2006
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- | Whats wrong with India - II? |
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- | Tale of the two ‘rising super powers’, India & China, competition during the 2006 Doha Asian Olympics |
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- | Musings on the U.S.-India ‘Nuke-for-Mangoes’ deal passed by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 9, 2006 |
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- | India, the “Sick-man of South Asia,” ranked 126th out of 177 countries surveyed in the HDI index 2006 |
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- | Washington-based Khalistan Affairs Center launches advocacy campaign to educate U.S. Law makers against the US-India ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal |
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- | “Muslims And Sikhs Need Not Apply” – Manmohan Singh Can’t Have A Sikh Bodyguard |
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- | Twenty Second Anniversary of India's state sponsored Sikh pogroms |
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- | Why farmer suicides are continuing in the Punjab & rest of India while Bangladesh has seen none in the past decade? |
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- | Will Japan go nuclear as a reaction to North Korea’s Oct. 9 Nuke test? |
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- | ‘Con artist’ Shashi Tharoor’s candidacy for UN secretary General post vetoed by China or was it the U.S.? |
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- | The Hindutva Bajrang Dal-VHP terrorists whose ‘fingerprints’ are all over the September 8 Malegaon bomb blasts in India must be tried and punished |
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- | Musings on the controversy over the September 12 speech by the Pope at Regensburg university |
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- | Latest World Bank’s ‘Doing business-2007’ report trashes Indian propaganda about India emerging as an economic super power |
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- | Amrinder Singh government MUST seek relief for huge debt Punjab farmers owe to the usurious Banias |
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- | All is not well for India in Nepal where the shadow of China and Indian Naxalites looms |
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- | India today is the home of sycophantism and toadyism |
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- | Is the jingoist talk in India of ‘teaching Pakistan a lesson’ following the Mumbai train blasts pushing the Indo-Pak subcontinent towards a nuclear war? |
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- | Washington Post reports Pakistan building a huge new Nuclear reactor near Khushab about 140 miles West of Amritsar |
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- | Current euphoria in India over self-promoter Shashi Tharoor’s candidacy for the post of UN Secretary General is misplaced as ‘skeletons in the closet’ like Oil-for-food are falling out |
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- | Why not a Canadian as the next United Nations Secretary General? |
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- | A ‘bird’s eye view’ of the Indian demoNcracy, a democracy for the rich and the elite, from three different angles |
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- | India’s tale of two tall ambitions |
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- | The future face of the Dynastic Indian demoNcracy - an empire of sleaze |
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- | On the 22nd Anniversary of the Brutal June 1984 Indian Army Attack on Darbar Sahib Amritsar, Sikh Protesters All Over the World Demand a Democratic Buffer State of Khalistan |
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- | A tribute to Ms. Arundhati Roy truly a courageous human being |
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- | India’s just concluded 3-week long, ridiculous, provocative, Pak-specific, military ‘cold-start’ exercise in the Punjab heartland angers the world’s Sikhs |
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- | Naxalite insurgency in rural India as seen through the eyes of correspondents of the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers |
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- | Haryana’s water war on the Punjab |
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- | Musings on Nepal |
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- | India’s anti-Sikh rulers conspire to make an ‘ass’ of the Amrinder Singh government by secretly increasing the capacity of the Ravi Beas Link canal from 4,000 to 10,000 cusecs of water |
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- | International media finally pays attention to the on-going Naxalite Rural revolution in India |
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- | Indo-US ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal in limbo in US Congress |
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- | Something is rotten in the IT sector of the state of India! |
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- | Leading American political commentator Pat Buchanan ridicules the ‘Nukes for Mangoes’ Indo/US deal |
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- | Musings on the growing Naxalite peasant ‘revolution’ spreading like a prairie fire in caste-ridden, dynastic, nuclear-armed India |
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- | Terrible state of water in the ‘water-surplus’ state of Punjab groaning under Indian occupation |
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- | The recent one-sided US-India nuclear deal has created an opportunity in Kashmir |
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- | Musings on the much talked about Indo-U.S. Nuclear deal currently in the works & President Bush’s 3-day visit to India |
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- | The Indian Army refuses to provide data to the Sachar Committee on the number of Muslims in its ranks |
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- | Punjab to question 1966 Punjab Reorganization Act with the aim to seek complete control over the Bhakra-Nangal and Beas / Ravi water projects |
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- | Musings on India's Byzantine politics |
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- | Assam militants destroy Oil pipeline and demand Rs. 500 crores or else |
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- | The making of a new boy-Prime minister of dynastic India Some Democracy - India! |
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- | The Sikhs have had a central and historical role in Kashmir for the past 200 years |
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- | Homes of hundreds of Sikh farmers Bull-dozed by Uttar Anchal police in Udham Singh Nagar to make them vacate their fertile farms |
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- | India is building tunnels near Baghliar Dam to Siphon Chenab river water into the Ravi & Beas rivers for onward dispatch to Haryana |
Whats wrong with India - II?
Wednesday, December 27, 2006A month ago, in the November 29, 2006, Khalistan Calling this column disclosed that, India was doing a standing march, or backwards march, in human development as, “according to the latest UN’s Human Development Report-2006, INDIA, has dropped two places from its ranking of 124th (earned in 2002) to 126th in 2006 while a host of other under-developed countries like Mexico, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Brazil, Egypt, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Ireland and China have improved their HDI ranking …between 2002 and 2006.”...more
Tale of the two ‘rising super powers’, India & China, competition during the 2006 Doha Asian Olympics
Wednesday, December 20, 2006Indian jingoists have been repeating by rote (and then believing their own lies) that India is ‘shining’ whenever they bracket India with China as one of the two rising powers of the 21st century Asia. Nothing could be further from the truth if one were to just look at the medal tally of the Asian Olympic games held every four years to see where China and India stand in the Olympic medals ‘derby’ and where they are heading....more
Musings on the U.S.-India ‘Nuke-for-Mangoes’ deal passed by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 9, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006Despite the heroic lobbying effort of the Sikh-American community which sees grave danger from a nuclear-armed India (and the U.S.-India ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal) to their sacred Homeland of Punjab, Khalistan, (sandwiched between two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, in South Asia) the U.S. Congress in its majesty voted last week, on December 9, 2006,. in favor of the, “The Henry J Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006”, which will be sent to President George W Bush, this week to be signed into law...more
Will the members of the United States Congress see through the Indian dezinformatsiya and reject nuclear proliferation which will be encouraged if the U.S.-India ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal gets through in its present form?
Wednesday, December 06, 2006As the lame duck U.S. Congress prepares to reconcile the Senate and House Bills on the Indo-US ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns will be visiting New Delhi today on a three days visit for important consultations with the Indian government – problems? This nuclear deal, which may come up for a final vote on the Hill this week, is of supreme concern to the 25 million strong Sikh nation, (22 million captive in India and 3 million free in the diaspora) as this nuclear proliferation would make the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, Khalistan, (sandwiched as it is between two rival nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan) into a South Asian nuclear battlefield just like it was made a battlefield, in the past, when the two conventional Indo-Pak wars took place in 1965 and 1971...more
India, the “Sick-man of South Asia,” ranked 126th out of 177 countries surveyed in the HDI index 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006According to the latest UN’s Human Development Report-2006, released recently, INDIA, the ‘Sick-man of South Asia’, has dropped two places from its ranking of 124th (earned in 2002) to 126th in 2006 while a host of other under-developed, over-populated, countries like Mexico, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Brazil, Egypt, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Ireland and China have improved their HDI ranking by 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 8, 14 and 15 points respectively between 2002 and 2006. Norway was ranked No. 1 and Niger was ranked last, at 177th, in the 2006 HDI index...more
By planting dezinformatsiya in the Boston Globe about China signing a nuclear deal with India similar to the U.S.-India ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal, Indian rulers hope to pressure American Law-makers
Wednesday, November 22, 2006A classic case of Chanakyan dezinformatsia by Indian spin masters, via misinformation, planted in the Boston Globe (synchronized with Chinese President Hu Jintao's current 3-day visit to India) was exposed yesterday. According to a story planted by an Indian, with an English sounding name in the Boston Globe, claiming that, “China and India are poised to sign a civilian nuclear cooperation deal, similar to the recent agreement between the US and India.” Some lie!...more
Washington-based Khalistan Affairs Center launches advocacy campaign to educate U.S. Law makers against the US-India ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal
Wednesday, November 15, 2006One does not have to be a military expert to know that, unlike the two conventional wars fought in South Asia, in 1965 and 1971, the next Indo-Pakistan war will be a nuclear one in which the captive 22 million strong Sikh nation living unhappy under Indian rule in the Sikh Homeland of Punjab, Khalistan, will face annihilation along with numerous historic Sikh holy shrines located in India as well as Pakistan....more
“Muslims And Sikhs Need Not Apply” – Manmohan Singh Can’t Have A Sikh Bodyguard
Wednesday, November 08, 2006India’s Outlook magazine of November 13, 2006, in a front page cover story, by Saikat Datta, headlined, “Muslims And Sikhs Need Not Apply – Manmohan Singh Can’t Have A Sikh Bodyguard,” quoted a senior official as saying that, “ Sikh community continues to be on the government black list.”...more
Twenty Second Anniversary of India's state sponsored Sikh pogroms
Wednesday, November 01, 2006This week, twenty two years ago, (October 31 to November 03, 1984) thousands of innocent Sikh men, women and children, were murdered by Police-led thugs of the ruling Congress party who rampaged through Sikh localities of major Indian cities (Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Lucknow, Cownpore, Patna, Bokaro, Jabalpur and many other smaller towns) raping, burning and killing Sikhs...more
Why farmer suicides are continuing in the Punjab & rest of India while Bangladesh has seen none in the past decade?
Wednesday, October 25, 2006What a contrast? The farmers in the Punjab, and other states in India, do not get the market price for their produce held back by the fraud of ‘Minimum Support Price’ which is way below what India pays when it imports the same commodity. Wheat is an example. The Punjab (Indian) farmers are at the mercy of the fickle ‘rain-god’ and the evil nexus of the Police and usurious money leaders – banias - who convert the debt-traps into death-traps, resulting in misery and many farmer suicides. In neighboring dirt-poor Bangladesh no farmer has died of hunger or had to commit suicide, to escape the creditor and the police in the past decade. How come? ...more
Indian Supreme Court is trying to murder an innocent Kashmiri, Afzal Guru, to cover the December 13, 2001 ‘attack/drama’ outside the parliament building which was orchestrated by the ‘dirty tricks’ department of Indian intelligence agencies
Wednesday, October 18, 2006A couplet from the great 19th century Scottish poet and novelist, Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832) which reads, “O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!” comes to mind when one reads about the controversy raging in the Indian media about an innocent Kashmiri, Mohammad Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death, by India’s Supreme Court which is packed with Neo-Nazi, right wing, Hindutva judges – most of them hailing from the minority Brahmin caste. Mohammad Afzal Guru, an innocent Kashmiri patriot, is supposed to hang, by the neck till he is dead, on October 20, 2006, for a crime he did not commit...more
Will Japan go nuclear as a reaction to North Korea’s Oct. 9 Nuke test?
Wednesday, October 11, 2006The world may be teetering on the edge of a new phase in the sixty-year-old age of atomic weapons testing (first 20 Kilotons nuclear device was tested by the U.S. on July 16, 1945) after North Korea’s underground nuclear test, on Monday, October 9, 2006. Everything now depends on what the United States, and other interested governments, do to try to repair a non-proliferation system that, despite its faults, has served the globe well for decades...more
‘Con artist’ Shashi Tharoor’s candidacy for UN secretary General post vetoed by China or was it the U.S.?
Wednesday, October 04, 2006‘Con artist’ Shashi Tharoor, India's ‘light weight’ candidate for the post of the UN Secretary General, had to drop out from the race, on Monday October 2, 2006, after being vetoed by one of the five permanent UN members in the fourth and final straw poll (held since July) in voting in the 15-member UN Security Council in New York...more
The Hindutva Bajrang Dal-VHP terrorists whose ‘fingerprints’ are all over the September 8 Malegaon bomb blasts in India must be tried and punished
Wednesday, September 27, 2006It is nothing new that weeks after the September 8 serial (three) bomb blasts in the mosques of Maharashtra’s Muslim-majority city of Malegaon in India, (situated 160 miles northeast of Mumbai and 240 miles from Nanded) which killed 38 innocent Muslim worshippers and injured over a hundred, the government is till struggling to determine the identity of the perpetrators. This, the government agencies going dumb, is normal procedure in India when the murdered victims are from any minority community like the Sikhs or Muslims or Christians or Dalits. Malegaon bomb blasts may be a wake up call for us Sikhs about the safety of our holy Gurdwara Sahib in Nanded!...more
Musings on the controversy over the September 12 speech by the Pope at Regensburg university
Wednesday, September 20, 2006Let it be said, loud and clear, that we Sikhs having suffered destruction and desecration of our holiest sites, by Mogul rulers and Afghan freebooters in the 18th century, and in June 1984 by the Indian Army when it attacked Darbar Sahib, (known abroad as the Golden Temple) on orders of the evil Brahmin/Bania minority dominated Indian ruling elite led by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, consider the attacks last week on some Anglican and Greek Orthodox churches in Nablus, in Palestine, indefensible acts. These attacks it is assumed were a vicious response to a controversial speech, delivered on September 12, 2006, by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, in Regensburg Germany, which papal address has started a debate which has dominated the world media for the past week. The attacks on Churches, unfortunately, are precisely the kind of response that places Muslims on the defensive. Never-the-less we Sikhs vehemently condemn the attacks on Churches in Palestine – they are houses of God...more
Latest World Bank’s ‘Doing business-2007’ report trashes Indian propaganda about India emerging as an economic super power
Wednesday, September 13, 2006The latest World Bank's "Doing Business-2007" report, released this week, has delivered a fatal blow to the credibility of the ‘trishul’ of false propaganda slogans ('INDIA Shining' and 'INDIA an Emerging Super Power' and 'INDIA's Information Revolution') – which dezinformatsiya has been fed to over a billion hungry Indians and about 500, 000 well fed Hindutva right wing Neo-Nazi jingoists among the Indian diaspora...more
Amrinder Singh government MUST seek relief for huge debt Punjab farmers owe to the usurious Banias
Wednesday, September 06, 2006A ten part cover story, “Withering Lives” in India’s leading fortnightly news magazine FRONTLINE of September 08, 2006, should be an eye opener for the Punjabi political leadership and the poor Punjabi farmer who in terms of ‘per farmer debt burden’ tops the all-India list – higher than any other state in India....more
All is not well for India in Nepal where the shadow of China and Indian Naxalites looms
Wednesday, August 30, 2006The Indian rulers are in a tizzy over an interview given to BBC's Nepali service program, by Nepal's powerful Maoist supremo Prachanda, in which he has said that the people of Kashmir should be given the right to self-determination to resolve the problem. Prachanda also said the same right should be given to people in India's North-eastern states. He did not mention right to self-determination for the Sikhs in Punjab, Khalistan. Perhaps the interviewer forgot to ask. We are sure he will have no problem in endorsing that too...more
India today is the home of sycophantism and toadyism
Wednesday, August 23, 2006On the 62nd birth anniversary of the late Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the current unelected Prime minister of the world’s largest ‘demoNcracy’, Mr. Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, performed a public kowtow, on Sunday, in Delhi, in the presence of scores of sycophants, toadies and flatterers, and India’s king maker, the Italian widow Mrs. Sonia Maino Gandhi and her children, to celebrate the joyous ‘historical’ event...more
Was India trying to ‘teach Pakistan a lesson’ when rogue ‘dirty tricks’ operatives of its intelligence Agency, RAW, carried out last Monday’s bomb blast in Colombo which nearly killed Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006Our sources implanted in the intelligence circles in New Delhi, India, (some of them have extra sensory perception) report a very dangerous rumor currently making the rounds in the Government of India Secretariat buildings, built by the Colonial British on stolen Sikh Gurdwara lands, on Raisina Hill. The scuttlebutt in Delhi is, that, last Monday’s vehicle-borne remote control IED (Improvised Explosive Device) bomb blast on a Colombo street, which nearly killed the Pakistan High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (ambassador) in his car, has the fingerprints of some hate-filled rogue elements of the ‘dirty tricks department’ of the infamous Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of Indian intelligence who wanted to ‘teach Pakistan a lesson’. Incidentally the increasing jingoistic talk in India, about ‘teaching Pakistan a lesson’, was the subject of this column last week...more
Is the jingoist talk in India of ‘teaching Pakistan a lesson’ following the Mumbai train blasts pushing the Indo-Pak subcontinent towards a nuclear war?
Wednesday, August 09, 2006The Sikh homeland of Punjab, sandwiched between India and Pakistan, (held captive, since 1947, behind a barbed wire ‘Berlin Wall’ erected by India’s evil Brahmin/ Bania caste ruling elite on the Indo/Pak border) will be the first to ‘face the music’ of war as they say, if the jingoism, which has surfaced among a major section of India’s ruling elite, following the orchestrated Mumbai train blasts, (which the right wing saffron-clad puppeteers of the dastardly act had synchronized with the G-8 summit in Russia) provokes an armed conflict on the subcontinent...more
Is India planning an orchestrated ‘terrorist’ attack on a nuclear facility to demonize Bangladesh & Pakistan, alarm the Western world, and terminate on going Sikh/Pak bonhomie symbolized by the cross border Amritsar-NankanaSahib bus service for Sikh pilgrims?
Wednesday, August 02, 2006India, which practices state-sponsored terror at home (November 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, the 2002 Gujarat pogrom are two examples of internal state-sponsored terrorism) and exports terror to neighboring countries, seems to be planning a ‘tamasha’ of an ‘orchestrated terrorist attack’ on an Indian nuclear facility, a la the sham ‘terrorist operation’, executed by its intelligence agencies, under the glare of whirling TV cameras, outside its parliament building in New Delhi, on 13 December 2001...more
Washington Post reports Pakistan building a huge new Nuclear reactor near Khushab about 140 miles West of Amritsar
Wednesday, July 26, 2006Nukes on the front door of the Sikh Homeland! A front page report, on Monday (July 24, 2006), in the Washington Post, claims that Pakistan is building a huge 1,000 Megawaat nuclear reactor in Khushab, on the Jhelum River, 140 miles West of Amritsar as the crow flies, (70 miles North west of Lyalpur now called Faisalabad) to produce Plutonium for its missiles. This new reactor is in addition to the 50 megawatt reactor which has been producing plutonium for Pakistan’s nuclear tipped missiles since the 1990’s...more
Current euphoria in India over self-promoter Shashi Tharoor’s candidacy for the post of UN Secretary General is misplaced as ‘skeletons in the closet’ like Oil-for-food are falling out
Wednesday, July 19, 2006Current euphoria in India, over Shashi Tharoor’s candidacy for the post of U.N Secretary General, after the departure of Mr. Kofi Annan, betrays total ignorance of realities on the ground. Reports of scandals about the infamous India/ Iraq Food-for-oil around self-promoter Shashi Tharoor are now surfacing on the Internet...more
Agent provocateur and congenital liar Kuldip Nayar unwittingly confesses his guilt in a Pakistani newspaper for the July 2 ugly incident in the gathering in Manji Sahib Diwan Hall, Darbar Sahib complex
Wednesday, July 12, 2006Silky-tongued Indian newspaper columnist Kuldip Nayar, a bigoted Hindu son-in-law of that notorious Bhim Sen Sachar, a chief minister of Indian occupied Punjab in the 1950’s, did not learn a thing from an episode in a Chicago Gurdwara, exactly ten years ago (on July 14, 1996), when he was cut down to size and put to shame after he delivered a provocative speech full of lies and innuendos to a Sikh congregation...more
Why not a Canadian as the next United Nations Secretary General?
Wednesday, July 05, 2006The million strong Canadian-Sikh community (nearly 3 % of the population) which has an attitude of gratitude for the rich multicultural, democratic, egalitarian heritage of Canada feels that it is only fair and logical that, their country (Canada) should forward to the UN Security Council, the name of a candidate, from among the vast pool of its able and experienced administrators and diplomats, who has UN and multinational experience...more
A ‘bird’s eye view’ of the Indian demoNcracy, a democracy for the rich and the elite, from three different angles
Wednesday, June 28, 2006Three different news items this month about India, singly and collectively, have pierced the fog of tall claims released by a well-oiled propaganda machine. They give a reality check to the current situation in the world’s largest (billion plus) demoNcracy in South Asia whose ‘dynastic’ rulers ridicule democracy by their conduct every day from the ‘palaces’ they occupy in New Delhi built by the Colonial British on stolen Sikh Gurdwara lands...more
India’s tale of two tall ambitions
Wednesday, June 21, 2006It is becoming obvious by the day that the United States Congress is unlikely to okay the ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ India-US deal, this year - or perhaps any other year - as the much talked about ‘start of the process of fine-tuning by end of June’...more
The future face of the Dynastic Indian demoNcracy - an empire of sleaze
Wednesday, June 14, 2006On the morning of June 2, a scandal among the elite, in which all the eight proverbial deadly sins were plainly evident, surfaced in the official New Delhi 7 Safdargunj Road residence of recently murdered former Indian Union minister, Pramod Mahajan...more
On the 22nd Anniversary of the Brutal June 1984 Indian Army Attack on Darbar Sahib Amritsar, Sikh Protesters All Over the World Demand a Democratic Buffer State of Khalistan
Wednesday, June 07, 2006The 25 Million strong Sikh nation this week observed, the 22nd anniversary of the Indian Army’s brutal June 1984 attack on the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion, the Darbar Sahib complex, Amritsar, (which is also called Golden temple in the West) all over the world....more
A tribute to Ms. Arundhati Roy truly a courageous human being
Wednesday, May 31, 2006Today, this column is dedicated to a courageous author and activist of great integrity, Ms. Arundhati Roy, who after being acclaimed for her first novel, The God of Small Things, (which book was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997, sold six million copies and was translated into 20 languages worldwide) has devoted herself to political writing, and activism. A New York audience witnessed, and repeatedly applauded, last week when she declared, from the stage, that, “India is not a democratic country. The biggest PR myth of all times is that India is a democracy. In reality, it is not. India was a free market which is meant to steal from the poor and subsidize the rich.” We salute Ms. Arundhati Roy for having the moral courage to speak the truth. We have been saying the same thing for years. See our column of November 10, 2004, headlined, “India is not a democracy.” and our column dated August 13, 2003 headlined, “Indian democracy? By the Brahmin, of the Brahmin, for the Brahmin & the cow,”....more
India’s just concluded 3-week long, ridiculous, provocative, Pak-specific, military ‘cold-start’ exercise in the Punjab heartland angers the world’s Sikhs
Wednesday, May 24, 2006India’s just concluded 3-week-long, ridiculous, provocative, Pak-specific, military exercise, held in 107*+ Fahrenheit May-heat, in the Ludhiana-Jalandhar area of Sikh Punjab, near the border of Nuclear-armed Pakistan, to test a new ‘Cold-Start’ war doctrine (which according to published remarks of Indian Army General Lt-Gen K. D. S. Shekhawat, ‘aims to dismember a not-so-friendly nation effectively and at the shortest possible time,’ by lancing across the border) has not scared the Pakistanis - they just yawned - but has caused great resentment, worry and anger among the world’s 25 million Sikhs about the safety of their Homeland...more
Naxalite insurgency in rural India as seen through the eyes of correspondents of the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers
Wednesday, May 17, 2006To celebrate the ascendancy of the rural Naxalite movement in Nepal the Naxalites in the Indian state of Bihar have, recently in the style of the legendry folk hero Jugga Dakoo, publicly ridiculed the writ of the state. They have publicly threatened, in an unprecedented (‘a thumb-in-your-eye’) press release, to not only blow up the Bihar State Assembly building between May 28 and July 29 but also kidnap some key politicians to protest the "anti-people" policies of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar. This is a first in South Asia!...more
Haryana’s water war on the Punjab
Wednesday, May 10, 2006In an Op-Ed piece (headlined, ‘Haryana canal plan needs a close look’) in last Sunday’s Tribune - Issue of 7 May 2006 - a former Chief Engineer (Irrigation), Punjab, Sirdar G. S. Dhillon, has unwittingly given the technical details of the illegal Rs. 250-crore, 109-km. link canal being built at top speed (to connect BML-Hansi-Butana canals) which would steal water-short Punjab’s river water from the Bhakra Main Line left bank where both banks of the Bhakra Main Line canal lie in Haryana territory...more
Musings on Nepal
Wednesday, May 03, 2006‘A week,’ the late British prime minister Sir James Harold Wilson (1916-1995) said quite correctly, 'is a long time in politics.' In land-locked Kingdom of Nepal (area 54, 363 sq miles or one hundred forty thousand sq. kilometers; population over 27 million) where the hegemonistic Indian rulers have taken a battering last month, but are pontificating about ‘absolute monarchy’ and ‘parliamentary democracy’ which will be ushered in, they claim, in three months time, by a seven party alliance (SPA) led by the ailing 85 years old Girija Prasad Koirala the Nepali Congress President...more
India’s anti-Sikh rulers conspire to make an ‘ass’ of the Amrinder Singh government by secretly increasing the capacity of the Ravi Beas Link canal from 4,000 to 10,000 cusecs of water
Wednesday, April 26, 2006As was predicted nearly a year ago, on May 04, 2005, in our column headlined, “Non-riparian Rajasthan, a free-loader ungrateful state, declares ‘WATER WAR on Punjab” the chips are now falling in place with the Indian Supreme Court’s biased - nay dishonest - decision last week to admit a contempt petition against the Centre and the Punjab Government, for their ‘failure’ to implement its two (illegal) judgements of yesteryears ordering construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal....more
International media finally pays attention to the on-going Naxalite Rural revolution in India
Wednesday, April 19, 2006The international media in general, (New York Times et al.) and Pakistani media in particular, have finally noticed what we have been saying for years about caste-ridden India’s giant ‘skeleton in the closet’, its’ Achillles’ heel, the fast growing Naxalite peasant revolutionary movement. An armed rural ‘revolution’ which has been spreading like a prairie fire for years (and has now engulfed more than half of dynastic, caste-ridden, misruled India’s 600 districts in fourteen of it’s 28 states) has spread over a disturbed area of over one million eight hundred thousand square Kilometers (yes 1, 800, 000 square Kilometers) where the writ of the Indian state does not exist at all...more
Indo-US ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal in limbo in US Congress
Wednesday, April 12, 2006The ‘battle’ over the India-United States ‘Nukes-for-Mangoes’ deal, agreed to in March 2006 during President Bush’s state visit to India (discussed in our column on March 29, 2006 headlined, “Leading American political commentator Pat Buchanan ridicules the ‘Nukes- for-Mangoes’ Indo/ US deal”, has formally begun with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relation’s Committee of the US Congress last Wednesday...more
Something is rotten in the IT sector of the state of India!
Wednesday, April 05, 2006How well, or how badly, is India doing in the IT (Information Technology) sector? Don't ask India's tall leaders, they are all dwarfs and liars. According to country rankings in The Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006＊s ※Networked Readiness Index§ (115 countries surveyed), released last week, (by the prestigious Geneva-based World Economic Forum) United States tops the ranking for the third time in five years followed by countries like Singapore-2nd, Canada-6th, Taiwan-7th, Switzerland-9th and U. K.-10th. INDIA as usual is doing a backwards ＆standing-slow-march＊ (what the world＊s most prestigious magazine the Economist has called the ＆Hindu rate of progress＊) at the 40th rank having dropped three places, in three years, from its 2002 ranking of 37th. In the same time span of three years (2002 to 2005) countries in India＊s neighborhood like Mauritius and Pakistan have improved their rankings by a record eleven and nine points respectively. While India is doing a slow march backwards (between 37th and 40th) Malaysia has also improved its ranking by eight points while Thailand has improved its ranking by seven points. Surely something is rotten in the Indian state....more
Leading American political commentator Pat Buchanan ridicules the ‘Nukes for Mangoes’ Indo/US deal
Wednesday, March 29, 2006The most telling comment on the proposed Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement (disapproved by most Sikhs and approved by President George Bush and India’s ‘Sonia appointed’ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi this month) was made by the well known American political commentator and one-time conservative presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, when he named it the ‘nukes for mangoes’ deal. Pat Buchanan is reported to have said that, “the US negotiators capitulated to all of India’s demands, lest Bush leave New Delhi with nothing to show for the trip halfway around the world but an agreement to import mangoes.”...more
Musings on the growing Naxalite peasant ‘revolution’ spreading like a prairie fire in caste-ridden, dynastic, nuclear-armed India
Wednesday, March 22, 2006Last week’s hijacking of the Barwadih-Mughalsarai train by Naxalites near Hehegarh, in the state of Jharkhand in rural India, while the out-of-touch Brahmin/Bania caste Indian rulers were strutting around in British-built palaces in urban New Delhi day-dreaming of super-power nuclear status, and permanent membership of the UN Security Council etc., etc., (following the visit of U.S. President Bush) is an example of the dichotomous situation currently prevailing in the world’s largest, poorest, dynastic, oligarchic, Castocracy - India (an artificial brittle state, a state without even a national language) created by an exhausted Imperial Britain, in 1947, when it withdrew in haste from its colonies in South Asia, after World War II...more
Terrible state of water in the ‘water-surplus’ state of Punjab groaning under Indian occupation
Wednesday, March 15, 2006Latest studies, (‘National Resources Information for Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab’- Punjab Agriculture University) confirm the general perception that a ‘genocide’ (translation; ‘genocide is a program of action intended to destroy a whole ethnic group’- Webster's Dictionary) has been going on in the Sikh Homeland of Punjab from where water has been siphoned, by non-riparian states of Rajasthan and Haryana for the past forty odd years for FREE, under an illegal writ of the central government. This has resulted in the underground water table in the Punjab, (without having been replenished) keeps touching a new low year after year. As many as 100 of the 114 blocks have already been categorized as ‘dark' and over 57.7% of the agricultural land, at this point in time, is now being irrigated with contaminated water resulting in salinity, soil sickness and ‘farmer-suicides’...more
The recent one-sided US-India nuclear deal has created an opportunity in Kashmir
Wednesday, March 08, 2006India’s right wing, English language newspaper, The PIONEER, (the voice of the Neo-Nazi ‘Hindu-fundamentalists’) yesterday echoed the views of the Indian ruling elite, on the post-Bush-visit situation in South Asia, in its editorial, headlined, ‘No Beating about,’ when it wrote that, “President George Bush's visit to Pakistan would go down in history for both what he said and did not say during it. There was no beating about the bush on Jammu & Kashmir… Also, the US had no desire to play a role in settling the Kashmir dispute… His visit to Pakistan removed all scope for doubt.” ...more
Musings on the much talked about Indo-U.S. Nuclear deal currently in the works & President Bush’s 3-day visit to India
Wednesday, March 01, 2006President George W. Bush will be in India today (March 1, 2006) to push ties, the centerpiece of which is a nuclear cooperation agreement under which India’s rulers want the U.S. Congress, and the 44-member Nuclear Suppliers Group, to subsidize their country’s growing illegal nuclear stockpile – as well as its economy – by disregarding the concerns of India’s immediate neighbors and sub-nations (captive in the Indian map since 1947 like the 25 million strong Sikh nation) and ignoring New Delhi’s over three decades long contempt of the International Nuclear non-proliferation regime – the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty...more
The Indian Army refuses to provide data to the Sachar Committee on the number of Muslims in its ranks
Wednesday, February 22, 2006Why is the Indian Army over-reacting by refusing to provide data, on the number of persons of the Muslim minority serving in its ranks, to the high level seven-member Committee, appointed by the Indian Prime Minister on March 9, 2005, (headed by retired Justice Rajinder Sachar) which is preparing a report to be submitted to the government by May 2006, on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community which used to makeup about 32% of the British Indian Army (at par with the 30% number of the Sikhs in the Army) prior to 1947...more
Punjab to question 1966 Punjab Reorganization Act with the aim to seek complete control over the Bhakra-Nangal and Beas / Ravi water projects
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Latest reports from the Sikh Homeland of Punjab indicate that the Amrinder Singh government there, has finally decided to file a suit in the Indian Supreme Court challenging the legality of Sections 78 and 79 of the Punjab Reorganization Act, 1966 (of the Indian parliament) under which the erstwhile Bhakra Management Board (BMB) was established by the Delhi rulers, on October 01, 1967, to supervise, among other things, the illegal, and free of cost, transfer of the water-short Sikh Homeland’s river waters from the Bhakra Nangal dam to non-riparian states of Rajasthan and Haryana...more
Musings on India's Byzantine politics
Wednesday, February 08, 2006How (and why?) the former petroleum minister of India, the erudite Mani Shankar Aiyar, suddenly lost his 'cap' says a book about the Byzantine - the people be damned - politics practiced in India under the regime of mass murderer Rajiv Gandhi's widow, Sonia Maino Gandhi, and her unelected appointee, Prime minister Manmohan Singh...more
Assam militants destroy Oil pipeline and demand Rs. 500 crores or else
Wednesday, February 01, 2006As India celebrated its 57th Republic Day - under a supposedly nation-wide high alert and tight security - with a huge and very expensive parade of its imported armaments in British built New Delhi, on January 26, (to which the Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, had been invited as the guest of honor) the Naxalite rebels showed their muscle and mocked the authority of the Indian state on that day, by striking in a coordinated manner in different parts of the country, which made the Indian armed forces, police and intelligence and state security apparatus look impotent and top heavy...more
The making of a new boy-Prime minister of dynastic India Some Democracy - India!
Wednesday, January 25, 2006Ever since India's first Prime minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, corrupted the All India Congress party by arranging that the mantle of the supreme leader of the All India Congress party remain within his family, the democratic party, which was in the forefront of India's freedom struggle, has evolved into a remarkable family organization which perpetuates the 'Nehru dynasty' under the facade of democracy....more
The Sikhs have had a central and historical role in Kashmir for the past 200 years
Wednesday, January 18, 2006The question is what will the dialogue, recently proposed by Delhi, on Kashmir, be about, if the Chanakiyan rulers of India (a criminal nexus between the Brahmin and the Bania minorities) continue to persist, by rote, that India's boundaries are not negotiable despite the fact that a Ceasefire Line (which is not an International boundary and which generally follows the 1948 UN Ceasefire line which has been nibbled by India in a few places) separates the Indian and Pakistani held areas of the former princely state of Jammu & Kashmir, which has been in dispute since 1947?...more
Homes of hundreds of Sikh farmers Bull-dozed by Uttar Anchal police in Udham Singh Nagar to make them vacate their fertile farms
Wednesday, January 11, 2006What the Congress party government of Hindu-majority Uttar Anchal state has chosen to do in mid-winter – during a cold wave and with a ‘Sikh’ Prime minister in office in Delhi - to the Sikh farmers (living and farming on 1,200 acres of erstwhile Mehta Farm, in Udham Singh Nagar district, for the past three decades) confirms the belief that the Sikh minority, and its egalitarian religion, has no place in caste-ridden fascist Hindu-majority India...more
India is building tunnels near Baghliar Dam to Siphon Chenab river water into the Ravi & Beas rivers for onward dispatch to Haryana
Wednesday, January 04, 2006A front page report in Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper, DAWN, of December 30, 2005, headlined, “Foreign Office denies report on Baghliar dam deadline,” seems to reveal the naivety of Pakistani decision-makers on one hand and the success of Indian dezinformatsiya. narrowcast by cross-border agent provocateurs like Kuldip Nayyar whose newspaper columns, for some time, have been brainwashing the readers of Pakistan’s leadings newspapers (Dawn, Nation, News) with his lies - he has a habit of always quoting people who are dead. We Sikhs know this Kuldip Nayyar well!...more