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Eid package for Kashmir likely Friday!

Security has been stepped up across Uttar Pradesh to check any law and order problem that may arise after the court verdict on Ayodhya title suits is pronounced on September 24.Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat Thursday said that the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya due Sep 24 should be accepted and respected by everyone across the country.The much-awaited verdict in the 125-year-old Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute in Ayodhya will be pronounced by a special bench of the Allahabad High Court Sep 24.The Mayawati government has asked the Centre for 63,000 additional paramilitary personnel to deal with any law and order problems that may arise after the court verdict on Ayodhya title suits is pronounced on September 24.

Karunanidhi Kills DRAVID Movement, Red Dilutes into Shaffron, Matua Mamata Poses MUSLIM as Resurgence of Hindutva Promotes Global Corporate Governance Amidst AYODHYA Controversy Focused Once again! Only yesterday I had to write:Of the four men they took hostage, the Maoists killed one — Lucas Tete, an adivasi from Simdega in Jharkhand! Why?TETE was killed just because he was NEITHER a BRAHAMIN nor HINDU whom the Maoists represent!

Normalcy prevailed in this religious city today ahead of the announcement on September 24 of the verdict on the disputed structure title suit case.People of the city were calm and relaxed, while many others were appealing to evtitioner Mohd Hashim Ansari, the situation would remain under control if the outsiders would be disallowed in view of the Allahabad High Court's decision.

The local Muslims were also tension-free, he added.

Mr Ansari said the administration should check that no rumours were spread in relation to the sensitive issue.

He criticised former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and said all should respect judiciary.

He said all efforts should be made to maintain brotherhood and integrity of the nation. eryone to maintain peace and tranquility in view of the upcoming decision of the Allahabad High Court.

Meanwhile,Obama condemns Quran burning plan!Cutting across party lines and ideological and religious spectrum, Americans strongly came out in open against the plans of a Florida Pastor to burn the Holy Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11 coming Saturday.

However, the Pastor, who has some 50 followers remained adamant and said he is going ahead with his plan to burn the Holy Quran on Saturday.

I was stunned while stumbling on a Bill Board erected on Plat farm Number Four of Sodepur Railway station this Evening. It is an Advertisement of Vivekanand Sangh, Talpukur, Barrackpur. It is a Blow up Image of Indian Parliament oerlapped by the Akshardahm Temple.

My Father Pulin Babu used to get Swadhinata, Dainik Basumati, Krishak Samaj, DESH, Utkarsh and kalayan by post. I am habitual reader of DESH since my childhod days way back in early Sixties.

I had been reading JUGANTAR in Meerut for Six years.

I have seen Northern India Patrika and Dainik amrit Prabhat Patrika published from Allahabad.

I have NEVER seen Hindutva so focused in Bengali Journalism, Literature or Politics till recently.

Anand Publishers Created Taslima Nasreen as an Atheist Writer and marketed itglobally, we know.

I am lucky to interact the legendary editor of Desh, Sgaormoy Ghosh and had known almost everyone in the Editorial team, Shirshendu to Sunil, Sanjeev to abul Bashar and Joy Goswami.

I had been reading the Puja Special PATIKA published by Anand Publishers since 1991 as I get taste of New emerging writing as all other Puja Specials including Desh seldom Publish the New Writers.

But this year, PATRIKA has NOT published any Fresh writer. Main attraction being NEEL LOHIT Sunil Gango`s Novel, the Patrika focused on Hindutva and deals with 51 PEETHAS, Bratas and Gods worshipped by Celebes!

I interacted with the Hawkers who claim that the Marketing Strategy of every Publishing House in Bengal is focused on Hindutva which sells most.

It reminds me the History of Communally MADE Volatile Bengal to destroy us , the Black Untouchables trapped in Partition, Population Transfer, Holocaust, ejection from homeland, Contineuous Refugee Influx and now, the Nationwide Deportation Drive.

The Masses would NEVER do understand the Implications of IMMINENT Communal Divide targeted for Strategic marketing of Global Corporate Governance and LPG Raj!

On 7th September last, while Trade Unions were on Countrywide Strike, I was Puzzled to see the Red Flags resembling with Shaffron in Kolkata. I was so confused that I had to ask Sabita whether I was Blinded. The Red is so much so Blended with Shaffron that the Red dilutes in Shaffron.

Matua Mamata has Captured the hitherto Marxist Bonded SC, OBC, ST and Muslim Votebank.

Today , all Kolkata Prints Carried Railway Ads relating to Muslim dominated Matia Buruj and Princep Ghat Tala area Projects as the GIFT for EID.

The ADS carried the Photo of Mamata Banerjee Posing Muslim with a NAMJEE Posture.

The Relgion is focused in Bengal as Never before.

Losing ground so fastly, the Regemented capitalist Marxist Gestapo gets the RSS networking as SURVIVAL Kit but ALLOWS NOT Ambedkarites!

RSS shows off its Muscle Power Never seen during last 34 years of Marxist rule.

Thus, the Marxists bank on caste Hindu Vote Consolidation as it was successfully done by UPA led by the Zionist Dynasty in the Last Parliamentary Eelctions as Brahamin Samaj, Shankaracharyas, Sadhus and Media supported the Soft Hindutva resurgence to sustain the Economic Ethnic Cleansing Manusmriti Rule!

8 Sep, 2010, 07.10PM IST, Sangeetha Kandavel & V Balasubramanian,ET Bureau

Karunanidhi lavishing funds on temple renovation in TN

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu's Dravidian movement, built on the foundations of atheism and rationalism, is beginning to shake at its roots with founding member and chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi lavishing funds on temple renovation in a way not seen in at least a century.

The movement — reformist for the untouchables and ruinous for the Brahmins — has come a full circle from the days of breaking idols of Hindu deities, especially the ubiquitous Ganapathy, to spending hundreds of crores renovating temples and encouraging its members to participate in them.

Karunanidhi, 87, is the last of the atheist politicians left of the Dravidian crop who have ruled the state for 33 out of the last 43 years. His predecessors, friend-turned-rival late M G Ramachandran, and J Jayalalithaa, discarded the 'rationalist' plank decades ago.

This Friday will mark the Kumbhabhishekam, or the consecration of the centuries-old Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Sholinghur, about 100 km north-west of Chennai. Mr Karunanidhi has deputed colleagues to supervise the work.

"Till date, we have spent 420 crore on temple renovation and this is a clear evidence to show the amount of interest that Kalaignar has shown in promoting temples in the state," says K R Periakaruppan, minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments.

Spending on temple renovation, praying or even cozying up to religious leaders is hardly surprising for anyone in a country where prime ministers and presidents often disturb the silent prayers of the common man with their presence in prominent temples. But when Mr Karunanidhi, a selfproclaimed atheist who has been living next door to a Krishna temple for decades, attends to temple renovation, it is an irony.

This change of heart can be attributed to several things: A strategy to get votes as people throng temples and religious gurus to seek solace in a fast-paced material life. Or, a genuine desire on the part of someone in the evening of his life and worried about his legacy to connect with God.

"Spending money on temple renovation would not help the DMK government fetch any votes," says Cho Ramaswamy, political commentator and editor of the Tamil magazine, Thuglaq.

Part of the change can be attributed to the state's political landscape, which has transformed beyond recognition. The Congress is no longer the dominant party, many of the Dravidian movement's cherished goals, such as higher reservation for backward castes, have been met, and the beneficiaries have not only become prosperous, but have also started courting God and religion in a big way.

Also, to be fair, the Dravidian movement never tried to project itself as a comprehensive atheist party. While the anti-Brahmin rhetoric was strong, it took care to ensure that it did not hurt the religious beliefs and traditions of many of the state's people, including their myriad gods and goddesses. So, while Karunanidhi would take time out and attack the Ramayana, he never spoke ill of Murugan, who was recognised and promoted as a 'Tamil God' .

Since Karunanidhi's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam returned to power in May 2006, it has spent around 420 crore on temple renovations. This is a near three-fold jump over 147 crore spent in the five-year rule of rival All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, or AIADMK, led by believer J Jayalalithaa. There are 38,481 temples, mutts and trusts under state control. Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa and Ramachandran have their roots in the Dravidian Movement.

Seeds of Dravidian Movement sown in 1925

THE seeds of the movement were sown in 1925 when E V Ramasamy Naicker, known as Periyar or the elder, walked out of the Indian National Congress convention after the then Brahmin-dominated party refused to consider a resolution seeking proportional representation. Periyar's reasons for seeking change were strong. In 1914, of the 650 graduates in the then Madras Province, 452 were from the Brahmin community. Of the 15 elected for the All India Congress Committee, 14 were Brahmins.

Periyar led the Self-Respect and the Anti-Hindi movements at the aristocrats-led Justice Party formed to further the non-Brahmin interests in the now four southern states.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Karunanidhi-lavishing-funds-on-temple-renovation-in-TN/articleshow/6520298.cms

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Eid package for Kashmir likely Friday

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Eid package for Kashmir likely Friday!

Security has been stepped up across Uttar Pradesh to check any law and order problem that may arise after the court verdict on Ayodhya title suits is pronounced on September 24.Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat Thursday said that the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya due Sep 24 should be accepted and respected by everyone across the country.The much-awaited verdict in the 125-year-old Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute in Ayodhya will be pronounced by a special bench of the Allahabad High Court Sep 24.The Mayawati government has asked the Centre for 63,000 additional paramilitary personnel to deal with any law and order problems that may arise after the court verdict on Ayodhya title suits is pronounced on September 24.

Karunanidhi lavishing funds on temple renovation in TN

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu's Dravidian movement, built on the foundations of atheism and rationalism, is beginning to shake at its roots with founding member and chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi lavishing funds on temple renovation in a way not seen in at least a century.

The movement — reformist for the untouchables and ruinous for the Brahmins — has come a full circle from the days of breaking idols of Hindu deities, especially the ubiquitous Ganapathy, to spending hundreds of crores renovating temples and encouraging its members to participate in them.

Karunanidhi, 87, is the last of the atheist politicians left of the Dravidian crop who have ruled the state for 33 out of the last 43 years. His predecessors, friend-turned-rival late M G Ramachandran, and J Jayalalithaa, discarded the 'rationalist' plank decades ago.

This Friday will mark the Kumbhabhishekam, or the consecration of the centuries-old Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Sholinghur, about 100 km north-west of Chennai. Mr Karunanidhi has deputed colleagues to supervise the work.

"Till date, we have spent 420 crore on temple renovation and this is a clear evidence to show the amount of interest that Kalaignar has shown in promoting temples in the state," says K R Periakaruppan, minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments.

Spending on temple renovation, praying or even cozying up to religious leaders is hardly surprising for anyone in a country where prime ministers and presidents often disturb the silent prayers of the common man with their presence in prominent temples. But when Mr Karunanidhi, a selfproclaimed atheist who has been living next door to a Krishna temple for decades, attends to temple renovation, it is an irony.

This change of heart can be attributed to several things: A strategy to get votes as people throng temples and religious gurus to seek solace in a fast-paced material life. Or, a genuine desire on the part of someone in the evening of his life and worried about his legacy to connect with God.

"Spending money on temple renovation would not help the DMK government fetch any votes," says Cho Ramaswamy, political commentator and editor of the Tamil magazine, Thuglaq.

Part of the change can be attributed to the state's political landscape, which has transformed beyond recognition. The Congress is no longer the dominant party, many of the Dravidian movement's cherished goals, such as higher reservation for backward castes, have been met, and the beneficiaries have not only become prosperous, but have also started courting God and religion in a big way.

Also, to be fair, the Dravidian movement never tried to project itself as a comprehensive atheist party. While the anti-Brahmin rhetoric was strong, it took care to ensure that it did not hurt the religious beliefs and traditions of many of the state's people, including their myriad gods and goddesses. So, while Karunanidhi would take time out and attack the Ramayana, he never spoke ill of Murugan, who was recognised and promoted as a 'Tamil God' .

Since Karunanidhi's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam returned to power in May 2006, it has spent around 420 crore on temple renovations. This is a near three-fold jump over 147 crore spent in the five-year rule of rival All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, or AIADMK, led by believer J Jayalalithaa. There are 38,481 temples, mutts and trusts under state control. Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa and Ramachandran have their roots in the Dravidian Movement.

Seeds of Dravidian Movement sown in 1925

THE seeds of the movement were sown in 1925 when E V Ramasamy Naicker, known as Periyar or the elder, walked out of the Indian National Congress convention after the then Brahmin-dominated party refused to consider a resolution seeking proportional representation. Periyar's reasons for seeking change were strong. In 1914, of the 650 graduates in the then Madras Province, 452 were from the Brahmin community. Of the 15 elected for the All India Congress Committee, 14 were Brahmins.

Periyar led the Self-Respect and the Anti-Hindi movements at the aristocrats-led Justice Party formed to further the non-Brahmin interests in the now four southern states.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Karunanidhi-lavishing-funds-on-temple-renovation-in-TN/articleshow/6520298.cms

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) will meet Friday to discuss an Eid-ul-Fitr package for the violence-hit Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said Thursday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the meeting to be attended by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Home Minister P. Chidmabaram, officials added.
The meeting will discuss the issues relating to amending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had met Manmohan Singh Wednesday here and requested for the lifting of AFPSA at least from a few districts of the state.
Omar met Mukherjee and Antony Thursday and discussed the situation in the violence-hit state.
According to official sources, the peace package is likely to include:
- Lifting of AFSPA from the districts of Srinagar and Badgam in Kashmir and Jammu and Ramban in Jammu region. Now all the districts of the state are placed under the act.
- Special compensation for the families of the 69 civilians killed in firing by security forces during the past three months.
- Jobs and rehabilitation for surrendered militants.
- An employment package for the educated unemployed.
- Release of arrested youths and withdrawal of several cases related to stone-pelting.
The central government will repeat its intention to begin a dialogue with 'all shades of opinion in Jammu and Kashmir', the sources said.
Sending an all-party parliamentary delegation to the violence-hit state will be another proposal to come up at Friday's cabinet meeting.
Political circles have been hinting at a relief package to be announced on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr Saturday.
At least 69 civilians, mostly teenagers and young men, have been killed in firing by security forces on stone-pelting street protesters since June 11.
The cycle of violence has led to frequent shutdowns and curfew in the valley for the past three months.

Ayodhya verdict to be pronounced on Sept 24

The much-awaited verdict in the 125-year-old Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute in Ayodhya will be pronounced by a special bench of the Allahabad High Court Sep 24.

An announcement to that effect was communicated through notices issued by the registrar of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court here Wednesday afternoon.

"The judgment would be pronounced by the special bench Sep 24," said a notice issued by the high court registrar.

A three-judge special bench of Justice S.U. Khan, Justice D.V. Sharma and Justice Sudhir Agarwal concluded the hearing in the long pending case in July and reserved the verdict.

Since then speculation was rife not only over the possible date of the judgment, but also over its religious and political fallout as the issue has been influencing the country's politics.

So far it was believed that the verdict would be pronounced Sep 17.

Three fundamental questions were to be answered by the court: "Is the disputed spot in Ayodhya the birthplace of Lord Rama? Was the Babri mosque built after the demolition of a temple? Was the mosque in question built in accordance with the tenets of Islam?"

Rival claims by Hindu and Muslim groups to the disputed site led to the demolition of the 16th century Babri Masjid by Hindu mobs Dec 6, 1992, triggering widespread communal violence that left thousands dead across the country.

The issue polarised politics between those for and against the mosque at the site and left a legacy of distrust between the country's majority Hindus and Muslims, the country's largest minority.

Fearing a repeat of communal violence, Uttar Pradesh has already sought from the central government 35,000 paramilitary personnel for security duty as the state prepares to deal with any fallout of the much-awaited verdict.

While there will be heavy deployment of security personnel in and around the twin towns of Ayodhya and Faizabad, central forces would also be kept ready in all other communally sensitive cities and towns of the state, the country's most populous.

Besides Ayodhya-Faizabad, vigil will also be mounted ahead of the verdict in towns such as Varanasi, Mathura, Lucknow, Kanpur, Gonda, Bahraich, Allahabad, Aligarh, Moradabad and Meerut.

Read more: Ayodhya verdict to be pronounced on Sept 24 - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6520221.cms#ixzz0z3O0PGsM

Obama condemns Quran burning plan
US President Barack Obama Thursday condemned the plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, saying it could endanger the lives of US military personnel serving in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Terry Jones, the pastor at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, is planning to conduct an 'International Burn a Quran Day' Saturday.

If the church went ahead with its plans, the burning could endanger US military personnel serving in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Omaba said.

'Look, this is a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda. You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan. This could increase the recruitment of individuals who'd be willing to blow themselves up in American cities, or European cities,' Obama said in an interview to ABC television.

Obama said he hoped Jones 'understands that what he's proposing to do is completely contrary to our values as Americans, that this country has been built on the notion of freedom and religious tolerance'.

'And as a very practical matter, I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women who are in uniform,' the president said.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already condemned the pastor's plan, and dmanded that he abandon it.

Meanwhile, top Republican leader and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in her posting on the Facebook and Twitter urged the Pastor to not to go ahead with his planned burning of the Quran.

"It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don't feed that fire," Palin urged the Pastor.

"Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero," Palin said.

"It's regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and distressful, disgraceful plan and get the world's attention, but that's the world we live in right now," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

"It doesn't, in any way, represent America or Americans or American Government or American religious or political leadership. And we are, as you've seen in the last few days, speaking out," Clinton said referring to the outcry against such a move by the Florida Pastor.

"General Petraeus made the very powerful point that as seemingly small a group of people doing this, the fact is that it will have potentially great harm for our troops. So we are hoping that the Pastor decides not to do this," Clinton said.

"The proposed action demonstrates contempt for the principles of religious freedom and equality on which our nation is founded, and does not in any way, shape or form represent American values," said Howard Berman, Chairman of House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

"It would undermine efforts to build bridges between the United States and Muslim countries, and, as General Petraeus stated, would be used by our enemies 'to inflame public opinion and incite violence' against our soldiers and other Americans overseas," he said.

"No one is questioning the right to do these things. We are questioning whether that's advisable considering the consequences that could occur," Pentagon spokesman Col David Lapan said.

Caste census: Govt to seek legal opinion on privacy issues

Having decided to go for caste census, government is expected to seek the opinion of the Attorney General on its legal aspects amid fears that the exercise could lead to infringement of privacy.
The Union Cabinet, which decided to hold caste census next year, noted that \"a suitable legal regime for collection of data on castes would be formulated in consultation with the Ministry of Law and Justice.\"
Elaborating on this, sources in the government said the top law officers, including the Attorney General, could be asked to give their opinion on whether asking for a person\'s caste and mentioning it in documents could amount to \"infringement of privacy\".
\"At times, people avoid telling their caste to avoid embasrassment...there are several cases pending in courts relating to infringement of privacy,\" sources said.
They said people have a right to deny giving details of their caste to the enumerators.
\"Infringement of privacy can be seen with fundamental rights enshrined in Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution,\" they added.
The last caste-wise census was held in 1931 and such a practice had been given up as a matter of policy after Independence.
Since this would be the first caste census after Independence, the government is treading cautiously.
After several deliberations within the government on the politically sensitive issue, the Cabinet decided to carry out a separate house-to-house caste enumeration from June to September next year.

BJP MLA convicted in Kandhamal riot case

Sitting BJP MLA Manoj Pradhan was today sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six years by a fast-track court for a murder during the 2008 communal riots in Orissa\'s Kandhamal district.
Fast track court-II judge C R Das convicted Pradhan for the murder of Bikram Nayak, a Christian from Budedipada of Tiangia village under Raikia police station limits on August 26, 2008.
He was convicted under section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of IPC.
The judge also slapped a fine of Rs 15,500 on the convict, representing the communally sensitive G Udayagiri
Assembly constituency for setting ablaze houses of people belonging to the minority community and inciting communal violence.
Though Pradhan\'s name was initially not in the FIR filed at the Raikia police station, his involvement in the killing came to light during investigation.
At least 12 cases were registered against Pradhan for his alleged involvement in the riots in Kandhamal which claimed at least 38 lives in the aftermath of the killing of VHP leader Swami Laxamananda Saraswati.
Of the 12 cases, Pradhan has been convicted in two murder cases and acquitted in seven others relating to arson and rioting. Three more cases are pending against him.
Pradhan was a close disciple of Saraswati, whose killing on August 23, 2008, had sparked off large-scale violence in Kandhamal and other parts of Orissa.
Pradhan said he would move a higher court against the sentence.
This was the second case in which Pradhan, arrested from Berhampur in December 2008, has been convicted.
Pradhan was the lone candidate to win the 2009 Assembly elections while in jail.

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Rajendran said Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had sanctioned Rs 24 lakh to the university for the work. The MoU was signed by Rajendran and ASI Director in ...

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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Thursday greeted Sonia Gandhi on her impending re-election as Congress president. [According to reports reaching here, ...

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Mamata Banerjee leads padayatra against 'CPM terror'

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The Trinamool Congress Chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a padayatra from College Square to Esplanade in Kolkata on Wednesday to ...

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... houses for families living along railway lines in different zones in the country has been cleared, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced today. ...

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Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee announced to give job to any person who will share information on possible sabotage. "If anybody has correct information ...

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The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Thursday hit back at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for calling Purulia in Left-ruled West Bengal ...

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Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek is fond of citing the coal and oil reserves that mankind happily taps for its energy requirements as evidence of ...

Days of CPI (M)'s reign in West Bengal are numbered, says Rahul Gandhi

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Now CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) understands the way that day came in Russia, similarly it is going to come in Bengal. ...

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Nepal Govt, Maoists on collision course over UNMIN

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The British, US and French ambassadors to Nepal also had a meeting with Maoist leadership on Thursday to discuss the nature of UNMIN's mandate. India has ...

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the latest uncomfortable symbol of the State's inability to take the battle to the Maoists. India is no Israel or ...

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The Maoists have to come up with a clear policy on the issue. Such issues should not be left to be decided in the circumstances in which they happen. India ...

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India takes note of Chinese 'bid' to influence Nepal polls

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Later, however, the Maoists alleged that India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had leaked the tape. "RAW made and distributed the fake news audio tape," ...

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Two Trinamool supporters killed in West Bengal

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... fingers at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for the killings. ... "Though the modus operandi suggests that the Maoists are behind the murder ...

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Prachanda's loss throws open India-China rivalry

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New Delhi, Sept.8 (ANI): Blaming past Presidents of India and Governors of State for ... Swami Agnivesh said he has again got a letter from Maoist leader ...

Indian envoy meets Nepal PM amid India bashing

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8 Jan 2004 ... Second, what has led to the resurgence of Hindutva in secular, democratic India? In order to understand the essence of Hinduism, ...
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'Trinamool can move separate bill on land for industry''

Asserting that it was against acquisition of multi-crop land for industry and that the government should have no role in its transfer from seller to buyer, Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandyopadhay today said his party could move a separate bill relating to land for industry. "Our leader Mamata Banerjee (the railway minister) has given comprehensive thought to the issue.
A separate bill could be moved by us," the Trinamool Congress Chief Whip in Lok Sabha told reporters here. "Mamata Banerjee has been uncompromising in protecting the interests of farmers," Bandyopadhay said in an apparent reference to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill.
"The buyer and seller should reach settlement amicably. No multi-crop land should be acquired.
Monocrop or barren land can be acquired," he said. Asked to react on Congress President Sonia Gandhi''s observation that there should be a balanced approach in securing land for industry without losing fertile tracts, the TC leader said "We welcome it.
We are happy that Soniaji has made the comment in line with the thinking of Mamata Banerjee."

Mumbai ATS nabs two German Bakery blast suspects

The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two people in connection with the blast that ripped Pune's German Bakery on February 13 this year.
Earlier on August 10, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil said the police have identified the culprits involved in the German Bakery blast.
"Police have identified those involved in the German Bakery blast. They also have proofs and know the whereabouts of these persons who are at large in various parts of the country," said Patil on the sidelines of a function in Pune.
"The ATS in coordination with Central agencies were tracking the blast accused," he added, expressing confidence that the culprits would be nabbed soon.
The Pune blast, which killed seventeen people and wounded at least 57, was seen as the first major attack on India since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The bakery is located in Koregaon Park, which is close to the Osho Ashram and the Chabad House, a Jewish prayer house, frequented by numerous foreigners and tourists. (ANI)

Munda invited to form Jharkhand government, to take oath Sep 11

Jharkhand will Saturday get another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) government, headed this time by BJP's Arjun Munda -- who will be taking over as chief minister for the third time.
With the central cabinet Thursday approving the lifting of President's Rule, Munda has been formally invited by Governor M.O.H. Farook to form the government in the state.
A letter was sent to Munda in the afternoon inviting him to take oath as chief minister, and prove his majority within one week of being sworn-in.
The 42-year-old Munda, a Lok Sabha MP from Jamshedpur, will be sworn-in 11 a.m. Sep 11. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislature party leader Hemant Soren and All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) president Sudesh Mahto are expected to be sworn-in as deputy chief ministers with him.
Earlier, Munda went to Raj Bhavan around 12.40 p.m. to meet the governor along with Soren and Mahto.
'The governor called us informally and wanted to know when we will take oath. I suggested Sep 11. When we are invited formally, then we will inform the Raj Bhawan,' Munda told reporters after the meeting.
He said his 'priorities will be sadak, bijli and pani (roads, electricity and drinking water)'.
'I am taking charge of the state when the state is reeling under a drought situation. Improving law and order situation will also be among my priorities,' he said.
Munda staked claim Tuesday to forming the government with the support of 45 legislators of his own BJP besides the JMM, the AJSU, the Janata Dal-United and two independents.
Munda is now holding talks with party leaders and alliance partner about the shape of the government.
The oath-taking ceremony is expected to be a simple affair with not many central BJP leaders expected to attend as the initiatives towards forming the government were mainly taken by Munda and BJP president Nitin Gadkari.
The cabinet will be expanded after seeking a trust vote.

We will move Supreme Court if Ayodhya verdict against us: Owaisi

HYDERABAD: The Muslim community would maintain peace and move the Supreme Court if the verdict in the Ayodhya case, expected Sep 14, does not go in their favour, Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi said here on Thursday.

The president of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is confident that Sep 24 verdict by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court would be in favour of the Muslims.

"If Allah forbid the verdict does not come in our favour we will appeal in the Supreme Court. We have full faith in the Almighty Allah that the verdict will go in our favour," the Hyderabad MP told a huge gathering at Masjid-e-Azizia here.

"We need not celebrate or dance when the court verdict comes. We have to self introspect whether we are doing enough to protect our mosques."

"Temple never existed there. It was a mosque. The Sangh Parivar demolished the mosque in full public view," Owaisi said.

The 16th century Babri Masjid was demolished by radical Hindu activists on Dec 6, 1992 on grounds that it was built on the birthplace of Lord Ram. The long awaited title suit in the case is expected Sep 24.

The Muslim Personal Law Board, the apex body of Indian Muslims, has already declared that Muslims will abide by the court's verdict.

The Hyderabad MP dubbed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) the biggest terrorist organisation of the country.

"The first terrorist of independent India was Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. The demolition of Babri Masjid is the proof of their terrorism," he said.

Referring to Home Minister P. Chidambaram's use of the term "saffron terror" and the flak that he got for it, Owaisi said he should have openly called it Hindu terrorism.

"When there can be jehadi, Muslim and Islamist terrorists, why can't there be Hindu terrorists. Now you are saying terrorism can't be linked to the religion but you have been doing the same and humiliating us for 15 years."

The London educated barrister referred to the disappearance of 60 trucks carrying 850 tonnes of explosives from a factory in Rajasthan and said it was a matter of serious concern in view of plans by some elements to create disturbances after the Ayodhya verdict.

The Muslim leader stressed that Muslims strongly condemned the 9/11 terror attack, and said the identity of those who planned and carried out the attacks remained a mystery.

Condemning the plans of an American pastor to burn copies of Quran, Owaisi said: "The Florida pastor who plans to burn the Quran on Sep 10 is a fool. He should know that Quran mentions Prophet Eisa (Jesus) by his name, whom the Christians consider son of God, 25 times."

Taliban close to victory, says Mullah Omar

The victory of the Taliban over US-led forces in Afghanistan is imminent, the group's elusive chief Mullah Omar has said in a rare statement.

BBC Thursday quoted the one-eyed guerrilla leader as saying that the Taliban was winning because the Western military campaign aimed at snuffing out the militia had been 'a complete failure'.

Mullah Omar, thought to be the spiritual head of the Taliban, demanded that US President Barack Obama withdraw his troops 'unconditionally and as soon as possible'.

Mullah Omar's statement was put up on jehadist websites. The Site Intelligence Group relayed it.

He said: 'The victory of our Islamic nation over the invading infidels is now imminent and the driving force behind this is the belief in the help of Allah and unity among ourselves.

'In the time to come, we will try to establish an Islamic, independent, perfect and strong system.'

The Taliban leader, who has not been spotted in public for years but is suspected to be hiding in Pakistan, said those responsible for invading Afghanistan in 2001 and ousting the Taliban had admitted that all their strategies 'are nothing but a complete failure'.

At the same time, he directed his guerrillas to observe the Taliban's code of conduct and not to harm civilians.

The US has set July 2011 as the deadline to begin withdrawing its troops if conditions permit. Barack Obama had ordered 30,000 more US soldiers into Afghanistan in December following a resurgence of Taliban.

Then US president George W. Bush ordered military attacks to topple the Taliban regime after the Al Qaeda, whose chief Osama bin Laden lived in Afghanistan, destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York Sep 11, 2001.

Both bin Laden and Mullah Omar, however, escaped the US military sweep that followed and reportedly escaped to Pakistan, with whose intelligence agency they have had close links for years.

Iraqi PM says U.S. should halt Koran burning
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged the United States on Thursday to prevent the American pastor of an obscure Christian church from burning copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The U.S. government and political and religious leaders around the world have condemned plans by Terry Jones, whose tiny Protestant church campaigns against what it calls "radical Islam," to burn 200 copies of the Koran on Saturday.

Maliki said the event could become a pretext for more killing.

"This ghastly action doesn't fall within free expression and there must be an intervention to stop it," the Shi'ite Muslim premier said during a meeting with top U.S. officials in Iraq, according to a statement issued by his office.

"This will cause damage in the relations between religions, human and cultural communication between the nations, if it happens," Maliki said in a meeting with U.S. ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey and Lloyd Austin, the commander of American troops in Iraq, according to the statement.

"It might be taken by the fundamentalists as a pretext to do more killings and counter-killing."

"Those who committed the September 11 crime are not related to Islam, whatsoever, for what they did," Maliki added.

General David Petraeus, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan and formerly the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has said the Koran-burning event planned for Saturday in Florida could endanger his troops.

The United States still has nearly 50,000 troops in Iraq despite a formal halt to combat operations on Aug. 31. Their official mission is to advise and assist Iraqi security forces.

Iraq still faces a stubborn insurgency more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

Obama stops tax breaks for US firms outsourcing jobs

President Barack Obama today underlined his determination to end tax incentives for companies that create jobs overseas, saying he will provide a generous tax credit to companies that create more jobs in the US.
Amid indication that outsourcing could become a hot issue in the November elections, Obama said the tax breaks should go to companies that create jobs in the US and not overseas.
"One of the keys to job creation is to encourage companies to invest more in the United States. But for years, our tax code has actually given billions of dollars in tax breaks that encourage companies to create jobs and profits in other countries," Obama said in his speech on economy at Cleveland, Ohio.
The President said he was determined to change that. "I want to change that. Instead of tax loopholes that incentivise investment in overseas jobs, I'm proposing a more generous, permanent extension of the tax credit that goes to companies for all the research and innovation they do right here in America," Obama said with Ohio Governor Ted Strickland standing by his side.
"I think if we're going to give tax breaks to companies, they should go to companies that create jobs in America -- not those that create jobs overseas. That's one difference between the Republican vision and the Democratic vision. And that's what this election is all about," Obama said.
Running behind in opinion polls, Strickland of Democratic party, who till now was going out of his way to woo Indian companies, last week passed an executive order that banned outsourcing, arguing that this undermines economic development and has unacceptable business consequences.
"Outsourcing jobs does not reflect Ohio values," Strickland said in a statement after he signed the executive order.
Reacting to the order, the Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, termed the move as discriminatory and said it amounts to a trade barrier.
The move, which comes ahead of Obama's visit to India in November, follows a controversial legislation that increased H-1B and L1 visa fees, hitting India's over USD 50 billion IT industry.
The Indian industry will take up the issue with its US counterparts and seek government's support to flag it with the American authorities.
"Nasscom is leading a delegation to the US later this month and will be taking this up with relevant officials in the US," the apex body of the IT and ITES industry said in New Delhi.
Obama said his proposal will help small businesses upgrade their plants and equipment, and will encourage large corporations to get off the sidelines and start putting their profits to work in places like Cleveland and Toledo and Dayton.
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Infosys expresses concern over Ohio state govt's move
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Infosys, the country's second largest software company, today expressed concern over the Ohio state government's move to ban IT outsourcing to offshore locations such as India.
Infosys CEO & Managing Director Kris Gopalakrishnan said, "We are concerned with the recent news from US about banning offshore outsourcing by Ohio State government departments.
"Infosys' initiative in the Public Services sector is focused on creating a domestic Delivery Center in the US hence this should not be affected."
Meanwhile NASSCOM in a statement said: "Ohio state's proposed ban on outsourcing of government IT projects comes at a time when the November elections to the United States Congress and Ohio governorship are drawing nearer".
"There is more such electoral rhetoric that can be expected in the next few months. While the public sector represents a small fraction in the overall demand for offshored services, it does represent a future focus area", it said.
Globally, governments are beginning to see the benefits that can be reaped out of employing Information Technology in public services. India too is opening up not only in IT, but other areas, representing a growth market for global and domestic companies.
"Ohio's ban on outsourcing can only be viewed as counterproductive to the US government thrust on reducing public deficit and possibly lead to an increased tax burden on its citizens", it said.
"It is imperative that the focus on free trade remains strong, but instances like Senator Schumer's Borders Security Bill and the Ohio State ban on outsourcing only reinforce our stand on discrimination", he said.
Incidentally, international trade is a federal subject and NASSCOM is studying the legality of such a Bill being passed by a state government.
NASSCOM is leading a delegation to the US later this month and will take this up with relevant officials in there.
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The Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, today said the move by the state of Ohio to ban outsourcing by government departments to offshore locations like India is discriminatory and amounts to a trade barrier.
Through an executive order last month, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland prohibited the expenditure of public funds for services provided offshore.
The move comes ahead of the impending visit of US President Barack Obama to India in November.It also follows a controversial legislation (border security law) increasing H-1B and L1 visa fees, hitting India's over USD 50 billion IT industry.
The Indian industry will take up the issue with its US counterparts and seek government support to flag it with the American authorities.
"Nasscom is leading a delegation to the US later this month and will be taking this up with relevant officials in the US," the apex body of the IT and ITES industry said here.
Nasscom said it would also seek support from Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who is visiting the US later this month. Sharma is likely to take up the matter with the US Trade Representative and other senior officials.
It said since international trade is a federal subject in the US, Nasscom is studying the legality of such an order by a state government.
"Ohio's ban on outsourcing can only be viewed as counter -productive to the US government thrust on reducing public deficit... It only reinforces our stand on discrimination," it said.
Nasscom said it would not be surprised if more such "electoral rhetoric" follows in the run-up to the November elections to the US Congress and Ohio Governorship.
Infosys Technologies, the country's second largest software exporter, said, "We are concerned... about banning offshore outsourcing by Ohio State government departments."
Ganesh Natarajan, the chairman of the CII national committee on IT and the CEO of Zensar Technologies, said that while the Ohio development would not have much of a financial impact on IT firms, the issue would be taken up with the US trade mission visiting India this month. Indian IT firms earn most of their revenue from the private sector in the US.
Despite these irritants, the US would remain the major market for Indian IT firms, he said.
Assocham said the Ohio ban amounts to a trade barrier and the move would be against the US's interest.
The stock market, however, shrugged off the developments, with shares of TCS, Infosys and Wipro moving up today.

India leads calls for action to stop Koran burning

India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church's plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions.
The pastor of the obscure Christian church in the southern U.S. state of Florida has vowed to go ahead with the plan despite global outrage and warnings his action could endanger U.S. troops in Afghanistan, where there have already been angry protests.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned the burning would be a "recruitment bonanza" for al Qaeda, the Islamist group which carried out the Sept. 11 airliner attacks on the United States.
"You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan. This could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to blow themselves up in American cities or European cities," Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America".
The U.S. government and military and political and religious leaders from around the world have condemned the plan by pastor Terry Jones, whose tiny Protestant church campaigns against what it calls "radical Islam".
The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks coincides with celebrations for the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Koran-burning plan has added to what U.S. religious leaders have called an "anti-Muslim frenzy".
Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said no one who was interested in "harmony and peace" could condone the plan.
"We hope that the U.S. authorities will take strong action to prevent such an outrage being committed," Chidambaram said in a statement, calling on the media to exercise restraint.
"While we await the action of the U.S. authorities, we would appeal to the media in India -- both print and visual media -- to refrain from telecasting visuals or publishing photographs of the deplorable act," he said.
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Two of the top U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have said the Dove World Outreach Center plan risked undermining Obama's efforts to reach out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said it could endanger his troops.
The Convocation of American Churches in Europe also said Christians living in majority Muslim countries would also be at risk of reprisals.
In the United States, an FBI intelligence bulletin dated Aug. 19 said the Koran-burning may inspire "retaliatory attacks against U.S. facilities overseas".
Streets were quiet in the Afghan capital on Thursday as Eid al-Fitr celebrations approached, but police have been put on alert after angry demonstrations earlier this week when hundreds of Afghans, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside a Kabul mosque chanting "Death to America".
Such protests have turned violent in Afghanistan several times in the past few years, with dozens killed as security forces fought to regain control.
One of those protests was sparked when a Danish newspaper published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad in 2005.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of the importance of freedom of speech at a ceremony for the Dane whose cartoon provoked protests that led to 50 deaths. Her tribute drew criticism from some Muslims in Germany.
A British Muslim member of the European Parliament urged restraint if Jones went ahead with the plan. "Muslims globally must know that, through this Koran burning, this man will achieve nothing," said MEP Sajjad Karim.
Nigerian President Jonathan Goodluck expressed similar sentiments in a post on his Facebook page.
Pakistan "urged the international community to discourage this fanatic approach and take steps to stop these fundamentalists", a Foreign Office spokesman said in an Associated Press of Pakistan report.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, leader of the world's most populous Muslim nation, was to ask Obama to intervene, an aide said on Thursday.
"President Yudhoyono thinks that if this was allowed to happen, it will disturb world peace," Heru Lelono told Reuters.
(Additional reporting by Bappa Majumdar in NEW DELHI, Barbara Liston in GAINESVILLE, Knut Engelmann in POTSDAM, and Olivia Rondonuwu in JAKARTA; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Interpol warns Koran-burning may trigger attacks

The international police agency Interpol warned governments worldwide on Thursday of an increased risk of attacks on innocent people if the planned burning of the Koran by an obscure U.S. clergyman went ahead.
Terry Jones, leader of a Protestant church of about 30 members in Gainesville, Florida, plans to burn copies of the Islamic holy book on Saturday, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks which this year coincides with the Muslim Eid holiday.
"If the proposed Koran burning by a pastor in the U.S. goes ahead as planned, there is a strong likelihood that violent attacks on innocent people would follow," Interpol said in a statement, adding that it was acting partly on a request from Pakistan.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asked the agency to warn national police of an "increased terror threat" if the burning takes place on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, it said.
"Given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety -- an assessment which we share -- it is our duty to ensure that we pass this information on to law enforcement agencies around the globe so that they can take appropriate measures," said Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.
Noble said there were no specific details of what forms the attacks might take, but he warned the Koran-burning would have "tragic consequences".
Interpol requested any country aware of a specific threat to contact its headquarters urgently. Staff at its 24-hour command centre will be placed on alert, it said.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that the pastor's plan could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings and the governments of India and Indonesia urged him to stop the burning.
(Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

India is an anchor of stability: US

The United States believes that India as 'an anchor of stability' in a critical part of the world will have to play a leading role in resolving regional and global issues more effectively.
The two countries may have differences even as they forge a strategic partnership, but they have an effective dialogue to resolve them, State Department spokesman Phillip Crowley told reporters Wednesday.
'Certainly, from a bilateral standpoint, we will have issues that crop up from time to time, and we are in an effective dialogue to resolve those issues,' he said when asked how the US and India can build an 'indispensable partnership' in the face of issues like India's nuclear liability law and US hike of visa fees for professionals.
'But we'd also recognize that India is an anchor of stability in a critical part of the world,' Crowley said referring to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech Wednesday that President Barack Obama will use his November visit to India to take US ties with an 'indispensable' partner to the next level.
'And in fact, India can be, as the Secretary said in her remarks today, developing new partners who are able to assume greater responsibility for critical issues in the future,' he said.
'India will have to play a significant role in the global action to combat climate change,' Crowley said. 'And India can play a leading role in terms of the (global) institutions that the Secretary talked about today, the regional architecture that we hope to build in different parts of the world to be able to address regional and global issues more effectively.'
Asked how did they plan to address the concerns of the businesses from both India and US over the Indian nuclear liability legislation making suppliers potentially liable, he said the issue would be resolved through dialogue as the India-US civil nuclear deal was in the interest of both.
'We will do it by what we're doing now,' Crowley said. 'We've been focused on this for a long time. We believe that this agreement and its full implementation is in both the interest of the United States and India.'
'We are having discussions with India about what just passed the parliament,' he said. 'We recognize that both other countries and businesses within India that have raised similar concerns. And we'll work with the Government of India to address those concerns.'
'We do have an ongoing Strategic Dialogue with India,' Crowley noted. 'We do believe earnestly that the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy have a great deal in common.'

Kalmadi, Gill assure no need to press panic button

With incessant rains causing havoc with the final leg of preparations for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games, Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and sports minister M.S. Gill Thursday insisted there was no need to press the panic button, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit the Games Village Tuesday to take stock of the situation.
The prime minister's visit to the Village -- with the Games barely 21 days away -- comes in the wake of apprehensions expressed over its readiness as the first contingent of officials and athletes from 71 participating teams is expected to arrive Sep 16.
A government source told IANS the prime minister is reviewing the entire Games preparedness at a high-powered meeting Friday.
The source pointed out that though the village will be officially opened Sep 21, it is expected to be fully operational Sep 16, two days after the prime minister's visit.
This is the prime minister's second visit to a Commonwealth Games site. He had earlier inspected the facilities at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies and track and field events, on Aug 29.
Kalmadi said the preparations for the final phase are in full swing.
'There are no issues before us. Everything is being done in proper manner,' Kalmadi said in Pune during the arrival of the Queen's Baton relay there.
On the charges of corruption that have been levelled against the Games organising committee, Kalmadi said he is ready for any probe and is accountable for the Rs.1,600 crore the CGOC has taken as loan from the government.
'I am ready for any probe, any judicial probe. I am only accountable for the Rs.1,600 crore the organising committee has taken on loan and not the Rs.40,000 crore spent on infrastructure and other projects. We have got a good broadcast deal. The Games will be even shown in America for the first time,' Kalmadi said.
Gill said he met the prime minister in the morning and discussed the Games preparations at length.
Gill said they are hoping there will be clear skies when the Games start.
'The month of August was unusually wet. The normal monsoons are likely to be there by Sep 20. It has rained in this month as well. But we expect the weather to be fine by Oct 3,' said Gill, after the launch of the song on Shera, the official mascot of the Games, in New Delhi.
'There was a Cabinet meeting in the morning on the Commonwealth Games. I had detailed discussion with the Prime Minister. The position is that Nehru Stadium is ready. The aerostat balloon is ready. I also went to the swimming pool complex. The scoreboards have been placed. The work is complete there as well. The Indian swimmers will start practising there from tomorrow. The Yamuna Sports Complex owned by the Delhi Development Authority is also near completion.'
'I also had a discussion with the Prime Minister on the arrangements made for the 12,000-plus athletes who will stay at the Games Village. Ten people have been specially assigned to oversee the preparations. The work will be done before the athletes arrive.'
CGOC secretary general Lalit Bhanot said all venues are ready.
'International bodies (concerned) have certified that all venues are fit to host events,' Bhanot said in an interaction with reporters.
'Though there was some delay in the completion of some venues, every stadium is completely ready now,' he stated.
Chef-de-mission of the Indian contingent Bhubaneswar Kalita said that chefs-de-mission of all the participating teams are impressed with the venues.
'I too have been regularly visiting the venues,' he added.
To a query about the reported flood threat following the release of 600,000 cusecs of water in the Yamuna from a barrage in Haryana Wednesday, Kalita said that all necessary steps have been taken in this regard.
'We have been in touch with government agencies. Everybody is on alert and all necessary steps have been taken,' he stated.

Ahluwalia favours increased government expenditure in health sector

The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said on Thursday that the central government should increase its contribution in the health sector.
Speaking at the 4th International Health Insurance Summit 2010 in the national capital today, Ahluwalia, said: "Spending on the health sector in India is five to six percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and is almost similar to that of other countries of our level. But the difference is, out of this five percent, the central government and the state government's contribution is just one percent. The rest four percent is private expenditure. Whereas in other countries, the contribution of government in health expenditure is much more as compared to India," said Ahluwalia.
Ahluwalia also said that in the 11th Five-Year Plan, the government included an increase in the government's public expenditure on health.
"In the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-2012), we included a point that the government's public expenditure on health should be increased from one percent to two-three percent and we have increased it a bit. Earlier, it was less then one percent but now it is more than one percent, and we hope that it will increase more. We want it to reach till two-three percent," said Ahluwalia.
The established per capita spending on health is around rupees 320 per year with the major input from private households (75 percent).
State governments contribute 15.2 percent and the central government contributes 5.2 percent.
Health insurance is a way of increasing accessibility to quality healthcare especially for private healthcare, which is very costly.
In order to encourage foreign health insurers to enter the Indian market the government has recently proposed to raise the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in insurance from 26 percent to 49 percent. (ANI)

ISRO successfully tests propellants system of GSLV-M III

Mahendragiri (Tamil Nadu), Sep. 9 (ANI): The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully tested the propellant system of the body's soon-to-be launch mega vehicle, in the Tamil Nadu's Mahendragiri district on Thursday.
In a landmark experiment, a team of eminent scientists and experts from ISRO carried out the static testing of the liquid core stage of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV-M III).
Lasting for 200 seconds, the test was deemed a 'success' by the ISRO chief K. Radhakrishnan.
Radhakrishnan said there was just one other test that was required to be undertaken before giving the green signal for the final launch of the satellite carrier into space.
"The GSLV-M III, has three propulsion elements that give power to the rocket. The first one is solid motor...solid means solid propellants used in the rocket motors. Two such rocket motors have been used. Then the second stage is the liquid stage that will be tested today, and the third stage is the cryogenic stage which we are developing," explained Radhakrishnan.
The ISRO is using indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS) for the first time since the launch of the mega shuttle, GSLV-D3, in April this year.
"We are developing GSLV-M III vehicle to put heavier communications satellites, that is, satellites with mass of four tons into a geostationary transfer orbit," said Radhakrishnan.
The ISRO chief also informed that the indigenous complex cryogenic rocket technology was a remarkable scientific advancement and could revolutionize space vehicles in the future.
The GSLV-M III, which is currently under advanced stage of development, uses two solid strap-on boosters (S200), L110 liquid stage and a cryogenic upper stage C-25. (ANI)

Assets of ministers in public domain

A K Antony and Mamata Banerjee are two members of Union Cabinet who have declared assets of less than Rs one crore while Minister of State Jyotiraditya Scindia has assets of nearly Rs 25 crore. Defence Minister Antony has declared cash of Rs 1.17 lakh in two bank accounts and has no house, land or jewellery in his name.
His wife, however, owns a house and land worth Rs 15 lakh each and 25 sovereigns of gold jewellery. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has Rs 3.3 lakh of cash, jewellery worth 15,000, and security deposits of Rs 3.24 lakh making total assets of nearly Rs 6.5 lakh.
The details of assets of Union Council of Ministers for the year 2008-09 were were furnished by Prime Minister''s office in an RTI reply to activist S C Agrawal. The documents show that while combined worth of assets of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his wife is nearly Rs 26 crore, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Scindia has movable and immovable assets of nearly Rs 25 crore.
Scindia also owns a number of ancestral properties

Mangalore Air crash due to pilot's error

An investigation into the four month old Mangalore Air crash that involved death of 158 lives, has revealed that the mishap occurred due to pilot's error.
An analysis of audio on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shows that the Air India Express Boeing 737 was incorrectly aligned to the runway while attempting to land, an NDTV report stated on Wednesday evening.
It has been found that the plane, the audio recording establishes, was too high to make a safe landing and the Ground Proximity Warning System sounded several times.
The co-pilot is heard on the audio asking the captain, a pilot of Serbian origin, to abort landing. "We don't have enough runway left," the co-pilot told the captain, as heard on the audio.
It has also been found that Thrust reversers, critical braking systems on jetliners, were applied late, only after the Boeing 737-800 jet was 6000 feet down the length of 8038 foot runway.
The Bajpe airport in Mangalore has a table-top runway with steep cliffs on all sides.
On May 22, the Air India Express Boeing overshot the runway and plunged down a ravine bursting into flames. It was 6:05 am.
The only survivors from among the 160 passengers and six crew members on board were those who were thrown off the plane.
The Boeing 737-800, which was inducted on January 15, 2008, was being piloted by a British national of Serbian origin, Captain Zlatko Glusica, who, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel later said had 7,000 hours as a pilot in command, with over 2000 of those on a Boeing.
He was familiar with the Mangalore airport and had landed there 19 times, the Minister had stated.
The Indian co-pilot, HS Ahluwalia, had landed at Mangalore airport 66 times. (ANI)

This Friday, Delhi braces for worst flood since 1978

If heavy rain threw Commonwealth Games work out of gear, there is worse to come -- starting Friday, the capital could witness its worst flood in 22 years, with the Hathnikund barrage on the Yamuna releasing more than 6 lakh cusec water on September 8. The all-time record dates back to 1978 when more than 7 lakh cusec water released at the barrage swamped Delhi.

Chief secretary Rakesh Mehta said a flood alert would be declared soon. Government officials, meanwhile, confirmed that a warning had already been sounded in low-lying areas such as Usmanpur, Garhi Mandu, Batla House and its extension and residents have been asked to move out. "Most of the areas that are prone to flooding were evacuated when the Yamuna rose in August-end. Residents from these areas are already staying in camps. However, we will keep a strict watch to ensure nobody goes back to the affected areas," said DPS Tomar, chief engineer (irrigation and flood control). "The district collector (east) has also been informed to carry out evacuations since it will get difficult to rescue people in a flood situation."

According to the Central Water Commission, due to heavy rain in the hilly catchment areas, the quantity of water being released at Hathnikund went up from 29,262 cusec at 2am on Wednesday to 6,07,076 cusec at 3pm. "The same amount was being released till 4pm. After that, the release went down only slightly to 5,66,728 cusec at 6pm. We are expecting that the level at the Old Delhi Railway Bridge will cross the danger mark of 204.83m around 6pm on September 6 and then touch a high of 206.9m by Friday evening," said an official.

The last time the city saw such massive flooding in 1978, the water level had gone up to 207.49m. Officials said that due to the huge volume of water released, the level could easily rise further and possibly even breach that all-time high. "Even though the amount of water being released has come down, the quantity is so high that the level of water will only stabilize. We cannot foresee a fall in levels anytime soon," added the official.

By 8pm on Wednesday, water levels at Kalanor, barely two hours away from Hathnikund, had gone up to 268.02m and was only rising further. "The situation seems quite grim right now and the way the levels are rising, it won't be surprising if Delhi faces its worst floods ever," said a CWC official.
7 Sep, 2010, 02.21AM IST,ET Bureau

PM edits out all doubts

NEW DELHI: In the 'environment versus development' debate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opted to take the middle path. Addressing environmental concerns was important but it cannot be at the cost of perpetuating poverty, he said.

Lest pro-industry groups mistake his stance as undiluted support, Mr Singh stressed that environmental concerns are "here to stay." If the Greens felt that their writ would run, they too were to be disappointed. He has made it clear that environmental concerns cannot emerge as the 21 century's version of industrial control or licence raj. His message is unlikely to satisfy the Greens.

He accepted that the environmental concerns "cannot be wished away", but these should not come in the way of efforts to alleviate poverty.

India, the prime minister said, has to industrialise to generate more wealth. Mr Singh's position leaves little room for doubt. It is environmental concerns that need to reconcile itself to the development project. Even so it is not going to be a walkover.

"Environmental concerns are here to stay, they cannot be wished away from public consciousness." However, the prime minister warned that addressing these concerns should mean that environment emerges as the current day Licence Raj.

A solution to this dilemma has to be found "sitting across the table". Mr Singh said that he has invited environment minister Jairam Ramesh, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, roads minister Kamal Nath to "sit together to find ways of addressing environmental concerns."

Mr Ramesh has crossed swords with these two ministers and others over his insistence on the adherence to environment laws and norms. The environment minister's detractors have painted him as "obstructionist" and "anti-development". Mr Ramesh has been portrayed as putting environment concerns ahead of development project. A move that has been argued as stifling India's growth potential.

Mr Jairam Ramesh took on his colleague, Mr Jaiswal, suggesting that mining be barred in certain coal blocks as it would result in destruction dense forest cover. In response, Mr Jaiswal had let it been known that Mr Jairam Ramesh' forest conservation would come at a cost — lower coal production, less coal for power and adverse impact on industrial production.

The environment minister has argued that preserving forests has greater import on development. These include guarding against adverse impact of climate change.

It is these situations that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred to in his tightrope balancing act. Not giving blanket direction, Mr Manmohan Singh would like that these situations get resolved through dialogue, resulting in a modicum of a balanced outcome.
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India ranks 77 in Forbes best countries for business

WASHINGTON: Despite the second highest growth in the world among major economies in 2009, India ranks 77 in Forbes Best Countries for Business list even as the US dropped from No. 2 to No. 9.

"India is developing into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies remain," noted the US business magazine placing India ahead of Sri Lanka (83), China (90) and Pakistan (92) in its fifth annual ranking of 128 economies.

"Economic liberalisation, including reduced controls on foreign trade and investment, began in the early 1990s and has served to accelerate the country's growth, which has averaged more than 7 percent per year since 1997," it said.

Capitalising on its large educated English-speaking population, India has to become a major exporter of information technology services and software workers, Forbes noted.

"An industrial slowdown early in 2008, followed by the global financial crisis, led annual GDP growth to slow to 6.5 percent in 2009, still the second highest growth in the world among major economies," it said.

"The government abandoned its deficit target and allowed the deficit to reach 6.8 percent of GDP in FY10. Nevertheless, as shares of GDP, both government spending and taxation are among the lowest in the world," Forbes noted

With the US economy teetering on the edge of a double-dip recession, business climate for entrepreneurs and investors in the US is starting to lag behind other countries', Forbes said noting its fall from No. 2 to No. 9 in its annual ranking.

Grabbing the top spot for a third straight year is Denmark. A big mover up the rankings is Hong Kong, which swapped places with the US, moving up to No. 2 from No. 9. It scored in the top three for taxes, investor protection and both trade and monetary freedom.

One of the most business-friendly environments can be found in New Zealand, ranked No. 3 (up from No. 5 last year), Forbes said. Among the worst countries for business, Zimbabwe moved out of the bottom of the rankings this year thanks to Venezuela.

The ranking is based on 11 categories, including property rights, technology, corruption, red tape, investor protection and stock market performance.

7 Sep, 2010, 05.27PM IST,REUTERS

India, China look top investment targets to 2012: UN

GENEVA: The world's biggest companies are planning to boost their international investments over the next two or three years, with most spending planned in major emerging economies, according to a United Nations study.

China, India and Brazil are the top three target countries for foreign direct investment (FDI) until the end of 2012 with the United States, for years number one, now in fourth place, the U.N. trade and development agency UNCTAD said.

The Geneva-based agency, which acts as a think-tank on economic trends in developing nations, said the global economic crisis from 2008 was less harmful than feared for investment.

The conclusions were based on a survey of the FDI climate among 236 leading multinational corporations and 116 investment promotion agencies.

Global investment flows slumped in 2008-09 as a result of the economic downturn but are expected to recover slowly in 2011 and 2012.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Incoming FDI, mostly from richer countries like the United States and the bigger powers in the 27-nation European Union, is a key component in development plans for many poorer countries.

But in recent years big firms based in the more successful emerging economies have taken a growing role, investing in both rich and poor nations, often through mergers and acquisitions.

The crisis had accentuated a shift of the geographical focus of FDI towards developing and former communist economies.

These countries accounted for 9 of the top 15 priority FDI destinations for global firms, UNCTAD said.

China was the number one attraction for the second year, with India up from third in 2009 and Brazil up from fourth, pushing the United States down from second.

Russia was fifth, the same as in 2009, but Mexico leapt to sixth place from 12th last year, leapfrogging Britain at seventh, Vietnam at eighth and Indonesia at ninth. Germany, Europe's biggest economy, fell from seventh to 10th.

Thailand, Poland, Australia, France and Malaysia were the five countries next most favoured, the UNCTAD survey showed.

In July, UNCTAD predicted that total FDI flows could rise to $1.3-$1.5 trillion in 2011 after $1.2 trillion this year, and jump to $1.6-$2 trillion in 2012.

India second most important FDI destination

GENEVA: India has replaced the US as the second most important foreign directive investment (FDI) destination for transnational corporations during 2010-2012, according to a survey conducted UNCTAD.

In its latest 'World Investment Prospects Survey 2010-2012', the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said transnational corporations remain buoyant about investment prospects in China, India and Brazil.

According to the survey, India is the most important FDI destination next only to China.

India replaced the US as the second most important destination for FDI by transnational companies last year following severe recession in the US. In the last survey, the US was the second most important destination and this time the country has slipped to fourth position.

Global FDI flows are expected to jump increase from USD 1.2 trillion this year to USD 1.3-USD 1.5 trillion in 2011 and USD 1.6-2.0 trillion in 2012.

"The results point to a recovery in global FDI flows in 2010 and further growth in 2011 and 2012," UNCTAD said.

Basing its results on the responses from 236 leading transnational corporations and 116 investment promotion agencies, it forecasts an upswing in the international foreign direct investment flows.

"The crisis was less destructive to FDI than had been feared" despite the worsening economic situation and growing recession in the industrialised countries, UNCTAD said.

Notwithstanding the squeeze in the investment budget during the worst economic crisis in the last eighty years, there has been perceptible shift in the TNC's geographical focus to developing and transition economies.

The emerging countries weathered the downturn better than their industrialised country counterparts. Further, the developing countries are leading the global recovery and are also contributing to the TNC strategies.
9 Sep, 2010, 04.40PM IST,PTI

India Inc lost $27 bn merger deals this year so far

Merger deals worth $27 billion have soured so far this year in India.

The biggest non-starter was that of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries' $14.5 billion bid for LyondellBasell. This was followed - in terms of deal value - by the cancellation of his younger brother Anil Ambani run Reliance Communications' $10.8 billion merger deal with GTL Infra.

According to the data compiled by research firm VCC Edge, as many as nine deals have been called off this far in 2010.

"The failure of the mega deals was primarily due to valuation concern. Management control issues and strategic unsuitability of the deals was another reason for cancellations", SMC Capitals Equity Head Jagannathan Thunuguntla said.

The country's most valued firm RIL's bid to acquire a majority stake in bankrupt petrochemical group was called off by LyondellBasell after the latter found the price offer was undervaluing the company.

The transaction could have been the largest buyout ever made by an Indian firm overseas. So far, Tata Steel's acquisition of Anglo Dutch steel producer Corus Group in 2007 for $12 billion, is the biggest deal in the Indian corporate history.

Besides, the most recent cancellation was of RCom's arm Reliance Infratel's $10.8 billion tower merger deal wih GTL Infrastructure.

Interestingly, the Ambani brothers, who have been most active in merger and acquisition activity this year, accounted for over $25 billion of the deals in 2010 that could not take off in 2010.

Mukesh Ambani led RIL, last month, had made foray in the hospitality sector by picking up a 14.18 stake in EIH Ltd, promoted by Oberoi group of hotels and resorts. This was his seventh acquisition in the current year.

Early in the year, EIH also witnessed a deal cancellation of $272 million in which Max Hospital's founder and chairman Analjit Singh was interested in 17 per cent stake in the hospitality major.

Other than the Ambani brothers, another significant deal that did not work was Singapore's GIC Special Investments' $84.7 million bid for 6.58 per cent stake in the billionaire brothers Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh led Fortis Healthcare.

Naveen Jindal led Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) was also denied a stake in Zimbabwe Iron & Steel, estimated to be in the range of $600 million- $1 billion by the government, as it did not approve of selling the ailing company to large corporates.

Rest of the transactions that turned sour so far this year include---US based Scripps Networks Interactive attempt to buy stake in NDTV Lifestyle, drug major Abott Laboratories' interest in Wockhardt, multiplex chain PVR Cinemas' bid for DT Cinemas and Ingersoll Rand USA's attempt to merge the Indian subsidiary into itself.

RIL 2nd among companies creating the most shareholder value

BOSTON: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has been ranked second in the list of world's 10 biggest 'sustainable value creators' -- companies that have been successful in creating the most shareholder value over the last decade -- prepared by Boston Consulting Group.

The list compiled by the global management consulting firm names Brazil-based mining and materials giant Vale as the top value creator worldwide for the 2000-2009 period.

"One side effect of the Great Recession has been to accelerate the ascent of companies from rapidly developing economies to the top ranks of the world's creators of shareholder value," BCG said in the report titled 'Threading the Needle: Value Creation in a Low-Growth Economy'.

The ranking identifies large global companies with a market capitalisation of at least 35 billion dollars that have been the "most successful at sustaining superior value creation over 10 years."

BCG says a decade is the minimum time frame necessary to evaluate the staying power of a company's value creation performance.

The report has also listed companies industry-wise for creating the most value for their shareholders from 2005 to 2009. Starting from a database of more than 4,000 companies worldwide, the report presents detailed analyses of the Total Shareholder Return (TSR) at 712 companies across 14 major industries for the five-year period.

Of the top 142 companies included in this year's global and industry rankings, 81 are located in developing economies. In a further indication of how emerging economies are pulling ahead of developed countries, the top 10 value creators in the 712-company sample are all from Asia --- five companies listed on stock exchanges in China, two in Hong Kong, and one each in India, Indonesia, and South Korea.

Similarly, seven of the top ten large-cap value creators (those with market valuations of more than USD 35 billion) are listed on stock exchanges in rapidly developing economies of Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Mexico and South Korea.

"Most developing economies are rebounding relatively quickly to their precrisis growth levels. In contrast, developed economies are entering an extended period of below-average growth with profound implications for how companies create value and which companies come out on top," report co-author Daniel Stelter said.

7 Sep, 2010, 07.20AM IST, Vivek Sinha & Mahima Puri,ET Bureau

Naveen pips Marans as top-paid executive

Naveen Jindal, executive vice-chairman and managing director of Jindal Steel & Power, has quietly nudged ahead as the country's top-paid executive, pipping husband-wife duo Kalanithi and Kavery Maran of Sun TV, in a year when 80% of the country's top 25 paid executives took a modest pay hike, compared to profit growth of their respective companies.

Around a third of these top-paid executives of listed firms either took a pay cut or maintained their total compensation, strengthening the trend of Indian firms embracing pay for performance, an ET study shows.

Although the practice of linking performance to compensation has been followed by companies in India for a while, it was strongly embedded in many organisations after being hit by the global economic slowdown, says Arjun Srivastava, consultant at executive search firm Egon Zehnder.

"Companies are looking at not only linking top executive pay with performance, but one managerial level below them as well," he says.

The close link between management remuneration and company performance comes at a time when a panel of the Indian Parliament has suggested reducing the cap on CEO compensation.

Currently, CEO compensation is capped at 5% of net profit. Top management remuneration has been a sensitive subject not just in India, but also globally that came into sharp focus with big bonuses at a time when companies were going bankrupt.

Last year, corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid had said companies should avoid paying their top executives what he termed 'vulgar salaries'. Earlier, prime minister Manmohan Singh had also urged India Inc to keep a tab on excessive management remuneration.

Indeed, close to half of the same set of top 25 executives — many of whom are promoters of their firms — had taken a pay hike that was much more than the bottomline performance of their companies in 2008-09.

In total, these executives were paid Rs 442 crore for the year ended March 2009, 9% more than the previous year, even as their firms' aggregate net profit shrunk 6%.

No match with global peers

But the sharp revival in economy last fiscal allowed firms to be much more generous with executive compensation.

Naveen Jindal, the 40-year old member of parliament who represents Kurukshetra constituency for ruling Congress party, has received Rs 39.7 crore as commission out of profits besides salary and other perks for 2009-10, according to an interim disclosure in its balance sheet for the year ended March 2010.

The exact quantum of his earnings for last year will become clear a few weeks later, when the company makes its annual report public, but is expected to be close to Rs 48.6 crore that he received the previous year.

The youngest son of billionaire widow Savitri Jindal, received Rs 20.3 crore as commission besides salary and perks of Rs 7.9 crore for FY09.

But his company later doubled the amount of commission, taking his total payout for the year ended March 2009 to around Rs 48.6 crore, making him only the second Indian executive of a listed company to be paid over $10 million in a year. Reliance Industries' chief Mukesh Ambani was paid Rs 44 crore in 2007-08, but has since then taken a pay cut receiving Rs 15 crore for the past two years.

Hutch deal: Vodafone liable for tax, rules Bombay HC

Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Britain's Vodafone against the country's tax department, saying the department does have jurisdiction over tax bills in cross-border mergers.

"The petition is dismissed," one of the judges said in the ruling.

"The IT authority's order cant be held to lack jurisdiction," he said.

A Vodafone executive said the company will appeal the ruling in the Supreme Court.

Vodafone, fighting a tax bill in India from its 2007 purchase of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd's mobile business in the country, had filed an appeal with the court in June challenging the tax department's jurisdiction over the tax bill.

Vodafone has not said how much the authorities were seeking, but a person with knowledge of the matter has said it was about 120 billion rupees ($2.6 billion).

The Bombay High Court had concluded its hearing in Vodafone's appeal against the country's tax department last month.

Indian tax authorities have said Vodafone's deal was liable for tax because most of the assets were based in India and under Indian law, buyers have to withhold capital gains tax liabilities and pay them to the government.

But Vodafone has said Indian law did not require it to deduct tax, and that capital gains taxes are usually paid by the seller.

Vodafone maintained that it isn't liable for tax on the $11.1 billion transaction. The verdict will be closely watched by companies like SABMiller, General Electric and AT&T, who have also been swept up in the tax department's increasing activism over the last three years.

India generated just 7 percent of Vodafone's group revenues in the year ended March, but with over 100 million subscribers a third of the group's total Vodafone's fast-growing India business is a key long term asset, according to Moody's analyst Ivan Palacios.

The timing of Vodafone's huge tax bill could not have been worse. Vodafone agreed to fork over $2.5 billion to the government in May for third-generation spectrum, and months of blistering competition among India's 15 mobile operators has driven down call rates to less than 1 cent a minute.

In May, Vodafone had to write down the value of its Indian business by more than 25 percent, or 2.3 billion pounds ($3.5 billion).
7 Sep, 2010, 10.49AM IST, Joji Tomas Philip & Kalyan Parbat,ET Bureau

Telecom gearmakers to garner $3 bn in first wave of 3G rollout

DELHI | KOLKATA: Global telecom equipment vendors will garner some $3 bn in the first wave of 3G rollouts in India, making it the largest global telecom contract in calendar 2010. This comes at a time when leading international gearmakers are struggling to land new contracts in developed nations and are looking at emerging markets like India to prop up revenues and profits.

The six winners of 3G airwaves in India — Vodafone Essar, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications , Idea Cellular, Aircel and Tata Teleservices — are poised to place equipment contracts collectively worth $3 billion in the next 30 days, executives with these companies say. The rollouts will propel them to unveil 3G services that involve high-end facilities like video calling, interactive gaming and high-speed internet using phones by late December.

An industry executive with direct knowledge of the development said Vodafone Essar is close to awarding its 3G equipment order with existing vendors – Ericsson and Nokia Siemens – while adding that the deal size is estimated at roughly $500 million. Another exececutive familiar with the matter said Vodafone Essar's move is in sync with the Vodafone Group's international vendor alignment in Europe.

ET has also learnt that India's largest telecom company by customers and revenues, Bharti Airtel will award its 3G expansion contract in under two weeks, where its existing vendors Ericsson and Nokia Siemens are frontrunners to bag the deal. As per industry estimates, Bharti's contract size will be in the range of $700 million. Company executives, however, declined to comment.

Idea Cellular, whose 3G equipment orders is estimated to be about $500 million in the first phase, is poised to place purchase orders with a mix of its existing vendors. "We are in talks with all our existing vendors like Nokia-Siemens Networks, Ericsson , Huawei and ZTE for 3G rollouts in 11 circles ," said a person familiar with the talks.

The country's top two mobile firms—Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications (RCOM) — each had won 3G airwaves in 13 of
the 22 telecom zones on offer while other major operators Aircel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Tata Tele won a total of 13, 9, 11 and 9 circles, respectively.

Last week, Tata Teleservices said Chinese gear major Huawei would implement the initiation of 3G services for the company in five circles while Nokia Siemens Networks has bagged the contract for the remaining four circles. The combined deal size for the Tatas is just under $300 million, an industry executive tracking the equipment contracts said.

"Tata DoCoMo enjoys lower capex since its network is new. It was built on a scaleable platform and geared for 3G expansion at minimal costs," this executive added. RCOM, which defended nearly 55% of its revenues by bagging 3G airwaves in 13 circles, is likely to invest roughly half a billion dollars in 3G network gear. Though this could not be independently confirmed from RCOM, analysts tracking 3G contracts across emerging markets expect the company to buy nearly $500-million 3G gear in the first flush. Huawei is tipped as the frontrunner to bag the deal.

Aircel is also poised to buy some $500 million of 3G gear later this month. "Our process of request for proposals (for hardware) is underway. We hope to close it in two or three weeks," Aircel's COO Gurdeep Singh had told ET last week while adding that the company expects to roll out 3G services by January. An executive close to Aircel said the company would invest between $400-500 million towards capex for its 3G rollout.
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Hindutva (Devanagari: हिन्दुत्व, "Hinduness"), is derived from the two terms 'Hindū + tattva", which literally mean "of Hindu Principles" or "Hinduness". Hindutva denotes to the state of mind that is based on the cultural and spiritual ethos based on the spiritual systems that evolved from India that includes all aspects of Indian culture and civilization. Hindutva is a spiritual, plus economic conception founded and developed from ancient times in India for securing the all round happiness of all individuals irrespective of religion, race and belief of individuals. The stress in this philosophy both on the ruler and the ruled is the performance of righteous-duty and to conform to a code of conduct. The vast body of proper code of conduct in every sphere of human activity such as personal, social, political was called dharma.[2]
Dharma is an ancient philosophical concept of India. As propounded in various scriptures, Its attributes, include characteristics such as: rationality, sense of duty, justice, peace, truthfulness, compassion, non-violence, rectitude, humanity, spirituality, tolerance, ethics, service to others, and philanthropy. Dharma thus truly symbolizes universal values of humanism and can form the basis of global ethics.
The word Hindutva was coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" is used to describe movements advocating Hindu Nationalism.

Definition

Grammatically, the term is a compound of the word "Hindū" and the Sanskrit suffix "-tva" which is used to form neuter abstract nouns. Hence, according to Savarkar, Hindutva is meant to denote the Hindu characteristic, or Hinduness. In a judgment the Indian Supreme Court ruled that…
"No precise meaning can be ascribed to the terms 'Hindu', 'Hindutva' and 'Hinduism'; and no meaning in the abstract can confine it to the narrow limits of religion alone, excluding the content of Indian culture and heritage."
The Supreme Court also ruled that…
"Ordinarily, Hindutva is understood as a way of life or a state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as religious Hindu fundamentalism. A Hindu may embrace a non-Hindu religion without ceasing to be a Hindu and since the Hindu is disposed to think synthetically and to regard other forms of worship, strange gods and divergent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well-being of the world and mankind."
Hindutva is commonly identified with the guiding ideology of the Sangh Parivar, a family of Hindu Nationalist organizations, and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in particular. In general, Hindutva represent the well-being of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and all other religions prominent in India along with Zoroastrianism and Judaism.

The term Hindutva distinguishes the unique ethos and principles of this nation (Bharatvarsha) that is rooted in inclusiveness and its assimilative qualities. in comparison to ethos that underlines Judeo-Christian and Islamic thoughts that advances isolation and exclusivism.

The words Hindu, Hindutva and Hinduism are not synonymous. They are different with distinctive connotation. A Hindu is one who is an inheritor or adherent of the spiritual parampara (linage or tradition) that has its origin in bharatavarsha (the Indian Subcontinent) while Hinduism indicates the conglomerate of all spiritual practices, beliefs, scriptures, Gods, after life, rituals, mode of worship etc. that a Hindu practices.
The basic reason for the emergence of the term Hindutva was due to the limitation brought forth by the English prefix "-ism" attached to the term Hinduism (any -ism suggests a 'relatively' narrow, limited ideology or set of beliefs, which follows set rules, guidelines and definitions). Anything outside of those definitions cannot be held to lie within the -ism. Therefore, any -ism will have its own corresponding anti-ism, as well as itself containing certain aspects which are themselves anti-isms against other sets of beliefs, ideologies or philosophies.
All Hindus who follow Hinduism are characterized by certain mindset, distinctive behavior and attitude which can be called 'Hindu-ness'. Therefore Hindutva is thus 'Hindu-ness'. Hindutva represents is a mindset that is based on Hinduism, which itself is imbued with Indian culture. Hindutva is thus representative of Indian cultural ethos, transcending the narrow boundaries of different religions. There is no difference in Hindutva and Indian-ness. It implies that even non-Hindus, living in India have a mindset, to a greater or lesser degree, inspired by Hindutva.
According to Savarkar the term Hindutva does not mean only the religion Hinduism; it covers the complete Hindu civilization and history. Hinduism is only a fraction of the civilization called Hindutva. That is why he used the term Hindu to refer to the collectivity of the people of India - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsees, etc. In the rising nationalist movement at the end of last century there are some examples proving that this kind of 'loose' vocabulary was accepted among different religious groups. For example, the Muslim nationalist leader Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) used the term Hindu to mean 'the inhabitants of Hindustan' (Pandey 1993: 245). The most important thing is that true Hindus accept natural and thus right attitudes towards their land. Savarkar emphasizes that "a Hindu means a person who regards this land of Bharatvarsha, from Indus to the seas as his Fatherland as well as his Holyland, that is the cradle land of his religion". [3]
What distinguishes Indian Muslims from rest of the world is their Hindutva (Hinduness or Indianness) inspired mindset. The Shia-Sunni differences are almost as old as the Islam itself. The strife between the two is a fact of history. In the aftermath of the downfall of Saddam's dictatorship in Iraq, the bloody conflict between the two Islamic communities is a reality, impossible to be brushed aside. Nearer home, in Pakistan, Shias and Sunnis do not pray in one mosque. They pray in separate mosques. Their communal militant organisations frequently kill each other and put bombs in their rival's mosques. But it is not so in India. Here the Shia-Sunni divide is not that sharp. They pray in same mosque and the riots between the two are a rarity.
Summing up, it can be said that Hindutva is a mindset shared by all Indians, in larger or lesser degrees, Hindutva can also be defined as an abstract value system bequeathed by Hindu or Indian culture and shared by all Indians irrespective of their religious affiliations. Hindutva is thus a "secular" concept.

Progenitors of Hindutva

The four important progenitors of Hindutva — Dayanda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Shri Aurobindo and V.D. Savarkar. In fact, many more could be added, both famous and not so famous, who were actively involved in the production and dissemination of Hindu revivalist ideas. Their rather popular engagements through different religious movements imparted to the revivalist ideas a much wider appeal than limited intellectual exercise. Many of them turned out to be powerful icons of religious regeneration.
According to many leading revivalists, Hindu society had degenerated, because Hindus no longer followed 'dharma'. They claimed that India could not regenerate itself unless dharma was properly observed. For example Aurobindo Ghose emphasized that 'all great awakenings in India, all her periods of mightiest and most varied vigour have drawn their vitality from the fountainhead of some deep religious awakening' (Purani 1964: 81). Aurobindo Ghose and other revivalists shared the view that a good society can exist only when it is based on the correct principles of dharma. [3]
Most nationalists are organized into political, cultural and social organizations. The first Hindutva organisation formed was the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, founded in 1925. A prominent Indian political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is closely associated with a group of organizations that advocate Hindutva. They collectively refer to themselves as the "Sangh Parivar" or family of associations, and include the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and the Vishva Hindu Parishad.

What exactly Hindutva is?

As for what exactly Hindutva is, it is the Dharma. The reason for saying "the" Dharma, as opposed to "a" Dharma, which many people would say, is because there can only be one Dharma, since Dharma has implicit within it, all the aspects which make up life. The main reason for this misconception is that Dharma is often translated (wrongly) as "religion". Whilst religion makes up a part of Dharma it is only a part and not the whole of it. Dharma takes a holistic view, and covers the whole spectrum of human experience.1
So why is it that there can only be one Dharma (since obviously different people will have different experiences etc.)? Dharma is not directly about those experiences, but is based on Veda (knowledge), which is absolute. The Vedas were written on the basis not of culture or tradition but on the basis of nature (including human nature) itself, which is unchanging. That explains why it is said that the Vedas and the Dharma are "Sanatan" (timeless) — "Anaadi" (without beginning) and "Anant" (without end).

Dharma, covers the whole spectrum of human experience, and is thus relevant regardless of context, being based on that fundamental constant, nature - specifically, in this case, human nature.

The question arises, if this Dharma is Universal as is implied by the name "Vishwa Dharma" (Universal Dharma), then why is it that it is given the name "Hindutva", since this implies that it is relevant only for Hindus and for none else. To explain that, it is necessary to look at why it is actually called Hindutva, and where the name Hindutva came from.
In Vedic times, there were many names for the country, one of which was "Sapta Sindhu". Nowadays, "Sindhu" refers just to one particular river the River Sindhu (Indus), now in Pakistan. But in those times "Sindhu" was a general name for all rivers, so the name "Sapta Sindhu" (literally Seven Rivers) was used as the country consisted of seven great rivers - Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Kaveri, Sindhu, Narmada and Godaveri. According to Sanskrit grammar, S and H are often interchangeable, and so "Sapta Sindhu" was actually pronounced as "Hapta Hindhu". The Persians adopted the same name for the country, but with time dropped the "Hapta", and were left with Hindhu, from which is derived Hindu. Hence, the people of the country were called Hindus, and the country itself Hind, or Hindustan (Hindu Stan meaning Place of the Hindus). Thus, the way of life followed by the people of that country came to be known as Hinduism…or Hindutva.
This explains why the way of life of Hindus is known as Hindutva, but how is it that this can be taken as Universally relevant? As mentioned earlier, "religion" is an incorrect translation of "Dharma", so what is the correct translation? It's very hard to say, mainly because English doesn't actually have any equivalent word. So, there are a lot of translations given, which all reflect (a) certain aspect(s) of Dharma, but none of which manage to describe it in its entirety. The concept of dharma is one of the most important concepts in the Indian thought that makes the foundation of all indigenous traditions such as Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh world view. Its meaning differs slightly from one religious or philosophical tradition to another, but all interpretations share the view that it means 'natural order' or 'innate law' in a special individual, society and in the universe.
The second leader of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar, defined dharma as the innate and fundamental law of the universe and human nature. According to him, this very law of dharma is the standard for deciding the propriety of behavior in various situations. He argued that "if we carry this concept of Dharma even further, not only the State and the Nation, but the nature of entire mankind will have to be considered. In other words, the constitution of a nation cannot be contrary to the natural laws"2. And he emphasizes that since dharma is the supreme law, their ideal of the state must be 'Dharma-Rajya'. The rulers ought to follow those innate laws. Hence even omnipotent God "who can do everything cannot act contrary to Dharma"3. In practice this has meant that the Hindu leaders have tried to define the natural inhabitants of Hindustan and the natural borders of the country as well as the natural order in the society (Dharma-Rajya or Rama-Rajya). [3]

Historical Background

The history of the Hindus is the history of a civilization which has developed in its natural state, without interruption, since antiquity. Its age is dated to be between five and nine thousand years. Hence Hindu History is a prototype of how human civilization would have looked, if civilization all across the globe had been allowed to develop in its natural state. This is the relevance for us to study Hindu Civilization, Hindu History and Hindu Culture.
Hindu ethos provided for sanctuary and home to those of other faiths fleeing from their countries due to religious persecution. The Parsis, Jews and Syrian Christians are among those religious groups who had sought refuge in India, and survived because the Hindus looked after them. These three religious communities have had and have today a disproportionate share in power and wealth in Indian society, but Hindus have no resentment about it. These minorities had come to India in search of peace and found safe haven in the midst of Hindu society.
Parsis migrated elsewhere in the world too, but disappeared as a community in those countries. Jews have openly acknowledged that India as the only country where they were not persecuted. Syrian Christians too are today completely integrated into India. Even early Arab Muslim travelers who came peacefully to settle in Kerala were taken into Hindu families, and hence called Mapillai [meaning son-inlaw — Moplah in English]. That is a fundamental of Hindutva, the ethos of compassion and co-option that is unparalleled in world history.

Encounter with Militant Islam and Crusading Christianity

However, militant Islam and later crusading Christianity came to India, and aggressively challenged the Hindu tradition. They seized power in sequence and established their own state in India. But despite state patronage to the ensuing onslaught, plunder and victimization, those of Hindu faith could not be decimated, and Hinduism remained the theology of the vast Indian majority. This was passive resistance of Hindus, much before Mahatma Gandhi came of the scene. Defiant Hindus suffered persecution and economic deprivation during Islamic and Christian reigns, such as through differential taxation [e.g., jezia and zamindari land revenue appropriation] and plain brutality, but Hindus by and large refused to capitulate and convert.
Even after almost a thousand years of such targeting by Muslims and Christian rulers, undivided India in 1947 was more than 75 percent Hindu. This was partly because of the victorious Vijayanagaram, the Sikh reign, and Mahratta kingdoms, and later the Freedom Movement, each inspired by sanyasis such Sringeri Shankaracharya, Swami Ramdas, Guru Nanak, Swami Vivekanada and Sri Aurobindo, who by their preaching about the Hindu identity and Hindutva ensured that the flame of Hindu defiance never dimmed. It was also due to individual defiance of Hindus such as of Rana Pratap, Rani Jhansi, Rani Bennur, Kattaboman and Netaji Subhas Bose.
These icons are admired not because they led the nation to victory [in fact they were defeated or killed], or had found out a safe compromise [they did not], but because of their courage of conviction in the face of huge odds not to submit to tyranny. That courageous defiance is also is part of Hindutva. But those who capitulated like Raja Man Singh or Jai Chand or Pudukottai Raja in order to live in pomp and grandeur are despised today by the people. Hindutva means: resist by passive non-violent resistance if possible, otherwise by vigorous aggressive action if necessary. Hindutva means never to submit, never to compromise with adharmic forces.

Emergence of Pseudo-Secularism

In 1947, temporal power was defacto restored to the Hindu majority. But the Indian state formally adopted secularism, which concept however was never properly defined or debated. For example, it left vague what modern Indian's connection was with the nation's Hindu past and legacy. In the name of secularism, it was taboo for a public servant even to break a coconut or light a oil lamp to inaugurate an official function on the ground that religious symbols must not invade public life.
Such orthodoxy was promoted by Jawarharlal Nehru and his Leftist advisers. But the government took over supervision of temples, legislated on Hindu personal laws, appropriated temple revenues and regulated religious festivals, but kept aloof from the Muslim and Christian religious affairs. The secularism principle was foisted on the Hindu masses without making him understand why they had to abide by such legislation but not the Muslims and Christians. It made a mockery of Article 14 of the Constitution on equality before law.
As a result, the renaissance that had begun in the late nineteenth century to redefine the Hindu identity [in contemporary terms and on norms valid in a pluralistic society] was aborted by the confusion thus created in Hindu minds by Nehruism. Electoral politics further confounded the issues arising out of secularism, and hence the Indian society became gradually and increasingly fragmented in outlook and of confused perspective. Hindu society became divided by caste that became increasingly mutually antagonistic.
See Pseudo-Secularism.

Falsification of History Texts

Attempts were made through falsification in history texts adopted for curriculum in the education system to disconnect and disinherit the contemporary Indian from the past glory of Hindu India. The intrinsic Hindu unity has been sought to be undone by legitimizing such bogus concepts as Aryan-Dravidian racial divide theory, or that India as a concept never existed till the British imperialists invented it, or that Indians have always been ruled by invaders from abroad.
There is no such word as Aryan in Sanskrit literature (closest is 'arya' meaning honourable person, and not community) or Dravidian4. The racial divide theory was a deliberate distortion by British imperialists, and propagated by their witting and unwitting mental Indian slave academicians on the hapless students in educational institutions.
Incidentally, the Aryan-Dravidian myth has now been exploded by modern research on DNA of Indians conducted by Professor C. Panse of Newton, Mass. USA and other scholars. In light of such new research, the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] in it's October 6, 2005 service completely debunked the Aryan-Dravidian race theory in stating that: "The theory was not just wrong, it included unacceptably racist ideas"[1].
Modern India is portrayed by foreign interests through this curriculum, as a discontinuity in history and as a new entity much as are today's Greece, Egypt or Iraq. That curriculum is largely intact today. A rudderless India, disconnected from her past has, as a consequence, become a fertile field for religious poachers and neo-imperialists from abroad who paint India as a mosaic of immigrants much like a crowd on a platform in a railway junction. That is, it is clandestinely propagated that India has belonged to those who forcibly occupied it. This is the theme around which the Islamic fundamentalists and fraud Christian crusaders are again at work, much as they were a thousand years ago, but of course in new dispensations, sophistication, and media forms.

Eroding and undermining Hindu Foundation

Thus the concept of Hindustan, and India's Hindu foundation implicit in Hindutva, are dangerously under challenge by these forces. Tragically most Hindus today are not even cognizant of it. Hindu patriots thus must meet this challenge by propagating the concept of Hindustan and spreading the knowledge among Hindus of the fundamentals of Hindutva. The challenge today confronting Hindus is however much more difficult to meet than was earlier in history because the forces at work to erode and undermine the Hindu foundation of the nation, unlike before, are unseen, clandestine, pernicious, deceptive but most of all sophisticated and media-savvy.
Tragically therefore, a much more educated and larger numbers of Hindus have been unwittingly co-opted in this sinister conspiracy directed by foreigners who have no love for India and who also see, much as Lord Macaulay saw in the nineteenth century, that the hoary Hindu foundation of India is a stumbling block for the furtherance of their nefarious perfidious game for castrating Hindustan. Adherence to Hinduism is also being sought to be diluted in the name of modernity and this dilution is made a norm of secularism.

Central Philosophy

The evolution of Hindu Civilization can be considered to be natural and continuing as there is no last messiah in the Hindu world view. In fact this is what distinguishes Hindu Civilization from the rest. And this is why Hinduism is called a Living Idea, guided by the sum total of human wisdom that is not considered to be embodied in one person, or one book, or one period of human history. Hence the term "Living".
Hindutva is the articulation of this idea of continuity of freedom of thought from which emerge the multifarious Hindu Principles.
Two instances of Hindu Principles that symbolize the outcome of freedom of thought are the pronouncements made not today, but four thousand years back by unnamed rishi (Hindu ascetics) that, Vasudaiva Kutumbakam ("This world is one family") and Ekam Sat Viprah Bahuda Vadanti (that "The Universal Reality is the same, but different people can call it by different names"). In these two proclamations made in ancient Hindu India, we see the seeds of globalism and freedom of thought, four thousand years before the world was to become the global village of today. Thus in its true essence, Hindutva is a stridently assertive rational-humanist line of reasoning. At the level of practice, the Hindutva outlook boils down to upholding Sat-guna (righteousness) and Dur-guna (fighting ignoble attitudes). Taking poetic license, we can describe the practitioners of this outlook as "Heenam Naashaayati iti Hinduhu" (Those who uphold righteousness and fight ignobleness are Hindus).
Thus, far from being a narrow nationalistic doctrine, Hindutva is in its true essence, 'a timeless and universal compilation of human wisdom'. Hence it is also called "Sanatan" which means, something that is "forever continuing." Hindutva in there prevailed a society and a social mind which thrived and happily grew within a multiplicity of thoughts. "Ano bhadrah kratavo yantu visatah" ("let noble thoughts come in from all directions of the universe") went the Rigvedic invocation.

Assimilative and Antidote of Exclusivity

Hindutva never talks of kafirs and 'infidels' to inject xenophobic fervour, or missionary zeal into its believers. It never divided or looked upon humanity from the prism of "believers" versus "non-believers". Therefore there was never a need to convert humanity to a particular believe system as its preposition was to embraces all good thoughts that works for the betterment of human race. Hindutva is rather a spiritual and socio-cultural umbrella which accepts, and happily so, even its staunchest critics as part of its larger whole. So inclusive is this way of life that Buddha who used to be an ardent critic of prevalent Hinduism of his times, instead of being silenced, or being targeted by any fatwa or being burnt at stake, was Himself embraced as an avatara i.e. incarnation of Vishnu. Consequently Buddhist along with Jain teachings got assimilated into the then prevalent Vedic Tradition.

Pragmatic and Literalistic attitude

The pragmatic and literalistic attitude of Hindutva, is seen at its best in the Bhagavad Gita, where in the final Eighteenth Chapter, after all the prolonged and persuasive discourse, Krishna tells to Arjuna:

Iti te jnanamakhyatam guhyaat guhyataram maya

Vimrishyaitadasheshena yatha ichhasi tathaa kuru.

Hereby I have imparted to you the most secret and sacred of wisdom.

Nevertheless you can apply your judiciousness of mind and then do whatever you wish to.

Non-institutionalized Religious Entity

Perhaps this degree of individualism, through openness and freedom given to the individual to choose his manner of living cannot be seen in any other religion, and for this very reason Hinduism is more of a "way of life" than a mere institutionalized religious entity. Bhagavad Gita amply professes this concept of individualism as opposed to a codified and institutionalized religious system.

Uddharedatmanaatmanam aatmanam avasadhayet

Aatmaiva hyaatmano bandhu aatmaiva ripuraatmana.

It is the Self that could elevate the Self, and it is the Self that could denigrate the Self.

The Self itself is its own greatest friend; the Self itself is its own greatest enemy.

Inclusiveness Nature of Hindutva

When Swami Vivekananda quoted the great Sanskrit shloka in the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago, he underlined this great appreciation of Hindutva that all paths ultimately lead to the 'One'.

Aakashaat patitam toyam yatha gacchati sagaram

Sarva deva namaskaaram keshavam prati gachhatii.

Just as rainwater falling from the sky takes different routes and channels but ultimately end up in the one same ocean, prayers directed at any god ultimately reaches that 'One' god.

When Dr K.M. Munshi selected the great Vedic aphorism as motto of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan he wanted to specifically highlight this inclusiveness of Hindutva.

Aa no bhadra kritavo yantu vishwata.

Let noble thoughts come from all corners of this universe and fill my mind.

The whole universe as one single family

No religious discourse on Hindutva is complete without the much talked about shloka which hails the whole world as one single family.

Ayam nijah paro vetti ganana laghu chetasaam

Udaara charitanam tu vasudhaivakutumbakam.

'This is ours'; 'that is other's' is being perceived by the narrow-minded.

The magnanimous always sees this whole universe as one single family.

The Geographical Concept of Bharatvarsha

The Indian subcontinent (which includes the area south of the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush or Akhand Bharat is the homeland of the Hindus. "Hindus" are those who consider India (Bharat) to be their pitrubhumi (fatherland) as well as their punyabhumi (holyland: definition as proposed by Savarkar) is singularly termed as Bharatvarsha. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh5 openly espouses the concept of Hindu Rāshtra (literally, "Hindu polity"). In a book by H.V. Sheshadri, a senior leader of the RSS writes:

As Hindu Rashtra is not a religious concept, it is also not a political concept. It is generally misinterpreted as a theocratic state or a religious Hindu state. Nation (Rashtra) and State (Rajya) are entirely different and should never be mixed up. State is purely a political concept. … The State changes as the political authority shifts from person to person or party to party. But the people in the Nation remain the same.

K.S. Rao in H. V. Seshadri, ed.:Why Hindu Rashtra?, p.24

Noble Causes Championed

The assimilative Hindu cultural and civilizational ethos is the only basis for any durable personal and social interaction. This societal assimilative realization is the basis for Indian nationalism, and only an inclusive Hindutva can assimilate an exclusive Islam, Christian and Marxist by making the then conscious of their Hindu ancestry and heritage. A national effort is called for to break Islamic, Christian and Marxist exclusivism and enshrine the assimilative Hindutva. This alone constitutes true nationalism and true national integration. This is the only way to protect the plurality of thoughts and institutions in India. To the extent secularism advances and protects Islamic, Christian and Marsixt isolation and exclusivism, it damages Hindu inclusiveness and its assimilative qualities. And in this sense secularism as practiced until now conflicts with Indian nationalism. Inclusive and assimilative Hindutva is the socio-cultural nationalism of India. See: Dharma and Secularism.

Uniform Civil Code

The term pseudo-secularism refer to laws that are very favorable towards the Muslims and Christians. They point to the different standards for Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Critical of the Indian National Congress party's effort to woo the sizable minority vote bank at the expense of true equality. The subject of a Uniform Civil Code, which would remove special religion-based provisions for different religions (Hindus, Muslims, Christians, etc) from the Indian Constitution, is thus one of the main political planks of Hindutva. The Uniform Civil Code is opposed by Muslims, Christians and parties like the Indian National Congress and The Communist Party of India (Marxist). Hindutva followers question differential laws towards Muslim and Christian institutions; and oppose partiality for marriages and divorces asking why in a secular democracy Muslim men are allowed to keep more than one wife, but Hindus or Christians are prosecuted for doing the same.
Christians are also given separate laws for divorce, which is more difficult for them than for Muslims. The passing of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 by Rajiv Gandhi government to dilute the secular judgment of Supreme Court under pressure from the conservative Muslims incensed some Hindus who became Hindutva supporters. The new act, in tune with the Shariat, denied even utterly destitute Muslim divorcees the right to alimony from their former husbands.

Freedom to practice diverse beliefs and customs

Hindutva stands for the freedom to practice diverse beliefs and customs. It is implied that secular democracy implies equal laws for all religions, and want a Uniform Civil Code passed for the same reason. One must also differentiate between the word "secularism" as used in the Western and Indian contexts. Secularism in the West implies "separation of church & state" whereas secularism in India means "equal respect for all religions". See: Dharma and Secularism.

Reclaim disputed temples and historical monuments

Among the goals of the Hindutva organization in modern India includes winning the struggles to reclaim Hindu architectures. The struggles have started since usurpation of their structures during the invasions by conquerors. These include demands to recover temples that have become disputed historical monuments. The usurpation of Hindu architecture is still being continued by both the Muslims and Christians and encouraged by their leaders. When Pope John Paul II came to India, he called for an entire conversion of Asia in the lines of that carried out in Europe and Africa in the earlier millennia. The destruction of the Mylapore Kapalishwar temple in Chennai and Vedhapurishvarar Temple in the city of Puducherry are some of the temples usurped by the then Christian rulers.

Decolonization of National Ethos

Denunciation of British colonialism and Communism alike for a perceived weakening of Hindus. Correction of Colonial-Marxist Historiography that undermines the national ethos. Emphasizing historical oppression of Hindus by invading forces like the Muslims (see Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent) and the Christians (see Goa Inquisition) and the call to "reverse" the influence resulting from these intrusions.

Denunciation of Perverse Secularism

In India Perverse Secularism is contrived to mean the active involvement of the State in supporting certain religions (Islam, Christianity and Marxism) and oppressing others (Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism). Religion has become the primary consideration in all sorts of civil affairs: in anything from the reporting of news to running educational institutions.
Perverse secularism has been the bane of India in the last five decades. In his foreword to R. N. P. Singh's book on 'Islam and Religious Riots, K. P. Gill states bluntly: "Much of the `secular' discourse in India has been based on a 'politically correct' refusal to confront the nature of religious communities and institutions, and their past and present activities, and on the fiction that 'all religions are equal'… but it cannot even begin to address the sources of historical conflagrations. The truth is, unless communities acknowledge reality warts and all and recognise the transgressions of their own history within a constructive context, no real solution to the issues of communal polarisation and violence in India can be brought about''.
Denunciation of the Indian government as too passive with regard to the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus by Kashmiri Muslim separatists and advocates of Hindutva wish a harder stance in Jammu and Kashmir. Discriminatory 'secularism' has become the State dogma in Congress-run India.
Secularism in the Indian context is very similar to what Bat Ye'or calls, compellingly, dhimmitude. This is the state of mind in which non-Muslims, although not under Muslim rule, accept at face value Islam's claims about its superiority and its right to traumatize non-Muslims. In other words, they are bullied into accepting second-class citizenship or dhimmi status, just as though Muslims were in fact in power.
Dhimmitude is behind the apparent inability of Indian State to manage aggressive Muslim groups and not only in respect to Islam, but it has been extended to its Semitic cousins Christianity and Marxism as well.

Resurgent Hindutva

Hindutva represents the resistance movement against the cultural, religious and economic domination of India by Western powers. To understand why such a resistance movement is necessary, it is important to understand what Hinduism is. Hinduism is the culture, religion and civilisation not only of India and Asia but of the whole World.
In the same way as fraudulent political parties come to power by telling lies about their opponents, modern religions have come to power by telling lies about earlier faiths. Thus most people outside India have been conditioned by the official propaganda of the ruling classes to think that Hinduism is some kind of strange and alien faith.
However, if we carefully examine the historical and archaeological evidence, we will see that all ancient religions, for example, the Pagan tradition of Europe, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Arabia, Africa, America and Australia were different forms of Hinduism. Even modern Western religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are mere modifications of the Original World Faith which in the Indian tradition is known as Sanatana Dharma, the Supreme Eternal Law of the Universe.
In the same way as children are different from their parents yet at the same time are born of and share many characteristics with them, so also all religious traditions on Earth are born of and share many characteristics with the Original World Faith. However, while some children show recognition and respect towards their parents, others distance themselves from them and in extreme cases even turn against them. Similarly, while the great religions of Asia such as Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism acknowledge their descent from the Original Faith (Dharma), Western religions have chosen not only to deny any links with their Parent Faith but have actively sought to destroy it.
The Original World Faith was systematically wiped out by the Establishment religions in Europe and large parts of Africa, Asia, America and the rest of the World. India is the only country on Earth where the Original Faith is still recognised and followed by millions of people. While much of the World has fallen into the clutches of the expansionist and predatory Western Imperialist forces which seek to impose their political, religious and cultural supremacy on the human race, India has remained a glimmer of hope, an island of refuge and a beacon of light in the darkness of Westernism which has engulfed the World.

The Globalist Conspiracy

India is one of the World's most ancient, advanced and successful civilisations. Millennia ago, when Europe was largely dominated by nomadic tribes, India was already a flowering civilisation of great sophistication. Natural resources like gold, diamonds, pearls, ivory, timber, spices and cotton enabled Indian traders to exchange goods with far-away places from Egypt and Rome to China and Japan. Combined with the industriousness of her artisans and farmers and the wisdom of her military and religious leaders, this enabled India to achieve World fame as one of the wealthiest and most prosperous nations on Earth.
Unfortunately, India's unparalleled success gave rise to resentment, jealousy, envy and hatred in the leaders of foreign powers. This resulted in a long string of invasions, occupation and subjugation of her people by alien forces. The intention of these invading forces, from Persians and Greeks to Mongols, Arabs and Europeans, has always been to colonize and enslave the people of India.
However, while in the past such anti-Indian actions remained isolated, the rise of Globalism has generated a concerted effort by the World powers to bring India under their ruthless control. Mutually incompatible ideologies such as Capitalism, Communism, Christianity and Islam, have discovered a common enemy in the Spirituality of India.
Thus the leaders of Europe, America, the Arab World and China have conspired to form a Globalist Coalition the main goal of which is to dominate the World. Spiritual knowledge, reason, wisdom and common sense have been identified as the main obstacle that has to be eliminated in order for the Globalist Entity to accomplish its evil designs of World domination.
In this process, India which is the Bastion of Spiritual Knowledge and Wisdom on Earth has been targeted as the main enemy to be isolated and destroyed.

The Globalist Methods

The three main factors in the Globalist method of Conquest have been military occupation, economic domination and cultural colonization.
Direct military occupation is currently seen as controversial. It would be difficult for the Globalist Coalition which is operating under the pretence of "Freedom", "Democracy", "Racial Equality" and "Peace" to directly attack India. Nor is such direct action necessary. About half of the original territory of India, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal and Tibet is already under the occupation of foreign powers which are given military support by Europe, America, the Arab World and China.
This encroachment of foreign powers on Indian territory is happening in more subtle ways such as the domination of large areas of North-East India by a coallition of Chinese-inspired Communist militants and Western-supported (US- and UK-backed) Christian fundamentalists.
Any potential resistance against such stealth invasion and occupation is prevented through economic and cultural domination. If the Indian people are even partly converted to the beliefs of Globalist Westernism, they will have no inclination to resist Westernist designs on India and even if they did wish to resist they would be in no position to do so as they will be economically completely dependent on the Globalist Coalition.

The Internal Enemy

The Globalist Entity would, of course, be incapable of realising its diabolic designs without the help of Westernist elements within India herself. We shall therefore identify the internal enemy and his methods of operation within India without which the Globalist Conspiracy would have no hold on the great Indian Nation. The leaders of the Muslim, Christian and other Western-implanted minorities of India have always sought to destroy Indian religion and culture without much success. Their dream only began to come true thanks to the anti-Indian actions of the British Colonial forces which held India under their brutal occupation until the 1940s.
India had always been a tolerant society where inter-religious tension and conflict was virtually unknown previous to the Western colonization of India. Different faiths such as Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism coexisted peacefully for many centuries. All this changed, however, with the importation of Islam into India by Arab traders and armed invaders. When the British Colonialists took over from the Arabs, they proceeded to divide Indian society by religious denomination and play one religious group against the others in a classical example of divide-and-rule tactics. Any Indian attempt to form an opposition to this Western domination was brutally repressed by the British occupiers. We only need to mention the anti-Indian massacres committed by the British during the 1857 Uprising. Other forms of anti-Indian repression were more subtle but equally devastating.
The pro-independence movement headed by Mahatma Gandhi and other pacifists was given undeserved precedence over more militant patriotic organisations in order to divide and confuse the Indian people. As a result, upon the British withdrawal from India in 1947, the left-wing Indian National Congress (Congress Party) which had long been collaborating with the anti-Hindu Muslim League, came to be the new dominant force in India.
To get an idea of the Congress Party's true intentions it will suffice to mention its support for the radical Islamic "Khilafat movement" which from 1919 was agitating for the recreation of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, one of India's most deadly enemies. This leftist-Muslim Alliance engineered the division of India into Muslim-dominated Pakistan and secularist-dominated India; abolished the Monarchy and made India into a Communist-orientated republic; and finally opened the country to unrestricted influence and domination by the neo-colonialist forces of International Materialism and Globalism. The dominating Congress Party is able to win influence and power with promises of progress, equality and prosperity. Such promises, however, really serve the purpose of concealing the politicians' true intention which is to use minority votes to reinforce their own otherwise weak position vis-a-vis the electorate.
Thus if the Congress Party cannot muster sufficient votes on its own, all it needs to do is to ally itself with the Muslims, Communists and other anti-Hindu minorities in order to keep the Hindu majority down and out of power. Were the Congress party truly interested in the Unity of India, it would logically ally itself with the pro-Hindu parties and obtain an absolute majority as a legitimate representative of the Indian Nation the majority of which is Hindu. This, however, would give too much power to the Hindu majority which is unthinkable for Congress purposes. As a result, India continues to be ruled by a coalition of minorities whose sole common interest is to keep the Hindu majority down and accelerate the decline of Indian culture and civilisation so that it can be finally replaced by Westernism.
Thus the final solution aimed at by the West and its Western-indoctrinated, left-wing Indian helpers, is the complete extermination of Indian culture and religion. As part of this strategy, Hindu temples have been placed under the direct control of the secular (atheist and anti-Hindu) Congress Government in a chilling reminder of Stalinist Russia where Christian churches were under the direct control of the atheist Communist Government, and Nazi Germany where Jewish temples were at the mercy of the anti-Jewish Government!
The temple revenue derived from temple-owned lands, donations by the faithful, etc., which was traditionally employed for maintenance and repair work, religious education, helping the poor and other welfare activities, is now going straight into the pockets of the Congress Government and its anti-Hindu leaders. As a result, Hindu temples are rapidly decaying, the priests can no longer support themselves and their families, religious education is practically non-existent and the poor are turning to Congress and foreign "charities" for help which is given them on condition that they renounce their Hindu faith.

The Ayodhya Scandal

No analysis of the religious situation in India would be complete without an account of the infamous Ayodhya case. The Ayodhya dispute which has become a cause celebre revolves around a Hindu temple in Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh, North India) built in commemoration of the birth of Lord Rama, a popular Hindu deity. The temple was destroyed in 1528 during the anti-Hindu campaign carried out by Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire in India, and its location has been illegally occupied by Muslim forces ever since. Although officially authorised investigations by the Archaeological Survey of India found the evidence at the disputed site to be consistent with the "distinctive features of North Indian temples", the Congress-controlled, Globalist-inspired High Court has denied the Hindu community their right to rebuild their temple.
Apart from this blatant conspiracy against Indian religion and culture there are deeper aspects to the general problem. These become evident if we consider that although the reconstruction of the Rama Temple would constitute a clear victory for religious freedom, it can do little to stop the ongoing disintegration of Hindu religion as a whole. Thus even legitimate initiatives aiming to advance Indian religion and culture may inadvertently play into the hands of anti-Indian Congress Party and their Western masters with whom they have conspired to destroy the cultural and Spiritual heritage of India. This Globalist Conspiracy becomes clear from the way in which the international media have chosen to ignore the Archaeological Survey of India's findings on Ayodhya and unanimously declared that no evidence was found!
Nor must we think of Ayodhya as an isolated case. This disturbing situation is being systematically replicated in the unchallenged destruction of thousands of ancient Hindu temples by organised criminal gangs who make a fortune from selling stolen statues of deities and other priceless religious artifacts to Western tourists and "art-collectors". We may observe that you will never hear of Hindus commissioning criminals to rob Western churches and cathedrals!
This demonstrates that, firstly, despite its technological advances, Western "Civilization" is far more primitive and destructive than its Indian counterpart. Secondly, as no attempts whatever are made by the authorities to stop or prevent this scandalous traffic in stolen religious art, it demonstrates that such criminal activities represent an inherent part in the Western plan to destroy Indian religion and culture by any means.

Glorification of British and Islamic Colonial Monuments

This is further confirmed by the fact that monuments glorifying British and Islamic Colonialism in India are accorded the respect and reverence normally reserved for the most sacred religious shrines. We only need to take a look at the "Taj Mahal", (falsely propagated as Islamic Monument when in truth it was originally a Hindu Temple Palace) which is being advertised by the Globalist forces worldwide as a "Wonder of the World" while Indian temples are denigrated as "places of idolatrous practices".
From a Yogic point of view, true architectural beauty may be found in such jewels of human endeavour as the magnificent temples at Khajuraho (Central India), the Potala Palace at Lhasa (Tibet) or the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia. Their exquisite designs, graceful proportions and elegant harmony with the surrounding landscape qualify them as unsurpassed architectural achievements.
By contrast, unnatural and degenerate excrescences produced by the deranged mind of the likes of Shah Jahan are offensive to both Spiritual aesthetic and genuine religious feeling. In short, they are an insult to human civilisation and God. Their negative energy spreads for many miles around, polluting the World with its morbid emanations. In consequence, they should not be suffered on the face of the Earth for even a moment.

Globalism

It may be objected at this point that irrespective of religious and cultural issues, Globalism is supposed to be good for people. Indeed, this is the official propaganda line. The reality, however, is quite the opposite. For example, it is claimed in Globalist circles that the outsourcing of jobs to India by Western telecommunication companies, law firms, etc., represents much-needed progress for the Indian Nation.
On reflection, however, it is difficult to see how turning India into a nation of Western-employed telephonists and secretaries can possibly improve her position vis-a-vis the West. The shocking truth is that India continues to be an obedient servant to the West in many respects. Indian farmers are being coaxed by Globalist activists into selling their cattle - traditionally employed for agricultural work - and buying Western-made tractors (or other agricultural machinery) instead. Before long, however, they discover that they have no means of buying expensive replacement parts, petrol, etc. In no time at all, the tractors are rusting away in the fields and the farmers must either take further futile loans from the Government, the World Bank or similar agents of Globalism (disguised as "development agencies", "charities", etc.) or resign themselves to a miserable existence in one of the many growing slums outside big cities.
Similarly, while slavery has long been abolished in many parts of the World, millions of Indians are still slaving away on tea plantations in order to supply the West with its bourgeois beverage, instead of growing food for their own families. Were the Western World serious about helping India or at least treating her as an equal trade partner, it would open its own markets to more Indian-made goods instead of barricading itself against everything from textiles to agricultural produce.
Thus sixty long years on, the Indian people remain enslaved by the very same colonialist powers from which they were supposed to have liberated themselves! At the same time their great culture and civilisation is being systematically eroded, dismantled and annihilated by the same Globalist forces. Even if we were to leave aside all cultural, religious and economic implications of Globalism, we cannot ignore its disastrous effects on the environment, natural resources, water supplies, as well as plant, animal and human life throughout Asia and other parts of the World which must endure rising levels of suffering and deprivation to satisfy the ever-growing demands of the Western-dominated Globalist Entity.
What becomes evident is that, like many other nations on Earth, the Indian people have become a helpless victim struggling to break free from the Globalist spiderweb of intrigue, deception, corruption, and lies. It is a great tragedy that otherwise decent people in the West allow themselves to be overcome by indifference and selfishness and fail to empathize with the fate of the Indian people who under cover of "Freedom", "Democracy", "Progress", "Globalism", etc., are systematically colonised, enslaved and robbed of their cultural identity by the forces of Westernism.

Opponents of Hindutva

The essence of Hindutva is to protect and nurture Sanatana Dharma and the society founded on it. Rights like spiritual freedom come with responsibility. It is a uniquely spiritual ideology founded on spiritual freedom. In the light of this, Hindutva entails accepting a way of looking at the world and not simply changing faith and adopting a new mode of worship. Above all it means acknowledging spiritual freedom and rejecting exclusivism. It is like accepting the scientific method, which also is a way of looking at the world. But ultimately, everyone must place truth and knowledge above faith. There is no dogma.
In the backdrop of the above insight, the only opponents of Hindutva are those that oppose spiritual freedom and promote religious or ideological exclusivity. While Hindutva (or Hinduness) encompass the nationhood of Indian tradition that provides and nourishes spiritual freedom, there are always hostile forces at work that want to destroy this freedom and turn humans into intellectual and spiritual slaves.
What Swami Vivekananda, Bankim Chatterjee, Shri Aurobindo, and Subramania Bharati had achieved by raising Hindu consciousness, has now in the name of Nehruvian secularism been distorted and dissipated over the last six decades. If this degeneration and disconnect are not rectified and repaired by a resolve to unite Hindustanis [Hindus and those others who proudly identify with India's Hindu past], the Hindu civilization may go into a tail spin and ultimately fade away like other civilizations have for much the same reason. Today the sacrilege of Hindu concepts and hoary institutions, is being carried out not with the crude brutality of a Ghazni or Ghori, but with the sophistication of the constitutional instruments of law.

The Clandestine Defamation of Hindu Symbols and Institutions

Making Hindus to lose their self-esteem by disparaging their tradition, which also had been the strategy of British imperialists for the conquest of India, as Lord Macauley made clear on February 2, 1835 in the British Parliament.
"I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which [backbone] is her spiritual and cultural heritage. And therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation".
That basic strategy of those who want to see a weak and pliant India remains. Only the tactics have changed. Now the target is the Hindu institutions and Hindu icons, and the route is not the creation of a comprador class to subdue the nation, but fostering a psychological milieu to denigrate the heritage and to debunk Hindutva, thereby causing a loss of self esteem and a pride in the nation's past.
Differential application of family planning, non-uniform civil code, illegal migration, and induced religious conversion have together created a serious looming crisis for the Hindu character of the nation. We see what Muslim majority will mean to Hindus when we look at the situation in Kashmir. Even if Muslims are in a majority at the municipality level, they begin to oppress the Hindu minority. We can witness this in Thondi in Ramanathapuram and Rasathipuram in Vellore districts, in Mau and Meerut in U.P., and in the Northeast.
The desecration of Hindu icons, for example the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, is being made to look legal, thereby completely confusing the Hindu people, and thus making them unable to recognize the danger, or to realize that Hindus have to unite to defend against the threats to their legacy. Hindus are under siege today, and they do not know it! That is, what is truly alarming is that Hindu society could be dissembled today without much protest since they have been lulled or lost the capacity to think collectively as Hindus. Restoration of the fundamental of Hindutva is the only means to resist this siege.

The Rise of Terrorism Directed at Hindus

If one were to study the terrorism in Kashmir, Manipur, and elsewhere it is apparent that only Hindus are the target. The driving away of the Hindu population from the Kashmir valley by targeted terrorism of Islamic jihadis is the single biggest human rights atrocity since Nazi Germany pogroms against the Jews. Yet it has hardly received noticed in international fora. Why?
Hindu population in Bangladesh has declined from 30 percent to less than 8 percent of the total population by deliberate targeted ethnic cleansing by Islamic fanatics aided and abetted by their government [see Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India's State of Jammu& Kashmir: A Survey of Human Rights, June 17, 2005; hinduamericanfoundation. Org], and yet there is no outcry. Why?
Terrorist attacks against India and Hindus in particular are growing because we seem today incapable of retaliating in a manner that it deters future attacks.

Mutual Nexus

In brief, Hindutva is overwhelmingly being opposed by the mutually incompatible ideologies such as Communism, Christianism, Islamism, and Marxism.Macaulayism is another component that is shared and propagated by these ideologies to further their respective goals. They have discovered a common enemy in Hindutva (India's indigenous spiritual culture and tradition) as a bottleneck that hinders the expansion of their respective ideology and agenda. To achieve their nefarious motives, these opponents indulge in spreading false propaganda and misrepresents facts to instill fear in the minds of general public.

The Rise of Hindutva

It is against the background of such depressing and deeply disturbing developments that the national resistance movement of India came into being.
It was heart-breaking enough for the gentle Indian people to see their beloved Motherland being invaded, trampled underfoot, taken over, robbed, divided, fragmented and mutilated by the evil colonialists. Having, on top of that, their mind and Soul systematically colonized, enslaved, contaminated, polluted and poisoned by a Western-imposed neo-colonialist culture of corruption, manipulation, delusion and deceit proved too much even for the goodhearted Indian people to bear.
Therefore, already in 1915, when India was under British occupation, the Hindu Mahasabha (Great Hindu Council) was founded as an instrument of opposition to Western domination. A number of other pro-Hindu organisations soon appeared on the political scene: the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena and others. Their common goal was to put an end to the deliberate attempt by Westernist forces to discredit, demonise, undermine and destroy Indian religion and culture.
Thanks to the Hindutva movement, after centuries of subjugation and oppression, Indians were able for the first time to claim their right to express and advance their own view of state and society which - as citizens of India - had always been theirs by birth but had been denied by the colonial powers. Apart from campaigning for the right of the Indian people to their own cultural and Spiritual identity, and working for true democracy, freedom and equality, the Hindutva movement is also a campaign of clarification, illumination and information aiming to expose the parasitic and malign nature of the Westernist powers and their allies. Through the Hindutva movement the Indian people are asserting their moral and legal right to promote the time-honoured Spiritual Principles of India as a legitimate alternative to the materialist agenda of Western-imposed "democracy". As the eminent historian Dr. Arnold J Toynbee observed, "the only way of Salvation is the ancient Hindu way".
India needs Hinduism and its Hindutva movement to complete the necessary transition from a shameful and humiliating past of colonial subjugation to a proud future of freedom and self-determination. As for the World, it needs the Spirituality of India as a counterweight to the World-dominating Western concepts or neo-colonial forces. Indeed, without the timeless Spirituality of India Mankind will remain incomplete, less balanced and less human.

References

Footnotes
1. See: Dharma and Religion
2. Golwalkar, Upadhyaya and Tengadi 1991: 48
3. Golwalkar, Upadhyaya and Tengadi 1991: 49
4. Ādi Śaṅkaracharya had in his shasthrath with Mandana Mishra at Varanasi, called himself as a 'Dravida shishu' that is a child of where three oceans meet, i.e. south India.
5. "National Volunteer Organisation", also known as the RSS, which forms the main arm of the Sangh Parivar

Bibliography
1. Religion & Ethics -- Hinduism homepage, www.bbc.co.uk Thursday, 6/10/05.
2. Hindunet: Hindutva, Hindu Universe, Social and Contemporary Issues, Hindutva
3. Hindu Revivalism and the Hindutva Movement, Temenos 32 (1996), 221-238.
See Also

Hindutva in the 21^^st^^ Century, The rise of Hindutva is the most important phenomenon of the 21st century by N.S. Rajaram
Elst, Koenraad: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. Rupa, Delhi 2001.
Elst, Koenraad: The Saffron Swastika. The Notion of "Hindu Fascism", New Delhi: Voice of India, 2001, 2 Vols., ISBN 81-85990-69-7
Bhatt Chetan, Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths, Berg Publishers (2001), ISBN 1859733484.

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Kancha Ilaiah teaches politics at the Government Women's College, Koti, Hyderabad. Active in the Dalit-Bahujan [Scheduled and Backward Caste] movement, he is a prolific writer in both Telugu and English. His latest book, Why I Am Not A Hindu, a critique of Hindutva from a Dalit-Bahujan perspective, turned out to be a best seller. Here he talks to Yoginder Sikand on his view that 'Dalitisation' alone can effectively challenge the threat of Brahminical fascism parading in the garb of Hindutva.

Yoginder Sikand: Tell us something about your background. How did you come to be involved in the Dalit-Bahujan struggle?


	Most Marxist texts look only at grand 'political' struggles, party mode of struggles, struggles led by men. I have sought to focus on micro struggles, the stories of ordinary people, including women.

Kancha Ilaiah: I was born in a village in a forest area in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. The entire area had been given by the Nizam of Hyderabad to Mahbub Reddy, a local landlord, as his fief. My family belongs to the sheep-grazing Kuruma Golla caste. They had earlier migrated from Warangal proper to the forest belt. My grandmother had settled the village. After her death my mother took over the leadership of the caste. I was born three years after the Police Action in 1948. The communists were then very active in our area. In the course of the Telengana armed struggle they killed two people in our village-both were village Patels. Because of the struggle, Mahbub Reddy began selling his lands off, and our caste people, who, till then owned no land at all, began buying small plots. So this was a time when the feudal system had begun disintegrating. Later, at school I came into contact with Marxists, with Marxist literature, and became involved in the students' movement, and that is how I got involved in the struggle for justice.

What or who has been the major influence on your thinking and your politics?

The most important influence on my life was the village in which I was born. As a child in the village I learnt how to breed sheep, till the land and make ropes, but what was particularly instructive was the interactions and contradictions between the different castes within the village-Kurumas, Kapus, Gowdas and Madigas. And it is this personal knowledge of the dynamics of caste that is central to my thinking and all my writings.


	In my childhood many of us had not even heard of the Hindu gods, and it was only when we went to school that we learnt about Ram and Vishnu for the very first time.

My mother exercised a seminal influence on my thinking, too. She was a strong woman and the leader of our caste. You see, among the Dalit-Bahujans, women have an important role within the family and the caste. They set the moral norms themselves, through interaction with the productive process and in the process of struggle with nature, unlike among the Hindus [Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Banias], where women do not work in the fields, and whose norms are dictated by an external agency-the Brahminical texts. My mother was in the forefront of the struggle against the forest guards who would constantly harrass the Kurumas and not allow them to graze their animals in the forest.

In fact, she died in one of these confrontations, being fatally beaten up by a policeman while protesting against their brutality. She was then only 46 years old. I've written a Telugu piece about my mother. It's called The Mother's Efforts And Her Struggle. There I have tried to show that it is not simply the big 'political' struggles against the state which alone are important. Rather, one should look at everyday struggles as well-in this case, a mother's constant struggle to educate her children, challenging patriarchy, struggling with nature in the productive process, sustaining the culture of the caste. Most Marxist texts look only at grand 'political' struggles, party mode of struggles, struggles led by men. In my writings I have sought to also focus on micro struggles, the stories of ordinary people, including women.

How would you characterise contemporary Hindutva? What is the relationship between Hindutva and the Dalit-Bahujans?


	Brahminical deities have nothing to do with the productive process, but are frozen in the scriptural texts as an external agency.

As Dr.Ambedkar says, Hindutva is nothing but Brahminism. And whether you call it Hindutva or Arya Dharma or Sanatana Dharma or Hindusim, Brahminism has no organic link with Dalit-Bahujan life, world-views, rituals and even politics. To give you just one example, in my childhood many of us had not even heard of the Hindu gods, and it was only when we went to school that we learnt about Ram and Vishnu for the very first time. We had our own goddesses, such as Pochamma and Elamma, and our own caste god, Virappa. They and their festivals played a central role in our lives, not the Hindu gods. At the festivals of our deities, we would sing and dance--men, women and all-- and would sacrifice animals and drink liquor, all of which the Hindus consider 'polluting'.

Our relations with our deities were transactional and they were rooted in the production process. For instance, our goddess Kattamma Maisa. Her responsibility is to fill the tanks with water. If she does it well, a large number of animals are sacrificed to her. If in one year the tanks dry up, she gets no animals. You see, between her and her Dalit-Bahujan devotees there is this production relation which is central.

Likewise, in the case of Virappa, the caste deity of the Kuruma shepherds. His task is to ensure the well-being of the animals. If the flock increases he is offered many sheep as a sacrifice, but if a disease strikes the flock, he gets nothing. Our gods, like us, are productive beings. This is not the case with the Brahminical deities, who have nothing to do with the productive process, but are frozen in the scriptural texts as an external agency. So you can see how the Dalit-Bahujan religion and Brahminism are two distinct and mutually opposed religio-cultural formations, two completely different religions.


	Brahminism has consistently sought to subvert our religious forms by injecting notions of 'purity' and 'pollution', hierarchy and untouchability even among the Dalit-Bahujans themselves.

In fact, many Dalit communities preserve traditions of the Hindu gods being their enemies. In Andhra, the Madigas enact a drama which sometimes goes on for five days. This drama revolves around Jambavanta, the Madiga hero, and Brahma, the representative of the Brahmins. The two meet and have a long dialogue. The central argument in this dialogue is about the creation of humankind. Brahma claims superiority for the Brahmins over everybody else, but Jambavanta says, 'No, you are our enemy'. Brahma then says that he created the Brahmins from his mouth, the Kshatriyas from his hands, the Vaishyas from his thighs, the Shudras from his feet to be slaves for the Brahmins, and of course the Dalits, who fall out of the caste system, have no place here. This is the Vedic story.

But Jambavanta says that this is nonsense. He says that prakriti [nature] created him and Shakti [the female power principle], and through his union with Shakti, the trimurti [Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva] were born. And then he goes on to say that although Brahma was born as his own offspring, he has not been faithful to his way of life, and that is why the Madigas have kept the Brahmins away from them. Here he talks about the superiority of the Madiga way of life over the Brahminical -- of beef-eating over vegetarianism, of manual labour, working with leather and making shoes, as opposed to a parasitic life of living off the labour of others. And then Brahma is defeated, because he has no answer to give Jambavanta.

And then what happens to Brahma?

That is most interesting. You see, Jambavanta defeats him by argument, not by killing him. In the Dalit-Bahujan tradition there is no defeat by killing your enemy, which is so central to Brahminism, be it the Gita or the Puranas. This Dalit-Bahujan tradition of overcoming your enemy through logical persuasion runs right from the Buddha to Ambedkar. The understanding is that you must establish your philosophical superiority and defeat the enemy on the moral ground.


	Many Backward Castes which did not convert to Islam or, later, Christianity, are suffering today, the reason being that there is no educated elite among them.

What you are perhaps suggesting is that Dalit-Bahujan religion can be used to effectively counter the politics of Brahminism or Hindutva. But Brahminism has this knack of co-opting all revolt against it, by absorbing it within the system.

It is true that although Dalit-Bahujan religious formations historically operated autonomously from Hindu forms, they have never been centralised or codified. Their local gods and goddesses have not been projected into universality, nor has their religion been given an all-India name. This is because these local deities and religious forms were organically linked to local communities, and were linked to local productive processes, such as the case of Virappa and Katamma Maisa whom I talked about earlier. But Brahminism has consistently sought to subvert these religious forms by injecting notions of 'purity' and 'pollution', hierarchy and untouchability even among the Dalit-Bahujans themselves, while at the same time discounting our religious traditions by condemning them as 'polluting' or by Brahminising them.

Then would you say that religious conversion to a major codified religion could be the way out of the dilemma, as Ambedkar thought?

Historically, it was in the struggle of the Dalit-Bahujans against the Hindu order, the Brahminical system which had captured the state and used it as an instrument to impose the caste ideology, that Dalit-Bahujans converted in large numbers to Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam and Christianity. These were social protest movements to gain social rights and self-respect. The whole Buddhist phenomenon in our early history was a story of Dalit-Bahujan protest.

The Buddha says, 'Just as various different streams flow into a river and become one, so, too, the different castes, when they come into the sangha [the community of the Buddhist faithful], they join the sea of colourless water'. This stress on social equality is, of course, in marked contrast with Hinduism, which cannot be defined in terms of a universal religion with a universal social rights' concept. It is simply another name for oppression. I have serious problems with Brahmin writers who say Hinduism is 'a way of life'. As I understand it, it is nothing but a means for exploitation of the Dalit-Bahujans.


	Educated Dalit-Bahujans will increasingly look to religious conversion as a major alternative as a means of mobilisation and protest.

To get back to the point I was making, conversion to Islam and Christianity was for many Dalit-Bahujans a means for social liberation. In the medieval period, conversion to Islam afforded some Dalit-Bahujans a means to enter political structures for the first time. In fact, the whole Shudra emergence dates back to this period. Akbar instituted what could be called a 'reservation policy' for Shudras in landlholdings-groups such as Jats in north India or Reddys in Andhra. You do not see Shudras as major landowners in the pre-Akbarian period.

In the entire period of Hindu rule, you have the agraharam sort of landholding system, with Hindu kings donating vast tracts of lands to the Brahmins. In the colonial period, of course there was massive economic plunder, but the Christian missionaries did a lot for the Dalit-Bahujans-education, some amount of economic and social mobility. Many Backward Castes which did not convert to Islam or, later, Christianity, are suffering today, the reason being that there is no educated elite among them.

But, then, does conversion have any relevance today?

My own feeling is that if the Dalit-Bahujan movement proves unable to propel the Dalit-Bahujans to state power and to place them in politically hegemonic spaces, educated Dalit-Bahujans will increasingly look to religious conversion as a major alternative as a means of mobilisation and protest.


	The human embrace is itself a very liberating symbolic act for the Dalit-Bahujan victims of Brahminism. Even today in the villages the Muslims are the only people who actually physically embrace the Dalit-Bahujans.

How do you see the demonisation of Muslims and Christians in Hindutva propaganda?

It is obvious that the real threat that Brahminism faces is not from the Muslims or Christians but from the growing awakening of the Dalit-Bahujans, who now refuse to accept Brahminical supremacy. And that is why Dalit-Bahujan wrath is being craftily sought to be displaced from their real oppressors onto imaginary enemies in the form of Muslims and Christians.

There's been much talk about Dalit-Bahujan-Muslim unity. What are your own views about this?

It is important to remember that Dalit-Bahujans and Muslims, particularly indigenous converts who form the vast majority of the Muslim population, share much in common in terms of culture. Both belong, in contrast to the Hindus, to a meat-eating culture, and in a society where what you eat determines, in a very major way, your social status, this is crucial. Then, Islam champions social equality, and there is a total absence of the feeling of untouchability.


	Smoking and drinking, divorce and remarriage have never been problems for Dalit-Bahujan women, in contrast to Brahmin women, so all this is nothing but Dalitisation in action.

Take a very simple thing -- the Hindu namaste, folding your hands to greet someone -- is a very powerful symbolic statement. It suggests that I recognise you but you should not touch me. In contrast, the custom that the Christians introduced of shaking of hands is a touching relationship, while the Muslims go even further and physically embrace you. Even today in the villages the Muslims are the only people who actually physically embrace the Dalit-Bahujans. Of course, the Brahmins and Banias don't let them do that to them, but that's a different matter. You must remember that the human embrace is itself a very liberating symbolic act for the Dalit-Bahujan victims of Brahminism.

There's a lot else that Dalit-Bahujans share with Muslims. Scores of Dalit-Bahujans continue to participate in the Muharram rituals and visit Sufi dargahs. Further, in the productive process the bulk of the Muslims find themselves in the same position as most Dalit-Bahujans, as peasants, agricultural labourers, as cobblers, weavers and so on, and in that capacity they share a common culture.

But can mere cultural similarity or commonality serve as a platform for a wider political unity between Dalit-Bahujans and Muslims?


	So many books were written in the wake of the Babri Masjid affair selling the argument that India is getting Hinduised. But where were all these historians and sociologists when ten lakh Dalits converted to Buddhism in 1956 along with Dr. Ambedkar?

My point is that we urgently need to explore and expand these spaces of cultural unity, and only on that basis can political unity come about. Brahminism or Hindutva or call it what you like, seeks to deny this unity, and plays up only on the differences. We, on the other hand, must focus on the elements of unity, and try to expand these sites of unified life into the political domain.

Because of our faulty western Marxist methodological training, we start from political unity, straight away trying to unite Dalit-Bahujans and Muslims on the political plane, without an appropriate cultural back-up. And then when attempts at political unity fail, you give up. I feel that this is not the way of doing the job. You must start by exploring existing sites of cultural unity as well as what could be called productive unity, unity that follows from Muslims and Dalit-Bahujans being placed in similar or common niches in the broader productive process. Build up this consciousness of social and cultural unity and then a lasting political unity will easily come about.

What role do you see Dalit-Bahujan spiritualities as playing in all of this?

Let me begin by saying that Brahminism is more afraid of the Dalit-Bahujan thought process than of political challenge. It can manipulate or even kill off any number of Eklavyas or Shabukas, but it cannot face the challenge of Ambedkarite thought. They may conspire to kill me off, but they can't do a thing with my book [Why I Am Not A Hindu]. And it is in this realm of the cultural that Dalit-Bahujan organic intellectuals have a lot to do. We need to retrieve and revive our own histories, traditions, cultures, religions and knowledge systems, all of which are organically connected, in contrast to the Brahminical, with the productive economic process, with the dignity of labour.

But here you seem to be assuming that Dalit-Bahujan traditions have remained static. Is it not the case that they, too, have fallen victim to the process of Brahminical co-optation?


	I am seriously opposed to the writing of what is called the 'history of sorrow' -- simply narrating all the oppression and sufferings that the Dalit-Bahujans have had to suffer.

I think the process operates both ways, and there is a major way in which Hindu structures themselves are getting Dalitised, which has not been written about. Take, for instance, the Ganapati festival. Earlier the festival was centred around the Brahmin priest, but now most of those who participate in the festival are probably Dalit-Bahujans. And no longer is the festival Brahminical in the classical sense. With the Dalitisation of the festival has come dancing, drinking and singing and loud filmi music!

To take another example, some Dalit-Bahujans are demanding that prayers be said in the temples not in Sanskrit but in the languages of the people themselves and that they, too, should be allowed to become priests. Whatever one might otherwise say about this, this is a means to challenge Brahnminism from within its own structures, a process of Dalitisation whose ultimate culmination can only be the destruction of Brahminism.

Do you see what you call the Dalitisation process operating in other spheres as well?

This is evident everywhere -- the fact that a Brahmin doctor is willing to treat a Dalit patient is a reflection of this process, as is the willingness of a Brahmin woman to divorce her husband or smoke and drink in public or a Brahmin widow going in for another marriage. You must remember that smoking and drinking , divorce and remarriage have never been problems for Dalit-Bahujan women, in contrast to Brahmin women, so all this is nothing but Dalitisation in action.


	There's so much to be done to recover Dalit-Bahujan knowledge systems. I mean, for instance, you would have to trace industrialisation in India not to Lancashire but to the Madiga wadas [localities], where the Madigas first perfected the art of turning raw leather into shoes, or to our barbers who invented the knife.

M.N.Srinivas and other Brahmin sociologists wanted to bolster Brahminical hegemony by claiming that India is getting Sanskritised. But when we asked them what is all this surge in drinking and smoking and women's emancipation all about, they said it was Westernisation, when actually it is nothing but Dalitisation. Of course, they do not want to admit that because that will mean recognising that it is from the Dalit-Bahujans that others are learning.

My point is very simple. If you go on saying that India is getting Dalitised, Brahminism will die a natural death, but if you keep harping on the theme of India getting Hinduised Brahminism will gain added strength. So many books were written in the wake of the Babri Masjid affair selling the argument that India is getting Hinduised. But where were all these historians and sociologists when ten lakh Dalits converted to Buddhism in 1956 along with Dr. Ambedkar?

Did they then say that India was getting Dalitised or Buddhistised? Had they done so we would have had a very different history today. So, I say, write history from the point of view of the Dalits, showing how while Sanskrisation and Brahminism are historically unproductive, a burden on the system and a legitimation for exploitation, Dalitisation, in contrast, is historically a productive, creative and constructive process because it is rooted in the dignity of labour.

How would you envisage this project of writing Indian history from the point of view of Dalit-Bahujans as subjects, as the central actors?

To be honest, I am seriously opposed to the writing of what is called the 'history of sorrow' -- simply narrating all the oppression and sufferings that the Dalit-Bahujans have had to suffer under Brahminism, although that, too, cannot be ignored. But I feel that the more you cry, the more the enemy beats you. If you want to defeat the enemy, you cannot remain contented with merely critiquing him, because even in that case he is the one who sets the terms of discourse and you are playing the game according to the rules that he devises, so naturally it is he and not you who wins in the end.


	With the Dalitisation of the Ganpati festival, for example, has come dancing, drinking and singing and loud filmi music!

Thus, rather than dwell simply on our historical oppression or the dangers of Hindu fascism, keep the focus on the process of Dalitisation, and thereby set the terms of discourse and debate yourself. For that you have to present a Dalit-Bahujan alternative as a workable and better solution. If you don't do so, and restrict yourself to simply criticisng Brahminism by quoting slokas from one Brahminical text or the other, they will put forward yet another sloka to disprove you.

But if you write from the Dalit point of view they have no way to rebut what you want to say. Central to that task would be re-writing Dalit-Bahujan history to show, for instance, their knowledge systems, their role in the productive process, their great contributions to the development of technology or in the realm of spirituality or how their societies afford women a much higher status than the Brahminic. Sati and dowry have historically been specifically Hindu problems never ours. So history re-writing will have to be informed with Dalit pride.

You have to show that Dalitisation, and not Hinduisation, is the answer to our ills, because unlike Brahminism, which is rooted in texts that do not spring from real-world experience in the productive process, Dalitisation reflects the interaction of human beings with nature in the labour process. Unless you present Dalitisation as a superior alternative, you can't win the battle.

Take the Buddha, for instance. His greatest contribution was not his critique of Brahminism, important though that was, but his founding of the egalitarian community of the faithful -- the sangha -- as a superior alternative to Brahminical caste society. Or take Marx for that matter. To my mind, his greatness lies not so much in his critique of capitalism but in his presenting a superior alternative in the form of a communist society.

Have you attempted anything of this sort yourself?

I think you can see this in most of my writings. To give but one example, I wrote this piece on the leather-working Madigas titled The Subaltern Scientists and another piece on the Madiga Dalits called The Productive Soldiers. Presently, I am working on a book dealing with the discoveries and inventions of certain Dalit-Bahujan tribes and castes. There's so much to be done to recover Dalit-Bahujan knowledge systems. I mean, for instance, you would have to trace industrialisation in India not to Lancashire but to the Madiga wadas [localities], where the Madigas first perfected the art of turning raw leather into shoes, or to our barbers who invented the knife.

One last question. What made you give your book the title Why I Am Not A Hindu? How was the book received?

I thought it was important for Dalit-Bahujans to make a powerful statement against the Hindutva propaganda that we, too, are Hindus. As for how the book was received, well, Dalit-Bahujans, of course, were very excited about it. Predictably, orthodox Brahmins were angry, but so too were some 'socialist' Brahmins. Actually, that did not surprise me at all, because they read Marx's Capital just as they read the Vedas -- reciting it -- not a critical reading. But I did get quite a few responses from Brahmins in Tamil Nadu They wrote to say that they had read a lot of Periyar, but he had only criticised them but never told them where they had gone wrong. They said that it was after reading Why I Am Not A Hindu that they discovered what was wrong with their religion and culture and how they must change if they are to survive.

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The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) will meet Friday to discuss an Eid-ul-Fitr package for the violence-hit Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said Thursday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the meeting to be attended by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Home Minister P. Chidmabaram, officials added.
The meeting will discuss the issues relating to amending the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had met Manmohan Singh Wednesday here and requested for the lifting of AFPSA at least from a few districts of the state.
Omar met Mukherjee and Antony Thursday and discussed the situation in the violence-hit state.
According to official sources, the peace package is likely to include:
- Lifting of AFSPA from the districts of Srinagar and Badgam in Kashmir and Jammu and Ramban in Jammu region. Now all the districts of the state are placed under the act.
- Special compensation for the families of the 69 civilians killed in firing by security forces during the past three months.
- Jobs and rehabilitation for surrendered militants.
- An employment package for the educated unemployed.
- Release of arrested youths and withdrawal of several cases related to stone-pelting.
The central government will repeat its intention to begin a dialogue with 'all shades of opinion in Jammu and Kashmir', the sources said.
Sending an all-party parliamentary delegation to the violence-hit state will be another proposal to come up at Friday's cabinet meeting.
Political circles have been hinting at a relief package to be announced on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr Saturday.
At least 69 civilians, mostly teenagers and young men, have been killed in firing by security forces on stone-pelting street protesters since June 11.
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``SO MANY movements have failed. In Tamil Nadu there was a movement in the name of anti-Brahmanism under the leadership of Periyar. It attracted Dalits, but after 30 years of power, the Dalits understand that they are as badly-off - or worse-off - as they were under the Brahmans. Under Dravidian rule, they have been attacked and killed, their due share in government service is not given, they are not allowed to rise.''

So says Dr. Krishnasami, leader of the militant movement of the Dalit community known as ``Devendra Kula Vellalas'' of southern Tamil Nadu and founder of a new political party, Puthiya Tamilakam. This sense of disillusionment with the Dravidian parties is pervasive among not only the Dalits but also many militant non-Brahmans as well. The anti-caste movements of the past, in Dr. Krishnasami's words, have failed to achieve their main goals. Mr. Thirumavalavan of the Liberation Panthers speaks of discrimination and atrocities against those who fight against the evil and adds: ``Castes keep their identity just as before, they don't intermarry, there are no longer any self-respect marriages.''

Like Dr. Krishnasami, he does not reject the goals of the movement, arguing ``the Dalit struggle has to be for the liberation of a nationality,'' and Hindutva should be opposed through Tamil nationalism. He feels that the existing Dravidian parties have betrayed the Dalits.

In Maharashtra also, militant non-Brahmans feel that ``Phule has failed.'' Militant Dalits discuss the reasons for the stagnation of their movement. There is widespread malaise. The spirit of the movement still exists, there are still activists committed to the cause but the public and political life of society, whether at a local level, where so many villages still maintain separate wells and separate drinking cups for the Dalits, or at the State or all-India level has not been transformed in the areas where the non-Brahman movements were the strongest.

In Tamil Nadu, the heights of corruption have been reached with a party calling itself ``Dravidian,'' while the major Dravidian parties are forming an alliance with the BJP. In Maharashtra, for all its progressive traditions, one of the most ferocious forms of Hindutva has been a ruling power for so many years. Police firing at Ramabai Nagar in Mumbai and the caste conflicts in southern Tamil Nadu show the persistence of the casteist attitude among even poor OBCs. It is not that there have been no gains but they have been so incomplete. In spite of the formal openness and some social mobility, caste continues to be highly correlated to both occupation and political power.

In spite of a powerful cultural challenge, the ``Vedic Sanskritic'' culture remains hegemonic in the very centres which mounted a challenge to it. There is a widespread assertion by the hitherto downtrodden and excluded communities throughout the country but the annihilation of caste remains a distant dream.

In Tamil Nadu, this failure contrasts with the apparent strength of the Dravidian parties. In Maharashtra, by the 1930s, the non- Brahman movement as a whole was absorbed into the Congress, with only Ambedkar leading an independent Dalit movement which saw itself as carrying on the heritage of Phule but was limited organisationally to the Dalits (and, among them, to the Mahars). In Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, Periyar's movement took on full force in the 1930s and 1940s, gathered people of all castes around it, made the commitment to women's liberation more of a mass force than Phule could, organised powerful mass campaigns against religious superstition and rather than vanishing into the ``mainstream,'' went on to found its own parties.

Why did the ideals fail in spite of an apparently powerful movement? Some will say the non-Brahman and Dravidian movements could not succeed because they were, in the end, ``bourgeois democratic.'' Some will point to the lack of a full economic and political vision - the movements focussed on ``identity'' issues but had no economic programme different from the Nehru Congress. Some will say the whole idea of a ``non-Brahman movement'' is an illusion since non-Brahmans are the immediate oppressors of the Dalits, their greatest enemy.

None of these explanations is sufficient. Let us begin with three assertions: that a strong movement would have achieved and developed its own political-economic vision, that traditional Marxism is insufficient because it has never confronted caste, never understood that ``Brahmanism'' (or the Brahmanic Social Order, as some put it) was a fundamental social structure and not simply an ideological effervescence, and that the Dalit and other non-Brahman unity is difficult but necessary and possible because the non-Brahmans also are oppressed by caste. On this basis some comparisons of the contributions and inadequacies of the non- Brahman movements in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, where they were historically the strongest, might help make a critical examination.

In many ways, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra had complementary strengths and weaknesses. Phule, in the 19th century, could give a founding thrust and powerful vision to a new movement but the conditions of the time prevented mass mobilisation. Ambedkar was, in the end, limited to being a ``Dalit leader'' - he could not galvanise the whole movement. This situation was remedied, in a sense, in Tamil Nadu with the emergence of Periyar, who had an all-encompassing vision for and commitment to the Dalits and women as well as a mass base among the majority non-Brahman castes. Yet, the strength of the Tamil movement was also its weakness. As no leader like Ambedkar emerged, the Dalit part of the overall movement remained weak; it seems there was no mass awakening or autonomous organising in the Dalit communities in the pre-independence period comparable to what happened in Maharashtra.

During the 1930s and 1940s, under Ambedkar's leadership, the Dalits in Maharashtra organised themselves. Their fight - and the militant activist youth growing up then were conscious of this - was against Brahmanism and the caste system but it was often the lower class non-Brahmans they confronted directly and physically. All the years, Ambedkar called upon the Maharashtrian non-Brahman leadership to unite in a strong alliance against ``capitalism and Brahmanism,'' His weekly Janata was giving details of atrocities carried out in fact by non-Brahman castes. In the ``Hindu-Mahar riots'' in Nagpur in the 1940s, the Dalits defended themselves with sticks, stones and daggers against the OBC ``Hindus'' provoked by nationalist propaganda to see the Ambedkarites as traitors. The Dalits not only defended themselves, they drove Gandhi himself off a stage in 1941 when some self-designated ``Harijans'' tried to organise his rally. In other words, the kind of battle for dignity being waged today against Thevars in southern Tamil Nadu was fought by the Mahars in the 1930s and 1940s in Maharashtra - but under a banner proclaiming that the main fight was for the transformation of all of India.

In this sense, it may be said the main problem is not whether the Dalit-other non-Brahman unity is possible; rather, that the Dalits in Tamil Nadu as in most other parts of India (including the non-Mahar Dalits in Maharasthra) are still fighting to achieve its preconditions, their own organisation and a recognition from other communities of their dignity.

The question still remains: once autonomy, self-respect and some empowerment are achieved for the most downtrodden, how will the movement go forward to seek a wider unity and the annihilation of caste? Here it is necessary to consider and reconsider the answer given by Periyar and the Tamil non-Brahman movement generally: that the way forward is through a kind of national liberation, a recognition of a positive alternative community which was taken to be a ``Dravidian'' identity or a ``Tamil'' national identity.

THE NON-BRAHMAN movements of western and southern India during the colonial period were the most powerful expressions of a pan- Indian upsurge that sought to confront and destroy the millennial-old caste hierarchy. Brahmanism had been given shape as the ideology of the ruling class in the middle of the first millennium BC, with an exclusive intelligentsia claiming cultural purity and sacredness. This ideology and the caste hierarchy it was linked to gained hegemony over its greatest rival, Buddhism, about a thousand years later. It succeeded in maintaining its dominance under vastly changed material conditions even during the colonial period and the 50 years of Independence, with the Congress representing the ``moderate'' and the Jan Sangh (now BJP) the ``extremist'' form of the Brahmanic ideology.

One aspect of its success was the ability of the elite to define the ``Indian'' identity in its own terms, claiming that the core of Indian culture lay in Sanskrit, the Vedic tradition and the Vedanta. Since the 19th century this has been projected as ``Hinduism.'' This was the ``Great Tradition,'' the national tradition. All other challenging cultural traditions, whether based on the masses of the Bahujans and the Dalits, or among the Adivasis or in linguistic-national identities, were relegated to regional or local ``Little Traditions.'' Devatas like Murugan or Vithoba were proclaimed as forms of Vishnu or Shiva; Adivasi religions today are similarly appropriated. The choice placed before the masses was and is ``Sanskritisation'' versus ``westernisation;'' no force has existed projecting a ``Dalit'' or ``Bahujan'' or ``Dravidian'' all-India identity.

The non-Brahman movements all sought, in their own way, to challenge the claim that Brahmanism provided a national culture. Phule, for example, fiercely criticising the elite claims to form an ``Indian National Congress'', wrote, ``According to the mischievous selfish religion of the Aryas, the cunning Aryabhat Brahmans take the ignorant shudras and Mahars as low; the ignorant Shudras take the ignorant Mahars as low and the ignorant Mahars take the ignorant Mangs as low. Since they all stopped inter-marriage and eating together, various customs of thinking and behaving, eating and drinking, rituals exist and they don't mix with each other. How can the empty unity of such an agglomeration lead to a `Nation' as an integrated people?''

The basic issue posed by Phule was that a nation could not even come into being without overcoming the major force separating and handicapping its citizens, caste; what was held up by the Brahmanised elite as the core of the national culture, in fact, destroyed national unity. Phule also realised that an alternative Indian culture had to be created as a mass culture. His efforts included projecting an alternative universalistic religion, creating alternative progressive marriage rituals and eulogising an original, equalitarian peasant community of ``non-Aryans,'' symbolised by the `rakshasa' king Bali. Yet his voice remained a regional one, limited to Marathi, its influence hardly spreading beyond Pune district in his own time, while the Indian National Congress of the Brahmanic elite established its organisation throughout India. ``Non-Aryan'' as an identity was too negative and vague to capture the imagination of the people, even in Maharashtra. Phule failed. The non-Brahman movement could not move beyond gaining a share of power for some of the non-Brahman elite.

Ambedkar, in turn, wrote in English and sought to build an all- India movement, focussing its fight on what he called in 1938 ``Brahmanism and capitalism.'' He tried to establish an alliance with non-Brahmans in Maharashtra; outside, he tried to unite with leaders such as Periyar and Swami Sahajanand of Bihar for a progressive, broad non-Congress alliance. His choice of Buddhism was linked to an analysis of millennial-old historical conflicts described in terms of ``revolution and counter-revolution in ancient India. ``Buddhism was seen as a choice not only for the Mahars but for the cultural regeneration of all of India, as indicated in changing the new name of his weekly Prabudda Bharat. His Republican Party, in turn, was projected as a party of all oppressed masses. Neither could transcend the social limits of the Mahar community of Maharashtra and a section of north Indian Chamars. Ambedkar also failed.

And the Dravidan movement? Periyar brilliantly made ``self- respect'' a mass movement, building up a powerful force involving activists drawn from all castes and from both men and women. And, in projecting a ``Dravidian'' identity and rooting it in what was perceived of as the culture of the Tamil people, he succeeded in giving a powerful political thrust to this mass-based social alternative.

Yet the Dravidian movement also failed in establishing itself as an alternative to the ``Vedic Aryan-Brahmanic'' force it despised. Not only did it lose its radical social thrust, which would have included the liberation of women and full human rights to the Dalits; it remained confined to Tamil Nadu. In focussing on Tamil national identity, the concept of a ``Dravidian'' civilisational identity was lost. Even the people of the other southern States were not ready to accept their identity as Dravidians, let alone the vast majority of people in Maharasthra, Orissa, Gujarat or elsewhere. In spite of the fact that the Dravidian (or ``Tamil'')-speaking Indus civilisation was based in northwest India, in spite of evidence everywhere of the ``non- Aryan'' (usually Dravidian, sometimes Austro-Asiatic or other) origin of popular religious cults and cultural practices throughout India and in spite of the fact that languages like Marathi are said by linguists to have a `Dravidian substratum,'' the majority of Indians will think of themselves as having primarily a Vedic-the Aryan heritage.

The consequences for the popular Indian culture are stark. African-Americans had a ``black is beautiful'' movement; but television and the cinema throughout India testify to the fact that for Indians still ``light is right.'' Dark-skinned girls feel they are not beautiful, and every religious serial on Doordarshan continues to show the ``gods'' as light-skinned and ``rakshasas'' as dark, without protest. It is not surprising that a large section of the Indian masses fail to recognise Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as ``foreign''; she looks like what they have been taught as the ideal of beauty.

At least part of the fault for this dismal situation should lie with the acceptance of racist themes even by the opponents of the ``Aryan'' racism. In turning the Aryan theory of race upside down and taking non-Aryans as superior, Phule did not confront its racial limitations. When Periyar attacked ``Aryan Brahmans'' as the enemy, it was as if all Brahmans were pure descendents of Aryans, as if no non-Brahman had any Aryan blood, leave aside the question of accepting the ``Aryan'' caste culture. He identified these with the north, expressing the conflict as one of ``north'' versus ``south.''

Ambedkar was much more farsighted on these issues, rejecting the ``Aryan-non-Aryan theory'' as a historical explanation and asserting that caste was vastly different from race. He carefully characterised the enemy not as ``Brahmans'' but as ``Brahmanism,'' which he harshly attacked but defined not in terms of a specific group and simply as ``the negation of the values of liberty, equality and fraternity.'' But Ambedkar is not heeded by many of his followers on this issue today. By falling victim to racist/chauvinist attitudes towards ``north Indians'' as a group and ``Brahmans'' as a whole, the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu condemned itself to remaining a sectoral force, powerful in its homeland but warped even there and severely handicapped in contributing to an all-India liberatory movement.

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Progenitors of Hindutva

What exactly Hindutva is?

Dharma, covers the whole spectrum of human experience, and is thus relevant regardless of context, being based on that fundamental constant, nature - specifically, in this case, human nature.

Historical Background

Encounter with Militant Islam and Crusading Christianity

Emergence of Pseudo-Secularism

Falsification of History Texts

Eroding and undermining Hindu Foundation

Central Philosophy

Assimilative and Antidote of Exclusivity

Pragmatic and Literalistic attitude

Iti te jnanamakhyatam guhyaat guhyataram maya

Vimrishyaitadasheshena yatha ichhasi tathaa kuru.

Hereby I have imparted to you the most secret and sacred of wisdom.

Nevertheless you can apply your judiciousness of mind and then do whatever you wish to.

Non-institutionalized Religious Entity

Uddharedatmanaatmanam aatmanam avasadhayet

Aatmaiva hyaatmano bandhu aatmaiva ripuraatmana.

It is the Self that could elevate the Self, and it is the Self that could denigrate the Self.

The Self itself is its own greatest friend; the Self itself is its own greatest enemy.

Inclusiveness Nature of Hindutva

When Swami Vivekananda quoted the great Sanskrit shloka in the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago, he underlined this great appreciation of Hindutva that all paths ultimately lead to the 'One'.

Aakashaat patitam toyam yatha gacchati sagaram

Sarva deva namaskaaram keshavam prati gachhatii.

Just as rainwater falling from the sky takes different routes and channels but ultimately end up in the one same ocean, prayers directed at any god ultimately reaches that 'One' god.

When Dr K.M. Munshi selected the great Vedic aphorism as motto of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan he wanted to specifically highlight this inclusiveness of Hindutva.

Aa no bhadra kritavo yantu vishwata.

Let noble thoughts come from all corners of this universe and fill my mind.

The whole universe as one single family

No religious discourse on Hindutva is complete without the much talked about shloka which hails the whole world as one single family.

Ayam nijah paro vetti ganana laghu chetasaam

Udaara charitanam tu vasudhaivakutumbakam.

'This is ours'; 'that is other's' is being perceived by the narrow-minded.

The magnanimous always sees this whole universe as one single family.

The Geographical Concept of Bharatvarsha

K.S. Rao in H. V. Seshadri, ed.:Why Hindu Rashtra?, p.24

Noble Causes Championed

Uniform Civil Code

Freedom to practice diverse beliefs and customs

Reclaim disputed temples and historical monuments

Decolonization of National Ethos

Denunciation of Perverse Secularism

Resurgent Hindutva

The Globalist Conspiracy

The Globalist Methods

The Internal Enemy

The Ayodhya Scandal

Glorification of British and Islamic Colonial Monuments

Globalism

Opponents of Hindutva

The Clandestine Defamation of Hindu Symbols and Institutions

The Rise of Terrorism Directed at Hindus

Mutual Nexus

The Rise of Hindutva

References

Hindutva in the 21^^st^^ Century, The rise of Hindutva is the most important phenomenon of the 21st century by N.S. Rajaram
Elst, Koenraad: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. Rupa, Delhi 2001.
Elst, Koenraad: The Saffron Swastika. The Notion of "Hindu Fascism", New Delhi: Voice of India, 2001, 2 Vols., ISBN 81-85990-69-7
Bhatt Chetan, Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths, Berg Publishers (2001), ISBN 1859733484.

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COMMENTS

Yoginder Sikand: Tell us something about your background. How did you come to be involved in the Dalit-Bahujan struggle?


	Most Marxist texts look only at grand 'political' struggles, party mode of struggles, struggles led by men. I have sought to focus on micro struggles, the stories of ordinary people, including women.

What or who has been the major influence on your thinking and your politics?


	In my childhood many of us had not even heard of the Hindu gods, and it was only when we went to school that we learnt about Ram and Vishnu for the very first time.

How would you characterise contemporary Hindutva? What is the relationship between Hindutva and the Dalit-Bahujans?


	Brahminical deities have nothing to do with the productive process, but are frozen in the scriptural texts as an external agency.


	Brahminism has consistently sought to subvert our religious forms by injecting notions of 'purity' and 'pollution', hierarchy and untouchability even among the Dalit-Bahujans themselves.

And then what happens to Brahma?


	Many Backward Castes which did not convert to Islam or, later, Christianity, are suffering today, the reason being that there is no educated elite among them.

Then would you say that religious conversion to a major codified religion could be the way out of the dilemma, as Ambedkar thought?


	Educated Dalit-Bahujans will increasingly look to religious conversion as a major alternative as a means of mobilisation and protest.

But, then, does conversion have any relevance today?


	The human embrace is itself a very liberating symbolic act for the Dalit-Bahujan victims of Brahminism. Even today in the villages the Muslims are the only people who actually physically embrace the Dalit-Bahujans.

How do you see the demonisation of Muslims and Christians in Hindutva propaganda?

There's been much talk about Dalit-Bahujan-Muslim unity. What are your own views about this?


	Smoking and drinking, divorce and remarriage have never been problems for Dalit-Bahujan women, in contrast to Brahmin women, so all this is nothing but Dalitisation in action.

But can mere cultural similarity or commonality serve as a platform for a wider political unity between Dalit-Bahujans and Muslims?


	So many books were written in the wake of the Babri Masjid affair selling the argument that India is getting Hinduised. But where were all these historians and sociologists when ten lakh Dalits converted to Buddhism in 1956 along with Dr. Ambedkar?

What role do you see Dalit-Bahujan spiritualities as playing in all of this?

But here you seem to be assuming that Dalit-Bahujan traditions have remained static. Is it not the case that they, too, have fallen victim to the process of Brahminical co-optation?


	I am seriously opposed to the writing of what is called the 'history of sorrow' -- simply narrating all the oppression and sufferings that the Dalit-Bahujans have had to suffer.

Do you see what you call the Dalitisation process operating in other spheres as well?


	There's so much to be done to recover Dalit-Bahujan knowledge systems. I mean, for instance, you would have to trace industrialisation in India not to Lancashire but to the Madiga wadas [localities], where the Madigas first perfected the art of turning raw leather into shoes, or to our barbers who invented the knife.

How would you envisage this project of writing Indian history from the point of view of Dalit-Bahujans as subjects, as the central actors?


	With the Dalitisation of the Ganpati festival, for example, has come dancing, drinking and singing and loud filmi music!

Have you attempted anything of this sort yourself?

One last question. What made you give your book the title Why I Am Not A Hindu? How was the book received?

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