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Congress secularism and Mumbai's season of Arson - Ghulam Muhammed
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An Unsealed Room: A Jew Is Tortured and Killed in Paris...But Is it ...
Amidst all of this hullabaloo surrounding cartoons, the story of the extremely horrific kidnapping, torture and murder of a young man named Ilan
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Preventive measures: read the writing on the wall, The Milli ...
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Why 'Hindus' hate Muslims ?, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 9
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The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Mailbag
Iraq: Inquiry to bail out Bush and Rumsfeld...
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How did I Miss this Gem? seriously sandeep
Daily ‘Sahara’ headlines: Is Mossad hand behind Mumbai train blasts of 7/11?
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DAWN - Letters; October 15, 2003
Nobel Peace Prize for Shirin Ebadi THIS refers to the recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian human rights activist and lawyer
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Private exam boards PAKISTAN abounds with many dysfunctional social sectors.
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'Instant talaq banned in many Islamic countries'
Seeking divorce by uttering the word talaq thrice at one go is banned by law in many Islamic countries, including neighbouring Pakistan and
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'Cast away the crutches of other parties'
There was widespread surprise, indeed incomprehension, when the Shahi Imam of Delhi's ... The fault ... Posted by Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai ...
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History News Network
History News Network Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.
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[India] Muslim Children: Childhood restored or childhood sca
[India] Muslim Children: Childhood restored or childhood sca
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The Hindu : Opinion / Letters to the Editor : Best Bakery case
Sir, — The report that Zahira Sheikh, key witness in the Best Bakery case, did not depose on Wednesday in Mumbai is disappointing.
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The Hindu : Opinion / Letters to the Editor : Bad precedent
Sir, — Mehbooba Mufti's act of uncovering the face of a veiled woman, on suspicion that she was a bogus voter, during the election in Srinagar on
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The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
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outlookindia - Rants & Raves
Daily Letters 22 Jan, 2003 11:24:45AM (IST) Brilliant advice! GHULAM MUHAMMED MUMBAI INDIA ...
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The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
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The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Mailbag
Tsunami calls for poll postponement...
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Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
GHULAM MUHAMMED Mumbai, India Musharraf’s interview Sir: Several things sprang to mind when I watched President Musharraf’s recent ...
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The Times of India - Reader's .
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UJA Federation - NATO Should Resist the US-UK-Israeli
NATO Should Resist the US-UK-Israeli By Ghulam Muhammed June 29, 2004 ...
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Comments on: How did I Miss this Gem?
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Letters to Editor
An Indian leader, not belonging to the BJP, was reported to have expressed surprise at the BJP government’s focus on spending huge amounts for
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The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION >
India must refuse pressures to send soldiers to Afghanistan ... Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai ... ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in ...
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National Development Front, Keralam, India
... divisive political moves, will be in the best interest of all concerned. Reprinted from http://ghulammuhammed.blogspot.com/ Ghulam ...
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[GOAJOURNO] BBC and British Muslims – an uneasy public disconnect
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Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
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The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
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National Development Front, Keralam, India
350 years back and is buried on a hillock overlooking Mumbai airport sprawl). ... or other media in Mumbai or elsewhere --- not even by ...
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The Daily Star: Letters to the Editor
US designs on the subcontinent Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai, India The US envoy Richard Armitage is not coming to the subcontinent only for ...
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Sir, — This refers to your Editorial, `The wrong signals' (Dec.19)
More disturbing was his jibe at Muslims taunting them for not adequately condemning the Godhra violence. How many times have we heard this?
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purbanchal :: View topic - India playing on the hands of ZIONIST
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Eye on India: Al-Jazeerah op-ed labours under a misconception
Hijab Legislation to France, on Behalf of Sikhs but not for Muslims By Ghulam Muhammed (Al-Jazeerah) ...
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indianexpress.com :: Read comments - US may hunt for bin Laden in ...
Name - Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai ... © 2006: Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. All rights reserved throughout the world.
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Asia Times Online :: Letters
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Midwest Conservative Journal
Webster Groves, Missouri - Copyright by Christopher S. Johnson ... Submitted by Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai at 4/13/2004 4:48:14 AM ...
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[lbo-talk] Re: Sudan this time
Even CNN and BBC Beating Drums of a New War, on Sudan This Time By Ghulam Muhammed Al-Jazeerah, July 21, 2004 http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion US/
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Eye on India: Israelis visit Kashmir in increasing numbers
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Richard Melson
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IndianExpress.com :: US may hunt for bin Laden in Pak: Bush
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India Today Magazine
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NZ Muslim Community
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Why do we celebrate Independence Day and Republic Day with so much ostentation?
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Murdoch seeks higher FDI in media
Media baron Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday sought enhancement of foreign direct investment limits in media and an early clearance of his Rs 1600 crore
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The Hindu : Disappointing
Sir, — The U.S. President, George W. Bush's speech in the U.N. General Assembly is a disappointment for all peace-loving people who had expected
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The Economic Times - Readers' Opinion
The fog of communal venom hangs heavy over Rajasthan, no thanks to the brazen ... Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:55:59 am ...
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Will reservation benefit the Muslims in India?
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The Third Islamic Renaissance
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... freedom of speech in a manner that will undermine its noble premise. Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai It would be funny if the consequences ...
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Al Jazeera
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March 19, 2007 Letters and Announcements to Al-Jazeerah Editor
... www.aljazeerah.info is a US independent publication. It is not related to the Saudi, Qatari, or UAE websites with similar names.
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The South Asian: Media Quiet on Dalit Rape, Murder
Neither the administration nor the media has taken steps that behooves an institution of a democratic civilized society as local women continue to
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Sabrang Alternative News Network
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The South Asian: Prostitution and the Growing Economy
... of prostitution racket in Mumbai suburb of Dehisar, shows up as a classical ... Ghulam Muhammed lives in Mumbai and can be reached at ...
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The South Asian: US, India, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy
... peace with its neighbours and its own people in the long run. Ghulam Muhammed, is based in Mumbai and can be contacted at ...
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Rozina Ali’s “Ride my Cab” (TFT Oct 27 – Nov 3) was an excellent look into the life of New York taxi drivers. ... Ghulam Muhammed, ...
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The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION >
Pinter’s clarion call ... Ghulam Muhammed ... Ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.com.in ...
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The Tharwa project - Hindutva
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The Indian Police Victim - ???? The Indian muslims - LI Islamic ...
Season of over-reaction and despair By Ghulam Muhammed The Milli Gazette Online 26 August 2006 If nothing fits the logic, blame it on the stars. May...
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Comment is free: Bungs for fatwas
... bribes" were taken to issue fatwas, Ghulam Muhammed, who is associated with the Mumbai-based think-tank Idraak, described the activities ...
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Indian Muslims News and Views
Why 'Hindus' hate Muslims Ghulam Muhammed Mumbai Milligazette.com Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's open season Muslims Islam first any ...
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History News Network
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Pakistan Times Letters to the Editor: Ghulam Muhammed: 'Fate of ...
'Fate of Iraq' - Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai - India ...
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How American Zionist Think Tanks Are Luring India Into Their Parlor ...
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ISLAM, A LA CARTE
Monday, April 02, 2007
The Editor, The Indian Express, Mumbai
RE: Shudheendra Kulkarni’s article: Who’s responsible for the stereotypes of Islam? (Sunday Express, April 1, 2007)
Stereotyping is the sole privileged prerogative of the media. Muslims are easy prey for them, as overall Muslims, either in India or internationally, in print or in electronic media, have no presence at all to counter attacks on them.
They cannot defend themselves against the politically motivated stereotyping, mostly set to tune, by the Jews/Zionists who virtually own world media.
Shudheendra Kulkarni has dutifully followed the beaten path, by selecting a single Muslim figure, the celebrated Dr. Zakir Naik; audacious and daring enough to sanitize himself from the ridicule and derision from the press and boldly carrying on with his mission to fight stereotyping as well as demonizing of Muslims by the media, in his own rustic way that appeals to his own constituency.
Naturally, people like Kulkarni, who cherry-pick their own favorites from the Left liberals that were his past cronies from his old haunt, before the smooth chameleon of an arch secularist joined forces with rabid Hindutva communalists, has now found it easy to use his vitriol against a mainstream Islamic scholar, not given to take dictates from the Islamophobes, who would like their Islam cooked medium, if not raw.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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The Editor, The Indian Express, Mumbai
RE: Shudheendra Kulkarni’s article: Who’s responsible for the stereotypes of Islam? (Sunday Express, April 1, 2007)
Stereotyping is the sole privileged prerogative of the media. Muslims are easy prey for them, as overall Muslims, either in India or internationally, in print or in electronic media, have no presence at all to counter attacks on them.
They cannot defend themselves against the politically motivated stereotyping, mostly set to tune, by the Jews/Zionists who virtually own world media.
Shudheendra Kulkarni has dutifully followed the beaten path, by selecting a single Muslim figure, the celebrated Dr. Zakir Naik; audacious and daring enough to sanitize himself from the ridicule and derision from the press and boldly carrying on with his mission to fight stereotyping as well as demonizing of Muslims by the media, in his own rustic way that appeals to his own constituency.
Naturally, people like Kulkarni, who cherry-pick their own favorites from the Left liberals that were his past cronies from his old haunt, before the smooth chameleon of an arch secularist joined forces with rabid Hindutva communalists, has now found it easy to use his vitriol against a mainstream Islamic scholar, not given to take dictates from the Islamophobes, who would like their Islam cooked medium, if not raw.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
#5324
INDIAN DEMOCRACY: A CONTINUOUS FRAUD ON ITS PEOPLE
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
INDIAN DEMOCRACY: A CONTINUOUS FRAUD ON ITS PEOPLE
While it is generally believed in India, that politicians and bureaucrats have been running the country, the real power always rested with the civil servants. Nothing moves without their signature. After the inauguration of PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh’s liberalization and the subsequent signing of strategic partnership agreement by the BJP leaders with the US, it seems India is being virtually ruled by some anonymous pen-pusher in a small room, with a desk and few chairs in the labyrinth of America’s State Department. Efforts had been made by Congress to get some legitimacy for Manmohan Singh by organizing election victory for the nominated Prime Minister, but without success. However, it would be most surprising for the millions of Indian voters, to know that the nominated Prime Minister himself cares too hoots either for the election or for Congress. As long as, the US administration is behind him, he feels so cocky, that he is least interested in any Congress politics of compromise or conciliation, with anybody whosoever it may be. With the open praise for PV Narasimha Rao, who is rightly believed to have permanently damaged the Congress party, with his acts of commission or omission, leading to the demolition of Babri Masjid and the automatic loss of Muslim vote bank to Congress for all time to come, it is apparent that Manmohan Singh has least inclination to waste his time on even trying to prop up Congress in the crucial UP assembly elections. In some moment of weakness, he may have decided to appoint Sachar commission, to survey Muslim backwardness in the country. But the way he has not reached any consensus with his Finance Minister, to translate his own declaration that Muslims should have budgetary reservation of 15% towards, starting with this year budget, it shows that he is neither interested in Muslim affairs, nor in Muslim vote bank. That leaves the only explanation to reason out his ‘benign neglect’ of Muslims, if not open hostility, being the link with the US handlers, who are so fully and strongly behind him, that he feels he is something above and beyond the so-called democratic farce called elections that is going on, practically all year round, at some level or other. The whole hoopla of democracy has to be kept in high gear, so that the real job of hijacking the nation to the dictates of the US colonial stranglehold on India can go on smoothly. The small minority of the upper-caste politicians is enriching itself in the still strong license and permit Raj. It has hardly any motivation to reflect, how India as a nation is being transformed into a shackled and impoverished colony, while they had already made their loot. Indian history is replete with such rank opportunists, who had sold their souls at few pieces of silver and thrown their country to the ravishing of foreign wolves.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI
#5352
INDIAN DEMOCRACY: A CONTINUOUS FRAUD ON ITS PEOPLE
While it is generally believed in India, that politicians and bureaucrats have been running the country, the real power always rested with the civil servants. Nothing moves without their signature. After the inauguration of PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh’s liberalization and the subsequent signing of strategic partnership agreement by the BJP leaders with the US, it seems India is being virtually ruled by some anonymous pen-pusher in a small room, with a desk and few chairs in the labyrinth of America’s State Department. Efforts had been made by Congress to get some legitimacy for Manmohan Singh by organizing election victory for the nominated Prime Minister, but without success. However, it would be most surprising for the millions of Indian voters, to know that the nominated Prime Minister himself cares too hoots either for the election or for Congress. As long as, the US administration is behind him, he feels so cocky, that he is least interested in any Congress politics of compromise or conciliation, with anybody whosoever it may be. With the open praise for PV Narasimha Rao, who is rightly believed to have permanently damaged the Congress party, with his acts of commission or omission, leading to the demolition of Babri Masjid and the automatic loss of Muslim vote bank to Congress for all time to come, it is apparent that Manmohan Singh has least inclination to waste his time on even trying to prop up Congress in the crucial UP assembly elections. In some moment of weakness, he may have decided to appoint Sachar commission, to survey Muslim backwardness in the country. But the way he has not reached any consensus with his Finance Minister, to translate his own declaration that Muslims should have budgetary reservation of 15% towards, starting with this year budget, it shows that he is neither interested in Muslim affairs, nor in Muslim vote bank. That leaves the only explanation to reason out his ‘benign neglect’ of Muslims, if not open hostility, being the link with the US handlers, who are so fully and strongly behind him, that he feels he is something above and beyond the so-called democratic farce called elections that is going on, practically all year round, at some level or other. The whole hoopla of democracy has to be kept in high gear, so that the real job of hijacking the nation to the dictates of the US colonial stranglehold on India can go on smoothly. The small minority of the upper-caste politicians is enriching itself in the still strong license and permit Raj. It has hardly any motivation to reflect, how India as a nation is being transformed into a shackled and impoverished colony, while they had already made their loot. Indian history is replete with such rank opportunists, who had sold their souls at few pieces of silver and thrown their country to the ravishing of foreign wolves.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI
#5352
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Towards opening an Islamic Bank in India
12 March, 1997
Dear Mirza Saheb, As Salaamualaikum wa Rehmatullah
May I give you a précis of some idea of how to proceed with any financial project in India? Abu Dawood’s first choice of opening a full-fledged Islamic Bank would require lot of leg work, without any certainty of success. New Commercial Banks have been recently licenced, but the parties had first built up good stakes in India. Besides, any Muslim project is bound to be doubly handicapped, unless some sweeteners by way of investment interests are first offered. In the case of a Kuwaiti organization, since Kuwait does not have reciprocal banking protocols with any other country, it could come as an argument against granting banking facilities to any Kuwait Bank. Even, Citibank people when informed by Abu Dawood that KFH is interested in their own bank; had politely asked him to clear this with political authorities and that there is some sensitivity towards Muslim interests ( which, of course, is an open secret)
Still at the moment, one Muslim Minister, Mr. C. M. Ibrahim, from Bangalore, is the right hand man of Prime Minister Deve Gowda and I can approach him through a personal friend of mine, whom he visits here in Mumbai, whenever he passes through. For this I may either have a first meeting with him or then try to fix a second meeting with Abu Dawood. To clear my bonafide, it will make things convenient if Abu Dawood arranged to send me a letter as a friend of the Bank to discuss the specific matter with the Minister. This is, of course, without any commitments on either side.
The second level of activity, that even Citibank recommended, was to go into a Non-Banking financial limited liability company, and the preferred opening given by Government is in Mutual Fund field. KFH can join hand with some US or UK institution with strong Mutual Fund Management exposure and both can then open up here. The Mutual Fund operation needs 3 companies. 1. Trustees 2. Mutual Fund (the operating company) 3. The Assets Management Co. (The Assets Management Co. Needs expertise to run the portfolio). If you need more details, I will send you further literature.
I have gleaned from my talks with Abu Dawood, that he requires 3 things from his joint venture Indian counter part, 1. He should have sufficient means, like Tata, Birla and good reputation. 2. He should have political clout 3. He should be a committed Muslim. I have already short listed a few people like Sherwani’s from Allahabad, some others from Madras and Bangalore. (None of the present firms like Al Ameen, Barkat, Muslim Fund, who are engaged in Islamic financial services, according to me, are qualified.) I will start the process of contacting others, only when I get a firm go-ahead from you.
You had mentioned about your pending visa. If you find other proper, you may directly write or phone Mr. Inder Kumar Gujral whose address and phone details I write below:
Mr. I. K. Gujral, M.P. (Rajya Sabha), UNION MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
4AB PURANA QILLA ROAD
NEW DELHI - 110011
#251
Dear Mirza Saheb, As Salaamualaikum wa Rehmatullah
May I give you a précis of some idea of how to proceed with any financial project in India? Abu Dawood’s first choice of opening a full-fledged Islamic Bank would require lot of leg work, without any certainty of success. New Commercial Banks have been recently licenced, but the parties had first built up good stakes in India. Besides, any Muslim project is bound to be doubly handicapped, unless some sweeteners by way of investment interests are first offered. In the case of a Kuwaiti organization, since Kuwait does not have reciprocal banking protocols with any other country, it could come as an argument against granting banking facilities to any Kuwait Bank. Even, Citibank people when informed by Abu Dawood that KFH is interested in their own bank; had politely asked him to clear this with political authorities and that there is some sensitivity towards Muslim interests ( which, of course, is an open secret)
Still at the moment, one Muslim Minister, Mr. C. M. Ibrahim, from Bangalore, is the right hand man of Prime Minister Deve Gowda and I can approach him through a personal friend of mine, whom he visits here in Mumbai, whenever he passes through. For this I may either have a first meeting with him or then try to fix a second meeting with Abu Dawood. To clear my bonafide, it will make things convenient if Abu Dawood arranged to send me a letter as a friend of the Bank to discuss the specific matter with the Minister. This is, of course, without any commitments on either side.
The second level of activity, that even Citibank recommended, was to go into a Non-Banking financial limited liability company, and the preferred opening given by Government is in Mutual Fund field. KFH can join hand with some US or UK institution with strong Mutual Fund Management exposure and both can then open up here. The Mutual Fund operation needs 3 companies. 1. Trustees 2. Mutual Fund (the operating company) 3. The Assets Management Co. (The Assets Management Co. Needs expertise to run the portfolio). If you need more details, I will send you further literature.
I have gleaned from my talks with Abu Dawood, that he requires 3 things from his joint venture Indian counter part, 1. He should have sufficient means, like Tata, Birla and good reputation. 2. He should have political clout 3. He should be a committed Muslim. I have already short listed a few people like Sherwani’s from Allahabad, some others from Madras and Bangalore. (None of the present firms like Al Ameen, Barkat, Muslim Fund, who are engaged in Islamic financial services, according to me, are qualified.) I will start the process of contacting others, only when I get a firm go-ahead from you.
You had mentioned about your pending visa. If you find other proper, you may directly write or phone Mr. Inder Kumar Gujral whose address and phone details I write below:
Mr. I. K. Gujral, M.P. (Rajya Sabha), UNION MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
4AB PURANA QILLA ROAD
NEW DELHI - 110011
#251
Sunil Dutt - the only Congressman to resign his parliament seat over Babri Masjid demolition
Tuesday, March 11, 1997
Why did they not speak before? Why are they speaking now? The innocent naiveté of the stock question is not easily apparent to all and sundry. But it derails the impact and importance of some of the late speaker’s briefs in political field. After S. B. Chavan, it is now the turn of Sunil Dutt, who had kept a gentlemanly silence while Congress was being irreparably damaged by a few self centered power-hungry manipulators. At least Sunil Dutt’s silence can easily be deciphered. He was the only Congress MP that tendered his resignation after the Babri Masjid demolition and the riots and police brutality in its aftermath. He had not envisaged the vindictive and ruthless nature of his adversaries, whose blatant misuse of power at their command to punish him for his ‘intemperance’, was to reduce him to a pitiable wreck. And this is all common knowledge. Still some wise people ask the stock question: why did he not speak earlier on? Why is he is speaking now? Rao and Pawar in power had unleashed on the people, a governance which was more diabolic and disruptive than the much maligned period of Indira Gandhi’s emergency.
#250
Why did they not speak before? Why are they speaking now? The innocent naiveté of the stock question is not easily apparent to all and sundry. But it derails the impact and importance of some of the late speaker’s briefs in political field. After S. B. Chavan, it is now the turn of Sunil Dutt, who had kept a gentlemanly silence while Congress was being irreparably damaged by a few self centered power-hungry manipulators. At least Sunil Dutt’s silence can easily be deciphered. He was the only Congress MP that tendered his resignation after the Babri Masjid demolition and the riots and police brutality in its aftermath. He had not envisaged the vindictive and ruthless nature of his adversaries, whose blatant misuse of power at their command to punish him for his ‘intemperance’, was to reduce him to a pitiable wreck. And this is all common knowledge. Still some wise people ask the stock question: why did he not speak earlier on? Why is he is speaking now? Rao and Pawar in power had unleashed on the people, a governance which was more diabolic and disruptive than the much maligned period of Indira Gandhi’s emergency.
#250
HIDDEN CHARITY
9 March, 1997
The Editor
The Observer
Mumbai
Sir
Farzana Versey in her letter (9/3) has achieved where Madhuri Pai inadvertently failed (Concern, 2-8 Feb.). She was able to give belated credit to her maternal uncle’s estate for the grand donation of ten lakhs. I am sure she must have been instrumental in arranging for the donation to Spastics Society for the salvation of her departed uncle’s soul and not for any publicity; for as a professed Muslim she would certainly know that the Prophet always preferred charity when the left hand did not know how or whom the right hand helped.
The Editor
The Observer
Mumbai
Sir
Farzana Versey in her letter (9/3) has achieved where Madhuri Pai inadvertently failed (Concern, 2-8 Feb.). She was able to give belated credit to her maternal uncle’s estate for the grand donation of ten lakhs. I am sure she must have been instrumental in arranging for the donation to Spastics Society for the salvation of her departed uncle’s soul and not for any publicity; for as a professed Muslim she would certainly know that the Prophet always preferred charity when the left hand did not know how or whom the right hand helped.
US veto at the UN - a slap on the face of world opinion
11 March, 1997
The Editor
The Daily
Mumbai
Dear Sir
Each time, US uses its veto against Palestinian demands and in favour of Israel, it bleeds.
The overall US position is that UN is not the forum to fine tune responses that a tangled affair like Arab- Israel calls for. It is therefore, basically the failure of US's own diplomacy that drags the matter to the world forum. If President Clinton could have foreseen adverse Palestinian response to any attempt to build Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, which is not very improbable, and if so, then he is unnecessarily tarnishing his own country's credit in the world, after investing so much goodwill into the resolution of Palestine-Israel conflict. Vetoing a UN resolution, and that too sponsored by its own European allies, is, as always, a slap on the face of world opinion. A very grave insult indeed.
Yassar Arafat would not have to approach the UN at every turn, if the machinery to implement Palestine-Israeli accord had more teeth. On the other hand, if Arafat has gone on to UN with a view to strengthen the Clinton administration's hand in curbing Israeli intransigence, then the attempt has back fired. Jerusalem's status in international legal terms is still undecided and the US has all along been very scrupulous in sticking to the legality of the matter. It is therefore surprising that it has shown so muted a response to Israel's usurpation of Arab properties and plans to build Jewish settlements in that part of Jerusalem which Palestinians have, more or less, resigned to accept, as possibly its part of the eventual capital of the future State of Palestine.
#248
The Editor
The Daily
Mumbai
Dear Sir
Each time, US uses its veto against Palestinian demands and in favour of Israel, it bleeds.
The overall US position is that UN is not the forum to fine tune responses that a tangled affair like Arab- Israel calls for. It is therefore, basically the failure of US's own diplomacy that drags the matter to the world forum. If President Clinton could have foreseen adverse Palestinian response to any attempt to build Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, which is not very improbable, and if so, then he is unnecessarily tarnishing his own country's credit in the world, after investing so much goodwill into the resolution of Palestine-Israel conflict. Vetoing a UN resolution, and that too sponsored by its own European allies, is, as always, a slap on the face of world opinion. A very grave insult indeed.
Yassar Arafat would not have to approach the UN at every turn, if the machinery to implement Palestine-Israeli accord had more teeth. On the other hand, if Arafat has gone on to UN with a view to strengthen the Clinton administration's hand in curbing Israeli intransigence, then the attempt has back fired. Jerusalem's status in international legal terms is still undecided and the US has all along been very scrupulous in sticking to the legality of the matter. It is therefore surprising that it has shown so muted a response to Israel's usurpation of Arab properties and plans to build Jewish settlements in that part of Jerusalem which Palestinians have, more or less, resigned to accept, as possibly its part of the eventual capital of the future State of Palestine.
#248
Indrajit Gupta's anti-coalition politics
Saturday, March 8, 1997
Mr. Indrajit Gupta has surpassed S.B. Chavan by attempting to run the Home Ministry by issuing Press statements diametrically opposite those of his own coalition partners. His compulsion to throw the gauntlet has political overtones. It is observed that of late, the Left has been flexing its muscles; that hints at some hidden grand plan. Its vocal pressure on Budget proposals, the mammoth gathering marshaled in Patna, the 10,000 strong mob going on a rampage recently near Mumbai, and now Mr. Indrajit’s Gupta’s public feud with his own Ministry colleagues, are all foreboding of some future moves. The Left will find to its dismay that the public mood will certainly turn against it, if the United Front government is threatened.
#246
Mr. Indrajit Gupta has surpassed S.B. Chavan by attempting to run the Home Ministry by issuing Press statements diametrically opposite those of his own coalition partners. His compulsion to throw the gauntlet has political overtones. It is observed that of late, the Left has been flexing its muscles; that hints at some hidden grand plan. Its vocal pressure on Budget proposals, the mammoth gathering marshaled in Patna, the 10,000 strong mob going on a rampage recently near Mumbai, and now Mr. Indrajit’s Gupta’s public feud with his own Ministry colleagues, are all foreboding of some future moves. The Left will find to its dismay that the public mood will certainly turn against it, if the United Front government is threatened.
#246
A PITCH FOR MUSLIM MAJLIS E MUSHAWARAT
Friday, March 7, 1997
The recent Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections again repeated the same pattern of polarization of Muslim votes that had given 2 previous victories to Sena-BJP alliance in Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The breaking of moorings with Congress was certainly the top-of-mind grass-root Muslim obsession, but the vote failed to form a positive and cohesive factor, that could have easily made inroads into the successes of the Sena-BJP alliance, as Muslims did have the numbers to achieve an impressive showing.
The field organisations who traditionally are active in forming public opinion, had once again failed to inspire any confidence within the community. Besides, they came out with differing assessments and preferences. Ulama Council which had shown some single-mindedness in previous elections miserably failed to achieve any consensus within their own ranks and damaged its credibility in appearing to show favoritism to individuals, even though its recommendations were most well-considered. Jamat e Islami and Milli Council, both had taken leave of absence. The result was the further strengthening of the Fascist forces and complete rout in secular arena. The Samajwadi Party did make some impressive gains, but would have doubled their tally, if there would have been unity in secular and Muslim ranks.
The general, country-wide trend for the future, is favouring Sangh Parivar and we will have to blame ourselves if we do not make a last ditch attempt to stem the Saffron tide. We are writing to you today, to seek your opinion, guidance and cooperation in the formation of Muslim Majlis -e- Mushawarat, Maharashtra. We have held some consultations, and there appeared to be a consensus towards desirability of forming a state level body to bring all organisations in Maharashtra together, not only for the future challenges in the state, but to contribute and influence the country level strategies to confront the menace posed by fascist forces. Mumbai is the power-house of the country and all major All India movements get their crucial backing from Mumbai. While Muslims all over the country are in serious disarray, the lead given by Maharashtra could come as a fresh breeze for the community.
#244
The recent Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections again repeated the same pattern of polarization of Muslim votes that had given 2 previous victories to Sena-BJP alliance in Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The breaking of moorings with Congress was certainly the top-of-mind grass-root Muslim obsession, but the vote failed to form a positive and cohesive factor, that could have easily made inroads into the successes of the Sena-BJP alliance, as Muslims did have the numbers to achieve an impressive showing.
The field organisations who traditionally are active in forming public opinion, had once again failed to inspire any confidence within the community. Besides, they came out with differing assessments and preferences. Ulama Council which had shown some single-mindedness in previous elections miserably failed to achieve any consensus within their own ranks and damaged its credibility in appearing to show favoritism to individuals, even though its recommendations were most well-considered. Jamat e Islami and Milli Council, both had taken leave of absence. The result was the further strengthening of the Fascist forces and complete rout in secular arena. The Samajwadi Party did make some impressive gains, but would have doubled their tally, if there would have been unity in secular and Muslim ranks.
The general, country-wide trend for the future, is favouring Sangh Parivar and we will have to blame ourselves if we do not make a last ditch attempt to stem the Saffron tide. We are writing to you today, to seek your opinion, guidance and cooperation in the formation of Muslim Majlis -e- Mushawarat, Maharashtra. We have held some consultations, and there appeared to be a consensus towards desirability of forming a state level body to bring all organisations in Maharashtra together, not only for the future challenges in the state, but to contribute and influence the country level strategies to confront the menace posed by fascist forces. Mumbai is the power-house of the country and all major All India movements get their crucial backing from Mumbai. While Muslims all over the country are in serious disarray, the lead given by Maharashtra could come as a fresh breeze for the community.
#244
STRANGE ENCOUNTER WITH URDU WRITER RAJENDER SINGH BEDI
March 5, 1997
The Editor
The Times of India
Mumbai
Though Deepak Hiranandani had to go out of city limits to enjoy strange landmarks to reach their destination (Rocky Trail ,5/3), years back, while trying to find late Rajendra Singh Bedi’s residence at King’s Circle to invite him to preside over Anjuman -e- Urdu function at Sydenham, we had a very unusual experience. Mr. Kaifi Azmi had not given detailed address and asked us to proceed to King’s Circle and assured us we’d have no difficulty.
With several streets spreading out from the hub, we were at a loss as how to proceed. Providentially it started to drizzle and we hurriedly took shelter with a grocer. When we enquired about Bedi Saheb, he asked us to wait till the drizzle stopped, and he would send his man to show us the residence. We were impressed. Our guide turned out to be delivering coal with a sack on his back and we blindly followed him to the back door of Bedi Saheb’s kitchen. Bedi Saheb was there with only his kuchchha, munching on some snack, when we introduced ourselves. He was taken aback, but quickly recovered asking us to come through the front door. So eventually we did find him through our coal-delivering guide. But we can never forget our unusual first encounter with the great Urdu writer.
#242
The Editor
The Times of India
Mumbai
Though Deepak Hiranandani had to go out of city limits to enjoy strange landmarks to reach their destination (Rocky Trail ,5/3), years back, while trying to find late Rajendra Singh Bedi’s residence at King’s Circle to invite him to preside over Anjuman -e- Urdu function at Sydenham, we had a very unusual experience. Mr. Kaifi Azmi had not given detailed address and asked us to proceed to King’s Circle and assured us we’d have no difficulty.
With several streets spreading out from the hub, we were at a loss as how to proceed. Providentially it started to drizzle and we hurriedly took shelter with a grocer. When we enquired about Bedi Saheb, he asked us to wait till the drizzle stopped, and he would send his man to show us the residence. We were impressed. Our guide turned out to be delivering coal with a sack on his back and we blindly followed him to the back door of Bedi Saheb’s kitchen. Bedi Saheb was there with only his kuchchha, munching on some snack, when we introduced ourselves. He was taken aback, but quickly recovered asking us to come through the front door. So eventually we did find him through our coal-delivering guide. But we can never forget our unusual first encounter with the great Urdu writer.
#242
MUMBAI'S TRAFFIC BLUES
4 March, 1997
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sir,
The BEST takeover of Limozine bus service should be welcomed as the introduction of a First Class for the bus traveling public. As it is, Railways did have First Class service for over a hundred years. So just because earlier politicians and administrators had no imagination or courage, the present breakthrough in providing should be judged on its merit and not condemned for reasons of party politics. The one- time private car luxury had become sheer necessity due to inadequacy of alternate transport facilities. Now the inadequacy of roads and parking places and the limitless proliferation of fume-spewing cars on choked roads, make private cars a menace. Any meaningful effort to introduce structural innovations that may catch on and voluntarily convince car-owners to leave their homes without their cars will be of vital concern to the public, though not to some politicians whose interests might have been compromised.
Another voluntary effort that could utilize all the seating capacity of private cars, is promotion of a Car / Commuter Club, where voluntary agencies like Rotary could enroll both commuters and car owners who can be matched to see that cars on their daily commuting run may offer lifts to, say -‘Rotary sponsored’ - commuters, at appointed points on arterial roads. Traffic Department with WIAA and other social groups could join together to work out such a scheme, if a major grid-jam on Mumbai road is to be avoided.
#241
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sir,
The BEST takeover of Limozine bus service should be welcomed as the introduction of a First Class for the bus traveling public. As it is, Railways did have First Class service for over a hundred years. So just because earlier politicians and administrators had no imagination or courage, the present breakthrough in providing should be judged on its merit and not condemned for reasons of party politics. The one- time private car luxury had become sheer necessity due to inadequacy of alternate transport facilities. Now the inadequacy of roads and parking places and the limitless proliferation of fume-spewing cars on choked roads, make private cars a menace. Any meaningful effort to introduce structural innovations that may catch on and voluntarily convince car-owners to leave their homes without their cars will be of vital concern to the public, though not to some politicians whose interests might have been compromised.
Another voluntary effort that could utilize all the seating capacity of private cars, is promotion of a Car / Commuter Club, where voluntary agencies like Rotary could enroll both commuters and car owners who can be matched to see that cars on their daily commuting run may offer lifts to, say -‘Rotary sponsored’ - commuters, at appointed points on arterial roads. Traffic Department with WIAA and other social groups could join together to work out such a scheme, if a major grid-jam on Mumbai road is to be avoided.
#241
Anand Patwardhan's documentary: 'Ram ke Naam'
3 March, 1997
The Editor
The Afternoon FAX:2870371
Mumbai PHONE:2871616
Sir,
The televising of Anand Patwardhan’s documentary, ‘Ram ke Nam’, last Sunday (2/3) , on national television, under court orders, goes to prove how effective and powerful is the subjugation and subversion of the nation by a small percentage of well organised, well funded and highly motivated minority. The rise of BJP and the Sangh Parivar blitz is a direct result of the failure of Congress leadership to grasp the challenges that our multi-polar, multi-ethnic society faces, once the binding force of the central unity is dissipated by the corrosion of corruption and top-heavy elitist governance. The unbridled sycophancy had completed the rot.
In their brute lunge for power, L K Advani and company sacrificed all notions of legality and propriety, justice and fairplay. Muslims were just a convenient scapegoat. The alternative offered, is itself so burdened with injustices, dangers of totalitarian undemocratic governance and its historical anti-people ethos, that it cannot long suppress the people’s longing for the second liberation.
#238
The Editor
The Afternoon FAX:2870371
Mumbai PHONE:2871616
Sir,
The televising of Anand Patwardhan’s documentary, ‘Ram ke Nam’, last Sunday (2/3) , on national television, under court orders, goes to prove how effective and powerful is the subjugation and subversion of the nation by a small percentage of well organised, well funded and highly motivated minority. The rise of BJP and the Sangh Parivar blitz is a direct result of the failure of Congress leadership to grasp the challenges that our multi-polar, multi-ethnic society faces, once the binding force of the central unity is dissipated by the corrosion of corruption and top-heavy elitist governance. The unbridled sycophancy had completed the rot.
In their brute lunge for power, L K Advani and company sacrificed all notions of legality and propriety, justice and fairplay. Muslims were just a convenient scapegoat. The alternative offered, is itself so burdened with injustices, dangers of totalitarian undemocratic governance and its historical anti-people ethos, that it cannot long suppress the people’s longing for the second liberation.
#238
Reflection time for Congress
27 February, 1997
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir,
Samajwadi Party’s strong showing in the recent Mumbai Municipal Corporation election sends out several messages to political parties. For Congress, it is a message not to take people for granted. Its acts of omission and commission have robbed it of the support of a wide spectrum of constituencies. One by one, it lost touch with its supporters, nay its own ethos and petty-minded so-called leaders, in their individual obsession for power grab, have rendered Congress a sorry skeleton of its majestic past. It will be missed, but none of the present leadership deserves any sympathy. On the contrary they deserve their banishment into oblivion.
For Shiv-Sena/BJP, the election is a message that but for the disarray in the opposition, they could not have overcome their absolute non-performance. On all counts, Maharashtra had been slipping. The state that is supposed to be the power-house of the nation is gradually losing all its advantages. As if it is being run by local Shakha Parmukhs, who are interested only what is coming to them. Shiv-Sena will have to pull itself up with its boot strips and work for people. Food, housing, roads, agriculture, industry, power sector, infrastructure--- the list is long and forbidding and there is no time to lose in back-slapping. Maharashtra should go on war footing, if Shiv-Sena’s rule is not to be remembered as a flying visit of Nadir Shah.
For Samajwadi Party, the message is clear that they have to hold their horses and forge better understanding with their alliance partners. They are the legitimate leaders of the underprivileged and unless they inspire a sense of fairness and magnanimity in their dealings with their comrades, they cannot build on their current success.
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir,
Samajwadi Party’s strong showing in the recent Mumbai Municipal Corporation election sends out several messages to political parties. For Congress, it is a message not to take people for granted. Its acts of omission and commission have robbed it of the support of a wide spectrum of constituencies. One by one, it lost touch with its supporters, nay its own ethos and petty-minded so-called leaders, in their individual obsession for power grab, have rendered Congress a sorry skeleton of its majestic past. It will be missed, but none of the present leadership deserves any sympathy. On the contrary they deserve their banishment into oblivion.
For Shiv-Sena/BJP, the election is a message that but for the disarray in the opposition, they could not have overcome their absolute non-performance. On all counts, Maharashtra had been slipping. The state that is supposed to be the power-house of the nation is gradually losing all its advantages. As if it is being run by local Shakha Parmukhs, who are interested only what is coming to them. Shiv-Sena will have to pull itself up with its boot strips and work for people. Food, housing, roads, agriculture, industry, power sector, infrastructure--- the list is long and forbidding and there is no time to lose in back-slapping. Maharashtra should go on war footing, if Shiv-Sena’s rule is not to be remembered as a flying visit of Nadir Shah.
For Samajwadi Party, the message is clear that they have to hold their horses and forge better understanding with their alliance partners. They are the legitimate leaders of the underprivileged and unless they inspire a sense of fairness and magnanimity in their dealings with their comrades, they cannot build on their current success.
Friday, September 15, 2006
SUCCESSFUL MUSLIM CANDIDATES IN MUMBAI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
ELECTIONS - FEBRUARY 1997
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CANDIDATE PARTY WARD
1.
MOHAMMAD H. ABRANI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
6
2.
WAQARUNNISA ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
7
3.
YAQUB MEMON
SAMAJWADI PARTY
10
4.
MOHAMMED MANSOORI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
11
5.
NASIR SHAIKH
SAMAJWADI PARTY
22
6.
SHAKIR ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
26
7.
SHAIKH ABDUL SALAM
SAMAJWADI PARTY
35
8.
VANI NIAZ AHMED
INDEPENDENT
155
9.
BABA SIDDIQUI
CONGRESS
73
10.
SALEEM BEG
SAMAJWADI PARTY
107
11.
ISMAIL MAKWANA
INDEPENDENT
112
12.
SALMA ALMELKAR
CONGRESS
134
13.
MOHD. HANAN KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
162
14.
SHAKEEL ANSARI
INDEPENDENT
165
15.
ABDUL KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
166
16.
EHSANULLAH KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
168
17.
SHEIKH NOOR MOHD.
INDEPENDENT
185
18.
ZUBEIDA KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
187
19.
SHAKILA ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
188
20.
NOORJAHAN INAMDAR
SAMAJWADI PARTY
190
TOTAL: 20 ELECTED CANDIDATES OUT OF 221 SEATS
SAMAJWADI PARTY : 14 SUCCESSFUL MUSLIM CANDIDATES
CONGRESS : 2
INDEPENDENT : 4
(SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA- MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 26, 1997)
#231
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CANDIDATE PARTY WARD
1.
MOHAMMAD H. ABRANI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
6
2.
WAQARUNNISA ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
7
3.
YAQUB MEMON
SAMAJWADI PARTY
10
4.
MOHAMMED MANSOORI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
11
5.
NASIR SHAIKH
SAMAJWADI PARTY
22
6.
SHAKIR ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
26
7.
SHAIKH ABDUL SALAM
SAMAJWADI PARTY
35
8.
VANI NIAZ AHMED
INDEPENDENT
155
9.
BABA SIDDIQUI
CONGRESS
73
10.
SALEEM BEG
SAMAJWADI PARTY
107
11.
ISMAIL MAKWANA
INDEPENDENT
112
12.
SALMA ALMELKAR
CONGRESS
134
13.
MOHD. HANAN KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
162
14.
SHAKEEL ANSARI
INDEPENDENT
165
15.
ABDUL KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
166
16.
EHSANULLAH KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
168
17.
SHEIKH NOOR MOHD.
INDEPENDENT
185
18.
ZUBEIDA KHAN
SAMAJWADI PARTY
187
19.
SHAKILA ANSARI
SAMAJWADI PARTY
188
20.
NOORJAHAN INAMDAR
SAMAJWADI PARTY
190
TOTAL: 20 ELECTED CANDIDATES OUT OF 221 SEATS
SAMAJWADI PARTY : 14 SUCCESSFUL MUSLIM CANDIDATES
CONGRESS : 2
INDEPENDENT : 4
(SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA- MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 26, 1997)
#231
IDRAAK namah
Dateline: Mumbai/Bombay
· ‘Split votes made all the difference’ , Daily, Mumbai comments on the recent Mumbai Municipal elections. Any poll understanding between Congress, Samajwadi and others of the third force could have routed Saffron Brigade. Unfortunately, Congress, SP, Janata all had the grand hallucination of carrying the day alone. Congress cannot change its stripes. The ‘imperial’ Bombay Congress President, Murli Deora, who had to resign, had earlier held court and expected all others to appear before him. His servile agents failed to convince others. The legacy of Congress arrogance, high-handedness, coterie rule, corruption and deep-seated contempt of Muslims, had sealed its fate.
· Samajwadi Party Bombay President deserved the front page banner photo with those of Bal Thackray and CM Manohar Joshi in Mid-day. Barely 3 years after Supreme Court released him from a trumped up TADA term, he inspired the people with his strong populist image, to be rewarded with 21 seats as compared to 26 of BJP. He could have done better, if third force alliance had been less demanding and more accommodating. The flavour of the election was accommodation and coalition.
· For Shiv Sena-BJP it was a negative vote. They have been non-performers. Minority baiting is still their trump card. The public has silently witnessed Kini-murder handling, Hazare’s corruption charges against state Ministers, the Enron affair, Thackeray’s public outbursts, Sena cadres’ mob attack on Mahanagar daily’s offices, Khairnar’s Dadar residence and Canossa school campus. Once the opposition gets its act togather, all these issues will haunt Sena’s future prospects.
· Total of 20 successful Muslim candidates including SP (14), Congress (2), Independent (4), remained about the same, as in the past when Muslim League held sway over the city Muslim votes. The more things change, it seems they remain the same. Still, the background difference is that Muslims are no longer with Congress, Muslim League suffered because of its servile dependence on Congress, Samajwadi Muslims have upper hand, they have non-Muslim support, their cadre are better placed to face Shiv Sena cadre.
MORAL: Samajwadi Party can make meaningful dents in urban centers with strong Muslim leaders corraling OBCs, Dalits,Uttar Bhartiyas, Muslims and other minorities.
26 FEBRUARY 1997
· ‘Split votes made all the difference’ , Daily, Mumbai comments on the recent Mumbai Municipal elections. Any poll understanding between Congress, Samajwadi and others of the third force could have routed Saffron Brigade. Unfortunately, Congress, SP, Janata all had the grand hallucination of carrying the day alone. Congress cannot change its stripes. The ‘imperial’ Bombay Congress President, Murli Deora, who had to resign, had earlier held court and expected all others to appear before him. His servile agents failed to convince others. The legacy of Congress arrogance, high-handedness, coterie rule, corruption and deep-seated contempt of Muslims, had sealed its fate.
· Samajwadi Party Bombay President deserved the front page banner photo with those of Bal Thackray and CM Manohar Joshi in Mid-day. Barely 3 years after Supreme Court released him from a trumped up TADA term, he inspired the people with his strong populist image, to be rewarded with 21 seats as compared to 26 of BJP. He could have done better, if third force alliance had been less demanding and more accommodating. The flavour of the election was accommodation and coalition.
· For Shiv Sena-BJP it was a negative vote. They have been non-performers. Minority baiting is still their trump card. The public has silently witnessed Kini-murder handling, Hazare’s corruption charges against state Ministers, the Enron affair, Thackeray’s public outbursts, Sena cadres’ mob attack on Mahanagar daily’s offices, Khairnar’s Dadar residence and Canossa school campus. Once the opposition gets its act togather, all these issues will haunt Sena’s future prospects.
· Total of 20 successful Muslim candidates including SP (14), Congress (2), Independent (4), remained about the same, as in the past when Muslim League held sway over the city Muslim votes. The more things change, it seems they remain the same. Still, the background difference is that Muslims are no longer with Congress, Muslim League suffered because of its servile dependence on Congress, Samajwadi Muslims have upper hand, they have non-Muslim support, their cadre are better placed to face Shiv Sena cadre.
MORAL: Samajwadi Party can make meaningful dents in urban centers with strong Muslim leaders corraling OBCs, Dalits,Uttar Bhartiyas, Muslims and other minorities.
26 FEBRUARY 1997
24 February, 1997
The Editor
The Free Press Journal Mumbai
In a recent First Edition programme of Metro channel, Messers Chandan Mitra and Dileep Padgaonkar were lyrical about the current publication of love letters of Fidel Castro and Sarojini Naidu, and maintain that publication of such letters have given a better insight into the personality of our leaders. They further mentioned the new book by Wolport where Pandit Nehru’s aberrations were hinted at. Both journalists represent the cream of our intelligentsia, and it is a pity that they are so influenced by the analytical baggage of the western culture as to be out of touch with India’s own ethos of what is public and what is private. The West’s compulsion to prove all its leaders as confirmed perverts, and to go all lengths in the guise of research and free speech to titillate the base instincts of the consumer society, should at least be independently and ethically evaluated by respectable names in our media, before they misuse all the facilities open to them to subvert our society.
#228
The Editor
The Free Press Journal Mumbai
In a recent First Edition programme of Metro channel, Messers Chandan Mitra and Dileep Padgaonkar were lyrical about the current publication of love letters of Fidel Castro and Sarojini Naidu, and maintain that publication of such letters have given a better insight into the personality of our leaders. They further mentioned the new book by Wolport where Pandit Nehru’s aberrations were hinted at. Both journalists represent the cream of our intelligentsia, and it is a pity that they are so influenced by the analytical baggage of the western culture as to be out of touch with India’s own ethos of what is public and what is private. The West’s compulsion to prove all its leaders as confirmed perverts, and to go all lengths in the guise of research and free speech to titillate the base instincts of the consumer society, should at least be independently and ethically evaluated by respectable names in our media, before they misuse all the facilities open to them to subvert our society.
#228
M. J. Akbar suggests permanent role for successful technocrats like I. K. Gujral and Manmohan Singh
Editor
The Asian Age FAX 422 9048
Mumbai
24 February, 1997
Mr. M. J. Akbar's suggestion (Asian Age, 23/2, In praise... Gujral) of a permanent role for successful technocrats like I.K. Gujral and Manmohan Singh, without any reference to their political affiliations or fortunes, has some notable precedents at least in neighbouring Pakistan, where non-partisan and exceptional talents of people like Sahebzada Yakub Khan are always drawn upon to ensure stability and continuity to fundamental policy strategies of the nation, even through Government changes. It is amazing that the two performers who have served India with exceptional brilliance, have opposite - rightist and leftist - orientations, but when it comes to India's best interests, they have the capacity to rise above the narrow confines of ideology and with total fidelity and confidence, pursue the policy initiatives, that would have normally been unexpected of ideologues and prisoners of vested interests. It is an open question whether the current coalition polity has blurred the ideological boundaries and pragmatism has thrown a new and more sensible style of governance and that it is this pragmatism that has over ruled all old fixations of the last fifty years, which can easily be traced back to several personalized and party insecurities now passé with the coming of age of political consensus and coalition and opening of new opportunities in economic and social fields.
#227
The Asian Age FAX 422 9048
Mumbai
24 February, 1997
Mr. M. J. Akbar's suggestion (Asian Age, 23/2, In praise... Gujral) of a permanent role for successful technocrats like I.K. Gujral and Manmohan Singh, without any reference to their political affiliations or fortunes, has some notable precedents at least in neighbouring Pakistan, where non-partisan and exceptional talents of people like Sahebzada Yakub Khan are always drawn upon to ensure stability and continuity to fundamental policy strategies of the nation, even through Government changes. It is amazing that the two performers who have served India with exceptional brilliance, have opposite - rightist and leftist - orientations, but when it comes to India's best interests, they have the capacity to rise above the narrow confines of ideology and with total fidelity and confidence, pursue the policy initiatives, that would have normally been unexpected of ideologues and prisoners of vested interests. It is an open question whether the current coalition polity has blurred the ideological boundaries and pragmatism has thrown a new and more sensible style of governance and that it is this pragmatism that has over ruled all old fixations of the last fifty years, which can easily be traced back to several personalized and party insecurities now passé with the coming of age of political consensus and coalition and opening of new opportunities in economic and social fields.
#227
Gujral is the best thing that happened to India
29 July, 1997
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Prime Minister I.K. Gujral has taken the boldest action of his short tenure by putting the saffron hawks in their place. India’s sorry state whether in political social, economic or international relations can be traced to a misguided hot-headed minority, which has virtually held the nation to ransom. They only speak the language of hate and dissension, and with their aggressive stance in all affairs of the nation, have become a big stumbling block. Their overall contribution to India is a sick country with strife and disaffection writ large over the last fifty years of independence. The elitist leitmotif for the nation’s existence necessitated the brutalisation of the majority of the population. The nation needs a healing touch, a season of rehabilitation and rejoicing, a celebration of its limitless bounties and a sharing of pride in being Indian and least of all, a change of guard. Gujral is the best thing that happened to India.
#360
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Prime Minister I.K. Gujral has taken the boldest action of his short tenure by putting the saffron hawks in their place. India’s sorry state whether in political social, economic or international relations can be traced to a misguided hot-headed minority, which has virtually held the nation to ransom. They only speak the language of hate and dissension, and with their aggressive stance in all affairs of the nation, have become a big stumbling block. Their overall contribution to India is a sick country with strife and disaffection writ large over the last fifty years of independence. The elitist leitmotif for the nation’s existence necessitated the brutalisation of the majority of the population. The nation needs a healing touch, a season of rehabilitation and rejoicing, a celebration of its limitless bounties and a sharing of pride in being Indian and least of all, a change of guard. Gujral is the best thing that happened to India.
#360
Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao's complicity in Babri Masjid demolition
20 February, 1997
The Editor
The Asian Age FAX:4229048
Mumbai PHONE:4228391
Sir,
In his article: ‘Mr. Chavan’s revelations: An afterthought’ (Asian Age, 19/2), Parwez Hafeez has taken the old hackneyed line about analyzing the motivations and compulsions of the squealer, which differentiate the media approach from the law enforcement approach, where all information is scrutinized on its merit. It is of no consequence to people why Chavan said, but what he did say has far reaching consequences. Those who have watched the relevant ‘Ru ba Ru’ programme on TV, would have been able to judge that the 50 year old ingrained sycophancy of Congress rank and file itself, is not any earth shaking discovery, if for Mr. Hafeez , Chavan’s revelations, are no revelations. This is the first time, a first hand account of the conspiracy was publicly given and is on record and not only it can, but will be used to strengthen the case against Rao personally, as being the sole manipulator who was instrumental in the perpetration of the most heinous crime committed in independent India, after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi.
As for Mr. Hafeez’s long list of Mr. Chavan’s public support to Rao and his hobnobbing with Sangh Parivar, that has no bearing on his testimony as he should be treated as witness to a crime and cannot be expected to convert to Islam to prove his bonafide as a credible witness. As a media person, Parwez Hafeez should be able to differentiate between what is for public consumption and what is for real.
Parwez Hafeez errs again when he states that Muslim masses have reconciled themselves to the destruction of Babri Masjid. Their leaders might have reverted to their own immediate business of survival, but Babri Masjid has gone too deep in the psyche of Muslim masses to be so lightly and easily dumped in the dustbin of history. It was a good try by Mr. Hafeez to defuse the nightmarish spell, but it will be suicidal for Muslims to slip back into complacency, so soon and for that matter, any time now on.
#221
The Editor
The Asian Age FAX:4229048
Mumbai PHONE:4228391
Sir,
In his article: ‘Mr. Chavan’s revelations: An afterthought’ (Asian Age, 19/2), Parwez Hafeez has taken the old hackneyed line about analyzing the motivations and compulsions of the squealer, which differentiate the media approach from the law enforcement approach, where all information is scrutinized on its merit. It is of no consequence to people why Chavan said, but what he did say has far reaching consequences. Those who have watched the relevant ‘Ru ba Ru’ programme on TV, would have been able to judge that the 50 year old ingrained sycophancy of Congress rank and file itself, is not any earth shaking discovery, if for Mr. Hafeez , Chavan’s revelations, are no revelations. This is the first time, a first hand account of the conspiracy was publicly given and is on record and not only it can, but will be used to strengthen the case against Rao personally, as being the sole manipulator who was instrumental in the perpetration of the most heinous crime committed in independent India, after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi.
As for Mr. Hafeez’s long list of Mr. Chavan’s public support to Rao and his hobnobbing with Sangh Parivar, that has no bearing on his testimony as he should be treated as witness to a crime and cannot be expected to convert to Islam to prove his bonafide as a credible witness. As a media person, Parwez Hafeez should be able to differentiate between what is for public consumption and what is for real.
Parwez Hafeez errs again when he states that Muslim masses have reconciled themselves to the destruction of Babri Masjid. Their leaders might have reverted to their own immediate business of survival, but Babri Masjid has gone too deep in the psyche of Muslim masses to be so lightly and easily dumped in the dustbin of history. It was a good try by Mr. Hafeez to defuse the nightmarish spell, but it will be suicidal for Muslims to slip back into complacency, so soon and for that matter, any time now on.
#221
Rajiv Gandhi's widow Sonia shows exemplary maturity and wisdom
Friday, February 14, 1997
After the brutal murder of Rajiv Gandhi, his widow had shown exemplary maturity and wisdom in keeping her family safely out of the base routine of Congress politics. It is therefore quite surprising that she had at least not publicly renounced any plans to wrangle a Government accommodation for her soon to be married daughter. Congress is not in power and probably will not stage a comeback very soon. In such conditions, she will no doubt have to face adverse comments from all the remaining 13 parties and more, besides the opprobrium of general public which is now very aggressive in hounding out corruption in all forms; legal, illegal, para-legal. This is where the advise of some prominent Mumbai activists like Neela Sattanathan and others as published in Mid-day (14/2),comes in as an timely and sincere, well meaning warning for the couple, not to make their life miserable by signing up as free-booters.
#217
After the brutal murder of Rajiv Gandhi, his widow had shown exemplary maturity and wisdom in keeping her family safely out of the base routine of Congress politics. It is therefore quite surprising that she had at least not publicly renounced any plans to wrangle a Government accommodation for her soon to be married daughter. Congress is not in power and probably will not stage a comeback very soon. In such conditions, she will no doubt have to face adverse comments from all the remaining 13 parties and more, besides the opprobrium of general public which is now very aggressive in hounding out corruption in all forms; legal, illegal, para-legal. This is where the advise of some prominent Mumbai activists like Neela Sattanathan and others as published in Mid-day (14/2),comes in as an timely and sincere, well meaning warning for the couple, not to make their life miserable by signing up as free-booters.
#217
Congress needs a clean leader to survive
Thursday, February 13, 1997
The latest drubbing in polls that Congress suffered is indicative, if one is needed at all, of the serious disarray in its rank and file. If this 110 year old party is to survive for any meaningful contribution to India’s future, it will have to go through a drastic metamorphosis. The patchwork surgery of Sitaram Kesari has not cured the party of it deep malaise. Until and unless the party can produce and resurrect a clean leader who is dedicated to the country and not in the game for self-projection and self-enrichment, not given to royalist and dynastic ambitions and has clear vision and determination to give the country a progressive and people friendly governance, Congress has its days numbered.
#214
The latest drubbing in polls that Congress suffered is indicative, if one is needed at all, of the serious disarray in its rank and file. If this 110 year old party is to survive for any meaningful contribution to India’s future, it will have to go through a drastic metamorphosis. The patchwork surgery of Sitaram Kesari has not cured the party of it deep malaise. Until and unless the party can produce and resurrect a clean leader who is dedicated to the country and not in the game for self-projection and self-enrichment, not given to royalist and dynastic ambitions and has clear vision and determination to give the country a progressive and people friendly governance, Congress has its days numbered.
#214
Belated confessions of S. B. Chavan over Babri Masjid demolition
Thursday, February 20, 1997
The Editor
The Times of India
Mumbai
S. B. Chavan’s TV interview in Rajiv Sharma’s ‘Ru ba ru’, is ignored by media for what it said, rather than as to why it said. The facts surrounding the Babri Masjid destruction are more important to the nation than a case of disloyalty by one of the Congress leaders. As it is Congress leaders are not looked upon as the paragon of ethical values; why should media begrudge squealing by a member of such a coterie of dubious credentials? Loyalty in ventures of corruption, mismanagement and public scandals, should to be deplored rather than to be idealized. Whatever may be Mr. Chavan’s constraints in not disclosing the shady going-ons in the highest echelons of our Government, his intended or unintended setting of the records, should be judged on its merits and such cathartic confessions should be publicly welcomed to encourage others to break the ranks and come over to the side of the people.
#213
The Editor
The Times of India
Mumbai
S. B. Chavan’s TV interview in Rajiv Sharma’s ‘Ru ba ru’, is ignored by media for what it said, rather than as to why it said. The facts surrounding the Babri Masjid destruction are more important to the nation than a case of disloyalty by one of the Congress leaders. As it is Congress leaders are not looked upon as the paragon of ethical values; why should media begrudge squealing by a member of such a coterie of dubious credentials? Loyalty in ventures of corruption, mismanagement and public scandals, should to be deplored rather than to be idealized. Whatever may be Mr. Chavan’s constraints in not disclosing the shady going-ons in the highest echelons of our Government, his intended or unintended setting of the records, should be judged on its merits and such cathartic confessions should be publicly welcomed to encourage others to break the ranks and come over to the side of the people.
#213
Willful neglect of Taj Mahal
12 February, 1997
The Editor
The Sunday Observer
Mumbai
Apropos your article ‘Stripping the Taj’ (Sunday Observer, Feb. 9). It is indeed shocking that a monument which ranks among the wonders of the world should be so sadly neglected in its own country. At a time when Government is inviting private enterprise for the maintenance of our monuments, the negligence on the part of ASI, and its active connivance in piecemeal destruction of the Taj Mahal is all the more deplorable. Are the authorities waiting to do a Babri Masjid on the Taj? This willful neglect must be stopped immediately, and the officers concerned punished severely, not only for the murder of a most beautiful expression of composite architecture and culture of India, but also for an affront to public feelings regarding a tribute to the noble sentiment of Love.
#210
The Editor
The Sunday Observer
Mumbai
Apropos your article ‘Stripping the Taj’ (Sunday Observer, Feb. 9). It is indeed shocking that a monument which ranks among the wonders of the world should be so sadly neglected in its own country. At a time when Government is inviting private enterprise for the maintenance of our monuments, the negligence on the part of ASI, and its active connivance in piecemeal destruction of the Taj Mahal is all the more deplorable. Are the authorities waiting to do a Babri Masjid on the Taj? This willful neglect must be stopped immediately, and the officers concerned punished severely, not only for the murder of a most beautiful expression of composite architecture and culture of India, but also for an affront to public feelings regarding a tribute to the noble sentiment of Love.
#210
INDIA, AN ECONOMIC LAGGARD
12 February, 1997
The Editor
The Daily
Mumbai
Sir,
Apropos Mr. Prem Shankar Jha’s article: India’s democratic miracle (The Daily, 12/2). Whatever merits may be awarded to India’s quest for a democratic polity, the underachievement in economic field, did directly and adversely affect the true fulfillment of democratic and secular ideals.
The battle between vote and bread, has unnecessarily distorted our priorities. It is axiomatic that a plethora of problems that our democratic polity faces, would have been obliterated by the balm of better economic achievements. Nehru and Indira Gandhi’s ghettoization of India, for their own myopia against foreign domination and their arrogance of power (Indira is India), had feudal if not royalist overtones. Poor multitudes suffered and are still suffering. Let us all give a clear message to the present rulers to get on with the job of petty politicking and get down to the job of providing, at least, jhunka bhaker to India’s suffering millions, which may soon become a billion. (Is it not a shame that an octogenarian classical singer Sughra Bai is willing to trade her prestigious Padma Bhushan national award against two meals a day?) Mr. Prem Shankar Jha may be asked: what price glory?
#209
The Editor
The Daily
Mumbai
Sir,
Apropos Mr. Prem Shankar Jha’s article: India’s democratic miracle (The Daily, 12/2). Whatever merits may be awarded to India’s quest for a democratic polity, the underachievement in economic field, did directly and adversely affect the true fulfillment of democratic and secular ideals.
The battle between vote and bread, has unnecessarily distorted our priorities. It is axiomatic that a plethora of problems that our democratic polity faces, would have been obliterated by the balm of better economic achievements. Nehru and Indira Gandhi’s ghettoization of India, for their own myopia against foreign domination and their arrogance of power (Indira is India), had feudal if not royalist overtones. Poor multitudes suffered and are still suffering. Let us all give a clear message to the present rulers to get on with the job of petty politicking and get down to the job of providing, at least, jhunka bhaker to India’s suffering millions, which may soon become a billion. (Is it not a shame that an octogenarian classical singer Sughra Bai is willing to trade her prestigious Padma Bhushan national award against two meals a day?) Mr. Prem Shankar Jha may be asked: what price glory?
#209
S. B. Chavan's treachery
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
The Editor
The Free Press Journal
Mumbai
Apropos your editorial ‘Et Tu, Chavan?’ (FPJ, 10/2), it is surprising that, for you, the so-called treachery of S.B. Chavan to his leader, P. V. Narasimha Rao, was more reprehensible than the subversion of the whole apparatus of the law of land by the Government in power. On the one hand you deplore the sycophancy of the rank and file, while on the other side you expect that Chavan should have toed the line. As far as the people of India are concerned, they are not interested in the internal power wrangling of the Congress party, as much as in how the final governance of the country is delivered by the elected representatives. Any falling apart of the coterie which misruled the nation is a net gain for the people and it should be welcomed.
#207
The Editor
The Free Press Journal
Mumbai
Apropos your editorial ‘Et Tu, Chavan?’ (FPJ, 10/2), it is surprising that, for you, the so-called treachery of S.B. Chavan to his leader, P. V. Narasimha Rao, was more reprehensible than the subversion of the whole apparatus of the law of land by the Government in power. On the one hand you deplore the sycophancy of the rank and file, while on the other side you expect that Chavan should have toed the line. As far as the people of India are concerned, they are not interested in the internal power wrangling of the Congress party, as much as in how the final governance of the country is delivered by the elected representatives. Any falling apart of the coterie which misruled the nation is a net gain for the people and it should be welcomed.
#207
Muslim women's rights to pray in Masjid and government ban on new Masjids
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
The Editor
Pioneer
Delhi
Sir
Maulana Ahmed Kutty’s campaign to restore Muslim women’s rights to pray in Mosques, could exacerbate problems in urban areas, like Mumbai, where there is an unofficial and constitutionally untenable ban on new mosque constructions; though it must be acknowledged that unofficially there is some show of understanding to local necessity on a case to case basis. However, if the trend catches on for Muslim women’s’ insistence on praying in Mosques, there is bound to be a major flash point with the authorities and the political implication for all parties wooing Muslim votes will find one more bargaining ploy to entangle Muslim voter with one more emotive issue, and take the community away from concerns of economic upliftment, education and social harmony.
It is high time that the authorities should wake up to the realities of gender justice, and double the F.S.I. for mosques in order to enable women to participate in congregational prayers.
#205
The Editor
Pioneer
Delhi
Sir
Maulana Ahmed Kutty’s campaign to restore Muslim women’s rights to pray in Mosques, could exacerbate problems in urban areas, like Mumbai, where there is an unofficial and constitutionally untenable ban on new mosque constructions; though it must be acknowledged that unofficially there is some show of understanding to local necessity on a case to case basis. However, if the trend catches on for Muslim women’s’ insistence on praying in Mosques, there is bound to be a major flash point with the authorities and the political implication for all parties wooing Muslim votes will find one more bargaining ploy to entangle Muslim voter with one more emotive issue, and take the community away from concerns of economic upliftment, education and social harmony.
It is high time that the authorities should wake up to the realities of gender justice, and double the F.S.I. for mosques in order to enable women to participate in congregational prayers.
#205
The Gujral Doctrine
Monday, February 10, 1997
Mani Shankar Aiyar’s article: ‘The Gujral Doctrine’ - goes to prove that he is one Congressman that has the vision and courage to rise above petty partisanship to think out purely for the benefit of the nation. Besides crossing the t’s and doting the i’s, Gujral Doctrine augurs a new era of constructive dialogue from a position of strength of conviction and in language of friendly firmness. Gujral’s magnanimity in corralling Basu and Karunanidhi in his Bangladesh and Sri Lanka initiatives stands in sharp contrasts to career politicians’ in-born urge to project his own importance to the detriment of national interests.
#204
Mani Shankar Aiyar’s article: ‘The Gujral Doctrine’ - goes to prove that he is one Congressman that has the vision and courage to rise above petty partisanship to think out purely for the benefit of the nation. Besides crossing the t’s and doting the i’s, Gujral Doctrine augurs a new era of constructive dialogue from a position of strength of conviction and in language of friendly firmness. Gujral’s magnanimity in corralling Basu and Karunanidhi in his Bangladesh and Sri Lanka initiatives stands in sharp contrasts to career politicians’ in-born urge to project his own importance to the detriment of national interests.
#204
S. B. CHAVAN'S SILENCE OVER BABRI MASJID DEMOLITION
9 February, 1997
The Editor
The Indian Express FAX:2852108
Mumbai PHONE:2022583
Sir,
Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad and others should know better than to ask superfluous and diversionary questions as to why S. B. Chavan was silent all these years when he was a personal witness to Rao’s connivance in the destruction of Babri Mosque. The abysmal level of sycophancy that has eroded the very character of all Congressmen cannot produce any other scenario. Instead of asking for the resignation of Rao and Chavan, Ghulam Nabi Azad, himself should have resigned from the primary membership of Congress, if he was so upright. The failure of all state machinery, including the highest official entrusted to uphold the law of the land, to prevent the conspiracy to succeed, can not be left unaccounted. All criminals should be brought to justice, however, high and mighty they may be. Babri Masjid is an open sore and unless these wounds are healed, the country will not get peace; so essential to its rebuilding and development.
#203
The Editor
The Indian Express FAX:2852108
Mumbai PHONE:2022583
Sir,
Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad and others should know better than to ask superfluous and diversionary questions as to why S. B. Chavan was silent all these years when he was a personal witness to Rao’s connivance in the destruction of Babri Mosque. The abysmal level of sycophancy that has eroded the very character of all Congressmen cannot produce any other scenario. Instead of asking for the resignation of Rao and Chavan, Ghulam Nabi Azad, himself should have resigned from the primary membership of Congress, if he was so upright. The failure of all state machinery, including the highest official entrusted to uphold the law of the land, to prevent the conspiracy to succeed, can not be left unaccounted. All criminals should be brought to justice, however, high and mighty they may be. Babri Masjid is an open sore and unless these wounds are healed, the country will not get peace; so essential to its rebuilding and development.
#203
TAVLEEN SINGH'S ALARM BELLS
9 February, 1997
The Editor
The Indian Express
Mumbai
Sir,
Tavleen Singh’s alarm bells on the danger of India falling off the map of the world ( IE, 9/2) should be taken very seriously by both the Government and the people of India. The 21st. Century will be the century of Information Technology. India missed the bus when industrial revolution was raging in the West. This time around we are masters of our own destiny and cannot blame others if we missed the opportunity to take our due place in the line up of the nations. At a practical level, Government should strive everything, short of making Bill Gates, Honorary President of India, to usher in the new age of Information. Eight hundred million people of India connected to world life-lines, will assuredly contribute to a better and more meaningful future for the humankind.
#202
The Editor
The Indian Express
Mumbai
Sir,
Tavleen Singh’s alarm bells on the danger of India falling off the map of the world ( IE, 9/2) should be taken very seriously by both the Government and the people of India. The 21st. Century will be the century of Information Technology. India missed the bus when industrial revolution was raging in the West. This time around we are masters of our own destiny and cannot blame others if we missed the opportunity to take our due place in the line up of the nations. At a practical level, Government should strive everything, short of making Bill Gates, Honorary President of India, to usher in the new age of Information. Eight hundred million people of India connected to world life-lines, will assuredly contribute to a better and more meaningful future for the humankind.
#202
POLITICAL IFTARS OR POLITICS OF IFTAR
30 January, 1997
The Editor
The Hindustan Times
18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi - 110001
Sir,
‘Iftar’ is the most sublime and touching finale to a rigorous regimen of daily abstinence from food, water, carnal desires and a sun-up to sundown covenant with the Almighty. It is compulsory for the full month of Ramadan for the faithful. The Ramadan month further witnesses another solemn ritual for distribution of Zakat to the poor and needy; the month being the ending of the financial accounting period for accumulated wealth and its ‘cleansing’ by paying out 2.5% in cash and kind towards charity. Iftar has been hijacked by Delhi politicians for playing their own variation on the theme that borders on the profane. The daily feast laid out by political big wigs like Deve Gouda, Kesri, Paswan, Laloo Yadav and the attendance by the glittariti of all hues will shame a carnival. A Muslim Personal Law Board Secretary, Maulana Wali Rahmani, has gone on record severely condemning such demeaning of a sacred occasion, where grace and charity are supposed to give the aura of godliness.
Away from Delhi, in the bustling city of Cairo, a similar controversy rages over sumptuous Iftar fare provided daily on the streets for the poor and all passersby, roza or no roza, by a famous belly dancer, whose tainted earnings are not fit and halal for any faithful; so holds one cleric from Al Azhar, the centuries old University. Another benevolent soul from Egyptian Ulema, makes allowance in this respect for the poor people around whom the whole Ramadan piety is focused. In India too, Iftar is popular with all communities, though sadly it is degraded by political and elitist snobbery.
#201
The Editor
The Hindustan Times
18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi - 110001
Sir,
‘Iftar’ is the most sublime and touching finale to a rigorous regimen of daily abstinence from food, water, carnal desires and a sun-up to sundown covenant with the Almighty. It is compulsory for the full month of Ramadan for the faithful. The Ramadan month further witnesses another solemn ritual for distribution of Zakat to the poor and needy; the month being the ending of the financial accounting period for accumulated wealth and its ‘cleansing’ by paying out 2.5% in cash and kind towards charity. Iftar has been hijacked by Delhi politicians for playing their own variation on the theme that borders on the profane. The daily feast laid out by political big wigs like Deve Gouda, Kesri, Paswan, Laloo Yadav and the attendance by the glittariti of all hues will shame a carnival. A Muslim Personal Law Board Secretary, Maulana Wali Rahmani, has gone on record severely condemning such demeaning of a sacred occasion, where grace and charity are supposed to give the aura of godliness.
Away from Delhi, in the bustling city of Cairo, a similar controversy rages over sumptuous Iftar fare provided daily on the streets for the poor and all passersby, roza or no roza, by a famous belly dancer, whose tainted earnings are not fit and halal for any faithful; so holds one cleric from Al Azhar, the centuries old University. Another benevolent soul from Egyptian Ulema, makes allowance in this respect for the poor people around whom the whole Ramadan piety is focused. In India too, Iftar is popular with all communities, though sadly it is degraded by political and elitist snobbery.
#201
The degeneration of Congress
30 December, 1996
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shankar Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, and that too for the last fifty years; this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalized by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interests come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinet official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shankar Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, and that too for the last fifty years; this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalized by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interests come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinet official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
Syed Shahbuddin's dread of pan-Islamism
Tuesday, January 28, 1997
This refers to newspaper reports about Syed Shahabuddin calling on Centre to curb the Khilafat Campaign. In this age of satellite communication, when national boundaries are getting less and less of barriers for free flow of information, be it relating to entertainment, culture, religion, consumerism or political propaganda, world movements ---from Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Hindutva to America’s pop culture, the free world takes them all in its stride. Mr. Shahabuddin’s sudden public proclamation of fear of Islam has something to do with the loss of his Parliamentary seat. He can hold neither his successes nor his reverses. One is reminded of a couplet by Lucknow’s celebrated Urdu poet, Yaganah Changezi, who once paraded through the streets on a donkey, with his face blackened, said in self-reflection:
Khudi ka nashsha chadhha, aap mein raha na gaya
Khuda bane the Yaganah magar bana na gaya
Khilafat movement has no political or territorial overtones. It is essentially part and parcel of the body religion of Islam. Though, because of British Imperialist manipulations against which even Mahatma Gandhi joined Khilafat movement, and through Kamal Attaturk’s declaration of Republic, Khilafat was abolished, it does not stand revoked in Islam. Syed Shahabuddin’s strong reaction against SIMI goes to prove that he is prone to swings of extreme beliefs and therefore unsuitable for any credible role in the future of either his community or his country.
#199
This refers to newspaper reports about Syed Shahabuddin calling on Centre to curb the Khilafat Campaign. In this age of satellite communication, when national boundaries are getting less and less of barriers for free flow of information, be it relating to entertainment, culture, religion, consumerism or political propaganda, world movements ---from Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Hindutva to America’s pop culture, the free world takes them all in its stride. Mr. Shahabuddin’s sudden public proclamation of fear of Islam has something to do with the loss of his Parliamentary seat. He can hold neither his successes nor his reverses. One is reminded of a couplet by Lucknow’s celebrated Urdu poet, Yaganah Changezi, who once paraded through the streets on a donkey, with his face blackened, said in self-reflection:
Khudi ka nashsha chadhha, aap mein raha na gaya
Khuda bane the Yaganah magar bana na gaya
Khilafat movement has no political or territorial overtones. It is essentially part and parcel of the body religion of Islam. Though, because of British Imperialist manipulations against which even Mahatma Gandhi joined Khilafat movement, and through Kamal Attaturk’s declaration of Republic, Khilafat was abolished, it does not stand revoked in Islam. Syed Shahabuddin’s strong reaction against SIMI goes to prove that he is prone to swings of extreme beliefs and therefore unsuitable for any credible role in the future of either his community or his country.
#199
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Fascist tendencies in India and Pakistan
21 January, 1997
Mumbai’s premier Urdu newspaper, Inquilab has published an article by a Pakistani Columnist, detailing the Trotesky treatise ‘Fascism and how to fight it”. The writer warns that following the discredit of all nominally democratic parties in Pakistan including PPP of Benazir Bhutto and Muslim League (N) of Nawaz Sharif, there are chances that public will turn to religio-fascist Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan or ethno-fascist Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) which is bound to result in serious excesses in the name of religion or ethnicity or both. He asserts same trends in India and the eventuality of BJP coming to power, if the democratic forces do not spruce up to face the challenge.
In India, J.N. Dixit, too has cautioned about the virtual institutionalisation of miliatry rule in Pakistan, in the shape of National Defence Council and the dire need for India to strenghthen its own democratic institutuions.
#196
Mumbai’s premier Urdu newspaper, Inquilab has published an article by a Pakistani Columnist, detailing the Trotesky treatise ‘Fascism and how to fight it”. The writer warns that following the discredit of all nominally democratic parties in Pakistan including PPP of Benazir Bhutto and Muslim League (N) of Nawaz Sharif, there are chances that public will turn to religio-fascist Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan or ethno-fascist Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) which is bound to result in serious excesses in the name of religion or ethnicity or both. He asserts same trends in India and the eventuality of BJP coming to power, if the democratic forces do not spruce up to face the challenge.
In India, J.N. Dixit, too has cautioned about the virtual institutionalisation of miliatry rule in Pakistan, in the shape of National Defence Council and the dire need for India to strenghthen its own democratic institutuions.
#196
Seminar on ‘Conflict Resolution : Hindu - Muslim Case in India’
8 January, 1997
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Your report ( 8/1) on the recent Seminar on ‘Conflict Resolution : Hindu - Muslim Case in India’ has unfortunately, missed out the drama played out over the 2 days of vigorous discussion, intrigues, behind-the-scene manipulations and the sheer antipathy of even the so-called secular left-liberals to the very name of the Muslim community. Swami Agnivesh, in an aside, related how his fellow-passenger commented when he mentioned about the proposed Seminar, while traveling from Delhi to Mumbai. The wise man commented on how strange it was that Asgharali Engineer and Swami were to try to solve the conflict, while Muslims do not count Engineer as Muslim and Hindus do not count Swami Agnivesh as Hindu. Swami and the joint organiser of the Seminar, Prof. Iqbal Ansari had come with a set agenda and it remained for Mr. J.B. D’Souza to say the last word, when he wrote out a message, and passed it on to Asgharali Engineer, who read it out to the participants. It read:
“Dr. Engineer: Listening almost silently to the discussions over the last two days, I get the impression that we are unduly, and unwisely, concentrating on how accommodating Muslims should be, on how they should appease the majority.
Should we not recall to what appeasement led in the 1930’s in Europe?”
#189
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Your report ( 8/1) on the recent Seminar on ‘Conflict Resolution : Hindu - Muslim Case in India’ has unfortunately, missed out the drama played out over the 2 days of vigorous discussion, intrigues, behind-the-scene manipulations and the sheer antipathy of even the so-called secular left-liberals to the very name of the Muslim community. Swami Agnivesh, in an aside, related how his fellow-passenger commented when he mentioned about the proposed Seminar, while traveling from Delhi to Mumbai. The wise man commented on how strange it was that Asgharali Engineer and Swami were to try to solve the conflict, while Muslims do not count Engineer as Muslim and Hindus do not count Swami Agnivesh as Hindu. Swami and the joint organiser of the Seminar, Prof. Iqbal Ansari had come with a set agenda and it remained for Mr. J.B. D’Souza to say the last word, when he wrote out a message, and passed it on to Asgharali Engineer, who read it out to the participants. It read:
“Dr. Engineer: Listening almost silently to the discussions over the last two days, I get the impression that we are unduly, and unwisely, concentrating on how accommodating Muslims should be, on how they should appease the majority.
Should we not recall to what appeasement led in the 1930’s in Europe?”
#189
Indian Express Editorial: 'Save the (voter's) cards' - 18/1/1997
18 January, 1997
The Editor
The Indian Express FAX:2852108
Mumbai PHONE:2022583
Sir,
Your editorial ‘Save the cards’ (18/1) is the first information for the newspaper reading public that a controversy is going on to junk Voters’ Cards. In a matter of such importance, where the country has already invested 1000 Crores, bypassing and ignoring public opinion is most serious breach of democratic governance, whatever may be the legal sanctions the move can line up. Granted the scheme is costly; it was stigmatised because of the controversial name of T.N. Seshan; it opens up new areas of corrupt practices; but a nation on the march for the 21st. Century, which already is reckoned as emerging information technology star of tomorrow; has to make the voter card the basis on which to build up modern infrastructure for better and deep-rooted access to people and their problems.
#195
The Editor
The Indian Express FAX:2852108
Mumbai PHONE:2022583
Sir,
Your editorial ‘Save the cards’ (18/1) is the first information for the newspaper reading public that a controversy is going on to junk Voters’ Cards. In a matter of such importance, where the country has already invested 1000 Crores, bypassing and ignoring public opinion is most serious breach of democratic governance, whatever may be the legal sanctions the move can line up. Granted the scheme is costly; it was stigmatised because of the controversial name of T.N. Seshan; it opens up new areas of corrupt practices; but a nation on the march for the 21st. Century, which already is reckoned as emerging information technology star of tomorrow; has to make the voter card the basis on which to build up modern infrastructure for better and deep-rooted access to people and their problems.
#195
28 December, 1996
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
The Times front-page report - Secret meeting gives reprieve to ‘corrupt’ state ministers (28/12), is most disturbing to all law-abiding citizens. It may be recalled that when Pakistan’s Zulfikar Bhutto tripped for a personal notation on official file ordering to ‘eliminate’ an adversary and was sentenced to be hanged, all the world leaders pleaded for his reprieve. President Zia is reported to have commented that they are all members of a club and want to protect their fellow member, lest sometime they all get caught in such unfortunate predicament. Similar club loyalties are apparent in all leaders across party lines to extend sympathy, suggest reprimand and recommend reprieve for public officials who might have committed gross misuse of their public powers and who could return the favors to others within the club membership. People should go on record that they are not a party to such mockery of law and justice and demand prompt and adequate justice for all wrongdoer, however high and mighty may he be; the law being higher to him.
#172
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
The Times front-page report - Secret meeting gives reprieve to ‘corrupt’ state ministers (28/12), is most disturbing to all law-abiding citizens. It may be recalled that when Pakistan’s Zulfikar Bhutto tripped for a personal notation on official file ordering to ‘eliminate’ an adversary and was sentenced to be hanged, all the world leaders pleaded for his reprieve. President Zia is reported to have commented that they are all members of a club and want to protect their fellow member, lest sometime they all get caught in such unfortunate predicament. Similar club loyalties are apparent in all leaders across party lines to extend sympathy, suggest reprimand and recommend reprieve for public officials who might have committed gross misuse of their public powers and who could return the favors to others within the club membership. People should go on record that they are not a party to such mockery of law and justice and demand prompt and adequate justice for all wrongdoer, however high and mighty may he be; the law being higher to him.
#172
Minority mind about the coming Mumbai municipal corporation elections
13 January, 1997
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir
The report by your S. Balakrishnan (13/1) has correctly assessed the minority mind about the coming Mumbai municipal corporation elections. Muslims had held Narasimha Rao responsible for the destruction of Babri Masjid and they hold Sharad Pawar and Congress responsible for Mumbai riots which resulted in so much devastation to the city. Innocents are still suffering behind bars under TADA, while the dreaded law itself was abolished long back. Muslims have neither forgotten nor forgiven Congress. The recent meeting of OBC Muslim organisation at Haj House saw a strange coming together of Sharad Pawar, Janata Dal, Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan, Left opportunists and Muslim elites of Bandra. A section of Muslims does feel that any reservation, in whatever name is better than nothing. But seasoned people know that this election exercise will never translate into any boon for the people as buearucracy has its own way of carrying out the charade of giving but not giving. The third force is still the first choice of majority of the minorities.
#192
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir
The report by your S. Balakrishnan (13/1) has correctly assessed the minority mind about the coming Mumbai municipal corporation elections. Muslims had held Narasimha Rao responsible for the destruction of Babri Masjid and they hold Sharad Pawar and Congress responsible for Mumbai riots which resulted in so much devastation to the city. Innocents are still suffering behind bars under TADA, while the dreaded law itself was abolished long back. Muslims have neither forgotten nor forgiven Congress. The recent meeting of OBC Muslim organisation at Haj House saw a strange coming together of Sharad Pawar, Janata Dal, Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan, Left opportunists and Muslim elites of Bandra. A section of Muslims does feel that any reservation, in whatever name is better than nothing. But seasoned people know that this election exercise will never translate into any boon for the people as buearucracy has its own way of carrying out the charade of giving but not giving. The third force is still the first choice of majority of the minorities.
#192
Apropos Vidya Subrahmaniam’s article: ‘Elect not select’ (10/1/1997)
Friday, January 10, 1997
Apropos Vidya Subrahmaniam’s article: ‘Elect not select’ (10/1).
Both Kesari and Pawar represent two separate and distinct orientations to the future shape of Congress Party and its possible future Government.
Kesari is on record, for being bold and committed to the cause of upliftment of poor and underprivileged. If allowed to rule effectively, is easily capable of major initiatives to align Congress with common people and bring back old flavor of Congress commitment to the masses rather than the classes.
Pawar represents brute power; power solely for the sake of power. He revels in power games and has no genuine receptivity to any populist compulsions. His tenor of governance will be elitist and the gap between the haves and have-nots is bound to widen, creating further social turmoil.
#186
Apropos Vidya Subrahmaniam’s article: ‘Elect not select’ (10/1).
Both Kesari and Pawar represent two separate and distinct orientations to the future shape of Congress Party and its possible future Government.
Kesari is on record, for being bold and committed to the cause of upliftment of poor and underprivileged. If allowed to rule effectively, is easily capable of major initiatives to align Congress with common people and bring back old flavor of Congress commitment to the masses rather than the classes.
Pawar represents brute power; power solely for the sake of power. He revels in power games and has no genuine receptivity to any populist compulsions. His tenor of governance will be elitist and the gap between the haves and have-nots is bound to widen, creating further social turmoil.
#186
8 January, 1997
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Your report ( 8/1) on the recent Seminar on ‘Conflict Resolution : Hindu - Muslim Case in India’ has unfortunately, missed out the drama played out over the 2 days of vigorous discussion, intrigues, behind-the-scene manipulations and the sheer antipathy of even the so-called secular left-liberals to the very name of the Muslim community. Swami Agnivesh, in an aside, related how his fellow-passenger commented when he mentioned about the proposed Seminar, while traveling from Delhi to Mumbai. The wise man commented on how strange it was that Asgharali Engineer and Swami were to try to solve the conflict, while Muslims do not count Engineer as Muslim and Hindus do not count Swami Agnivesh as Hindu. Swami and the joint organiser of the Seminar, Prof. Iqbal Ansari had come with a set agenda and it remained for Mr. J.B. D’Souza to say the last word, when he wrote out a message, and passed it on to Asgharali Engineer, who read it out to the participants. It read:
“ Dr. Engineer: Listening almost silently to the discussions over the last two days, I get the impression that we are unduly, and unwisely, concentrating on how accommodating Muslims should be, on how they should appease the majority.
Should we not recall to what appeasement led in the 1930’s in Europe?”
#183
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Your report ( 8/1) on the recent Seminar on ‘Conflict Resolution : Hindu - Muslim Case in India’ has unfortunately, missed out the drama played out over the 2 days of vigorous discussion, intrigues, behind-the-scene manipulations and the sheer antipathy of even the so-called secular left-liberals to the very name of the Muslim community. Swami Agnivesh, in an aside, related how his fellow-passenger commented when he mentioned about the proposed Seminar, while traveling from Delhi to Mumbai. The wise man commented on how strange it was that Asgharali Engineer and Swami were to try to solve the conflict, while Muslims do not count Engineer as Muslim and Hindus do not count Swami Agnivesh as Hindu. Swami and the joint organiser of the Seminar, Prof. Iqbal Ansari had come with a set agenda and it remained for Mr. J.B. D’Souza to say the last word, when he wrote out a message, and passed it on to Asgharali Engineer, who read it out to the participants. It read:
“ Dr. Engineer: Listening almost silently to the discussions over the last two days, I get the impression that we are unduly, and unwisely, concentrating on how accommodating Muslims should be, on how they should appease the majority.
Should we not recall to what appeasement led in the 1930’s in Europe?”
#183
30 December, 1996
The Editor
The Afternoon FAX:2870371
Mumbai PHONE:2871616
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shanker Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, for the last fifty years, this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalised by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interest come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinets official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
#173
The Editor
The Afternoon FAX:2870371
Mumbai PHONE:2871616
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shanker Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, for the last fifty years, this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalised by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interest come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinets official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
#173
27 December, 1996
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Apropos M. Yusuf Khan’s article: ‘Muslims must aim for higher than Quota’ (TOI, 27/12). Muslims should certainly aim for higher goals than reservations in few govt. jobs; but in these competitive times, more than ever, a bird in hand is hundred times better than two in the bushes. Muslims may do well to follow Israel’s strategies vis-à-vis Arabs. While Arabs wasted 5 decades fighting to regain Palestine, on all or nothing basis, Israel was grateful for even crumbs and gradually worked towards more and more, till today it has several times more land than it was granted in 1948. This, however, should not preclude them to scientifically plan for the future. In these modern times, as community survival and prosperity depends on more than one single factor, Muslims could work out a social budget, where weightage could be apportioned to various human endeavors ( say Education 40%, business and industry 40%, political struggle 20%) and resources should be marshaled and utilised in conformity with the national budget worked out by a national consensus. A national survey of communities, best suited culturally and/or temperamentally for different vocations, may be used to invite groups with special skills and experience to lead in their respective field of specialisation. Mr. Yusuf has correctly said, Muslims are too obsessed with the past. Their concern should be the future. Unfortunately, there is some substance to the conjecture that they are not allowed to forget their past, lest they monopolise the future.
#171
The Editor
The Times of India FAX:262 0144 / 0401
Mumbai PHONE:2620271
Sir,
Apropos M. Yusuf Khan’s article: ‘Muslims must aim for higher than Quota’ (TOI, 27/12). Muslims should certainly aim for higher goals than reservations in few govt. jobs; but in these competitive times, more than ever, a bird in hand is hundred times better than two in the bushes. Muslims may do well to follow Israel’s strategies vis-à-vis Arabs. While Arabs wasted 5 decades fighting to regain Palestine, on all or nothing basis, Israel was grateful for even crumbs and gradually worked towards more and more, till today it has several times more land than it was granted in 1948. This, however, should not preclude them to scientifically plan for the future. In these modern times, as community survival and prosperity depends on more than one single factor, Muslims could work out a social budget, where weightage could be apportioned to various human endeavors ( say Education 40%, business and industry 40%, political struggle 20%) and resources should be marshaled and utilised in conformity with the national budget worked out by a national consensus. A national survey of communities, best suited culturally and/or temperamentally for different vocations, may be used to invite groups with special skills and experience to lead in their respective field of specialisation. Mr. Yusuf has correctly said, Muslims are too obsessed with the past. Their concern should be the future. Unfortunately, there is some substance to the conjecture that they are not allowed to forget their past, lest they monopolise the future.
#171
Thursday, January 02, 1997
The Editor, The Pioneer, New Delhi
This refers to your editorial ‘Malignant myopia’ (The Pioneer, ?/12). All reservations have their justification in the discrimination that any certain group faced in the past and due to that discrimination, they having suffered denial of their rights and consequent deprivation in political, social, economic, educational opportunity, reservation is considered as a remedial measure to compensate that victimised group and give them the opportunity recoup its position vis-à-vis others in the society. If the discrimination is on the basis of caste, then reservation is on the basis of caste. In the case of Muslims, this discrimination had been on the basis of religion. It then stands to reason, that any reservation for them has to be on the basis of religion. There is no compromise on state secularism involved. Your editorial, therefore tantamounts to an emotional outburst and a knee-jerk reaction to the PM’s announcement about reservations for Muslims among others. There is a limit to the persecution of 150 million Muslims on trumped up accusations of historical wrongs. No present day Muslim can be blamed for the partition, Mughal excesses or other imaginary slight to 6 percent upper-caste Varnas who feel they are the Chosen and therefore have to rule other lesser children of God. This charade has to stop.
#180
The Editor, The Pioneer, New Delhi
This refers to your editorial ‘Malignant myopia’ (The Pioneer, ?/12). All reservations have their justification in the discrimination that any certain group faced in the past and due to that discrimination, they having suffered denial of their rights and consequent deprivation in political, social, economic, educational opportunity, reservation is considered as a remedial measure to compensate that victimised group and give them the opportunity recoup its position vis-à-vis others in the society. If the discrimination is on the basis of caste, then reservation is on the basis of caste. In the case of Muslims, this discrimination had been on the basis of religion. It then stands to reason, that any reservation for them has to be on the basis of religion. There is no compromise on state secularism involved. Your editorial, therefore tantamounts to an emotional outburst and a knee-jerk reaction to the PM’s announcement about reservations for Muslims among others. There is a limit to the persecution of 150 million Muslims on trumped up accusations of historical wrongs. No present day Muslim can be blamed for the partition, Mughal excesses or other imaginary slight to 6 percent upper-caste Varnas who feel they are the Chosen and therefore have to rule other lesser children of God. This charade has to stop.
#180
22 December, 1996
The Editor,
Mid-Day
Mumbi
Sir,
Poor Mr. M. V. Kamath has been calling Muslims of India for last so many years, but his, is a cry in the wilderness. In his article ‘ A saving grace’ ( Mid-Day, 21/12), he once again indulges in a dialog of the deaf. He tries desparately to figure out why Muslims do or did what they did in the matter of Babri Masjid. He will not get any confirmation from the other side of one kind or another, as nobody is there to reply to him. It reminds one, of the time Napolean entered Moscow after a lifetime of struggle and there was nobody in the city to hand him over the keys of Moscow. His soldiers searched and called out at every nook and corner. There was nobody except a few drunks who were oblivious of what was going on around them. The people had all disappeared; to surface again, when Napolean was on his way to Paris, dragging himself and his bedraggled soldiers in deep slush and mud, that made passage difficult. Thousands perished. He had won a hollow victory, if at it was victory.
#170
The Editor,
Mid-Day
Mumbi
Sir,
Poor Mr. M. V. Kamath has been calling Muslims of India for last so many years, but his, is a cry in the wilderness. In his article ‘ A saving grace’ ( Mid-Day, 21/12), he once again indulges in a dialog of the deaf. He tries desparately to figure out why Muslims do or did what they did in the matter of Babri Masjid. He will not get any confirmation from the other side of one kind or another, as nobody is there to reply to him. It reminds one, of the time Napolean entered Moscow after a lifetime of struggle and there was nobody in the city to hand him over the keys of Moscow. His soldiers searched and called out at every nook and corner. There was nobody except a few drunks who were oblivious of what was going on around them. The people had all disappeared; to surface again, when Napolean was on his way to Paris, dragging himself and his bedraggled soldiers in deep slush and mud, that made passage difficult. Thousands perished. He had won a hollow victory, if at it was victory.
#170
31 December, 1996
The Editor
The Pioneer FAX:2672928
Mumbai PHONE:2673085
Sir,
Apropos your editorial ‘Shalom, Mr. President’ (30/12). It is true that there are no permanent friends and enemies in politics; only permanent interests. Still any nation without reference to its commitments to justice, peace and human rights, cannot hope to aspire for honourable place in the comity of nations. India had sided with Arabs against Israel on the principles of freedom from colonial imperialism. Around the time India received its independence, a string of nations received a boost in their struggle against the western colonists. Palestine was supposed to be one of them. However, just as in the case of India, which got its freedom with the British deliberately dividing the nation in the hope of future stranglehold between feuding parties, they left Palestine with a high-handed partition under the influence of European Jewish financiers. A Jewish state was imposed on Palestine, just as a new state was created out of India. We are still suffering from that British perfidy and should empathise with Palestinians who are still struggling to get their state and their freedom. Israel with the active assistance and encouragement of western countries has made a colony of Palestine and freedom struggle of Palestine is not over yet. India, therefore, should clearly define its stand on Palestinian freedom struggle and her own contribution to the conflict resolution efforts, which have acquired more importance and urgency, after coming to power of Benjamin Netanyahu, the hard-line Likud leader, who has systematically aborted all terms of agreement, so meticulously worked by well-meaning intermediaries, including Norway and USA. India should demand that President Weizman should take back a message from India, that Israel should follow the accord in letter and in spirit, so that Palestinians who were fighting for their independence at the same time that India herself was struggling against British, should at least get their goals, even now, though after the passage of half a century. India owes this much to its own glorious memories of freedom struggle.
#176
The Editor
The Pioneer FAX:2672928
Mumbai PHONE:2673085
Sir,
Apropos your editorial ‘Shalom, Mr. President’ (30/12). It is true that there are no permanent friends and enemies in politics; only permanent interests. Still any nation without reference to its commitments to justice, peace and human rights, cannot hope to aspire for honourable place in the comity of nations. India had sided with Arabs against Israel on the principles of freedom from colonial imperialism. Around the time India received its independence, a string of nations received a boost in their struggle against the western colonists. Palestine was supposed to be one of them. However, just as in the case of India, which got its freedom with the British deliberately dividing the nation in the hope of future stranglehold between feuding parties, they left Palestine with a high-handed partition under the influence of European Jewish financiers. A Jewish state was imposed on Palestine, just as a new state was created out of India. We are still suffering from that British perfidy and should empathise with Palestinians who are still struggling to get their state and their freedom. Israel with the active assistance and encouragement of western countries has made a colony of Palestine and freedom struggle of Palestine is not over yet. India, therefore, should clearly define its stand on Palestinian freedom struggle and her own contribution to the conflict resolution efforts, which have acquired more importance and urgency, after coming to power of Benjamin Netanyahu, the hard-line Likud leader, who has systematically aborted all terms of agreement, so meticulously worked by well-meaning intermediaries, including Norway and USA. India should demand that President Weizman should take back a message from India, that Israel should follow the accord in letter and in spirit, so that Palestinians who were fighting for their independence at the same time that India herself was struggling against British, should at least get their goals, even now, though after the passage of half a century. India owes this much to its own glorious memories of freedom struggle.
#176
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Bookslut | A Trifecta of Eastern Conquest
Bookslut A Trifecta of Eastern Conquest: "April 2006
Elizabeth Kiem
features
A Trifecta of Eastern Conquest
When the Mongol emperor Tamerlane conquered Baghdad in 1401 he commanded that each of his soldiers bring back two heads from the populace and stack them in a pyramid. At the end of the day there were 120 such towers circling the city, each of them swarming with vultures. The Tigris ran red and every house was in ashes.
That�s some shock and awe.
Alexander the Great was in Babylon at the height of his way-B.C. grandeur. He was gentle with the population, unusually so, and so they prostrated themselves at his feet and feted him with their famous whores for a month.
That�s a mission accomplished.
The two great warriors hit Mesopotamia eighteen hundred years apart, but both are equally ancient history to us today. To read of the breadth of their conquests, the savagery of their vengeance and the opulence of their occupations is to realize just how amateurish was our grim little 20th century (not to mention the lackluster first decade of the modern millennium) when it comes to Greatness with a capital G.
Indeed, looked at next to the annals of the ancients, the era of post-industrial progress is a study in shrinkage. Our cities may be sprawling but our borders are puny. A world in which huge plums called Tartary, Anatolia and the Celestial Empire beckoned plunderers has been carved into a thousand dinky nation-states measuring wealth in percentages, not elephants.
We have very large guns, to be sure, but the size of our threats, constricted with sanctions and protocols, are laughable when heard next to the ultimatums of the �Scourge of God,� Tamerlane, who wrote the Khans of Hindustan that if they set any value upon their lives, property and reputation, they will pay me yearly tribute, and"
Elizabeth Kiem
features
A Trifecta of Eastern Conquest
When the Mongol emperor Tamerlane conquered Baghdad in 1401 he commanded that each of his soldiers bring back two heads from the populace and stack them in a pyramid. At the end of the day there were 120 such towers circling the city, each of them swarming with vultures. The Tigris ran red and every house was in ashes.
That�s some shock and awe.
Alexander the Great was in Babylon at the height of his way-B.C. grandeur. He was gentle with the population, unusually so, and so they prostrated themselves at his feet and feted him with their famous whores for a month.
That�s a mission accomplished.
The two great warriors hit Mesopotamia eighteen hundred years apart, but both are equally ancient history to us today. To read of the breadth of their conquests, the savagery of their vengeance and the opulence of their occupations is to realize just how amateurish was our grim little 20th century (not to mention the lackluster first decade of the modern millennium) when it comes to Greatness with a capital G.
Indeed, looked at next to the annals of the ancients, the era of post-industrial progress is a study in shrinkage. Our cities may be sprawling but our borders are puny. A world in which huge plums called Tartary, Anatolia and the Celestial Empire beckoned plunderers has been carved into a thousand dinky nation-states measuring wealth in percentages, not elephants.
We have very large guns, to be sure, but the size of our threats, constricted with sanctions and protocols, are laughable when heard next to the ultimatums of the �Scourge of God,� Tamerlane, who wrote the Khans of Hindustan that if they set any value upon their lives, property and reputation, they will pay me yearly tribute, and"
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BayouBuzz.com - Louisiana Politics and News: "Condoleezza Rice�s Napoleon Complex Over Iraq
World/US
Author: Sarah Whalen 4/2/2006Home : Politics
Also By this Reporter: Condoleezza Rice�s Napoleon Complex Over Iraq
Face It Dick Cheney: Resign Now
Who killed Pat Tillman?
If Whittington Shot Dick Cheney
Take Arab Out of Gulf Emirates Ports
Dick Cheney Witless Over Whittington
Did U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice say the Bush Administration�s made 'thousands of tactical errors' in Iraq, but the 'right strategic decision?'
Or is that Napoleon, speaking through Condi from the grave as Hillary channeled Eleanor Roosevelt?
Actually, perhaps it would be wise to get Nappy on the psychic red phone. They could have a heck of a discussion about taking on the Middle East�.
Napoleon was a great warrior in battle, and he and his soldiers did leave their mark on the Middle East�their graffiti abounds on Egypt�s mosques, pyramids and citadel. Napoleon also relieved the Middle East he 'conquered' in 1798 of a bunch of neat obelisks now centering ritzy Paris boulevards and some very nice art and antiquities now sitting in the Louvre�looting and pillaging being that 'messy' democratic element even then.
But is the Middle East any more French today for Napoleon having conquered it?
Kinda. Sorta. But not in the dramatic way that Condi and her fellow fellow thinkers envision.
You can hear French spoken in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and sometimes in Egypt and elsewhere; there�s a smattering of French civil law limping about; and every once in a while, the odd architectural element pops out at you when you least expect it. And you can usually rustle up some very nice cui"
World/US
Author: Sarah Whalen 4/2/2006Home : Politics
Also By this Reporter: Condoleezza Rice�s Napoleon Complex Over Iraq
Face It Dick Cheney: Resign Now
Who killed Pat Tillman?
If Whittington Shot Dick Cheney
Take Arab Out of Gulf Emirates Ports
Dick Cheney Witless Over Whittington
Did U.S. Secretary of State Condi Rice say the Bush Administration�s made 'thousands of tactical errors' in Iraq, but the 'right strategic decision?'
Or is that Napoleon, speaking through Condi from the grave as Hillary channeled Eleanor Roosevelt?
Actually, perhaps it would be wise to get Nappy on the psychic red phone. They could have a heck of a discussion about taking on the Middle East�.
Napoleon was a great warrior in battle, and he and his soldiers did leave their mark on the Middle East�their graffiti abounds on Egypt�s mosques, pyramids and citadel. Napoleon also relieved the Middle East he 'conquered' in 1798 of a bunch of neat obelisks now centering ritzy Paris boulevards and some very nice art and antiquities now sitting in the Louvre�looting and pillaging being that 'messy' democratic element even then.
But is the Middle East any more French today for Napoleon having conquered it?
Kinda. Sorta. But not in the dramatic way that Condi and her fellow fellow thinkers envision.
You can hear French spoken in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and sometimes in Egypt and elsewhere; there�s a smattering of French civil law limping about; and every once in a while, the odd architectural element pops out at you when you least expect it. And you can usually rustle up some very nice cui"
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Sleeping with the ‘enemy’?
President Bush has painted himself into a corner, by his overpowering painting of all Muslims and all Arabs as terrorists and enemies of the US and Israel. He cannot breakout of his own predicament without breaking the walls. Hence the Bush threat of veto on any adverse legislation planned by the Congress on sale of US ports to Dubai investors. The people of the United States have been so thoroughly brainwashed that when they see Arabs or Muslims, they instinctively reach for the guns. A superpower cannot work in a corner; cannot survive in isolation; cannot help making friends and influencing people, even among its supposedly enemy camp. That is the gist of real-politick. Bush has had his way blustering through as long as he could sell his scare tactic as the highest level of patriotism. The neo-con made it easy, as long as he kept demonizing ghosts of terrorism in Muslim world. A whole cult of Muslim-demonizing had sprung up. Now, Bush proposal on Dubai investment, though through the British group P&O, is being treated as blasphemy by both sides of the Congress divide. It will require all of his bravado, ingenuity and willingness to open up his secret dealings, to be able for him to swim against the tide that he had himself turned on.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:27:53 -0800 (PST)
From: "Ghulam Muhammed"
Sleeping with the ‘enemy’?
To:"admin@mcb.org.uk"
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Sleeping with the ‘enemy’?
President Bush has painted himself into a corner, by his overpowering painting of all Muslims and all Arabs as terrorists and enemies of the US and Israel. He cannot breakout of his own predicament without breaking the walls. Hence the Bush threat of veto on any adverse legislation planned by the Congress on sale of US ports to Dubai investors. The people of the United States have been so thoroughly brainwashed that when they see Arabs or Muslims, they instinctively reach for the guns. A superpower cannot work in a corner; cannot survive in isolation; cannot help making friends and influencing people, even among its supposedly enemy camp. That is the gist of real-politick. Bush has had his way blustering through as long as he could sell his scare tactic as the highest level of patriotism. The neo-con made it easy, as long as he kept demonizing ghosts of terrorism in Muslim world. A whole cult of Muslim-demonizing had sprung up. Now, Bush proposal on Dubai investment, though through the British group P&O, is being treated as blasphemy by both sides of the Congress divide. It will require all of his bravado, ingenuity and willingness to open up his secret dealings, to be able for him to swim against the tide that he had himself turned on.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
Saturday, January 21, 2006
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
BABRI MASJID/ RAM MANDIR IMBROGLIO AND THE JEWISH CONNECTION
The Indian Express, Mumbai, on Jan 21, 2005, carries a 4-column front page top of the page headline: "Just as Jews have Wailing Wall, we need Ram temple: BJP Chief".
This publicly establishes widely suspected linkages of Jewish/Hindutva connection that has been the starting point of BJP's change of fortune and the tutoring of L. K. Advani by Jewish/Zionist advisors from the USA, to become a willing protagonist/agent for America's regime change agenda in India, with a view to take over India, through conspiracy and subversion.
L. K. Advani, in one of his interviews with The Economic Times after BJP's coming to power at the center, had openly acknowledged how he received a doctoral dissertation from America, fully detailing how aggression can be converted into power. It is quite understandable, that later Advani took up Babri Masjid/Ram Mandir agitation, to launch his infamous Rath Yatra, drumming up support by demonizing Indian Muslims and corralling votes in the name of aggressive Hindutva platform. Hundreds of thousands died in riots following Rath Yatra and the demolition of Babri Masjid.
Astute observers of Indian politics had been fully convinced that Babri Masjid/Ram Mandir's sudden hotting up, has some connection with the Jewish plans to claim 'Temple Mount', in Jerusalem, by demolition of 'Haram al Sharif' or the Al Aqsa Masjid/ Dome of the Rock complex, which Jews believed was the exact location of their last temple that was demolished to build Islamic holy places over the relics. Wailing Wall is supposed to be the last remaining portion of the temple that has now become a rallying point for religious Jews, to reestablish their state in Palestine. The Jews supposedly planned a dry run on a historical Masjid in India, to test the mood of the Muslim world; so that later they can use the same strategy to demolish Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Masjid/dome of the rock holy Muslim sites and present the Muslim world with a fait accompli. (Rumours of Israeli designs, circulating in 1990, resulted in clashes in which 19 Palestinians were killed and 140 wounded after Israeli police opened fire. Later in year 2000, a mere tentative visit by Sharon in a walkabout in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Masjid, as a show of force, unleashed the second intifada, that cost not less than 4000 Palestinian and 1000 Israeli lives.)
In the corresponding Indian set-up, propping up BJP, the political arm of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS), the fascist ideologues who were obsessed with imposing extremist anti-Muslim Hindutva rule on India through means, democratic or otherwise, was, in fact one more milestone in the way to a regime change exercise co-opted by US agencies, which are heavily infiltrated by American/ Israeli Jewish/Zionist activists. The plan targeted dual purpose objectives. Jewish/Zionists could make a deal with US administration, selling both goals as a package deal. It was no secret that for over 4 decades of Congress monopoly rule over India, Nehru Gandhi family had scrupulously kept US at great disadvantage, by fighting American hegemonical moves to take over India, through various proxy moves. US could not rest till it changed the status quo.
In the event, murder of Rajiv Gandhi; a palace coup resulting in the appointment of old RSS hand, P.V. Naramisha Rao as Prime Minster of the Congress coalition and the choice of a World Bank favorite, Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister, to head the 'liberalization' phase of India, paving the way to increased penetration of Indian politics, economy and defense establishment, coming about in quick succession, were not merely accidents of history, but formed strong basis for the widely held suspicion that behind the scene, US/Israelis conspirators/operators were virtually managing India for the sole benefit of Corporate America and Zionist Israel.
In fact, the two top major Brahmanical political parties, Congress and BJP presently are in a race to court the US and Israel, to consolidate their own respective political power at the helm of affairs in India. Both Brahmanical parties though fooling the voters as competitors in essentially mock fights, are in fact, fine-tuning their covert cooperation with US and Israel to thwart any attempt for the secular non-Brahmin forces to register their due right to represent and rule in the name of the silent majority in India if a truly democratic elections are ever held.
Politically the most disadvantaged group in this scenario is none other that the already victimized Indian Muslims, whose demographic weightage and geographic spread all over India, had for the initial 4 decades after independence in 1947, continuously supported Nehru-Gandhi family ruled Congress, giving them a most reliable and convincing monopoly on electoral majority through a virtual captive Muslim vote-bank.
Ironically, the decks are currently so loaded that if Indian Muslims have to get their due political rights restored, they will probably have to collaborate with the same Jewish/Zionist operators, who internationally are their worst adversaries and who now have the reigns of powers fully secured in their control and who will call the shots now on, even in India, which under Congress was beyond reach for them.
Indian Brahmins, a mere 4% of the total population, but very strategically located at Indian political map, have clearly decided to fully collaborate with world's most virulent Muslim-baiters, who for reasons of their own have chosen to project Muslims and Islam as the world group, 'planning to takeover the world'. This bogey of strident Islam is deliberately projected to scare Western voters into granting the rulers, unlimited powers to translate their fascist designs through democratic smoke-screens.
It is a moment for major decisions, not only for Indian Muslims, but the whole Muslim World, that is trying to gain and secure their independence and freedom from the hegemony of the West. Arab world, long mired in their own ghettos fighting for their independence, will have to reach out to rest of the Muslim world and especially to India, given its promising future, if an effective response to Jewish/Zionist desigs is to be planned and implemented to secure their just rights.
If Masjid Al Aqsa has to be secured, Babri Masjid will be the first battle engagement that is got to be won. If Muslims could marshal their total energies to defend and rebuild Babri Masjid that was demolished by Brahmanical storm- troopers back in 1992, their resolve will send out a clear message to anti-Muslim forces not to indulge in unproductive test of strength of the kind that is sure to end in avoidable bloodshed and widespread civil strife.
At least Sharon has finally realized the anatomy of the end-game and was slowly managing a tactical retreat. One hopes his successors will benefit from his experience and vision and adopt a more peaceful 'live and let live' policy avoiding senseless bloodshed of humankind. A cautionary note to Rajnath Singh, the newly chosen BJP President, by relevent quarters, not to destabilize peace and stability in India, through highly inflammable divisive political moves, will be in the best interest of all concerned.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI<ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in>
Date:
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:05:07 -0800 (PST)
From:
"Ghulam Muhammed"
Subject:
BABRI MASJID/ RAM MANDIR IMBROGLIO AND THE JEWISH CONNECTION
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editor@expressindia.com
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
BABRI MASJID/ RAM MANDIR IMBROGLIO AND THE JEWISH CONNECTION
The Indian Express, Mumbai, on Jan 21, 2005, carries a 4-column front page top of the page headline: "Just as Jews have Wailing Wall, we need Ram temple: BJP Chief".
This publicly establishes widely suspected linkages of Jewish/Hindutva connection that has been the starting point of BJP's change of fortune and the tutoring of L. K. Advani by Jewish/Zionist advisors from the USA, to become a willing protagonist/agent for America's regime change agenda in India, with a view to take over India, through conspiracy and subversion.
L. K. Advani, in one of his interviews with The Economic Times after BJP's coming to power at the center, had openly acknowledged how he received a doctoral dissertation from America, fully detailing how aggression can be converted into power. It is quite understandable, that later Advani took up Babri Masjid/Ram Mandir agitation, to launch his infamous Rath Yatra, drumming up support by demonizing Indian Muslims and corralling votes in the name of aggressive Hindutva platform. Hundreds of thousands died in riots following Rath Yatra and the demolition of Babri Masjid.
Astute observers of Indian politics had been fully convinced that Babri Masjid/Ram Mandir's sudden hotting up, has some connection with the Jewish plans to claim 'Temple Mount', in Jerusalem, by demolition of 'Haram al Sharif' or the Al Aqsa Masjid/ Dome of the Rock complex, which Jews believed was the exact location of their last temple that was demolished to build Islamic holy places over the relics. Wailing Wall is supposed to be the last remaining portion of the temple that has now become a rallying point for religious Jews, to reestablish their state in Palestine. The Jews supposedly planned a dry run on a historical Masjid in India, to test the mood of the Muslim world; so that later they can use the same strategy to demolish Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Masjid/dome of the rock holy Muslim sites and present the Muslim world with a fait accompli. (Rumours of Israeli designs, circulating in 1990, resulted in clashes in which 19 Palestinians were killed and 140 wounded after Israeli police opened fire. Later in year 2000, a mere tentative visit by Sharon in a walkabout in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Masjid, as a show of force, unleashed the second intifada, that cost not less than 4000 Palestinian and 1000 Israeli lives.)
In the corresponding Indian set-up, propping up BJP, the political arm of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS), the fascist ideologues who were obsessed with imposing extremist anti-Muslim Hindutva rule on India through means, democratic or otherwise, was, in fact one more milestone in the way to a regime change exercise co-opted by US agencies, which are heavily infiltrated by American/ Israeli Jewish/Zionist activists. The plan targeted dual purpose objectives. Jewish/Zionists could make a deal with US administration, selling both goals as a package deal. It was no secret that for over 4 decades of Congress monopoly rule over India, Nehru Gandhi family had scrupulously kept US at great disadvantage, by fighting American hegemonical moves to take over India, through various proxy moves. US could not rest till it changed the status quo.
In the event, murder of Rajiv Gandhi; a palace coup resulting in the appointment of old RSS hand, P.V. Naramisha Rao as Prime Minster of the Congress coalition and the choice of a World Bank favorite, Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister, to head the 'liberalization' phase of India, paving the way to increased penetration of Indian politics, economy and defense establishment, coming about in quick succession, were not merely accidents of history, but formed strong basis for the widely held suspicion that behind the scene, US/Israelis conspirators/operators were virtually managing India for the sole benefit of Corporate America and Zionist Israel.
In fact, the two top major Brahmanical political parties, Congress and BJP presently are in a race to court the US and Israel, to consolidate their own respective political power at the helm of affairs in India. Both Brahmanical parties though fooling the voters as competitors in essentially mock fights, are in fact, fine-tuning their covert cooperation with US and Israel to thwart any attempt for the secular non-Brahmin forces to register their due right to represent and rule in the name of the silent majority in India if a truly democratic elections are ever held.
Politically the most disadvantaged group in this scenario is none other that the already victimized Indian Muslims, whose demographic weightage and geographic spread all over India, had for the initial 4 decades after independence in 1947, continuously supported Nehru-Gandhi family ruled Congress, giving them a most reliable and convincing monopoly on electoral majority through a virtual captive Muslim vote-bank.
Ironically, the decks are currently so loaded that if Indian Muslims have to get their due political rights restored, they will probably have to collaborate with the same Jewish/Zionist operators, who internationally are their worst adversaries and who now have the reigns of powers fully secured in their control and who will call the shots now on, even in India, which under Congress was beyond reach for them.
Indian Brahmins, a mere 4% of the total population, but very strategically located at Indian political map, have clearly decided to fully collaborate with world's most virulent Muslim-baiters, who for reasons of their own have chosen to project Muslims and Islam as the world group, 'planning to takeover the world'. This bogey of strident Islam is deliberately projected to scare Western voters into granting the rulers, unlimited powers to translate their fascist designs through democratic smoke-screens.
It is a moment for major decisions, not only for Indian Muslims, but the whole Muslim World, that is trying to gain and secure their independence and freedom from the hegemony of the West. Arab world, long mired in their own ghettos fighting for their independence, will have to reach out to rest of the Muslim world and especially to India, given its promising future, if an effective response to Jewish/Zionist desigs is to be planned and implemented to secure their just rights.
If Masjid Al Aqsa has to be secured, Babri Masjid will be the first battle engagement that is got to be won. If Muslims could marshal their total energies to defend and rebuild Babri Masjid that was demolished by Brahmanical storm- troopers back in 1992, their resolve will send out a clear message to anti-Muslim forces not to indulge in unproductive test of strength of the kind that is sure to end in avoidable bloodshed and widespread civil strife.
At least Sharon has finally realized the anatomy of the end-game and was slowly managing a tactical retreat. One hopes his successors will benefit from his experience and vision and adopt a more peaceful 'live and let live' policy avoiding senseless bloodshed of humankind. A cautionary note to Rajnath Singh, the newly chosen BJP President, by relevent quarters, not to destabilize peace and stability in India, through highly inflammable divisive political moves, will be in the best interest of all concerned.
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI<ghulam_muhammed2@yahoo.co.in>
