HINDU Terminal...!

Nairobi :  Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgents claimed on Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing. The al-Qaida linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said "137 hostages who were being held by the mujahideen" had died. They also accused Kenyan troops of firing "projectiles containing chemical agents" to end the four-day stand-off. Source :  TOI Military moves into Nairobi mall after Jihadi al-Shahab terrorists kill at least 69 September 23, 2013 Kenyan security forces appear to have launched an assault on the Westgate shopping complex in the capital Nairobi in an attempt to break the siege there. Gunfire and explosions were heard at the complex and a cloud of smoke could be seen billowing from the building. Television pictures showed troops running towards the complex. About 10 attackers were thought ...

The regimes  that followed the Emergency (1975-77) did nothing to free the establishment from the stranglehold of the  communist  mafia. Members of the mafia have continued to occupy seats in the nation’s parliament and state legislatures, and man many other prestigious institutions. It retains control of two strategic states* on the borders with Bangladesh. In recent years, it has been leading the fight against what it has named as “Hindu fundamentalism”. And its near monopoly in the media and the academia continues to control the ground rules for public discourse and discussion. 1 , Nobody seems  to remember that this is the same mafia which had been organized for the first time in Tashkent by M.N. Roy, who had brought to that place in 1919-20 a trainload of arms and ammunitions from Moscow in order to equip the Pathan tribals in the North-West, and let them loose on the Punjab as a preliminary to the rest of the country. 2, Nobody seems  to remember t...

I remember  a talk by Shri Pandurang Shastri Athavale, in which he was simultaneously joking and lamenting the weak and selfish way that many people who should know better conduct their lives. One comment that really struck me is as follows: People sometimes ask me “When will Kali Yuga end?” I tell them “How can it possibly end when there are people like you in the world?” This may seem  harsh, and the comment has to be weighed in context, but the message is simply that we need to take responsibility if we want the state of our society, country and planet to improve. We need to strive to live a principled, dharmic, balanced and energetic life (within our own capability). The responsibility is ours, not some saviour’s. It is not acceptable for us to spend our entire time and energy pursuing our own narrow interests and pleasures and still sit around hoping that things will get better. It doesn’t work like that. To illustrate this,  it is striking to observe tha...