Are Hindus not HUMAN ???

Human rights are by definition universal. Hence, in an ideal world there would be no need to write a separate report on the human rights of Hindus, or for that matter any other group.
In the real world, unfortunately, there is a gaping hole when it comes to the awareness of human rights for Hindus, mainly in Bangladesh, Pakistan and even in the Kashmir valley.
A report recently released by the Hindu American Foundation, on the status of human right of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir begins to fill that hole, spelling out in great detail and with much documentation the pathetic condition of millions of Hindus who live as minorities amongst a Muslim population.
The 71-page report compiles media coverage and first-hand accounts of human rights violations perpetrated against Hindus because of their religious identity. The incidents are documented, often quoting from well-known international human rights organizations.
The Hindu American Foundation, a non-partisan American group, presented the report to the co-chairs of the US Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, and Gary Ackerman, a Democrat. Both of these members of Congress endorsed it.
The report documents the long-history of anti-Hindu atrocities in Bangladesh, a topic that many Indians and Indian governments over the years have preferred not to acknowledge. Such atrocities, including targeted attacks against temples, open theft of Hindu property, and rape of young Hindu women and enticements to convert to Islam, have increased sharply in recent years after the Jamat-e-Islami joined the coalition government led by the Bangladesh National Party.
But that is only the latest chapter of a much longer pattern of persecution. Hindus comprised 30 per cent of Bangladesh's population in 1947 but are less than 10 per cent today. The estimated loss of 20 million Bangladeshi Hindus is because of an ongoing genocide and forced exodus.
An interesting and sad aside to that statistic is that much of the purge has occurred well after the liberation of that country thanks to Indian blood and treasure.
Hindus in what is now Pakistan have declined from 23 per cent of the total population in 1947 to less than 2 per cent today. The report rightly condemns Pakistan for systematic state-sponsored religious discrimination against Hindus through bigoted "anti-blasphemy" laws. It documents numerous reports of millions of Hindus being held as "bonded laborers" in slavery-like conditions in rural Pakistan, something repeatedly ignored by the government. Pakistan aggressively portrays its struggle against India as a Hindu-Muslim conflict, making it clear that its own Hindu minority is fair game for persecution.
Even within India, the pattern is the same. The combination of Pakistani-sponsored violence and local anti-Hindu sentiment has led to a similar "religious cleansing" of the Kashmir valley, where almost all the Hindus have fled.
Much like the Bangladeshi Hindu refugees in India, the Kashmiri Hindus are an unpalatable subject for many Indians, an ideological embarrassment for some people who feel uneasy about discussing the persecution of Hindus by Muslims. Some Indians still prefer to blame the Indian government for the flight of Kashmiri Hindus, deliberately ignoring the campaign launched by various Muslim groups to use public threats and violence, including murder, to terrify the local Hindus into leaving.
Some Indians may feel uncomfortable with this report because they do not want to be reminded about the problems of Hindus outside their milieu. And for some in the Indian intelligentsia, it is a badge of honour to distance themselves from these programs as a mark of their supposed enlightenment, oddly trashing their own ethos in the process. Many more Indians are reluctant to speak out against atrocities committed against Hindus for fear of being labeled "communal". Merely speaking about human rights for Hindus is for them a form of communalism. These arguments are false. The people whose persecution is amply documented in this report are being persecuted because they are Hindu, not because they are poor or because of their political views. Brave human rights activists in Bangladesh and Pakistan, many of whom are not Hindus, have painstakingly documented the violations of basic human rights of Hindus in their country. How ironic, and revealing about modern Indian culture, that so many Indians, most of whom are Hindus, are reluctant to acknowledge the problem, let alone do something about it. The sad reality of this world is that if Indians do not care about the persecution of Hindus nobody else will. Several Hindu Organizations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad and others in India are too least bothered about this atrocities committed against Hindu in other countries rather they are busy playing the Power Games.
What is to be done? The thugs and bigots attacking Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan do not care for the liberal sensibilities of human rights people in any country. They understand power and nothing else. In an inter-connected world in which India is emerging as a new power, Indians can make a difference. The matter cannot be left to the Indian government alone. It cannot act without public support.
Moreover, the government, and the scotch-sipping socialists in Delhi, typically lacks the courage to ignore Muslim vote-bank politics in India and publicly address this problem. Indians, meaning all Indians and not just Hindus, have to speak out by themselves. It is in everybody's interest to build an India that provides equal treatment and respect to all its citizens, regardless of religion. The same principle should be demanded of Bangladesh and Pakistan. It is high time for Hindu Organizations to do some serious business for Hindus. It is not just Hindus but also Muslims, Sikhs and others in India who, if they believe in equality, should insist in public that India's neighbors show respect for the human rights of minorities. India's own human rights record is not faultless but is remarkably good for a country of its diversity and poverty. India has a vibrant civil society, plus public institutions like the judiciary and the media, who speak out against persecution and demand that the constitution be respected. That is India's strength, and the reason its people have the right to demand similar behavior of its neighbors when it comes to human rights in their own countries. Indian writers, intellectuals, NGOs, civic groups, media and even political parties often protest against injustice or atrocities in their own country or in other countries. It is time that they started such protests about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir.
This report from the Hindu American Foundation has all the data and the facts, but is not tainted by the partisanship and the "secular" versus "communal" debate inside India. Unless there is popular pressure in India, the Government of India will do nothing and Bangladesh and Pakistan will do nothing.
There may soon be no Hindus left in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Neither India nor its directly culpable neighbours in the sub-continent can afford such an outcome

Elections Coming - Make the Right choice baby ahhaaa!!!

"सुनो दिल्ली की गलियों से भी ये आवाजें आती है, जिन्हें भैंसे चराना था वे सरकारें चलाते है "
Surrounded by failed States and terror dens, India needs a strong leadership that will not hesitate to take punitive action against the erring State or non-State 'player' and organise the strength to withstand a spillover. Wars and inner conflicts are not won with machines. You got to have a heart that's firm and courageous. The war machine's role is secondary.
India was never so vulnerable and foolishly spineless as it stands today. Not because we do not have the power to defend our people and land but because of a leadership that's a delight of the alien invaders and petty boat infiltrators. Our leaders join politics to earn money and sell conscience -- they have no credentials except to boast of a family name or caste and muscle power. We have a galaxy of non-political leadership but that too boot polishes the nincompoop rulers in search of reflected glory. These holy men and women are so detached from the realities of their nation's pains and agonies that they go on a six-month long world tour for establishing peace in Palestine and Iraq and show off their pictures in the galleries of the United Nations as proof of their expanding influence. And surely they get quite a number of gullible people to believe they are great.
And we are increasingly surrounded by a Nepal, once a Hindu nation and now a threat for Hindu survival. We have a Pakistan and Bangladesh that have bled us continuously for the last three decades of intermittent terror wars -- Khalistan, Operation Topac, the jihad in Kashmir and the ignominious forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.
We have lost more than 60,000 Indians in terror attacks directly sponsored and encouraged by Pakistan -- whether its army or Inter Services Intelligence or the sheepish conspiratorial silence of their leaders, only the naive would make a difference and absolve the culprits. The simple arithmetic is that Pakistan, a creation of intense hate against Hindus, has always felt a sadistic pleasure at our discomfiture. It's the very basic element of Pakistan that has not let us live in peace since August 14, 1947.
But we refuse to see history and continue to lose geography.
Post-1947, we have lost more than 1.25 lakh square kilometres of land to Pakistan and China and Indian Parliament had passed a unanimous resolution to take the lost land back.
But not a single political party would dare to mention in its election manifesto that if voted to power it would strive its hardest possible to implement Parliament's resolve.
Why?
Cats would remain cats unless they are born as tigers.
The last 100 years has seen India shrinking to half and the Hindu population being overwhelmed by a demographic invasion that hates to see Hindu dominance in any sphere of life. They have vanished from Kabul, Balochistan, Pakhtunistan, Multan and Dhaka, humiliated in Kathmandu, killed, converted and incapacitated in Sri Lanka, turned invisible in Sindh, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Chittagong, driven out of their last bastion in the saffron valley and increasingly reduced in Nagaland, Arunacahal, Mizoram and Jammu. And we fight over sackfuls of currency notes as we saw during trust vote on the nuke deal and are busy winning votes through dramas like a night's stay in a Dalit home.
That's India of today -- reduced to an Orwellian play by murderers and bribe-seekers who are again seeking an entry to Parliament by investing huge chunks of money.
There are those who still believe that Pakistan will, or it can, or it may become brotherly to us. Perhaps Uncle Sam, now Chacha Obama, will help.
Even Gods refuse to help such worms.
Elect those who at least know a little bit of India and love her people. A leader that wouldn't hesitate to serve from South Block even if it means incurring personal monetary loss, but inspiring newcomers to stand and live proudly on their earnings through labour and merit. Living on peoples' money must come to an end. Forget the temples, mosques and churches for a while and just concentrate on two basic factors, removing illiteracy and bringing every fellow Indian above the poverty line with a one-year period as deadline. It has to be on a real war footing to make up for the losses due to a lethargic, vision less and self-serving leadership.
Trust me, we can do it if we have the will. Have courses in science, mathematics, engineering and technology upgraded, spread out and quality marked. We terribly lack in the manufacturing sector because there is not enough engineering talent available. Even the best of engineering colleges are facing a serious dearth of proper faculty and it results in less than appropriately equipped students. It's good to see a number of technology and engineering colleges, institutes and private universities that have sprung up in most of the cities and metros that must be the envy of even a developed nation. But are they really providing what they announce and do they have the right kind of facilities and infrastructure to produce credible graduates confident enough to start a swadeshi enterprise of world class standards?
If a post-World War America, Japan and Europe can rebuild their ravaged countries into models of modern development and human endeavour, why can't we? Why can't we set our own goals and standards that must make the most developed nation too follow us? Swami Vivekananda said all expansion is life and all contraction is death. Barring politics, we have shown the world the extraordinary capabilities and the astounding acumen to achieve the impossible in recent years. It happened, as is said, in spite of bad politicians. Let a new crop of good politicians take over Parliament and change its fossilised and stinking contours to a vibrant new hope commensurate with the professionalism being exhibited by Indians elsewhere.
And this is not at all age related but only needs a mind and heart that works for the nation.
And they must have the sinews to expand militarily unabashedly. India must show a will and the power to control her region. We are bled because of a meaningless large-heartedness that makes jihad factories on both sides of our territory send mercenary self-destructionist lunatics who kill and maim and destroy our people and city life. Bangladesh and Pakistan have got to be brought to their senses through instilling fear in them, a genuine and serious one. They have to be made to think twice before being silent or encouraging an anti-India terror policy. State policy makers must be clear in their mind that sometimes revenge is the only word the enemy understands and why must we not avenge the brutal killings of our patriotic citizens?
Hence choose those who choose India as their life-force and not just a platform for money making and dying like dirt. The choice is yours to practice in the coming elections.

OIL BURNS

Most of holy texts describe assorted hells and a recurrent image is of sinners (in hells) being boiled in oil. If there is one sector that illustrates the pitfalls of non-reform, or of half-baked reform, that’s oil. Unlike three decades ago, global crude prices are no longer a BoP (balance of payments) issue and not only because we also export refined stuff. Despite an unfavourable external environment now, forex reserves will remain comfortable, unless unreasonable exchange rate policies force them to dwindle. Short of prices shooting up to $300 a barrel, and OPEC no longer being the monopoly it once was, there is no BOP issue. Yet, there is a strategic reasons to diversify our sources of energy, because once global growth recovers, oil prices will climb again.
However, the boiling in oil mess is entirely domestic.
First, we don’t recognise that only the identified poor merit subsidies. If that’s accepted, we will identify the poor and figure out more efficient methods of subsidisation, like direct cash income transfers.
Second, we won’t believe in differential pricing for the same product. At least, we won’t believe in it seriously, even if such principles are built into the PDS (public distribution system), because we recognise problems of leakage. Leakage and diversion aren’t reduced even if petrol meant for the poor is coloured blue.
Third, wishing to subsidise the poor, but not knowing how to do this, we think we have a solution in subsidising specific products rather than specific individuals. So we have a perceived hierarchy of products through kerosene, LPG, CNG, diesel, petrol, aviation fuel. The lower down the hierarchy, the more the product is consumed by poor people. This is a doubtful proposition. To the extent diesel or CNG is used for transportation, it affects the poor too. Products are also substitutes, even if imperfect. Kerosene can be used to adulterate diesel or petrol. CNG vehicles can run on LPG cylinders. For that matter, subsidised kerosene can be smuggled across the border to Bangladesh. Since we haven’t decided to subsidise only the poor, the vocal urban middle class, which masquerades on television channels as the common man/woman, will want subsidies on LPG. There is evidence from the 1990s to show the genuine poor have switched from firewood to LPG. Hence, everyone who uses LPG must be poor. Having decided some kind of product-wise subsidisation is warranted, even if stupid, we need to fix the extent of subsidy on specific products. And this is arbitrary.
Fourth, not content with this messing up of retail pricing of petroleum products, we leave it out of the sales tax harmonisation exercise referred to as VAT (value added tax). What’s special about petroleum (and liquor)? After all, there is going to be a common tax revenue pool from which the states will obtain shares. What’s the big deal about these products? (The constitutional provision on what the states can tax isn’t cast in stone.) The present aviation turbine fuel mess is largely this. The states want compensation if such taxes are eliminated. Lest we forget, compensation was part of the VAT package from which petroleum was excluded. We could have resolved the present problem then, had we not insisted on exclusion.
Thus, the Governnment has complicated and messed up the retail prices of petroleum products, that is, the prices at which oil marketing companies can sell. And some retail prices are subsidised, so a company will incur losses if it sells these. Had all these marketing companies been public, no one would have bothered. As we all know, taxpayers pay for losses of PSUs. That’s the beauty of administered pricing. We never know who we are cross-subsidising and how.
But fifth, given the background of other errors, there was an additional transgression, that of throwing open refining and marketing to the private sector. To make life even more interesting, the government began to determine prices at which refineries sold products to marketing companies. There must be parity with imports, since while most crude is imported, some is sourced domestically. Therefore, any link between crude prices and retail petroleum product prices completely breaks down. The petroleum ministry may have answers, but those aren’t transparent. Consequently, if global crude prices increase (or decrease), we don’t quite know by how much retail prices should rise (or fall). However, there remains the matter of compensating refining and marketing companies for losses, since prices may be lower than warranted. In that case, investments won’t occur. There will be shortages. Thus, even if it presently doesn’t enter into fiscal deficit calculations, think of oil bonds as some compensation. It isn’t complete compensation, so disincentives and deterrents to investments still remain.
But these are trivia compared to the bigger tangle. When do you solve a problem? When it is most tractable. Since a fundamental concern is transmission between global crude prices and domestic retail prices, with an eye on inflation, one should try to get out of the tangle when both are low. Instead, the sixth mistake was the worst: wishing the problem would go away and avoiding hard decisions. Consequently, the mind boggles at the numbers involved when crude prices were at their record levels of more than $140 in July. Without subsidies, kerosene prices would have had to increase by more than Rs 20 a litre and LPG cylinder prices by more than Rs 340. Cross-subsidisation across products isn’t the solution. Therefore, since retail prices have to increase, reform is easier at $40 a barrel. Reform is also easier when retail price increases are incremental and in small and gradual doses, instead of suppressed increases leading to gigantic gaps. All this should be obvious and there is no better time than now. So why don’t we reform?
Lobbies on the production or consumption sides aren’t a satisfactory answer. These exist everywhere. Nor is the bleeding-heart mindset in the name of the poor completely convincing as explanation. Perhaps the answer lies in money that can be made from discretion. That’s invariably the explanation in every area of non-reform or tardy reform. The words “oil” and “grease” usually go together. Machinery needs them both and Government machinery is no exception