How consensus was achieved for Lokpal

Living up to its true characteristics, Congress led UPA government at the center has reportedly proposed caste based reservations on the lokpal panel. The draft bill, prepared by the party’s so called intelligent chamchas (sycophants), mandates for 50% quota to the scheduled caste, scheduled tribes, other backward castes and other sections of the society. First and foremost, two seats will be permanently reserved for the Italian citizens (namely, Mrs. Antonia Maino, popularly called as Sonia in India and her son Rahul Gandhi who allegedly holds Italian passport in the name of Raul Vinci). These two will have the veto power to choose a person of their choice, in the public interest. However, such person must be a boneless, gutless and speechless person. Other prerequisites could be like the person should be well -educated (preferably a Harvard alumni) and prime- minister- ship. Two seats will be reserved for the scheduled caste and one seat each for scheduled tribes and other backward castes. Women and minority community will also be adequately represented on the panel. Since the panel is likely to comprise of nine members, it has been decided that a woman from the general category should be given this honor. Through unconfirmed sources, it has been learned that this post has already been offered to Kiran Bedi and she has secretively consented for the role. With this one smart move, Congress has sidelined other members of the Team Anna. Arvind Kejariwal was seen visibly miffed at the development. However, some reliable sources hint that this post may well finally go to Rita Bahuguna Joshi. Even, the BJP leaders were taken aback with this masterstroke.

Further, after Mayawati’s initial protests that the inclusion of lower bureaucracy is a conspiracy against the dalit community, other dalit and OBC leaders joined the chorus and demanded that as group C employees mostly comprises of their communities, so they should not come under the purview of lokpal. They, in fact, should not be investigated at all as the corruption money is inevitable to beat the inflationary pressure. However, only after Abhishek Sanghvi, head of the panel, assured them some concessions and promised to incorporate a proviso that only a member of scheduled caste can investigate the corruption cases against a babu belonging to the scheduled caste, they relented.

Is Hindu terrorism really a threat?

For sometime, the comments made by certain incredulous congress leaders on the so-called ‘Hindu Terror’ has been hurting me. And holidaying in chilled weather of Delhi gave me leisure to write on the subject.

First, I must say that I don’t want to waste my energy on castigating Digvijay Singh, the shrewd congress politician, who is nothing but a useless, hopeless and insecure sycophant like another congressmen. Now, I will turn to young Gandhi scion, Rahul Gandhi. I praised him in my last blog titled “Rooting for Rahul” dated June 9, 2009. http://feelforthem.blogspot.com/2009/06/rooting-for-rahul.html

But after startling revelations on Wikileaks, he disappointed me giving an impression that of an utterly immature kid who is being projected as the future Prime Minister of our great country. I sensed as if he was extremely misguided and ill-advised politician who had no commonsense or brain of his own. He should have educated himself before making any stupid comment. I agree that terrorism has no color but how one can dare to compare between a nationalist organization and international terror outfits or home grown Islamic terrorist organizations. Indubitably, some of the RSS members have been indulged in anti-national or anti minority activities but such one off cases don’t make the whole organization a terrorist entity. If an army-man is found guilty of sedition, does it make entire armed forces treacherous? Have the people of this country forgotten what some CRIMINALS in congress did during emergency or in 1984 riots?

The RSS members participated in several social and political movements including freedom struggle, which Rahul’s great grandfather spearheaded. They have contributed and volunteered in the nation building including relief and rehabilitation work. Any mischievous act by its member cannot belittle its contribution to the Indian society. Rahul and his retinue must know the important roles played by the RSS in the liberation of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Goa; war with China and emergency.

As far as propagating its ideology is concerned, we must understand what they preach first? What is wrong in imparting our children about India’s glorious past, culture and values? If Christian missionaries can be allowed to carry out their conversion agenda in the garb of social upliftment and education, why is this fuss for RSS run schools?

Neither I entirely agree with the opinions and views enunciated by such nationalist entities nor I act as their spokesperson. I also don’t intend to join RSS in the future as well. But I see that there are strong discontent and uneasiness among certain section of the Hindu societies. Certainly, they are fed up with so-called Muslim appeasement by our government and incessant Islamic terrorist attacks from within and across the border. Particularly when we have been invaded, oppressed by the outsiders for centuries. I don’t have any personal grudges against Muslims. But, I believe there would be natural and spontaneous responses to such attacks. Generally speaking, Hindus are tolerant and moderate community; we have welcomed outsiders, adapted to changes and practiced what is best in other faiths. But their tolerance cannot and should not be taken for granted.

I will give some example of discrimination against them. In our own country, there are certain parts where Hindus are not allowed to freely practice their own faith. I believe ours is a secular country so much so that we afraid to raise the issue of oppression of our own people lest we are labeled as communal. Hindus are raped, looted and harassed in our neighboring countries but we don’t bother. Indeed, we don’t mind even when Pandits are cleansed in Kashmir. Because we believe they are law & order problems. We don’t wage war against the states where Hindus are harassed or prosecuted like Muslims do for their religious brethren in Palestine or Iraq. I don’t claim that India belongs to the majority but the minority must not take the advantage of our tolerance. Refer to following link: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/india-muslims-attack-hindu-procession-injuring-50.html

Many such stories we get to know from across the country such as West Bengal. In my own home district, some of my friends and their families have been forced to leave Muslim dominated areas to safer havens. This is not to suggest that all Muslims are bad or threat to Hindus. But it disturbs that talking of our own culture, religion and well being of Hindus makes us communal. Unfortunate, very unfortunate.

Today's Musing

Friends,

I am back after a hiatus. There could be two reasons for not blogging these days- either I have started taking my professional job seriously or I have nothing important to write about. In this shrinking world, where test cricket gets squeezed to one- days and then reduced to twenty-20 model; where we find it difficult to read lengthy reportages, or for that matter even our text books, begetting blogging to micro-blogging a.k.a. tweeting, I too have resorted to two- three liners on the Facebook. And people believed I could be a good script writer. I know I am not a good writer but for a while I was scared if could lose the writing habit. My friend, Joy, will scoff at me that it is not writing but a typing habit. So, I decide to return to my absurd writing (typing). It may bother you, but it makes me happier, indeed.

I am mesmerized that things are really shrinking. Be it glaciers, space, play grounds, greenery, natural resources, our homes sweet homes, families, social lives, our values, friends list, to name a few. But there are certain things that are growing in size such as population, pollution, corruption, natural disasters, crimes, immorality, enmity etc. in our societies.

But one thing will never grow in size, for sure. That is the distance between you and me. One thing that will never be scarce is my admiration, my concerns for you. One thing that will remain intact, no matter what, is my wish for your well being.

Albeit I started with something else in my mind to write about but that unpredictability is very nature of a writer. S/he begins her/his journey in certain direction but finally reaches altogether at different destination. It maybe a bliss or it maybe a defect, depending on where you finally land in. Well, right now we have reached at the end of this very eventful year and what an opportune time to convey my all wishes to you for the new year that would become old exactly after one year! And that is the time when I shall renew my wishes, with same amount of zeal, zest and gusto.

Till then, keep smiling at every step, in every adversity. God bless you always!

Some simple solutions

No matter how big the problems may seem to be but, if we look around, there should be some astonishingly simple solutions. We have this tendency to complain for every problem and blame the government agencies for every misery. But remember we are the one who elect our government and are very much an integral part of the system. There is no point in carrying out candle light rallies or forwarding emails to hundred of thousand strangers unless we take some action.

I will give you some good examples. Water scarcity is a big problem not only in remote villages of Rajasthan or overpopulated Delhi but also in seaward cities like Mumbai. Kofi Annan once had said that the next world war would be fought on water issues. India is fuming that China is building dams on river Brahmaputra while India is building dams on Indus which has Pakistan screaming blue murder and threatening terrorist action. So, what do we do to conserve water? Nothing. We realize its importance only when our taps go dry. But what is the solution, boss? Solution is, as I said, very simple. Stop using western styled toilets. Every time you urinate, mind you, you flush out one bucket of water. And like you, million people waste thousand gallons of water everyday. Similarly, many of us use bathtubs. Why cannot we resist bathing like buffalos in the ponds? I am not just preaching rather I do practice it as well. I don’t drink water supplied by the municipal corporation; I leave it for more needing people. On serious note, I use one bucket of water to bathe.

Similarly, let us find the solution of terrorism. Beefing up our vulnerable security bandobast every time we are attacked by the terrorists is not going to help us. In this case, we will have to understand the problem. Most of the terrorist activities are either financed by oil rich states like Saudi Arabia or some other illegal means like opium smuggling and movie piracy. Will you vow not to buy pirated DVDs? I guess you will not. Oil emerged as the dominant source of global energy demand in the 1960s and it would be foolish to talk about stopping its consumption altogether. But we can reduce it for sure. Let us start using public transportation. If all of us become responsible we can curtail oil consumption to a great extent. It will not make Arab Sheikhs pauper but surely would make them poorer and might affect terrorism financing at least to some extent. Similarly we can curb corruption by just not paying bribes no matter what. But are we going to take some pain and suffer? That is the question. We want solutions without doing anything.

Now, we can see that every individual has a vital role to play in solving apparently difficult sounding problems. Let us act now and stop complaining.

Islam to conquer world

Of late, my sister warned me not to write about Islam. I apologize but as soon I have something to share with you I fail to resist. Months ago a dear friend of mine who practices Islam educated me that one of Islam’s prophets has predicted that at the end of the day there would be only one religion and that is Islam. At that time I laughed off but now I realize that he was absolutely correct. Islam is indeed conquering the world. Islam came to India in early seventh century with the advent of Arab traders. Then many Muslim invaded India and brutally looted her. Over 95% of Indian Muslims are Hindus converted to Islam. Of course, not all of them could be converted by force only. There were several reasons for conversions and include largely forcible bloody conversion, influence of sufi saints, en masse conversions of lower Hindu castes oppressed by upper Hindus and temptations given by Muslim rulers etc.

However, there are hardly traces or known reasons of conversion in states like Kashmir and Bengal (including Bangla Desh). As Vijay Kumar says “Kashmir was a Hindu land continuously for 5,000 years. Islam went there as an imperial force, subjugated the local people, and conquered them, both politically and demographically, after 5,000 years of Hindu peace and civilization. Today the Kashmiri Hindus are refugees in their own land. They have been reduced to a minority. It is not Kashmir alone. Now Muslims of India wants Mughalstan, the Land of Mugal empire. They want to build an Islamic state from Pakistan to Bangladesh that includes the entirety of north India”. Thus, if Kashmir can be conquered why not India or for that matter the whole world?

Many countries have fallen prey to invasion by Islam. Pakistan which was an integral part of “Bharat” for ages has now become a rabid Islamic country. Nepal which was the only Hindu nation has become secular country. Turkey was Christian; Iran was Zoroastrian; North Africa and the Middle East were predominantly Christian; Afghanistan and Central Asia were Buddhist; Egypt was Coptic, orthodox Christian before they become Islamic nations. That makes me believe that the day is not far when we might see North America and most of the European countries as Islamic republic nations.

I have no issue if people choose to convert to Islam. But there are several fundamental problems with this religion and those who convert to Islam or are already practicing it must be told the truth. I tell you, after finding Hinduism boring studying Islam is really fascinating for me. This is the time good Muslims come forward and disown those parts of Koran that are unacceptable to a modern civilized society.

Here are verbatim interviews of Vijay Kumar who is running for office in America who is actually making the issue of Islamic Jihad a significant part of his campaign. He has some valid points.

I am a native of Hyderabad, India, which is where I first encountered the Muslim culture. We have a substantial number of Muslims there, a higher percentage than most other parts of India, and I began to observe things that troubled me. Later, I traveled a number of Islamic nations, and I lived in Iran from 1976 to 1979, during the Islamic Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini. I immigrated to the United States in 1979. All my life, I have been interested in political thought. During my travels, I came to realize that Islam is unlike any of the other world religions for a variety of reasons, and they summate to the Islamic ideology behind Jihad.

First, Islam was conceived as a world empire to govern all mankind. It teaches that all the world, and everyone and everything in it, already belongs to Islam-some people just haven't been made to understand that. Until they have, according to Islam, they are considered "infidels" and inferiors. Put another way, the Islamic view is that all of us in the world are subjects of the Islamic Empire, and those of us who do not acknowledge our subjugation to it must be overcome and brought to submission, through conversion or force. No other religion in the world has such a purpose of world conquest and domination.

Second, Islam does not allow any introspection or self-criticism. It calls for total acceptance, total submission. The very word "Islam" means "submission," and the word "Muslim" means "one who submits." The other side of submission, of course, is domination. Islam seeks to dominate every individual and every nation into submission. In that, it shares a key element of slavery, which the civilized world has properly decried and abolished. Such submission is a political act. I am a freeman, and I refuse to submit to Islamic hegemony.

Third, Islam does not have any exit policy for its believers. The act of submission required to become a Muslim is held to be final, irrevocable, and permanent. So criticizing or questioning Islam or its teachings or leaders, or attempting to leave Islam, all are considered severe crimes against Islam, punishable by death.

And now about Jihad

All of that is what drives Jihad: Jihad is a permanent war against the unbeliever and his land to bring about his submission. It has been going on for fourteen centuries all over the world, which is why I coined the term "Universal Jihad." Islam's Universal Jihad is the single greatest threat to Western civilization and to the entire non-Islamic world in general. It is more dangerous than Nazism and Communism combined.

Nazism, Communism, and Islam are all three totalitarian ideologies. Communism and Nazism, though, lack a system of transcendental metaphysics, which Islam has. Nazism and Communism do not claim to be religions, and there is no threat of hell-fire to hold over its adherents. By contrast, Islam is a totalitarian form of governance that also claims to be a religion, and so has proved to be far more sustainable than any other form of aggressive totalitarianism.

The doctrine and politics of Universal Jihad have been assaulting the world for 1,400 years. It is exactly what launched the Christian Crusades, which were an attempt to save European civilization from the relentless onslaught and wholesale murder of invading Muslim forces.

Under Universal Jihad, non-Muslim civilizations have been annihilated. To mention just a few examples: Turkey was Christian; Iran was Zoroastrian; North Africa and the Middle East were predominantly Christian; Afghanistan and Central Asia were Buddhist; Pakistan was Hindu; Egypt was Coptic, orthodox Christian. All have fallen prey to invasion by Islam.

Today, Universal Jihad has been brought to the West-not just by overt violence, but through every strategy and tactic conceivable. Islam is not just the faith of another immigrant group; it is a complete political and paramilitary ideology. Political Islam is here to Islamize the Western nations, and that includes the United States.

So Universal Jihad is a permanent form of warfare against the infidels, their nation-states, and every non-Islamic form of government in the world. It has been Islam's mandate for 1,400 years that other cultures must submit to it. Islam is devoted to an eternally-unchanging doctrine: it is obligated to conquer entire world.

No one needs to take my word for it. Syed Abul A'ala Maududi, a Pakistani, was arguably the most influential Muslim theologian and thinker of the 20th Century. He said the following point-blank:
"Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program . . . [T]he objective of Islamic Jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system and establish in its stead an Islamic system of State rule. Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution."
Any Muslim or apologist who claims otherwise, or who insists that Islam is just "a religion of peace" is not arguing against me: they are arguing against their own most revered leaders and experts on Islam and its true purpose. They are spreading Islamic propaganda that has no other purpose than to lull the infidel into a false sense of friendship and security.
World War I was won in four years, World War II was won in six years. But the Israel/Palestine and the India/Pakistan conflicts have not resolved after 62 years. Why? It's simple: Muslims do not want peace, they want conquest. When they enter into an alleged "peace accord," it is only a ploy to buy time to build their position for ultimate conquest. This is by their own creed: in Islam's system of "ethics," it is perfectly acceptable to lie to mere infidels.
In the case of Israel, the West has never been 100% behind Israeli sovereignty. Both the West and Israel have always only wanted to buy truce with the Islamic nations-never peace. It is an endless case of appeasement that puts Neville Chamberlain to shame.
As I have said before, and as history proves conclusively and invariably, Islam does not recognize pluralism, and Islam never wants a lasting peace with any non-Islamic people or states. When Muslims are in a relatively weak position they may offer truce-a temporary agreement-but never lasting peace. Even a cursory study of the treaties made by Muhammad proves at once that every Islamic treaty is merely another tactic toward ultimate conquest and domination. He set the standard for using treaties as a path to conquest.

Since then, Islam has been waging a relentless war for the past 1,400 years against every non-Muslim within their reach. In the last century, technological advances have extended the reach of the Muslim world considerably. Anybody who believes that it's suddenly going to change-for any reason, through any amount of "diplomacy"-is either grossly uninformed or delusional.

Islamic imperialists have no desire at all for peaceful coexistence with Israel. They want to annihilate the "Zionist Entity." By the way, during the last 60 years, Israel has absorbed more than a million Sephardic Jews from Arab countries. The Arab nations, on the other hand, refuse to absorb two million Palestinians. It's a sad irony that two million Palestinians are considered so important while at the same time the suffering inflicted upon 50 million Kurdish people by Muslim nations goes almost unnoticed, unremarked.

Muslims do not recognize the right to existence of either Israel or India. They simply consider them roadblocks to world conquest that need to be removed, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes. Universal Jihad is infinite, endless war against the infidel. It has been formally, blatantly declared. To the Muslim, Jewish Israel and Hindu India are nothing more than inferior infidel nation-states that must be torn down and brought under Islamic control.

To read more click
http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/the-wrong-way-to-fight-jihad-march-2010/

Hindu v/s Hinduism

There is misconception that Hinduism is related to Hindu religion. For beginners I must tell that there was no concept of Hindu as a religion before Britishers came to India. Being Hindu was like being a citizen of Hindustan (aka Indian). It was Britishers who estblish Hindu as a religion to distinguish them from Islam and Christianity.

Well, I just got a beautiful comment posted by some Martin Luther on Deniel Pipes Org. Please read it if you want to know the difference between Ethnic & phelosophical Hindus and why one cannot convert you to Hinduism. Read on:
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Nobody can convert you to Hinduism

Submitted by Martin Luther (India), Nov 21, 2007 at 01:45

It is deplorable that people compare religions. You can compare religions founded by an individual - like Islam, Christainity or Sikhism. But it would be impossible to compare with hinduism. All religions are founded upon "Faith" But Hinduism is founded upon "Cosmic Truth". There are two sections in Hinduism - (1)Ethnic (2)Philosophical. The ethnic Hindu can be compared to a Muslim and manyways you can see ordinary hindu is more superstitious than a muslim. Ordinary hindu may have blind faith like Islam.

But the real hinduism cannot be compared. First, please try to understand Vedanta, Brahmasutra, Upanishad or Gita before talking about Hinduism.

Religious texts like Bible and Quaran can be comparable to Puranas or Amar Chitra Katha. But can't comparable with even the preliminary philosophical text like Gita, let alone Vedas.

So if you want to live in a blind faith (mind-level) it would be better live as a Muslim or Christain or ethnic Hindu. But nobody can convert you to a real Hindu. But you can get yourself convereted. How? Like according to cosmic. Ask the question "Who Am I?" The answer will lead you to real Hinduism. Then you can announce, "Yes, I am a Hindu"

Media is generally anti-Hindu. VHP and RSS trying to make Hinduism in the line of Islam. But real Hinduism will survive - it is known as "sanatana dharma" (an eternal and ever-present (even if not ever-visible way of life)

Threats From Within

Just look at this picture. This is the picture of 75 CRPF peronnel massacred in a Naxalite ambush which is published in today's Economic Times. I dont feel like commenting on the same. Hapless Indians!! Firstly, they are poor and secondly they have neighbours like China and Pakistan who are primarily responsible to instigate and provide all possible support and apparatus to the terrorists and are determined to annihilate India. I read three news headlines in today's peper:

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Maoists killed 75 CRPF Jawans
Chinese hackers hit vital institutions
LeT eyeing India's core sector, says US think tank
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After reading the news of this gruesome murder I got so disturbed that I could not concentrate on work but I noticed my colleagues the first thing they talked about after coming to the office is- which stock to buy/sell today or what is the market today. As Brahma Chellaney, a policy research expert said "The governmnet is sleeping. It does not realise it is being repeatedly slapped around by Chinese". Should I add something to his statement? Not only our governmnet, all of us are in deep slumber and to wake up from amnesia we need the sporadic dose of such attacks. We have been attacked in past by outsiders- first Muslim invaders then Europeans and Britishers. I guess we are used to it. We have lost our senses.