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Monday, January 31, 2011
Babies Size Up the Social Scene - ScienceNOW
Babies Size Up the Social Scene - ScienceNOW
Sizing up relationships between other people is key to success in human society. Whether your aim is navigating office politics or climbing the social ladder, you'd better know who's the chief and who's a pawn. A new study suggests that babies acquire this skill even before they learn to speak. In the 28 January issue of Science, researchers report that 10-month-old infants perceive social dominance and can predict who's likely to prevail when a conflict arises.
In the past decade, developmental psychologists have shown that babies are remarkably perceptive about the social world around them. Before the end of their first year, for example, infants understand that people sometimes have competing goals, and they take notice of whether one individual helps or hinders another.
In the new study, Lotte Thomsen, then a graduate student with Harvard University psychologist Susan Carey, and colleagues investigated whether infants also have expectations about who's most likely to get their way when two individuals have conflicting goals. They brought into the lab 144 infants between 8 months and 16 months old, accompanied by their mothers. Seated on mom's lap, each baby watched videos starring two crude cartoon figures—each essentially a block with an eye and a mouth (see video). (Psychologists often use simplified figures like these instead of more realistic ones to avoid confounding cues from facial expressions, gestures, or body posture.)
Credit: Courtesy of Lotte Thomsen, Willem E. Frankenhuis, and Susan Carey
In one experiment, infants between 11 months and 16 months old watched a video in which a big blue block initially bounces across the screen from left to right. Next, a smaller green block crosses in the opposite direction. Then a conflict arises: Both blocks start across the screen and bump into each other in the middle, unable to pass. The standoff could end one of two ways, with either the blue or the green block tipping forward, as if bowing down, and receding into the background to allow the other block to pass.
When the little green block made way for the big blue block, infants looked at the screen for a few seconds after the clip ended before looking away. But when the little green block actually got its way, the infants stared at the screen for an additional 5 to 10 seconds on average. Thomsen and her colleagues, like many researchers who work with infants, interpret such extra attention as evidence that the infant has noticed that something is amiss—in this case, that their prediction that the large block should dominate the small block hasn't come true.
The researchers did several additional experiments to try to rule out alternative explanations, including the possibility that the infants were reacting to the size difference between the blocks instead of their perceived social relationship. When they removed the eyes and mouths from both blocks, the difference in looking time vanished, suggesting that infants' expectations about which block should prevail apply only to objects with human features.
In another series of experiments with younger infants, Thomsen and colleagues found that the difference in looking time emerges between 8 months and 10 months, suggesting that this is when the ability to detect social dominance comes online.
"This is the very first finding that demonstrates that preverbal infants pay attention to, and guess, the social relations between others on the basis of appearance," says Gergely Csibra, a developmental psychologist at the Central European University in Budapest.
Karen Wynn, a developmental cognitive scientist at Yale University agrees that the study adds a new dimension to previous work. "This fits very nicely with the broader theme of showing that it seems to be part of our inherent human makeup to be attuned to the social world [and] the meaning of interactions between other individuals," she says. "The asymmetry of power between individuals ... may be a fundamental social variable we are tuned to attend to."
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PIB Press Release
PIB Press Release
Money Laundering - Treachery of Jethmalani, Advani, Vajpayee & Modi
We see Jethmalani everyday on TV on $1500b leakage of Indian money but he doesn’t tell us he made the BIG HOLE to let money flow out of India – on June01, 2000 he was Law Minister when FERA was repealed and replaced by Toothless FEMA.
For over five years there was no law to check even outflow of money by Hardened Criminals.
These four Scoundrels soon realized there is no check on outflow of money from India so devised another - law Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
But four scoundrels didn’t dare to Notify it – it was UPA government that Notified the PMLA in 2005.
PMLA only cover Drug Money or such crimes not Economic Offences like Anil Ambani transferred $500m to Singapore in to private companies that is the real source of Flood Gate of leakage.
Ravinder Singh
January027, 2011
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The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for introduction of a Bill, namely the Prevention of Money-laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2008 in the Parliament.
The Amendment Bill will enable the Government of India to meet certain domestic needs and international obligations.
Background
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PML Act) ( 15 of 2003) was enacted in 2002 and enforced in 2005 to prevent money laundering and to provide for attachment, seizure and confiscation of proceeds of crime obtained or derived, directly or indirectly from money laundering and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 has come into force with effect from the 1st June 2000. As from the same date (1.6.2000) the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1973 (FERA 1973), which was in operation for about 27 years, stands repealed.
All foreign exchange transactions which take place from the 1st June 2000 onwards will be governed by the provisions of the new law Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999, (FEMA 1999) and the Rules, Regulations, Notifications, Directions and Orders issued/ framed under the new Act.
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The Wrath of Ram
August 07, 2000
Sacked as law minister to avert an impending executive -judiciary confrontation, a furious Ram Jethmalani blames his dismissal on Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee and also accuses CJI. As the government tries to paper over the cracks, Jethmalani complicates matters by releasing correspondence that shows India's legal establishment in a very poor light.
By Sumit Mitra
It was a cold but a very predictable parting for a cabinet member so full of vitality, flamboyance and colour. On July 22, as law minister Ram Jethmalani was driving from Mumbai to Pune to address the Symbiosis Law College, his cell phone rang. The voice of External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh was unmistakable in its deep baritone. Before Singh could end his formal prologue -- "I have been given the unpleasant task ..." -- Jethmalani cut him short. "I know the prime minister wants my resignation, but I can't send it now as I am driving. I shall fax it from Pune."
On reaching Pune, the 77-year-old minister, ace criminal lawyer and a man of the world wrote by hand a three-line letter which said that he was stepping down "as desired". He didn't have the Race Course Road fax number, so called Singh to get it. His ministerial innings behind him, Jethmalani began his address by telling the students he'd speak to them not as a minister but as "a lawyer, like what all of you would soon become".
In Delhi, outside Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's inner circle, there was only one person who was probably in the know: Attorney-General of India Soli Sorabjee. And he wasn't unhappy. Nor for that matter was Chief Justice of India Adarsh Sein Anand when he learnt of the development. It was Anand's stated displeasure with Jethmalani that ultimately forced Vajpayee's hand.
Between Jethmalani and Sorabjee, however, it was the unhappiest silver jubilee of a relationship. Following the 1975 Emergency, Sorabjee toiled in a team led by Nani Palkhivala to save Jethmalani from the long arm of the notorious MISA. The team obtained a stay, with Sorabjee's forceful advocacy leaving a mark on the proceedings.
When the two came together 23 years later in Vajpayee's Government, there was little of the old camaraderie left. Last Thursday, addressing the press after Parliament was rocked by a controversy over his proposed personal statement, Jethmalani made it clear that he could not coexist with Sorabjee in the same dispensation. "My being law minister is certainly not congenial to the attorney-general."
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killers escape death sentence
| Christian Missionaries killers escape death sentence | |
| 21.01.2011 | 22:01 New Delhi | |
| The Supreme Court today upheld the life sentence awarded to Dara Singh and Mahendra Hembram by the Orrisa High Court for killing a Christian Missionary and his two minor sons in 1999. Dara Singh and Mahendra Hembram were convicted by the Orrisa High Court of burning Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons, Philip Staines (10) and Timothy Staines (6) alive while they were sleeping in a van. In 2003, a trial court in Khurda convicted all 13 accused in the case. While Dara Singh was awarded death sentence, the others were sentenced to life in prison. In 2005, the Orissa High Court commuted Singh's sentence to life and acquitted 11 accused persons on the ground that identification by the eye-witnesses was doubtful. The convicts had approached the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order. The apex court while dismissing the appeal said “The analysis of entire materials clearly shows that the High Court is right in arriving at its conclusion. In the case on hand, there is no material to prove conspiracy charge against any of the accused.” “In a country like ours where discrimination on the ground of caste or religion is a taboo, taking lives of persons belonging to another caste or religion is bound to have a dangerous and reactive effect on the society at large. It strikes at the very root of the orderly society which the founding fathers of our Constitution dreamt of. Our concept of secularism is that the State will have no religion. The state shall treat all religions and religious groups equally and with equal respect without in any manner interfering with their individual right of religion, faith” the division bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan held. | |
The most drunken State in India
| Musings on Article 47, Prohibition and Trade in liquor by State |
| 10.01.2010 |
| Justice VR Krishna Iyer |
| The most drunken State in India is Kerala, each year aggrandising consumption of liquor. The State benefits by its monopolistic business of the beverages corporation. It gains reverence, gives jobs and makes the young ones taste the rare delight of drink. To set the record straight, we must state, right here, that no frontal attack is made on the power of the State to regulate any trade (even a trade where the turn-over turns on tempting the customer to take reeling rolling trips into the realm of the jocose, lachrymose and comatose). Who is the ultimate criminal? The State which generates, grants licenses, rarely investigates and violates the fundamental right of the citizen to have travel, associative friendly and live in fraternity? Why do Marxist Governments bankrupt its workers and peasants by club’s easy licenses?
Kerala in monopolizing manufacture of beverages is in good company of Tamil Nadu State which not only manufactures but vends liquor as a monopoly. No one will dismiss the Government for violating Article 47 of the Constitution because the centre depends for its survival on the Tamil Nadu ruling party. It is fair to note that Tamil Nadu is selling life’s essentials through ration shops at half the market price effectively. So the poor can live through this measure. Kerala alcoholism and market prices go without control!!
President Pratibha Patil said at a large public meeting that Kerala is plagued by alcoholism. I would add - the State will perish by alcoholism, Marxism, free from the plague of alcoholism will survive the Marxists unless they are allergic to intoxicating liquor and ideas.
Alcoholism is an unmitigated evil and if it becomes habitual, plural pathological consequences follow and no pharmacopoeia is yet available whereby alcoholism can become innocent. Criminals and goondas with violent habits have a vested interest in liquor and now our Governments have become dealers in alcohol which is becoming a State-run big business. The one politician above and against this vice was Morarji Desai who introduced dry days on wage payment days and on festivals. Recently, the Collector of Calicut on the eve of a big festival stopped sale of alcohol in all liquor shops and this proved successful and peaceful to the people of the city. Within a few days the Collector was transferred as his action went against the abkari revenue of the State.
This terrible curse has ruined the nation and Morarji’s wisdom must be enforced as sternly as he did particularly vis a vis judges and higher bureaucrats. Wedding celebrations and religious festivals, Diwali and Onam should be declared dry days. So far as liquor consumption is concerned the centre if it believes in the Constitution (Article 47) should force the State to practice prohibition. It can succeed as Rajaji and Omandur Madras State did and Gujarat does. Political parties in their election manifestoes must seriously promise dry days to save the working class and domestic peace. Alcoholism is a national enemy and our import policy must ban foreign liquors. Before every crime, terrorism and every festival we can trace consumption of alcohol. All great men were free from alcoholism from Bernard Shaw to Mahatma Gandhi - from Vedanta to Islam and every faith which is committed to dignity, decency and sobriety. Some artists like musicians and poets have violated this virtue and drunk themselves to death. Byron for instance wrote:
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.
If elimination of poverty and bankruptcy is patriotism the highest priority should be attributed to implement absolute ban on alcoholism. The issue of dry days read in the light of Article 47 arose before the Supreme Court at the instance of the liquor lobby and the case was decided by the court in support of abolition of alcoholism in 1978 3 SCC 558. I quote briefly from that ruling which exhaustively deals with negatives alcoholism as a national disaster:
“33. In India some genteel socialities have argued for the diplomatic pay-off from drinks and Nehru has negatived it:
Not only does the health of a nation suffer from this (alcoholism), but there is a tendency to increase conflicts both in the national and the international sphere.
I must say that I do not agree with the statement that is sometimes made - even by our ambassadors - that drinks attract people to parties and if there are no drinks served people will not come. I have quite frankly told them that if people are only attracted by drinks, you had better keep away such people from our missions….. I do not believe in this kind of diplomacy which depends on drinking…..and, if we have to indulge in that kind of diplomacy, others have had more training in it and are likely to win.
34. Of course, the struggle for Swaraj went beyond political liberation and demanded social transformation. Redemption from drink evil was woven into this militant movement and Gandhiji was the expression of this mission:
I hold drink to be more damnable than thieving and perhaps even prostitution. Is it not often the parent to both? I ask you to join the country in sweeping out of existence the drink revenue and abolishing the liquor shops.
Let me therefore, re-declare my faith in undiluted prohibition before I land myself in deeper water. If I was appointed dictator for one hour for all India, the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all the liquor shops, destroy all the toddy palms such as I know them in Gujarat, compel factory owners to produce humane conditions for their workmen would get innocent drinks and equally innocent amusements. I would close down the factories if the owners pleaded for want of funds.”
This nation shall perish with the drinking bowl with atrabilious liquor because the powerful lobby can purchase the politician at any price to do away with dry days. |
History of Nanyang Primary Singapore | See if you qualify for minority scholarships
History of Nanyang Primary Singapore
Singapore Nanyang Primary school Story
Let us review and study the History of Nanyang Primary School so that we know the difficulties the chinese had creating education.
The founder Tan Chu Nan and co-founder Teo Eng Hock established the Nanyang Primary School in Singapore in 1917. The Nanyang Primary history started off as an extension of the Nanyang Girl’s High School. The school began the school at the Dhoby Ghaut shophouse located right near the Cathay Cineplex. The school followed the Singapore regulations for primary education.. The Nanyang Primary history adapted the six full years of primary education. Considering that Singapore maintains mixed Chinese and Singapore Chinese languages, the government was flexible enough to know that they need to have English as the other language that children should know in their primary education.
The government believes that the permission to use a bilingual Chinese language will be sufficient to preserve some of the Chinese culture of their constituents, which the Nanyang Primary history showed by means of their greatly accepted campaign for English as one of the dominant language in their bilingual system of education. The Nanyang Primary history displays a refinement of the Chinese culture in their mixed languages of mother tongue, Chinese, and English to reinforce a multiracial society in preserving cultural values while learning the English language for its competitive practical solutions. The transmission of the traditional Chinese education in a bilingual education system marked the progress of the Chinese vs.. English educated communities in Singapore.
The Nanyang Primary School å—æ´‹å°å¦ changed to its present area at King’s Road during the year 1927. In the Nanyang Primary history, the compulsory education age of children for primary education is six years old. The primary education system has two stages namely the foundation and the orientation stage. The Chairman and the Principal, Mr. Lee Chin Tien and Mrs. Liew Yuen Sien, upgraded the curriculum of the school, standards, and directions including the tutors teaching styles to enhance the learning environment of the students. This made the Nanyang Primary School a dependable school that generates graduate students who have the capability and the skills to pass the Chinese middle school examinations for admission specifically the Nanyang University college entrance test.
The primary education is every child’s foundation for skills and knowledge development. In the Nanyang Primary history, the orientation stage provided individuals the flexibility to build learning ability with the match of custom Chinese education streaming system that exposes the children to their linguistic history of Chinese, Mandarin, English, and Singaporean Chinese. The Nanyang Primary history gained reputation and recognition for its progressive inclusion of both Chinese stream and English stream.The British Army occupied the Nanyang Primary School as a field office during WWII followed by the Japanese army, which ruined some of the school’s amenities. The Nanyang Primary history reflects the joint efforts of the administration and students including the alumni to regain the school’s operations when the British colonized Singapore again after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Singapore highly valued the concept of education and the Nanyang Primary history supported its native language of Malaya, Tamil, or Chinese through its bilingual education of English and Chinese stream. The Nanyang Primary School became the fourth school in Singapore history to offer the Center for Primary Gifted Education Programme or GEP.
Over the years, Chinese language education in Nanyang Primary school has deteriorated and is no longer the bastion of chinese language education due to Singapore government’s deliberate policy of diluting the Chinese language mother tongue. Chinese A and B courses (is a divide and conquer tactic) has further diluted the ecology of Chinese language speaking students. As a result, many SIngaporean of Chinese origin can no longer speak proper chinese language.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Casteism Is Racism And India Should Stop Interfering In ‘Internal Affairs’ Of Britain!
Casteism Is Racism And India Should Stop
Interfering In ‘Internal Affairs’ Of Britain!
By Avinash Pandey Samar
10 September, 2010
Britain, in a major victory for the movement against caste based discrimination and atrocities, can soon declare caste prejudice unlawful under laws against racial discrimination becoming the first country of the world to do so. The development was imminent in the wake of the fact that the House of Lords had already passed the Equality Bill empowering the government to treat caste as ‘an aspect of race’ in March this year leaving just one more step of getting it passed by the House of Commons to be enacted as law.
The victory has come as a result of the valiant struggle of the Dalit groups along with members of the broader civil society against the exploitative and oppressive system of caste, amidst tremendous opposition of the Indian government and the right wing Hindu groups based in Britain.
The significance of the development lies in the fact that it has taken almost a decade to come since 2001 when the Government of India had succeeded in botching up the attempt of the Dalit Rights Group together with the broader civil society to make caste based discrimination an aspect of racial discrimination at the Durban World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The Government of India claimed the caste issues as ‘internal matter of India’ and asserted that they were making all attempts to put an end to caste based discrimination.
What it forgot in doing that was its own, and glorious, role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. If caste issues are an internal matter of India, would not apartheid be an internal issue of the governments of apartheid-era South Africa? So why did India play a crucial role in mobilising the world opinion against apartheid?
The government of India tried to further substantiate its claim by asserting the caste issues as intra-racial and intra-cultural even while conceding the existence of discrimination. Soli Sorabjee, the then Attorney General of India, maintained that the only reason behind India’s attempt to keep caste discrimination off the agenda of Durban Conference was that “it will distract participants from the main topic: racism”. Even while conceding that caste discrimination in India is ‘undeniable’ he stressed that ‘caste and race are entirely different’.
It could very well be. After all, no two systems of social stratification in this world are absolutely similar to each other. A lot of factors, from culture to economy, intercede with the systems of stratification to produce the division of power and hierarchy in the society and make the systems, in the process, absolutely distinct from one another in internal structure. The crucial question, however, is not about their distinctiveness but their efficacy in maintaining and safeguarding social hierarchies.
Sadly, Indian caste system has proved itself to be one of the worst, if not the worst, system of social stratification for maintaining and perpetuating social hierarchies. Most probably, humankind has never devised a more comprehensive system of keeping a section of society under perpetual subjugation amidst inhuman conditions. It has never devised a worse way of dehumanising fellow human beings and reducing them to being mere labour force devoid of any dignity leave aside rights. Everything said and done, when it comes to committing atrocities on people, the caste system has proved itself to be far more clinical in brutalising its victims than race and not less.
The argument of the Indian government that caste based discrimination should not be included under the category of racial discrimination because it is making serious progress in the issue by having protective laws and positive discrimination fails miserable in the wake of data produced by its own agencies.
For example, the number of crimes against people belonging to the Scheduled Castes as per records of the National Crime Records Bureau of India, a body of ministry of Home Affairs, went up to 33615, an increase of more than 2 percent from the preceding year. Or the fact that the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act does not get applied even in such ghoulish cases of caste based atrocities as in the killing of a Dalit family in Khairlanji while committing brutal rapes on the women speaks volumes about the seriousness of the efforts of the government
The second argument of Indian government, unfortunately backed by a few leading sociologists, was that since ‘race’ is a not a meaningful biological category in India and all attempts of profiling different castes along racial lines have fallen flat. Their claim is that even if caste is based on descent it is entirely different from race.
Even if the discrimination against the Dalits is intra-racial, the consequences for them are no less brutal than that in racism. On a more fundamental level, the lack of ‘scientific’ evidence may prove the absence of ‘race’ in India but not the absence of ‘racism’, an ideological structure based on the belief of superiority of some people because of birth and inferiority of others because of the same! And there is no doubt that this ideology is becoming stronger day by day despite all the attempts of Indian government to put an end to this ‘evil’ practice.
The seriousness of the government on the issue speaks for itself in its acts. After all, the government’s dogged opposition to the inclusion of caste based discrimination does not come out of some failure to understand the ground realities out of sheer ignorance. It reflects the mindset and the psyche of the government and the people manning it. The stand of the government emanates from that pre-modern, barbaric and regressive social structure of caste that rules the country under its democratic façade. A facade that gets exposed more often than not by the deeds of all organs of the state, including its judiciary.
It is hard to believe that even judiciary can do that but even a cursory glance on its track records bear out the fact. Be it the highly misogynist and casteist verdict in Mathura rape case ((Tukaram V. State of Maharshtra, AIR 1979 SC 185) when the Supreme Court overruled the decision of the Bombay High Court convicting two policemen for raping Mathura, a 16-year-old girl because of the fact that the girl was an ‘illiterate and orphaned tribal girl’ and was of loose character by implication to the recent verdict of Maharashtra High Court in Khairlanji massacre, the judiciary has proved itself complicit in letting the government off its responsibility of abolishing caste based discrimination.
At times, ubfortunately, it has went all the distance to be part of the perpetuators ad not only accomplices of caste discrimination. Like in the infamous and stinking observation of the trial judge in the Bhanwari Devi rape case in 1995 that because Hindu scriptures do not allow upper caste men to touch a low caste woman, the accused could not have raped the Dalit victim. This case and many others have put our constitution to shame.
And that is why, compartmentalising the issue of caste into the ‘scientific’ and ‘cultural’ aspects and then prioritising the scientific ones to assert that caste is not race is not only incorrect but in fact a deceitful attempt to violate the spirit of the constitution of India if not the letters itself, and should be fought against from within and outside.
As a matter of fact, the meaning of the term ‘descent’ has been expanded to include ‘discrimination based on caste’ ,by the general recommendation number 29, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) 1969. Indian government will do well to remember that it is a signatory to that convention along with more than 170 other countries.
It will also do well to take note of the fact that the lives of more than 165 million citizens is not a question of intellectual theorising over whether race is caste or not before putting its act together and cracking down on all forms of caste atrocities decisively. By then, it can begin with accepting that caste is a form of racial discrimination, at least of racism if not of the ‘pure’ (in the Brahiminical sense) biological category of race!
Meanwhile, lets us all support the British Dalits in safeguarding their hard won victory against the demon of caste, threatened by the right wing Hindu organisation in Britain as well as Indian government which is, reportedly, trying to arm-twist the British government into not intervening in its ‘internal’ matter. Making that absurd claim amounts to appropriating anything relating to Hindu religion as ‘internal’ and caste serious aspersions on the secular credentials of Indian state. Does Indian government want to claim that all issues concerning Hindus are its ‘internal’ issues, throwing all its secular pretensions away?
After all, caste based atrocities have long ceased to confine themselves in Indian subcontinent. If the gory facts about honour killings taking place in Britain and Canada among other places were not proof enough, the recent killing of a Sikh religious leader belong to the Ravidasi sect (a Dalit sect) in Vienna leaves no scope for doubts about the same.
We can begin by standing by the policy and reminding the Indian government not to meddle in the internal issues of Britain, as it is dealing with an issue concerning its citizens and has nothing to do with a ‘secular’ India. Further, no government can sit idle when caste issues lead to illegal confinements, abductions, forced marriages, and even killings. It is the Indian state which has failed to contain the demon of caste, leave aside killing it, and it has no right to demand the same indifference and disdain for human life from a sovereign state for such a pressing issue.
The article was first published by the Asian Human Rights Commission and The Sri Lanka Guardian.
Avinash Pandey Samar is Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently in Hong Kong working with the Asian Human Rights Commission.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Gaddar Annan" Jai Bolo Telangana (2011) Podusthunna Poddumeeda GADDAR Song - Jagapathi Babu, N Shankar, CHAKRI
Gaddar Annan: Jai Bolo Telangana
KCR Preparing Action Plan On Gaddar
KCR Preparing Action Plan On Gaddar
Hyderabad, Oct. 11: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has called an urgent meeting of the party’s politburo on October 13 to plan a new strategy to counter the Telangana Praja Front formed by balladeer Gaddar.
Though the TRS is relieved that Gaddar’s outfit is not going to contest elections, the party wants to ensure that there is no exodus from the TRS to the TPF.
KCR, who has refused to comment on the launch of the TPF, discussed the new outfit’s agenda with senior leaders and has decided to take steps to ensure that the TRS does not get eclipsed.
Immediately after launch of Gaddar’s TPF, the TRS chief announced that he would not hesitate to launch another fast-unto-death if the Centre fails to make a favourable announcement on Telangana. He wants the TRS to be the spearhead of the Telangana agitation.
“We have no differences with any party or group on Telangana issue and welcome everyone,” said Mr Etala Rajender, TRS floor leader.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has also planned to speed up the pallebata programme to counter Gaddar.
The TRS chief welcomed Congress and Praja Rajyam activists from Patancheru, Champapet and LB Nagar divisions who joined the TRS.
Meanwhile, some leaders who participated in the delegates’ meeting called by Gaddar were disappointed at his announcement that the TPF will not take part in elections.
Source :- DC
Hyderabad, Oct. 11: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has called an urgent meeting of the party’s politburo on October 13 to plan a new strategy to counter the Telangana Praja Front formed by balladeer Gaddar.
Though the TRS is relieved that Gaddar’s outfit is not going to contest elections, the party wants to ensure that there is no exodus from the TRS to the TPF.
KCR, who has refused to comment on the launch of the TPF, discussed the new outfit’s agenda with senior leaders and has decided to take steps to ensure that the TRS does not get eclipsed.
Immediately after launch of Gaddar’s TPF, the TRS chief announced that he would not hesitate to launch another fast-unto-death if the Centre fails to make a favourable announcement on Telangana. He wants the TRS to be the spearhead of the Telangana agitation.
“We have no differences with any party or group on Telangana issue and welcome everyone,” said Mr Etala Rajender, TRS floor leader.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has also planned to speed up the pallebata programme to counter Gaddar.
The TRS chief welcomed Congress and Praja Rajyam activists from Patancheru, Champapet and LB Nagar divisions who joined the TRS.
Meanwhile, some leaders who participated in the delegates’ meeting called by Gaddar were disappointed at his announcement that the TPF will not take part in elections.
Source :- DC
Friday, January 14, 2011
Da original Six of BP
கருஞ்சிறுத்தைகள் இயக்கத்தின் முன்னோடி நிறுவன உறுப்பினர்கள்...
November 1966, one month after founding. First 6 members - Top Left to Right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Chairman, Bobby Seale. Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton.
November 1966, one month after founding. First 6 members - Top Left to Right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Chairman, Bobby Seale. Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton.
Swami Asimananda
Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine
The Muslim boy Kaleem pierced my conscience. I understood that love between two human beings is more powerful than the hatred between two communities’
The Muslim boy Kaleem pierced my conscience. I understood that love between two human beings is more powerful than the hatred between two communities’
Swami Asimananda did not just confess his terror conspiracy before a magistrate. He wrote to the President of India and the President of Pakistan, admitting his crimes and seeking penance. ASHISH KHETAN scoops the astonishing documents
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ON 16 DECEMBER, when Swami Asimananda first appeared before a Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate at Tis Hazari with a request to record his confession, the magistrate was a bit incredulous. He asked the Swami if the CBIwas threatening or coercing him into giving a confession. The Swami smiled back and replied, “You really think these cops could force me into doing something I don’t want to do? When even Atal and Advani could never dare to put pressure on me, then what chance in the world do these poor fellows have.”
‘Who are Atal and Advani?’ asked the magistrate. For a moment, he was disoriented by the names uttered with such easy, almost scornful, familiarity by this elderly, shabbily dressed man produced before him as a terror suspect.
“The former prime minister and deputy prime minister,” the Swami replied in the same measured tone.
This conversation, which TEHELKA has learned from highly placed sources, provides a rare insight into the man who was once a formidable and doctrinaire ideologue of the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh and inspired both fear and awe even among senior BJP functionaries.
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In 2006, when the Swami organised the Shabri Kumbh Mela at his ashram in Dangs, Gujarat, the who’s who of the BJP and the RSS congregated to mark their presence. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and then RSS chief KS Sudarshan were part of the jamboree.
The Swami had devoted his life to the cause of ‘Hindutva.’ After setting up the Shabri Dham Ashram in 1997, he worked zealously at reconverting tribal Christians into Hinduism. He regularly mobilised violent mobs, attacked Christian missionaries and captured their churches. According to reports, Asimananda had forcibly occupied over two dozen churches in Dangs. At one point he had even refused to listen to the pleas of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had reportedly asked him to refrain from violence and coercion while carrying out the anti-conversion work.
But in a curious twist of fate — and in a development that no investigative agency could ever have anticipated or imagined — this intractable zealot was profoundly transformed by a chance encounter in prison with a courteous young Muslim man, wrongly arrested and tortured for the Mecca Masjid blast — a blast, which in truth, the Swami and his co-conspirators had committed. (See TEHELKA story In the Words of a Zealot, 15 January).
Intensely moved and gripped by a desire for penance, Swami Asimananda apparently requested a confession before a magistrate. “I know I may be served a death sentence for this, but I still want to confess,” he told the magistrate. Published by TEHELKA last week, this confession, which is the first legal evidence to show the involvement of RSS pracharaks in the Malegaon 2006 and Samjhauta Express blasts, has had wideranging political and diplomatic impact. But this was not all.
IN AN astonishing gesture, apart from his confession before the magistrate, Swami Asimananda also wrote to the President of India and the President of Pakistan, admitting to his crimes and detailing the encounter with the Muslim boy that changed his heart. “Abdul Kaleem pierced my conscience,” he wrote. “After all, he had been made to suffer for my wrong work. I understood that love between two human beings is more powerful than the hatred between two communities.”
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In these two letters, written in his own handwriting — copies of which are in exclusive possession of TEHELKA—the Swami then goes on to express a desire to meet Lashkar-e- Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed and Taliban leader Mullah Omar and other jihadi terrorists and urges the two presidents to help him get an “opportunity” to transform the jihadis as he himself has been transformed.
The Swami says he had taken to terrorism in retaliation to Islamist terror attacks on temples, but having realised the futility of mindless violence, he would now like to persuade terrorists like Hafiz Saeed to renounce this path as well. He requests “the good office” of the President of India to help him go to Pakistan to do this.
After TEHELKA published Asimananda’s confession last week, several Hindutva apologists asserted the confession was coerced out of him. His counsel also belatedly asserted — 20 days after the event had taken place — that the confession was false and would be retracted. But the letters to the Presidents of India and Pakistan give the lie to all that. Swami Asimananda wrote them two days after he made the confession under Section 164 of CRPC. He had given these letters on a jail visit to his brother to post. TEHELKA procured them from him. The tone and tenor of these letters exactly match his confession. However, his lawyer did not mention them last week as part of the CBI’s alleged coercion.
These letters present a fresh challenge to those who would deny all that Swami Asimananda has confessed to. TEHELKA wrote to the office of the President of India seeking a confirmation that they had received the letter. At the time of going to press, the President’s office had yet not responded.
Terror, it seems, has finally fallen prey to something mightier than it: the power of human conscience.
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ashish.khetan@tehelka.com
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