetan translations of his 20 books are still available. In one of his texts, Chandraraj Lekh is also available. It describes the valour and religiosity of Jaichandra.
An inscription found in Bodh Gaya describes in detail the relationship of Jaichandra with Jaganmitranand, confirming that he was the head of Sangha and was diksha guru of Jaichandra, i.e. he had given him diksha of Budhism. He was highly influenced by his grand mothers, Kumardevi and Basantidevi, who were great disciples of Mahayana, and had donated land and grants to viharas at Shravasti, Sarnath, Varanasi, Kanauj, Nalanda and Bodh Gaya. He used to visit viharas at Sarnath in childhood with his grand mother. [Dharmarakshit: 1956:65].
BUDHIST WARRIOR KING
He was well trained in art of war, and is mentioned in copper plates of Vijaychandra (1168 A.D.) as yuvaraja, and was coronated in 1170 A.D., when his father Vijaychandra died. His reign of nearly 24 years was glorious. He was patron of Budhist bhikkus and Brahmins, and creator of many forts. Though the Gahadvals are mentioned as rulers of Kanauj, their main capital was Kashi. Sarnath inscription of Kumardevi mentions Govindchandra as “Kashi-Naresh”, and Kanauj was their sub-capital. After the fall of Prithwiraj Chauhan in 1192 A.D., Md. Ghori attacked his kingdom but was repulsed by him. At the same time, Brahminic rulers, the Senas — creaters of Kulin system — from east invaded him and the whole of Magadha was captured by them.
PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAICHANDRA
End of this last great Budhist monarch of India came in a war of Chandawar, near Etawa, fighting against Md. Ghori.
Many scholars have blamed him as traitor on the basis of Prithwiraj Raso, a creation of a bard named Chanda Bardai. Raso says Prithwiraj had been loved by Jaichandra’s daughter, Sanyogita, as well as the daughter of King Nahaddev of Abu, and he abducted them one by one. Raso also mentions King Samarsingh of Mewad being killed in a battle of Taravadi. But scholars have proved all this false. Samarsingh was 150 years later than Prithwiraj and King Nahaddev was centuries earlier than him. Sanyogita is thus an imaginary heroine of Raso.
The author of Raso calls himself a contemporary of Prithwiraj, but all genealogy given by him is wrong and M. M. Dr. Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha has conclusively proved that Raso is not created before the 16th century. Prabandhkosh also wrongly blames him. As a matter of fact, there was no friendship or enmity between Jaichandra and Prithwiraj. [Dharmarakshit : 1956: 63]
WHY BRAHMINS PRAISE PRATHVIRAJ ?
Scholars like D. C. Ganguli also believe that Raso is a work of later period and the stories in it are highly unreliable, romantic and improbable. [Ganguli: 1989: 105]
The question nobody likes to deal with is why in the 16th century, Brahmins needed to eulogize the three centuries old Prathwiraj Chauhanas a hero and malign Jaychandra, the last great Budhist monarch of India flourishing 300 years ago? Jaichandra being known to have Budhist leanings. Was it an anti-Muslim propaganda or an anti-Budhist one?
PESHAVA RULE
The Peshava rule was purely Brahminic. The last Bajirao was famous for his orthodoxy. Violence was at its zenith during the Peshava rule. Ignore other wars; even Daulatrao Shinde first and then Yashwantrao Holkar, both Marathas, looted Pune, the capital of Peshavas. They were the great devotees of violence and should have spread all over India. But they had to surrender to the British — hundred times less violent than the Peshavas. Why? Were the Peshvas following ahimsa of the Budha?
Japan is Budhist for over 1,000 years. When in 1853, Commander Perry directed canons against them, they all united. Why the religion of Budha did not make them cowards? Vietnam is Budhist. How did they defeat the mighty America? How did the Vietnamese people fought for social-economic cause? Why the Budhist ahimsa did not prevent them from fighting?
HINDU DEFEAT DUE TO CASTE SYSTEM
It is very clear that the cause of defeat of Hindus for centuries is something different from the teachings of Budha. Then why are the Brahminists annoyed and angry with the Budhists? It is not because India lost freedom. It is because Budhism was successful in fighting the Brahmin supremacy, bringing an atmosphere of equality and stopping the Brahminic exploitation of the masses.
MacaulAy, Marxists & Muslims blamed
The three main enemies of Brahmins are Muslims, communists and Christians. The common factor is all these three do not accept the supremacy of Brahmins.
Brahmin leaders like Golwalkar blame the British for creating divisive tendencies among Indians. But they forget that seeds of such tendencies were sown by them only in their Brahminic culture.
One example is enough. During the famine of Pune (1803 – 1804), the Peshava Bajirao II, helped only the Brahmin population and refused to accept the responsibility of non-Brahmins even on humanitarian grounds. It was the British and Parsees of Bombay who helped them. Decision of Bajirao-II to ignore non-Brahmins was according to the Brahmin shastras, as the Brahmins must be fed first, say the shastras.
When the RSS talks of revival of Chaturvarna and “glory” of Hindu culture, this history comes forward. There we find no reference to the social or economic justice for the non-Brahmins. On the contrary, the picture appears to confirm that the Hindu culture means the preservation of the supremacy of Brahmins.
Even then the likes of Sawarkar blame Dr. Ambedkar for praising and paying tributes to the Mahar (SC) soldiers in the British army and for visiting Koregaon Pillar, erected in honor of them, who fought bravely with a strength of 500 against 30,000 Peshava soldiers, and lost their lives while defeating the Peshava army in Koregaon Battle (1818), which brought down the Peshava rule in 1820.
Legacy of Budhism
Ahimsa of the Shramanic culture is the legacy of Mahavir and the Budha, and whole Budhist world is proud of that. Contrary to what Sawarkar says there is nothing to be ashamed of this ahimsa, irrespective of the Lotus Sutra and Khadgadhari Budha.
Dr. Ambedkar has mentioned that the Budha’s teachings were rational that he differentiated the killing into ‘will to kill’ and the ‘need to kill’. This explains the rational thinking of Budha.
The spread and development into Japanese and Chinese martial arts have its origin in the development of martial arts in South India, from where it spread to the east.
The ongoing DV Debate about Budhist ahimsa is wandering astray. There is no need to doubt that ahimsa of Budhists was not ahimsa of cowards.

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Martial art liberates slaves enjoying slavery
S.K. BISWAS, 387-A, J&K POCKET, DILSHAD GARDEN, DELHI - 110 095
I am busy finalising my latest book, Untold History of India. I am committed to a reputed publisher in Delhi. More than half is over.
I strongly support the discussion going on in DV on Budha’s doctrine of liberty which can be attained only by supreme sacrifice of blood and life and retained by maintaining your martial race ever ready to face with adequate skill and competence. And Budha had said so.
I fully agree with DV’s stand that without being angry the Dalit-Bahujan Samaj cannot attain freedom.
The history of free and developed Europe is nothing but the history of successive civil wars which India has never seen. That is why the history of India is nothing but the history of successive defeats at the hands foreign tyrants and vandals. I will soon send an article on Budha’s view and doctrine of martial arts. Why don’t we see that it was a Budhist Vietnam which defeated the world’s greatest economic and military power, USA. India remains an eternal colony of slaves and slavery. The slaves love to enjoy slavery; they feel proud to remain slaves, the sudras. In the annals of Indian history sudras never revolted against sudrahood.

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Vipassana is not Budhism
DR. PREMJIT RAY, 302 - LB TOWERS,OPP. IBP COUNTRY CLUB, MAHARANIPETA, VIZAG - 530 002
This refers to “Goenka’s Thai fan defends meditation” (DV Sept.1, 2008, p.6) by Shongotha Maliyan, social scientist, Sreerancha, Thailand. He says:
“... there is no bigger fool than Dr. Ambedkar... Because Dr. Ambedkar himself was a fool... Dr. Ambedkar did not know all this because he was a man of violence and anti-Dhamma”.
He might have written this in an incoherent state or an intoxicated state, probably he is getting bad effects of Vipassana due to some error in doing it. By criticising Dr. Ambedkar, who is a great son born on this mother earth, next only to Budha, he has spit on to the sky and the result of which he may or may not know. Dr. Ambedkar is Bharata Ratna, the father of Indian Constitution, the first Law Minister of “independent” India, one of the six greatest brains in the world, who studied in the three world famous universities, obtaining highest academic qualifications like MA, PhD, DSc, LLD, DLitt, Barrister at Law and Justice of Peace awardee, and who has an historical credit of converting 5 lakh people into Budhism on Oct.14, 1956 at Nagpur. On such an intellectual giant, Shongotha’s remarks are unworthy and he has insulted the whole India. Thailand is known for sex tourism, very few people know it as Budhist country. It is a shame to his country which depends on the taxes paid by sex workers through sex tourism, Budha abolished illegal sex and flesh trade. From such a foreign country, one who calls himself a social scientist without knowing an iota about the caste system, the degrading slavery system, made such derogatory remarks on a mighty personality like Babasaheb. Probably Shongotha is not worthy of being a social scientist.
He says Dr. Ambedkar is a man of violence and anti-Dhamma. Shocking. Can he show a single instance where Babasaheb advocated violence? If Babasaheb had asked his followers to take to violence for their salvation India today would not have been like this. We would have got a separate country.
I very much doubt if Shongotha is a Budhist. When Budhists of many countries recognised Babasaheb as Bhodisattva, how can Shongotha say he is an anti-Dhamma? Remember, Dr. Ambedkar is the icon of Budhism, the symbol of Budha, Dhamma and Sangha. He has given us the Budhist bible called the Buddha & His Dhamma in its purest form. People are confused between Budhism, Ambedkarism and Vipassana. Let me say few words to clear the confusion. Vipassana itself is not Budhism. But through Vipassana we can understand Budhism. Vipassana is what the mind experiences, Budhism is what the mind does. Vipassana is a method of reasoning; Budhism is a method of action or reaction or the way one leads his life. A Vipassana practitioner need not be a Budhist, that is why Burmese monk taught this technique to Goenka who is not a Budhist. Similarly a Budhist who knows the law of dependent origin, anicca, anatta and dhukka need not practice Vipassana, but he must practice Budha Dhamma. The Vipassana is an insight through which we can understand the truth of the nature, whether it is our own body or the universe. Through this method of reasoning Budha achieved enlightenment. What is most important is what Budha does after his enlightenment. So also what Asoka did after becoming a Budhist, similarly what Babasaheb preached and practiced is most important than whether they practiced Vipassana or not. Vipassana is not a miracle or wonder, but it is a practical way to become wise. Wise men should not sit cross-legged, but he must work for the society to transform it into a sorrowless world. That is what Budha did. That is what Asoka did and that is what Babasaheb tried in this ignorant country.
Asoka ignored Vipassana: To my knowledge none of the Asoka pillar or rocks mentioned Vipassana. If it were so vital a part of Budhism like the Dhamma, Asoka would not have ignored it. I have undergone Vipassana training as well as sramanera training to have an experience. Vipassana is like a wealth. If you want its benefits practice it, if you don’t want leave it, but don’t drag it into controversies and please don’t blame others for practising it or for not practising it. Most of the people who practice Vipassana are practising it for their own benefits. But what is most important is one must be a Budhist like Asoka or like Babasaheb and live diligently to make the society sorrowless.
(1). Vipassana is a process of thinking with a single pointed mind called insight meditation through which we can realize the three cardinal features of Budhism viz anicca, anatta and dhukka. (2). Vipassana is an exercise, people who want to expierence it can do it, it is not a must. Dr.Babasahebs‘ entire life is like meditation, all of his physical and psychological energy was used for the single cause, the upliftment of the downtroden. He is like Budha. (3). Goenka is not a Budhist. He admits that he is a Hindu and belongs to business class. He says Vipassana is a technique practice that leads one to enlightenment.

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Silence of DV members
For the second time in the 27-year-old history of Dalit Voice, we have launched the Debate on Budhism. The first Debate went on for five years. The second DV debate, started on Feb.16, 2008, has become more vigorous and revealing. Yet hundreds of our DV family members, who are devout Ambedkarite Budhists mostly in Maharashtra, are silent.
Budha and Babasaheb fought and died to establish Justice and Truth destroyed by the alien Brahminical enemies. Ambedkarite Budhists say they are faithfully following this tradition. If so why this silence? Does it mean they are confused? How can an Ambedkarite, that too a member of the DV family, get confused? Why don’t you tell us if DV is on the path of Justice and Truth. Or not?
If the silence continues, does it not amount to betraying our own Father? — EDITOR.

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COMMUNICATION: in defence of dv
Constructive criticism of Mayawati must be welcomed
S. SINGHA CHOWDHURY, RAMAKRISHNA POLLEY, D.S. LANE POST, HOWRAH DT. - 711 109
This refers to Abhay Dongre’s “Communication” (DV July 1, 2008, p.8: “BSP, Periyar & Dalit Voice”), which seems to me a wrathful angst against a simple Editorial: “Political power or socio-cultural revolution, which is more important? The test case before BSP Govt.” (DV June 1, 2008).
Ambedkarite intellectuals like Dr. Kancha Ilaiah had raised similar questions preferring as if to suggest socio-cultural revolution’s prior claim for serious concern. I don’t agree with him in the context of BSP’s sweeping victory as a mere strategic victory of Brahmin and Dalit alliance.
Banning Periyar Ramayan
Bengal, the foremost Brahminic state in India was all agog in joy and praise of Mayawati for forging such an alliance. I view it as Brahminic capitulations to Mayawati as their only protector. Such capitulation, sincere or shrewd, did not come as a consequence of mere snapping of fingers. It is the consequence of a rising tide of surging Dalit movement of long duration in the UP of Mayawati’s superhuman feat and courage. I wrote in the wake of last Bhubaneswar DV silver jubilee (unpublished) somewhat more elaborately in exposition of Mayawati’s strategic moves likening them to Nehru, the high priest of UP who never relaxed his hard-core Brahminism, though always speaking in the most liberal vein.
Mayawati, I believe, is a hard-core Ambedkarite and promises to be the strongest PM with a iron will to establish social justice till yet no other PM had done.
In coalition politics all political parties do join either one slot of political parties or another to keep them afloat in political space. You avoid doing any coalition to imperil your existence to ruin. A metamorphosis is not absolutely ruled out.
But a metempsychosis (change of character of the soul) has to be very cautiously avoided to keep its true image, the Dalit image, visible to the Dalit. It is not that an orthodox Brahminical party like BJP will always be successful to keep its image pure as ever but it is more likely that an “impure” party like BSP more often succumbs to the glare of publicity of the Brahminical media and fall easy prey to cajolery and flattery of the opportunistic upper caste snare laid deftly to entangle the rising star of the Dalit leader to finish him.
Our Editor was perhaps in his maturity of observation, full of ghost of susceptibilities and forebodings, in his anxieties — a normal phenomenon in changing circumstances — which should be recognised with thanks.
Co-existence of castes impossible
In the context of Dongre’s reaction to the Editorial, I wish to point out that reluctance to install Periyar statue at the behest of the BJP is not “a very small issue” considering the bondage (not yet broken) to idolatry of the Hindu mind. More grievous injury has been caused by injudiciously banning Periyar’s Ramayan again at the prompting of the same orthodox party. It is a bigger all from the ideal.
Dongre should note that Mayawati is being closely watched over not only by the whole of India but also by the whole world, particularly fixing attention on her perspicuity of her outlook, determination to pursue Dr. Ambedkar ideals, her ability to bring out a socio-cultural egalitarian revolution and thereby to usher in a new era of prosperity in India, which has so far eluded India by Brahminic dishonesty and ill-will against the low-caste people.
As regards the making of bee-line by the Brahmin sycophants to touch Mayawati’s feet, I am not very elated to sight the phenomenon in a spirit of retribution. It was never the intention of Dr. Ambedkar to turn the caste hierarchy upside down in order to make the Brahmins of today the sweepers tomorrow and vice-versa. His vision was to completely annihilate the very caste system.
Brahmins cause Dalit-OBC CLASH
How can those who do not believe in the unity of SC/ST/BC/Muslim destroy the Brahminism, which has ruined India, can be really patriotic? Co-existence of castes and patriotism is inconsistent with each other. Love for caste(s) and love for the country and its people cannot go together farther than the first step.
Those who are impatient with the vacillation of the OBCs and their hostilities to the Dalit and, therefore, are prone to view them as more dangerous than the Brahmin, are not serving the Dalit cause.
Dalit-OBC hostilities are manipulated by Brahminic strategies. Mutual hatred is the social law in the existing hierarchical society based on hatred. The vice of hatred of the upper castes seeps through the castes immediately below them.
Ambedkarite revolution cannot be brought about without the unity among the SC/ST/OBC and Muslim/Christians. The Editor has made this point clear many times.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/oct2008/articles.htm
Jaya's remarks aimed at damaging concern of Tamils: Karunanidhi
17 Oct 2008, 1838 hrs IST, PTI
CHENNAI: Condemning the remarks by AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa that the October 14 all-party resolutions seemed supportive of the LTTE, Tamil Nadu Chi
ef Minister Karunanidhi said they were only aimed at "damaging" the concern of the people here for their brethren in Sri Lanka.
Writing in the DMK's mouthpiece 'Murasoli', Karunanidhi said Jayalalithaa's remarks would only damage the concern of the people in the state for the Tamils in the island nation.
He was surprised to note that MDMK chief Vaiko, who has been "shedding tears for Sri Lankan Tamils", had not expressed any opinion on his ally Jayalalithaa's remarks.
"Vaiko had not gone in for a war of words with Jayalalithaa as he wanted to fully concentrate on pressing the Centre to take steps to stop the Sri Lankan army offensive in the northern parts of the island nation," he said.
Referring to the human chain protest here on October 21 to remind the Centre of the resolutions passed at the all-party meet, he said it was only an effort to press the Centre to take action.
"People should participate in the rally in large numbers to express solidarity with the resolutions adopted at the all-party meeting, he added.
India summons Lankan envoy, raises concern over violence
17 Oct 2008, 1850 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: As DMK continued to mount pressure on the Sri Lanka Tamil issue, government on Friday summoned Lankan High Commissioner to India C R Jayas
inghe and told him that Colombo should address New Delhi's concerns over the humanitarian situation in the island nation and stop harassing and killing Indian fishermen.
Jayasinghe was called by foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon who said that Sri Lanka should ensure that the rights of its civilians are respected and they are protected from attacks, sources said.
Menon told Jayasinghe that India was gravely worried over the situation arising out the conflict in Sri Lanka and wanted Colombo to address these concerns, the sources said.
The foreign secretary specifically said India wanted Sri Lanka to stop harassing and killing of its fishermen in the common waters between the two countries, they said.
Menon also told the Sri Lankan envoy that Colombo should find a negotiated political solution to the ethnic problem rather than look for a military victory.
Earlier in the day, three more DMK Rajya Sabha members put in their papers to party president M Karunanidhi saying they have resigned from the Upper House in protest against the Sri Lankan army offensive against ethnic Tamils in the island nation.
Tiruchi N Siva, A A Jinnah and Vasanthi Stanley submitted their resignation letters dated October 29 to Karunanidhi for forwarding the same to Rajya Sabha Chairman at an appropriate time, party sources said.
The move comes in the wake of the October 14 all-party meeting which asked the Centre to take steps to halt the Sri Lankan Army offensive in the north of the island.
With their resignation, all four Rajya Sabha members of DMK had given their resignation papers to Karunanidhi. Kanimozhi, daughter of Karunanidhi, handed over her post-dated resignation letter to Karunanidhi on Wednesday.
The all-party meeting gave an ultimatum to the Centre to take steps to stop Lankan army's offensive within a fortnight, failing which all MPs from Tamil Nadu would resign en masse.
The state Congress unit, which also took part in the all-party meeting, appears to be in a quandary over the resolution as it could take a decision on resignation of its MPs only with the permission of the party high command.
Highly placed Congress sources said that TNCC President K V Thangabalu had said at the all-party meeting that his party high command alone could decide on the resignation of the MPs.
Four Congress MPs -- P Chidambaram, Mani Shankar Aiyar, EVKS Elangovan (all from Lok Sabha) and G K Vasan (Rajya Sabha) -- are members in the Manmohan Singh Ministry.
Thangabalu, who is in New Delhi to attend the Lok Sabha session, is expected to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi to apprise her of the situation here, the sources added.
How Raj Thackeray got involved in the Jet drama
17 Oct 2008, 1943 hrs IST, Vasundhara Sanger , TIMESOFINDIA.COM
MUMBAI: Raj Thackeray is an expert cartoonist. But his talent with the sketch pen was somehow camouflaged by his political activities and his party,
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS), north Indian bashing in Mumbai. However, with one stroke, he turned himself into a hero of the masses when he firmly stood by 1900 sacked employees of Jet Airways who rushed to him for help.
Explaining how it happened, Nitin Sardesai, the party's general secretary informed that Raj was actually in Pune when the sacked jet employees approached MNS for help. "As soon as they were sacked some of the employees contacted me. They personally knew me and I immediately called them to my office," said Nitin who met more than 200 retrenched Jet employees in his office on Wednesday, the day they were sacked. He spoke to Raj on the phone who, was on his way back from Pune to Mumbai.
After he reached Mumbai, Raj was apprised of the situation and he decided to support the sacked staff saying that it was ridiculous to throw out so many young people on the road, overnight.
"There was no politics involved in this and we did not even consult experts in this matter. It was a spontaneous situation and Raj told the press on Wednesday evening that he would not allow any Jet airways flights to take off or land in Mumbai if the sacked employees were not reinstated. It seemingly worked because on Thursday evening all the employees got back their jobs, though the Jet chairman maintained that it was his "conscience" and not any political pressure that worked in the sacked employees' favour.
"To tell you the truth it was Raj saheb's charisma that drew these young employees to him. They know that he is a man of words and would not tolerate any injustice," said Nitin, elaborating why the sacked employees' first recall was Raj in this situation and not any other political party or union.
"In fact Jet airways has a Shiv Sena union but they didn't go to them," said Nitin who himself is a first time politician and admits to have been drawn to Raj's party not because of their close friendship but due to the fact that he (Nitin) was convinced of the MNS chief's leadership qualities.
On Friday Raj Thackeray at a press conference in Mumbai thanked Jet chairman Naresh Goyal for reinstating the sacked staff, adding that he didn't want to make this a political issue nor did he intend to form any union. He stated that he just didn't want to see youths on the street.
Not many know Raj's party has in its fold doctors, legal experts and few other professionals who advise MNS on issues of labour, medicine, law and other social issues. They have no interest in politics but are the well wishers of the party and are on its panel of experts. In fact, insiders say Raj has always insisted on having such crème de la crème on his party's panel because they are rich, highly educated and have no interests in politics and so they would do real (social) work.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/How_Raj_got_involved_in_Jet_drama/articleshow/3609710.cms

Nurturing democracy
17 Oct, 2008, 0053 hrs IST,Gurpreet Mahajan,

People, territory and a government which acts as a sovereign body are said to constitute a state. But what transforms these people, living together o
n a given piece of land, into a political community? How does one instil a sense of mutual obligation among them? This is a question that confronts all democracies today. More importantly, the answer to this question determines whether one can claim to be a democracy.
The capacity of a state to function as a collective body, the willingness of the people to share goods and resources, to contribute taxes that may provide valuable services to others, rests crucially upon the people seeing themselves as a community of citizens. So fostering a sense of collective solidarity and mutual obligation is necessary for the existence of the state during periods of peace as much as it is during moments of war.
Democracies, however, face the challenge of constructing this political community in a manner that protects the basic rights of all its citizens.
The political leadership involved in the drafting of the Indian Constitution was mindful of this requirement. From Nehru to Patel, all agreed that independent India could not be a Hindu-stan. Religion could not be the basis of welding the different groups together into a single community because people sharing a religious identity could be divided on grounds of language and/or caste.
Besides, the experience of Europe had shown that fostering unity through a common religion entailed restricting the civil and political rights of those who did not adhere to the official state religion. A shared religion made the state exclusionary and partisan — ideals that a democracy could not, or should not, endorse.
What then could bind the people together, particularly when they belonged to different religions, spoke different languages and had different historical pasts and experiences? The struggle against British colonial rule had created a sense of collective being in certain areas but India after independence included hundred of small principalities, with different political experiences and past practices.
Under the circumstances, the political leaders set aside the popular answers to this question. Instead of banking on a shared religion or language, they put their faith in, what may be called, constitutional patriotism.
Having observed the possibility of people coming together and nurturing collective bonds through the process of participation in the national movement for independence, they believed that a Constitution that promises all its citizens (people of different religions and marginalised groups) fair and equal treatment and guarantees their political rights would generate a sense of fraternity among the citizens.
This sense of fellowship would translate into a feeling of belonging and pride — elements that would be further reinforced through active participation in the political process and the benefits that were to accrue from the process of development.
For its time this was a radically new way of thinking about citizenship and democracy. Unfortunately, today when more and more countries are recognising the merit and necessity of endorsing this framework, where commitment is required only for the political principles enshrined in the Constitution, rather than a religious or cultural identity, India is moving in the opposite direction.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Nurturing_democracy/articleshow/3605641.cms
N-deal a reason to switch to Republican camp for Indians
16 Oct, 2008, 0000 hrs IST,Ishani Duttagupta, ET Bureau

Deven Verma and his son Vishal Verma - both partners at Silicon Valley based venture capital firm Edgewood Ventures - have recently turned Republican
supporters. “The Indo-American nuclear deal has highlighted the fact that a Republican government is good for India.
Even for Indian Americans the McCain campaign is putting much more on the table in terms of a pro-business attitude and tax breaks. Besides, the Republicans have a far more liberal attitude towards the outsourcing debate than the Democrats,” says Deven Verma who was till recently a Democratic fund raiser and supporter.
“The Democrats have a good PR with India and I was a part of President Clinton’s business delegation to India,” adds Mr Verma who was a part of the Indian American Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee during the last US elections. And now he’s the chair of Indo-Americans for McCain, and says he backs the Republican nominee because he offered a better platform for New Delhi and Indian Americans on issues like tax and energy policies besides consistent support for the Indian nuclear deal.
“The charter of the Indo-Americans for McCain is to galvanise the Indian community in the US. We hope to create a strong network of Indian Americans and raise issues that affect our community with the government,” Mr Vishal Verma said. He is a partner at Edgewood Ventures, which assists IT start-up companies in business development, strategy and brand creation. He is on the board of Bay Area Technologies, Edgewood Real Estate India, HSMC, Hyde Park Angels and Legal Remedies.
Mr Deven Verma had a big fund-raiser for the Democrats too and had raised over $250,000 for Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry’s campaign. As the founding general partner of Edgewood and earlier Redwood Ventures, he has invested in over 80 companies.
“I was a trustee for the Kerry campaign and had supported the Clintons on various issues. I was also a strong Democratic fund-raiser. But some of the policy statements by the Obama campaign have set me thinking. Now I feel that the Republicans will be much better for both India and Indian American businesses. As a result, I am now focused on fund raising for Senator McCain,” he says. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/N-deal_a_reason_to_switch_to_Republican_camp_for_Indians/articleshow/3600884.cms
Kerala govt holds anti-Centre stir in Delhi

Friday, 17 October , 2008, 18:53

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan on Friday led his cabinet colleagues and ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) legislators to an agitation near Parliament against the alleged negligence meted out towards state by the Central Government.
Sixteen ministers, 70 legislators and the Left MPs from Kerala participated in the protest march and sit-in inaugurated by Achuthanandan and addressed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat, Communist Party of India deputy general secretary Sudhakar Reddy and other senior Left leaders.
Inaugurating the sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Achuthanandan urged the Central Government to restore the rice quota for the people belonging to the Above Poverty Line (APL) category in the state, set up railway zone for Kerala, set up an Indian Institute of Technology in the state and restore the share of electricity from Central pool.
“The strong statutory rationing system prevalent in the state is now at stake due to reduction of central quota,” he said.
Left gives breach of privilege notice against PM
“There was an allocation of 113,420 tones of rice per month for distribution to APL card holders up to March 2007. This was reduced to 21,334 tones from April 2007 to 17,056 tonnes in April 2008 and has completely stopped since September this year,” Achuthanandan said.
The Chief Minister said the share of electricity from the Central pool had been reduced considerably.
"Putting the state into a severe power crisis, the share of electricity from the Central pool has gone down to 667 MW in August this year. The state is to get 1,188 MW electricity per month from the central pool,” he said.
Rejecting the claim by Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi that he and Defence Minister A K Antony as Union ministers helped Kerala get sanction for Vizhinjam port, Achuthanandan said: “It is purely the LDF (Left Democratic government's project and the effort to get sanction was made the state government only.”
"Now they are pasting posters on walls in the state claiming that the project was sanctioned due to their efforts... Let them do so… We don't have any problem," he told the media after concluding the agitation.
Offering his full support to Kerala's cause, Prakash Karat urged the Union government to re-write centre-state relations.
“A joint platform of more states would be formed to check the excess intervention of the Centre in the affairs of states,” he said.
CPI-M Politburo member Sitaram Yechury and CPI leader Sudhakar Reddy said the Left party MPs would raise the Kerala government's genuine concern in both Houses of Parliament in the ongoing session.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition in state assembly Oommen Chandy led a similar protest in front of the state secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram against the "poor governance" of the state government.
Chandy said while inaugurating the sit in that what Achuthanandan was doing in Delhi "will show Kerala and its citizens in poor light."
The Congress alleged that close to Rs 3 crore has been spent by Achuthanandan to stage the protest in Delhi.
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Editorial: Fiscal aggravations
Business Standard / New Delhi October 17, 2008, 0:30 IST


When oil prices began surging late last year, it was widely believed that it was a temporary spike. Many countries, including India, did not believe it was necessary to pass on higher prices to consumers, preferring to absorb the impact by subsidising prices. As it turns out, the pattern did not sustain for very long. As a result of sharp declines in global demand, crude prices are now a half of what they were three months back, and indeed back to where they were a year ago. But even now, the government is not recovering the full cost of petroleum products from the consumer, and the cumulative subsidy bill has risen beyond all expectations, putting enormous pressure on government finances. In India, the subsidy bill has been further enlarged by the need to keep the issue prices of fertilisers low in the face of surging international prices, driven of course by rising energy prices. This double whammy, reinforced by other measures like the loan waiver, will take the effective fiscal deficit of the central government to more than double the budget estimate. While this has been known for some time, its significance has increased in the context of the liquidity crisis that the Indian financial system is dealing with today.
In order to cover the losses of the oil and fertiliser companies, the government issued them bonds. These bonds could, theoretically, have been traded in the market to raise cash. However, there were really no takers and the bonds could only be sold at a steep discount. This left the oil companies, in particular, with inadequate cash with which to finance their crude oil imports. They had to borrow from banks, which very soon took the system up to its upper limit for sectoral exposure. In response, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) did two things. It raised the exposure limit for the petroleum sector and it initiated a Special Market Operation, in which oil companies could swap oil bonds for dollars, which would be used to finance imports. This measure accomplished two goals. It eased the pressure on the liquidity in the banking system as oil companies reduced their borrowing. And, it took the oil companies away from the spot foreign exchange market, since they could now buy dollars directly from the RBI. The rupee, which had been steadily depreciating until then, stabilised immediately.
However, those gains were short-lived. The oil companies exhausted their supply of bonds in a few weeks! No new bonds have been issued during 2008, a problem that has still not been rectified. Oil companies, therefore, went back to borrowing from banks and buying dollars in the spot market. With all the other pressures on liquidity, this was one the system could clearly have done without. With Parliament about to reconvene, the backlog of bonds should be issued soon. The RBI has also declared its intention to resume the dollars-for-bonds swap as soon as feasible.
These developments should contribute to the further easing of liquidity pressures, but they highlight a fundamental concern. Bad fiscal management, apart from all its other consequences, also affects the functioning of financial markets by putting unnecessary pressure on the demand for funds. Fortunately, the pressure from oil prices is abating, which will reduce the subsidy bill; more importantly, it gives the government a chance to correct prices and to eliminate the subsidy entirely, thereby stopping the distortion of the liquidity situation.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=337590

Mainstream, Vol XLVI No 43
Indo-US N-Deal: US Power Elite Gains All, India Loses Every Way
by Sailendra Nath Ghosh, 17 October 2008


The following article was written before the passage of the bill for the nuclear deal in the US Senate. —Editor`
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his latest and possibly last meeting with the outgoing US President, has expressed the hope that the nuclear deal would be approved by the US Congress in a manner which will be “satisfactory” from both countries’ viewpoints. One wonders if his delusion is limitless. If he had any sense of dignity which a sovereign nation’s chief executive ought to have, he would have roundly condemned the bill introduced in the US House of Represen-tatives with harsh amendments against India—and recoiled from the deal.
So long he was duping our people by saying that the 123 Agreement was not bound by the Hyde Act. Evidently, this was his pretence. He is not so dull-witted as not to know that this was an India-specific Act. Its very name was Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Energy Cooperation Act of 2006. Hence this Act’s mandate on the US Administration for enforcing certain measures on India after it signs the 123 Agreement cannot remain inoperative. His pretence was, and even now is, that because these were not explicitly written in the 123 Agreement, India could afford to take no cognizance of the Hyde Act’s provisions.
To prevent such a pretence in any future lawsuit, the bill, as introduced in the House of Representatives, made it explicit that the 123 Agreement with India would be subject to the US Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Hyde Act of 2006, and any other applicable United States law “as if the Agreement had been approved pursuant to the provisions” (of the aforesaid Acts) “for cooperation, in section 123 (b) and (d) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
A look at the major provisions of the Hyde Act is necessary to grasp its sinister significance. It laid down
(i) that in the event of nuclear testing by India, the co-operation would be terminated (of course , the US would consider if the testing was done under exceptional international circumstances);
(ii) that the termination would be accompanied by measures for getting back the equipment, the nuclear fuels, and other materials supplied by the USA;
(iii) that the US would make sure that India does not try to build fuel reserves beyond the minimum needed for operational purposes;
(iv) that the US would ensure that India does not generate plutonium, even from plants excluded from IAEA safeguards (inspection);
(v) that the US President would have to certify to the US Congress every year that India is behaving in a manner “conducive to the US interests”.
Notably, the provision mentioned in (iv) above is meant to cap India’s nuclear weapon making capacity. Effectively, it also shuts the chances of research for making thorium fissile (that is, capable for power generation). The provision mentioned in (v) above is meant to rob India not only of nuclear sovereignty but also of independence in foreign policy making, which is far more damaging. In the name of ending India’s nuclear isolation, it was meant to isolate India from most nations—particularly from the emerging alliances of peoples in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East.
As if the these were not enough, the bill, introduced in the USA’s House of Representatives (incorporating amendments), laid down:
(i) that the US Government shall urge India to sign an Additional protocol with IAEA, consistent with IAEA principles, practices, and policies at the earliest date;
(ii) that in the case of any proposal from India for a subsequent arrangement for reprocessing or any alteration (of the spent fuel), the President shall keep the appropriate congressional committees fully and currently informed of any discussion or negotiation related to the subject and brief the committees each month;
(iii) that the US President would be required to certify that it would pursue efforts to ensure that any other nation that supplies reactor fuel or equipment or nuclear or non-nuclear material, subjects India to similar arrangements;
(iv) that the President shall certify that the US is pursuing a policy with the Nuclear Supplies Group, individually and collectively, to agree to further restrict the transfer of equipment and technology related to the enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel to India, and that the issuance of this certificate will have to be done before exchanging any diplomatic exchanges;
(v) that the President shall seek to achieve, by the earliest possible date, either within NSG or with relevant participating governments, the adoption of principles, reporting exchanges of information ….. to assure peaceful use and accounting of by product material to ensure that nothing is being diverted by India to non-peaceful purposes;
and
(vi) that not later than six months after the enactment of the Act, and every six months thereafter, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committee a report on efforts by the United States pursuant to subsections (a) and (b).
Every one of these amendments is an insult to India’s impeccable record and her efforts not to step out of the “minimum arsenal build-up for nuclear deterrence”. India has the right to ask: has the USA, which has the dirtiest record in building its nuclear arsenal breaching its own pledge to progressively reduce the arsenal, any right to challenge India, the only nuclear capable state which has stuck rigidly to the objective of non-proliferation?
WORLD COMMISSION’S INDICTMENT OF THE USA
THE world needed to expose this US hypocrisy and fling to its face the report of the independent International Commission on the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chaired by Hans Blix (the former chief of IAEA and also of the team which investigated Iran’s alleged preparations for WMDs)—among whose members was a former US Defence Secretary, William Perry. The Commission held the United States largely responsible for the current situation, wherein the urge for proliferation of nuclear weapons is spreading to more and more countries and the chances of possible terrorist acquisitions, too, are increasing. The report pointed out that the NPT treaty of 1968 obligated the US to end the arms race ‘at an early date’, and negotiate ‘in good faith’, the elimination of its nuclear arsenal. But, although the treaty was extended indefinitely in 1995, President Bill Clinton threatened “first-use of nuclear weapons as the cornerstone of US national security” in a 1997 directive. The greatest culprit is the USA.
Notably, President George Bush, too, is now threatening other nations to nuke them into submission, thus reaffirming the Commission’s conclusions. This is the direst and most direct provocation for nuclear proliferation in today’s world.
Manmohan Singh has not uttered a word of protest against the amendments introduced in the House of Representatives bill. Indications are that even if something more obnoxious emerges from the US Senate, he will find it “satisfactory” and sign the deal. Servility hath no bounds for a man deluded.
It would appear intriguing that while the US Congress is dead earnest about tying India tightly to non-proliferation, the US Administration wears a double face. In its communications to the Congressional committees it fully shares the die-hards’ hegemonic views. In its dealings with Government of India, it shows excessive zeal for strategic partnership with India.
In spite of its initial promise of full civil nuclear cooperation, it is now withholding almost everything from the Indian Establishment, ostensibly on the plea that this, too, has dual (civil and non-civil) uses. What exactly are the USA’s motives? Why did it so promptly pass the bill in the House? Why, even the die-hards who want to impose non-proliferation on others, are rushing to get the bill for 123 Agreement with India passed in the Senate, too? Why this haste? Divergence in Democratic Behaviour
BEFORE delving into the US motivations, we need to see how valid is the claim about “engagement of the world’s two “largest democracies”. One is “super-moneybag democracy”, ruled by what Eisenhower had termed as “industrial-military complex” but which still has such rich democratic traditions as can haul up even the most powerful persons without fear, and subjects everything of importance to scrutiny by the House of Representatives and the Senate. A democracy at home, it is prone to supporting dictatorial regimes in other countries if they are amenable to US influence.
The other democracy, namely, India, bypasses Parliament on the most crucial international issues. It bypassed Parliament while entering into the WTO, a most potent instrument for pro-TNC globalization. There, too, it was Manmohan Singh who led Prime Minister Narasimha Rao—and India—up the garden path in hastily joining the WTO instead of doggedly resisting the Dunkel proposal. Possibly, Manmohan Singh Government will sign the n-deal, too, with the US in early October bypassing Parliament, breaking his earlier promise to come back to this august body to discuss the form of bill approved by the US Congress. If he does this, will the Parliament outlaw the deal? Will the Supreme Court of India suo moto declare it unconstitutional? US Motives behind the Deal
The US Government’s motives are several-fold.
1. After having invaded Iraq on a false excuse, this government is now deep in a quagmire. After spending one trillion dollars—this is Barack Obama’s estimate, which is less than half of some non-official estimate—and losing four thousand American lives, the US does not as yet know how to wriggle out of this situation. Not only is resentment growing in the USA but some European allies also are distancing themselves from US moves. If India, once the leader of the global non-aligned movement, could be pulled away from the G-77 countries (and also from its friendly ties with Russia) and drawn into the US orbit, it would be a great gain for the US. Administration, overshadowing all losses. For the last six decades the US Power Elite had been longing for this. The US has a habit of propping up certain forces in other countries to gain some advantage and creating conflict situations. It hopes to use naïve Indian personnel to pull the chestnut out of the fire for the US.
2. Export of armaments on a huge scale to India and becoming its arms supplier number one has been the USA’s objective. Now its soaring external debts have greatly whetted this appetite. The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has openly said that commerce with India in military hardware is priority number one in the Pentagon’s thinking.
3. For the last thirty years, the US nuclear reactor industry has remained starved of orders. After the Three-Mile Island’s nuclear mishap, the American people have not allowed any reactor to be set up. As many as 37 earlier orders had also to be cancelled due to people’s resistance. The Chernobyl meltdown in Ukraine in 1986 has accentuated this sprit of resistance. But a State which wants to keep piling its nuclear arsenal needs to maintain the nuclear reactor industry. The burden has become unbearable even for the richest nation’s public treasury. Since India’s political class, led by the country’s nuclear mandarins, are desperately seeking to import uranium to improve the load factor of existing atomic power plants and is also planning to set up new nuclear reactors despite the disappointing results at home and abroad, it appeared as an excellent business opportunity to the US for bailing out its own reactor making industry at India’s cost. According to news reports, in response to the Bush Administration’s demand for preferential rights, the Government of India has assured the US Secretary of State in advance that India would purchase 10 reactors from the USA and has reserved two sites for their placement. Reportedly, some “strong letters of intent” to some commercial firms in the USA have also been given. When some American commentators, challenging presidential candidate McCain’s idea of setting up some nuclear plants are saying that nuclear energy is too extravagant even for an economy as rich as America’s, the Manamohan Singh Government, which faces a resource crunch to fight poverty, has largesses to set up twenty new nuclear reactors! None can blame America’s cupidity when there are Timons of Athens in India wishing to make India a nation of destitutes.
4. The USA is strong in its determination to disallow any but the five “nuclear-have” countries to develop nuclear muscle. Yet, India, Israel and Pakistan have developed nuclear weapons. Several others, too, are striving to possess similar capacities. Despite the American opposition, India conducted nuclear tests twice—in 1974 and 1998. Now, when India’s vainglorious nuclear overlords are going a-begging for uranium fuel, this is the opportunity to squeeze India and pin it down to actually observing NPT rules and procedures even without India becoming a formal NPT signatory.
The US Power Elite has succeeded in achieving all these four major objectives through this deal. The US is already pushing the sale of multi-purpose combat aircraft to India for Rs 45,000 crores. Besides, the USA expects India to buy at least 100 billion dollars (Rs four-and-a-half lakh crores) worth of military hardware (missiles, radars and other items) over the next ten years. The import of ten nuclear reactors with 10,000 MW power generation capacity from the USA alone will cost anything between Rs 50,000 crores and Rs 80,000 crores. Then, there will be costs of imports of other nuclear reactors from France and Russia. The setting up of a reprocessing plant will cost more than Rs 10,000 crores. Since the resulting rise in demand for uranium will raise its per-ton price in the international market, this will mean heavy bleeding of India continually. Thus, it is an unprecedented programme of depriving India’s starving millions further to bail out the richest nation’s armaments and nuclear reactor industries.
The losses to India from the deal are:
(i) the inevitable withering of rapport with the non-aligned countries of the world and isolation from the emerging alliances of nations in South Asia, Central Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East;
(ii) the lessening of warmth in its relationship with Russia due to India’s obvious “US fixation”,
(iii) the surrender of the doctrine of minimum nuclear deterrence build-up in a world dominated by powers piling up nuclear arsenals;
(iv) obeisance to the discriminatory NPT regime’s rules, even without being a formal NPT signatory;
(v) mute acceptance of the ban on nuclear tests imposed by a power that is armed to the teeth by nuclear weapons. (Theoretically, India can still terminate the agreement and conduct nuclear tests. But this will attract severe punitive measures emanating from the provisions of the agreement signed by it.)
(vi) launching India on further impoverishment and environmental destruction path on a scale never experienced earlier.
This author himself is opposed to nuclear testing and to nuclear build-up even as a deterrence. He gives credit to Benazir Bhutto for the realisation in her twilight years that atom bombs dropped on a neighbouring country cannot but take a heavy toll of one’s own countrymen’s lives and natural resources. Even so, he cannot bear the idea that a foreign power which itself keeps building nuclear arsenal, seeks to impose non-proliferation on others. From the viewpoint of India’s hitherto followed policy, the Government of India’s prostration is complete.
Manmohan Singh’s charmed drumbeaters can mask this unprecedented sell-out as a “great success” story. But truth has a weird way of coming out, as it certainly will.
Questions about the UPA Government’s Calculations
THE question now is: what are the motivations of the government that is now ruling India?
The Bush Administration proposed and the Manmohan Singh Government agreed to a “multi-dimensional strategic relation” but its contents or directions were never spelt out. As things are unfolding—the US side making more and more strident demands and the Indian side yielding all along—it is becoming clear that the Indian side is agreeable to abjuring its nuclear sovereignty and its foreign-policy making independence to become the USA’s de facto junior partner in a global coalition. For a country that is known for its independence of thinking and for its leading role in the world’s freedom struggles, it is a huge reversal. Then, how is this tilt, this unending stream of submissions, this tacit acceptance of primacy of military hardware over sound policies, and this “strong letter of intent” to foreign firms for nuclear reactors despite its inevitable effect of making India the poorest among the poor nations, be explained? An explanation can be that the Prime Minister is living in a dream that by becoming a junior partner of the world’s lone superpower, India can be secure from external attacks and foreign-inspired terror and may even acquire a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. He might have taken Condoleezza Rice’s idea of shoring up India’s prowess as a counterweight to China too seriously, forgetting that she is a temporary holder of power. If this dream theory is ruled out, then the only other plausible explanation is that he is being led by India’s nuclear overlords. How harmful their narrow “tunnel view” is, will be explained in detail in another article. (The author’s article “Why the Nuclear Energy Path is Suicidal”, published in this year’s Republic Day Number of Mainstream, has given a part of the explanation.)
Of course, the nuclear overlords got the support of India’s big business who feel that aligning with the USA will open up a huge export market for their products. This may turn out to be a pipedream for various reasons.
THE ONLY WAY OUT
THERE is only one way to redemption. India will have to make conscious efforts to correct the tilt and put international relations on an even keel. At the same time, it will have to unleash a powerful international movement for Universal Nuclear Disarmament.
As its logical corollary, expansion of nuclear power generation has to be stopped, because it is well-nigh impossible to separate atomic power generation from nuclear weapon making and nuclear terrorism. It is pretty certain that nobody will talk of nuclear power generation two decades hence. Its potential for causing financial and energy bankruptcy and environmental disaster will increasingly come to the fore. (It causes energy bankruptcy by pre-empting the funds, which could otherwise be spent for harnessing renewable forms of energy capable of yielding hundred times as much output.)
Rajiv Gandhi had addressed the UN General Assembly, stressing the importance of Universal Nuclear Disarmament. It did not gather momentum then. Now it will, and compel all powers to dismantle nuclear weapons in the interest of their own security and survival. Maybe, it will take a couple of decades to reach the crescendo. (September 30, 2008)
The author, who in the fifties was the Secretary of the Economic Unit attached to the Central Committee of the undivided Communist Party of India, is one of the country’s earliest environmentalists and a social philosopher.
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article983.html
West urged not to ignore Sri Lanka
By Ethirajan Anbarasan
BBC News


The 200,000 Tamils displaced in the north are increasingly hemmed in

A senior western diplomat has warned that living conditions are deteriorating for tens of thousands of civilians displaced inside Tamil Tiger rebel-held areas in northern Sri Lanka. It is a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen, he says.
"We have one of the biggest humanitarian problems emerging in the north at the moment. Unfortunately it's not attracting enough international attention," the diplomat, who's familiar with the Sri Lankan situation, told the BBC.
Sri Lankan security forces are carrying out a multi-pronged offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north and some army units are reported to be very close to the town of Kilinochchi, where the Tamil Tigers have their administrative headquarters.
The United Nations says more than 200,000 people have been displaced in the latest round of fighting and they have been moving from place to place inside Tamil Tiger-controlled areas.
With the army capturing more and more territory from the rebels, the civilians have now been confined to a smaller region. Sooner or later hostilities are expected to break out in areas not very far from them. Some fear that they might get caught in the crossfire.
The diplomat, who didn't want to be identified, said Western governments had lost interest in Sri Lanka because "they think that there is little value of going back to the peace process because they are not sure whether the rebels will negotiate in good faith".
Political threat
With the international community showing little interest in the Sri Lankan conflict, the Tamil Tigers now appear to have turned towards their supporters and political parties in neighbouring India to bring about a ceasefire in the island nation.

Pro-rebel political parties and some fringe groups in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been holding protest rallies against the Sri Lankan army offensive claiming many Tamil civilians are being killed in the conflict.
Sri Lankan officials deny the charges, saying they are only targeting the rebel fighters.
Tamil Nadu is home to more than 60 million Tamils, who share close linguistic and cultural ties with the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Most of the major political parties from Tamil Nadu have warned that their lawmakers will quit the Indian parliament if Delhi fails to broker a ceasefire in Sri Lanka. If the threats were carried out they could trigger a political crisis in Delhi.
But these protests are viewed by some as an attempt by the pro-rebel groups to try to protect the Tamil Tigers, who appear to have been cornered by the Sri Lankan security forces in recent months.
India has been pursuing a hands-off policy in Sri Lanka since the assassination of the former Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, allegedly by a female Tamil rebel suicide bomber in 1991. However, it actively backed the Norwegian-led peace process, which was officially called off early this year.
Officially, India wants a negotiated settlement within a united Sri Lanka, knowing that any fragmentation of Sri Lanka could have serious ramifications for its own security. If Delhi attempts to exert any pressure on Colombo it is bound to trigger an angry reaction from hard line political parties in Sri Lanka.
So the protests in Tamil Nadu may not result in a major shift in India's Sri Lanka policy as Delhi's options appear to be limited.
"The rebels seemed to have made a miscalculation on when and how India will intervene. I don't see any chance of the conflict ending in the next few weeks," the western diplomat said.
'Better strategy'
The Sri Lankan military would also stoutly oppose any move to stop the offensive which seems to be going in their favour.

The military says it is closing in on Kilinochchi
Analysts say the military's numerical superiority, stronger firepower and better military strategy have helped them to push rapidly deep inside rebel-held territory in recent months. But their progress has been slow in recent weeks due to stiff resistance from the Tigers.
Many military observers agree that if the present trend continues then the army will capture Kilinochchi sooner or later.
The fall of Kilinochchi would deal a significant blow to the Tamil Tigers. Militarily, Kilinochchi will also open the gates to strategically important areas like Paranthan and Elephant Pass, the strategic land bridge leading to the Jaffna Peninsula.
If the army achieves its objectives, then the rebels would be confined mostly to the Mullaitivu region.
Now the fear among the Tamils is if the rebels are weakened then the government may not show interest in devolving powers to Tamil areas.
"There is a danger that there will be little pressure on the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to Tamil regions if the rebels lose the war," says Sri Lankan analyst DBS Jeyaraj.
However, he argues that the fall of Kilinochchi may not be the end of the rebels as most of their weapons and cadres are still intact and they may be gearing up for a long, drawn-out guerrilla war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7676839.stm
India sees women as agents of socio-economic growth
By IANS
Thursday, October 16, 2008Comment(2)PrintForward
New York: India has shifted focus from mere empowerment of women to recognising them as agents of sustained socio-economic growth and change, a member of an Indian delegation told the UN during a discussion on Advancement of Women.
"Gender has been made a cross-cutting theme in India's 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), not confined to a single chapter on Women and Children," Arjun Charan Sethi, an MP, said Tuesday while taking part in the debate on the implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly in 2000.
The five-year plan aims to guarantee the rights and entitlements of all women, and has recognised that their requirements differ based on their location within various castes, communities, religions, geographic and development zones, he said.
Detailing other efforts made by India for gender equality, Sethi said the department dealing with women's affairs since 1985 was made into a full-fledged Ministry in 2005.
Now, one-third of urban and local self-government seats have been reserved for women, thereby giving more than one million women social and political empowerment at the grassroots level. A similar reservation at the parliament level is being pursued by the government, he said.
For socio-economic development of women, the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme was launched in 2006 to provide 100 days in a year assured wage employment to every rural household with at least one-third women beneficiaries.
The scheme has "comfortably achieved its target. In fact, more than 49 percent of the beneficiaries happened to be women", Sethi said.
To monitor whether women are able to benefit from the policies and programmes instituted for them, he referred to the new system of Gender Budgeting and creation of a database of gender disaggregated information.
Sethi reiterated India's commitment to attaining the goal of equal rights of men and women everywhere and said, "India will continue to contribute positively to UN efforts to reach out to vulnerable sections, particularly women and children, in conflict and post-conflict societies."
'I can't be running after every record ' - Tendulkar
Cricinfo staff
October 17, 2008

Sachin speak

On the journey:
Success is a process and during that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you and you convert them into milestones. It's a great feeling.
On how long he thinks he can keep the record:
I don't what is going to happen in future. I started as a 16-year-old, without any such targets. There might be another 16-year-old, who might not be having any targets and who knows where he is going to go.
On the pressure:
"To be honest, I was not under any pressure for this record. I knew that I have to go out and play my game. It will come at some stage. There was no burden as such. Today I decided just to watch the ball as closely as possibly."
On the sparse crowd to witness the record-breaking run:
"I did not feel anything about the poor crowd attendance. It's about quality not quantity. I got a fantastic reception in a pleasing moment. I appreciate it every applaud whichever came in my way I take it wholeheartedly."
On the missing World Cup:
"That is something I would like to have. We were close to it in 2003. It was so close yet so far. I'm not looking that far ahead [2011]. I just want go out and enjoy myself and my game and not think of any targets. If it there is in the vicinity I will focus on it. Right now I want to enjoy myself."
On getting there in Mohali:
"I always wanted to do it in front of the home crowd and I'm quite happy that an Indian has achieved that record. It is not my record, it is India's record. I'm happy it has been done here."
On his family not being there at the ground:
"It is not my family style to go over at the top. I know they will be extremely happy."



We were about 15 minutes into Sachin Tendulkar's press conference. He had answered wide-ranging questions, not all of then pertaining to the match or his record. Before the next question came Tendulkar's way, the media coordinator asked him if he would like to continue. Tendulkar moved away from the mic, and although he could not be heard, it seemed he said something to the effect of "Why not?" The press conference continued for the next 11 minutes, way longer than the ones at the end of a day's play.
Tendulkar was in that kind of mood. He looked animated, spoke in three languages - English, Hindi and Marathi - and was relieved, subtly funny, and happy. He started off by admitting that although the record was not a big distraction, the anticipation around it did mean something. "During all the talk about the record, I concentrated on how to score runs for the team, but everybody I used to meet would talk about only one thing. Now that it is done, I know I wouldn't be asked the same question again and again."
On a personal level, he doesn't have a "what next" now? "I started as a 16-year-old, and there was no targets then," he said. "I just wanted to go enjoy every moment. That is what I like to continue with - not to think of too many things and complicate my game in the process. "I have not played for records. I can't be running after every record [answering a query about breaking Brian Lara's 400]. I would be looking after what the team needs. The team obviously needs it. If it comes my way, I will take it. If it doesn't come, there will be no regrets."
Despite that attitude there must have been moments when he would have realised he could end up the leading run-getter in both Tests and ODIs. "As the career progresses, there is sub-consciousness mind starts thinking about it," he said. "You know that people start talking about it the records. That is how you are aware of all these things.
"There have been occasions that I didn't know how many runs I needed [to get to the record]. A couple of team-mates did not believe. I was willing to swear on anyone that I don't know. That is when they believed. The beauty is just to go out and play, and while doing that the records were meant to be broken and various milestones achieved."
What was he thinking when it happened? The steer towards the third-man boundary that got him past Brian Lara? "When I looked up, obviously I had two thoughts in my mind," he said. "One was I thanked the almighty and the second, I thanked my father. Today I miss him. He would definitely be a proud man, and I just thought of him."
Sourav Ganguly was a special partner to have when the record happened. He reminded Tendulkar of the fact that he was his partner when Tendulkar got his 35th century. "If you can remember that in the middle of all that ..."
He also dedicated the record to Ramakant Achrekar, his childhood coach, his family who have been by his side "whether or not he did well", and especially "my mother".
Almost in paternal manner, he subtly put his critics in their place. "I don't need to prove anything to anyone," he said. "I have been around for 19 years, and those 19 years I did not play cricket to prove anything to anyone, whether it was first year of my cricket or 10th, or 15th, or 19th.
"I'm not here to answer to what x, y and z is writing or saying about me. It is their opinions, and I don't take all those opinions seriously ... But sometimes I don't know how they can figure out what's going on in my mind when sometimes I myself can't figure that out."
That was the only time he sounded mildly sour, but only mildly. The talk eventually went back to the celebration when he got the record. "The duration [of the fireworks] was bit worrying." When a journalist informed him they had planned 11,954 crackers, he said, "Eventually I figured out it was 11,954 crackers or something like that."
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Obama works for the working-class vote
By Matt Bai Published: October 17, 2008
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For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate. But the moment Obama would most like to take back now, if he could, was the one last April when, speaking to a small gathering of Bay Area contributors, he said that small-town voters in Pennsylvania and other states had grown "bitter" over lost jobs, which caused them to "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
That comment, subsequently posted by a blogger for the Huffington Post, undercut one of the central premises of Obama's campaign - that he could somehow erode the tired distinctions between red states and blue ones and appeal to disaffected white men who had written off national Democrats as hopelessly elitist.
"That was my biggest boneheaded move," Obama told me recently. We were sitting across from each other on his plane, the one with the big red, white and blue "O" on the tail, flying some 35,000 feet above Nebraska. "How it was interpreted in the press was Obama talking to a bunch of wine-sipping San Francisco liberals with an anthropological view toward white working-class voters. And I was actually making the reverse point, clumsily, which is that these voters have a right to be frustrated because they've been ignored. And because Democrats haven't met them halfway on cultural issues, we've not been able to communicate to them effectively an economic agenda that would help broaden our coalition."
"I mean, part of what I was trying to say to that group in San Francisco was, 'You guys need to stop thinking that issues like religion or guns are somehow wrong,"' he continued. "Because, in fact, if you've grown up and your dad went out and took you hunting, and that is part of your self-identity and provides you a sense of continuity and stability that is unavailable in your economic life, then that's going to be pretty important, and rightfully so. And if you're watching your community lose population and collapse but your church is still strong and the life of the community is centered around that, well then, you know, we'd better be paying attention to that."
In a few minutes, Obama would arrive in Colorado for a campaign stop, followed by another in Nevada - two critical states that neither of the previous two Democratic presidential nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry, came all that close to winning, largely because of their abject failure to connect with white men, especially lower- and middle-class men in rural and exurban counties. I asked Obama how he thought he could convey to these voters that he was not, in fact, an anthropological observer of the culture.
Today in Americas
Debates over, candidates begin final sprintCandidates' visions differ on unleashing innovationObama works for the working-class vote"First," Obama said, "you have to show up. I've been to Elko, Nevada, now three times."
"Elko?" I asked twice, straining to hear him over the engine noise.
"E-L-K-O." He sounded vaguely annoyed, as if I had just confirmed something about the media he had long suspected. "That, by the way, is the reason we got more delegates out of Nevada, even though we lost the popular vote there during the primary. We lost Las Vegas and Clark County, but we won handily in rural Nevada. And a lot of it just had to do with the fact that folks thought: Man, the guy is showing up. He's set up an office. He's doing real organizing. He's talking to people."
At that very moment, Republicans in Washington were scuttling a $700 billion emergency plan for Wall Street, causing the markets to hemorrhage more value in a single day, in terms of sheer dollar amounts, than at any time in American history and dragging the economy back into the center of the campaign - precisely where John McCain and the Republicans did not want it.
It now appeared that the only thing that could still threaten Obama's march to the presidency was the same resistance from the voters that had, at the last moment, dashed the dreams of his Democratic predecessors. According to exit polls in 2004, Kerry lost white men by a crushing 25-point margin. While voters overall give Obama the advantage over John McCain when asked which candidate is better equipped to navigate these tumultuous economic times, Gallup polls throughout the summer and into the fall consistently showed McCain with a double-digit lead among white men who have not been to college.
And yet Obama has persevered, devoting far more time and money than either of the last two Democratic nominees on an effort to persuade working-class and rural white guys that he is not the elitist, alien figure they may be inclined to think he is. The Obama campaign has more than 50 state offices throughout Virginia, a state no Democrat has seriously contested since Obama was a teenager. In Indiana, there are 42 offices; in North Carolina, another 45.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/17/america/rural.php
Zardari fails to get China's commitment on nuke deal
17 Oct 2008, 1717 hrs IST, Saibal Dasgupta, TNN
BEIJING: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has failed to obtain a clear commitment from Chinese leaders on his proposal for broadening the nuclear
relationship between the two countries, informed sources said.
Zardari is believed to have spent the past two days during his first presidential visit to Beijing persuading Chinese leaders to sign a Sino-Pakistan nuclear deal on the lines of the India-US deal, among other things.
But Beijing has indicated it will seriously consider Zardari's request after examining the changing situation concerning India-US nuclear relationship and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Zardari is believed to have told Chinese leaders that a Sino-Pakistan deal on nuclear energy would help Beijing counter the effects of the India-US deal. But Chinese leaders are reluctant to go ahead with the idea as they regard Pakistan to be politically unstable, sources said.
At the same time, Chinese president Hu Jintao left no one in doubt that China values its four-decade long friendship with Pakistan by receiving Zardari with a 21-gun military salute at the Tiananmen Square, festooned with the national flags of the two countries. "Your entire family are old friends of the Chinese people. We will never forget the outstanding contribution Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had made to boosting ties with China," he told Zardari.
China has agreed to launch a telecommunication satellite, dubbed PakSat-1R, for Pakistan in 2011. The state-run Great Wall Industry Corporation has said that a Long March 3B rocket will be used to put the satellite into orbit.
Plans involve launching the satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern Sichuan Province. The satellite with a life span of 15 years will be used by Pakistan for domestic telecommunication and broadcast services.
China, which earlier delivered two satellites were sent to Nigeria last year, has recently agreed to launch a satellite for Venezuela.
China is also believed to be blocking US efforts to impose greater sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. Beijing is unhappy over recent US decisions to export arms to Taiwan, which it regards as part of Chinese territory.
An important factor shaping China's policies concerning India. Pakistan, Iran and Venezuela is its desire to put the US at a disadvantage in the international political scene. This is what explains its desire to give Iran a helping hand and back Venezuela, which is seriously opposed to US policies, sources said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Zardari_fails_to_get_Chinas_commitment_on_nuke_deal/articleshow/3609066.cms
Chinese workers protest at closed toy factory
17 Oct 2008, 0820 hrs IST, AP
DONGGUAN: Hundreds of workers protested on Friday for a third straight day outside a large toy factory that closed in southern China amid a global sl
owdown that has begun hurting Chinese manufacturers.
About 500 workers were milling around outside the factory in the city of Dongguan as police looked on. The laborers are demanding unpaid wages from the factory's Hong Kong owner, Smart Union Group (Holdings) Ltd., which had three factories in Dongguan in Guangdong province.
The factory closed on Wednesday, the same day the company issued a notice to Hong Kong's stock market saying it was suspending trading of its shares pending the release of an announcement. Calls made to the company's Hong Kong main office were not answered.
The Southern Metropolis Daily, one of the most popular mass-market dailies in Guangdong, reported on its Web site Thursday that workers were shocked that the factory had closed. Unidentified laborers were quoted as saying the plant was operating as normal on Tuesday and there were no apparent signs it was about to close.
About 1,000 laborers protested outside the factory's main gate, where the local government posted a notice saying the plant was closed because of ``unfavorable business conditions,'' the paper said.
This week, the official Xinhua News Agency reported that a total of 3,631 toy exporters, 52.7 percent of the industry's enterprises, went out of business in 2008. They shut down because of higher production costs, wage increases for workers, and the rising value of the yuan. The report said most of the failures involved small factories.
Xinhua also said the General Administration of Customs was blaming the US financial turmoil for a 5.2 percent drop in exports to America in the first seven months of 2008.
Oil price rises to $71 on fears of OPEC output cut
17 Oct, 2008, 2154 hrs IST, AGENCIES
LONDON: The benchmark oil price rebounded to $71.01 on Friday on speculation that the OPEC crude producers' cartel could cut production at an emerge
ncy meeting next week, traders said.
Crude futures had tumbled yesterday and have plunged by more than six per cent over the week as fears of a global recession raised expectations of a prolonged slowdown to energy demand.
The week that was: Jet-K'fisher ally
(01:25) Report
Oct. 17 - Here is a wrap of this week's news and entertainment stories, including:

RBI takes steps to ease the credit crisis effect in India.
Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines in an alliance to cut costs.
Muslim leaders ask government for protection.
Amitabh Bachchan discharged from hospital.
Greg Beitchman reports.

CPI-M condemn anti-Christian attacks
(01:26) Report
Oct. 15 - The Communist Party of India CPI (M) asked the government to take strong action against those behind a string of attacks on Christians in three Indian states.

An ANI report.


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