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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-4058288215880470472015-02-24T17:02:00.000+05:302015-02-24T17:02:33.522+05:30Mahatma Gandhiji had supported "Ghar Vapasi" and had told that, "returning back to parent faith is not conversion"!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mahatma Gandhi's view on
religious conversion is documented at this url:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/Gandhiji-on-Religious-Conversion.pdf</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
his letter to Premaben Kantak, 22-4-1932 he wrote </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/Gandhiji-on-Religious-Conversion.pdf</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Regarding conversion, I
don't mean that it is never justified. But no one should invite another person
to change his or her religion. </span><span style="color: red;"><u><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When, however, a person has changed his religion
under compulsion or in ignorance, there should be no objection to such a person
rectifying his error, that is </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">returning to his original religion</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, on the contrary, </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">he should be encouraged to do
that. His action is not conversion</span></b></u></span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gandhiji's
views from Bihar notes (8-10-1925) indicate that:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Christian missionaries
have been doing valuable service for generations, but in my humble opinion,
their work suffers because at the end of it they expect conversion of these
simple people to Christianity ...How very nice it would be if the missionaries
rendered humanitarian service without the ulterior aim of conversion."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gandhiji
wrote a letter to the Christians of Kerala, which was published in Harijan,
30-1- 1937:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Why should a Christian
want to convert a Hindu to Christianity and vice versa? Why should he not be
satisfied if Hindu is a good or godly man? If the morals of a man are a matter
of no concern, the form of worship in a particular manner in a church, a mosque
or a temple is an empty formula, it may even be a hindrance to individual or
social growth and insistence on a particular form or repetition of a credo may
be a potent cause of violent quarrels leading to bloodshed and ending in utter
disbelief in religion, i.e., God Himself."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Young
India: August 8, 1925)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I wander about through the
length and breath of India I see many Christian Indians almost ashamed of their
birth, certainly of their ancestral religion, and of their ancestral dress. The
aping of Europeans by Anglo-Indians is bad enough, but the aping of them by
Indian converts is a violence done to their country and, shall I say, even to
their new religion.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Harijan:
March 13,1937)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My fear is that though
Christian friends nowadays do not say or admit it that Hindu religion is
untrue, they must harbour in their breast that Hinduism is an error and that
Christianity, as they believe it, is the only true religion. So far as one can
understand the present (Christian) effort, it is to uproot Hinduism from her
very foundation and replace it by another faith. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Harijan:
April 3, 1937)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the missionary of
another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no
special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes.
He does however possess material goods, which he promises to those who will
come to his fold</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Harijan:
November 5, 1937)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only the other day a
missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket,
distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took
charge of their temple and demolished it. This is outrageous</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Young
India: April 23, 1931)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hold that proselytizing
under the cloak of humanitarian work is unhealthy to say the least. It is
most resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It
touches the heart. Why should I change my religion because a doctor who
professes Christianity as his religion has cured me of some disease, or why should
the doctor expect such a change whilst I am under his influence?"</span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-29961494122063950352015-02-24T16:52:00.001+05:302015-02-24T16:52:05.977+05:30Mother Theresa, social service and religious conversion!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">India Today, May 31, 1983. Interview of Mother
Teresa </span></u></b><u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(</span></u><i><u><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-is-my-country-and-i-am-an-indian-mother-teresa/1/371645.html</span></u></i><u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Q: <i>As a
Christian missionary, do you adopt a position of neutrality between</i></span><i> Christian
poor and other poor?</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br style="text-align: start;" />
<b><span style="background: white;">A</span></b><span style="background: white;">: </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
am not neutral. I have my faith</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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the Church do any wrong?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No,
as long as it stands on the side of God</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Q: <i>Mother,
if you were born in the Middle Ages, and were asked, at the time</i></span><i> of
Galileo'<span style="text-align: start;">s inquisition, to
take side, which would you have chosen – the</span> Church or modern astronomy?</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">: </span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Smiling)
The Church</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">Gonzalez-Balado, J., “</span></span></u></b></span><b><u><span style="background: white; color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Loving
Jesus Mother Teresa</span></u></b><b><u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">”, London 1991, p. 46. With</span> reference to
the priest involved in liberation theology</u></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
say to all priests: You have not become priests to be social workers.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mother
Teresa, quoted in Walter Wuellenweber, "</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MOTHER TERESA: WHERE ARE HER</span> MILLIONS?</b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><span style="text-align: start;">, Germany'</span><span style="text-align: start;">s
STERN magazine on 10 September 1998</span>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tell them we are not here for work, we are here
for Jesus. We are religious</span> above all else. We are not social workers,
not teachers, not doctors. We are nuns.<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Church's Social Work Is Not Political, John
Paul II Says, Zenit.org,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1352792161" style="text-align: start; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Oct 21</span></span></span><span style="text-align: start;">,</span> 2002</u></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
social work carried out by the Church, especially among the poor, cannot</span>
be reduced to simple material or political work, says John Paul II. When the
Pope met<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1352792160" style="text-align: start; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Saturday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>with
a group of bishops visiting from northeast Brazil, he</span> reminded them that
a bishop's first mission is to proclaim the truth of the Gospel, without
which the work of the Church would be meaningless.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>"<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As vicars and legates of Christ, you are called
above all to offer a clear</span> and vigorous proclamation of the Gospel<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">," the Holy Father said.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span>He urged the Brazilian
prelates not to have "<span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">reservations
about associating</span> the word of Christ to charitable activities by a
misunderstood sense of respect for others' convictions<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span><span style="text-align: start;">"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On
the contrary, "</span><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">the fundamental
mission of the bishop is evangelization, a</span> task that he must carry out
not only individually, but as Church<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,"
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em;">The “Eminent Historian” rued in the </span><a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/ramachandraguha/india-already-the-myth-making-superpower-of-the-world/article1-1307896.aspx" style="color: #1377e2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hindustan Times</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em;">that</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Republic of India is not becoming a scientific power any time soon”</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5em;">. He cites recent utterances at the Indian Science Congress as examples. And also cites the lack of enough institutions to pursue innovation.</span></div>
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On Saturday, there was an op-ed in <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/scientists-without-a-scientific-temper/article6794464.ece" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Hindu </a>- <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Scientists without a scientific temper”</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. The byline read – “India has not produced any Nobel Prize winner in science in the last 85 years — largely because of the lack of a scientific environment in the country”.</i></div>
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My mind immediately drifted to something I learnt in late 2010. The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2010 was awarded to two scientists whose research led to the world’s first “Test-Tube” baby to be born in 1978. The process is called In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and is believed to be one of the biggest success stories of science.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The world’s second test tube baby was born after a mere 67 days, in India! The research was led by Dr Subhas Mukherjee – who</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“along with Sunit Mukherji, a cryobiologist, and Gynecologist Dr Saroj Kanti Bhattacharya, worked on a method of in-vitro fertilisation that was used successfully on patient with damaged fallopian tubes”.</i></div>
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The <a href="http://www.drsubhasmukherjee.com/index.html" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a> of Dr Subhas Mukherjee details how their method “was different” from those who won the Nobel Prize. And the website also painfully details another aspect – the lack of even abject support from the then Government in power. Leave alone support during the research, the then State Government even rubbished the entire research findings (after the baby was born). Dr Mukherjee committed suicide in 1981, apparently unable to take the insults anymore.</div>
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It was only in 2002 that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recognised Dr Mukherjee’s work! Ironically, a film made on Dr Mukherjee’s life received an award, but Dr Mukherjee’s work never got an award in our country! The achievement stands out because, it did not merely follow the research that led to the first baby. This was parallel research and the gap between the two babies is a mere 67 days! I was very much surprised to learn about all this – because I don’t recollect being taught about this. I don’t recollect reading in newspapers or any article by “historians” that took pride in such a stupendous achievement by an Indian scientist as lately as the 1970s!</div>
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Back in 2004, there was this PPT that was being forwarded across Indians living in the US/elsewhere. The PPT spoke about how Indians have excelled in the past, and continue to contribute to the scientific excellence in the world (PPT mentioned the number of Doctors and Engineers working around the globe). One of the first slides quoted someone as saying (not verbatim) – “Sanksrit is the best language that computers understand”. I laughed – I mean, this is Sanskrit and the computer we are talking about. How on earth are they compatible? Why would someone say that? And why are our people randomly forwarding stuff that is potentially not true. Why this false bravado?</div>
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And then very recently, I read this fascinating <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/the-sanskrit-non-controversy-why-it-is-indeed-a-superior-language-1813201.html" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">piece</a> that explained the commonality between the structure of Sanskrit and various programming languages in vogue. Reproducing just a couple of statements here:</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It has an astonishing property known as a “context-free grammar…Context-free means that the language is utterly unambiguous, and every sentence in it can be derived precisely from a set of rules. The computer languages that exist today…can be described precisely in a few hundred rules. This precision allows these languages (and Paninian Sanskrit) to be lexically analysed by a parser, which can then create a semantic tree structure that encodes the underlying ‘meaning’ of the statement (or programme).”</i></div>
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I’d strongly encourage you to spend some quality time in reading the above article to understand about the language structure of Sanskrit more (and to douse the curiosity on why Sanskrit is the best language computers can understand). I was never exposed to this kind of learning during my schooling – all we had to do was mug up “rama, ramao, ramah”; mug up shlokas and their Hindi meanings; dutifully reproduce them in the examination papers and score marks.</div>
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I visited Jantar Mantar in Jaipur in 2012. It blew me away that a few hundred years ago, our kings had a very good grasp of science and have also devised various equipment to study motion of the earth, sun etc. Most of the times Jantar Mantar is in the news because there is dharna in New Delhi near Jantar Mantar. Or worse, take a look at the image below. Photo taken by a friend – “Haryom Payal I love you”.</div>
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It is a pity that we have reduced the Jantar Mantar campus as an assembling point for dharnas, instead of making it a knowledge centre!</div>
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Higgs Boson is the particle that provides mass to other elementary particles, and hence, is also referred to as the God Particle. After an experiment in the CERN research facility in 2012, scientists announced that a particle consistent with the Higgs Boson was observed. Boson is named after Dr Satyendranath Bose – an Indian scientist. Do you want to know what the Indian TV media discussed then? I wrote in detail <a href="http://serious--fun.blogspot.in/2012/07/higgs-boson-and-indian-tv-media.html" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, but the summary is this – they debated the existence of God, the conflict between science and religion etc. Not even a small programme on Dr Bose.</div>
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Or let’s that the example of another forte of our ancient sciences – Civil Engineering! At times, we at least see a cursory mention of Sushruta and his treatise – but we very seldom see a single programme explaining the greatness of our structures. It takes a National Geographic channel to make a couple of programmes, but our discourse never focusses on this brilliant past. Sadly, the only window of our architectural wonder to the outside world is that “<a href="http://serious--fun.blogspot.in/2012/08/i-wonder-why-taj-is-wonder.html" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">monument of love</a>“, which pales in comparison to the myriad forts; to the Ajanta and Ellora Caves; and to the Angkor Wats.</div>
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And now, we come to the Indian Science Congress of 2015 (the main reason why many liberals, historians, academicians are bombarding us with their bhashans!). When I first read what the Science and Technology Minister of India said that Pythagoras theorem was first used in India much before Pythagoras proved it, I laughed. And I wondered why people keep making these claims and give wrong headlines to the media. The likes of NDTV dutifully started their reporting too – and the usual bashing of the RSS, BJP, Sangh Parivar begun in earnest.</div>
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Until support came from unexpected quarters – Shashi Tharoor! He plugged his 2003 article in<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2003/06/08/stories/2003060800310300.htm" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Hindu</a> in which he cites a reference of a fascinating book written by an American writer Dick Teresi! It took research by an American writer to tell us the depth and vastness of Ancient India’s grip on science and mathematics hundreds of years before the Newtons, Eulers, and lo behold – the Pythagoras’s!</div>
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It still sounded a bit far fetched – but this set of tweets from one Vinay sealed it for me (and hopefully many others). <a href="https://storify.com/suar4sure/conversation-with-ainvvy" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A full read of this link</a> is strongly recommended, for it delves into nice details – I am merely stating a pithy summary:</div>
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When confronted with this, the liberals, academicians etc started to change track – now, it was no more about the Pythagoras theorem being in use hundreds of years before in India. <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/551647678283939840" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">It was now about this</a>:</div>
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It wasn’t anymore about the actual mathematical studies that happened in ancient India – now that people became aware about books that spoke in detail about the same – the debate sought be moved around “sure, we were great, but so were everyone else”.</div>
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Speaking of the Pythagoras theorem – <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/special/did-india-discover-pythogoras-theorem-a-top-mathematician-answers/20150109.htm" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Fields Medal winner Manjul Bhargava explains to us</a> how this theorem was in vogue in various civilizations right from 2500 B.C.! Maths enthusiasts would love to read this piece.</div>
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The article in The Hindu plugged at the beginning had another byline – <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The absurd claims at the ISC were an insult to the several real scientific accomplishments of ancient India”</i>. I read the article with the hope that the author will illustrate some “real scientific accomplishments”. There were zero references to it.</div>
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The eminent historian in his piece says this,<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “Our ancestors had elaborated sophisticated methods of analysis”</i> and proceeds to give zero examples of the “sophisticated analysis”. <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/sunday-anchor/sunday-anchor-an-uncertain-glory/article6775676.ece" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Or this article</a> that ends by saying the claim of Pythogaras theorem is absurd! The irony is that this entire ilk had the past 10 years to enlighten us on these achievements, considering the fact that they flocked the educational scene of the country. But alas!</div>
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Thanks to social media and some very committed bloggers/authors like <a href="http://www.opindia.com/2015/01/the-history-of-indian-knowledge-that-some-people-deliberately-try-to-hide-and-neglect/" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/history-of-numbers-in-india-1/" style="color: #1377e2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>, I was further enlightened to the ancient texts and specifics of ancient Indian sciences and mathematics (fibonacci series, cataract, plastic surgery, number theory, calculus etc – all of them were prevalent hundreds of years before “proofs” came into vogue!). Before this, all I knew was we invented zero and Sushruta wrote a book on surgery! Never ever was I exposed to this kind of specifics!</div>
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Or take the classic example of the mathematical genius Ramanujam – we are told he failed some subjects in school, but are seldom taught about his actual work! What explains this blatant ignorance? Again, thanks to twitter, I keep getting to know specifics of his astonishing work, but what about those who don’t have access to twitter? In many articles, Dr Jagadish Chandra Bose is parallely credited along with Marconi for inventing the radio – but we are never taught in detail about the genius of Dr Bose.</div>
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Liberals were dissing that a paper was presented in the Indian Science Congress 2015, which claimed that an Indian flew an aircraft 6-7 years earlier than the Wright brothers did. Social media told me that an experiment did indeed happen in 1895 in which an attempt was made to fly an aircraft – whether it was successful or not is still under dispute. But here’s my point – I didn’t know that we even made an attempt!</div>
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Leave scientific achievements in the distant past – <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“our discourse does not even discuss the pride of our achievements in the recent past”</i>! So, does this all mean that we bask in our past glory, only fight it out on what we invented/discovered/pioneered, and not care about what the future is? Absolutely not! However, it is very important for us to learn the specifics of our past scientific achievements – it is important to get inspired that we have done this before and we can do this again. For example, the “eminent historian” refuses to see the impact Indian engineers have made to the world of IT. Sure, we did not do pioneering research but science is such a vast ocean – our contributions to the development of technology are phenomenal and something to be proud of; not something to be ashamed of! The pride in our past has to be the inspiration to our present and future. If someone is arguing that we merely bask in the past, he/she fails to lay the foundation for a bright future!</div>
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It is of course true that our education system needs to challenge the intellect of the students. There was an uproar a couple of years back when a question appeared in the physics paper of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. The students, parents, teachers, colleges etc claimed the question was “out of syllabus”. The board claimed that the question was “in syllabus” but out of the generally used text book! The administration had to bow down to protests by the parents and award grace marks to all students. The 600 odd students (out of the 1.5 lakh who wrote the paper) must have been devastated – but come to think about it, this simple reform will be a far fetched one! Just one question from the syllabus but outside of the text book – and look at how the analytical abilities of our students change when they enter engineering courses.</div>
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There are many other such simple steps that can be taken to enable better innovation; better analysis; better research capabilities. The Prime Minister himself has indicated this at the Science Congress – even giving suggestions that CSR funding may be diverted to science research in schools. This constant dissing of our past and present serves no purpose. Debating it “science” and “history” only when the BJP is in power at the centre serves no purpose either! We need continuous and constructive suggestion and articles – not rhetoric and lofty language! Or not when only Modi or his Ministers say something!</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-83519445396834260912015-01-08T10:22:00.002+05:302015-01-08T10:25:05.523+05:30"The Real Hero, Bharat Ratna" - He has walked 10,000 KMs from "Gram Vikas"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This person is on a mission. He wants to visit all the villages of India and he started on foot.<br />
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He has till now coverted 10,000 KMs and still going.</div>
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He is not giving any sound bytes to media. He doesn't have any hidden agenda or selfish motives.</div>
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He is not walking to ask for votes or alms.</div>
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He is walking for the cause of "Gram Vikas".<br />
He should be given "<b><span style="color: blue;">Bharat Ratna</span></b>", indeed he is the real "Bharat Ratna"!!</div>
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And our media just neglects these kind of "Real Heroes"!!</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Date posted: <b style="zoom: 1;">January 7, 2015</b> | Short URL: <a href="http://samvada.org/?p=24416" style="border: 0px; color: #52c0d4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">http://samvada.org/?p=24416</a> | Share: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://samvada.org/2015/news/bharat-parikrama-yatra-enters-bihar-sitarama-kedilaya-keen-on-gram-vikas-campaign-on-day-882/" id="ssba_facebook_share" style="border: 0px; color: #52c0d4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" class="ssba" src="http://samvada.org/wp-content/themes/samvada2014/images/facebook.png" style="border: 0px none; zoom: 1;" title="Facebook" /></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http://samvada.org/2015/news/bharat-parikrama-yatra-enters-bihar-sitarama-kedilaya-keen-on-gram-vikas-campaign-on-day-882/&text=Bharat+Parikrama+Yatra+enters+Bihar%3B+Sitarama+Kedilaya+keen+on+Gram+Vikas+Campaign+on+Day+882" id="ssba_twitter_share" style="border: 0px; color: #52c0d4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" class="ssba" src="http://samvada.org/wp-content/themes/samvada2014/images/twitter.png" style="border: 0px none; zoom: 1;" title="Twitter" /></a></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Gopalanj, Bihar January 07:</strong> RSS Former functionary Sitarama Kedilaya lead <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Bharat Parikrama Yatra</strong> has entered Bihar, making the 13th state to reach during his mega walkahon. Aiming Grama Vikas or Upliftment of Rural Indian life, Sitarama Kedilaya lead Bharat Parikrama Yatra has counted its 882th day today.</div>
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The Bharat Parikrama Yatra had entered Bihar on December 31, 2014 through Gopal Ganj district which is mostly a plain and fertile land. In the district’s western part, the Gandaki river flows southwards, Gopalganj is in the northwest of Bihar state and is adjacent to Uttar Pradesh.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Bharat Parikrama Yatra had entered Uttara Pradesh on August 02, 2014 visited several places of historical significance including Ayodhya, Chitrakoot, Prayag, Kashi and other places. Yatra had spend nearly 150 days. When he was near Goraksha Pranth, Kedilaya visited Nepal for 2-days. On December 26, on its 870th day, Bharata Parikrama Yatra reached Kushinagar, the place of Mahanirvaan of Goutham Buddha, in Kushinagar district. </span></strong></span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-39153121102138643922015-01-08T09:50:00.001+05:302015-01-08T09:50:36.190+05:30Sister from Kerala Jesme Exposes Catholic Church's Double-Standards on "Ghar Wapasi" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A senior Kerala Catholic priest has dubbed the organisers of <em>ghar vapsi</em> (reconversion) programmes as "fundamentalists" and questioned what he described as "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence" on the issue, reports our special correspondent from Thiruvananthapuram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil, a former President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, sought to draw parallels between the <em>ghar vapsi</em> events and Islamic State atrocities in Iraq and Syria, saying such fundamentalists in both instances were trying to uphold the "outdated idea'" that the "religion of the ruler dictated the religion of the ruled".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">" <em>Cuius regio, eius religio </em>(Latin maxim which means the religion of the ruler dictated the religion of the ruled) is an outdated idea. But that is what fundamentalists here as well as the ISIS are trying to uphold," Powathil wrote in <em>Laity Voice</em>, a Catholic journal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Powathil's comments, however, came in for criticism from a former nun, Jesme, who said the priest had "no moral authority to question the reconversion". "For hundreds of years, the Church has converted using inducements and force. Then how can they now oppose reconversion," Jesme, who was a member of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, a congregation of nuns till she hung up her robes in 2008 following differences with the clergy<strong>, </strong>said <strong>.</strong></span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-12103400835050490732014-12-15T16:19:00.002+05:302014-12-15T16:19:25.316+05:30RSS caught red handed doing anti-national activities!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-37380416543290990812014-11-05T23:11:00.000+05:302014-11-05T23:11:20.030+05:30Flush Out Pessimism.. India is changing for good!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Source: http://kiranasis.blogspot.in/2014/10/flush-out-pessimism-india-is-changing.html<br />
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I still see a lot of pessimism about the new projects of Government of India.<br />I want to write in more detail here.<br /><br />Wake up Indians and NRIs.. Lots of self made leaders have come up. Nirmala Sitharaman arm twisted even the powerful American lobby at WTO meet by demanding that trade facilitation has to be simultaneous with other demands of India. Even Sonia Gandhi's trusted big name Anand Sharma had compromised last time, which this first time minister has set right. Uma Bharti is on the ground trying to clean up Ganga which is a project as tough as climbing Mount Everest on one leg. The Jan Dhan Yojna is pushed by younger team so successfully, that over 7 crore new bank accounts are opened in India in just 2 months. This speed of financial inclusiveness has never happened in India's history! C'mon.. we are talking about 7,00,00,000+ bank accounts in 8 weeks, with automatic life insurance coverage and debit card, in a country where it takes 3 visits for even KYC document for existing bank account in a city bank!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />India's inflation is at 5 year low. Mumbai saw a more than 3 Rupees Diesel price cut for the first time in a long time (last time was 2 rupees cut in 2009 Jan!). Indian markets are euphoric and performing better than most world markets. Naxals are surrendering in record numbers. I read recently that there has been a 20 fold increase in maoist terrorists leaving the path of terrorism in the heart of India, and joining mainstream. I saw pictures of CRPF jawans actually carrying surrendered naxals over their shoulders, giving them a mainstream society welcome. The Nehruvian central planning commission which was the white elephant slowing Indian economy is being dismantled. IMF just issued a statement that India will be a $2 Trillion economy this year itself! And might overtake Italy, Brazil and Russian GDPs before Modi's first term ends..<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Never before a 1 lakh crore fund for entrepreneurs was setup by the government. I attended a seminar on how young Indians can get into manufacturing entrepreneurship. I was shocked at the energy level.. They are talking about so many start up ideas, while 3 years back 60% was just about IT industry start ups. Smart City is another topic that every MP and MLA is trying to encash on for his or her popularity.<br /><br />In 1999 when the cyclone hit Odisha, 10,000 Indians died within 48 hours. The land fall speed of that cyclone was nearly 250KM ph.<br />Just last week, Hudhud cyclone hit not far from there, at Visakhapatnam, AP. The preparation and coordination of both AP state govt and central govt was so good, that in spite of 175+ KM land fall of the cyclone, only 24 people died within the first 48 hours. Yes 24 is also bad, but look at the progress ISRO, meteorological scientists and overall disaster relief of India has come through in the past 15 years. From 10,000 deaths to 0.24% of that 15 years later, is no mean achievement. I don't care if NDA1, UPA1, UPA2 or NDA2 takes credit. But all I say is that, there is no need to feel pessimistic about India any more.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />In 2003, when Vajpayee announced Chandrayaan and pushed the scientists, it was of tall order. Not only India has exceeded Chandrayaan expectation since then, it also created all sorts of records in Mangalyaan cost. You would have heard about the euphoria at Madison Square Garden on this.. The heart burn was so big that NY Times even resorted to a racist cartoon which it had to later pull out with apology. In European papers, jasmine flower clad Indian women in saree were prominently displayed as the new face of space scientists! This particular Modi style "dono mutthi band karke" pose was in dozens of country's news papers, bringing India a new recognition.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />And regarding working hours - talk to anyone visiting government offices in Dilli. Officers are there on time. Even ministers are considering it as a punishment to work under Modi now as they have to be in office till late night. All the 4 PM booking for happy hours at trendy establishments are slowing from babus. And every project, and every detail is instantly put online so transparency is at it's best level that I have seen.<br /><br />Regarding the pet project of Modi, the Swacch Bharat (Clean India), I am getting 3 to 5 Swacch Bharat pictures from youngsters across India who have taken it as a challenge to clean up India. I have seen 100s of people who come from a foreign visit to India, and they start about bad mouthing the Indian "filth". Modi is the first man I have seen, who actually came back from a foreign trip, and the very next morning, had a broom in his hand cleaning up a police station's compound!!<br /><br />I was so happy to see 16 and 17 year old students from a Bengaluru PU college, cleaning up a 500 year old temple pond in straight 7 hours, with no specialized tools or help. Modi's mantra of swacch Bharat has caught the imagination of India and things are going really well.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />India is changing from bottom up as well as top down. And it's being led in most cases by young India - those in 15 to 35 age group. Their energy is mind blowing!<br /><br />I heard in a recent seminar a very cautious words: India's greatest asset between 2015 and 2050 is its demographic dividend. If this is not managed well, or if anarchists and anti-India violent guys are allowed to brain wash them, it will turn into a demographic disaster. The choice is yours. Particularly the well informed, globe-trotting, rich Indians should be in the fore front of guiding young India to realize it's potential and reclaim the 25% share of world GDP that India had for 1700 out of the past 2000 years.<br /><br />Flush out pessimism, irrespective of your political ideology. We are at the beginning of a very long and steep climb into prominence!<br /><br /><i>Picture credit: Hindu, NIE and Social media</i></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-61884377252221144902014-09-11T12:05:00.000+05:302014-09-11T12:05:37.984+05:30An appeal from RSS to donate to J&K Flood Victims Relief Fund<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The ravaging floods that started on September 4, 2014 due to incessant rains has shaken the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Jhelum, Tapi and several other rivers are in spate. Thousands of villages in the districts of Rajouri, Pooch, Phulwama, Baramullah and others have been inundated. Roads, schools, Hospitals, shops and temples have been submerged. Agricultural lands and cattle have been washed away. More than 200 people have died in this calamity. Thousands have been rendered homeless and are seeking refuge due to this unfortunate catastrophe.</div>
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There has been a huge loss to public and private property. Swayamsevaks of RSS are already lending a helping hand in the relief measures. ‘Seva Bharati’ has started relief camps at several places and is cooperating with the government and army to provide succor to thousands of aggrieved souls. Our brethren of Jammu & Kashmir who were already reeling under the onslaught of the separatists and the terrorists, are now facing insurmountable odds due to this natural calamity. They require humanitarian relief and aid. Everyone in the society have to cooperate and contribute to rebuild their lives. We humbly request you to join hands with us and donate generously to mitigate this unforeseen disaster that has struck the people of Jammu & Kashmir.</div>
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We request you to draw Cheque/Demand Draft’s in the name of ‘RSS Sanchalita Santrasta Parihara Nidhi’ and send them to one of the following addresses:</div>
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In anticipation of your generous contributions…</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-36005575960380697742014-08-12T10:53:00.000+05:302014-08-12T11:03:58.900+05:30Rabindranath Tagore's views on being a "Christian Hindu"!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Goa’s Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza was not prepared to say sorry for describing himself as a "Christian Hindu". According to a report in the Free Press Journal of July 29, 2014 he is reported to have said: "India is a Hindu country. India is Hindustan. All Indians in Hindustan are Hindus including me...I am a Christian Hindu...Hindu is my culture. Christianity is my religion. When I say Hindu, it means culture and not religion...”</div>
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Francis D’souza will be glad to know he is in good company, in fact distinguished company! When I read this, I was reminded of an article reprinted in Freedom First which was first published in its sister publication Quest in 1961 on the occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. In his article Atma Parichaya - (Introducing Oneself) – (written in Bengali and translated by Buddhadeva Basu) Tagore said something similar to what the Goa’s deputy CM is quoted as having said and for which he refused to say ’Sorry’ and thereby has incurred the wrath of a padre.</div>
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Gurudev Tagore said inter alia "...I was born into the Hindu society and have accepted the Brahmo sect; if I wish I can go over to another sect, but to another society I cannot belong... With the history of no other society would I have this sense of identification? We can transfer a fruit from one basket to another, but on a different branch we cannot grow.</div>
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"Do I than claim that I remain a Hindu even if I become a Christian? Certainly I do, and to me this is quite beyond dispute. No matter what the orthodox Hindus may say about it, Kali Charan Banerjee was a Hindu Christian, and so was Jnanendra Mohan Tagore before him and Krishna Mohan Banerjee as well. These men were Hindu by nation and Christian in faith. Christianity was their complexion, but in substance they were nothing but Hindus. There are thousands of Bengali Muslims whom Hindus perpetually label as non-Hindus, and yet the truth about them is that they are Hindu Muslims. It isn’t difficult to conceive of a Hindu family where, lovingly cherished by the same parents, live three brothers, of whom one is a Christian, another, a Muslim and the third a Vaishnava. Rather is this family which would represent what is true and beautiful in the Hindu idea....</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-68234503631809718922014-08-08T09:43:00.001+05:302014-08-08T09:43:22.887+05:30The 5:2 way of eating<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: x-small;">This article was posted in http://blogs.mentor.com/ by <a href="http://blogs.mentor.com/colinwalls/blog/author/colinw/" target="_blank">Colin Walls</a>.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not do diets in the sense of weight loss programs. We all have a “diet” – the combination of foods that we eat – and I have always advocated as much variation as possible. Although I do eat things that are less good for me, I am conscious of what constitutes a healthy diet. I like to avoid food with additives, which can be challenging, as I wrote about a while <a href="http://blogs.mentor.com/colinwalls/blog/2012/04/05/poison-yogurt/" style="color: #3769ac; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">back.</a> When I was younger, I might have been described as “skinny”, but time has taken its toll and, although I am far from being fat, I could do with rearranging my weight a little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently encountered the 5:2 diet …<span id="more-7018" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 5:2 diet – or Way of Eating [WOE is the amusing acronym] as its advocates prefer – is not simply a way to lose weight. It is a change in the approach and attitude to food and eating, which has a variety of benefits, where weight loss is just one possibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The approach to food – in the Western world at least – has changed drastically in recent years. We moved from a 3 meals a day regime to one where, although that structure might still be considered “normal”, the meals are supplemented by continuous snacking in the course of the day. Many people get as much as half their daily intake of calories from food intake that would not be considered a meal. The result is that the average calorie intake across the population is rising, with the obvious results. Although the idea of 3 square meals and nothing in between may seem traditional, it is really a new idea; humans have only been eating this way for a few hundred – perhaps a couple of thousand – years, since agriculture first started to be practiced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our bodies have not had time to evolve to accommodate this change. Evolution is a very slow process. Our species spent millions of years evolving to accommodate a very different approach to food. Early man was a hunter/gatherer. The result was food alternated between being plentiful [when a woolly mammoth had just been hunted] for short periods, interspersed with longer periods of being in short supply. This is commonly called “feast and famine”. It is not surprising that much research shows that our bodies are good at accommodating periods of very low food intake [fasts]. In fact, instead of just being tolerated, such fasting can even be shown to be directly beneficial. It is almost like exercising your digestive system [and all the other systems that lead on from it] is like exercising your muscles; the more you do it, the stronger you get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people, and even religious groups, regard fasting as a good idea or a requirement. Unfortunately, such practices are often extreme. Most of us are not keen on the idea of eating nothing for a day/week/month. Even the idea of consuming nothing in the hours of daylight is very hard to follow. So, how can one get the benefits of fasting without such suffering? The answer is intermittent fasting, which where 5:2 comes in.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am experimenting with the 5:2 WOE because it makes a lot of sense to me and the science behind it sounds reasonable. As I said before, I do not really want/need to lose much weight. However, I would like to reduce my waist size a little, as this is the parameter which seems to be related to a number of health conditions [type 2 diabetes being a good example]. The idea is that, for 5 days a week, you eat whatever you want. For the other days, you can still have any kind of food that you want, but your total calorie intake should not exceed 600/500 calories [for men/women respectively]. Also it is recommended that you go for a 16 hour period without any significant calorie intake; this is not so hard, as a lot of that time you will be asleep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people who adopt 5:2 report weight loss after a few weeks. They also report feeling better overall. It is common to have a target weight and, when one has reached that, it can normally be sustained by only fasting on one day each week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, how does this really work? As far as I can tell, the weight loss that many people experience cannot be fully explained by the reduced calories for two days. I have already observed in myself a greater awareness of what I eat on the other days. I do not feel restricted on those days, but I can imagine that the enhanced awareness might cause me to avoid certain things. Although I have not yet experienced it, many followers of 5:2 report that their appetite for large portions is cut back, while their enjoyment of food is undiminished. I think that this must be the real factor in weight control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do find the fast days challenging, but not <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that</em> hard – there is always the knowledge that the next day is “normal”. And I enjoy the normality of the other days. Yes, this cookie is 300 calories. And?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am doing 5:2 for a month [August] to see how I feel. I already know that I can manage the low calorie intake without fainting or anything. I do not even find myself exceptionally hungry the following day. At the end of the month, I will review and tentatively plan to go on for the rest of the year. If I do lose weight, I may move to one fast day per week, but that will require at least 3Kg to go. I will also take breaks for vacation etc., but give it my best shot overall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There! I wrote it down, so now I am committed. I will report back.</span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-34994538744497366152014-06-26T09:22:00.002+05:302014-06-26T09:22:27.409+05:30RSS Swayamsevaks helps in rescue of passengers at Railway accident near Chapra in Bihar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">Source: http://samvada.org/2014/news/rss-swayamsevaks-helped-rescue-of-passengers-at-railway-accident-near-chapra-in-bihar/</span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">CHAPRA/PATNA June 25 :</strong> At least four passengers were killed and 23 others injured, 13 of them seriously, when 12 coaches of the Dibrugarh-bound Rajdhani Express derailed near Chapra in Bihar’s Saran district on Wednesday, with Union home minister Rajnath Singh saying it was too early to blame the Maoists for the incident.</span><br style="color: #3f3f3f; zoom: 1;" /><br style="color: #3f3f3f; zoom: 1;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">18 wagons of a goods train also derailed due to a blast in east Champaran district with the SP Vinay Kumar not ruling out the involvement of Maoists. </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Chief public relations officer of East Central Railway (ECR) Arvind Kumar Rajak said while three passengers were killed in the Rajdhani derailment, another succumbed to injuries in a hospital,</span><br style="color: #3f3f3f; zoom: 1;" /><br style="color: #3f3f3f; zoom: 1;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Seven coaches-B-5 to B-10 and the power car of the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani derailed at the Golden Ganj station, about 75km from Patna, while five coaches, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4 and the pantry car overturned at around 2:11am. </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Rajak said some of the coaches were hurled as far as 700 feet away from the track. (Inputs from TOI)</span></div>
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RSS Swayamsevaks from the local area rushed to the venue of the railway accident, helped in the rescue operation, helped the passengers who were in a real need of help.</div>
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RSS Swayamsevaks help passengers at Chapra Railway Accident venue. (Photo sent by a swayamsevak to VSK , resolution is less)</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">1. Lord Mountbatten swearing-in Jawahar Lal Nehru as Prime Minster in 1947</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2. Dr Rajendra Prasad swearing-in Jawahar Lal Nehru as Prime Minister after first election on January 26, 1950</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Dr Rajendra Prasad swearing-in Jawahar Lal Nehru as PM on April 10, 1962</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. Dr S.Radhakrishnan swearing in Lalbahadur Shastry as 3rd Prime Minister on June 9th 1964.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9. Giani Zail Singh swearing-in Rajiv Gandhi as 7th Prime Minister on October 31, 1984.</span></h3>
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<b>13. Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma swearing-in Atal Bihari Vajapayee as 11th Prime Minister on May 16, 1996.</b></div>
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<b> 14. <span style="text-align: center;">Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma swearing-in H.D.Deve Gowda as 12th Prime Minister on June 1, 1996.</span></b></div>
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<b> 15. <span style="text-align: center;">Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma swearing-in I.K.Gujral as 13th Prime Minister on April 21, 1997.</span></b></div>
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<b>16. K.R.Narayanan swearing in Atal Bihari Vajapayee as Prime Minister on March 19, 1998.</b></div>
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<b> 17. Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam swearing-in Manmohan Singh as 14th Prime Minister on May 22, 2004.</b></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-10087990879151271072014-04-29T12:20:00.002+05:302014-04-29T12:20:49.300+05:30This visionary should be the CM of every Indian state for next 10 years!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: http://www.narendramodi.in/varanasi-a-glorious-past-an-even-glorious-future-for-the-ancient-city-that-is-indias-pride/</span></div>
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Dear Friends,</div>
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Today I embark on a unique and memorable journey from the land of Somnath to the city of Lord Vishwanath. <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Later today I will be filing my nomination papers from Varanasi as the BJP candidate. I would like to thank the leadership of the Party for giving me this opportunity to contest elections from this city that has such a rich history and culture. I bow to the Party Karyakartas who have been working tirelessly on the ground from the time my nomination was announced and the Karyakartas and well-wishers from all over India who have supported me in the last few months.</b></div>
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It was said about Varanasi:</div>
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<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.”(Mark Twain)</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i></div>
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Varanasi is the cradle of India’s glorious culture, a confluence of tradition, history, culture and harmony. This is the blessed land of the Sankat Mochan temple<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. The spiritual power of this land is exceptional. It drew people from all over the world, who came to this land in search of peace and Moksha.</b> It was in Sarnath, that Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon after attaining Enlightenment. Varanasi is the birthplace of the venerable Sant Ravidas. It was in Benaras that Mahatma Kabir was born, lived and shared his wisdom. Mirza Ghalib described Benaras as ‘Kaba-E-Hindustan’ and ‘Chirag-E-Dair’ or the light of the world. When Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya had to select a place to set up a centre of learning, it was not a surprise that he chose Benaras. No mention of Varanasi is complete without remembering Ustad Bismillah Khan, arguably the greatest symbol of Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb. Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahab’s love for Varanasi is legendary. I was very happy when Ustad Bismillah Khan was conferred the Bharat Ratna by Atal ji in 2001.</div>
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Truly, there is something special about Varanasi and its people. <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">इस</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">देवभूमि</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">का</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">हर</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">निवासी</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">अपने</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">अन्दर</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">कहीं</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">न</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">कहीं</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">देवत्व</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">लिए</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">हुए</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">है</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</i></div>
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With the blessings of Lord Vishwanath and inspired by the legacy of a glorious past, we set out to create a magnificent future for Varanasi.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We envision Varanasi as a World Heritage Site that is able to draw both devotees and those who wish to understand and absorb India’s culture</b>. This means creating state-of-the-art tourist and infrastructure facilities for Varanasi. And it is my firm belief that once we are able to give the required impetus to tourism, it will not only bring more tourists but also enhance the livelihood of the poorest of the poor. More tourists means more income for those associated with temples, those who are living on the Ghats, those who ride the ferries on the Ganga…the entire town and surrounding areas will receive a much needed facelift.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ganga is the lifeline of Varanasi and is at the core of our identity- She is our Mother. Unfortunately, governments have not been able to devote the attention that should have been given to Ganga.</b> The condition of the Ganga in several parts of UP is pitiable. We can’t let this go on anymore! Need of the hour is to work towards cleaning the Ganga and restoring it to its previous glory. In 1986 the Government of the day brought the Ganga Action Plan but it merely remained a plan, the action was missing. Budgets were allocated but the money was never used for the intended purpose. <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The condition of the Varuna too is similar. Now is the time for urgent action to solve this anomaly!</b></div>
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And when I talk about my commitment to clean the Ganga, it is not a mere promise.<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When I took over as CM in 2001 the condition of Sabarmati was similar. It was better known for hosting circuses and children playing cricket. Switch to 2014 and things are very different! We have brought water from the Narmada and now water flows through the Sabarmati.</b> A world class Sabarmati River Front was created, which has emerged as a popular recreation and cultural spot in Ahmedabad. With the blessings of Baba Bholenath, this is what we intend to replicate in Varanasi.</div>
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It is not only the Ganga that has become the victim of sheer negligence. We are firm in our commitment to address the issues of cleanliness in Varanasi so that we can give the citizens of Varanasi a clean and green city. We will focus on solid waste management right from collecting the waste to treating it. Similarly, the poor waste disposal practices over the years have not served the people of Varanasi well. We will leave no stone unturned to ensure that such occurrences are history within a very short period of time. Within a fixed timeframe, the problems of solid waste management, sewer and chemical waste will be successfully mitigated.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The weavers of Varanasi are an integral part of the city’s history, present and future. Unfortunately, due to apathy of the governments in Delhi and Lucknow their work has suffered. It is my firm resolve to infuse this sector with latest technology and qualitative value addition so that the weavers of Varanasi become our pride at the world level. From ensuring that they get quality raw material to better marketing of their products, it is my resolve to ensure that they stand on their own feet with pride and their future generations have a bright future.</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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A few days ago something very disturbing came to my light. In a village near Varanasi a high voltage line fell due to which a few people including women were injured. I was surprised and saddened to know that the injured did not receive timely medical help and the authorities showed no concern. This is a symptom of a larger decay across UP and this is the decay that we want to end.</div>
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Friends, today as I go to Varanasi, I seek your support and blessings. Bless me so that I can restore this glorious city to its prime and so that I can bring a sea of change in the lives of people of Varanasi and Poorvanchal so that this region once again becomes the focal point of our nation’s development and our proud culture.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">..... </span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">amazing <br clear="none" />landscape of the city, was inaugurated on Feb 14. The bus terminal project, with an initial estimated cost of around Rs 110 crore, is a joint venture between </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">"Keeping in view the history of Vadodara, the photographs/paintings of historical monuments of the city have been put up in the terminal spread across 20,300 sq metres area </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The bus terminal also has an electronic scroller for time table information, round-the-clock security with walky-talky, CCTV monitoring and a sky-walk (connecting the terminal with Vadodara railway station).</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It also has a seven screen multiplex, food courts, modern budget hotel and a 24-hour cafeteria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It will also feature affordable dormitory and an AC deluxe waiting room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The signboards display approach route to different areas within bus terminal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The terminal offers wheel-chairs and separate toilets for physically handicapped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The terminal will also provide sufficient parking for </span><span style="font-size: 21px;">auto rickshaws</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> within bus terminal.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">It has a parking facility for four-</span><span style="font-size: 21px;">wheeler</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The bus terminal has separate tracks for buses, private vehicles and pedestrians to ensure safety.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Making travel a hassle-free experience, the terminal offers modern dormitories for men and women.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The bus station also offers a luggage scanning system and security guards to ensure highest purity with minimum wastage.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif;">It has also adopted alternative energy methods and has facilities for water harvesting.</span></span><br />
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-31463329182240131562014-04-16T09:47:00.002+05:302014-04-16T09:47:35.079+05:30India must know the real Modi!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">India must know the real Modi</span></b> - by Ram Jethmalani<br />
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Congress cannot stomach that Modi has kept Gujarat riot free for the past 12 years.</div>
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arendra Modi's opponents, in cahoots with a partisan media, during the last decade have achieved great success in distorting the persona of the real Modi before Indians. This trend seems to be finally reversing.</div>
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This week, I had the privilege of releasing Madhu Kishwar's book, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Modi, Muslims and Media</em>. Kishwar has done great service by revealing to the public several facts that had been concealed from them deliberately, in a conspiracy between Modi's political opponents who fear him, but control the mechanisms of government, and sections of the media dedicated to divisive communal forces, blessed by certain external powers that seek to ensure that India remains the sick man of Asia forever. We have witnessed this conspiracy during British rule, and we are witnessing it today.</div>
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The facts relate to the Godhra incident and its unfortunate aftermath, and the man, Narendra Modi, his political background before he became Chief Minister, his performance as Chief Minister, and his actual interventions after the unfortunate Godhra train burning and the riots that followed.</div>
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These facts have been concealed from Indians by the media machinery of the Congress and its so called "secular", but actually communal allies, and snuffed out by influential sections of the public media who for reasons that became partners of the UPA in the demonisation of Modi. I have repeatedly stated in my articles during the last few years that one of the greatest successes of the UPA government has been its Goebbelsian demonisation of Modi. It lasted for a while, but it is clear that retribution is around the corner, and some of his greatest hired detractors, like Teesta Setalvad, are getting their just deserts. A large section of the public, especially the Muslim community have also realised that they have been taken for a ride by the Congress, which kept shoving false information down their throats, while they themselves were plundering the country, all the while perpetuating a schism between the Muslims and the majority community, to suit their political ends.</div>
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Let the people know what really happened at Godhra. The carnage on the Sabarmati Express, which was carrying<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> karsevaks </em>from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad, took place on 27 February 2002 at 8.30 a.m., as it moved about 500 yards from Godhra station and was stopped at a signal, through repeated chain pulling by the conspirators. A crowd of around 2,000 Muslims started stoning the train mercilessly and setting fire to the coaches, having prepared the previous night with petroleum and acid bombs. Compartment doors were locked from outside, and the karsevaks were trapped in the fire and smoke. 59 persons, including women and children, in four coaches, were gruesomely burnt alive.</div>
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The false defence put up by the criminals, aided and abetted by the Congress, when it came to power, was that it was an accidental fire, caused by a stove or an electrical short circuit. An intelligent fire, certainly, singling out only the karsevaks and their families. Do Indians know who defended the accused in the Godhra train burning incident? It was the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, and the Congress proxy NGO Jan Sangharsh Manch. The criminal conspiracy between Godhra train attackers and the Congress, and their complete lack of sympathy for the Godhra victims, needs no further explanation. Does their being Hindu have something to do with it?</div>
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Kishwar informs us of the troubled history of Godhra, and its long history of communal riots from 1925 till 1992, post Independence, all under the Congress government. The worst riots in post partition India happened in 1969 in Ahmedabad where 5,000 Muslims were killed with the Congress in power under Chief Minister Hitendrabhai Desai. Does anyone ask about what action was taken against the perpetrators, what charge sheets were filed? In 1985, under Congress Chief Minister Madhavji Solanki, again there was a major communal riot preceded by smaller ones, with curfew lasting over 200 days. 1987 and 1990 again saw communal riots in Gujarat, under Congress Chief Ministers Amar Singh Chowdhery and Chimanbhai Patel. Let the people judge for themselves who the real Maut ka Saudagar is.</div>
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Kishwar extensively quotes Zafar Sareshwala, a respected Gujarati Muslim entrepreneur, who started by wanting to take Modi to the International Court of Justice, and ended up by becoming his friend, after he met him in London in August 2003, and was astonished by his sincerity, his openness, and his good intentions for the Muslim community.</div>
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The people of India have never been informed regarding the circumstances under which Modi became Chief Minister of Gujarat. It was because of too much infighting within the Gujarat BJP; to revitalise the party, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee decided to send Modi as the CM. Modi, who was then the general secretary of the BJP working from Delhi, had never fought an election before, had never handled administration or governance, and had not visited Gujarat for the last six years. It was on 7 October 2001 that he became CM. A complete novice, his first great challenge was handling the rehabilitation of the devastating Kutch earthquake of 26 January 2001, to which he announced he was according highest priority. Modi threw all his energy into this, visiting almost every village, including those inhabited only by Muslims, mourning and wiping the tears of the bereaved. He swore that he would convert the disaster into an opportunity, a word that he kept. Through dedicated and honest rehabilitation, villages such as Chobari and Trambe were resurrected, there came modernisation and economic resurgence, urban reconstruction and tourism, and Gujarat became a global role model for disaster management.</div>
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Modi's earliest statements after becoming Chief Minister are that of a statesman. They reveal his sagacity, patriotism and secularism, and not a trace of communalism is evident in them. He speaks of the common cause of Gujaratis, the power of oneness, combating corruption, farmers' concerns, border and maritime security, poverty reduction, rural uplift. His slogan was Sabka Saath, Sab ka Vikaas, and he used his leadership and the entire governance structures to translate this into action. Gujarat had 11 universities in 2001. Today, there are 44, including a Sanskrit university.</div>
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What the Congress and its communal allies (who derive their political sustenance only by keeping Hindu Muslim division alive for ever) cannot stomach is that Modi has kept Gujarat riot free for the last 12 years, something that never happened from 1925 for 75 years, the worst and with the most bloody riots happening under the Congress rule.</div>
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But even before that, the Congress felt severely jolted. They panicked at what Kishwar calls "whirlwind Muslim support" for Modi for his first election from Rajkot in February 2002. 28 Muslim organisations declared support for him, prominent Muslim leaders and Muslim women campaigned for him and in booths where there was more than 70% Muslim population he surged ahead. His subsequent election victories, despite BJP dissidents joining hands with Congress, confirm without doubt that Modi's government is completely inclusive, and Gujarat Muslims have not succumbed to Congress lies and hate campaign.</div>
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The Congress had to sever the friendship between Muslims and the liberal face of the BJP, and it was willing to play with fire to engineer the same, including hobnobbing with the ISI, or participate in the riots, for which there is evidence from none other than Maulana Madni, of Jamiat Ulema e Hind.</div>
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There is also enough evidence, corroborated by K.P.S. Gill, that Modi took every necessary step to ensure taking control of the situation — indefinite curfew, shoot at sight orders, putting the entire 70,000 police force on public duty, deployment of rapid action force and CISF, request to the Centre for 10 companies of CRPF. Army assistance was requested on the first day. Both the Nanavati Commission and the Supreme Court monitored SIT have found nothing against Modi, and have rubbished the canards spread by his enemies.</div>
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I appeal to the Muslims of India not to become victims of the hate propaganda and falsehoods that are being tenaciously and relentlessly pursued by the Congress against Modi. Please understand that the Congress aims to permanently convert you as the "other", so that you will always be on the fringes, and will always have to depend upon them for support. I suggest that you enquire from your brothers in Gujarat, and find out for yourself regarding whatever Modi has done for the prosperity of the Muslim community. Give him a drop of affection and trust and judge for yourself the goodwill he has for your community.</div>
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I have had access to most of the vital papers pertaining to the Godhra episode, and I can give a moral guarantee that I have not seen a single action or statement from Modi that suggests any communalism or divisiveness or hatred for the Muslims that the Congress has accused him of. And such a statement from me would carry some credibility, as one thing even my worst detractors cannot accuse me of is communalism. Many people may not be aware that my dear daughter Rani adopted from an orphanage a small Muslim boy of 6 months, and brought him up. My grandson uses my name, Ali Jethmalani, and even though he wanted to become Hindu, we counselled him to come of age and then choose. I need not say anymore.</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-69201713588686773252014-04-15T10:35:00.001+05:302014-04-15T10:37:08.182+05:30Gujarat Model - Electricity reaches every remote village, empowering both industry and agriculture!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">Source: http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/gujarats-power-sector-turnaround-story/1/21750.html</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">When Narendra Damodardas Modi took
over as chief minister of Gujarat in
October 2001, he found the state's power situation grim. The Gujarat State
Electricity Board, or GSEB, had posted a loss of Rs 2,246 crore for 2000/01, on
revenues of Rs 6,280 crore. Interest costs alone were Rs 1,227 crore.
Transmission and distribution, or T&D, losses were a substantial 35.27 per
cent, and load shedding was frequent. GSEB had no funds to add generation
capacity on its own, nor was it able to persuade the private sector to invest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36-lXCUJzP0/U0y4lEfaBcI/AAAAAAAADD8/CXTBDWbqvaY/s1600/Gujarat_Electricity_Turnaround.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-36-lXCUJzP0/U0y4lEfaBcI/AAAAAAAADD8/CXTBDWbqvaY/s1600/Gujarat_Electricity_Turnaround.jpg" height="400" width="193" /></span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Reforming
the GSEB, thus, became one of Modi's
top priorities. "He feared that a bankrupt power utility could
derail his vision for the state," says Saurabh Patel, Gujarat's Industries
and Power Minister, then as now. "He knew electricity is crucial for
growth."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Modi's first step was to identify a bureaucrat capable of
taking on the enormous challenge. He chose Man- jula Subramaniam, a Gujarat
cadre officer, who had been joint secretary in the prime minister's office from
1993 to 1998, playing a key role in the country's liberalisation, and appointed
her Chairperson of GSEB and Principal Secretary, Energy and Power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Subramaniam quickly realised that GSEB was too large an
entity to be managed effectively. But she did not rush into unbundling it.
Instead, she initially concentrated on two areas: bolstering the power
utility's finances and building employee morale. Discovering that GSEB had
secured loans at interest rates of 18 per cent or more, she sought debt
restructuring, convincing banks and financial institutions to lower their
rates, which resulted in savings of Rs 500 crore in 2002/03.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Her next step was more radical. Rarely before had electricity
boards renegotiated power purchase agreements, or PPAs, already signed with
private players. But having examined the PPAs her board had entered into,
Subramaniam felt the heat rate - a measure of generator efficiency - had been
inflated by the power suppliers, who were consequently charging more than they
should have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Though the private players initially resisted, the
government-constituted committee set up for the process stood firm, and
ultimately, after more than 18 months of hard bargaining, got the rates
lowered, leading to a further saving of Rs 675 crore in 2002/03 and Rs 1,000
crore in 2003/04.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Simultaneously, Modi's government began plugging the leakages
in distribution. Power thefts in Gujarat then ranged between 20 per cent in
urban areas and 70 per cent in rural regions. It passed a law against power
thefts and set up five police stations across the state, solely to nab such
thieves. Stringent action began against those who ran up large power bill
arrears, including disconnecting their supply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Unmetered power supply, which some rural areas were getting
was stopped altogether, with GSEB entering into a structural loan re-adjustment
with Asian Development Bank to fund the installing of meters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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widespread talk of power reforms, feared for their jobs, and were feeling
somewhat alienated from GSEB. She appointed a consultant to suggest ways to win
back their loyalties.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d4239;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">From mid-2002, armed with the consultant's suggestions, the board began its special effort to reach out to employees. It started training programmes at all levels to reassure them that while people may be redeployed, no one would be laid off. Senior officials increased their interactions with the staff, including holding 'town hall' meetings where they shared details of the board's financial position and encouraged employees to ask questions. An internal newsletter was also started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Once assured of retaining their jobs, the employees themselves began discussing possible reforms. A 'reforms progress management group', comprising GSEB employees, was also set up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt; text-indent: 1cm;">It was now time for the unbundling. In May 2003, the Gujarat government passed the Gujarat Electricity Industry (Reform and Reorganisation) Act which divided the GSEB into a holding company, a power generation company, a power transmission company and four distribution companies. This enabled better management and more efficient operations</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt; text-indent: 1cm;">.</span></o:p></span></div>
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key reform was the separation of the feeder line that supplied power to the
rural areas into two: one to supply power for agricultural needs and other for
household and other needs. This was part of the Jyoti Gram Yojna, a scheme Modi
announced in 2003 to supply round-theclock power to villages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"A
single feeder has its limitations," says Mukesh Puri, Managing Director of
the holding company, Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam. "The villages got power for
only 12 to 15 hours a day, often of poor quality and at odd hours."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Since
the tariff for power used for agricultural purposes was much lower, many used
this subsidised supply for their household needs as well, resulting in huge
losses for GSEB.<br />
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"The chief minister asked us to have separate feeders, which was a
path-breaking step no state had attempted before," Puri adds, "The
results were good." Though many rural residents had higher power bills to
pay than in the past, they cooperated with the government, once they found they
were assured of uninterrupted, better quality power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
study by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has estimated that the
project saved the state capital expenditure of around Rs 23,000 crore, or about
5,000 megawatts, or MW.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
Modi government has also taken scrupulous care to ensure that the state
electricity regulator - unlike in most states - remains truly independent of
political pressures. The regulator has, thus, been able to revise power tariffs
every year, which ensured the state bridged the gap between the average cost of
supply and what users paid for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
result? The state electricity board posted its first profit of Rs 203 crore -
after tax - in 2005/06. By 2010/11, net profit had risen to Rs 533 crore, while
T&D losses had fallen to 20.13 per cent. Tariff collection efficiency is
close to 100 per cent. Private players, once reluctant to invest in Gujarat's
power generation, are now rushing in: of the power plants with a total
installed capacity of 16,945 MW coming up in the state, 6,864 MW - or roughly,
a third - is by the private sector. "Abundant power is a major USP of our
state today," says minister Patel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
few worries remain. Though T&D losses have fallen, they are still higher
than those of the southern states such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil
Nadu. The cost of power in Gujarat has been traditionally high, and remains so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"Our
share of hydel power is very low and our power plants are very far away from
coalfields," says Puri. "At times the cost of transporting coal
equals the cost of the coal." A sizeable proportion of its power - around
29 per cent - also comes from gas-based plants, and the high cost of gas has
forced scaling down the operations of some of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="background-color: white;">But
ultimately, it is a remarkable transformation for a state which was power
deficient barely a decade ago, but now has a surplus of 2,114 MW and a vibrant
energy sector.</span><span style="color: #3d4239;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-53537095775723840112014-04-07T10:07:00.000+05:302014-04-07T10:07:08.688+05:30Why Gujarati Muslims are with Modi?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">henever would-be prime ministerial candidates of the country for the 2014 elections is being discussed, it cannot be complete without mentioning Narendra Modi, who is, by far, way ahead of any other person across the political spectrum. It is also equally important to make an intellectual analysis as to why Modi, who took charge of a communally surcharged state being a non-starter as a politician in 2002, has reached this level of popularity across the country where no other politician has been able to reach.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">You may hate him or you may like him but you cannot ignore him.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> The journey which Narendra Modi has covered - from being the most hated figure in 2002 to a probable prime ministerial candidate in 2014 - is astounding. </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Modi's approach has undoubtedly given him the status of a statesman and the architect of the Gujarat growth model.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">This could be counted as one of the reasons for the minorities, including the Muslims gravitating towards Narendra Modi. </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">The fruits of this model have touched more or less all sections of the society, and has been inclusive beyond doubt.</span></b></div>
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The nation did watch the UPA back-patting itself on completing 9 years and the nation also watched Narendra Modi completing 10 years as the Gujarat CM. And no doubt, the applause goes to Narendra Modi. The million-dollar question now is, "What changes have been made in Gujarat in these ten years? And why this gravitation towards Narendra Modi is now creeping across the country?"</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Modi and Gujarat are development symbols for the nation.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Although the scars of 2002 still remain but it was not just an enigma that </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>more than 31 per cent of the Muslims voted for the BJP in the 2012</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Assembly elections. Media has not yet realised this. The reality has not yet dawned that </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>6 out of 8 Muslim-majority constituencies were won by BJP</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> candidates last December. And this momentum of the Muslims overwhelmingly voting for the BJP continued in the local elections of February 2013. Modi has been time-tested several times in the past decade and this is perhaps the </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">first decade in the last 60 years when Gujarat remained riot-free.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> The reason was simple. </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Modi has given the Gujaratis the boon of peace and justice which money can't buy.</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> And across civilisations of the world, people have liked a leader who can provide them peace and justice because prosperity is bound to follow if these are made available to the people.</span></div>
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There are number of reasons for the Muslims of Gujarat to move beyond the 2002 riots, primarily because in the 9 major cases of rioting and arson, the perpetrators of the crime were convicted, justice prevailed and the rule of law was established.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Recently, India's most well-known film script-writer Salim Khan (actor Salmaan Khan's father) has said to a senior journalist in an interview: </span><i><span style="color: #990000;">"Does anyone remember who the chief minister of Maharashtra was during the Mumbai riots which were no less deadly than the Gujarat riots of 2002? Does anyone recall the name of the chief minister of UP during Malliana and Meerut riots or that of the Bihar CM when the Bhagalpur or Jamshedpur riots under Congress regimes took place? Do we hear names of earlier chief ministers of Gujarat under whose charge, hundreds of riots took place in post-Independence India? Does anyone remember who was in-charge of Delhi's security when the 1984 massacre of Sikhs took place in the capital of India? How come Narendra Modi has been singled out as the Devil Incarnate as if he personally carried out all the killings during the riots of 2002?"</span></i><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> No speck of doubt about what Salim Khan has said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Modi, in fact, has given a new formula of inclusive development to our secular country by removing the labels of religion, castes and creed.</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> He approaches the people as one and designs schemes intended to benefit all Gujaratis, thus eliminating the evil divide and rule formula of vote-bank politics from which the country is suffering from. No help or aid or scheme has been launched in Gujarat in the last 11 years in the name of religion or caste. This could be the quintessence of inclusive growth with communal harmony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">No wonder we see the highly respected and eminent Muslim scholar Maulana Vastanvi, a Gujarati Muslim himself, saying that, </span><span style="color: #990000;"><i>"Gujarati muslims had benefited from the inclusive development policies of Modi's government."</i></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Unfortunately he was forced to resign from his post as Vice-Chancellor of Deoband for saying so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Another prominent Islamic scholar, Maulana Mehmood Madni of Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind, had agreed that </span><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Muslims in Gujarat were better off in many disciplines as compared to other states.</i></span></div>
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Yet another prominent non-resident Gujarati Lord Adam Patel of the UK, during his visit to India, met Modi at Gandhinagar and appreciated his peace initiatives and the inclusive prosperity among the Muslims of Gujarat.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Not only the Muslims of Gujarat, in a recent interview given to 'Milli Gazette', former IG of Police, Maharashtra, SM Mushrif said: </span><span style="color: #990000;"><i>"The most safe place for Muslims today is Gujarat."</i></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> He further says that the state of Maharashtra has done the greatest damage to the Muslim community which is ruled by so-called secular parties like the NCP and the Congress for the last 10 years. So many cannot be wrong at the same time; there remains no doubt about why Muslims are gravitating towards Modi.</span></div>
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No wonder the Modi hate campaigners are finding a hard time to sell their part of story because they are in stark contrast with the ground reality in spite of repeated media-trials.</div>
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I remember Mahesh Bhatt, the renowned film director ,once speaking from a Jamiatul Ulema -e-Hind platform in Surat, said and I quote him: "Narendra Modi, sun rahe ho? Jis mazhab ko tum aaye din kehte ho ki ye aatankvadiyon ki gangotri hai, uske Rasool ne kya kaha hai...".as he quoted a Hadith of the Prophet. Mahesh Bhatt soon received a call from Narendra Modi. Modi told him, "Maheshbhai, Musalmaan 5 aaiye, 50 aaiye, 500 aaiye, 5000 aaiye, main milne ko taiyyar hoon, main aapki saari problems ko solve karne ke liye taiyyar hoon. Main aapko ye hi kehna chahta hoon ki main available hoon." Film director Mahesh Bhatt had put forward this to the Islamic leaders of Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind and to the Muslim community in general.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Here the CM seems to have </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>won over the hearts not by practising divide and rule but by ensuring inclusiveness and submissiveness to the people.</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Taking into context the Muslims of Gujarat, they had never seen such inclusiveness and such a discrimination-free society. The only thing, every Gujarati was looking for, was development.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">We all know that the </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">worst riot in post-Partition India happened in 1969 in Ahmedabad and more than 5000 Muslims were killed</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> in that systematic massacre. Because there was no 247 media those days, earlier riots were not documented. At that time </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Gujarat was ruled by the Congress</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> and Hitendra Desai was the CM while Indira Gandhi was in power at the Centre. </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Forget about punishment, not even a single charge sheet was filed.</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> The Jagmohan Commission report is there for everyone to see. </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Whole communities were wiped out without a trace.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Has anyone documented where these 5000 families have gone?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">In the past, people of Gujarat always lived under the fear of communal riots but efforts and endeavours of prominent Muslims had made it possible for numerous Muslim delegations - Islamic scholars, businessmen, youth, women and even street hawkers to meet Modi. He has met them all and given an ear to their grievances. This was something the Muslims had not seen in the last 40 years of Congress rule. Muslim madarsas were supported. </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Madarsa students, who had never seen or gone to a school, got a chance to appear for SSC and class XIIth examinations.</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> The famous Sarkhej Roza which was in dilapidated condition was renovated and restored. The numbers of Muslim-owned schools and hospitals in the state have increased. Economic prosperity too has visited Muslim households and as a result, the record turn-out by Muslims to vote for Narendra Modi.</span></div>
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It is important to understand that inclusive growth has benefitted the minority community and we can see that through various growth indicators. Some of them are:</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">This, being a season of preparations for the Hajj pilgrimage, it is important to see that the total quota for </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Hajj travellers in Gujarat is 3,500 seats whereas applications for Hajj have exceeded the count of 41,000 already</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">. Going for Hajj is an indicator of economic prosperity of a family because in Islam, it is mandatory to fulfil all your social obligations before going on Hajj.</span></div>
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Gujarat has two of the fastest growing districts in the country and they are Kutch and Bharuch and both these districts have large Muslim populations and there has been unprecedented growth in these districts. Kutch has about 35 per cent Muslim population and Bharuch has around 20 per cent Muslim population.</div>
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Similarly, if one looks at the two-wheeler vehicle registration at various RTO's in Gujarat, almost 18 per cent of the vehicles are registered in the names of Muslims who form less than 10 per cent of the total population of the state. Similarly, the registration of 4-wheeler vehicles is also much higher than the communitys proportionate population.</div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The number of Muslims employed in the police force is 12 per cent in Gujarat</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">,. while Muslims employed by the Gujarat state government is around 10 per cent of the total sarkari workforce.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Yes, we all agree that there was massive destruction of lives and property and Muslims did suffer a lot in 2002. But this was not the first time. Before this, </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">major riots have occurred in Gujarat in 1969, 87, 89, 90, 92</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">. In each one of these riots, many Muslims lost their lives and property worth crores of rupees was looted, but never were the perpetrators of the crime punished. </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Even FIR's were not registered.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> The government of the day would not dare to confront the arsonists. But now, for the first time, not only in the history of Gujarat but even elsewhere in the country, more than 200 miscreants belonging to the majority faith have been convicted for their roles in the 2002 riots. Out of these 200 convicts, 150 have been given life imprisonment. Although all these convictions have happened due to the involvement of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT, the role of the Gujarat government in ensuring justice cannot be ignored. These convictions have been like a balm on the wounds of the victims.</span></div>
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Two more cases are at a very advanced stage of conviction: Naroda Gam and Gulburga society where again the convictions of the perpetrators and arsonists are foregone conclusions.</div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">Apart from justice, this </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>government has been able to provide a terror-free atmosphere</b></span><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">. So as compared to earlier when a Muslim could not even venture out to some parts, today he or she can freely move around and there is terror-free interaction between the communities. </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Such an atmosphere was unseen anywhere before 2002 in Gujarat.</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">People praise the riverfront project on the banks of the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad but people forget that there were some 13000 families living on the bank of the Sabarmati for the last 50 years. Every single family has been rehabilitated in beautiful apartments and 68 per cent of these families were Muslim. No discrimination was done by the state government</span></i><span style="color: #3b3b3b;">. The Gujarat government has raised schemes for the weaker sections of the society and there is not a single incident where Muslims have been discriminated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">In spite of the Modi government being reprimanded for not implementing any minority-related financial schemes, </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Gujarat Minorities Finance Development Corporation has disbursed over Rs 60 crore in the last 10 years.</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> Modi is portrayed as anti-minority whereas the experience of the minorities in Gujarat is that Modi is a very minority-friendly person. Not surprisingly, most Christians vote for Modi. They have never complained against his regime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">In the words of V V Augustine from Kerala, who used to frequently interact with Modi during his tenure as a member of the National Minorities Commission, </span><span style="color: #990000;"><i>"People who spread the canard that Modi is against the minorities are reflecting their own political biases. My experience is totally different. He listens very carefully and acts very fast in case of genuine problems. As a member of the Minorities Commission, I dealt with several states. Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar governments have also been good. But no chief minister is as good, as strong and determined as Modi. Now even Muslims realise that Modi is good for them. There are two kinds of Muslims in Gujarat - the rich and the poor. My experience tells me the poor Muslims are solidly with Modi because a riot-free Gujarat and a resurgent economy with new opportunities have benefited the poorer Muslims far more dramatically. It has provided them avenues of upward mobility. Truth is truth, how can I deny facts?"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3b3b;">The end result today is that Gujarat has seen its first ever post-Independence riot-free decade with inclusivene growth. Muslims have gravitated towards Narendra Modi and Modi, the most hated figure in 2002, is the </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">most suitable prime ministerial material for the country</span></b><span style="color: #3b3b3b;"> in 2013.</span></div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-83850443103196152142014-02-26T15:13:00.000+05:302014-02-26T15:13:07.738+05:30Contribution of Communism to the civilized world - Darkness!?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Flying over East Asia, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this night image of the Korean Peninsula. Unlike daylight images, city lights at night illustrate dramatically the relative economic importance of cities, as gauged by relative size. In this north-looking view, it is immediately obvious that greater Seoul is a major city and that the port of Gunsan is minor by comparison. There are 25.6 million people in the Seoul metropolitan area—more than half of South Korea’s citizens—while Gunsan’s population is 280,000.</div>
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North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China. The darkened land appears as if it were a patch of water joining the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan. Its capital city, Pyongyang, appears like a small island, despite a population of 3.26 million (as of 2008). The light emission from Pyongyang is equivalent to the smaller towns in South Korea.</div>
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Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery, as shown by South Korea’s eastern shoreline. But the coast of North Korea is difficult to detect. These differences are illustrated in <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">per capita</em> power consumption</a> in the two countries, with South Korea at 10,162 kilowatt hours and North Korea at 739 kilowatt hours.</div>
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You can view time-lapse videos of East Asia, as viewed from the ISS on January 30, 2014, by clicking <a href="http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/bangkokpacific_iss_20140130/bangkokpacific_iss_20140130.mov" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here (standard resolution)</a> and <a href="http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/bangkokpacific_iss_20140130/bangkokpacific_iss_20140130HD.mov" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here (high-definition).</a></div>
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Astronaut photograph <a href="http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS038&roll=E&frame=38300" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ISS038-E-38300</a> was acquired on January 30, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 24 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition38/index.html" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expedition 38 crew.</a> It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">International Space Station Program</a> supports the laboratory as part of the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html#.UhUVA-A2JSo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ISS National Lab</a> to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC <a href="http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #005dbd; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.</a> Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-51902238533390252672014-02-10T22:14:00.002+05:302014-02-10T22:14:53.742+05:30Myths about RSS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Article by Kiran Kumar.S published at: http://kiranasis.blogspot.in/2014/02/myths-about-rss.html<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Today, I saw twitter trending #NationalistRSS in India. Social media has been a powerful medium in exposing the sinister campaign against RSS.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">While reviewing some of the tweets by anti RSS propagandists, I felt it is necessary to expose some of the popular myths about RSS. A lot of people are blindly ranting against Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh, without getting proper information. You can't change everyone, but at least you can put some facts on the table. So here we go.. Note that these are not the official statements of RSS, but that of general social media population in India today. Full credit to the original thinkers and the original photographers, for the information presented here onwards. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 1: RSS Killed Gandhi.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 1: Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Godse had left RSS in 1930s itself. This has been reiterated countless number of times by RSS, and the recent one is from December 2010, when Ram Madhav of RSS claimed court records clearly showing RSS had nothing to do with Gandhi's murder. Justice Kapur Commission Report clearly says:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>"RSS as such were not responsible for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, meaning thereby that one could not name the organisation as such as being responsible for that most diabolical crime, the murder of the apostle of peace. It has not been proved that they (the accused) were members of the RSS"</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Also, Nathuram, the convict was hanged within months, bringing justice to the whole incident. Blaming RSS for Gandhi's murder just because Godse was a former member of RSS, is like blaming Congress for Muslim League's mass murder and atrocities during Partition, because Jinnah was a member of Congress earlier. Jinnah was a member of Congress party between 1906 and 1920. So someone who was a member of Congress for long 14 years, was instrumental in inciting Direct Action Day and other mass atrocities against Hindus, resulting in 1000s of deaths. Will today's Sonia Gandhi's Congress claim responsibility for all the wrong doings of Jinnah, including breaking up an age old civilization resulting in millions of deaths?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b><a name='more'></a>Myth 2: Sardar Patel disliked RSS.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 2: Sardar Patel had to take action in 1948 due to political pressure from "secular" Nehru and group. But when the ban on RSS was lifted, read Sardar's letters to Guruji, the RSS chief. Patel was the happiest man then! All the bans till date on RSS, including the ones after Sardar's death, are purely the hate that Congress party nurturers for RSS. Everyone knows that RSS does not negotiate with vote bank politics, corruption or country's soverignty. If the same yard stick was used against Congress, SP or other parties, they all should have been banned for the violence of their cadres, or the deadly riots their governments failed to stop (and in some cases helped rioters like in 1984) over the years. Here is a partial </span><a href="http://chirpstory.com/li/2754" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">list of nearly 150 incidents of Congress violence</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. If for each riot or disturbance Congress party was banned, that number would have easily gone beyond Sachin Tendulkar's international century count!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 3: RSS is anti national.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 3: RSS is the most nationalistic organization in India. In fact, even the most bitter enemy of RSS, Jawaharlal Nehru, invited RSS to come participate in the 1963 Republic day parade. 3500 Swayamsevaks marched on that day, in their typical Gana Vesha. During his final years, Nehru realized the patriotic pulse of RSS, that too only when his Congress party's foreign policy went seriously wrong resulting in a humiliating defeat at the hands of China. It was RSS that helped Indian soldiers and civilians greatly in 1962, for which even Nehru was forced to invite them to be a part of 1963 Republic Day parade. I am sure the icon of secularism, Nehru would not invite an anti national organization to march with Indian army during republic day. In fact, the so-called secular folks like members of Indian communist parties, were busy raising donations for India's enemy China during 1962 war! During the 1965 Indo-Pak war PM Shastri requested nationalist RSS to help control traffic in Delhi so policemen could be freed for defence duties. When Pakistanis were trying to take over Jammu and Kashmir, it was swayamsevaks who cleared the snow, so that Indian air force could land their aircrafts.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: purple;">Myth 4: RSS is fundamentalist.</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 4: RSS is pro India, pro Hindutva. RSS' ideology says that there are only two kinds of Hindus in India. Those who are Hindu </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">today </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">and those who were Hindus </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">yesterday</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. That makes every single human in India (and rest of Indian subcontinent), Hindus by culture, ancestry and tradition. That is the Hindut-va (Hindu essence). Tva in Sanskrit means characteristic, essence or hood - like Bhratrutva (brotherhood), Maatrutva (motherhood), Shatrutva (Enmity) and so on. RSS never preaches any religious doctrine using any sacred book with the eventual goal of converting everyone to that doctrine 100%. RSS does not believe in converting anyone to its "religion". So calling such organization fundamentalist is silly. If at all RSS has any fundamentals, it is that of calling India as Bharat, and treating her as the mother of every single human in Indian subcontinent. In fact, RSS supports uniform civil code in India, meaning one type of marriage/divorce/inheritance laws for ALL citizen, which is opposed by so called progressive parties like Communists and Congress!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 5: RSS is fascist and a terrorist organization.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 5: When you show the long list of social service organizations that are a part of Sangh Parivar (family), the favourite line of Jihad supporters is that Jamat ud Da'wah also does social service. But they don't understand the basics that RSS does not preach violence in any of its shakha. It only teaches people to be proud of India's glorious 5000+ years culture and tradition. It teaches swayamsevaks (volunteers for the nation), self defence. Every human on this planet has the right to defend himself or herself. RSS never advocated for killing or converting "non-believers", like Jihadi terrorists or radical evangelicals do. If any person who claims to be associated with RSS is convicted of any crime, RSS won't play communal or victim card. RSS believes in law taking its own course and punishment for anyone who violates law, unlike Congress party that still supports a convict Lalu Yadav or those charged with mass murder like Sajjan Kumar, or those caught giving genocidal "15 minutes" </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krdym7gFVvA" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hate speeches like Akbaruddin Owaisi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. While Nehru was unable to stop the blood shed during partition, it was the RSS that organised over 3000 relief camps for the Hindu Refugees from Pakistan after the Partition. In short, every effort to frame RSS to a fictional "Hindutva terror" or "Saffron terror" has failed till date. Here is one such example.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 6: RSS is only for Hindu males.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 6: This is the favourite line of ignoramus feminists. There are two kinds of RSS setups. Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh for males, and Rastra Sevika Samiti for females. Both are thriving in India for decades. Both take out marches, celebrate India's heritage festivals and glorify India's national Hindutva icons. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 7: RSS is anti Muslim and RSS is anti Christian.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 7: RSS treats Muslims, Christians and everyone else in India, irrespective of caste and creed as cultural Hindus. Hindutva is an all encompassing ideology of RSS. This is the reason why RSS never has RSS Muslim shakha (daily assembly) or RSS Christian shakha. Anyone can become a member of RSS as long as they are ready to respect Bharat Mata (Mother India). RSS is against only those whose work against India's soverignty and heritage. In the famous Ranganathacharya Agnihotri case, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><i>"Primafacie the RSS is a non-political cultural organization without any hatred or ill will towards non-Hindus"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, declared Karnataka High Court (then Mysore HC). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 9: RSS was anti Sikh in 1984 riots.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 9: Even the most staunch Sikh supporters of 1984 time, won't claim such things. Read Kushwant Singh's writeup. In fact, RSS was instrumental in helping Sikhs in large numbers when Congress party's murderers went on rampage to kill, and their leader Rajiv Gandhi failed to stop the mass killing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="color: purple;">Myth 10: Organizations like the Sri Rama Sene of the infamous pub incident, Abhinav Bharat and other organizations are part of RSS.</span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 10: No. RSS clearly has defined who is a part of Sangh Parivar and who is not. You can't club everyone who claims to be a Hindu organization, and malign RSS because of those organizations' actions. In fact some of those ignorantly clubbed as "Sangh Parivar" with RSS, were trying to kill RSS leaders! Every attempt to malign RSS, like how Congress leaders did in case of Ajmer blast, has backfired. </span></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 11: BJP is the political outfit of RSS.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 11: Wrong. RSS has always been a non political organization. It's prime aim is service to the society, character buidling of youth and nation building. BJP evolved from Jan Sangh. Many BJP leaders, like Vajpayee, Advani and Modi might be from RSS background, but that does not maike RSS a political outfit. In fact, many Congress, AAP and other party leaders are also of RSS background. It is like scores of Indian leaders today could be from NCC, but that does not make NCC a political organization. RSS volunteers support many political parties, depending upon who is doing the best service to the society, without bias, at that time. The only non-political force that vehemently opposed Emergency was RSS. It was so feared, that Indira Gandhi, who had murdered democracy in 1970s, banned the RSS during her draconian Emergency. J P aandolan, Janlokpal aandolan and a whole lot of popular movements had RSS support. In short, there are RSS admirers and RSS opponents in every party of India. To give an example, even the most staunch anti RSS politician in India today, Digvijaya Singh, was sharing dais with RSS leaders when it suited his Congress party :) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Stn7C7F0ak0/UvNhY1S0L-I/AAAAAAAAFHk/qZEloa5EGZk/s1600/Nationalist+RSS+-+Digvijaya+Singh.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Stn7C7F0ak0/UvNhY1S0L-I/AAAAAAAAFHk/qZEloa5EGZk/s1600/Nationalist+RSS+-+Digvijaya+Singh.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 12: RSS has a membership process.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 12: Wrong. RSS has no business card or party member ID. Anyone can walk in, and anyone can walk out. The concept is that of Swayam sevak. No RSS volunteer carries a Sangh membership card. In short, anyone who wants to serve the society and Bharat Mata, can become a part of RSS, temporarily or permanently. RSS adheres to the age old saffron colour flag (Bhagwa) that was an inspiration to serve the mother land for billions of Indians over millenia.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><b>Myth 13: RSS only concerns with Hindus.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Fact 13: RSS deals with all sections of Indian society. RSS is the first one in majority of natural disasters like 2004 TN Tsunami, 2001 Gujarat Earthquake, 2009 Karnataka-AP massive floods, 2013 Uttarakhand floods, or any rail/bus/building disasters. RSS volunteers are found from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, rushing to help every single natural disaster. They are also in forefront to help people in case of man-made disasters like 2012 Asom riots caused by illegal foreign settlers from Bangladesh. It was RSS volunteers who donated blood during 1971 war. RSS runs over 1,70,000 projects across India via organizations like Sewa Bharati, catering to every language, state, religion, caste, colour and creed. Go to their website to learn. RSS runs 27,041 schools (Ekal Vidyalaya) in remote tribal areas : 7,53,123 socially deprived tribal students are enrolled. RSS is in fact the world's largest voluntary service organization with over 60,00,000 active members, plus millions of supporters. RSS was one of the first to land at Uttarakhand to help the needy. They even proudly helped the organization that helps every Indian.. the national army! Watch </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4W5Jwz1eh8" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this video</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-84QO_U8QbQc/UvNhZeZ71UI/AAAAAAAAFHw/u0RcNNPFF20/s1600/Nationalist+RSS+-+Feeding+Army+-+Uttarakhand.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-84QO_U8QbQc/UvNhZeZ71UI/AAAAAAAAFHw/u0RcNNPFF20/s1600/Nationalist+RSS+-+Feeding+Army+-+Uttarakhand.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;">
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-79627497753896466132014-01-17T11:03:00.001+05:302014-01-17T11:03:45.163+05:30Online donations fraud by AAP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="a">Aam Aadmi Party has been claiming to be extremely transparent in terms </span><span class="a">of the donations.</span><span class="a"> However a closer random </span><span class="a">scrutiny of the receipts by us <span class="w7"></span>has thrown up <span class="w6"></span>shocking incidents of receipts with same voucher number </span><span class="a">being issued to multiple donors. This is an absolute case of fraud because under Indian Law, one cannot </span><span class="a">issue Multiple Donation Receipts with the same Receipt number. Anyone can verify this themselves by visiting <a href="http://aamaadmiparty.org/donation-list" style="color: #6ca516; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">AAP donation list page</a> and searching for any one of the receipt numbers mentioned at the end of this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="a">What has come to our notice is perhaps the tip of the iceberg since we did a random scrutiny of </span><span class="a">transaction receipts of merely one day where we found more than 18 instances of multiple receipts with </span><span class="a">same receipt numbers being issued. The real quantum of this fraudulent activity might essentially be in </span><span class="a">thousands since there are several hundred thousand donors and <span class="w6"></span>the money involved might be in <span class="w6"></span>crores. </span><span class="a">This kind of fraud is nothing less than a case of Hawala.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, the president of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena has filed complaints to the Commissioner of Delhi police and the election commission. The download link to the complaint copies is provided below.</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/187977260/Complaint-Against-Arvind-Kejriwal-AAP-In-Fraud-420" style="color: #6ca516; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Complaint to Commissioner of Delhi police</span></a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/188529079/Complaint-Against-AAP-for-fraudulent-act-of-issuing-donation-receipts-with-same-receipt-numbers-to-Multiple-donors" style="color: #6ca516; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Complaint filed in Election Commission</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After the complaint was filed against AAP, they removed the word Receipt number from their website and just kept Transaction ID. Now they can say that there is no thing such as receipt number in thier donations. This change made by them confirms that there is certain intentional fraud in AAP donations.<img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/cc6df3d178cf209bc0832c6de0c2a72e/tumblr_inline_mx7wn3CHc01sqnumk.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also, there are other types of frauds in AAP online donations. This involves providing a fake passport number and donating online from foriegn countries. <a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/city/bjp-digs-up-dirt-on-clean-aap.html" style="color: #6ca516; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">As pointed by Dr. Subramanian Swamy</a>, as an example, two foreigners from Barmuda and Cayman Islands — Anil K Chhomatil and Bharat Singh — who have contributed money without even possessing an Indian passport. Referring to one US citizen Ramesh Narayanswamy, whose donation of `500 was accepted despite bogus details of his passport, Swamy said that the party has not maintained transparency on its part and is trying to present a clean image in the public domain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There can be many more such cases because the online donation system of AAM party cannot verify the authenticity of the passport details provided by the AAPtards donor in real time. The donations went through even after providing a dummy passport number. Also there was no action taken later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">48286 <strong>CCA13FAAK887</strong> Harish Kumar Sharma IN HR 2013-06-21 11:25:04</span></div>
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48471 <strong>CCA13FAAK887</strong> Tushar Shah IN MH 2013-06-21 18:44:16</div>
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48700 <strong>CCA13FAAL285</strong> Yashdeep Godhal IN KA 2013-06-22 19:54:32</div>
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48961 <strong>CCA13FAAL285</strong> Pawan Kumar Singh IN UP 2013-06-23 20:02:39</div>
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49367 <strong>CCA13FAAL729</strong> Kaushik Chatterjee IN WB 2013-06-24 13:16:23</div>
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50392 <strong>CCA13FAAL729</strong> suresh shrivastav IN DL 2013-06-27 13:20:32</div>
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49582 <strong>CCA13FAAL919</strong> Dhiren Mehta IN MH 2013-06-24 21:25:28</div>
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51410 <strong>CCA13FAAL919</strong> Saurabh Chatterjee IN UP 2013-06-29 09:26:49</div>
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52148 <strong>CCA13GAAO150</strong> Ankur Jain IN MH 2013-07-01 13:09:54</div>
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60250 <strong>CCA13GAAO150</strong> Arvind Dewan IN DL 2013-07-14 19:05:38</div>
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52289 <strong>CCA13GAAO327</strong> Varaprasad Reddy Jeeru IN AP 2013-07-01 19:57:08</div>
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60766 <strong>CCA13GAAO327</strong> Samir Bains IN UP 2013-07-16 11:19:52</div>
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52376 <strong>CCA13GAAO388</strong> Deepak Jain IN HR 2013-07-01 23:34:15</div>
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61171 <strong>CCA13GAAO388</strong> Vinod Singh IN HR 2013-07-16 19:23:35</div>
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52696 <strong>CCA13GAAO612</strong> Deep Sati IN HR 2013-07-02 14:28:56</div>
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61854 <strong>CCA13GAAO612</strong> R Ramanathan IN HR 2013-07-18 18:10:58</div>
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52875 <strong>CCA13GAAO806</strong> HITESH KUMAR NIGAM IN DL 2013-07-02 23:48:47</div>
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62248 <strong>CCA13GAAO806</strong> Sampath Kuve IN KA 2013-07-20 09:19:50</div>
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52956 <strong>CCA13GAAO867</strong> S. Sreenivasa Prasad IN AP 2013-07-03 10:32:16</div>
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62777 <strong>CCA13GAAO867</strong> Gagan Agarwal IN UP 2013-07-20 15:46:15</div>
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53919 <strong>CCA13GAAP870</strong> Tarun Gupta IN MP 2013-07-05 10:52:08</div>
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64784 <strong>CCA13GAAP870</strong> Sekhar Sukumar IN KA 2013-07-27 17:08:15</div>
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54204 <strong>CCA13GAAQ263</strong> Amit Kapoor IN KA 2013-07-05 20:54:19</div>
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65069 <strong>CCA13GAAQ263</strong> Krushna Charcha IN KA 2013-07-29 22:48:29</div>
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54351 <strong>CCA13GAAQ353</strong> MANISH PATEL IN MH 2013-07-06 10:39:04</div>
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65199 <strong>CCA13GAAQ353</strong> Sachin Sharma IN DL 2013-07-30 16:40:59</div>
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54390 <strong>CCA13GAAQ380</strong> Praveen Awasthi IN UP 2013-07-06 12:08:03</div>
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65241 <strong>CCA13GAAQ380</strong> Sanjiv Gupta IN DL 2013-07-30 19:33:51</div>
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54515 <strong>CCA13GAAQ552</strong> Aman bajaj IN MH 2013-07-06 21:39:39</div>
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65472 <strong>CCA13GAAQ552</strong> Gaurav Aggarwal IN PB 2013-07-31 23:09:37</div>
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59426 <strong>CCA13GAOD720</strong> Dr Rajiv Sikroria IN UP 2013-07-11 16:36:21</div>
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59705 <strong>CCA13GAOD720</strong> Devender kumar IN HR 2013-07-12 11:26:09</div>
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88562 <strong>CCAAI1ACR554</strong> B. M. MEHTA IN AP 2013-09-18 16:25:29</div>
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96490 <strong>CCAAI1ACR554</strong> Rohit Gupta IN DL 2013-09-29 11:58:13</div>
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Narendra Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617152711089024935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13919543.post-1363521151977847872014-01-16T12:12:00.000+05:302014-01-16T12:12:00.903+05:30Arvind Kejriwal vs Narendra Modi: The magic of media propaganda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Source: http://www.aaptards.com/post/73077317380/arvind-kejriwal-vs-narendra-modi-the-magic-of-media<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why are we not hearing anything about what Narendra Modi has done?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">Anti-corruption helpline</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">: Kejriwal said he
will launch a helpline to report officials who demand bribe. Media went gaga
over it. Gujarat has such a helpline (24x7) since June 2013:
1800 233 44444. The government publicized it well through TV, print
ads, short films and Navaratri stalls. Just like Kejriwal, the government had
encouraged people to trap officials who demand bribes - there were 8 successful
traps within 3 months of launching. But the coverage received in the national
media is negligible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">People’s involvement:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Some days
back, someone made a post here saying that AAP should create a website to seek
ideas from people. Guess what. Gujarat has this since years: </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.gujaratindia.com/interactive/share-idea.htm"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Share ideas with Government</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">. People can post
ideas and comment on ideas posted by others. Gujarat also has ‘</span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://swagat.gujarat.gov.in/"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Swagat</span></a>’</span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">, the Chief Minister’s Online
Grievance Redressal System since long time back. You can also contact any state
department for any other purpose <a href="http://www.gujaratindia.com/interactive/interact-with-gov.htm"><span style="color: #333366; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">online</span></a>.
With Aapnu Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT), every taluka can prepare its own
development plan (much like Kejriwal’s idea of constituency-specific issues
except that this has been in-place before AAP was born).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">Surprise visits:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Modi has been doing these since
he became CM (</span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-26/ahmedabad/28062116_1_narendra-modi-surprise-visits-gunotsav"><span style="color: #0070c0;">example</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">). But the national media is more
obsessed with talking about why his blog post concerning the riots is not
genuine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">VAT simplification:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> This is on every
newspaper’s front page. Good to see that the traders of Delhi can now have
something that the traders of Gujarat </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.caclubindia.com/share_files/new-vat-registration-simplified-in-gujarat-43789.asp#.UsTnhLSIrIU"><span style="color: #0070c0;">have since 2011</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">. It’s so funny to
see #ApingAAP trending on Twitter when Gujarat has done all these things before
AAP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">Water:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Unlike other states of India
(except probably Rajasthan), Gujarat is a drought-prone state - 70% of its
fresh water resources are located in 30% of its area. In 2012, the state
received only 72% of the average annual rainfall (some areas like Saurashtra received
only 56%). Despite all this, Gujarat is now a water-surplus state. The
Government created a water supply grid, which now supplies 1340 million litres
of water to Saurashtra and Kutch. The annual use of water tankers has reduced
from 5000 to 500. According to the Central government norms, each village
should get 50 litres per capita per day (LPCD) of water, while each city should
get 140 LPCD. For Gujarat, these figures are 100 LPCD and 150 LPCD
respectively. 76% of the houses have tap-water connections (All-India average:
34%). The river inter-linking idea of </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2u9eh5EMSo"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;"> is being <a href="http://guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in/showpage.aspx?contentid=1471&lang=English"><i><span style="color: #0070c0;">implemented in
Gujarat</span></i><span style="color: #333366; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">Electricity:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> AAP had promised that it would
fight corruption in the discoms to reduce electricity prices, but it reduced
the tariffs through subsidy. In stark contrast, Modi scrapped the </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2003-02-26/news/27545602_1_power-subsidy-torrent-group-domestic-consumers"><span style="color: #0070c0;">25% relief</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;"> offered to
domestic consumers. Only the </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-16/news/38586381_1_tariff-hike-gerc-gujarat-electricity-regulatory-commission"><span style="color: #0070c0;">BPL families</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;"> are granted
relief from the tarriff hikes, unlike Kejriwal’s freebies which are available
even to the upper class. Plus, the farmers are offered subsidy in a bid to
increase the agricultural output. Apart from the massive solar power
infrastructure and the new Wind Energy Policy, Modi cleared the Mithivirdi
nuclear power plant despite protests from ‘activists’ who do not understand
that nuclear energy is clean and the new-generation reactors are safe. Kejriwal
and Bhushan on the other hand have joined the misguided leftists to oppose the
Kudankulam plant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><b><span style="color: #333333;">Aam Aadmi:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> Kejriwal was born in an elite
family (his father is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani - a big thing in
the 1960s). Modi is the son of a chaiwala, and himself sold tea on railway
platforms in his childhood. He doesn’t talk about his Sudra caste, though it is
the fastest way to attract a large number of OBC votes. He follows a </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9aac_Ds-g"><span style="color: #0070c0;">simple lifestyle</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">. But media has
managed to project him as a person obsessed with extravagant lifestyle by
focusing on his hobby of collecting designer fountain pens or his elaborate
security (which he needs given that he is #1 on the list of terrorists).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Of course, there are other well-known points such per capita income increase
(Rs.19,823 in 2001 to Rs.75,115 in 2011), revenue deficit in 2001 to revenue
surplus now, One Day Governance (covers 173 public services), 108 Emergency
services, BRTS, reduction in school dropout rate (just 2% now) etc. But our
great media focuses only on the negatives. A good example - Gujarat was among
the most malnourished states in India before Modi - the malnutrition rate
dropped from 70.69% to 38.77% - the </span><i><u><span style="color: #0070c0;"><a href="http://www.firstpost.com/economy/guess-which-state-improved-most-in-malnutrition-gujarat-650087.html"><span style="color: #0070c0;">fastest and the largest imrpovement in entire India</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333;">. How did our media
report this achievement? They didn’t. Instead we had these headlines:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">When will Modi address malnutrition in Gujarat?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">‘Gujarat malnutrition rate worse than Somalia’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Every third child in Gujarat is underweight, says CAG<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At the time of Gujarat elections, the main issue discussed on TV
channels was “Have Muslims forgiven Modi yet?” The media did not focus on
Gujarat’s 2012 manifesto, which includes highly discussable points such as<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">teaching of foreign languages (Chinese and Japanese) in schools<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">ultra-low-cost generic drugs and diagnostic services and health cards
for farming animals<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">50 lakh low-cost pucca houses in next 5 years including 7.5 lakh 2-room
houses for slum-dwellers costing Rs. 50,000 each (so far 22 lakh low-cost
houses have been built since 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">filling of Saurashstra dams with excess Narmada water (<a href="http://guj-nwrws.gujarat.gov.in/showpage.aspx?contentid=4720&lang=English"><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SAUNI yojana</span></a>),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">further replacement of gas cylinders with piped cooking gas (Gujarat
already provides piped cooking gas to 350 villages and some cities, which saves
Rs.600 crore of subsidy money)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Rooftop solar power scheme<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Action plan for climate change<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Focus on making Gandhi Nagar a solar-energy driven city and a carbon
neutral city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Wifi facilities at public places<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">New portal for job placements to help young people find a job<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">· </span><span style="color: #333333;">Promotion of marine biotechnology especially seaweed cultivation<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The media doesn’t want to talk about positive points and ideas in Modi’s
words - instead they are hell bent on cherry-picking to paint Modi’s image as
someone who does nothing except making personal attacks against the Gandhi
family.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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