Uma Bharathi: What a Fall Literally and otherwise.

Fart Alert

Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in New Delhi

A high-level inquiry should be conducted into the role of VHP, Bajrang Dal and other Hindu communal organisations in the terrorist incidents of Kanpur, Jammu, Orissa, Nanded, Parbhani and Malegaon.

BukhariJi, should we include 911, London, Madrid bombing, also in the list.!!

Shiva at CERN

The symbolism is strong. As scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva smash subatomic particles in the world’s largest experiment, Shiva, the destroyer, will be in close proximity. Author Fritjof Capra first drew a parallel between Shiva’s dance of creation and destruction and the dance of subatomic particles in The Tao of Physics.

A plaque next to the statue quotes Capra: “Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists... Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter.”

Bush praises Manmohan Singh for 'strong leadership'

Is demographic change due to conversion a bogey?

One of often raised arguments by Christian Evangelists justifying negligible impact of conversion is the population of Christians was reported in the 1971 census to be 2.6 per cent of the Indian population. Their share in the population fell further to 2.44 in 1981, and 2.3 percent in 2001.

It would be wrong to take such a macroscopic view of effect of conversion. The effect of demographic change should be looked microscopic perspective as conversion efforts are usually concentrated in region or zone

• Lets take the case of Kandhamal, The district has the highest population of Christians in orissa . In terms of percentage, Christian population in the district was 6 pc of the total populace in 1971 and has grown to 18 pc by 2001.
• The growth in Arunachal Pradesh has been appreciable in last one decade. The Christian population in the state in 1991 was registered at 89,013 and the same in 2001 stands at 205,548. While the share of the Hindu population has decreased to 34.6 percent in 2001 from 37.0 percent in 1991
• In Meghalaya the share of the Hindu population has decreased from 14.7 percent in 1991 to 13.3 percent in 2001. In the same period the percentage of Christians has increased from 64.6 to 70.3.
• In Mizoram percentage of the Hindu population has declined from 5.0 in 1991 to 3.6 in 2001, while share of Christians has increased from 85.7 percent in 1991 to 87.0 percent respectively in 2001.
• In Nagaland the percentage of the Hindu population has fallen from 10.1 in 1991 to 7.7 in 2001, while Christians has risen from 87.5 in 1991 to 90.0 in 2001.
• In Tripura the proportion of the Hindu population has decreased from 86.5 percent in 1991 to 85.6 percent in 2001. The Percentage of the Christians has gone up from 1.68 in 1991 to 3.2 respectively in 2001.

Identify who is a farmer?

(A) Someone enjoying his life

(B) Oscar Fernandez

(C) Arjun Singh

(D) Amitabh

(E) All of the above

(F) None of above

The correct answer is E

Amitabh: In 2006 the actor showed the Pune district authorities a certificate from the then Barabanki district magistrate, Ramashankar Sahu, saying Amitabh was a farmer because he owned farmland in the district. Its another matter that the superstar donot have much credentials to speak of as a farmer. Even on screen, he played a farmer only once (Veer-Zaara) in his four-decade-old career.

Arjun Singh & Oscar fernandez: The official bio of Arjun Singh's and Oscar states their profession as Farmer/Agriculturist.

Tailpiece: I am not sure whether the "profession" column in Parliament Biodata covers past professions also? I think we can confirm taht it requires you to indicate your current profession as Sonia Gandhi has indicated her profession to be "Political & Social Worker"

By the way , the Bombay High Court has held that a performer at a hotel who had earlier been a bar dancer can be a 'genuine artist',. Justice A B Chaudhary said.

"Merely because these girls were performing in dance bars earlier, it cannot be readily inferred that they are not genuine artists,"

Fart Alert

Laloo Prasad yadav

"Fail kar gaya Nitish. Hum khana aur bhoosa bhejwa rahe hain. Sab station par khidi chokha hai, jaao aur bharpet khao. Nitish has failed. (I have left food and fodder at every railway station. There is khichdi and mashed potato, go and have your...)

lalooji, you are mistaken every one donot need fodder like you..

Hurray April Fool

It seems that UPA Govt. has fooled people of India royally and it was not even April fools day.

A day ahead of the meeting of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG) in Vienna where the fate of the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal is expected to be decided, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Howard Berman has released State Department's answers to 45 questions on the deal which indicate clearly differing perceptions on key issues between New Delhi and Washington.The questions were submitted to the State Department by Berman's predecessor Tom Lantos way back in October, 2007 and answers were sent on January 16, 2008. For nine months, these documents were kept under wraps and have been made public just before the Viennmeeting. According to Washington Post which quoted a spokesman for Berman The answers were considered

‘so sensitive, particularly because the debate over the agreement in India could have toppled the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the State Department requested they remain secret even though they were not classified,’

Some of terms of agreement meant:-

1. Should India detonate a nuclear explosive device, the US has the right to cease all nuclear cooperation with it immediately, including the supply of fuel.

2. It also stipulates that US can request India to return items transferred from it including fresh fuel.

3. US has the right to terminate the agreement on one year's written notice.

4. The fuel supply assurances are not, however, meant to insulate India against the consequences of a nuclear explosive test or a violation of non-proliferation commitments,

Interesting to see what happens...

Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, and Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi has come out in support of Ahmedabad serial blasts mastermind, Abu Bashar.

They were taking part in a "virodh sabha" in Sarai Mir township. Syed Ahmed Bukhari strongly warned against the tendency to frame

"innocent Muslims in the name of terrorism and SIMI"

Now a Rajasthan court has directed the police to register an FIR against Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bhukari for his alleged inflammatory statement on a complaint filed by one Bharat Sharma, Station House Office, Kotwali, Chain Singh said.

Sharma had filed a complaint alleging that the cleric had stated that if the accused Abu Basheer, arrested for his involvement in July Ahmedabad blasts,then

"a bigger agitation a 1947 would be launched".

Now lets see whether "law will take its own course" in this case

Secularism in practice

The Archbishop of Cuttack today approached the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into the violence against Christians in Orissa. The Archbishop's petition has also sought that the NHRC be asked to conduct a probe to find out which organisation was behind the Kandhamal violence.

Archbishop is setting a dangerous precedent by interfering in matters of political governance. Archbishop should restrain his activities to issues pertaining to religious matters same way we would not expect a Shankracharya or Imam of Jama Masjid to interfere during social tensions. Church cannot claim political leadership of christians across india, we have elected representatives in parliament who is responsible for providing political ledership to the country. Its not the first time church is dabbling into political matters.

In kerala, Self-Financing Colleges Act aimed at controlling, and bringing under state control, the engineering and medical colleges, predominantly, controlled by the church, evoked sharp protests and violent agitations by the church. So much so that Church threatened a 'second liberation struggle' to rid Kerala of communist rule.

The Kerala Bishops' Council consisting of religions heads of all major church faction like Syro-Malankara Catholic, Roman Catholic, Marthoma, Malankara, Orthodox, Latin Catholic, CSI etc have formed an 'Inter Church Council for Education' to unify their agitations. 'Pastoral letters' were read in all the churches against the CPM's tactic to infringe on minority rights enshrined in the Constitution. The Bishop thundered and called upon church followers to even spill blood and sacrifice lives to protect Christianity and said

"Nobody will be allowed to destroy education institutions run by the church and any persecution on institutions will be strongly resisted. Taking away rights of appointments of teachers and staff, making Sundays working days and handing over control of church-run institutions to local bodies, will be strongly resisted. If CPM has its way, students will wish each other 'Lal salam', 'Inquilab zindabad,' totally destroying faith, culture and religions values",

Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor - An investigation who everyone forgot!

Founded in 1987 by Mathew Naickomparambil in Muringoor near Potta, the Catholic run Charismatic Divine Retreat Centre(CDRC) is projected as a byword for miraculous healing, cure for addictions, strong spiritual experiences, and a way of life founded on the Bible!. The propaganda is the blind can see, the dumb can talk and the lame can walk once he visits "Potta".

Several months back based on an anonymous letter complaining about criminal and anti-social activities taking place at the center, High Court initiated a suo motu proceedings and ordered an SIT Inquiry into the allegation of foreign exchange violations by the center and unnatural deaths that took place in and around the center during a period of two years.

A team lead by Vinson M. Paul, Inspector General of Police probed into various allegations. What came tumbling out of Centre's closet were mind numbing allegations of sexual harassment, missing persons, mysterious deaths, financial irregularities and illegally running a hospital!. Based on the findings of investigation Director-General of Prosecutions (DGP) made a submission to court that ‘‘shocking’’ facts had been unearthed by the police and medical team that inspected Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor, and that they could not be disclosed in open court, Justice K R Udayabhanu of the Kerala High Court on Monday directed the investigation team to submit a confidential report within two weeks.

It was found:-

1. During 1996-2006, as many as 974 premature deaths occurred at the centre, and bodies were cremated without providing information to the police. The documents were allegedly forged to make it appear that the deaths were natural.

2. Conducting of a psychiatric institution without license, administration of psychiatric drugs on several persons (15 persons are still at the centre).

3. Several persons were locked in cells. Persons showing violent signs are injected with some unknown drugs. Treatment is imparted by untrained persons. There are no medical practitioners at the centre.

However what followed after the investigation can be quoted as shining example of "secularism"

Congress strongly opposed the investigation. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala said

the Left Democratic Front Government (LDF) should apologise to the authorities of the Divine Retreat Centre at Muringoor for having "raided" it.

Based on writ petition by Fr George Panackal, Director of the Centre, DGP was made to give an undertaking before the Kerala High Court that the results of the investigation by the special team investigating the allegations against Divine Retreat Centre Muringoor, Thrissur, would not be leaked out to the media.!

This march, The Supreme Court verdict e null and void the Kerala High Court single judge’s order for investigation into the functioning of the Divine Retreat Centre at Muringoor High Court judges cannot treat anonymous letters and petitions listing allegations against individuals or institutions as public interest litigation and order suo motu investigation.

Now no one remebers the investigation....

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Fart Alert

Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel

“Those Bangladeshis who are already staying in India should be provided citizenship"

PaswanJi, Lets go the Hog and give all the bangladeshi nationals Indian citizenship. That will solve this problem of illegal immigrants once for all

An introduction to RSS

From a Chinese website

Root Cause of Riots for last 175 Years

POLITICS OF COMMUNALISM
By: Ms Zenab Banu
Appendix IV, Page 175-193

As published by Government of India

Source

Year	Place	Immediate Cause
1713 AD	Ahmedabad	Opposition to solemnise the holi festival on the one side and the cow slaughter on the other side between the neighbors of the two opposite communities.
1719-20	Kashmir	Vendetta of a Muslim gentleman of position against the Hindus
1729	Delhi	The murder of a Mussalman by a Hindu for reason not known
Dec.1782	Sylhet, Assam	The Muslims (having 2/3 majority) demanded the Hindus the discontinuance of their religious ceremonies during the Muharram. Hindus refused to comply with this and petitioned Jinday (Officer Incharge of the Distt) for redressal.
Sept.1786	Balpur & other places in Berar	Muslim committed armed attack on the Hindus who were busy in their prayers.
1809	Banaras	The attempted construction of a building by Hindus on the Veutrog construction ground between the Mosque (built by Aurangzeb) and the present temple of Bisheshwas.
1840	Moradabad	(no cause was given)
1851	Bombay	Publication of some thing undesirable against prophet Mohammed by a Parsi in Gujrati paper.
1857	Moradabad, Bijnaur	(After mutiny, no cause given)
1871	Bareilly	Moharram and Ramnavami festivals fall on the same day.
1874	Bombay	A book in Gujrati published by a RH Jalbhoy "Great Prophets of the World"
1873-84	Mopala riots near Calicut	Intense provocation given to the Mopalas by the action of Raman who married a Muslim woman and soon after marriage reverted to Hinduism.
Oct.1886	Etawah & Delhi	The simultaneous occurrence of two religious festivals, Ramlila of Hindus and Moharram of Muslims.
1887	Bareilly	Moharram and Ramnavami festivals.
1889	Delhi	Conversion of a Hindu to Islam
1890	Aligarh	Obstruction of places of worship -- A pot of flesh was thrown at night in a mosque then beef was hung into two Hindu wells.
May1891	Calcutta	Friction between the parties over the building of a mosque
1891	Polaked in Salur district	Religious Hindu procession attacked by Muslims
July 1892	Prabhaspatan	Moharram festival
Aug1893	Bombay-2	Muslims gathered an impression that they needed special protection and that the European system of administration tended to increase the influence of the Hindus at their expense.
Sept1893	Kolaba dist.	--do--
1893	Ballia in UP	A reaction to the cow protection movement
1894	Madras	Vijaya Dasmi Day – Muslims pelted the idol and the processionists with cow dung (?)
Feb1894	Yeola in Nasik	Obstruction of Moharram (Tazia) by Hindus
July1895	Porbundar	Muslim procession passing through Hindu quarter.
1895	Dhulia	Ganpati procession attacked by Muslims
1907	Morghat	Partition of Bengal
1907	Memonsingh	The reasons were partly the growing irritation of the Muslims with the Swadeshi agitation and the boycott of European goods, engineered by the Hindus.
1910	Peshawar	Holi and Muslim festival Bara Wafat were on the same day.
1912	Ayodhya, Faizabad	Over the sacrifice of cows by the Muslims on the occasion of Bakri Id.
1913	Nellore	Construction and demolition of a mosque
1913	Kanpur	Muslim's resentment over the demolition of a lavatory attached to a mosque in connection with Municipal improvements.
1916	Patna	On Bakri-Id Hindu mob tried to prevent Muslims for performance of sacrifice.
1918	Gaya & Shahabad	Hindus terrorised the Muslims and prevented them from performing the sacrifice.
1921	Malegaon	Indian Council's Act of 1919
1921	Bangalore	Resentment of non-coperation movement
1922	Multan	--do--
1923	Amritsar, Lahore, Saharanpur in UP	All over India 15-20 severe riots took place due to Shudhi movement originated by Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
1924	Allahabad, Calcutta, and many other cities	Id festival and growing influence of Shidhi movement
1925	Calcutta	(no reason given)
1926	Calcutta	Music before the mosque
1926	Delhi, Patna, Rawalpindi, Allahabad, Dacca	Deep-rooted hatred and animosity engineered the riots with a minor incident.
Jan.1927	Paluakhali and Poonabalia	A quarrel between two persons of opposite communities.
Feb, 1927	Larkana, Lahore	---do---
June 1927	Dinapur, Multan Bettiah, Comila	Suspicion and deep rooted hatred engineered the riot.
Sept.1927	Nagpur	Muslim procession molesting a Hindu passerby
Sept.1927	Ahmedabad	Muslim prayer in Mosque and Hindu song in temple coming into conflict.
Sept.1927	Dehradoon	Ram Lila procession
Nov.1927	Delhi	The procession of a Muslim dead body who killed a Hindu Mahant
1928	Bangalore, Surat Nasik, Hydrabad	Bakri-Id
1929	Bombay	Some labour dispute engineered riot
1930	Dacca	In reaction of civil disobedience movement
1931	Banaras	---do---
1932	Bombay, Alwar	---do---
1933	Alwar, Calcutta	---do---
1935	Bharanga	---do---
1935	Hazaribagh	Ram Navami and Moharram on the same day
1935	Firozabad	Burnt a house with 11 persons including 3 children in continuance of above chain
1935	Champaran	---do---
1935	Shikandarabad	---do---
1935	Lahore	Out of some old vendetta
1935	Dudhial	Lahore reaction
1936	Poona-Khanapur	---do---
1936	Jamalpur	Music before a mosque by Hindu wedding procession
1936	Byculla	Temple-Mosque dispute
1937	UP	Cattle fair
1939	Asansole	Demolition of a holy book Ramayana by an opposite communty person
1939	Delhi	Quarrel between two persons
1939	Gawanpore	An attack by Muslims on Hindu marriage party
1939	# of dists. in UP	Holi festival and Calcutta
1939	Gaya	Music before a mosque
1939	Kanpur	Processionists attacked by opposite community persons.
1939	Meerut	Reaction to it.
1939	Sindh	---do---
1939	Sukkar	---do---
1941	Calcutta	Occasion of Moharram
1941	Ahmedabad	Muslims set fire to Maneckchowk bazaar, Predominance of Hindus
1946	Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bombay, Noakhali, Patna, Dacca, et al	Muslim league gave a call for liberation week
1948	Udaipur	Quarrelling between two groups belonging to two opposite communities
1949	Secundrabad, Hydrabad, Saharanpur, Hambal	Started round Tonga, which was suspected to be carrying beef through a Hindu locality.
1949	Akola	Slaughter of a cow in a Muslim household
1950	Calcutta, Delhi Pilibhit, ALigarh Dhubri, Bombay,	Hindu militant group RSS tried to frustrate Indian Muslims to leave India
1951	Mangrol	---do---
1952	Banaras	Hindus tried to carry out repairs to a place of worship of theirs adjacent to a mosque sanctioned by the city Magistrate.
1953	Viramgaom	Holi festival
1953	Bhopal	Stone throwing by some miscreants at a procession taken by the Hindu Mahasabha to protest against cow slaughter.
1953	Gauhati	Angry crowd tried to prevent a Muslim family from sacrificing cow
1953	Nasik, Poona, Sangli	Ganapati festival and Moharram coincide
1953	Ahmedabad	---do---
1953	Poona	Arson bid in Poona
1953	Sholapur	Ganpati immersion day playing music before a mosque.
1953	Jamnagar	A boy stabbing a cow near a hotel
1954	Ghaziabad	Slaughter of a stolen cow
1954	Aligarh	Over the price of a melon between a hawker and a customer
1954	Nizamabad	Some persons hoisted the Pakistani flag on the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
1954	Mathura	Some persons broke the idol of Krishna, which was installed for worship in a temple near Idgah mosque
1954	Gulbarga, Mannila, Fatehpur	Paskistani flag was hoisted over a temple of Ganesh
1956	Bhopal	Holi festival – Muslims threw bones in the Holi fire and an idol in a temple was defiled.
1956	Sholapur	Rival claims to a shrine made by the two communities.
1956	Many parts of UP	A publication of the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan alleging insulting reference to Prophet Mohammed.
1956	Jabalpur	Forcibly closing down of shops in protest against damage to an idol of Ganapati.
1956	Khamgaon	Attack on a Ganapati procession before a mosque by a crowd.
1957	Hazaribagh	A clash between students in Moharram procession
1958	Belgaun	A procession of Hindus with music before a mosque
1958	Dulhia	Unauthorised cow slaughter
1958	Yeola	Muslims objecting a procession of Ganpati Idol.
1958	Bagalkot	A procession of RSS was stoned near Panka mosque
1959	Lucknow	Sprinkling of colour on Muslim on Holi festival by a Hindu
1958	Bhopal	----do----
1958	Sitamarhi	Spreading of a rumour that a cow was slaughtered
1960	Hubli	Idol of Maruti disfigured by someone
1960	Firozabad	Ramlila procession
1960	Saharanpur	Ramlila procession
1961	Jabalpur, Sangore, Narsinghpur, Damoh	Effort to molest a Hindu girl
1961	Palanpur	Discovery of animal bones in the place of worship
1961	Many cities in UP	Aligarh University hostel boy misbehaved with hostel girl
1961	Bhopal	Meeting of Jana Sangh Dist. Committee
1961	Vidisha, Bhopal	Hindu procession being disturbed by Muslims
1962	Sikundra	Slaughter of a cow
1962	Malda in WB	A week's agitation against the publication of a picture of Mohammed
1962	Agra	A quarrel between two persons belonging to opposite communities
1962	Mandsaur	A dispute over a business transaction
1962	Bareilly	Throwing of stones on a procession of Hindus passing through Muslim residential area
1962	Ratanagiri	Ganpati procession attacked by Muslims
1963	Junagarh	Criminal assault by two Muslim youths on a Hindu girl
1963	Islampur	Muslim participants of Moharram procession attacked by the police with lathi
1963	Akola	Ganpati idol was attacked by stones
1963	Nadia, Calcutta	Hair of Mohammed from Hazratbal mosque were stolen
1963	Srinagar	---do---
1964	Bihar, Orissa	Train carrying refugees of East Pakistan
1965	Udaipur	Scuffle between the two neighbors of opposite community
1966	Udaipur	Scuffle between the two wrestlers of two communities
1967	Ranchi	Brick batting on the Urdu agitators' procession
1967	Srinagar	Religious conversion and marriage of a girl of the Pandi community to a Muslim youth
1968	Meerut	A conference organised by the Jamaat-e- Islami in a college and a procession crossed by Jan Sangh
1968	Karimganj	Scuffle between two boys of opposite community on a cow of a Muslim
1968	Vizhinjam	Clash between Muslims and Christians when Muslims embarked on aggressive violent acts against catholics
1968	Allahabad	Holy reveller threw water color on a Muslim who pulled out a pistol
1968	Auditanda	Ramnavmi procession
1968	Manglore	Muslims had assaulted a Hindu fisherman
1968	Aurangabad	A Muslim bakery servant's attack on a cow with a knife
1968	Nagpur	Scuffle between a Muslim barber and a Neo Buddha
1968	Parbhani	A Hindu college student stabbed by one Muslim Rikshaw puller
1968	Mabajogi	Scuffle among students
1968	Pupri	Durga procession passed through a Muslim inhabited area
1968	Gumdum	A Hindu procession
1968	Cuttack	Music in front of mosque
1968	Veeranal	News of a death of a Muslim in his house
1969	Kendrapa	Music near a mosque
1969	Calcutta	Muslim demonstration before the office of the 'Statesman'
1969	Anjar	A clash between two persons of opposite community
1969	Hubli	Muslims objected to throwing of colored water on them on Holi
1969	Mau in UP	Beating of a Hindu boy by Muslim boys
1969	Anjar	An armed mob of Muslims attacked Hindus
1969	Gujarat	Mutual suspicion and animosity between the two communities
1969	Ahmedabad	Atack on Jaganath temple by Muslims
1969	Other cities in Guj	Repurcussions of above
1970	Chaibasa	Ram Navmi procession
1970	Bhiwandi and other parts of Maharashtra	Beginning with a quarrel between two persons of opposite communities
1972	Tonk	Bakri Id
1972	Banaras	Bakri Id
1973	Delhi	Two groups of miscreants clashed at Bara Hindu Rao area
1974	Jugeshwari	Anti-Muslim feeling injected by Shiv Sena workers in the minds of general people
1974	Delhi	Quarreling of two persons belonging to two opposite communities
1975	Jogeshwari	Militant action of Shiv Sena volunteers
1977	Chittorgarh	Id Festival
1977	Benaras	Durga procession

Secular and Non Secular Violence

As we speak there is a major law and order problem brewing in Kerala.

Twelve people were injured Wednesday in clashes between activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) at Nadapuram. Clashes erupted in the evening when the two parties were taking out processions in Nadapuram, about 70 km from here. Members of the two rallies started attacking each other with stones and country-made bombs. The trouble started when an IUML panchayat secretary was injured in an attack Tuesday night allegedly by CPM goondas.

On one side we have a huge media coverage on clashes in Orissa and on the other side such violence is not even mentioned in media. However, the scenario would have been different if one of the party was BJP(or any member of sangh Parivar) instead of CPM. Have Media started categorising even the violence as secular and non secualr violence and on non secular violence?

Fart Alert

Rahul Gandhi said on Friday.

"A sapling was planted which has grown into a tree in Amethi. Now, I want to create a jungle and spread it all over Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere in the country,"

Dont worry crown price, UPA govt. is working hard to have Jungle Raj in this country.

Rahul while talking to 1,000 odd women in Amethi

"do you know Bangladesh?"

I guess next time in Loksabha he will cover the plight of poor people who are managing to survive without knowledge of geography( just like he narrated the saga of Kalawati and sasikala during last speech)

Indian Express supporting conversion?

The banners prominently displayed on Indian Express site belongs to World Vision. World Visions claims themselves to be "Christian relief and development agency" but there are allegations that they are involved in conversion in India.

Earlier this month, police detained Pradesh Kumar Das, an employee of the World Vision from Khadagpur while escaping from the district at Buguda. He is suspected to be linked to murder of 85 year old Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati

I suggest people should visit World Vision website and browse thru the names of child's "to be sponsored" do you see something missing?

Sarah Palin - Mccains running mate

Currently the hottest governor in US

So Pope's deploration can do wonders!

After Popes strong condemnation Manmohan Singh on Thursday described the ongoing violence in Orissa as a “shame on the nation” and is understood to have assured a delegation of church leaders that Rs. 3 lakh would be given as compensation to the families of those killed. I am not sure whether this would be applicable for the seer & the four others of the ashram who were killed earlier.

Briefing mediapersons after meeting the Prime Minister, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) spokesman Babu Joseph said that besides Dr. Singh’s compensation promise, funds would be released from the Prime Ministers’ Relief Fund for providing relief and rehabilitation to all those affected by the violence.

Since Poe has the ear of Manmohan singh, I think we should request Pope to take up the Ram Sethu and Amarnath issue also with Manmohan singh.