An Appeal to Indian Muslims

It is very unfortunate that even after more than sixty years of partition of India which led to the birth of Pakistan in 1947-Indian political leaders and the intelligentsia in general have failed to grasp the root of all the unfortunate events of communal strife and terrorism (basically Islamic).

India will never be able to solve these two problems so long the state of Pakistan will exist with its existential root in religion. If there is any single community in the world that has the least knowledge of its religion and its philosophy –then it can be mentioned without the least qualm- that it is Pakistan. There are several Islamic states and groups in the world but none of them is so un-Islamic as Pakistan and now Bangladesh. It can not be expected that all the states of the world like India –will effectively pursue the noble idea of states of not interfering in the affairs of the religions of their subjects and thereby remaining perfectly neutral to all religious sects and groups of the people living in these countries. The word secularism is relatively modern in its use relating to governance of states. But when Asoka or Harshvardhana became Buddhists they did not discriminate against the majority Hindus. Religious tolerance is deep in Indian psyche; it’s basically for the Hindus that it was possible for the birth the Upanishads, the Vedas and the Gita. The catholicity of the wisdom as evident from these great books must be considered for analysing the nature and character of the Hindus –if one wants to understand a nation in a scientific way. It is for this rooted wisdom the Indian leaders accepted secularism as a policy of the government and ingrained it in the constitution of free India after the partition. And it was for this same wisdom and catholic attitude that Indian political leaders never accepted the two-nation theory of Jinnah. Indian people never accepted partition. It is not for the love for Hinduism but for India –the land-whom they consider as their mother. Muslims have failed to understand this spirit of the majority Hindus who regard their land as dear and as loving as their mother-a mother who is the source of all sustenance of the life of a child. The most sacred and deep relation is missed when the narrow and sectarian way is chosen for a refusal of a noble and tender feeling.
Muslims of various shades and sects invaded India time and again to plunder away with her wealth and destroy the Hindu temples –and finally they settled in India by conquering the country. Hindus –perhaps destroyed only one- the Babri Mosque in the historical time. But the vehement protests came from the majority Hindus who did not approve of that destructive impulse. But there is no recorded instance in history of a single protest by any Muslim for destroying thousands of Hindu temples by the Muslims in one thousand years. There is no recorded instance of the Hindus invading a foreign country in history. Hindus are basically peace-loving people because of the influence of their spiritual thoughts from time immemorial.
In time of Sepoy-mutiny against the British –the Hindus were at the helm of that revolt and not any Muslim of any consequence. The Hindu militants wanted to oust the British and replace them not with any renowned Hindu but with the Second Bahadur Shah-a descendant of the Moughal emperors. They considered the last Moughal as their own person and not the British. It was because of living under Muslim rule for almost five hundred years. So it was natural for the Hindus to want to remain in an undivided India.





Unfortunately, the Muslims in this sub-continent had an uncomfortable complex to live under Hindu rulers whom they had been accustomed to rule for five hundred years. So it was desirable to them even to be ruled by the British than by the Hindus. Throughout the period of freedom –movement against the British –Muslims –in general remained aloof and did not take any significant part in that struggle. They had no significant political grievance against the British and they never felt it in their passion to see them free from the foreign rule. It was much later the league and some rootless leaders appeared to fish in the troubled water for personal and individual gains. Some argue that the majority of the Muslims in the then undivided India were too uneducated and socially backward to be aware of the value of independence. But why were the Muslims were so backward? They had had the advantage of being patronised by their own Muslim rulers for about five hundred years before the British came to replace them. So for what reasons the Hindus became more associated with the British administration than the Muslims? In all fields of life the Hindus were an overwhelming majority in the British period. The Hindus were treated at par with the Muslims by the British and they did not discriminate Muslims against the Hindus. If we go on tracing the root of this backwardness –we will find it in the dominant mullahs who were the guardians of Muslim society. These mullahs were unenlightened medievalists and fundamentalists. Muslims were –in the name of religion-kept outside the ever changing and progressing world. The evolution of mind as reflected in new thoughts and ideas was anathema to the Muslim world of this sub-continent. The society turned into ghettos thanks to the alienation of the Muslims from the large open world. In this background the Hindus and for that matter any progressiveness was seen as anti-Islam. This anti-Islamic conception was imposed against Hindus emphatically in Muslim psychology. The more the Hindus progressed and developed the more the Muslims became anti-Hindu. This social and economical differences gave a fillip to anti-Hindu feeling as was seen in the case of Jews in many other countries. But here in India the chemistry was more complicated with the elements of religions and the sense of inferiority.
Here the concept of Islam is mixed with anti-Hinduism. This is a very complicated situation. One may argue that why then Osama bin Laden and his terrorist outfits have grown against the US when it has no way been related to the Hindus? Yes –this is a very pertinent point while discussing the issue of Islamic terrorism and the situation in India is also related to a common psychological problem.
Muslims all over the world are victims of a peculiar psychology. They are very sensitive of their religion. They could not think of other identity –however great that may be than the identity in religion. The Christians missed the true spiritual import of Christ and took only the element that ensued from the original consciousness-the element of charity and kindness to the fellow neighbours. So is the reality with the true and proper Islam but in the inferior way. The instinct of organisational cohesion got the better of love, chivalry and universal brotherhood of Islam. So for this instinct to get into the organisation than to remain in the wider air of the world –the Muslims –in general become unusually sensitive of their physical existence as Muslims.
This psychology also plays a in a subtle way in their approach to the Hindus and their affairs apart from what have been told above.
It’s not a question which country the terrorists belong to. There are so many anti-Indian Muslim terrorists in India-and some of them are citizens of India. But the home of all the terrorists is Pakistan –in the full knowledge of Pakistani rulers and the pamparing ISI whose existence is for causing harms to India with the terrorists. They are not state-less but with a home in Pakistan. All these terrorists are trained in Pakistan and Bangladesh and they are moved to action by the instigation and plan of the ISI and Pakistani army. The loss of property and life by the Muslim terrorists are definitely shocking and each terrorist strike caused immense damage to this country. But the most alarming damage –Pakistan has been inflicting on India is communal disharmony among the people of India. Pakistan can not survive without India bashing. Anti-Hinduism and Islam are now tantamount to them. They will be more inimical in future for India’s every step towards material prosperity. For all this the most responsible groups are the group of the mullahs who are the walls against the Light that enlightens.
In such circumstance India can only be safe in dismantling of the state apparatus of Pakistan. Pakistan is now the Mecca of all the terrorists of the world. But in the law of the greater truth Pakistan in its present form will definitely be destroyed in the process.
Or the only way she can survive is to be led by a person of the magnitude of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.






But before that I would appeal to all Indian Muslims for raising their voice publicly against the terrorists and more emphatically against Pakistan and it is especially on the Indian Muslims now more than the majority Hindus to convince the other religious people of India and the world at large that it is not the Muslims but the state of Pakistan is responsible for all terrorist activities. The purpose of this appeal is for communal harmony and for the welfare of India in general.

Hindus have no right in India as Hindus: The legacy of Nehru

There are some truths which are universal whenever we discuss matters relating to man in his individual as well as collective nature. One such truth is that we have to pay dearly if we are indecisive and hesitant due to our shaky and fearful psychology to make steps to settle problems permanently. The Congress Party has all along been seen unduly compromising in matters of conflicts between Muslims and Hindus. Their so called secularism is rooted in a confusion and weakness. The Indian Muslims know it well. If one has a complaint against BJP for spreading communalism in the country –I think it was the Congress who has been helping BJP a ground for getting sustenance from the wrong and shaky approach of the Congress towards the Muslims of India. The lack of strength and vision of the Congress have harmed the Hindus and the majority of national Muslims also. If the fabric of communal harmony is destroyed beyond repair –the Congress will be held responsible for this. Ms Sonia Gandhi and her children along with their sycophants will not be affected from the communal disharmony as they being in the ruling class for a long time are neither Hindus nor Muslims. They are a class by themselves without belonging to any community.

BJP, in its present strength, has evolved as reaction of the wrong approach of the Congress toward Hindu-Muslim matters. It is not required to be a supporter of BJP to be in unison with them that the Congress has been a practitioner of pseudo-secularism. It’s now open to all to see that the Congress is yet to gather courage to hang Mohammad Afzal who was behind the killing in Parliament House. Even the merci-petition by his family was not placed before Abdul Kalam for consideration. It was only placed after Kalam’s term was over and a new president took over. The heinous killer is a Kasmiri terrorist. What message does this fact send to the people of India-Hindus and Muslims alike? The Congress is afraid of Kashmiris and Pakistan. If Congress fails to be unduly soft to the wickedness of some Muslims (read pro-Pakistanis and Islamic terrorists) the situation will bound to be out of control in near future to the detriment of the whole nation and to the jubilation of ISI of Pakistan.

I’m quoting some lines published under the first-page headline news of a National English daily which is supposed to be a subtle supporter of the Congress so far the BJP is concerned. While reporting the recent troubles in Jammu –the newspaper has reported the Jammu crisis in the following lines:

[…History is often a cause and effect lesson. The immediate cause of what’s unfolding today probably goes back to 1990 and the exodus of Pandits from the valley under the sweep of the ‘azadi’ movement. The accumulated causes go even further back the decades. Amarnath is probably merely the latest flash point.

Jammu, were you to get a sense of reigning sentiment in this shuttered, khaki and concertina-ridden city, is feeling sackfuls of its old and perceived grudges to these fires.” ‘We’ve put up with this for 60 years, 60 long years’, says Rati Razdan, a politically unaffiliated schoolteacher who has been at the barricades in Gandhingar each morning, ‘all in the name of national unity. Those who blackmail the nation with threats of separation have been pampered; those who have been loyal have been ignored. What am I to do to be heard, pick up a green flag and shout anti-India slogans? Why can we not have land in Kashmir, why must Kashmiris have their way all the time in his country?’

Why does the Valley have more seats in the state Assembly even though Jammu is greater both in population and land area? Why must they have three MPs and we only two? Why must they have all chief ministers and we none? Why do they get 80 per cent of government jobs? Why must they have 60 per cent of power? Why must they have reservation in colleges and technical institutions even though our boys and girls do better? Why is it that we can be thrown out of our homes in the Valley and nothing happens? Why is there such a crisis if we want to set up facilities in the Valley for two months each year? Why do their leaders get to build private mansions in the forests of Jammu’s vaunted Bhatindi outskirts whereas we can’t even be granted land in the name of shrine? Why are they part of an all-party delegation? They are the creators of this problem, why should they now become judges? And why should we go to them?

Why? Why? Why? Us and Them. Us and Them. Jammu is an angry trigger-burst of questions wherever you go………..-The Telegrah, Calcutta, August 10, 2008]

The Hindus of this land of India may obviously feel hapless even after almost 700 hundred plus years of foreign rules (Mughal & British + Congress).

All this is a legacy of Jawaharlal Nehru. The tragedy of India is that he was her first Prime Minister.

NO ENGINE DEFEATS GOOGLE

There are several search engines in the internet. Yahoo, MSN, Ask Me, Google etc. But generally most people use Google search engine. Google has spread its name through propaganda blitz. Gone are the days when the best known brands are best quality brands. Now a different genre of business has intruded in the internet. This class of internet service providers is not always honest. Google has a good name as a mail-service provider. There is no doubt that the top three mail-service providers are Yahoo, Hotmail and Google. But this is Google’s emphatic front not its core activity. Google-it may be said, spreads itself through various ways and in many areas with the sole aim of earning from advertisement. There’s no harm and nothing bad in earning from advertisement. But when it is done by harming the interests of the internet users-it’s definitely bad and must be protested against.

Google filters and prevents millions of results in its search engine. Firstly, it only shows those results for which they are paid. Secondly, any regular user of search engines may have experienced the fact that Google brings out millions of irrelevant results against a single search. One innocent person wonders at this volume at first. But gradually-if he or she is little alert –may discover the click behind these millions of results. Google does this intentionally as it has to serve its advertisers by opening the false or irrelevant pages where the ads lie. It’s unethical as Google makes the search-engine user a prisoner of innumerable results. One can not check and see ten million results that Google brings in for a single search. Unfortunately-the desired and meaningful results are prevented by Google as it would go against its business. A search with four or five key words should bring the maximum possible rational results. But Google is infinite in its maximum false results.

Those who are professional persons have already realized it. You will go with the search words “Google Evil” or “Freedom from search engine” or say “AyAy Sir INC’ –you will find what Google brings in.

Considering all this, a good organization tried with their own advance algorithm to help people coming out in to the light from the bewildering jungle of sites. It’s a search help. Its name is NO ENGINE.

From the very name one may guess that it functions with a human face. I have written about it in my previous post.

Any person may use No Engine to see it for him/her whether I’m right or not. No Engine still runs on donations and it has no intention to use it as a profiteering tool. For the general people it will take sometime to know about this wonderful helping hand. It has come into existence to help people and for doing that it must reduce the impact of Google from people’s mind. So No Engine now supports Yahoo against Google. Actually, scientifically and mathematically No Engine has already won over Google as it wraps all the contents of Google and Yahoo now. No Engine is far superior to Google also for the following reasons: No Engine is able to:

1. Wrap contents of any search engine.
2. Trace contents of any search engine.
3. Dump contents of any search engine.
4. Modify contents of any search engine.
5. Join contents of any search engine.
6. Improve contents of any search engine.
7. Unite contents of any search engine.

As all search engines in the market provide search results for making money from advertisements-they have the motivational compulsion to limit/block 99% results.

No Engine is not business –it stands for justice-as evident from its name.

So go to the website of No Engine by clicking:

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Are we carnivores or herbivores-by Nature

Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivores, our anatomical equipment ­ teeth, jaws, and digestive system ­ favors a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that “most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets.”

And much of the world still lives that way. Even on most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society. But even with the twentieth century, man’s body hasn’t adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, “Man’s structure, external and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food.”

Comparison between carnivores, herbivores and humans

When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.

• Meat-eaters: have claws
  Herbivores: no claws
  Humans: no claws

• Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue
  Herbivores: perspire through skin pores
  Humans: perspire through skin pores

• Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding
  Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
  Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding

• Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly
  Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
  Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

• Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat
  Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
  Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

• Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.
  Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
  Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

• Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
  Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
  Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)

Clearly if humans were meant to eat meat we wouldn’t have so many crucial ingestive/digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.

Why do people eat meat?

Many people ask me, “If we weren’t supposed to eat meat than why do we?”. It is because we are conditioned to eat meat. Also, the ADA (American Dietetic Association) tells us that “most of mankind for most of human history has lived on a vegetarian or Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.

A popular statement that meat eaters say is; “In the wild, animals kill other animals for food. It’s nature.” First of all, we are not in the wild. Secondly, we can easily live without eating meat and killing, not to mention we’d be healthier. And finally, as I have already shown, we weren’t meant to eat meat. Meat and seafood putrefies within 4 hours after consumption and the remnants cling to the walls of the stomach and intestines for 3-4 days or longer than if a person is constipated. Furthermore, the reaction of saliva in humans is more alkaline, whereas in the case of flesh-eating or preying animals, it is clearly acidic. The alkaline saliva does not act properly on meat.

The final point I would like to make on how we as humans were not meant to eat meat is this. All omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat their meat raw. When a lion kills an herbivore for food, it tears right into the stomach area to eat the organs that are filled with blood (nutrients). While eating the stomach, liver, intestine, etc., the lion laps the blood in the process of eating the dead animals flesh. Even bears that are omnivores eat salmon raw. However, eating raw or bloody meat disgust us as humans. Therefore, we must cook it and season it to buffer the taste of flesh.

If a deer is burned in a forest fire, a carnivorous animal will NOT eat its flesh. Even circus lions have to be feed raw meat so that they will not starve to death. If humans were truly meant to eat meat, then we would eat all of our meat raw and bloody. The thought of eating such meat makes one’s stomach turn. This is my point on how we as humans are conditioned to believe that animal flesh is good for us and that we were meant to consume it for survival and health purposes. If we are true carnivores or omnivores, cooking our meat and seasoning it with salt, ketchup, or tabasco sauce would disguise and we as humans would refuse to eat our meat in this form

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It's a nice place-SITARAMPUR

Sitarampur is a small railway station in Bihar. There are thousands of railway stations big and small in India. Bihar is bound by Nepal in the north and by Jharkhand in the south. Very few people know about this place outside the district of Rohtas, where falls this small town of Sitarampur. However The British liked this place perhaps the surrounding of Sitarampur was picturesque. The climate was healthy. There was a deep forest near Sitarampur. The Englishmen camped here frequently for hunting. And there was beyond the jungle a mica mine. The mine was owned by the British. So –quite naturally the local people of Sitarampur were accustomed with the white sahibs and they liked them also. It was because of the British- railway line was laid through this place and the Sitarampur station came into existence.

The British have gone and also the old people with them, who knew many things about Sitarampur. They were fond of their past and tales. So we heard many stories that still hang around the air of Sitarampur.

It’s a calm place with greenery on every side. I love this place and especially the railway station and enjoy strolling on the not so crowded platform or sitting on the bench under a tree to think about impermanence of life as the station is not a permanent destination of a train.

There is one passenger train running through this station. This is 2115 UP and 2116 DN. But like people of Sitarampur –I’m also accustomed to know it as 2115 UP. I love trains still like a child who loves to watch the driver of the engine with awe and wonder.

So if you ever feel to visit Sitarampur, just start for the place Sitarampur by 2115 UP and leave your destiny along the rails. Wish you a happy journey.

Those in India love to compare India and China as the two emerging giants of Asia should see the the train and other photos of China by clicking :

TRAINS IN CHINA


BEIJING OPENS SUBWAY

SHANGHAI METRO NETWORK

SHANGHAI IN NIGHT

From the above sites Indian leadership should be ashamed of their non-performances.
One may argue that China could do many things with its dictatorial rule without facing any opposition party. There is no labour union and so China can compell its labour force to work at the way it wants-which is not possible in India.
But is it impossible to build world class airports and railway system in 60 years in a democracy? It's not for the labour class but for the corrupt and visionless politicians India has always been lagging behind China and can never be equal to China in twenty years if not more.
In 2030 India will surpass China in number of popilation. Then it will be more difficult to keep pace with China.




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Everybody is talking about the rising prices of food stuffs. The costs of cereals, vegetables, pulses and edible oils have sky rocketed –in so short a period-that experts from all over the world have been profusely offering their opinions as to the probable causes of this tremendously inflationary impulses. The causes –the majority of them believe lie behind mainly two factors. Firstly, it’s the US financial depression with their sub-prime mortgage crisis has created shock waves throughout the world. Secondly, some people think that the rise of oil prices has affected the cost of commodities. As of today the price of petrol is above $60 a barrel. According to some this will continue to go up and will reach approximately $100 by the end of this year. So there will not be any let up in inflationary pressure.

So this is a matter, I think, should better be left to the economists and governments or simply to the process in times with unthought-of situations.

But what one finds at least in India that the prices of consumer goods like electronic gadgets, apparels, jeans, alcohol and hundred other items are not going up. So why is the inflation biased for this area? If we try to discuss a little –we find some ominous signs for the future.

The economic reform started in India not long ago. There were many other countries in Africa and Asia which accepted the principles of economic reform much before India. If we compare China with India we will see that China was much advanced in this matter than India. Perhaps this reform in economic sector was necessary and almost a fait accompli considering the global economic and political conditions. Owing to this economic reform the total number of employments all over the world and especially in India has much increased. So the ability to spend more has helped many persons and consequently the flow of money in the market has increased considerably. In this matter we know that this extra flow of money comes from the same group of persons who did not have the ability to spend almost nothing five years ago. In respect of India’s self sufficiency in food Amartya Sen’s opinion was that a good majority of people in India do not manage square meals a day. Most people are half-fed as they don’t have the money to go to the market for buying food articles. If all of these people went to the market to buy their needed food there would be famine in India. It’s because of some half-fed and un-fed people India are not a famine stricken country and we are able to buy food in reasonable prices. What happens now is that people who were unemployed a few years ago are coming to buy food. Moreover the the overall population has exploded into a figure of 1.13 billion in India. So there has been much demand on food articles. The middle class –whose salary has increased two fold in the last ten years are consuming without caring any control. A regular visitor in the urban markets of India is witness to this fact.

India is seriously in need of increased production of food crops. India, long one of the most productive agricultural regions of the world, could not meet its basic need for food grains during the early years of the nation's independence. The Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s dramatically improved yields in India. With considerable national pride, India boasted that it had achieved not only self-sufficiency in food grains, but had become a grain-exporting nation. In 2006, however, for the first time since the Green Revolution, and in part because of changes in agricultural policy, India had to import wheat. India will again have to import food grains in 2007.Now India has banned food export.

The price of steel is also soaring. In the last ten years there has been boom in the housing sector –which ultimately caused a shortfall of steel supply in the market. The price of crude oil and the future scenario has pushed many countries to produce more bio-fuels. Many governments are giving subsidies to the farmers for cultivating plants for bio-fuel leaving the traditional food production. So there has been shortage of food production in many countries. But India is still not involved in producing bio-fuels.

But there is a danger of which the governments of all the countries must be alert. This is reduction of agriculture land producing food in order to creating SEZ and bio-fuels.

Is production of more cars necessary in India? The more cars mean more oil consumption. To procure oil for these increasing numbers of cars government must have to spend more foreign exchange. How many persons can be employed in a car industry? The car market is thrived in India by the banks. But this industry can wait at least for ten years for increasing the rate of production.

Actually in India the causes of inflation are complicated. Though it can not be seen separately from the international scenario Indian situation should not be compared even with China –the country which follows communist dictatorship. Indian authorities in every field should have a deep insight keeping in mind the phenomena of economic reform-while planning for future. India is still an agricultural country and the majority of her people follow a life style (including food habit) that is in no way similar to those of the developed countries even including countries like Egypt, Brazil etc.

The most unfortunate thing is that India is dangerously lacking an efficient, strong and determined political party and leadership to govern her affairs.

Will Advani be the next P.M.?

It is desirable that BJP wins the next general election in 2009. I am telling it because no single party or a same alliance should rule a country for more than two consecutive terms in a democracy. Otherwise the ruling party or coalition may be as callous as to be uncaring to the need for betterment and there grow vested interests. In our country no political party is immune to corruption and so the situation becomes worse when the same rulers continue for considerably long time as it has happened in West Bengal. The party or the coalition takes people for granted without any scruple. The UPA government has made a mess in all the major arenas of administration. So if they are given another term it will be disaster for India and democracy. It goes without saying that Rahul Gandhi and the so called babalog will rule the country-only to establish a conception that dynastic rule is better that democracy.

But BJP under L.K. Advani will not be able to snatch power from the present dispensation. Advani unlike Vajpayee does not have an acceptable personality. He is not confident of himself. His remarks on Zinnah are enough to prove that he is not credible. He has recently engage himself to make himself acceptable to people by writing that he was not a party to the decision to handover the terrorists in Kandahar although he was the home minister at that time. What would he want to gain by such statement? It’ll only belittle his party in the eyes of the people. Surely –he has yet to achieve such personality and charm to put Vajpayee in poor light. If his intention is to harm Brajesh Mishra or Jasvant Singh-then it is an exercise to fight with shadows. He should have realized that the main issue of the next election will be the price rise and non-governance.

One of the greatest recent blunders of BJP was not to back APJ Abdul Kalam as their presidential candidate. Mere arithmetical calculation showed that BJP’s nominee had no chance. When defeat was a fait accompli why not standing by a very popular scientist who was also from the minority community! The defeat of Kalam in that case would be a loss of face for Congress for various reasons especially when people were not aware of a name-Prativa Patil. The decision –not to support Kalam as a candidate-must have been backed by Advani.

The gradual eclipsing of Vajpayee from the throne of BJP has been showing its signs. Advani may rouse a religious emotion but he has not that vision and diplomacy to determine a path for the people of as complicated a country as India.

The name of Modi has been made a synonym for maud. The whole press of India and the Congress and its left allies was successful in their propaganda blitz against Modi. But the Congress killed far more Sikhs in Delhi and its surroundings in two days at the instigations of some prominent Congress leaders. It was not a riot. It was genocide. No single bullet was fired from the police against the killers. Advani has been a failure to make people remind of that ghastly act of the Congress after ModI’s victory this year. Advani should have made it a point in this spectacular victory of Modi that Gujratis are not rioters or supporters of riots. This is the failure of Advani. I’m not supporting Modi for his role in that ghastly riot in Gujrat. I am raising the issue only to make a comparison between the two uncivilized incidents and the point of political diplomacy.

Advani should also be more alert about the fact that Indian press in general is more in favour of Ms Sonia Gandhi and the dynasty than they are for Advani.

NYTimes.com: Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path

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Bhutan, India and democracy

It’s an advantage for the politicians and the media to feign an idea that everything in India happens under democratic rules. They frequently claim that it is the world’s largest democracy to be followed by the US. The general people outside India especially those of the West knew very little of India and do not care to know this country. But those who care know that India is ruled by a democratic government. They do not know that the country is in the hands of some corrupt people, the politicians and the bureaucracy. The election is like a great gamble. The winners are only gainers. So it is an advantage to take part in a gamble by giving it a sacred name.

Here the Congress party’s sole aim to keep the dynastic rule by using this democracy. Actually Congress has long ceased to be a political party. It’s a private enterprise-a particular house. Its present President has been holding this post for the last ten years. Its presidents were the cream of this country in the past. They were people India was proud of giving birth on her soil. But never before, none of them occupied the post of presidency for so long a period. It’s because the party does not represent the people of this country. The party now is a brand name of Nehru-Gandhi family.

Democracy has failed in this sub-continent. Nowhere has it been possible for democracy to find its roots i.e. in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. Only it’s partially successful in Sri Lanka.

Unfortunately in Bhutan which was so far been ruled by a king has now become a democratic country. The king, Jigme Kesar Namgyal Wangchuk relinquished the kingship and told his people to select their ruler democratically. Nowhere in this world has happened such an incident in the past. People were not happy to accept democracy. They were very happy under monarchy. A study in 2006 ranked Bhutan as the eighth happiest country in the world. The king- Jigme Kesar Namgyal Wangchuk, and his father-the earlier king- Jigme Singye Wangchuk are extraordinary persons as kings. But I do not know whether this happy, peaceful and corruption-less tiny Himalayan country will be able to feel so happy after some years of living in democracy.

So let us compare the two situations in India and Bhutan. Here the Nehru-Gandhi family is hell bent to make Rahul Gandhi to be the next head of the state. And there in Bhutan the King is averse to be the ruler anymore.

KNOW--NoEngine-the best search device in the world

I have been thinking of writing on NO ENGINE -an internet search device which will come to the help of millions of people of this world one day. I have had some talks with those soft-ware engineers who are behind the algorithm of NO ENGINE. Recently I asked one of their directors the following question:

"The algorithm differs between engines, which is why different search engines may produce different results for the same query. Each search engine has its niche. It is however not uncommon for a user to use more than one search engine at a time. This further demonstrates the importance for website owners to be indexed and ranked well on all search engines. The aim of a search engine is to put itself in its user's shoes. They therefore want to deliver appropriate, relevant, information-rich sites that will satisfy users, first time round. How you get the websites owners indexed on NoEngine?"
In reply he informs me the following matter which is the content of this blog-posting today.

"The aim of a search engine is to put itself in its user's shoes.”

Some think that, “the importance for website owners to be indexed and ranked well on all search engines". This is a wrong conception held by the most website owners nowadays. After you study and test more, you will find ~money~ is the only way for most search engines to index commercial keywords for web pages. For example, Google won't index the keywords "GPS" to AyAy-Sir.com, no matter how good they follow Google's rule. Some website owners have the same problem for their web pages.

To get the websites owners indexed on a search-engine like No Engine the solution is providing Keyword Submit feature to a webpage owner; this is an old way algorithm but it's 100% reliable and which never misses a keyword of a person who would like to speak keywords for his/her pages. Another way is searching web pages without prejudices. Google is prejudiced since it needs to show profit to its investors, which they do by way of blocking valuable keywords of pages of excellent products of millions of good companies and internet sellers.
Google has announced that it can automatically index good results for people, but it's not true since Google’s results are results from their prejudices. "Automatic index" has its benefits, however it doesn't mean "automatic" is absolutely better than "manual", especially when Google search algorithm is full of prejudices and are meant to drop commercial, freedom and science keywords.
The name of NoEnige is since there is no search engine of trust because search engines index keyword for money. All of them speak louder for people who pay them higher. There is a FAQ- how NoEngine can make money if NoEngine does not follow the ways of other search engines?
Our idea is -if NoEngine can search keywords without prejudices and lies as Google, NoEngine can be much better than Google". Google need trillions dollars profits per year for its overhead, but we're very happy if NoEngine can make millions dollars.
Google has become evil since it has been big as Microsoft. Google must know how to lighten the pockets of millions people of in their business and the way for building an empire.
**For further reading please see what is written in Scobleizer(http://scobleizer.com/2006/02/08/):

February 8, 2006

Why do search engines lie?

Here, do a search for Memetrackers (Google, MSN, Yahoo). Now, why are none of their numbers accurate? Google says there are 713 results, but can only display 62. MSN says there are 101, but only can display 100. Yahoo says there are 368, but only can display 44.

Why aren’t there any truth in advertising laws for search engines?

Update: the numbers are changing. Google now says there are 699 results, but can only display 692 (this is after you tell it to display all duplicates).

Oh, and no engine can display more than about 1,000 results, so if they say there’s 42,000,000 results there’s no way to verify whether those numbers are accurate or not.

Update 2: Yahoo is actually accurate once you tell it to display all duplicates. It says 429 results and displays 429 results. So, Yahoo wins! (although I wish they’d all be a little clearer up front).

India-An Unfortunate Country

NEHRU AND SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS
INDIRA GANDHI

People –educated people in India still love to side with the Second Bahadur Shah and the mutinous sepoys, as they think that they might be the harbingers of freedom from the tyranny of the British. If Sepoy mutinies were successful and Bahadur Shah would have been the Emperor of Hindusthan –people in general had to suffer from an unthinkable anarchy.

Notions and natural tendencies for customary thoughts die hard. Even it takes centuries to be replaced with the truths.

I’m telling all this as I see the criminal stupidities of a political party named Indian National Congress which has always put itself in the wrong footings during critical historical moments of this hapless country. India would not have been partitioned if the Congress had accepted the proposal of Sir Stafford Cripps as advised and insisted on by Sri Aurobindo.

In 1957 Pakistan was in doldrums and at the verge of disintegration. At that time a feeler was sent to Nehru by Pakistan for some sort of overall arrangement which would undo the stark partition of 1947 but they were altogether rejected. Afterward again when Ayub Khan who had not yet superseded Iskander Mirza as President, made an unexpected visit to Delhi and proposed joint defence for India and Pakistan. As per Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna)-“Here was the clearest sign of Pakistan’s insufficiency and her call for a fresh start pointing towards ultimate reunion……But again the Indian Government failed to cooperate. It replied to Ayub in effect ‘Joint defence against whom?’ India in that period was doing ‘bhai, Bahai’ to Red China and looking upon Soviet Russia as a close ally. If Soviet Russia was our dearest friend and red China our beloved brother, we could militarily be in no danger at all. What other power was there to pose a military threat to us?” [Our Light and Delight by Amal Kiran-page 115 to124]

The subsequent events are now a history to every Indian. The situation is such that no nation now stands as a strategic friend to India. Now India’s relations with her northern neighbours are far from good. If her relation with China is now ‘comfortable’ it’s because of her stance as an underdog. India has to buy peace with China as she can not afford to assert her say before China. Even she appears to have no courage to strongly condemn that China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh will be a bearing on mutual relationship. And surprisingly Pakistan has very good relations with all of them including China. There is no way to show Nehru the present situation vis-a-vis Pakistan and China. Nehru did an immoral and politically blundering move to support China for her occupation of Tibet. I’m coming back to Nehru after concentrating a little about the Congress under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi. We claim to be a growing superpower. But in reality Indian Government fails to be assertive against the wrong doings of Myanmar, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and even the tiny Bangladesh. India wants to be a permanent member in the Security Council of the UN. But in spite of a possibility Sashi Tharoor-India’s nominee could not won. It was because of China’s influence over George Bush.India holds no courage and influence in matters of any lapse in human rights, suppression of fight for freedom and in any serious international matter. She would never find words to utter against China even if there was genocide of Tibetans in Lhasa or elsewhere in Tibet. India would remain silent if Aung San Suu Ski were further tortured by the military junta of Myanmar.

Coming back to Nehru. He would not be forgiven in the pages of history even it takes a thousand years. He will be termed as most indecisive (his dillydallying in sending troops to Goa), his lack of courage to face a challenge (he died of heart attack after Chinese aggression), his lack of political wisdom (about China), his romantic ideas about politics and for his Himalayan blunder in putting the Kashmir issue in the UN and his refusal to act on Ayub’s feelers.

But one may forgive him for giving birth to a daughter who unlike her father was courageous and capable of taking decisions singlehandedly. She might be criticized for hundreds of her follies but so far her guts and courage is concerned one must say to her in the words of Mathew Arnold “Thou art free”. His father divided India. She divided Pakistan.

FREE texture from NinianLif

L.K. Advani's historic failure

I remember that once L.K. Advani visited Nirod C Choudhury’s home in Oxford. Nirod C Choudhury was already above ninety then and a widower, stayed alone in his house. Advani with some people of his party (total ten or twelve nos.) visited him without prior appointment. All this I read in newspaper then. I also read that Nirod Choudhury was very much embarrassed as he was not ready to receive so many guests all of a sudden and more so when there was none with him at that time. I am telling this trivial incident to show that L.K. Advani lacks common sense. He has been projected as the next prime minister of India. I have nothing against him to decry this projection. But unfortunately L.K. Advani is not a shrewd and intelligent person. He is not even as patriotic as he and his party likes to have the people of India believe. Let us explain:

If Advani were a patriot he would have collaborated with Manmohan Singh to get the Indi-US Nuclear deal come through. He may enjoy seeing that the Congress –his opposition party, in serious troubles in retaining power in absence of left’s support. It’s natural. But it is not a question of pulling down the government; it is a question of saving India’s prestige. Moreover India stands to gain much from this nuclear deal. So the national interest is also involved here. Everybody in India knows that if BJP was in power it would move for the deal. Here lies the difference between Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani. Advani has failed to rise above petty party politics. The former US diplomat Strobe Talbot told on NDTV that Vajpayee Government was ready to settle for much less than what is being offered. According to him:

"The Clinton administration negotiated with the BJP-led government on the nuclear issue and that knowing what the goals of my Indian interlocutors at work at that time and seeing how those goals compare with the current Indian government has gotten out of President Bush by way of the civil nuclear deal, I can't understand how is that the BJP could oppose the deal as it obviously does." Vajpayee’s aide and former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra gave his “personal approval” to the nuclear deal, a view contrary to the BJP’s official line. This inspired Dr Manmohan Singh and he said- “I was happy to see that, responding to the call of conscience, he has openly supported the nuclear deal…Now I urge the Bhishma Pitamah of Indian politics, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to also listen to the call of his conscience and rise above narrow party interests to support the deal”. It is clear that Atal Bihari Vajpayee has full support for the deal. But alas! He has no say in the party now.

This could have been a historic moment for Advani if he moved in support of the deal. It is a great moment to cut the communists to size. If Advani were successful to thwart the ominous and pro-Chinese moves of the left-it would be BJP who would gain more than the Congress politically.

But unfortunately Advani is not a visionary.

Shanghai-Maglev Train

China is not only an Asian giant but also she is rapidly progressing to be at par with the few best of the first world countries. In India and elswhere in the world some people compare China with India with the same breath. I think it's too much to be inspired of India's growth with the yardstick China is measured with. India will require fifty years more to be equal to China. Let us see the magical extent China has changed to.

China's two biggest cities, Beijing and Shanghai, are the places to seek out the best in this explosion of new design and now have restaurants, bars, shops, galleries and hotels that can rival anything in London, New York or Tokyo. Beijing is also playing host to the 2008 Olympic Games, which take place from 8 to 24 August; for more details see en.beijing2008.cn.

Just an example of Shanghai-Maglev Express train puts India in poor light. The train runs at the speed of 430Km/hour which still remains a dream for Indian Railways. One may have an idea of just visiting the site of the
train.

Shanghai-Megalev Train

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT-BEIJING

Marion Cotillard thinks herself too big

The Oscar winner, this year for the Best Actress, Marion Cotillard, is no doubt a talented actress. She is also the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren won it in 1961 for her acting in Two Women.

Unfortunately, in spite of her outstanding talent in acting she is just like some village women whose imaginations never cross the horizon of their villages. Actually in these days people do not care to know who Dorris Lessing is; but all perhaps know Angelina Jolie. Is this time determined by philistines? No. But for media, some persons, involved in entertainment world get wild exposure and so these celebrity-persons think that they, by virtue of their fame, have achieved eligibility to comment on any matter and which they believe would carry some worth for consideration by the people. So –Marion Cotillard-an Oscar-inflated person has thought that she is a great person and so her thoughts and beliefs are to be made public for their benefit. Hence she has not hesitated to comment on two very serious matters-one pertaining to the history of Man’s achievements and another an example of devastating fanatic action by the Islamic fundamentalists in recent time. According to her, NASA’s historic Moon-landing mission with Apollo-11 was a hoax. Even the Soviet Union –a keen competitor of the US in space technology never doubted this event as arranged. Marion never cared to think or read about the world’s best scientists’ opinions. She, by virtue of her Oscar award, wanted to be more than Neil Armstrong. Her second statement was that the Americans lied about what is known as 9/11 disaster in New York. For coming to this unique conclusion she employed her own understanding about the way how the tall building collapses. If such statements were made by any person of the third world-it would be considered as natural third-world phenomenon. However, the less said the better about such celebrity persons. But as Marion is the first to tell that it was a lie that the WTO building could not collapse in few minutes –she should call for a press conference only to elaborate on these two matters for the benefit of common people.