Dismantling the Politics of Comfort
An Interview with Ward Churchill
[Satya | April 2004]
http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/churchill.html
[Ward Churchill is perhaps one of the most provocative thinkers
around. A Creek and enrolled Keetoowah Band Cherokee, Churchill is a
longtime
[This is the only article on 9/11 worth reading. Please read it carefully and
assimilate its logic, for it is your best weapon against the doublespeak of
today. - ZESTAlternative Desk]
Some People Push Back
On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
By Ward Churchill
[The rape of a 16-year old girl by a Hindu policeman in South Mumbai has the
city outraged (finally!). But for UN forces, this is routine behaviour.
Incidentally, the foot soldiers among the U.N. troops are mostly Indians,
Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis - our armed forces are basically
Buddhist Economics
By E.F. Schumacher
[An essay from Small Is Beautiful | 1973]
http://www.schumachersociety.org/buddhisteconomics.html
[Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered has been translated
into 27 different languages and in 1995 was named by the London Times
Insight Magazine
2 June 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The new issue of INSIGHT on Caste and Gender is now online at
http://www.sammaditthi.com/INSIGHT/insight_home.asp
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In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own
Mythic Reflections
- thoughts on myth, spirit, and our times
An interview with Joseph Campbell by Tom Collins
[In Context #12 | Winter 1985/86]
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC12/Campbell.htm
[Joseph Campbell is perhaps the world's foremost scholar of mythology. Among
his many books
Maalouf, Amin (1949- )
Lebanese journalist and novelist, whose native language was Arabic but who
writes in French. Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting. In 1993 he
received the Prix de Goncourt for his novel Le rocher de tanios (The Rock of
Tanios). His books are written with
Denying a shared past
By Yoginder Sikand
http://www.geocities.com/indianfascism/fascism/dada_hayat.htm
[Yoginder Sikand did his MPhil in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi and his Ph.D in history from the University of London. He completed
his post-doctoral work on
[Coke, that fizzy chemical solvent suitable for cleaning clogged drains has
made lasting contributions to world culture - from drugging labourers with
cocaine (hence the name) to creating the greatest shopping icon of them all,
Santa Claus.]
The Santa Coke Deal
By Seeta Pena
A Class Divided
- synopsis of a film by Jane Elliott
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968,
Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of
Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused
Tagore and Jana Gana Mana
By Monish R. Chatterjee
[31 August 2003]
This article is written in response to the frequently perpetuated myth
that Rabindranath Tagore wrote the song Jana Gana Mana for the
British monarch. For as long as one can remember, in fact, from
the very early
Adoption tales by Vinita Bhargava
- a book review
by Swapna Majumdar
[Indiatogether | 23 October 2005]
http://www.indiatogether.org/2005/oct/rvw-adoption.htm
Why do so few adoptions take place each year? Recognising some of the barriers
to adoption from her own experience, Vinita Bhargava
THOUSANDS BRAVE HEAVY RAINS TO LAUNCH NARMADA SATYAGRAHA: ALL SET FOR
PROTRACTED STRUGGLE
Press Release 5th August, 2006
Mohini Giri, L.C. Jain, Yogendra Yadav, Shabnam Hashmi Extend Support
Even as the swirling waters of the Sardar Sarovar project is
threatening the villages in the
Irom Sharmila: 'Iron Lady' Of Manipur
By Subhash Gatade
[Countercurrents.org | October 17 2006]
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
-Bob Dylan
Irom Sharmila.(Age 34). Does that name sound familiar?
Well, like most of us this youngest daughter
How Not To Engage With The 'Muslim World':
Insights From Delhi
By Yoginder Sikand
[Countercurrents.org | October 21 2006]
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-sikand211006.htm
In recent years, particularly following the events of 11 September 2001,
several Western organisations based in Delhi have
Dilemmas of an Educator
by Fr. Godfrey D'lima
We have long passed the facile explanations of why many communities do not
pursue formal education even up to becoming literate. Besides indifferent
teachers that can be found everywhere there is the problem of an indifferent
syllabus. In a
Hi Jagannath,
so look who's finally figured it out - the IMA.
These medical types believe that vaccines prevent disease - a totally
unsubstantiated belief - but at least now they admit that badly administered
vaccines cause the disease.
So lets await the next big miracle cure - the IPV. Get
Excellent work in feeding and rehabilitating the destitute:
http://www.srishtiannam.org/
Please pledge a meal if you have the means.
The man and the metaphor
- an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi
by Bageshree S.
[The Hindu | 11 January 2007]
http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/01/11/stories/2007011101240100.htm
Let me begin with a confession in the true Gandhian spirit. The first thing I
did when I got a copy of Rajmohan Gandhi's
9/11: A barrel of conspiracies
By Nochur S Ganesh
[Mid-day | 11 September 2005]
http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2005/september/118397.htm
Today is the fourth anniversary of the World Trade Centre collapse. Nearly
every TV network has run images of the dramatic and final collapse of the 1,362
Ward Moorehouse responds to Kelley Drye Warren in the Ecologist:
In response to Ward Morehouse's review of Jamie Cassels book The Uncertain
Promise of Law: Lessons
from Bhopal (July/August 1994); The Ecologist received the following letter
from Bud Geo Holman of the law firm
Kelley Drye
An Appeal
14 February, 2007
Dear friends,
We had no idea how tremendous would be the response to our film
UNREPENTANT, which is the first documentary on the real story of Genocide
in Canadian Indian residential schools. Besides winning an award at the
New York Independent Film Festival last
CRY statistics : Most pinching facts about India
In truth, millions of India 's children are denied even the most basic rights
of survival and protection. CRY (Child Relief and You) has compiled some
statistics on the situation of children in India . This is based on its
experience of working
Revisiting the Violence of Development: An Interview with Ashis Nandy
By Smitu Kothari
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v47/n1/full/1100012a.html
Smitu Kothari interviews Ashis Nandy, one of India's leading intellectuals on
the problems of violence embedded in development.
Metta, Karuna, Mudita, Upekha
These words are from the Buddhist tradition, in Pali, the language which the
Buddha spoke. These are called the Four Heavenly Abodes, a place to dwell
Metta is Loving Kindness,
Karuna is Compassion,
Mudita is Sympathetic Joy (vicarious joy, the opposite of
[The year 2007 is the 75th year of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh and also his
birth centenary. - ZESTAlternative Desk]
Bhagat Singh and His Comrades
A Page From Our Revolutionary History
by Ajoy Ghosh
http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org
[Ajay Ghosh (1909-1962) was a close comrade of Bhagat
The Desi Fan
By Mukul Kesavan
[TimesofIndia.com | March 23 2007]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The_Desi_Fan/articleshow/1790380.cms
The subcontinental cricket fan is a lazy, pampered know-nothing who thinks he
owns the cricket teams that he supports.
His sense of proprietorship is so
Literature, Censorship and the State:
To What Extent is a Novel Dangerous?
By Pramoedya Ananta Toer {Translated by Alex G. Bardsley}
[Jakarta, August 24, 1995]
http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/censor.html
I am an Indonesian citizen of Javanese ethnicity. This fate [kodrat] makes it
clear that I
Studies in the psychopathology of culture
- The art of Nepal - a belated, blunt and sometimes obscene review of books on
the subject.
By Ted Riccardi
[www.himalmag.com]
The Kathmandu Valley, it was said back in the 1950s when Nepal opened its
portals to the modern era, had more statues of
Mass conversion: Dalits shift faith
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/mass-conversion-dalits-shift-faith/41410-3.html
Mumbai: In what could be one of the biggest mass conversions in the
country, thousands of tribal and Dalit Hindus are to embrace the Buddhist
faith at a huge gathering in Mumbai
Marriages (these days)
On every street
The banshee shrieks
To blasting bands
Of noisy freaks
Its worse if he
With gutteral throat
Tries melody
Of female goat
No graceful bells
To herald love
Nor pastor's tones
For grace above
Its noise that seals
Or sells their tryst
That well might end
In
Hi Thomas,
Hannah Arendt, in her reporting of the Eichmann trial for The New Yorker, which
evolved into the book Eichmann in Jerusalem, coined the phrase the banality of
evil. She raised the question whether evil is radical or simply a function of
banality - the tendency of ordinary people to
Lessons from the Lal Masjid tragedy
by Robert Jensen
[14 July 2007]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan For my first three days in Pakistan, no conversation
could go more than a few minutes without a reference to the crisis at the Lal
Masjid (Red Mosque) compound. I had landed in Islamabad on July 8, and by
World Carfree Day is Sep 22:
http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
-Iris Murdoch, writer (1919-1999)
World Carfree Day is Sep 22:
... 'We need to bring the Dalits and other marginalized communities,
besides the Muslims, back into Gujarat's political discourse. We need to
shift the discourse from the secularism versus communalism debate to bring
to the centre issues of caste-class domination and subjugation. Only then
can
See also
Nukes Kill; Here's How: 16 Dirty Secrets About Nuclear Power
http://www.counterpunch.com/hoffman06272007.html
The Lies of Al Gore - Another Pro Nuker Wins the Peace Prize
By RUSSELL HOFFMAN
[www.counterpunch.org | 13 October 2007]
Ho Hum. Yesterday, pro-nuker Al Gore won
As part of the US-British-Israel deliberate destruction of Iraq, ongoing
targeted assassinations are being done of Iraqi scientists engineeers and
academic people.
On a larger and more systematic scale I believe this was done many years ago
in Africa when Europe led by the British
Unabashed worshippers of technology - chew on this.
jogesh
Subject: The Globalization of Hunger (fwd)
... World Trade Organization's Agreement on Agriculture forbids
governments in the Global South from providing farmers with low-cost seeds
and other farm inputs, turning farmers into a
Hi Thomas,
you should subscribe to Anumukti, a magazine dedicated to exposing the lies of
Peaceful nuclear Energy. Its run by Surendra Gadekar and his wife.
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=anumuktiie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.google:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a
Jogesh
mailto:[EMAIL
... WHAT IS the solution? Governments over six decades have bypassed the
issue. While Nehruvian India saw a great push towards technological
solutions in every sector, the State only had apathy for safai
karamcharis. It is not the lack of funds or technology that poses
problems. If technology can
The 88 Million Hidden Truths of Cartoons
- By Sundeep Waslekar
[strategicforesightgroup.com | February 2006]
http://www.strategicforesight.com/sw_bigquestions5.htm
At a recent lunch with a distinguished group of Qatari leaders of thought,
someone asked me the obvious question. What can one
So the centers of excellence continue to excel ...
- jogesh
September 01, 2007
*A Tragic Death at IIT Kanpur*
A child of a laborer working at a construction site on campus was bitten by
a snake and died because the campus hospital refused to attend. Like any
other work place, should the IIT
more of the same
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2007/iit_kanpur_hides_more_deaths_o_1.html
On Dec 15, 2007 10:12 PM, Jogesh Motwani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for posting on all alumni sites - centeres of excellence continue to
excel..
- jogesh
September 01, 2007
*A Tragic Death
[image: Wynton Marsalis] JAZZING THE PULITZER
April 9, 1997 *TRANSCRIPT*
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/april97/marsalis_4-9.html
*35 year-old trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has won the first Pultizer Prize for
jazz in a category usually reserved for classical music. His winning
Bongs and Commies especially - enjoy.
- Jogesh
The 'Spoils of War'. Again.
By Rebecca Eapen
[5 December 2007]
http://youngfeminists.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/94/ Posted
*THE NANDIGRAM *situation once again brought to the fore the political
demons that have been unleashed on this country. I
In response to Jayawanth's emails, heres a recent discussion between a
high-caste and a dalit, with a high-caste moderating the proceedings - (like
neutral white Proctor arbitrating over Harbhajan)
- Jogesh
Racist and blind to it: Indians face the mirror
CNN-IBN
*Growing within the Trash Trade*
By Sanat Mohanty
[The SouthAsian | 1 January 2007]
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2007/growing_within_the_trash_trade.html
While this is not a complete description of Bhavnagar, it is a description
of certain poor sections of the city, that depend
*Ruminating on Reservations*
May 21, 2006
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006/ruminating_on_reservations.html
The reservation issue in fashion again and many suggest that it is merely
political manipulation, vote bank scheming before the elections. There are,
perhaps, serious questions
Long before an emergency was imposed on the country by prime minister Indira
Gandhi in 1975-77, an emergency was imposed on Indian higher education in
the early 1970s. The ever-insecure new prime minister was eager to prove her
progressive credentials in the battle against the verna-cular elite
* So, India wins the 3rd test since australia were down to 11 men. But heres
a very well written article on the superior indian.
- Jogesh
*
* The Racial Slur That Wasn't *
* Ten observations on the monkey business of racism--notwithstanding the
fact that it is far from certain that Harbhajan
Collecting Orbital Junk South Asia is hooked on satellite television and
what it gets is an eyeful. But there's nobody looking out for the public
interest as commercial channels swamp the airwaves.by *Pratap Rughani*
http://www.himalmag.com/96jun/orbital.htm
Geostationary Globalisation
Children
*Monkey Business*
*By Anand Patwardhan*
12 January, 2008
*Times of India*
http://www.countercurrents.org/patwardhan120108.htm
*W*hile it is clear to anyone who watched the TV coverage of cricket in
Sydney that the umpires and Aussie players combined to steal the test match,
I'm not sure that
*What If Gandhi Had Lived On? *
*The Indian state might have become less a master and more a servant of the
Indian people and the hierarchies in the society might have become less
steep.*
RAJMOHAN GANDHI
http://www.outlookindia.com/fullprint.asp?choice=1fodname=20040823fname=FCol+Rajmohansid=1
A condescending white is a condescending white - be it cricket or literature.
A. Ghosh, my favourite Bengali writing in English (now theres a category
worthy of a prize) does a Tagore, in fact, a preemptive Tagore... .
- ZESTAlternative Desk
[Amitav Ghosh withdraws from the Commonwealth Prize,
[From wikipedia:
Eyak is a recently extinct Na-Den� language that was historically spoken in
southcentral Alaska , near the mouth of the Copper River.
Marie Smith Jones (May 14 1918 - January 21, 2008) was the
language's last native speaker, as well as the last full blooded Eyak.
Because of the
Gandhi in Jaffna
By Ramachandra Guha
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/09/28/stories/2003092800160300.htm
BY the standards of an incident-filled life, 1927 was not an especially
exciting year for Gandhi. He was not in jail, nor was he planning a *
satyagraha*. He spun and he prayed, but these could
A 10 year old interview. - ZADesk
After 50 years what democracy is this?'
http://www.rediff.com/freedom/amte1.htm
[image: Baba Amte] http://www.rediff.com/freedom/1107b1.jpg *Baba Amte is
a legend in a self-centred nation. With Charity Destroys, Work Builds as his
talisman, he has given
His biography:
http://www.narmada.org/AMTE/vanaprastha1.html
http://mss.niya.org/people/baba_amte.php
http://baba.niya.org/
--
Jogesh
khusrau dariya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar
- amir khusrau
--
Jogesh
khusrau
Gandhi grandson falls victim to Zionist lobby
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=162111
* The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, 75-year-old Arun Gandhi, has been
persecuted and hounded out of the M.K. Gandhi Institute, founded by him in
the U.S., following his remarks that Israel
And how the whitey press reported it:
(Associated Press is owned by google now, is it?)
Arun Gandhi Resigns From NY Peace Center
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdaYOFIdg05M1wffoPU9_dF8FWhgD8UDEVC81
By BEN DOBBIN – Jan 26, 2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Arun Gandhi said he learned at his
*Hinduism Versus Hindutva*
*The Inevitability Of A Confrontation*
Taken from:
Times of India, February 18, 1991.
By ASHIS NANDY
REBELLION against the secularist dogmas have broken out in many forms and in
many places in the world. Some components of the environmental movement have
mounted a
A Bit of Both
February 17, 2008
Yogi Sikand writes about the community of Cheeta-Merat, in Rajasthan, that
follows Hindu and Muslim traditions.
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2008/a_bit_of_both.html
65 year-old Naseeb Khan recently arranged for his son Prakash Singh to marry
Sita,
*http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080120/spectrum/book1.htm
Powerful narration of history
Amar Chandel *
*In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir
by David Devadas. Penguin. Pages 381. Rs 495.*
*K*ashmir is one of the most extensively written about topics in the
country. However, despite
*In Search Of A Future:
The Story Of Kashmir *
*A book review by Mohamad Junaid*
04 December, 2007
*Countercurrents.org*
*Book review: In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir By
Penguin/Viking; New Delhi 2007*
*A* few decades ago, an academic process began, which put much of the 19th
and
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=48501sectionid=3510212
Genes of Americas reflect history
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:54:18
Colonizers changed gene pool in Latin America
*Results of a new genetic study support argument that European colonizers
of Latin America were determined to exterminate
1821 days of occupation:
http://www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk/
Boundary buster commemorated
By Mike Marqusee
[The Hindu, July 1 2007]
http://www.mikemarqusee.com/index.php?p=249#more-249
It's rare that a fashion item makes the slightest impression on me, but I
have to confess to being childishly delighted by a purchase I recently made
over the internet.
Maya tames Tikait: A victory for Dalit power?
CNN-IBN
STAR CAST(E): CNN-IBN panel debates the caste cauldron and the Maya-Tikait
face-off.
It was a turning point in the politics of north India when the Jat leader of
the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Mahinder Singh Tikait, apologised to the Uttar
*10/04/2008* *
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/10/stories/2008041054662200.htm*
--
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Fear and Denial of Death * *
*by David Wendell Moller*
*As enormous community effort goes into cleaning up areas of pornography,
litter, and dirt, such as in the recent transformation of New York City's
Times Square area, modern society spends considerable effort on disinfecting
the experience
September 23, 2007
IIT Kanpur Hides More Deaths on Campus
More skeletons are falling from the cupboard of Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur . The prestigious and world renowned Institute seems to
have a practice of suppressing information about untimely deaths of daily
wage workers on the
I actually went for this tripe on Sunday at the Wankhede Stadium -
middle-class boy can't ignore 6000 buck free passes. Terrible organisation,
as is a tradition at Wankhede, surly MCA ghatis manning the gates, tuned-out
cops, no score-board so you have no idea what the score is (in a T20, what
Since the occupation of Iraq started in April 2003, multinationals have made
huge amounts of money in contracts to supply the occuption and 'rebuild'
Iraq. At the same time, the Coalition Provisional Authority, followed by the
Interim government, have passed a variety of laws which the Economist
*1. What goes into making vaccines? What are the ingredients? How are they
made? How are they preserved?*
*-- Free-dried attenuated live bacteria of the disease.
**-- Dextran glucose.*
*-- Triton WR 1339 (a detergent).*
*-- Sodium.*
*-- Human Foetal Tissue.*
*-- Various Antibiotics.*
*--
bum trip for science types, ha ha ha
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html
Last week the biggest study of its kind ever conducted - the International
Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development -
concluded
GM Food in India: Bt Brinjal tests bio-safety shocking says
experthttp://indian-reflections.blogspot.com/2008/05/gm-food-in-india-bt-brinjal-tests-bio.html
via Indian Reflections http://indian-reflections.blogspot.com/ by Ram on
5/11/08
I had earlier
*To Have And Have Not*
*Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk tells Robert Cottrell the west has pushed the
world's poor towards envy and nationalism*
The Financial Times Magazine
The view from the terrace offers a vision of earthly riches so sweeping and
extravagant that if the Devil were trying again
*Date:25/05/2008* *URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/05/25/stories/2008052550140400.htm
*
--
javascript:history.go(-1)
MEDICAL ETHICS
* The moral decay * DR. UMA KRISHNASWAMY The way the medical education
system is set up, it's a miracle if a graduate
got the bastards!
Harvard medics 'concealed drug firm cash'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/harvard-medics-concealed-drug-firm-cash-842792.html
By Guy Adams
Monday, 9 June 2008
Harvard University is at the centre of an academic and political
scandal after three prominent
Ashish, a prolific writer and one of our most incisive minds is now being
targeted, belatedly I might add, considering his views.
Hindutva Assault on Ashish Nandy
http://www.sacw.net/FreeExpAndFundos/defendNandy16June08.html
---
STATEMENT BY ACADEMICS AND ACTIVISTS ON THE
HARASSMENT OF ASHIS
Tribalism
by Ashok Malik
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnistfile_name=ashok%2Fashok133%2Etxtwriter=ashok
*The Gujjars want to be declared a Scheduled Tribe. How, if at all, can
this be done? And what does the Constitution and what do past precedents
from
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd03072008.html
*March 7, 2008*
*Crushing the Ants* Admiral Fallon and His Empire
*By CHRIS FLOYD *
There has been quite a buzz in progressive circles over the new Esquire
article about Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command, the
military satrapy
Minority quota in colleges a major mistake
http://www.ibnlive.com/printpage.php?id=68945section_id=3
In what could be the first signs of a rebellion against Christian quota at
the prestigious St Stephen's College in Delhi, most members of the permanent
faculty boycotted the special Assembly on
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger66.html
Obama, the Prince of Bait-and-Switch
by John Pilger http://www.johnpilger.com/
by John Pilger
DIGG
To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/05/recycling.japan
Climate change: How quest for zero waste community means sorting the rubbish
34 ways
Japanese village's strict recycling regime looks to a future free of
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne230808whatif_itwasme.asp
�What if it was me or my father?�
Chasing the SIMI Tribunal�s trail was not easy but exposing one of the biggest
lies was worth every moment, writes AJIT SAHI after three months in the field
State is organised violence.
Terrifying Testimonies
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,
For several months now, almost no week passes without the media reporting
about 'dreaded Muslim fundamentalists' being picked up by the police and
allegedly confessing to being involved in bomb blasts or plots to engineer
violence across
http://www.fespinal.com/espinal/llib/en130.pdf
The right to private property, as it is exercised and legally codified
in our society, is a scandal from the point of view of moral reasoning
and the Christian faith: that someone can own unlimited
resources, without serious moral or legal
*Now, Micro Terrorists*
*Who will protect us from the unlawful protectors of our 'native cultures'?*
*DILIP CHITRE*
A SMALL NEWS item in Pune's Marathi newspaper, Sakal, profoundly disturbed
me. The headline of the story, dated September 13, 2008 read: *Censorship by
the VHP: Curtain on
The Organic Farmer of Anandpurby JEEVNJOT KUMEDAN
http://www.sikhchic.net/article-detail.php?id=80cat=8
It might've been christened as an Organic Farm but around Nurpur Bedi, a
15-minute drive from Anandpur Sahib, it's better known as *angrez* *da farm
*. The *angrez* in question is Darshan
From the Outside, Looking In
--
http://www.shunya.net/Text/Blog/Usha/FromOutsideLookingIn.htm
Recently, the crew of a US naval cruiser in the Persian Gulf was alarmed by
the actions of some nearby Iranian speedboats, potentially sparking a
confrontation. Commenting
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Friends,
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of
joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a
time of deep despair.
In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs
of slaves, it was an unexpected
My dear friend Godrey writes:
Miriabari Memories
Yesterday Willy the Jesuit regent and i both visited Miriabari, a little
adivasi hamlet nestled in the Satpuda Range foothills very close to the
Gujarat border.
Gosh, it was such a pretty village. Simple houses bunched on the hillside
can be
Ok, so now its clear, post Obama's victory that is - that the triggering of
the financial collapse was a *
Democratic* coup-de-grace. And they even got all the red-necked gun-toting yank
morons voting against their savior.
- Jogesh
The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of
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-Raj
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Jogesh Motwani
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The Organic Farmer of Anandpurby JEEVNJOT KUMEDAN
http://www.sikhchic.net/article-detail.php?id=80cat=8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7796047.stm
*Bush 'shoe maker' hit by demand *
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*[image: Ramazan Baydan of Baydan Shoes on 22/12/08]*
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*A Turkish shoe firm says it has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with
a surge in orders after an Iraqi threw shoes at US President Bush. *
*Funeral Blues*
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows
So now we know - the terror attacks in Mumbai was the sales pitch.
- Zestalternative desk.
India signs biggest ever defence deal with US
*Agencies* Posted: Jan 05, 2009 at 1535 hrs
*New Delhi* In its largest defence purchase ever from the US, India has
signed a deal to buy eight maritime aircraft
*A partition museum*
2 Jan 2008, SALMAN AKHTAR
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A_partition_museum/articleshow/2667150.cms
The country needs a national museum of the partition of India. First and
foremost, the partition is the deepest wound of modern, if not all, times in
the country's
One would have thought these migratory high-caste twerps would have welcomed
the theory - and absolved themselves of the origins of the caste system.
But no, apparently they're proud of it.-Zestalternative desk
Hindu group in America objects to 'The Story of India'
*Agencies* Posted online: Jan
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