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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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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
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 We all know that secular media and intellectuals are nuts about the Prince. According to a devastating cable from wikileaks, published by The Hindu, the Prince may have a few - um, nutty issues of his own:Naqvi claimed that it is increasingly common knowledge that Rahul suffers from "personality problems" of an emotional or psychological nature that are severe enough to prevent him from functioning as PM. Who would have known! Actually, that's not quite true. We have always believed there was something odd about the Prince. For instance, during the 2009 election cycle, we blogged about it. The cable mentions Congress leaders' growing disenchantment with the Prince and that they thought he "is causing more harm than good" and has "made no impression on the people of the state." In the same blog post, we unambiguously stated that the Princess came across as a much smarter and polished political leader. The last part of the cable echoes the same sentiments, about how everyone wanted the Princess to join politics and how Sonia Gandhi had chosen the Prince against her own better judgment etc. The cable also mentions "he continues to be the subject of press reports that rave about his participation in the early January Congress Youth training camp" - which is like, hardly a secret. Read another blog post where we described this in some detail. The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs .... - Brain Damage, Pink Floyd
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Sunday, March 13, 2011 |
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 Continuing our thoughts from a previous post, the question that stares us squarely in the face is simply this - if Egypt, Libya, Tunisia etc. have opted to oust their autocratic leaders through violent revolutions, why not us? Democracy is obviously not a good answer. The said countries had democracies of sort, elections too. Now, consider these two snippets, from India's largest circulation daily, The Times of India: SNIPPET 1: I still remember Nehru stepping into our living room and inviting Sir Alladi, my father-in-law, to join the drafting committee," says Lalitha Krishnaswami. "We were caught by surprise when someone informed us that Nehru who had come to attend a function at the nearby Andhra Mahila Sabha had decided to drop by. But to Sir Alladi's horror, no picture of the prime minister framed our walls. My husband was immediately asked to get one. He rushed to Luz Corner, got the first picture of Nehru he saw, framed it and rushed back home just minutes before Nehru himself walked in. Over the discussions that followed, Sir Alladi accepted his invitation to join the Constitution drafting committee," she says. [link] SNIPPET 2: As she took her seat in the front row next to NCP chief Sharad Pawar, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee handed her the one-paragraph statement the PM had just read out.Going through it carefully, Sonia nodded briefly to herself, signalling her approval and put the paper down. Looking up, she saw MPs thanking her for ensuring that the government accepted including caste as a point of enumeration in the national headcount. As is her wont, Sonia was quick to gesture towards Congress's chief troubleshooter while Mukherjee sat unmoved. [link] Remarkably, these are from the news section of the newspaper. Qualitatively, we are not really different from those regimes, the same state run or controlled media and its intellectuals singing glory be. We have gargantuan scams going on, not only do these scams deprive the very same social justice classes the rulers and their PR agents claim to benefit, but they have grave national security implications. What are some of the beneficiaries of these scams? Aside from the obvious holy cows and calves, these names are Hasan Ali, Shahid Balwa, Jagath Gasper Raj etc. Minister after minister have been allowed to brazenly perjure themselves on national TV without so much as a murmur of protests from TV show hosts. Secular intellectuals, whose raison d'etre seems to be to constantly decry deprivation of certain sections, have remained mum. Worse, some have actually blamed 'neo-liberal economic framework' etc. for the scams. Diabolic plans have been put in place to somehow retroactively blame folks who have not been in power for two terms. Attempts to put the right sort of people in charge of the vigilance department has backfired for the time being. The state machinery has made significant progress in blocking out any signs of dissent. Yet, there are no signs of revolution. We remain hopeful though.
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Friday, March 11, 2011 |
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 More pictures at Flickr MUMBAI: Fresh demolition notices pasted by the BMC on several crosses across the city on Saturday drew a sharp reaction from the Christian community. Around 400 Bandra residents from the community gathered on Chapel Road in Bandra (W) in the evening to protest against the notices, prompting cops to rush there. [link] Funny thing is, this thing has been going on since 2003 - when people started noticing illegal structures of all types sprouting all around the city.
What we have here is a vivid illustration of competitive secularism. If Waqf board can do this (albeit a lot more violently and with a lot less media coverage), why can't Minority Team B? There is obviously no good answers to these questions. Hence, the shrines will not get demolished or alternately they will be demolished but community leaders will get sops elsewhere. Rinse. Repeat. The troubling thing is, due to the British legacy, the community owns disproportionately high amount of real estate, in prime locations all over. They are obviously out of bounds. But of course, they have nothing to fear, forget about those large swathes of tax free land - the municipal body of India's largest city can't even touch tiny recently built structures for almost a decade.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011 |
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A 19-year-old boy stabbed to death a Std X student whom he suspected of having an affair with his sister. Yasin Sayyed stabbed Nawaz Hanif Kalifa at least five times and left the 17-year-old to die on the tracks last Thursday. Nawaz was a student of Nice English school in Mumbra. Cops identified him on the basis of his school identity card and his bag, both of which were recovered from the murder spot. Just wondering if this fits secular/liberal definition of 'Honor' crimes. Article does not mention it though.
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