Kerala govt gives subsidy to Christians and Muslims by en cashing it from Hindu Temples

In a season SHABARIMALA DEVASWAM BOARD gives kerala Govnt:

Rs.75 lakh for police service, Rs.3 lakh for Health service, Rs.20 lakh for pollution control board,

but

In MALAYATHUR CHURCH season...ALL services Free by Govt..!

And

KSEB charges Rs.17/- per unit from DEVASWAM while the Churches & Madrasas pays Rs.4/- only....!

Extra ticket charges paid by each ayappa to KSRTC sometimes, taxes in every border checkposts, dozens of toll gates...

while the the same Govnt gives Rs.225 crores for Hujj Trip..!!

SEE THE INJUSTICE BETWEEN GODS..... only for votes

Ishrat Jahan encounter case : Obnoxious face of a section of Media

The SIT probing the encounter case of the 19 year old girl Ishrat Jahaan has claimed that the encounter was a fake and that she alongwith 3 of her male colleagues was killed before the encounter. The court is still to deliver its verdict on the issue. But the kind of attitude a section of media has exhibited in reporting this development betrays their sympathy for terroritsts, or their vested interests. Quite many newspapers and TV Channels' websites are carrying a version of the news that delibeately and with malafide intent attempts at hiding the fact that Lashkar-e-toiba man David Colman Headly himself had admitted to NIA that Ishart was associated with LeT. 

They have even blacked out any mention of the fact that the other 3 killed, Javed Sheikh, Amzad Ali and Jeeshan Johar also had links with LeT with one of them being a Pakistani citizen. These newspapers had themselves published detailed news regarding their being terrorist in July last year. Even more recently, just last month, a newspaper (links provided below) had published the statement of an SIT member that Ishrat was confirmed to be an LeT member. In fact, as per the claim of Gujarat police, and Hedley's revealations, they were conspiring to kill Narendra Modi and had even set up meetings at a hotel in Ahmedabad.

All these facts have been blacked out while reporting this news today. Instead, many leading newspapers have made the statements of Ishrat's mother, father, brother and uncle calling her a 'martyr', asking to 'bring their daughter back', and asking 'What did Modi get by killing Ishrat', as if Modi himself went and shot at her. The "sacred duty" of a section of media towards maligning Modi is no secret, but in the process, they've become so blind that they are sympathising with terrorists and portraying them as innocents. If a Congress General Secretary refers to Osama Bin Laden as "Osama Ji", that's understandable for that's how appeasement politics works. 

If a resolution to 'forgive' Afzal Guru is attempted at J & K assembly, even that is understandable for the same reason. But, has our media also got into these political compulsions, for certain vested interests, or is this section of our media catering to a wide-spread, more dangerous conspiracy against nation? Indeed, a fake encounter is an offense and the law will take its course to punish the offenders if their guilt is proven, but at whose behest is this section of media operating to malign Modi and offering tributes to an "innocent" terrorist? Is misleading the nation not an act that characterizes this section of our media as a traitor? If yes, any punishment is small for this malafide act.

News relating to Ishrat's being associated with LeT (July 2010) : Click to Read : NDTV . Times of India . Indian Express . Outlook India 

SIT member's statement on Ishrat's being a terrorist (October 2011) : Click to read : Times of India

Today's stories portraying Ishrat as an innocent victim, attempting to generate sympathy for her family : Click to read : DNA India . IBN Live . Indian Express

इशरत जहाँ एनकाउंटर केस : सामने आया मीडिया के एक वर्ग का घृणित चेहरा

गुजरात दंगों एवं सम्बंधित मामलो की जाँच कर रहे विशेष जाँच दल ने अपनी रिपोर्ट में दावा किया है कि इशरत जहाँ नामक १९ वर्षीय मुंबई की छात्रा की पुलिस मुठभेड़ झूठी थी | मुठभेड़ से पहले ही इशरत जहाँ और उसके तीन साथियों को मारा जा चुका था |  इस विषय पर न्यायालय बुधवार को अपना निर्णय सुनाएगा | परन्तु भारत के मीडिया के एक वर्ग ने इस समाचार का प्रकाशन करने में पत्रकारिता के मूल्यों का निरादर किया है | 

अधिकाँश पत्रों एवं वेबसाइट पर समाचार को इस प्रकार से प्रकाशित किया गया है जिससे यह सन्देश जाता है कि इशरत जहाँ एक मासूम छात्रा थी | ध्यान रहे कि गुजरात पुलिस ने १५ जून २००४ को किये गए इस एनकाउन्टर का कारण ये बताया था कि इशरत जहाँ और उसके तीनो साथी मुख्यमंत्री मोदी की हत्या की फिराक में थे | इशरत के साथ जो तीन लोग मारे गए उनमें जावेद शेख, और पाकिस्तानी नागरिक अमज़द अली रना व जीशान जौहर शामिल थे | पुलिस ने कहा था कि ये चारों पाकिस्तानी आतंकी संगठन लश्कर-इ-तोइबा से जुड़े हुए हैं | स्वयं लश्कर के ही आतंकी डेविड कोलमन हेडली ने भी इशरत और जावेद के लश्कर का सदस्य होने की पुष्टि की थी | यह बात भी सामने आई थी कि मई, 2004 में जावेद व इशरत अहमदाबाद के एक होटल में रुके थे और उन्होंने कई अहम स्थलों की रेकी की थी।

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परन्तु इशरत के लश्कर का आतंकी होने की बात आज कुछ समाचार पत्रों ने न जाने अपने किन स्वार्थों के चलते छुपायी है| इशरत की माँ के आंसुओं की याद पाठकों को दिलवा कर, इशरत के माता पिता के "हमारी बेटी हमें लौटा दो" वाले वक्तव्यों और "मोदी को मेरी बेटी को मार के क्या मिला" इस प्रकार की हेडलाइन प्रकाशित करके क्या ये समाचार पत्र आतंकवादियों को सहानुभूति देना चाहते हैं? एक राजनैतिक दल के नेता द्वारा "ओसामा जी" कहना अथवा एक विधायक द्वारा जम्मू कश्मीर विधान सभा में अफजाल गूरु को क्षमा करना सम्बन्धी प्रस्ताव रखना समझ में आता है, क्योंकि ये उनकी तुष्टिकरण की राजनीति के लिए आवश्यक है, परन्तु भारत की पत्रकारिता को भी अब ये दीमक लग गयी है, यह गंभीर चिंता का विषय है |

क्या मोदी कि निंदा करने के अपने 'कर्त्तव्य' अथवा 'आदेश' के प्रभाव में मीडिया इतना अँधा हो गया है कि उसे उन जानों की भी चिंता नहीं जो मोदी पर हमला होने की स्थिति में उनके साथ जाती ? निश्चित रूप से झूठी मुठभेड़ करना अवैधानिक है और इसके लिए दोषी पुलिस कर्मियों को जाँच पूरी होने पर अपराध सिद्ध होने पर उचित दंड भी मिलेगा, परन्तु क्या झूठी मुठभेड़ में मारे जाने से आतंकी 'निरपराध' सिद्ध हो जाता है? क्या देश की जनता को जान बूझ कर अपने तुच्छ स्वार्थों के चलते अथवा किसी व्यापक षड़यंत्र के अंतर्गत भ्रमित करना राष्ट्रद्रोह नहीं है? और यदि है, तो सम्पूर्ण मीडिया तंत्र विशेषकर अंग्रेजी मीडिया, इस अपराध के दंड का अधिकारी क्यों नहीं?

Puranas gave us the name HINDU not Muslim Invaders

It is not Muslim Invaders who gave us the name 'Hindu', we were mentioned 'Hindu' by puranas several thousands years ago-proof!

Several thousand years ago, also called central India Hindustan, and the people who lived there Hindus. The following verse, said to be from the Vishnu Purana, Padma Purana and the Bruhaspati Samhita, is provided as proof, yet I am still waiting to learn the exact location where we can find this verse:

Aaasindo Sindhu Paryantham Yasyabharatha Bhoomikah

Mathrubhuh Pithrubhoochaiva sah Vai Hindurithismrithaah

Another verse reads as:

Sapta sindhu muthal Sindhu maha samudhram vareyulla Bharatha bhoomi aarkkellamaano Mathru bhoomiyum Pithru bhoomiyumayittullathu, avaraanu hindukkalaayi ariyappedunnathu.

Both of these verses more or less indicate that whoever considers the land of Bharatha Bhoomi between Sapta Sindu and the Indian Ocean as his or her motherland and fatherland is known as Hindu. However, here we also have the real and ancient name of India mentioned, which is Bharata Bhoomi. “Bhoomi” (or Bhumi) means Mother Earth, but Bharata is the land of Bharata or Bharata-varsha, which is the land of India. In numerous Vedic references in the Puranas, Mahabharata and other Vedic texts, the area of India is referred to as Bharata-varsha or the land of Bharata and not as Hindustan. The name Bharata-varsha certainly helps capture the roots and glorious past of the country and its people.

Another couple of references that are used, though the exact location of which I am not sure, includes the following:

Himalayam Samaarafya Yaavat Hindu Sarovaram

Tham Devanirmmitham desham Hindustanam Prachakshathe

Himalyam muthal Indian maha samudhram vareyulla

devanirmmithamaya deshaththe Hindustanam ennu parayunnu

These again indicate that the region between the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean is called Hindustan. Thus, the conclusion of this is that all Indians are Hindus regardless of their caste and religion. Of course, not everyone is going to agree with that.

Others say that in the Rig Veda, Bharata is referred to as the country of “Sapta Sindhu”, i.e. the country of seven great rivers. This is, of course, acceptable. However, exactly which book and chapter this verse comes from needs to be clarified. Nonetheless, some say that the word “Sindhu” refers to rivers and sea, and not merely to the specific river called “Sindhu”. Furthermore, it is said that in Vedic Sanskrit, according to ancient dictionaries, “sa” was pronounced as “ha”. Thus “Sapta Sindhu” was pronounced as “Hapta Hindu”. So this is how the word “Hindu” is supposed to have come into being. It is also said that the ancient Persians referred to Bharat as “Hapta Hind”, as recorded in their ancient classic “Bem Riyadh”. So this is another reason why some scholars came to believe that the word “Hindu” had its origin in Persia.

Another theory is that the name “Hindu” does not even come from the name Sindhu. Mr. A. Krishna Kumar of Hyderabad, India explains. “This [Sindhu/Hindu] view is untenable since Indians at that time enviably ranked highest in the world in terms of civilization and wealth would not have been without a name. They were not the unknown aborigines waiting to be discovered, identified and Christened by foreigners.” He cites an argument from the book Self-Government in India by N. B. Pavgee, published in 1912. The author tells of an old Swami and Sanskrit scholar Mangal Nathji, who found an ancient Purana known as Brihannaradi in the Sham village, Hoshiarpur, Punjab. It contained this verse:

himalayam samarabhya yavat bindusarovaram

hindusthanamiti qyatam hi antaraksharayogatah

Again the exact location of this verse in the Purana is missing, but Kumar translates it as: “The country lying between the Himalayan mountains and Bindu Sarovara (Cape Comorin sea) is known as Hindusthan by combination of the first letter ‘hi’ of ‘Himalaya’ and the last compound letter 'ndu' of the word 'Bindu.'"

This, of course, is supposed to have given rise to the name “Hindu”, indicating an indigenous origin. The conclusion of which is that people living in this area are thus known as “Hindus”.

25000 Indians travel to Switzerland very frequently, Why ?

Swiss bank revealed India has more money than rest of the world The second best Russia has 4 times lesser deposit. U.S. is not even there in the counting in top five! India has more money in Swiss banks than all the other countries combined!

Due to international pressure, the Swiss government agreed to disclose the names of the account holders only if the respective governments formally asked for it. Indian government is not asking for the details. We need to start a movement to pressurize the government to do so! This is perhaps the only way, and a golden opportunity, to expose the high and mighty and weed out corruption!

With personal account deposit bank of $1,500 billion in foreign reserve which have been misappropriated, an amount 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt, one needs to rethink if India is a poor country? With this amount 45 crore poor people canget Rs 1,00,000 each.

After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.

Some 80,000 people travel to Switzerland every year, of which 25,000 travel very frequently. ‘Obviously, these people won’t be tourists. They must be travelling there for some other reason,’ believes an official involved in tracking illegal money.. And, clearly he isn’t referring to the commerce ministry bureaucrats who’ve been flitting in and out of Geneva ever since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations went into a tailspin!

Black money in Swiss banks- Swiss Banking Association report, 2006 details bank deposits in the territory of Switzerland by nationals of following countries: TOP FIVE— India ($1,456 billion), Russia ($470 billion), U.K. ($390 billion), UKRAINE ($100 billion), China ($96 billion). 

Now do the math’s - India with $1,456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947: Can we bring back our money ? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind - the loot of the Aam Aadmi (common man) since 1947, by his brethren occupying public office. It has been orchestrated by politicians, bureaucrats and some businessmen.

The list is almost all-encompassing. No wonder, everyone in India loots with impunity and without any fear. What is even more depressing in that this ill-gotten wealth of ours has been stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world’s best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern such tax havens. However, one may well be aware of ‘Swiss bank accounts,’ the shorthand for murky dealings, secrecy and of course pilferage from developing countries into rich developed ones.

Modern India : 30 minutes of fun for a mere Rs 20

Couples pay the measly amount to the beat cops who catch them in the act so they may carry on; With over five cases of 'misbehaving couples' being filed on a daily basis, cops now plan special patrols to book lovebirds making out in the city's 'hot' spots

The city cops appear to be at their wits end as the number of cases of couples misbehaving in dark bylanes, atop cars and in public places in the dead of night hits an all-time high. With over five cases being registered against 'misbehaving couples' on a daily basis and a total of 100 cases in a month, the city cops are finding it difficult to tackle the lovebird issue as well as regular cases.

MiD DAY visited all the hot hook-up spots in the city and listed out five areas with lax security and lighting where the problem has reached a peak. Statistics obtained from various police stations reveal that such instances have risen in five important locations.

"Couples often head to popular parks like the Lal Bagh Botanical Garden and Cubbon Park, or just chose to get it going up dark alleys. During regular night patrolling, we have realised that Residency Road (Behind TNT), Sadashiv Nagar (Opposite the club house) and Koramangala (Opposite Forum, near Monday to Sunday) are the most popular hook up spots," explained a regular night-beat cop.

'Right to love'

The Law and Order cops, whose main task is to maintain peace and to secure the city are now resorting to lifting blankets and shawls off couples making out in parks. "Obscene acts in public are punishable under law. We file cases on grounds of the public nuisance that they create. Most of these couples are either college students or BPO employees fooling around in public places, which could prove to be dangerous for the couple. Sometimes, we escort the couples to their homes and complain to their parents," said Sunil Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order).

Free to express?

Meanwhile, when this reporter approached a few couples necking in parks, they revealed some shockers. They complained that the cops had no right to curb their 'freedom to express love' and that they would continue to indulge in such acts. "We come here because we like the ambience. What we do in our personal space is our business. The cops have no right to torture us like this," said J Arvind, a techie who was cozying up with his girlfriend at Cubbon Park.

Pay for peace?

Another couple sprawled over a car at Koramangala was rather surprised when questioned about their 'public display of affection'. "We live very close by and this is the only time we get for ourselves. Usually we just pay the beat cop around Rs 20 and he lets us free for half an hour. Other times, we just finish our business and leave the place," claimed H Girish, a software engineer.

Shocked by their response and the increasing number of such cases, the police department has now ordered special patrolling in these areas. "We understand that rooms at hotels and lodges are costly, but we don't feel happy about catching semi-naked couples exploiting public places. There is a time and place to do certain things, and roads are not that place," said Kumar.

35 Muslim groups benefit from OBC quota in Gujarat, compared to 24 Muslim groups in Bihar

                                                       Left-liberal media’s myth-making by Shashi Shekhar 

In this age of 24x7 electronic media reinforced urban legends, truth is often what anchors want us to believe. A case in point is the stark contrast with which Bihar is made out to be a haven of Muslim inclusivity and Gujarat a hell. Yet, according to the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs, 35 Muslim groups benefit from OBC quota in Gujarat, compared to 24 Muslim groups in Bihar.

On September 20, the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, put out a Press release on OBC reservation for Muslims. The Press release listed instances where reservations to some Muslim groups had already been provided under the OBC category. The Press release had a detailed table listing the State-wise break up as of August 24, 2010. While many States like West Bengal had provided no OBC quota for Muslims, only six States had at least one or two Muslim groups benefiting from OBC reservation. Of those six States Uttar Pradesh was providing OBC reservation to just two Muslim groups while Congress-ruled Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Maharashtra made up the rest of that list, providing OBC reservation to just one Muslim group.

Only five States had provided reservations to more than two Muslim groups within the OBC quota of which just one State, Kerala, has been ruled by the Congress or the Communist parties. All the other four States providing a long list of Muslim groups with OBC quota were BJP/NDA-ruled States, including Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.

But that is not the end of this startling Press release. Only one other State rivals Bihar in designating the highest number of Muslim groups to benefit from OBC quota — Gujarat. Where Bihar had 24 different Muslim groups benefiting from OBC reservation, Gujarat had a staggering 35 different Muslim groups listed in that Press release.

In this age of 24x7 electronic media reinforced urban legends and media myths, it would seem truth is what the anchors want you to believe. A case in point is the stark contrast with which Bihar is made out to be a haven of Muslim inclusivity and Gujarat a hell by the media. A contrast that is deliberately sought to be amplified by these same media pundits who hold upthe Bihar Chief Minister as an ideal of tolerance, inclusivity and secularism while running down the Gujarat Chief Minister on the same issues. Small wonder we see little debate in the Delhi-based media over the Bihar Chief Minister’s conscious political visits to temples during pre-election yatras where the line between the political and the administrative was fuzzy. It is also no surprise that we see practically no outrage on alleged acts of intolerance of dissent by the Bihar Chief Minister over some negative remarks in Facebook by Government servants who were recently suspended.

It would, however, be a disservice to the efforts of both Mr Narendra Modi and Mr Nitish Kumar, who remain two of the most performing Chief Ministers in India, if we were to reduce this public debate on Muslim empowerment or inclusivity to a false polemic over personalities. It was with great distress this columnist noted an open letter from Aijaz Ilmi to Chetan Bhagat earlier this week fall prey to the same false polemic over personalities. Aijaz Ilmi was responding to a column by Chetan Bhagat earlier in the week on Muslim vote-bank politics.

Aijaz Ilmi incidentally was one of the few bold Muslim commentators who saw the Allahabad High Court judgement on the Ayodhya title dispute as an opportunity to solve that intractable problem. Aijaz Ilmi’s open letter makes extensive references to the Sachar Committee report on the economic and social backwardness of Muslims while lamenting the lack of what he calls “an honest chance for a decent living and equitable opportunities” for Muslims.

It would be a mistake to dismiss Aijaz Ilmi’s open letter as a stereotypical response. A debate needs to be forced on who has the best policies and ideas in general to meet rising aspirations and more specifically in the Muslim context and which ideas are creating opportunities to empower the Muslim spirit of enterprise within a level playing field.

This is a debate nobody in the media wants to have and proof of this comes from the speed with which the media has buried the story over the reported remarks by PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti on the efforts of a Muslim entrepreneur to set up shop in Gujarat. It should surprise nobody that the Left-liberal bias in the media has ensured not one media outlet has even attempted to seek out who that Muslim entrepreneur was or bothered to elaborate on what exactly was his experience.

In fact, for all the talk of Muslim backwardness and consequent need for inclusive policies even the Sachar Committee report that Aijaz Ilmi quotes from extensively in his open letter, is also stunningly silent on the needs and challenges of Muslim entrepreneurs in seeking a level-playing field. While the report dedicates an entire chapter on access to financial credit and financial inclusion, it barely goes into specific issues and challenges of an aspiring Muslim looking to expand opportunities beyond self-employment through entrepreneurship.

Despite recognising the fact that many Muslims are self-employed the entire thrust of the Sachar Committee report, it would seem, was more focussed on how Muslims must remain employed within public or private sectors as opposed to how self-employed Muslims could be empowered to expand their enterprise. One sees the same refrain of dependency on others’ for employment in Aijaz Ilmi’s open letter as well with little advocacy on advancement from self-employment to entrepreneurship.

The tragedy for the Muslim community in India is that much of the debate on its socio-economic fate is conducted with politically prejudiced blinkers on. Be it on entitlements with the OBC quota as a case in point or on opportunities with the Sachar report as a case in point, false polemics between Gujarat and Bihar, Mr Modi and Mr Kumar have taken precedence over facts and reality.

One hears of a Dalit entrepreneurs conference to be held in Delhi later this year premised on the idea of ‘fighting caste with capital’. Perhaps it is not a bad idea for a similar Muslim entrepreneurs conference to debunk some commonly held myths on the kind of political environment that ensures a level-playing field for them. If not anything else, such a conference might give Aijaz Ilmi something more than a Left-liberal Sachar Committee report to quote from in a future open letter.