Your thumb says it all: CPM MP Abdullakutty

Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurakkal Abdullakkutty, the youngest CPM MP from Kerala comes from Kannur, the Marxist citadel in God's Own Country.

In the first issue of Yathra, a travel magazine published by the Mathrubhumi newspaper group, Abdullakutty has penned an article on his spiritual journey to Vaitheeswaran Koil, in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district, famous for the centuries-old Nadi astrology. In the article, the MP said he had squatted in front of a Nadi astrologer, in his search for his birthday, which his family had failed to give all these years.

In the article ‘Your thumb says it all’, Abdullakutty writes that his date of birth has been an issue haunting him all these years. He had not celebrated birthdays as he did not know the exact date. He said the journey to Vaitheeswaran Koil was a search for destiny, after he had exhausted all other means.

Abdullakuty said he asked the astrologer to read chapters on birth and family and the latter gave ‘almost’ correct answers. He said he was taken aback when the astrologer asked whether he was an MP or an MLA. “After some time, the astrologer came with my horoscope and read out all details about my birth, including the star, date and time of birth etc. And he continued to say things about my past and future. I did not hear it...I was satisfied that I got a birthday. That was enough,” he completes the write-up.

“It is believed that the past, present and future of all humans were foreseen and recorded by ancient sages like Vasishta and Agastya in palm leaves and kept in Vaitheeswaran Koil. There is a scripture pertaining to each individual, comprising all details from birth to death.”

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Why has Maruti changed its logo to Suzuki Logo?

Alto with Suzuki Logo

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Old Maruthi 800 with Maruti Logo

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Why has Maruti started using Suzuki logo?

Casanova Fidel Castro

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has slept with 35,000 women in his 82 years of life, according to an upcoming documentary. The New York Post quoted an ex-Castro official named "Ramon" as telling filmmaker Ian Halperin. "He slept with at least two women a day for more than four decades - one for lunch and one for supper,"."Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast," the official said."

I personally think, Fidel was a fair person he was not partial to women. Atleast the phrase communism screws people stands proved "literally"

Union Minister to lead team to Vatican for canonisation of the Alphonsa

Indian government is sending a official delegation for canonisation of the sister Alphonsa. The official delegation will be led by Union Minister Oscar Fernandes. The Kerala government will be officially represented by Mons Joseph, Minister for Public Works. In addition, Kerala Congress leaders K.M. Mani, MLA, P.C. Thomas, MP, P.C. George, MLA, and Congress leader K,V, Thomas also form part of the official delegation which is expected to move to Vatican on Friday.

In addition to the above, the cash strapped kerala govt. has taken up Rs.3-crore developmental for the roads leading to Bharananganam the birth place of sister Alphonsa.

The ministers will be accompanied by Church delegation led by Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church.

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Following question needs to be asked:-

1. Why union government has to send a Official delegation for a Vatican religious fucntion?

2. This is the same Kerala CPM government which had started a state-wide hunt for godmen(read hindu). The main reason for In the case of Sister Alphonsa, is because cleft foot of Jinil Shaji was healed following the prayers at the tomb of the Sister Alphons. Do the atheist CPM endrose this claim?

Jamia University supporting terror?

The Jamia Millia Islamia University would provide legal aid to two suspended students who have been arrested by Delhi Police for being allegedly involved in the serial blasts in the capital.

Varsity spokesperson Rakshanda Jaleel "Legal aid would be provided till they are not found guilty,"

The executive committee of Jamia teacher’s association (JTA) also announced their commitment to provide financial support to the two students of the university, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in terror activities. The JTA praised the university’s move to provide legal assistance to the two students. They further demanded from the university that no disciplinary action should be initiated against the students unless they are proven guilty by the court of law.

For accused who cannot afford, Legal aid is provided in our country. The university need not interfere. With this act, the university which runs on government funds have basically shown lack of faith in the government. HR Minister by suppiorting this move is working against his own government and also advocating mistrust of his own government.

US national debt clock runs out of digits

In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure -- the "1" in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion.

The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.

The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt

Mulayam, an ISI Agent?

The book Fulcrum of Evil ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus written by Maloy Krishna Dhar, a retired joint-director of the Intelligence Bureau has in detail narrated instances of the penetration of the KGB and CIA in the country.

Dhar writes, in the book's sixth chapter called Mission Based Operations:

“In Central-Northern India, Pakistan had achieved spectacular success in penetrating over a dozen legislators and a provincial chief minister, who had come under the scanner for maintaining questionable clandestine links"

. After BJP leaders Keshrinath Tripathi and Lalji Tandon raised this in parliament, Mulayam himself admitted that said

“He (Dhar) has not mentioned my name but I know he is referring to me.

There are several incidents which can substantiate this claim. In 1994-95 when the Intelligence Bureau (IB) informed the state government about two terrorists hiding in Nadwa College. The police records confirm that with the help of state police, IB officials raided Nadwa College hostel, where instead of police nabbing the suspects, students locked two policemen in a room. Mulayam Singh intervened and got the raid aborted helping the terrorist escape. Mulayam then transferred many officers who were involved in this.

Everyone is aware of the public support of SIMI from Mulayam. Mulayam government withdrew the case against a dozen activists of SIMI. According to police records, a case was filed at a district court in Bahraich in which the then SIMI national president Shahid Badr Falahi, along with his 12 followers, was charged of delivering an incendiary speech. Similar cases were filed at Gorakhpur and Azamgarh also. Finally, the police caught these SIMI activists in 2002. In 2006 June the government issued an order to withdraw the case against these SIMI activists.
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Why Article 355 will not be imposed in Assam...

The Centre seems to have different yardsticks when it comes to evaluating communal violence in states. The home ministry — which sent a couple of 'strong' directives to Orissa and Karnataka — has spared Congress-ruled Assam of any 'strict' missive despite 47 people being killed in communal fighting.

Is it because the perpetrators of the crime is a predominantly Christian organization?

Today, Assam govt accuses NDFB of ethnic cleansing. for the unaware, the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) is a large Christian rebel group fighting for an independent tribal homeland. The purported objective of this outfit is to secure a "sovereign Bodoland" in the areas north of the river Brahmaputra. While the other Bodo groups, such as the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), demanded a separate state within Indian territory for the Bodo people, the NDFB wants a separate country for itself.

The other demand of the NDFB is regarding the script of the Bodo language. Currently the Bodo language is written in Devnagri script; NDFB, whose members are mostly Christians, prefer to use the Roman script.

They also were implicated in the assassination of Bineshwar Brahma, a prominent Hindu activist in Bodoland opposed to the writing of the Bodo language in Roman script.

1. Why is UPA Govt using different yardstick in this case?

2. Why is the secular media crying hoarse about attacks in Karanataka and Orrisa so silent on the key perpetrators in Assam?

3. Why is church in shutting its school in protest against this violence?

4. Where is Pope?

I guess this might be secular violence

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Fork Tongued NDTV!

KFC: Think before your eat....

KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious.

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AICC Secretary Parvez Hashmi on encounter death of two terrorits at Batla House:

“Reports have created apprehension among the minority community about the police encounter being fake. I, Kapil Sibal, some advocates and professors and representatives of the RWAs, therefore, met the Chief Minister on Monday to demand a judicial inquiry. She said she would talk to the Prime Minister. We will also meet the Prime Minister in this connection.”

Mia Parvez, We can understand your pain and love for the kin. But dont you think you should atleast do some hollow talk to express your "sympathy" for the innocent victims and Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to United States President George W. Bush

“People of India deeply love you,”

The Mother Hen Syndrome - Part II

This blog should be read along with my previous blog "The Mother Hen Syndrome"

In a statement fraught with great danger and implications, the Archbishop of Delhi, Vincent Concesso, in an interview to Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate, has demanded

Congress president and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi must speak out clearly against the attacks. He also claimed that Sonia Gandhi is not speaking out for the Christians fearing that the Hindutva brigade will attack her on the grounds that she is helping Christians because she is herself one.

I hope Arch Bishop understands the implication of what he is suggesting and desiring. Sonia Gandhi is Chair Person of UPA and leader of party ruling the country. She is is NOT the representative of a group of section of people! She donot (hopefully) take diktats from church and its bishops.

A commentary on Kerala Society

Kerala is a place where you cannot get agriculture labourers because everyone is literate and thinks manual labour is unbecoming. The minimum wages that you have to pay to any manual labourer is Rs. 250/- a day - for 6 hours of what they deem to be ‘work’. The carpenter gets Rs. 300/- to Rs. 500/- a day. A live-in maid comes at not less than Rs. 4500/- plus food and clothes, a month. If you use her for other things, you pay extra. All labourers come to work in motorcycles or scooters.

Kerala is ‘Gulf’ to manual labourers from other states. There is practically no unemployment here after 2000, if you are ready to work. The greediest of young men work in ‘quotation gangs’ that recover money for banks like ICICI, HSBC, HDFC etc, or beat up people for politicians or similar others. They quote in 10000s to lakhs.

Malayali workers including head loaders, and employees including college teachers are, within Kerala, a disgrace to world labour. To them, work is worship of selfish indolence, and exercising of the tongue. Chaathans, created by the great VKN is the best possible presentation of our poor farm labourer.

The Communist parties profess the raising of the living standards of the working class and their leaders. They have thus managed to raise the lifestyles of even coolies or head-loaders to Star levels. Clerks and peons of government departments like Revenue, Registration, and Transport etc earn much more than MNC CEOs, thanks to their unions’ protecting bribe-taking. College lecturers earn at UGC levels without possessing the stipulated qualifications, only because of their Left unions. Secure monthly salary earners are deemed the genuine working class because they pay more and regular Union levies.

Kerala has a population of about 4 % of the country. Projected population for 1st March 2008 is 3, 42, 32,000. We have land of 1.18% of India. The quantum of land 38863 sq. kms or 9 603 00000 cents cannot change.

Of this geographical area, 48% is mountainous or hilly. 12% is the coastal lowlands. The remaining 40% of midlands alone is suitable for human dwelling. That is to say, for 4% percent of the country’s population, only about 0. 45% of its land is available for living and surviving.

In land-starved Kerala, the largest landowners are the government, the Christian plantation owners and the Church. Every time that the CPM has been in power, grabbing of government land by the party workers is usual. The party, however, is now no longer of the poor; it is now a party of contractors, brokers and businesspersons. The CPM thus having moved away from the downtrodden, new forces like the Muslim Solidarity, Catholic Infam and foreign-funded environment organizations moved in to rescue the poor. The Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyukta Vedi (SJVSV) that has started the Chengara land-grab is one such saviour-outfit of dubious origins.

The pressure on land is our greatest weakness. Our earlier planners did not give this matter honest consideration. We should have planned for development without disturbing or destroying the highlands and lowlands. You meddle with mother Earth and you suffer – our planners ignored this old rule.

Institutional support by the Church to encroachments is responsible for the destruction of our hills. Muthanga was the zenith of their achievement under a Catholic ruler. Sex tourism is responsible for the vandalisation of our coasts.

Land belongs to all of us equally. We also have responsibility to it. Calculating on 960300000 cents and 34232000 humans, individual share comes to 28 cents each. Permissible human usage-share is 40% of that total. Thus, each of us has a birthright to only 11 cents of the land area in Kerala. If you allow a further deduction of 30% to man-made infrastructure like roads, public grounds and buildings, other public utilities etc, a Keralite can claim or own to himself only 7 cents or so.

It is against this ground reality that Chengara orphans demand five acres of land suitable for agriculture and Rs.50,000 in cash for each landless family among them [The Hindu 04.06.2008]. The demands are typically Malayali – similar to demanding that you shut your thattu-kada, stop plying your autorikshaw or not take your ill child to the hospital, for ‘their’ Bandh. It is mere bullying. And we would not dare to do it outside Kerala borders.
Meeting the demand would need only about 40000 acres of land.

I heard Laha Gopalan say many times on TV that the Chengara camp has people of all castes, and that it is only an agitation of people who do not have as much land as their birthright [they having only 4 to 10 cents] and the landless. This might mean that it is not an agitation of landless Dalits; or at least, not any longer. Laha Gopalan himself has by his own admission, only one hectare or 247 cents valued at Rs. 24, 70,000/-

In 3 years, 30% of the active population in Kerala would be non-Malayali or immigrant labour. The Chengara model would serve them well. TRESPASS, SQUAT, GRAB! We need not stop with land alone in the Chengara culture.

There are reports that the organisers of the land-grab collect admission fees ranging from Rs.6000/- upwards from the squatters. As per the Vedi’s claims, as many as 24,000 people belonging to 7,282 families are occupying about 14,000 acres of land at the Kumbazha Estate. The number of makeshift huts pitched at the estate will be around 7,800. The money collected might thus come to crores of Rupees, exclusive of financial assistance received from various Agencies.

Medha Patkar, Arundhati Roy and similar mega-stars’ going to Chengara to proclaim support was only like Henry Kissinger’s having come to New Delhi in November 2007 on behalf of the NSG corporates, to sort out the Left’s misgivings about the reciprocal arrangements for their agreeing to the Nuclear Deal. Such initiatives need spending.

Harrisons Plantations is a company of the RP Goenka group. It is not a foreign company, as depicted by the activists and the media. From 2005, they have been selling off pieces of the Estates in Kerala to real estate companies. The land was not theirs; and their lease with the owners, the Kerala government, had run out in 2005. However, neither Left nor Right, or activist raised any voice against the fraud.http://www.moneycontrol.com/mccode/news/article/news_article.php?autono=169951

The Harrison’s Kodumon Estate land grab by Laha Gopalan and his group in 2006 and the Chengara land-grab of 2007 might thus have been some trick by some real estate group to force a cheap sale of the land. The huge funds spent in mobilising media and activist support could have come from that group. Alternately, it might have been a trick by RPG themselves to escape from Kerala without paying the rent to the government [they have reportedly not paid it for 20 years] and the employee benefits to the labour. After the lease ran out, RPG had availed a loan of Rs. 100 crores from the ICICI Bank on the security of the Estate, on which they had no rights at that point of time. The land grab might also have been to avert having to repay the Bank.

AK Balan, Kerala’s Minister for SC/STs, has already called Chengara a ‘state-sponsored agitation’. It is like Kerala’s Private Bus operators’ agitating and frequently stopping services to make the public agree in agony to fare-hikes by an eager ministry. In the name of settlement of Chengara orphans, government land elsewhere would soon be allotted. The Estate might also be divided and allotted to different employees’ co-operatives, to benefit all the political parties. On 17.9.2008, Laha Gopalan categorically said on Doordarshan that they would not accept land at Chengara, even if no other land were given.

The rehabilitation initiative would be used more as a ploy to allot land to LDF cadres. Each party would have quotas, as had been with the Plus 2 allotment. Anyone that would pay the leaders would get choice real estate ‘free’. By 2010, the plots thus allotted would be consolidated to build resorts, amusement parks or professional colleges. Either the Party leaders themselves or Comrades like Farris Aboobacker would be the entrepreneurs on the land. Chengara would thus be revealed as a Total4 U, in a few more months.
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On 20th September 2008, AK Balan, Kerala’s Minister for SC/STs, announced that beginning October 5th, the government would begin a massive Scheme for allotting land to the landless all over the State. A total of 15000 acres would thus be disposed off. Houses would also be built for the beneficiaries. Chengara squatters would be the first to benefit under the Scheme, he said.

What is to happen to the landless among the middle classes of Kerala, who are unable to have houses of their own because of the inhuman cost of land in Kerala? Would they also have to squat and threaten suicide to have 7 cents for a house each?

Average minimum cost of land in Kerala is Rs.10 lakhs per acre in the rural parts. In places like Kochi, it is around half to one crore a cent. How much of public wealth would be lost when 15000 acres is freely given away to squatters?

The intellectual activists would not answer. Perhaps, their cut is already paid in advance?

Contributed by R. Sajan

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The Home Minister had raised eyebrows for changing three sets of clothes on the night of Delhi blasts earlier this month.

He had reacted to such reports saying

"Main so gaya, main patte khel raha hoon, main daru peeke baitha hoon, main dance club jaata hoon toh aap mujhe dosh dijiye (Blame me if I am sleeping (on the job), playing cards, drinking and whiling away time and frequenting dance clubs)".

Shivraj Ji, We would have been happy if you had spend your time even on Drinking or Playing Card even that can be considered somewhat productive

Uma Bharathi: What a Fall Literally and otherwise.

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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.