Save Me From Charismatic Leaders! Nehru was a trying to remain Chikna in western eye. In domestic affairs he was autocratic.

Two things should have happened:

1. Dissolution of kangress in 1947 as per Mahatma Gandhis suggestion

2. Ban on Northies becoming PM for next 100 years, because Mughlai had seeped to their DNA. Mughlai and British Shahi where sychophants are rewarded with watans will not allow true democracy, pride in native culture and talent.

I might add one more moving capital to Nagpur.

Save Me From Charismatic Leaders! "When the time came for Thimayya to retire, it was expected that the brilliant commander of proven ability, Gen S P P Thorat, would be made chief superseding Gen Thapar. But the government opted for the meek and submissive Thapar, much to the disappointment of almost the entire officer cadre in the army.

"I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things... If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else... what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today there is no place for weak nations... We have been living in an unreal world of our own creation."
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajya Sabha, 1963

Instead of "I", Nehru used the collective "we", a clear indication of his reluctance to own up his own mistakes as a man.
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/dec/18chin.htm

Faith and Religion Dharma is very different from Abrahmic concept called religion. Religions are basically armed legions to enslave and subjugate "other" people. They grab other people's land, rape women and plunder their wealth.

Dharma starts when the mind is dropped. Book is mind creation. Abrahmic religions including Marxism put Burkha of the book over the real ugly above mentioned real body of re-legions. Dharma is spontaneous... happens in pure awareness of Samadhi.

I guess this spontaneity in the DNA of Dharmic people is making them adapt to the new situation better and also be creative to mold the perceived reality. This is what is going to make sure that Dharma will lead in the form of growth in coutries such as India, China, Japan, Vietnam & Korea, and as life style of Yoga & Meditation in the west.
End of Religion is visible. Thank Allaha, Abrahma or whatever world is finally being cured of Abrahmatis.

Save Me From Charismatic Leaders! Dost,

Are you paid to write by agencies so that Baki Jihadis drop their AK 47s and grab nearest key board. Retired BA (Hon) are good at shakespearian "wordy" G-giri. Just read first few lines of your article.

Charismatic leader are Star-Dusty or Film-Fairy media creation. Obama almost planned his rise after his community developmental work by cultivating friendships with high-ups in both parties. He is a very good political animal with vision abilities not too better than Bobby Jindal. The biggest difference is that he DID work at grass-root. None of your other charismatic leaders did the same. He is also a good organizer. Bobby Jindals are merely opportunists who might even sell their mothers to rise up. Most our leaders such as Dracula and Chikna Nehrus are Anglo nurtured and media propped leaders.

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CHICAGO - An unlikely visitor came calling one day in 1986 at the offices of the tony Chicago conservation group Friends of the Parks: a gangly, boyish community organizer from the rough-and-tumble far South Side named Barack Obama.

Dressed in a black leather bomber jacket, he made his pitch softly and earnestly to the group's community planner. Parents in the blighted, minority neighborhoods where he worked were desperate for safe, inviting play areas for their kids, but they lacked clout. Friends of the Parks had clout but sought ways to increase its efforts for minorities.

Together, Obama argued, the two groups could persuade Chicago's recalcitrant parks district to improve green areas on the far South Side, which had been devastated by steel-plant closings.

The meeting was scheduled to last 30 minutes but stretched to two hours, recalls Johnny Owens, the community planner. "He had an air of authority and a presence that made you want to listen," Owens said.

It was the first step in an informal partnership between Obama's constituents and Friends of the Parks that led to renovations and increased security in a handful of far South Side parks and playgrounds.

Ensuring that swings have seats and sandboxes are free of glass might not seem requisite skills for a man who could be president of the United States. But associates say Obama's approach to the unglamorous task illustrates his style as a community organizer - an experience he cites as "the best education I ever had," qualifying him to unite a racially and socially fractured nation and "create change from the bottom up."

"Barack realized that to get things done, you need to mobilize people in a collaborative way," said Gerald Kellman, the Chicago community organizer who hired Obama to work in the far South Side in 1985.

"He was a bridge-builder," recalled Friends of the Parks president Erma Tranter.

A tour of Obama's far South Side haunts and interviews with past associates paint a somewhat more complex picture.

A few critics claim Obama, now 46, exaggerates his accomplishments, particularly in spearheading asbestos cleanup at a low-income housing project. He omits from his account of that fight a longtime community activist who many people say played a significant role.

And for all his emphasis on the value of grassroots organizing, Obama eventually decided he also needed a law degree to enact lasting change, attending Harvard University. Many associates also view his seven years in the marbled halls of the Illinois State Senate and three years in the U.S. Senate to be as formative as his three years in far South Side trenches.

Further blurring the picture are his descriptions of community organizing in his youthful memoir, "Dreams From My Father," in which he admits he disguises names, creates composite characters, switches some chronologies and uses "approximations" of dialogue.

But what is clear is that Obama got a tough lesson in confronting entrenched political interests - one he relentlessly uses in trying to cast Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, as the establishment candidate.

"While I was working on those streets, watching those folks see their jobs shipped overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart," Obama told Clinton in a debate in January. "I was fighting these fights."

What is also clear is that by the time he left for Harvard in 1988, he already had created a buzz.

"Even back then people were talking about how one day he could be president," said Michael Evans, associate director of the Developing Communities Project, the nonprofit organizing group Obama led here. Evans, who joined the DCP two years after Obama left the group, said he didn't initially understand the excitement over "this skinny young dude" whose nickname was "Baby Face." Then Obama invited him to lunch during a visit to Chicago from law school. By the time the lunch ended, Evans said, "I had decided the sky was his limit."

Obama laughed off a shot at the White House, saying he was contemplating a run for mayor, Evans said.

In "Dreams From My Father," Obama writes that his only goal was "organizing black folks at the grass roots for change" when he took the $1,000-a-month job at the DCP. He was 23 and the only paid staffer.

"He was very idealistic - so idealistic that it was a problem initially," recalled Kellman, who hired Obama during their first in-person interview, at a Lexington Avenue diner in Manhattan. For example, Obama was often surprised that local politicians or pastors would come after him if his ideas threatened their vested interests, Kellman said.

Among other insults, detractors branded Obama as "an Ivy League elitist" and "a pawn of the Jews and Catholics," Kellman said. Many early DCP supervisors were Jewish or Catholic but the group soon drew black, evangelical pastors as well.



Learned skills that would help later

By the time he left Chicago, Obama was much more pragmatic, Kellman said. And he had picked up several influential contacts, including the outspoken pastor of the Afrocentric congregation he joined, the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also picked up the organizing skills that have made his grassroots campaign operations the strongest of any presidential hopeful.

The son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother, Obama was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and "struck me as incredibly comfortable with diversity," Kellman recalled. His unusual background, he said, also made him "used to being an outsider," an asset on the far South Side, where black, Latino and white communities were reeling from plant layoffs and government neglect.

Not all of Obama's associates agreed. "A good community organizer never feels like an outsider in part because you want people to trust you and to bring them in," said Robert Ginsburg, an environmental activist who worked on the South Side during Obama's years at the DCP.

Obama's task was to help far South Side residents press for improvements ranging from pothole repair to job training. Working out of a two-room office of a Roman Catholic church in the Roseland neighborhood, the neophyte went door-to-door, seeking to make 25 new contacts a week as he heard community concerns.

"Ninety percent of the people in the U.S. would be terrified to walk the streets that Barack Obama walked," said Greg Galluzzo, whose Gamaliel Foundation served as a Chicago umbrella organization for groups including DCP.

The cigarette-smoking, basketball-playing Obama, who favored spinach salads over burgers, looked so young and skinny that older women made it a cause to feed him. He wore his hair in a short Afro and dressed simply in button-down shirts and slacks.

He worked so hard that friends joke they had to coax him out to parties. Despite his seriousness, friends say he was a sought-after bachelor with a quick sense of humor.

Obama shared a one-bedroom apartment with his gray cat, Max, in Hyde Park-Kenwood - the racially and economically diverse University of Chicago neighborhood where he lives today in an elegant Georgian revival house with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters. Back then he owned little more than a bed, a table and crates stacked with fiction and social science books.



Martin Luther King Jr. his hero

One of his favorite tomes was "Parting the Waters," a study of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. At Kellman's suggestion, he also read "The Power Broker," Robert Caro's portrayal of New York master-builder Robert Moses as a ruthless visionary.

If Moses provided a cautionary tale in unchecked power, King was Obama's hero. The young South Side worker's mantra, then as now, was that "ordinary people can do extraordinary things."

Fans say he helped them do just that.

"He did not do our work for us, he taught us how to do it," said Loretta Augustine-Herron, a far South Side schoolteacher who worked with Obama. "We would come away knowing we could accomplish something."

Obama trained his pupils almost obsessively and watched them like a den mother when they met with local officials. If they became rowdy, he would glide over to sit among them as a signal to quiet down.

"Barack would tell us, 'Don't get angry. It will just stray your focus,'" Augustine-Herron said. When frustrated, she said, he would put his head down and shake it before saying, "Come on, people, this is serious."

Obama earned a reputation for being civil during confrontations with authorities, according to Illinois state Sen. Emil Jones Jr. He met Obama when the community organizer was leading about 30 picketers to protest soaring high-school dropout rates. The rally took place near Jones' office and he invited the group in.

"I was used to different groups coming in to state there was a problem. What impressed me about Barack was that he also had a list of recommended solutions," Jones recalled.

Their discussion led to DCP obtaining public funds for South Side at-risk high school students.

Jack Wuest, executive director of Chicago's Alternative Schools Network, marveled at Obama's ability to obtain the grant. "There were a lot of groups trying to get that money," he said.



Old ally assisted current campaign

Obama got more than the money. Jones, now president of the Illinois State Senate, helped launch Obama's political career. More recently, he rounded up 28 of the legislature's 37 Democrats to campaign for his protege in Ohio, which along with Texas holds a Democratic primary Tuesday.

Yet some critics claim one of the causes Obama promoted best during his organizing years was his own. The most cited case is his role in a campaign that forced authorities to remove the carcinogen asbestos from a problem-plagued public housing project. The complex of decrepit, two-story row houses, called Altgeld Gardens, was built for black World War II veterans and ringed by toxic waste sites and one of the nation's biggest landfills.

In his book, Obama implies he helped discover the asbestos and played a leading role in its removal, starting with a bus trip he organized for a group of tenants to confront city authorities on the issue. "I changed as a result of that bus trip, in a fundamental way," he writes. " ... That bus ride kept me going, I think. Maybe it still does."

Obama does not mention a recognized Altgeld Gardens activist who also had been investigating asbestos there.

In an office with a leaky ceiling and walls decorated with photos of her meetings with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, the activist, Hazel Johnson, 73, said she had discovered the asbestos long before Obama latched onto the issue. Obama, she insisted, was taking undue credit "to make himself look good."

"I liked Obama and I still like him, but I ain't gonna lie for him," she said.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), who at that time was a Chicago alderman, was quoted last year as saying he was "offended" that anyone would detail the asbestos controversy without mentioning Johnson.

Rush, a former Obama rival who now endorses him, declined interview requests. In a statement, he said he didn't want to waste time "looking in the rear-view mirror" and was "satisfied" with Obama's account of why Johnson was not in his book. He did not retract his previous statement.

Obama also declined interview requests. His staff says the book is a personal account and not a history book. Suggestions that Obama was trying to take sole credit for asbestos removal are "false" and "misleading," spokesman Tommy Vietor said.

Several community organizers and Altgeld Gardens tenants confirmed Johnson was working on asbestos but said Obama organized residents to act. "He got people to vote with their feet" on the issue, organizer Madeleine Talbot said. At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.

At the peak of the asbestos controversy, Obama worked on it "10 to 12 hours a day," said community organizer Linda Randle, who helped him on the issue.



Impact on Latinos and whites

In rallies, Obama often says he helped prevent far South Side blacks, Latinos and whites from turning on each other after they lost their jobs. Many residents and community organizers say his work primarily involved African-Americans. But DCP projects such as renovating parks did benefit Latinos and whites as well.

Moreover, Obama held "weekly brainstorming sessions" with his Latino counterparts and worked closely with them on several important projects, said Phil Mullins, the head of UNO, a social action group in Chicago that represents Mexican-Americans. One was a job-training program. Another was a successful campaign to stop a backroom deal between a waste management company and local leaders to expand a landfill into wetlands surrounding southeast residential areas.

Obama supporters say he helped plan actions including a surprise visit by a group of whites, blacks and Latinos to a room above a bank where waste management officials were meeting with a local official to discuss the landfill expansion. The group surrounded the meeting table while one activist made a statement chiding local officials for making deals behind closed doors. Then the protesters filed out.

"We were trying very hard to connect neighborhoods and he was part of that," Latina organizer Mary Gonzales said.

Soon after the landfill protests, Obama left for Harvard. But he took steps to keep his group going, hiring away his ally Owens from Friends of the Parks to groom as his replacement and returning regularly to conduct training workshops.

"Barack didn't just look back, he reached back," said Augustine-Herron.

Not all of Obama's far South Side achievements endured. Unemployment and despair still plague Altgeld Gardens. The swings work in Palmer Park, a Roseland park he helped renovate, but drug dealers and thugs have reclaimed much of it as their own.

The Obama legend proved more resilient. Owens, among others, marvels at how larger-than-life his friend has grown.

Learning that Obama would speak at Chicago State University shortly before he announced his bid for the presidency last year, "I went just hoping to say hello and shake his hand," Owens recalled. "Instead of just shaking my hand he pulled me toward him and hugged me."

For a couple of minutes, Owens said, Obama locked his gaze on him and the two spoke as if they were alone. Then the crowd swelled around Obama like a sea and pulled him away.

Faith and Religion Murarilal G,

If paid Durbari G from Allexander's court or Shahajahan's court writes, how does it become truth?

Tum Murd ho to show us if you can change your name to celebrate your localness? Please scan and post your new biz card with right name ie Murarilal Lakhanpurkar.

Otherwise you are yet another khali G who has nothing to offer to India. 240 people sacrificed their life in Mumbai when Naval mutiny happened in 1946. No Inidan media and Doon/JNU written history will never acknowledge this sacrifice. Similarly recent killing of 85 year old saint and four others with AK47.

Indians wake up from your slumber. Focus on economic welfare but reclaim your freedom and democracy. With todays technology we can have direct democracy we do not need representative democracy with Doon/JNU Gs controlling the media and the parliament. Kangress need to be banned first before SIMI.

Faith and Religion Murarilal G,

"I believe that no religion is perfect and like all human thoughts and traditions has to evolve with changing times, technologies and social conventions. Like it or not the world is moving forward ever faster and with ever greater complexities. Even The Prophet recognised this."

Does it occur to you that its not the thought but the human the one who experiences evolves? When a person reaches Samadhi he has dropped the heavy load of mind long back. When he comes back he is a new being with different awareness. He can not express Samadhi, this happening in thoughts and further into the words of a language. Even if he expresses others who have not gone through such experience would not be able to understand. This is individual experience so even all Buddhas, Mahaviras, Janakas and sages were reluctant to pen it down. Even Shivaji, the Great used to experience this kind of Samadhis time to time, but when he expressed it he called it trance of Bhavani Mata, the family goddess. This is so individualastic experince, it's futile to express. Dharma Shastras or scriptures can only help in preparation for this real purpose of human life by lightening the mind and even body. Dharma came up with YogaAsana and Dhyan/Zen/Meditation practices for that. Bhakti, Tirth Yatras, fasts and Bramhacharya etc have same purpose to prepare body mind and intellect.

Pinkuji we need to reclaim Dharma and make sure that the schooling of our kids happen along these lines. I wish Ganesh Pujas need to be conducted with Ganit (Math) competitions. ShivJayantis with rifle shooting competitions. HanumanJayanti with athletic competition.
What do you think? Diwali need to practiced by bombing practice of bombing Doon schools. How is that? All phatakas from all over need to be exploded by packing Doon school gathering hall with phataka explosives. Restrict noise and air pollution to one place. Rest of India should enjoy this phataka exploding on TV.

Faith and Religion Murad aka Murarilal Lakhapurkar G,

If you are not practicing Shantist ie Islamist then would you please officially rechristen yourself to celebrate your roots to Murarilal Lakhanpurkar or if you do not like Lakhan then Gomatikar. For Allaha sake live your words. We know India is in hands of old boy Doon network. So low consciousness might be able to hog media just because they have right convent accent.

Abrahmic Ggiri is for uprooting people culturally, dividing families, and subjugating "other" people. That is why I say India needs yet another freedom struggle to free itself from Abrahmic G-giri.

Netaji Palkar, Shivaji the Great's general was bribed to get converted to Shanti aka Islam, when captured by Mughals. Shahajahan was shitting on Delhi throne at that time not G Aurangzeb. (BTW Shahajahan son of Hindu mother was equally cruel to Hindus. One should investigate why the progeny of converted moms turn so saddistic ..is it because the mother is hating the baby which she is carrying against her will? is it because she does not get milk after she delivers the baby? It is so inhuman .. I guess the devils have roots there...our Afghani brothers might be suffering from this civilizational disease called Abrahamitis) Shivaji, the Great knew this trick of dividing Marathas by converting some of them. At the first chance Shivaji the Great did "Shuddhikaran" of Netaji Palkar and also gave hand of one of his close relative to his son.

If one wants to stop what is happening in Orissa, NE, Kashmir Dharmic folks have to rise up. These Abrahmic Gs will nuke each other. Orthodox Russia does not understand for economic well being of its people one does not need to follow the Abrahmic grabbing of other peoples land and resources. As the Chinese ambassador to USA in late eighties conveyed in a gathering of Asians in Bell Labs, India ruled and influenced China by its ideas and Dharma for more than 1K years without sending a soldier or transfer of material wealth from China to India. He was very sad to find India in such a dire state at that time (Punjab, Kashmir and NE violence) because this devillish Abrahmic concept of re-legion. There is something in Dharmic folks that it creates todays Japans, Chinas, NRIs and rising India. Abrahmized south central America, central Asia, Iran, Arabia and Africa is no where near in civilizational progress. Dharma is humunazing. Re-legions are dehumanizing, enslaving divisive devillish concept.

Next time our bro Murarilal starts comparing Dharma with religion, ask him how do you take this religion ... does it go with chikken tikka gravy or sukhi chikken tandoori. These durbari Gs as I said before are good for describing Lenin's goaty and Sophia's Zanty. They are very superficial. In one sentence they will say they follow and like Sankhya, in next sentence Tao and then Buddha. If you ask them to write few lines on Sankhya then they run away.

So, MurarilalG I am still waiting for your few lines on sankhya.


Pinkuji and other folks lets not waste time MurarilalG and other Gs such as EkG and TG. Worry about how we can convert India into China and Japan, a Dharmic progressive one community. Poor Abduls and Salmas are not same as these Gs we need to embrace them and make sure that they give up on religious Ggiri.

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz poems more than six lines are not readable unless they can be sung and has interesting story lines like Ramayana or Mahabharatha.

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz ScumBaigs! Folks don't give respect to ScumBaigs of this world. Just ignore their articles. No point in discussing. These Gs are well trained Durbari Gs. Today they will declare that they are Buddhist because it is cool to be one. Yesterday to fit well in the durbar and curry favors they declared themselves Shantic aka Muslim in Arabic. What they care is fookat ka Mullah, for they if they have to recite Ullah few times, they are always ready.

Moreover why do you elevate G concept for enslaving, raping, genociding and plundering "other" folks which is what Abrahmic re-legions are at the core to the level of Dharma/Dhamma. It's like comparing a ugly, toothless old hag to Madhubala.

Ask him if he is he willing to change his name to Murarilal Lakhanpurkar.

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz Seems India needs wage new freedom struggle.

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz Following is probably a poem coming out of pain and fear of the future where the abrahmic imperialism, slavery and consumerism (ideas, source of divinity, processed product mfged at distant places owned by few and consumed blindly by perpetually impoverished, psychologically enslaved "other" people/race) will wipe out organic local culture. I am not associated with these good folks.

Swami Laxmanananda: murder foretold
Shreerang Godbole
30 August 2008
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The gruesome murder of 84-year old Swami Laxmanananda in Kandhamal, Orissa, has exposed the ease with which evangelical groups can access guns, grenades, and other murderous weapons in the pursuit of their agenda to impose their own religion by annihilating local faiths and cultures everywhere.



No one takes seriously the administration claim that the murder is the handiwork of Maoists. It is another matter that in Kandhamal there is little to differentiate Christians and Maoists – the cadres reputedly overlap, and both share the common goal of uprooting Hindu dharma. Indian media followed the Western media in raising a hue and cry over the murder of evangelist Graham Staines, but did not show the same respect to the octogenarian Swami who devoted his life to the welfare of the most downtrodden tribal communities.



The media gave space to the asinine remarks of Australian evangelist Gladys Staines, who has no locus standi to comment on the internal affairs of India , and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was quick to give audience to well-organised Christian leaders after the Bishop of Rome expressed displeasure over native Hindu reaction to grave provocation. The Italian origin and Roman Catholic faith of Congress party president Sonia Gandhi cannot be overlooked in this context – it constitutes a sub-text to the Christian vociferousness, which seeks to drown out the fact that the Krishna Janmasthami murders in the ashram premises was an exceedingly well-organised and premeditated crime.



The tremendous and spontaneous Hindu reaction – paralleling the upsurge over the Amarnath yatra land issue in Jammu – has taken the nation by surprise. But the root causes of the Orissa unrest have been completely glossed over by the media.



Kandhamal is part of the erstwhile undivided district of Phulbani; it was carved into a separate district on 1 April 1994. It derives its name from the Kandh (Kondha) tribes who dominate the area, comprising approximately 51.96% of the 6.5 lakh population of the district. Kandhs are Hindus and enjoy Scheduled Tribe status.



The other community with a significant local presence is the Panas, a Scheduled Caste, who constitute about 16.89% of the district population. The Panas are overwhelmingly Christian and are educationally, economically and politically more advanced. They were the prime targets of the pioneering Christian missionaries who settled in Katingia village of Daringibadi block of Kandhamal in 1883. The Kandh tribe led by Chakara Bisoi, Dohara Bisoi, Dina Kondh and Lochana Kondh valiantly fought the British in 1857, and it was only in 1884 that the British finally managed to subdue this region with the help of converted Panas from present-day Ganjam and Nayagarh districts bordering Kandhamal.



Through untiring efforts spanning four decades, Swamiji succeeded in awakening the Kandhs. This in turn posed a major threat to the political and economic hegemony of the Church. The converted Panas are highly placed in Government and politics. Rajya Sabha MP Radha Kant Nayak is a converted Pana and a blue-eyed boy of the Congress president. He doubles up as chief of the local chapter of World Vision, a highly energetic Christian outfit. Nayak is also connected with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). He uses his MP’s fund to distribute largesse to converted Panas through his own NGO called ‘Nishwas’. His alleged role in the murderous attack on Swami Laxmanananda on 24 December 2007 has not been probed to the satisfaction of the local populace.



Christian bureaucrats like Issac Behera and retired IPS officer John Nayak, Lok Sabha MP Sugrib Singh, and former Steel and Mines Minister Padmanabh Behera are other heavyweights who are hand-in-glove with missionaries. The Church reportedly gets massive funds from USA , Italy , Australia and several European countries, and Swami Laxmanananda’s demand for an enquiry into the quantum of foreign funds flowing into the region and their utilization should in the fitness of things be accorded the status of the last testament.



There is a long-standing dispute between converted Panas and Hindu Kandh tribals. Under the law, Panas cannot own forest land as they are not Scheduled Tribes. Throwing legality to the winds, several converted Panas have illegally grabbed forest land. Kandhs who have been rendered landless are forced to work as farm labourers on lands illegally occupied by Panas. Seething discontent over this state of affairs first manifested in the 1994 Kandh-Pana clashes that left 50 persons dead.



Despite a High Court order to evict encroached land, Christians continue to illegally occupy the land. Being Scheduled Castes, Panas are legally not allowed reservation benefits after conversion. One way they get around this law is by concealing their conversion. Radha Kant Nayak, a 1962 batch IAS officer, is widely reputed to have gained entry into the IAS through Scheduled Caste quota by fraudulently concealing his convert status. The growing clamour for public scrutiny of such cases is said to be behind the setting up of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission, which expectedly recommended reservation benefits for all SC converts.



Another way to beat this law is by securing Scheduled Tribe status. This will enable Panas to enjoy reservation even after conversion, as an oversight in the Constitution did not deprive ST converts of reservation rights. Naturally, Church-inspired organizations such as the Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh are clamouring for Scheduled Tribe status for Panas.



Moreover, the delimitation of constituencies has resulted in the reservation of the lone Lok Sabha and all Vidhan Sabha Assembly segments for Scheduled Tribes. The posts of President of the Zilla Parishad, Block Chairmen and majority of elected Zilla Parishad members and posts in Panchayati Raj institutions have also been reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The flip side of this is a loss of political and social relevance for the Christian Panas and the Church. Hence the sense of urgency in the demand for Scheduled Tribe status for Christian Panas.



The Kandhs speak the Kui dialect, which is also known to the majority of Panas. Disregarding the fact that ‘Kui’ is a dialect, not a community, Panas are falsely claiming to be Kuis and demanding ST status!



In 1981, the J.B. Patnaik government bowed to the Christian lobby and recommended that Kuis be included in the list of Scheduled Tribes. The Christian lobby won a major victory in 2002 when a Presidential order included Kuis in the list of STs. The Phulbani Kui Jana Kalyan Sangh promptly filed a writ petition in the High Court claiming that in Kandhamal district, Kuis were wrongly listed as a Scheduled Caste instead of Scheduled Tribe in land revenue records and consequently deprived of Constitutional concessions granted to STs.



Finally, the High Court asked the State Government to take a decision in the matter. Mercifully, the State Government submitted that as the Record of Rights of the Panas did not mention them as a Scheduled Tribe, their demand could not be met. The Orissa Government has consistently maintained that “this demand is not based on historical and anthropological facts.”



Kandh organizations such as Phulbani Kui Seva Samiti, Nikhil Utkal Kui Samaj, Kui Kul Samiti and Kui Sanskritik Parishad are struggling to stave off the Pana demand for Scheduled Tribe status. They have formed an umbrella organization called Kui Samanvaya Samiti to safeguard the rights of Kandhs.



More than anyone else, Swami Laxmanananda was a symbol of Kandh hopes and aspirations. The missionaries knew that the resurgent Kandh Hindus could force them to close shop. With Swamiji out of the way, the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, Msgr. Raphael Cheenath could afford to indulge in some bluster. Speaking after Swamiji’s murder, Cheenath bragged that the roots of the Church in these parts were deep and that the Church would continue to provide light for generations to come.



In Jammu , Hindus have risen in the defence of Dharma, throwing up new leaders in the process. Orissa – land of Jagannath , Lingaraja, Kalinga-Jina – cannot lag behind. It owes this much to Swamiji.



Dr. Godbole is a Pune-based endocrinologist, social activist and author.

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz "If you were ever curious as to who funds the maoists, here is the answer. This "charity" money -- officially about two billion dollars every year -- coming from the Goras dissappears without a trace into the jungles of Chattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra and Jharkhand. (These areas are one single patch, if you disregard the political boundaries.). This money is the financial lifeline of the Maoists. The Maoists of India (and of Nepal) are funded by White Christians. It is the CIA-Church nexus at work and they want to denude this entire patch of Hindus where the Church will be the master of all it surveys."

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz http://www.youtube.com/v/LfFfUxBDMDY

In Memory of Ahmed Faraz Pandit Mandarji,

Let me know when r u going to visit good old america. it's still land of free and brave. let me help you out please fedex your dark green wallet with fake Indian Rs. I will return your wallet minus Indian Rs. Hope the currency exchange would not be able to detect their fake-ness. But please take all the precautions as in the video. Oh yes, come out with your hand up above your head from baggage claim gate.

Pandit Mandarji,

Let me know when r u going to visit good old america. it's still land of free and brave. let me help you out please fedex your dark green wallet with fake Indian Rs. I will return your wallet minus Indian Rs. Hope the currency exchange would not be able to detect their fake-ness. But please take all the precautions as in the video. Oh yes, come out with your hand up above your head from baggage claim gate.

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In Memory of Ahmed Faraz Pandit Mandarji,

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Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh, Gandhi, Churchill and Jinnah "This disoriented silence is understandable. The Nehruvian project rested on the assumption that the emotional foundations of India would become unshakeable if the Muslim minority were allowed a generous measure of separateness and firewalled from the intrusions of both the secular state and civil society. Nehru believed that "temporary provisions" giving a special status to J&K in the form of Article 370 would reconcile Kashmiri sub-nationalism with Indian nationhood. A common civil code was also put on hold because he felt that in time Muslims would voluntarily accept the idea of non-religious personal laws.

While Nehru viewed separateness as a temporary balm on the scars of Partition, his successors elevated it to a non-negotiable tenet of Indian secularism. The results have been hideous. Far from nurturing a Amar-Akbar-Anthony form of multi-culturalism, separateness nurtured both ghettoisation and separatism. The perverse mindset of SIMI and IM activists, for example, is almost entirely a creation of the ghetto and centred on an abstract ummah that takes precedence over actual neighbours. The similarities between the IM mindset and the radical Islamism of the Pakistani ghettos in Britain are striking. And the problem in both countries has been encouraged by an intelligentsia that equates liberty with licence and turns every complaint into victimhood.
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