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Re: Not mute spectators, Shielaji. Just a natural reaction to how your ilk manages this country

Website hosting india — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:07:34 -0000

It's very bad news for every Indian. And our country is going down due to our politicians.
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Re: Democracy in the view of our ministers

Kaisar — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:32:33 -0000

fundamental rights are as long as others follow it. basic rul eof democracy is that your freedom ends where others' freedom starts. You can view kashmir as of today. in 1988 , lakhs of kasmiri pandits were evicted from kashmir in a sinsiter campaign and now they are resorting to continued violence in guise of protest. Kasmir is not a simple democratic situation but a war and in war there are no rights only winners and loosers.

Re: Making this blog more general in nature

কফি হাউসের আড্ডা — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:50 -0000

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Re: Making this blog more general in nature

sandipb — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:39:18 -0000

He He. Can you believe this freak? Leaving this comment untouched for its amusement factor.

Re: Making this blog more general in nature

BB — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:16:51 -0000

His poisoned intellect makes him turn against the very society that offers him security and comfort. He hates his own religion more than he hates any other. He runs away leaving his women. He is a self loathing Bengali Brahmin.

Re: Too Sensitive to Disease Names?

Nitwit Nastik — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:01:22 -0000

LOL. DId you read about the incident in UK where they prevented the display of an ad with a puppy because it hurt muslim religious sentiments.:-)

Re: Too Sensitive to Disease Names?

Naman — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:03:38 -0000

It's amazing how people can't stop acting stupid even in times of crises.

Re: What truth in religion?

Nitwit Nastik — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:42:37 -0000

Sandip, my thoughts exactly.

Btw on a different note you may want to sign up for the Indian Atheists and Agnostics blogroll here (assuming of course that you are atheist/agnostic like me)

http://indianatheists.wordpres...

The purpose of setting up the this blogroll was to build critical mass and to encourage Indian atheists to come forward and speak out without being embarrased. It was also to increase our visibility as a group and send a message to those who are afraid to come out that " it is OK to be an atheist/agnostic. There are more like you here"

Re: Of theocratic states,treason and capital punishments

Nitwit Nastik — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:57 -0000

Nice post. BJP coming to power may really be problematic for communal peace. I hope they don't. I can't believe that people are quoting the racist, sexist, classist Manu smriti in this day and age. Unfortunately, it is a sign of our times.

Btw, I don't see how apostasy could be equated to treason. One is rejection of a belief which hardly hurts anyone else and the other is active participation in undermining a physical entity - a country and it's people for example. As a commenter in that thread pointed out, I think apostasy is more closer to relinquishing one's citizenship than to treason.

Re: Hindutva Fundamentalists Lose California Textbook Court Case

nitwit nastik — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:08:41 -0000

nice post. The changes proposed were ridiculous..although I wonder if this matter is so straight-forward...there's too much politics involved..I won't be surprised if the initial text was influenced by christian evangelicals in the first place :-)

btw I was reading about the criticisms hurled against FOSA...do you have any idea if they are true?

Re: Kolkata capitulates again to religious blackmail

Diptorup — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:36:10 -0000

Unfortunately not many raise these issues. Religious freedom and secularism should not equate votebank appeasement. If we are ready to speak out against Ram Sene and MNS we should not be squemish about addressing even this kind of militant Islam.

Re: Colored news: the problem of Indian TV media

Dipika — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:59:33 -0000

Very well expressed!! To take that thought further, the 'countless number' of '24x7' news channels has resulted in a competition amongst them to 'generate' news and elicit views. Even the debates conducted by these news channels, though on very prominent topics and with eminent public figures as panelists, have a predefined direction and predefined conclusion. And the compere ensures to steer all arguments towards that predefined end-goal. An end-goal which may be solely the view held by the news channel!

Re: Is anger the best response to Mumbai?

sandipb — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:10:04 -0000

neel288,

Seriously, I get rather tired of this repeated nonsense about POTA being some kind of panacea for all our terrorism problems.

Do you seriously believe that these attackers would have cared a damn about whether we have POTA enacted or not? Do you even understand what POTA is about? It is about helping police investigate a crime *after* it has already happened! What about preventing the problem in the first place? Why keep harping about something relatively irrelevant to the problem at hand - *preventing* such attacks from happening?

It would be a sad day when India starts accepting Israel as it's role model. I have great respect for the Israelis as a people and a nation. But I do not think that their approach of the last few decades of solving problems using naked aggression has achieved any purpose. Rather, they have now got an entire new generation of enemies all around their country who have grown up in the conflict and are absolutely focused in decimating Israel as a nation.

It is sad that while many Israelis have now realized that fighting hate with hate is an endless meaningless exercise which doesn't solve anything, certain sections of Indian politics have decided not to take the lessons from that conflict. They would make us commit the same mistakes over and over again. And if we actually follow that path, some years down the line we will look at this day and tell that this was just the beginning, and if only we could have taken an different choice.

This is the time to focus on strengthening our country from within. There will always we war-mongers within us, but it seems senseless that we drag the rotting administrative core of our country into a war which won't solve anything and only deepen our issues for generations.

Re: Is anger the best response to Mumbai?

neel288 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:40:02 -0000

Anger, or no anger, such terrorist acts calls for immediate and decisive response. India, traditionally, is a nation ruled by incompetent politicians and bureaucrats, who have no vision.
The congress politicians have been resisting a tougher anti terror law for some time, and even pushing for removing or relaxing TADA, just to garner muslim votes ?
These are the enemies within, that must be dealt with first, if the nation has to survive.
We have had enough of knee jerk reactions from these idiots. It is time India takes a leaf out of Israel's book.

Re: Is anger the best response to Mumbai?

Ameera — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:56:38 -0000

You're thinking along alternate lines which is really good to see. There are some crucial questions to ask here such as, "What could Pakistan gain from orchestrating this, at a time when it has enough problems on its hands?" or "Who really stands to benefit from the fall out of this event?" or that "How could so-called evidence linking to Pakistan be simply lying around, ready for the investigators?"

We in Pakistan do not want to redeploy our troops on the Eastern border because it will give the miscreants in the tribal areas to regroup and relaunch themselves. To maintain peace, and to ensure that the real perpetrators are caught, India will have to think out of the box, use it's head rather than heart. With the Samjhauta Express case, which Hemant Karkare was overseeing, the initial blame was heaped upon Pakistan whereas a very difficult truth emerged later as to who had really done it.

Re: Is anger the best response to Mumbai?

draka — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:19:44 -0000

"“why did these terrorists do this? What was their agenda?” After all these terrorists are not murderous psychopaths who kill because they like to kill."
I think that time has passed. Now we need to figure out what constitutes victory/success for these maniacs and deny it to them. The fact that we might be incompetent does not prevent the enemy from landing a soft blow across our face, whatever state we are in now, we must make POSITIVE efforts to see that this does not recur.

What is the terrorists' agenda? Do they really believe that liberating all "Muslim lands" will end this? I think they know well enough to see what is their endgame, either die "rich" (either in materially or in the supposed afterlife)or live poor, and the choice is obvious.

If Pakistan is puerile enough not to see the LeT-attacks connection, we should ratchet up pressure, diplomatic, financial and military to see that it stops the ISI from abetting these murderers. Otherwise, I am all up for a selective airstrike on knowne LeT training camps.

Re: Time magazine on the attackers

Animesh — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:02:19 -0000

Also, the WSJ.

Re: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s speech making a case for conversion

contentious — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:14:31 -0000

Everyday I come across atleast one blog which presents a new way of observing at the world around them...amazing. Glad I visited yours.

Re: The chasm between two Indias

contentious — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:57:41 -0000

Very telling and nothing more to add except to thank you for bringing to our collective notice.

Re: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s speech making a case for conversion

Animesh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:33:26 -0000

Interesting posts. I like your well-referenced posting technique. Keep it up!
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Re: The chasm between two Indias

Animesh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:24:27 -0000

You, sir, have my deepest respect for showcasing this! Thanks!

Re: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s speech making a case for conversion

sandipb — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:38:59 -0000

Don't take my word for it. Dig around the web. :)

Re: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s speech making a case for conversion

sospokesaroj — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:13:19 -0000

Beef-eating was a tradition back in the day? I find it hard to believe. Drinking and merry-making, sure, but not sure about the other.

Interesting post though.