Dear All, Here is the video of the talk/ presentation I made at the House of Commons, UK to the All-Party Committee on Jammu & Kashmir on 30th March ’11. It is in four parts…Comments, thoughts welcome as always… And while you are at it, please consider subscribing to my YouTube channel here.
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Part I and Part II…Please see these two parts in conjunction with Slides 1-12

Please see Part III with Slides 13-23 and the last part , from Slide 24 onwards…
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Related Posts: Article 370 and the plight of Kashmiri Hindus …

Start your Sunday evening with It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know by Noam Cohen:
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends
when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turn ed reporting these updates into a game.
…But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. Cellphone companies do not typically divulge how much information they collect, so Mr. Spitz went to court to find out …

Dear All: It is my pleasure to publish this thought-provoking guest post by fellow FTI colleague, Narendra Sethia that does a wonderful job of explaining the guiding principle(s) behind state control of activities and enterprise (one of the important distinctions between “socialism” and “capitalism”). Pl read on (emphasis added):
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I think most activities where government control is needed can be defined on the basis of the principle of freedom outlined in Sanjeev’s book – BFN. If there is any grey area, the bias should always be for a …

From a BBC report
‎”..We had located Bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan”
How many of our channels will highlight this info?
Will America now declare Pakistan a terrorist state?  Will Pakistan finally own up to supporting global jihadi terrorism & aiding/ abetting attacks against India?
Is it not time to hold Pakistan to account? …or – as Sh Jay Bhattacharjee put it in an email to me – “will one of the world’s most criminal countries going to get away scot free, once again ?”
Also read: ”All roads lead to Islamabad…“, All …

A Prime Minister who deliberately turned a blind eye to the loot of national wealth. A Finance Minister – supposed to the guardian of national wealth – who did not deem fit to initiate action even when the plunder was obvious. A leadership so enamoured of power that it was ready to justify anything under the garb of “Coalition Dharma”…As scandal after scandal tumbles into the public eye, let us not delude ourselves.
Let us not delude ourselves that the present state of affairs is a failure of UPA…Let us not delude ourselves …

Did you know that the term “Secularism” – forced into the Preamble of the Constitution by Indira Gandhi during the dark days of Emergency – has not been defined in the Constitution?
The reason?
…presumably because it is a very elastic term not capable of a precise definition and perhaps best left undefined.

These are the words of Justice P Sathasivan quoted in a recent HT news-report. Lack of definition does not prevent anyone from “interpreting” what it means…and so we have Justice Sathasivan saying:
…in Indian context secularism meant “Sarva Dharma Sambhav” …