This post was triggered by Sanjeev’s remarks on one of the FTI forums*.  In his note, Sanjeev wrote (emphasis mine):
I believe that India must ban all foreign funding of religious organisations.
Religion is as powerful (or more) than political parties, and if political parties can’t get foreign funding under FRCA (which they should not) so should religious organisations be prohibited from receiving foreign funds. That would stem the flow of the crores of …

Sh Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party, quoted below in DNA):

I don’t like to say this, but they* would be the women at whom youths would whistle…

*women belonging to families of industrialists and bureaucrats who might benefit from the WRB.
The problem Mulayam Singh-ji is, it does not stop at a whistle.
It sometimes ends up like this: “We saw the girl and the boy…and we forced ourselves in”
Sad, but true.
Can you do something about that please?
A good start might be to ask all your followers and party-workers to not …

Pl continue the discussion on Offstumped Live here via the comments section…
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*** Excerpts from the Transcript of the Online Discussion: Long, but fascinating post ***
Don’t miss the four online polls and their results (inline)
Ashwin Kumaraswamy:  Youth can be broadly be defined as one who has uncluttered throught process, may be between the age group of 16 – 40
Dipinder Sekhon: There are two ways of thinking about it: based on age … say 18/20 to 35/40 could be called “youth” … the other (better in my opinion) …

This is a “lazy” post – essentially a compilation of excerpts from articles related to radical Islam, “Islamism” and “Jihadism”. They make for worrying reading. Comments and thoughts welcome (emphasis mine, throughout).
First, excerpts from Radical Islam: An Introductory Primer by Barry Rubin (emphas.
…A young American named Ramy Zamzam, arrested in Pakistan for trying to fight alongside the Taliban, responded in an interview with the Associated Press: “We are not terrorists. We are jihadists, and jihad is not terrorism.”
What he says is well worth bearing in mind in order to understand …

Don’t miss this (courtesy the Offstumped community):
We are happy to organise a town hall with folks who have been actively trying to engage youth of India and making them more informed about the political process and choices to make.
The format of the debate would be 1 hour of panel discussion followed by half an hour of audience discussion and the last 30 minutes Q & A with the panelists.
All rules of civility expected. Please login with your twitter or facebook email ids to login to participate in the townhall.

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…the ones who ought to be remembered today.
*** 79 years ago on this date ***
BHAGAT SINGH, RAJGURU AND SUKHDEV EXECUTED
NO “LAST INTERVIEW” WITH RELATIONS
DEAD BODIES SECRETLY DISPOSED OF

Front Page of the Lahore Tribue, March 1931 (Thanks Amitabh).

All photographs courtesy (and copyright) ShahidBhagatSingh.org
Oh, today also happens to be the 70th anniversary of the infamous Lahore Declaration that put paid to any hopes of a united independent India. 16 years after that resolution, Pakistan declared itself the world’s first Islamic Republic. Some of you may know that Lahore traces its name …