Khalistan Calling
newsletter dated January 08, 2003The three million strong diaspora Sikhs, unlike their 21 million compatriots captive in India, are free and prosperous and they are determined - as they believe it is their destiny and pray for it every day;
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A TALE OF INDIAN SQUALOR
While India's rulers talk of Nukes
& a 'Moon Shot" by 2010
UN's 'Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India - 2002'
reveals that nearly sixty five million poor in India's cities
have no access to toilet facilities & clean drinking water
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A quote from Aristotle describes lawless India
& its trishul-waving Neo-Nazi Hindutva demagogues
:-"Where the laws are not supreme,
there demagogues spring up"
BY
Dr. Amarjit Singh
Khalistan Affairs Centre
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Washington DC: January 08, 2003:
While Indian media reports this week, were trying to keep up with the Chinese space achievments (by boasting about copycat plans to 'Go to the moon' by 2010) and the government announced a Nuclear Command Authority, a `Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India', reported that more than 21 per cent of India's urban population of 285 million (27.78% of the total population of India- 2001-census) live in slums, 23 per cent of urban households (about 65 million people) do not have access to toilet facilities in most Indian cities.That should explain the ever present horrible stink in every Indian town and city including the brand new two billion dollars Delhi metro train system which had to close down on the very first day to remove three tons of human feces which the passengers had left behind.
The aim of the 'Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India-2002', is to present
all the inter-linked issues that create food insecurity in urban India. (A similar "Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India," was released in 2001) The lack of sanitation and clean drinking water, the 'Urban Atlas' suggests, contribute to creating hunger and malnutrition and the diseases that result from contaminated drinking water and which breed in open drains and uncleared garbage are "difficult to fight for people already weakened by lack of food.'''The Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India-2002',
also reveals that the poor in India's burgeoning urban areas - like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Chennai et. al., - do not get the requisite amount of calories or nutrients specified by accepted Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) norms and also suggests that absorption and assimilation of food by the urban poor is further impaired by non-food factors such as inadequate sanitation facilities, insufficient housing and woeful access to clean drinking water. Nearly 8 per cent of urban households (23 million) are unable to find safe drinking water says the report.More than 21 per cent of India's urban population of 285 million - which is increasing every day the report said - live in city slums, 23 per cent of urban households (about 65 million urban poor) do not have access to toilet facilities just like their nearly 700 million poor rural brothers & sisters who stampede like animals every morning (females at night when many are 'ambushed' and raped) seeking a bush or culvert to hide their shame when answering the call of nature. A logical question comes to mind as to where do the 65 million urban poor go when they have to go in the cities? The Food Insecurity Atlas for Urban India also reports that nearly 8 per cent (23 million) of urban households are unable to find safe drinking water.
Interestingly the Atlas cites NSS data to indicate that average urban calorie intake is lower than average rural calorie intake. Another disturbing fact pointed out by NSS statistics is that average calorie intake has declined in urban and rural India in the last three decades. That the analysis of food security requires a more broad-based approach than the mere focus on calorie intake is a view prescribed by the Food Insecurity Atlas. As the Atlas suggests, the problem of urban hunger is almost paradoxical. On the surface, life for all sections in urban India appears to be easier than in rural India. Wages and salaries are higher in urban areas; infrastructure is superior in cities and towns when compared with villages; schools and hospitals are more accessible; food availability is rarely a problem; and small signs of wealth such as radios and televisions can be seen even in the slums. However, such observations are deceptive.
For example, even though urban wages and salaries are higher than rural wages and salaries, the urban poor fare poorly in terms of livelihood security. Vulnerable groups in urban areas often depend on casual employment and daily wages. The uncertainty of these avenues of income have a significant effect on the food security of the urban poor. The cunning upper caste,Trishul-waving, Hindutva- fundamentalist leadership has done nothing to improve the lot of the urban poor just as they have done nothing for the rural poor. "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise," wrote the English philosopher, statesman, essayist, Francis Bacon in his 1625 'Of Cunning' essays.
The Bhagwad-Gita - song of the blessed - a philosophic dialogue that is a sacred Hindoo text found in the ancient Sanskrit epics of the Mahabharata, probably describes the current - post Gujarat pogrom - delusional Hindutva crowd that misrules the world's largest Castocracy from British-built New Delhi, better than Francis Bacon, thus:- "Wisdom is prevented by ignorance, and delusion is the result." The Hindu-fundamentalist BJP leadership of Vajpaee, Advani, Modi & Co., talk of shots to the moon, and Nuclear Command Authority, while children die from malnutrition in New Delhi slums in their own backyard. Some democracy, some castocracy/thugocracy, some delusion, some Hindutva leaders!
For a backgrounder on Human Development in the whole of India - rural and urban combined - please click on the following link and read Khalistan Calling dated August 14, 2002, headlined, "UN's Human Development Report-2002 - India leads the world in human degradation with 863 million Indians living under US $. 2 per day": >
http://www.khalistan-affairs.org/Main/K_Calling/kc08142002.htm <Incidently
the United Nation’s annual Human Development Report, (referred to in the August 14, 2002 Khalistan Calling) is a 'yardstick' and a comparison of human progress in various countries of the world - from the richest to the poorest. It is a comparison 'derby' which measured Human Development in 173 countries in the year 2002. Despite a surge in free market economic growth in the past decade in Asia, Latin America and Africa, India (ranked 124th on the Human Development Index-2002). India, after fifty five years of socalled independence, when the British Colonials, who were supposed to be exploiters, left South Asia in 1947, remains one of the most backward, poor and squalidly country in the world. Just look at the improvements in China, Iran, Malaysia, Singapre, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan as a comparison.In 2002, as in previous years, India keeps company in the UN's Human Devepment Index (HDI) with - and in many cases ranks below - poor third world countries like Equatorial Guinea (111th), Gabon (117th), Sao Tome & Principe (119th), Guatemala (120th), Soloman Islands (121st), Namibia (122nd), Morocco (123rd) and just above stone-age countries like Swaziland (125th), Botswana (126th). In this latest UN's Human Development Report-2002 nuclear-armed India (which is planning to import arms worth 15 billion dollars in the next few years and has ambitions of occupying a permanent seat in any expanded UN Security Council ahead of countries like Italy, Germany, Canada, Egypt, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia et. al.,) has been placed to its eternal shame - based on its performance - just above fourth world countries like Swaziland (125th), Botswana (126th), Myanmar (127th), Zimbabwe (128th), Ghana (129th) and Cambodia (130th).
An OP-ED, by one Kanta Murali, in the latest issue of India's leading Newsmagazine Fortnightly FRONTLINE, issue of January 05-17, 2002, (a subsidiary of the HINDU, Madras) headlined, Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India maintains that " a closer look makes one wonder whether urban lower income groups are really better off than their rural counterparts." THEY ARE NOT, the poverty in the slums of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta etc., is worse than the squalor in the remotest village! For Kanta Murali's excellent article please click at: > http://www.flonnet.com/fl2001/stories/20030117007307500.htm
<We hope Kanta Murali's Op-Ed piece in FRONTLINE and our taunting ridicule in this issue of Khalistan Calling will bring the delusionary Brahmin-caste dominated urbanized Indian ruling elite down to earth from the 'moon' trip and unhorse them from the 'Nuclear donkey' and make these 'Mad Hindutva Trishul-waving Bombers' in Delhi realize that 'charity begins at home, but should not end there and that they should sniff around in the neighbourhood'.
The urban areas of the Sikh homeland of Indian occupied Punjab are slightly better than the slums of Mumbai, Kolkatta and Delhi, but not by much, as AIDS-infected imported labour from Bihar and UP are being encouraged, to set up their 'jhuggis' in camps near Punjabi cities to make the Sikhs a minority in their own homeland in a diabolical demographic scheme.
The only way Indian Occupied Sikh Punjab can prosper and distance itself from India's ever increasing mis-managed squalor and rascal-rule, is to educate its population, reduce its unemployment, recapture its life-giving river waters (being stolen by non-riparian Hindu-majority states of Haryana and Rajasthan) and improve the lot of its Sikh majority and the minorities is by saying "Good Bye", "Adios", "Sayonara" - to the squalor that is India by creating a democratic, egalitarian buffer state of Khalistan
.Khalistan situated between warring nuclear-armed India and Pakistan and located West of the Jumna river, East of the Pakistan border, South of Kashmir and South West of Tibet China which will act as a 'bridge of peace' between oil-rich and food-short Central Asisa and Punjab, Khalistan, which has been, and will continue, to be the granary of the subcontinent and beyond.
KHALISTAN ZINDABAD
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