Mukul-da,
You prove how much money I get from the Indian govt to support Tavleen
Singh's comments here and how much money any govt agency in India or abroad
might have paid for MY trip to US or Canada.
Do citizens support their govt only when they are paid to do that? Is that
what you believe about a citizen's duties?
Umesh
mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<India is the sort of depraved country that is capable of electing a
government so evil that it would attack its own Parliament >and killed its own
paid agents whom they could never identify
I have telling this to all-- the day the INCIDENT happened- and even in
assamnet a couple of times in last 2 years. Thiss is my understanding of the
chaaracter of those who have been ruling India since 1947.
<Western newspapers pay well>.
Tavleen Singh should lay bare who all paid for HER many trips abroad and how
much she gets from other secret India Govt. funds. There is a Law on --Right to
Information.
Why is Delhi not finishing off Afzal?
Not Sure?
Scared of something ? Maybe after UP Votes?
mm
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From: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ASSAMNET <[email protected]>
Subject: [Assam] Tavleen Singh Wants Arundhati Roy Out of India
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:19:07 -0800 (PST)
If nothing else, I got a chuckle. Tavleen Singh vs. Arundhati Roy. Does
Arundhati care?
Published in the Sentinel:
Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>Arundhatis Gimmick
ON THE SPOT
Tavleen Singh
The punishment for terrorism should be death. Along with the rape of children
and murder for reasons of ethnic hatred, terrorism counts in my book as the
most cowardly and despicable crime in the world. So if Mohammad Afzal was
involved in the conspiracy to blow up Indias Parliament, I am among those who
would want him dead. But having covered the rise of terrorism in Punjab and
Kashmir and having watched closely how ill-equipped and inadequate our security
forces were to deal with terrorism, I am not convinced that Afzal is the
mastermind or even one of the main plotters of December 13. He seems peripheral
to the plot and also seems to have been used as a scapegoat, while
our investigating agencies evade the bigger question: who were the five men who
died in the attack and why do we still know absolutely nothing about them?
It is my view that our investigating agencies have not fully understood that
terrorism is war probably the only war India will fight in the 21st century.
If they had, there would have been signs of change in their tactics, tools and
strategy. There is no evidence of change either at the level of the Home
Ministry in Delhi or at the level of our State governments which is why it has
been so easy for the terrorist war against India to spread its tentacles into
cities like Mysore and Bangalore that have nothing to do with Kashmir or the
worldwide jehad.
While I am unconvinced of Afzals guilt may I say that what I am certain of is
that Arundhati Roys latest pamphlet in his defence is a disgraceful and
offensive attack on the nature of the Indian state. It is called 13 December:
The Strange Case of the Attack on
the Indian Parliament, and as I read it I found my sympathy for Afzal
evaporate. Ms Roy has collected together the writings of a group of her Leftist
friends nearly all of whom seek to prove that India is the sort of depraved
country that is capable of electing a government so evil that it would attack
its own Parliament.
In her introduction to the pamphlet, Ms Roy poses thirteen questions in a
childish gimmick that implies that there would have been fourteen if the attack
had happened the day after. Question 5 and 6 indicate that she believes that
the Indian government organized the attack on Parliament as an excuse to go to
war with Pakistan. A few days after 13 December, the government declared that
it had incontrovertible evidence of Pakistans involvement in the attack, and
announced a massive mobilization of almost half-a-million soldiers to the
Indo-Pakistan border. The subcontinent was pushed to the brink of nuclear war
Is it true that the military
mobilization to the Pakistan border had begun long before the 13 December
Attack?
If Arundhati Roy believes that the Indian state is as malevolent as this, then
she should keep her promise and emigrate. When India tested its nuclear bomb in
1998, she declared herself no longer Indian; well it is time for her to go. The
pamphlet she has lent her name to is less defence of Afzal and more a vicious
denunciation of the nature of the Indian state, Indian democracy and the Indian
justice system. Every one of the 15 essays makes the point that India is the
kind of country that is incapable of guaranteeing such things as fundamental
rights and a fair trial. And, that its rulers are cold-blooded thugs so
deficient in responsibility that they would take the country to the brink of a
nuclear war without thinking of the consequences.
This is not just outrageous. It is sick and very much a
piece with the lies told about Kashmir by Indian journalists who make a living
out of maligning India in the Western media. Western newspapers pay well. And
some of Arundhati Roys fellow travellers have written articles in the past
that have made the Indian Army sound like the sort of rogue armies that exist
in totalitarian states and military dictatorships.
The massacre of Sikhs in the village of Chhatisinghpora five years ago was one
of the incidents that was blamed on the Indian Army when anyone who went to the
village could have confirmed easily that it was the work of Pakistani
terrorists. As someone who did go, may I say here that everyone I talked to
confirmed that for several days before the massacre Pakistani terrorists had
walked through the village on their way to a hideout in the jungle. The killers
who lined the Sikhs up against a gurudwara wall and shot them in the back were
in Indian Army uniform. If it was a covert operation, would they not at
least have worn Pakistani army uniform?
There is much wrong with the way governments in Delhi have dealt with Kashmir.
Terrible mistakes have been made. Human rights have been abused, torture used
to extract confessions, and there is a long list of people who have
disappeared. It is possible that Afzal is a victim of these primitive methods
of fighting terrorism, but to conclude from this that the Indian state is
undemocratic, unjust and evil is beyond sick. Mohammad Afzal has been
singularly unfortunate in his supporters but this does not mean that he should
hang. If a mistake has been made, it must be rectified. That is how democracy
and human civilization work.
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