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[1] From: "I. K. Shukla" Date: Tue Nov 29, 2005 Subject: FW: [foil] ATHEISM Questions and Answers by GORA From: Ghulam Mustafa Lakho <gmlakho.advocate@...> To: foil-l@... Subject: [foil] ATHEISM Questions and Answers by GORA Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 ATHEISM Questions and Answers GORA ATHEIST CENTRE VIJAYAWADA 520 006 India http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/gora31.htm --------------------------------- [2] From: Parvez Jamasji <parvez1942@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Nov 29, 2005 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Godhra to Goa: What A Short Distance? Any thing for delusions, karega ! ! ! Utopia is what is craved for; Honesty & Truth is NOT needed nor required in the scheme of things & Ethos in ''''mera bharat mahan'''' Remember India shining, Bombay to Shanghai, to Singapore, to New York etc, etc. The ""marg darshan"" given by our Role Models, our netas is by crook first, then try hook to achieve ones goal. Thanks for your time. Best Wishes. Parvez Jamasji http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/vc81.html Sukla Sen <suklasen@...> wrote: [Violent protests were staged during the screening of the film in order to block it, albeit unsuccessfully.] The Indian Express November 27, 2005 GODHRA TO GOA: FILM PROVOKES, ANGERS by Shubra Gupta GOA, NOVEMBER 26: Is India finally ready for cutting-edge political cinema ? ???Parzania??™, a film "inspired by a true story," takes you away from standard-issue Bollywood make-believe into the heart of real darkness generated by the Godhra carnage. For those of us who have short memories, it names names, and shows us the places where people were "butchered and raped." ---------------------- [3] From: Khalid Azam <khalidazam@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Nov 30, 2005 Subject: Dawn: The Rightward Lurch of India's Congress Party Dawn 28 November 2005 THE RIGHTWARD LURCH OF INDIA??™S CONGRESS PARTY by Jawed Naqvi URL: N/A IN GEORGE ORWELL??™S fable about the dissipation of the Bolshevik revolution, pigs play the role of ideological rabble-rousers. By the time the book ends the pigs, however, acquire the deportment of the very human beings they had once exhorted the other animals living on The Animal Farm to overthrow. ???No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.??? The drift in India??™s mainstream politics today smacks of similar betrayals. When everyone??™s thoughts were riveted to the defeat of Lalu Prasad Yadav in Bihar last week, a momentous change took place in the western state of Maharashtra. A turncoat leader of the Hindu fascist Shiv Sena was leading the Congress party, which he had joined, to a surprise triumph in a state by-election. Narayan Rane, who till early 2005 was the leader of the opposition in Maharashtra and a prominent Shiv Sena leader, took a dig at Sena chief Bal Thackeray, saying ???his presence in Malvan for campaigning increased my vote share by 10 to 15 per cent and their candidate had to forfeit his deposit???. Once a blue-eyed boy of Thackeray, Rane claimed Shiv Sena chief was doing a ???fine job??™ of winding up the organization which is fast on the wane. He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi was happy with the victory and had promised to visit his constituency in Konkan in February next year. Earlier, the Congress party had inducted a powerful rightarm of Tahckeray, Chhagan Bhujbal. More recently Sanjay Nirupam, another Shiv Sena rebel, joined the Congress amid fanfare despite opposition from secular aides of Sonia Gandhi, including the late movie star and sports minister Sunil Dutt. A couple of years ago, the Congress split the Bharartiya Janata Party in Gujarat. Former Gujarat chief minister Shankar Singh Vaghela, schooled all his life with the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, was made in charge of the Congress party in the state. He has remained president of the Gujarat Congress ever since. Only a few years ago, the right-wing Hindu BJP had split a weak and vulnerable Congress in Uttar Pradesh, using the breakaway legislators to shore up a wafer-thin majority in the state assembly. Of course, many Indians do not see much difference between the Congress party and the BJP. Actually, a senior member of BJP??™s think tank confessed to me recently that on foreign policy and economic issue the two parties held almost identical views. In fact, if the Congress and BJP join hands in parliament today they would have a thin majority with 280 seats, seven more than needed. This majority may not of course hold in the next elections as regional parties assert their role even more forcefully. A recent village-level panchayat election in Uttar Pradesh saw the Dalit party of former chief minister Maywati making a clean sweep, leaving both the BJP and the Congress quite pulverized. For the moment at the federal level, the Congress is leaning on the support of the communist-led Left Front to run a ragtag alliance of convenience. But it is simultaneously playing footsy with its traditional right-wing flank, which now includes former rabble-rousers of the Hindu communalist groups. However, communalism does not seem to be the immediate objective for the Congress. A right-wing consolidation has industrial applications too. Shiv Sena was founded and used by the Congress in the 1960s to break up communist trade unions in Mumbai. The spadework for the formation of the Shiv Sena had started with the launching of the Marathi weekly Marmik by Bal Thackeray on August 13, 1960, just three months after the formation of the state of Maharashtra on May 1, 1960. The publication of the first issue of Marmik, significantly, took place at the hands of the first chief minister of Maharashtra and a top Congress leader, Y. B. Chavan. Since then the Shiv Sena has systematically targeted different sections of minorities in a cynical attempt to build its mass support. Such minority targets have included non-Maharashtrians, Muslims and Dalits. However, anti-Communism has been the most consistent plank of the Shiv Sena ever since its inception. It is this aspect that has ensured it the firm support of big business. One of the defining moments of the Sena??™s ideological thrust came in 1975 when it wholeheartedly supported Indira Gandhi??™s emergency rule. The induction of Shiv Sena and BJP politicians, not necessarily bereft of their ideological baggage, into the Congress appears to be of a piece with the rightward drift of India??™s oldest secular party. Is it preparing to eject the leftist baggage, perhaps to recast itself into a new ideology in the manner of the Labour Party of Britain? The likeness in domestic and foreign policies of both compels a comparison. The Shiv Sena has always been under the authoritarian grip of its demagogic chief who has never disguised his contempt for democracy and adulation of dictatorship. Thackeray has publicly glorified Adolf Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi??™s assassin Nathuram Godse. There must be something seriously compelling for Sonia Gandhi to welcome its most rabid rightwing leaders into the Congress fold. We??™ll reserve judgment and watch the happenings in parliament and outside, hoping that the denouement of our fable doesn??™t turn into a catastrophe. -------------------- [4] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Nov 29, 2005 Subject: Pakistan pleaded inability to help in Maniappan rescue Pakistan pleaded inability to help in Maniappan rescue Special Correspondent M.K. Narayanan was misquoted, Pranab Mukherjee tells Lok Sabha NEW DELHI: The Government on Monday told the Lok Sabha that it sought Pakistan's assistance in securing the release of the kidnapped Border Roads Organisation driver Ramankutty Maniappan, but Islamabad expressed inability to help as it did not have relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan. http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/29/stories/2005112905270700.htm ------------------------------------------ USE CONDOMS ....OR ABSTAIN. Prevent HIV/AIDS INDIA THINKERS NET |
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