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The next day, after its Hindu-nationalist political opponents accused the government of blasphemy, H.R. Bharadwaj, the law minister, said the controversial parts of the affidavit would be withdrawn.
He added that India’s officially secular government would never doubt the existence of Lord Ram.
The culture ministry has since suspended a director and an assistant director at the Archaeological Survey of India, which prepared the affidavit, while it investigates what happened, Soni said.
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Well, here you go. Proof that Indians don’t understand the meaning of the word “secular”.
India, Culture (India), Politics (India) | 15.09.2007 12:21 | No Comments
After I spent eight months or so, I found out that there are basically four types of people in India. Cheaters, liars, thieves and scumbags. The world would be better off without India. George W. Bush was advised to attack India in order to make this world a better place, but he probably couldn’t remember names like Iraq, Iran and India, and I’m guessing that this is why he ordered to attack Iraq; he remembered that the first letter is “I” but couldn’t remember the rest. Too bad. Imagine he had a functioning brain. Imagine he actually ordered to drop a dozen or so nuclear bombs in India. The world would have been a so much better place than before. Very disappointing.
Anyway, since this didn’t happen, I’m thinking about becoming a lobbying now. And, of course, I will lobby Congress to clean up India. I don’t know if Heaven exists on earth or not. I don’t know if God exists or not. But I do know that Hell exists on earth and its name is India. There is no reason not to destroy this Hell …
Politics, India, Politics (India) | 11.08.2007 11:56 | No Comments
I had to make a comment about this.
Over the last two months, CNN-IBN has brought you 60 moments that we believe have defined India in the last 60 years. Now, with your help, we have chosen 10 of those moments and here’s the tenth: the beginning of economic liberalisation.
New Delhi: Once there was the planned economy, there were the five-year plans, government controls and the license permit raj.
But the socialist economy became a predator impoverishing masses of people, preventing the Indian from dreaming of a better life.
Economic reforms began in 1991. Then finance minister Manmohan Singh, slashed at the controls that burdened his countrymen.
Since then taxes have been lowered, public sector monopolies of industries has been broken, there’s been massive deregulation of industry, sectors like civil aviation have been opened to private players.
Import duties have been reduced, restrictions on import of technology have been cut - the result? An economy booming at eight and a half per cent growth.
Skylines are changing fast. There are malls, there are mobile phones, and there are new cars, new gadgets and a new class of newly rich Indians creating a lifestyle unseen in India.
Before the greatest dilemma: are the riches trickling down to the poorest? Some say yes, others say no.
Yet economic reforms have set free the Indian entrepreneur.
The world watched when Mittal acquired Arcelor and Tata acquired Corus. This was a defining moment in Indian history.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070811/211/6jbqq.html
So, what is this article? Is it discussing about anything? No, it doesn’t even explain what the trickle down economy is, never mind discussing about it. This is one of billion articles written by so called journalists in India. Journalism in India is so … pitiful. Articles they write are about nothing; they don’t discuss about anything. They don’t explain anything. They don’t even present accurate data often. Not that Journalisms in many of so called developed countries like US are great, but journalism in India is so pathetic.
India, Business (India), Politics (India) | 11.08.2007 5:46 | No Comments
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.
India was thought to have the world’s biggest HIV-positive caseload with 5.7 million infections but the new estimate puts it below South Africa and Nigeria.
The new figure was calculated with the help of international agencies, including the United Nations and United States Agency for International Development.
“We have about 2.47 million estimated cases which is huge in terms of numbers,” Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told a news conference. “In terms of human lives affected, the number is still large, in fact very large. This is very worrying for us.”
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/070706/137/6hrk9.html
This is not exactly a great news. This only tells us that there were no reliable methods to count HIV positives in India in the past.
India, Politics (India) | 6.07.2007 23:00 | No Comments
At this stage, very few. In fact even among those who are interested, most may not even know who are in the race, when exactly the upcoming election is going to take place, etc. The number is bound to increase in the later stages of the election. Still, it is not going to be even one percent of the population. And most of this one percent will consist of those from four major metros.
This is not very surprising actually. This is not so because of any ill feeling towards the U.S. In fact, it will be same for almost all other countries, may be with sole exception of Pakistan. At present, the process of electing the new president of India is underway. But I am sure that the response of Indian people in this election is not great either. But interestingly, during the last two decades or so, people were much more keen and interested in U.S. presidents than ever before. And I understand that Clinton was the most popular U.S. president ever, when it comes to Indian people.
R.S.
Politics, India, Politics (India) | 26.06.2007 9:23 | No Comments
India prides itself as the biggest democracy in the world. Is it really? Not many of those overseas (i.e., in countries outside of India) are not aware of this, but almost all Prime Ministers since the country’s independence are from one family, the family of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The only Prime Minister who is not from this family is the current Prime Minister, Dr. Sigh. But the reality is that a member of the family, Sonia Gandhi, is much more influential than Prime Minister Sigh; in other words, what India has is not a democracy but monarchy.
Sonia Gandhi. The Italian wife of late Prime Minister of India, Mr. Rajeev Gandhi. She unsuccessfully tried to become prime minister of India, more than a couple of times. At least once in a very open and shameless manner. But she could not. And this failure was advertised by the Congress Party as a very great sacrifice by her. Just think of it. Had she become the prime minister even for one day, wasn’t it like Italy’s turn to rule India?
Just think. She was out to prove that their was not even one capable person out of the huge 150 crore plus population of India. And when she failed in her mission, she made a puppet Prime Minister out of Mr, Manmohan Singh. Everyone knows that she is grooming her son Rahul Gandhi to become Prime Minister one day. This is probably only college of its type in this world, that grooms its students only for one post: the prime ministership. Its founder was the first prime minister of India, Mr. Jawahar lal Nehru. He groomed his daughter India Gandhi. She groomed her son Rajeev Gandhi. Then came an unsuccessful attempt by Sonia Gandhi. And now she is grooming her son Rahul Gandhi. She is giving tuitions to him on this subject. It looks like that only one family in India has got their Trade Mark/ Patent registered to run this business in the name of world’s biggest democracy. Great sacrifices.
R.S.
India, Politics (India) | 22.06.2007 13:06 | No Comments
I understand that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru are highly regarded overseas (i.e., in countries outside of India); in particular, Mahatma Gandhi is almost seen as some kind of saint; he is seen as a faultless individual. However, as I was born and grew up in India and spent a fair amount of time studying their contributions, I feel that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru’s respective roles in the freedom movement had been given much more importance than they actually deserved. They were much overrated as compared to some other leaders who were much more genuine and selfless but were much less tactful. I feel very strongly that their so-called ‘sacrifices’ were more a part of their tactful handling of their political careers. Freedom movement was just a ploy or an ideal opportunity they had to push their political careers and they encased it really well.
R.S.
India, Politics (India) | 22.06.2007 13:05 | No Comments
Who is this lady called Sonia Gandhi? Is she an Indian or an Italian? Maybe she herself doesn’t know. What are her achievements? That she married the son of then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi? Maybe also that she took control of the main political party of India after the death of her husband Rajiv Gandhi in a bomb blast? Maybe also that she lost all her commonsense and tried unsuccessfully to become Prime Minister of India and even claimed that she had the support of the majority which she actually had not. Then she thought what to do? Rahul and Priyanka were too small for primeministership. What to do now? So she found a faithful servant in Manmohan Singh. He agreed to become a dummy Prime Minister and Sonia started grooming her kids for the top job. Good that at least she realized one thing that a Russian can never be the President of say U.S., just by becoming spouse of a U.S. citizen. Some people do marriages with foreign nationals to solve their immigration problems. But can a marriage allow any foreign national to be President of Prime minister just because she or he married a citizen of that country?
R.S.
India, Politics (India) | 22.06.2007 13:01 | No Comments
India is in Stone Age today and they’re still so touchy about two innocent lovers’ getting close in public. But check this out. Two schools actually banned public displays of affection among students. Wow, this country is going back to Ice Age now.
Two schools in Mumbai have banned public displays of affection, warning students they will face disciplinary action if caught holding hands, kissing or touching on campus, school officials said Monday.
The schools justified the move by saying that these acts, which are increasingly being shown by the local entertainment industry and emulated by the students, were contrary to traditional Indian values.
Parents were told that the school has a “zero tolerance toward bullying, vulgarity, vandalism and displays of affection not acceptable to society at large,” said J. Vas, principal of the Jamnabai Narsee school.
“Hormones run riot at 16 to 18 years and we need to take disciplinary measures, set limits and put in certain ground rules,” said Vas.
India is a conservative society where public displays of affection are largely taboo. But in recent years, Indian-language movies have started showing scenes of kissing, partly because of slowly changing values as India opens up to the West.
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Meanwhile, over 53% of children in India face sexual abuse, which is probably the worst in the world. But this is perfectly ok apparently … So, the message is “Children can’t hold hands in public but parents can …”
India, Culture (India), Politics (India) | 18.06.2007 5:37 | No Comments
Just found this article today:
Washington, June 16 (IANS) The US India Political Action Committee (USINPAC), a political awareness group of Indian Americans, Saturday rapped US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign for its ‘anti-Indian American stereotyping’.
In letter to Obama, USINPAC chairman Sanjay Puri stressed on ethics in political campaigning and denounced the politics of stereotyping as exhibited by research notes of the Obama for America campaign, a USINPAC press release said.
‘As representatives of the Indian American community, we have been encouraged by Senator Barack Obama’s message of inclusion and his promise to bring a new kind of politics to the United States.
‘This is why we are so concerned about media reports indicating that his staff may be engaging in the worst kind of anti-Indian American stereotyping,’ Puri wrote in his letter.
Indian Americans have been caught in the campaign crossfire of the two leading Democratic presidential hopefuls - Obama and former first lady Hillary Clinton.
Obama fired the first salvo shortly after Clinton released her financial information under government ethics rules for presidential candidates.
Obama’s team circulated what was purported to be an analysis of ‘Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)’s Personal Financial And Political Ties To India’.
The title had an apparent reference to a joke that Clinton once made during a fund-raiser in a Sikh supporter’s home that she can run for a Senate seat from Punjab and win easily.
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/070616/43/6h28i.html
These people can’t help overreacting, can they? Besides, campaign funding is essentially a bride, nothing else.
Politics, India, Politics (India) | 16.06.2007 8:05 | No Comments