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Art and Culture of a Debased Society
In India recently a debate was created by a student in M.S.University in Baroda drawing offensive paintings and his resultant expulsions by the university. The so-called English speaking intellectuals class of India is supporting the student as obvious from their publications in various magazines and newspapers. Their support is rest on the concept of the freedom of expression. The question should be raised what really makes people think that offensive and disgusting type of paintings can be an ...
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Destruction of Ram Sethu and implications
The £280 million Sethusa-mudram project has been mired in controversy ever since it was inaugurated by Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, in July 2005. The Minister for Shipping Baalu has antagonized both the Sangh Parivar and CPI (M) at the same time. The decision to destroy the Rama Sethu, the ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka is against Indias heritage, religious sentiments, environment and poor farmers of Tamil Nadu. The decision has made most of the Hindus, about 82 percent of the...
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India Russia N-Deal: Indian media silent
Russia has proposed as an alternative to the Indo-US deal but the Indian news media is silent about it.Indo-US nuclear deal will not supply India with the fuel cycle, enrichment plants for uranium and reprocessing plants of spent fuel, as the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954 specifically forbids export of these technologies, as also heavy water production technology, to other countries. Section 103 of the Hyde Act suggests that the US would oppose development of a capability to produce nuclear we...
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End of The Indo-US Nuke Deal?
We should pray that US would withdraw the Indo-US nuclear deal under pressure from the Democratic Party. It will be a blessing in disguise. The nuclear deal has little to do with the nuclear power generations but it aims at the elimination of India’s ability to produce any nuclear weapons....
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Hinduism: Monotheist or Polytheist
If we open any book on history of India or history of the world, written by the western or modern Indian writers we can see a description of Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma, which in untrained eye would look like a denigration of Hinduism as a religion....
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Indian Economy: Reforms or Bubble
The newspapers from India are giving a very optimistic picture for India. The economy, which has been on a high growth path of 8-9% for the three years from 2004, is expanding faster in 2007 at 9.2%. Significantly, the 9.2% GDP growth in 2007 comes about despite the slowdown in farm-sector growth to just 2.7% in 2007 from 6% in 2006.......
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USA’s nuclear design on India
D BASU: The standard argument of the proponents of the Indo-US nuclear treaty is ,Small prototypes are under construction. But none of the prototypes is ready to be duplicated in a big way. Hence successive governments in India in last twenty years have been in a fix whether to ask for outside help or not. Waiting for the Indian technology to mature will take another 20 years. Lost time will serio...
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Hindus under Muslim Rule in West Bengal
D BASU: What is the status of the Hindus in India itself? In Jammu & Kashmir not only the non-Muslims were brutally evicted from Kashmir and forced to live as refugees in their own country recently Shariat law was about to be implemented in the whole of the state. Is that mean the Government of India accept that Jammu & Kashmir is not part of India, which is secular according to its constitution, ...
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CPI(M) and Karl Marx
D BASU: Recently Sitaram Yachury has called for the reevaluation of the history India’s first war of independence or what the British oriented historians calls ‘the Sepoy Munity’. However in the process he falls back upon the interpretation given by the historians of Jawaharlal Nehru University( JNU) rather than what is given by Karl Marx. In India, some recent historians from the Aligarh Muslim U...
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"Sepoy Mutiny" and Historical Distortions
D BASU: The intellectuals of India today derive their recognitions and rewards because of their pro-Western attitude. As a result what should be a gigantic celebration for 150th anniversary of the India’s First War of Independence or what the British called “Sepoy Munity” is now reduced to arguments and counterarguments between politicians and historians about the specific version, which should be...
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Hinduism and Equality
D BASU: Recently Praful Goradia asserted (in ‘Western Imposition’, 18 January 2006, The Daily Pioneer) that the concept of equality is alien to Hinduism, but an imported idea from the West. In his words, “The people of Western faith are amenable to state intervention, whether it be welfare, as in France and Germany, or socialism, as in Yugoslavia under Marshal Tito, or totalitarianism, as in the f...
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SEZs in China and India
D BASU: The dispute of the farmers against the oppressive governments in Singur, Nandigram, Orissa, Chratisgrah and Narmada Valley in India is not a war between industry and agriculture or between progress and conservatism but between basic human rights and a government determined to create a pure capitalistic heaven by taking over poor people’s only possession of a little land and a home......
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Exports of Democracy and its Obstacles
D BASU: To contain Russia, USA has adopted a multi-level approach. It is trying to put false or half-truths in the international media to make Russia unpopular. USA and its western allies also support directly or indirectly the Islamic insurgency within Russia. At the same time there are serious efforts going on to encircle Russia by putting pro-Western governments in every former republics of the...
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Singur: Reflection of China
D BASU: The incidents in Singur, West Bengal is reflecting a growing tendency of the government to force people to give up their land and houses for the private sector without paying proper compensation. These incidents are the reflection of similar incidents in China in recent years. As India is trying to emulate China the ill effects of Chinese repressive policies on the farmers are also visible...
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China"s claim on Arunachal Pradesh
D BASU: India must understand that so long as India accept Tibet is a part of China, China can claim Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Sikkim as historically these were at one time parts of Tibet. The only way out for India is to recognize Tibet as an occupied territory and India will negotiate it border only with an independent Tibet in future but not with China.......
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