Indian hard-liners say that their Nuclear Weapons should be able to strike the United States

World Bank Report says that another 40 million Indians have slipped into absolute poverty in last decade making the total over 400 million now in that category – the World’s largest concentration of the impoverished.

Appeal to Sen. Jesse Helms to help confine these ‘Mad Brahmin Bombers’ to the looney bin.



Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 22, 1999 - The Media Alert (reproduced below) of the organizers of the Sikh American Community’s New York protest against India’s "Nuclear Terrorism" (held in front of the United Nations building on Tuesday the 21st of September, 99) focuses attention on the morally repugnant ‘Mad Brahmin Nuclear Bombers" in Delhi who, while sitting in palaces built by the British Colonials discuss Nuclear Doctrines without showing any concern for India ‘s poor once described by founding father Jawaharlal Nehru as "this naked hungry mass."

While the September 16, 99 issue of the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review Weekly (in its Politics & Policy Section) carries a report from Delhi by Sadanand Dhume) headlined; "Hardliners say India’s nuclear weapons should be able to strike the United States," yesterday’s Washington Post carries an article on its Op-ed page by an Indian author, Saiddharth Dube, headlined; "India’s Tragic Destiny", which says;" Despite a half-century of democracy, steady economic growth and constitutional commitment to welfare goals India’s poor are still naked and hungry. They are also far greater in numbers; by conservative official count the absolutely poor in India total some 350-400 million, the world’s largest concentration of deeply impoverished people." The Washington Post article goes on to say that there is every risk that this immense tragedy will endure for the foreseeable future as the needs and interests of the poor, never of much importance, have become more marginal than every before in independent India’s history.

Dube’s article in Washington Post further states that; "India’s reality is that 80% of the poor live in rural areas, where they are typically bereft of assets (particularly agricultural land), illiterate, malnourished and sick. And only scarcely less than in colonial India, they are deeply oppressed by the landed. The lowest castes remain the most impoverished; brutal violence and ritual discrimination are ubiquitous; and democracy is a fiction at the village level. These myriad disabilities bar the poor from participating in economic growth. Little or nothing trickles down to them, too often not even higher wages for their labor."

The Washington Post article by Dube (who is the author of the book; In the Land of Poverty – Memories of an Indian Family 1947 – 97) concludes his article by saying that; "Unfortunately there is little chance that India’s politicians or policy elite of today will admit to the need for agrarian reform as a prerequisite to tackling poverty in India. They are demonstrably uninterested in agrarian reform – in fact, they are reversing the laws that ban large farms. Their actions condemn several hundred million land – hungry and deeply deprived Indians to unending poverty."

While Dube talks of unending poverty and quotes a new World Bank report which admits that another 40 millions Indians have slipped into absolute poverty in the past few years, according to the prestigious Far East Economic Review hard-liners on India’s National Security Advisory Board, like Bharat Karnad, want a global strike capability. In their view; "India should also have the ability, should the need arise, to hit the U.S." The hard-liners say; "India’s security can only be guaranteed by a nuclear arsenal of between 350 and 400 weapons." They oppose India signing the CTBT or capping production of fissile material. How evil is their thinking!

Dube’s observations about the attitude towards the poor of India’s politicians, and condition in rural India, are confirmed by reporters from India’s No. 1 Weekly News Magazine THE WEEK who visited the town of Mahona (in India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh, only 35 km from Lucknow) which town is part of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s constituency. The cover story in The Week (in its issue of September 26, 99 – "Rising resentment") reveals that even in the Prime Minister’s constituency family income in the town of Mahona is Rs. 30 (equivalent to US 75 cents a day) and that even a health center promised by Prime Minister Vajpayee never materialized. During the monsoon season Mahona town lies marooned. The conditions in rest of rural India are about the same.

Yet the morally repugnant Mad Brahmin Bombers in Delhi trumpet a Nuclear Doctrine which calls for a ‘triad structure’ of missiles, aircraft and nuclear submarines which even Britain, France and China do not have. It is hoped that President Clinton in his desire to visit South Asia will not forget India’s over 400 million poor (and minorities like the 18 million Sikhs) who will be the first victim of the Mad Brahmin Mania unless the world community takes action to confine them to the looney bin. Senator Jesse Helms will you please help to corner these Mad Brahmin Bombers in New Delhi INDIA.