India, China, Brazil and South Africa have added responsibility to make tough decisions in order to (make) Doha successful.
" Referring to the draft proposals of December 2008 of the negotiating groups on agriculture and non-agriculture market access (industrial goods), Kirk said there were gaps to be filled.
He insisted that momentum to the trade talks could now come only if discussions were held on bilateral basis and within a limited number of players since it would be a complex process to find an agreement among 153 countries. However, the US did not find any support among the developing nations on limiting the consultations among the key players.
Ministers from India, Brazil, Egypt and China said transparency and inclusiveness of negotiations must be maintained. They said the bilateral engagements can not replace multilateral process.
| Editorial |
Urban educated turning casteist & kiling social justice: Fears & tears of a silent suffererOur country is undergoing a serious moral, social, cultural, political, economic crisis. And what not. Our good old value system is itself collapsing. And such an all-round crisis is simply mounting as days pass. We have been saying all this in fits and bits and hence an elaboration of our anguished cry. If you ask an urban, educated — particularly the English-speaking wala in a big metropolitan city — he will simply dismiss our statement and say such a gloom is the creation of prophets of doom like the Dalit Voice Stock market decides everything: A real, truthful situation of the country is never reported, never discussed. Many times even senior journalists are not realising that the home that is India, in which we are all living, is indeed crumbling — if not on fire. Only a “seeing eye” can make out the gravity of the situation. Particularly the English-knowing walas are ever kept optimistic. Their ever-alert eyes and ears are focused on the stock market. For your information such world famous Western TV networks like the BBC, CNN, Euro never, ever report on Indian stock market because for them India is of no significance. But what actually is happening in the Indian stock market run by the Gujarati Banias and their corrupt caucus and aided by the more corrupt Indian Brahminical officialdom? Not even 2% of the Indian population (about 1,200 crores) has anything to do with the stock market. The Editor of Dalit Voice has not a single share in any company. Yet this less than 2% of the stock market racketeers decide the fate of the country. Everybody’s eyes (meaning those who matter in India) are fixated on the share market. The share market ups and downs decide the decision of the govt. Dalal Street Dagalbajis: Those holding shares are mostly the English-knowing urban dwellers. From this we can make out how the fate of the over 1,200 crore people in this vast subcontinent is decided by a micro-minority — mostly Banias and Brahmins and their bumlickers. It is this stock market that shapes our policies, our very future. Certainly not the over 85% of the people living outside — and certainly not the producers of food. See the power of the Dalal Street Dagalbajis and the mind-manipulating Manuwadis. And all those involved (official and non-officials mostly in the world of high finance like banking and allied activities) are the stinking corrupt lot. It is these people along with those equally corrupt journalists connected with financial newspapers and TV — whose business it is to keep the country ever optimistic — putting out periodical false reports saying the real estate market “has started picking up”, “tourism is booming”, “exports are soaring”.“ India’s GDP jumps to 8%”. Utter false- hood. The unthinking urbanites consume this poison injected into their brains by the Brahminists and go gaga. The over 60% illiterate and semi-illiterate dumb-driven sweat labour are totally ignorant of this urban drama of the educated elite. Corrupt financial journalists: Financial journalists are all under instruction to put out only false news even as things go on simply collapsing and dying. Newspapers and TV keep on painting a rosy picture of optimism. This exactly was the philosophy behind the “India Shining” gimmick of the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) election stunt that refused to pay dividend. The only paper in India which comes out with a truthful picture of the country is Dalit Voice but we are dubbed prophets of doom. Always talking negative, finding fault with everything and thereby misleading the people. That means these educated, particularly the English educated elite, are made to believe only the falsehood. All revolutionaries were pessimists: Those who run down DV must know that not a single prophecy made in DV has gone wrong. All our statements are in black and white and hence verifiable. The charge against DV is we are for ever pessimists. We accept this charge. All the greatest philosophers and path-finders who figure in world history right from the Budha, Karl Marx, Mao, Prophet Mohammed, Dr. Ambedkar, Periyar EVR were pessimists. Gandhi was a perpetual optimist and led us to doom and disaster. Revolutionaries have to be pessimists. Then only he or she would goad the people to fight for social change. Optimists produce crooks and crackpots. India’s intellectual desert: Look at the deep wound such a psyche will inflict upon the country’s morale. The educated people of India should have been the harbingers of change and leaders of thought revolution which precedes all other varieties of revolution. Instead of the educated leading us, they are only misleading the country, blindly believing in the downright falsehood, which forces you to become dishonest, corrupt. When a society lacks even in basic honesty what will be its future? Scholars are dying, if not dead. The society has no respect for the learned, the intellectual. Those adored and paraded are the bogus Brahminists who survive on the masala of media moles. Book shops are closing down. Libraries gathering dust. University professors are paid agents of politicians. Hindu India has turned into a vast intellectual Sahara. If you have tears shed them now. That is how the entire Indian elite society — you take any branch of this society, even our academic and intellectual world not spared — has become rotten to the core, stinking, nauseating. Our teachers, called the noblest profession, have lost respect. Nobody likes to go to the teaching field. That is how only those who don’t get any other job become teachers. (V.T. Rajshekar, India’s Intellectual Desert, DSA-1999, Rs. 50). The charge against DV: The moment we say this we are called pessimistic, prophets of doom and gloom. “The Editor of DV has no other business except to run down India, criticise our own country in the public and present a bad image of it to foreigners”. What is the meaning of this charge against us? It only means that we should not speak out the Truth and uphold Justice. Is supporting Justice and Truth — the very foundation on which any society has to be built if it has to bloom — a crime? Yes. This is the Brahminical micro-minority charge against us. Master crook Chanakya: This is the charge a set of people who consider Chanakya (Kautilya) of the Arthasastra, the work of a master crook, as a genius. Such master crooks may be in a micro-minority, say less than 15% of our population, but they are our rulers today — parading as Deshbhaktas — with a stranglehold on our neck. They set the values which have not only ruined the whole elite society but also its children — and the country as a whole. This is the problem we face today. Honestly, we don’t know where we are heading. There is not one single voice in this country except DV which echoes such sentiments. Why? Because speaking out the Truth and defending Justice is not popular. It will not be appreciated. Are there no “good Brahmins”: Yes. We do meet some “good Brahmins”. As we discuss these problems, the “good Brahmin” nods his head. He does not disagree. But when we ask him why he is not raising his voice against the thugs and pindaries pillaging the society, he sulks. Silent. That is why Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar said “Brahmins of India have not produced a single revolutionary”. The most important quality of a revolutionary is he/she must be a very angry person. Angry against the system. Kanshi Ram’s anger: Kanshi Ram once physically attacked a group of Brahminical journalists stealthily hiding in the garden of his Khan Market official residence (Delhi) in the dead of night as he came home from a meeting. He showed us the spot where the “rascals” were hiding and how he and his bodyguards gave them a first class dressing down. We congratulated him and said such direct action is better than a thousand words. Look at the cut-throat quarrel of the Ambani brothers’ corrupt caucus. Both are crooks. Yet there is none to discipline them. All the journalists are on their pay roll. That doesn’t mean the country as a whole is rotting. No. No. No. Villages free from vaidik contamination: The overwhelming village-dwelling people, even those in small towns, are pure, clean — with deep interest of the country at heart. Why? Because they are producers. All producers of wealth are good people. Crooks and criminals live mainly in big cities. It is these producers of wealth who have the genuine interest of the country at heart. Contempt for farmers: But the problem is the villagers, particularly the farmers, do not command respect in our society. In America, England, Japan, Europe etc. the farmers are held in high esteem. But in Hindu India no girl is ready to marry a farmer. Because the farming is held in great contempt. Brahminical values have percolated deep down even into villages. To repeat, village-dwelling people are producers of wealth. The proof of their work is all there before our very eyes — what we eat and drink — foodgrains, fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, oil etc. The paper on which we write comes from villages,. Even the dress we wear is made from the cotton, wool, silk. The alcohol which the Bhoodevatas love is made from village products. None can live without food. Our urban merry-makers are so fond of eating and drinking and yet they are very fond of ridiculing the village-dwelling farmers. What do these urban, hate-mongering parasites produce? Gossip, rumours, lies, scandals, brain-washing, character assassination, cheating, cheap jokes, wife-beating, show business, all sorts of crimes. Cockroaches: They love everything that is Western, particularly USA, without following a single great quality of the Americans who made it a sole super power. Our elite society is producing only worms and cockroaches. It is true that our villages are the sink of caste politics. Dr. Ambedkar has said it. The caste is in tact in the villages. That doesn’t mean the cities are free from caste. Not at all. Educated people are more caste conscious than the village-dwelling caste leaders. Villages are caste-ridden and the Untouchables are the worst sufferers of the caste. This is true. Caste as an institution is alive and kicking in the village but being engaged as producers they do not take their casteism to extremes — except in very rare cases. Cross-thread journalists: But in urban areas, which are divided caste-wise, caste is the deciding factor in every aspect of life. Look at our different financial institutions, all urban-based. You will see them loaded with just one single “supreme” caste. Every selection of a post is done on caste basis. The Supreme Court of India is packed with the upper castes. Our Army is totally caste-based. Chartered accountants, who assist all corrupt industrialists and businessmen to evade taxes, are mostly Brahmins. The temple archaka (priest) post is reserved for one single caste and the Supreme Court itself upheld it. The urban India is top to bottom caste-based and the monopoly of the arrogant Aryan. The journalistic profession is the monopoly of the cross-thread walas. Muslims, who are mostly urbanites, are the worst victims of the other side of the caste coin — communalism. Villages no doubt are divided on caste basis, segregated on caste basis. Yes. This is a historical development. Yet agriculture production proceeds with collective effort. The rural caste leads to casteism which promotes hatred resulting in caste clashes and violence. This is true. Mala-Madiga dispute: During the height of the Mala-Madiga dispute in Andhra Pradesh the enemity was confined only to Hyderabad and big urban areas. It did not percolate to villages where the Mala-Madigas, who live side by side, had perfect peace. Caste is there in villages but caste (identity) is different from casteism which is bad and dangerous. (V.T. Rajshekar, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, Books for Change, 2002). JNU as hot bed of casteism: It is the educated people who are the highly caste conscious. To verify the truth go to the country’s most famous Jawaharlal Nehru University in the heart of Delhi. Brahminism decides everything in JNU. Anti-Mandal war and violence was planned, plotted in the JNU. The worst sufferers are the Dalits and Muslim students. This is so in all our 200 and odd universities. If the country’s very temple of learning is casteist and corrupt who can save the country? Anti-Muslim riots planned in cities: All anti-Muslim and even caste war and violence are plotted in cities. Caste-riots may erupt in some villages but soon it dies down and the warring castes live peacefully for decades.The Gujjar-Meena violent clashes in Rajasthan erupted twice and soon cooled down. The two are now living peacefully. That is how the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) rarely gets vote from rural areas. BJP is an urban phenomenon. It is the educated, mostly the English-educated people — cream of the country (forming about 15%) — who are killing democracy and subverting the very constitution of India. To these heaven-born privileged class social justice is the most hated poison pill. That is why they have virtually killed it. And the very Supreme Court of India, which is charged with the task of upholding and interpreting the constitution, has conspired in killing social justice. Doctors become blood-suckers: See how the Brahminical mind manipulators and brain-twisters — who are projected as our role model whose pictures are front-paged — have ruined the morale of the different professions. Particularly the doctors — called the noblest of all professions. Today the doctors have become blood-suckers, with minor exceptions. Big hospitals have turned into pickpockets. Same is the case with the profession of lawyers. Scotch whisky & chicken kabab: Journalists are no longer interested in the villagers. Each journalist is on the pay roll of a politician or an industrialist. Scotch whisky with chicken kabab will produce a handsome report. Businessmen anyway are crooks. Politicians wholesale corrupt. Who is left? Corruption flows from top to bottom: We do admit corruption at the lower level: police constables, clerks in all govt. offices — all such last and the least tail-enders — are also corrupt. Corruption flows from top to bottom — not bottom to top. Not vice-versa. We can’t blame the constable when the IGP-DGP are stinking. We can’t blame the court clerk when the judge passes order on the basis of the dollars credited to his Swiss Bank account. India may be the world’s most corrupt country. Yes it is. But it begins from the Prime Minister. Money corruption is a small part of the overall world of corruption. The most dangerous form of corruption is the intellectual corruption. We have dealt with this subject elaborately in our book, India’s Intellectual Desert (DSA-1999). When intellectuals of a society start stinking — the rest start rotting. This is Hindu India today. Our “educated” people are destroying the country itself — all our good old value system. The cream of the country’s English-educated society (read the Brahminical upper castes) are fleeing the country (good riddance to bad rubbish), cursing it and joining mostly American universities and settling down there. Good. The “Jews of India” are busy conspiring with the Jews. But the problem is even sitting in distant America and Britain they are subverting India to impose their Brahminical dictatorship. We don’t know what will happen to the country, particularly its up and coming “educated youth” encouraged to pursue perverse vocations. The only hope comes from the Dalits and the Bahujan Samaj, which is mainly a village-dwelling lot, but they are also getting Brahminised. God save the country if there is a god. |
The wholesale price of rice and wheat, the staple food for most people in the country, has risen by 13.15 per cent and 4.71 per cent, respectively in the last one year due to severe supply and demand mismatch, he said. At present, the government supplies 35 kg wheat and rice to families below poverty line.
Highlighting the price trend of rice and wheat in its latest study, Assocham said rice prices have increased to Rs 2,120 per quintal in August, compared with Rs 1,873 per quintal in an year-ago period. The maximum increase in rice prices was seen in Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur and Assam.
In these four states, prices have gone up to 50 per cent in the last one year, it added. According to the study, wheat prices jumped to Rs 1,222 per quintal in August from Rs 1,167 per quintal during the review period.
Wheat prices have surged to 19 per cent in Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, it said.
In the first phase of this 100 billion rupee project, computerized passport facilitation centres will be opened in Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Ambala, Bangalore, Mangalore and Hubli, according to the TCS.
With the launch of the Passport Seva Project, the processing time for issuance of passport is expected to be reduced to three days and to one day under the Tatkal (immediate) scheme.
The Ministry of External Affairs will monitor the working of the Passport Seva Project, which was awarded to TCS in 2008.
Carrying swords in their hands and raising slogans, the women activists held the protest march with the aim to to put an end to the increasing crime against women that often go unreported.
"Now every woman has taken the sword in her hands and will fight the criminals. Every woman has turned into a warrior because bootlegging has increased a lot and we will not tolerate such a thing," said Sushma Sinha, President of RSB.
"We will teach lesson to bootleggers and those who consume alcohol," she added.
The women activists further said that they would intensify their protest, if Bihar Government fails to curb the sale of alcohol in the .
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) tops Fortune magazine's list of the world's 100 fastest-growing companies.
It is the first time that Fortune has opened its list of the top 100 fastest growing companies to businesses from around the world.
Apple, which is BlackBerry makers' main rival in the global smart phone market, is way down the list at 39th spot.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., which is the world's biggest fertiliser company, is another Canadian firm among the top 10 in the Fortune list.
Among the top 10 are also two companies from China -- Sohu.com and Shanda Interactive Entertainment.
Others in the top 10 are California-based Sigma Designs, Ebix of Atlanta, Texas-based DG Fastchannel, CF Industries of Illinois, Arena Resources of Oklahoma and Massachusetts-based Bruker Corp.
BlackBerry maker RIM currently controls 56 percent of the smart phone market in the US.
Based at Hamilton near Toronto, RIM has just reported net revenue of $3.42 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 -- up 53 percent from the same period last year.
Defying market forecasts, it has posted a record quarterly profit of $643 million as against $482.5 million during the same period last year.
The wireless communication giant, which has currently about 12,000 employees on its rolls, has also extended its market from corporate types to common consumers.
Giving credit to them for this, Fortune magazine says RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are 'more than holding their own' against Apple head Steve Jobs.
Apple had mounted a huge challenge to the BlackBerry maker last year by launching its iphones.
However, Fortune warns RIM that competition is 'getting increasingly stiff' with changing consumer demands.
Currently, BlackBerry has a subscription base of about 29 million in about 150 countries.
At about $80, RIM shares are still almost half of the $150-peak they touched early last year.
To be eligible for the list, foreign companies should be traded on a US exchange and file quarterly reports. Fortune ranks the companies on the basis of three years of revenue and profit growth and total return.
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Mumbai: Adlabs Films, India's leading film and media services company, and a member of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, announched that it proposes to change its name to Reliance MediaWorks Limited, subject to shareholders and other requisite approvals.
For the year ended March 31, 2009, the Company delivered total revenues of Rs. 733 crores ($152 million), reflecting a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 80 per cent in the last three years.
The original name, Adlabs Films, was reflective of the company's initial business as a film processing laboratory. Pursuant to the Reliance ADA Group acquiring the controlling stake in Adlabs in the year 2005, the company has witnessed transformational growth in the canvas and scale of its operations.
Commenting on the development, Anil Arjun, Chief Executive Officer said, "The name Reliance MediaWorks Limited more accurately reflects our identity as a diversified film and media services company with a global presence.
We are privileged to draw upon the international recognition of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group brand, to further strengthen our leadership position in the media and entertainment business."
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| A revolution is brewing in the higher education sector with foreign universities waiting for India to open its doors to them. Can we expect a Georgia Tech or an LSE campus in India soon? Seetha finds out | ||||||||||
Uttam Chand Arya has had the best of both worlds. The programmer at technology consulting firm Capgemini in the Netherlands joined a dual masters degree at the Manipal Institute of Technology three years ago. He spent his first year in Manipal in Karnataka, and the second year in the Netherlands. “I got lots of exposure in programming in India. In Holland, the emphasis was on mathematics and doing things very precisely, which I never experienced in India,” says Arya, who earned an MTech (Software Engineering) from Manipal and an MSc (Computer Science Engineering) from the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. If Arya had opted to go to the Netherlands to study on his own, he would have had to pay Euro 32,000 (Rs 21 lakh) for the rounded academic experience of studying in two countries. He paid considerably less. Like Arya, many have benefited from similar collaborations between Indian and foreign universities. In general, students enrolled in twinning courses — where they spend two years in India and two years abroad for a foreign degree — pay a third of the fees that the foreign institutes charge.
And this, experts hold, is just the beginning of a revolution that’s brewing in the higher education sector. Foreign universities and academic and training institutes are waiting for India to open its doors to them. Some like the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the United States want to set up their own campuses. Others want to expand existing tie ups or forge new ones (see box). “Every month I get an offer from a foreign university for some collaboration,” says Giri Dua, chairman and managing director of the Pune-based Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications (Tasmac). In 2008, a delegation of deans from the University of Houston (which has eight partnerships with Indian institutions) visited 22 Indian universities and colleges. Academic collaborations could result, says Jerald W. Strickland, assistant vice-chancellor and vice-president for International Studies and Programs in Houston. Georgia Tech is discussing with industry and the government the possibility of setting up a research campus, says provost Steve McLaughlin. Clearly, there is a growing foreign interest in Indian educational institutes. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s annual Higher Education Summit sees 60 to 70-strong delegations from Canada, Britain, Australia and the US. After the India-United States Strategic Dialogue — in which education is an important pillar — was inked, 20-odd American universities wrote to the US state department, expressing interest. “India is definitely on the radar,” says Amitabh Jhingan, a partner at consulting firm Ernst & Young. Education finds a mention in a working group study on a proposed free trade pact between India and New Zealand. New Zealand, Australia, the US, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Canada are co-sponsoring a joint request at the World Trade Organisation seeking the opening of India’s higher education sector. In Canada, India is among the top three priority markets for international education promotion. What’s drawing everyone here? The huge market, for starters. Indian students spend an estimated $13 billion on foreign education every year. Indians comprise the largest group of foreign students in the US, the fourth largest foreign group in Canadian universities and account for a fourth of international students in New Zealand.
India’s very large and youthful population and its desire to provide future generations with greater opportunity have created a demand for education which has caught the attention of educational institutions in America,” says Larry Schwartz, minister-counsellor for public affairs at the American embassy in Delhi. But it isn’t the numbers alone. “India has huge intellectual potential both in academia and research,” notes Dinos Arcoumanis, deputy vice-chancellor (research and international) at City University London, which has collaborations with 15 Indian institutions and is ready for more. “Foreign universities are coming because the enormous human resources generated here will serve the entire world,” adds human resource development minister Kapil Sibal. A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study points out that one out of 150 applicants gets into an Indian Institute of Management versus one out of 10 in the case of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Overcrowding in Indian universities is one reason Indian students go abroad, even to second and third-tier universities. “There’s no way the government alone can bridge the gap,” says PwC’s executive director Dhiraj Mathur. Sibal wants to increase the number of students enrolling for higher education from 12 per cent of the eligible age group to 30 per cent. Allowing foreign universities to come in is just one of a whole gamut of initiatives necessary to expand opportunities, he points out. And make top-dollar education more affordable. For many students, even the tie ups make good financial sense. A four-year engineering degree costs $35,000 (Rs 17 lakh) a year in the US against Rs 2.5 lakh a year at Manipal. In a twinning arrangement the student spends Rs 3.75 lakh a year for the first two years in India, and Rs 17 lakh every year for two years abroad. Some foreign institutions will also bring in innovative programmes and new courses of study, points out Aseem K. Chauhan, chancellor of Amity University, Rajasthan. The competition may set benchmarks for Indian universities and institutions. But all this will only happen if the government is willing. Right now, on paper, foreign institutions can operate in India — 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the education sector has been allowed since 2002 — provided they conform to domestic rules. But they are keeping away since profit-making bodies are barred from the education sector, and there is some confusion about whether FDI can come into the not-for-profit sector. Cumbersome approval procedures are another deterrent. So the institutes have collaborations with Indian institutions — twinning agreements, dual degrees, student and faculty exchange programmes, research collaborations and curriculum development.
But there’s a cloud over many of these. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has regulations relating to foreign institutions. Its website lists only six approved collaborations, while the unapproved ones number 69. Though the lack of AICTE approval doesn’t seem to have affected the demand for these institutions or courses, many are waiting for clearer rules before forging new alliances. Tasmac has tied up with Britain’s University of Greenwich and the University of Rio Grande in the US for courses in information technology and management programmes, respectively, but is waiting for clear policy directions. A Bill — hanging fire since 2007 — may clear up some issues when passed. The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill seeks to regulate the entry and functioning of foreign education providers. “Many Canadian institutions would be interested in applying to start operations in India once the Bill is passed,” a spokesperson for the Canadian High Commission says. Even then, the top-notch universities won’t exactly rush in to set up campuses here. Georgia Tech, with campuses in five countries, is an exception. It may collaborate with local institutions in a research consortia effort, says McLaughlin, but would prefer to establish an independent campus if regulations permit. Most foreign schools want to come in association with a strong Indian partner, notes H. Vinod Bhat, registrar, international programmes, Manipal University. “There is an important social dimension of overseas education which is missed when one offers degree courses at offshore campuses,” says Arcoumanis. Australia’s Deakin University is also cautious. “If India opens the sector, the temptation would be for money making institutions to come in. We don’t want to put ourselves in that space,” says Peter Hodgson, director, research, Deakin. The ones that will make a beeline to set up campuses will include commercially-focused entities and some of the second-tier schools that already get a large number of Indian students. “This is a model that will scale rapidly,” observes Jhingan. The interest from institutions providing vocational and professional education will also be high, notes Mathur. The Institute of International Business Relations (IBR) of Berlin’s Steinbeis University, which set up IBR India at Hyderabad in 2008 to offer a part-time MBA, will move to Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi and other cities in the next two years. Not everybody is cheering these developments. “Foreign universities are targeting the cream of the market and will turn out to be elite enclaves. The rest of the higher education system will suffer,” argues CPI(M) researcher Prosenjit Bose. No, counters Sibal. “Higher education is elitist right now. We want to make it less so.” Universities want more and brighter students and will look for the best in brain power and not money power, Sibal says. One concern that the government shares with the detractors of foreign universities is the entry of fly-by-night operators which may close midway through a course, or give out degrees that are not recognised. Though details of the Bill are not available, it may address some problems. Foreign institutions may need to show a huge corpus, and repatriation of profits generated in India may be barred. But then, such provisions could dampen interest, as could regulations that control fees, salaries, faculty recruitment and impose community-based reservations. “We will have to strike a balance,” says Sibal. The student community is waiting for him to do so. |
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These funds invest in international companies and/or mutual funds investing in international companies. Some of these funds can also choose to focus on investing in international companies operating in a particular sector. Few funds are hybrid i.e. they invest a part of their money in Indian companies and remaining portion of their money n international companies.
What are their advantages and disadvantages?
International funds have their own pros and cons. Here are some of them:
Pros:
- An excellent diversification for your portfolio
- Ability to invest in international companies with smallest possible investment
- Investing abroad is simpler, since you just have to fill out the form, and submit the payment in Indian rupees to the fund house
Cons:
- High charges
- Currency exchange risk as you may lose money at the time of converting your profits from the foreign currency into Indian rupees
- No tax benefit that is normally offered to the investors in regular mutual fund
- Very volatile as the NAV depends on the performance of stock markets in the native countries of the companies
- May take a long time to recover your investment as high charges and performance of stock markets affect the NAV
Is it for me?
If you are willing to take risks in order to earn higher returns then this investment is right for you. Are you patient enough to wait and watch your investment grow? Can you withstand the high volatility across the stock markets in different countries? Are you ready to pay tax on any profit earned from this investment? If you have answered yes to these questions, then go ahead and invest in these funds. however do watch the charges and take care to ensure you choose a fund with a good track record.
Foreign Institutional Investors raised their holdings in as many as 25 Sensex companies in the first quarter of the current fiscal, riding on positive global cues and a decisive verdict in the general elections.
Realty major DLF saw the highest increase of over 9 per cent in foreign holdings in the first quarter of this fiscal compared to the previous quarter.
According to an analysis of shareholding patterns of Sensex companies for the first quarter, 25 firms among the 30-share benchmark index Sensex saw an increase in their FII holdings in June quarter compared to the previous quarter.
"Latest data released for the June 9 quarter indicates that FIIs continue to adopt a more aggressive portfolio stance. Positive global cues and a decisive verdict in the national elections appear to have buoyed the sentiment," financial service provider JP Morgan said in a report.
FIIs increased their stake in the country's biggest realty player, DLF, to 15.4 per cent at the end of June quarter from 6.24 per cent in the fourth quarter of previous fiscal. When compared with the corresponding period a year ago, FII stake in DLF has increased as much as 8.85 per cent.
Other Sensex firms which saw a rise in foreign investor holdings include Larsen & Toubro (by 3.81 per cent), HDFC Bank (by 2.48 per cent), Reliance Infra (by 3.06 per cent) and Reliance Comm (by 1.96 per cent).
Seeking to give urban street vendors a ‘new deal’, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked state Governments to take steps like devising norms for reserving space for them to earn their livelihood without any harassment.
In a letter to Chief Ministers, he asked them to take personal interest in implementing the National Policy on Urban Street Vendors 2009 which aims at ensuring that they are given due recognition at national, state and local levels.
The policy was aimed at enabling urban street vendors to pursue economic activity without harassment and earmark locations where such activity was to be carried out, he said.
The revised policy underscored the need for a legislative framework to enable them carry out an honest living without harassment from any quarter, he said, adding that a model bill has been drafted to protect livelihood of street vendors and regulate street vending.
Results of the just-concluded Lok Sabha election indicate performers have been endorsed by the electorate and that developmental politics succeeds in India, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Saturday.
"More Performers have got elected," Kalam said while interacting with students at the launch of the Malhar Conclave in St Xavier's College in Mumbai.
He told the students aspiring to be political leaders statecraft can be of two types - political and developmental. "We should be doing 30 per cent political and 70 per cent developmental politics. But, we are doing the reverse," Kalam said, advising the students not be cynical about the direction of India's progress and growth.
He said India was a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-regional and religious nation. "No where on the planet Earth, can you find such a unique nation. Problems are bound to be there. But, the youth should overcome them."
On whether India can be considered a great country at this juncture, the former President said, "Greatness lies in the people of the country, if they respect other human beings and are tolerant and appreciative of each other's views."
On brain drain, he said, "I don't believe in brain drain. India produces three million graduates every year. If 10 per cent of them leave the country, it is not brain drain." Asked why India went nuclear provoking a neighbouring country to follow suit, Kalam, who played a key role in Pokhran-II, said the country cannot succeed without strength.
"Only strength respects strength. Our nuclear programme has a clear doctrine of no first use. It is only a minimum deterrent weapon. The day 20,000 nuclear warheads all over the world are destroyed, we too will follow," he said.
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| A revolution is brewing in the higher education sector with foreign universities waiting for India to open its doors to them. Can we expect a Georgia Tech or an LSE campus in India soon? Seetha finds out | ||||||||||
Uttam Chand Arya has had the best of both worlds. The programmer at technology consulting firm Capgemini in the Netherlands joined a dual masters degree at the Manipal Institute of Technology three years ago. He spent his first year in Manipal in Karnataka, and the second year in the Netherlands. “I got lots of exposure in programming in India. In Holland, the emphasis was on mathematics and doing things very precisely, which I never experienced in India,” says Arya, who earned an MTech (Software Engineering) from Manipal and an MSc (Computer Science Engineering) from the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. If Arya had opted to go to the Netherlands to study on his own, he would have had to pay Euro 32,000 (Rs 21 lakh) for the rounded academic experience of studying in two countries. He paid considerably less. Like Arya, many have benefited from similar collaborations between Indian and foreign universities. In general, students enrolled in twinning courses — where they spend two years in India and two years abroad for a foreign degree — pay a third of the fees that the foreign institutes charge.
And this, experts hold, is just the beginning of a revolution that’s brewing in the higher education sector. Foreign universities and academic and training institutes are waiting for India to open its doors to them. Some like the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the United States want to set up their own campuses. Others want to expand existing tie ups or forge new ones (see box). “Every month I get an offer from a foreign university for some collaboration,” says Giri Dua, chairman and managing director of the Pune-based Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications (Tasmac). In 2008, a delegation of deans from the University of Houston (which has eight partnerships with Indian institutions) visited 22 Indian universities and colleges. Academic collaborations could result, says Jerald W. Strickland, assistant vice-chancellor and vice-president for International Studies and Programs in Houston. Georgia Tech is discussing with industry and the government the possibility of setting up a research campus, says provost Steve McLaughlin. Clearly, there is a growing foreign interest in Indian educational institutes. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s annual Higher Education Summit sees 60 to 70-strong delegations from Canada, Britain, Australia and the US. After the India-United States Strategic Dialogue — in which education is an important pillar — was inked, 20-odd American universities wrote to the US state department, expressing interest. “India is definitely on the radar,” says Amitabh Jhingan, a partner at consulting firm Ernst & Young. Education finds a mention in a working group study on a proposed free trade pact between India and New Zealand. New Zealand, Australia, the US, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Canada are co-sponsoring a joint request at the World Trade Organisation seeking the opening of India’s higher education sector. In Canada, India is among the top three priority markets for international education promotion. What’s drawing everyone here? The huge market, for starters. Indian students spend an estimated $13 billion on foreign education every year. Indians comprise the largest group of foreign students in the US, the fourth largest foreign group in Canadian universities and account for a fourth of international students in New Zealand.
India’s very large and youthful population and its desire to provide future generations with greater opportunity have created a demand for education which has caught the attention of educational institutions in America,” says Larry Schwartz, minister-counsellor for public affairs at the American embassy in Delhi. But it isn’t the numbers alone. “India has huge intellectual potential both in academia and research,” notes Dinos Arcoumanis, deputy vice-chancellor (research and international) at City University London, which has collaborations with 15 Indian institutions and is ready for more. “Foreign universities are coming because the enormous human resources generated here will serve the entire world,” adds human resource development minister Kapil Sibal. A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study points out that one out of 150 applicants gets into an Indian Institute of Management versus one out of 10 in the case of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Overcrowding in Indian universities is one reason Indian students go abroad, even to second and third-tier universities. “There’s no way the government alone can bridge the gap,” says PwC’s executive director Dhiraj Mathur. Sibal wants to increase the number of students enrolling for higher education from 12 per cent of the eligible age group to 30 per cent. Allowing foreign universities to come in is just one of a whole gamut of initiatives necessary to expand opportunities, he points out. And make top-dollar education more affordable. For many students, even the tie ups make good financial sense. A four-year engineering degree costs $35,000 (Rs 17 lakh) a year in the US against Rs 2.5 lakh a year at Manipal. In a twinning arrangement the student spends Rs 3.75 lakh a year for the first two years in India, and Rs 17 lakh every year for two years abroad. Some foreign institutions will also bring in innovative programmes and new courses of study, points out Aseem K. Chauhan, chancellor of Amity University, Rajasthan. The competition may set benchmarks for Indian universities and institutions. But all this will only happen if the government is willing. Right now, on paper, foreign institutions can operate in India — 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the education sector has been allowed since 2002 — provided they conform to domestic rules. But they are keeping away since profit-making bodies are barred from the education sector, and there is some confusion about whether FDI can come into the not-for-profit sector. Cumbersome approval procedures are another deterrent. So the institutes have collaborations with Indian institutions — twinning agreements, dual degrees, student and faculty exchange programmes, research collaborations and curriculum development.
But there’s a cloud over many of these. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has regulations relating to foreign institutions. Its website lists only six approved collaborations, while the unapproved ones number 69. Though the lack of AICTE approval doesn’t seem to have affected the demand for these institutions or courses, many are waiting for clearer rules before forging new alliances. Tasmac has tied up with Britain’s University of Greenwich and the University of Rio Grande in the US for courses in information technology and management programmes, respectively, but is waiting for clear policy directions. A Bill — hanging fire since 2007 — may clear up some issues when passed. The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill seeks to regulate the entry and functioning of foreign education providers. “Many Canadian institutions would be interested in applying to start operations in India once the Bill is passed,” a spokesperson for the Canadian High Commission says. Even then, the top-notch universities won’t exactly rush in to set up campuses here. Georgia Tech, with campuses in five countries, is an exception. It may collaborate with local institutions in a research consortia effort, says McLaughlin, but would prefer to establish an independent campus if regulations permit. Most foreign schools want to come in association with a strong Indian partner, notes H. Vinod Bhat, registrar, international programmes, Manipal University. “There is an important social dimension of overseas education which is missed when one offers degree courses at offshore campuses,” says Arcoumanis. Australia’s Deakin University is also cautious. “If India opens the sector, the temptation would be for money making institutions to come in. We don’t want to put ourselves in that space,” says Peter Hodgson, director, research, Deakin. The ones that will make a beeline to set up campuses will include commercially-focused entities and some of the second-tier schools that already get a large number of Indian students. “This is a model that will scale rapidly,” observes Jhingan. The interest from institutions providing vocational and professional education will also be high, notes Mathur. The Institute of International Business Relations (IBR) of Berlin’s Steinbeis University, which set up IBR India at Hyderabad in 2008 to offer a part-time MBA, will move to Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi and other cities in the next two years. Not everybody is cheering these developments. “Foreign universities are targeting the cream of the market and will turn out to be elite enclaves. The rest of the higher education system will suffer,” argues CPI(M) researcher Prosenjit Bose. No, counters Sibal. “Higher education is elitist right now. We want to make it less so.” Universities want more and brighter students and will look for the best in brain power and not money power, Sibal says. One concern that the government shares with the detractors of foreign universities is the entry of fly-by-night operators which may close midway through a course, or give out degrees that are not recognised. Though details of the Bill are not available, it may address some problems. Foreign institutions may need to show a huge corpus, and repatriation of profits generated in India may be barred. But then, such provisions could dampen interest, as could regulations that control fees, salaries, faculty recruitment and impose community-based reservations. “We will have to strike a balance,” says Sibal. The student community is waiting for him to do so. |
India's July car sales jump 31%
 The first Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, was delivered in July |
Car sales in India have risen by almost a third as new launches and lower interest rates encourage people to buy new cars.
Sales jumped 31% in July, to 115,067 units, from the same month a year ago, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said.
Commercial vehicle sales also rose by 9.6% after months of decline.
The first owner of the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, took possession of his vehicle in Mumbai in July.
'Sustainable demand'
"Lower interest rates, government stimulus packages, a reduction in excise duty rates towards the early part of the year and the growing presence of players in the rural markets has aided this recovery in industry volumes," said Vaishali Jajoo, analyst at Mumbai's Angel Broking.
July was the sixth consecutive month in which car sales increased.
Analysts said that the trend was likely to continue.
"Unlike last year, banks are willing to lend now and there is a return in customer demand, which will grow sales," said Ashish Nigam, analyst at Antique Stock Broking.
"With new launches there are more urban buyers and I see demand for vehicles being sustained."
Tata Motors says it has received more than 200,000 orders for the Nano, which was launched in March at a factory price of 100,000 rupees ($2,092; £1,257), not including taxes and other charges.
Car sales in a number of major economies are starting to pick up, boosted in many cases by government incentives for trading in old cars.
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DOCUMENT : WIKIPEDIA DV gets free world-wide publicity in largest online encyclopediaWikipedia is a free, web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia, born in the project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quick”) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s 13 million articles (2.9 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Bias: Critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies (including undue weight given to popular culture), and allege that it favors consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Wikipedia’s reliability and accuracy are also an issue. Other criticisms center on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information, though scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived. History: It was launched on Jan.15, 2001 as a single English language edition at www.wikipedia.com. It grew to approximately 20,000 articles, and 18 language editions, by the end of 2001. By late 2002 it had reached 26 language editions, 46 by the end of 2003, and 161 by the final days of 2004. Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the former’s servers were taken down permanently in 2003, and its text was incorporated into Wikipedia. English Wikipedia passed the 2 million-article mark on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, eclipsing even the Yongle Encyclopedia (1407), which had held the record for exactly 600 years. *********************** What the Enemy thinks about DV & its EditorV. T. Rajshekar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (December 2007) V. T. Rajshekar, in full Vontibettu Thimmappa Rajshekar, also known as V. T. Rajshekar Shetty, (born 1932) is an Indian journalist who is the founder and editor of the Dalit Voice,[1] which has been described in a release by Human Rights Watch (Washington)as “India’s most widely circulated Dalit journal”.[2] He is himself not a Dalit, he is the son of late P.S. Thimmappa Shetty, who retired as the Collector of South Kanara District. He belongs to the well-known Vontibettu Beedu family belonging to the higher caste Bunt community.[3] He was formerly a journalist on the Indian Express,[2] where he worked for 25 years. He is the founder of the Dalit Voice” organisation[4] a radical[5] wing of the broader movement for Dalit interests.[6] He is also the author of a great number of pamphlets and books, mainly published by his own organisation. Positions and Dalit VoiceMain article: Dalit Voice Started in 1981, Dalit Voice is a periodical launched by Rajshekar. Under Rajshekhar’s leadership the Dalit Voice organisation formulated an Indian variant of afrocentrism similar to that of the “Nation of Islam” in the USA.[7] Dalit Voice has published articles about “Zionist conspiracies” regarding Hitler and the Third Reich.[8][9] They have also supported the Iranian regime and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust.[10] Articles in the Dalit Voice have stated that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a real Jewish conspiracy.[11] and that Indian Jews were “join(ing) hands (with Hindus) to crush Muslims, Blacks and India’s Dalits”.[12] JEWS & “JEWS OF INDIA”Rajshekar has made parallels between the Brahmins of India and the Jews. He stated that the two groups had the same ethnic origin. He called Brahmins “The Jews of India” stating that “a Jew is one who is a born Jew. There is no conversion to the Jewish religion”. Similarly, in his view, “a Brahmin is one who is a born Brahmin”; they are “as bad as the Jews” and that Brahmins and Jews have joined hands “in a big way” in the USA, England and Europe.[12]. LEON POLIAKOV COMMENT“The First World War, the Second World War, the establishment of Communism, the rise of Hitler, were also systematically planned and executed by Zionists.” According to him, Bill Clinton was the “victim of a Zionist conspiracy”, for the Zionists, who “control the entire American politics, economy and the media as well”, are “angry that Clinton refused to finish the demon of Islam and render all-out support to Israel”.[13][citation needed]. A scholarly historical survey of antisemitism by Léon Poliakov referred to Rajshekar’s movement in the following terms: The phenomenon of anti-Semitism in a vocal though marginal and unrepresentative section of the Dalit movement is attributed somewhat patronizingly to the “mental confusion among India’s poor Dalits”.[6] “CASTE IDENTITY” THESISGiven his upper caste origins, many of his detractors have questioned his commitment to the Dalit cause.[14] Caste - A Nation Within the Nation: The book declares the Indian castes as nations within the nation of India. It argues for the strengthening of each caste. Rajshekhar further demands that the Dalits be deemed superior to all other castes and build a segregated Dalitist state in India.[15] He has expressed similar views in interviews as well.[16] Passport confiscation In 1986 Rajshekar’s passport was confiscated because of “anti-Hinduism writings outside of India”. The same year, he was arrested in Bangalore under India’s Terrorism and Anti-Disruptive Activities Act. Rajshekar told Human Rights Watch that this arrest was for an editorial he had written in Dalit Voice, that another writer who republished the editorial was also arrested, and that he was eventually released with an apology.[2]. Rajshekar has also been arrested under the Sedition Act and under the Indian Penal Code for creating disaffection between communities. He has also been placed on the “dangerous persons list” of the Indian home ministry.[2] Books & pamphletsBrahminism : Father of Fascism, Racism, Nazism: Bangalore : Dalit Sahitya Academy, 1993 Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar: Clash of Two Values: The Verdict of History. Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akademy, 1989 Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India (foreword by Y.N. Kly). Atlanta; Ottawa: Clarity Press, c1987 · ISBN 0-932863-05-1 (Originally published under title: Apartheid in India. Bangalore: Dalit Action Committee, 1979) Apartheid in India: An International Problem, 2nd rev. ed. Publisher: Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akademy, 1983 Who is the Mother of Hitler? Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akademy, 1984 Ambedkar and His Conversion: a critique. Bangalore: Dalit Action Committee, Karnataka, 1980 Caste - A Nation within the Nation India’s Intellectual Desert The · Zionist · Arthashastra (Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion) India’s Muslim Problem Dalit Voice - A New Experiment in Journalism “In defence of Brahmins”, 2005 Know The Hindu Mind, 2008 References 1. Dalit Voice about us 2. Human Rights Watch Article 3. Chitana Shilpi (His Biography in Kannada), by Rajendra, Dec.4, 2005, http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/jan2006/articles.htm. 4. Dalit Voice Website listing Rajshekhar as the founder. 5. Sikand, Yoginder (2004), Islam, Caste and Dalit-Muslim Relations in India, Global Media Publications, New Delhi pg.98. 6. Poliakov, Leon (1994), Histoire de i’antisemitisme 1945-93 (p.395), Paris. 7. African Studies Review, Vol.43, No.1, Special Issue on the Diaspora (Apr., 2000), pp.189-201 online. 8. dalitvoice.org 9. Google Cache of Dalitvoice article see “Abuse of History” Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by “zionists”. 10. Defeat in Iraq & fall of Bush: India warned to quickly adjust to big changes in West, Dalit Voice Article. 11. Dalit Voice, 1-12-1991## 12. Dalit Voice, 16-1-1993## 13. “Clinton, victim of Zionist conspiracy?” Dalit Voice, 1-9-1998. 14. Dalit Voice Vol.24, No.15 see “Socialist Brahmin calls DV casteist” and “Editor answerable only to DV family not prostitutes of vaidiks”. 15. Rajshekhar, V T, 2004, Caste a Nation Within a Nation “Recipe for a Bloodless Revolution, ‘BfC’. 16. Interview by Yoginder Singh Sikand. ******************************* DV & Editor get world-wide publicity without spending a pennyV.T. RAJSHEKAR We have published (p.8-9) without altering a word the entire text of the Wikipedia article on DV and the Editor so that our family world-wide may know how much the ruling Brahminical order hates us. The American-based Wikipedia is controlled by the Jews, the uncrowned rulers of America. Ever since India’s hate-mongering ruling class started migrating to US, it has been joining hands with Jews in a very big way — because the both have many, many common qualities that helped keep them as rulers. The Jews form less than 3% of the American population. India’s Brahminical population is almost the same. Joining with the Jews, India’s Brahminical rulers have become America’s most influential, the richest, the most vocal and also the aggressive community occupying key positions in finance, banking, media, corporatocracy. DURBAN CONFERENCEAt the Durban conference of the UN Human Rights Organisation (2001) both the Jews and the “Jews of India” worked together to jointly fight and frustrate the human rights struggles of the world’s three largest persecuted sections: India’s Dalits, American Blacks and Palestinians. (DV Edit April 1, 2001: “Untouchability, Indian brand of racism, hits international heights at Delhi global conference”). Wikipedia calls itself a “free encyclopedia”, meaning anybody can add or delete anything in the published text. That much of freedom is given. But what is happening in practice is many Indian Dalits, Muslims and other persecuted nationalities who corrected its biased write-up on the Editor and Dalit Voice were instantly countered by the aggressive Brahminical enemies. Several attempts they made to correct the biased or wrong statements were rejected by these anti-Dalit Indians. Our people —being timid, innocent and also in a minority — were simply out-numbered and out-gunned. REPEAT A LIE 100 TIMESWhen a hate-mongering, truth-hating cantankerous crowd repeats a lie a hundred times at the 101th time appears as Truth. As we have no powerful media inside India and our supporters outside India have no parallel Wikipedia to challenge the hate-mongers, the micro-minority views prevail. Our enemy has a big presence in the West particularly the US. They are not only arrogant and aggressive but in key positions. But the victims of the BSO are not only a minority but weak and humble. However, our Dalit Voice family members never believed a word of all these bullshit in the Wikipedia. POLIAKOV SUPPORTED OUR FINDINGSHere is a fantastic lie: For example French Historian Leon Poliakov is quoted (footnote no.6) as if he is criticising us. He might have criticised us in his French book. We don’t dispute it but he has written a wonderful book, Aryan Myth, which he himself presented us through his Japanese student, Ms. Yumi Tsuji (both of them were DV family members for a long time), in which he offered hundreds of historical evidences of the Brahminical brain behind inspiring innumerable German indologists to instigate attack and kill the German Jews. It is this Brahminical brainwashing by Germans that finally produced Adolf Hitler. Swastika was the Aryan gift to nazis who were instigated to hate the British, then ruling India. There is one whole chapter in our book, Brahminism (DSA-2000, p.134), in which Leon Poliakov, the celebrated Jewish historian, directly indicts the Brahmins as the cause behind Holocaust. We have quoted any number of historical documents to support our theory that the Jews and the “Jews of India” are brothers sharing the same world-view. JEWS & “JEWS OF INDIA” ARE SAMEChanakya’s Arthasastra, the Bible of the Brahminical rulers, and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (copy available with DV) deal with the same subject. The Jew remains a Jew even when he changes his religion. This is also true of the Aryan Brahmin. Jews say “they will forever remain as destroyers” (Maurice Samuel in the You Gentiles, 1924). But we have neither the strength of money, numbers nor the power and influence to outbeat and out-shout the vocally strong hate-mongering Aryan bed bugs. Just because we the enslaved lot suffer from these weaknesses it does not mean Justice is not on our side or Truth is not on our side. That the Editor of DV is not Dalit is a fact and we have stated it many times in DV itself. All our family members know it and none raised it as an objection. But it is this very enemy of Dalits which carried M.K. Gandhi, the Enemy No.1 of Dalits, on their head and loudly announced that he was the greatest advocate of Harijans. BRAHMINISTS FEEL THREATENEDThe custodians of the Wikipedia bow and listen to the bluffs and blusters of the Brahminists but not the Truth-telling Dalit Voice and its humble supporters. So we leave it to history to judge us — our words and actions. We have published about 100 books but the moment they are added to our credit, the ever-alert hate-mongers, who have no other work but to keep a watch on those hostile to their interests (because they feel they are genuinely threatened), simply pounce and pound, bombarding the Wikipedia with their “correction”. Our friends have almost given up correcting the maniacs who are afraid of their own shadow. Be that as it may, the “Jews of India” were the first to cash in on their comparison with the Jews. They took our Editor’s literature to Jews in top positions in US and elsewhere in West, produced it as the documentary proof of their blood relationship with the Jews. They wanted our literature to win over the Jews, mislead them and take all the profits. But when the Editor said the “Jews of India” also deceived the innocent German scholars, historians and indologists to produce anti-Jew views among nazis causing the so-called Holocaust, they tried to quote the Editor out of context and confuse the Jews. JEWS REALISING THE TRUTHBut our information gathered during our recent month-long tour of England, Scotland and Sweden, where the Jews are so well entrenched, is the brilliant Jews are gradually coming to know the truth. Did not the Bible say: “Know the truth and truth shall make you free”? Many Palestinians have also come to know this truth which they have passed on to the many Truth-seeking Jewish scholars inside Israel. Our literature is widely read in USA and England. Things are changing and Truth is making the victims (Jews) free. We want to assure our Brahminical persecutors that we are ready to forget and forgive all their past sins — if only they call halt to their blood-sucking operation. Nowhere the Indian history speaks of the Dravidian or Adi-Dravidian violence, not to speak of retaliation, against the Aryan violence. HOMELAND FOR ARYAN BRAHMINSAs these poor fellows have no homeland to go and none in the world is prepared to accommodate them, our kind- hearted people are ready to give them shelter in India itself under the foothills of the Himalayas (Gorakhpur dt.) on the condition that they will stop persecuting their own Aryan Brahmin women. So much for the Wikipedia wicked propaganda bullshit against us. However, we have to thank the enemy oppressor for giving world-wide publicity to Dalit Voice and its Editor without our spending a penny. ********************* One powerful enemy more helpful than many useless friendsOUR CORRESPONDENT Bangalore: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Father of India, has identified our enemy oppressor— which is also the country’s principal contradiction, in all his writings and speeches. Dalit Voice family members know this enemy — Brahminism. From p.1 to p.28, DV has been exposing this deadly enemy which is represented by the country’s mere 15% population led by its micro-minority Brahminists. DV has been faithfully and steadfastly doing this duty assigned to us by our Father and we have been supremely successful in this mission. This deadly enemy, which has been enslaving us from centuries, is today seriously wounded and crying in pain. We have received a proof of the enemy’s agony in a certificate given to DV and its Editor by the enemy itself. The certificate is nothing but the vitriolic attack on DV and its Editor in the world famous Wikipedia, the world’s largest and the most famous on-line encyclopedia. DV family members are requested to click Wikipedia in the internet and verify the enemy certificate. All benefactors of humankind in all ages have been very often persecuted than worshipped. In India, Budha, Guru Ravidas, Phule, Sri Narayana Guru, Periyar E.V.R., Dr. Ambedkar were all condemned — killed if not ridiculed by the Brahminical people. This is history. The Wikipedia says the Editor is not a Dalit. We have never made a secret of our not being Dalit. But we belong to a Backward Caste — but not upper caste. Was not the Gujarati Bania, Gandhi, an Aryan and upper caste? Why the same Brahminists advertised him all over the world as the greatest leader of the Harijans — even while not mentioning a word about Babasaheb Ambedkar? The Brahminical game of parading a donkey as race horse will no longer work. Babasaheb has said what the Enemy loves we must hate and what the enemy hates we must love. This is a universal rule. How much the enemy hates us can be seen from the Wikipedia in the Internet. There is no mention of any other Dalit journal or Dalit writers except the DV and its Editor. Such of those DV members finding fault with us for following the footsteps of Babasaheb and criticising our principal enemy, may verify our claim. Some DV members may ask what the American-based Wikipedia has to do with DV and its Editor. Such doubts are natural. America has a very large presence of our enemy oppressors in key positions and having the closest links with those in the internet-IT field which is a virtual monopoly of the Jews with which the “Jews of India” are having the closest connection. Please verify the Enemy certificate to DV and the Editor, something which none else had the privilege of getting in the whole of India. One single powerful enemy is much more helpful than innumerable useless friends. Brahminical rulers itching for war with China?COM. AYYANKALI How did the beef-eating Brahmin Prachanda, loved by his jatwalas, turn against Hindu India? This is because Prachanda was ousted from power by India’s Brahminical rulers with the help of Napalese Army Chief General Katuwal, trained in India and also very sympathetic to India. Prachanda disclosed this while addressing his own party cadres. Meanwhile, we must understand why the Gen. Henderson Brookes Report on the 1961 Sino-Indian War is still kept “classified and secret”? Was it because the report says that it was India which attacked China and not vice versa? Tibetan revolt: George Fernandes as Defence Minister openly said that India’s nuclear capability is aimed against China. India has just launched a nuclear submarine. Also RAW and CIA still seem to be behind Tibetan revolts, along with Mossad and Britain’s M16. Mossad hates China because China has been supplying nuclear weapon technology to Iran through North Korea. Brahminical leaders also deeply hate china. The alliance of Jews and the “Jews of India” against China is already visible. Now we know the real reason why the nuclear deal was signed with USA. Brahminical RAW committed another blunder. It has helped Lanka arrest the new LTTE chief “KP” alias Selvaras Padmanathan. It also appears that pro-Prabhakaran hard-liner LTTE elements being led by one Perinbanayagam Sivaparan alias “Nediyavan” has actually betrayed Padmanathan’s whereabouts to the Lankans since Padmanathan was talking about achieving independent Tamil Eelam using “democratic” and “nonviolent” methods. The only LTTE fighters still left in Lanka are our people - Dalits. All this means the Brahminical ruler are really going stark raving mad with power. It looks like the papans are deliberately and systematically leading India to its grave by implementing disastrous policies. Meanwhile, the economic crisis is only worsening further. If things go this way, then nobody will be able to imagine or predict what will happen in a decade especially if Israel also attacks Iran. Dalit Muslim hope in Supreme Court rulingMOHAMMAD SHAHANSHAH ANSARI In a great development for a PIL lodged in Supreme Court by Akhil Maharastra Khatik Samaj (AMKS) for inclusion of Dalit Muslims in Scheduled Caste category, the apex court recently ordered Union of India to file counter affidavit to the writ petition. It is happening for the first time that the Union of India has responded to this petition. Shamsuddin Shaikh, chairman of Akhil Maharashtra Khatik Samaj, has said that they are fighting for Dalit Muslim rights for more than a decade. From 1935 to 1950 all Dalits irrespective of their religion were provided with reservations. However, on Jan.26, 1950 when the constitution of India came into force an Order was passed by then President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, limiting the reservation to only “Hindu Dalits”, clearly prohibiting the provision of Article 341 which states that all SCs should be given reservation. The Presidential Order 1950 denies inclusion of Dalits of any community other than Hindu in the SC category. The order says no person who professes a religion different from Hinduism shall be deemed to be a member of the SC. This part of the order runs contrary to the provisions of Articles 14 (equality before the law), 15 (prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion) and 25 (freedom to profess and practice any religion) of the Constitution. The situation clearly calls for a constitutional amendment to include Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians. Sikhs and Budhists were already included under SC. Dalit Muslims deserve SC reservation as they are not only engaged in the same profession as “Hindu Dalit” but also suffer the same discrimination as their “Dalit Hindu” counterpart. Mushtaq Ahmed, Supreme Court advocate in the above case, said the Ranganath Mishra Commission has also recommended SC status for Dalit Muslims. There are 35 Dalit Muslim castes among Muslims. Iqbal fought M.K. Gandhi & supported Dr. Ambedkar SK NASIR AHMED, HOWRAH, W.B. Your article on Allama Iqbal (DV July 16, 2009 p.14: “Iqbal, not Jinnah, behind partition of India”) is marvellous. Now you have correctly understood Iqbal. He is not a mere poet like Kalidas, Tagore etc. He was also a great seer. Iqbal himself did not like to be known as a poet although as a poet he is was second to none. He is the Light of Asia. He is also a great messenger from the East. He did not surrender to the enemy but challenged it intellectually. He challenged the growing Brahminic imperialism in the East, not only in thought but also in action. He rose against Gandhi when he became the mahatma and called him the greatest anti-national. He inspired Dr. Ambedkar for Dalitstan. He wanted regional redistribution for cultural development. Imperialists do not like cultural development. They are for money and exploitation. Without the cultural content the man becomes a tool of exploitation. People become senseless nonsense. Man becomes beast. Iqbal wanted to change the mentality of Indian people. We should know and follow Iqbal to emancipate ourselves from Brahminic domination. Mayawati must quickly correct Kanshi Ram mission going astrayDR. V.D. CHANDANSHIVE, COTTAGE VAISHALI, SHAHU NAGAR, NANDED - 431 602 In fact the sarvajan slogan invented by Mayawati and used in the 2007 Assembly elections in UP had given BSP a spectacular victory and installed in Lucknow a majority government after nearly two decades. Looking at the Indian parliamentary democracy, the sarvajan concept is the only justiciable ideology which can fetch representation to each and every social and caste group and can help realize the constitutional social justice dreamt of by Bahujan icons. But the Manu-minded upper castes don’t want to happen this at the hands of a strong Dalit woman Mayawati. The track record of Brahmins in this country is if they are unable to vandalize anything good from outside, they infiltrate the organisation and dismantle it from inside. HOW TO TACKLE BRAHMINSThat is what they did with Budhism in the past. So the strategy of a Bahujan leader should be that being a minority — a mere 3 to 4% — in the population, the Brahmins should be made to fall in line instead of pampering them or allowing them to enter the innermost precincts of the organisation. They should always be kept on tenterhooks. Mayawati it appears has made haste in distributing the goodies through BSP to these people who don’t much bother about permanent friendship but happen to be ever-alert about safeguarding their permanent vested interests. Thus by entering the BSP they have safeguarded the interests of the Brahminical Congress party. That is what the BSP tally in UP reveals. By pretending to believe in Mayawati’s sarvajan concept, the upper castes in UP actually worked for salvaging the Congress in the state. Now, the upper castes with the help of Congress, will do everything to wean away Dalit-Bahujan voters from BSP. KANSHI RAM’S AGITATIONS GIVEN UPKanshi Ram was a visionary leader who gave to BAMCEF, DS-4 and BSP non-stop programmes to keep alive the dynamism in the Bahujan mission. It was because of these strategic programmes and agitations that he was able to divert Bahujan votes to BSP and made the Congress eat dust in UP. But after him Mayawati has not been able to invent new programmes for the party in UP and rest of India. Kanshi Ram’s party programmes had an all-Indian appeal which kept the party cadres always on the run. Though he concentrated on contesting elections at the same time he reflected upon non-political activities. “CASTE IDENTITY” PROGRAMMEThough there was no watertight compartment between political and non-political, he was very careful about the non-political aspect of his political objective. The non-political work of his Bahujan mission continued non-stop to unite the 85% Bahujan Samaj by creating caste identity in different backward and exploited castes to awaken them. This work was assigned by him to the non-political organ BAMCEF founded in 1978. But after him BAMCEF has been used only as a unit for collecting funds without any other activities. KANSHI RAM’S AUSTERITY ABANDONEDAs an insider of Kanshi Ram’s Bahujan mission, I had occasions to meet him personally and experience his plain simplicity. He would eat any food available, travel by any means available and would sleep even on the floor. I had seen this with my own eyes. He never bothered about comforts and amassing wealth. But he often talked about how Bahujan Samaj had the potential of raising billions of rupees for the mission. And when he died he had neither any cash left behind nor a single inch of land in his name. He always advised his cadre to learn to work in a given situation. The missionary zeal he had created among thousands of his cadre has been disappearing very fast. Sometimes we get a feeling as if Kanshi Ram’s mission is being sabotaged because the work style of BSP leaders in Maharashtra proves this point. The post-Kanshi Ram BSP, though appeared to have grown up under the leadership of Mayawati in 2007, has created confusion and fears in the minds of its supporters and voters because the way BSP leaders have been working has resulted in a general nostalgia. The first and very serious allegation against them is that they have reduced the party to the money-making business without bothering much about BSP’s electoral success. With the easy money-flowing they have developed a five star culture in their style of functioning. Staying in the most expensive hotels, travelling in AC cars, eating expensive food and all this at the cost of the party which claims to be the party of the deprived and marginalised Bahujan Samaj. The life style of these leaders has affected even simple workers in the streets who now seem to hanker for these luxuries. Party posts are sold for a definite amount of money. The BSP head of the state collects monthly amount in the name of Mayawati. At the time of elections party tickets are sold to rich candidates who do not happen to be party officials and who are never seen in the party after the elections are over. Mayawati should understand that the in-charge party persons appointed by her in different states have been deceiving her and have taken her for a ride. DISCONTENT & INDISCIPLINEKanshi Ram’s Bahujan mission as such is non-existent at the moment. What goes in the name of Bahujan mission is the five-star life-style, leaders taking luxury rides in their AC cars for collecting money. Moneyed people who are not BSP cadres are being hired to adorn different party posts. These moneyed post-holders are party-hoppers who have connections with the party in power and who can execute a good bargain at the time of elections of course at the cost of BSP. Thus a very hazardous equation is formed in Maharashtra by BSP leaders which is: BSP cannot win but can fetch easy money. After the 2009 parliamentary elections the party has been experiencing a precarious situation as there is discontent among the simple, honest and devoted workers working in BSP since 10-20 yeas. They have been side-tracked and driven out of the party in favour of those who can fetch easy money to the party and who can provide lavish life style to the leaders. This has created a strong discontent and resentment in the committed cadre resulting in violence and beating of those so-called leaders who have been encouraging this dangerous trend. The violence has happened in Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra. And if not curbed, it may repeat at other places. In Maharashtra, no cadres or leaders are seen in the party but only brokers are managing the BSP show. If this trend continues, it is going to create grave problems for BSP. LACK OF INTERACTIONAs president of BSP, Kanshi Ram used to visit nearly all those states where BSP was functioning. He had very effective interaction and rapport with the party cadre and also with BAMCEF employees. Even after BSP came to power from 1993, he made Mayawati look after the governance in UP and freely moved throughout the country to strengthen party organisation. In a way he had indicated that governance and party organisation were two different things and they were to be managed by different people. While doing organisational work he was always on the look out to find out young and devoted leaders for BSP. The all-India presence and recognition of BSP is the result of Kanshi Ram’s non-stop organisational work. PARTY PUBLICATIONSBut after his death, the party interaction with party cadre and rapport with them has come to a standstill as those BSP leaders deputed by Mayawati have subverted Kanshi Ram’s style of functioning. But to Mayawati’s engagements in UP, she has not been able to interact with the cadre to know what is actually happening in different states. It is high time for her to spot out her trusted lieutenants and assign the party organizational work by reviving Kanshi Ram’s method. As far as possible she should strive to delink governance and party organisational work. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGEIt is almost unthinkable that a party — which is also a mission — is being run without a publication. In this respect too Kanshi Ram’s ambititious vision, of having publications for the propagation of the mission’s ideology in different languages of the country, has been totally abandoned. In his life time he had initiated publications of weeklies and monthlies in Hindi, Marathi, English, Urdu and Punjabi and he had aired his earnest desire to start a Bahujan News Agency and also a “media centre”. In fact to give shape to this project he built a building at Noida and had taken the Editor of Dalit Voice (VTR) to show the work in progress. But nothing is known about what happened to this project and why it was stalled. The publication of two weeklies in Hindi and Marathi was stopped after Mayawati became the BSP president. Presently there is not a single mission publication which can project the constructive side and refute the Manuwadi mischievous criticism. A lot is being published in Manuwadi media about Mayawati’s “politics of statues” and public opinion, particularly of Dalits, is intended to be turned antagonistic to BSP and the mission as a whole. How can the Bahujan missionaries refute this dangerous propaganda? A leader without a newspaper is like a bird without wings. While describing the objectives of Bahujan mission Kanshi Ram — in keeping with the constitutional objectives — used to cite two things: (1) socio-cultural and (2) economic transformation. Political power in his opinion is an effective weapon to achieve these objectives. In different words Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar said the same thing. Babsaheb said that political power was to be used for social and economic justice. Political democracy (one man, one vote) was to be used as a means to achieve social and economic democracy. Mayawati’s attempts to create social and economic equality in UP through different welfare schemes for Bahujans has been blacked out by Manuwadi media. But after 2009 parliamentary elections the media has switched on to denigrate her image by concentrating on the monuments she has erected at the cost of government money. To shut the mouths of Manuwadis Mayawati needs to accelerate the pace of such schemes in UP that will bring socio-economic millennium of Bahujans till the Assembly elections. This is the only way before her to keep her flock together. The Congress is posing as if it has already got the majority and it is all set to rule UP in 2012. So it becomes paramount on the part of BSP Govt. to accelerate tokenism of the Brahminical Congress. Otherwise, it appears that the Congress will strive its nerves to eat into the vote bank of BSP with the help of upper castes. KANSHI RAM REJECTED ALLIANCE POLITICSThe news that BSP is going to form a pre-poll alliance with Bhajan Lal’s party in the forthcoming Haryana Assembly elections is another diversion from Kanshi Ram’s strategy. A perfect political strategist, Kanshi Ram was only once in the history of BSP had gone for pre-poll alliance with Congress when Narasimha Rao was PM in 1996. That alliance had flung the Congress to the fourth position and had engineered the existence of the oldest Brahminical political party in UP. It is true that changes are to be made in politics and strategies of a political party but the leader of the party needs to be over-cautious to evade any damage done because of such alliances. The gullibility of Bahujan voter has resulted in transferability of his vote to any party in alliance. But the voter of the party in alliance which is often upper caste seldom responds in the same vein. Alliance politics has always put a backward caste party in jeopardy right from the times of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar to the present day RPI brand of politics. Mayawati needs to play her alliance cards very cautiously. Rush for political power will only strengthen BrahminismNAGESH CHAUDHARY, EDITOR, BAHUJAN SANGHARSH, RAHATE COLONY, WARDHA RD., NAGPUR - 440 022 The Indian system is by and large Brahminic. So even when the SC/BCs come to power they will have to operate in a Brahminic system. They cannot change the system. Mayawati’s rule in UP has proved it. When a party or a person from Bahujans come to power he/she can only take temporary measures that suite the Bahujans. But Bahujan power alone cannot change the Brahminic system. Even if it makes some inroads or harm the Brahminic system, Brahmins will immediately dethrone such rulers. The way V.P. Singh was ousted proves it. Through mere political changes the socio-cultural system cannot be changed. Even Muslims who ruled for nearly 800 years and the British for 150 years could not change or defeat the Brahminic system. SHIVAJI USED TO OUST MUSLIMSThey were simply rulers — not interested in intricacies and had no will to change the system. That is why they were not opposed by the Brahmins. The alien rules had an easy choice: satisfy the Brahmin. Give them positions and do not touch the system. The Brahmin will then tolerate any foreign rule. Both — Brahmins and foreign rulers (such as Muslims and English) — managed each other and the system was not attacked beyond a point. When Brahmins felt that an alien rule was harming the system they used kings like Shivaji to oust the Muslim rule or they made “great men” like M.K. Gandhi to throw out the English rule. Now we have no Muslim or English rulers and there is no systemic threat from the non-Brahmin rulers. That is why the Brahmins tolerate non-Brahmin rulers as long as they are not a threat. Some Brahmins even join hands with vocal anti-Brahminic rulers who they think have no potential to change the system. Muslim or English rulers were not, for obvious reasons against the entire Brahminic system. Those who carry the burden of the system are the Dalit, BCs who are put within and without the Hindu fold. So the fundamental problem for indigenous Indians is not simply to gain power within the Brahminic system. It is like capturing a tiny island in the Brahminic ocean. Power does not create the system but system creates the power. CRAZE FOR POLITICAL POWERBrahmins have such wonderful tactics that they can make or unmake the non-Brahmin political personalities. Brahmins with the power of their monopoly media created and encouraged such Dalit leaders who are shallow and have no deep understanding and ideologically weak. They also project BC political leaders who are shallow. In other words, they control almost all parties. Opposition political parties are mere appendages to the Brahminic system. Brahmins want that non-Brahmins should concentrate only on gaining power so that they do not think of changing the system. They like such leaders who say “political power is the master key for opening all the locks” without understanding the ground reality. Without a thorough-going social and cultural revolution mere political power is no power. Only in such a situation political power can be of help to strengthen the Bahujan system. Otherwise, the non-Brahmin rule will be mere dabbling in the Brahminic system — rather more helpful to the Brahmin. WHO CAN CHANGE THE SYSTEM ?What the SC/ST/BCs need is a systemic change and not mere political change. They will have to strive hard to win back the brains that have become slaves of Brahminic system. We will have to think of alternate culture, language policy, literature, values, attitudes that will are opposed to Brahminic ones. Political power does non even aim at it. Unless that is done mere political power will be a short lived affair. In other words, power to the Bahujan means power to change the system. And this power does not come through the political power. You cannot control the brain through politics. You can bend the brains for some time but that cannot be a lasting solution. That is why the Brahmins do not get elected in elections. But the others who get elected are the brains moulded by the Brahminic system. So the system runs in Brahminic way even if the Brahmin in person is not elected. Because they had built such a system that is totally Brahminic. So the children of the soil have the historic task before them to create a system that is antagonistic to the Brahminic system. To create a system akin to the Indus Civilization which was free from Brahminic infection. This is the job not limited only to one field. It is a multi-field task. Because, a system so a multi-field programme. It is multi-faceted, multi-polar. Let us not waste our time defining it. We can see it, we can feel it. The Brahminic one. Let us strive to defeat it in all its forms; open and concealed. |
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