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The world at the end of the 20th Century has seen two historic events. One was the rise of the freedom struggles that led to the end of the colonial empire; and the other was a terrible human catastrophe, rapes, and genocide of million(s) people - Example: Bangladesh, Kashmir, Rwanda. If the one was achieved through the mobilization of the majority driven towards freedom and democracies, the other was fuelled by pressures to comply with an externally defined agenda - of either Church (or Mullah) or Marxists - for social development.
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Non Resident Indians (NRIs) started digging deep into their pockets to donate to the victims of Tsunami very promptly, quite eagerly hours after the tragedy struck. The advice from Mr James Bishop, director of humanitarian policy and practice at Washington-based InterAction - the largest alliance of US-based international and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), sounded a cautionary note: that humanitarian tragedies have often been exploited by "certain individuals and groups that posed as legitimate charities and engaged in fraud."
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Terrorism has existed for centuries. The world has witnessed colonialism, slavery, crusades, inquisition, holocaust, witch burning, and destruction of ancient cultures by invading Islamic warriors and missionaries, communism, world wars, chemical warfare, guerilla war, and the cold war. Millions of people perished and several ancient civilizations vanished.
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My earliest memory of India was from the mid 1950s. I used to live in Patna the capital of the Eastern Indian State of Bihar. It was and is still one of the poorest parts of India. It was the initial years of our Republic. The Indian market was only partially closed to the foreign companies. Still many ordinary consumer products used to come from England. These included such ordinary consumer items of daily use. ...
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Please see the attached file IRF1-PartI.pdf....
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