Sandeep Pandey's ASHA is on another fund raising mission in USA presently, with their monkey troop Indian Ocean. Members beware, and spread the word.
I have gathered the following details on ASHA (a lot is already available on AID at http://www.aidindia.info/).
Asha was founded by Dr. Sandeep Pandey, as a frontal fund collecting NGO which further disburses funds to several other nodal NGO projects in India. Asha claims to be an apolitical, for-democracy and secular NGO. However in reality, the ideologies and leaders of ASHA are strongly leftist with pro-Marxist and pro-Communist loyalties. ASHA works closely with the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL) and arranges numerous political events together with them both in India and USA. Asha's leadership - especially its founder and chairman Dr Pandey have been actively promoting anti-Democracy, anti-USA, anti-globalization, anti-semitic, anti-Hindu, pro-militancy, pro-radical-islamist efforts in India. They actively oppose US-India cooperation on all fronts - strategic, security, nuclear, cultural, industrial.
It is ironic that 100% of their funds come from USA, and they very cleverly use those fund to tacitly preparing the ground work for the anti-USA and anti-Indo-US-cooperation efforts. All their fund-raising is done in disguise of harmless events such as music concerts, and for declared goal of basic education in India. While collecting funds, they obviously try to distance themselves from political leanings, and would go extra-lengths to prove their non-political credentials. They also talk a lot of egalitarian activities that they do in India. However, once in India they divert these funds very cleverly and tacitly for political propaganda and activism, while maintaining a front face of social work for education.
Some snippets of their ideology and activities:
Asha-founder Dr. Sandeep Pandey says: "USA is the biggest evil on earth", "USA is an aggressor", "US-India-Israel strategic cooperation is bad for the world", "Kashmir is for Kashmiris only, and India is an adamant state". http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/.../1631200434.htm
Asha works closely with radical-Islamic organizations like Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), typically under the guise of espousing pluralism and furthering human rights. One of the slogans seen in one such rally, which they participated in, says: "Allah will destroy the terrorist state of India." (photo: http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/...e-502.jpg), some more news: http://volunteer.news.prweb.com/releases/2...prweb246615.htm and http://www.imc-usa.org/cgi-bin/cfm/Press...fm?PRID=58
While they say nothing about Iran's nuclear program, they are very much against India-US civil nuclear cooperation. "India-US cooperation is ominous" - http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006...inous_deal.html
Asha leaders were frontal in opposing President Bush's India visit. They organized protest rallies, and very actively opposed the whole visit that was to further India-USA relationship, wherever he went or addressed public. http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006...ts_of_bush.html
Asha founder, has regularly attended meetings of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), and has honored Naxals (a terrorist communist movement in southern-eastern India - responsible for a wide range of murderous activities). This link is from CPI's own website: http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2003/...ary/feature.htm
Rock band Indian Ocean have been very open about their support for Communist agenda in India, and are known to be singing for all major conventions of theirs. Another "good-cause" concert they did for communists in New Delhi: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/portal/book...t/html/150
(I need more information on this one - if members have)
Asha leaders have made public statements supporting Pakistan president Musharraf, and said Musharraf was more sincere about peace than Indian leadership, despite Musharraf's continued support for terrorism against India.
Asha leaders have openly opposed the operations of MNCs in India. This month itself, they have actively opposed operations of Coca Cola Inc in India, and are radically against large power projects being executed by Indian state and federal governments. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/vi...592/1/1893
ASHA has not dissociated itself from the activities of its leaders and founder - in fact, it continue to fund projects that they are directly running. This effort has raised many questions of ethics, both about the nature of the tactics used, as well as the fascinating attempt by them to deny their well-known ties to the Communist Party of India(Marxist), and its most rabidly violent offshoots such as the CPI (Marxist/Leninist) and the CPI (Marxist/Leninist/Maoist), a.k.a. "Naxalites" and "People's War Group". ASHA leaders are in fact very active in organizing political rallies in USA, of communist leaning: http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v...izing.html
It seems very ironic that Asha/AID and other left-leaning NGOs of India come collect funds from USA and especially from Indian-Americans - so that they can go back and use those funds in India, against the Indo-US strategic partnership and relations, democracy, and economy! They seem to indeed believe in Karl Marx's prediction: "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them". In this case Donate not even sell?
Some more URLs where one must start research:
http://www.aidindia.info/
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/.../1631200434.htm
http://www.india-forum.com/articles/46/1/O...-Sandeep-Pandey
http://volunteer.news.prweb.com/releases/2...prweb246615.htm
http://communismwatch.blogspot.com/2005/08...e-asha-aid.html
Members, feel free to add/correct the above content. In particular we need more details on Indian Ocean band.
I have gathered the following details on ASHA (a lot is already available on AID at http://www.aidindia.info/).
Asha was founded by Dr. Sandeep Pandey, as a frontal fund collecting NGO which further disburses funds to several other nodal NGO projects in India. Asha claims to be an apolitical, for-democracy and secular NGO. However in reality, the ideologies and leaders of ASHA are strongly leftist with pro-Marxist and pro-Communist loyalties. ASHA works closely with the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL) and arranges numerous political events together with them both in India and USA. Asha's leadership - especially its founder and chairman Dr Pandey have been actively promoting anti-Democracy, anti-USA, anti-globalization, anti-semitic, anti-Hindu, pro-militancy, pro-radical-islamist efforts in India. They actively oppose US-India cooperation on all fronts - strategic, security, nuclear, cultural, industrial.
It is ironic that 100% of their funds come from USA, and they very cleverly use those fund to tacitly preparing the ground work for the anti-USA and anti-Indo-US-cooperation efforts. All their fund-raising is done in disguise of harmless events such as music concerts, and for declared goal of basic education in India. While collecting funds, they obviously try to distance themselves from political leanings, and would go extra-lengths to prove their non-political credentials. They also talk a lot of egalitarian activities that they do in India. However, once in India they divert these funds very cleverly and tacitly for political propaganda and activism, while maintaining a front face of social work for education.
Some snippets of their ideology and activities:
Asha-founder Dr. Sandeep Pandey says: "USA is the biggest evil on earth", "USA is an aggressor", "US-India-Israel strategic cooperation is bad for the world", "Kashmir is for Kashmiris only, and India is an adamant state". http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/.../1631200434.htm
Asha works closely with radical-Islamic organizations like Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), typically under the guise of espousing pluralism and furthering human rights. One of the slogans seen in one such rally, which they participated in, says: "Allah will destroy the terrorist state of India." (photo: http://www.geocities.com/aid_india_info/...e-502.jpg), some more news: http://volunteer.news.prweb.com/releases/2...prweb246615.htm and http://www.imc-usa.org/cgi-bin/cfm/Press...fm?PRID=58
While they say nothing about Iran's nuclear program, they are very much against India-US civil nuclear cooperation. "India-US cooperation is ominous" - http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006...inous_deal.html
Asha leaders were frontal in opposing President Bush's India visit. They organized protest rallies, and very actively opposed the whole visit that was to further India-USA relationship, wherever he went or addressed public. http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006...ts_of_bush.html
Asha founder, has regularly attended meetings of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), and has honored Naxals (a terrorist communist movement in southern-eastern India - responsible for a wide range of murderous activities). This link is from CPI's own website: http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2003/...ary/feature.htm
Rock band Indian Ocean have been very open about their support for Communist agenda in India, and are known to be singing for all major conventions of theirs. Another "good-cause" concert they did for communists in New Delhi: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/portal/book...t/html/150
(I need more information on this one - if members have)
Asha leaders have made public statements supporting Pakistan president Musharraf, and said Musharraf was more sincere about peace than Indian leadership, despite Musharraf's continued support for terrorism against India.
Asha leaders have openly opposed the operations of MNCs in India. This month itself, they have actively opposed operations of Coca Cola Inc in India, and are radically against large power projects being executed by Indian state and federal governments. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/vi...592/1/1893
ASHA has not dissociated itself from the activities of its leaders and founder - in fact, it continue to fund projects that they are directly running. This effort has raised many questions of ethics, both about the nature of the tactics used, as well as the fascinating attempt by them to deny their well-known ties to the Communist Party of India(Marxist), and its most rabidly violent offshoots such as the CPI (Marxist/Leninist) and the CPI (Marxist/Leninist/Maoist), a.k.a. "Naxalites" and "People's War Group". ASHA leaders are in fact very active in organizing political rallies in USA, of communist leaning: http://www.proxsa.org/resources/ghadar/v...izing.html
It seems very ironic that Asha/AID and other left-leaning NGOs of India come collect funds from USA and especially from Indian-Americans - so that they can go back and use those funds in India, against the Indo-US strategic partnership and relations, democracy, and economy! They seem to indeed believe in Karl Marx's prediction: "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them". In this case Donate not even sell?
Some more URLs where one must start research:
http://www.aidindia.info/
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/.../1631200434.htm
http://www.india-forum.com/articles/46/1/O...-Sandeep-Pandey
http://volunteer.news.prweb.com/releases/2...prweb246615.htm
http://communismwatch.blogspot.com/2005/08...e-asha-aid.html
Members, feel free to add/correct the above content. In particular we need more details on Indian Ocean band.