Call 108 – New Lifeline to Rural Bharat

April 4, 2009 · Filed under Bharat, Health and Education, India · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dial 108 – That is the new lifeline for rural residents in the states of Gujrat, AP, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, and Goa. I just came across an article on this great non-profit emergency health service, EMRI, slowly picking up in rural Bharat. I was so amazed that such a service, implemented by NGO’s and funded by state governments was a huge success, with no corruption. Once again, one among such states was Gujrat. While the media is still stuck with past memories of 2002, it seems like Gujrat is moving ahead with fantastic pace and is not caught in the past like our English media.

This is a classic example of how good things can be done if there’s a political will. I hope that other states with dismal rural healthcare facilities, notably Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Assam, and NE states, implement this service as soon as possible. 

Read on for the detailed article:

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/167429/Miracle-called-108.html

Miracle called 108

An emergency medical service in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Goa and Meghalaya has revolutionised health care in those States. Its success could bring political dividends this election season, writes A Surya Prakash

This is election time once again and you are certain to hear political experts pontificate on anti-incumbency and poor governance. Millions of Indians who are fed on a staple diet of cynicism by sections of the media would find it difficult to comprehend that good governance is a reality, at least in some States and that visible, and at times spectacular breakthroughs have been achieved in tackling hitherto unresolved problems. In other words, whatever the negative media may be dinning into your ears about the failure of the political class and the incompetence of the bureaucracy, the truth is that things are happening at the grass roots and the change is visible to those who are willing to cast away their political blinkers. 

The best example of this is the comprehensive emergency response ambulance service that is now available in all parts of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Goa and Meghalaya and is being introduced in six other States. This service, which operates with remarkable speed and efficiency, has been perfected and executed by a non-profit organisation called Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) in all these States, and would easily classify as the most efficient public service programme in the country. Also, thanks to media skepticism, it is India’s best kept secret. People outside these States are largely unaware of the fact that it is bringing new hope to rural India and bridging the chasm between the villages and the cities at least in the area of emergency medical care. 

EMRI was the brain child of Ramalinga Raju of the Satyam Group, who felt that India too ought to have an efficient and comprehensive emergency service like 911 in the United States. The non-for-profit organisation was launched in April, 2005 and Andhra Pradesh became the first State to ask for the service. Impressed by the success of the programme in Andhra Pradesh, Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, decided in August, 2007 to operationalise the service in his State by March, 2009. But, as we are all aware, where there is political will, there is speed. Therefore, with Modi pushing it, the 400 ambulances needed to cover the entire State were operationalised six months ahead of the deadline — in September, 2008 itself. 

Apart from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, the other States which have fully operationalised the emergency ambulance service are Uttarakhand, Goa and Meghalaya. In all these States, villagers say the ambulance reaches their doorstep in 15-20 minutes after a call to 108, a toll-free number, and takes the critically ill to the nearest civil or private hospital. This is a facility which even residents of Delhi and Mumbai cannot claim to have. Some other States which have taken the first steps to introduce 108 are Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. 

States can get much of the capital expenditure needed for this emergency ambulance service through the National Rural Health Mission, provided they have a clear plan of action and pitch for it the way Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have done. The cost per unit ranges from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 16 lakh depending on whether the ambulance is equipped with Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Life Support (ALS) equipment. The running cost (Rs 1.25 lakh per ambulance per month) is provided by the State Government. The running cost of the present fleet in Gujarat is about Rs 60 crore a year. 

Andhra Pradesh first secured 500 ambulances and later added 150 more to its fleet. EMRI has now been asked to augment the fleet further with 150 more units. In Andhra Pradesh, each ambulance handles eight cases a day while in Gujarat it is approximately five cases a day. Govind Lulla, COO, EMRI for Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa, says, “The golden hour is critical in medical emergencies because 80 per cent of the deaths occur within that hour.” Hence the value of the ambulance, which reaches every nook and cranny of a big State like Gujarat or Andhra Pradesh within 15 to 20 minutes. BLS ambulances have oxygen cylinders, suction pumps, cervical collars for immobilisation of the patient, drips and measuring instruments to measure oxygen level in the blood, blood glucose etc. ALS ambulances have ventilators and defibrillators. They can take an ECG and transmit the same to the call centre where physicians work round the clock and advise the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in the ambulance on pre-hospitalisation medication to be given to the patient. The ECG and the call centre doctor’s opinion is dispatched to the hospital where the patient is being taken, so that doctors in the emergency room in the hospital have sufficient information on the patient’s condition. The ratio of BLS:ALS is 3:1. EMRI handles 2,000 emergencies a day in Gujarat. 

The figures for Andhra Pradesh are indeed mind boggling. The 108 call centre in this State has handled over 22 million calls during 2008-09 of which 1.7 million calls related to emergencies. Pregnancy-related emergencies topped the list with 22 per cent, followed by stomach aliments and abdomen pain (17 per cent) and accident trauma cases (16 per cent). Cardiac cases accounted for four per cent of the emergencies. In this State alone, 108 has saved over 40,000 lives until now. 

Such is the efficiency of the system that sometimes it makes you rub your eyes and ask whether all this is happening in India. The system operates as follows: When there is a medical emergency in a village, the villagers call 108, which is a toll free number. The call centre directs the nearest ambulance to reach the village. It has an Automatic Vehicle Location and Tracking System (AVLTS). The physician (there are 13 of them at the call centre in Ahmedabad) decides whether to dispatch a BLS or an ALS to the scene. On reaching the village, the 108 crew get down to their task. Whenever necessary, the EMT calls the call centre, gets on line with a doctor and seeks his advice. He also arranges a conference call of a friend or relative of the patient with the doctor, so that everybody is in the loop with regard to the nature of the emergency and the course of treatment suggested by the doctor. There are 3,400 hospitals in Gujarat. By end of 2009, the Government plans to double this number and ensure that there are 7,000 hospitals in place. The emergency medical service is absolutely free and the ambulances take patients only to hospitals which have signed an MoU with EMRI for receiving patients and handling emergencies. In Gujarat, in the first 16 months, EMRI has handled more than 4.25 lakh cases, of which 1.21 lakh cases related to pregnant women being rushed to hospitals. 

Every ambulance has a pilot and an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). The crew is trained for 45 days.

The pilot learns about extraction of vehicles in accidents and dealing with similar emergencies. The EMT, who is a graduate in life sciences or nursing or pharmacy, is trained to deal with medical emergencies. Since this is a service-oriented activity, EMRI places a lot of emphasis on ethics and attitude. As Lulla says, “If the attitude of an applicant is not okay, we don’t hire him.” Members of the crew are not to even accept tips from people. Such is the training that the crew of an ambulance handed over foreign currency worth Rs 30 lakh to the victims of an accident after admitting them to a hospital. The car was involved in a crash while the family was heading to the airport to board a flight to Australia. The 108 crew took charge of their bags, cash and travel papers and handed them back to the family after admitting them in a hospital. 

Those who step outside this ethical framework are fired. EMRI ensures quality and courteous service because of the autonomy it enjoys in its operations. 

EMRI pays special attention to the recruitment process. Lulla says the catchment area is “good souls with right values.” Soft skills and value skills are as important as technical skills. Amit Desai, head, EMRI Gujarat, says the challenge is to get the right people and to train them. As Lulla points out, “This is not a Government job and those who join us must realise this. We tell them that if money is your objective, don’t come here.” EMRI currently has over 12,000 employees all over India. Desai says the employees like it because “they have the best of both worlds — corporate culture plus public service.” The emergency service runs like clockwork because of the hands-on approach of the management. Lulla, Desai and other top executives often accompany ambulances when on call and watch the crew at work. The training programme is designed to make the employees mentally strong and sensitive. “It is a combination of leadership, technology, innovation and research, which are the four pillars of the organisation,” Lulla says. “We want persons with passion, energy, modesty and reliability.”

The dedicated crew have made 108 a roaring success. This writer caught up with the crew of one emergency unit — Preeti Patel and Vyas Pratik, the Medical Assistant and Pilot of the ambulance — on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Both of them do 12-hour shifts but women are exempt from the graveyard shift. The ambulance is well-equipped with several emergency facilities. It has disposable syringes and anti-snake venom, and equipment to deal with emergencies like drowning and poisoning. The crew also has a digital camera to get photographic evidence in medico-legal cases. This evidence is passed on to the police. All calls to the crew and from them are recorded and made available in medico-legal cases to investigators and courts. Both Patel and Pratik are happy with their jobs. They say there is a lot of job satisfaction because they are able to help people in times of distress. 

Anyone traveling through Gujarat or Andhra Pradesh today can sense the positive vibes that 108 has generated in even the remote villages of these States. Villagers in Narmada, Mehsana and Gandhinagar districts of Gujarat and Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Vishakapatnam districts of Andhra Pradesh, where this writer travelled to assess governance at the village level, swear by this service. Amazingly, although a “government service”, there was not a single complaint of corruption, bribery, inefficiency or bad behaviour of the crew in any of the villages of these six districts in these two States. This is indeed something extraordinary for a “government service” in India, but it is true. There is such an outpouring of public gratitude for this free and efficiently delivered critical health care service that it is certain to bring in political and electoral dividends for all the chief ministers who have introduced it. In that sense, this could be called a “108 Election” in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa. 

That there could be political dividends from good governance is evident from the responses of village folk in these States. Says Diheshchandra Kalidas Shah of Garudeshwar Village in Narmada district: “The ambulance is just a call away. It reaches our village in five or ten minutes. There is no payment to be made and there is no corruption.”

Mohammed Bhai of Chanwada Village in Rajpipla echoes this sentiment. “Just the other day there were several medical emergencies in our village. We called 108 three times and on all occasions, the ambulance reached the village in 15-20 minutes.” 

Praise for the service is uniform across the villages of north Andhra Pradesh too. Sayamma of Kurupam panchayat in Vizianagaram district says that recently, when they called 108 even at 2 am, the ambulance reached the village in 15 minutes and rushed the patient to the General Hospital. Poovalapatti of Biyyalavalsa village in Vizianagaram district said that the fact that 108 is a toll free number added to the value of the service. “Even a person who is broke can call the ambulance,” he says. Jyotamma, secretary, Mahila Mandal, Durubili village, says, “Earlier we used to carry patients to the Civil Hospital, which is 7 km away. Now we have the ambulance in our village in 20 minutes.”

This is also probably the first “government” service that is free of corruption and inefficiency. Shikalu Ushansa Diwan, of Bunjatha Village in Narmada district says this of the crew of 108: “They are very courteous and efficient. There is no corruption and bribery involved. All are treated equally and with respect.” Ashwin Patel of Amjagaon in Gandhinagar district agrees. “We have no complaints. We have not heard of any kind of corruption or bribery. There is no problem with this service,” he says. 

SK Goush, a social worker in Parvathipuram in north Andhra Pradesh, says the quality of the service is attributable to discipline among the crew. “Strict action is taken against erring 108 employees. Also, much attention is paid to maintenance. The vehicles are serviced regularly and the tyres changed after the mandatory mileage.” This is rather unusual for a “sarkari service” because even residents of big cities in India often see ambulances with flat tyres and in various stages of disuse lying in the courtyards or sheds of Government hospitals. 

The most obvious spin off of 108 is the contribution of this quality emergency medical care facility in bringing down the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the States which have ensured State-wide coverage. This has further been dovetailed to the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), which seeks to encourage pregnant women to deliver their babies in civil hospitals or primary health centres. For example, in Gujarat, 3,800 babies are “108 babies” in that they were born in these ambulances. The State Government has urged rural folk to discourage “home deliveries” and to reach pregnant women to primary health centres and civil hospitals in time for delivery. Anganwadi workers, rickshaw pullers and many others have been roped into this scheme. They get an incentive if they call 108. This is helping the State bring down both Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). The 108 crew also explains the advantages of the Chiranjeevi Scheme which offers a cash incentive of Rs 500 plus a saree to every woman who delivers her baby in an established medical facility. The villagers are told that by calling 108, they ensure proper medical care for the expectant mother and the baby. People in the villages of Gujarat say that while the cash incentive and the saree offered by the State is a major draw, rural folk have also realised that by going to the Civil Hospital they get proper medical attention both for the mother and the baby. The facilitators at the local level also get a cash incentive. 

Yet another advantage of 108 is the remarkable boost it has given to the health care sector in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. The number of hospitals in Gujarat will double within a year’s time and Primary Health Centres and Civil Hospitals are getting upgraded. In Andhra Pradesh, 108 provides a crucial link between medical emergencies and Arogyasri, the health insurance scheme.

The third important advantage of 108 is the valuable data that it provides to health authorities, the State police and traffic planners on road accidents and accident-prone spots. It also offers valuable research data in a variety of other areas which help public policy formulation. It is therefore no surprise that India’s 108 is being hailed the world over for its extraordinary efficiency, social purpose and commitment and is being showered with international awards and accolades. So, if you belong to a State that has still not woken up to 108, do not despair. Make the best of this election season and extract a promise from the parties that seek your vote that they will introduce an efficient emergency medical care service. Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh may have got ahead of you but remember, it is never late to demand 108! Meanwhile, whether you like them or not and whether or not the media tells you what they have done in their States, do not be surprised if 108 brings in electoral dividends to YS Rajashekara Reddy, Narendra Modi, BC Khanduri and other chief ministers who had the foresight and political will to introduce an emergency ambulance service that would make us all proud.

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But we refuse to see history and continue to lose geography…!!

March 13, 2009 · Filed under General Elections 2009, India

This is a great article on the elections. Something which we all need to think and act upon.

 

“Elect those who choose India as life-force


Tarun Vijay | March 09, 2009 | 17:37 IST

Surrounded by failed States and terror dens, India needs a strong leadership that will not hesitate to take punitive action against the erring State or non-State ‘player’ and organise the strength to withstand a spillover. Wars and inner conflicts are not won with machines. You got to have a heart that’s firm and courageous. The war machine’s role is secondary.

India was never so vulnerable and foolishly spineless as it stands today. Not because we do not have the power to defend our people and land but because of a leadership that’s a delight of the alien invaders and petty boat infiltrators. Our leaders join politics to earn money and sell conscience — they have no credentials except to boast of a family name or caste and muscle power. We have a galaxy of non-political leadership but that too boot polishes the nincompoop rulers in search of reflected glory. These holy men and women are so detached from the realities of their nation’s pains and agonies that they go on a six-month long world tour for establishing peace in Palestine and Iraq and show off their pictures in the galleries of the United Nations as proof of their expanding influence. And surely they get quite a number of gullible people to believe they are great.

And we are increasingly surrounded by a Nepal, once a Hindu nation and now a threat for Hindu survival. We have a Pakistan and Bangladesh that have bled us continuously for the last three decades of intermittent terror wars — Khalistan, Operation Topac, the jihad in Kashmir and the ignominious forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.

We have lost more than 60,000 Indians in terror attacks directly sponsored and encouraged by Pakistan — whether its army or Inter Services Intelligence or the sheepish conspiratorial silence of their leaders, only the naive would make a difference and absolve the culprits. The simple arithmetic is that Pakistan, a creation of intense hate against Hindus, has always felt a sadistic pleasure at our discomfiture. It’s the very basic element of Pakistan that has not let us live in peace since August 14, 1947.

But we refuse to see history and continue to lose geography.

Post-1947, we have lost more than 1.25 lakh square kilometres of land to Pakistan and China and Indian Parliament had passed a unanimous resolution to take the lost land back.

But not a single political party would dare to mention in its election manifesto that if voted to power it would strive its hardest possible to implement Parliament’s resolve.

Why?

Cats would remain cats unless they are born as tigers.

The last 100 years has seen India shrinking to half and the Hindu population being overwhelmed by a demographic invasion that hates to see Hindu dominance in any sphere of life. They have vanished from Kabul, Balochistan, Pakhtunistan, Multan and Dhaka, humiliated in Kathmandu, killed, converted and incapacitated in Sri Lanka, turned invisible in Sindh, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Chittagong, driven out of their last bastion in the saffron valley and increasingly reduced in Nagaland, Arunacahal, Mizoram and Jammu. And we fight over sackfuls of currency notes as we saw during trust vote on the nuke deal and are busy winning votes through dramas like a night’s stay in a Dalit home.

That’s India of today — reduced to an Orwellian play by murderers and bribe-seekers who are again seeking an entry to Parliament by investing huge chunks of money.

There are those who still believe that Pakistan will, or it can, or it may become brotherly to us. Perhaps Uncle Sam, now Chacha Obama, will help.

Even Gods refuse to help such worms.

Elect those who at least know a little bit of India and love her people. A leader that wouldn’t hesitate to serve from South Block even if it means incurring personal monetary loss, but inspiring newcomers to stand and live proudly on their earnings through labour and merit. Living on peoples’ money must come to an end. Forget the temples, mosques and churches for a while and just concentrate on two basic factors, removing illiteracy and bringing every fellow Indian above the poverty line with a one-year period as deadline. It has to be on a real war footing to make up for the losses due to a lethargic, vision less and self-serving leadership.

Trust me, we can do it if we have the will. Have courses in science, mathematics, engineering and technology upgraded, spread out and quality marked. We terribly lack in the manufacturing sector because there is not enough engineering talent available. Even the best of engineering colleges are facing a serious dearth of proper faculty and it results in less than appropriately equipped students. It’s good to see a number of technology and engineering colleges, institutes and private universities that have sprung up in most of the cities and metros that must be the envy of even a developed nation. But are they really providing what they announce and do they have the right kind of facilities and infrastructure to produce credible graduates confident enough to start a swadeshi enterprise of world class standards?

If a post-World War America, Japan and Europe can rebuild their ravaged countries into models of modern development and human endeavour, why can’t we? Why can’t we set our own goals and standards that must make the most developed nation too follow us? Swami Vivekananda said all expansion is life and all contraction is death. Barring politics, we have shown the world the extraordinary capabilities and the astounding acumen to achieve the impossible in recent years. It happened, as is said, in spite of bad politicians. Let a new crop of good politicians take over Parliament and change its fossilised and stinking contours to a vibrant new hope commensurate with the professionalism being exhibited by Indians elsewhere.

And this is not at all age related but only needs a mind and heart that works for the nation.

And they must have the sinews to expand militarily unabashedly. India must show a will and the power to control her region. We are bled because of a meaningless large-heartedness that makes jihad factories on both sides of our territory send mercenary self-destructionist lunatics who kill and maim and destroy our people and city life. Bangladesh and Pakistan have got to be brought to their senses through instilling fear in them, a genuine and serious one. They have to be made to think twice before being silent or encouraging an anti-India terror policy. State policy makers must be clear in their mind that sometimes revenge is the only word the enemy understands and why must we not avenge the brutal killings of our patriotic citizens?

Hence choose those who choose India as their life-force and not just a platform for money making and dying like dirt. The choice is yours to practice in the coming elections.

 

Tarun Vijay is Director, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, New Delhi. “

Source: http://ia.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/09guest-elect-those-who-choose-india-as-life-force.htm 

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General Elections 2009

March 10, 2009 · Filed under General Elections 2009, Passing Thoughts · Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Election Season is on full swing in Bharat. The dates have been announced. I’ll try to post some good articles covering the election. The General Elections of 2009 would have been a one-sided contest in favour of the opposition parties in Bharat but for the Indian media and the new biased Chief Election Commissioner, Mr Navin Chawla. The Indian media is working all out to project the success of present government, which everyone knows has been a failure. Just remember the number of terrorist attacks in Indian cities during last five years, the number of farmer suicides in the rural parts of the country, the number of corrupt ministers in the cabinet, and the amount of reservation made in educational institutes, based on caste and religion; you get the picture yourself. What matters for the present ruling party and the English media is that another son of the Gandhi family has to be made the future Prime Minister, without any laurels for doing any kind of public service. Ohh I forgot, he has got the right surname !!! 

But then lets remember the failures of this government and ask them what you achieved in last 5 years, rather than believing in the promises they are making to fulfil in next 5 years. They had the chance but they lost it..So throw them out. To conclude, I would just borrow from Mr Obama and ask you to  ”Vote for Change”!!!

P.S. Do go out and vote..!!!

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Christian India: Evil designs of Christian Missionaries in Bharat

December 17, 2008 · Filed under Hindu Nationalism, India, Uncategorized · Tagged , , , , , , , ,

I never gave a serious thought to the extent of religious conversions carried out in India and its eventual side effect on a normal Bharatiya like me. But after going through this document, which made me sit straight and think about this phenomenon, I have been left more thoughtful and alert about the impending threat to us and our civilization. Nor am I a religious fundamentalist nor a communal person, but I’m a proud Hindu who is proud of his heritage, culture, and traditions. And I found the process of religious conversion to be a modern day assault on my culture ; on my identity.

Read through this document, which is long but worth reading.

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I would like to extend my Thanks to all those who took out time to read this document.

As always, any comments are welcome.

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After all..It is an Intellectual & Civilizational Fight..

December 4, 2008 · Filed under Hindu Nationalism, India, Islamist Terrorism · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Another gem from the pen of Tarun Vijay. The idea of a singular point of unity for every citizen in Bharat is what is required now. To fight the terrorism, no doubt we need a superior strategic and economic resources, but at first we need to start from the root level. The resource at this root level is mind…intellect…sense of pride…If the terrorists are brainwashed into Jihad, we must be brainwashed into patriotism..nationalism..cultural pride..

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Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3772663,flstry-1.cms

THE RIGHT VIEW

India battles to win

Tarun Vijay

29 Nov 2008, 1211 hrs IST


India knew about al-Qaida’s threat to attack Mumbai, but it played it down for apparent reasons of vote bank politics. A United States embassy’s communiqué issued in August 2006 had warned about India being a target of al-Qaida. Though it was issued cautioning about a possible attack around the Independence Day that year, it should have served as an alarm bell to the Indian establishment and activated them to gather more intelligence inputs on al-Qaida strategies on India.

The advisory had said: “The embassy has learned that foreign terrorists, possibly including al-Qaida, allegedly intend to carry out a series of bombing attacks in and around New Delhi and Mumbai in the days leading up to India’s Independence Day on August 15, 2006″. We knew that India had been appearing in the speeches of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahirias as a ‘target’. In a message broadcast in April, 2006, bin Laden had referred to a “Crusader-Zionist-Hindu conspiracy against the Muslims”. But the government of India chose to play it down. As was reported in the Times of India.

The American warning had appeared in August 2006. But a meeting about it took place next year. The TOI reported on 7th August 2007 under the headline-’Centre plays down Qaida’s threat to India’, ‘A meeting attended by senior MHA officials, intelligence brass, SPG chief B V Wanchoo and Delhi’s commissioner of police Y S Dadwal, on Monday discussed the alleged threat from Al-Qaida.’ Quoting a senior official, it said that he tried to play down the issue but admitted that it had been discussed. “We assess everything threadbare and everyone should refrain from making a larger-than-life image of such threats, which can also prove to be wrong at times,” he said.

Proved to be wrong?

In fact TOI can be credited for having warned the nation a year before the attack came. The above quoted report had said, “Terrorism analysts universally agree that India’s growing closeness to the US may have put it in the crosshairs of the international terror group. The recent announcement of the nuclear deal would have sharpened the focus. ..India’s vulnerability stems from several factors. India is a naturally soft state, which makes it easier for terrorists.” Why did Indian government not take it seriously and sought to play it down?

Pray, what are we doing, have done or intend to do?

A united tricoloured face that’s what India needs today. Every colour and assertion merging into one signpost of our Indianness – the tricolour. Mumbai represents the best of Indian minds, the real secular spirit and entrepreneurship. Its time we salute that spirit and bow our heads before those valiant soldiers, Navy’s commandos and policemen who fought and laid their lives for a cause so dear to us all- India. Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Kamte, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Gajendra Singh are our nation’s heroes.

Let this moment inspire us to flutter tricolour atop our houses, offices, and work stations as a challenge and a victory sign to the cowards who attacked us thinking they can cow us down and instill fear in our hearts. Instead it has further reinforced our resolve to stay united and fight the weeds. How I wish that everything we do, whether creating a blog or buying a bike or a car, that must have an essential sign- the tricolour, like we have bindi or a cross or a 786 locket.

It’s not an emotional outburst but there are times when one has to forget the structural areas of frame worked worship to reach a greater god of a people. That, to me, can’t be anything else but Bharat that is India. If India survives our gods still may have a space to be in. We lost Kabul, Rawalpindi and Lahore. And our gods lost their space too. So be an atheist, if that suits you, but keep your faith in one icon, that’s India. Let a new Anand Math emerge against the invaders and let every colour that India wears be a part of it, as patriotically as tricolour inspires. While politicians failed, it’s the people and the soldiers who held the tricolour high and fluttering. And the nation saluted them with tears of pride and praise. Let this spirit be visible in other areas of national concerns too.

Ugly colours of politics

Congress and BJP leaders should have been seen together in Mumbai to underline signature of united Indians ready to battle and win. But shamefully even on such occasion, party politics took over and the PM chose to trivialize the togetherness, which didn’t occur.

This showed, once more, how ugly our politicians could become. That’s one reason common citizens have begun hating them and praying oh god, please get rid us of these irrelevant dons of the parliament. See the way ad campaigns of political parties have tried to encash the terror. Media houses and channels are playing in the hands of various political parties and their poll eve headlines catered to their political masters. It was so visible and apparent. One newspaper that campaigned against the Hindu Right as a Talibani propagandist, specially picking on Malegaon case, gave a headline-’as forces fought terrorists, BJP is busy seeking votes’. It’s more like a cheap line from a politically opponent’s pamphlet rather than a journalist’s report. If BJP was doing that, what were Sonia and Manmohan Singh doing in Mumbai and why their cohorts used full-page ads to use Mumbai terror to attack their opponent, mixing Kandhar with Mumbai? What was the relevance of it?

Attention diverted for vote banks?

And when time permits, there would be many questions that would have to be answered. Did India pay a heavy price of diverting all security attention to a Malegaon probe giving the Mumbai attackers an unattended space and time they needed? In an interesting reference to it, a highly reputed Army officer Lt. General Ashok Joshi (retd.) wrote,” The indirect cost of the Malegaon-blast probe — still climbing — is very considerable. It is no one’s case that the Malegaon blast probe is either unimportant or unnecessary. It appears, however, that the probe exclusively held the attention of the security apparatus until November 26, 2008, when the disaster occurred. This could well have been an unintended consequence, but it was terrible.”

Media’s ‘Gulag’

Then they say-India is at war. Really? When was it not in the last two decades? Do we have to form our opinion on the words of a de-nationalized media that use every such opportunity to introduce new clichés and idioms to increase their circulation and market brand value? Have you noticed the anchors on the TV screens whose theatrical maneuvers completely overshadowed the person who they were supposed to be interviewing and the ‘guests’ were simply used to have anchors pour their high-pitched speeches? It was so kiddish and morally downgrading that the entire episode of a serious jihadi war was reduced to a page three tamasha , that inadvertently helped Jihadis inside the hotel as the news analysts have now commented. Not a single channel or newspaper devoted a space to question why did it happen to us? None discussed Osama’s threats and the Islamic angle to the entire episode. So terrified and disoriented our media persons have become having ‘possessed’ by a ‘hate the right wing Hindutva phobia’. They simply avoided discussing the basic issues. Was the real motive of the Jihadi attackers to cripple our Economy? Or hurting our business? And terrifying the western visitors and investors? Damaging India’s reputation as a safe business centre? Were all these the real goals or just the means to achieve a distant aim?

The reporters whose every single line while reporting Malegaon was laced with ‘Hindu terrorism’ saw to it quite consciously not to mention ‘Islamic Jihadi’ even once in the passing. But there were efforts by a couple of media chatterers on the screen to mention ‘now we have Hindu terrorism too’ while discussing Mumbai’s agony! This hate attack of the seculars even in times of such a tragedy is as killing as were the gunshots of the Jihadis inside the Taj and Oberoi. And they have monopolised the channels and the print media turning them into virtual Gulags.

The same crowd which has been singularly responsible for providing shields to the jihadi terrorism and speaking in the abusive language against the nationalist saffron side, was most vocal to question why police is not being given the appropriate arsenal, sophisticated guns and a proper combat ready uniform. The same words were heard when parliament was attacked. Nothing happened afterwards and none remembered it either. Police remains a soft target for the seculars and security forces are denied any rise in the sixth pay scales on the eve of Diwali. That much for their concern for men in Khaki and Olive green. None, yes none of them tried to ask one simple question, why it happened?

What wrong India has done to al-Qaida or the terrorists’ organisations or their religious leaders that they should act in this horrendous manner? And is this the ‘first’ time, the very first and unique kind of an attack, which is the most ghastly so far? Why? And how? What had happened when the terrorists had attacked Akshar Dham? Do you remember the visuals and the commentaries and the reactions of the same old, seasoned and concerned glamorous media persons and leaders then?

What had happened when they had attacked the parliament and the members of parliament were holed up inside the central hall and the security forces fought a fierce gun battle on 13th December 2001? Were all those attacks just casual, old fashioned and without any trace of uniqueness? And this was too unique because Taj being Taj, a super high elite was involved in the tragic incident, which was made to reminisce in the dark hours of the active war zone how they had met their first girl friend in its heritage building?

Mumbai attack was like it had always been. Killings of the innocents and blasts before they prepared themselves to die.

Why?

Why they chose to kill our people even at the cost of their life? They were no small, ordinary thieves and supari-killers. Those who support their heinous crimes would call them ‘brave and committed’ men. Young, and ready to lay their lives for a cause so dear to them that they would forget the family bonds and a desire to live and enjoy this world. They were taught to prepare for a ‘big contribution’ to their faith and enjoy the after-life up there. They believed in every thing that was taught and did what they did.

Hence the question that must disturb us and make every Indian to seriously analyze and formulate a strategy is ‘why India is on their target?’

India hasn’t attacked them; on the contrary we always tried to project ourselves as friendly to Muslim countries even after getting insults and non-cooperation from them. Remember Rabat and the way Saudis and Malaysia has treated us and our people who are our blood and flesh. And the tightlipped Muslim countries during every war we fought. We are the victimes of their Jihad. Our land was bisected, our people were uprooted, killed and insulted, and our temples razed and land grabbed. Yet we chose the dialogue path. Then what’s the reson of this ‘revenge’? The answer lies in their ideological hatred for us, which has to be discussed on the intellectual level.

Weak leaders, strong commoners

Unfortunately India never had such a weak ideological and political leadership. During the Moghuls, Portuguese and the British, we had best of leaders who led the society through literature, culture, religious reformism, helping organize resistance to the invaders and had no confusion regarding the friends and the foes. They were definitely helped by the moneyed elite too, but the moneybags were never allowed to influence decisions. Their biggest forte was credibility and an uncompromising, predictable behaviour.

Today the biggest casualty of the Indian national movement has been the credibility gap and the growing influence of the moneyed, alienated elite with a colonized mindset that compels to convert our language and purposes into a secular framework before any inclusion in their invite list. The Congress, used to be a grand old alliance with a strong nationalist pitch. We have lost it to the same pressure groups that stand for a compromised hue of the alienated. And BJP is still fighting for its right-full space.

Any war is first fought intellectually and then on the grounds. India is facing its worst ever ideological war since the days of Shivaji and Guru Govind Singh. The attackers are not coming here to loot or colonise us. They are here to attack what they still perceive a Hindu India that has to be broken to expand their school of thought and faith. It’s happening not because we have offended them. It’s happening for just being what we are. And we have begun to assert our individuality, our distinguished way of life, within our precincts. And that’s intolerable to them.

The temple priests of Somnath or the Acharyas of Nalanda hadn’t gone to Turkistan or the barren lands of the Arabia to offend them and invite their wrath. We were always attacked for being just what we were. Hence this fight can’t be replied without going into the real causes of the war and preparing an intellectual resistance that strengthens the minds before that empowers the sinews. That has to be an inclusive bond defining cultural and civilisational stream. Stress on the elements that unite rather than those which divide.

This war requires forging a united Indian resistance based on the love for our motherland and the elements that express her glory. We must ensure that the different faiths of worship do not get into a conflict with the patriotic fervour and we have shown, we can do it successfully, many times before. 1857 is one shining example of that. We showed it in 1971 and in Kargil too. We WILL show it this time too, come what may.

The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.. Any comments are welcome..

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Reactions of a common man after 26th November 2008!!

November 30, 2008 · Filed under India, Islamist Terrorism, Passing Thoughts · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As I followed the turn of events which unfolded in Mumbai after the night of 26th November 2008, my emotions ranged from one extreme to another. First of all, the feeling was of Shock…then it turned into Disbelief..then into Horror.. then into Prayers..then into Sadness..then into Frustration..then into Anger..then into Rage..!!

First of all, I salute all the men in uniform who laid down their lives to protect the lives of common man and also those who fought and finally killed the Islamist terrorists who attacked on Mumbai. I hope the country never forgets their bravery and sacrifice.

Right now, what I feel is that we need a change..The whole country needs a change..The system needs a change.. A change from the current creed of politicians.. Do we deserve a Prime Minister who was as always “shocked” by the terrorist attack..?? Even after more than 70 attacks in last 6 months, he just feels a shock, nothing more than that!! While hundreds of common citizens dies in terrorist attacks which happens every month in some part of our country, our leaders continue to live peacefully and becoming filthy rich under Z+ security. To top this, the deputy CM of Maharashtra says ” it is small incident in such a big city like Mumbai”. Is he a warm blooded human who can feel and think or a cold blooded animal with no ability to think.

What are we waiting for? Why don’t we act?Why still we think that we have to diplomatically correct? why still we are asking Pakistan to help us in investigation? What then is the use of having the 4th largest military force in the world? Is this the way we will join the league of superpowers of the world? Is not time to say Enough is Enough?

The country doesn’t need Gandhi and Nehru anymore. Bharat now needs Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel !!!

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Why are Bharatiyas angry??

November 25, 2008 · Filed under Hindu Nationalism, India · Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

This is the second article by Tarun Vijay, which I am reproducing here on this blog. He has once again struck a chord with the sentiments and feelings of millions of Hindus/Bhartiyas, which is clearly reflected by the number of comments, mostly compliments, this article received when it was published on TOI website. This article is well researched, rational, and thought provoking. I completely agree with what he has said, by clearly stating out the facts and then deriving the rightful conclusions. Read on:

THE RIGHT VIEW

Why are Hindus angry?

18 Nov 2008, 1136 hrs IST, Tarun Vijay

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3726631.cms

In Srinagar, a Muslim women’s organization – the Dukhtaran-e-Millat – vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. The US State Department Report of 1995 held a Dukhtaran-e-Millat activist responsible for a parcel bomb blast at the BBC office in Srinagar in which one person was killed and two injured.


The DeM has recently been linked to certain money laundering cases. Andrabi was booked under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) for receiving ISI money through hawala channels. Whenever she speaks against India, there is no emotion or any sense of regret.

She was never subjected to a narco test nor did the media feel anything bad about her. Instead, women’s groups interviewed her, called her the “new face of Muslim feminism”, and glossy magazines splashed her interviews with a tinge of revolutionary romanticism.

For Indian seculars, the Srinagar crowd working against India brings added fizz, a thrill and a heroism that has to be “understood” rather than condemned. Serious academic columns are published saying that if they are so passionately and aggressively pursuing separatism, why shouldn’t we give the Kashmir valley to them?

It’s only when a lady monk is killed in Kandhamal or arrested in Nashik and appears to be wearing saffron rather than green that expressions become stern, the law becomes the guiding force, narco tests are immediately ordered and before anything can be even remotely established, the person is pronounced guilty. No women’s organization comes out openly to say she is a woman and hence the police must protect her honour and religious obligations at all cost.

Her father says she is innocent. No one gives any importance to that statement.

She cooperates during the narco test and nothing incriminatory is proved. The police say she practices yoga, hence the narco test didn’t work.

The bike, the RDX, the targets – nothing is proved. Yet, she is tortured in police custody.

The women’s commission that swung into action when an item girl used it to get cheap publicity and hot assignments maintains a studied silence.

The Human Rights Commission remains unfazed and the red sirens of the Marxist class look the other way. They had been demanding a pardon for Afzal although the Supreme Court convicted him. But the issues involved were of secular nature; hence they had to speak.

Nobody still knows what Pragya actually did or didn’t do. She has to be severely dealt with just because the colour she wears is not registered as secular in the government’s registry of protection where rapists, extortionists and scandalous criminals get a cabinet berth and a murder accused jailbird becomes a chief minister for being on the correct side politically.

First they said an army officer used 60 kg of RDX to blow up the Samjhauta Express. Then the denial comes; no RDX was used, it was ammonium nitrate, oh no perhaps IEDs. Then the Mecca Masjid blasts are linked with Malegaon, then the Hyderabad police issue an official statement that nothing has been found to link the two. The motorbike, the disfigured numbers on the chassis, the absconding person, the real mastermind, the saffron terror guru … Remember when the Kanchi Shankaracharya was arrested, what kind of charges were levelled against him? Rape, murder, financial fraud and womanizing. And women came foreword to issue statements about how they were “lured”. What happened afterwards? Even “nothing” won’t convey the nothingness of the entire plot.

But the damage to the great seat of Hindu reverence had been done.
After Kanchi and the Kandhamal murders, a new tool in form of Hindu terrorism has been crafted to make the Batla House terror gang happy.


Not a single Hindu will ever condone terrorism. It’s not in our genes. Our blood group in this matter is different. If someone does it he is guilty of doing an un-Hindu act. Anyone caught and proven guilty must be severely dealt with. But why humiliate a majority community that defines the character of the nation for election gains?

Words, cacophony, a celebrative secular media’s new 24-hour preoccupation – lynch the saffron, light the party fire.

Just one incident and look how Batla House terrorism, Jamia’s protective belligerence, Assam blasts, Pakistani flags carried in Bodo areas by Muslim infiltrators, the Ram Setu destruction and affidavits that humiliate Hindus, everything got under cover. Only the newly manufactured “Hindu terrorism” is reigning in the national debate as a new fashion statement.

The invention of “Hindu terrorism” helped the government get out of a defensive shell and be extraordinarily active to crack a whip against “bad elements”.

It had never displayed this action-oriented thrill when the Delhi blasts occurred or the Jaipur blasts claimed more than 60 lives. No Maulana was arrested or caricatured in the media as the bloody green terror guru or ghastly Islamic terrorism.

No, they said, terror has no religion hence these blasts, though done with a holy book surrounded by AK47s, and long quotes from it to justify the blasts and the killings of Hindus shouldn’t be sourced to religion. These must not be explained away as Islamic terror, but just the work of some misguided people who are giving a bad name to a peaceful, brotherly way of worship.

Fine.

But when they see saffron, everyone loves to tie them with the speeding bus of law enforcement and constitutional propriety and beat them black and blue to prove a secular manliness of dhimmitude variety.

Pragya says she was tortured in police custody but no one took any notice of that. Why?

Even the most dreaded women criminals have been accorded human rights protection. Pragya is no criminal, she doesn’t advocate violence against the state, she is not a traitor, she doesn’t impose any kind of obscurantist code on women nor does she use acid, like Andarabi, to make other women fear her dictates. She has not said she is out to kill others to bring about any kind of religious order. But she is tortured and no one says it a gross violation of human rights. Is she not to be given the protection that every woman is entitled to?

Those who write against the nation, insult our heritage and support secession, get applauds and awards. But those who die for the nation and protect the civilisational flow are tortured in police custody.

That’s the brevity and power of a state that’s in reality headed by a woman and is being actually run by another.

More than 60,000 Hindus have been killed by Islamic jihadis, in the name of their religion and not a single Hindu stood up to say: Enough is enough, I will now see the wicked are punished and innocents are protected.
There is a list of more than 200 Hindu temples razed or desecrated in the Kashmir valley. No Hindu Kashmiri vowed to establish a Hindu terror group to take revenge because the state apparatus has failed to provide them safety.


Seema, a six-year-old girl, was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood in Doda when Islamic terrorists came to her house in the thick of night at 2.30 am, woke up her father, mother and her 11-year-old brother, killing them after brutal torture. They used big knives to cut them into pieces.

Still no Hindu terror group was formed to teach them a lesson.

A two-and-a-half-year old boy who was crying for milk as his mother was shot dead by Islamic terrorists in Wandhama attracted the attention of the jihadis and the bullets silenced him too.

Even then, Hindus didn’t become terrorists.

The great socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia use to say – India has three dreams – Ram, Krishna and Shiva. The abodes, the principal temples of the global Hindus dedicated to these three dreams of India were destroyed and desecrated by Islamic invaders. Go to Google and see how the Shiva temple in Kashi has been turned into a mosque in such a style that the pillars of the old Hindu temple remain clearly visible to show Hindus that here was once the temple they used to worship, which has been converted into a mosque.

Yet for the last four centuries no Hindu has turned a terrorist to take revenge in Kashi.

Now when elections are underway, the government is in shambles showing utter unworthiness to govern and protect patriotic people. Suddenly every single person arrested for terrorism is a saffron, a Hindu and nothing is appearing on the channels or in Sunday magazine features except the “grave danger of Hindu terrorism” and the army getting the saffron “tilak” of terror.

Even the Ghaznis, Ghauris and Abdalis haven’t done so much of character assassination of a majority community as this government has done just to garner a few Muslim votes.

Is it fair?

Will it not create a reaction among those who have been chanting mantras of global peace and fraternity and praying for the welfare of all, irrespective of faith or colour? Pushed to a corner, restricted from crying and blackholed like the Jews during the Nazi regime, will it not be a bit too naive to expect that Hindus will remain silent and offer their necks for the secular sacrificial ritual of election gains? Their temples are bombed, their children are killed, their property is looted, their orchards are burnt, their motherland is disfigured and assaulted, yet the state declares a war on their sensitivities, the media muffles their voice and bans all for a for them to express their views. On the contrary, it shows the victims as aggressors, humiliating them in the eyes of the real attackers.

Nature abhors such Siberian gags. Peace is strengthened by justice alone.

The way Pragya has suddenly become a hero must make sane people sit up and take note of the wave passing through the Hindu heartland. Tsunamis don’t send advance emails before they strike.

The author is the Director, Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation.

With the latest terrorist attack on Mumbai, which will be long remembered for the sheer audacity and magnitude of scale, I believe it is now time to rise up and take a tough stance. Bharat doesn’t need any more Nehru’s and Gandhi’s, it needs likes of Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel. The government must make a strong point that terrorism will not be tolerated any more in this country. To begin with, it must immediately carry out the death penalty imposed on Afzal Guru, the mastermind of Parliament attack.

Any comments on this post are most welcome.

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What does Rs500 mean to you??

November 20, 2008 · Filed under India · Tagged , , , ,

This is such a thought provoking video. I think everyone must watch it and try to understand the message. I wish things do change the next time such a question is asked to Indian public..!! More than anything I have ever seen, read, or listened, this video has clearly brought forth the economic disparity and inequality prevailing in Bharat(India). Also it clearly shows how much insensitive and oblivious, the youth of Bharat(India) has become!

 

Hope this vid

eo moves you as much as it moved it..!!

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Is it Secularism or Pseudo-secularism ??

November 3, 2008 · Filed under Hindu Nationalism, India · Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

I stumbled upon this article by Tarun Vijay, in the columns of one of the most widely circulated Indian newspaper- The Times of India. This is definitely one of the most thought provoking and invigorating article I have ever read about the theory of SECULARISM, as it is preached and practiced in India. The article expresses in entirety, the feelings of millions of Indians including me. Read on:

THE RIGHT VIEW – A secular protocol

By Tarun Vijay
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3584631.cms.  

Patience is the key that defines facilitating others’ survival more than your own. Earth, mother we call her, symbolises that element of life. She lets the barbarian exploit her boons and the bliss, and waits for a millennium to show she is angry.

Indian society, which believes in the values of the civilisational flow so painstakingly preserved and handed over to us, is being subjected the same kind of test of patience by the forces that represent the colors of Roman and Arab ancestry.

Like history can’t be understood through secondary or tertiary sources, original references have to be consulted, watershed incidents in a nation’s life have to be analysed through original events. Hence after Meenakshipuram, the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus, Godhra and Kandhmal murders, its now the turn of Bodo Hindus in Assam to face Muslim attacks.

So far 40 Hindus have been reported killed and 76,000 people have left their villages out of fear and taken refuge in 32 state government camps in Udalguri and Darrang. Twelve villages have been burnt. In Jhakuapara village the gaon budhaa (village head) was burnt alive along with his mother and sister. It all began after local Hindus resisted the forcible occupation of their lands by Muslims. The area has suddenly seen Bodo Hindus reduced to a minority and a spurt in the activities of the All Assam Minority Students Union (AMSU), SIMI, All Assam Muslim Chatra Parishad and Muslim Students Association (MUSA). Now, having burnt Hindu villages and forced them to flee, Muslims are occupying the villages vacated by Hindus.

The Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF – Badruddin Ajmal’s Muslim Political Party) MLA Rasul Haq Bahadur and AAMSU president Abdul Aziz have been demanding a separate autonomous area for the Muslims in lower Assam. The recent violence is considered as a ‘warming up’ exercise’ to chase away Hindus from their traditional hamlets.

Saw any report or interviews of the victims or front page ’shame’ editorials condemning the roasting alive of Hindus, or making them refugees in their own land? Got any call from Vatican or admonishment from Paris? Sorry, the victims happened to be Hindus so we can devote our space and time on matters more earthly like ICL cricket and red alerts in the stock exchange.

Hate sells. The more you add poison to it, the more you get elevated on the scales of leadership and fame. They say terrorism is the main issue. But do you think any one wants to fight it? All that appears on the list are a few ghastly pictures of the terror-struck common people, a few ‘good’ slogans, emotional lines of poetry and the election plank is ready. Greed, intolerance, revenge and bigotry of the secular kind have taken centrestage to constitutionalise a hate regime that thrives on disrobing India of her unique characteristics. Anything that defines that uniqueness is under assault and like a colonial dispensation; this has become a business of profit and comfort. Grants, awards and fellowships are reserved for those who yield and say yes to the secular protocol that defines India as a non-Hindu entity, using terms like ’shackled in the old’, ‘outdated’, ‘obscurantist Brahmanism’ and ‘weird ritualism which makes the practitioner rigid, backward looking’ and ‘pot-bellied, unintelligent creature with a tuft’.

The sultans of this secular protocol define an assertive Hindu as anti-women, anti-minority (read Muslims and Christians), Hindi chauvinist, having a fossilized vision that tries to revive a dead language like Sanskrit, worshiper of snakes, rats, cow, phallus, trees, who uses cow urine, cow dung for various purposes including medicine. They light fire and throw some herbs to please gods, who are elephant-shaped, and use peacocks, oxen and owls as their vehicles. They have to be civilized. And to do that they get grants from the ministry of culture.
From the Germans and Dutch.

The contemporary seculars use exactly the same language and show identical concern as was used and shown by the British when they urged the Christian missionaries to civilise the Hindu savages a hundred years ago.

In 1913, British forces under Major Hamilton shot dead 1,500 Hindu Bhil freedom fighters who had waged a struggle under the leadership of a great reformist, Govind Giri, a disciple of Swami Dayananda. Having performed this act of “valour”, Major Hamilton invited the church to start work amongst the Bhils to “give them the divine message”. He made the following appeal to Rev. D.G. Cock of the Presbyterian mission, Neemuch: “Against my wishes, I ordered police to fire on the innocent persons. Knew and loved them for years together.

Really it was a sad experience of my life. You go there and do work which I could not do for them. Their hearts have broken. Give them divine message. I want to do something and I know the best one will be to establish a mission centre.” (Planting a mission among the Bhils of south Rajasthan’, in man and Life, vol 10, pp 77-96).

Fifteen hundred innocent Bhils were killed. And the British officer asks the Church, almost as an order, to go and work among them. First physical annihilation, then organizing efforts for disrobing them of their culture and religion.

And they are the adorable icons of the contemporary secular.
Hindus, medical doctors, MDs, law graduates, IITians,MBAs, working among tribals to help them get better education never finds a place of honour or even a mention in the passing. Because they preserve the culture and indigenous traditions. In secular protocol, only those who dispossess Hindus of their identity are eligible for enlisting.

Hence converting tribals to Christianity is acceptable, preserving their culture is not. An assault on a nun is deplorable; a murder of a lady Hindu monk is no news. Burning alive of Hindu Bodos finds a brief mention, burning alive of non-Hindus deserve a front page editorial. Post Godhra, Kandhmal, and Mangalore, Hindu symbols like Trishul must be turned into symbols of ‘Hindu terrorism’.

Post 90s till this date, jihadi symbols like crossed rifles in the backdrop of Koran or a jihadi killing infants or a NSCN activist in Nagaland demanding Nagalim for Christ, must not be used as symbols of hate because that’s against secular tenets.

It’s a universally accepted norm of the secular fraternity. Have you ever, anywhere seen a jjhadi’s barbaric face as a symbol of terrorism? The only face you might have seen shows a Muslim tailor with folded hands, a Hindu “goon” with a saffron headband, a trishul terrifying the minorities. Even the Maoists are never depicted as barbaric goons who have killed more than 12,000 Indians so far and government has to set up a special cell in the Ministry of Home Affairs to tackle the left extremism problem. They are seculars, hence can’t be depicted as terrorists.

Recently I saw a magazine depicting Jesus crucified on a trishul .
Even if for the sake of argument one may say some Hindus are indulging in such activities which these seculars find bad, is their depiction of a Jesus crucifixion on a trishul to convey their dismay and disapproval acceptable and responsible behavior? Do they think the trishul is the sole property or the patented symbol of the kind of Hindus they despise? What about those Hindus who do not vote BJP or support Bajrang Dal? Do they all belong to a non-Trishul order of faith?

Depicting and institutionalizing the trishul as a hate symbol is acceptable behavior for the secular. What about the cross of the separatists in Nagaland who kill and maim non-conformists? And the two AK-47s around the Koran used by terrorist groups? Has any one; any secular, journalist, leader or human rightists ever used such symbols to depict bloodthirsty aggressors?
A subservient media, a colonized mindset, a “manageable” pen – this is all that is needed to clothe a secular protocol.

It’s a protocol that directs them to bury and subvert the truth. When the killers of Swami Lakshmananada were arrested, the news was filtered and published in a muffled way. Only in one newspaper did I see a statement  that pointed towards Christian involvement in the ghastly murders. Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda admitted to a group of media persons that “it is a fact that Christians form the majority in our organisation. Our supporters in Rayagada, Gajapati and Kandhamal also belonged to the Christian community”. According to him, Saraswati was killed because he did not pay heed when the Maoists’ warned him to end his anti-Christian activities.

Anyone condemned the confession?

This secular protocol insults a police officer even in death, humiliates his family in grief, reinstates a teacher involved in the attack on Parliament, demand a ban on Hindu organizations without any proof or court order, but comes out on the streets seeking freedom for a terrorist sentenced to death by the highest court of the land.

The secular protocol accepts permissiveness and exploitation of women as acceptable smart behavior; opposition to sex in Meerut parks was booed as “moral policing”, “they” were dubbed anti-environment and as consuming more and conserving nothing. This protocol is anti-family values – it turns homes into serais( hindi word for hotels) by legitimizing ‘live-in’ relations, it is anti-societal stability – which rejects institutionalised relationships, replacing them with discount coupons of pleasure trips, likes to invest in old age homes rather take care of parents. (So much power this secular protocol has wielded that the state felt compelled to make a law to punish children who do not care for their parents). It supports gay marriages as a mark of human advancement and abhors the only institution that has sustained global societies – motherhood, as a symbol of woman’s slavery. Having done that, it organizes seminars on the fall in civility and ethics.

They love to say they are not Hindus but ‘humans’ and when it comes to making profit they are in the forefront to sell Hindu songs and bhajans .All those media houses who love to deride Hindutva as a house policy, do not hesitate to make millions by selling Sanskrit mantras, bhajans, kirtans, in CDs and VCDs, and present the same dramas they deplore as “mythological” called Ramayana and Mahabharata, to increase TRP ratings. They are the same seculars who had opposed such Ramanand Sagar serials during the 90s, saying “such mythological dramas” helped fan the flames of the Ayodhya movement, which was, in their eyes, anti-minority.

When it comes to lucre and power sharing and a good berth after life, everyone comes closer to the forces representing Rama’s side. So not a single secular would say he should be buried after death and no Sanskrit mantra be chanted because it’s a dead language of deplorable Brahmins. So a sense of personal profit, here or after life, makes them to protect and support a Hindu character. If votes too begin flowing to their boxes this way, they, and not the BJP, would be the first to build Ram temple at Ayodhya.

That’s the moral of their secular protocol.

It must be now clear that the threat, posed by the pseudo-secularists of India, is much more dangerous than anything else currently the nation is facing.

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Story of an Island named Earth: Making of Housing Bubble and Growth of Inflation

October 27, 2008 · Filed under Finance · Tagged , , , , , ,

This is a post specially meant for the uninitiated in economy and economics. I think this will be very useful for people who are not able to comprehend what is happening to their respective national economies, people who don’t understand what is the reason behind failure of banks and crash of stock markets world over, and people who are fond of living off on credit(loans/credit cards).

The following explanation, extremely simple and understandable, presents a clear picture of what happened to the US economy and what is happening right now. I got this as a forwarded mail and I thank the sender (ankur deshmukh) for this great mail:

“Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around.

1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar.
2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar.
* The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars.
3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought the land from B for 2 dollars.
*A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A, his net residual asset is 1 dollar.

* Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars.

4) A saw that the value of the land he once owned has risen. He regretted having sold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollars from B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The
payment is by 2 dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C. As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But since he owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars.

* The net asset of the country = 5 dollars.

” A bubble is building up.”

(5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own the land. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is by borrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A.
* As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has a debt of 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars.
* C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars.

* The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country has only one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation.

(6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous.
(7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C’s mind. ‘Hey, what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan? There is only 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B owns is worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more.’
(8) A also thought the same way.
(9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore.
* So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollars is now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar.
* C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating.

* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again.

(10) So, who has stolen the 3 dollars from the country? Of course, before the bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, right before the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper. B’s net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is also palpitating.
(11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2 dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1 dollar now.
* A owns the 2 coins; his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B is bankrupt; his net asset is 0 dollar. (He lost everything)
* C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar

* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars.

************ **End of the story; BUT ************ ********* ******

There is however a redistribution of wealth. A is the winner, B is the loser, C is lucky that he is spared. A few points worth noting:
(1) when a bubble is building up, the debt of individuals to one another in a country is also building up.
(2) This story of the island is a closed system whereby there is no other country and hence no foreign debt. The worth of the asset can only be calculated using the island’s own currency. Hence, there is no net loss.
(3) An over-damped system is assumed when the bubble burst, meaning the land’s value did not go down to below 1 dollar.
(4) When the bubble burst, the fellow with cash is the winner. The fellows having the land or extending loan to others are the losers. The asset could shrink or in worst case, they go bankrupt.
(5) If there is another citizen D either holding a dollar or another piece of land but refrains from taking part in the game, he will neither win nor lose. But he will see the value of his money or land goes up and down like a see saw.
(6) When the bubble was in the growing phase, everybody made money.
(7) If you are smart and know that you are living in a growing bubble, it is worthwhile to borrow money (like A) and take part in the game. But you must know when you should change everything back to cash.
(8) As in the case of land, the above phenomenon applies to stocks as well.
(9) The actual worth of land or stocks depends largely on psychology (or speculation). “

I hope this helps everyone to understand the enigma of economics in the most basic terms..

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