- Nandigram violence
- Baroda attack on a student artist, various fallouts
- Punjab violence over Dera Sacha Sauda; Sikh jathedar calls for head of sect to be killed
- Karunanidhi sons attack a newspaper office, leaving two (?) dead
- Arrests of civil rights activists
- Riots in small towns over erratic power supply
- Farmer suicides continue in Vidarbha, now also reported in cotton-growing areas of Gujarat
- Cops arrested for fake encounters
- Rajasthan (and spreading) violence over Gujjar demands to be categorised ST; full-blown caste war erupts between Meenas and Gujjars, plenty dead
Bonus question: what is interesting about the ordering?
[Note: Please ignore the phrase various fallouts following the second event. They mainly involved the socialist crowd throwing a hissy fit over artistic freedom and Tehelka launching another Government sponsored web portal supporting freedom of art.]
8 comments:
>> Whats missing
Well, a whole lot of things.
No idea. Why dont you spill the beans?
mohammed cartoons ?
the riots in bangalore over saddam's hanging ?
mau riots ?
Ooooooo... on the Baroda-student thing, were there mentions at dcubed about Xtians joining Hindus in their protests, were there? were there? Xitans existing in Modi Gujarat and protesting along side hindus must be a death blow to fun lovers?
And any mentions of riots in Varodra about Mohd's painting just last week? Please, dying to know that dcubed's covered these little events.
Shadows,
"A whole lot of things" won't do.
Answers please.
There are so many incidents.. I am no longer surprised at the hypocrisy of the likes of Dilip.
Ok, whats missing is the incident - one where muslims went out and killed 2 score Hindu vegetable vendors in Lucknow, because Bush was visiting India (or was it the Danish cartoons case). And I guess, since muslims were killing them, the veggie vendors were not poor and downtrodden that instant.
Gujarat's moved along while dcubed still holding on desperately clutching to Godhara straws. Saaad, so saad...
From the recent edition of 'India Today':
Excerpt:
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Gujarat has trebled agricultural productivity through excellent
agro-management programmes that include conserving water, soil health
care and making vital inputs available to farmers. In the rocky road
ahead, states will have to take the initiative and play a key role in
reviving Indian agriculture before it is too late.
-with Subhash Mishra and Stephen David
SHOWING A WAY OUT
Gujarat, the highest producer of oilseeds in the country, has
enhanced its agricultural production by almost one-and-a-half times
in the last five-odd years, thanks to a multi-pronged strategy. Apart
from successive good monsoons, the turnaround came because of
efficient agro-management based on conservation of surface water,
providing scientific information to farmers through the medium of
Krishi Rath, and disbursement of a soil health card to every farmer.
Tapping of surface water has been achieved by building 1.77 lakh farm
ponds and 1 lakh check dams in public-private partnership, and
deepening 5,000 village lakes, which has sent the water table
soaring.
The soil health card policy—under which scientists attached to the
four agro universities in the state go to every farm and test the
soil quality—has played a major role. The card helps the farmer
provide the right nutrients to the soil, thus saving on wasteful
expenditure. Around 17 lakh farmers in Gujarat have already received
such cards. No wonder productivity has gone up.
-By Uday Mahurkar
Answers please..
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