2004

November 10  - India is Not the Worlds Largest Deomocracy
November 03  - Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International condemn India on 20th anniversay of 1984 mass killings of Sikh minority while Sikh victims of pogrom protest for justice
October 27  - Nuclear proliferation to Iran: Affaire de Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad
October 20  - Right wing Hindu-fundamentalist alliance loses Maharashtra Assembly elections
October 13  - First ever Pakistani 16 member media delegation visits Indian Occupied Kashmir and sees the fervor for independence among Kashmir's Muslims, Sikhs and Untouchables
October 06  - US State Department sanctions, imposed on India's top nuclear scientist Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad for proliferation activities in Iran, cause confusion in New Delhi
September 29  - We Salute Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann and his Akali Dal(A) workers for their successful resistance to the BJP's Tiranga Yatra all over the Punjab
September 22  - India's hallucilnatory rulers mount blitzkreig in their bid for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council despite India's pidly 0. 341 % annual contribution to the UN Budget
September 15  - CONTROVERSY HAUNTS INDIA'S ANTI-SIKH STATISTICAL GENOCIDE - Census-2001
September 08  - Over 3 million Sikhs dissappear from India's Census count
September 01  - SGPC makes second formal request to Indian President APJ Abul Kalam yesterday to help trace the contents of the Darbar Sahib's Tosha Khana (Treasury) looted by the Indian Army in June 1984
August 25  - Indian Occupation Army's atrocities draws unique collective nudism protest by defiled Manipuri women against state-sponsored rape sanctioned under draconian laws - Nude protest a first in South Asia
August 18  - Why has the UN's Human Development Report-2004 placed INDIA 127th, below even basket case countries like, Namibia at 126th, Morocco at 125th, Gabon at 122nd & Vietnam at 112th? There is a very good reason
August 11  - All South Asian countries improve HDI ranking except the 'Sick Man of South Asia' - India
August 04  - Indian Supreme Court issues notices on Punjab River water's Law -- Move in Pak Assembly to buy Sutlej water
July 28  - Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann - to his eternal credit - writes to Smithsonian's History Museum of Natural History's Sikh project about 'Quisling' Tarlochan Singh's past
July 21  - LATEST ON THE SYL CANAL ISSUE: India's central government shaken by Punjabi Unity
July 14  - PUNJAB's FINEST HOUR ON THE SYL CANAL ISSUE: Punjab Assembly unanimously passes the historic 'Punjab Termination of Agreements Bill, 2004', on July 12 which cancels ALL past unequal agreements about Ravi/Beas waters
July 07  - WHAT NEXT ON THE SYL ISSUE? Parkash Singh Badal accuses the Manmohan Singh led Central Government of being insensitive to the Punjab
June 30  - In exchange for Chautala's INLD support for his Rajya Sabha election pander Tarlochan Singh endorses Haryana's plans to steal Punjab's river waters via the SYL canal
June 23  - Is India weeding out ALL minorities, particularly Sikhs, from its Intelligence services?
June 16  - What has Dr. Manmohan Singh done for the Sikhs except create new problems for the Sikh Homeland?
June 09  - "Sikhon` ko Dr. Manmohan Singh kay prime minister bunnay say kyamila?" --- "What did the Sikhs gain from Mrs Sonia Gandhi's appointment of a Sikh, as Prime minister of India?"
June 02  - TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF JUNE 1984 GHALLUGHARA
May 26  - "Aam Sikh ko Dr. Manmohan Singh kay prime minister bunnay say kyamila?" --- What did an ordinary Sikh gain from the appointment of a 'poster-boy' Sikh, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Prime minister?"
May 19  - India's Christian, Muslim, Sikh & other minorities better beware as the Hindutva-fundamentalist BJP is on the war path after its defeat at the polls
May 12  - "The United States does not accept India and Pakistan as Nuclear-weapons states" - US Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf
May 05  - The United Nations designates 2004 as the year to commemorate the struggle against slavery & its abolition but forgets about India's 170 million 'Untouchable' slaves
April 28  - The world's top news magazine THE ECONOMIST focuses attention on India's raging AIDS epidemic which threatens other South Asian nations including Khalistan
April 21  - India seeks Israeli expertise to catch Veerappan the lone, cocky & elusive South Indian brigand who has murdered 25 VIPS in two decades
April 14  - After rewriting history in Indian text books the Hindutva Neo-Nazi crowd is now intimidating American authors of books on India
April 07  - Comparing India's mythical progress with China's hard facts
March 31  - Place Holder
March 24  - Three pronged conspiracy by the state of Haryana, the Indian Supreme Court & the phony Eradi Tribunal to deprive the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, of its river waters via the proposed SYL canal
March 17  - SIKHS AGAINST OUTSOURCING JOBS TO INDIA--Part II
March 10  - Sikh-American Organizations announce their solidarity with thousands of American IT workers laid off because of outsourcing to INDIA
March 03  - IN INDIA 10% 'SHINING' & 90% BURNING!
February 25  - Indian diamond trader/smuggler murdered in Angola last week for his cache of diamonds worth one million dollars
February 18  - Divided Punjab politicians talking stupid with a 'forked tongue' on the SYL issue
February 11  - Iran reveals to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the 'Fathers' of the Indian and Pakistani May 1998 nuclear bombs, Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan were deeply involved in the 'underground' Nuclear Supply train to that country
February 04  - PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER CAPTAIN AMRINDER SINGH HUMILIATED AT THE BORDER ON HIS RETURN FROM A VISIT TO PAKISTAN WHERE HE WAS GIVEN UNPRECIDENTED HEAD OF STATE PROTOCOL
January 28  - BJP's 'FEEL GOOD' factor is a fraud for election purposes as economic Statistics speak otherwise about India
January 21  - Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee which manages the historical Gurdwara Rakab Ganj reopens the issue of the shrine's land illegally usurped by the British Colonials in 1912
January 14  - New dirty face of fascist India under the Hindutva-fundamentalist Neo-Nazi wave
January 07  - Musings on the SAARC conference held in Islamabad, Pakistan, January 04 to 06, 2004


India is Not the Worlds Largest Deomocracy

Wednesday, November 10, 2004
The Indian propaganda machinery, and numerous Indian jingoists, keep on repeating, by rote, that India is the worlds largest democracy......more
 
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Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International condemn India on 20th anniversay of 1984 mass killings of Sikh minority while Sikh victims of pogrom protest for justice

Wednesday, November 03, 2004
On the 20th anniversary of the November 1984 India-wide mass killings of the monotheistic Sikh minority, (ordered by the then prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi) both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, (the two major international human rights organizations operating worldwide) have separately called on the Sonia alias Manmohan Singh government to, "launch fresh investigations into and make a public commitment to prosecute the planners and implementers of the (1984 anti/Sikh) violence."...more
 
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Nuclear proliferation to Iran: Affaire de Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad

Wednesday, October 27, 2004
There can be no better illumination of the popular South Asian proverb, 'Ulta Chor Kotwal ko dantaay' (translation: 'A thief rebukes the investigating Police Inspector') than a report, headlined, "Prove our scientists had Nuclear-links: India to US," which was planted in India's leading English language newspaper, Times of India, yesterday, in which the writer has the chutzpah of denying Indian nuclear proliferation to Iran....more
 
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Right wing Hindu-fundamentalist alliance loses Maharashtra Assembly elections

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The vicious reaction of the Shiv Sena boss, also known as 'Hitler of Mumbai', Bal Thakeray to the defeat of his fascist, right wing, Hindu-fundamentalist, Neo-Nazi Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance in last weeks assembly election in India's premier state, Maharashtra (total population 96, 878, 627; Muslims-10, 270, 485 represented by one Muslim MP in the Lok Sabha; Christians-1, 058, 313; Sikhs-215, 337) is an ill omen for India's persecuted Christian, Muslim and Sikh minorities, particularly the Muslim and Christian. ...more
 
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First ever Pakistani 16 member media delegation visits Indian Occupied Kashmir and sees the fervor for independence among Kashmir's Muslims, Sikhs and Untouchables

Wednesday, October 13, 2004
The permission by the Indian government for the first ever visit to Indian Occupied Kashmir by a 16 member Pakistani Media delegation, (from October 04-09, 2004, as a corollary of an ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan of which 57 years old Kashmir dispute is an essential part) was an attempt by India's Channakiyan rulers to convince Pakistanis of the futility of their 'Kashmir' ambition. It seems the plot has boomeranged thanks to the resilience and true grit of the Kashmir independence movement which now encompass not only the Muslims but the Sikhs and 'Untouchables' of that unhappy misruled Indian colony too!...more
 
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US State Department sanctions, imposed on India's top nuclear scientist Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad for proliferation activities in Iran, cause confusion in New Delhi

Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Last Friday (October 01) the Indian government, in a typical ('Who Me?') double-faced response, asked for a a review and withdrawal of the sanctions imposed, by the United States Administration, on a retired Chairman & former Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Dr. Y.S.R. Prasad, for his clandestine nuclear proliferation activities in Iran, saying that the scientist has not visited Iran 'since mid-2003'. The accused, nuclear scientist, Dr. Prasad, while ridiculing the US sanctions in the Indian media, ended up contradicting the Indian government spokesman by claiming that 'he returned from Iran two months ago'. Who is lying and why?...more
 
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We Salute Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann and his Akali Dal(A) workers for their successful resistance to the BJP's Tiranga Yatra all over the Punjab

Wednesday, September 29, 2004
True to his September 20 public warning that his party would go all out to stop the BJP's Uma Bharti flag march (Tiranga-Yatra) motoring through Indian occupied Punjab, Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann, (President, Shiromani Akali Dal - Amritsar), and thousands of his party workers, put up an excellent show of popular roadside resistance for two days (24th and 25th September, 2004) along the route of the Yatra motorcade....more
 
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India's hallucilnatory rulers mount blitzkreig in their bid for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council despite India's pidly 0. 341 % annual contribution to the UN Budget

Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Sikhs (3 million free in the diaspora and 22 million captive in India) oppose the Indian rulers hallucinatory fishing expedition for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council, (ignoring such deserving countries as Canada and Italy) and will protest on September 23, 2004, outside the U.N. Please see Press Statement "Why This Protest By Sikhs Against India" (which will be issued at the New York protest) appended after the concluding paragraph of this newsletter....more
 
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CONTROVERSY HAUNTS INDIA'S ANTI-SIKH STATISTICAL GENOCIDE - Census-2001

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
After waiting for three years, the Indian Census Commission had (on September 06, 2004) released, in New Delhi, a report, on population numbers of religious groups in India (Census-2001) which was partly covered in our column last week. Three days later, on Wednesday, September 09, 2004, the Census Commission revised the Census data and further reduced the growth rate of the Sikh community from the 18.2%, which was announced on Monday, to 16.9% on Wednesday, when the actual Growth rate is in the upper twenties. Sikh statistical genocide continues. Census-2001 some national Census!...more
 
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Over 3 million Sikhs dissappear from India's Census count

Wednesday, September 08, 2004
The Indian Census Commission released an obviously doctored and phony report in New Delhi, on Monday, on population numbers of religious groups in India. The Report, cooked up by BJP appointed Census Commission 'Babus', claims a Sikh population of 19 million, instead of 22 million - three million Sikhs just disappeared. It also claims that, during the decade 1991-2001, the Sikhs showed one of the lowest growth rate in India of 18.2%, 'due to infertility' - implying Sikh males have become sterile....more
 
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SGPC makes second formal request to Indian President APJ Abul Kalam yesterday to help trace the contents of the Darbar Sahib's Tosha Khana (Treasury) looted by the Indian Army in June 1984

Wednesday, September 01, 2004
When Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam visited the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) on March 23, 2003, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had formally sought his help to retrieve the rare manuscripts, books and other historical objet d'art stolen by the murderous Indian Army when it attacked the sacred Sikh religious complex, in June 1984, during which operation thousands of innocent Sikh pilgrims were also murdered. As President Abdul Kalam has done nothing for over five months, since the March request to him, some angry SGPC members reminded him again about the stolen Sikh religious treasures when he visited the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, yesterday on the occasion of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the installation of the Guru Granth Sahib...more
 
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Indian Occupation Army's atrocities draws unique collective nudism protest by defiled Manipuri women against state-sponsored rape sanctioned under draconian laws - Nude protest a first in South Asia

Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The current revival of insurgency in former British Protectorate (a la Bhutan) Manipur, in North Eastern India, against Indian misrule and occupation was triggered by the July 11, 2004, rape and killing of a local Christian woman by Assam Rifles personnel of India's Occupation Army. The atrocity sparked a unique protest against state-sponsored rape by naked Manipuri women not seen on this planet since some Doukhobor women (a small Southern Russian religious sect who after immigrating to Canada in 1898) started useing collective nudism, starting in 1907, in British Columbia, as a form of protest against unjust authority...more
 
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Why has the UN's Human Development Report-2004 placed INDIA 127th, below even basket case countries like, Namibia at 126th, Morocco at 125th, Gabon at 122nd & Vietnam at 112th? There is a very good reason

Wednesday, August 18, 2004
An excellent article by that great Indian journalist, Praful Bidwai, explains, like no one else can, why the 'Sick-man-of-South-Asia', INDIA, which inherited gratis, (unlike Pakistan which had to start from scratch) all the infra-structure of a modern state in 1947 from the departing Colonial British, (including India's magnificent President's Palace and Government Secretariat on Raisina hill built by the British on stolen holy land of Gurdwara Rakabgunj Sahib...more
 
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All South Asian countries improve HDI ranking except the 'Sick Man of South Asia' - India

Wednesday, August 11, 2004
According to the latest UN's Human Development Report-2004, (an annual 'yardstick' and a comparison of human progress in various countries of the world) the 'Sick Man of S. Asia', INDIA, (unlike ALL its South Asian neighbours, who improved their HDI ranking this year) is stuck at its 2003 HDI rank of 127th rank for the second year in a row despite the fact that the number...more
 
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Indian Supreme Court issues notices on Punjab River water's Law -- Move in Pak Assembly to buy Sutlej water

Wednesday, August 04, 2004
On Monday August 02, 2004, the Indian Supreme Court issued notices, to the center & six states, on the Presidential reference, as the first act of an orchestrated 'drama' to cancel 'The Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, 2004' passed unanimously by the Punjab Assembly on July 12, 2004, and made Law the same day, which nullifies all unequal agreements on sharing of Punjab's river waters... Move in Pakistan National Assembly to buy Sutlej river water...more
 
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Sirdar Simranjit Singh Mann - to his eternal credit - writes to Smithsonian's History Museum of Natural History's Sikh project about 'Quisling' Tarlochan Singh's past

Wednesday, July 28, 2004
The TRIBUNE, a Chandigarh-based English language newspaper, published in the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, referring to the July 24, 2004, opening of the world famous Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibition, "Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab," carried a report, by Prabhjot Singh, in its July 12, 2004, issue. The report was about Mr. Tarlochan Singh, an old 'Quisling', (currently Chairman of the bogus 'do-nothing' National Commission for Minorities of the world's largest Oligarchy - India) and was headlined, "Ultra-modern Sikh museum in Washington - Inauguration by Tarlochan Singh on July 24."...more
 
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LATEST ON THE SYL CANAL ISSUE: India's central government shaken by Punjabi Unity

Wednesday, July 21, 2004
"Certain Laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written Laws," wrote the famous Roman philosopher and playwright, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (55 B.C. - A.D. 39) also known as Seneca the Elder or Seneca the Rhetorician in his 1st century A.D. monumental work, Controversiae. The above truism applies to a T to the SYL canal issue fermented by the water thieves in Haryana in cahoots with a corrupt two member bench of the Indian Supreme Court...more
 
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PUNJAB's FINEST HOUR ON THE SYL CANAL ISSUE: Punjab Assembly unanimously passes the historic 'Punjab Termination of Agreements Bill, 2004', on July 12 which cancels ALL past unequal agreements about Ravi/Beas waters

Wednesday, July 14, 2004
'The Punjab Termination of Agreements Bill, 2004' - now an ACT after the Punjab Governor's signature - which was unanimously passed by the Punjab assembly, in a rare and historic show of unity, on Monday July 12, 2004, has cancelled all previous agreements on use of Ravi/Beas river waters while allowing the new bill to protect the "existing FREE use" of water by non-riparian states of Haryana and Rajasthan. Bravo! But what about the enequal agreements about the waters of the Sutlej river being distributed to non-riparian states for decades FREE OF CHARGE?...more
 
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WHAT NEXT ON THE SYL ISSUE? Parkash Singh Badal accuses the Manmohan Singh led Central Government of being insensitive to the Punjab

Wednesday, July 07, 2004
It is strange that out of the Punjab political leadership (which loves to issue statements on any subject under the moon, now strangly silent on the SYL canal issue) only the SAD Chief, Parkash Singh Badal, has asked the right questions from the Punjab Chief minister Amrinder Singh and the anti/Sikh Manmohan Singh-led Central government which, announced last week that, it is entrusting the task of completion of the Sutlej-Yamuna link (SYL) canal to the Central Public Works Department (CPWD). The SYL canal, if allowed to be completed, will syphon - nay steal - Punjab's precious river waters to non-riparian Hindu-majority state of Haryana which state has refused to share the waters of the Jumna river or vacate Chandigarh...more
 
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In exchange for Chautala's INLD support for his Rajya Sabha election pander Tarlochan Singh endorses Haryana's plans to steal Punjab's river waters via the SYL canal

Wednesday, June 30, 2004
The victory statement this week by that infamous pander, Tarlochan Singh after his recent surprise election win from Haryana, with BJP/INLD support, to the Indian Rajya Sabha (upper house of parliament) indicates clearly that Byzantine politics (characterized by complexity, deviousness & intrigue) are being played by the BJP - a socalled ally of the Badal SAD - on Punjab and its people...more
 
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Is India weeding out ALL minorities, particularly Sikhs, from its Intelligence services?

Wednesday, June 23, 2004
For the past few weeks the Indian media has been flooded with self-flagellatory stories about the 'disappearance' of a Sikh, one Rabinder Singh, Joint Secretary 'South East Asia' in the RAW headquarters (Research & Analysis Wing) India's premier external spying agency. Rabinder Singh, an 18-year veteran operative, it is being alleged, was a mole for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency...more
 
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What has Dr. Manmohan Singh done for the Sikhs except create new problems for the Sikh Homeland?

Wednesday, June 16, 2004
While the Punjab's Sikh leadership plays to the galleries, on the SYL (Sulej-Yumna-Link) canal issue, trying to score points against one another, Sonia Gandhi's 'Sikh-poster-boy' Manmohan Singh government is silently and steadily following its anti/Sikh agenda. Now the Indian Army, with an obvious 'wink and a nod' from the central government, has aired its open support of non-riparian Hindu-majority Haryana state's illegal demand for the SYL (Sutlej-Yumna-link) canal (something unprecedented and against the Indian constitution) which if it succeeds, will deprive our children and their children of life-giving Punjab river's water and turn the Sikh Homeland into a desert...more
 
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"Sikhon` ko Dr. Manmohan Singh kay prime minister bunnay say kyamila?" --- "What did the Sikhs gain from Mrs Sonia Gandhi's appointment of a Sikh, as Prime minister of India?"

Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Two weeks ago, in our column dated May 26, 2004, we asked, "What did the Sikhs gain from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's appointment of a docile Sikh technocrat, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Prime minister of India?" The Manmohan Singh/Sonia Gandhi government in Delhi did not take very long to respond to that question. Its deeds; three 'thumbs' in the collective eye, or slaps on the face, of the 25 million strong Sikh nation (3 million FREE in the diaspora and 22 million captive in India) in less than three weeks, say a book about what the Sikhs have gained from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's appointment of a 'Sikh' Prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh...more
 
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF JUNE 1984 GHALLUGHARA

Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Exactly twenty years ago, on June 03, 1984, during the reign of the 2nd Prime minister of India's Nehru Dynasty, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, a savage Indian army attack was ordered on Sikhism's holiest site (its sanctum sanctorum), the Akal Takht Sahib, located in the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar, which action was synchronized with assaults on thirty seven other holy Gurdawaras located in the Sikh homeland. For us Sikhs the memory of those attacks is a 'diary' that we carry about with us...more
 
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"Aam Sikh ko Dr. Manmohan Singh kay prime minister bunnay say kyamila?" --- What did an ordinary Sikh gain from the appointment of a 'poster-boy' Sikh, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Prime minister?"

Wednesday, May 26, 2004
In the recent General Elections in India the victor, the Congress party coalition, ridiculed the incumbant Alliance's (BJP & Company's) "India Shining" election slogan with a simple question "Aam aadmi ko kyamila? - What did the common man get from the BJP rule?" After the recent post-elections theatrics by Sonia Gandhi & Co., that is exactly what the Sikhs are asking, "Aam Sikh ko Dr. Manmohan Singh kay prime minister bunnay say kya milayga? - What will an ordinary Sikh gain from the appointment of a 'poster-boy' Sikh, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as Prime minister of India?"...more
 
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India's Christian, Muslim, Sikh & other minorities better beware as the Hindutva-fundamentalist BJP is on the war path after its defeat at the polls

Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Soon after the recent Indian election results came out, RSS/BJP spokespersons have been ominously trumpeting that the NDA coalition's defeat at the polls was caused by the BJP's (Bharatiya Janata Party's) decision to abandon its time-tested Hindutva-fundamentalist, Neo-Nazi, communalistic agenda in favour of a development plank, moderation and peace with Pakistan. These BJP fascists (read Hindutva-fundamentalists) are openly confessing that the BJP is most effective when it manipulates religious, nationalistic, communalistic and jingoistic sentiments to its advantage. Obviously the BJP is a leopard that cannot change its spots....more
 
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"The United States does not accept India and Pakistan as Nuclear-weapons states" - US Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
The 25 Million strong Sikh nation (3 million free in the diaspora & 22 million captive in India) unanimously endorses and welcomes last week's New York statement of US Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation, John Wolf, that although the United States has recently taken steps to strengthen relations with both India and Pakistan to enhance its regional goals, these moves should not be taken to suggest that Washington has "accepted" the status of either country as a nuclear weapons state under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Bravo! Well said!...more
 
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The United Nations designates 2004 as the year to commemorate the struggle against slavery & its abolition but forgets about India's 170 million 'Untouchable' slaves

Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Welcome to "shining India" getting ready to elect its 14th Lok Sabha, (Parliament) but in its established wisdom of "feel good factor", no one talks about India's 170 million Untouchable Slaves, its manifestations of racism in everyday life, its increasing intolerance and violations of human rights in the year 2004, which has been designated by the United Nations as the international year to comemorate the struggle against slavery and its abolition. Some abolition of slavery!...more
 
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The world's top news magazine THE ECONOMIST focuses attention on India's raging AIDS epidemic which threatens other South Asian nations including Khalistan

Wednesday, April 28, 2004
One of the world's most prestigious and oldest (first published September 1843) news magazine, THE ECONOMIST, London, read throughout this planet by everybody who is anybody, has in its latest issue focused attention on the AIDS epidemic raging in India. "A human disaster," it writes, "which has the making of become a regional pandemic engulfing India and its neighbours (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Khalistan, Bhutan, Sikkim & Sri Lanka - nearly one quarter of mankind) if the Indian government continues to be indifferent to public health which is one subject NOT being discussed by anybody in India's current election campaign."...more
 
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India seeks Israeli expertise to catch Veerappan the lone, cocky & elusive South Indian brigand who has murdered 25 VIPS in two decades

Wednesday, April 21, 2004
It is unthinkable, nay ridiculous, that a country with a population of over a billion plus people, the second largest armed forces in the world (over three million in uniform; area: over one million two hundred and sixty nine square miles) has asked a team of security experts from one of the tiniest countries in the world, Israel, (area: 7, 849 sq. miles; population a little over six million) to present a "feasibility report'' on how to nab Veerappan, the notorious lone Indian brigand. Some regional super power! Some country! The brigand/ murderer/ smuggler, Veerappan, a Tamil, has been on the loose in the forests of South India since July of 1987, to the eternal shame of the Indian administration, and has had the chutzpah of murdering over twenty five people and kidnapping scores of bureaucrats, movie stars, ministers and police officials some of whom he has released after receipt of large sums of ransom money....more
 
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After rewriting history in Indian text books the Hindutva Neo-Nazi crowd is now intimidating American authors of books on India

Wednesday, April 14, 2004
The Washington Post in a front page story, (last Saturday - April 10, 2004) headlined, "Wrath Over a Hindu god - U. S. Scholors' Writings Draw Threats From Faithful," has unwittingly focused upon the recent emergence of thousands of brain-washed, jingoistic, Indian IT-workers, who float around on the worldwide internet pushing their rulers fascist Hindutva-fundamentalist agenda. This internet floatsam has been mustered by the Indian intelligence agencies and diplomatic missions abroad and has been organized to launch calculated and rehearsed assaults to intimidate anyone in Academia or media (or internet forums) who is in a position to educate world public opinion, with the truth and reality, about the world's largest, dirt-poor, oligarchic Hindutva-fundamentalist Castocracy - India...more
 
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Comparing India's mythical progress with China's hard facts

Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Comparisons between China and India and how BJP-run India is 'shining' (with over a hundred billion US dollars foreign exchange reserve) and how it will become a super power by 2020 and overtake China by 2050, is the talk of the town when Indians gather these days. These boasts, nay myths, are a subject of many a boring discussion whereever and whenever two brain-washed ultra-nationalist Indians meet with a third party. President John F. Kennedy (1917-63) probably described myths best in the following words:- "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."...more
 
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Place Holder

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
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Three pronged conspiracy by the state of Haryana, the Indian Supreme Court & the phony Eradi Tribunal to deprive the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, of its river waters via the proposed SYL canal

Wednesday, March 24, 2004
The announcement last week (when Punjab's Sikh leadership is busy in the coming general elections) by the socalled Eradi Tribunal, which body has been dormant since January 1987, that it will visit before the end of March 2004, various water headworks and dams in the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh clearly indicates that the Brahmin conspiracy to syphon the life-giving river waters of the Sikh Homeland via the proposed SYL canal, to the nonriparian Hindu-majority Haryana state, is in full swing...more
 
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SIKHS AGAINST OUTSOURCING JOBS TO INDIA--Part II

Wednesday, March 17, 2004
It is an outrage that American Corporations receiving federal financing and loan guarantees, are laying off American workers to shift American jobs overseas by outsourcing to 'Call-Centers' in a country like India, a caste-ridden, oligarchy which masquerades as a socalled democracy in which, 'ALL men are born UNEQUAL. For a backgrounder on outsourcing, (through Sikh-American eyes) please read last week's newsletter headlined, "Sikh-Americans will lobby vigorously on the Hill in support of Congressman Bernard Sanders 'Defending American Jobs Act' legislation' - Part I...more
 
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Sikh-American Organizations announce their solidarity with thousands of American IT workers laid off because of outsourcing to INDIA

Wednesday, March 10, 2004
In a gesture of patriotism and solidarity with the unemployed American IT workers a number of Sikh-American organizations have decided to wholeheartedly support, and vigorously lobby on the Hill, for Congressman Sanders bill, "The Defending American Jobs Act", which legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives, by about fifty Congressman, to deny American companies federal financing and loan guarantees if they shift jobs overseas to countries like INDIA...more
 
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IN INDIA 10% 'SHINING' & 90% BURNING!

Wednesday, March 03, 2004
India's leading fortnightly English language news magazine, FRONTLINE, has done a yeoman service in exposing one of the greatest disinformation effort, nay con game, in South Asian history, about "India Shining" and "Feel Good" factor which state-sponsored effort even puts the dezinformatsiya of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, (1897-1945) the German Nazi propagandist to shame....more
 
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Indian diamond trader/smuggler murdered in Angola last week for his cache of diamonds worth one million dollars

Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Last week's murder of an Indian diamond trader/ smuggler, one Ashwani Puri, in Angola (and the disappearance of the US$1 million worth of smuggled diamonds in his possession) has focussed attention and removed the lid from India's officially organized (and supervised through its embassys & Consulates) clandestine trade in smuggled (& stolen conflict -'blood'- diamonds/emaralds) from underdeveloped African countries like Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, Liberia, Myanmar, Namibia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Tanzania, Guinea and others...more
 
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Divided Punjab politicians talking stupid with a 'forked tongue' on the SYL issue

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Since our last column on the SYL (Satluj Yamuna Link) canal issue on December 31, 2003, a number of developments - a lot of legal hocus pokus to the detriment of Punjab - have surfaced in the Indian Supreme Court. Even the phony Eradi Tribunal which has no legal standing what-so-ever, setup after a July 1987 Rajiv-Langowal meeting between an illiterate, unelected and self-appointed Punjab 'leader' and the then Indian Prime minster, has come out of seventeen years of hybernation to intimidate the people of the Punjab. But, as is their wont, Punjab's mediocre leaders have not been able to unite even on this matter of life and death for the Punjab farmer and are running around as divided as ever each one singing his own tune....more
 
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Iran reveals to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the 'Fathers' of the Indian and Pakistani May 1998 nuclear bombs, Dr. Y. S. R. Prasad and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan were deeply involved in the 'underground' Nuclear Supply train to that country

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
In recent months the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency has discovered that Iran and Libya, both of them signators to the Nuclear Non-prolferation Treaty, have been cheating by violating their nuclear non-proliferation obligation not to build nuclear weapons with help from nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, two 'hungry' countries who have NOT signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty or the CTBT which bans nuclear tests...more
 
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PUNJAB CHIEF MINISTER CAPTAIN AMRINDER SINGH HUMILIATED AT THE BORDER ON HIS RETURN FROM A VISIT TO PAKISTAN WHERE HE WAS GIVEN UNPRECIDENTED HEAD OF STATE PROTOCOL

Wednesday, February 04, 2004
The 'head-of-state' level protocol, security and the warm welcome given by the Pakistan government (and people) to the 'Quizling' Punjab Chief minister, Captain Amrinder Singh, (during his recent visit - January 29-31, 2004 - to Pakistani Punjab) was in marked contrast to the public humiliation the man had to suffer as a Sikh at the hands of the bigoted Indian BJP administration, before and after his visit which is symptomatic of how Sikhs are treated as second class citizens in the Indian oligarchy....more
 
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BJP's 'FEEL GOOD' factor is a fraud for election purposes as economic Statistics speak otherwise about India

Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Eversince the right wing Fundamentalist BJP got lucky and won the elections in three states (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh) late last year the Indian public has been subjected to heavy bombardment of publicity, nay jingoism, (by the Hindutva-fundamentalist 'sons' of Nazi Germany's Joseph Goebbells who was infamous for his big lies) about how the country’s economy is booming, how the stock market is rising, how India's global prestige is on the ascend and how the Indian people have suddenly developed exceptional confidence in their future - how they feel good - and how India will join the developed world by 2020, sixteen years from now. This propaganda, nay disinformation, is reminiscent of the Nazi Germany of 1930's (Third Reich), Prime minister Indira Gandhi's infamous slogan of 'Gareebi Hatao' (remove poverty) and the August 1947 'India's tryst with destiny' remark of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru the first Prime minister of India - all infamous illusions and false promises of 20th century India....more
 
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Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee which manages the historical Gurdwara Rakab Ganj reopens the issue of the shrine's land illegally usurped by the British Colonials in 1912

Wednesday, January 21, 2004
It is about time we Sikhs stood up on behalf of the Sikh nation, to demand return of non-negotiable gurdwara lands (eg. Raisana village with its gardens and ochards which were historically a part of Gurdwara Rakab Ganj) usurped unjustly by the Colonial British administration in 1912, when it decided to build New Delhi after King George V had declared, on December 12, 1911 - during his state visit to his Indian colony - that Dilli would henceforth be the capital of British India. Reports from New Delhi, India, indicate that Sikhs of that city have indeed stood up on this issue. Bravo! Better late than never!...more
 
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New dirty face of fascist India under the Hindutva-fundamentalist Neo-Nazi wave

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
There are a few elderly people who are still alive in this world - mostly in Israel - who vivdly remember Hitler's Germany of the 1930's when the ruling Nazi Party's goons, called Schutzstaffel or SS 'Brown Shirts', used to go around murdering Jews/Gypsys, beating up uncooperative journalists and rampaging through libraries and booshops destroying books/journals they thought were unpatriotic or critical of Adolf Hitler or the 'New order' in Germany. That period in Germany's history is, and will always be, remembered by the infamous night of November 09, 1938 called Kristallnacht...more
 
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Musings on the SAARC conference held in Islamabad, Pakistan, January 04 to 06, 2004

Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Associations like European Union, SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) etc., are about good-neighbourliness. But, good-neighbourliness, as everyone knows, is all about trust and mutual understanding and the concept is based on shared values and the liberal concept of "live and let live". It is not based on pacts, agreements or one-sided concessions, or unequal treaties as any student of European history can tell you if he were to recollect that infamous one-sided 1938 Munich Agreement which was trumpeted as 'peace in our times', which preceded, nay triggered, World War 11...more
 
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