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[1] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] The Gujjar Movement in Rajasthan Any iea where we are heading ? Towards Sangparivar Gas Chambers Sponsored by UPA, Sonia and Manmohan Just change the name of Colonel kirodi Singh bainsla and replace it with Sonia and Manmohan. You get the equation and answer the same manner regi viren <vlobo_1@hotmail.com> wrote: Today's Dainik Bhaskar says that Colonel kirodi Singh bainsla who led the Gujjar movement for reservation is a memebr of the BJP. You may recall that the agreement was arrived at between the vasundra Rajae Governemnt and Colonel Bainsla ------ [2] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Jun 9, 2007 Subject: From slum to Infosys: The story of Fatima Salar Shaik From slum to Infosys: The story of Fatima Salar Shaik By M Anwaruddin http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=8\ 8 (Khabrein. info Exclusive) Himmate mardan madade khuda. Efforts bring God? s help. The proverb rarely looked so true. It would have never looked true without the bravado and efforts put up by people like Fatima and her husband Shaik Salar, a young pani puri vendor who along with a young bride nurtured a dream. A dream of making his young wife, all of 15 years an engineer. But the difference with this couple from ordinary dreams that never materialise was that both Fatima and her husband toiled for it for several years, at times sleeping without food, for they had to buy a book for her engineering course the next day, and Shaik putting in more hours at his pani puri cart to get some extra rupees to fund his wife? s college fee. --------- [3] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 Subject: THE PROBLEMS OF THE BOHRA COMMUNITY THE PROBLEMS OF THE BOHRA COMMUNITY By Asghar Ali Engineer http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1262&Itemid=64 Modernisation and change has brought many problems in its wake. The change is hardly ever smooth though we often like it to be one. Many religious communities have gone or have been going through turmoil in this process of modernisation and change. What is referred to as rise of fundamentalism in world religions in general, and in Islam in particular, owes its rise, among other things, to this tortuous process. No wonder then that the Bohra community has also been witnessing cataclysmic upheavals of late. In a way the problem for this community is probably a shade worse as it is not only tightly-knit but also under the tight grip of the priesthood used to govern the community with an iron hand. --------- [4] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 Subject: The lone man fighting for saving the Muslim monuments The lone man fighting for saving the Muslim monuments By Firoz Bakht Ahmed http://khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1254&Itemid=64 Ignorance reigns supreme in each lane and bylane of the historic city of Delhi that was the hub of Urdu 'tehzeeb' (culture), the glorious memories of the five hundred years of Mughal ambience fading away slowly. Delhi is like a mistress coveted by all but cared by none! Delhi is my dream city -- history is written on each of its stones, like in Rome. What I lament as a Delhi citizen is that more weightage is given to politics than poetry, history or writing. ---------- [5] From: Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Jun 9, 2007 Subject: 20 jehadi groups out in Asom with an Islamic state blueprint 20 jehadi groups out in Asom with an Islamic state blueprint By a Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 8: Over the last 28 years, the ULFA has been waging a war against the Government. In its armed struggle, the rebel group killed many innocent people and damaged property worth crores of rupees. This is indeed a huge loss for Asom and its people, but the heavier loss than this is that over 20 jehadi groups have been allowed to spread their tentacles in the State during this period. The jehadi groups have been carrying out subversive activities in the State, including its capital, besides provoking the youths against India. According to intelligence sources, these jehadi organizations, with active support from the ULFA, have been acting in the State and the region in accordance with an ISI blueprint for an Islamic state comprising a vast area of Asom. According to intelligence reports, over 20 jehadi groups, including Adam Sena, Muslim Tigers? Force, Revolutionary Muslim Commandos, United Muslim Front of Assam, Islamic United Reformation Movement of India, Islamic Sevak Sangha, Muslim Security Force, Muslim Liberation Army of Assam, United Liberation Militia of Assam, Muslim Security Council of Assam, Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jehad and People? s United Liberation Front, have been active in Asom. Activists of these organizations, intelligence sources claimed, have been taking shelter in border areas, madrassas, masjids, sar areas and other religious minority-dominated areas in the State, and provoking youths against India. ?These organizations recruit local youths and send them for arms training to foreign countries,? the sources said, and added: ?With the change of guard in Bangladesh, ULFA leaders who have taken shelter in that country, including ?c-in-c? Paresh Baruah, were forced to back the Islamic state blueprint prepared by Pakistan? s ISI and Bangladesh? s DGFI. The mysterious silence of ULFA leaders on burning issues like unchecked infiltration from Bangladesh and expulsion of Bangladeshis from Asom is a glaring example of ULFA going soft on jehadi groups sponsored by forces based in Bangladesh?. Reiterating their revelations that ULFA ?c-in-c? Paresh Baruah converted to Islam under the name Karuj Zaman Khan, got married to one Sufia Begum and had two children ? Tahshim Khan and Akash Khan ? the sources said that the grassroots-level workers of the ULFA were ignorant of their top brass having supported the Islamic nation formula. Sources further said that with the local Asomiya youths distancing themselves from the activities and ideology of the ULFA, the rebel group is now required to rely more on jehadis, both for manpower and arms. The sources further said that jehadi elements had supplied the bombs that were triggered in the city recently. The ULFA militants who triggered the blasts, according to sources, have been identified as Pal, Rathim, Mukesh, Hemanta Rajbongshi and Akash Thapa. -------- [6] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 8, 2007 Subject: Indian Policing: Killing a Bear Branded as Tiger: The Tiger Escapes! FAKED SHOOTOUTS Indian authorities take shortcuts with the law Indian authorities take shortcuts with law Ill pursuit of justice Law enforcers use illegal means to punish criminals who then disappear. By MATTHEW ROSENBERG The Associated Press At her village home in India, Dalbir Kaur holds a picture of her husband, Sukhpal Singh, who authorities believe was killed in 1994 so a $60,000 bounty could be claimed. AMRITSAR, India As far as nearly everyone knew, Gurnam Singh Bandala was gunned down in a shootout with police 13 years ago in the waning days of an uprising by Sikh separatists. That is, until Bandala turned up alive, living as a preacher outside this northern Indian city. "It's the perfect cover, being dead," said Bandala, the classic image of a towering Sikh with his white robe, deep blue turban and long gray beard. Authorities now think that an innocent farmer was deliberately killed by police so that they could present his body as Bandala's and collect a $60,000 bounty. "I thought I was so lucky," Bandala said. But "there was no luck. There was murder." Bandala's re-emergence is one of nearly a dozen similar cases reviewed by the AP that have surfaced recently in India. The faked police shootouts have shaken an already troubled justice system in a country that touts itself as a rights-respecting democracy where the rule of law prevails. Former police officials and human-rights activists say the fake encounters are the brutal result of a system dominated by poorly educated, badly trained and corruptible cops, dirty politicians, and stagnated courts where justice, if it ever comes, can be delayed for years. "Because cases take years to be settled, because witnesses don't show up, because bribes are paid, criminals get away. So the police resort to shortcuts," said Sankar Sen, a former policeman who is now a fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences in New Delhi. An estimated 3,000 people were lost without explanation in the Sikh uprising in Punjab in the 1980s and early 1990s. About 10,000 are missing in Kashmir, where an Islamic rebellion festers today. In Punjab, the fight for a separate Sikh state left about 25,000 people dead, including 1,700 police. Bandala is one of three former separatist militants who were said to have been killed in shootouts but who recently turned up alive. One reason that few cases are investigated is that most Indians are not interested. Wealthier Indians in particular have long accepted extrajudicial killings disguised as shootouts as the most expedient way to get rid of criminals. Bandala already was in hiding for a decade when he read, in July 1994, about his own death in a local newspaper. He worried at first, "then I realized the police wouldn't be chasing me anymore," he said. Bandala was caught by police in 1998 and spent four years in prison on charges of carrying illegal weapons. He was convicted under his real name, but the public record ? which lists Bandala as deceased ? was never changed. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/141518.html ---------- [7] Exiles In Their Homeland By K. A. Shaji http://www.countercurrents.org/shaji080607.htm Illiterate migrant workers from north Kerala who were stuck in Pakistan after Partition have waged a fruitless lifelong struggle to regain their Indian citizenship ---- |
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