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Iran, India and the US Dollar This is not the first time that USA has sympathy for one side of the Islamic regime which is determined to destroy the Western and Eastern civilizations. During the days of President Reagan, Iran has financed the terrorists to destroy the socialists in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Ethiopia and in return USA has supplied weapons to Iran directly or indirectly through Israel, Pakistan and Turkey. USA is expecting that a new regime will be more accommodating particularl...	D Basu	Sushil Gupta: The more we see things around our country it gets clear how Nehru family ruined foreign relations with one and all. They did not fight for population exchange in 1947, they destroyed legacy of all our freedom fighters and created a foreign polic.... [51 comments]
BJP"s defeat: The Hindu perspective The BJP has lost in the recently concluded Lok Shabha 2009 elections. The political party, conceived as the face of Hindu interest has lost to the dynastic Congress Party. The people of India, the land of ancient Hindu civilization, with over 700 million electorate, arguably 80% of whom are Hindus, participated and chose not to elect the party that is accused of being communal and non-secular for promoting Hindu agendas and looking after Hindu concerns. Logically then one has to raise the follow...	Arindam B	A.Moron: There is nothing fantastic about Secularism, which in India means appeasement policy for the two major religions of the world. UK and the European countries, Soviet Union, Russia, China, th entire Middle East are not secular. Even in USA, any presid.... [14 comments]
Eastern India must not become a desert Just about a quarter of a century ago, in December 1985, I had disembarked at Palam Airport of New Delhi from a flight from London to board an Indian Airlines plane to Bhubaneswar, which is the capital of my state of Orissa, and also my hometown where my parents lived. The three hour long domestic flight was scheduled to depart around the mid-day with a stop over at Raipur in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. After an early morning fog the sky over New Delhi was all clear and a brigh...	N Das	varun: FREE COUNSELLING/HEALTHY DISCUSSIONS Any problem- Career, Personal, Professional, in love or married life Please check my website to post your problems and give me your feedback http://all-solutions-answers.com [7 comments]
Regional Interests of Global Powers President Zardari in a recent visit (May 2009) to Washington DC boasted that Pakistani army strength is 700,000. Pakistan has deployed 110,000 troops to counter insurgency (COIN) operations on its western border. A ratio of 7 to 10 troops per insurgent suggests that Pakistan estimates strength of Taliban and al Qaeda guided insurgent force to be in a range of 11,000 to 16,000. Another guesstimate puts it between 30,000 to 35,000 insurgents suggesting that the deployed army strength for COIN oper...	K Bhatia	Add Comment
Global Terrorism and Pak Policies In addition to nuclear capabilities of Pakistan the breaking news (mid-May 2009) reports demise of the Tigers in Sri Lanka and reelection of Congress party dominated coalition called UPA (United Progressive Party) headed by PM Manmohan Singh in India.Terrorism dominated parts of South Asia starting 1970s and its scale was such that it acquired global attention. Sikh Terrorists were militarily defeated in 1984 by the Indian Armed forces and Tamil LTTE forces were defeated in May 2009 by Sri Lanka...	K Bhatia	Amit Bhadhuri: Feedback sent to Author: Global-Terrorism-and-Pakistans-Nuclear- A truly authentic assessment of reality. This article needs as much as possible circulations. [1 comments]
Agenda after 2009 Elections Elections are over. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was sworn in on May 22, 2009 for second time and some elected representatives are now jogging for a place in the cabinet. Personal ambitions and agendas of elected politicians are on display. However, India has to stay focused on its priorities for aam aadmi. Outlined here are details of Bharat Nirman Yojanas that potentially can make India a developed nation in about a decade....	K Bhatia	Add Comment
Modest Swing Effects 61 Seat Bounty It was neither a faith in the Congress, nor an out right rejection of the BJP that prompted this somewhat palatable outcome. Neither was this a vote for Manmohanomics, or an endorsement of the government handling of 26/11. It was happenstance, plain and simple. How else can you explain a modest voter swing to effect such a disproportionately large alteration in seats? It was a fluke that vaulted the Congress to a seemingly spectacular victory. I have no qualms about that for it provides us with ...	Vivek G	Malavika Patil: As the CIA would say, there are no coincidences in life. 2% vote share bringing a bounty of 60 seats is suspicious. So is Congress and its allies escaping anti incumbancy but not other political parties. In other words, demand a paper trail for ea.... [2 comments]
Aravind Adiga: Intellectual bankruptcy of... On 14th October 2008, the Booker Committee announced in London that Aravind Adiga will get the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger. The writer, Aravind Adiga claims in an interview:At a time, when India is going through great changes and ,with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society, he said, adding that the criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac & Dickens in the 19th century...	P Saksena	Rajesh: Feedback sent to Author: Aravind-Adiga-:-Intellectual-bankruptcy-of-Indian-writers Hi, Your views about the Araving Adiga"s book is to the point and good. I am one like you who is angry about author"s like him who project India as a country wit.... [15 comments]
MF Hussain & Artistic Freedom... This article raises questions about the observations of Indian courts which have been generally liberal in preserving individual freedoms vis-à-vis the rights of the majority religion. Could the defenders of artistic freedom, have inveigled the courts into delivering ill-conceived judgements by speciously citing mischievous evidence? In the process were the courts oblivious to pertinent alternative views on the matter?There was a time when judicial pronouncements were characterized by the erudit...	UN Das	A.Moron: Muslims do not recognize Artistic Freedom. If A Hindu artist draw naked the Prophet and various Saints of Islam, there will be massive communal roit all over the world. [2 comments]
Infeasibility of the G-20 Stimulus Plan Tasks in front of the G-20 leaders were to produce a framework to solve the world economic crisis by thinking out of box. Instead they want another round of stimulus without learning any lesson from George Bush and Gordon Brown of UK, who just gave away more than $900 Billion to the Anglo-American banks and financial institutions without restructuring them and as a result money just disappeared in a black hole without creating any solution yet. Much of these stimulus plans are empty promises or ...	D Basu	S.Ghosh: Greed has made America great, but the greed of the Indian politicians made India stink. [9 comments]
Is Islam in Danger To understand the background of what is happening in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the attack of 9/11 by the so-called purist part of the Muslims one has to recall the battles between the Sallahdin and the Christian Kings for the control of Jerusalem, holy to the Muslims, the Christians and the Jews. Responding to Byzantine Emperor Alexeis plea for help against the Turks at the dawn of the eleventh century Pope Urban II reminded the Christians of Emperor Charlemagnes forcible conversion of Saxons...	Kazi Masud	Daksha: Isalm will Make other reglions in danger of survival. If muslims are in minority, they do not go along with majority and and they would like everybody to follow Geneva Conventions. If Muslims are in Majority, there is no minorites and they will impo.... [11 comments]
..and the struggle continues The election results in India may reflect a fractured escapism of a long suppressed nation but does not represent true ethos of its people. They have put no trust in one single party, having been betrayed by doing so for most part of sixty years of its, so-called, freedom. They have become cynical and lethargic. The polling was low and there was no enthusiasm for voting, except for the motley crowd of people who wanted status quo, no change, cultural imperialism and continuity of privileges.The...	Rasik S	A.Moron: Party pays the cost of election. As a result a lot of poor people can be elected as well. But after getting elected these poor people soon became another Lallu Yadav or Mayawati or S.Pawar i.e., megarich people [2 comments]
Why the War Against Terror cant be won... Over the last few days, as news continued to pour in about Talibans seemingly unstoppable march across north-west Pakistan, the question that would not go away in my mind was: Why is this not on the national agenda?Is the Indian media really clueless? is it really so naive that it does not realise the gravity of the situation? or was this simply something that could be dismissed with a Yeh to hota hi rahta hai (and/or its variant: Kuch nayee baat batao yaar) ?And yet, the happenings in Pakistan ...	B Shant..	Pankaj Saksena: Feedback sent to Author: Why-War-Against-Terror-cannot-be-won-by-guns-alone When Indian media is forever misleading its populace that India need not worry about Islamic terrorism and whatever is happening in Pakistan or any other Islamic country, .... [3 comments]
Mr PM, Indias needs better leaders Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thinks Indias global standing will diminish and its image as a liberal, secular democracy take a beating if Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom the BJP has projected as next-in-line to LK Advani, ever becomes Prime Minister. Let it be clear that when he said global, the PM perhaps meant the western countries and USA and may be the oil rich Middle eastern nations and not Zimbabwe or Rwanda. It is interesting that the Prime minister did not find it against ...	Arindam B	common sense: Indians have selected and elected their leaders. Are they good or bad, time only will tell! [5 comments]
Hindu Self Shaming Often I hear my Hindu friends express how ashamed they are about being a Hindu when they come across some media report about Hindu religious or cultural customs which may not conform to their westernized logic. Or it may be news item of a communal incident in which Hindus are reported to have participated. Western media as well as the English media in India routinely portray Hinduism in stereotyped manner and have rarely shown objectivity in such reports. My friends do not bother to check the re...	Venkat L	Vanamali: Feedback sent to Author: Hindu-Self-Shaming Totally agree with your post. Unfortunately we Hindus do not talk about our values that much - we take our kids to the temple, do some pujas and read or watch movies on the Ramayana & the Mahabharata. .... [4 comments]

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