<b>Pak leader links terror to madarsas</b>
http://www.telegraphindia.com//1080602/jsp...ory_9351779.jsp
NISHIT DHOLABHAI
New Delhi, June 1: A politician whose party is a partner in Pakistan’s ruling coalition today <b>surprised a conference on terrorism here by declaring that madarsas in his country were “breeding grounds” of terror.</b>

Hasham Baber, additional secretary-general of the Awami National Party, said political sermons, not just lectures on Islam, were delivered in such institutions in the federally administered tribal areas, bordering Afghanistan.

<b>“The breeding grounds should be removed because on Fridays, it isn’t Islam that is taught but political sermons. Both Afghanistan and India will benefit,”</b> he told the conference organised by Jama Masjid United Forum. The Speaker of Afghanistan’s senate, Safghadullah Mojaddedi, was also present.

<b>Most reacted cautiously to the comments. </b>The Jama Masjid’s imam, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, made it clear that Baber had only expressed his “own views” about affairs in Pakistan.

<b>Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi disagreed with Baber</b>, saying madarsas in his state weren’t teaching terror.<b>Social activist Teesta Setalvad spoke of the threat from “Right-wing Hindu schools in tribal areas” and about the kind of “mob terrorism” seen during the Gujarat riots</b>. <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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What we know as Indian democracy, it's house in Chaos.

But there is ray of hope in the form of Election Commission which is trying to convert election process at least, in order.

As compared to this, US democracy is organised democracy.

What do you think are the other ways to convert disorder into order?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Swayamsevaks involved in Jaipur emergency relief, removed during Sonia's visit</b>

Jaipur:RSS swayamsevaks who manned the SMS ( Sawai Madho Singh ) hospital in  Jaipur was removed by the cops before the scheduled visit of SoniaGnadhi to visit the injured.

The irony was that our de facto PM wanted them removed even when major newspapers and television in India has acknowledged the services of the RSS volunteers that swung into action immediately after the blast.

She probably saw the effect it would have all over the country when the photos and live TV coverage would be telecast with her visiting the hospitals with the place swarming with RSS cadre around the patients.

The SMS hospital saw over 200 cadre of the RSS do 8 hour round the clock shifts in military precision taking care of the injured and their families. They virtually took over from the hospitals

Most political outfits in the state have been caught by surprise at the speed of implementing the emergency action plan of the RSS.

The Sangh has been active in the front of fighting terrorism for a long time. The Mumbai blasts saw the sangh later taking up seminars and study classes to study the effects of terrorism on the public and training of the cadre on how to face emergency situations like this in the future.

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Another stage appearance by Antonia, after everyone else has done all the unpleasant work. By the way, where's the dull-witted sprog, Rahul? Or did his mummy forget to drop chocolate mints along the way, so he can find his way to the place?

Letter to Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister, Jammu & Kashmir State

THE HINDU JAGRAN FORUM-USA
3145 Gilbert Avenue, Roseburg , OR ( USA ) 97470

<i>Subject: Sale of DAV School in Srinagar and Massive destruction of temples in J&K amounts to state sponsored Talibanization of the state: Hindu religious and educational infrastructure must be protected by the state and a Waqf like Hindu Board be formed for their upkeep, development and governance.</i>


Hon'ble Chief Minister Azad,

It is abundantly clear that the unwarranted sale of one of the leading DAV High Schools in Srinagar, against which the teachers and the students had to march in streets to register their protest, did not have the approval of the community who are the real owners of this infrastructure (attachment A). This represents another example of deliberate yet a “tactical failure” by the J&K Govt. in protecting the Hindu community of Kashmir . It also further strengthens the case of the Kashmiri Hindus as a minority community for a change in the political set up to protect their community, culture, educational institutions and religion. The systematic elimination of minorities from the Islamic domain of Kashmir says volumes about the contradictory nature of the Islamic political culture when compared to India 's secular system.

If the Kashmir Govt. is sincere in its commitment to enforcing the proclaimed goals of equal protection of citizens under a system of political secularism, it must without any excuses issue an executive order, similar to the recent one issued by it for protecting religious shrines, to cover the sale of the DAV School in Srinagar as well as other sales of educational institutions (attachment B). All such deals involving the religious and educational institution and their estates after 1989 must be declared null and void and accounts of the trusts engaged in these extra legal transactions under duress must be sealed.

It is hardly difficult to understand that all these criminal activities by the Islamists represent the extension of their foreign inspired “civilizational war” undertaken to remove all traces of the historical Hindu past in the vale of Kashmir . Massive protests by the remaining less than 5,000 Kashmiri Pandits in the valley against criminally altering the socio-cultural complexion of Kashmir has been of no avail. On the contrary these extremely vulnerable non-Muslim Kashmiris have been exposed to serious intimidation and threats by a very powerful “Islamic Land Mafia” that if they do not stop protesting they would face dire consequences like the rest of the exiled Pandit community.

Disregarding the massive fatal attacks and life ending injuries inflicted upon non-Muslims i.e., Hindus and Sikhs during the past two decades, which consumed thousands of lives, the police establishment of the J&K Govt. two weeks ago, based on manufactured yet concealed evidence, shamelessly boasted that since 1989 only 209 Pandits lost their lives at the hands of the militants.

What a bald faced lie in an attempt to cover up and inadvertently aid the Islamic conspiracy against non-Muslims and India by a Govt. maintained with the Indian taxpayers funds. This politically motivated fabrication of a police report utterly failed to acknowledge dozens of massacres that took place in Kashmir - among them the carnages that bloodied the mother earth at Sangrampora, Gool, Wandhama, Talwani, Brariangan, Pethibug, and Nandigam. It did not make even a casual mention of the Pandit lives lost in bomb blasts, cross fires, deliberate violence, arson, harshness imposed by refugee life, heat, lack of resources, sunstrokes, hypertension, cancer, skin & other diseases, snake and scorpion bites, abnormally high heart attacks and heart failures etc.

1) Hindu Institutions being destroyed at an unprecedented Scale:

The process of desecration, loot, vandalizing and destruction of temples has continued in J&K under the anti-Hindu Islamic rule through generations with intent to wipe out all traces of religious and cultural symbols of Hindus. These targets besides the temples included libraries, schools, universities and ashrams. After country became free and Kashmir acceded to the Union of India in 1947 the destruction and desecration of temples under the new Islamic regimes wearing secular turbans received added impetus and acceleration.

Temple lands, cremation grounds and other such entities belonging to Hindus were usurped and utilized for expansion of the Islamic populace. The famous Bhairavnath temple of Chattabal , Srinagar was locked up by the police. The judicial case pending in court concerning this temple was never allowed to be decided. Precious lands around Hari Parbat hill, Durganag temple of Srinagar and lands at several Hindu places of worship in the Valley were slowly and steadily turned into lands under occupation of the Muslim trusts (Maqboozai-Ahali- Islam).


2) The law and order situation in the Valley since 1986 deteriorated progressively and temple desecration became the order of the day. The Islamic fundamentalist conspiracy against Hindus received unqualified support from the Pan Islamic Movement and from across the border. Here are some of the glaring examples that defy and shred into a million pieces the tall claims made by the Muslim leaders of Kashmir about their dedication and adherence to nationalism, multiculturalism, secularism, Kashmiriyat and religious freedom.

In 1967, Shivala temple, Chotta Nazar, Srinagar was desecrated. Again in 1984 Shri Hanuman temple at Hari Singh High Street was damaged and in the same year Arya Samaj temple of Wazir Bagh , Srinagar was burnt down.

3) Temples desecrated and damaged in Kashmir from 1990 to December 1992

1. DASHNAMI AKHARA, SRINAGAR
2. GANPATYAR TEMPLE
3. RAGHUNATH MANDIR, SRINAGAR
4. SHIVA TEMPLE , JAWAHAR NAGAR, SRINAGAR
5. HANUMAN MANDIR, SRINAGAR
6. SHIVA TEMPLE , BARBAR SHAH, SRINAGAR
7. JAI DEVI TEMPLE , BIJBEHARA
8. VIJESHWAR TEMPLE , BIJBEHARA
9. SHIVA MANDIR, BIJBEHARA
10. RAGHUNATH TEMPLE , ANANTNAG
11. GAUTAM NAG TEMPLE , ANANTNAG
12. THREE TEMPLES OF LUKHBHAVAN, LARKIPURA, ANANTNAG
13. WANPOH MANDIR, ANANTNAG
14. SHAILPUTRI TEMPLE , BARAMULLA
15. DAYALGAM MANDIR, ANANTNAG
16. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, BARAMULLA
17. BHAIRAVANATH MANDIR, SOPORE
18. RUPABHAVANI MANDIR, VASAKURA
19. KHIRBHAVANI MANDIR, GANDERBAL
20. SHIVA TEMPLE , GANDERBAL
21. MATTAN TEMPLE , ANANTNAG

There have been reports of further destruction of some 39 temples in Kashmir after December 6, 1992 for which FIR were filed. Please note that FIRs on all destruction cases were not filed with the authorities in view of the complicity of the administration and warnings of retaliation against the complainants by the Islamic terrorists. According to local eye witnesses accounts there were additional 38 temples that were vandalized after December 6, 1992.

These examples represent only a fraction of the systematic mass destruction of thousands of temples in J&K after independence of India when the Islamists assumed the total and unfettered control of the state. These examples are listed in details in our letter of February 21, 2008 (may be seen on website: http://www.bharatja gran.com/ under the heading - “Massive destruction of temples in J&K and Talibanization of the state”).

4) What is difficult to understand is that when the Govt. re-built Cherar-e-Shareef why can’t it re-build Hindu temples destroyed in the wake of ethnic cleansing unleashed by the local and foreign Jihadists? The Indian Parliament adopted a law in 1991 specifically requiring that –“the status of religious places, as on August 15, 1947 shall be retained". Under the present circumstances it is obligatory upon the Govt. as envisaged by the above referred law to maintain the integrity of religious entities as it stood in 1947. The J&K Government while flouting the law of the national legislature very conveniently divorced itself from this commitment. As always, the Indian authorities looked the other way.

Hon'ble Chief Minister, government's indifference towards the temple security and their functioning can only be termed as its support to persecution of Hindus and denial of their freedom of religion: Govt. must realize that the temples and their endowments have been built over the centuries by our forefathers and therefore, it is the community which is their real owner. Therefore, it is the community which must have the final say in the management and utilization of temple resources and management of educational institution.

5) Given the militant exposition and expansionist designs of the majority community - the Hindus as a minority in J&K need & must get special protection: Your government’s recent order making it mandatory to obtain its approval for the sale and purchase of properties held by Hindu shrines and religious places is right on the mark. However, this is only an initial step to correct the situation that has been wronged over many decades. It must be followed by other appropriate administrative measures like formation of a Waqf- like Hindu Board for their protection, preservation, administration and development.

For maintaining the real religious autonomy the Hindu community must retain power to decide the future of its educational and religious institutions and not the antagonistic work force of the biased J&K Govt. Clearly under estimating the possibility of the prevailing anti-Hindu policies coming into play in their dealings, particularly when their personal faith teaches them that Hindus are the infidels and kafirs, will be a grievous mistake.

6) Formation of a Waqf like autonomous Hindu Board for Hindu institutions' governance under the Hindu community’s guidance is essential: Hon'ble Chief Minister, we strongly believe that for social, religious, educational and community affairs and services and temple administration there must be a representative but autonomous Hindu Board with full jurisdiction over temple governance and management. Since the right of freedom to manage religious places is available to the Muslim community which constitutes the majority in your state, where is the justification to deny this right to Hindus?

7) The Govt. must restore community’s vital role in temple and educational institutions management through Hindu Advisory Councils: Such Councils representing the community and its leaders could play an important role in oversight, day to day administration and decision making process of the endowments department and temple Trusts . Additionally these Councils should have full authority for asking the Govt. to take swift measures for stopping desecration and decimation of the Hindu religious and educational infrastructure and for bringing the culprits to book.

8) Chief Minister Azad, we hereby urge you to take prompt action for protecting Hindu educational institutions, temples and Hindu community properties from illegal sales and annul all such sales that took place after 1988 by declaring them as “sales under duress.” This will be in keeping with the norms and practices in all open and democratic societies; and the secular Constitution of India. Restoration of the DAV High School in Srinagar to community management should be a priority, before the School campus is demolished by its new but unlawful owners.

If this double standard and extremely discriminatory policy against Hindus in Kashmir is not reversed, you can be sure that it will eventually transcend the state boundaries and impact adversely the privileges enjoyed by the Muslims as a minority community in India . In that case they will have nobody to blame except their fellow religionists and the Muslim Govt. of Kashmir. It is also relevant to point out that almost all of the budgetary expenditures in the J&K state are gifted by the Indian Govt. with taxes mostly paid by Hindus. Surely these taxpayers do not fund the Kashmir Govt. so it could destroy the age old Hinduism and its infrastructure for realizing the forced talibanization of the state.

Thank you Mr. Chief Minister. We shall be looking forward to your response and prompt action towards resolving this highly explosive but easily solvable situation.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jagan Kaul
Krishan Bhatnagar
Hindu Jagran Forum ( USA )

email: krishan.kb@verizon. net
May 11, 2008

Note: This letter will soon be posted on website: http://www.bharatja gran.com/

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Attachment A

School building sold; students, teachers take to streets

The Tribune, Chandigarh

Friday, May 2, 2008,

Srinagar, May 1 : Traffic on the Srinagar airport road was today affected for an hour after students and teaching staff of DAV High School protested against the sale of school. The students and teaching staff of more than 60-year-old school today took to streets and blocked the main road at Magarmal Bagh.

Raising slogans against the school management, the students and teachers said the sale of the school building and its ground was illegal.

"Give us our school back," they demanded and appealed to authorities to intervene and save their future. They alleged that Kashmiri Pandit management without taking the parents and teaching staff into confidence had reportedly sold the school property. However, one person, who removed the school boards, said they have purchased the entire complex from the management. We have legal documents, including the sale deed, he said.

Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded for an hour as there was no police official. However, the traffic was allowed after a group of police personnel from Shergrahi police station reached the spot and assured the agitators that they would take the matter with the higher authorities. The DAV school was one of the leading schools before the Pandit management migrated from here after the eruption of militancy.

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Attachment B



Valley temple trusts now need Govt OK to sell their property
by Toufiq Rashid( Indian Express- May 01,2008)

SRINAGAR, MAY 1: In order to safeguard the religious institutions and shrines of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, the J&K Government has passed an order which makes it mandatory to seek the Government’s approval for the sale and purchase of such property.

The Government is also likely to investigate the deals so far and take action in three months.

The April 16, 2008 order has come following an inquiry report which reveals violations in the process of sale and purchase of land belonging to Pandit religious institutions in the Valley.

In most of the cases, the shrine managers have been found guilty. The properties include shops and land belonging to temple trusts.

“We had ordered an inquiry by the Settlement Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir in February and found that there have been many cases where land and property of temples and other religious institutions of Kashmiri Pandits were sold by the mahants or temple managers. The order has been issued to safeguard these properties and put some checks and balances in place,” said Masaud Samoon, Secretary, Revenue, Jammu and Kashmir .

The J&K government passed an order stating that Deputy Commissioner of the area will be responsible for shrine properties. No sale deal can be registered without prior approval of the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned area. The order says that no revenue records should be issued to the mahants or managers of the shrine without the permission of the Deputy Commissioner.

The order states that any deal executed by any mahant or manager shall have to be attested by a Tehsildar after getting clearance from the Deputy Commissioner.

The issue was highlighted by a pressure group of Kashmiri Pandits who stayed back in the Valley after 1990. The group, Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti, had even filed a case in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court demanding that all deals involving the temple properties after 1990 be cancelled and accounts of the trusts be sealed.

Indian IQ is not unimodal like other countries ( a single bell curve )
There are at least 43000 endogamous castes and each has its own bell curve
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http://www.isteve.com/IQ_Table.htm


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IQ of Indians in India = 81
This consists of 4 studies, in MP, UP, Bihar and Orissa

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South Africa
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Indians = 83
Whites = 94
Blacks = 66

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Fiji Indians = 84

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Indians in Fiji and South Africa were from coolie class, mostly MBC and Dalit

In Fiji and South Africa the Indians are not starving
So it can be considered a fair score that the MBC-Dalit average IQ is 84

<!--emo&:argue--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /><!--endemo--> Bush blames India for rising food prices

Washington (PTI): U S President George W Bush joined U S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in blaming the rising prosperity of India's huge middle class for the spiralling global food prices.

Prosperity in countries like India is "good" but it triggers increased demand for "better nutrition" which in turn leads to higher food prices, Bush said.

At an interactive session on economy in Missouri, Bush argued that there are many factors for the present crisis, only one of which was investment on biofuels like ethanol.

"Worldwide there is increasing demand. There turns out to be prosperity in developing world, which is good. It's going to be good for you because you'll be selling products in the countries, you know, big countries perhaps, and it's hard to sell products into countries that aren't prosperous. In other words, the more prosperous the world is, the more opportunity there is," the US President said.

"It also, however, increases demand. So, for example, just as an interesting thought for you, there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That's bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population.

"And when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up," he said.

The comments come close on the heels of Rice cooking up the theory that "apparent improvement" in the diets of people in India and China and consequent food export caps is among the causes of the current global food crisis.

Bush also listed change in weather patterns and increase in basic costs like that of energy as factors contributing to higher food prices.

"No question that ethanol has had a part of it. But I simply do not subscribe to the notion that it is the main cost driver for your food going up," Bush said.

Several international experts have in recent days held biofuels, until recently cast as a miracle alternative to polluting fossil fuels, for being responsible for usurping arable land and distorting world food prices.

"Actually, the reason why food prices are high now is because, one, energy costs are high, and if you're a farmer, you're going to pass on your cost of energy in the products you sell, otherwise you'd go broke.

"And when you're paying more for your diesel, paying more for your fertiliser because it's got a lot of, you know, natural gas in it, in other words, when your basic costs are going up, so does the cost of food," Bush said.

He said there are two aspects of rising food prices -- its effect on US citizens and the fact that there is a food scarcity in the world.

"We don't have a scarcity issue in America...We got a price issue. Our shelves aren't going empty, it's just costing more money," Bush said.

"There is scarcity in the world, and I happen to believe when we find people who can't find food we ought to help them find it," he said adding, "America is by far the most generous nation when it comes to helping the hungry."

"We're an unbelievably compassionate nation," he said.

"I think we ought to change our food policy in Africa and other developing countries...buying food directly from farmers as opposed to giving people food. I think we ought to be saying, 'Why don't we help you be able to deal with scarcity by encouraging your farmers to grow and be efficient growers? Otherwise, we're going to be in this cycle forever."

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Precisely. Google for McCain and Hagee and wonder as to why that is not an issue? Could be because we know McCain's a politician and disappointed that Barak's the same?

asantuSTa dvijA naSTAH saMtuSTashcha mahIbhR^itAH
salajjA gaNikA nirlajjAshchakulA~nganA

insatiable brahmins are ruined, so also stoic kshatriya-s
like the bashful courtesan and the shameless lady of a good family

(chANakya-nIti-darpaNaH 8.18)

Post items pertaining to <b>today</b> going back in Indian history. Hopefully we'll come up with a Indian History calendar soon.

I created this topic to collect the names and info on our commies and leftists who are abroad and work tirelessly to screw Hindus and support Muslim terrorism.

I am aware that some like Angana Chatterjee are well known but there are lesser fish floating around that are not known.

For a start:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vinay Lal
History

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->  Ironically enough, Goldberg was involved in a major UC controversy that would have provided her an ideal soapbox to complain about the university’s intellectual apartheid.  The only problem is that Goldberg simply didn’t care about the issue.  As Chair of the Task Force on Course Descriptions (serving under the UC-wide Academic Senate), Goldberg dealt with the case of the Fall 2002 UC Berkeley course, “The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance,” taught by notorious radical (and teaching assistant) Snehal Shingavi.

The course was infamous for its catalog description, which laid out its extreme pro-Palestinian ideological precepts and then cautioned, “Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.”  The course was not unusual in content, or even in its spittle-soaked claims of a “brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine” that has “systematically displaced, killed and maimed millions of Palestinian people.”  Rather, it was unusual only in its forthright declaration of its overwhelming bias; most professors couch their classroom bias in generic language.


            A May 9, 2002 Wall Street Journal opinion article by Roger Kimball first publicized the course description, and in particular, that pithy, sound-bite friendly declaration, “conservative thinkers should seek other sections.”  What ensued was no less than an epic political sh1t-storm, which was matched by an equally epic cover-up on the part of Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl.  In the end, Shingavi was neither fired nor even removed from the course.  Instead, the course description was bowdlerized, an English department faculty member was assigned to monitor the class, and the English department chair met with students on the first day of class to reaffirm their right to open discussion and fair grading.  On a broader level, there was a flurry of task force formations, the imposition of new bureaucratic rules, and much voting to express and reaffirm concern of various types, ad infinitum.  Untouched in the entire controversy was the underlying issue of why Shingavi (a fifth-year graduate student and a leader in the violent Berkeley group Students for Justice in Palestine) could get approval to teach such a biased course, particularly on a topic to which his political activism proved he could bring no objectivity.  Instead, the report ended with a host of cheerful comments from 11 of the 14 final participants.  The forced conclusion: “See?  Berkeley doesn’t have any problems.  This was all a big conservative overreaction.”

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So I googled Shingavi and came up with this:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Schools:
Lowery el, Attended 1981 - 1986
Watkins Middle School, Attended 1986 - 1989
Langham Creek H S, Attended 1989 - 1993, Class of 1993

Schools (Other):
Langham Creek HS, Trinity University, University of California at Berkeley

College/University:

University of California - Berkeley, Attended 1997 - Present, Ph.D., English
Trinity University, Attended 1993 - 1997, Class of 1997, Bachelor's Degree, English/Economic

Occupation:

graduate student instructor
Affiliations:

United Auto Workers local 2865, International Socialist Organization, Berkeley Stop the War Coalition, Campus Antiwar Network

Hobbies and Interests:

politics, literature, art, film, socialism, history, television, poetry (a new-found love of the ghazal)

Favorite Books:

A Sinking Island, The God of Small Things, Love in the Time of Cholera, Kalidasa's Shakuntala, The Interior Landscape, The Palm at the End of the Mind, Absalom, Absalom!, Kanthapura, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, Mrichchakatikam, Seasons of Migration to the North, Nightwood, Waiting for the Barbarians, Twilight in Delhi, All About H. Hatterr, Rebel's Silhouette, Midnight's Children, Hibiscus on the Lake, Samskara, Lihaf, Tehdi Lakir, History of the Russian Revolution, Men in the Sun, Kulliyat-e-Kaifi Azmi, Andhere Mein, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, the Collected Works of John Donne, Paradise Lost, Queen Mab, Black Boy, Mrs. Dalloway, Angare, The Collected Poems of Constantin Cavafy, The Old Social Classes and Revolutionary Movements of Iraq, Me Grandad 'Ad an Elephant, The Brothers Karamazov, Shikawaa-o-Jawaab-e-Shikawaa, The Pound Era, Angare

Favorite Movies:

Khamosh Pani, Sholay, Diksha, Land and Freedom, The Battle of Algiers, Paheli, My Beautiful Laundrette, Norma Rae, Memento, Tape, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Naseem, Subeh, Mughal-e-Azam, Garam Hawa, Arth, Earth 1947, Six Degrees of Separation, Pyaasa, Love Me If You Dare, Vanaprastham

Favorite Music:

Hans Eisler, Iqbal Bano, Asha Bhosle, Cheb Khaled, Marcel Khalife, Umm Kulthum, Chitra, Nina Simone, Jagjit Singh (except when he sings Vajpayee's poems), Noor Jehan, Begum Akhtar, Amir Jamal, Bombay Jayashree, Shreya Ghoshal, Pandit Jasraj, MS Subbulakshmi

Favorite TV Shows:

The Closer, Simpsons, Alias, Six Feet Under, Project Runway, Daily Show, News Radio, The Practice, Roseanne, Iron Chef, Grace Under Fire, Good Eats, Daria, Boston Legal, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Closer ... anyone who knows me knows that I can always find something on TV to watch

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

About Me:

I'm a socialist, and probably a poet at heart, though I write bad poetry and so have all but given up attempting to compose moving verse -- I'm settling for semi-competent prose. I've just finished a translation of a Hindi novel which is now available from Oxford University Press (hint, hint), and I'm trying to finish my dissertation ... but Bush keeps going to war or invading another country and protesting him keeps getting in the way. In the meantime, INQUILAB ZINDABAD !
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These are kinds who will poison the minds of NRI students with their one sided propaganda in universities and we need to be aware of them.

So keep posting new names whenever you come across them.