protect freedom of press

?FREEDOM OF PRESS IS VITAL AND SHOULD NOT BE UNDER QUESTION AFTER ALL ?SAMNA? (A Marathi daily) QUESTIONED, BEING A PRESS ITSELF AND ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTED THE ATTACKING IBN-LOKMAT OFFICE AT VIKROLI RECENTLY AS IT PUBLISHED SOME NEWS AGAINST SOME POLITICAL HOOLIGANISM? ? ? BY A FORMER AFP PRESSMAN Dr. G. Balakrishnan, PhD.

In India today we have six out of seven fundamental rights, after amendment of Article 19, by deleting of Art.19(1)(f), of Indian Constitution.
It is also stated Supreme Court need not rely on American constitution for the purpose of examining the seven freedoms contained in Article 19 because social conditions and habit of Indians are different.(Pathumna v. St of Kerala AIR 1978 SC 771*; see also Jagmohan Singh v. St of UP, AIR 1973 SC 947 , 952).
The requirements of Reasonableness, (no general pattern possible)( St of Madras v. VG Rao, Air 1952 SC 196, 200; Santok Singh V Delhi Admn AIR 1973 SC111091, 1095), Art.14, unreasonable necessity of nexus (arbitrariness, or unguided or uncanalized restrictions vested in such power is treated as unreasonable restriction) on rights guaranteed under Art 19(a test of non compliance of either Art 19(5) or (6), (Collector of Customs v. Nathela Sampathu Chetty AIR 1962 SC316). Discretion vested in an Administrative Authority not properly controlled, - unreasonable, Municipal Corporation v. Jan Mohd. Usmanbhai, AIR 1986 SC1205.
Necessity of nexus (direct and proximate nexus) is also treated as a frustration of fundamental right. (*, Kochuni KK v. St of Madras, AIR 1960 SC 1080).
Judicial Review: Restriction imposed by Legislature is subject to judicial review, (Chintaman Rao v St of MP AIR 1951 S C 118, : Babu Ram v Bajnath Singh AIR 1962 SC 1476). The Courts will examine the underlying purpose of the restrictions imposed, the nature and urgency of the evil sought to be remedied?, (ST of Madras v VG Rao AIR 1952 SC 196, 200: Narendra Kumar v UOI, SAIR 1960 SC 430.)
Procedural and substantive ? Courts will examine aspects of restrictions. Procedural fairness requires the observance of principle of Natural Justice,? although it may be excluded by necessary implication.(Haradan Saha, v St of WB(1975) 3 SCC 198?.)








Natural Justice: Principle of Natural Justice is a ground to determine the reasonableness of a particular restriction (Earlier held Natural Justice would not apply where Order is administrative in nature).It has been held that even administrative orders have to comply with the requirements of natural justice.(Kraipac A K v UOI, AIR 1970,SC150)( READERS MAY NOTE ISSUE OF EXCLUSION OF PRINCIPLES OF Natural Justice IS A SEPARATE TOPIC REQUIRES CAREFUL STUDY, (Jain & Jain, Principles of Administrative Law 4th Edn.,( p.219 ? 294); Wade , Administrative Law 7th Edn pp463 -570m, see also commentaries on Art 14..)
Due Process of US though not directly applied and yet various tests of reasonableness laid down in, Art 19(2) to 19 (6). This Coincides with tests of ?due process? clause of American Constitution, though it is not identical in Indian Constitution. The latter is deliberately avoided in view of its flexibility and vagueness IN FAVOR OF A MORE DEFINITE WORD ?REASONABLE?. Therefore care should be exercised before literal application of American decisions.( Collector of Customs v Nathela Sampathu chetty AIR 1962 SC 316).
In this connection, it is ideal to refer by interested to read details for six principles well summarized by Saghir Ahmed J in the case MRF Ltd v Inspector, Kerala Govt. (1998) 8 SCC 227(set out in para13 of SCC).
Similarly 11 principles on the nature of restrictions summarized in Papanasam Labor Union v Madura coats Ltd., (1995)1 SCC 501.
Supreme Court on Art 19 and other constitutional provisions, over ruled on ?not inter related stance? in AK Gopalan v St of Madras, AIR1950 SC 27?, in its judgment in Menaka Gandhi v UOI AIR1978 SC 597, holding they are inter related.
Patanjali Shastri held in AK Gopalan v. St of Maras, AIR 1950 SC 27, that ?freedom for free Indian citizens? is well guaranteed but it is not so in the case of a citizen who committed a crime and he is lawfully deprived of that freedom under Art 19. And still it is valid position. So abetted crime alleged cannot enjoy that freedom and so Samna as a non citizen and its editors are looked as allegedly committed crime when they attacked the Lokmat-IBN, and their further advancing their view that attack on the Press is further abetting the crime and are punishable for alleged offence by a court of law, after all no body can take law into his own hands to do whatever he likes.




Freedom of speech and Expression in the Indian Constitution is also a freedom of press, as most of the Articles of the Indian Constitution is clearly written down and Indian Constitution scrupulously followed American and Irish Constitution and British Constitution?s basic rights, the view one can take is more or less the view of Thomas Jefferson?s is a replica of Virginian Declaration of 1776 and it said..?Freedom of Press is one of the greatest bulwarks of Liberty and can never be restrained (in democratic constitutional countries) and it added ?The Liberty of Press is Essential to the Security of Freedom in a State, it ought not be restricted and accordingly First Amendment to American Constitution restricted the Congress from abridging freedom of the Press and clearly associated ? ?associated Freedom of Press?.
It will be interesting to note Thomas Jefferson wanted to unite two streams of Liberation- English and French Schools of thought. . He held the view that he government provide both security and opportunity for the Individual and for that he needed active press is essential as a way of educating people.. ?To work freely Press must be free from control by State?.
Thomas Jefferson suffered great calumnies from the pres and still he in his second address to Congress said -?Government could not stand up under criticism deserved to fall. ?Those ways of American founding fathers of American Constitution clearly electrified Indian founding fathers of Indian Constitution and influenced and galvanized them?.
So freedom of Press is well recognized in India and most of the suceeding Indian governments recognize this important factor as Press is the educator of people of what is going on..?
Incidentally Samna is also a press and it can speak out on policies frankly and fearlessly but if it wants to enjoy that freedom it should equally allow other fellow press men too similarly; and their reporters, newsmen should have been the part of newsmen gathered to decry attack on the Lokmat-IBN and that should have been a landmark.
Samna should at all costs not lose the freedom of press and preserve the liberty of press and it should not be a part of libertine movement please.
Editors should work for press freedom and that will be healthy trend and that will heal many a problem of people please. (Ends)

MUMBAI SHOULD BE MADE A UNION TERRITORY

it is high time mumbai should be made a union territory. then mumbai can be fully indian city. Ban linguistic chavnistic regionalism and elections should be between on all india national parties in union territories to reduce tensions in mega cities where all indians live. local Regional parties if allowed they will convert mega cities as a conflict ridden cities and that is fine opportunity for Taliban kind of activists and they will take refuge under those regional fights and taliban.. outfits will reduce mega cities intio a rubble when the union government works on ecnomic growth. So it is high time under disaster management all mega cities may be made union territories with seperate poitical administration. This is not new but it was there n Athens (Ancient Greece)

fear caused bush misadventure in iraq!

Fear of Bush that Iraq will host attacks on America is just muck and what happened now America has spend billions to reconstruct, America did prior to 1930s created Amsrican depression as it pumped a lot of millions of dallars in Germany, and again second war created by Adolf and Japan made to build again germany and Japan. Never ever get locked yup in fear psychosis. See all religious leaders are gripped by fear sooner they will get eliminated by the fear hypnosis.

talibans! their fear itself is eliminating them steadily!

Of all enemies of man is fear of some halucinations haunt them and that haunting eliminates them. there is no need Americans fight them and keep them under constant fear Talibans will soon end themselves.

budget blus

BUDGET 2009 surprises - 2008-2009 variance 145% compared to
2007 ?2008 -15.90%
(Dr. G Balakrishnan)


Adam Smith said ?When National debts have once again accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce ?a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of public revenue is, if it has ever been brought about by bankruptcy, sometimes by an avowed one, but always by a real one, though frequently by a pretended payment. The raising of denomination of the coin has been the most usual expedient by which a real public bankruptcy has been disguised under the appearance of a pretended payment.?

Here we see the following - national debt?. accumulated? to a serious level of scarce?. Liberation of public revenue to meet public bankruptcy? (A real one) by frequently pretended payment?rising of denomination of coins (a most expedient method) leading to bankruptcy leading to pretended payment.

This is the new story if variance is to be at 145% now.

How the government will be able to tackle the deficit remains to be seen without raising the denomination of coins/currency with the assistance of RBI?

If that is so it is a real wonder. Now according to current budget document Rs.326515 crores is expected to be the revenue generation but budget estimated expense is expected to be 133287 crores of rupees. There is a tremendous gap

Finance minister has not seen such a big variance in the recent past, which was between ?3.10% to ? 15% between 2005 and 2008.
Indeed it is a yeoman?s task. You need so much funding developments at hand.

Yes he has to ensure credibility of budget exercise. Else the FM will steep the government into deep bankruptcy, which will have deep inflationary trends that will affect ?aam Adhmi? (poor man) very definitely, just because he cannot get essentials of living at affordable price. Then it is leading to stag-flation. To rectify it will take at least a decade by a conservative approach, so that the gap may return to ? 15% by that period.

The variances are due to excess demand from various ministries, under one program or the other.

This is due to estimates of expenses anticipated is actually much higher to revenues generation. Does it mean he will impose taxes to meet the deficit whether that could equal estimates?

If imposes taxes commensurate to estimates, whether is it possible to levy so much multi dimensional multi point taxes? Whether the people are able to pay in these days of excessive consumerism through various means, like credit cards, bank personal loans, refurbishment expenses? It is anybody?s guess it is not possible just because savings are in fact depleted and only debt burden is like albatross on everyone?s shoulder.

If taxing not possible he will have to resort to raising denominations of coins to compatible to estimates by printing/minting currency /coins.

Another alternate is to cut down excessive unaffordable growth expenses. In fact FM is caught between Scylla and Charibdis.

So the ministries will be asked to budget for essentials and ambitious expenses in the name of prodigal spending for unnatural growth.

Yes, there are a lot of expenses which are not very essential spend in this year. The FM has to see all essential commodities are made available at affordable prices to man on the street, to save him from the imminent death due to starvation.

He can afford to exorbitantly charge taxes in non-essentials of living like cars and such other luxuries like palatial houses, business class travels and the like. Only who could afford would go for such luxuries. Yes, rich man has become richer and wealthy has become me filthily rich in the last about a decade. Further whether he could meet all the needed revenue. Again it is a billion dollar question.

Yes, he has to weaken Indian rupee to dollar at least by 50%, so too with other General currencies like Euros, UK pound and the like strong currencies. If done, imports will become very dearly costly unless commensurate exports are mooted. Yes, there is world competition in pricing in usual commodities and nobody is going to buy your exorbitant priced products.

Further you have increases already in salaries and wages of government servants thanks to pay commission recommendation. Again you are going to increase Military salaries and wages, so too in other areas too. Overall increases in every other sectors of economy will neutralize these increases.

Thus there will be vicious cycles of increases in salaries of protected work force but how are to address ?aam Adhmi?, a paradox.

Anyway per force you have to prune the expenses if to save the economy. Your hands are tied up on growth expenditure unless you market so called private public partnership and some divestments in PSUs both in union and state levels.

You cannot any longer allow unaffordable houses or flats buildings, to allow people to showoff and they have to deploy their excess monies into productive areas. Else they will also lose their edge in the economy, just because we are inheriting over heated economy. You will work on economies of scale. Wasteful expenses are to be contained.

Mr. FM you have inherited tough situations as previous FM(s) just spent moneys obtained through revenues. You are facing another situation of concessions to salaried employees. You have to continue FBT ? fringe benefit taxes, on all excess salaries paid out.

And yet your hands are highly tied!

If you still do a great budget it, o angels support just a miracle? (Ends)

experts views by a review of some books!

Advice from experts: Surviving a disaster: Controlling our fears ? a review of book ?unthinkable by Dr. G. Balakrishnan for the benefit of readers
Q&A with Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes ? and Why
As we go about our day-to-day lives, disasters are far from the minds of most people. But 90 percent of Americans live and work in places where there are significant risks for earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, terrorism or other natural and human-made disasters. When a life-or-death situation occurs, some people do better than others. In the midst of a disaster, many people panic, while others assume leadership roles. Some people emerge as heroes while others simply freeze.
APHA?s Get Ready campaign recently interviewed award-winning Time magazine writer Amanda Ripley, who has criss-crossed the globe to cover some of the most devastating disasters of our time. In her recent book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes ? and Why, Ripley offers insight into how our brains work during disasters and tells us how we can increase our odds of surviving. ? TDJ
What happens to us in the midst of a disaster and why do some of us do better than others?

We literally use different parts of our brains instantly in a disaster. Everything changes. As one Sept. 11 survivor said to me, ?You don?t ever want to have to think in a disaster.? He knew that because he had experienced the complete change that occurs when you are in a life or death situation. So literally you lose peripheral vision, your heart rate increases, your blood pressure goes up, you get an injection of stress hormones which help you perform physically, but actually make it much harder to perform cognitively, so you have a lot of trouble making decisions ? even simple decisions ? or processing new information. So the reason some of us often do better than others in a disaster usually has to do with what was in our brains before everything went wrong, because you won?t be able to really progress much from where you were once things go bad. So it really depends on what you had in your head as far as what to do, how to do it, when to do it, before everything went wrong.
How can we overcome weaknesses and boost our odds of surviving in a disaster?

The more familiarity you have beforehand with any of your major risks and how to get out of them, the better you will do. For example, if you know that you live in place that is at high risk for flooding, which is true of many millions of Americans, then the more thinking you have done about what you would take with you, how you would evacuate, when you would evacuate, how you would deal with your elderly mother ? all of those things are not going to go very well if you wait until you are under stress ? you are not going to make great decisions. So the more you can feed your brain with plans and thoughts and even execute some of those plans in advance, the better you are going to do.
In general, we have certain weaknesses when it comes to assessing risk and performing well under stress. We also have a lot of strength, but if we can understand what the weaknesses are in advance, then we can do a lot better. One of the biggest weaknesses is that we tend to move very slowly under extreme duress, and the more we have done in advance the more quickly we will push through that phase and perform appropriately.
Why do so many of us shut down or freeze in the midst of a disaster?

This is so common, so pervasive across every kind of high-stress event. I have talked to firefighters who have many tales of people freezing up, all the way to stockbrokers who have seen it on the trading floor during a stock market crash. You see it across all kinds of contexts, and you actually see it in every animal that has ever been tested in a laboratory setting. This tendency to shut down or freeze is, in my mind, an evolved defense mechanism. It is so powerful and so common that I don?t think we would have evolved to this state unless it served a purpose. In many particularly ancient kinds of threats, shutting down in a life or death situation, where your body goes numb, you stop moving, you look like you?re dead, could be an appropriate response if you?re getting attacked by a saber-toothed tiger, for example. But in more modern situations, it is not as appropriate. We need to understand this better because it?s the kind of thing you can overcome, and it?s very, very dangerous in events like fires or plane crashes. We?ve seen this many times, we know that this is a bigger risk than almost any other behavior ? certainly much more likely than panic ? so we should start planning for it in advance.
In your book you talk about the ?survival arc? that we all must travel to get from danger to safety. Can you explain a bit about that?
Across all different kinds of disasters, from sinking ships to burning buildings, people tend to go through three phases. The first phase is a powerful kind of denial, where your brain works quite aggressively to normalize what is happening, to downplay the threat and make sense of what?s happened based on everything that your brain has seen before. It is a perfectly normal response, but it can take up precious time. The second phase after denial is deliberation. Most people become extremely social in disasters. They look to each other for cues and advice and information, and that is also a really important phase, but again, it can take up a lot of time if you don?t push through that phase efficiently. The third phase is the decisive moment, where people take action based directly on what?s happened in the denial and deliberation phases. Sometimes it?s the appropriate action and sometimes it?s not, but often we only know that in retrospect.
Are there any specific traits that might predict how well we will do in a disaster?

Among the many survivors I have talked to, the people who have military training or even Boy Scouts training tend to perform a little better in a lot of situations. But more important is not the training but the culture, the whole outlook on life. Research shows that if you have what?s called an ?internal locus of control,? so you believe that you influence your destiny, then you tend to do better and recover more fully in a lot of situations. If on the other hand you feel like you are kind of at the mercy of fate and are in a more passive victim role in your day to day life, then that could be problematic because you?ll be less likely to take action and can have trouble recovering. It?s not 100 percent for every situation, but those trends tend to play into it. So the more you feel like you?re in control of your destiny and the more confidence you have in your ability to affect change, the better you actually do. It?s very much a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Are there any simple ways that we can train our fears and thoughts to help us survive in a disaster?
There are simple things you can do that are taught to first responders and elite military units, and they basically are not that different from yoga. Anything you can do to ramp down that fear response so that it doesn?t overwhelm your ability to think will help. We know that the most effective way to influence your subconscious brain is through breathing. With controlled breathing, for example, you breathe in for four counts, hold for four counts, release for four counts, hold for four counts and you repeat, over and over and over again whenever you are under stress. It could be mild stress, but it?s something I practice all the time, in traffic and so forth. This is the kind of thing that is actually taught to swat teams and Navy Seals. It is extremely effective in helping you control the physiological response to stress.
In your book you mention who the real first responders in a disaster are. Who are they?
Talk to anyone who has actually survived a disaster and they will instantly tell you that they were the first responders. Since Sept. 11 we have become very reliant upon first responders. We spend a lot of money equipping firefighters, police and so forth and that is all well and good, but the reality is that in major disasters, those people are not there, they just can?t be everywhere at once. In big disasters, regular people do the majority of life saving, so the people you work and live with are the first responders and I really think that this is probably the most important lesson I have learned in covering disasters over the last decade. If we continue to focus on the experts and not the public, we are not going to get any better at this. We really have to focus our energy on the people who are always first at the scene in every disaster and that?s regular people, so continuing to pour billions of dollars into equipping first responders, and not equipping and training the public is, I think, a mistake.
When it comes to hurricanes and other weather-related risks, we often overestimate ourselves. Can you explain how?
The three major risks that I consider the most under-appreciated but significant risks that most Americans face are fire, floods and lightning. Those are things that, because of the way we are wired, we don?t spend a lot of time worrying about in advance. We don?t really stress about them. We stress about things that are less likely to happen, for example our kids getting kidnapped, or terrorism attacks or shark attacks. But these are things that are extremely unlikely for most people. There is only so much attention we all have to spend in preparedness, so it is important to really prioritize. What are my biggest risks? It obviously depends on where you live and how you live but certainly we know that disasters are getting more frequent and more expensive in this country, largely because of wind and water events. We live in these dense, vertical cities near water, so we really have to try to focus our minds on things like floods, and also fire, which generally kills more people every year than all other disasters combined.
In your book you talk about ?group think? and you note that our best chances of survival are usually improved by sticking together. Why is that?

It seems to be an evolved reality because you see it in mammals as well. Chimpanzees, for example, when they are under a threat, will form groups and show each other affection. They also become very hierarchical and pay even more attention to the leader than normal, and this is also true of humans. The reality is that in disasters, we don?t turn into the kinds of hysterical mobs that we see in movies. We tend to actually show each other great courtesy when things are going very bad and that should be enormously reassuring to people. I can?t tell you how many times I?ve heard this from survivors ? people who have been in terrorist attacks, people who have been in enormous fires ? they always marvel at how well most people behaved. In general, the crowd does not really like panic, does not like people who are screaming and out of control, and the crowd will snuff that out pretty quickly, either by helping that person or minority of people or by aggressively telling them to stop. So generally, people form groups and that is helpful because you need information more than almost anything else in most disasters. Ten brains and 20 hands are better than one brain and two hands.
What is the biggest mistake made by the people in charge of protecting us?
Again and again, the people in charge of protecting us tend to underestimate the ability of the public. They think that people will panic if they are given frightening or potentially frightening information. They think people will loot or misbehave and I can?t tell you how many times this has come up. Even in my conversations with high-level emergency preparedness officials, there is among every group of experts a belief that they know better. I think this is just part of human nature, but it is very dangerous when it comes to preparedness. The reality is, usually you may know better but you?re not going to be there. The tendency to think that regular people will not perform well is often misguided. Regular people perform much better on average than we expect. So we really need to enroll regular people, engage them creatively, listen to them in advance and have them literally at the table when we are making decisions about emergency evacuation drills, about how to prepare for biological threats. They literally need to be at the table or else a natural bias will warp our planning and we will end up with emergency plans that are written for emergency responders.
? Q&A conducted, edited and condensed by Teddi Dineley Johnson, The Nation's Health, APHA
For more information on Ripley or on The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes ? and Why, visit www.theunthinkable.com.
March 2009


Advice From APHA Experts: How to create a healthy emergency stockpile
Q&A with Capt. Laura A. McNally, MPH, RD, FADA, a dietitian with the U.S. Public Health Service
Much has been written in the media lately about the threat of pandemic flu. The flu virus that causes a pandemic can spread easily from person to person and may cause large numbers of people to become ill and die. In the event of pandemic flu or other natural disaster, your local officials might advise you to shelter in place, which is a precaution that aims to keep you and your family safe in your home. To prepare for such an emergency, you?ll need to have created ? in advance ? an emergency stockpile of healthy foods.
To help you make the healthiest choices when planning what will go into your stockpile, the American Public Health Association recently sought advice from Capt. Laura A. McNally, MPH, RD, FADA. McNally is a dietitian officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and chair of the Emergency Preparedness Task Force for the American Dietetic Association.


When it comes to stockpiling, many of the obvious foods that come to mind, such as canned soups and vegetables, are high in sodium. How can we pack foods that are healthy?
There are many options available today. The low-sodium, low-fat canned foods that are available are ideal for stockpiling. Things such as canned soups ? Healthy Choice makes one option or Campbell?s makes another low-sodium option ? these are good choices. Other good choices for canned foods are those foods that are packed in their own juices, such as canned fruits. You can buy vegetables that are low in sodium, and those also would make very good options. So when you are looking for low-sodium foods, there are many options now available in canned products.
How about crackers and chips?
Crackers and chips tend to have more sodium. Given that you potentially would have a limited water supply or juice supply, you will want to stay away from salty items such as crackers, nuts and chips, although we recognize that those are comfort foods and may be the kinds of foods that many, children in particular, will want to have. You don?t have to avoid them totally but you can buy non-salted nuts, you can buy low-sodium crackers and you can also buy low-sodium or no-salt chips, so it?s not impossible to have those in your stockpile.
How much water should we plan on including in our emergency stockpile?
The recommendation for water is that we have one gallon of water per person per day. This is for food, drinking and personal use, such as brushing your teeth. You can possibly have water supply in your home at that time, but you do want to make sure that you also have an extra stockpile. So at very minimum the one gallon of water per person per day is recommended, for at least a three-day supply, and for pandemic flu it may be much longer.
How often should you rotate your water supply?
Your water supply does need to be rotated because bacteria will build up in it. Water is stamped with a date on it, and what I recommend is that you actually (use) stickers. Whether it is for water or other foods in your emergency supply kit, take a sticker and put the date on it that you put it in there and then if you use a regular rotation schedule, you will be able to look at the date that it went in, and make sure that at six months you look at the expiration date that?s been stamped on it. And also with canned goods, inspect for any signs of bulging or anything like that on the lids, to be sure that the product has not gone bad on you. But it is important that you rotate your water on a regular schedule.
How often should foods be rotated?
It is a good recommendation, just as you would change the batteries in your smoke alarms every six months along with (changing your clocks, to rotate) your emergency food supply ? your foods and your water. It?s a good idea to put that as part of your practice?that way you would have a trigger point and you would be able to remember to rotate these foods and if you put the sticker on it with the date that you put in it, you know how long it?s been in your kit, and you might even put a trigger in there, ?Needs to be removed at six months,? or ?Okay for one year.? But many of our food products now have expiration dates on them, and that will help us make sure that we?re not storing foods that go bad on us. Peanut butter is one that can go rancid, so it is important to rotate your foods.
For storing your stockpile, what kinds of containers work best?
There is no particular container that we are recommending, however I do think it?s a good idea to store your food in maybe a big, plastic bin that has a lid that is secure, because you want to make sure if you?re storing it, particularly in the basement or in the garage or in a location where there is potential for rodents or bugs to get into it, that the lid is sealed tight and will prevent anything from getting in there. The other thing you want to do is make sure that you store it in a place where the temperature is pretty stable, and that you don?t have extremes of hot or cold, which may impact the quality of your food.
What are some of the healthy foods we should include in our stockpile?
We recommend things that require no refrigeration, little or no preparation, no cooking and that require little or no water added to them, because you don?t want to take your water supply and use it with your foods. Many chicken, tuna (products), things like that, come in these vacuum-packed sealed containers, which are much easier to store than canned products. But for proteins I usually recommend canned meats or chicken, canned tuna, salmon -- those kinds of things. Canned beans make an excellent source of protein. They generally are low in sodium and require no cooking and can be added to many things, so I always recommend various kinds of canned beans, as well as your canned fruits packed in water and vegetables with no added salt. Along with this I would recommend protein and fruit bars. These are especially important for children because it gives them something sweet to eat, but make sure you are buying ones that have some nutritional value, not just (those with) chocolate and other added things that don?t give it as much value. Other things would include dry cereals?granola ? that is something that is important for your kids. Peanut butter is always a very good staple, and dried fruits or trail mix. Nuts, as long as you buy the unsalted variety, are good for snacking as well as a protein source. (Also) low-sodium crackers, your canned juices, and you always want to make sure that you have some kind of non-perishable pasteurized milk or dried powdered milk available. And vitamins, because your nutrients in your foods will not be necessarily what you would get if you were on a regular diet.
How about infants and children? Any special considerations for them?
If you have infants or very young children, you need to make sure that you include the infant formula as well as extra water for reconstitution, or better yet, cans that are already constituted. And for young children, foods that they are interested in eating, (such as) finger foods, your canned fruits, vegetables?Vienna sausage even may be more appealing to a young child. And then last of all, your comfort and stress snack foods, because we?re going to need those. Those are a little harder to plan. You don?t want to put chocolate in there if there is a potential for it to melt. But make sure that you do put comfort foods, especially for pandemic flu, because you may be confined to your home for longer than a three-day period and you?ll want to make sure that you have foods that your family will be able to eat during periods of high stress.
How about a can opener?
Fortunately the sealed packages don?t require a can opener and many of our cans do have pop lids, but absolutely a can opener is an essential element to have.
When creating our stockpile, for how many days should we plan?
The recommendation is a three-day supply, however, as I said, with pandemic flu and having to shelter in place, it may be that you need to realistically plan to have food for at least a week. If (officials) do recommend sheltering in place, the schools will be closed, day care will be closed, after-school programs will be closed and you may find yourself with your family at home for a much longer period of time.
Any special concerns for people with special health issues such as diabetes or high blood pressure?
The main thing to consider with those kinds of health issues is that they have adequate supplies of their medications, whether it be insulin or pills, and that they have any other health supplies that they need for their particular condition. Obviously, the kinds of foods that they would stockpile would be those that they can eat, in other words low-sodium kinds of items. With diabetes they want to make sure that the protein and fruit bars that they choose are not those that are high in sugar ? there are many that are made for diabetics. Dried fruit or trail mix may not be a high option for them, whereas nuts might be fine. So I think the diet that they eat on a regular basis is the same kind of recommendation that they?ll need for stockpiling.

Should antibiotics be included in your emergency stockpile?
Antibiotics are a prescription item. You don?t really want to stockpile an antibiotic because you don?t know which antibiotic you are going to need for a particular condition. If you are already on an antibiotic, then by all means you should make sure that you take that with you (if you are told to evacuate), but as a general rule, no, antibiotics are not an item that should be in your emergency stockpile because you don?t know which one you need for any particular condition.

What kinds of foods should pregnant mothers have in their stockpile?
The kinds of foods that pregnant mothers would want would be the same as the general population. They have no special requirements other than an increased caloric requirement. That?s making sure that they have adequate kinds of proteins, adequate fluids. They may want to ensure that they have a higher load of fruit juices and water in their stockpile to ensure that they have adequate hydration.
Any tips for making it fun for kids to get involved in creating a stockpile?
There is a wonderful Web site called Ready.gov, and there is a children?s portion that helps children learn what they need to do to create their family?s emergency stockpile, which includes, of course, things beyond food and water?also clothing and those kinds of items. I recommend that all families take a look at that. But in addition to that, they can also prepare their own perhaps small side stockpile with some of the kinds of foods that they like, so that they know that in the event that something occurs, they have the kinds of foods that are important to them, and they may have their own utensils that make them feel better?children-size utensils?and you need to make sure that when you are packing your stockpile that you do include not only that can opener but knives and forks and spoons and paper plates and paper bowls. Paper is probably better because you will not have the ability to do dishwashing. And so with your kids you want to pack things that are familiar to them, and again, the fruit bars and maybe the Vienna sausage?it depends on what stage that child is at as to the kinds of foods that are going to be their favorites.
Is there anything else you?d like to add?
When we are looking at fluids, probably our better choice, of course, is water, and there are a number of small one-serving things where you change water to lemonade or you can change it to iced tea, or things like that. But I would really recommend that you not stockpile soda. Soda contains no nutrients and all it contains is sugar and calories, and that?s not going to be a good option when you are trying to shelter in place or in an emergency stockpile because there is no value added to having any kind of soda. You really want to stick with your water and your juice, which is going to add for your hydration, and avoid those foods that are going to also make you very thirsty.
? Q&A conducted and condensed by Teddi Dineley Johnson, The Nation's Health
APHA wishes to thank the Food and Nutrition Section for helping to make this feature possible.

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Indian State of Economy 2009 ? 2010,
Statement by Finance Minister PRANAB MUKHERJEE
On 3 November at Economic editors Conference, at New Delhi ? might lead to food riots, if sustainable correction is not there please! Your governments good intentions ARE not suspected but Social Economic path is very badly DICEY missing to a large extent A LOT OF THINGS OF PUBLIC ECONOMY MISSING? NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARENTEE SCHEME(NREGS) ASSISTANCE TO BPL people is not enough to sustain specially lot of moneys are stolen by politicians on the way please ? Also a lot middle class is suffering too in the present economy, after all every household does not have husband and wife income pooling PLEASE.!! FOOD RIOTS ARE TO BE CONTAINED PLEASE.
{?Sad indeed corporate methods are unsuited for governance of State ? State works on Social economics and welfare and not businesses? financial just cash profits ? dividends of corporate is not the dividends of a state financial management?, Sorry Pranab, you toe the line of business finance philosophy but not government business based public finance management ? indeed state will run into steep debts worse than what we faced during V. P Singh?s government of late 1980, unless strong immediate correction in the path is there in the country?, ADOLF HITLERS GERMANY WAS SAVED IN 1930s by AMERICAN MUNIFICENCE (AT AMERICANS? COST OF ENSUED DEPORESSION) BUT NOBODY WILL SAVE INDIA PLEASE TODAY EVEN MONSOONS PRACTICALLY FAILED AT NATIONS? COST- Comments by an Emeritus Professor Prof. G. Balakrishnan, a Social Economist- free lance-writer}
In the conference main points got highlighted are:-
- 1. Foreign Exchange reserves positive;
- 2. Recovery of Exports is still uncertain:
- 3. Expectations of Foreign investors is high and rising:
- 4.Government cannot drop guard owing to global uncertainties:
- 5. Non farm sector credit off take remains a concern:
- 6.Banks have been asked to increase credit growth:
- 7. Signs of price hardening evident:
- 8.Liquidity not an issue at present:
- 9. System correction ? medium term strategy:
- 10.Draught impact due to monsoon failures ? still to be observed:
- 11. Positive indications that growth will recover:
- 12. Fiscal deficit to fall to 5.5% in 2010-11 and by 2011-12, likely to fall to 4%:
- 13.Steps to curtail subsidies to fertilizer and petroleum products:
- 14. Revenues to step up from 10% to 15% likely :
- 14 Basket of Foreign exchange is in diversification:
- 16.System correction ? medium term strategy ? impact of monsoons;
- 17. Disinvestment of PSUs on maximum financial advantage:
- 18.Export ? Import ? anti dumping to be balancing factor:
- 19.Draught due to monsoon failures ? still to be observed:

Conference highlighted that all is not that good with economy in India. This remind us the 1929 and how Germany was in trouble. Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany, made Germany to get into spiraling Inflation and in fact German Bank printed currencies in billions. The net Result was economy collapsed, all over. Repairs are some kind of novices repairing, like repair of ?Chandrayan? and net result was ?Chandrayan by ISRO is lost for ever in the wilderness of Moon or Space. Nobody really knows!.

This is like ARMY warning 26/11 repeat but they will not know where exactly the problem is. We find ?e-mail? to the interested terrorists to fore warn them just to buckle up to make attack is positive and result oriented. That is all. That means you are annoyed just because you are unaware you will be hit. So is the economic predictions lead to predilections. You are caught in Scylla and Charibdis dilemma. Governments continuously are failing miserably.

1930s repeat is not yet over in India. Economic ministries or banks say ??things as yet not really attractive?, U, V, W, graphs are the result and confused movements in the people minds and that has impact on over all economy. All prices are not realistic. So many clever people make the killing by various ploys, by so called FALSEHOOD forecasting abilities. Forecasting abilities are really tied up the ability TO assesses several factors, but today so called experts do just ?approximations?, say may be true or not and they are not scientific forecast approach ANYMORE..
Realists appreciate governments? allover do really get confused BY false ?forecasts?. PM is sincere but he seems to be at end of his wits. Not only him but all the so called experts all over may be Nobel laureates or university professors or the super specialty journo(s), as they no longer talk like curious people.
One thing is certain people are at cross roads of conflicting claims. In the meantime so many ?Kodas? like Jharkhand politicians ARE being screened under CBI AND ?ED? ENFORECEMENT DIRECTORATE ?SCANNER?. Soon thousands will emerge, if the government has a will to bring to book in the interest of Nation.

The selective of information feed is also ?subjective analyses. Objectively fed information is missing since ?opening of economies?.

Ultimate reality is we are at some brink of economic destruction; it is like euthanasia ? silent killer of the economies leading to some kind of wilderness land that can be called an Eldorado Land.

One thing is certain poor will become poorer if divestment in PSUs continued to augment fiscal needs which is exorbitantly high very much higher than the governments? capability to handle, as most of the states finance ministers boost the state fiscal needs by higher local taxes on all goods and services cutting into the poor man?s budgets to run his house.

World over is very serious financial crisis since every where there is no solution but expenses are shooting up, as consumerism still high believing everything is fine but truth is indeed at the opposite ends (OTHERWISE)and might possibly lead to food riots, if there is no control in expenses and money will expand beyond limits.

If businesses are encouraged to go in their way, naturally Naxalism and Marxists will thrive as poor and poverty stricken cannot be just a spectator, after all his stomach pinches.

Recessionary trends are preferable to inflationary trends.

People with less income and NO control on expenses on essentials flatten.

Governments should be careful as to not to tow the business lines.

You now need a leader like Indira Gandhi to declare emergency to control banks and extravagant expenses, as your neighbor Pakistan will have great opportunity to take advantage on food riots sooner or latter and Taliban and other outfits look for such opportunity.

Wisdom in public finance management has to prevail to save the man on the street, after all very many Kodas will soon emerge everywhere if public revenue generation by debt goes on and on unabated, as the tax payer has to meet the debts which is seriously doubtful.

Repudiation is not possible which Americans faced during 1930 from several heavily borrowed countries but today you are borrowing from public finances, including divestments i.e., regulating revenues and expenditures.
Sir, Sad indeed government is towing the lines of corporate world which is mesmerizing the government and it is a dangerous doctrine of getting mesmerized. (Ends)
Notes:
1Cooner Dougherty reported in Wall street journal on October 30(2009)?While the news marks ?an apparent end to worst recession sine 1930, while the II?recovery is expected to be slow and painful, as companies shed jobs and credit remains tight ??. Bulk of the rise in FDP came from increased consumer spending which was spurred by federal stimulus programs like cash for Clunkers schemes that have nearly or entirely expired, thus creating uncertainty about the sustainability of the recovery.

Britain has sunk even deeper in the depths of recession.

economy is really in dicey state

Every top leading news papers hold the same views. Pls control consumerism and waste. do not excessively work on foods generated by fertilizers.

consequences of eco growth

CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH ? WHETHER INDIAN ECONOMY GIVE UP AGRICULTURE GROWTH FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH ? A STUDY? professor DR. G BALAKRISHNAN, PhD (Economics)., M.L., DMS (NY) sr. Advocate /Counsel SUPREME COURT of India- a faculty in Management studies
(Story in American English)

Benjamin Friedman in his book ?the moral consequences of Economic growth? wrote ?.we realizes the advantages of higher standard of living?moral thinking is in practical terms every culture enjoins us to not to place in the pedestal of undue emphasis on our material concerns alone.

Economic development - say industrialization, in particular in globalization often brings undesirable side most UNDESIRABLE side effects ? like damages to the environment, or the homogenization of what used to be distinctive cultures (e.g. India an agricultural economy). We have come to regard these matters too in moral terms (time immemorial, agriculture provided enough agricultural jobs in all villages and hence more and more villages, came to life leading to village communities, never ventured to urban areas in preference to villages and so there were a several self contained villages, with least quarrels between people as they needed more and more hands in agriculture, as agriculture invariably lead by hand workers(skilled hands) unlike machine driven (inanimate) exercises at the fields, watering, sowing, tilling, harvesting?and so on., augmented by monsoon rains, and during its vagaries watered by rivers ( both perennial and non perennial), some times by village tanks, big wells provided perennial sources of water)

On both counts, we think economic growth in terms of material considerations, verses moral concerns. We weigh material positives against moral negatives (machines).

When one seriously considers this, in some circumstances is it not incomplete perception?

He values of rising standard of living, lies not in just in concrete improvements it brings to how individuals live but in how it shapes the social, political and ultimately the morality of a people.


Economic growth , a rising standard of living for a clear majority of people, more often than not, fosters greater opportunity, tolerance of diversity, social mobility, commitment to fairness, and dedication to democratic living?when living standards decline, most societies make little progress if any progress is there, and all in all too many instances they plainly retrogress.


Recently When I was going through Washington Post, India?s economic times articles, perceptions of Nobel Laureates, Financial times London, Economist of London, in the last few days, I could see all excessively optimistic economists, journalists of leading news papers, in the year 2008, including government economists were touting that there is no big problem around economically, but now there is a lurking fear psychosis in all of them, economy is slowing down, brought lot of job losses, winding of companies, restructuring, and re-engineering, cost cutting exercises belatedly, permitting excessive consumerism which in fact brought too much pressure, adding fuel to the fire is failures of monsoons, now ?El Nino? is to increase global warming, environmental damages, meaningless excessive infrastructures, irrational bank lending for higher end buildings, and what not. ( I wrote an paper and read in Bangalore university in UGC staff college, impending problems of Indian consumerist economy in June 2007 and the said article was published in a tabloid / posted in a blog rapidanalysts.blogspot.com) but all incorrigible optimists did not agree with my premise but in 2009 similar things focused even by Paul Krugmann, Joseph Stigler)

Problem of consumerism and our inability to correctly predict future climate changes, even monsoons conspire what man proposes, after all God only disposes things in the world of chaos). To a large extent Indian economy was saved by then RBI Governor Dr. YV Reddy, when P. Chidambaram was swinging and reeling like a top in June 2008, not realizing implications of economy reeling under uncontrolled consumerism. Bane of economy world over was the dogma of consumerism, and credit card culture, making people to spend their future earnings in advance but pay as and when you earn, within a reasonable period, tied with ?anaconda like interest rates squeezing one to die in the loop.

State of indian economy 2009

Indian State of Economy 2009 ? 2010,
Statement by Finance Minister PRANAB MUKHERJEE
On 3 November at Economic editors Conference, at New Delhi ? might lead to food riots, if sustainable correction is not there please! Your governments good intentions ARE not suspected but Social Economic path is very badly DICEY missing to a large extent A LOT OF THINGS OF PUBLIC ECONOMY MISSING? NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARENTEE SCHEME(NREGS) ASSISTANCE TO BPL people is not enough to sustain specially lot of moneys are stolen by politicians on the way please ? Also a lot middle class is suffering too in the present economy, after all every household does not have husband and wife income pooling PLEASE.!! FOOD RIOTS ARE TO BE CONTAINED PLEASE.
{?Sad indeed corporate methods are unsuited for governance of State ? State works on Social economics and welfare and not businesses? financial just cash profits ? dividends of corporate is not the dividends of a state financial management?, Sorry Pranab, you toe the line of business finance philosophy but not government business based public finance management ? indeed state will run into steep debts worse than what we faced during V. P Singh?s government of late 1980, unless strong immediate correction in the path is there in the country?, ADOLF HITLERS GERMANY WAS SAVED IN 1930s by AMERICAN MUNIFICENCE (AT AMERICANS? COST OF ENSUED DEPORESSION) BUT NOBODY WILL SAVE INDIA PLEASE TODAY EVEN MONSOONS PRACTICALLY FAILED AT NATIONS? COST- Comments by an Emeritus Professor Prof. G. Balakrishnan, a Social Economist- free lance-writer}
In the conference main points got highlighted are:-
- 1. Foreign Exchange reserves positive;
- 2. Recovery of Exports is still uncertain:
- 3. Expectations of Foreign investors is high and rising:
- 4.Government cannot drop guard owing to global uncertainties:
- 5. Non farm sector credit off take remains a concern:
- 6.Banks have been asked to increase credit growth:
- 7. Signs of price hardening evident:
- 8.Liquidity not an issue at present:
- 9. System correction ? medium term strategy:
- 10.Draught impact due to monsoon failures ? still to be observed:
- 11. Positive indications that growth will recover:
- 12. Fiscal deficit to fall to 5.5% in 2010-11 and by 2011-12, likely to fall to 4%:
- 13.Steps to curtail subsidies to fertilizer and petroleum products:
- 14. Revenues to step up from 10% to 15% likely :
- 14 Basket of Foreign exchange is in diversification:
- 16.System correction ? medium term strategy ? impact of monsoons;
- 17. Disinvestment of PSUs on maximum financial advantage:
- 18.Export ? Import ? anti dumping to be balancing factor:
- 19.Draught due to monsoon failures ? still to be observed:

Conference highlighted that all is not that good with economy in India. This remind us the 1929 and how Germany was in trouble. Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany, made Germany to get into spiraling Inflation and in fact German Bank printed currencies in billions. The net Result was economy collapsed, all over. Repairs are some kind of novices repairing, like repair of ?Chandrayan? and net result was ?Chandrayan by ISRO is lost for ever in the wilderness of Moon or Space. Nobody really knows!.

This is like ARMY warning 26/11 repeat but they will not know where exactly the problem is. We find ?e-mail? to the interested terrorists to fore warn them just to buckle up to make attack is positive and result oriented. That is all. That means you are annoyed just because you are unaware you will be hit. So is the economic predictions lead to predilections. You are caught in Scylla and Charibdis dilemma. Governments continuously are failing miserably.

1930s repeat is not yet over in India. Economic ministries or banks say ??things as yet not really attractive?, U, V, W, graphs are the result and confused movements in the people minds and that has impact on over all economy. All prices are not realistic. So many clever people make the killing by various ploys, by so called FALSEHOOD forecasting abilities. Forecasting abilities are really tied up the ability TO assesses several factors, but today so called experts do just ?approximations?, say may be true or not and they are not scientific forecast approach ANYMORE..
Realists appreciate governments? allover do really get confused BY false ?forecasts?. PM is sincere but he seems to be at end of his wits. Not only him but all the so called experts all over may be Nobel laureates or university professors or the super specialty journo(s), as they no longer talk like curious people.
One thing is certain people are at cross roads of conflicting claims. In the meantime so many ?Kodas? like Jharkhand politicians ARE being screened under CBI AND ?ED? ENFORECEMENT DIRECTORATE ?SCANNER?. Soon thousands will emerge, if the government has a will to bring to book in the interest of Nation.

The selective of information feed is also ?subjective analyses. Objectively fed information is missing since ?opening of economies?.

Ultimate reality is we are at some brink of economic destruction; it is like euthanasia ? silent killer of the economies leading to some kind of wilderness land that can be called an Eldorado Land.

One thing is certain poor will become poorer if divestment in PSUs continued to augment fiscal needs which is exorbitantly high very much higher than the governments? capability to handle, as most of the states finance ministers boost the state fiscal needs by higher local taxes on all goods and services cutting into the poor man?s budgets to run his house.

World over is very serious financial crisis since every where there is no solution but expenses are shooting up, as consumerism still high believing everything is fine but truth is indeed at the opposite ends (OTHERWISE)and might possibly lead to food riots, if there is no control in expenses and money will expand beyond limits.

If businesses are encouraged to go in their way, naturally Naxalism and Marxists will thrive as poor and poverty stricken cannot be just a spectator, after all his stomach pinches.

Recessionary trends are preferable to inflationary trends.

People with less income and NO control on expenses on essentials flatten.

Governments should be careful as to not to tow the business lines.

You now need a leader like Indira Gandhi to declare emergency to control banks and extravagant expenses, as your neighbor Pakistan will have great opportunity to take advantage on food riots sooner or latter and Taliban and other outfits look for such opportunity.

Wisdom in public finance management has to prevail to save the man on the street, after all very many Kodas will soon emerge everywhere if public revenue generation by debt goes on and on unabated, as the tax payer has to meet the debts which is seriously doubtful.

Repudiation is not possible which Americans faced during 1930 from several heavily borrowed countries but today you are borrowing from public finances, including divestments i.e., regulating revenues and expenditures.
Sir, Sad indeed government is towing the lines of corporate world which is mesmerizing the government and it is a dangerous doctrine of getting mesmerized. (Ends)

NCP party need not join congress in maharashtra!

NCP had failed miserably in maha elections as people lost faith. It is better if it does not to die a natural death as a party, it should not take home, finance and other portfolios. But it will not listen safter all it made knownto maharashtrians that it wants to make quick money at the cost of the State.Then it will die may be most of its members want to jooin Congress after all it was a splinter group and this group wanted to make money anso floated party. That story is over even Sharad Pawar knows it.

swedish academy...

SWEDISH ACADEMYOF SCIENCES
MADE PROPER CHOICE IN AWARDING ECONOMICS? NOBEL PRIZE
(IN FAVOUR OF Professors Oliver Williamson (Economics department in his transaction cost theory) and MADAM ELINOR OSTROM OF UNIVERSITY of California, Berkeley (USA) OF POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, (in her social economic analysis) TO PROVE SOCIAL ANIMAL INSTINCTS IN MAN IN HER ILLUMINATIMG WORK ON NON-MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN HER STUDIES ON SEVERAL INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS OF USER REGULATED USE OF COMMONS AS SUPERIOR TO PRIVATISATION OR RELIANCE ON SOLELY ON GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS?)
(BY Dr. G Balakrishnan, professor emeritus and visiting faculty in business schools- managerial economics & Corporate strategy and a constitutional lawyer, a former AFP JOURNALIST)
Stockholm reported Elinor Ostrom defied conventional wisdom with studies that showed that user managed properties ? such as community fish stocks or woodland areas were better run than standard theories predicted, by stating, ?Since we have found that bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information while citizens and users of resources do, we hope it helps encourage a sense of capacity and power. ? Her view in her work reflects a principle that people are willing to accept AVOIDABLE PERSONAL COST TO ENFORCE RULES THAT BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY. This is so because the upbringing of child in any family teaches the child this kind of life and that invariably becomes second nature in every man and that is social economics BASED PSYCHOLOGY of some sacrificing tendency in man in order of benefitting the community.

Her fellow winner professor Oliver Williamson of California university work on TCT (transaction cost theory) is a cost reduction mechanism in any product or service. That does mean ?outsourcing theory? (RELATION SPECIFIC INVESTMENT) which made many MNCs to outsource their work from companies like ?Infosys? and like.

Though Ram Singh of Delhi School of Economics just eulogized in his article, in Economic Times (issue of 14 october,09), of the Times of India group firm, and yet conflict resolutions in contracts though less in vertically integrating firm, there will be conflicts of interests, in TCT. So there is nothing like that you always get final answer by one solution.

Neo Classical theory worked for some time excessively depending on markets and market forces driving consumption to the tether ends leading to excessive consumption and that lead to serious wastages, like in foods wastages in five star hotels which reduce availability of essential commodities and that creates unnecessary artificial rise in costs of essential commodities and make poor man not to get his share of food in the society.



So centralized work regulation affects the local common man right from his daily necessities of food, shelter and clothing, and so on, and that situational analysis helped Ostrom and Williamson to research new factors in political economy, an inter disciplinary approach of descriptive sciences ? politics, economics, sociology, psychology and both inductive and deductive logics in a cohesive manner.
Previous notion was that common property was poorly managed and should be regulated centrally or privatized (a typical view challenged by Panchayati Raj system and India introduced/revived Panchayati raj system in 1991 by then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao out of own experience in Indian politics).
Nobel winners have well-recognized by their researches the views Ostrom now enunciated in her seminary work, being a political scientist (political economist) and that way inter disciplinary work only is an eye opener.

Prof Oliver Williamson (also of university of California) recognized in his research (on TCT) on analysis of conflict resolution for the ?over the last three decades and these contributions have indeed advanced economic governance research from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention?, the committee observed.
According to Ostrom ?there are many many people who have struggled mightily and to be chosen for this prize is a great honor I am still a little bit in shock.?

Anyway it is indeed a corrective to many conventional economists to change their thinking process if social economics is a criterion.

Recent swirl in economic development overly worked on market is given a short shrift that markets alone cannot determine real factors, like protagonists view of ?Consumerism? which led to serious debts even to nations tying them to several years of debts and also monetary expansion without sensible views tied up thought to irrational economic development which led to Nandhigam problem in West Bengal and Maoist risings and declaring war by union government of India without realizing what will be the after effects. After all you have to protect all people?s living in an unequal society, a norm of the world.





It is a paradox that global in thinking while acting locally. Always local views are invariably governed by local needs, like rivers, climate, and waters and in these you will have to work holistically and not egoistically like thinking of connecting rivers.

In China also the government has to break the dam constructed across river Hoe-en-ho, just because of dam will cause very serious floods, in that river of sorrow. What is good at one place need not necessarily be always good and that good has to change on and often due to very many factors and that thought found well defined explanation in the Nobel laureates work! Too much irrational building of highways will bring havocs in climate and monsoons, have to be learned by governments is the lesson of this research! (Ends)

what is education?

What is education? Is it that is taught in schools? Is it reliable for you? What do you expect in education? Whether the present systems of education really insure your future? IF not how will you go about?
(By Dr. Balakrishnan, former professor, Ex., Education Counselor, advocate, independent director in public limited companies, and visiting faculty in management studies (Bombay/Mumbai/ Pune/ Bangalore universities) UGC resource person attached to Bangalore University.)

Education is the means of art of living, in one?s life sojourn. Routes are different. No school teaches one to the capabilities one has. That is the real problem. Schools provide some set kind of topics or subjects as decided by government, under so called syllabus and curriculum.
Every boy and girl has a particular talent and that need not neatly fit into these so called curriculum / syllabus. You see film actors and theatre actors are talented to portray a role and accordingly the director selects on the basis of story line. You will note all actors will not fit the roles the story line may need. Those that fit the role have the opportunity to act, and that one leads to a box office rating. If you use an actor on the basis of strait jacketed education qualification, then naturally you will find film will miserably fail. So the actor should be exactly able to portray the role to the best possible satisfaction of the spectators.

You can make a technician by the present system of technical education, but when that technician is put to do a job he needs such creative abilities and if he does not he will create a drab cinema. Cinema is totally dependent on actors and hence they are paid astronomical sums of money. Similarly every one has some caliber but if you do not give relevant education fitting his caliber, then he naturally fails. So the word education is to fit in to your talents and what is done all over the world today, you have to fit in your talents to the education provided and hence education is some kind of straight jacket mechanism. Why students drop out, just because that education is not compatible to his talent. But interestingly, we shed all kinds of crocodile tears for the student dropping out of the course. That is the vast gap is created by the present day education. Those who do this straight jacket education will not get really any mark in life, except some make believe kind of capacity, like the people in LEHMAN BROS who all contrived the world economy to go into gloom, in USA, with all kinds of false promises and lies.

Every one created by God is just unique and every one need unique kind of education and some may fit in some collective education but that does not mean all will be fitted into it. So education policies have steadily failed all over centuries and in fact education system decently failed. People run for this decently failed education system.

Parents without knowing the talent of their children submit them to some so called schools/colleges/universities, as if the end of education is in those institutions but it is a sad mistake committed by every one as if every one thinks that he knows his child better but in fact child knows about him or her better.

If that freedom is available to the child it need not wait for government alms, under so called reservations and the like, after all every child can carve out its future much more better than the so called governments? thinking process. So it is said SARASWATI/MINERVA bestows particular talent in every child world through the process of procreation.

We did not learn education in ancient India from Europe. We had our own system of gurukul and we had our Nalanda and Taxila and similar such in India so too in china in ancient times. We developed temple architecture, management so too China Pagodas and Chinese management.

Present system will doom Indians for ever.

All we need is development several hundreds of subjects and list them, including languages. Give options for students to pick up subjects that interest them. This system will have to be adopted in all kinds of crafts and technical courses in all levels of schools, colleges and depending upon the kin of pupils or students, the government should make arrangement of teachers? mobility to reach out to students. There will be full attendance in classes and also teachers will find their interests expressed and that means they will not absent in the classes, subject to necessary supervision, if we really mean education for future generation.(ends)
What is education? Is it that is taught in schools? Is it reliable for you? What do you expect in education? Whether the present systems of education really insure your future? IF not how will you go about?
(By Dr. Balakrishnan, former professor, Ex., Education Counselor, advocate, independent director in public limited companies, and visiting faculty in management studies (Bombay/Mumbai/ Pune/ Bangalore universities) UGC resource person attached to Bangalore University.)

Education is the means of art of living, in one?s life sojourn. Routes are different. No school teaches one to the capabilities one has. That is the real problem. Schools provide some set kind of topics or subjects as decided by government, under so called syllabus and curriculum.
Every boy and girl has a particular talent and that need not neatly fit into these so called curriculum / syllabus. You see film actors and theatre actors are talented to portray a role and accordingly the director selects on the basis of story line. You will note all actors will not fit the roles the story line may need. Those that fit the role have the opportunity to act, and that one leads to a box office rating. If you use an actor on the basis of strait jacketed education qualification, then naturally you will find film will miserably fail. So the actor should be exactly able to portray the role to the best possible satisfaction of the spectators.

You can make a technician by the present system of technical education, but when that technician is put to do a job he needs such creative abilities and if he does not he will create a drab cinema. Cinema is totally dependent on actors and hence they are paid astronomical sums of money. Similarly every one has some caliber but if you do not give relevant education fitting his caliber, then he naturally fails. So the word education is to fit in to your talents and what is done all over the world today, you have to fit in your talents to the education provided and hence education is some kind of straight jacket mechanism. Why students drop out, just because that education is not compatible to his talent. But interestingly, we shed all kinds of crocodile tears for the student dropping out of the course. That is the vast gap is created by the present day education. Those who do this straight jacket education will not get really any mark in life, except some make believe kind of capacity, like the people in LEHMAN BROS who all contrived the world economy to go into gloom, in USA, with all kinds of false promises and lies.

Every one created by God is just unique and every one need unique kind of education and some may fit in some collective education but that does not mean all will be fitted into it. So education policies have steadily failed all over centuries and in fact education system decently failed. People run for this decently failed education system.

Parents without knowing the talent of their children submit them to some so called schools/colleges/universities, as if the end of education is in those institutions but it is a sad mistake committed by every one as if every one thinks that he knows his child better but in fact child knows about him or her better.

If that freedom is available to the child it need not wait for government alms, under so called reservations and the like, after all every child can carve out its future much more better than the so called governments? thinking process. So it is said SARASWATI/MINERVA bestows particular talent in every child world through the process of procreation.

We did not learn education in ancient India from Europe. We had our own system of gurukul and we had our Nalanda and Taxila and similar such in India so too in china in ancient times. We developed temple architecture, management so too China Pagodas and Chinese management.

Present system will doom Indians for ever.

All we need is development several hundreds of subjects and list them, including languages. Give options for students to pick up subjects that interest them. This system will have to be adopted in all kinds of crafts and technical courses in all levels of schools, colleges and depending upon the kin of pupils or students, the government should make arrangement of teachers? mobility to reach out to students. There will be full attendance in classes and also teachers will find their interests expressed and that means they will not absent in the classes, subject to necessary supervision, if we really mean education for future generation.(ends)

class structure..

Class Structure and intelligence in American life ? A challenge? ? How is this catching up in India too of late!
(By Dr. G. Balakrishnan, PhD., a public affairs educational psychologist & Reflexology consultant (a science of understanding of material human body and its functions in different situations)

A high- ?IQ? in an individual increases criminal behavior while low ?IQ? is merely prone to being caught asserts Bell curve in human mind.

Genius a master mind is lonely person. He is very jealously protects himself and he behaves like honey bee stinging. Today ?Our intellectual landscape has been disrupted by equivalent of an earthquake?, said Michael Novak of ?National Review? of America.

Pundit Ravi Shankar is not allowing his son to come up, as he is jealously guarding his genius, like many geniuses of the past, according to a report of recent origin.

Politicians in power mostly imitate low IQ personalities and cannot be treated as genius and they are mostly alleged to be criminal in behavior, as their aim is just to amass wealth right and left. They are likely to be caught and so they use their weight of party bigwigs.
A few are high IQ men are there in politics and they have strangle hold in party politics, e.g., Mayavathi, Rajnath Singh, Bal Thackeray, Raj Thackeray, Amar Singh, Lal Kishen Advani, RSS leaders, Modi of Gujarat, Karunanithi of Tamil nadu, A. Raja, union Minister at union Cabinet, Taliban leader Osama Bin Laden and many of his cohorts, Some LeT-men, so too LTTE-men like late Prabhakaran, Military Rulers of Myanmar, Dictators, to mention a few. But they will face sooner or later problems like being put to sword, as they have more direct and indirect enemies every where.






Edmund Burke said ?There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by bigots and enthusiast, and through Fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue a faire discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho? they would be found without any reasonable Support, yet the Discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous Nation!. As if all Happiness was not connected with practice of virtue, which necessarily depends upon the Knowledge of Truth. ?(A Vindication of Natural Society)?
It is funny that American situation has dawned on India, may be because most of the high paid MBAs are from Harvard, Wharton ECT Business schools. See Ambanies, and big builders? scions are educated in USA so too politicians?, bureaucrats? and they do not want to fall under RT I Act about their assets information in public domain, meaning thereby they amassed wealth in filthiest possible ways, indicating their criminal bent of IQs.

So too when you note 188 of 288 Maharashtra MLAs will be ?Crorepathies? thro? ill-gotten wealth process, a psyche dominating in political class of criminality.

Due to constraints of space, in some other time another article may carry further story on this aspect. (Ends)

IT MINISTER RAJA SHOULD RESIGN!

Raja shd resign as his ministry is raided by CBI and if CBI Enquiry fails to prove wrong doing Raja can be in cabinet and if not he has to go. DMK party is not important compared to people of india's interests. If DMK insists it is clear that it wants to loot the country. It is not woirth allying with DMK. other parties are there supporting the govt, for instance Samajwadi party.

BJP in rags!

BJP IN DISARRAY DUE TO INTERNAL SERIOUS DIFFERENCES SURFACING TODAY ? WHETHER BJP WOULD SURVIVE? ?? DR. G BALAKRISHNAN , PhD, EX-AFP - CORRESPONDENT ? ADVOCATE & COUNSEL, SUPREME COURT, PANEL MEDIATOR OF BOMBAY HIGH COURT?, rapidanalysts@yahoo.com


BJP is passing through serious stress due to Lok Sabha election debacle 2009. The writer forecasted BJP election debacle 2009 in one of his articles, as the party did not have any sensible manifesto at all. It only simply attacked opposition party ? CONGRESS and worse still personally Mr. Sonia Gandhi, and PM Dr. MAN MOHAN SINGH, as weak PM. Electorate rejected the BJP Leaders claims, all over India.



So too, many opposition parties were rejected for their intemperate and vituperative attacks on CONGRESS. Some were aiming to become PM in place of Dr. Man Mohan Singh under one front or the other. People smelt rat and they gave fitting finale in 2009 elections.



Incidentally all electronic channels and media factually reported the attacks. All parties failed in their political strategies; just because they all started thinking electorate is full of nincompoops?/foolish men/stupid. These parties had to fail miserably every where. That is the price they had to pay. If they do in Assembly pools they will equally eat mud, after all they have taste to cheat people and enrich themselves.



Every political party in India had enough internal dissentions and disagreements and party heads behaved dictatorially and the electorate realized there is no point supporting them for all party men in fact cheated the electorate in one way or the other, and even swindled the electorates? money.



Even Civil servants of all hues joined the band wagon of parties, after all parties? themselves encouraged swindling. Every one in electorate knows as to how they had been cheated right and left. Now bureaucrats will be asked to put their wealth statistics on governments? website at the time of their appointment and get updated if and when there are any changes, in their or their children and wife?s properties. And that will be examined at the time of resignations or retirements to find out whether their known sources of income could allow so much wealth, to see the cat out of the bag. Even judges Web site information on their wealth will be examined by people and no minister at whatever level can assume any superiority to citizen who is the real master of all these men.



Party men became realtors and also corporate-persons and they simply with the support of party in power swindled the people. Even in this fray even Communist governments were there in the name of land acquisition.



Nandhigam is an electrifying situation in West Bengal and like this in every state swindling started in the name of SEZs, (Export zones, economic zones and the like), and also in medical, education fronts as well, by the political men started schools, and colleges by floating trusts and systematically flouting rule of law, and in this game several corporate bodies joined the fray of loot the people, by selling some useless courses and assuring the students plump jobs by placements, by appointing so called counselors, counseling the view point of the colleges.



Like this several parents lost their hard earned monies, at the end. This is the current history and even today similar institutions still earn illegal monies which can be mostly treated as black moneys, as most of the moneys obtained in the name management seats siphoned unaccounted moneys through illegal channels. May be these moneys also could have found way to Swiss Banks!



They employed agents like in realty sector, even in education sector and so too in every sector. The employment agents swindled moneys and landed people in misery. Like them the party workers are agents of party and they in their own greed affected the safe living of people-electorate and that way ,since they are led by their so called leaders of the party, the life of electorate got affected and when they reacted being no longer stoic, the very foundation of party/ies get(s) shaken up.



It is pertinent to mention here Seneca a Roman Stoic philosopher in Epistles 47, 11 said some 2000 years ago ? ?Treat your inferior as you would be treated by your Superior.? Similarly Alexander did with vanquished Porus at Taxila in 4th century BC, as Porus also believed in the same theory ? though vanquished he had the audacity to ask Alexander to treat him like a king and Alexander agreed and Porus was provided a Throne to be seated at Alexander?s level. Hence we call all over the world with an affix to Alexander ?the Great?. That kind of attitude would control any bad situation.



Yes, still worse even universities participated and the men in power there pocketed the illegal wealth generation, even today it is a great business.



Poor parents do not understand real nuances of education of today. Every one wanted so called MBA, MCA, MHA.MBBS, MD (IN ALL KINDS OF UNKNOWN BRANCHES), MS, DEGREES, at a premium payment.



Many doctors, managers brought through these channels wanted to make fast bucks and they resorted to all kinds of unethical practices, in their clinics and hospitals. This situation forces present union government to bring in one national HRD council in place of Indian Medical Council, Dental Council, Nursing COUNCIL, Pharmacy Council..to evaluate the courses run by universities, as many such courses are just dubious as the placement agents.



Once you are in vicious circle, you too become vicious for gaining back lost moneys. This kind of consumerism has thrived and still thriving. This is called ?thriving in chaos?, what Tom Peters say.



This means people are confused and do not know which way to proceed but will proceed anyway, and that is the chaotic situation and in this path some make moneys, at the cost of others, as in ?dotcoms? business which ultimately busted and made several investors lose over night their savings, like Nigerian ingenious way of Grand Lotto ? lotteries, and even today several men have lost a lot in these ventures of easy money lures, and it still continues, as the greed caught the people, particularly politicians for easy money.

BJP has RSS organization ? a grass root with support set up like ABVP, BAJRANG DAL, VHP, BMS, VANAVASI KALYAN, SARASWATI SISU MANDIRS, and there are about 38 set ups together.

The main set ups constantly work among people, indoctrinating children, trade unions, peasants, intellectuals, tribal communities, unemployed youth, pious temple goers, information technology workers..and so on? In fact there is no other party so well organized to perpetually indoctrinate people, except Christian missions, some Taliban set up in extremist Muslim set up, just to market their ideas with the people, like in LeT and thus to convert to their ideologies.

RSS basic aim is to see India as a HINDU NATION. This ideology even percolated in congress leaders like Nehru, Patel and hence they did not yield to Gandhi/Jinnah, as Jinnah wanted India as a Muslim Nation, as British got power from Muslim Rulers, they expected Britain to hand over to Muslims, for the Nehru-Patel feared Hindus will be kept as slaves by new Muslim Rulers, as ruthless rulers.

According to Sudha Pai, professor of centre for political studies, JNU, ?reappearance of Hindutva based mobilization in the 2000s ? despite decline of identity politics ? witnessed in the Gujarat riots, the Hubli and Amarnath land controversies contributed to the defeat of the party in 2004 and 2009 national elections?consecutive defeats coincided with gradual eclipsing of moderate leadership of Vajpayee was responsible for this and on fixing accountability for electoral defeats? reopened the acrid debate on ?secularism? fanned by Jaswant Singh?s book on Jinnah and the need for generational change?.party is imploding. RSS taking over might push to extreme right wing position leading to a further break up?BJP NOW AT CROSS ROADS TODAY?needs space to introspect for a future direction??.

BJP Political analyst GVL Narasimha & BJP member feels ?RSS, a cultural set up, can play a parental role of advising in the process of performing all roles in the process of Nation Building.. and BJP will soon overcome present crisis of confidence and he adds, any progeny change undergoes any crisis situations, RSS has a moral role to play and guide the offspring..BJP leadership is still wedded to the ideology of ?Sanghparivar? and its influence is still there on BJP?.



Similar kind of problems will arise in every party, as it happened when PV Narasimha Rao as PM, there was a revolt in congress spearheaded by Sitaram Kesari, cleverly machinated Sharad Pawar, Madhava Rao Sindia, and others to overthrow PVN, though he did play a crucial role in re-engineering Indian Economy which was in shambles after VP Singh?s tenure as PM.



And yet it survived by Sonia?s shrewd approach of making Dr. Man Mohan Singh as PM in 2004 and 2009. I do not find any shrewd men in other parties especially in BJP, CPM, CPI; and others cannot be counted as parties at all, and after all they are some groupings just to loot common Indian people.



Moderate approach only can rebuild the party as progeny change wants inclusive approaches everywhere in the world, if BJP to re-emerge wit young leadership?as old men in it are spent forces, forgetting things like one suffers from Alzheimer disease?better weed out or they on their own retire like Vajpayee did, after all every generation modifies with its own thought process.



It is true most of the Muslim rulers were just ruthless as per medieval Indian History. Even today we see Taliban, Al-Qaida, LeT, JUD and so on are just ruthless in killing even Muslims all over, as and when they do not give in to these worthies. So reprisals started in Swat, in which very Swat people dismembered bodies of terrorists and terrorists are fleeing. (Part 1)



Advent of Muslims in India is a product of internal dissentions and rivalries started in 1191 AD when King Jayachandra invited Mohammed Ghori to over throw Prithviraj Raj Chouhan, again a Rajasthan King like Jayachandra, because Prithviraj took away Jayachandra daughter Rani Padmini who was in love with Prithviraj, (a story like Helen of Troy (France).

That was the beginning of Muslims entering for permanent residence in India. Finally Moghals entered India.

Before that, Muslim rulers, Huns used to invade India just to loot wealth, like Mohammed Gazni who invaded 18 times Somnath temple for gold in Gujarat.

From that episode onwards Gujarat really hated Muslim rulers. That way even today Gujaratis hate Muslims, like present CHIEF MINISTER Narendra Modi?s hatred of Muslims, as Modi is a short sighted man and never ever understands the meaning of ?Insan? but he gives excessive credibility to religion which a great French philosopher Rousseau said ?God is an invention of man? and so too religion. Renaissance in Europe in 14th century failed to deliver anything meaningful to peaceful existence of man.

That way, Maharashtra and Gujarat became a strong hold of RSS movement. Maharashtra developed ingrained hatred of Muslims because Aurangazebe ill-treated Shivaji ( a ploy), as he treated him as a petty chieftain in Maharashtra and in fact Aurangazebe wanted to just kill him and get rid of him, as he enjoyed nuisance value in Moghals? circles.

You can even see today Maharashtra is going to spend 341 ft tall Shivaji statue somewhere near Marine Drive and call it as a statue of Liberty of India, at a prohibitive cost just to woo Maharshtrians to vote them to power back, not just because politicians in Maharashtra are so much devoted to Shivaji!. Today politicians are cleverly playing on sentiments, like Shiva Sena in Maharashtra so BSP Mayavathi in UP.

British came to India as 35,000 traders to India to do trade with India and they found internal squabbles (as opportunities) between kings, nawabs, and peshwas and this helped British to do Residency Business at some price and the quarrelling nawabs, peshwas agreed by granting them some grants and that way British, French, Portuguese did some trade of residencies.



British finally succeeded to stay down and control these kings, chieftains, nawabs, sultans..ect..and when East India Company failed in its obligations British government entered the fray and created their suzerainty over and they did give some sense of ?rule of law to India? and codified laws, and gave reforms to India to upgrade education levels by permitting Christian missionaries to run schools and colleges. Thus streamlined education formed in India



After 1857 first independence war (familiarly called as Sepoy Mutiny), independence movement took shape, initially under AO Hume, then Dr. Annie Besant, then under Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a Guajarati settled in South Africa as a Lawyer( he came to India as he was thrown out of a First Class compartment by a railway ticket examiner at Durban railway station, as Gandhi was a brown man not supposed to travel with whites in a first class carriage then, and that infuriated young Gandhi at the apartheid attitude of white man and he wanted to root out British from India, in his own way). Every movement centers on self interest but cleverly manipulated by clever men.



But Gandhi was a shrewd man and too clever to use ?Ahimsa?( non-violent way of agitation) method to fight the British and it soon paid rich dividends and that way many freedom lovers tried to join him to fight out British.



British then in 1920 to 1947 was beleaguered by world war costs and in fact wanted to disengage itself from Indian administration which was consuming a lot of British energy, finances and that way Indian Independence became a reality.



British government appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten, an admiral from royal lineage of British navy, a very clever and intelligent man. He was appointed as Vice Roy of India.

He saw dissentions between hard core Hindus and hard core Moslems and he advised Britain to go for divide and rule Indians, as it was an avowed policy of British, earlier too.!

Gandhi and Jinnah did not like the idea of separate India and Pakistan and yet Patel and Nehru clout worked with Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, as Nehru and Patel (highly independent in thinking) wanted Hindu India in power and Jinnah (independent in thinking man) wanted Muslim India to be in power, that became a ?great opportunity to Britain? to divide India, though Jinnah and Gandhi wanted Greater India to be independent under a federal set up of India. Tryst of destiny wanted otherwise. Thus India and Pakistan was born in 1947.

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Divide and rule strategy of British put both India and Pakistan in continuous differences and caused wars and that led to formation of Bangladesh in 1974, under Mujibhur Rehman who was latter assassinated like Likat Ali Khan of Pakistan, immediately after Independence. Madam Indira Gandhi, as PM of India, had helped Bangladesh war of independence, and that is also a divide and rule strategy on Pakistan by India.



Further souring situation was J&K accession to India, since 1953 and this contributed to greater differences between Pakistan and India. Pakistan also wants to play similar strategy in J&K issue.



We had several wars with Pakistan, including that of Kharghil and that location is of military strategic importance to have a helicopter view to know what happens on the other side? That is a contentious issue.



Soon Pakistan encouraged ?terrorists? from Kashmir area and even now after 63 years of independence the terrorists are active, as Pakistan establishment hates India, after separation of Bangladesh by a war fought by India to grant independence to Bangladesh. This is again history, though the people of Pakistan and India love and accept each other, so too in Bangladesh. Eye sore continues.



Gujarat riots of 1992 have further infuriated Muslims and the BJP government in Gujarat is alleged to have its hand in the riots, and still investigations are on. This is indeed a great blow on the party. In fact Atul Behari Vajpayee as PM wanted to remove Modi, stumbling block was LK Advani.



Then 26/11 Mumbai massacre initiated by Pakistan based terrorists is the present burning issue. Pakistan can say if India has given intelligent reports on 26/11, it would have ensured 26/11 did not take place at all.



Now Pakistan does not want to initiate action against JUD chief Sayeed, in spite of hard core evidence that this man and Lakhvi and others based in Pakistan conspired 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.



Trial is on hard core terrorist- Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national (but denied by Pakistan that he is a Pakistani) (caught by Mumbai police alive in November 2008) who killed innocents numbering about 200 people in Mumbai on 26/11, at Taj, Trident hotels and at Chatrapati Shivaji terminus (renamed railway station in honor of Shivaji) (popularly known as Victoria Terminus railway station, built by British).



Clear evidences are produced by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI of USA) before Indian criminal court at Mumbai, but Pakistan says, it is not enough evidence against Sayeed and Lakhvi and others.

RCN ? Red corner notice is issued, at the request of Indian criminal court by international investigation agency, to arrest any where in the world the said individual and hand over the individual to Indian government for trial in India. This is to say that partition effects casting its shadow.



It is true Indian government should have handed over 26/11 terrorist to USA to be tried in US courts that could have sorted out a lot or many problems in India, including more and more terrorist outfits are landing in India, after 26/11, as trial is in India.



The writer suggested in one of his articles suggested trial of the terrorists should be at the International Court of criminal Justice, for punishing the international crime, as there were several foreigners were killed in the shoot out by terrorists at Mumbai Hotels.



Jaswant Singh book praised Jinnah as a Nationalist (true he was). BJP chose to remove Jaswant Singh from primary membership of BJP party, though he was very active for about 30 years in the party.



Specters of dissentions are surfacing in BJP. So too another leader is on the way of removal. So many leaders are surfacing to agitate against feudalist approach of party-BJP.



Even Brijesh Misra a close confidante-advisor during BJP TENURE OF GOVERNMENT of the past PM Atul Behari Vajpayee holds that AtulJI would not have removed Jaswant Singh from core party activities for writing books.. He further says AtulJI was least interested in Ram Mandir or imposing of Article 370 on Muslims.

BJP survival is doubtful though it has a good base but tottering, as people of India do not believe it, any longer as a party which can really protect their interests. But BJP?s core committee?s behavior is just alienating the close core members and they are disassociating themselves from party.



So, soon similar fate will be in store, for every party with feudal /dictatorial approach, in Indian Politics. CPM and CPI are already on way out. Already every one knows how

CPM acted on then speaker of Lok Sabha Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, when he refused to resign as speaker matter at the instance of CPM DICTATE ON HIM, as polit bureau instruction.

All these show democratic approach to things just vanished in these parties but all senior leaders believe in democratic functioning is the way of life and it is a culture of India. This became abundantly clear in 2009 elections at West Bengal and Kerala. Chances are there fore for further electoral defeats for these parties. Now sun is ?setting on these parties? as people no longer trust these parties , people are mentally democratic and love democracy, as Indian democratic approach is there in Ancient India, from the days of Vaisali confederacy where was born Gautama Buddha was born.(ends)



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