Nexus Between Entities Influencing India

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1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagarika_Ghose

Personal life

Ghose received her bachelor's degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A recipient in 1987 of the Rhodes Scholarship, she has a Bachelor's in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil. from St Antony's College, Oxford.[1]



Since 1991, she has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express and is the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.[2][3]



She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network.[4] Her two aunts include Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat and Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court of India. She is married to journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai. Rajdeep and Sagarika have two children, son Ishan, and daughter Tarini[5]



Social media activity

[color="#0000FF"]Ghose, and other prominent female Indian English media journalists like Barkha Dutt, have been victim to abuse on social media sites like Twitter, mainly by more conservative population. Incidents like this have been occurring against female journalists and activists, and has been blamed on the country's patriarchal society.[6] Ghose has stopped posting her views and fearing for the safety of her daughter, she told BBC, "It was very disturbing. I didn't know what to do. So for a few days I had her picked up and dropped off to school in our car and not via public transport, because I was really scared," and called her attackers, "anti-liberal males and right wing nationalists, angry at women speaking their mind who attack liberal and secular women".[6][7][/color] [color="#FF0000"]In 2006, Ghose said that most of her critics were "talentless elderly ladies, who were furious that a woman who is attractive is also intelligent and also has a husband and two kids".[4][/color] She coined the term Internet Hindus to describe them on the web and in 2010, she further compared them to a swarms of bees, which was later co-opted by them.[8][9]Sagarika's popular Twitter interview with Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP became the first instance of an Indian politician giving a social media interview to a mainstream journalist in the run-up to polls.[10]



4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Som, Rituparna [color="#0000FF"](6 November 2006). "Most of my critics are talentless lderly ladies: Sagarika Ghose".[/color] DNA. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

6.^ Jump up to: a b Arya, Divya [color="#0000FF"](8 May 2013). "Why are Indian women being attacked on social media?". BBC News.[/color] Retrieved 11 July 2013.

(Am going to be mature and not make fun of her own claims to being "attractive". I suppose one must allow it to be a relative term: maybe she's comparing herself with her relatives, making her thereby the most attractive they were able to produce. Which is worrying....)



Intriguing how Sagarika initially whined about "elderly ladies" being her arch-nemeses back in 2006 and now - on cue - she and others have started manufacturing "persecution" from "the country's patriarchal society" (which Ghose associates with Hindus when she speaks of "right wing nationalists", which is code for Hindus).

Someone high up has obviously greenlighted this new project of demonising Hindu males and "Indian Right/nationalism" as being "anti-female" and told Indian christomedia to play persecuted every time Hindus retort to Hindu-baiting. It all started ever since that pre-meditated disproportionate reporting on rape - even the first of those that was given the international media treatment was typically committed by an islamic and his psecular gang - which reports further deliberately ignored all the countless gang rapes of Hindu women by islamics and (such as in the christo-terrorised NE) by christians that have been going on for decades now. [color="#0000FF"]ADDED:[/color] Nor do they cover rapes by highly-placed psecular thugs like that hideous rapist Tarun Tejpal editor of anti-Hindu ragazine Tehelka, who is funded by KKKangress and probably overseas masters.



[[color="#0000FF"]ekakizunj.com/Sagarika_Ghose[/color] has screenshots of Ghose's tweets attacking Indian males as the ugliest in the world or something. Well, while what she said holds for her husband - obviously, by her own admission (since her statement must find first application there) - and while it is true for the subcontinent's christoislamicommunists and pseculars, it's not true for any other kind of Indian males. The page also states Ghose is a christian - as do some other sites - but no evidence is supplied for that. She also made some other statements there which are crying out to be lampooned, but I am doing violence to myself and resisting.]



The concerted christomedia attack on "Indian rightwing patriarchy" - also seen in Doniger's persecution fables - is now the new mechanism to silence Hindus on the internet. (In the early 2000s, christians used to screech "the Hindu rightwing is fascist" in order to get Hindus to be quiet, right until people started listing sources on how all fascists of history were specifically christists and christo-conditioned. So now you can see such attacks against Hindus protesting Doniger's lying in comments by christo aliens at indiafacts:



www.indiafacts.co.in/wendy-donigers-fake-victimhood/

[color="#0000FF"]Dory February 16, 2014 1:18 pm Reply

This is such a misogynist piece. Just because she is a woman, India, a country now known for rapes and gang rapes can not tolerate her.[/color]



Dilip Banerji February 18, 2014 9:12 am Reply

What rubbish! So, Indians/Hindus should not talk back to whites? The recent rape events in India are indeed tragic and unfortunate. But, if you are from US or any other western country, look at the percentage of rapes in your own country before sermonizing us Indians. The US certainly is far ahead in rapes and violence against women than we are.

It becomes clear for what uses the christomedia manufactured "India is rape central".



But:

indiafacts.co.in/the-sinister-motive-behind-media-focus-on-rapes-in-india/

mariawirthblog January 28, 2014 6:56 pm Reply

Regarding how tourists see India, I would like to share a comment by Adriana made on 28.1. 14 on my blog to this article. Here it is:



This reminds me of a conversation from a couple of weeks back. I was planning to visit India with a friend. [color="#0000FF"]But my aunt convinced us that India is unsafe. She recommended Spain instead. When we turned to Google, this story turned up – [British tourist, 31, brutally gang-raped metres from Spanish holiday apartment](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...r-old.html).



A couple of searches later, we found the [British Behavior Abroad](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy..._08_13.pdf) report for 2013. It says that 31 British tourists were raped in Spain last year. Another 39 were sexually assaulted! We’re talking about the tourists of just one nationality. And we’re talking about a single year! For India, it was 0 rapes and 1 sexual assault (the notorious case of the woman who jumped from her hotel window to escape a sexual assault). There is no under-reporting because these figures are from reports to British embassy, not Indian police.[/color]

That said, I’ve heard from some Indian acquaintances that India IS more unsafe than most of America and Europe (including Spain). We’re visiting Seychelles this Feb!

Concerning the final statement: if India is now more unsafe, it is owing exclusively to christoislamics, communists and pseculars (like the rapist editor of Tehelka) and not to the native religionists. Certainly not owing to the native Hindus.

The sooner christoislamicommunists and their psecular children get returned to TSP E and W, the sooner Hindu India will return to being safe for native women.





2. Better to read at link which has better highlighting.



indiafacts.co.in/martha-nussbaums-doublespeak/

Martha Nussbaum’s Doublespeak

Posted by Arvind Kumar / March 01, 2014 / Posted in Academia, Distortion Watch, Intelligentsia, Slider / 2 Comments



In response to Penguin Books voluntarily withdrawing a book by Wendy Doniger, [color="#0000FF"]the Indian Express[/color] has provided a platform to a professor at the University of Chicago named [color="#0000FF"]Martha Nussbaum[/color] to attack Hindus and give a sermon to Indians about free speech. However, Martha Nussbaum lacks the qualifications to write on the topic as she has been a staunch opponent of free speech rights for several years. Like most leftists, she is for laws banning hate speech and not for laws protecting free speech.



In the ‘Offensive Internet,‘ a book she co-edited and contributed to, she has argued for banning anonymous posts on the internet that is offensive to others. Targeting a site named AutoAdmit.com which focuses on law schools, she has claimed that “the behavior of the anonymous AutoAdmit writers is best understood as a gender-based hate crime” and that “my analysis suggests the importance of requiring identification as a condition of posting.”



Another contributor to this book is the controversial Cass Sunstein who Nussbaum’s partner and who now serves as the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama Administration. His proposal that the government should control information by infiltrating chat rooms generated a furore among free speech advocates and many of his suggestions were so outrageous that even writers on the far-left outfit, Salon.com, were upset. Sunstein has also suggested that false rumors be banned, a proposal that should remind Indians of Indira Gandhi’s chilling Emergency era regulations.



Apart from rooting for the squelching of free expression of ideas, Nussbaum reveals a sense of entitlement in the book when she writes that people like her should be protected from attacks by others while her usual targets do not deserve such protection.



“More generally, my analysis suggests that we should be much less deferential to this sort of anonymous speech in close-knit communities (such as law schools) than in the broader public sphere.”



Even more jarring is the fact that one of the grounds for Nussbaum’s objection to the posts on AutoAdmit.com is identical to a charge made against Wendy Doniger in the ongoing controversy: that the content is offensive due to the pornographic nature of descriptions in the posts made on the website.



Such hypocrisy and sense of entitlement is visible in her other writings as well. One of her papers contains a revealing example of her Orwellian doublespeak and she even manages to support both free speech laws and hate speech laws in the same sentence.



“The US tradition, which is extremely protective of hate speech, is not appropriate for all nations; Germany, in light of its history, has a much more restrictive attitude toward anti-Semitic speech than does America, and it seems to me that both nations are right.”



Such support is of course reserved for people of her race and would not apply to Indians. Author Carlin Romano writes that Nussbaum’s father, George Craven, held racist views but also makes the assertion that Nussbaum (she has taken on the last name of her ex-husband) repudiated these views. Romano does not present any evidence for the assertion that Nussbaum opposed her father’s views and her writings are consistent with the thoughts of those who would hold racist views. In the days of her father, racist views meant support for lynching Blacks, hanging them on trees, and terrorizing them by marching with like minded people (who typically supported the Democratic Party) while wearing cloaks made of white sheets and carrying burning crosses.



Another pertinent point in Nussbaum’s article is the use of the word ‘thug.’ Unlike in India where the word ‘thug’ is used interchangeably with ‘strongman,’ it is a racial slur in the US as pointed out by two Black professional sportspersons.



Nussbaum’s last name camouflages her true heritage and she has claimed to be a “Reform Jew.” This is a strange claim as a convert into a religion can lay claim to its heritage only by completely embracing it. Reform Judaism is a movement among Jews who criticize many aspects of traditional Judaism and seek to distance themselves from many beliefs and practices. Like similar movements that label themselves ‘reformist,’ this one too consists of dissenters. While an insider can be a dissenter, an outsider cannot join the dissenters and claim to be an insider. In other settings, such a person would be labeled either a deceiver or an infiltrator.



[color="#0000FF"]Martha Nussbaum also makes a fantastic claim in her Indian Express piece that needs sorting out. She has alleged that Hindus threatened violence against the employees of Harvard University Press in order to prevent the publication of her book. A phone call to the number listed on the website of Harvard University Press in order to verify this charge resulted in the veracity of her claim quickly evaporating. The person who answered the phone repeatedly denied that any such incident had taken place and even laughed at it and brushed off the claim.



That the false claim was carried by Indian Express without verification should raise a lot of eyebrows. A look at the leaked documents of Stratfor, the global intelligence firm with alleged CIA links, shows that the group cut deals with various media outlets. Nussbaum’s name seems to carry some weight with Stratfor and Indian Express editor Shekhar Gupta has been named as one of their agents. So this is a case of various interests converging and the manner in which Nussbaum’s disinformation was placed in Indian Express merits further investigation.



This is not the first time that Martha Nussbaum has exhibited dishonesty. In the past, she was accused of committing perjury by lying in a court in Colorado. So the possibility of her conjuring up a “witness” who received threats from Hindus should not be ruled out[/color], but it is too late for such theatrics and any such action should be considered the result of the expose in this article. The US is no banana Republic that people who make violent threats can roam free. Law enforcement in the US is one of the most effective in the world and unless Martha Nussbaum can prove that someone was arrested for threatening violence, her claims are just tall claims.



[color="#0000FF"]There is also much at fault on the side of Hindus for the current state of affairs as they seek approval from American institutions. Hindus have completely misunderstood the American system and erroneously view universities in the US primarily as centers of learning. In reality,[/color] universities, along with the media, so-called think-tanks, so-called non-profit organizations, and trade unions, are part of the power structure in America and serve as conduits for massive amounts of taxpayer money to be funneled into political machines, typically the Democratic Party. Billions of dollars in the name of student loans and research grants are transferred to universities every year making them one of the biggest recipients of welfare payments. Quite a bit of that money makes its way into the political system and one can search the contributions made by specific individuals on the website of the Federal Election Commission. (Individual states too maintain their own databases for state level contributions.)



[color="#0000FF"]While science, medicine and engineering departments still perform real research, the biggest culprits in the universities are the humanities departments. They confer degrees for completely frivolous stuff, and if we agree that psychobabble does not become scholarship because it includes footnotes and citations, there is absolutely no scholarship that comes out of humanities departments in USA. This fact is widely recognized in the US, which is why many reports lament the lack of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics or what are collectively known as STEM fields.



Among Whites, women outnumber men in getting college degrees, but unlike Indian, Chinese or Jewish women, White women are almost unheard of in STEM fields indicating that they swarm the humanities departments in huge numbers. Yet, in a tacit acknowledgment that very little intellectual ability is needed to obtain a degree in one of the humanities subjects, there are no studies lamenting the underrepresentation of men in the humanities divisions.[/color]



Corruption is also rampant in American universities when it comes to the award of honorary degrees, which, at one time were recognitions for superlative work performed typically by people not connected to the academia. They are now routinely awarded to professors and are unwritten quid pro quo arrangements for placing students as faculty members who then nominate their professors for such titles. Such honorary degrees are similar to government bureaucrats in charge of scouting for nominees abusing their power and nominating each other for awards given by the government.



[color="#0000FF"]University professors, especially those aligned with the Democratic Party, are big on talk when it comes to ‘affirmative action’ (equivalent of reservations in Indian college admissions) for Blacks, but it is the privileged White leftist women who have benefited the most from this system. In a move that illustrates the sense of entitlement among women like Martha Nussbaum, White women are treated as “minorities” in USA and use this unfairly gained advantage to advance their careers or grant titles to themselves. Blacks are disproportionately kept out from humanities departments despite having the right qualifications.



Hindus need to stop feeding on information supplied to them by the mainstream media in USA[/color] which is operated by the extreme left and should instead form their own opinions based on first hand experiences. They will then realize that the left in the USA is not worthy of support as it is merely a conglomeration of every racist force in the world. The Democratic Party seeks to be the Pied Piper that leads the people of various races while singing tunes accusing their political opponents of racism. The American academia is a manifestation of this fact which is why there is an unending attack on Hindus. The people in this system do not deserve any respect and Hindus need to work towards eradicating this system instead of seeking to join it.



[The author can be reached at arvind@classical-liberal.net.]

The comments:

Adrak Chaiwala (@ramana1729) March 1, 2014 5:18 pm Reply

Sir, an excellent article. A minor correction : Cass Sunstein has since left Obama admin(2012) & is a Prof @ Harvard. http://goo.gl/BFVjTv – My interest in Cass Sunstein’s work (Nudge) – ‘nudging young, disinterested folks to participate in retirement savings by enrolling (default) them giving them an option to opt out’ – a precursor to Obama care But I digress.





Sam March 2, 2014 6:59 am Reply

Superb post! The rebel natives are taking back their narrative from the neo-colonial empire, in a new hope. However, it is predictable that the empire (and its sepoys) will soon attempt to strike back…