…or the Great Joke that is Indian Media, Part XIX.. Please take out a few minutes from your schedule to watch this 7-min clip from IBN on the Bofors Scandal (or as a shortcut, just look at the image below)

Notice anything odd?
If you did, pat yourself on the back! What you noticed (if you did) is a fine (if somewhat blatant) example of subliminal messaging.. What is that? I hear you say…Well, pl watch the clip again..this time more carefully..particularly from 4:46 onwards..
Now tell me, notice anything odd? No? OK, here …

A 6-min video snippet in Hindi on how those at the “base of the pyramid” are the worst affected by the stranglehold of ridiculous regulations…
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Comments, suggestions welcome as always.. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat!

When Dr Srinivasan first mentioned the title of his recent book “Hinduism for Dummies” to me, I must admit I was somewhat skeptical. Being a student of “Hindu” culture, religion and history for the last several years, I was not at all sure that a such a vast and complex belief system as “Hinduism” can really be explained in the simple “… For Dummies” format.
I was wrong. Make it “very wrong”.

Because Dr Amrutur Srinivasan has achieved something remarkable in these 300-odd pages; something that I have not come …

Dear All: I stumbled on this article a few weeks back and felt that it deserved wider circulation – especially in the context of the recent discussions and decision by SC on RTE.  I was vaguely aware of the discriminatory nature of Article 30 (which by the way, was the reason behind the Ramkrishna Mission to declare itself a non-Hindu “sect”) but its extent and repercussions shocked me. Below, excerpts from a richly referenced and data-rich critique of this article by Dr Moorthy Muthuswamy…Read on.
*** Excerpts from Religious Apartheid in Modern …

I could not believe this piece of *news* when I first read it..You may not too. Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak and Dr Kalyanarama-ji for alerting me to this. Pl have a look at the image below:

The ‘cartoon’ that led to JU professor’s arrest. From top to bottom: 1. Mamata Banerjee points to Indian Railways’ logo and tells Mukul Roy: “See Mukul, the Golden Fortress”; 2. Mukul Roy points to former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi and exclaims: “That’s an evil man!!!”; 3. Mamata says: “Evil man, vanish!”

Apparently, this “image” – …

Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for sharing this remarkable piece (actually from an anthology) by Air Marshal SG Inamdar, PVSM, VSM on “Kautilya to Chandragupta on the Mauryan Soldier“. As Air Marshal Inamdar notes, “It is truly amazing how those observations continue to be so completely relevant today, even after 2000 years.” I am reproducing it in full below with emphasis added:
The Mauryan soldier does not himself the Royal treasuries enrich nor does he the Royal granaries fill.
He does not himself carry out trade and commerce nor produce scholars, thinkers, …

Sometime during the last 24 hours, the Satyameva Jayate page on facebook crossed the “magical” 10,000 members mark!
Today we are 10,000 and more..
10,000 proud, committed and concerned Indians who are trying in their own little ways to “Reclaim India” – One Step at a Time..
This is a special and proud day for me – and it fills me wih renewed hope, faith and confidence that we will win this fight.
Thank you all for keeping the fire burning and for keeping the dream alive…

Please share this page woth your friends, family …

..compromising national security, India’s defence preparedness, investigations into corruption in high places and probity in public life. This is a lazy post comprising a series of very disturbing excerpts from various articles. It picks up from this post that I published earlier this week. If you think I am over-doing this topic, it is because it deserves to be overdone. National security is something that is fundamental to any country. It cannot be compromised. If questions are being raised about the state of our defence preparedness, they cannot be brushed …

From Prof M D Nalapat’s blog (emphasis added):
*** Excerpts from Gen V K Singh uncovers Armsgate Scam by Prof Nalapat ***
Delhi is the nest of no fewer than six dozen international arms dealers, and they are the most desirable of friends to have in the national capital of what is effectively the world’s fourth-largest economy. Every week, each of them throws at least one if not more parties, at which liquor flows in the same profusion was water into bathtubs. The pot-bellied, ageing politicians and civil servants – now joined …

..or something like that. From Banerjee announces sops for Muslims, honorarium for Imams (3rd Apr):
Raising the pitch for next year’s Panchayat elections..Mamata Banerjee..announced pro-minority sops including a monthly honorarium for Imams.
“The government wants to give a monthly honorarium of Rs. 2,500 to Imams of the state which will be paid through the state Wakf Board.
..Banerjee also said “homeless, landless Imams” will now be given the benefits under her pet project “Nijo Bhumi Nijo Griha (Own Land, Own House)“.”There are more than 30,000 Imams in Bengal and a large percentage …