[GreenYouth] Re: RSS against India's unity and development: Raman Pillai
Hindutva +development has been creating powerful impact even among its arch rivals.political hindus/hindu nationalists/developmentlists/nationalists are in the same platform. --- On Sat, 28/3/09, Bobby Kunhu bobby.ku...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bobby Kunhu bobby.ku...@gmail.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: RSS against India's unity and development: Raman Pillai To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 28 March, 2009, 8:12 AM I think it is also important to highlight the point Venu raised regard the tacit complicitness of neo-liberal forces with the successful faces of Hindtutva aka Modi and the gujarat genocide which has not merited an apology. This complicitness is both by commission and ommission. Manorama has a long history of this complicitness 2009/3/28 damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com Dear Venu, What you said is correct. PKKunhlaikutty has termed The Hindu Janapaksham as Rebel-BJP. It is accurately termed. Indeed, as we are living here in kerala and since we read newspapers, we know why Raman Pillai quit the party. Pillai was not expelled from the party owing to his position against Hindutva. It was basically bcoz of some padalpinakkam with PPmukundan faction. He did not even breaking away the ranks of BJP on ideological grounds. Today in newspaper, I read kalyan signh has apologized for babri masjid demolition. Apologies have become so cheap!! Interestingly, the New Indian Express, Mbmi, manorama, mangalam have been campaigning consistently on xposing ma'dani terror links even dedicating Kozhikode based reporters for fabricating facsimile copies of letters has completely gone silent on this Hindu Janapaksham. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: Plz go through the report verbatim and solve the puzzle, (if at all you like to take it serious enough ): 1. Who is telling the bigger lie here? The Manorama's scribe who distorts the content by a misleading caption, or Mr.Raman Pillai himself , who has reportedly stated only that certain policies pursued by the RSS are harmful to the unity and development of this country and yet he would continue to be a supporter of the RSS in certain ideas and not in certain other aspects..more over, he would oppose seeing it as a terrorist organization [Probably true; how can a State like Gujarat , though proved near complicit in massacre of its own people be called that bad, when it is shining with so much of achievements in development even to impress an Ex-MP of CPI(M) ?] So long as RSS enjoys support from the leading players of neoliberal economic agenda world wide, including Non-BJP UPA and State governments of this country , certainly one needs to be more careful in dubbing the RSS as terrorists! In fact, one is encouraged to say that the RSS do a lot of good things in relief works, promote the kind of patriotism helping the people, governments and the armed forces to fight terrorism, and moreover, showing (misguided) dalits, women and youth their culturally legitimate roles , moral values, spaces and places, etc...etc.. And this is the real message one can read into the kind of equivocalism in the content of these press reports and the statements of political leaders from the mainstream! 2. How close are his (dream) Janapksham views to (the real) Hindu Janapaksham that the likes of Malayala Manorama and other papers and the mainstream parties like to push forward! and After all, he is the very same person who had played the role of Advani in Kerala in the pre- Babari Masjid demolition mobilizations in early nineties. How can he totally disown this legacy? Didn't A.B.Vajpayee too look saddedned by Babri demolition, once it had been accomplished and the security forces having been on guard to protect the so called Ramjanmastan? Regards, Venu. On Mar 27, 9:17 pm, ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/malayala =@@@ -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Re: zizek- badiou
Thanks for the links, Damodar (P). On 27 Mar, 17:24, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com wrote: follow the link.. last week there was a thread on St. Aditya's Nigam's criticism of bribeck conference on idea of communismhttp://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/ioc260309.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Re: zizek- badiou
after 1917,the new political subjectivity came into the political sphere,that is party -(badio's argument).this was the only political subjectivity-of course,this new political subjectivity-that became the political blunder of the third internationalist dreams. --- On Sat, 28/3/09, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: From: venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: zizek- badiou To: Green Youth Movement greenyouth@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 28 March, 2009, 12:58 PM Thanks for the links, Damodar (P). On 27 Mar, 17:24, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com wrote: follow the link.. last week there was a thread on St. Aditya's Nigam's criticism of bribeck conference on idea of communismhttp://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/ioc260309.html Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Re: zizek- badiou
I think we should be inviting Badio and zizek to live in Kerala, particularly at koothuparambu, Thalassery. They may turn Buddist, minimum! On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM, C.K. Vishwanath ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com wrote: after 1917,the new political subjectivity came into the political sphere,that is party -(badio's argument).this was the only political subjectivity-of course,this new political subjectivity-that became the political blunder of the third internationalist dreams. --- On Sat, 28/3/09, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: From: venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: zizek- badiou To: Green Youth Movement greenyouth@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 28 March, 2009, 12:58 PM Thanks for the links, Damodar (P). On 27 Mar, 17:24, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com wrote: follow the link.. last week there was a thread on St. Aditya's Nigam's criticism of bribeck conference on idea of communismhttp:// www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/ioc260309.html Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:Investigate the Israeli Missile Contract
Press Statement The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: Investigate the Israeli Missile Contract The Rs. 10,000 crore missile production deal with an Israeli company, the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has now been exposed as a deal involving massive kickbacks besides being an unnecessary contract. The Left parties had asked in a letter to the Prime Minister in March 2008 that the $ 2.5 billion deal for developing a medium range surface to air missile with the IAI should not be proceeded with in view of the fact that the earlier Barak missile deal with the same company is being investigated by the CBI for kickbacks. The Defence Minister replied to this letter that if there is any impropriety or violation of law, action would be taken (letters attached). An investigative report by the DNA newspaper has exposed the fact that the Israeli missile deal involves a business charge which is six per cent of the total value (approximately Rs. 600 crore). This makes it a scam of ten-fold magnitude compared to the Bofors Rs. 64 crore kickbacks. The Left parties had written to the Prime Minister again in February 2009 barely three weeks before the contract was signed once again urging the government not to proceed with the deal (letter attached). The reason cited was that the DRDO had already developed a missile system which was superior to the one being offered by the IAI for co-production. The letter also reiterated that IAI should have been blacklisted just like the South African firm Denel which is also under investigation for kickbacks . Given the seriousness of the charges the government has to answer the following questions: 1. The IAI had got the contract for the supply of Barak missile in 2000 during the NDA regime. The FIR lodged by the CBI in October 2006 names IAI as an accused besides naming the Delhi-based arms dealer, Suresh Nanda and other family members as agents of the Israeli firms IAI and Rafael Corporation. Why was the IAI not embargoed from further supplies till the case was disposed off? 2. Was the Government not aware that the Israeli authorities had investigated the IAI for malpractices in contracts with other countries? Such charges led to the head of the IAI stepping down in 2005. 3. Was the Ministry of Defence not aware that an Indian agent of the Israeli company replaced by another petitioned the Israeli defence ministry claiming additional commissions were due to him? 4. What does the Manmohan Singh government have to say about the DRDO having developed and field proven its Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile capacity? Why was the DRDO compelled to enter into the so-called joint development of the IAI air defence missile when it already has its own superior AAD missile? 5. Was the Manmohan Singh government not aware of the fact that like in the Barak missile deal, there are middlemen and intermediaries involved who are being paid commissions/kickbacks? Was the government not aware of identity of these agents? 6. How does the Manmohan Singh government explain the six per cent business charges on the total value of the deal? Is this not contrary to the stipulations against engagement of agents and payment of agency commissions? 7. Why is it that the contract was signed on February 27, 2009 and the fact was kept a secret? The information about the date of signing has now become known from the IAI which has claimed that the Indian government wanted the signing of the contract to be kept secret. 8. Why did the government get the contract signed on February 27, 2009, just two days before the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections? The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) demands that the missile contract with the IAI be suspended and an investigation be ordered by the CBI into the contract with the IAI which should be a follow up of the investigations into the earlier Barak missile deal. end of statement annexures Annexure1 March 17, 2008 Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister Government of India Dear Shri Manmohan Singhji, We have been noting with growing concern the manner in which arms deals with Israel are being conducted. Israel is already the second largest supplier to India. It is now clear that Israeli arms manufacturers, including government-owned entities, have been blatantly violating Indian laws by using middle-men and by giving kickbacks to officials involved in the decision-making process. The scam surrounding India’s acquisition of the Israeli Barak missile systems manufactured by the state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Rafael corporations is the latest case in point. The original deal for ship-mounted Barak systems worth about Rs.1300 crore struck in 2000 during the NDA regime was rife with procedural violations and outright corruption as emerged during the Tehelka expose.
[GreenYouth] Brand Advani: Perils Of Rebranding! By Subhash Gatade: 28 March, 2009 ; Countercurrents.org
Time and again, the leaders of the Hindutva project have exhibited their love and preference for Brahminical mode of governance as laid down in the Manusmriti. In fact, when the constitutent assembly was engaged in making a constitution for independent India based on one wo/man one vote and was keen to do away with the graded hierarchy inherent in Manu's code, these leaders had no qualms in putting it bluntly that independent India should be run on Manusmriti itself. It is tragedy of our times that the anti-communal struggle in our country has not taken into account this important aspect of the Brahminical counterrevolution couched in the language of Hindutva. It would not be an exaggeration to say that till date the strategy to combat communalism has suffered from this lacunae. As Braj Ranjan Mani rightly puts it : The Hindutva of the RSS-BJP is predominantly hegemonistic, it is more social than political, and the so-called Hindu backlash against the past humiliations supposedly heaped on it by Islam and Christianity is a shrewd tactic to arrest the democratic upsurge of the hitherto excluded and marginalised majority. Earlier, the Hindu brahminic forces treated the toiling majority as the mlecchas. Now, dalit-subalterns are being co-opted into Hindu politics as tools against religious minorities. (Page 26, Debrahminising History, Manohar, 2008) A close look at the manner in which the Ram temple movement unfolded in our times makes it abundantly clear how the affirmative action programme for the other backward classes was cleverly used to bring politics of religious symbolism to the national centrestage. It thus helped polarise Hindus on the one side and Muslims and Christians on the other and proved successful in keeping people disunited. It logically followed that they could not confront the ruling classes on the issues of mass poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and unemployment and the central issue of making collective producers collective appropriators. Contact : *subhash.gat...@gmail.com* http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade280309.htm -- http://venukm.blogspot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Tennyson poems :
All things will Die : Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Under my eye; Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowing Over the sky. One after another the white clouds are fleeting; Every heart this May morning in joyance is beating Full merrily; Yet all things must die. The stream will cease to flow; The wind will cease to blow; The clouds will cease to fleet; The heart will cease to beat; For all things must die. All things must die. Spring will come never more. O, vanity! Death waits at the door. See! our friends are all forsaking The wine and the merrymaking. We are call’d–we must go. Laid low, very low, In the dark we must lie. The merry glees are still; The voice of the bird Shall no more be heard, Nor the wind on the hill. O, misery! Hark! death is calling While I speak to ye, The jaw is falling, The red cheek paling, The strong limbs failing; Ice with the warm blood mixing; The eyeballs fixing. Nine times goes the passing bell: Ye merry souls, farewell. The old earth Had a birth, As all men know, Long ago. And the old earth must die. So let the warm winds range, And the blue wave beat the shore; For even and morn Ye will never see Thro’ eternity. All things were born. Ye will come never more, For all things must die. Nothing will die .. When will the stream be aweary of flowing Under my eye?When will the wind be aweary of blowing Over the sky?When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting? When will the heart be aweary of beating? And nature die?Never, O, never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. Nothing will die; All things will change Thro’ eternity. ’Tis the world’s winter; Autumn and summer Are gone long ago; Earth is dry to the centre, But spring, a new comer, A spring rich and strange, Shall make the winds blow Round and round, Thro’ and thro’, Here and there, Till the air And the ground Shall be fill’d with life anew. The world was never made; It will change, but it will not fade. So let the wind range; For even and morn Ever will be Thro’ eternity. Nothing was born; Nothing will die; All things will change. Check out the all-new Messenger 9.0! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Letter from UK academics to the Editor - Please circulate widely
Dear all, We are circulating a letter to be sent to the Guardian (or Independent) early next week protesting the illegal incarceration of an Indian medical doctor, Dr. Binayak Sen and asking for his immediate release. We are hoping to get signatures from UK based academics teaching in UK universities and would be grateful if you could circulate this letter widely to elicit such support from colleagues and friends. Any academic wishing to support this letter should email us directly at Priya - pg...@cam.ac.uk mailto:2...@cam.ac.uk or Perveez - pm10...@cam.ac.uk mailto:pm10...@cam.ac.uk giving consent and your name, position, university and town/city (in the same format as below). Due to the imminence of the G20 summit, we request that you circulate this letter asap and that all signatories respond by Monday morning by 10 am (30th March), so that we can send it off with all the names. Further information on Binayak Sen can be found on http://www.binayaksen.net/ Priyamvada Gopal - Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University, Cambridge Perveez Mody - Lecturer, Cambridge University, Cambridge Joshua Castellino, Professor of Law, Middlesex University, London Bhaskar Vira, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Khalid Nadvi, Senior Lecturer, Manchester University, Manchester Patricia Jeffrey, Professor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Roger Jeffrey, Professor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Shirin M. Rai, Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry Jonathan P. Parry, Professor, London School of Economics, London -- The Editor, The Guardian / Independent London The world's economic powers gather in London this week, with India featuring prominently among them. As they do, we hope they will take the time to consider human rights as well as the credit crunch. In particular, we call attention to the continuing imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen, the first Indian recipient of the 2008 US-based Jonathan Mann award for Global Health and Human Rights. Dr Sen, a public health professional, has worked tirelessly for decades on issues of basic livelihood, health services and social justice. He has been incarcerated 'solely for peacefully exercising his fundamental rights,' as twenty-two Nobel Laureates, British politicians and many other prominent figures have noted. Dr. Sen has been a political prisoner since 14th May 2007 in the Indian State of Chhattisgarh, and has been denied bail and appropriate medical treatment. He is on Amnesty International's list of Prisoners at Risk. No credible charges have been brought against him but anti-terror legislation has been used to extend his detention. Supplementary charges and additional witnesses are continually introduced, with the apparent intention of endlessly prolonging his trial. The needs of the world's underprivileged must be at the forefront of the G20's discussions. The Government of Indian must act immediately to withdraw the charges against one of the strongest champions of social justice. We urge that Dr Sen be released, and be treated in the spirit of India's own constitution. At a time when the global economic situation has made the poor even more vulnerable, governments must support and work with, not incarcerate and abuse, those like Dr Sen and other human rights activists who work for positive change. This list disseminates information for those with a general interest in postcolonial studies. To subscribe/unsubscribe, email english-postcolonial-interested-requ...@lists.cam.ac.uk To email graduate students and faculty members involved with the Race, Class and Identity / Commonwealth and International Literature in English seminars, send a message to english-rci-c...@lists.cam.ac.uk -Inline Attachment Follows- Dear all, We are circulating a letter to be sent to the Guardian (or Independent) early next week protesting the illegal incarceration of an Indian medical doctor, Dr. Binayak Sen and asking for his immediate release. We are hoping to get signatures from UK based academics teaching in UK universities and would be grateful if you could circulate this letter widely to elicit such support from colleagues and friends. Any academic wishing to support this letter should email us directly at Priya - pg...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pg...@cam.ac.ukmailto: 2...@cam.ac.uk http://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@cam.ac.uk or Perveez - pm10...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pm10...@cam.ac.ukmailto: pm10...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pm10...@cam.ac.uk giving consent and your name, position, university and town/city (in the same format as below). Due to the imminence of the G20 summit, we request that you circulate this letter asap and that all signatories respond by Monday morning by 10 am (30th March), so that we can send it off with all the names. Further information on Binayak Sen can be found on
