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 …

This is what I am hoping to read this weekend…(Update: Excerpts added)
Ramasetu: Protecting heritage and coastline (A ppt presentation, 31 March 2012) by Dr Kalyanaramam
Who’s Responsible for Meeting the Cyber Threat? by Alan Woodward
So what have governments done in response to this situation? Well, they have acted in remarkably different ways.
For example, you might imagine the all-out attack on Estonia in 2007 would have led to an aggressive response. Instead it led to the formation of the Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE). The purpose of CCD …