Storm V/S Laughter

Storm V/S Laughter

Indian Holocaust My father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Twenty FOUR

Palash Biswas


New Year Celebrations in Dhaka:
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New Year Celebrations inKolkata:
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Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram, Shobar Gram: Nandigram,
Nandigram

My Village; Your Village; Everybody's village.
Nandigram. Nandigram

It is Post Modern Manusmriti, the Hindu Zionist Global Order. Restructurization of demographies continue with Annihilitions! Earth is a planet now full of Bloodstreams!

The Great laughter Challange is the general media literary scenerio which is flooded with Enterainment Unbound, Infinit! No socil Commitment! No Dialogue! Post Modern Manusmriti has got the best tool in Information Explosion with High Tech IT. The ruling Classes are so mad after it not only for booming outsourcing but it is the way to launch a misinformation plus Black Out campaign despite the so called much hyped RTI!

Storm is on! It is Sunami all over India! Humanity bleeds! Displacement, Dipression, Exploitation, Abortion, Gangrapes, Genocide, Corruption, Evictions, riots all over. Ressistance in Rural India intensifies day by day. Dows has taken over Union Carbide and it is welcome in West Bengal! Hiroshima and nagasaki welcome. Welcome all MNCs. welcome WorldBank, IMF,WTO directeves.

We the citizens are overengaged in Sensex, Cricket and Great Indian Laughter Challange!
Browse different TV News channels whether it is fastest or latests, boldest or compromising, you may not get the information you want most. It is always shining India with Ramp, Fashion soa Opera boom or ad campaigns overflooded.
Whatever serious may be the development or the crisis, you have to laugh with Shekhar suman , Siddhu, Icons and comedians like Raju Shrivastav!
What a pity!
Lata once sang:
Jara AAnkho Mein BHar Lo Paani!

This India has no tears.
Surrounded by storms so violent , we laugh!

Bengalis ushered in 'Poila Boisakh', their traditional new year, with cultural programmes in different parts of West Bengal as well as feasting on sweets and sumptuous food Sunday.

And what you get this day as a Gift by the Brahminical State?

The Central Information Commission has turned down for the second time a man's request under the RTI Act seeking disclosure of information by the Research and Analysis Wing over its records available on Subhash Chandra Bose. Indian soap operas are soap operas written, produced, filmed in India, with characters played by Indians (except for a few Western actors like Tom Alter), with episodes broadcast on a daily/weekly/semi-weekly basis on Indian television channels/channel chains (Star Network, Sony Entertainment, Sun Network, Doordarshan) that are not often limited to the Republic of India itself: often many “serials,” as they’re more commonly referred to as, are broadcast overseas in the UK, USA, and some parts of Europe, South Africa, and Australia. (Doordarshan, or DD, is an exception: it is only viewable in India and Nepal)

Under fire on its SEZ policy, the UPA government now plans to bring in a Bill in Parliament that will make it binding on companies to rehabilitate the farmers before they are displaced for setting up industries.

The proposed law will provide more teeth to the government to enforce rehabilitation policy being prepared by the rural development ministry.

"We are coming out with a new Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act and amending Land Acquisition Act to give legislative backing to the policy," a top official of the rural development ministry told PTI.

Adding to the drama over the work suspension at Hindustan Motors' Uttarpara plant, Tata Motors said Saturday it has sought the Calcutta High Court's intervention to enable Tata Motors to regain possession of its valuable dies and components that are lying at the Uttarpara plant. On the other hand, the Marxist capitalist Chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today received an invitation from the USA to visit the country and share his views about the political and development aspects of West Bengal - “one of the fastest growing states in India”. US trade representative ambassador and a member of the US President’s Cabinet, Ms Susan C. Schwab, who led a high-level delegation to Kolkata requested Mr Bhattacharjee to visit the USA. “He has been already invited by many US-based companies and today I add my voice to these invitations. We would like to hear about the political and development aspects of his success”, she added.

Why? In the age of growing influence of Western culture, Bengalis here celebrated the day in a completely different mood.See the difference in New year celebrations in Dhaka. See the difference between Bangla and Team India in Blue? They have National Identity and we don`t have any.
Pohela Boishakh brings the most meaningful cultural reinvigoration
Ershad Khandker
4/14/2007

Shubho Noboborsho. Happy New Year to everybody. Pohela Boishakh will bring the Bangla New Year. The day is celebrated in a Bangla flavour with all the pomp and pageantry especially 'deshi' in colour and content. There lies, in the view of this scribe, the main significance of this day. That view may not be subscribed by all, but everybody would agree that noboborsho celebrations would work as a cultural bulwark against the tide of western oriented and originated occasions that seems to have become the norm and nature for new generation Bangladeshis.
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=4/14/2007§ion_id=16&newsid=58276&spcl=yes


We are Americanised! Thus, Buddha flies US! Meanwhile,Barely a month after the Nandigram massacre – where the clash between the CPI(M) cadres and the villagers left 14 dead and several injured over acquisition of land for the chemical hub – the CPI(M) is once again going inside the troubled zone on April 19.This time the CPI(M) is going to flex its muscle in the heart of the war zone – the Nandigram Bazar – by holding a public meeting ostensibly to mark the CPI(M)'s statewide demonstration by industrial workers and farmers for their 10-point demand from the Centre.

Dhaka - Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi revellers came out onto the streets of the capital Dhaka at dawn on Saturday as part of nationwide celebrations for welcoming the Bengali New Year, officials said.

There was an unprecedented gathering of people on the lush landscape of the Ramna Park located at the heart of Dhaka, to observe the first sunrise of the Bengali Year 1414.

Women in red and saffron saris and men wearing traditional kurta- pajamas danced on a makeshift stage beneath a sprawling banyan tree under the constant surveillance of security forces.



THE United States wants to compete in multi-billion dollar deals to sell fighter jets to India in a bid to further firm up ties , an official said.

India has traditionally relied on Russia for its combat jets because of its frosty ties with Washington during the Cold War but the signing of a civilian nuclear deal recently has paved the way for cooperation.

"The next opportunity to take the step ahead beyond the nuclear agreement is the competition in India for the multi-role combat aircraft because historically, the United States has not been able to compete for Indian defence procurement," said US Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin Lavin.

"Now it's a new era, it's a new relationship, the defence relationship is improving," Lavin told a forum of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

US and Indian officials had "a number of discussions" on the aircraft deals and "our major providers intend to compete for this", he said.

American aircraft manufacturers are hoping to penetrate the Indian defence market, especially their requirement for 126 multi-role fighter aircraft valued up to US$10 billion in the next decade.

Lavin said Washington might have to review its export control laws to enable Americans to bid for the Indian contracts.

"From the Indian perspective, they will have access to very fine products and from a US perceptive ... this helps our system think through this licencing and export control system because they have a specific proposal in front of them that they have to respond to, so that is a healthy development as well," he said.

Although the United States has removed most of the sanctions imposed on India for its 1998 nuclear tests, it still has export controls on sensitive items and technologies, which may have to be reviewed if US firms want to sell fighter jets to New Delhi.



The Commission while rejecting the information request filed by one Anuj Dhar, a resident of the capital, said that RAW is exempted from disclosing information under the Act.

"Research and Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat is mentioned in the Second Schedule (of RTI Act) and hence CIC has no jurisdiction to pass any orders/decisions in respect of disclosure of any information or files etc in possession of this organisation", the Commission said.

The Commission, in its order passed last week rejected Dhar's review plea where he had sought revision of its earlier decision passed in January 2007. Visit Sify News for more news, views and analysis

The CIC in its order of January 29, 2007 had disposed of a RTI complaint filed by Dhar seeking information from Cabinet Secretary over disclosure of records held by RAW on Bose.

The Commission while denying disclosure of the information had said that RAW was beyond the purview of RTI Act adding that such details could only be divulged if it concerned allegations of corruption or human right violations.

In his review plea placed with the CIC, Dhar contended that Cabinet Secretariat, which in its response of January 19 had denied possession of any information on Bose, was not true.


The great Indian laughter challenge

P. Sainath

If you decide that 75 per cent of the country does not make news, you're shrinking your potential zone of coverage. And if you decree that only a small section of the other 25 per cent does, you've painted yourself into a corner.

CROWNING SUNIL Pal of Nagpur the comic king in Star One's Great Indian Laughter Challenge seems a waste of talent. The man is meant for bigger things. He'd make a perfect news and content manager for much of the media. To the chaos unleashed by ratings-obsessed TV coverage and newspaper circulation battles, he could just bring a more organised approach. Surely, a more balanced one. He might even find it a Greater Indian Challenge. Matching the media's unconscious humour won't be easy.

Take that television anchor in the studio, looking deeply concerned: "Raghav — how are the rains on your side of town? Raghav, can you hear me?" Of course he can. Since Raghav is standing on the roof of the same building, it shouldn't be difficult. "It's terrible Karan, one can only call it a deluge." Raghav has been pressed into this dodge because other reporters are actually stuck in the waters, trying honestly to tell the story. Wet and miserable and unable to link up with their office — since the Great Indian Network has failed the Challenge. Up to a point all this is good, clean fun.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/14/stories/2005101402261000.htm
ELEVISION 2006
Reality ruled the roost
In 2006 television channels were seen chasing viewers with reality shows and comedies. The popularity of the long-running soaps was finally dipping giving way to newer and more innovative programming, reports Varuni Khosla




Comedy shows were a picture of success


Despite the hype many sequels fared poorly


KBC was back with a new star host Shah Rukh Khan


It was a year of naach-gaana with shows like Jhalak Dikhla Ja

For some years now the small screen has become a one-stop Pandora’s Box of entertainment. Viewers have been transported into a world of quintillion bits of pictures and words with channels dishing out eclectic programming, from soaps to thrillers, from comedies to tear-jerkers and from reality shows to news.

Microchip technologies, big stars and bigger serials have become the norm. Over 150 channels, 5,500 hours of original programming daily and a combined viewership estimated at 46 million, and growing, makes Indian television network one of the largest in the world.

From a single channel in the 1980s the small screen has metamorphosed into a hydra-headed wonder. With so much at stake, no one is surprised at the fierce ratings war. Which is why in 2006 claims and counter-claims flew thick and fast and there were no clear-cut winners as Star, Sony, Zee and others vied for viewer attention.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061231/spectrum/tv.htm



Indian soap operas are often mass-produced under large production banners, with houses like Balaji Telefilms—run by Ekta and Shobha Kapoor, daughter and wife respectively to Hindi film star Jitendra—running the same serial in different languages on different television networks/channels. (See also: K Phenomenon)

The most common languages in which Indian serials are made in are: Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam, though most often they contain a mix of the predominant language and English. This often creates and unintentional comic effect: a certain High School-themed serial on Star One has created a bizarre language of its own, a heavy mix of colloquial Hindi and corruptions of modern American slang, which, though fairly odd to understand at first, has created its own coterie of loyal fans devoted to using the very same ‘language’ in daily speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_soap_opera

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Shahriar Nafees believes Bangladesh need to build on their impressive World Cup performances if they want to be a force in international cricket.

Bangladesh emerged as one of the surprise packets of the tournament when they qualified for the second round for the first time since making their World Cup debut in England in 1999.

They pulled off a major upset in their opening game when they whipped India by five wickets in Trinidad last month, the victory which virtually knocked the former champions out of the tournament.

Bangladesh then proved that the win was no flash in the pan as they shocked top-ranked South Africa by 67 runs in a Super Eights match in Guyana. "If we think this was a very good World Cup for us and we have finished our work, then it will be stupid," said Nafees.
http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/story/290491.html


Paapri Chat: Bluest heartache of the year

Abhiroop Lahiri


So finally, the bubble has burst! No prizes for guessing which one. Our indomitable men in Blue have dwindlled the dreams of millions into dismal froth of very blue smoke indeed! Many have reacted in a multitude of ways. Some have rejoiced, saying that they deserved it. Some have resolved to give up watching our boys in action again. Many have started burning effigies, organising rallies and started spreading hate against people who had been heroes two weeks before. A few ambitious, wishing to be a little more expressive (not unlike the Jammy way) have done off with their upper crusts as a token to bereavement which has struck the nation dumb.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=16&theme=&usrsess=1&id=153072



The Bharat Chamber of Commerce (BCC) today called for a more uniform and flexible labour legislation to make India more competitive compared with other countries such as China.
Especially West Bengal needed a revision in labour laws, said Mr PR Agarwala, president of the chamber, at a workshop on “Creation of Level Playing Field for Industrialisation and Employment Generation” in Kolkata today.
Government representatives as well as trade unions, professionals and industry representatives took part in the workshop.
However, trade union representatives felt strikes will remain as a tool to protect the workers’ interests, as long as the industrialists themselves do not take care of their interests.

Starting this month, we will bring to you incisive reports on the state of real estate in India compiled by Knight Frank (India). Through these reports to be published every fortnight, the global real estate company will delve into the growth dynamics of several locations in India that are experiencing a paradigm shift in their economic and real estate scenarios and will also comment on various interesting aspects of real estate sector.
The real estate action is no longer limited to the large metropolises of India but has now permeated to the burgeoning smaller towns and cities. These emerging centres of growth are lending sparkle to India's booming economy. What is leading this transformation?

The upswing of the Indian real estate sector has been an outcome of a number of positive micro and macro factors.

Consistent and sustaining GDP growth, expanding service sector, rising purchasing power and affluence, proactive and changing government policies have all lent momentum to this rapidly growing sector.


Accounting for almost 80 per cent of the total office space absorption, the Indian IT/ITES sector has been the primary demand driver. India's low cost-high quality and productivity model has given it a leadership position in the outsourcing arena.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/10bspec.htm

Sical Logistics Limited, India’s leading integrated multi-modal logistics for bulk and container consignments has hived off its holding in Mac Oil Palm Limited and has indicated that it has plans to concentrate on its core business. The next on sale would be its auto components business.

BAREILLY, April 14. – The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family is at it again. A few days after his controversial statement on the demolition of the Babari Masjid ~ which he claimed would not have been torn down if someone from his “family” been in active politics at the time ~ Congress MP from Amethi Mr Rahul Gandhi today invoked his family name to tout various achievements including the Independence of India from colonial rule and the “division” of Pakistan.
“You know that when our family commits itself to a task it also completes it. In the past, too, members of the Gandhi family have achieved the goals they set out ~ the the freedom of the country, dividing Pakistan into two and leading the nation to the 21st century,” he said at a public meeting whilst campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. “My family always looks forward and works for a vision for the future. I am here to work for the future of Uttar Pradesh,” Mr Gandhi claimed.
Political reactions to this latest salvo from Mr Gandhi are awaited, but it’s pertinent to note that his Babari Masjid claim came in for widespread criticism from political friends and foes alike. Some saw it as a condemnation of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao while it was proof for others that Mr Gandhi’s “mindset was dynastic” as he apparently believed none outside his family could govern India. Mr Gandhi was forced into issuing a quasi-clarification, stating that he also “admired” certain qualities of Rao, after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh showered accolades upon the Prime Minister a few days after Mr Gandhi’s statement. What the “clarification”, if any, can be for today’s statement is anybody’s guess.

Antony open to more FDI in defence production
PTI
Defence Minister Antony said foreign direct investment in defence production would allow the public and private sectors to play a vital role in modernising the armed forces.

Bangalore, April 14 India, which successfully test-fired the nuclear capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-III on Thursday, would continue with the missile tests, the Defence Minister, Mr A K Antony said today.

“These kind of tests will continue,” Mr Antony told reporters after a visit to defence PSU HAL here, when asked if India had the political will to step into the next level of missile tests.

“India always had the political will and we do not want to exhibit it. It is already there,” he said.

He said the success of Agni-III, that has the ability to hit targets 3,500 km away, showed that Indian scientists had matured enough and whenever necessity arises, we can have missiles of whatever capacity needed for the country.


Bofors: the scandal that refuses to die after 20 years

Sunday, April 15, 2007

New Delhi: Exactly 20 years ago, Swedish Radio jolted the national conscience here with a report that the Swedish armament company Bofors had paid bribes to key Indian leaders and defence officials through secret Swiss bank accounts to win a $1.3 billion contract for howitzer guns for the Indian Army.

That explosive report, which was immediately denied by the government with a standard statement circulated through PTI that it was "false, baseless and mischievous," immediately sent alarm bells ringing in the establishment and led to a flurry of meetings between then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and top officials.

What subsequently came to be known as the Bofors corruption scandal has come to dog India's political landscape for the next two decades, causing the downfall of the Gandhi government in 1989, and plaguing every government in the country since then without showing any signs of resolution or conviction of the alleged wrongdoers.

However, this tortuous and meandering federal investigation, which was meant to pin down the beneficiaries of the Rs 640 million pay-offs for the 155-mm howitzers that otherwise have served the army well, has got lost in a tangle of judicial web across several countries with the sole surviving accused, Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi, still evading arrest after surfacing in far away Argentina.

Despite prolonged court battles, the countless Letters Rogatory (LRs) sent to Panama, Liechenstein and Luxembourg for tracking the movement of monies linked to the scandal, the setting up of a parliamentary commission and a mountain of documentation, there has not been one conviction.
http://content.msn.co.in/News/National/NationalIANS_150407_1527.htm


Ulfa desperate for support

Nava Thakuria
FACED with an adamant New Delhi, the United Liberation Front of Asom is as usual resorting to desperate tactics to draw people’s attention. The 12-hour Assam bandh on 4 April in protest against “atrocities” committed against a group of agitating women (mostly wives of six missing Ulfa leaders) was touted as the reason to appeal to its supportbase in the state. The outfit, fighting for an independent Asom since 1979, has of late been losing influence on a number of pressure groups which, otherwise, had remained sympathetic to its cause.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=14&theme=&usrsess=1&id=152832
Guwahati, April 14: The two major issues confronting Assam — elusive peace and a threat to identity — held centrestage this morning, even as the strains of pepa and beat of dhol filled the air to mark the beginning of Rongali Bihu festivities.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, addressing the crowd of revellers at the Guwahati Bihu Sanmilani at Latasil playground, appealed for lasting peace.

On the other hand, All Assam Students Union (AASU) adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya dwelt on the crisis being faced by the indigenous population because of unabated influx, at the Judges Field Bihu function.

Both venues attracted a large number of people.


Starry, starry streets
caleidoscope

Ramzaan Hussain at work. Picture by Bishwarup Datta
From Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to Jyoti Basu and Mamata Banerjee, he has done it all. Now with the big fat — or rather lean and private — shaadi in the offing, he is on to the Bachchan parivar.

Ramzaan Hussain, or Ramzaan bhai, as he is lovingly called by the people around New Market, lives with his wife and four children outside the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) building in Chaplin Square. He sketches celebs in news, displaying them on the street facing Regent Cinema. He mans the newspaper stall close by. Exhibition timings: 3 pm to 7 pm, all days.

In the run-up to the Ash-Abhishek marriage, his sketches feature the bride Rai, Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan. “I have sold about five sketches of Bachchanji (as he refers to Big B) and one each of the would-be couple,” said Hussain. He charges Rs 150 for a small sketch and Rs 300 for a big one.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070415/asp/calcutta/story_7645502.asp
Storm clouds over Raigad
A Nandigram may be brewing in Maharashtra's Raigad district. Reena Martins visits the site of the proposed SEZ


LAND OF GOLD: (Top) The fertile fields of Pen; (above) Angry Narvel villagers (left to right) Chandrakanth Mhatre, Amarchand Mhatre, Govardhan Patil and Kiran Mhatre (Pictures: Gajanan Dudhalkar)
Over a meal of spicy rahu and rice, within kissing distance of the sea, an uprising is on the boil in Maharashtra’s Raigad district that threatens to turn Nandigram into a footnote. The venue is a farmer’s house and the villagers have gathered over a meal after sunset to voice their protest. Those scripting the plan are the farmers-cum-fishermen of the Pen taluka in Raigad, the state’s rice bowl, where a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is scheduled to be set up, if Reliance Industries Ltd and the state government have their way.

The SEZ was originally meant to cover 14,000 hectares, but will now have to be scaled down to 5,000 hectares in line with the central government’s new SEZ policy. In Pen, as in the 45 villages resisting acquisition for the government brokered-SEZ, swords are being sharpened.

The old (like 70-year-old Dahanu Shankar Mhatre, the patriarch of Narvel village in Pen) have joined the fight, as have women and the young. Banubai, a resident of Malegharwadi village, is in a belligerent mood, ready to greet anybody seeking to take her land away with the tall iron rod that she uses for tilling. “This land that the government is stealing from the hands of the farmer in the name of progress is like gold,” says Kiran More, a young man with a landholding of 1.5 acres.

Right now, people may not have the kind of hard cash that the SEZ tempts them with, but it’s still a life of plenty in Pen. “I can feed my 20-member family, even though none of us holds steady jobs,” says Amarchand, a Narvel farmer who owns three acres of farmland in a region where the average landholding is 1.5 acres.

In fact, Mhatre’s house with paddy stored in wide, cylindrical tins is only a specimen of what most houses are like. The stored grain is enough to last the year, even after selling a portion in the market. A quintal of rice fetches Rs 600, and an acre yields an average of 21 quintals.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070415/asp/7days/story_7644564.asp


Untouchability slur on V-B academics

Statesman News Service

SANTINIKETAN, April 14. — Controversy gripped Visva-Bharati after a lecturer lodged a complaint with the university authorities stating he was facing discrimination and untouchability from his superiors in the department. The university authorities, however, ruled out the allegation after a committee formed to look into the allegation did not find enough evidence to establish charges.
Dr Prahlad Ray, a lecturer of Bengali at Vinay Bhaban, alleged that Professor Dibakar Kundu, the head of the education department has mistreated him on the ground of class affiliation and denied his entry into the examination hall and made a separate seat at the back in the board of studies meeting.
According to Visva-Bharati authorities, Dr Ray joined the Vinaya Bhabana on August 2004 as a lecturer of Bengali under Professor Kundu, the then principal of Vinaya Bhabana. In September 2006, after the end of professor Kundu’s tenure as the principle, Dr Ray leveled those allegations. He also wrote to the president of India, asking him to look into the matter. The authorities at that time formed a four members committee including senior professors from different departments and caste to probe into the matter.
However the committee reported that the love between them is not lost, but due to the existence of two factions led by the senior members with the change of principalship in September, 2006 have resulted into this topsy-turvy situation.
“This decision of the higher authorities has dissatisfied me and I would proceed further to the appropriate judicial authority for justice”, said Dr Ray.
Meanwhile the higher officials of the university smell a foul play in this matter. According to them, “Dr Ray belongs to the strong Marxist group, whereas professor Kundu is a senior vice-president of state’s BJP and holds several important posts in the national level too.
When asked to the other faculty members of the department, they said, “We strongly condemn the attempt made by Dr Ray to tarnish the image of the professor Kundu and the department as a whole”. Mr Biplab Chattopadhyay, senior lecturer of the department said, “Kundu is a renowned teacher and working in this department over two decades, though he belongs to a particular party, he never raised any political issues in the department”.
On asking professor Kundu told The Statesman, “During my tenureship as the principal, I made Dr Ray the hostel warden and the final examination hall superintendent and invigilator for four times and also palyed a vital role in different cultural committees.