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Cong"s Communism & SoniaG"s Upkeep Cho Ramaswamys Tuglaq (the protagonist in the eponymous movie) says, It is not possible to make the poor rich. Therefore make the rich poor and all will be equal! It is an unstated dictum of the communist proletariat. The communist elite (vlasti in Russian) had a different take on Marxist philosophy as George Orwell so vividly depicted in his Animal Farm. Irrespective of how they live, quite often the vlasti echo the proletarian edict, more to show that their heart is in the right place rather t...	UN Das	Add Comment
Why minority reservations in secular nation? Thanks to the Congress partys unrelenting pursuit of vote bank politics the issue of reservations for minorities in jobs and educational institutions is back in the news. Designed as a ploy to regain a foothold in UP (as a key to capturing power at the centre in 2014), it carved out a 4.5% sub-quota for minorities (primarily Muslims) in the 27% reservation provided for OBCs. In its vulgar greed to capture power at any cost it conveniently forgot the sequence of events, beginning with the creatio...	UN Das	John: Mr. U.N Das, Just wondering... Why are you concerned about minority appeasement thru reservations when the majority (i.e. Hindus) do not give any damn about it since 1947 and still continue to do so?? [1 comments]
Lies, damn lies and reporting Gujarat When it comes to reporting on Gujarat 2002, the media has not only a different idiom and different sets of moral and ethical standards to be applied to different people, but demands a totally different jurisprudence! Thus the edict, the law takes its own course does not apply to Gujarat riots cases. The judiciary must take medias word for it and convict all accused in the cases and more importantly Narendra Modi. According to the secular media the ends of justice would be met if and only if Nar...	UN Das	Add Comment
Lessons for all from Election 2012 Firstly, the major lesson the Congress needs to learn from this election is the Muslim voters are not as gullible as they might appear to the party. Instead of focusing on good governance and development, the party concentrated on to holding out a poisonous carrot to them. A national party, a party which boasts Indias independence is its achievement, should have had better ideas. It was only sixty years ago the nation was divided based on religion and the nation cannot stare at another fragmenta...	UN Das	U. Narayana Das: The following comment has nothing to do with the article in question. It is in fact an advertisement. Editor, please delete it. [2 comments]
Federalism and National Security No one can deny that the US has greater federalism than most nations and more certainly than India. Each of its fifty states is fiercely independent and zealously guards its turf. The US also has the strongest anti-terror laws in the world and sees no contradiction between federalism and national security. In the aftermath of a rare terrorist attack on US soil in September 2001, the US administration strengthened its intelligence gathering organs. The enactment of the PATRIOT Act in 2001 was the...	UN Das	Add Comment
Kashmiri Pandits: A Forsaken Minority Another anniversary of the exodus that made the Kashmiri Pandits orphans of history stared at us on January 19. The Pandits, were uprooted from their home and hearth and cast about as refugees in their own homeland. The tragedy and tribulations that befell this unfortunate community for the last twenty two years include some of the most heart-rending stories. Theirs is a story of humanitarian disaster of unprecedented magnitude, but strangely, had gone unnoticed by the rest of the world and more...	UN Das	S.Ghosh: Hindus fought always for hundreds of years. Persians were defeated within 10 years. But Muslims were stopped in Afghanistan and West pakistan in 7th century, and were driven back by Deva Pal of Pal synasty beyond Afghanistan in 8th century. In 9th ce.... [7 comments]
Worm"s-eye view of Indian Media What is the role of the media in reflecting public thought? Should it merely reflect or attempt to shape it? Should it or should it not play the role of an Ombudsman in exposing venality and corruption in public life? If Arun shouriess debut as a journalist at Indian Express provided some answers to these unremitting questions, there are others who differed with him. Girilal Jain of the Times of India described him and others of his ilk at the Indian Express as the Galahads of the press. If we s...	UN Das	Add Comment
Gujarat riots & "secular" Galahads of justice!	UN Das	g kapuria: Well written. But it also needs to be more direct. If the goal is to point fingers are the secularists, do point fingers. Name those secularists, and write about their misdeeds, and analyze their bias. Then it will be effective. [1 comments]
Enemies of State or Gandhians with guns By a strange twist of irony, as a review Hello, Bastar, Rahul Panditas untold story of Indias Maosist movement was being written, television channels across the country were celebrating Anna Hazares Gandhian victory over the might of the Indian state. It is difficult to comment whether the phrase Gandhians with Guns was coined with extreme cynicism, or extreme irreverence (to the original Satyägrahi) or extreme facetiousness. Be that as it may, it has become a paradigm – not so much to describe ...	UN Das	Add Comment
Chanakya Chant: Intelligent mans guide to... Had Chanakya been a Western philosopher (like Plato or Aristotle), history probably would have treated him with much more respect. His Arthasastra is easily the Earths first treatise on statecraft, which dealt with economy and governance, foreign policy and war strategy. Indian history, written first by the aliens and then by the left-liberal crowd, with its obsession with a nebulous composite culture, has not done justice to the great political-philosopher. Westerners, in their ineffable arroga...	UN Das	Ruy Lopez: Truly such writings should be taught in schools and college in literature and political science classes to develop to think outside the box. In place of JNU and other worthless institutions, organizations bearing Chankya should be built to link India.... [1 comments]
UPA"s NAC Rule - Dictatorship in disguise? As is clear from its many reviews, the Communal Violence Bill (PCTVB), drafted by the NAC is totally one-sided and dangerous in the extreme if ever it becomes an act. Under one of its far-reaching clauses, for example, if a Hindu male sexually assaults a woman of the minority community it is rape. But if a male member of a minority community sexually assaults a woman of the Hindu community is not rape! A small – even informal – formation of Hindus is an association whereas a group could only be...	UN Das	Add Comment
Communal bill reduces Hindus to Jews in... If the objective of the bill is to protect the religious minorities, from whom does it seek to protect them? The definition of association in Clause 3 (b) is scary and makes you and I shudder to think when the policeman knocks. You dont have to be an enlisted member of any association whether or not registered or incorporated under any law. For if the association need not be legally constituted to be accused of an offence, where is the question of enlisted membership? If you are ipso facto a mem...	UN Das	S.Ghosh: Western media is anti-Indian, anti0Hindu, but it is a fact that USA, France, former Soviet Union and East European countries before 1990, Japan are all Secular and they are developed. Countries with official religions ( Non-Secular countries.... [24 comments]
Modi Godhra Gujarat and IBN-Live On April 26 IBN-Live posted on its website, a report titled, “SIT disregards Bhatts statement against Modi” written by its staffers Ashok Bagriya and Meghdoot Sharoon. There is an accompanying video which has an interview Karan Thapar had with K. S. Subramanium, who according to the report was, part of a citizens (sic) tribunal inquiring into Gujarat riots.Now, it does not require the intelligence of an Einstein to understand which side the citizens tribunal is on, for the main stream media to t...	UN Das	g kapuria: CNN-IBN has the money and the Padma shris. Why should they care for truth? [1 comments]
Anna Hazare & Indians Against Corruption EPIC BATTLE AT JANTAR MANTAR Anna Hazares hunger strike, reminiscent of Mahatma Gandhis mass Satyagrahas, has truly awakened the citizenry of this country. A moribund citizenry has at last come alive to fight corruption and venality in public life. The groundswell of public anger against corruption that fueled the movement ensured Hazares self-less Satyagraha has not gone in vain. At first the ruling dispensation tried to deflect the issue hoping public attention would move on to other issues. T...	UN Das	S.Ghosh: Hazare-campaign is related to only a fraction of corruption, but it should be welcomed as the first step. At present law cannot touch president, Prime Ministers, judges, Governors, State Ministers and central Ministers even their secretaries (IAS.... [6 comments]
Lalu and Modi: Tale of two CMs It was during Lalu Prasad Yadavs heyday as Chief Minister of Bihar, that a colleague in Patna told us these stories, the first as one of those Lalu jokes and the second as a real life incident “A famous surgeon in Patna was kidnapped. His kidnappers demanded a ransom of two lakh rupees for his release. He informed his kidnappers that they had better release him as he was one of Lalu Prasad Yadavs personal physicians. The kidnappers laughed and told him that if he was so confident that Lalu would...	UN Das	Add Comment

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