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Indian Politics
I have not been commenting on political matters in India, though I happened to live and breathe politics from my childhood, when my father used to express his political faith through revolutionary activities like the members of the Anushilan Samiti (a pro-independence secret society against British) and Bengal Volunteer Force of Netaji Subhas Bose. I had been briefly associated with the Congress. I left it after realising that all “Pank” (mud) do not produce “Pankaj” (lotus). In pre and post independent India most political Pank, with few honourable exceptions, have been producing punks like mafia, gangster, bandits and worst kind of exploiters in the garb of political leaders; the conglomeration of which is described as Political Parties. Parties are said to be ideologically or shareholding differentiated clubs where, privileged people fool rest of the people for all the time, in the name of ideology, commit constitutionally empowered holy criminal tasks for mutual benefit, which are advertised as public service.
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It was a Red Letter Day at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The Annual Convention of the Indian Muslim Council has awarded the Tipu Sultan Genocide Award to their most visible faculty member, Associate Professor Dr. Angana Chatterji. She received the award to the applause of distinguished guests representing the world’s most distinguished genocide specialist organizations. Organizations as diverse and yet as united in their aspirations as the Pakistan embassy, the Pakistan-American Association, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence, the CAIR, the Association for India’s Development that shares membership and website design with the Marxist-Leninist Maoist (a.k.a People’s War Group) of the Communist Parties of India and Nepal, the Khalistanis from Canada, and many others who have won recognition from the US State Department in their annual global foreign Jehaadi honors list. This recognition of Dr. Chatterji’s lifetime devotion to the Cause of Genocide was indeed rare cause for rejoicing at CIIS....
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As is their wont the secular exponents found in the recent Hindu-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka grist to their anti-Hindu mill. The violence in Orissa followed the brutal murder of a revered Hindu pontiff Swami Lakshmananda Saraswathi who happened to be the state vice president of the Viswa Hindu Parishat. He was murdered along with four other inmates of his Ashram including a woman devotee.
The happenings in Mangalore Karnataka were again true to form: a neo-convert pastor in Andhra Pradesh wanted to be lauded for being more loyal than the King. His pamphlet, the product of a prostituted, putrefied and suppurating mind portrayed Hindu gods and goddesses in the most obnoxious manner possible accusing them of incest, debauchery and worse. ...
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The debate on ''art and freedom of expression'' triggered by protests against M. F. Hussein’s paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses, is skewed on three counts. The first is the Indian media's anti-Hindu bias. The second concerns the misconception about erotic sculptures in temple bas-reliefs that they represent Hindu gods and goddesses. The third relates to the questions, "Is artistic freedom absolute?" and "What, when the absolute artistic freedom militates against the freedom of religion of a multitude?" This article deals with the subject citing the rulings of Austrian courts and the European court of human rights....
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It is time to critique the state of the polity in India after 60 years of Swarajyam. The focus is naturally on the Congress Party which has dominated the political scene and has been the prime instrument in creating an environment of criminalized polity in the country....
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What happens when the artistic freedom of an individual (or a famous painter) militates against the collective human rights of a multitude? This article raises certain pertinent 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?...
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‘Is it Indian or Chinese?’ is the question that puzzles the viewer after watching the highly hyped television programme - which we shall see.
In a press conference held in the first week of November last year, Two BJP MPs from Arunachal Pradesh, Tapir Gao and Kiren Rijiju narrated incidents relating to Chinese incursions into their state. In one such incident, in the first week of November, 2007 Chinese soldiers blew up a Buddha statue - well inside Indian territory - which was there as long as anyone could remember and which local inhabitants worshipped.
In NDTV’s February 16 Big Fight, (Should India talk tough on border dispute?), a presumable sequel to the press conference, Kiren Rijiju’s concerns were tossed aside on the floodtide of Singhvi’s eloquence. Prakash Javedkar’s protests were dismissed as a paranoid party’s undue alarmism. Comrade Ren Yan, could go home with the satisfaction that the ruling establishment and popular media in India alike support China’s cause because they had to spite her principal opposition.
Is it ‘The Big Fight’ then Indian or Chinese?
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The prevention of crime and anti-social activities is an important responsibility of the government-one in which all segments of society have a stake. But on that crime fighting ideological front, the Marxist government in Kerala has been notably deficient. (In the view of the Marxists aligned with the Jihadis, peace loving, law abiding Hindus are the real problem of social tension, crime, violence and Jihadi terrorism)....
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Gratuitous depictions of sex and artistic portrayals of lovemaking have existed throughout history. Several traditional artists have used the theme pornography, erotica and nudity with a degree of artistry or good taste . Recently M.F. Husain, the Islamic painter, through his pornographic painting of Hindu Goddesses added the issue of taste, morality, decency, obscenity, religion and artistic freedom for discussion. Sex, nudity and pornography are central to M.F. Husain . Modern marketing system and profit making corporations have promoted M.F. Husain in unexpected ways. The unholy nexus between Islamic nude pointer M.F. Husain and art sale houses has serious implications for Hindus. M.F. Husain deliberately with malicious intention has depicted nude pictures of Hindu Goddesses to arouse the public sexually and sell his erotic painting for profit. M.F. Husain has a subversive aim to use his erotic painting as a weapon to attack Hindu sentiments....
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) recently received favorable coverage in a section of India's English media which hailed it as a liberal Christian organization that opposes war and proselytism. Hans Ucko, a head of the WCC, while apparently denouncing conversions through the use of force or inducements, advocated “the mission of God, to which the church as well as people of other religious traditions may be called to participate.” In other words, he preferred conversions by other means....
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