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Socialism is immoralProtest the quota systemEnd entitlement benefits for freeloaders Support the death penalty for terrorists and anti-nationals Resist "Global Governance" |
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
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 So, the so called Nuke Deal has started yielding some fruits, so to speak. We are going to get two brand spanking new Nuclear Power plants, 1000 MW each. The plants are being built in Tamil Nadu by Russia. Read more details in the Open Magazine, including the economics of these plants and major concerns of the local community. India is also building a $5.1 Billion, 6000 MW gas fired power plant in Iran, for generating power for India. Funny. Meanwhile the various Bhopal tragedy activists are strangely silent about the fact that private operator liability for Nuclear power plants is being capped at Rs. 300 crores. This is understandable since many of the plants will be built under partnership between FOC (Friends of Congress) corporations in India and their foreign collaborators.
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Monday, August 24, 2009 |
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To the secular intellectuals and media, the only good Hindus are dead Hindus, the kind that don't talk back. Expelled BJP leaders come a close second. "Impeccable taste", "connoisseur of high art", "grand personality", "elegant" - these are just some of the adjectives that are generously being used by the media about Jashwant Singh. His book is now getting rave reviews. Even Congress leaders would be envious of the treatment Singh is getting from the media. This is also the first time Jashwant Singh's name is being mentioned in a context other than the Kandahar hijack episode. Now that we learn Jashwant Singh is such a cool dude, maybe we can revisit the issue and give the way the situation was handled a different grade? Jashwant Singh is as much a victim of the confusion and paranoia that must surround a national party post election defeat, as he is of a mercenary media. As soon as the book hit the stands, the headlines screamed: Jashwant has praised Jinnah! That is pretty much all you need to set the ball rolling so to speak. As far as we can tell, the partition issue still remains an unfinished business. Hey, mi casa su casa, but in practical terms, does anyone really believe that .....
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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India does not award the capital punishment except for the "rarest of rare" cases. Once you throw "liberals" into the mix, things tend to get rather complicated but since independence, we have hanged about 4,300 people, at the outside. The last one was hanged in 1995. By any standards, we are hanging too few people for a country of this size. China executes thousands each year, they also have a rather efficient way of doing it. No one is quite sure what exactly "rarest of rare" means any more. Violent crimes are on the rise at an alarming rate. We certainly can not structure it around frequency, even terrorism is not all that rare in India. Clearly, putting a cap on the number of people executed per year can not be the stated goal of a legal system. Yet, no objective sentencing guidelines are forthcoming. Statistically speaking, too few hangings make each one them more likely to be unjust. Justice also means if Dude X got it for a certain crime, Dude Y must also get it for the same crime. Yet we are supposed to believe there was just one dude in India to rape and murder a minor since 1995! So, from any objective POV, either we start hanging a lot more people, or we get rid of the death penalty altogether. Yet, a Supreme Court bench stated that we must make the death penalty even rarer. This is a very disappointing stand. Coming on the heels of a recent case where the death penalty was waived, this also appears to be immensely suspicious. We can clearly see where this is headed. Recently our Law Minister Shri Moily and Home Minister Shri Chidu introduced a peculiar spin to the Afzal hanging story. Apparently the death penalty is like a queue. If the mercy petition of one is pending, the next one in line can not be hanged. This is obviously absurd. A fair justice system gurantees a fair trial and objective sentencing - not an execution strictly according to order. It should be obvious by now that we have an "activist" judiciary on our hands which wants to add another layer of social justice on top of the legislative and executive. The death penalty system is being redesigned to ensure only certain people hang or rather certain people never hang.
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PAWS: Meet minorities | |
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 Some of the global "liberal" concerns do not work very well in the Indian context, for instance the Environment debate or the abortion issue. It seems the animal welfare folks from the Plant and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) are hitting some unexpected roadblocks as well:
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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Week of secular indignation | |
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Sometimes we do not understand the intense hatred some folks on the secular left feel for President Kalam. A few weeks ago President Kalam was frisked at a security checkpoint of an American airline. Sagarika Ghose chatted online with readers and this is what she had to say:
We are willing to bet the chat transcript will soon disappear, so grab it while you can. There is only one Muslim in the whole world whose frisking would elicit that response from Sagarika Ghose, in complete contradiction with her usual position on the "racial profiling" issue. Ghose tried to put a unique twist to the issue, apparently she is against privilege seeking of our VIPs. If that chat transcript wasn't bad enough in taste, Ghose repeated the same idea in a later blog post: Our netas and top babus all send their children to the US for higher studies. Surely, when taking the SAT and GRE exams, these students submit to American rules. In applying for visas they also submit to US legal requirements. But when Kalam submits to US laws when traveling on an American airline, we are suddenly shaken to our foundations. The VIP culture of India is truly a slur on our Constitution. [link] Well, talk about poor timing - Shah Rukh Khan got held up at a US airport for technical reasons for about an hour. Every news media is running headline stories on it, CNN-IBN's response has been muted. Funny thing is, if there is one Muslim in India who could be exempt from frisking, it is President Kalam. Former head of the state and India is not Somalia. It is ok to knock Hindu fundamentalists over their false pride, but that comparison was potently absurd and disgusting. * * * Meanwhile, Khan's alleged harassment looks more and more like a made for media story. He way exaggerated the situation, which may have something to do with an upcoming film which incidentally deals with racial profiling. If what one hears about the planned movie My name is Khan is true, then together with the recent film New York, Bollywood is now the official propaganda vehicle of the global Muslim community. * * * While Indian seculars ferment in indignation, here is a story many have missed: couple of days ago, Rock music legend Bob Dylan was apprehended by the Police in the US and made to prove his identity.
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Concluding passage of Sagarika Ghose's latest blog post:What causes democracies to fail? Pakistan provides an answer. Democracies fail when 200 powerful families manipulate the country for their own ends and communication between classes break down. A gleaming pajero with beggar children scratching at the black tinted windows is a stark symbol of failing democracy in South Asia. The dreamers of 1947 had no Pajeros. Instead they wrote an idealistic Constitution. Justices S. Murlidhar and A.P Shah recently delivered a terrific judgement decriminalising Section 377. They did not endorse homosexuality, instead they asserted constitutionality. Similarly, this 15th August lets pledge to assert constitutionality in our daily lives. [link] Well, it took us just one family to do the job.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 |
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
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She is getting a lot of praises for her articles, for instance this one. A solidly free market thinker and a breath of fresh air amid the airheads who parrot the socialist mantra.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Master of puppets | |
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Amartya Sen is all over the media, having just published a new book called "The idea of justice". In an interview to a newspaper, Amartya Sen offers the following example (via RealityCheck):Three children — Anne, Bob and Carla — are quarrelling over a flute: Anne claims the flute on the ground that she is the only one of the three who knows how to play it; Bob demands it on the basis that he is so poor that — unlike others — he has no other toys to play with and it would therefore mean a lot to him if the flute were given to him; and Carla says that it belongs to her because she has made it with her own labour. Okay, this is a made-up story. Why doesn't Prof. Sen make the Anne character break out into an impromptu performance of The Internationale? Alternately, why doesn't Bob suddenly start quoting Marx?
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Saturday, August 08, 2009 |
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Why so socialist? | |
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 [ The Dark Knight is a deeply anti-communist film. We meant to work some more on this review and analyze the script more thoroughly. However, we felt this overview can help understand some recent events better. ]The big studio treatment of comic book adaptations seldom have anything to offer beyond stylized special effects. M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable was an attempt to break out the mould, but it wasn't a big success. The movies based on the Superman, Spiderman and Batman comics stayed well within the formula. The huge budget of these movies (often exceeding $200 million, half of it marketing costs), explains part of the problem. The movies must appeal to the widest segment possible. The Spiderman III movie took this to the extreme, with different targeted ad spots for men, women and children. The spots for men showed the action, the spot for women mostly showed the tender moments. A comparison of the two comparable series (Spiderman and Batman) offers some more insight into how The Dark Knight came into being: Company: Warner Brothers Pictures Batman (1989) User Rating: 7.6/10 Director:Tim Burton Batman Returns (1992) User Rating: 6.9/10 Director:Tim Burton Batman Forever (1995) User Rating: 5.4/10 Director:Joel Schumacher Batman Begins (2005) User Rating: 8.4/10 Director:Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight (2008) User Rating: 9.0/10 Director:Christopher Nolan Company: Columbia Pictures Spider-Man (2002) User Rating: 7.4/10 Director:Sam Raimi Spider-Man 2 (2004) User Rating: 7.7/10 Director:Sam Raimi Spider-Man 3 (2007) User Rating:6.5/10 Director:Sam Raimi Spider-Man 4 (2011) (*** announced *** ) Director:Sam Raimi The above can explain the unusual choice of Christopher Nolan as the director. Prior to Batman Begins, Nolan had directed a few low budget films, including The Following and Memento, the latter being a cult success. This was followed by Nolan taking up Insomnia, a remake of a brilliant Norwegian film. None of these prior works could predict Nolan would take up something like a Batman picture. This simply isn't his genre. Perhaps the dwindling fortunes of the Batman franchise forced the studio to make a bold decision. Batman Begins was a wild success and in retrospect one can clearly see Nolan was holding back. Then came The Dark Knight. When people went to see the movie, they had a clear expectation. They wanted to see a spectacle - CGI, explosions, pop culture etc. The Dark Knight didn't disappoint, yet there was something shocking lurking underneath, something sinister and evil, something they could not quite put their fingers on. They were most fascinated yet repulsed by the villain:
Chaos is a recurring theme in the movie, a moral alternative to the unjust society. The Joker has a far reaching agenda. He does not believe in wealth (sets fire to a mini hill of currency notes), he does not make friends. He wants to transform the entire society. He is a violently unpredictable anarchist, yet his approach highly systematic. What the audience was experiencing was essentially a communist "revolution" condensed into two hours of Hollywood format. Introducing a little bit of chaos can do wonders to society, permanently damaging the moral compass of the citizens. Chaos later beccomes chance, the way intellectuals usually rationalize the movement. This was demonstrated via the Harvey Dent character. Harvey Dent was a straight as an arrow character in the beginning, who believed in himself: DENT: My father's lucky coin. As I recall, it got me my first date with you. .. and this is what became of him: DENT: It's not about what I want. It's about what's fair. (to Gordon and Batman) You thought we could be decent men in an indecent world. You thought we could lead by example. You thought the rules could be bent but not break... you were wrong. The world is cruel. Harvey Dent is easily brainwashed by a simple trick of the Joker. The Joker pretends to put himself to the test. Funny thing is, by the time the socialists put themselves to the test, their words start being taken for granted. In one poignant moment in the movie, the Joker appears to stake his life to the outcome of a coin toss. The coin toss is not shown - it is implied that merely by suggesting that the Joker himself is not afraid of the outcome of chaos, he waives the need for an actual test. This is also what we see in practice - socialists constantly talk about sacrifice, but we have to take their word for it. The movie is replete with imagery and verbiage of socialist regimes, at one point the Joker conducts a "social experiment". The Joker in this movie uses techniques that appear uncomfortably familiar - IEDs, bomb laden suicide vests, rigged vehicles and boats, hijacking, gasoline .... There is a parallel theme running in the movie about terrorism, statecraft and leadership in times of challenges. NATASCHA: But this is a democracy, Harvey. This is a clear allusion to the War on Terror, which as we know was called off recently. Few critics and reviewers really examined the movie in depth. Many simply called it "dark" (duh!). Some were fascinated by scenes in line with their ideological (conscious or otherwise) belief, for instance Tehelka report Shoma Choudhury liked the boat scene (social experiment). Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN found the movie to be "spectacularly inellectual", without quite explaining why. It is no wonder the Academy Awards gave the movie a pass, as it ran counter to the current political ideals. The award went to the other highly revered movie, in which chance is not only celebrated, it plays a starring role. Redemption comes from chance, not from ones actions. Resources:
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
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Is the Indian media and intellectual establishment acting dumb or are they really not getting the power equations of Washington? The Nuclear cheerleaders are trying to grasp at straws to avoid admitting what a load of crock the deal was. Some of these attempts border on hilarity (read the second point in the post). Hillary Clinton's India visit provided another out. The visit was expectedly covered with much fanfare. Mrs. Clinton mostly said what the fawning Indian politicians and Indians wanted to hear and believe.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009 |
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Minority Report | |
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Once again, we bring you a selection of broad range of activities, randomly picked. We see this report as an extension of Sachar report. 3 Held In Connection With Bjp Leaders Murder 5 Get Life Term For Shoe Barons Kidnap Youth Arrested For Kidnapping Arabic Teacher Cops Solve Murder Of 14 Yr Old College Students Kill Teen Over Love Affair Pune 5 Get Ri For Helping Isi Agent One Arrested For Air Hostesss Murder Immigration Knew Little About Ismails D Company Connections Rape Convict Tries To Flee Court Rape Accused Dies Of Injuries After Jumping Down From Court Building Man Caught For Travelling On Fake Pass Man Rebukes Eve Teasers Thrashed To Death Atiqs Father Sent To Jail Labour Union Leader Hacked To Death Flyer Held For Molesting Air Hostess Man Held For Throwing Acid On Ex Wife Kin Dead Girl Returns To Nail Rapist Girl Critical After Boyfriend Pushes Her Off Charminar 2 Held For Raping 16 Year Old Minor Gangraped Filmed In Car 19 Yr Old Woman Sexually Assaulted Killed Cops Track Down Another Victim Youth Abducts Minor Teacher Forges Documents To Become Hm Three Held On Eve Teasing Charges Criminals Gun Down Govt Lawyer In Araria Woman Gangraped By 6 Youths 3 Held 7 Minors Rescued From Brothel Shakeel Aide Held For Extortion Woman Stabbed 15 Times By Brother Bdo Office Ransacked Teacher Arrested DGP Nabs Two Eve Teasers 4 Arrested For Loading Activities In Port Town Mns Vice President Booked For Rioting And Dacoity Police Police Solve Malad Bar Girl Murder Arrest Two Crime Branch Sleuths Nab Absconding Man Undertrial Escapes From Nampally Court Premises Burglar Teens Wanted To Impress Girls Youth Held For Threatening Sania Mirza 6 Yrs Ri For Molesting Extorting Japan Tourist Yemeni With Indian Passport Arrested After 6 Day Lull Violence Rocks Mysore Again Pak Woman Caught From Alang Shipyard Mumbai Software Engg Student Among Four Held For Piracy Hyderabad Son Kills Father For Molesting Sister Lucknow Stepson Arrested For Killing 20 Yr Old Woman Top Operative Of Indias Terror Group Arrested In Bangladesh Ranchi Cong Mlas Son Sent To Judicial Custody Mumbai Fraudster Surrenders After Wifes Arrest Mumbai Four Land In Net For Double Murder Of Carpenters Mumbai Ca Tax Consultant Nabbed For Human Trafficking Bangalore Two Held In Currency Racket At Hoskote Suspect In Bangalore Blasts Held In Kerala 2 More Simi Men Held More Arrests Likely Fake Currency Racket Busted 3 Held One Held In Mumbai Model Murder Case Drunk Fliers Force Sudden Landing Arrests Soon In Chhote Miya Killing Man Caught Clicking Women Is Ex Councillor 3 Caught With Sex Worker In Car In Madhavpura Man Caught With Four Passports Previous: Minority Report - May 10, 2009
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Mid-day interviews a minority woman who also claims discrimination and harassment in a two part video (Part 1, Part 2 - the embedded above). It is hard to make out Nagina Hasan's story from her long rant but as far as we could make out, she rented an apartment under the name of a business run by her husband. When the society folks found out that a Muslim family was occupying the apartment, they were asked to vacate immediately. We generally sympathize with the woman's plight but she makes some highly objectionable statements: In the interview, she says that the landlord threatened to cut off water and electricity supply to the apartment to which she had responded - I won't be responsible for what happens, what I do if you cut off my water and electricity etc. (at around 3:15 mark on the video). It pretty much sounds like a threat of a particular kind. This is astonishing as the woman objects to the labelling of all minorities as terrorists. The woman also keeps referring to religion as jaat (literally caste, although she should have used Qaum or Mazhab or something like that) and India as Hindustan. Elsewhere in the video she also says humanity is above rule of law (Insaaniyat vs. Kanoon) and calls the society folks who had allegedly denied Emraan Hashmi housing Hijdas. The Hijda epithet refers to a news report that some members of the housing society in the Emraan Hashmi case had claimed the actor was refused on account of being a serial kisser and thus a possible bad influence on women. According to Nagina Hasan the housing society males were unable to control their mothers and sisters and keep them away from temptation and thus they were Hijdas. The point about insecure males is well taken, although one could turn it around and make the same point about her religion which insists on certain dress codes. At another point she says she was rudely treated as though she was from a scheduled caste. As you can see, Bollywoodization of Secularism is quite entertaining.
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Saturday, August 01, 2009 |
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A mini riot in Pakistan | |
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9 killed in communal violence in Pakistan's Punjab province The Dawn reports: ISLAMABAD: Days of rioting between Christians and Muslims in eastern Pakistan following allegations that a Quran was defiled escalated Saturday, leaving six Christians dead, including a child, authorities said. Members of a banned Muslim organization began torching Christian homes in the Punjabi city of Gora on Thursday after accusing them of desecrating pages from Islam's holy book, Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti said. Ok, so the Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti says the allegation of desecration is untrue. What if there is truth in the allegation?
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